Generally speaking, the lowly and good are not taxed, and the unpaid households do not need to pay taxes, and the untouchable slaves and official and military households are often not taxed, and the number of non-taxable households in the Tang Dynasty is huge, which also makes the imperial court lose a lot of taxes every year.

And Li Xiao in Anton, directly eliminated the old aristocratic landlords and bureaucrats, and also directly eliminated the slaves and untouchables, and the more than 6 million people in Anton, except for a very small number of selected government soldiers, the rest were all granted land by Juntian and became good citizens of the Tang Dynasty.

These people owned a certain amount of land, were yeoman farmers, and had to pay rent and taxes to the imperial court every year, so although Li Xiao's Andong Dao said that the place was not larger than that of the Central Plains, the rent and taxes that could be paid were very amazing.

These are all things that Li Xiao has done seriously in Anton in recent years.

Andong Road is becoming more and more stable, and it has become the brightest star of Datang.

If it weren't for the emperor's press, if it weren't for Li Ji's press, I don't know how many people would come here to pick peaches, and even those nobles and relatives in Chang'an, I don't know what means they would use to enclose land and occupy mountains and grab money in this place.

But he still has to enter Beijing, it is said that there has been an imperial history to impeach him Li Xiao for staying and not returning, there is a plot to secede Haidong's ill intentions, although the emperor believes in Li Xiao, but Li Xiao's current authority is indeed unmatched, in this place of Anton, he is also a festival envoy, and an observation and transfer envoy, and the soldiers and horses are in charge of civil personnel and finance.

In the past two years, Anton has expanded his military government several times, and now has 40,000 soldiers, as well as 60,000 native soldiers, and can pull out 100,000 soldiers at any time.

"Those short-sighted and greedy guys in Chang'an City." Zhao Zhi smashed his fist on the railing with hatred, "Stay for another three years, if you stay for another three years, if you have a big handsome man sitting in Andong, then we can wave our army to the north, unite the government soldiers in Liaodong, and attack Goguryeo in the north and south." ”

He even persuaded Li Xiao early on that he didn't have to wait for the order of the imperial court, nor did he have to wait for the cooperation of the soldiers and horses of Liaodong, and he could directly destroy Goguryeo with the 100,000 soldiers and villagers of Andong to go north and surround Pyongyang.

It's a pity that Li Xiao was only bold once last time, but he never planned to continue to be so hard. Li Xiao rejected his proposal, and although he expressed this proposal to the court, the court did not agree.

"The destruction of Goguryeo is a big game of chess, and Goguryeo is also a hard bone, unlike Silla and Baekje, which are easy to fight, the imperial court has its own considerations, and many things are not as simple as we imagined. In fact, the attitude of the imperial court is not wrong. ”

Before Li Xiao was in Andong first, Cheng Yanjin, Su Lie and others were leading an army of 200,000 to fight in the Western Regions, and the battle had been fought for more than a year.

In particular, the consumption of financial resources and grain and grass equipment was extremely great, and after the imperial court destroyed Helu, it was not in a hurry to teach the class, but according to the suggestions of Li Ji and Li Daozong, the two prime ministers, built a city and stationed troops in the Western Regions, and set up the original Anxi Metropolitan Governor's Mansion into two Metropolitan Protectorates, Anxi and Beiting, and four towns under the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

The original jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate completely included the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and was connected to the west of the Green Ridge to Dashi.

After the split, the south of the Tianshan Mountains was subordinated to the Anxi Dadu Protectorate, and the north of the Tianshan Mountains was subordinated to the Beiting Dadu Protectorate.

The Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate has jurisdiction over a vast area north of the Tien Shan Mountains, including the Altai Mountains and west of Lake Balkhash.

After the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Western Turks, the control range in the Western Regions at this time reached the Aral Sea in the west, the Amu Darya River in the southwest, and the Altai Mountains and Lake Karbash in the northwest, which can be described as the westernmost place in history.

However, it is not so easy to really control this land of the Western Regions for a long time, although Helu was defeated and fled, but the newly canonized Zhenzhu Yehu Khan of the Tang Dynasty also wanted to be able to take over Helu's territory, and now the Tang Dynasty directly incorporated the Western Regions into the territory, and the Zhenzhu Khan was also dissatisfied in his heart.

