Man Tanghong

Chapter 881 Datang version: Today you ignore me, tomorrow I will make you unable to climb
Li Yuanji smiled knowingly, acquiescing to Li Xiaogong's statement.

If the imperial court stipulates that the top wealthy families can only have one share of water transportation and sea transportation, and one admission ticket, then the top wealthy families will only sit in rows and share fruit.

But if the imperial court allows the top wealthy families to have two members and two admission tickets, then there will be no peace among the top wealthy families.

Because under the temptation of huge interests, they would not mind having an extra member or an extra admission ticket.

In the case of members, that is, the number of admission tickets is fixed, if they want to have more members and one more admission ticket, they can only grab it from other people.

So when the Qinghe Cui family has two members and two admission tickets, other aristocratic families will never sit still.

The most important thing is that the Cui family of Qinghe took members of the Cui family of Boling, even if they have the same origin, there will be gaps.

As long as the interests in water transportation and sea transportation continue to increase, they will turn against each other sooner or later.

In addition, those small aristocratic families were originally staring at members of the Boling Cui family, and the members of the Boling Cui family disappeared in a flash before their eyes. When more members came out, they would become even crazier.

Those who have already left will try their best to snatch the new ones out, and those who have not ended and are on the sidelines will also brazenly enter the arena when new ones appear.

At that time, the battle will be more chaotic and more intense.

Having already missed one opportunity, no one wants to miss a second chance.

"In this way, we will have no peace."

Li Xiaogong said in a deep voice.

Once all the aristocratic and powerful families in the Tang Dynasty are pinched, it will be difficult for the Li family to be alone.

After all, although the Li family belongs to the royal family, it is actually a member of the wealthy family.

Even if the Li family does not end at that time, there will be countless wealthy families related to the Li family who will come to the door, asking for Li's help and mediation.

Some are more extreme, and even design to lure Li into the game.

Li Yuanji said with a smile: "Don't worry about this, I will launch the Northern Expedition and lead the army to conquer the Turks."

As long as he jumped out, and he jumped out because of the war of destroying the country, it would be difficult for other people to ask Li Shi for help, or to lure Li Shi into the game.

After all, no matter how big the matter of the aristocratic family is, it is not as big as the war of destroying the country. If anyone makes trouble for Li Shi in the war of destroying the country, and drags Li Shi back, then Li Shi raises the butcher knife and has no one to blame. up.

It's not easy for other aristocratic families to gather together to help and complain.

After all, in private, they can regard family affairs as more important than state affairs, but publicly they must admit that state affairs are greater than family affairs.

"Are you ready for the Northern Expedition?"

Li Xiaogong instantly lost interest in continuing to follow the aristocratic family, and focused all his attention on the war in the Northern Expedition.

He is a warrior, what he likes most is not fighting with others, but fighting and killing.

So he is far more interested in fighting than fighting with others.

Li Yuanji nodded and said, "That's right, I'm ready for the Northern Expedition."

The war between Jieli and Sunisi was over. Even if Jieli asked Tuyuhun and Western Turks for help, Sunisi could not be helped.

Although Suni Shi had Datang's help, Datang didn't want him to win, and he couldn't win.

Now the war between the two sides has been going on for two years, and they have exhausted their energy.

Although they were still fighting, they no longer had the blood energy they had at the beginning, nor did they have the arrogance to swallow each other in one bite and completely annex the grassland.

Now both sides are doing foreign work, and no one can do anything to the other.

But no one can stop the fight or fall into the fight, because if there is a slight carelessness, the opponent may take advantage of it.

So now the two sides are in an awkward confrontation.

Although both of them are still exhausted in this kind of confrontation, the exhaustion is far less than before, and it can be ignored for Datang.

So there is no need for Datang to wait any longer.

If we wait any longer, and someone comes forward to help them reconcile and let them stop making peace, then the Great Tang Northern Expedition to the Turks will have to face both of them.

This is of no benefit to Datang, it is better to end now.

"But the five-year strategy you set has not been fully completed, and the Dingkou of my Tang Dynasty has not recovered to the number you want."

Li Xiaogong spoke hastily.

He was not afraid of war, nor did he want to persuade Li Yuanji to take back his life.

It was because Li Yuanji was afraid that it was just a whim, and he thought of Dingkou and the five-year policy and gave up the idea of ​​the Northern Expedition.

So he must be reminded in place.

Li Yuanji said with a smile: "Dingkou in my Tang Dynasty has almost doubled compared to the beginning of the founding of the country. The various decrees in the five-year policy are now on the right track, and there is no need to wait any longer."

With the joint efforts of the court and the righteous people in the wealthy families, and the hard work of the common people, the number of Dingkou in Datang is increasing day by day.

The vast majority of the fugitives in the northern mountains and forests have been persuaded to come out, and have resettled in Datang. Many hidden households have also been rescued. With the encouragement of various policies, the people can work hard Now, the number of Dingkou has almost reached 300 million households.

This is almost twice as much as that in the early Tang Dynasty.

