On May 10, the thirteenth year of Qianning of the Tang Dynasty, Wan Baichuan, the general of the Zuo Shence Army, led his army to capture Zhangbali, an important Uighur town in Xizhou.

On May 16, the thirteenth year of Qianning of the Tang Dynasty, Zhong Wei, the governor of Shazhou Prefecture of the Tang Dynasty, led an army to capture Beiting, and the Uighur Khan of Xizhou, Gulin, led 20,000 tribes to flee to the Junggar Basin northwest of Beiting.

On June 1, the thirteenth year of Qianning of the Tang Dynasty, Wan Baichuan led the army to capture Yangji Bali.

Since then, all the important towns of the Xizhou Uighurs have been captured by the Tang army, except for Qiuzi, but the remnants of the Xizhou Uighurs cannot be destroyed.

Most of the Uighur nobles of Beiting, Zhangbali, and Yangji Bali fled, and although the young and strong of the clan suffered heavy losses, they remained a threat to the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions.

However, the Tang army did not have time to wipe out the remnants of the Uighurs, who needed to consolidate their newly occupied lands and conquer Qiuzi.

After the Tang army captured Xizhou, Khotan waved 60,000 troops to surround Qiuci, but failed to capture Qiuci, but lost both.

Until Xue Atan's side led 30,000 cavalry to the foot of Qiuzi City.

Upon learning that the Tang army had captured all the important towns of the Khanate except Qiuci and that Fugulin had fled to the Junggar Basin, the Uighurs finally surrendered Kaesong on June 12.

With the surrender of the Uighurs of Qiuzi, it meant that the Uighurs of Western Prefecture, which had once dominated the Western Regions, declared their annihilation in just two years.

When the news came back to Chang'an, it caused a great shock, and even those who were dissatisfied with Li Ye's new policy shut up one after another.

In the thirteenth year of Li Ye's accession to the throne, not counting the rebellion of the internal feudal towns, he successively destroyed the three Uighurs of Ganzhou, Nanzhao, and Xizhou, and it can be said that his prestige has surpassed that of all the monarchs of the past dynasties after the Anshi Rebellion.

Some people have already begun to call Qianning the prosperous era, although this prosperous era has just begun, and the territory is not as good as the Tang Dynasty before the Anshi Rebellion, but there is a trend of prosperity.

After Li Ye learned of the destruction of the Uighurs in Xizhou and the surrender of the Uighurs in Qiuzi, he ordered the cabinet to study the issue of the Western Regions.

In the end, all the five prefectures of Hexi were assigned to Longyou Road, and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate was abolished.

The Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate was established with the Xizhou, Yanqi, Qiuzi, Khotanese Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and Zhongyun Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, that is, the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate was reduced to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, with five Metropolitan Governor's Mansions, with Wanbaichuan as the Metropolitan Protectorate, and under the jurisdiction of the Zuoshen Army;

With Tingzhou, Zhangbali, Yangji Bali, Yizhou and other places to establish the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, under the jurisdiction of the Tingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, with Zhong Wei as the metropolitan protector, and under the jurisdiction of the right Shenwei Army.

The Beiting Prefecture and the Anzai Prefecture are bounded by the Tianshan Mountains.

Liu Kui, on the other hand, led the Right Shence Army and the Right Shenji Battalion to escort the Uighur tribe of Qiuzi and other captives back to Chang'an.

When I returned to Chang'an, it was already October of the thirteenth year of Qianning.

However, on this day, Chang'an was empty, and Li Ye, as the emperor, personally went out of the city to greet him.

Subsequently, in the Taiji Palace, Li Ye held a grand ceremony to sacrifice prisoners.

In addition, Li Ye also held a celebration dinner for the meritorious soldiers of the Right God Command Army in the Lin De Hall of Daming Palace.

It can be said that Chang'an City was very lively in those days.

On the Uighur side of the Qiuzi, important figures such as Fugusu and Fuguze remained in Chang'an and appointed idle posts, while their tribes were intended to be scattered in the three provinces of Longyou, Guannei, and Hedong.

For the female captives brought back by Liu Kui, Li Ye basically rewarded the meritorious soldiers of the Right Shence Army and the Right Shenji Battalion.

