Fu Tang

Li Congjia was quite surprised, shouldn't it be right to send back human traffickers from other countries?Well, maybe there is no such saying these days, it seems that Srivijaya has a plan for being so proactive.

Thinking of this, he asked, "Tell me, what are the conditions?"

Yang Xin said: "They said they want to join the federation."

Li Congjia was a little surprised: "Join the federation? Don't they know the conditions for joining the federation?"

Yang Xin immediately explained: "When they sent this intention before, I have already sent someone to explain it to them, but what Sanfoqi means now is that they helped us catch the rebel, there is no credit but hard work , See if you can accommodate me."

Li Congjia held back and didn't roll his eyes: "They're so embarrassed to say that."

Why did Li Congjia set up this federation in the first place?It is not intended to invade other countries economically and culturally. Of course, from the standpoint of other countries, such things must be irritating. However, Li Congjia is now the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, why does he care so much?

Moreover, this is the best way to bring other countries into Datang's management without launching a war. This can be regarded as an alternative peaceful evolution, and at least some of the characteristics and inheritance of those countries can be preserved.

Of course, the most important thing is the sentence that the country is far away. If the economy is as developed as the future generations and the communication is convenient, he is not opposed to fighting a little bit to see where the country can be pushed. Unfortunately, there is no such condition now.

Now Sanfoqi wants privileges just because he has caught two dispensable criminals?Why are you so thick-skinned?

Yang Xin asked: "Then... I went to reject them?"

Li Congjia waved his hand and said, "Tell them to show some sincerity if they really want to join the federation."

Leaving sovereignty aside, there are actually many benefits to joining the federation. For example, the cancellation of import and export tariffs can save a lot of money. In addition, there are many advanced technologies that Datang will share with other member states, so those who covet these technologies States also want to join the Federation.

It's just that Datang's conditions are too harsh, and many countries are waiting to see.

Li Congjia's attitude made Yang Xin aware of it, and he didn't ask any more questions, and just withdrew.

Li Congjia turned to Shi Xueting and said, "It would be great if everyone was as reassuring as Eleven Lang. I need to explain everything clearly, what else do they need?"

Shi Xueting was noncommittal, just asked: "Do you still want to see Balang?"

Li Congjia said: "See you. Although we didn't take that matter to heart, obviously this child is still worried. I don't see him when I come back. I don't know what to think about. By the way, I will meet Jiulang as well."

He doesn't have a deep impression of these two younger brothers. Although they both live in the palace, how big is the palace, and these two children have entered the academy now, where they usually study. Li Congjia is busy, and they Small, naturally not many meetings.

When he saw them this time, he found that these two younger brothers had grown up without knowing it, and he had to feel the time flies again.

After Li Congjia comforted them with gentle words, Li Congyi was obviously relieved, but Li Congxin was very calm. After they left, Li Congjia said: "It's okay, they are not stupid."

Shi Xueting turned his head and looked at Li Congjia with a smile. Li Congjia was a little scared by him: "What expression do you have? Don't scare me."

Shi Xueting said jokingly: "They are all grown up, have you forgotten something?"

Li Congjia was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and said: "Are you talking about titles? Well, they were all county kings before, and they have to make corresponding contributions if they want to be named princes. As for going out of the palace to build a mansion... this should indeed be mentioned. It's on the schedule, Hachiro is 13 years old this year, and Kuro is about the same age as him, so it's good to build it in advance."

Shi Xueting shook his head helplessly: "It's not just this, don't you care about their marriage?"

It took Li Congjia a while to realize, yes, he is also responsible for marrying his brother a wife!

If you want to marry these two wives, you must first choose the right little lady!

Li Congjia was in a daze. He didn't choose Li Zhongyu's wives, and he didn't have any other sons. These two younger brothers were more than enough to be his sons, so they chose his son's wife in a disguised form. This... What is the standard?

After being stunned for a while, Li Congjia opened his mouth and said, "The Crown Princess is about to pass the door..."

"Crown Princess?" Shi Xueting looked at Li Congjia with some amusement.

Li Congjia rubbed his forehead. He originally thought that the princess had passed through the door. This harem can be regarded as having half a mistress, after all, she is the future queen, but he quickly realized that the princess is still too young to be so important. I always feel uneasy when I leave things to her.

