Goguryeo Protectorate
Fang Yiai has been serving as the Protector-General here for quite some years, and the court has almost forgotten him. However, according to Li Xiang's adaptation principle, if you govern this place well, you probably won't have the opportunity to be transferred within three years. You must consolidate this place, especially the land that originally did not belong to our Tang Dynasty. This principle must be followed even more.
Li Xiang had a reason for doing this. If local officials were frequently replaced, and their policies were just beginning to unfold, who would be held responsible? If there were signs of unrest in the area, wouldn't the next official be in great danger?
He had just arrived here to take office and didn't know what was going on, but a rebellion broke out. Pingpan didn't know what to do, and the only option he could do was to escape. So Li Xiang created an unspoken rule: if your governance in this area has improved, then you have to continue working here. Unless there are special circumstances, you have to stay here for three years.
Thinking of His Highness's policy, Fang Yiai felt like crying. Others only stay in this place for three years, but I have been here for nearly six years. This guy has been in this position since the attack on Goguryeo. It has been the fifth year now. Is the sixth year far away?
The area under the jurisdiction of the Goguryeo Protectorate, according to today's division, includes the entire Northeast plus the Greater Khingan Range, almost all of the Arctic Ocean in the north, including Sakhalin Island, and the Goguryeo Peninsula in the south. This large area is all within the scope of the Goguryeo Protectorate.
Speaking of which, this piece of land is really big. If you calculate the area, it is as large as five or six million square kilometers. But if you talk about the population, it is estimated that there is one person per square kilometer. This is because Goguryeo originally had a relatively large population. If there were not so many Goguryeo people, it would be even more sparsely populated now.
Of course, there is no need to station troops in those places in the north. Every spring when the flowers bloom, we will send two armies to patrol. There are only a small number of surviving nomadic peoples in the area. They pay taxes according to the amount originally stipulated, and we will not care about them too much. We will try to interfere as little as possible in their lives. Moreover, they have also expressed their loyalty to the Tang Dynasty and helped the Tang Dynasty to garrison here. If anything happens, they will report the news to the Duhufu as quickly as possible.
Fang Yiai managed this area in an orderly manner. Not only was it able to pay taxes every year, but he was also able to dispatch some second-line troops to maintain order for the Tang army on the battlefield, transport military supplies, or manage prisoners. In short, there has never been a mistake.
It is precisely because of this that even though his father Fang Xuanling was the prime minister, he had no chance of being transferred back to Chang'an. His father never even mentioned this matter. Anyway, you are not the only son. According to the rules of the Tang Dynasty nobles, except for one son, the rest have to find a way out for themselves. Aren't you finding a way out for yourself now?
Although this guy was also a local emperor in Goguryeo, in the eyes of the nobles in Chang'an City, no one wanted to come to this place. Chang'an City was the most core location, so who would want to run away? Unless they were sick in the head, otherwise, staying in Chang'an City was the core of power. No matter how comfortable life was in this place, it was not what we wanted. If we stayed here for a long time, it would be easy to be forgotten.
Speaking of being forgotten, Fang Yiai really wanted to cry. He felt that he had been forgotten. He had been sending memorials to Chang'an City on time over the years, but the replies he received were always just the same two words, either "read" or "good".
According to Fang Yiai's idea, even if you people make some requests, for example, you paid less taxes last year, you can still ask about it as human beings. But in the end, apart from these few words, you got nothing. It's like he is in a forgotten corner here, which makes him lose interest in doing anything.
Of course, Goguryeo is relatively close to Chang'an City, and most of the things are known to everyone, so there is no need to ask. Another thing is that Fang Yiai is quite like his father, and he manages this place in an orderly manner. Do we still want to find fault with it?
What's more, even if there is something else, you have to let him go because of his father who is the prime minister.
So this guy had more and more leisure time each day. He would finish the orders given by the court as soon as possible, and then he would do his own things, indulging in landscape paintings, reading some ancient books, or going out to get a concubine. Anyway, he lived a very comfortable life. If Li Xiang saw him, he would want to exchange him with this guy.
"Master, someone has come from the northwest. It's Eunuch Xia who serves His Highness."
Fang Yiai was fishing today, and there were seven or eight people serving him. All of them were from Goguryeo. Being able to serve Master Fang was a great deed they had done for themselves. After all, they did not have to work while serving here, and their family members, including theirs, could all have enough to eat.
Of course, if you want to serve Lord Fang, you can't just come whenever you want. You must be a person with a clean background. Although Goguryeo has been well governed now, some people still have evil intentions, so your ancestors have to be checked. If you have never done anything criminal, then you have a chance of being selected, but there is no guarantee.
These people were carefully selected. They had great respect for Lord Fang and had been trained over and over again to serve him. The Goguryeo people were the best at doing this kind of thing, so except for two guards with swords, the rest were all Goguryeo people.
When Lord Fang heard that someone had come to visit His Highness, he immediately became interested. His Highness had not sent anyone to visit for two years. The last time he sent someone, it was to congratulate him because he had a new daughter, and His Highness came to give him a gift. Now that he heard that Eunuch Xia had come, it must be something important.
When Qian Ping was punished, Eunuch Xia was the most trusted eunuch by His Highness's side. If it wasn't an important matter, why would Eunuch Xia be sent here? Shouldn't he have stayed by His Highness's side to serve him? Not everyone has the opportunity to be close to His Highness.
