Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 489 Planning of the New Territory
As the Tang armies from all walks of life came closer and closer to the soil, the city became more and more turbulent. Middle and low-level generals like Jin Chao have formed a group, and more and more people feel that Yuan Gai Su Wen is a ship. Unreliable generals joined, of course, some of them took the initiative to talk about surrendering. In the end, those diehards who were invited but did not agree to join, for the sake of confidentiality, they chose to assassinate all of them. Anyway, the cause of death of these people was pushed to the It would be good for the Tang army to spy on him, so before the Tang army arrived, people were dying every day in Pyongyang, and some of the generals and Yuangai Suwen's loyalists died every day, and everyone who caused the trouble was panicked.

The terrain of the peninsula is actually not flat. After the beginning of spring, there are often rains. Therefore, Li Shimin's troops from all walks of life are not fast. Along the way, Li Shimin will watch the memorials transferred from Chang'an. Finished it for him.

For example, the amendment of the Marriage Law.

After getting the data from the Sun Xiangfu newspaper, Wei Zheng and other ministers applied to Fang Xuanling to look up some data on birth and death in Guanzhong and various places, and found that it was only slightly worse than the data calculated by Shanyang Medical College. Well, after all, Shanyang Medical College has done a lot of preparations in all aspects of delivery, but there is still such a high failure rate, and other places with worse medical conditions, the situation is naturally even worse.

However, after the research of Mabo Decoction, Shanyang Medical College has performed caesarean sections for many times in a row, and there were two cases of failure. The reason is still very young pregnancy, and pregnant women have heavy bleeding at the very early stage of fetal movement. After being sent to medical school, the child was only taken out by caesarean section, and the adult was already dead.

Therefore, the ministers who are used to rationally analyzing issues now agree that this should be changed. At least, first cancel the court’s previous encouragement of marriage and childbearing, and cancel the age limit set by the court for marriage and childbearing. As long as there are fewer problems in the reproductive process, Datang's population growth rate will definitely be very fast.

This round of marriage and childbirth policy promotion and reform unexpectedly boosted Shanyang’s economy. Many dignitaries and even wealthy merchants bought villas in Shanyang. For women, as long as they live in Shanyang after pregnancy, and go to medical school to wait for delivery when they are about to give birth, they can basically guarantee that the child will be born smoothly. This is undoubtedly good news for these financially powerful people.

This phenomenon alleviated the commercial depression in Shanyang caused by the large-scale relocation of merchants to Dingxiang, Ulan and other cities. After all, a large number of wealthy people with strong spending power came to make up for the previous Shanyang The bottom-end consumer market is too strong and the high-end consumer market is insufficient.

There are also some specific arrangements for Yunnan County. After Shelong forcefully incorporated the population of various ministries, it became a new difficulty in governance in Datang. Chai Shao helped Shelong form the Annan Army with the surrendered soldiers from various tribes. The number of soldiers is tentatively set at [-]. And the threat of the Black Tooth tribes farther south.

Fang Xuanling's approach was very much approved by Li Shimin. He integrated it into the land of Yunnan in the Tang Dynasty as a whole. There will be twelve prefectures and more than thirty counties. Among them, Tengzhou will directly include the entire Western Yunnan Plateau, and Tianzhu, At the junction of Piao, there are also Yongzhou, Huizhou, Shanzhou, Tuozhou, Quzhou, Jingzhou, Langzhou, Binzhou, Weizhou, Weizhou, Maozhou and other states, which are distributed in various parts of Yunnan, and Dali City will be the governing place. surround it.

Leveraging the power of the Tang army's great victory, Shelong took all the tribal leaders into position in one step, and detained all the tribal leaders in the former capital of Baizi Kingdom, the current Dali city. Later, he will escort these people to Chang'an and disperse the tribesmen. Distributed in various prefectures, among them, Tengzhou and Dali, which have relatively large territories, will have 30 people, and the rest of the prefectures will have tens of thousands, ranging from 10,000+. In the twelve prefectures of Yunnan, more than 200 miles from east to west, north to south, to feed This [-] million people is not difficult.

