Great Tang Southern Emperor

Speaking of this, Li Zhen felt a little regretful. What he said was from the bottom of his heart. The concept of colony was difficult to be accepted by the Confucian-dominated Tang Dynasty, and he didn't even dare to mention Li Zhen.It's fine if the people and the government don't accept it, but Li Zhen is afraid that her enemies will catch her and attack them wantonly or pour her dirty water on the people. By then, her reputation will be rotten, and if she wants to fight for the throne, it will add a lot of trouble. It's troublesome, and if the government and the public are against it, even if Li Shimin likes him, I'm afraid he will have to consider their opinions.

But although I dare not mention it, it must be done when it should be done, and if necessary, Li Zhen will start the slave trade.

This is also the reason why he insisted on going to Yuezhou, a place far away from the emperor at this time. In addition to the unique geographical conditions, the more important thing is that he can stay away from the sight of the court.At that time, he can do whatever he wants, and implement his ideas one by one.And to put it bluntly, as long as Yuezhou and even Lingnan are well established, even if he fails to compete for the throne, no one will dare to touch him. Instead, he can open up to the south, and it is not impossible to establish a country that is not inferior to Datang.

"Colony, what's that?" Xie Li asked, for some reason, when he heard this word, he jumped subconsciously, as if this word was full of sin.

"You can understand it this way. A colony is an area that is ruled by the suzerain, has no independent rights in politics, economy, military and diplomacy, and is completely controlled by the suzerain." Li Zhen couldn't directly explain the meaning of the colony, but there were many people around him. After all, it is not good to spread the news of the secret agents of the major forces.

"Is this any different from your direct rule?"

"It must be different, even though I told you this in the colony, why?" Li Zhen also realized that she was really free, so why did she tell Xieli about this?

"You just say whether you can write or not? I'm doing it for your own good. Anyway, it's the same for us whether you write or not, but it's not the same for you."

"You would be so kind? But since you have a request, I will write it to you." Naturally, Xie Li would not believe Li Zhen's nonsense. He was clear in his heart. Although he was defeated and captured alive by Datang, it did not affect his His prestige in Turkic.Now that the Tang Dynasty has just conquered the Turks, there must be as many resistance forces as there are nine hairs. This is quite detrimental to the rule of the Tang Dynasty, but as long as there is his edict, at least [-]% of the tribes on the grassland will be subdued. The lower [-]% will not affect Datang, but will become the source of slaves in the mainland.But without his order, even if Datang accepts it forcefully, there will be chaos on the prairie for at least a long period of time.In other words, with his edict, Datang's rule of the prairie will be much smoother, and even if there is chaos, it will be controlled within a controllable range, which will be very beneficial to Datang.

In the past, Xieli would definitely not have written this imperial edict, and even if he had to write it, he would have to mention some conditions to make things difficult for Li Zhen.But it’s different now. If Li Zhen’s slave policy is really used, I’m afraid that countless people will be reduced to slaves, and they will go through life and death for the construction of the Tang Dynasty—just like Li Zhen said, he can’t wait for the Turks to rebel , because only in this way can he have endless slaves, which is not what Xieli wants to see.

Chapter 179 Li Shimin hit a snag

Chapter 1: Li Shimin hits a snag

After a lot of twists and turns, Li Zhen finally got what he wanted. With Xieli's edict, his goal has been achieved, and he will naturally not stay here and accept other people's eyes.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to say one thing." Just as he was about to leave, Li Zhen seemed to remember something, turned around and said, "I forgot to tell you, this matter is over, and you should be escorted to Chang'an—— You here refer to all Ashina family members.

Xieli, I know that you have a way to send messages to the outside world. Please spread the message for me. From now on, no one named Ashina will appear on the grassland, otherwise I will kill one of them.You tell them, I will give them ten days, within these ten days, they will either come here to join Datang, or hide in Western Turkic, after ten days, Datang will officially start to clear the grassland, ten days later Remember clearly. "

"I see, how do you know I can spread the news?" Jie Li's face was very pale, and he wanted to deny it, but after thinking about it, he agreed.

"How do I know? Of course I guessed it." Li Zhen left such a sentence lightly, and waved his sleeves without taking away a cloud.

Li Zhen walks lightly, but Xie Li is in a frenzy

"Your Highness, where are you going next?" Li Ergou asked on the way back.

Li Zhen looked at him like an idiot: "Where else can I go? Naturally, I will go back to the tent and wait for the guests to ask me to see you."

