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Chapter 1103 The Kings Go to the Territory
After returning to the imperial study, Li Yan secretly praised him. He knew that Hou Junji was pretending without taking his pulse. He knew how strong this old man was. In the original drama, he was fighting Gaochang in the past few years. He would win every battle and conquer every attack.

He also took possession of several Western Hu girls from Gaochang and even gave birth to children with them. How could this be considered a normal thing?

If he had not later joined Li Chengqian in a rebellion and been forced to commit suicide by the civil and military officials in the court, he would probably have lived longer than Changsun Wuji.

Especially when he learned that Hou Junji had an accident shortly after Li Xiang returned from his place, Li Yan shook his head lightly. It seemed that this guy had guessed some of his thoughts and made cooperative responses.

Li Yan silently praised the old guy in his heart, but didn't take it to heart and went about dealing with his own affairs.

For a period of time afterwards, the court continued to dispatch officials and troops to the west for various reasons.

Li Ke also made all preparations and led his younger brother, Prince Li Yin, and the team of the Chief of Works to leave Chang'an. Li Yan left the city lightly and personally saw off the third brother who was the most like Li Shimin in history outside the Jinguang Gate in the west of the city.

On the way back to the palace, when passing by the West Market, he saw a huge crowd of people. After receiving the report from Heng Lian, he learned that Chu Heng had been sentenced to death some time ago and was beheaded in the West Market today.

The monk Bianji, who insulted Princess Gaoyang, was also beheaded and thrown into the market.

Li Yan sighed as he sat in the carriage. A monk and a princess were involved, and the ending was doomed. Bianji's fate was no different from that in history. Some people in the court said that a villain like Bianji should be cut into pieces as a warning to others.

Li Yan denied it. After all, he and Gao Yang were just having a private affair, and Gao Yang was the one who took the initiative. Sentencing them to be beheaded was a quick and deserved punishment. I hope their tragic endings can alert more people to behave themselves.

Save more infatuated men and women, and don’t let them fall into irretrievable disaster because of momentary impulse.

Don't do anything reckless in the name of pursuing love and freedom. Even if it is freedom of love, it has nothing to do with married women and monks in temples.

The Tang Dynasty was free and open, but we cannot just ignore everything.

Then, someone in the court reported that the purpose of enfeoffment was to guard the borders, and that the royal children who were given fiefdoms should go to the fiefdoms when they came of age to guard the borders for the country. They should not stay in the capital for a long time, idle away, and cause trouble.

This was the strategy set by Li Shimin. The nobles were now beginning to manage their fiefdoms, the meritorious officials and relatives were slowly moving, and the royal family should also go. With the approval of all the civil and military officials in the court, Li Yan's brothers also reluctantly agreed.

They headed to the snowy plateau one after another.

Although many people complained that the air here was thin, the environment was bad, it was not suitable for survival, and there was snow all year round, and it was impossible to communicate with the outside world for half a year. But Li Yan knew that Li Shimin had good intentions in enfeoffing the Li royal family here.

The snowy region of the southwest, as the highest place in the world, has been unpopular since ancient times. It is precisely because of the poor soil and environment here that no one looks up to it. The long-term division of the Central Plains will eventually lead to unification, and the long-term unification will eventually lead to division. This has no impact on this place at all.

When the Tang Dynasty was strong, all these royal children had to do was to establish themselves here, reproduce and thrive, and ensure that this place would not fall into the hands of others and threaten the Central Plains.

The special geographical environment of this place determines that it can be operated for hundreds of years without any problem.

What is certain is that one day, even when the Tang Dynasty is gone, their rule will still remain.

If the system allowed Li Yan to run this place, there would be no problem in lasting until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, let alone the period of Genghis Khan.

Because everyone looked down on it, the environment was bad, and it took more time to adapt to the climate and ecology here, those newly established settlements would abandon it. Even if the Tang Dynasty was gone, it would be replaced by the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

Even in modern times, as long as you are a vassal of the central government, you can live here safely and securely as a local emperor. That is, you are protected by the powerful central government and are not oppressed by the outside world. No one has any expectations here.

Everyone's positioning of it is that you just have to be honest and I don't expect you to make any contribution, as long as you don't cause trouble or hinder me. Even if the Arctic and Antarctic glaciers melt and the sea level rises, this is the last place in the world to be flooded.
This is the true eternal foundation. Even Li Yan picked out a few pieces of land to leave for future generations!
Yongfufang, at the other end of the street where Li Ke’s mansion is located, is a mansion that is no less large than the Prince of Wu’s Palace.

Behind the tall, magnificent and majestic signboard of the royal palace, in the lobby deep in the courtyards, a young man not much younger than Li Yan was smashing the displayed porcelain with an angry and ferocious look on his face.

Even the fine and luxurious wool carpet could not protect a vase from falling with such force.

With a loud bang, the porcelain bottle suddenly shattered, and the irregular fragments were rebounded by the bluestone floor tiles and flew everywhere.

