What kind of bad intentions can the little prince have?

In fact, Datang seldom paid attention to the affairs in the south, because Princess Wencheng got married back then, and Datang maintained a honeymoon period with Tubo for quite a long time. After that, Tubo was also very restless for a while. After all, compared with the famous Li Shimin, in the eyes of Tubo people, Li Zhi was obviously a soft persimmon.However, in the past few years, there has been only a small-scale friction between Tubo and Datang. If there is a real fight, both sides are actually a little hypocritical.Datang really wants to say that the combat power is actually better than that of Tubo, but the problem is that it is located on a plateau. If it goes up, the altitude sickness is enough for everyone to drink a pot. That is to say, Tubo's army can rush down It is obviously unreliable to find trouble for you, and you want to find trouble for Tubo in turn.

As for Tubo, it is also seeing that the Tang Dynasty is now flourishing. Princess Wencheng did bring a lot of advanced technology to Tibet, but it will take a while to digest. In addition, the Buddhism that was introduced to Tubo with Princess Wencheng is now also The upper class of Tubo became popular, and there were inevitably some conflicts with the original religion of Tubo. The Tang Dynasty’s victory over the Turks, the Western Regions, and even Goguryeo, and the changes in places such as Yizhou bordering Tubo also made Tubo was a little guilty, and now they wanted to marry another princess, but Li Zhi's princess of the right age was worthless.The valuable one is still relatively young. If Tubo asks for marriage rashly, he will probably just find a random clan girl to send him away. Tubo may not be able to take advantage of it.

As for the Liuzhao side, Datang is too lazy to pay attention to them, but Tubo has to exploit them from time to time. Zhao is relatively firmly on the side of Datang, but their life is not much easier. After all, Datang can only give some verbal support at most. It is impossible to help Mengshezhao fight against Tubo.There is no way, the army of the Tang Dynasty is so precious, who would waste nothing in a place full of miasma like Liuzhao, because there are too many warriors in the Tang Dynasty, and there is nowhere to spend the money?

As a result, Datang really didn't have time to pay attention to them. Who would have thought that the "normal" business activities on Minyue's side would seriously damage Liuzhao's vitality?

Li Zhi also doesn't know how to evaluate it. It is selfish. He thinks that Minyue did nothing wrong. If you are not greedy and want to earn Minyue's money, such a thing will not happen. .As for the fact that those Zhaizi tribes fled to Minyue, uh, this is actually politically correct for the Tang Dynasty. To educate the barbarians and turn the barbarians into Xia is the traditional art of flower growers. If the ancestors hadn’t Relying on this technology, there is no way to expand from the small area in the Central Plains to the current scale.In addition, the Liuzhao side really has the same origin as the Han people in the Central Plains. According to history, there should be descendants of Jiuli, and the Jiuli people should be the descendants of the Yandi tribe. After all, we were originally a family, but we were separated temporarily before, and now we are back, we are still a family!Just like Baiyue, most of them are dedicated to Goujian, the king of Yue, as their ancestors. Therefore, even if everyone calls them Yueren, in everyone's mind, they are still of the same origin as the Central Plains in terms of blood and culture. Under such circumstances , Minyue's deeds, there is really not much to criticize.

Empress Wu sat behind the bead curtain, listening to the envoys of the Six Edicts crying bitterly there, but she really wanted to laugh out loud.Jurisprudentially, Minyue has nothing to criticize from top to bottom. What they do is in line with the rules. After all, no matter whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the Liuzhao, there are slaves, and human trafficking is legal. , One is willing to buy and the other is willing to sell, there is no problem at all.You both think that you are selling the other person, and then, the other person thinks so too.This is your own stupidity, what has it to do with Minyue.

Therefore, Empress Wu also said: "Although my palace is just a family of women and Taoists, after listening to a few envoys, I understand the whole story. According to this palace, this matter is actually very easy. You can turn hostility into friendship and peace." If we live together and cultivate benevolent government, we will naturally be fine!"

A few envoys were dumbfounded. Don’t you just stand up and talk without back pain? In Yunnan, there are only so many resources they can use. Of course, as high-level officials, their life is not hard, but who doesn’t want to be alone? How about better?Therefore, in order to get more hills and be driven by more population, they naturally want to start a war. Otherwise, the hundreds or even thousands of villages in Yunnan used to be independent, but now they have become six orders. What?Naturally, it wasn't that they cried and shouted to find relatives, and then joined forces and cooperated, it was simply typed out.In fact, the Six Edicts also have a lot of new and old grudges against each other. In fact, everyone wants to annex each other. Yunnan is such a big place. Wouldn’t it be good for our family to occupy it?Why leave it to others?

