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Chapter 810 Grassland Enfeoffment
The five prefectures of Youjing and Liaobei have been determined.

The state of Zhao no longer has any worries about going east. Although there are still a lot of sporadic rebellions in the local area, it has not affected the overall situation enough.Guo Xiaoke, who had a reputation for being harsh, took charge of Goguryeo and wiped out the remnants of the party.Li Chongjiu was relieved.

Goguryeo handed it over to him and decided to sit back and relax.

At this moment, a memorial was delivered directly from Zhongshu Province to Li Chongjiu's desk.It turned out that it was written by Sun Chuyue, who had made military exploits in Liyang before.

Sun Chuyue objected in the memorial, and Li Chongjiu moved all the noble people of Goguryeo to the interior of Zhao.Sun Chuyue said in the memorial that anyone who wants to destroy his country must first destroy his heart.As for the wealthy families in Goguryeo, they should win over, discover talents among them, and use them for their own use, instead of expelling them from their hometown.

Li Chongjiu listened to Sun Chuyue's words and felt that it made sense. Since ancient times, in a country, it is often not that the lower class people have lost hope in the country, but the upper elite and intellectuals are dissatisfied with the country.The same is true in today's society. The lowest class of people, who are penniless, love the country, but the elite class, who have earned a lot of wealth, but think about going abroad all day long.

Li Chongjiu followed good advice and felt that Sun Chuyue's memorial was correct, so he sent the memorial to Zhongshu Province for discussion.

After the Turks broke through, the enfeoffment of the northern grasslands has not yet been decided.Now is the time to discuss the two together.

After more than three months of discussions with the grassland ministries, Li Chongjiu finally decided to divide the grassland into three parts.Set up Zhengxi Dadu Protectorate in the westernmost area, governing the grasslands north of Hetao, Shide Xibu General Yinghefu Dadu Protector, Ashina Momo as Deputy Protector, Liang Shidu, Zhang Changxun as the main party management of the commanding army , Jihu, Turkic, Tiele tribes.

And Baidaoyin Mountain, Cilechuan Grassland, Huaihuang Town, set up Baidao Metropolitan Protectorate, Wang Junkuo as the Metropolitan Protector, Tuli as the Deputy Metropolitan Protector, Boerhan, Etuo, Yuan Junzhang, Ashina Simo As the leader of the army, he mainly manages the five tribes of the Xi clan, Turkic, Baijiao, Shiwei, and Tiele tribes.

As for Yuyi Town, Huoershen Grassland, the original Songmo Protectorate was renamed as Zhengdong Dadu Protectorate. Since the original Dadu Protector Guo Xiaoke was relocated to Koguryo, Li Chongjiu decided to promote Zhou Zhou as the Dadu of Liaodong Dadu Protectorate Hu, Tudiji was the deputy capital guard, and mainly managed the Khitan, Goguryeo, Mohe, and Dingling ministries.

In contrast, Zhouzhou's original Liaodong County has become the hinterland of Zhao State because of the fall of Goguryeo, and its strategic position has dropped a lot.Li Chongjiu transferred Sun Chuyue to Ren Juncheng of Liaodong County to practice.

In addition, Li Chongjiu also named Qibi Heli of Tiele's Qibi tribe as the British Duke, as the spokesperson of Zhao Guo among the Tiele tribes in Mobei.In this way, the enfeoffment of the grassland has been decided.

Wen Yanbo and others were very much in favor of Sun Chuyue's proposal to use a large number of Turks and Hu people as officials to buy people's hearts.Such as Tuli, Ashina Momo, they were all the leading party in Zhao Guo's eradication of Jieli.For such a leading party, it is necessary to provide generous support and set an example for others.At the same time, these leading parties cannot be the only one, and staying there to check each other is the balance strategy.

