After a regime has gained a firm foothold, it must design its own internal structure so that it can maintain balance and stability as much as possible and cannot dominate one. This can easily lead to imbalance in power. Therefore, a series of institutions that build beds and stack houses will gradually appear.

This is why Li Ze recalled Xue Ping to form the National Congress.

Power must be caged, and someone must be able to turn the tide in the end. This is not for the present, but for the longer-term future.

Li Ze believes that in the current bureaucracy of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ze believes that in general, he is still positive and wants to do something. Everyone has his own dream in his heart. Because this country has developed to the present in their hands. Just like a child he has worked hard to raise, watching him grow up little by little, his love for him is naturally from the bottom of his heart. No one will be allowed to destroy him.

But what about the next generation? What about the next generation?

That's not necessarily true.

Do those guys who have never suffered and have grown up in honey water still have the mentality of the first generation of pioneers? I’m afraid that when the time comes, I just say it, I won’t be like this in my heart!

Just look at the moment, the old clan was broken by Li Ze's iron-blooded wrists, but the new interest groups are growing slowly in a more concealed form.

Li Ze had no choice but to do anything about this phenomenon because he knew that this was a necessity of history and a necessity of social development. However, these interest groups now must be attached to the regime to survive. The court has the power to seize life and death of these interest groups. Unlike the clan groups in the past that were mixed, they could pose a real threat to the court.

But this has led to new problems.

New interest groups will not spare their efforts to cultivate their representative figures in the officialdom.

This is an unsolvable knot.

Now Li Ze has basically no longer considered the domestic economic trend, because Xu Xiang has this, and he is too lazy to use his brain for military matters, because there are a group of experienced guys represented by You Yongwei. When it comes to war, these people are much better than him.

Now he is thinking about how to construct the power structure, personnel allocation, etc. of this new empire. Since some things cannot be avoided, he can only accept them. At the same time, he wants to make every effort to build some embankments in advance and design some systems to minimize the impact of the bad.

Of course, if it is really out of control in the end, the court still has the last trump card, which is to raise the knife and be unreasonable. But this move cannot be used unless it is absolutely necessary.

No one expected the candidate to replace Xue Ping.

This person comes from Jilin. He was previously Wang Wenshu's deputy in Jilin, an official who had no reputation in the Tang Dynasty.

His name is success.

He was once a local official of the Liao Kingdom under Zhang Zhongwu's rule. Because of his outstanding performance when he was an official in Ji'an, after the Tang Dynasty occupied the Great Northeast, this person was promoted many times within two or three years, and has been Wang Wenshu's deputy.

In Jilin, economic and livelihood affairs have actually been in charge of success. The economic development of Jilin has undoubtedly been at the forefront of the entire Northeast.

This candidate has caused heated controversy over the personnel discussions of the Supreme Committee. Gongsun Changming and Zhang Hui and others believed that the Western Regions should send a respected person to preside over the presidency, but Xu Xiang was supportive. What Xu Xiang wanted was the ability to successfully develop the economy.

Compared with the mainland, the current economic conditions in the Western Regions and other places are still too weak, and blood transfusions are constantly needed in the mainland. Now, the addition of Qinghai-Tibet has made Xu Xiang scratch his head. If he can build up the economic protection of the Western Regions after success, then the qualifications and people who are qualified to look forward to it will not be a problem.

Finally, Li Ze made a decision and successfully defeated several candidates, becoming the governor of the Western Regions Protectorate's Office. A true rank of officials.

Having a very good ability to develop local economy, rich experience in dealing with barbarians, and being very young, this is a powerful bargaining chip that will finally reach this point in success.

But for success himself, this challenge is undoubtedly very strict. If success is successful, he is a hero, but there may not be any reward. With his age, there will be no chance of getting to the next level in the next ten years. If it fails, then his future will end here.

The situation in the Western Regions is completely different from the places he has stayed before.

But Success still agreed to the appointment at once.

This is a challenge, but he likes to challenge things that seem extremely difficult.

After receiving the appointment, he first drew himself in the archives and carefully reviewed all the public archives related to the Western Regions and some secret archives that were not disclosed.