"Oh." Li Ergou also realized that he asked an idiot question, and immediately shut up.

An hour later: "Your Highness, King Ren Cheng and the Deputy Chief Protector have brought back the two leaders, Tu Midu and Yi Nan, and we should be prepared."

"Hey, I'm going to pretend to be a fool again, I really don't want to go." Li Zhen sighed, but still let the attendant change her clothes

Not to mention the nonsense between the two parties after Li Zhen met Yi Nan and Tu Midu here, but also said that after the news of Tang's eradication of Turks came back to Chang'an, the whole country rejoiced, and Li Shimin even announced that he would stop the dynasty for three days.

However, at the same time as the celebration, the Six Strategies for the Dingguo were also launched intensively under the leadership of Li Shimin, headed by several prime ministers.

But on the first day after the dismissal of the court, Li Shimin of Chang'an was bullied in the court hall, and he went to the Lizheng Hall with a stinky face just after he left the court.

"Erlang, why do you have such an expression?" Seeing Li Shimin's expression, the eldest grandson knew that he was squeezed out by others, so he handed him a glass of juice and asked, "Could it be that Wei Xiang is bothering you again?"

"If it's really Wei Zheng, that's fine." Li Shimin drank a glass of fruit juice and said with a snort, "This time Wei Zheng is on my side. It's those aristocratic families that really embarrass me."

"Aristocratic family?" The eldest grandson asked suspiciously, "Did you provoke them again?"

"Who messed with them?" Li Shimin argued, "I don't even know what's going on? Just now, Fang Qing and Du Qing agreed to a policy, and even Wei Zheng had no objection. In the same way, it is said that the people who proposed this policy are people with evil intentions, and they want my Tang Dynasty to perish, but they do not agree with it."

"What is the strategy?" Li Shimin said this, and the eldest grandson became even more curious. She doesn't usually participate in government affairs, but it's just that she doesn't want to participate. If she really wants to know, Li Shimin will not hide it from her. Otherwise, Li Shimin wouldn't have come to her side today.

"Speaking of which, it's Zhen'er's opinion." Thinking of Li Zhen, Li Shimin's originally stinky face couldn't help feeling a little warm, and then he said Li Zhen's five strategies for the country.

"This is really a unique strategy, and Zhen'er deserves to be inherited from the Heavenly Book. A person who can come up with such a strategy must not have the ability to learn from the past." The eldest grandson was silent for a long time before admiring.

Li Shimin nodded in agreement, and said indignantly: "That's right, this policy is not harmful to Datang Baili, I don't understand, why do they disagree?"

"Which strategy did Erlang propose today?" The reason why the eldest grandson asked this was because she knew Li Shimin's character, step by step, and it was absolutely impossible to implement the five strategies at once (it might also be stimulated by Yang Guang's lesson, You must know that Yang Guang was too anxious, and he was building the canal and attacking Goguryeo, but his steps were too big, and the people were in dire straits to rise up, and finally let the Li family take advantage of it).

"The Turks have been defeated, and Jieli will escort them to Chang'an in the near future. Now that the Turks have been included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, the most urgent thing is to use the immigration policy first." Li Shimin talked about this, and couldn't help but think of the scene of being persecuted by the aristocratic family today. The anger ignited again: "I really don't know what these aristocratic families think, I am so mad."

"I do know what they think." The eldest grandson smiled knowingly, and said to Li Shimin, "Erlang, you are in the middle of the game, and it's normal if you can't see through it. If I were from an aristocratic family, I wouldn't agree." of."

"Oh? Does Guanyin maidservant know the reason?" Li Shimin said pleasantly, "Tell me quickly."

"Erlang, let me ask you, what is the most important reason why a family is called a family?" The eldest grandson didn't answer directly, but asked Li Shimin a question.

"It's simple, of course it's knowledge." Li Shimin said with a sneer: "Which one of these aristocratic families has not been passed down for hundreds of years, and the collection of books in the family is so huge that even they themselves don't know it. And having books is equivalent to having knowledge." If you have knowledge, you can become an official with knowledge. In the local government officials protect each other in Yurou Township, and they collude with each other to control the government. Just like today, my surname in Tang Dynasty seems to be Li, but in fact it is Cui and Lu. Kill me too."

The more Li Shimin thought about it, the more angry he wished to lead the army to slaughter all the seven families and five surnames, but he couldn't do this, because the families were very honest, and he wanted to be a wise king, so such a mistake could not be made.What's more, the strength of the aristocratic families may not be weaker than that of Datang. Once they are made aware of the crisis, they will unite in an instant, and it may be uncertain who will be eliminated.This is also the reason why Li Shimin obviously has the two great artifacts of papermaking and movable type printing in his hands, but he dare not throw them away rashly. Instead, he continues his strength in secret, waiting for the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the aristocratic family.

