The most powerful emperor grandson of the Tang Dynasty

During the long period of foreign wars, the Tang Dynasty accumulated a huge amount of land, but it was not an easy task to govern all these lands. After a long period of exploration, the managers of the Tang Dynasty also found a practical solution, which was immigration.

Many people have been killed in various places. If someone resists, you will have to kill them. Even if you kill all the local people, there will still be people who resist in the end. Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. Li Xiang is very clear about this.

Immigration can be said to be the lowest-cost activity. Bringing our people over from the mainland and letting them settle down locally may cause big problems in the short term, but as long as these people can stick to it, they will definitely give us more in return in the future than we have paid.

In each occupied area, Tang immigrants played a relatively important role. Take the current Goguryeo for example. The local resistance forces have almost been suppressed. There is no need for official troops at all. The militia organizations organized by the immigrants are able to bring these rebels to justice.

Of course, they are the best developed regions. There are also some regions that are not well developed, such as the Indochina Peninsula today. This is mainly because there are many mountains and forests there, and bullying of immigrants happens from time to time. Even if the army arrests local people, some of them can still escape to the mountains.

As long as these people run into the mountains, their lives are basically saved. Of course, life in the mountains is not easy. Some people have proposed closing the mountains, but then again, if you close the mountains, won't some of the mountain delicacies inside be unable to come out? It will also be a huge blow to the local economy.

Therefore, the only option is to continue to increase the number of immigrants. When the number of immigrants forms a proper proportion with the local people, the local area will be able to settle down easily. The same is true for the Western Regions, but if the Western Regions want to attract immigrants, it will be more troublesome and difficult than the Indochina Peninsula.

After hearing what Li Xiang said, Xiao Shougui just smiled bitterly. Li Xiang also knew how difficult it was. The Western Regions were too far away from Chang'an, and they were also on the front line of the war with the Arab Empire. So unless they couldn't survive, no one would be willing to come here.

Everyone knows the benefits of immigration. Look at Goguryeo and Fuso. As long as you have a hard-working spirit, you can transform from proletarians to property owners. But is the Western Regions the same as those places?

The people in Chang'an don't care which region this place is divided into, whether it is the Anxi Protectorate or other jurisdictional areas, in their impression, as long as they are out of Yumen Pass, they still like to call this place the Western Regions.

Some people say that this place is very rich and that all kinds of oases are prosperous, but why don’t you talk about the deserts?
Compared with the 21st century, the climate in the Western Regions is still good in this era. However, even if it is good, it cannot be compared with Chang'an. As long as there is a way to make a living in the inland, no one wants to come to this place. Therefore, the immigration policy has been implemented for several years, and only a handful of people have come here.

Many of these people who came here only had one idea, which was to make a fortune here and then take the money back to their hometowns. They never thought about settling down here, because many people didn't want to stay here for a long time, mainly because it was too dangerous and the natural environment was not something that ordinary people could overcome. People coming from the mainland basically got seriously ill here. The air here was extremely dry, and the food and drink were very different from those in the mainland. If your body couldn't hold on, you might even lose your life here. In this day and age, acclimatization is a serious disease.

Take the Tang Dynasty army for example. They conducted adaptive training in various places, but when a group of troops came from Chang'an City, many people still lost their lives. Although the proportion is not very high, people died after all. Even the army paid such a heavy price, let alone ordinary people, whose price must have been even greater.

"We have had three batches of immigrants in total, each with a small number of people. Now the total number is only about 9,000 people. There is really no way to promote it. We have already started to provide cash subsidies, but still no one is willing to come."

Among immigrants from all over the country, they are generally given houses and land, but never cash, because they are afraid that these people will run away after taking the cash. After all, people who are willing to immigrate to the frontier have certain moral defects. If you expect them to take the money and settle down here, then you are probably overestimating them.

But people in the Western Regions would not come even if they were paid, and would just run away after taking the money. They would not do such a thing. The main reason was that it was too difficult to run back from here. Take Anxi Duhu Mansion as an example. It was located to the west of the original thirty-six countries in the Western Regions. If the army wanted to run back to Chang'an from here, it would take about three months, and ordinary people would take more than half a year.

If you can live a stable life for half a year, you can get enough money to buy a house. Many people are willing to take the risk. But the question is, are these six months normal for you? You are struggling between life and death almost every day. Even if you are strong and lucky and have overcome difficulties one after another, are you afraid of these local people with machetes?
Li Xiang originally thought that the benefits of immigration were enough, but now it seems that it is far from the case. No matter how much benefits you give, when these people think that the local area is unsafe, they will not bother to come and earn the money. No one would plan to take the money but have no life to spend it.

"It seems we have to think of some new ways. Without our immigrants, life will be difficult. Relying solely on our army, we have killed batch after batch. Now these forty or so people have proved that we have killed fewer people in the past. That is much more than other places, but the problem is that we can't get over this hurdle."

Li Xiang drank a glass of wine feeling a little depressed. Xiao Shougui also felt panic. His Highness had handed this matter over to him. It was obvious that he was not satisfied with his work. But the problem was that he had no idea how to attract immigrants no matter how hard he racked his brains.

"Your Highness, since we Han Chinese immigrants cannot come here, can we send a group of other people over? For example, the Gaoju Li people, for example, the Fuso people, they have to act according to orders..." (End of this chapter)