By the time the Uighur Khan's messengers arrived east of the river, the emperor had already entered the northern capital of Dayu.

The unique basin topography near Taiyuan not only gives it the military attributes of being easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also the confluence of Fenshui and Jinshui brings the water that nourishes all things and nourishes the fertility here.

Taiyuan Mansion, the northern capital of the city where the Dayu Dynasty rose, the emperor stood on the city wall to examine the tall and thick city wall, as well as the endless flow of people in the city, recalling the grand occasion when Dayu Taizu raised troops here.

Taiyuan has never been a lonely city.

Because of its special geographical location, it has always been the focus of the game between the northern nomads and the Central Plains Dynasty.

Since the founding of the city in the Spring and Autumn Period, I don't know how many ups and downs have been staged here. In the era of the great struggle between the Northern Qi and the Northern Zhou and the Southern Liang, Jinyang became the capital of the Northern Qi and the general rear of the Northern Qi and the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

The original Jinyang City was on the north bank of Jinshui, with a circumference of six miles, and a new city was built on the east bank of Fenshui during the Northern Qi Dynasty.

In the previous dynasty, the new city was named Taiyuan, and the old city is still in the name of Jinyang, and the majestic pattern of the two cities standing side by side is even more admirable. Li Xu walked on the city wall of Taiyuan, looking at the old city of Jinyang in the southwest, and his heart was quite uneasy.

Compared with defeating the Uighurs, Li Xu thought more about how to govern the world.

The old system can no longer effectively govern the country, if Li Xu's cheap ancestor Emperor Taizu is reborn now, the appearance of today's Dayu and the country he left behind back then are two completely different things except for the same name.

The two foundations that support the dynasty, the military strength and the financial system, are completely different, and the reincarnation of Dayu Taizu is only afraid that he will not know what time it is.

The so-called time changes, there is no truth in the world that it is not easy to let go forever, Li Xu knows very well that since he has taken the first step in reform, he must continue to change.

If there is anything in this world that can really remain the same, perhaps only the majestic and mighty Jinyang and Taiyuan are connected together.

"It's really a beautiful place, where the hegemony lives. ”

Wei Bojiedu's envoy and Zhongshu Ling Tian Hongzheng stood behind Li Xu and sighed sincerely.

The so-called heroes are characters who will feel emotional when they read their life and past after a hundred generations.

Tian Hongzheng is not a loyal and filial son of Dayu, but standing on the towering city wall built by this ancestors, thinking about the grand scene of Dayu Taizu raising troops here back then, he will naturally feel something.

"The mountains and rivers in the east of the river, the terrain is continuous, if it is not for the relatives and nobles, you can't do your duty here. ”

Yuan Zhen looked at Xiongzhen in front of him and felt something.

It is precisely because of this unique geographical situation that the whole Shanxi was consciously divided into three parts by Dayu, the generation from Yunzhong Datong to Taiyuan Jinyang in the north was under the control of the Hedong Jiedu Envoy, the other basin further south along the Fen River was under the jurisdiction of the Hezhong Jiedu Envoy, and the Changzhi Basin at the southern end of the Taihang Mountain and the Handan area extending to the south of Hebei were controlled by the Zhaoyi Jiedu Envoy.

This idea is similar to the imperial court's intention to split Sichuan into Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu Envoy and Jiannan Dongchuan Jiedu Envoy, but the Zhaoyi Jiedu Envoy knew that it was the sequelae of the Kanto Rebellion that year when he heard the name.

But now, the Zhaoyi Festival envoy has basically eaten and wiped clean for the Tian Hongzheng next to the emperor. Wei Bojiedu made three generations of professionals make internal arch fire in Zhaoyi Jiedu, creating contradictions and mutinies, and causing endless civil strife.

Now, in addition to leaving an empty shelf of the Zhaoyi Festival envoy to deal with the imperial court, the lining of the entire military town has been eaten by Tian Lao Linggong.

The battle between the feudal towns was actually even more brutal.

"I'm going to set up a platform here. ”

The emperor turned his head and whispered, and Li Xu was satisfied to see the surprise on the faces of Tian Hongzheng and Yuan Zhen and the others.

Xingtai, this word they haven't heard in a long time.

In ancient times, after the abolition of feudalism at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the foundation of the local administrative system was based on the counties. However, with the expansion of the population and the expansion of the country, the county system also encountered problems.

Because there are so many counties, it is almost impossible for the central government to directly administer all the counties, so it is necessary to set up administrative units above the counties.

As a result, there was the advent of the thirteen state assassins, but the power held by the state assassins was too centralized, and when the states were divided, they were divided according to the geographical pattern, and it was easy to form a separation.

The so-called Xingtai is the abbreviation of Xingshang Shutai, and the "Taiwan Province" mentioned by the ancients is the abbreviation of Shangshutai and Zhongshu Province, these two institutions form the core of the central government, so they are called together.

The establishment of the Xingtai system was at the time of Cao Wei, and the purpose of its establishment was to meet military needs, and Cao Wei confronted various forces in Liaodong, Huainan, Guanzhong, Jingchu and other directions, and needed a strong leadership department to unify the forces of all parties, so there was the initial establishment of Xingtai.

However, at that time, Xingtai was closer to the mobile central government, which was a utilitarian move for the Sima clan to complete the generation of Cao. By the time of the Two Jin Dynasty, Xingtai became a regular institution set up by the northern regime, and it also had a strong military color, often serving as a strong king of the clan.

