Man Tanghong

Chapter 853 The Tang Dynasty is short of people everywhere!

When Xiao Yu was flipping through the memorabilia, he said without thinking, "Maybe it's because he thinks your Highness needs a courtier like him right now?!"

Xiao Yu's tone was full of uncertainty.

He also couldn't tell why Wei Zheng had changed so much.

However, Li Yuanji understood what he meant.

That is to say, what kind of courtiers are needed by those in power, and what kind of courtiers are lacking, Wei Zheng can become what kind of courtiers.

If what Xiao Yu said is true, then Wei Zheng is amazing.

In history, there are many courtiers who have undergone major changes on their way to becoming officials.

But most of them change from good to bad, from loyalty to traitor.

For example, Ding Wei, the treacherous minister of the Song Dynasty, and Yan Song, the treacherous minister of the Ming Dynasty.

When they first became officials, they all aspired to be great loyal ministers, to be useful to the country and the people.

After experiencing severe beatings in the officialdom, he changed and became a treacherous and evil person.

And Wei Zheng's transformation is completely different from theirs. Although he is also changing, and the change is quite fast, no matter how Wei Zheng changes, he is always in the circle of capable ministers.

When he was an official in the former Sui Dynasty, he could become a famous local official, and when he was an official next to Li Jiancheng, he could become Li Jiancheng's confidant and aide.

Just like Yu Ruyi in human form, it can be transformed into various forms at will according to the needs of the user.

The abilities he possesses may not only be good at scribes, good at strategizing, and good at blunt speaking, but he may also have other abilities.

If all of this can be unearthed, the energy that can be exerted may be greater than in history.

"Then call Ren Gui back to Beijing, call Feng Ang to Beijing to have an audience, let him serve as Jiaozhou appeasement ambassador, and see if he can really become arbitrary according to my needs."

Li Yuanji spoke without hesitation.

Since Wei Zheng has other abilities and can change at will according to the user's will, let him add more burdens to see if he can burst out with more powerful power.

Calling Ren Gui back to Beijing was originally a negotiated matter.

With Pei Ju and Ma Zhou in Yuezhou, they can take over from Ren Gui to complete Ren Gui's remaining work.

With Pei Ju and Ma Zhou sitting in Yuezhou, Wei Zheng doesn't need to worry about Jingzhou's appeasement.

So throwing the trouble of Jiaozhou to him should be able to test some of his abilities.

You must know that Jiaozhou is not only a place where Datang distributes prisoners, it is not only a place where barbarians are entrenched and prevalent, but also a place occupied by Feng An, one of the few places in Datang who really holds the local dictatorship.

At present, among all the local dictatorship officials in the Tang Dynasty, except for the vassal kings, most of them were either eliminated or incorporated, leaving only An Xinggui and Feng An.

An Xinggui was about to be recruited, leaving only Feng An still thriving.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were many examples of executions and forced rebellion of local officials with dictatorial power.

Therefore, when Feng An received the order to go to Beijing for an audience, there was a high probability that he would refuse.

How to persuade Feng An to let go of his vigilance and go to Beijing for an audience, and how to appease Feng An in Jiaozhou, where hundreds of barbarians are entrenched and Feng An's dictatorship, all need to be done by Wei Zheng.

If one fails, it may cause Feng An's rebellion and Baiman's turmoil.

And whether it was Feng An who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, or a hundred barbarians gathered together to rebel because of Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng would have to bear a huge responsibility. Even if he was not beheaded, he would be demoted to the end and sent to the border to serve as an official.

Therefore, this is a test of Wei Zheng's ability, and it will also put great pressure on Wei Zheng.

After Xiao Yu heard this, her eyes widened in a daze.

I just said it casually, why do you take it seriously?
Summoning Feng An for an audience, appease the officials of Jiaozhou, and the barbarians entrenched in various places in Jiaozhou, this is something that can only be done with the joint efforts of the government and the public, and it is all left to Wei Zheng to do it alone. Doesn’t this mean that Wei Zheng will die?

"Gudu..."

Xiao Yu subconsciously swallowed her saliva, and stammered, "Your Highness...Your Highness, is there something wrong?"

Hundreds of barbarians have been entrenched in the southwest for hundreds of years. They have been appeased and recovered since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, but even today, the southwest is still respected by the hundred barbarians.

Although during this period, the various forces established by Baiman have changed one after another, but the one who really dominates that place is still the same blood.

So it takes a lot of perseverance and a lot of time to appease them.

It cannot be accomplished by one person, nor can it be accomplished overnight.

Li Yuanji glanced at Xiao Yu and smiled indifferently: "I just asked him to do it, but I didn't say that I must let him do it. What are you worried about?"

It's not that he doesn't understand the history of that area of ​​Jiaozhou, and he knows that appeasement of Baiman is not something that can be accomplished overnight, so he didn't ask Wei Zheng to complete the work of appeasement of Baiman.

He just asked Wei Zheng to fight a pre-war, just to see what Wei Zheng can do, and then use it to prepare for the complete inclusion of Jiaozhou into Wang Hua in the future, and test Wei Zheng's limit by the way.

Hearing this, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and then said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid Feng An will kill him before he has time to appease Jiaozhou."

The people of the Tang Dynasty didn't know much about Feng An, and the most they knew about the Feng family was Madam Xian, and Feng Zhidai who was sent to Chang'an City as a proton.

No one knows what kind of person Feng An is, whether he will disregard his own safety and go to Chang'an City for an audience, whether he will let Jiaozhou go and let Tang change.

