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In early October, Li Jing welcomed the angels coming from Chang'an again in Liaodong City.

He hurried from Chang'an, running 800 miles every day, first riding a horse to Dengzhou, then landing on a boat to Liaodong Bay, and then heading north along the Liao River for 3,500 miles. The envoy tried his best to get from Chang'an to Liaodong City in just five days, bringing the emperor's imperial edict.

When he arrived, the entire army was celebrating the demise of Goguryeo. The messenger, who was full of dust, was also very surprised when he heard that Goguryeo had been destroyed by Li Jing's army.

However, he became happy again. The last time Li Jing refused to recruit the court, there was another important reason for this. Li Jing believed that it was the key to destroying Goguryeo, so he would not accept the orders of the king.

Now that Goguryeo has perished, Li Jing should accept the orders of the court. Especially this time, the court added the Northeast Road Marshal to Li Jing and returned the military power of the town to Li Jing.

The angel read the imperial edict to Li Jing and the soldiers in person with joy. The imperial edict said a lot of words to Li Jing praise Li Jing for his contributions. Finally, the imperial edict established a new Northeast Road and added Li Jing's Northeast Marshal. In addition, Li Jing was also given the title of Hebei Marshal and the commander of the military and horses on all sides of the Hebei camps. The emperor authorized full authority to command the military and horses on all the rebellious camps on all the Hebei camps.

In addition, he issued an order to be appointed as the commander of the military commander of the northern camp of Hebei.

Of course, the previous order was issued to abolish the towns, and in the end, only two armies were retained by the five towns. Now the emperor naturally knew that Li Jing had abolition of the troops, but at the same time he had laid off the most elite ten armies, and then recruited the fang soldiers of his Hebei Marshal. Now when the court was employed, he simply issued another order, transferring all the ten armies recruited by Li Jing to the 10th army that Li Jing secretly recruited. In addition, the 100,000 united troops and the village soldiers were all relegated to Li Jing's subordinates.

All the generals and civil and military officers in the capital also had their orders to be granted. For all officers above the corps commander, they were even promoted to the first level of the Wusan rank.

In short, the court not only did not mention a word about Li Jing's previous failure to comply with the order, but instead gave him a great reward.

I just wanted to beg my grandfather and beg Li Jing to send troops.

After the imperial edict was announced, the fat eunuch announced the eunuch said to Li Jing with a eager look: "The emperor and the court all hope that the prince will immediately lead the Hu Ben from Northeast Road to quell the rebellion, hoping that the rebellion can be suppressed as soon as possible and return the entire world."

After receiving the order, Li Jing just smiled faintly, and there was no trace of joy and excitement on his face.

"The angel worked hard all the way. Please ask my father-in-law to go with the guards to rest."

"I wonder when the prince can send troops?" the eunuch asked with a look of anxiety.

"I will discuss this matter with the generals." Li Jing said lightly.

After asking the guards to take the eunuch away, Li Jing summoned the generals.

The generals looked happy. Goguryeo had just been destroyed, and the emperor finally issued an order to return the military power to Li Jing.

Although the town was not restored, Li Jing was directly promoted to the position of marshal. He controlled the five towns and still held the power of the town. Especially for Li Zhengaiyu, the civil and military officials who had just been promoted to the Jiedushi and the important positions of the Jiedushi Office, in this way, their positions would not need to be taken back and they could still be the position of Jiedushi. People have selfish intentions and can be the Jiedushi, which is naturally better than being the governor of a state. Not to mention. According to the system, the Jiedushi of each town not only serves as the observation and disposal envoy of the town, but also serves as the governor of the shogunate resident state.

The rights of the governor of this Jieshou are much greater than the rights of the governor who was revised by Li Jing before.

But the only point is that at present, the 200,000 soldiers and the Five Towns Jieshou has only retained 50,000 people, while the remaining 150,000 people belong to the Northeast Marshal Li Jing. Just this one also makes the new Jieshou still respect Li Jing. Without military power, Jieshou is not as good as an observer.

Relying on the military power in his hands, Li Jing still actually firmly controls the current territory of the twenty-one states.

Regarding the rewards and conscripts of the imperial court, many generals believed that since everyone had already taken the benefits, they should do something. After all, take money and eliminate disasters with others.

At the meeting, Li Jing said nothing, but just watched Zhu Wenwu’s speeches and discussions.

Li Jing has his own ideas, and even said that Li Jing has a great ambition.

This ambition is to occupy the Northeast Plain and build the Northeast into a solid granary dominated by Han people.

Although the Goguryeo Kingdom has now been destroyed, in fact, the area under control is just a little larger than the later generations of Liaoning Province. The three major plains in the northeast only occupy the middle and lower reaches of the Liaohe Plain.

