In October, a new order from the imperial court was finally delivered, and the previous order to establish the Anzai Imperial Protectorate was cancelled.

Because the previous establishment of the capital protection office was because Gaochang was pacified, I wanted to set up the capital protection office to govern the entire territory of Gaochang in the Han Dynasty, and garrison troops to guard against the Western Turks.

But Hou Junji moved too fast, and the results were too significant, all the small countries in the Western Regions were wiped out, Qiuzi, Shule, Khotan, Xiaye, etc., and the territory that belonged to China during the Han Dynasty was all reclaimed this time.

Li Shimin, who got the news, took a look, what else did this set up to protect the capital of Anxi, if it was just Gaochang to fight down, other small countries around the surrounding countries would submit to the Tang Dynasty and set up the capital protectorate, so that the original leader would lead the headquarters, as the Tang Dynasty also said in the past.

But now all of them have been conquered, from the king to the ministers, so why do you need to do any national nature of the capital to protect the government, what to do in the state, and directly and actually rule.

Just like the Eastern Turks, Tuyuhun, and most of the new territories of Tibet that were captured by the Tang Dynasty, it is good to directly set up a state capital, set up an administrative body according to the county system of the Tang Dynasty, and send Tang officials to manage it, at most, it is to use a part of the local people to help govern it.

Therefore, the Anxi Protectorate was canceled before it was established, and then Gaochang was still established as Xizhou, and Khan Futu City was Tingzhou, which remained unchanged, but some surrounding areas were incorporated into the jurisdiction, and then Qiuzi, Shule, Khotan, Xiaye and other places established new states, which means that the newly established state capital belongs to the Tang Dynasty.

Then the three states of Xizhou, Tingzhou, and Xinzhou belonged to the newly established Western Regions Road. So far, the Ten Roads of the Tang Dynasty have added a Western Regions Road.

In terms of the size of the territory, it should be said that in addition to the Jiannan Province, which is in charge of Tuyuhun, Tubo and Youzhou County, the largest is the rest.

Don't look at the population here is not much, but out of the Yumen Pass to the west to the later generations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other countries are all Tang Dynasty.

Although many city-states and the Tang army have not been able to go there to fight down, their national capitals, that is, Qiuzi, Shule, Khotan, Xiaye and other countries, have been broken by the Tang Dynasty, and the king's hundred officials have also been captured and killed, leaving the remaining hundreds, small city-states with thousands of people have no room and strength to resist at all.

The Tang Dynasty has once again restored the glory of the strong Han Dynasty, and even the land area will be further west.

This is also the reason why the Chinese officials of the DPRK fully opposed, demanding severe punishment of Hou Junji, Qi Bi He Li, Niu Jinda and other leading troops to open the border provocation, and to release the captured kings and ministers, and return the land for them to restore the country, but the emperor Li Shimin insisted on going his own way, despite the opposition of the Manchu civil officials, issued a holy decree to include these countries in the territory of the Great Tang, and actually sent officials to govern.

It is really the kind of emperor who has expanded the territory to the unprecedented situation, and the exploits of the emperor of the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty are too glorious, and Li Shimin can't resist such a temptation at all.

Hou Junji and others, who received the emperor's order, began to prepare for the return of the class teacher, and before the class returned to the court, they still needed to continue to clean up the hidden dangers and unstable factors left in the Western Regions, and they had to wait for the officials sent to arrive.

Moreover, only 100,000 people were able to return to the court, and the remaining more than 100,000 had to stay in the Western Regions princes for a long time, and they could not leave until the next batch of replacement troops arrived.

Because the merit of incorporating the Western Regions into the territory is too great, of course, the main thing is to shoot the emperor's brother's sycophants, Jing King Li Yuanjing and other princes of the Li Tang clan, that is, Li Shimin's half-brothers, jointly wrote to ask Li Shimin to enshrine Mount Tai again.

Li Shimin refused.

Many civil officials ridiculed Li Yuanjing and other princes for not understanding etiquette, saying that the emperor had just sealed Mount Tai for two years, how could he seal Mount Tai again, it was really ridiculous.

But Li Yuanjing, these princes are not straw bales, and they are very knowledgeable, and some people sarcastically say that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can seal Mount Tai six times, why can't His Majesty be inferior to him in terms of merit.

Then the prince's clan and the civil officials began a fierce quarrel and debate on whether the emperor could or not he should be enshrined in Mount Tai again.

These quarrels did not affect Li Shimin's good mood, and he took time to go to Weinan Tongzhou to hunt for half a month.

The civil officials found that the emperor did not listen to their persuasion more and more, and then the more the emperor did not listen, the more the civil officials wanted to catch the emperor and prevent the emperor from going against them and moving farther and farther, so they became more fierce and frequent.

But in fact, the emperor did not listen to their persuasion more and more, but with the stability of the dynasty, the power of civil officials became greater and greater, and they themselves wanted more and more ideas that could control or influence the emperor, but when the emperor did not cooperate, the civil officials had the illusion that the emperor did not listen to them.

So, in fact, it's not that the emperor doesn't listen to them, it's that they have to inch by inch and want more.

The struggle for the power of the monarch and the ministers, the emperor wants to centralize the power in a word, the civil officials want the power of the ministers to overwhelm the monarchy, the best thing is that the emperor can do nothing, rule by inaction, and leave it all to them to deal with by the civil officials, then everything is perfect.

This kind of struggle for power will inevitably be a protracted process, the literati from the beginning of the dependence on the power to the end want to control the power, China's thousands of years of history has almost gone down like this, which is also the terrible thing about Confucianism.

This is also the reason why many emperors of dynasties want to use relatives, or eunuchs to hold a certain amount of power, because the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty are all out of one nostril, at this time, the emperor is useless, and he can't play balance, so he must add a force to come out and regain the right to referee, so that the emperor can be the emperor, otherwise it is a puppet who can't get out of the palace.

It has only been more than 20 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the civil officials have been unable to suppress the desire for power in their hearts and want to seize more and greater power, which is what the emperor does not want to see, and it is also one of the reasons why he wants to increase the authority of the military.

There is also this factor in the mobilization of troops in Gaochang and the expansion of the war, because the meaning of the military's existence is to fight, and if there is no war, or if it is a big deal to win, then the military cannot have enough strength to balance the civilian officials.

The time entered November, and the civil officials and the princes of the clan, who had been arguing for a month, still did not debate and make a clear understanding, and the civil officials were very dissatisfied with the emperor's connivance with the military on the issue of the Western Regions, and resolutely did not agree to seal Mount Tai again, and found various reasons to oppose it.

But the princes of the clan have a good reason, although they have just been sealed for two years, but the national strength of the Tang Dynasty has risen a few steps, and it has just opened up the territory to restore the glory of the territory of the Han Dynasty.

This reason won the support of the military, but the key was that the civilian officials were too obvious to the military, which made the military very dissatisfied, so the military and the princes of the clan jointly attacked the civilian officials.

On the thirteenth, the general of the clan military once again asked Taishan to seal the Zen, and then Li Shimin, who had disagreed a month ago, agreed directly without hesitation this time.