Yang Feng ended his expedition in the third year of Qianyuan.

When he brought his army back to Saiye, who had been away from nearly two years, the Anshi Rebellion had been quelled.

Guo Ziyi led a large army to win the Second Battle of Xiangzhou. Under the temptation of Tian Chengsi, Wu Lingxun and others, An Qingxu's general Li Huaixian launched a mutiny. An Qingxu's commander fled a few confidants. Li Huaixian led the main force of the rebel army to surrender to Guo Ziyi with the prefectures of the prime ministers of the eastern front. Yin Ziqi on the eastern front saw that the situation was too far away and also surrendered to Guo Ziyi with Wei Bo and other prefectures. The two families each had tens of thousands of elite troops. In order to end this war that lasted for many years as soon as possible, Li Heng simply named them the governor of the prime minister of the Wei Wei and the governor of the Wei Bo and Wei Bo Jie, respectively. The former led the four prefectures of the prime minister of Wei Wei and Ming Xing, and the latter led the four prefectures of Wei Bo and Bei Ze, which is the corner of the Yellow River and Taihang Mountains to the west of modern Jinan.

After An Qingxu fled, he defected to Shi Siming, but was killed by Shi Siming in Fanyang. Shi Siming surrendered to Li Guangbi with his head.

However, An Zhongzhi, the godson of An Lushan, led his troops to surrender to Guo Ziyi in Dingzhou. In order to differentiate his power, Li Heng, in addition to using Shi Siming as the governor of Fanyang, also divided the five prefectures of Dingcangji and Zhao to establish Chengde Jiedu, and appointed An Shouzhong as the governor of Chengde, and named him Li Baochen.

But the crucial Hengzhou, that is, the modern Zhengding, was transferred to the Hedong Jiedushi, so that the court's army would maintain its strategic advantage in leaving Taihang at any time. Heyang also established the Heyang Jiedushi separately, so that the court could maintain its strategic advantage from Henan and South at any time. In addition, Huazhou and Yunzhou belonging to the court, the three major ferries along the Yellow River were all controlled by the court. In the future, these guys would rebel, and it would be much easier to deal with it. After all, everyone understands that these arrogant soldiers and generals would not be honest. They all control the rich plains and have a population of millions even if they are small. For example, the population of Weizhou, under the jurisdiction of Weibo Jiedushi, under the jurisdiction of Weibo Jiedushi, reached a terrible population of 1.11 million, and the population of Beizhou, under the jurisdiction of Weibo Jiedushi, also under the jurisdiction of Weibo Jiedushi, also under the jurisdiction of Weibo Jiedushi, also reached 800,000...

Well, this is why Wei Bo was rampant in the middle Tang Dynasty.

At this time, Hebei was almost the densest-popular area of ​​the Tang Dynasty, which even surpassed Guanzhong. In addition to Jingzhao, a giant with a population of nearly two million, Guanzhong rarely had a population of more than 300,000. However, there are almost few states in Hebei that are below this number. Weizhou's population is close to Henan Prefecture, and even surpasses the sum of Fengxiang Prefecture, the Xijing of Yangzhou, which is famous for its prosperity. It also surpasses Chengdu, which was once the core of southern political and economics. This name that is almost unnoticed in modern times is actually the third largest administrative region of the population of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of population density, it may still be ranked first in the Tang Dynasty, because whether it is Jingzhao Prefecture in Chang'an or Henan Prefecture in Luoyang, the area of ​​the jurisdiction is much larger than that of Weizhou, and the huge population is the reason why the three towns in Heshuo have been rampant for two hundred years.

It is also the reason why Li Heng could only temporarily tolerate them to continue to be local emperors. If he really wanted to fight for a long time, unless he called Yang Feng back, he would be in no way sure to win completely.

But when he called Yang Feng back, he was afraid that Yang Feng would cause trouble.

So he had to make some compromises.

In this way, the Anshi Rebellion, which lasted for five years, was finally put down, and the Tang Dynasty also began the era of separatist rule in the feudal states. The four towns of Heshuo, Li Zhongchen of Qingqi, Hou Xiyi of Pinglu, and Gao Xianzhi of Annan, whether it was recognized or not, there was actually Yang Feng of the Western Regions, who was not originally able to manage in Guizhou, Zhao Guozhen, which was already in the form of separatist. They collected taxes, raised their own troops, appointed local officials, and the court had basically nothing to ask for except sending a military supervisor to appoint a deputy envoy to occasionally receive contributions. These guys could be at peace with the court and continued to be the chief officials of the court, and Li Heng burned incense.

Fortunately, the threat from Tubo was lifted at this time. After the Luoshe was captured by Yang Feng and the 50,000 elite Tubo troops were wiped out in India, the Tubo nobles of Qinghai-Tibet and Kangsang were divided into separatist areas and competed to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and became the surrogate states of the Tang Dynasty. Anyway, Li Heng's request for them was limited to this.

This is also a blessing in disguise.

Immediately afterwards, Yang Feng, the prince of Nanyang, brought hundreds of Tubo princes and nobles, including Tubo Zanpu, to the court to offer prisoners, and also brought tribute envoys from various Indian countries, which gave Li Heng enough face. Of course, it also made the glory of the god of war of the Tang Dynasty even more dazzling. Because the prince was already the limit of the title of minister, and such great achievements had to be promoted to Yang Feng, Li Heng simply added him to the eldest Situ of the Third Duke, and added him a school inspection and the Secretariat. However, on the grounds that Tubo was destroyed, he quickly withdrew Bai Xiaode's Longyou Jiedushi, and at the same time, he used Pugu Huaien as the Jiedushi of Hexi and Hun Yu as the Jiedushi of Longyou. This was what he trusted the most. Obviously, he was afraid that Yang Feng would lead his army to attack Chang'an along the Longyou route in Hexi.