In this land in Northeast China, Goguryeo was not the Goguryeo that was three hundred years ago, but just the weakest one.

Even the already weak Bohai Kingdom is a major Haidong country with five million troops of 200,000 to 300,000 troops. Moreover, there is also the powerful Ma Shang tribe of the Khitan, and there is also a Xi. If the Khitan, Xi, and Bohai cannot truly occupy the Northeast. Even if the Khitan, Xi, and Bohai are destroyed, it will only be temporarily stable.

If you really want to occupy and transform the Northeast, Tatars, Tatars, and Silla, you need to be eliminated.

Only by defeating them in an all-round way, occupying them in an all-round way, and then immigrating and building cities and reclamation, so that the Han people can occupy the real majority here, can this black soil be truly in their hands forever.

However, it is difficult to do this, and perhaps the efforts of several generations may not be truly completed.

But at least he has now obtained a good foundation. As long as Li Jing is given a few years of stable time to develop with all his strength, he can make a big change here.

To be honest, Li Jing didn't really want to participate in the battle in the Central Plains immediately.

It is not that after the Central Plains did not have the Northeast, the Central Plains was hundreds or thousands of times better than the Northeast. But such a good place also means fighting, war, or even repeated capital. It is impossible to have the opportunity to develop with peace of mind, it will only be a chaotic battle on all sides and a war of fire.

Li Jing first occupied Dengzhou, but crossed the sea to Liaodong because although Liaodong was bitter and cold, it was a place where it could develop with peace of mind. If he defeated these Hu tribes, Li Jing could freely move them away and then move a group of people back, without the so-called rich clans. It was a piece of white paper. He could freely express himself and develop according to the systems and ideas he had imagined.

Just like his development in recent years, he has developed rapidly, but the court has never really paid attention to this territory before.

If Li Jing enters the Central Plains, whether it is a military force in Shandong or Hebei, although Li Jing can ensure that his troops can gain an advantage and even conquer a large area of ​​territory, military victory does not mean political victory.

If you cannot truly possess or control it, it is not true success.

Moreover, no one is willing to sit idly by and watch Li Jing's expansion, either in Shandong or Hebei.

The current imperial court still has great power, and under the court's orders, it can be said that they all follow each other.

Just looking at this rebellion in Hebei, we should know the reactions of the imperial towns. The three hundred years of Li Tang Dynasty still occupied an orthodox position in the hearts of the people of the world.

If Li Jing rebelled at this time, what was waiting for Li Jing might be the siege and strangulation of the whole country. By that time, Li Jing could only fight with all his might. The territory he could really rely on was only Denglai Qingqi and a few areas in southern Liaoning. Moreover, Li Jing's biggest reliance on industrial and commercial manufacturing and commercial trade would inevitably suffer a devastating blow.

Without the support of industrial and commercial trade, Li Jing could not maintain his current advantage. The town was not established for a long time, and it was not the strongest, at least. Li Jing believed that if the town was still a little far away from the Shatuo Army, Dangxiang Cavalry, etc. The town relied on equipment advantages, maneuverability and quantity advantages, but he estimated that if it was an enemy of the entire Tang Dynasty at this time, when the Tang Dynasty blocked the goods of the town, their advantage might become the biggest weakness of the town.

Therefore, although Zhen** has been expanding rapidly, Li Jing has not been so arrogant that he does not know his background.

He started from scratch and did not have a deep family background. He first relied on the support of Cui Yunqing, Yu Guan, Song Wei and others to get through the initial stage. Then he spared no expense to please the emperor. A large amount of money saved Li Jing through the most vulnerable period. Then he fought for the court several times, and obtained a higher official position. In this way, he was frightened and finally had enough capital.

But this capital is enough to protect itself, but it is not enough to challenge the Tang Dynasty.

Li Jing didn't want to fight head-on. He knew the trend of history and was willing to wait. That's why he was devoted to expanding to the Northeast, immigrating to build cities, and reclaiming wasteland and farming.

An Lushan rebelled and was defeated.

In the beginning, each of the three towns in Hebei had more than 100,000 troops, but was also defeated again and again.

Even the Li family in Ziqing Town had thirteen states and controlled 100,000 troops. Moreover, Ziqing Town was rich in the world, with excellent soldiers and sufficient food, and even alliances with the four towns, but they were defeated.

The rebellions in Huaixi, Shannan and other places were all defeated.

Qiu Fu raised an army and was defeated.

Pang Xun raised an army and was defeated.

Wang Xianzhi raised an army and was defeated.

Li Keyong rose up but was still defeated.

Although the current situation is gradually different from that in history, the Tang Dynasty has not yet reached its weakest time.

A centipede insect will die without being stiff.

