Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 859
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After enjoying the royal family of Xixia and the daughter of the clan, Li Yan rewarded them for their merits.

First of all, Li Yan rewarded Ren Dejing, promoted him to be a doctor of the Ministry of Rites, and explicitly asked Ren Dejing to participate in this year's imperial examination to select talents for the country. Li Yan also rewarded Ren Decong and Ren Degong as appropriate.

In fact, the three brothers of the Ren family still have the ability, otherwise they would not be able to force the Li family of Xixia to give up half of the country of Xixia with their surnames of Han people.

It would be a waste if the abilities of the three Ren brothers were not utilized. Therefore, Li Yan just took this opportunity to transfer them to some positions that could give full play to their abilities, and let them contribute to the construction of Dazhong.

Of course, what should be defended, Li Yan will also defend.

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Then again, in fact, this is not necessary, as long as the Ren brothers are not allowed to touch the military power, and they are not allowed to become the center of power for Zai Zhi to enter Dazhong, they will not be able to cause trouble again.

In fact, not only Ren Dejing, but also other people, as long as Li Yan does not listen or believe, and does not concentrate power in the hands of a few people, no one can shake Li Yan's power.

A few months later, Wu Jie and Zhang Xian completely pacified Xixia.

The Privy Council then re-armed the western region, the center of gravity of the Western Army moved westward, and the defense scope of the fifth largest military region expanded. Wu Jie also left Shu to sit in Ningxia and was in charge of all military affairs in the western region.

In addition, Li Yan transferred his adopted son Li Zong back to replace Wu Jie in Shu.

By the way, the adopted sons who made great contributions to Li Yan, such as Li Chou, Li Qi, Li Hu, Li Meng, Li Zong, Li Xiao, Li Sheng, and Li Yan each married a daughter to them , To confirm the father-son relationship with them is also a commendation of their blood and sweat for Dazhong. Among them, Li Zong married the eldest daughter of Li Yanshu, one of Li Yan's most important children.

The Tabai Army grew up under the hands of Li Zong, or it can be said that Li Zong built it for Li Yan.

Later, in order to allow Li Zong to develop better, Li Yan let Li Yan lead a group of troops alone, and let Li Zong station the most important Strait of Malacca.

Therefore, Li Zong is definitely one of Li Yan's most trusted people.

Of course, Li Zong is also worthy of Li Yan's trust in him. Whether he was the leader of the pro-army for Li Yan at the beginning, or guarding the most important Malacca for Li Yan later, Li Zong did an excellent job and did not disappoint Li Yan at all. his trust.

Therefore, the Western Army and Wu Jie moved westward, and Li Yancai promoted Li Zong to the deputy commander-in-chief of the Fifth Military Region and transferred Li Zong to be in charge of Shu.

After Xixia recovered, Li Yan officially promulgated the Wujing System.

Li Yan changed Yanjing to Zhongjing, Chang'an to Xijing, Jinling to Nanjing, and Seoul to Tokyo.

As for Beijing, Li Yan has not set it up for the time being, but in Li Yan's mind, Beijing is actually Liao Shangjing, which is now Linhuang Mansion, the capital of Dajin.

Li Yan intends to designate Liaoshangjing as Beijing, so he naturally refers to the Dajin in the northeast region and the grassland kingdoms and tribes in the central and eastern regions of the Mongolian Plateau, because Liaoshangjing is the most suitable place to control these areas (this is proved by the Liao Dynasty In addition, Li Yan is not going to leave the vast and rich Siberia to Russia in the future, and designating Liao Shangjing as Beijing can barely radiate the entire Siberia.

There are many people who can figure out what Shangyi wants, and besides, Li Yan's mind is not difficult to figure out.

Leaving aside Li Yan's plans for the central, eastern, western, and southern capitals, only Beijing has not.