Shelong also sent people who know how to collect and process various medicinal materials, tea, and other special products to initially manage the people in various states. This is the only legacy left to Shelong by Wang Hao after his tossing around in Yunnan.

After dispersing these people in various states, the number of special products collected will be even greater. As long as these items are still needed in the Tang Dynasty, the lives of the people in each state will definitely be much better than before.

This is not a big deal, Fang Xuanling has also made arrangements for how to bring Tuyuhun and the Dangxiang ministries under control.

Last year, Du Zhenglun led the officials of the Ministry of Commerce. After developing more than ten state-owned enterprises in Shannan Road and the Yangtze River Basin, he is now very keen to help the country develop such industries. He wrote a letter suggesting that the salt lake in Tuyuhun be assigned to the Ministry of Commerce for development, and the establishment of Datang largest state-owned enterprise.

With the supply of salt ponds in Tuyuhun, not only will the price of salt in Datang drop by more than half, there will be no shortage of salt, and it will also drive the entire production and operation system, creating employment for at least 10,000+ people and creating millions of dollars for the country every year. Through the above profits and taxes.

Fang Xuanling agreed to the request of the Ministry of Commerce, and set the old land of Tuyuhun and other party ministries as Ningchuan Road, with Ningzhou, Xiazhou, Chazhou, Hanzhou, Haizhou, Baizhou, Yuzhou, and other seven states under his banner , Appointed Li Ji as the governor of Ningchuan Road, commanding an army of 80, and guarding the area. Under his rule, there were more than [-] households and [-] million people in the original Tuyuhun and various party ministries.

This is not counting the 10,000+ young and Zhuang soldiers captured by various ministries. A small part of these people were assigned to the Ministry of Commerce to develop Yanchi, and a large part of them, like the Tubo people, became important in the Guanzhong industry. Manual workers, as long as there are not enough young and strong people, there will be no chaos in the newly ruled places. After a few years of transition, the lives of the local people will be better, and then these people will be gradually released. When the good times pass, there will be no more chaos.

With Ningchuan Road and Yunnan County sandwiching the Tubo Plateau from left to right, the land in Central Shu basically does not directly border Tubo, and the defensive pressure will be much smaller. The main force of Chai Shao’s army will be in Yunnan. Only then withdrew to the middle of Shu, and at that time, only a small number of standing troops will be left in the middle of Shu, and more than half of the people will be withdrawn to Chang'an.

What really made Fang Xuanling unable to decide was the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate that Sun Xiangfu set up at the request of Sun Xiangfu. Political deployment at this level had to be arranged by the emperor. The combined territory of Yunnan and Ningchuan Road is much larger, with a total population of 300 million.

If all officials were sent to set up yamen according to the regulations of the Tang Dynasty, it is estimated that thousands of officials would have to be sent in the past, and the current situation of the imperial court could not send them at all.

"Hehe, I used to only think about conquering the Quartet, but I never thought that after conquering the Quartet, there will be so many headaches in governance."

Keeping a business is more difficult than starting a business. This is a truth that has been verified by later generations. The territory laid down by the Yuan Dynasty is large enough!However, this dynasty did not last even 100 years, and fell apart. It can be seen that the bigger the country, the better, and the governance cannot keep up, and it collapses quickly.

"Your Majesty, since it is just suggested that His Majesty send a few officials who are good at handling ethnic disputes to the Western Regions, then His Majesty can allow it. These newly surrendered countries do not communicate with my Tang Dynasty in terms of language or writing. I'm afraid they won't adapt to it. We just need to manage the military well so as not to cause rebellion. The local civil affairs can allow them to maintain a certain degree of autonomy. When we free up our hands in the future, we will have enough Once we have talents, it will not be too late to gradually strengthen management.”