In the end, they beat them to death, but let others take advantage of it. Now they hope to let the person who took advantage of it go away, or even spit out the benefits they took before, but in the end, the other party pushes [-], saying that I didn't mean it If you want to take advantage, don't fight for a long time yourself, okay?There is also Guangxiu benevolent government, Ma Dan, if we have this capital, we also want to widely cultivate benevolent government, the problem is, there is only such a pitiful thing in the house, you let us widely cultivate benevolent government, buy the people at the bottom, let us Are you starving?

As the prince, Li Hong started to enter the court to listen to the government a few years ago, and he is also very entangled in standing there at the moment.He did feel that Liuzhao's side sounded pitiful, but he was not a fool. Empress Wu just mentioned it a little, and he knew what was going on. To put it bluntly, he had to blame himself. Therefore, he originally planned to stand up. After helping to say a few good words, he suddenly stopped moving.

Li Hong didn't move, there were still people in the court who wanted to block Li Yue or the emperor and empress above, so they immediately stood up and said that taking advantage of people's danger, or taking advantage of the fire to rob is not done by benevolent people, the court should issue an edict to warn Min Wang, merchants from Minyue are not allowed to go to Liuzhao to do population trading.

People in the court these days still have some morals, and these words sound very unreasonable. Besides, the envoys of the Six Edicts cried out before, and many people in the court saw the benefits.Not only is there a lack of people in Fujian and Yue, but in fact there is a shortage of people everywhere in Tang Dynasty.With enough manpower, they can reclaim more land and plant more cotton in the Western Regions. Before the era of mechanized production came, cotton planting was very dependent on manpower. In the process of cotton growth, many links required human intervention. .My own tenants are very precious human resources, which cannot be consumed at will or overused. However, if the labor is bought, it will be different. Wouldn't it be possible for the family to free up more manpower to carry out production activities with higher added value?

Not all aristocratic families and officials are involved in the cotton industry. However, in this era, even if the salaries and benefits of officials in the Tang Dynasty are not bad, everyone needs to operate some additional industries.Nowadays, simply growing food seems to be uneconomical. There are double-cropping rice or even three-cropping rice in the south. Even if the northerners are not used to eating rice, at least it means that the food reserves have become very sufficient, especially now that the transportation has become very convenient. , which reduces the loss during transportation to a considerable level, and the gift from the ocean also reduces the consumption of food.Chang'an is considered the most expensive place in the world for grain. Nowadays, a bucket of corn is worth twenty or thirty yuan. If it is rice, because of the production problem, the price of rice is only a dozen yuan when it is cheap, that is to say , Just find a workshop to do a little odd job, and you can buy a bucket of rice or even more for a day's wages.Therefore, more and more officials and nobles invested capital in various workshops.

In this era, most workshops are typical sweatshops. To make money, they need a lot of cheap labor.Even though the labor force is already very cheap now, they are the people of Datang after all. If there is a problem caused by the driving, the government will definitely intervene.After all, the imperial court needs to collect poll tax. If you die too much in the workshop, it will seriously affect the collection of local poll tax. The poll tax in these years, also called oral tax, is mainly used to support the royal family. , in the prosperous age, the population will continue to grow, and the oral gifts must continue to increase, but in the end you have not increased but decreased, and the court or the royal family will naturally be held accountable.Under such circumstances, the local government must not sit back and watch the workshops make too much use of people, so as to affect the growth of the population.

However, if it is a slave who is bought, it is different. A slave has no human rights. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, if a slave is killed, if there is a reason for the incident, the master should pay a little property.This is still the case that this slave has a slave registration. If the slaves of other races who were not born in the Tang Dynasty, they will die if they die. In terms of household registration, they themselves do not exist.

Now when they heard that there were cheap slaves for sale in the Southwest, many people began to make up their minds secretly. Now even if Minyue let go, they still want to intervene.Not to mention that among the six edicts, only the Mengshe edict submitted to the Tang Dynasty in name, even if they all have to submit now, it is still a question whether the imperial court will accept it or not!As for the vassal state of one's own family, according to the rules of the Xia Dynasty, one has a certain responsibility to protect them, and if they are not the vassal state of one's own family, then it has nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty in terms of their chaos.Therefore, as soon as the person who spoke finished speaking, others jumped out and sprayed him.In short, they are not our vassals of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty has no unrighteous teachers, and the Tang Dynasty has no obligation to them.What's more, even in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, people can't live on their own, and there are many things about selling their children and daughters, and even pawning themselves. This is in line with the laws of the Tang Dynasty, so there is no way Tube.

