Regarding Li Tai, Li Ke made him a Sikong, not only did he not have the right to exploit him, but he also let him be in charge of the imperial examinations and education in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Tai was happy to accept the order when he saw Li Ke's sincerity.

Li Zhi was still the King of Southern, but Li Zhi wanted to go to Taiyuan Han College to study painting and study, and Li Ke happily agreed.

Li Ke did not punish Li Chengqian, but just imprisoned him in a mansion in Chang'an.

Li Ke ascended the throne, and not long after, a great victory came from Liaodong.

It is said that Liu Rengui led a large army to destroy the Kingdom of Goryeo and killed the King of Goryeo.

Landong's Turkic cavalry became the butcher army. As long as the Tang army goes, it will be massacred for other places, and the population of Liaodong will drop sharply.

Li Ke asked Liu Rengui and Lan Dong to return to Chang'an. The two went to Chang'an to offer prisoners. Li Ke granted Lan Dong as general, and went to Liu Rengui's tent to listen to him. He granted Liu Rengui the King of Northern Liao, and began to stabilize the situation in Liaodong.

After this promotion and appointment, the Tang Dynasty began to stabilize and Li Ke's throne became firm! On that day, Li Ke came to a house in Chang'an City.

The yard was guarded by his personal bodyguard, Eagle Guard, and Chen Qi's Nanya Imperial Guard outside.

Li Ke walked into the yard and came to the garden behind and found Li Chengqian alone teasing birds.

Seeing Li Ke, Li Chengqian did not salute, but said lightly, "Li Ke, when do you want to deal with the orphan?"

"Brother, do you think I need to deal with you?"

Li Ke asked back.

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment before answering, "You really don't have the need to do this - since there is no, why do you still imprison the orphan?"

"Does my brother want to listen to my thoughts?"

Li Ke asked.

"You talk—" Li Chengqian said.

"Okay--" Li Ke said loudly, like Wang Zhongchang gave a wink. Wang Zhongchang left, and in a moment, he found that the Eastern King Li Tai and Southern King Li Zhi had all come to the yard, and even the Qi King Li You came to everyone.

When the three of them saw Li Ke, they bowed and bowed, "I have seen the emperor--" "Everyone is brother, so there is no need to be too polite - sit down!"

Li Ke said that he would sit down first.

When everyone sat down, Wang Zhongchang spread a map on the table. Li Ke said with a smile, "Look at this map - this is a map of the Western countries that I asked my subordinate Meng Shan to spend seven years drawing - these countries with the names recorded on it, with fertile land and sparse population, which is very suitable for the people of the Tang Dynasty -" Li Ke said here, turning his eyes to Li Tai.

Li Tai glanced at Li Ke, and his eyes showed joy, "The emperor means——” "Yes——” Li Ke said, "As long as there are countries on the map, I will conquer them, and then live where the people who migrated to the Tang Dynasty will go.

But who should rule these countries?

If prefectures and counties are established, they will not be convenient to control them from Chang'an and Taiyuan.

What I mean is that I can only establish a vassal state, but there are people in the vassal state who are in charge of the vassal state to be kings. I don’t want the land captured by the Tang Dynasty to become outsiders. I wonder if you guys want to go?"

"Third brother--what you said is true?"

Li You asked happily, forgot his name and called him third brother Li Ke directly.

"Is my words false?"

Li Ke asked back.

At this time, Li Chengqian also came to his senses, and his eyes shone with light, "Master, do you really want them to rule these countries?"

His tone also changed, calling Li Ke the emperor, and recognizing Li Ke's orthodox status.

"What do you think, brother?"

Li Ke asked back.

"Isn't the emperor afraid of us--" Li Chengqian said, and kept silent, but Li Ke understood the meaning of his words.

"Brother, it will take at least forty years for the Tang Dynasty to conquer these lands and manage them well and make them a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Ke smiled and said, "I think it will take thirty years for you to rebel, but can you live that way?"

Even if your descendants succeed to the throne, they will be the candidates I appointed—” Li Ke said this, but everyone knew the meaning.

The four Li Ke all showed a faint joy at a glance.

When Li Ke returned to the palace, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Because he had already had some ideas in his mind about establishing a vassal state in this Western Expedition.

However, when Li Ke was worried, he still did not enthrone the queen, let alone the crown prince.

He was also hesitating, who should be the queen? It was Asunayun?

Or Wu Meiniang?

If Asunayun's words are, will the charming mother be content with her?

The position of the prince is the same. Is it that Li Ren is the crown prince?

Or should I let Li Xian be the crown prince?

Li Ke was hesitant.

On this day, Li Ke summoned Di Zhixun, Cen Wenben, Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou and others to Liangyi Hall and began to discuss the issue of the candidate for the prince.

After a long discussion, everyone's final opinion was to appoint the eldest son Li Ren as the crown prince and Asuna Yun as the queen.

Li Ke did not make a statement immediately, but asked everyone to leave. He returned to the study room of Ganquan Palace and thought quietly for a long time before he determined the final candidate.

Ashinayun was appointed as the queen, Li Ren was appointed as the crown prince, Li Yi was appointed as the king of northern king, Li Xian was appointed as the king of Jing, and the son born to the Tubo princess was also named the title of king.

At the same time, Li Ke asked the general of the Beiya Yai Du Junchuo to start rectifying the Beiya army, which means abolishing the government military system and implementing the professional military system.

The army of the twelve guards was reorganized into the Northern Imperial Guards, and the military uniforms were yellow, and the army was called the Jinyiwei.

The Nanya army is still the iron-core army of Li Ke, and is still called Black Guard.

The adapted Jinyiwei has been improved in all aspects, and all the generals and schools in it are served by trainees from the Army Academy.

Suddenly, the Jinyiwei slowly established his position in Chang'an and gradually began to compete with the Black-Clothing Guard of Nanya.

As the emperor, Li Ke was the result he was most willing to see.

Because, only in this way can his rights be balanced.

However, what he could not have imagined was that his son had long focused on the Black and Jinyiwei.

Crown Prince Li Ren naturally targeted the army of Liu Rengui, the King of Northern Liao, because this army had Turkic cavalry and he had Turkic bloodline, so he could better control the army; Northern King Li Yi targeted the Jinyiwei.

Because the Jinyiwei is being formed, this gives him a chance.

King Jing Li Xian put his target on the black guard.

This was based on Wu Meiniang's suggestion. At the beginning, five hundred eagle guards wiped out two thousand Jinwu guards at the gate of the Northern King's Mansion. Wu Meiniang recognized the powerful combat power of the Black Guard, which made her son choose the Black Guard.

Li Ke did not stop his three sons from doing things, but he saw from it that his character was one aspect.

Li Ren has the nature of a Turkic person in his bones. Li Yi likes to be realistic, while Li Xian dares to challenge himself.

In the spring of the second year of Yuanhao, Li Ke ordered the Northwest King Su Dingfang to launch a combat order against the Western Regions.

At the same time, he ordered the Northern Liao King Liu Rengui to lead 30,000 navy to fight eastward.

The Tang Dynasty opened an era of empire after Li Ke ascended the throne.

In later history books, historians call the Tang Dynasty during the Li Ke period the Tang Dynasty during the Shengzong period.
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