As for the Turkic Khan that Tuli and Ashina had begged from him, Li Chongjiu agreed to give them the title of Khan.This is also a scheming technique. You will be promoted to a noble, but you will not be given real power.Tuli and Ashina Momo are honored as Khan, but the tribes under Xieli's command were divided among the tribes.Tuli, Ashina Momo only got a small part of the cake.

Tuli and Ashina knew that Li Chongjiu was like this at the end, but they still accepted the title of Khan, neither of them convinced the other, and they both regarded themselves as Khan.

The same is true for the measures to deal with Goguryeo. The five counties in northern Liaoning refused to use all Han officials. Li Chongjiu decided to select a group of people from the Goguryeo princes and ministers who personally captured Pyongyang.

These people have been in Youjing for a long time, and apart from not being able to leave the city, they are quite free to move around.They have witnessed the prosperity of Youjing and Zhao Guo's strong national power, and they no longer have the heart to resist.Li Chongjiu selected pro-Zhao elements who admired Zhao Guo culture and actively reformed. About 30 of these people were all commissioners.

The highest one served as the county magistrate, and the lowest one served as officials such as Zhu Bo, and all of them were sent back to the five counties in northern Liaoning together with their families.

In addition, Li Chongjiu also selected Goguryeo nobles in the local area, and asked them to send their children to Youjing Guozijian to study.With the hostages in hand, Li Chongjiu also appointed officials of these wealthy families.These actions of Li Chongjiu made the local rebels in Goguryeo relieve Zhao Guo a lot.However, the successive civil uprisings continued until more than [-] years after the reform.

On the grassland, everything was smooth sailing, and the situation was largely pacified. The remnants of the party loyal to Jieli also died out one after another under Yinghefu's pursuit.
Now Li Chongjiu is waiting for the three-way army to attack Li Tang and the news of the battle against Lin Shihong in the south.But Cao Wen's urgent report from Chang'an made Li Chongjiu somewhat unexpected.

Li Shimin took the risk of remonstrating at Xuanwumen because of Yang Wen's incident, killed Li Jiancheng, the prince of Li Tang, and led his army to surround the Taiji Palace, forcing Li Yuan to pass on the crown prince to himself.The Xuanwumen incident in history still happened by accident.

Li Shimin, Li Chongjiu's most feared opponent, has ascended to the position of Li Tang's crown prince, and it doesn't matter whether he forces Li Yuan to abdicate or not.Now Li Shimin has stepped up to the stage, directly face to face with Li Chongjiu.

It seems that the final battle is still indispensable.Li Chongjiu put the report aside and pondered alone.

Zhao Guo is now stronger than Li Tang in terms of economy, national power, and military strength. However, because of the rapid expansion in the past few years, there are also many internal hidden dangers.Judging from Cao Wen's intelligence, Li Yuan not only did not get angry with Li Shimin this time, but also personally expressed Li Shimin's intention to make Li Shimin the prince to Li Tang's clan and the officials.

After Li Chongjiu heard about it, he deeply felt Li Yuan's sophistication. This is what a mature politician does. Since Li Jiancheng is dead, there is only one way to go.If Li Yuan opposed Li Shimin at this time, it would inevitably cause further divisions within Li Tang, and the internal strife would directly lead to civil war. At that time, Li Chongjiu would be able to defeat Li Tang without any effort.

Therefore, Li Yuan didn't mean to settle accounts with Li Shimin, but instead stood up and strongly supported Li Shimin.Helping Li Shimin through the most difficult hurdle right now, Li Tang did not fall into a split because Li Shimin killed Li Jiancheng, but because of the prestige accumulated by Li Yuan and Li Shimin's outstanding talent, a temporary stable phenomenon was maintained.

Although Li Chongjiu knew that Li Yuan was vigorously turning to support Li Shimin, but the existence of cracks must exist.Even if Li Yuan did not oppose Li Chongjiu, there were people in Li Tang who supported Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji. Wouldn't they be afraid of being squeezed out by Li Shimin?

And these people are what Li Chongjiu wants to use.

(End of this chapter)