With his status at this point, there are not many things that this empire needs to keep from him confidential.

This time, it took half a month to stay. Then, the new governor of the Western Regions Protectorate, brought only ten guards and chariots to the road from the ground.

What he did not expect was that after entering the territory of the Western Regions Protectorate, the first person he came to pay homage was not a local official in the Western Regions, but a head of a large family that was once famous in the Tang Dynasty but later almost disappeared.

Sima family in Hedong, Sima Fan, the contemporary head of the family.

Just like the Xue clan who had to go to Tubo after failing to fight against Li Ze, the Sima clan also came to the Western Regions after that confrontation.

Sima Fan, who was in his early forties, looked as old as a sixty-year-old man, with mottled hair, gullies and faces, thick finger joints and calluses. She was wearing a green cloth robe, and she was only tied with a wooden hairpin on her head. On the street, there was nothing surprising about such people, looking at her outfit.

The only difference is that when he met Chenggong, the new Western Regions Protector, his calm demeanor and neither humble nor arrogant response showed the uniqueness of the Sima family.

"I have not taken over as the position of Western Regions Protectorate. The itinerary along the way is kept confidential. Even the local governments do not know my specific itinerary. I am very curious, how can you find my whereabouts!" I still mind success.

After entering the Western Regions, he had never lived in the official station along the way. His group also pretended to be ordinary merchants. He bought a lot of livestock to carry some mainland goods. He was familiar with these things, and it was difficult for outsiders to see the authenticity.

Just like now, he lives in a beacon castle dozens of miles away from Hami. This place was originally a large beacon castle, and according to its regulations, it should have stationed hundreds of troops. Later, the army evacuated, and this place became a destination for merchants to gather. The houses that officers and soldiers had lived in before were slightly renovated and became guest rooms. The large yard can be used for pedestrians to park goods and livestock, and the tall courtyard walls can withstand wind and sand.

In the Western Regions, there are many such beacons. Every fifty or one hundred miles, there is such a large beacon, and many small beacons that only guard a few people are now basically abandoned. The large beacons have now become one inn after another.

Chenggong has already had a preliminary understanding of the situation of the Western Regions Protectorate in the archives in Chang'an, but that is only on the archives, on the memorials, on the information, or just one aspect of the Western Regions Protectorate. These things from the government are difficult to fully reflect the true appearance of a place, so Chenggong wants to have a personal experience of this place where he is about to take up a new position.

So, he chose this itinerary.

But Sima Fan was able to find him accurately, which surprised Chenggong, or a little angry.

The whereabouts being leaked means a lot of uncertain things.

Success hates this feeling.

It's like a person hiding and seeking, thinking that he's hiding well, but he's suddenly found out.

"Since the last public appearance in Gansu, the Protector has no public information. Caomin speculated that you must have a private visit to learn about the real situation in the Western Regions today. If you want to know these places like this, the most information is the place where you are most inquiry." Sima Fan smiled and said, "To be honest, there are about seventy or eighty beacons like this from here to Hami, and basically all of them are managed by my Sima family. So I can quickly know the whereabouts of the Protector, but don't worry, besides my Sima Fan, there will definitely be no more than ten people who know the whereabouts of the Protector."

"There are already a lot of ten people!" Chenggong said coldly. Do you think there are only ten people? That's not all. Even if you are visiting privately in a private manner, the inner guard must have understood his whereabouts. "I am not a protector yet. What do you want to tell me when you come to see me?"

Sima Fan looked at Success with a somewhat cold attitude, pondered for a while, and shocked Success as soon as he opened his mouth.

"I'm not hiding the Protector. This time I came to visit the Protector, because I wanted to hold the Protector's thigh."

Sima Fan was straightforward and did not go around the corner. For Sima, when they knew that Success would become the Protector of the Western Regions, they tried their best to collect the situation of this official who had never been revealed before. Until now, Sima Fan still has a general understanding of Success.

This is a young official.

This is an official with great ideas, motivation and skill.

This is an official from this small landlord family from the former Liao Dynasty.

This is another type of official who is completely different from the direct descendants of Wuwei Academy.
Chapter completed!