After all, His Majesty Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, killed too many people. The dead souls of Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Li Zitong and others are not completely at peace right now. There is a high probability that the invitation from the imperial court will be rejected.

Feng An now has a very high control over Jiaozhou. Several generations of the Feng family have completely taken root in Jiaozhou, and Feng An has become the local emperor of Jiaozhou.

There is a high chance that Feng An will not let go of this piece of foundation that has been in operation for several generations.

It is not so easy for Datang to conquer Feng An.

There are many difficulties to overcome.

The biggest difficulty is that none of Datang's existing elite soldiers can adapt to the harsh climate in Jiaozhou.

So before Datang has overcome these difficulties, once Feng An faces Datang, he will have a great chance of winning.

This is also Feng An's confidence in rejecting Datang.

Faced with Xiao Yu's worries, Li Yuanji said confidently: "You don't have to worry about this, Feng An will never hurt Wei Zheng."

Historically, the relationship between Feng An and Li Shimin was far less harmonious than he is now with Feng An. Feng An even went to Chang’an City to meet Li Shimin, but now he has tied Feng An to his profit warship. Feng An How could he refuse his summons?

As for killing Wei Zheng, that's even more impossible.

Feng An was about to come to Chang'an City for an audience, so what did he do to kill Wei Zheng?
Finding guilt for yourself? !
Was he kicked in the head by a donkey?
Xiao Yu didn't understand Li Yuanji's confidence, but still said worriedly: "I hope that Wei Xuanchengji will have his own celestial phenomena."

Li Yuanji laughed and said: "You have time to care about Wei Zheng's safety, why not care more about what Li Daoli proposed."

Li Daoli has been in Silla for several months, and he has already discussed the location of the fortification with the king of Silla, Kim Baekjeong, and has already started to build the city.

The scale of the new city is almost as big as the county seat of a small county, and can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.

Only a few thousand people were brought by Li Daoli, and Jin Baijing provided enough folks, but there were not many craftsmen, almost no skilled craftsmen, and the skilled craftsmen brought by Li Daoli were sent by him to build the wharf, so there was an urgent shortage of craftsmen to build a new city. There is also a shortage of people to fill it.

Li Daoli looked down on Silla people and wanted to make people in Xincheng more pure, so he wrote to ask the court to support more than 1000 craftsmen, as well as tens of thousands of merchants and traders in various industries.

Although when Li Daoli passed by, he had already recruited many merchants from small households, and let them produce many people who filled up the new city.

But those merchants from small households are also doing big business.

Such as making all kinds of food, making all kinds of daily utensils, and doing all kinds of entertainment industries, there are very few.

Li Daoli didn't want to hand over the entire new city to merchants from small households, so Li Daoli hoped that the court would help him find the merchants and vendors that are needed for daily life.

It’s best if they have no background, and they can’t survive in Datang, so they can move their family to Silla.

As for this task, it was impossible for Li Yuanji to handle it himself, so it fell to Xiao Yu.

Anyway, Xiao Yu is also idle recently, he participates in the major affairs of the court, but rarely makes decisions, so Chen Shuda is always busy.

So it is most appropriate to entrust this work to Xiao Yu.

When Xiao Yu heard this, his face instantly turned into a bitter face.

Although the population of Datang had increased tremendously last year, most of them were children under one year old, and the remaining hermits who were rescued from wealthy families and those who escaped from the mountains and forests It is not enough to distribute it to various places, let alone supply people to Silla.

Li Daoli still has requirements for manpower, and he wants small merchants and hawkers from all walks of life.

This makes it harder to supply.

"Your Highness, please forgive me. Now all places need manpower, and I really can't get the manpower needed by King Gaoping."

Xiao Yu begged for mercy with a wry smile.

He didn't say this deliberately to evade Li Daoli's request, but he was telling the truth.

Now there is indeed a shortage of people in all parts of the Tang Dynasty, Hebei Province is short of people, a lot of men are short, Jingzhou is also short of people, a lot of labor for planting rice, the Ministry of Industry is also short of people, a lot of labor for building official roads, water transport yamen There is also a shortage of people, a lot of labor to dredge the water transport and build the docks, and the newly recovered states are also short of people, and they are short of people to fill these places.

Now all the prisons in various provinces, prefectures, and counties have been emptied. Some people who have just committed crimes have not been able to go through the process of distribution. Snatched away.

Now, the criminals in the prisons everywhere are no longer the guys who hate dogs, but the meat and potatoes.

As long as it is not committed the serious crime of beheading, all places are rushing to ask for it.

Some have high status or background, and even cross-track or inter-state, entrusting important people.

Some people with low status and no background even started to buy people secretly.

It is said that if you catch a Turkic person or a Liang countryman and send it to the state government office where Xue Shou is located, you can get three pennies, ten acres of land, and a sheep.

Han Liang went too far, he had already entrusted his relationship with Suni Sui, Tu Di Ji, and Ye Hu to step up to the powerful department, in order to buy the captives in their hands.

It can be said that after the imperial court spread the huge profits obtained from the border market, water transportation, and sea transportation, everyone stopped being a human being and enriched the labor force and the locality in different ways.

So now in many places in Datang, if you ask for money, people will give it to you happily, but if you say you want someone, you are likely to be beaten out with a stick.

Therefore, even if the matter of Li Daoli's invitation was handed over to Xiao Yu, the prime minister, it would not be easy to handle.

It's not that he really can't gather these people, but once he gathers these people and sends them to Li Daoli, the requests for others will arrive soon.

He has no way to refuse some relatives or interests.

He can still think of a solution for 2 people, but when this number becomes tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, or even more, even if he is sold, it will not be enough.

(End of this chapter)