Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

The most distressing thing is Cao Dan from the Cao Department. He can speak Tang Yan, although his accent is a bit strange, but his son Cao Yaqian just can't learn it.

Cao Dan pointed at a big watermelon and shouted, "Big watermelon!"

Cao Yaqian said: "Big chicken, handle it!"

"big watermelon!"

"Big...big chicken, grab it!"

Cao Dan couldn't bear it any longer, and slapped him.

Throughout the winter, learning Tang Yan was still in full swing.

However, Chen Ying liked this feeling very much.

There were furious roars everywhere, and crackling and whipping sounds everywhere. Seeing this scene, Chen Ying felt very relieved.

At this moment, Luo Shixin threw the iron gun at the door dejectedly, sat down heavily on the bed, and said angrily to Chen Ying: "General Guard, please spare me, these people are too stupid, there is no Dharma teaching!"

"Be patient!" Chen Ying looked at Luo Shixin and said with a smile: "If there is one-on-one teaching, you can quickly master a language, especially in an environment that requires frequent speaking and listening. It may take a few days. We will be able to master the daily expressions of a language. We should not only teach them Tang dialect, but also teach them to sing and write, and we should also care about their lives, be friends and brothers with them, and let them To trust us, we must first trust them. Cao Dan, later on you will choose a soldier from the Ninth Division of Zhaowu to join my personal guard."

Cao Dan left happily.

Luo Shixin and Ma Mengming exclaimed at the same time: "Da Duhu, this is not allowed. If you are not of my race, their hearts must be different! This is not allowed!"

"Yes." Chen Ying said with a disapproving smile: "The people of the Western Regions are actually a group of pure people. They worship the strong. Our capital has the power to defeat 20 Western Turks. They will willingly submit to me. Besides, A Shi Wasn't Na Simo the same at the beginning? Don't worry, you have to trust me, I am confident that I can conquer him if I don't even have the ability to conquer a soldier?"

Naturally, Chen Ying didn't need to worry, his personal guards usually formed a group of three and stood a guard.The meaning of mutual surveillance is very strong.Even if he wanted to murder Chen Ying, he didn't have that chance.

"Da Duhu is buying a horse bone with a thousand dollars!" Ma Mengming thought secretly in his heart: "This is really well-intentioned!"

Most people in the Western Regions don't have the concept of "national integrity". When the Huns were strong, they were all Huns. When the Han was strong, they called themselves Han people.When the Xianbei people were strong, they were also called Xianbei people.When the Turks were powerful, they called themselves Turks.

Now Datang has become the master of the Western Regions.These people in the Western Regions found that although learning Tang dialect is painful, once they learn Tang dialect, they can pay half of the tax. In the past, four sheep had to pay the tax of one sheep. This kind of thing is actually more convincing than a sword.

Later, people in the Western Regions slowly discovered that the Han people began to hang peach charms in front of the door. The peach charms are the predecessor of the Spring Festival couplets. The door god's name "Shentu Yulei" hangs all year round.

People in the Western Regions only found out after asking, that the government will come to distribute a bucket of noodles to people with peach charms.

As a result, almost all urban families in the Western Regions hung peach charms.

In the time and space before Chen Ying traveled, because the state gave preferential treatment to the minority people in various aspects, many people changed their ethnicity and changed their ancestors one after another when they saw it was profitable. At first, it was just for the immediate benefit, and they did not have the consciousness of being a minority in their hearts. , but after two or three generations, the long holidays come true, and national concepts are formed naturally.

Contrary to the ridiculous "turning Han into Hu" in later generations, at this time, the people in the Western Regions, especially the people in the west, took the initiative to "turn Hu into Han" in order to reduce taxes.

Of course, this kind of transformation of Hu into Han was fake at the beginning, but because most of the people themselves have yellow skin and black hair, and many of them are of mixed Hu and Han, and it is not uncommon for them to speak Chinese, so It is extremely easy to "pretend" to be Tang Min, that is, to hang peach charms at the door and change the style of clothes.

