readx; The prince's control of the region has always been a major consideration for the rulers of successive dynasties, and although it can effectively control the territory, prevent dissenting subordinates from causing rebellion, and maintain the ruling family's possession of the country, its disadvantages are also obvious. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The division of the Zhou Dynasty led to the emergence of hundreds of years in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the rebellion of the Seven Kings in the early Han Dynasty.

For the Tang Dynasty, the matter of dividing the feud is also from time to time, in the early Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin once sealed the prince to the place, but the time was very short, to the Middle Tang Dynasty, after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Li Longji fled to the west of Bashu, he immediately divided several sons to the local army, and soon there was the Yongwang Rebellion, although Tang Suzong suppressed the princes to make a rebellion, but the Anshi Rebellion left the feudal town division has been affected for a hundred years, and eventually led to the demise of the Tang Dynasty.

This time Li Longji will sit the prince in the place, it is also a disguised separation, proposed by Yang Guozhong, although Yang Guozhong's original intention is to check and balance the power of the imperial grandson, but this proposal has not been opposed by other important ministers (including Li Linfu), Li Longji also adopted, this is really because everyone has seen the severity of the crisis, the interior is empty and there are no soldiers, the troops are concentrated in the border towns, and the Jiedu envoy monopolizes the power, An Lushan, Ge Shuhan, Li Qing'an, An Sishun, Gao Xianzhi, etc., once one of them has a different heartRaising troops to rebel will cause serious consequences.

Among them, An Lushan and Ge Shuhan bore the brunt, their forces were too close to Guanzhong, but it seemed a little inappropriate to directly seize the military power of the two, Li Longji adopted a more moderate way, for the more trusted An Lushan, he did not send the prince to sit in Hebei, but only strengthened the power of the supervising army, and named Li Wan, the king of Rong, as the envoy of the Hedong Jiedu, as a buffer zone.

Recently, he favored Wu Xianyi more, so he named Wu Xianyi's youngest son Li Xuan, the king of Xiliang, as the deputy envoy of Longyou Jiedu, to assist Ge Shuhan in leading the troops, and named Wu Xianyi's other son Bianai Wang Li Yu as the deputy envoy of the capital protection of the capital and Shuofang Jiedu, sitting in Jiuyuan, in fact, it is to monitor the Shuofang Jiedu envoy An Sishun, and command the attached Beihu soldiers of nearly 30,000 and 20,000 troops stationed in Jiuyuan, which is actually gradually seizing An Sishun's military power.

Among the envoys of the major festivals, the least threat to the imperial court is the envoy of the five prefectures of Benlingnan, where there are 15,000 troops, and the envoy of the five prefectures, He Luguang, has traveled through mountains and rivers every year to report on his work in the court, and there is the eunuch Lu Taiyi as the supervisor of the army, which has always been very stable, and Li Longji did not consider it.

Secondly, because the place is far away, the influence on Guanzhong is not great, and it stands to reason that there is no need to send the prince to sit in the town, but the actual situation is just the opposite, and now Li Longji is most jealous of the Anxi Festival envoy Li Qing'an, and he even did not hesitate to send his eldest son King Qingwang to sit in Anxi.

The reason is very simple, the woman he has been thinking about is taken away by Li Qingan, which is a great shame for Li Longji, who has collected more than 40,000 harems in his life, originally he also wanted to use Li Qingan to support his grandson, but on the night Li Qingan married Dugu Mingyue, his murderous opportunity appeared, he was determined to kill Li Qing'an and recapture Dugu Mingyue, if it were not for the impact on the Tubo Campaign, Li Qing'an would have died in Chang'an.

Now that the Battle of Tubo is over, Li Longji has decided to take action, he wants to replace Li Qing'an with his eldest son Li Cong, and lead the 200,000 troops in Anxi.

But there is one thing he didn't expect was that his eldest son, Li Cong, was unwilling to go to Anxi at all, and was greedy for pleasure, indulging in food and women all day long.

A few months ago, King Qing sent a letter saying that he was now sitting in Shazhou, which Li Longji had no doubt, and he was also relieved that Li Qing'an launched the Anxi Campaign on the Western Front from Shazhou, which showed that his eldest son also participated in this battle.

As soon as the battle ended, he couldn't wait to write a secret edict to his eldest son, and he also knew that it was more dangerous to rely on his eldest son alone, so he also wrote a secret edict to Feng Changqing, the deputy envoy of Anxi Jiedu, and sent the two secret edicts one after the other, and Li Longji began to dream of waiting for the day when the bright moon rose over the Tianshan Mountain.