Of course, Li Ye also accepted a few people into the harem, including Fu Gulin's concubine, his daughter, and Fu Gusu's daughter.

Exotic customs, Li Ye naturally will not miss it.

Even Liu Kui and Zhang Lian, the two concubines, were rewarded by several beautiful women.

With Liu Kui's return, how to arrange Liu Kui has become a problem.

Some people say that they want to add officials to knighthood, and some people say that their merits are too great.

Liu Kui was the protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protector Mansion before, but this is from the official position of the second grade, and he has risen up? That's the second product or the first product.

But there are only a few official positions, so you can't give Liu Kui the position of privy envoy, right? In this way, Li Ye, the emperor, has to worry.

If you enter the jue, you can only be the king of the county.

At present, there is no non-clan who has been crowned as the king of the county, except for Zhu Wen, but unfortunately he is dead.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Ye decided to let Liu Kui have a good time to relax, so as not to make everyone feel at ease.

After thinking about it, Li Ye crowned Liu Kui as the crown prince and the prince and the servant Siqing.

The crown prince Shaobao can be said to be a false position, and the Taifu Temple is a horse breeder, and the official war horses of the Tang Dynasty are all managed by the Taifu Temple.

When someone felt unworthy for Liu Kui, Li Ye also issued a holy decree, and Liu Kui's title of Duke of Qin was hereditary.

This means that even if Liu Kui dies, his eldest son can inherit the title of Duke of Qin and will not be demoted.

You must know that except for the prince of the clan, there is no hereditary replacement of titles in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Ye has set a precedent.

However, he will control this, so as not to have too many people with titles and affect the rule of the imperial court.

So this last decree is the most important, and it is also the most important decree of divine grace.

Perhaps taking the opportunity of this big victory, Li Ye made a big change of blood for the important ministers of the court.

And the reason is that Li Zhirou, the king of Xue, resigned from the post of Zong Zhengqing due to old age, as for whether it was caused by Li Chengen, an unscrupulous descendant, or whether he really didn't want to do it, Li Ye agreed anyway.

When Li Zhirou, the king of Xue, resigned from Zong Zhengqing, he must need a suitable prince of the clan to serve as him.

But among the only remaining princes of the clan, there are not many princes with high seniority who meet Li Ye's requirements, and finally let Li Ti, the king of Peng, take over as Zong Zhengqing.

This has brought a series of impacts, and someone has to be needed to take over the Dali Temple.

Therefore, Li Ye took advantage of this opportunity to bring a major change of blood to the imperial court, let some courtiers go to local posts, and transferred a group of officials from the local government to Beijing to serve.

Among them, Xu Shiren, the former deputy protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, was transferred to the military department, and Li Sizhou, the king of Qin, was transferred to the political envoy of Guannei Daobu.

In the end, nearly half of the important ministers of the court were replaced, and even if some remained in the center, they also changed positions.

After these busy, there are two main matters in the imperial court, one is the New Year arrangement of the fourteenth year of Qianning, and the second is to send people to Luoyang Ziwei Palace to do something.

As for the reason, Li Ye plans to stay in the eastern capital Luoyang for a while.

This period of time is tentatively set for a year, or even longer, so the whole court has to prepare.

Ziwei Palace has been repaired, and at this time, Li Ye mentioned going to Ziwei Palace, which is easy to make people wonder if he wants to move the capital.

In fact, there is no such thing as moving the capital.

In the second year of Xianqing (657), Tang Gaozong Li Zhi promulgated the "Edict of Jiandong Capital", changed Luoyang Palace to the eastern capital, and implemented the two-capital system; Ziwei City was promoted from the palace to the main palace of the empire, as an east house, "style table residence".

Therefore, the Tang Dynasty is actually a two-capital system, but after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty's national strength was weakened and could not repair Ziwei City, and the successive monarchs of the Tang Dynasty have been staying in Chang'an.

Now that the affairs of the Western Regions are tentative, Li Ye should also consider the affairs of the east, if he is still in Chang'an, it will definitely not be convenient.

It just so happens that the renovation of Ziwei City has been completed, so it's time to go there to live for a while and get used to it.

It's just that this is different from Li Ye's previous inspection of the Eastern Capital, as long as he moves in for at least a year this time, the imperial court will naturally have to prepare things in advance, so as not to be too hurried at that time.