At the same time, the power of the Tubo people is also expanding westward, and the Tuyuhun people in Qinghai have always been dishonest and always threaten the Hexi Corridor leading to the Western Regions, so the imperial court is planning to fight a battle in Qinghai when it sends troops to the Western Regions to build cities and garrison troops in the Western Regions and move the population from the Central Plains.

The Hexi Corridor is too narrow, and the Tuyuhun people in Qinghai are always threatening this life corridor, and in order to control the Western Regions, it is necessary to eliminate the threat of the Tuyuhun people in Qinghai.

In view of the infrequent rebellion of the Tuyuhun people, the imperial court decided to be ruthless this time, directly like dealing with the Turks, using a big blade to cut his mother, and after cutting it down, he directly set up Qinghai Road, set up prefectures and counties, and included them in the directly governed areas.

Cheng Yanjin has been transferred to the head of the Qinghai Road march, and is preparing for the conquest, and Su Lie is also his deputy.

Because he wanted to fight Guhun, the matter of Goguryeo's use of troops was once again put on hold.

As for another suggestion once put forward by Li Xiao, sending troops to crusade against the Japanese state, no one paid attention to it. A group of Yelang arrogant islands, since they escaped, let's ignore them for the time being.

After all, the Japanese and the Goguryeo people are still thousands of miles away to the east, but the Tuyuhun and the Tubo people are not far from the capital of the Tang Dynasty, especially now that they have just won the Western Regions, in order to stabilize the fruits of this victory, it is necessary to destroy the Tuyuhun.

Anton will not fight for the time being, but the more he is because of this, the more people in Chang'an do not want Li Xiao to stay.

"Who is the new envoy of the festival?"

"Gao Kan, he has been appointed as the protector of Andong Dao."

"Isn't it a festival envoy?"

"It's not."

Datang now has six major metropolitan protectorates, namely Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate and Hanhai Metropolitan Protectorate, as well as Liaodong Metropolitan Protectorate and Andong Metropolitan Protectorate.

Anxi and Beiting are in the Western Regions, guarding the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, while Anbei and Hanhai are in the north, guarding the desert south and desert north, and Liaodong and Andong are in the east, guarding the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula.

The level of the six major metropolitan protectors is very high, and they are the officials of the frontier from the second grade, but only Li Xiao has to be crowned a festival envoy, and the rest of the people are all metropolitan protectors, or they are actually appointed as deputy metropolitan protectors.

There are still some differences between the Dadu Protector and the Jiedu Envoy, and the authority of the Jiedu Envoy is higher than that of the Dadu Protector, and it may be precisely because of this that after Li Xiao was awarded the Jiedu Envoy, Li Xiao is now transferred back to Beijing, and Gao Kan, who is replaced, is still only awarded the Dadu Protector rather than the Jiedu Envoy.

"Gao Kan is a fierce general, and the court chose him to come to Anton, but he didn't choose the wrong person." Zhao Zhiman said.

Gao Kan was born in the Bohai Gao family, thrifty and self-serving, loyal and strategic, once served as the pacification envoy of the North Court, the general manager of Longyou Dao, the protector of Hanhai, once captured the Turkic Chebi Khan, brave and able to fight, high merit, before was the general of the left prison guard, and the title of the prince of the plains.

This time, he was transferred to replace Li Xiao, and it was indeed sufficient in terms of qualifications and ability. On the other hand, it can also be seen that the use of Anton, a great future who had broken the Turks, was also the preparation of the imperial court for the next stage of the conquest of Goguryeo.

There is Xue Rengui in the north, Gao Kan in the south, and when the war in Qinghai is certain, and then veterans like Jin and Su Lie will come to take charge, why worry about the immortality of Goguryeo?

But anyway, Anton has nothing to do with Li Xiao anyway.

He, the only envoy of the festival, can be regarded as officially stepping down and returning to Beijing to report on his work.

"When you go back to Chang'an, remember to be careful, since someone in the DPRK and China has impeached you for staying and not returning, plotting against Haidong, this is a big deal, if you let someone with a heart take advantage of it, I am afraid that it will be a catastrophe." Zhao Zhiman reminded.

The more generals who have made great contributions, the more likely they are to have accidents, and there are many precedents for this.