Chastity Layman

  Chapter 759 Conspiracy

  The atmosphere of the family banquet is stronger.

In fact, Li Ji wanted to ask his concubine to marry Qin Lang's daughter, but after all, he was still a bit embarrassed. In the past, Qin Qiong was his subordinate, but now he still has to respect Qin Lang. If he asked his son to marry Qin Lang again If he is a daughter, then he will become the father-in-law of Cheng Lang's peers, and he will even have to call Qin Qiong his uncle in the future.

  The old face can't come down.

"In my life, the biggest regret is that I didn't read enough books. When I was young, I was rich and well-clothed but refused to read. Now I can't read a few words. I think my great-grandfather and grandfather were all scholars. Everyone is a prefect. Lang Ken is obedient and reads..."

  In the novel, Xu Shiji Xu Maogong is a master of the world, with a strong nose and a knack for calculating, but the real Xu Shiji is a top rich second generation. The Xu family in Gaoping can also be regarded as a well-known local noble family. In the era when there were no poor families in the upper class, the Xu family was also a prominent official from generation to generation.

His great-grandfather was the prefect of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and his grandfather was the prefect of the Southern Qi Dynasty. During the turbulent times, when he was his father, he lived in seclusion in the village of Caozhou. He was a rich man. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, he moved to Huazhou. Xu Shiji did not study much when he was young. Hunting is riding and shooting, anyway, life is quite free.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to start killing for thieves at the age of fourteen. Relying on his family's wealth and wealth, Xu Shiji was already a well-known local knight-errant when he was ten years old, and he made friends with Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin. A man of the day.

  Officially joined Wagang at the age of fourteen, and began to pull a team to rule the roost.

  Li Ji's three sons, the eldest, Li Gan, is very gentle, the second is indeed a little naughty, and the third is too young. When eating, Li Gan has impeccable manners, while Li Shunwen is a little rude.

The servant brought a big cake, similar to a super luxurious Gulouzi mutton pie, it was made huge, and the ingredients were carefully selected, not only mutton but also seafood, one piece must have at least ten catties of fillings, the crust Also big.

  Li Shunwen was also polite, and without waiting for the servant to cut it with a knife, he directly tore off a large piece with his hands, and then ate the filling without eating the crust. After eating the filling in the middle, he threw the crust under the table.

  Qin Lang sat there and watched without speaking.

  Li Ji felt ashamed and shouted, "Pick it up!"

  Li Shunwen didn't take it seriously. Although he was a son of a concubine, Li Ji usually didn't have much time to discipline him. "This cake is not delicious!"

"Haven't you read Saburo's poems, who knows that the food on the plate is all hard work? Do you know how hard it is to get a cake? You have to plow the field twice, sow the seeds and wait for the harvest. Use a mill to grind , sifted with luo, and proofed with flour, boiled with firewood, steamed and fried, and then made into a cake. Do you really think that this cake came from the sky? Eat the cake and throw the cake skin, eat melon and peel the thick skin, what a fool you are If you are in front of the emperor, you will never be able to stand out in this life!"

  Li Shunwen was not convinced, "A stone of wheat is only 150 yuan, which can make thousands of cakes. Our family has millions of dollars, what is missing?"

  Li Ji listened to the beard and stared. Among his relatives, Li Ji was not considered powerful, but Li Ji's financial resources were definitely among the best. His family was the richest man in the area during the Sui Dynasty, with tens of thousands of acres of land and thousands of servants and children. Later, Shangwagang became the head of the family, and even though he voted for Tang in the end, the court tried his best to win him over. The family has a strong family background, and the accumulation of these years has made his family's financial resources quite rich, especially his father Xu Gai. Xu hasn't been an official in these years, and he has devoted himself to running the family business, doing business under the duke's title, and his son is still the Duke, so can this business not be big?

  Old Xu was originally a master of business, and in the past ten years or so, he has become more like a fish in water, and his family's property has continued to double. Li Shunwen said that his family's wealth is millions, but he is not bragging.