The envoys of Mengshe Zhao can shout that they are loyal to Datang and want Tang to make decisions for themselves, but it is impossible for the envoys of the other five imperial edicts to express their surrender to Datang at this moment. If Tubo retaliates back, they will only suffer worse. Therefore, each of them can only put on a mournful look, hoping that Datang can change his mind.

In Li Zhi's heart, he scolded the people of Honglu Temple bloody, and the envoys of Mengshezhao are fine. The other five zhaozhao's positions are similar to those of the Tang Dynasty, and they are enemies. You don't drag them, but let them It's an idiot to bring the matter to court!However, Li Zhi is well versed in the way of playing football, he finally opened his mouth, saying that this matter cannot be listened to their one-sided opinion, and he has to ask King Min what is going on first, if this is really a mistake on the part of King Min, Then, he will definitely help them make decisions and so on, and then send these envoys away.

Those envoys were arranged by Honglu Temple to the post house with faint hopes, but they couldn't figure out the process of doing things on Datang's side, and they couldn't imagine that Li Zhi was going to drag this matter endlessly, after all , Minyue is so far away, and it is not time for the King of Min to return to the court. When the King of Min receives the news, he has to find the merchants to obtain evidence. How much time has passed.During this period of time, it is still a question of how long those envoys who don't know how much money they have brought can live in this difficult Chang'an.

The courtiers naturally understood what Li Zhi meant, so they skipped the topic tacitly, and waited for someone to inquire about Liuzhao's affairs after the next court.After the discussion on other matters was completed, Li Zhi announced his resignation tiredly, but Li Hong simply followed.

"Father, my son still finds it hard to believe that Uncle Fifteen actually relied on some businessmen to put Liu Zhao into such a mess?" Li Hong asked suspiciously.

Li Zhi leaned on the soft bed, closed his eyes slightly, and said, "It's hard to believe, but since Liuzhao is forcing envoys to find Chang'an, then the situation on their side must be really bad." !"

Empress Wu said on the side: "The reason why Liuzhao was able to establish a country in Tiannan is nothing more than because of Tiannan's terrain and climate. The Tang Dynasty has not much to do with them. It is no better than Liuzhao, so the merchants over there can come and go freely in Liuzhao. If Minyue has all kinds of items that Liuzhao urgently needs, they will naturally be willing to do business with Minyue. Compared with other things, the population is naturally the easiest to obtain. However, I estimate that over the past few years, the number of people who have bought or even hooked up with Minyue is definitely not a small number, and there is even a growing trend, but they have nothing to do with Minyue. method, otherwise, they would not rush to the doctor in a hurry!"

Speaking of this, Empress Wu felt a little funny, and then she asked thoughtfully: "I wonder if we can take this opportunity to solve the Six Edicts and take Southwest as our own?"

At least in the Han Dynasty, the Southwest side surrendered to the great Han. One of Sima Xiangru's achievements in the past was to subdue the barbarians in the Southwest. The more the same, it has always had the meaning of semi-autonomy. Even if the imperial court sent officials there, the leaders of the local tribes were the real masters. Gradually and truly incorporated into the management system of the Central Plains.

However, when the world was in chaos and the Sima family ruled the world, the situation was different. The Sima family is definitely the kind that can be nailed to the pillar of shame in the history of flower growers. There are all sorts of messy things. Shenzhou was almost land-sinking in the hands of the Sima family. Later, the north and the south were divided for many years. Lingnan and Southwest were once separated from the rule of the central government.

But for an emperor of the Central Plains, it is a matter of course to be able to regain his former territory, so now that he has this opportunity, Li Zhi is really excited.

After hesitating for a while, Li Zhi sighed: "Even if Yunnan is captured, the ministries over there are not so fuel-efficient. I am afraid that the imperial court can only rule there in name, and maybe they will have to keep suppressing the rebellion there in the future." , this matter still needs to be discussed in the long run!"

Empress Wu said unintentionally: "It's a pity, there is no clan as capable as Shiwulang. Otherwise, it would be a good idea to send the clan to guard it!"

Li Zhi pondered for a while, and then said: "Let's send a letter to Shiwulang first, and we have to step up efforts against Liuzhao. In any case, it is always right to weaken their strength first! In the future, sooner or later we will If you want to fight Tubo, I don't want someone to make trouble behind the army!"