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"What my master is doing now is setting the tripod in the Western Regions, right?" Li Hong slid his finger on the Kanyu map, and finally pointed his hand at the location of the Western Regions.

Di Renjie sighed and said, "The Western Regions are very important to Chang'an, if the Western Regions decline, Chang'an will inevitably decline.

However, the land of the Western Regions is too vast, and it is impossible to station a large-scale army. In the end, only a small number of elites from the Tang Dynasty, supplemented by local strong soldiers in the Western Regions, and finally divided counties and counties, sent elite officials to the Western Regions to govern. Ten years later, the Western Regions may be able to stabilize.

Governing the Western Regions is not only a matter for the army and officials, but also a matter for Confucian scholars, Buddhists, and merchants.

To manage the Western Regions well is to work together and go hand in hand. In the end, this vast land becomes the inherent territory of the Tang Dynasty.

No matter which aspect goes wrong, it will leave endless troubles.

Back in the day, the first emperor swallowed the six kingdoms, driving on the same track, writing on the same scale, weights and measures were to use the road as a rein to firmly bind the land of China together, and only then did the inherent land of my Tang Dynasty come into being.

If the prince wants the Western Regions, Xiao Guicao must do these things well. Once the customs, habits, words, and writing are unified, the Western Regions will also be unified.

What Yunchu is doing now is to demonstrate, to demonstrate to the big cannibals who are most likely to destroy the Western Regions, and to warn the big cannibals not to go too far.

The purpose of doing this is to buy time for the prince to govern the Western Regions. As long as there are ten years, Naha's Buddhist kingdom can be accomplished and he can order one side.

In 20 years, the imperial court's governance of counties in the Western Regions will have achieved initial results, and in 30 years, we will be able to complete tribal rule over the wandering shepherds...

The affairs of the Western Regions need to be dealt with, the affairs of Liaodong need to be dealt with, the tribes on the grassland need to be dealt with, and the Fanbang and barbarians in the south also need to be dealt with.

Therefore, we have so many things to deal with in the future, and it is impossible to complete this great narrative in a lifetime. "

Li Zhi is very smart, and after listening to Di Renjie's words, he sighed and said, "In other words, in the years to come, we need to try our best to keep what we have now, give up the Central Plains and focus on drawing the frontier, right?"

Di Renjie laughed and said, "How can the wealth of the frontier be comparable to that of the one-third of an acre of land in the Central Plains?"

Li Hong nodded with a smile and said, "In this case, it is up to you to talk about convincing the eldest grandson to come to my East Palace as a ceremony."

Di Renjie said: "Aren't I the prince's secret help? Isn't it good to put it in the open?"

Li Hong said with a smile: "You underestimate my father and mother too much. I don't have enough manpower on the surface. How can I have extra manpower in the dark to be a secret child."

From the beginning to the end, Li Hong did not talk to Di Renjie about Yunchu's current situation in the Western Regions. Although Di Renjie brought the topic to Yunchu twice, Li Hong chose to ignore it.

It's not that he doesn't want to know, but that he knows it too clearly.

Many times, when Li Hong sat alone in the East Palace and looked up at the starry sky, he would always bring himself into Yunchu's team of exploring the West.

Many times he was thinking about how he should deal with those things when he was in Yunchu's position.

Naha's Buddha Kingdom is under the snow mountain, and the prayer flags are flying like a fairyland. Although the food is not good, but Naha walked out of the snow mountain with the little girl painted with Buddha paintings all over her body carrying firewood It should be extra sacred...

Living in Chang'an, but my heart is thousands of miles away...

The tall Big Wild Goose Pagoda once again blocked the sunlight, Li Hong wiped his eyes and said to himself: "It turns out that the hometown is where there are people."

After speaking, Li Hong looked around guiltily, he didn't want his words to fall into the ears of his father and mother.

Father-in-law, father-in-law, the king comes first, the father comes after, the emperor has been in power for a long time, and he can no longer be a good father.

Li Hong felt that he tried very hard to love his father and mother, but they were more willing to treat him as a close courtier.

Li Hong felt that he was about to adapt to this way of getting along with his parents, and felt a little uneasy, but there was no way to change it.

Just like he forced Di Renjie to support him in the open, it is a necessary process that cannot be omitted.

Di Renjie was not angry, but he felt that this was a sign of Li Hong's gradual maturity. Since he had chosen to join the prince's camp, he never hoped that the prince he assisted would never grow up.

Convincing Changsun Chong to join the prince's camp, it is obvious that the prince has taken a fancy to the property of the Changsun family, and this is the only thing that Changsun Chong can afford now.

The emperor and the empress cut off Changsun Wuji's left and right arms before they attacked Changsun Wuji. This process was not silent, but Changsun Wuji did not choose to resist.

Instead, he watched helplessly that his close subordinates were either demoted, killed, or died without a place to bury them.

This is all very wrong...

When Di Renjie arrived at the Princess Mansion where Changsun Chong lived, Chang Sun Chong was lying shirtless on the gate of the Princess Mansion drinking.

