The Tang Dynasty court set up the Yanran Protectorate to guard the grassland, and issued an edict to rebuild the original Honglu Temple into a feudal court.

Originally, the duty of Honglu Temple was to receive the envoys of Fanbang, and was responsible for their food, clothing, housing, transportation, and etiquette during the court, and there was no real power.

However, after the imperial court prepared for the Yanran Capital Protectorate, the importance of Honglu Temple was immediately raised to a very high level. So he simply set up the Domain Affairs Yuan to deal with the affairs of Fanbang.

After many considerations and summing up the advantages and disadvantages of ruling the steppe foreign states in previous dynasties, Li Shimin and Wang Xuanjing finally formulated a set of frameworks based on the situation of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin included all the fanstates that came to pay tribute and respected him as the Heavenly Khan into the Domain.

All the canonization of the title of Fanbang and the succession of the Khan must pass through the Heavenly Khan. At the same time, the tribute of the various countries, as well as the reward of money and silk from the imperial court, were also carried out through the feudal court.

Of course, for Fanbang, trade with the Tang Dynasty is a very important thing, so the Domain Yuan will also have jurisdiction over Fanbang trade.

Datang and the various states must guarantee each other's caravans, as well as their property, and ensure the smooth flow of trade routes.

In addition, each state also has its own seat in the Domain Yuan, and has corresponding rights and obligations.

The feudal council held regular feudal councils to mediate conflicts and affairs between the feudal states, and the imperial court officials were responsible for mediation, and if mediation was not possible, voting on them. It will be implemented according to the result of more than two-thirds in favor.

Of course, as the suzerain, His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Tian Khan has the right of veto. Of course, as the great emperor, Tian Khan will not go against it at will to veto.

In addition to these, each state needs to respond to the conscription of the Tang Dynasty, and the Domain Affairs Yuan will count the approximate strength of each state.

For the establishment of the feudal court, many Fanbang tribes are still very welcome, you must know that in the Turkic period, their biggest fear is that they don't know when they will be wiped out by the Turks.

Moreover, in this way, it also avoids the unwarranted destruction of small countries by large countries, and at the same time restricts the rights of large countries. Of course, in order to highlight the status of Fan states such as Xue Yantuo, Hui Hui, and Turkic, the imperial court decided to canonize them as khans. and awarded seals, flags, honor guards, and gold books.

In this system, the various departments of the Fan State cannot start a war lightly, and they cannot attack at will, but there is no restriction outside the foreign Fan State departments, but they also need to report to the Heavenly Khan.

This same system restricts those ambitious large tribes and large vassal states, once they want to expand and occupy the surrounding small tribes and vassal states, these small tribal vassal states will ask the Heavenly Khan for help.

When the time comes, Tian Khan can completely order those small tribes to form a coalition to crusade against them.

Although the population of one or two small tribes is very small, ten, twenty combined, definitely surpass those large tribes.

Although the population of these Fanbang tribes is not as good as that of the Tang Dynasty, they also add up to tens of millions of people. At that time, Datang only needs to send thousands or tens of thousands of elites and select excellent generals, and it can easily defeat those tribes who dare to resist.

These small tribes and states are not good as elites, but they are just right to cooperate with the elite of the Tang Dynasty as light cavalry and auxiliaries.

At the same time, the imperial court did not need to spend too much materials, troops, grain and grass.

The imperial court, through the checks and balances between the three large tribes, plus the rest of the smaller tribes, could firmly control these tribes.

In addition, the Western Regions Wang Clan also sent people to the table, wanting to be attached, coupled with the power of the Western Regions Wang Clan, Datang's set of rules and systems is even more stable.

"Tian Khan is the person blessed by King Haotian, it is to bring prosperity, stability, and prosperity to the world, not war and death, anyone who dares to violate and destroy this system is the enemy of the Tang Dynasty and the Fanbang tribes, and all countries should unite to crusade against him!"

Li Shimin's declaration made the hearts of many small countries who came to pay tribute to Fanbang very happy, and they bowed to the ground one after another, shouting: "Your Majesty the Great Emperor, Heavenly Khan, we are willing to fight for you, please accept our allegiance!" ”

Seeing this scene, Li Shimin and Wang Xuanjing understood that this time the plan had been successful.

This system also has many shortcomings, the biggest problem is that if the Tang Emperor is foolish, this system will soon be over.

But this is already the best system they can think of now, as for the future, it can only be up to the Li Tang royal family to cultivate excellent successors.

As for how long this system will work, they don't know, and what they can do now is to try to improve it and plug those loopholes.

With the help of this system, the Tang Dynasty can control the grassland, and can obtain a large number of cattle and sheep and other resources from the grassland, and at the same time has a great control over the countries of the Western Regions.

After solving the grassland, the imperial court can then set its sights on the Western Regions. As for Liaodong, because of the great turmoil caused by Yang Guangsan's expedition to Liaodong, the people of the world were resistant to the conquest of Liaodong.

They were worried that the Li Tang royal family would also be like Yang Guang, who would recruit a million troops and two million people to conquer Liaodong.

Therefore, although Li Shimin was very wary of Liaodong, he did not decide to conquer Liaodong.

Among the countries of the Western Regions, there are those who are close to the Central Plains, and naturally there are those who dislike the Central Plains, those who are superficially subservient, those who are grass-in-the-wall, and those who are arrogant.

Especially in many small countries, there will be problems with arrogance in the face of difficulties and vision, cognition.

The Wang clan of the Western Regions has already sent an envoy to join him, and the Tang Dynasty already has a fulcrum in the Western Regions, so it will be much easier to enter the Western Regions next.

At the same time, Wang Xuanji passed through the land of Hexi and Hehuang, and the imperial army went to the Western Regions from here, and supplies could be obtained along the way, which was much more convenient.

The Western Turks were also unstable during this period, and not long ago, the Western Turkic Khan was killed by his uncle, and many Western Turkic nobles began to compete for power and profit, and there was civil strife.

The strength of the Western Turks was not inferior to that of DTZ, and the previous Western Turkic Khan continued to destroy the surrounding tribes, and his strength grew stronger and stronger.

The powerful Western Turkic Khan began to conquer violently, which led to the rebellion of his tribes, coupled with the failure of the confrontation with the royal kingdoms of the Western Regions and the city of heaven, which completely detonated the contradictions.

The Western Turkic khans were killed, and then the nobility was in civil strife.

After the Tang Dynasty got the news, it wanted to take advantage of the civil strife in the Western Turks and had no time to take care of it, send troops to the Western Regions and bring the Western Regions back into its rule.

In the next few years, Wang Xuanji will vigorously govern the land of Hehuang and Hexi, and without the harassment of DTZ, Hexi has settled down a lot, which also allows Wang Xuanji to have more energy to govern the place.

(End of chapter)