The eldest grandson shook his head and said, "Knowledge is of course important, but Erlang has neglected another foundation of the aristocratic family."

"Guanyin maidservant, don't be a fool, and explain to me quickly." Li Shimin's mind is in a mess at the moment, and hearing what the eldest grandson said, he even has a headache.

"The point that Erlang neglected is—the land, to be precise, it is the property."

"Land? Oh~ yes yes yes, why did I forget this crop, land, oh~ land." Li Shimin is not an idiot, after the elder grandson reminded him, he immediately understood.

"It's the land." The eldest grandson said with a smile: "The aristocratic family not only has a large number of books handed down from generation to generation, but also devours the land wantonly through the convenience of being an official. Fortunately, after the turbulent times of the last Sui Dynasty, the annexation of land is not serious, but even so, The aristocratic family owns two or three tenths of the arable land in the Tang Dynasty, and this is only after the baptism of troubled times."

"Hmph, in troubled times, the common people are the ones who really suffer, and the aristocratic family has not suffered much." Li Shimin snorted coldly and said, "Even so, it should be worthy of vigilance. The appetite of the aristocratic family will never be satisfied. Once settled down, they will wantonly embezzle the land again, and finally cause the common people to rise up and overthrow the old dynasty and establish a new one, but the aristocratic family only needs to change their family and continue to live their luxurious life."

Chapter 180 Family Conspiracy

Chapter 1 Family Conspiracy

"Erlang, you are wrong again." The eldest grandson disagreed with Li Shimin's point of view, saying: "It is serious that the aristocratic family embezzled the land, but what is more serious is another point, that is, a large number of people who lost their land had to become tenant farmers in order to maintain their livelihoods." In other words, it is useless to have land alone, and they must have a large number of people farming for them, but this immigration policy"

"I understand, I finally understand. No wonder the aristocratic family reacted so strongly to my proposal. It turned out that we had unknowingly pinched their vital point." Li Shimin finally figured it out, clapped his hands and laughed loudly: "Yes, no matter how much land the family has, even if they own the whole world, what's the use of having no one to cultivate it for them? But my immigration policy is to move the people of Tang Dynasty to the new land, and the conditions are very favorable. Not only one person has one A thousand acres of land, grain seeds, cattle, sheep and horses, and food subsidies along the way. Such good conditions are very attractive even to those who have land, let alone those tenants who have no land. Without tenants, If there is no one to plant land for them, the price of land in the Tang Dynasty will inevitably drop, and it is uncertain whether someone will buy it. With such a large amount of land in their hands, can the aristocratic family be in a hurry?"

The eldest grandson said with a smile: "That's the reason. I wonder what Erlang is going to do?"

"What should we do?" Li Shimin couldn't help but smile a little: "Immigration to the border is an established national policy, how can it be terminated because of the opposition of a few small families? I will naturally stick to it, and I will never waver if anyone opposes it. "

"But in this case, Zhen'er will be in trouble." The eldest grandson suddenly said with a worried face: "Although not many people knew about it that night, there is no wall through which the wind can pass through, even the emigration policy. If they can know in advance, they will know what happened that night sooner or later, and it will be difficult for Zhen'er."

"That's why I put Zhen'er on the grassland." Li Shimin said with a smile: "This little bastard has played so many tricks, offering advice and making suggestions, and it's not for building a new land. I really think I don't know. His small thoughts? Little did he know that this was my original plan to keep him away from the center of the vortex, and when the wind calmed down, he would also gain military merits, just in time for him to come back. Hmph, playing tricks with me, he is still young, wait for him to come back I will uncover everything, I really want to see what his expression looks like? Hehehe"

"Hehehe" the eldest grandson also covered his mouth and snickered: "Your Majesty, you father and son are really serious, and it's really interesting to fight openly and secretly."

"Hey, the interesting part is yet to come." Li Shimin let out a smirk, and a pair of salty pig hands took advantage of the opportunity to touch that thing.

The eldest grandson trembled all over: "The emperor doesn't want it."

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The morning court on the second day, today is not a big court meeting, but there are quite a few people who came today. Except for a few necessary people, as long as they are qualified to go to court, they are all gathered here. It seems that they are genuine. I'm in a hurry.