All nine prime ministers arrived.

There are many contents of the discussion today, but there is only one theme, that is, the personnel arrangements and administrative divisions of the seven prefectures in the western Longyou region and the Western Regions.

Before this, there had been many discussions on the issues of Longyou and the Western Regions, mainly in the Western Regions, and they went back and forth for several months, until a few days ago, Zhao Xun finally reached a consensus with all political forces in the court.

The second military town of the seven states in the western part of Longyou will be established, that is, Suzhou. Zhao Tiancheng, who was born in the Zhao family in Huaibei, will become the governor of Suzhou. As for the governor of Wuzhou, it was because of Yan Hui.

The Western Regions will be divided into five parts, and three military towns and five governor states will be established one after another.

Li Zhong expressed his objection to this decision, but his objection was only due to military considerations. He felt that such forces were too dispersed and their own governance was not conducive to the unity of the entire military force. When facing Dashi or the Persian Empire, whether it was counterattack or defense, it would be in a disadvantageous situation.

Li Xun firmly opposed this plan and his attitude was very fierce. He gave Zhao Xun more than once. Shortly after the Western Regions were occupied by the Jin Dynasty, the people were unstable, and both sides had suspicions and barriers. The current stable situation was only barely maintained. The court made this move now, regardless of the actual situation in the Western Regions, and he thought he was self-righteous in dividing the Western Regions into several administrative regions. This made Li Xun make such great efforts in the early stage and all the achievements will be burned.

During the whole meeting, Li Xun said nothing? He had nothing to say. Most people had reached a consensus and Zhao Xun had written an imperial edict. The formal order was about to be issued, and everything was a foregone conclusion.

After the meeting ended, Li Xun was the first to stand up and leave, ignoring the eyes of other prime ministers.

Afterwards, Zhao Xun summoned Li Xun.

"Li Xun? I know you feel uncomfortable, but you have seen the situation in the court? It's not that I want to make the Western Regions look like this? It's because there is no way. Many things in the Western Regions? It's been delayed for a long time, and then drag it down? It doesn't matter to those aristocratic families? But it's not a good thing for the court? Pay some benefits to make things settled as soon as possible? It's good for everyone."

Zhao Xun said kindly to Li Xun.

Although Li Xun did not spend a long time in the Western Regions, he did a lot of things? Among them, imitated the Jin Dynasty's political affairs hall system? Established a political joint meeting in the Western Regions? All the powerful and powerful senior leaders of the Western Regions countries were brought into this political joint meeting. In addition to military and finance, the daily governance and operation of local governments were fully entrusted to this political joint meeting to manage, giving them enough dignity and autonomy, so that the people of the Western Regions themselves govern and manage the Western Regions themselves, and unify everyone under a political system, which is both convenient for management and supervision. As long as they are within this scope, even if the people of the Western Regions are given enough rights, they cannot break out of this circle.

Zhao Xun said again: "In fact, the situation does not exceed your plan. I think the political joint meeting you have in the Western Regions is not bad, so under my insistence, other prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall agreed that the Political Joint Conference in the Western Regions can continue to exist. I heard that your aide named Fan Zhongyun has a very famous reputation in the Western Regions and has a great influence in the joint meeting. This advantage must be maintained. I plan to give Fan Zhongyun an official position. You write a letter to tell him that the joint meeting must be firmly grasped in your own hands and make it use by the court."

Li Xun glanced at Zhao Xun, silent and had nothing to say. He had said so correctly before, but Zhao Xun still didn't understand the situation. If he wanted to rule the Western Regions for a long time, the first thing was to have a foothold. This foothold must not be just a military aspect. Simple military occupation is definitely not a long-term solution.

Nowadays, the imperial court divided the Western Regions into three military towns and five military governors. So many troops poured into the Western Regions at once, not only gave the people of the Western Regions a psychological fear and anxiety, but also greatly increased the local financial burden. The Western Regions are different from the Jin Dynasty. Because of the developed business, the powerful and high-ranking officials of the Western Regions are very rich. Because of their wealth, the ruling class did not exploit and oppress the lower-level people. Therefore, the lives of ordinary people in the Western Regions are still very rich, at least they don’t have to worry about food and drink.

Fan Zhongyun wrote to Li Xun that Zhao Xun had collected a large amount of material and money from the Western Regions six consecutive times within half a year. The high-ranking officials of the nobles of the Western Regions were very dissatisfied with this. In order to equalize their economic losses, the people in power in the Western Regions could only share the losses and share the losses to the people of their own country to bear them.

All kinds of taxes such as food tax, population tax, land tax, etc. increased several times in a short period of time, several times more than before. This greatly shocked the minds of the people of the Western Regions. The Western Regions have not increased their taxes for more than a hundred years. In their memory, the most tax is that the Dashi Empire had a war with whom, and the trade demand increased greatly. The king made a lot of money and decided to favor the people of his country. The whole country reduced taxes for one year, and the few that were almost reduced by half, or 10% or 30%, etc.

It’s not like now. In less than a year, the tax has increased continuously, and it has doubled several times before. Finally, I learned that the reason was that it was from the Han people, which immediately aroused the strong dissatisfaction of the people of the Western Regions with the Han people and the Jin Dynasty. Even during the reign of the Dashi Empire, although there were many restrictions and even persecutions in terms of faith, in terms of life, they were still quite free and prosperous. Now that Dashi has been driven away, the Han people are coming, it is not as good as the resentment of the people of the Western Regions during the reign of the Dashi Empire.

And this was just the beginning. Li Xun deeply understood that the aristocratic family group had spent so much effort to force Zhao Xun to compromise and open up the political interests leading to the Western Regions. What was they going to the Western Regions for? It was for huge interests. With the entry of the aristocratic family group, the situation in the entire Western Regions will become more and more serious.

"Li Xun, if you have any dissatisfaction, you can say it out. Don't have this attitude. I don't like others to show me."

Seeing that he had said so much and persuaded him with kind words, Li Xun was so dissatisfied.

Li Xun sighed secretly. Nothing is useful now. The decisions in the Western Regions have been made through the Political Affairs Hall and Zhao Xun. Even Li Zhong did not object too much. He was unable to shake the overall situation in the end. He was single and lonely, but he was just like this.
Chapter completed!