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The next thing was relatively simple. A few days later, the daimyo arrived at Dazaifu, and they were greeted by the murderous Tang soldiers. Extremely frightened, the daimyo had to sign a letter of allegiance and expressed their willingness to become the subjects of the Tang emperor.

But this was only a transition. Half a year later, more than 30 county officials from the Tang Dynasty arrived one after another. The Tang army arrested all the daimyo and their descendants for conspiracy and rebellion, and sent them all to Tamra Island to be executed, and confiscated all their property and land.

As the officials took their positions and announced at the same time that the people of Kyushu Prefecture would implement the Tang tax system and exempt taxes and land rents for three years, the people on the island were immediately jubilant and grateful for the kindness of the Tang emperor.

The taxes on farmers in Japan are extremely heavy. Not only do they have to pay rent, but they also have to pay taxes. After the implementation of the Tang Dynasty tax system, land rent and taxes do not have to be paid at the same time. If you rent the land of the original daimyo, which is now the land of the government, then after three years, you don’t have to pay taxes. You only have to pay 20% of the harvest as rent each year, and you can still reduce it if you encounter a disaster.

If you rent the land of other landlords, other landlords will certainly not be willing to bear the taxes, and they still have to pass it on to farmers in the form of high rents, generally collecting 50% of the harvest as rent.

At this time, farmers have a choice. They can rent the land of the government and enjoy the low rent and tax exemption policy, or they can work for the government without being a farmer, and they can still earn money to support their families. Working for the government mainly involves road construction and logging.

You can even go to Liaodong to farm, exempt from taxes and rent, and all the food belongs to you.

As Kyushu Island was changed to Kyushu Prefecture, Emperor Li Ye appointed Qiao Bin as the first prefect, and at the same time changed the eleven Lingguo to eleven counties, officially incorporated into the Tang Dynasty.

The court also sent all the Japanese prostitutes in Chang'an and Luoyang back to their hometowns to join the army. They were also victims of human smuggling over the years, with as many as 7,000 to 8,000 people. Their biggest advantage was that they could speak fluent Chinese, their customs had been completely Tang-styled, their personalities were gentle, and they were generally young and beautiful. They were deeply loved by the Tang army garrison soldiers, and they all married them.

The literati of the Tang Dynasty would take prostitutes as their concubines, but would never marry them.

But it was not easy for ordinary people to marry, so they would not care about the woman's past, as long as she was a good woman. The soldiers in the army were all from the lower class, so naturally they would not care.

After marrying these Japanese women, the court promised to give them land and tax exemption for three generations, so the 8,000 soldiers were willing to stay in Kyushu Prefecture, start a family, and have children here.

Of course, the cession of Kyushu Island was not so smooth. Three years later, the Kyushu Rebellion broke out. The participants were mainly the big landlords in Kyushu. The low tax and rent system of the Tang army seriously damaged their interests, resulting in no farmers willing to farm for them. After three years of resentment, the rebellion broke out. Ten thousand Tang soldiers ruthlessly suppressed it with an iron fist, killing thousands of participants in the rebellion, confiscating the land and property of the big landlords, and completely eradicating a major cancer that threatened the Tang Dynasty's rule in Kyushu.

At the same time, the land and mansions of these big landlords were distributed to 8,000 Tang soldiers who were willing to stay in Kyushu. All of these Tang soldiers were willing to stay in Kyushu after marrying Tang Dynasty returnees, forming families and having children. They became the new landlord class in Kyushu, which was crucial to the stability of the Tang Dynasty's rule.

The Tang Dynasty began to build schools on a large scale and required all children to go to school. Five years later, the Tang government officially implemented the full implementation of the granting of names and naturalization for the people of Kyushu, mainly the five surnames of Li, Zhang, Zhao, Wang, and Liu.

These five surnames mainly belong to the Tang Dynasty soldiers who stayed in Kyushu and their in-laws. For example, if a soldier's surname was Zhang, his wife also had the surname Zhang, and then his wife's family also changed their surname to Zhang.

Other low-level Japanese people had no surnames, and the county officials gave them surnames, usually Niu, Yang, Zhu, Tian, ​​Mi, Cai, Jing, Fang, He, Hu, Chai, Lin, Lu, etc.

An interesting thing happened. Originally, there were only tens of thousands of people in Kyushu Prefecture, but when they were naturalized, they found that the population was as high as more than 500,000.

This was a large number of Japanese people from other places who flocked to Kyushu with their families. They all wanted to become citizens of the Tang Dynasty, and they naturally got what they wanted. The court stipulated that as long as they participated in the registration when naturalizing and swore allegiance to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, they could be identified as civilians of the Tang Dynasty.

Ten years later, Japanese declined and Chinese became the mainstream. Fifteen years later, Li Ge, a scholar from Hizen County, became the first local in Kyushu Prefecture to pass the imperial examination. Fifty years later, traces of Japan almost disappeared in Kyushu Prefecture, including the inner identity of all the people. They all agreed that they were the people of the Tang Dynasty and had nothing to do with Japan.

In the east of Japan, after the burning of Fujiwara-kyo, the Japanese royal family almost disappeared, and the army directly under the court was also completely destroyed. As Li Chengshi led the Tang army to evacuate Japan, Fujiwara Baichuan welcomed the grandson of the previous emperor, Prince Shirabi, back from Awaji Island and established him as the new emperor to rebuild the court.

However, any regime must be based on strength. A court without military strength and financial support will not have any authority, which is especially obvious for the Japanese society that only believes in strength but not morality.

