A few days later, Empress Changsun ordered to be sent to Lingnan and summoned Baishan back to Chang'an to report on his work. Originally, Li Chengqian wanted to give it by himself, but he was stopped by his mother, Empress Changsun, who told him that you will also be the prince, and it is not appropriate for the people in the palace to deal with it personally, after all, he will be the emperor in the future, and it is more appropriate for her to give such an order by the queen.

The eldest grandson is right, who made the husband the current emperor and the son the future emperor.

Summoning Baishan to report on his work is actually a pretext, and it is just a good point to say., in fact, it is to transfer Baishan from the position of the royal caravan sea chief, and rearrange the president Chang'an to serve as the original guard, which is better or worse depends on what the individual thinks, but I think that most people will think that it is better to be in charge of the royal sea caravan in Lingnan, and it is better than going back to Chang'an to protect the prince and do a job of serving people.

This is also an explanation from the royal family to the other families.

In July, there was finally good news from the Western Regions, Hou Junji led the army to win a complete victory, Gaochang was destroyed, Gaochang Wang Zhisheng and some ministers were captured and were escorted back to Chang'an.

It's just that the newspaper said that because many ministers of Gaochang escaped and took refuge in neighboring countries such as Shanshan and Yanqi, in order to avoid these people from making a comeback in the future, they decided to bring troops to ask for people.

The one in front of him destroyed Gaochang and captured the king of Gaochang, whether the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were in favor of or not in favor of using force against Gaochang, they all listened to it with joy, after all, the Tang Dynasty won a complete victory.

But when he heard that he was going to bring troops to Shanshan, Yanqi and other countries to escape from the Minister of Gaochang, he was dumbfounded when he did the Tang Dynasty officials who were still happy.

What's the matter, didn't it say that attacking Gaochang would teach them a lesson in disrespecting the suzerain, why do they have to expand the scope of the attack now.

What if you bring troops to the door to ask for someone, what if it causes a conflict, what if all the countries in the Western Regions start to be hostile to Datang, then isn't Datang going to fall into an inexplicable war?

The civil servants are gone, and the rare civil officials are unexpectedly completely consistent.

Whether it is Wei Zheng, who is the most anti-war, or Du Ruhui, who has always been biased towards the military, or Fang Xuanling, who is more neutral, or the eldest grandson Wuji, who is always thinking about bringing him some benefits, in short, no matter who it is, which civilian official it is, he will not do it this time.

Qi Qi condemned Hou Junji and other front-line generals for opening border provocations and reckless military force, which was to disregard the Tang Dynasty under morality.

In particular, Yanqi was also mentioned in the report, what are you kidding, Yanqi is appealing to Datang and asking Datang for help, but now after the Tang army helps destroy Gaochang, they want to use force against Yanqi, what is this, this is not treacherous, two-faced villain.

Thirty-six schemes, false ways to cut down the enemy, this is to play on the head of his own vassal country, and he will be shameless.

The civil servants were furious and demanded that the emperor immediately order Hou Junji to stop the expansion of the war.

Although Li Shimin was very satisfied with Hou Junji's mind that he knew his mind so well, the civil officials made too much noise, and everyone was against it, and he had to make a compromise as the emperor and gave an order for Hou Junji to truce the war.

However, although the order has been issued, it is difficult to say whether it can save those small countries in the Western Regions.

It is as fast as the wind, as swift as a forest, and as plundering as fire.

Hou Junji's leading troops is a deep Sun Tzu's art of war, and nearly two months of back and forth is enough for Hou Junji to sweep the Western Regions.

After giving the order to withdraw from the armistice, Li Shimin expressed his idea to change Gaochang into a prefecture and county, that is, to directly return to the substantive rule of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the anti-war activist Wei Zheng went out again and strongly advised: "When Your Majesty first ascended the throne, Wentai and his wife first came to the court to pay respects, and then gradually became arrogant and arrogant, so they were punished. It is enough to ask only the guilty Wentai alone, and he should appease the people of Gaochang, preserve his society, and make his son the khan, so that the emperor's prestige and virtue will be in the wilderness, and the people of the Quartet will be happy and convinced. Now, if the land is changed to a state and county, then there will often be more than 1,000 people guarding the town, changing every few years, coming and going to kill three or four tenths, preparing clothes, staying away from relatives, ten years later, the Longyou area will be exhausted. In the end, His Majesty still couldn't make Gaochang's grain cloth supply to the Tang Dynasty, and I don't think it is feasible to disperse useful resources to worship useless land. ”

In the same way, in fact, before Li Shimin decided to send troops last year, there were ministers who objected to it, but it was just the loss of the Tang Dynasty, and Chu Suiliang said: ""The first year of the king's division, the year of Hexi's service, flying and saving Su, ten rooms and nine empty, several counties are sluggish, and they will not be restored for five years."

It means that the army will open the Western Regions, and the people in the western frontier of Longyou near the Western Regions of Yumen will have to serve hard labor, and they will have to be expropriated for grain and grass, which must be ten rooms and nine empty, and several states and counties will be depressed, and they will not be able to recover from their previous appearance in five years.

But the fact is that the granary of the national treasury of Datang is sufficient now, and there is no need for the people along the road to bear any grain and grass, and the conscription is only a burden of 100 miles to assist in transportation when the army passes by, and it takes only three or five days.

Ten rooms and nine emptiness are completely a joke that the civil servants themselves do not know the local situation and think of it.

Not pragmatic, like to follow the rules and follow the old calendar according to the class dogma to do things, think about things, measure things is a common problem of all civil officials.

The world is changing with each passing day, but they are buried in the pile of old papers to learn and study the ancients, the ancient times, and how the predecessors dealt with the problem.

Wei Zheng is no exception.

They thought that the people would suffer if they fought in war, and they did not know that there was such a thing as making war money.

Even if there are many examples of the Eastern Turks, Tuyuhun, Tubo and Nanyang, they stubbornly believe that fighting is not good, and singing and dancing is good and beneficial to everyone.

But Li Shimin didn't think so, Li Shimin had already tasted the sweetness of the war dividends brought by the war, otherwise he would not have hinted that Hou Junji would use force against the countries of the Western Regions.

Therefore, Li Shimin did not accept Wei Zheng's words, and in August, he changed the location of Gaochang to Xizhou, and set up the abandoned Khan Futu City in Desire Valley as Tingzhou, and set up counties under their jurisdiction. On August 21, the Anxi Protectorate was established in Jiaohe City, leaving troops to defend it.

This is just an order issued by the court, and it can't be transmitted to the Western Regions for a while, and at this time, the Western Regions have been swept by Hou Junji, and the territory of the so-called 36 countries of the Western Regions during the Han Dynasty was all included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

A little further west, it can almost connect with the Great Cannibals, that is, the expanding power of the Arab Empire.

The kings of the small countries in the Western Regions have all become prisoners, and the order from the imperial court to withdraw from the war has only come belatedly, and then it is too late.

How can you withdraw from the army in this situation, isn't the withdrawal of the army in vain?

So maintain the status quo and quickly send someone back to Chang'an to report and request a new order, so as to decide what to do next.