"I heard my father say that the ministers of the DPRK and China seem to be quite eye-catching and obedient a lot recently." On the first day of the Lunar New Year, he spent the New Year at his own home, and on the second day of the new year, he began to visit relatives and friends, and Wu Yuanqing's first stop was the palace.

After entering the palace, Changle, Xiangcheng and his sisters chatted together, and Wu Yuanqing talked with Li Chengqian, Li Tai and other horses to talk together.

The others followed Li Tai to see the newly improved steam engine, and Wu Yuanqing and Li Chengqian had already seen it, so they stayed behind and chatted.

"Not only obedient, it's just very obedient, I know that my father is angry, so I am cautious in my words and deeds. Even Lord Wei is, didn't many officials return to Beijing to report on their work a few days ago, and then they all presented their sons to their fathers. The father and the emperor are all picking up the important ones and looking at the other less important ones are handed over to the secretary and the ministry for review, and then the person who wrote the book and many imperial histories of the imperial history station asked the father to personally read the table and chapter to prevent being deceived. Father asked Lord Wei about this matter, do you know what Lord Wei said?"

Li Chengqian didn't really ask Wu Yuanqing's opinion, so without waiting for Wu Yuanqing to speak, he happily continued: "Lord Wei said that these people really don't know the general situation, if Your Majesty must personally see them one by one, then not only the court and the court, but also the affairs of the states and counties should also be personally inquired into. Then do you still need officials from various ministries and departments to do it, and should the corpse be used as a decoration?"

"It's okay, Lao Wei has changed sex." Wu Yuanqing said with a smile.

"But isn't it, my father was a little stunned at that time, Lord Wei has always advised my father to be diligent in government, and this is the first time that he has said that he doesn't need to do everything himself." Li Chengqian smiled and nodded.

"This is a good thing, after the year, your father will visit Luoyang Fengchan Taishan, I estimate that I will not return to Chang'an for a year and a half, and then you will have to supervise the country again, with Lao Wei's words, as well as His Majesty's statement, you can also be relaxed in Chang'an, and you don't have to be forced to take care of everything and deal with everything by those guys who stayed in Chang'an." Wu Yuanqing was very happy for Li Chengqian. Being an emperor is a tiring errand, and being a prince is the same, it's all tiring.

"yes, yes, it's finally easier." Li Chengqian happily agreed.

"By the way, when will the other half of the army stationed in the Western Regions come back?" Wu Yuanqing remembered that the caravan from the family and the caravan of the Wang family were still making war money in the Western Regions, and not long ago, Wang Lun sent a letter from Jinyang asking when the army would return, so that the caravan could come back with him.

After all, the harvest of this war is a bit too much, dozens of countries in the Western Regions have been destroyed, and the hidden booty of the soldiers is very much, not to mention the rewards given according to the regulations, which are basically collected by the caravan of the warriors and the Wang family with IOUs.

In addition to the collection from the soldiers, the officials and nobles of the Western Regions also have a lot of good goods in their hands, the country was destroyed, and those officials and nobles who survived and were not arrested were very eager to dispose of the gold, silver, jewelry, and utensils in their hands in exchange for money, either fleeing further west, or going to the mainland of the Tang Dynasty to live a peaceful life, and most of the rich people were unwilling to stay in the Western Regions.

Naturally, the things in the hands of these people can't be collected at the actual price, and it's good to have one-tenth of them.

With a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry in hand, it is more appropriate to follow the army if you want to come back safely, after all, although the upper echelons of the Western Regions have been arrested, there are still a lot of scattered routs or original sand bandits, don't be unlucky to be robbed by these people.

"It will take some time for the army to come back, but it must be transferred back as soon as possible, after all, the elite troops still have to come back to guard the left side of Chang'an, and after the Western Regions are stationed, they will be on duty in various places, and I heard my father's meaning that it will be changed every two years." Li Chengqian said.

"Oh, that's good." Wu Yuanqing nodded. Datang implements a military deployment policy of strong cadres and weak branches, that is, all elite armies are concentrated in Guanzhong for a generation, mainly to defend Chang'an. The localities were defended by local government soldiers.

Therefore, whenever there is a big war to be fought, troops are dispatched directly from Chang'an, rather than by the border troops.

There are pros and cons to this deployment. The advantage is to ensure the safety of Chang'an, the center of power, and will not be beaten to the city in the event of a situation, the disadvantage is that once there is a foreign invasion, the imperial court will lag behind in responding to reinforcements.

This is also the reason why the nomads can repeatedly invade the Datang border pass in the past, but the border pass troops are not strong enough, and the troops are not too many, so there is no way to effectively prevent the rapid mobile raid of the defense nomads.

"The people of Xue Yantuo were very dissatisfied with Hou Shangshu's deliberate death of their cavalry when he was in the Western Regions, and their Khan sent a letter of state, strongly asking his father to punish Hou Shangshu, but his father refused. I heard the people of Honglu Temple say that Xue Yantuo's envoy was disrespectful when he left, and he was full of resentment, I'm afraid we should have a battle with Xue Yantuo." Li Chengqian said with some concern.

"At war? Then it's good to go. Xue Yantuo's wolf ambition has long coveted our Tang Dynasty, if it weren't for the fact that when we destroyed the Eastern Turks, we taught Xue Yantuo a good lesson by the way, I guess we would have been against Xue Yantuo. By the way, what's the current situation with Xue Yantuo?" Wu Yuanqing didn't realize that the surrounding nomads in China were all the same urine.

When he was weak, he was a pug, and when he was strong, he began to move, and he frequently looked south, and there was no period when he could reassure the Central Plains Dynasty.

Therefore, it is useless to appease them and influence them, and the only way to do it once and for all is to destroy them, grab their territory, and integrate their people into the big family of China.

Hearing Wu Yuanqing ask about Xue Yantuo's three khans, Li Chengqian smiled: "That master has been making a lot of trouble recently, Yi Nan likes his second son Tu Li Lost, and wants to pass on the Khan position to Tu Li Lost, but Dadu is the boss, and he thinks that he should inherit Xue Yantuo. In the past, there was no way to set up a name and no points. However, since the father and the emperor implemented the conferral and set the magnanimity and the sudden loss of the little khan, the situation has been very different. Dadu set up the title of canonization of the Tang Dynasty, so he asked Yi Nan to give him his due tribal population, cattle, sheep and livestock. As a result, Yi Nan was unwilling, but it was not easy to oppose the canonization of Datang, so he could only drag it. This has led to the increase in the rift between Dadu and Yi Nan. This magnanimity is not an ordinary person, he doesn't know when he started to encircle a considerable number of Xue Yantuo tribal leaders, and got the support of these people, although there is still a lot of distance from the cattle and sheep that Yi Nan should give him, but he can also compete with him Lao Tzu Yi Nan. Then the second brother Tu Lisu didn't want to be an empty little khan, and also asked Yi Nan to share with his subordinates, anyway, now Xue Yantuo doesn't look like much has changed on the outside, and chaos is actually rising inside, which is also one of the reasons why I think Xue Yantuo and we have a war to fight, because Xue Yantuo wants to use this to divert internal disputes."