In just one winter, Chen applied taxes to attract people, and the entire Western Regions, including the Ili Valley area west of Gaochang, became a place where everyone learned Tang dialect, wore Han costumes, practiced Han rituals, and competed to be like Tang people.

Because Tang people can pay less tax!

Of course, although Chen Ying asked these people from all ethnic groups in the Western Regions to pay less tax, he didn't care at all.Because, with a [-] army in hand, if there is still a shortage of money, it is simply a joke.

In fact, there are also many tribes who are obsessed with their obsession, so they have become history.

In April of the fourth year of Wude, the spring grass began to grow wildly.

At this time, the Great Tang Army, who had been fighting for a winter, finally left Gaoche and headed west.

The [-]-strong army marched slowly, and the soldiers of all ethnic groups sang loudly: "I have no clothes, and I share the same robes with my son. The king Yu Xingshi, repair my spear. I have the same hatred with my son..."

Although the voice was a bit weird, Chen Ying was very satisfied.It is very rare to be able to reach such a level in half a year.Ma Mengming admired Chen Ying so much at this moment, he never thought that Chen Ying would use such a method to assimilate the Western Regions without bloodshed.

Now it is Gaochang City, but it has been renamed Tingzhou City now.

In the area east of Tingzhou City, everyone wears Hanfu and speaks Tang dialect. If you don't consider the weird accent, this place is no different from the Central Plains.

PS: The third update is over, let's correct the typos tomorrow, my eyes are a little blurry.

Chapter 89 hosts the overall situation to suspend the people and crack down on crimes

Chapter 89 hosts the overall situation to suspend the people and crack down on crimes

Chen Ying left, leading the Tang Dynasty's [-] troops.In fact, of the [-] troops, except for the [-]-odd new army from Hebei who later returned to the establishment, the rest were descended from various tribes.

Of course, Chen Yingquan's army now has a name called Anxi.In the meaning of the west of the Tang Dynasty.

As for Qu Boya and Qu Wentai, they embarked on the road of returning east.Although the father and son are captives, they enjoy extremely high treatment. Not only do they not have a prison cart, but they even enjoy a four-wheeled carriage.

Looking at the army escorted back from the east, Qu Wentai's eyes flickered with contempt, and he whispered to his father, Qu Boya: "Father..."

However, just as Qu Wentai opened his mouth, Qu Boya interrupted him: "Wentai, now you and my father and son are prisoners, not even as good as a grassroots man, how can you be so overstepping."

Qu Wentai looked around and found that the soldiers of the Tang army guarding them were a little far away.Only then did Qu Wentai feel relieved, and said with a faint smile, "Father, do you really think that the Tang Dynasty can stabilize the Western Regions?"

Qu Boya said: "Why not? Chen Ying defeated the 20 troops under the command of Ye Hu Khan, the Western Turkic Commander. Who in the Western Regions would dare to be an enemy of Chen Ying!"

"I don't dare to disagree with my father's opinion!" Qu Wentai smiled even more: "Because of Chen Ying's policy, he will definitely lose, and he will die without a place to bury him."

Qu Boya was confused: "What policy?"

"There are many Hu tribes, and they are all tough and powerful." Qu Wentai said: "When the Gaochang Kingdom was in chaos, the ancestor King Taiping took the opportunity to rise up. In order to win over them, the Hu Han ruled differently. According to the decree For the Han people, the law is strictly enforced, while for the Hu people, it is mainly appeasement. The Han people pay more taxes. The Hu people pay less tax or even no tax. Presumably, the father is also very clear, why did the ancestor King Taiping adopt this policy?"