One of the sharp-edged pieces of porcelain scratched the face of a middle-aged man who was kneeling in the main hall with a sword in his hand. The blood instantly flowed out, and the bearded man's face became much gloomier, but he still knelt there motionless like a mountain.

Waiting for the young man in front of him to finish venting. Another quarter of an hour later, the young man sat on the armchair, panting, and still cursed indignantly: "Damn it, we are all descendants of dragons and phoenixes, why can you sit on the ninth floor and occupy the vast land left by your father?"

"I am leaving the prosperous Central Plains to guard the border in the snowy mountains where few people go."

"What vassal states? They just sent us to the border. It's nothing to do with you. Since ancient times, the Central Plains has been threatened by the north and the west. When will the snowy plateau threaten the Central Plains?"

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The young man cursed and vented his anger. The kneeling middle-aged man saw that he had been doing this for a long time and there was nothing new. Then he said, "Your Highness, the current emperor is not an easy person to deal with. Look at the cruel way he treated Gao Yang."

"I knew he was the type who would prosper if he obeyed me, and become king if he disobeyed me."

"The King of Wu should have seen this and asked for permission to go west to avoid the Emperor's attack. However, his departure has left us without a strong support and we can only face the Emperor's punishment."

"Humph, I used to think Li Ke was a great man, but now it seems that he is just a coward."

Li You's face was distorted, and he said fiercely, "I have long advised him to gather our strength as brothers and fight to the death. The outcome is still uncertain. But he just didn't dare to look ahead and behind, and was timid. Now it's bad enough."

"Li Chengqian took the initiative, and I don't know what conditions he offered that made him choose to retreat."

"I have checked these past two days. His trusted generals, including Chai Zhewei, and several civil officials have all been transferred to the Western Regions. He even took his own brother away, as well as his two sons. It seems that he has no intention of coming back."

This is the residence of King Li You of Qi. The bearded man in front of him is none other than Hegan Chengji, the best fighter and confidant under King Qi.

This was also the strong man that Li You accepted when he was guarding Qi in Shandong. Because Li Chengqian in this world left Chang'an for the grassland at the end of the third year of Zhenguan, Hegan Chengji, who Li You originally planned to arrange to enter the East Palace to play Infernal Affairs, was not sent away.

Later, Li You tried to recommend him to other brothers, but both King of Wei Li Tai and King of Wu Li Ke were very wary of him, so the undercover agent was not sent out and remained with him.

In addition to protecting Li You's safety, he also secretly raised assassins for him in case of emergency. Therefore, Li You's thoughts were never hidden from Hegan Chengji.

When he was in Shandong, Li You showed his great ambition as soon as he became sensible. He secretly prepared for a rebellion in the future and a repeat of the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

However, after Li Shimin heard Li Yan's advanced idea of ​​taking back the Western Regions to enfeoff his sons, he took advantage of the fact that his prestige had risen sharply after the war with the Turks and the world was becoming stable, and recalled some of the kings who had been enfeoffed.

Later, he found an excuse to keep these princes in Chang'an and abolished the seats of the vassal kings.

The princes of the Tang Dynasty did not have the power to manage both military and political affairs. In the early days of the founding of the country, they were only allowed to stay in the local areas and serve as some civil officials to supervise local officials and explore public opinion. The princes did not have much real power.

Even princes of the royal family such as King Jiangxia Li Daozon and King Hejian Li Xiaogong had once briefly garrisoned in a certain place.

This is fundamentally different from the powerful princes who controlled military and political affairs in the early Han Dynasty and the early Jin Dynasty.

In the original drama, Qi Wang Li You guarded Shandong and worked hard for more than ten years. When Li Shimin was old and weak, he took advantage of the court's deposed crown prince to rebel. The court only sent two generals, Li Ji and Liu Dewei, to easily quell the rebellion.

In reality, because of Li Yan's influence, Li Shimin conquered many countries and conquered countless states. His prestige was extremely high and his majesty was very heavy. Li You did not dare to have the slightest rebellious heart, so he did not rebel and lived to the era of Li Chengqian.

But he did not give up his ambition, but kept calculating. Unexpectedly, Li Chengqian easily persuaded Li Ke and solved the biggest hidden danger among the princes without bloodshed, which made his plan of sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight in vain.

Li Ke had just left when the court impatiently urged the kings to return to their fiefdoms, leaving Li You completely unprepared. He could only stay in his mansion and vent his temper, which was of no benefit to reality.

Hegan Chengji was unwilling to accept this. He had followed Li You since his youth and loyally protected this waste all his life in order to achieve success and gain a title for his wife and children. If it wasn't for the so-called loyalty, he would waste his life's learning and best years.

He had inquired about it, and found that the Snow Region was full of endless mountains, with thin air, snow all year round, and extremely low temperatures. There were few animals, let alone people. Wouldn't it be more miserable to go there than to be exiled to Guizhou?
He had already made up his mind that if Li You became a vassal, he would find an opportunity to leave and would never leave his hometown, the Central Plains, where he was born and raised.

(End of this chapter)