Until the previous dynasty, Xingtai was also an administrative institution with a very military color, because there were many prefectures and counties in the previous dynasty, and in order to fight the enemy in a certain direction, it was not enough to rely on the strength of one county or even one state, and it was necessary to unify and sort it out. As a result, there was the practice of unifying the military power of various localities by exercising Taiwan.

This was also the beginning of the provincial system in the future.

"I am going to abolish the Hedong Jiedu Envoy and the Hezhong Jiedu Envoy, and set up the Hedong Dao Daxingtai in Hedong Province by combining the two knots together. ”

In fact, from the perspective of the big geographical concept, the Jiedu envoys of Dayu are also very close to the concept of provinces, and the general layout of each province in later generations has been divided according to geography in the Jiangnan region, but in the Central Plains and the north that have received the threat of Bahu Domain, the Jiedu envoys need to show a fragmented phenomenon because they all need to show a fragmented phenomenon.

Li Xu was confident that he would solve the problem of the feudal towns in his own generation, so he didn't think it would be dangerous to connect the two knots of Hedong and Hezhong.

The Emperor felt that no one could now win against him on the battlefield.

Therefore, Li Xu will begin to lay out and integrate the current local governance system of the imperial court.

However, Tian Hongzheng and Yuan Zhi obviously could not understand the emperor's current plan, because from their historical experience, the so-called Xingtai is often equivalent to the so-called "Xingtai" in later generations.

That is, the set of leadership team that Li Xu carried with him when he was not in the national capital.

As a result, the two naively thought that the emperor had made up his mind to deal with the Uighurs after seeing the majesty of Jinyang and Taiyuan.

This was a big surprise to the two.

After all, to be honest, although the two of them had their own arms, they both believed that the imperial court would not fight a headless war with the Uighurs in Daibei.

It is destined to be a war without a winner.

The Uighur tribes under the command of Guangming Sheng were doomed to defeat, but the imperial court would have wasted a lot of resources on it, which were supposed to be used to subdue the rebellious feudal towns in the Kanto region.

The two of them were immersed in shock, and their minds changed, and at this time, Ma Qiang hurriedly walked up to the city wall.

The former leader of the Shence Army and the current Loyal Righteous Army glanced at the group beside the emperor, took out a beautiful gold cylinder from his sleeve and handed it to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, the Uighurs have sent an envoy with credentials. ”

"What about the messenger?"

"Let's detain us in Shuozhou. ”

"What identity?"

This man claimed to be the Uighur Yego. ”

The Emperor nodded, and that would make sense. He had already given an order that all Uighur envoys should be repatriated. This envoy was detained by the Yu army from the north, apparently because of his special status.

Yehu is the name of the ancient steppe peoples for the chiefs of the big tribes, which began in the time of Wusun and Dayue, and later the Turks directly copied and used it, and the Uighurs also copied it and became the title of the upper great chief.

The Uighur emissary, who called himself Yehu, was clearly a prominent figure among the Uighur tribes, and it was only natural that he should be detained.

"The text brought the messenger to the northern capital. ”

Now that the weather was cold and all military supplies were in transit, the emperor was not ready for a face-to-face confrontation with the Uighurs, so it was a conservative strategy to stay in Taiyuan, which was farther from the front line.

Li Xu took the cylinder and found that it seemed to be made of pure gold, with dragons and phoenixes depicted on it, which looked very exquisite, and the national strength of the Uighurs at their peak could be seen from it.

Opening the letterbox, Li Xu saw the neatly handwritten letter on it, and found that it was actually the handwriting of the Uighur Khan Guangsheng.

Guangming Sheng wrote his letter in Chinese characters, sprinkled with hundreds of characters, and did not mention the current tense situation between the two sides, but recalled the friendship between Dayu and the Uighurs in the past.

In the end, Guangsheng proposed that as the emperor's nephew, he was willing to invite Princess Taihe, who had previously married to the Uighurs, to return to the court.

Li Xu carefully recalled his cheap relatives and remembered the extraordinaryness of this princess.

Heqin, since the Han Dynasty, has been a powerful diplomatic means of the Central Plains Dynasty, but the princesses of Heqin are often from the clan Yuanzhi.

However, this princess Taihe, who was close to the Uighurs, was the daughter of a genuine emperor, and she was also the sister of Li Xu's cheap grandfather, the king of Chu.

In the Kwantung Rebellion and the previous Holy Empress Dynasty, the Great Yu of the King of Chu was already seriously injured when he ascended the throne, and at this time the Uighurs once again asked for peace for their khan.

As was customary, the Uighurs and relatives drew a princess from their clans, but this time the Uighurs demanded a real princess, and they paid a large price.

The Uighur Khan was willing to offer 20,000 horses, 5,000 camels, and a large amount of gold and silver as a dowry for the princess, and was willing to provide a cavalry to Dayu to pacify the feudal towns.

This was an astronomical amount, a temptation that the king of Chu at that time simply could not refuse.

So Princess Huhe married the Uighurs, and the Dayu court made a lot of money.

If you talk about his heart, Li Xu can't look down on this kind of behavior that is close to human trafficking. But if you look closely at the numbers on the books, this princess Taihe is indeed the most valuable woman.

Now that she was old, she had no children with the Uighur khan at the time, but the two generations of khans who succeeded to the throne also held him in high esteem.

Now Guangmingsheng proposed to invite such a princess back to the court, which was a condition that Li Xu could not refuse.

Such a woman has the right to return to her homeland to enjoy her old age in peace.

The emperor must admit that Guangming Sheng has found his weakness, and this young opponent is not simple.