Thinking of this, Li Congjia couldn't help grinding his teeth, and made another note of Li Jing in his heart. If it wasn't for Li Jing's convulsions, would he have two more political burdens?

Although it's useless to write down a penny, that's all he can do.

Shi Xueting said casually: "Speaking of which, there are two more in your harem. Although handing them over to them is unfair, at least they are more reliable than the Crown Princess."

Li Congjia shook his head and said: "Forget it, after the princess is from a famous family, she grew up in that environment since she was a child, and she was raised strictly as the future princess, and I know countless ladies from famous families. ... They have been nesting in the harem all year round, and it is hard to say how many noble ladies of the Tang Dynasty they know."

Shi Xueting didn't continue talking, he just reminded Li Congjia that although this matter is his housework, but how many people may be staring at it, if it is not handled well, someone will jump around again, of course Li Congjia is definitely not afraid, But it's annoying.

But Li Congjia seemed to have thought of a solution. He touched his chin and said, "Well, the Crown Princess must know many noble girls of the same age. It would be good to ask her when the time comes."

Shi Xueting saw that he knew what was in his mind and didn't say anything anymore, anyway, as long as the two future concubines' family conditions were similar, it would be fine.

Li Congjia put this matter aside personally, and lowered his head to pick up the recent research on the household registration of Fusang people. The people in the court said that Fusang people can indeed obtain the household registration of the Tang Dynasty, but they must make contributions to the Tang Dynasty. Can get a lower household registration.

Li Congjia smiled when he saw it, and it was divided into three, six, and nine classes. He had done this before in the Western Regions, but at that time it was because he had few people in his hands, and there were too many people in the Western Regions, so he could only use This kind of policy gives those people some hope, allowing them to spend their energy on how to improve their household registration. After all, the highest household registration treatment is very good, so that they can avoid being overthrown to the greatest extent.

But now the imperial court is bluntly distrusting the aborigines of Fusang Island, and it can't be said that they don't trust them at all. They just feel that they squeezed them too hard before, and suddenly made them treat them equally like all the people of Tang Dynasty. Things will really happen when people are not satisfied.

Li Congjia doesn't care about this, the household registration hierarchy is also quite good, the only thing that needs to be tangled is that if other countries are conquered in the future, should they follow this situation?

After Li Congjia raised this question, everyone looked at him, the cabinet stared at him with condemnation, and everyone said: Who else are you going to hit?expression.

The Privy Council looked surprised, most of them said: Tell me, who are you going to hit?expression.

Li Congjia expressed some headaches, and quickly said: "I'm just planning ahead. The Khitan wolf is ambitious, and the Kara Khanate is eyeing it. Things like war... Actually, I can't say for sure, right?"

The cabinet collectively sighed inwardly. It’s not that you, the old man, disliked others. Kara Khanate had a good relationship with us at the beginning, but who is to blame for being so nervous later?

Of course, they also knew that Li Congjia could not be completely blamed. After all, although the Kara Khanate did not seem to have any ambitions for the Tang Dynasty before, the repeated desire to preach strongly can explain the problem.

It's just that the cabinet still expressed its dissatisfaction. After all, if Li Congjia went to attack the Kara Khanate in a flash of his head, the Ministry of Households would really cry.

Although the weather has been good in the past two years, and there are many commercial taxes and tariffs, but the agricultural tax has dropped, the income of the household department has not increased, but has invested a lot. For two days, the two ministers were miserable.

Minister of the Ministry of Industry needs funds to study various things. If the progress is not fast enough, if Li Congjia asks, he will be unable to eat, not to mention the pressure on them from the academy. Where should he put the face of the dignified minister of the Ministry of Industry?

The Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs is also very troubled, not because he is unwilling to give money, but because a country needs money in order to operate in many places. How could he approve so much money for the Ministry of Industry?

These two are on the fence, so don't look at Datang is booming now, in fact, for a country, there is no time when it is not short of money!

Li Congjia was also speechless about this. He really wanted to say that the country's money can also be turned into liquid money, and it's totally okay to invest in it.

However, this idea of ​​investing is not very fashionable, or no one dares to use the money from the treasury to invest. If it is lost...wouldn't it be a miserable death?

Of course Li Congjia understood what they meant, that's why he came up with the federation, eroding others bit by bit according to his own temper.