．．．．．．．．． Shazhou is today's Dunhuang, but in the Tang Dynasty it has a much larger scope of jurisdiction, including the current Lop Nur in Xinjiang Province, is also within its jurisdiction, the Tang Dynasty's Dunhuang is also far more prosperous than later generations, the Silk Road from Yumen Pass parted ways, all the way north to go to the north to break the leaves, the other road to take Dunhuang to take the south line to Qiuci or Khotan, at that time Lop Nur was still a vast sea, called Puchang Sea, the desert oasis everywhere, there are many residents living there, unlike today is a thousand miles of no man's land, the oasis is also very convenient for businessmen.

Dunhuang was a famous trade transit station at that time, the business was prosperous, the population was large, and the climate was far warmer and wetter than later generations, because of this, Li Cong lived very well in Dunhuang, drunk and dreamed of death in the palace, no one cared about him, and there were 5,000 troops to protect his safety, no horse bandits worried, bored in the palace, he went to the street to relax, or rode a horse to go around, very free, there were large groups of troops on the left and right, majestic, the people on the street saw him, all gave up, greatly satisfied his honor, Where is Chang'an, although he is the head of the dignified prince, no one pays attention to him, and he has to be worried all day long, afraid that his father will know that he is ridiculous, the mountain is high here, the emperor is far away, he finally feels the comfort of freedom, Li Cong stopped complaining for the first time and sent him to Anxi, if possible, he still wants to stay for a long time.

But today, his dream seems to be shattered, at noon, outside King Qing's palace, a young eunuch and more than a dozen palace guards from afar slowly stopped, and the eunuch said to the guards of the palace: "Go quickly to report to His Royal Highness King Qing, the Holy One has a hand!" ”

The guards didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ran to report to Li Cong, Li Cong had just finished lunch, and was holding two beauties for fun, and he was going to take a lunch break after a while, and his father suddenly had a hand to make him stunned, he was apprehensive and greeted out of the palace gate, and saw a young eunuch, he had never seen it, the young eunuch stepped forward and knelt down to give a salute, "Feng Sanfan, the official of the Lin De Hall of Daming Palace, knocked on His Royal Highness King Qing!" ”

"Father-in-law Feng is exempt!"

Li Cong looked this eunuch up and down with some doubts, he really had never seen or heard of it, this name Feng Sanfan seemed to know his doubts, so he explained with a smile: "Report to Your Highness, the slave was originally in the Taiji Palace, because a group of eunuchs were transferred to the East Palace, and there were not enough people, so I was transferred to Daming Palace, I came to Dunhuang with Father-in-law Xia, and his old man was not satisfied with the water and soil of the Western Regions, and fell ill in Zhangye, so he sent me to send the Holy Messenger." ”

"I see!"

Li Cong suddenly realized, no wonder he hadn't seen it, it turned out to be transferred from Taiji Palace, and he knew that Xia Yangwen was the eunuch of Linde Palace.

He no longer doubted that he took the edict, which was actually a holy decree, because it was neither the jute external decree issued by Zhongshu Province, nor the white hemp internal decree issued by Hanlin, but the decree written by Li Longji himself, which can also be called a secret decree, and from the institutional point of view, this kind of holy decree has no legal effect, but is just an expression of the emperor's will.

Li Cong saw that it was this kind of holy decree, he was even more startled, and he didn't dare to open it, so he hurriedly accepted the holy decree and said to Feng Sanfan: "Gonggong Feng, please wait, I will give you an answer after reading it." ”

Li Cong hurriedly returned to the room, opened the secret decree given to him by his father, and couldn't help but be stunned, his father actually ordered him to inspect the customs and customs in the river, let him control the river, and secretly check whether Li Qing'an was suspected of building a private army, Li Cong couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart, go to the river that is not a walk on the street and come back, the journey is thousands of miles, it will take a few months, but the father patted his head and thought that he had just gotten used to Dunhuang, which had to let him set off, didn't he want his life?

But he didn't dare to disobey, so he had to order someone to invite his staff Yan Kai, and after a while, Yan Kai walked into his room quickly, bowed down and said with a smile: "Your Highness, I heard that the Holy Providence has arrived?" ”

"It's not a good thing!"

Li Cong sighed and handed him his father's secret decree, Yan Kai read it, frowned, and said, "How could it be to go to the Hezhong region?" ”

"Yes! My father wrote down a few words as soon as his mind was hot, and he was effortless, but when I went to the river, it was to cross thousands of mountains and rivers, why didn't he think about it for me? I want to do the affairs of the prison army, and he should let Bian Lingcheng do it! ”

Li Cong felt a slight resentment towards his father in his heart, and there was not much respect in his tone, Yan Kai pondered for a moment and then smiled: "Your Highness, I think this is not a bad thing, but a great thing!" ”

'What a great thing? ’

Li Cong was even more puzzled, "How do you say this?" ”

"As His Highness said, this is obviously a matter of supervising the army, how to let His Highness go down, but if we read the meaning carefully, there are four words in it that are worth thinking about Your Highness, 'control the river', what does this mean? If I'm not mistaken, this is to let His Highness go to the river to establish a state. ”

"What?" Li Cong was taken aback, stood up, his face trembled, and stammered, "What do you mean, sir, let me go to the river to build a country?" ”

"Your Highness, don't worry, sit down and listen to my analysis slowly."