Compared with when Li Shimin conquered the Turks in history, there were a full 100 million more households.

So Datang now has the confidence to fight the Turks.

This means that the barbarians in the southern mountains and forests are not included in the list, and the barbarians in coastal areas such as Jiaozhou are not included in the list, otherwise the number of Dingkou will be even greater.

It should be able to reach about 400 million households.

This is not to say that the imperial court is unwilling to enroll these barbarians, but that they are unwilling to be enlisted.

Apart from acknowledging Datang's rule over them, they don't want Datang to control or ask about anything.

Even if Datang registers and compiles books for others, they are unwilling to cooperate.

For a period of time, Li Yuanji always thought that it was because the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to make books for the barbarians, and was unwilling to include the barbarians under his command, so the barbarians became vassals. As a result, when Xue accepted the letter, some Turkic people were naturalized , and after successfully passing the audit by the Ministry of Household Affairs, he realized that it wasn't that Datang was unwilling to accept the barbarians, but that they didn't want Datang to take care of them.

On this issue, Li Yuanji also discussed with Chen Shuda.

According to Chen Shuda, with the current number of people in the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to make the country rich and powerful, so let alone a barbarian, he is just a talking monkey. As long as he is willing to serve Datang, he will let him be naturalized.

Nothing else, just to enrich the population of Datang, increase the tax revenue of Datang, so that Datang can be self-sufficient, and at the same time have spare energy to benefit all places and rejuvenate the country.

Therefore, the current Datang is not exclusive, even some aristocratic families who value bloodlines very much do not care that Datang recovers the barbarians in the borderlands, registers the barbarians and makes them a part of the Datang.

From the perspective of history, when Li Shimin ascended the throne, he didn't seem to pay much attention to the sayings of blood, Han barbarism, and Han tuo, but he seemed to have paid anyone who was willing to follow him and pledge allegiance to him.

In other words, regardless of whether it is the changed Tang Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty in history, they were not very exclusive in the early days.

It's because people don't recognize Datang, they don't want to be naturalized in Datang, and they don't want to really follow Datang.

Li Yuanji has not yet made a decision on whether Datang should stick to this practice and not be xenophobic, but from a historical point of view, it seems that Datang began to xenophobic after its population grew and developed. Although it was not that serious, it was also Not anyone who wants to become a Datang nationality can join.

At least, the barbarians in the three prefectures of Yi, Jiao, and Jing, after the Tang Dynasty became strong, it would be difficult for them to join the Datang nationality.

Datang in history perfectly explained to everyone what is meant by 'today you ignore me, but tomorrow I will make you unable to climb high'.

Therefore, Datang currently has more than 400 million households in actual Dingkou, but only 300 million households can be registered.

But 300 million households are enough.

According to the method of drawing one out of ten, the two households can draw a strong man, pick and choose, and finally should be able to organize 100 million soldiers.

In addition to the defenders in Beijing, the guards at the city gates, the guards at the palaces, and the servants at the yamen, there should be 70 million soldiers left in the end.

Six to 70 soldiers, not to mention fighting the now half-disabled Eastern Turks, even pulling the Western Turks and Tuyuhun together to fight is enough.

However, Li Yuanji will definitely not use so many soldiers to fight the East Turks. When the East Turks were still strong in history, Li Shimin did not use many soldiers when they fought the East Turks. Now the East Turks are half disabled. 15 or [-] soldiers are enough.

The rest will be left for the time being to engage in infrastructure construction, grow a kind of food, and add more food.

When the 15 or 15 soldiers who set out for the expedition are almost tempered, then [-] or [-] soldiers will be selected from among them to replace them.

Going back and forth like this, it takes three to five years to sharpen and select an army that can gallop across the grassland.

East Turkic was the training ground set by Li Yuanji, not a real battlefield.

Therefore, it is very important to destroy the Eastern Turks, and it is even more important to train troops.

After the Tang Dynasty, there will be more than one Eastern Turkic, Western Turkic, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Linyi, and Wa.

For Japan, it is estimated that there will never be a chance to change the name to Japan, because if Wu Zetian is not in power, no one will give them this name.

Yes, the name Japan was given to the country of Japan by Wu Zetian.

Before Wu Zetian, Japan had been using the name of the Japanese country given to them by Liu Xiu.

Now that Dingkou of the Tang Dynasty has recovered to the point where he can train soldiers, the project of military training can be put on the agenda.

As for the five-year policy that Li Xiaogong was worried about not being fully implemented, then there is no need to worry, because the rest of the five-year policy is something that needs to be done for a long time.

It doesn't mean that it really only takes five years to complete. As long as you are on the right track, you can continue to do it in the future. There is no need to wait for them to be completed, and you will not be able to wait for them to be completed.

Because many things can never be done.

For example, building roads, bridges, water conservancy and other infrastructure constructions can never be finished.

Because people's needs, as well as various means of transportation, are always improving, things like infrastructure are always upgrading.

(End of this chapter)