In the end, there was a new method for the household registration issue, that is, provoking the Great Tang, conquering the country through conquest, then follow this set of household registration system, if it is automatic surrender to join the Federation, then follow the original household registration system of Datang .

This method is not very good, but it can temporarily solve some problems.

Now we can only take one step at a time. Neither he nor the ministers of the Tang Dynasty know what the future will look like. However, the change of dynasties means that the political policy of the previous dynasty is not correct, and there are problems with the system. Those who can only continue to refer to the previous dynasty, and then cross the river by feeling the stones.

Li Congjia always felt that it was inappropriate to divide the household registration into three, six, or nine classes, but everyone felt that this was no problem, so he didn't say anything further.

Speaking of returning this time, he suddenly discovered why so many politicians like to maintain stability. It's not that they are bloodless, but that they are muddling along and don't want to find things for themselves.

Even he himself would often get annoyed when he saw the booklet, and hoped that the people below would find less work for him to do. He thought so, and of course others would think the same way. After all, there are very few people who really devote themselves to this country and die.

Datang is very stable now, there are no major events, and Li Congjia is in the best state. He has a lot of time to spend with Shi Xueting.

However, within two days, Shi Xueting came over with another piece of news and said, "I have some bad news here, do you want to hear it?"

Li Congjia:? ? ? ? ?

Are the routines so deep now?No good news?Directly bad news?

But let Shi Xueting say it's bad news... Li Congjia asked seriously: "What happened?"

This time, Shi Xueting didn't make a fool of himself and said very briefly: "The Kara Khanate has also created a federal state."

"Huh?" Li Congjia was a little surprised: "They also got the federation? Copy ours?"

Shi Xueting shook his head: "I don't know the details, but it should be about the same."

After all, there is no concept of federation these days. Li Congjia was the first to propose it. Other countries can only follow this template if they want to do it.

Li Congjia rubbed his chin and asked, "What's the specifics? What countries have joined, have you found out?"

Shi Xueting directly handed him the document in his hand and said, "You can see for yourself."

Li Congjia took it over and looked at it for a while, then raised his head blankly and asked, "Where are all these countries...?"

Yes, Li Congjia had never heard of many of the countries mentioned in that document.

Such as what kind of secrets, Multan, Tomala, Sindh, Solanki, etc., look a bit familiar, but he is really blind to the specific countries.

After all, after so many years, the historical knowledge he learned back then has basically been returned to the teacher. Even if he had not returned it to the teacher, he paid more attention to the history of his own country, and he knew a little bit about foreign countries.

Now, although Datang has already rolled out the intelligence system for neighboring countries, it is still too far away to take care of them, which makes him almost completely ignorant of these countries.

Shi Xueting said briefly: "Basically, they are all countries in the southwest of Tubo." While talking, he asked someone to open the map and draw a range, saying: "They are all here. There are many small countries here, but they are not very big. Become a climate."

Li Congjia glanced at the map, raised his eyebrows and said, "In this geographical location... the Kara Khanate has basically formed a two-sided attack on the Ghaznavid Dynasty?"

The Kara Khanate basically included all the countries bordering on the east of the Ghaznavid Dynasty. The Ghaznavid Dynasty's life... I'm afraid it will be difficult.

Li Congjia regretted it very much. He felt that the Saman Empire was simply a douchebag that could not be supported. A good big country insisted on internal strife. After the internal strife was over, it split into two countries. Man Empire provides various preferential policies.

Shi Xueting nodded: "Yes, this is not good news for us. These countries border the Ghaznavid Dynasty, but they also border Tubo."

Li Congjia chuckled: "Musa is really impatient. Could it be that he really thought that the more federal states the better?"

It has to be said that the Kara Khanate has more subordinate states than the Tang Dynasty in terms of number. There is only one Funan on the Tang side, and Khotan barely counts as one.

Shi Xueting heaved a sigh of relief: "It's fine if you don't get angry."

He was more worried that this news would make Li Congjia angry, but seeing that the other party was so calm, he was not at ease.

Li Congjia shook his head: "This level is not enough to make me angry. I'm waiting to see Musa's backlash."

Shi Xueting raised his eyebrows: "So sure?"

Li Congjia nodded: "Of course, the Kara Khanate can organize so many federal states in such a short period of time, so the conditions must be very loose, so that the control over the federal states is insufficient. If people are happy, they will treat you as a federal state." A member of the country, if he is unhappy, he will go out independently. What can he do? Fight? The split Saman Empire and the Ghaznavid Dynasty are eyeing. As long as he dares to do something, these small countries will be drawn to these two countries on the chariot."