After the death of his wife, Princess Changle, Li Lizhi, Changsun Chong has been living in the princess' mansion and has not returned to the Changsun family, because he is Princess Shang, not marrying the princess. In fact, he is the princess's vassal.

The reason why Li Hong chose Changsun Chong as his face to hide his shame was also because of this point. He is the son-in-law of the Li family.

Di Renjie stood at the door and looked up at Changsun Chong, this son-in-law who used to be very neat and tidy, now has a beard that looks like grass, covering his face, and his original white body has been baked black and red by the scorching sun in Chang'an these days.

So much so that a white translucent film formed on the surface of his skin, and as long as he tore it off with his hands, it could be torn into big pieces.

Now, while drinking, Chang Sun Chong took pleasure in tearing his own skin, and he didn't waste the white skin he tore off, so he ate it with the wine.

He already knew his fate, that he would be dispatched by the emperor to the smoky Lingnan.

It is almost impossible to come back alive.

However, before the final juncture, Chang Sun Chong still wanted to protect the concubine and three concubines living in the princess mansion.

The way he protects them is to use the tiles on the gate tower to scare the various officials who want to enter the princess mansion.

People from Honglu Temple, Shaofu Supervisor, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment were guarding the gates. The emperor did not order Chang Sun Chong to be expelled. Before killing Chang Sun Chong, they acquiesced to Chang Sun Chong's resistance.

Under the strange eyes of those officials, Di Renjie came to the gate, took out a document, and read aloud: "Under the guidance of the prince, I will promote the eldest son Chong to the East Palace Dianyi, and he will take office immediately."

As soon as Di Renjie's words fell, the crowd at the gate of the Princess Mansion was like a nest of wasps. Countless people jumped on fast horses or ran away. They all wanted to inform their superiors about the Changsun family's changes as soon as possible.

Changsun Chong took office as Dianyi of the Eastern Palace. Although he was a small official from the sixth rank, it probably represented a turning point, even a huge turning point, in the emperor's handling of the Changsun family.

If this is the case, the embezzled assets of the Changsun family need to be cleaned up, and those who have hurt the Changsun family need to consider whether they need to ease their bad relationship with the Changsun family.

The people who betrayed the Changsun family wanted to cry even more when they heard the news.

If the Changsun family is allowed to escape this catastrophe, there is a very high possibility that their family will make a comeback.

A fourth-rank red-robed official came to Di Renjie and cupped his hands: "Di Renjie, what you announced just now was the Prince's religion, not His Majesty's will?"

Facing his immediate superior, Di Renjie calmly said, "Is Hu Shaoqing going to check the Prince's Sect?"

Dali Temple Shaoqing Hu Chenglong shook his head solemnly and said: "Don't dare."

Di Renjie smiled and said, "Leave if you don't dare, the prince's education has been dismissed, there is no room for slowing down."

Hu Chenglong looked at Di Renjie with gloomy eyes and said, "Your root is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Di Renjie laughed loudly and said, "My roots are in the court of the Tang Dynasty, and I was just a person who was arrested by His Royal Highness to read the teachings of the Prince."

Hu Chenglong knew that the Prince's Mo Dao Jiang had just been ordered to hack a school lieutenant to death.

Staring at the prince's teaching in Di Renjie's hand for a moment, he said: "I would like to follow the prince's teaching, and my minister Hu Chenglong will leave."

Following Hu Chenglong's departure, hundreds of catchers from the Dali Temple left one after another, and the rest of the people at the gate of the Yamen did not stop, and also evacuated one after another. Among them, the retreat of the Shaofu Supervisor was the most spectacular. They brought dozens of carriage.

The emaciated and inhuman eldest Sun Chong quickly came down from the gate, changed into a set of clean clothes, hurried to the front door, thanked the prince for his kindness, and opened his bloody mouth to ask, "Where is my grandfather? Did you also receive His Majesty's grace?"

Di Renjie shook his head and said: "For your eldest grandson, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already risked the disgrace of the world.

The official suggested that His Highness the Crown Prince should give up on the Changsun family, but His Highness the Crown Prince said, how can one give up on one's own relatives. "

After finishing speaking, he angrily slapped the crown prince into Chang Sun Chong's arms, turned around and left.

The eldest Sun Chong shouted from behind: "Brother Di, where are the rest of my brothers?"

Di Renjie shouted angrily: "The prince is young, how far are you going to kill the prince?"

Chang Sun Chong's lips twitched a few times, and he looked back at the concubine Ji and the child who were crawling at the gate to watch him, and finally prostrated himself on the ground and said loudly: "Minister Sun Chong thanked the prince for his kindness."

He understands that everyone in the world is about to perish the grandson's family, and that the crown prince's ability to save his family is already the limit of what the crown prince can do.

Waiting for the court tomorrow, or perhaps not before the court tomorrow, there will be a snowflake of impeachment documents arriving at the East and West Pavilions, and will eventually land on His Majesty's desk.

What Di Renjie said was not wrong at all, the prince risked the world's shame for his eldest grandson.