In addition, I also told Yang Feng that he would do whatever he wanted in the Western Regions. The court would not take care of it anymore. As long as he was still a minister of the Tang Dynasty, everyone would go their own way!

Especially when King Yang, who entered the court, when he sent a team of Indian musicians and dancers to the Emperor, he found that the Emperor's treatment was not high, and it could even be said that he was lonely and sad. Even after Gao Lishi was demoted to Langzhou, Changde, he angrily scolded Li Fuguo and beat his confidant Cheng Yuanzhen in public, which made his relationship with Li Heng suddenly tense, and made the people of the world see King Yang's respect for the Emperor. In short, after this entry into the court, the relationship between him and the court was no longer the same as before. In a sense, it was considered to be a robbery and a break.

However, he was still loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

Because then he held a banquet at the royal palace in Chang'an and invited people from all over the country to show the terrifying power of killing the rhino with one punch at the banquet, he clearly warned all the vassal states that he would kill the rebels with his own hands.

In short, he drew a red line for the feudal states in this way.

Can't rebel.

In other words, there is no civil war.

As for the external situation, he encouraged him, especially the vassal states such as Fanyang, Pinglu, Ziqing, and there were many messy ethnic groups in the northeast, and there were even those who refused to return to the kingdom like Bohai Kingdom and Silla, and those who often harassed the Tang Dynasty in the north, such as the Khitan, Xi people and Uighurs. These are the responsibilities of their border ministers. They cannot be obliged to the imperial court. They are the governors and have the right to decide whether to attack those. A governor is not strong enough, so several governors can join forces. Just like the three towns in the Western Regions and the three towns in the southeast jointly destroyed the Tubo and conquered Tianzhu, the towns in Heshuo can also unite and make achievements in the vast world in the north!

There are also people like Ziqing, who can cross the sea for hundreds of miles and are Silla. Why don’t Silla declare the prestige of the Tang Dynasty?

Anyway, that's it.

Everyone can't fight a civil war. Who dares to fight a civil war? I'll kill him with a big stick, but I can go out to expand and turn more land from foreign races into prefectures and counties in the Tang Dynasty. This is OK. Anyway, whoever grabs the land will definitely belong to whom. If one is not enough, just a few companies will join forces. There is wealth outside. Speaking of which, our three towns in the Western Regions and the three towns in the southeast have robbed gold, silver and jewelry to pile up in mountains in Tianzhu and Tubo. Why can't you learn from us?

The various vassal states suddenly became enlightened.

Especially the envoy of the Pinglu Jiedushi Hou Xiyi in Chang'an came to the door the next day to ask for a visit, wanting to buy a batch of armor from the King of Nanyang and form a cavalry themselves. They really want to regain the land that was supposed to be the Anton Protectorate. Because they had to deal with the rebels before, the Pinglu army had actually completely lost control of Liaodong and was constantly attacked by the Xi people. There was also the Bohai Kingdom in the north. Hou Xiyi and his subordinates had a difficult time holding on. They were eager to obtain a batch of cold-forged armor from the Western Regions, arm an army with strong enough strength to fight the Liaohe River again, and restore the Anton Protectorate.

King Yang generously agreed to this.

He also personally called the envoy of Li Zhongchen, the governor of Ziqing, to let both families give him face and reconcile. Although Hou Xiyi exclusion made Li Zhongchen go south in anger, after all, he was an old brother who had fought side by side for many years in the past. If you have a little revenge, let it go over and face the future! Next, you two families acted together, Hou Xiyi crossed the Liaohe River to the east, Li Zhongchen crossed the sea to land north in Beisha City. You two families just divide Liaodong with Gaizhou as the boundary. Anyway, you will get the territory and you will report to the court, and the court will not not give it to you. Although there is nothing good on the Liaodong Peninsula, there are still as many ginseng, deer antlers and so on.

So Hou Xiyi and Li Zhongchen made up their minds and formed a group to Liaodong to regain the territory of the Andong Protectorate, and at the same time happily dig ginseng and cut deer antlers in Changbai Mountain.

Similarly, other vassal states have also seen ways to make money. After all, for them, squeezing the people in their jurisdiction is not a good choice, because their soldiers are all from the people in their jurisdiction. Once they are harsh, it is easy to cause mutiny or civilian change, and the court will happily take the opportunity to get rid of them. If you want to make money and expand your strength, the best choice is to go out to plunder. External plunder will make them happy and the people under your rule. However, Yang Feng prohibits them from plundering through civil wars, so the only option is to externally. Pinglu and Ziqing can jointly attack Liaodong. Then Fan Yang completely discusses with Hedong how about we go to rob Khitan together?

If there is not enough manpower, you can go to several other vassal states in Heshuo to attract some more. In short, we veterans who have fought for many years have to use it.

Well, in this way, the arrogant soldiers and generals of the Tang Dynasty found that they suddenly opened the door to a new world in front of them.

Yang Feng doesn't care about the rest.
Chapter completed!