It is only said that since Dazhong recovered Xixia, the only border troubles Dazhong faced were the Jin Kingdom and the Mongolian tribes in the north (mainly the northeast region), the countries of the Western Regions, and the Tubo region in the southwest.

As for these three border problems, the best solution is Tubo in the southwest.

First of all, the formerly powerful Tubo Empire has long since declined, and it has even been dispersed into several forces. These Tubo forces are constantly fighting with each other, even to the death. , are all unprecedentedly powerful, therefore, it should not be difficult to completely solve the problem of Tubo's border troubles under the ups and downs.

However, the Tubo people have always been relatively restrained and dare not harass the border of Dazhong, and it is not very useful to come to the poor areas of Tubo. The most important thing is that Dazhong still has no time to clean up Tubo, so they let Tubo do whatever The Tubo people will be happy for a while.

In addition to Tubo, the second best solution to the border troubles is the countries of the Western Regions.

The situation in the Western Regions is more complicated, and there are many forces. The key is that it is too far away from the Central Plains, so it should not be easy to solve.

But firstly, the expeditionary force led by Yue Fei, Ma Kuo and others had gone west two years ago, and according to the news from Yue Fei and the others, the results of the expeditionary force were remarkable—a year ago, the expeditionary force had successively wiped out the Mongolian Plateau The grassland tribes of Taichiwu, Mierqi, and Naiman (only defeated, not completely defeated) in the western region entered the Western Regions, and then joined the Zheyanzhi tribe sent by Zhang Xian at Hongshukou. After getting the supplies, under the suggestion of Yelu Dashi brought by Ori Yanzhi, the expeditionary army arrived at Yemili, and then established a small city there named "Dingyuan City" (here the water and grass are abundant, the climate is cool, suitable for grazing , the most important thing is that it is not too far from the Longyou area, especially from Yumen Pass. If Dazhong sends a large army to escort, it will be able to resupply this small city. More importantly, with this small city, The expeditionary force is no longer a rootless duckweed), after that, Yue Fei, Ma Kuo and others appease the nearby Turkic tribes, promising them that they can become citizens of Dazhong, and not only can they trade with Dazhong to obtain what they need Food and daily necessities can be moved to the rich Dazhong in the future. The local Turkic tribes have joined the expeditionary army. As a result, Dingyuan City has become bigger and bigger. Now it has become one of the largest cities in the Western Regions. From the mouths of the people, Yue Fei, Ma Kuo and others learned that the Karahan Dynasty is now suffering from internal and external troubles, so Yue Fei, Ma Kuo and others decided to continue to expand westward through the Uyghur Kingdom of Gaochang, but the Uighur king of Gaochang Uighur, Bilge, was hesitant at the time. The Uighur king of Gaochang welcomed Yue Fei and Ma Kuo into the palace and held a feast for three days. Then the King of Uighur expressed that the Uighur Gaochang was willing to submit to Dazhong, not only his only He also expressed his willingness to send his hostage descendants, and when the expeditionary army left, he sent Yue Fei, Ma Kuo and others and the expeditionary army abroad, and sent two thousand war horses. Horses, [-] camels, and [-] sheep, the expeditionary force continued westward, preparing to cross the Tianshan Mountains to conquer the Eastern Karakhan Dynasty... In other words, the expeditionary force's journey to the west has been smooth so far.

Secondly, the Gaochang Uighurs, the largest force in the Western Regions, have already expressed their willingness to surrender to Dazhong, and have already expressed that the remaining small forces are actually nothing to fear.

Thirdly, after Dazhong wiped out Xixia, Dingyuan City can be connected together through Longyou and Hexi Corridor. In this way, Dazhong's tentacles have already entered the Western Regions.

Therefore, it won't be long before the problem of border troubles in the Western Regions should be completely resolved.

Nowadays, only Dajin in the Northeast and the Mongolian tribes in the central and eastern parts of the Mongolian Plateau are Li Yan's serious worries!
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(End of this chapter)