And so Xue Yantuo was destroyed.

This news was unexpected, but it was not unexpected by the envoys of various countries.

Unexpectedly, I didn't expect it to be destroyed years ago, and it was destroyed so cleanly.

It's not surprising because everyone knows who Datang wants to destroy when they are, no matter what the process is, the result is that Datang's goal is destroyed.

This is the truth that other countries have realized from the destruction of the Eastern Turks, Tuyuhun and the Western Regions.

As soon as Xue Yantuo was destroyed, the envoys sent by the nomadic tribes on the grassland who did not belong to the Tang Dynasty were not respectful to the Tang Dynasty, and even walked on the street and rubbed the Tang people, these envoys had to nod their heads and apologize and admit their mistakes as soon as possible, for fear that one would accidentally annoy the Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers and cause trouble for their own tribe.

Years ago, in addition to occasionally running to the palace and talking nonsense with Li Chengqian, who was about to die of exhaustion, Wu Yuanqing was busy serving his wife and children at home, thinking about what diet to prepare every day.

The lively and dull time has reached the end of the year, every household is preparing for the New Year's goods, and part of the army that went out to Xue Yantuo received the order of the class to return to the dynasty and rushed back to the pass, but the army did not return to Chang'an, but went directly from Shuozhou to Luoyang, where he went to receive the review and reward of His Majesty the Tang Emperor.

Of course, on the other hand, those territories in Goguryeo on the Liaodong battlefield need to have enough soldiers and horses to garrison the Tang Dynasty, otherwise there are remnants that have not been cleaned up and will run out from time to time to harass them, making them unbearable.

If it was enough to garrison Cheng's men and horses at the Mesu Dingfang, but if they had to move troops against the remaining lands of Baekje and Silla, their manpower would be a bit stretched.

Especially when the Tang Dynasty had not yet shown hostility to Silla, but Silla had already been consumed by profit, when the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses returned to the Han River and along the Xiongjin River sent troops to compete with the Tang Dynasty for some more important strategic points, the Tang Dynasty had to send additional troops to the peninsula.

Otherwise, if Goguryeo was defeated, but after Baekje, the fruits of victory were robbed by the little Silla, then the Tang Dynasty would be a big loss.

The Tang Dynasty monarchs and ministers were just in case, but Wu Yuanqing, who got the news, knew that this thing could really happen if he was not careful.

Because originally in history, during the period of Tang Gaozong, Goguryeo Baekje was destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and then it was reaped by Silla to seize the fruits of victory.

It was at that time that Silla unified the peninsula and became the first truly unified country on the peninsula.

It also laid the foundation for the later stick country.

If it weren't for the Tang Dynasty accidentally losing the front hooves, there would be no stick country in the future, or two words, if you don't know it, there will be no stick country at all, only a minority belonging to the Chinese people.

The old year passed, and the Tang Dynasty ushered in the sixteenth year of Li Shimin's reign.

On the ninth day of the first lunar month, the improvement of the steam engine by Li Tai, the king of Wei, was officially completed, and the power of the steam engine was more powerful to improve the airtightness, and it was not a problem to run hundreds of miles a day on the steam locomotive, and it was already possible to really manufacture and lay rails.

This is a great news, because with such a steam locomotive that can run hundreds of miles a day, when the railroad tracks are really laid to the various border passes, Datang no longer has to worry about the border passes, but it can not dispatch troops to support in time.

Hundreds of miles a day, ten days is thousands of miles, such a marching speed is definitely not a foot soldier, even if it is a cavalry can achieve the marching speed.

At that time, once there is an accident at the border pass, the soldiers and horses in the pass can reach the grain and grass in more than ten days at most, not only the arrival speed is fast, but there will also be no people and horses lack of people and horses to the ground but can not fight.

Just when the crown prince and the two brothers Li Tai, the king of Wei, jointly wrote a letter to their father to report the good news, an edict was sent back from the eastern capital Luoyang.

The Tang Emperor was more merciful internally when he was more severe on the outside.

Inner Saint and Outer King.

Li Shimin changed a decree in which he ordered that all condemned prisoners should no longer be executed, ordered that prisoners convicted of capital crimes should be relocated to Xizhou, to enrich the frontiers of the Western Regions, and sentenced those who had migrated to serve as garrisons, each with a number of years depending on the severity of the crime.

If you commit the death penalty, you can not die, but wear the crime to make meritorious service and guard the frontier, which is the so-called capital crime can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped.

And then in addition to this decree, another decree was issued, which was the population inventory.

In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, in order to escape from forced labor, many people hid in the mountains and became fugitives and black households.

Although many fugitives have returned to naturalization after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, there are still a large number of fugitives who have various worries or are closed to the news and have not renaturalized.

The management of this Datang place has caused a lot of obstacles, and the key will also affect Datang's tax revenue.

Moreover, many of these fugitives were collected by local gate valve families, who used these fugitives to farm for them and do all kinds of things for them, but they didn't have to pay a little tax for these people, and they only paid for the food and clothing of these fugitives.

Such a thing of digging into the corner of his own wall, Li Shimin, who was wise and martial by the Tang Emperor, was absolutely not allowed to appear.

Therefore, Li Shimin's edict ordered the whole country to inspect and verify the homeless who have no household registration, and limit the next year to complete the registration of the homeless.

This is a census of households, and it is an order issued by the emperor himself, of course, this is also the last chance for the fugitives, if they are registered this time, it will be fine.

If you don't register this time and are found next time, you will definitely be dealt with as a fugitive who deliberately evades tax and forced labor, and then it will be a real severe punishment.

The emperor moved his mouth, and his subjects ran and broke their legs.

The emperor ordered that the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department should not only drink tea for the condemned prisoners, but also verify the prisoners who needed to be exiled, which was still light, and the hard work was that the soldiers of the two departments were needed to escort the condemned prisoners and exiled people to the border of Xizhou.

This is the same as Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and others in the Water Margin, who were exiled to the army, not in batches, but again and again, every time a condemned prisoner appears, he must be sent to Xizhou, and every time someone who should be sentenced to exile according to his crime must also be sent to Xizhou.

Dali Temple, the criminal department is very hard.

The head of the upper side explained the task, and the people below were noisy, and no one wanted to escort the prisoner to Xizhou, but they couldn't help but go.

Then the small officials and soldiers who may be sent to escort the prisoners began to cross the sea to show their powers, looking for relationships, and giving gifts, anyway, they all wanted to avoid the hardships of running to Xizhou.

The Criminal Department, Dali Temple, this is a matter of the Datang judicial organs.

The census is a matter for the first-level local government departments in the entire Datang region.

The specific thing is the matter of the county orders under the state capitals, and the county orders are arranged to be long or something, which is no longer an official, but it is the mayors who really do the work, because they know the local situation best.

Then a top-down order was transmitted, and a bottom-up comprehensive inventory of the black household fugitives began.