Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Li Ke opened his eyes and rubbed his forehead. There was a unique smell in the air. Hey, if I knew it, I wouldn’t have slept in this so-called palace. Tell me this is the palace?

This is not as good as living in a random family in Chang'an.

It's just that this belongs to the territory of Datang anyway, and Li Ke will live here on the first day anyway.

After breakfast, Li Ke summoned the person who should be summoned.

The first person Li Ke saw was not Shi Lang, but Shi Lang's grandfather, the old man of the Shi family. He was originally going to Datang, but after hearing that this place had been completely resolved, he returned to Xianglin City.

And the general Qiu Lin stationed at the border is leading [-] garrisons to come here, and they should have also received the news at this time.

"Chen Shi Ji has seen His Highness." Old Master Shi saluted.

"Excuse me, give me a seat." Li Ke nodded and said.

The old man was also relaxed, and Li Ke gave him a seat and sat down directly.

"Mr. Shi, I have a few questions I want to ask about Lin Yiguo." Li Ke said.

"Your Highness can just call me by my name, and I know everything I can say." Shi Ji hurriedly said.

"It's like this. Before I came to Linyi, I communicated with some people in Lingnan Road, but after I came here, I found that the actual situation is not the same as what they said. I don't know if Mr. Shi can help Let me clarify, for example, the composition of the people in Linyi. How many are from the Central Plains? How many are locals?" Li Ke asked.

This is the problem that Li Ke discovered yesterday. Lin Yi is very different from what Qiu He and Feng An said before. It's not that what they said is wrong, but obviously their understanding of the situation is quite one-sided .

"Returning to Your Highness, the hundreds of thousands of people in Linyi can almost be said to be adherents from the Central Plains. Of course, there are also some local people. Many of these local people are from some indigenous tribes in the mountains, but when they gradually follow us After contact, we gradually began to learn our language, customs, etc., and gradually some immigrants intermarried with them over a long period of time, forming the current situation.”

"But most of them are immigrants from the Central Plains," Shi Ji said.

Li Ke nodded. This is much stronger than Li Ke imagined. Originally, Li Ke thought that quite a few of them were indigenous, but now it seems that he brought in some views of later generations.

In the Han Dynasty, or even earlier, this place was already ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty. At that time, many Han people from Lingnan Road and other places migrated here, and gradually formed the main cultural groups here.

Because at that time, the local people were obviously aborigines, or they were still in the tribal era, and they didn't even form a country and civilization at all, so the immigrant Han people were naturally the main race.

Hundreds of years have passed since the Tang Dynasty. During these hundreds of years, there must have been many local tribes who were influenced by the Han people, gradually got rid of the state of ignorance, and then mixed into the residents, and gradually lived here. Han Chinese intermarry.

Those noble Han people may not intermarry with them, but ordinary people will definitely accept it gradually. After all, a considerable part of these people are also Han people from Lingnan Road, and there is not much difference between them.

In this way, the people of these Southeast Asian countries in later generations can almost be said to be the descendants of the Han people and local residents.

It seems that even those so-called Malays have the blood of the Han Chinese in the Central Plains.

After figuring this out, Li Ke suddenly discovered a problem, that is, it seems that if Datang is ruling here, the ruling base is many times higher than that of the Western Regions!The people here can almost seamlessly integrate into Datang!Because the text, language, etc. here are almost no different from Datang.

"Mr. Shi, the second question is that I asked people in Lingnan Road before, and they said that the people in Linyi and other countries are relatively lazy, and they just set fire to the mountains and plant them casually, because they can grow three crops a year. , so they can’t starve to death even if they plant casually. Why is this?” Li Ke asked again.

Shi Ji immediately smiled wryly: "Your Highness, it's right or wrong to say that. The reason why you say it is right is because of the current situation, or the previous situation was indeed like this."

"But it's not true, because it's not that the people are really lazy and don't want to farm. Of course, I don't rule out that there must be such people, but the vast majority of people are not lazy, but the reason why they are lazy is because... they have to work hard. More taxes!"

"The earliest Linyi was not like this, but because the royal family and nobles in Linyi were desperate for extravagance, they wanted to have a more luxurious life, so they had to collect more taxes from the people, but many lands in Linyi were It was incorporated into their own property by these nobles. A large part of the people in Linyi can only serve as tenants for these nobles."

"The other part of the people who have their own land is the main tax collection object of the Linyi royal family, but the number of people who can collect taxes is decreasing, and the proportion of tax collection can only increase."

"Then some people came up with a way. Anyway, no matter how many fields they planted, they would be taxed away. It would be better to plant them in some wild fields. So many people directly sowed a handful of seeds in the wilderness... These are not land properties.”

"As for the tenants who farm for the nobles, no matter how they farm, they can only get a fixed amount of grain. Of course they won't put their heart into farming."

After Shi Ji finished speaking, he gave a wry smile.

Li Ke: "..."

Still have this kind of operation?It's just that he is a little speechless, as if the outrageous operations of these small countries are understandable, so this is the difference between the commune and the household contract responsibility system, right?That's probably what it means.

It can only be said that the operations of these small countries... are incomprehensible. Do you think they don't understand that the people can't survive and want to rebel?

It must be understood, but Li Ke can't figure it out if he understands and still does this.

Forget it, not only these small countries, but also the Central Plains Dynasty did a lot of outrageous operations.

Isn't this just taking advantage of yourself?

"So that's the case, thank you for clarifying the confusion. So, when I allocate these people their own land, will they try their best to plant it?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"Of course! Because this is their own field, no one wants to live a good life? Of course, there may be such lazy people, but I guarantee that most of the people want to live a good life!" Shi Ji said seriously road.

"I see, so the real wax next door should be in the same situation as Lin Yi?" Li Ke asked another question.

"The difference is not big, but there is a difference. Zhenwa used to have the cultural inheritance of ancient civilization here. Although they have been influenced by our China for hundreds of years, most of them speak Tang dialect and write Tang characters, but in some customs And the cultural aspect is their own thing."