A lean camel is bigger than a horse.

In history, Zhu Wen was able to kill the Tang Dynasty not because he was already powerful, but because at that time, the walls were already falling, and everyone pushed him, and he was just the last one to laugh.

At least now, Li Keyong is still grazing in the north of Yinshan Mountain, Huang Chao is still wandering in Jiangxi, and the four towns in Hebei are still in panic.

Is that time already coming?

Li Jing asked himself, but in the end he shook his head.

No, it's not the time yet.

In just five years, he had captured more than 20 state territories, but in fact only five or six state territories were truly wealthy and self-sufficient. The remaining territories, building cities, building roads, immigration, military garrisons, and water conservancy construction, were all made without gains. A lot of money was thrown into them, and there was no benefit in less than three or five years.

In fact, after the four towns in Hebei were rebelled, Li Jing was the greatest opportunity.

As long as the rebellion in the four towns in Hebei has not been put down, Li Jing will never have to worry that the court will be detrimental to him.

As long as the four towns in Hebei are still there, the court will no longer dare to easily resolve Li Jing's military power as before.

It was precisely with the existence of the rebels from the four towns in Hebei that Li Jing’s town could truly enter the era of separatist and independent power.

Huang Chao was in chaos in the southeast, and the four towns opposed Hebei. Li Jing can now sit on Diaoyutai.

With this rebellion from the south and the north, Li Jing estimated that the court would find it difficult to quell the next time.

Li Jing can have time to develop Liaodong with peace of mind. He does not have to enter the Central Plains to fight with the court and the towns, but can expand his territory and increase his power. Perhaps when they kill each other and decide the outcome, Li Jing can send an edict to the Central Plains.

The next day, Li Jing met the angel and said that after the troops in the five northeastern towns were taking a break, they would go to the pass to quell the rebellion.

Upon hearing this news, the messenger finally set off happily and returned to Chang'an.

North of Yinshan, Shatuo Camp.

When he fled to the grassland in a panic, a few years later, Li Keyong finally licked his wounds. In several battles against the Tatars in Yinshan, Shatu won. After repeated plunders, Shatu gradually recovered its vitality, and attracted small tribes from all over the world to join in. The Tiel people, Sogdians, Uighurs, Xi people, Tatars, Khitans, even Han people, Tuyuhun people, Dangxiang people, etc., Li Keyong currently has 20,000 tents of troops.

The newly formed Black Crow Army under his command had 10,000 elite cavalry and a population of 70,000 to 80,000 people, in the grassland, a tribe of all people with soldiers and herdsmen, once needed, men over 12 years old and under 60 years old could join the army, and he could summon 30,000 troops. Even the elite young and strong can reach 20,000. In today's Shatuo, strong young women can still join the army. Li Keyong's wife Liu had a army of women with a population of 3,000.

Now that Shatuo Magpie occupies the Dove's nest, the Yinshan Tatar, the owner of this generation, continued to migrate to the north and east. Li Keyong's prestige reached its peak, and Li Keyong was already called Shatuo King in the Shatuo clan.

However, what Li Keyong never forgets is the prosperity of the Central Plains. The Shatuo King on the grassland is incomparable to the position of Jieduo of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, when Daibei was defeated in disastrously, countless Shatuo people died under the iron-hoofed swords of the court, and Li Keyong was almost killed by Li Jing's temple several times. This hatred is still unforgettable.

For countless days and nights, he was waiting for the opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

Just when he heard Li Jing's power grow and even had a great title to be a king of another surname, he thought that with Li Jing in his life, he would never be able to step into the Central Plains again. Even after hearing that the Tatars had asked Li Jing as their backer, he even ordered his subordinates not to cause trouble for the Tatars again.

Unexpectedly, the four towns in Hebei actually rebelled, which gave him an opportunity to return to the Central Plains.

After his operation, he finally reached an alliance with the Yang Fugong brothers and finally got a chance to return to the Central Plains openly.

The envoy sent by Chaoyan was reading the imperial edict loudly, and the emperor pardoned all the crimes of Li Keyong and the Shatuo clan. At the same time, the emperor appointed Li Keyong as the governor of Yinshan, the envoy of Shatuo army, the governor of the camp north of Yinshan, and was appointed as the deputy commander of the camp west of Hebei, and formally transferred Li Keyong and Shatuo army into the pass to pacify the rebellion in Hebei.

The eunuch Chen Jingsi, who came to pass the imperial edict, was also the new military commander of the Shatu Army of the court. After promulgating the imperial edict, he smiled and said to Li Keyong: "This time Your Majesty pardoned Shatu and valued the governor. Your Majesty and the court are so kind. Next, it depends on the loyalty of the governor."
Chapter completed!