Not to mention the early Tang Dynasty, it was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Talented scholars in the Tang Dynasty emerged. Governing the Western Regions also faced many problems. Taking those places as a matter of course and governing them like the Central Plains is definitely not enough. This is why The reason why Xuanzang received courtesy from Li Shimin and Li Zhi after returning from his journey to the west was that they really needed to understand the various local conditions.

"Pharmacist has been to the Western Regions, and knows more about the situation there than I do. Do you think it will take a few years to manage it like my Central Plains?"

"A few years of work? I'm afraid that several generations of work may not be able to govern it to the level of Shanyang and Dingxiang." Li Jing shook his head and said.

"Why?"

"The difference is too great, not only in culture, but also in race. It is much bigger than that between Han Chinese and Baiyue, Nanman, and Turkic people. Those blond, blue-eyed, and red-haired barbarians in the Western Regions, we just want to get to know each other. They all have difficulties. The most important thing is that the distance is too far, and it is impossible to manage them simultaneously. Starting from Chang'an and going west to Suiye City, it is a distance of more than 8000 miles, and then go west and pass Hengluosi. Start to enter those areas where there are many barbarians in the Western Regions, which is at least ten thousand miles away, and it takes nearly a year to ride a horse back and forth..."

Hu people and Hu people in the Western Regions are actually two concepts, like Turkic, Xueyantuo, Khotan, Qiuci, Gaochang, Tuyuhun, etc. Hu people in Qinghai, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Mongolia in later generations, although their appearance and living habits, There is a slight difference with the Han people, but in fact they all belong to the Asian yellow race. At least everyone has black eyes, black hair, and yellow skin. As long as they speak the same words and have similar eating habits, after living together for a generation or two, the difference Not so obvious.

But the barbarians in the Western Regions are different. After passing Hengluosi, and arriving in Persia, Western Europe, the barbarians over there can be regarded as real barbarians. Their skin color, body shape, and hair are very different. They have a face like Sun Xiangfu. People with blindness will be completely overwhelmed, and the same will be true for their senses of the Han people, like Tang Jun wearing a standard military uniform, as long as they are of the same size, they will not be able to tell who is who. Under such circumstances, it is easier said than done to integrate everyone into one.

After listening to Li Jing's words, Li Shimin thought for a long time before saying, "I plan to use a large number of Hu people as officials to govern these new territories for the court. Does the pharmacist think it is feasible?"

Li Jing nodded and replied, "Actually, this is an inevitable trend. With the current territory of the Tang Dynasty, it is no longer possible for the Han people to govern it. Moreover, among the countries in the Western Regions, there are indeed some well-educated people. , people who know etiquette, and there are countries like Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje, with millions of people, and they don’t rely on local talented people to govern. It may not be enough."

Li Shimin nodded when he heard the words, and began to write a reply to Fang Xuanling's request. He first appointed Cheng Zhijie as the governor of Anxi, and then set up four Zhechong mansions under his banner to assist him. His general Qiao Shi Wang Wang, Guo Xiaoke, who has lost his mind, and Qibi Heli are the captains of Zhechong. From Zhechong Mansion, 12 elites and [-] Tang troops can be recruited from the local area to enrich their troops. That is to say, in the future, these will be mainly Four Zhechong Mansions, with a total of [-] soldiers and horses, guard the boundaries of the Anxi Dadu Protectorate.

In addition to the specific military requirements, Li Shimin has relaxed the requirements to a large extent in terms of politics. The former rulers and officials of various countries can retain almost all the governance rights of the local people, as long as they pay more than they used to in accordance with the Tang tax system. Give Western Turks much lower taxes and excess money, all at their disposal. However, their royal family members and main officials must immediately set off to Chang'an to be enshrined. A grand ceremony was held to announce to the whole world that Datang had sovereignty over the existing territory.

Of course, there is also an element of showing off his personal achievements to the world. In his heart, he always wants to eliminate the influence of improper position.

(End of this chapter)