When the new emperor ascended the throne, only seven of the more than fifty daimyo in the country came to meet and congratulate him, and the rest of the daimyo watched coldly.

In the second year, the five daimyos of Sanyin Road, Nagato, Iwami, Izumo, Hoki, and Inaba, collectively went to Chang'an to pay homage to the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. They were all canonized as county kings, and their countries were protected by the Tang army. When the news spread, it caused a sensation in Japanese countries, and various countries sent envoys to Kyushu to pay homage to Qiao Bin, the prefect of Kyushu of the Tang Dynasty, hoping that Qiao could recommend them to go to Chang'an for pilgrimage.

In the third year after the establishment of Kyushu Prefecture, the king of Iwami sold a piece of land in the northeast to Kyushu Prefecture. At the same time, Kyushu Prefecture bought Sado Island from Echigo Province. Soon, gold and silver mines were discovered in Iwami Province and Sado Island, triggering a wave of exploration of mines in various countries in Japan.

Iwami Province discovered three silver mines successively, becoming Japan's largest silver-producing country. In particular, the largest silver mine in Japan was discovered on the land sold to the Tang Dynasty, and an unprecedented large gold mine was also discovered on Sado Island. Sado Island was renamed Kinzan Island.

As the Tang Dynasty began to implement large-scale mining and smelting of the Iwami Province Silver Mine and Kinzan Island Gold Mine, the Tang Dynasty's gold and silver smelting technology was also spread to Japan. From then on, gold, silver and cypress produced in Japan were continuously shipped to the Tang Dynasty in exchange for Tang Dynasty silk, porcelain and various daily necessities.

In the fifth year of Jiaxing in the Tang Dynasty, Mino and Echizen clashed over a border river containing gold sand. This was the Mino River Incident, which opened a turbulent era of thirty years in which wars broke out among Japanese countries for gold and silver resources.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty successively conferred nearly fifty daimyo in five years, and promoted the Reiji Kingdom to a vassal state, which caused far-reaching political influence. Although the Japanese emperor and the court continued for nearly a hundred years, in fact, their influence was limited to the Nara area.

A hundred years later, due to long-term inbreeding, the reproductive capacity of the emperor's family became weaker and weaker, until the last emperor died of illness, and the emperor was extinct from then on. The general Fujiwara Kanari announced the abolition of the emperor, proclaimed himself the general of Tianzhao, led the army to attack various countries, and was finally easily defeated by the 10,000 Tang troops in Kyushu Prefecture. The Fujiwara family was destroyed, and Japan entered the Warring States Period without a leader.

Thirty years later, the Tang Dynasty completely annexed Japan and began to implement the Kyushu Prefecture model on Honshu Island. Decades later, Japan completely disappeared in the long river of history.

In early November, Guo Ziyi arrived in Chang'an, and with him came nearly a thousand flat-bottomed tugboats, loaded with various spoils of the Liaodong War. The Bohai Kingdom, Khitan and Xi tribes, the richest of which was the Bohai Kingdom, including 6,000 large boxes of gold and silver treasures seized from the Japanese fleet, as well as iron ingots, copper ingots, wood and various precious medicinal materials to be transported away in the second and third batches.

The spoils of the Khitan and Xi tribes were mainly various leathers and medicinal materials, of which more than one million pieces of high-quality sheepskins alone, and tens of millions of cattle and sheep, which were left in the Liaodong pastures and did not arrive in Chang'an.

Of course, Li Ye and the court had already reached an agreement on the distribution of spoils, with half of the gold, silver and treasures going to the inner treasury and half to the left treasury. For other materials, the court would select some precious items to present to the emperor, and the rest would all go to the national treasury.

Li Ye met with Guo Ziyi and the generals, and gave them all generous rewards. Among them, the commander Guo Ziyi was conferred the title of Prince of Fenyang and Grand Tutor, but Guo Ziyi repeatedly refused to accept the title of Prince. Finally, he was changed to Duke of Qi, with a real title of 500 households. At the same time, he served as Privy Councilor and Co-Minister of the Secretariat, and was rewarded with a garden house in Chang'an.

Other generals were conferred high titles and given generous rewards.

In the imperial study, Li Ye met Zhang Dian specifically.

Zhang Dian was originally one of the 300 servants of the Zhangye Pei family. He followed Li Ye to Suiye. Later, he was continuously promoted by Li Ye and became the king of scouts of the Tang Dynasty. Now he has become a local lord.

"I, your humble servant Zhang Dian, pay my respects to His Majesty. I wish Your Majesty long live, long live, long live!"

Li Ye smiled and waved his hand and said, "General Zhang, it's been a long time since we last met. Please get up quickly!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhang Dian stood up, as straight as a pine tree.

Li Ye asked with a smile: "How old is General Zhang this year?"

"Your Majesty, I am 42 years old this year!"

Li Ye sighed, "Time flies so fast. Those who followed me back then were all young soldiers in their twenties, and now they are all middle-aged."

"I can still serve Your Majesty for another 30 years!"

Li Ye smiled and asked again: "General, have you ever dealt with the Shiwei tribe in Liaodong?"

"Your Majesty, when I was chasing Yelu Salad, I dealt with the Southern Shiwei?"

"How did it feel to deal with them?"

Zhang Dian thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, the people of Shiwei are very simple, but their nobles are generally arrogant and lack respect for the Tang Dynasty!"

"What about the Heishui Mohe?" Li Ye asked again.