   Li Ji got up angrily, squatted down, picked up the pie crust, and handed it to Li Shunwen, "Give it to me!"

   "A pie crust as for?"

  Li Ji slapped him, and half of Li Shunwen's face swelled up immediately, "If you don't enforce the family law today, you're going against the sky, Nizi!"

After all, Li Shunwen was young, tears came down, and he began to fear, but he still gritted his teeth and retorted, "Grandpa spent more than a million dollars on this banquet to entertain Duke Wei? What is it compared to a little cake? You just look down on me." , think I'm a bastard, so why did you give birth to me again!"

   "Nizi!" Li Ji slapped him angrily.

  Qin Lang hurriedly stopped him, and if the beating continued, Li Shunwen would be beaten into a pig's head.

   "Usually negligent in discipline, Saburo, let you see a joke."

"Get out of my way. From tomorrow, send it to the Zhuangzi outside the city, give him two acres of land, let him read and practice martial arts, and at the same time take care of the two acres of land by himself, with simple food and simple food, self-reliance, let him know what people's livelihood is suffering, food Precious." Li Ji cursed, "It's true that my family is rich, and it's true that this meal cost thousands of dollars, but that's hospitality etiquette, and it's not the same thing as waste!"

   "Erlang is still young."

   "Do you want the youngest son to marry your sister?" Li Ji said, "Three years old and seven years old, I think this rebellious son has no future."

  In Li Ji's view, there is still a difference between extravagance and waste. You can ride a thousand-guan horse, live in a Wanguan mansion, and even eat a hundred-guan seafood, but even if it’s a penny cake, you can’t just eat the cake core and throw away the cake crust.

The so-called near-water buildings first get the moon. Li Ji guarded Bingzhou for ten years, and married the local snake Taiyuan Wang's family. In addition, the situation in the frontier fortress has stabilized in recent years. Li Ji's father, Li Gai, runs the industry himself. The Li family is now the largest business on the east of the river. The import of milk and meat, the export of salt, tea, sugar and wine, and various pots, bowls, needlework and other handmade goods, the Li family has strong strength and strong relationships. The Li family has continuously occupied a huge share of the border market trade. It is said that their caravan , can even go as far as the north of the distant North Sea, and go deep into the icy and snowy permafrost.

  The Li family has more than 3,000 Luo teams walking outside the Great Wall all year round, and even more than 3,000 expedition hunters have entered the northern wilderness ice field to hunt all kinds of precious furs for the Li family.

In Hedong, Henan and Hebei, the Li family's farms spread all over the place. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Li family had thousands of hectares of fertile land, but now the Li family has owned 10,000 hectares of land in various places, which is a full million mu. Fields.

  At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were thousands of slaves and servants in the Li family, but now there are more than 10,000 slaves in the manors, workshops, and caravans of the Li family, and there are countless tenants.

  However, Li Ji didn't pay much attention to these things. Over the years, their father and father had a clear division of labor. Shu Guogong and Li Gai concentrated on managing the industry, and then married famous tycoons everywhere for their children.

  Li Ji concentrated on his official career.

  They all know very well that no matter how much money the Li family has, without strong political power, they will not be able to keep it all.

   "The hidden danger of relocating Turks in the country has already appeared, and it has become more and more serious. This has become a cancer. If it goes on for a long time, it will inevitably become a serious problem."

In the study room, Qin Lang and Li Ji didn't talk about getting married or a piece of cake. Qin Lang took the initiative to mention the Turkic people. Hedong is the first place to resettle Turkic people, and the states in Hedong also have the most Turkic people. Especially It was Yunshuo Dingxiang from Daibei, and almost all of them were Turkic.

  "If it goes on for a long time, it will inevitably repeat the mistakes of the Western Jin Dynasty. We have to correct this mistake."

  Li Jijiu was in Hedong, so of course he is the most aware of this problem. This is indeed a mistake, and many problems have erupted now.

   "Does Saburo have any good suggestions, and what do I need to do?" Li Ji asked.