Qu Boya nodded and said: "This father knows that the Han people are diligent in farming and doing business, the families are relatively rich, and they can pay more taxes. The Hu people are nomadic. Many families are not even self-sufficient and can pay less tax. And the Han people Settling down, farming and doing business have a logical path to follow for the wealth generated. Field acres will not run away, and shops are concentrated in the dozen or so markets. It is easier to collect taxes. Tax collectors only need to measure the field acres and see The goods in the shop can basically raise taxes. The barbarians live on herding, and these people are free-range. Today on this hill. Tomorrow on the other hill, the tax collectors raised by the ancestors will run all over the hills of Gaochang, Count the number of extra sheep born to each household in the 48 towns of the [-] counties in the four counties of Gaochang every year? In fact, why didn’t the ancestors try to let them collect taxes collectively by tribes, but every time they collected taxes from the Hu tribes If there are troubles, the taxes collected are not worth much but they will cause all kinds of troubles, so in the end, they simply collected less or no taxes, not only did they not collect taxes, but they also subsidized them when there was a drought and heavy snowfall!"

"This is the crux of the problem!" Qu Wentai said with a smile: "As the saying goes, from the simple to the extravagant, from the extravagant to the shallow. The various ethnic groups in the Western Regions have been scattered for hundreds of years, and they have also enjoyed the 140 years of our Qu clan's Gaochang. It would be strange if they didn't make trouble if they were suddenly forced to pay the tax privilege! Chen Ying's army was in the high chariot, but he was using his army to intimidate all sides. But now that Chen Ying continues to march west, can they not go? Are you making trouble?"

In fact, Chen Ying's policy for the Western Regions was the opposite of that of Gaochang State, with Han people as the mainstay, and the taxation of cultivated land was different from that of the Central Plains.

Datang adopted a tax system, in fact two sets of bills.Both rent and mediocrity.The Tang Dynasty stipulated that middle-aged men (21 years old are Ding men) and above were granted [-] mu of land each, of which [-] mu was allocated to the mouth and [-] mu was allocated to Yongye.Shoutian Dingnan is responsible for paying taxes and serving corvee.

Every Ding pays two stones of millet to the state for rent every year; if it is transferred from the local land, it pays two feet of silk (or silk) and three ounces of cotton every year; in places where cotton is not produced, that is, two feet and five feet of Nabu and three catties of hemp.In addition, every Ding has to serve [-] days of corvee every year, plus two days in the leap month; if there is no corvee, it will be replaced by silk or cloth, which is equivalent to three feet of silk or three feet, seven inches and five cents of cloth every day, which is called Yong.

If the burden of the people of the Tang Dynasty is calculated, it is actually not light.Calculated in normal years and months, a hundred mu of land can produce at least 150 shi of grain. If you pay two shi, two shi of rice grain is naturally not much, but the cloth in the Tang Dynasty was very expensive. It ranges from six hundred to three thousand dollars.It is about four feet long, and if it is sold, it is equivalent to more than 30 stone grains.

However, farmers in ancient times had a great ability to resist natural disasters. Drought and floods basically resulted in no crops, and there were also disease and insect disasters, so on average, it was equivalent to about 15.00% of their annual income.

However, in the Western Regions, Chen Yingke did not stipulate one hundred acres per square, but a division system.Even if it is a large area, whoever reclaims it will own it, and the government will make a land deed for you.Tax exemption in the first year, half tax in the second year, and full tax in the third year.

However, there is no such treatment for herdsmen of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions.How many sheep, how many cows, how many horses you have, the people in the tribe know very clearly, and the deception is doubled.

Moreover, Chen Ying had no tax collectors, so he directly asked the army to follow the tax collectors to a certain location. As long as the people grazing in this area, they would automatically come to pay taxes. If they did not pay taxes, they would resist the law and be dealt with strictly.

Qu Wentai said: "My father doesn't know, because this tax collection, anyway, the Western Turks collect taxes on all ethnic groups so simple and rude, these people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions can bear it, but let them learn Tang dialect as a whole family. Are they abandoning their traditional assimilation? Do you think they can bear it?"

Even Qu Boya sighed, "Chen Ying is still young!"

Qu Wentai gritted his teeth and said, "This is nothing, there are even more excessive things!"