Yan Kai smiled and asked Li Cong to sit down, and then said unhurriedly: "Different Central Plains in the river can be governed by prefectures and counties, its territory is too far away, what documents does the imperial court have, it will take more than half a year to go back and forth, and it is a Sogdian settlement, since my Tang Dynasty has used the army to seize this place, then it will no longer be managed as a suzerainty as before, and sooner or later it will be snatched away by the big food, so the way is either military management or building a country, long-term military management will cause de facto reading, and the Holy Lord must have taken this into account, So the establishment of a state is the best plan, of course, not for the Sogdians to establish a state, but for the Han to establish a state, so who is the king? Did His Highness think it would be Li Qing'an? ”

"How can it be him, this is my Li family, although he is the king of the county, he has nothing to do with the clan, and if he wants to build a country, the prince should be the king."

Li Cong has been tempted, Yan Kai's analysis has hit the key point of Li Cong, for more than ten years, he dreamed of being able to ascend the throne as the emperor, but the throne of the Tang Dynasty finally had nothing to do with him, his father would rather let his eldest grandson ascend the throne than let his eldest son enter the East Palace, he was already disheartened, he knew that he had no chance with the emperor, but now he suddenly opened a window in front of him, and went to the river to build a country, of course he is not the emperor, but even if he is a king, what is the difference between him and the emperor?

Li Cong was so excited that he almost shouted, long live my father! He strongly restrained the excitement in his heart, and asked in a trembling voice, "Sir, what should I do now?" ”

"Of course, I want to go to the river, and the journey is a little harder, but I think that I can ascend the throne as the emperor, and I think His Royal Highness will endure this hardship."

"Good! Just listen to Mr., I'm ready to leave, if I can ascend the throne as emperor, I will definitely crown Mr. Xiangguo. ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, no! Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

Yan Kai changed his name, and when he heard Li Cong's heart, he stood up and said, "Now I will write a letter to my father to express my attitude." ”

Yan Kai smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, I might as well write this letter, and after I finish writing it, Your Highness will read it and affix the treasure seal." ”

Li Cong's dizziness was dizzy, where could he write a letter, since Yan Kai took the initiative to ask Ying, it would be the best, he had no doubt, so he smiled and said, "Okay!" It's up to you to write it, show it to me when you're done, send the letter away, and we'll leave. ”

Of course, in the afternoon, Li Cong's reply was sent back to Chang'an, and he immediately set off for the west, which was also Li Longji's true will in the order, not allowing him to sit in Dunhuang, ordering him to return to Anxi, and his five thousand guards naturally had to follow and leave Dunhuang, however, two thousand of them did not return to Anxi, but controlled the dangerous road leading from Anxi to Hexi, Xingxing Gorge.

．．．．．．．． Compared with the high efficiency of King Qing, another secret decree is much slower, the reason is that Feng Changqing is no longer in Qiuci, and was transferred to Yincheng to be responsible for the resettlement of Tibetan herdsmen. 'changed jobs', from leading troops to fight to civilian officials, leading a group of civilian officials to be busy all day long to settle these special immigrants who left their homeland, Feng Changqing also had no complaints, the prisoners of war were exchanged for grain, and the Han people were reluctant to come to Yincheng to open mines, then these Tibetan herdsmen are the best laborers, and Li Qing'an also agreed, open the mine for five years, and let them go back to the Sabize Basin to continue to be herdsmen.

It was with this promise that the 60,000 Tibetan herdsmen and prisoners of war who had left their homes finally saw a glimmer of hope, and they were taken to the distant Silver City by Feng Changqing to start a new career as miners.

For a few months, Feng Changqing has been busy in Yincheng, most of these Tubo people are civilians, women, children, old and young, so they can no longer be managed like prisoners of war, Li Qing'an authorized Feng Changqing to establish Yinzhou here, Feng Changqing concurrently served as the governor of Yinzhou, demolished the original dilapidated houses in Yincheng, built new houses, built official offices, fabricated household registration, transported grain, opened schools, pharmacies, established shops, etc., these are Feng Changqing's strengths, in this way, Feng Changqing actually did too much to do.

In the early morning of this day, Li Longji's secret decree was finally delivered to Feng Changqing's hands after a journey of thousands of miles.

(To be continued)