Shi Xueting said thoughtfully: "And even if these small countries really want to be one of the federal states, it's useless. After all, these small countries don't believe in Islam."

Li Congjia nodded: "Yes, after all, there are different beliefs. If it is a suzerain country with strong enough tolerance, different beliefs are not a problem. Let's not invade each other. However, the Kara Khanate is not. Musa must find a way to preach. I just don’t know if those small countries will accept this set?”

Shi Xueting is also very calm now. He was worried that the Karahan Congress would use the federation system to become stronger and stronger, but now it seems that he should forget it.

But he quickly realized: "It seems that countries with state religions are not suitable for federalism."

Li Congjia seriously retorted: "Not really, if tolerance is strong enough..."

Li Congjia didn't talk about it here. He only understood Shi Xueting's meaning at this time. In countries with state religions, the means of ruling the people is politics plus religion, and if you want to rule the federal state, it will definitely be the same, so unless the federal Everyone in the system believes in the same belief as the suzerain country, otherwise it would be different.

Shi Xueting nodded and said, "Looking at it this way, the news doesn't seem so bad."

Li Congjia gloated and said, "Of course it's not bad news. I'm still waiting for the Kara Khanate to be ruined by other dependent countries. However, now that their federation has just been established, I'm afraid we won't see it in a short time."

Speaking of this, he still feels a little regretful. After all, all the conflicts have accumulated over time. They have just established a federation.

I just don't know... Who will the Kara Khanate attack next?

Was it the Samanid Empire or the Ghaznavid Empire?

Just when Li Congjia was guessing, the Samanid Empire and the Ghaznavid Dynasty sent distress signals to Datang at the same time. These two countries probably panicked when they saw such a sudden move by the Kara Khanate.

After all, they had reached a tacit truce before, and everyone thought that the war was over, and the winner was the Kara Khanate. Even the Saman Empire and the Ghaznavid Dynasty were busy with each other and did not provoke the Kara Khanate. .

Who knew that the Kara Khanate didn't want peace at all, but turned around to unite with other countries and prepared to swallow these two countries directly!

The only thing that Li Congjia doesn't understand is that according to the capabilities of the Kara Khanate, they are actually fully capable of directly swallowing these two countries by themselves, so why make a federation unnecessary?You must know that if you let others contribute, you must share the benefits with them.

Could it be that Musa still took the initiative to send warmth to those countries?

Li Congjia always felt a little strange, so that he didn't know whether he should help the Saman Empire and the Ghaznavid Dynasty.

In this regard, Shi Xueting said: "The gang should still help. If you really sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, I think that neither the Ghaznavid Dynasty nor the Saman Empire are the current opponents of the Kara Khanate. By then The Kara Khanate annexed these two countries to strengthen itself, and turned around to provoke Datang, which is also a very annoying thing."

Coincidentally, Li Congjia thought so too, he hesitated for a moment and said, "But who are we going to help?"

Shi Xueting was a little surprised: "Didn't they all help?"

Li Congjia shook his head: "You should also help the one who is more worthy. If you are destined to be unable to withstand the attack of the Kara Khanate, why should you help? Do I have a lot of money?"

Although it is profitable to sell weapons to these countries, but he earns more from selling them to other countries, such as Khitan, who has trouble with money?

Shi Xueting looked at the information in his hand and said: "The Saman Empire... feels like it's at the end of the road, and the current king is not like the Ming Dynasty, the Ghaznavid Dynasty... can occupy such a large territory, no matter what his previous status is. , should not be stupid."

Li Congjia was kind and generous: "Alright, try to get in touch with the envoys of the Ghaznavid dynasty, oh, and don't completely reject the Saman Empire, it would be good if it can hold back the Kara Khanate."

Not only did Li Congjia think so, even the Ghaznavid dynasty no longer competed with the Saman Empire for orthodoxy. After all, there is now a bigger enemy.

For a while, almost all the neighboring countries of the Kara Khanate were watching to see when Musa would act.

As a result, Li Congjia did not wait for the news that he had taken action against the Saman Empire or the Ghaznavid Dynasty. Instead, he received the letter of credence from the Kara Khanate, which really made him laugh.