"After all, there are millions of Turks, and they must be handled carefully. I have an idea, that is, to move some of the restless Turks who moved inland back to Mobei. Since the Turks moved south, Mobei has been The people of Cheng Tie Le, especially Xue Yantuo, have become more and more swollen in recent years, and they already have the heart of disobedience. The Tang Dynasty must guard against it. Therefore, moving some rebellious Turkic people back to Mobei can reduce the frontier fortress Trouble, you can also control the barbarians, let them be the pioneers of the Tang Dynasty, and act as a buffer for the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo."

"One more thing, in the land of Monan, re-delineate the boundaries of prefectures and counties. It is best to draw them down to the township level, and then divide the Turkic tribes as small as possible, so that they can live and graze at most. Go nomadic with water and grass, and don't cross the border at will."

What Qin Lang meant was to separate the Han and the Hu, use the Great Wall as the boundary line, set up some barren land and mountainous areas as pastures south of the Great Wall, and recruit some Dingkou from the Turkic people to graze, but it is equivalent to serving the imperial court. Grazing, the pastures belong to the imperial court, and the cattle and sheep also belong to the imperial court. These herdsmen can be given wages or bonuses, but the pastures must be controlled and managed by the imperial court, and half of the Han people are half of the Turkic herdsmen. Pastures, to avoid the settlement of immigrants based on tribes as it is now.

  South of the Great Wall, except for the official pastures and herdsmen of the imperial court, the rest of the original Turkic people who moved in all moved back to the north of the Great Wall.

  Of course, in order to further weaken the strength of the Turkic people, in addition to dividing the Turkic people from the north to the south and breaking them up as small as possible, they also need to transfer young and strong people from them to Jiannan, Lingnan and other southwestern regions.

   "Southwest?"

"Yes, use the Turkic people to go to the southwest to deal with the local Southwestern Yi, and use Hu to suppress the Yi. In the southwest, there are a large number of counties in Jiannan, Yunnan, Central Guizhou, Annan, and Lingnan, and there are also Zhengzhou counties that have been corrected. One characteristic is that the control power is not strong, and the imperial court will inevitably rely on the local barbarians to govern the place, which will make the barbarians more powerful, and sometimes even take over the local yamen of the imperial court. Qin Lang's plan is to send some Turkic young men to go south, Enriched in various local yamen, acting as patrolling police or special Turkic battalions to balance the situation.

This is just like the colonial era. The British recruited red-headed assan from India to serve as a policeman in China, and then recruited Huayong from Hong Kong to serve as a policeman in South Africa. Recruiting people from Nibo to India is a routine. ideas.

If the Turkic people were transferred to the southwest, separated from the grassland, and dispersed in various places in the southwest, they would not pose a threat in themselves. Facing the southwestern barbarians, they would definitely have to side with the Tang officials. The elite going south can also reduce the strength of the Turkic people and reduce their troops.

From a long-term perspective, some of these Turkic people who were transferred to the south will surely settle in the south slowly in the future. These outsiders from the northern grasslands can change the population composition of the southwestern region and help reduce the proportion of indigenous barbarians. conducive to long-term management.

   "Mr. Cao Guo has been in Hedong for a long time and is familiar with border affairs. If Mr. Cao is willing to support my plan, it will be very important."

  Li Ji didn't rush to answer.

  Qin Lang immediately stated his terms of the transaction. He was willing to act and seek a fiefdom in Annan for Li Ji, and he was willing to give Li Ji's family more sugar shares.

   "Spices, my grandfather is very interested in spices." Li Ji also raised conditions.

  The two bargained in the study room, and soon reached a secret agreement. The specific content was unknown to outsiders, but Qin Lang and Li Ji raised their glasses to celebrate at the end. It can be seen that the result satisfied both parties.

   "Uncle is only in his thirties now, he is not in a hurry to enter the capital, and it will not be too late to enter the capital after staying in Bingzhou for ten years!" Qin Lang said to Li Ji with a smile.

Li Ji smiled bitterly. There are several decades in his life, but Qin Lang's words undoubtedly contained the emperor's thoughts. No problem."

  (end of this chapter)