"Your Highness is right. I am willing to make some choices for the Tang Dynasty and stay in Chang'an City."
An Xinggui said in a stiff tone after subconsciously swallowing a mouthful of saliva.
Li Yuanji even said something like, "The generals and commanders from Liangzhou recognize him the most." If he still doesn't know what is good and what is good, then Li Yuanji should ask him if he wants to imitate Li Yi.
Li Yi had just been executed by the imperial court, and Yiying Jiajuan had also been captured and taken back to Chang'an.
Although the verdict has not yet been pronounced, anyone with any brain knows that Li Yi's family record is unlikely to end well.
I believe that it won't be long before we can see Li Yi's wife, concubines, and daughters in Jiaofangsi.
He doesn't have the same ambition as Li Yi, so he naturally doesn't want his wife and daughter to end up in the same fate.
"Okay, very good, An Qing is indeed my humerus of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Yuanji nodded with satisfaction and praised.
An Xinggui said he didn't dare.
Afterwards, the monarch and his ministers drank tea and talked about gossip. They talked about how much they liked each other and laughed constantly. It was not until the evening that they reluctantly parted.
After An Xinggui left the palace, Li Yuanji immediately ordered Sherenyuan to draft an imperial edict and gave An Xinggui a large house, a separate courtyard, and a village outside the city for An Xinggui and his family to stay in Chang'an. Take root and settle in the city.
After An Xinggui returned to the temporary place where he stayed, he did not dare to be idle. He immediately found his son An Yuanshou and asked him to return to Liangzhou to pick up his mother, brothers and sisters, and some of his clan members.
The king was wise and the ministers were wise, and Liangzhou's problems were solved like a spring breeze.
Although Liangzhou's troops and horses were still in the hands of the An family, they were transferred from the hands of An Xinggui, who was good at conquering and fighting, to the hands of An Xiuren, who was of average ability.
In addition, after An Xinggui and some of his clan members arrived in Chang'an City, they wisely handed over many important official positions in Liangzhou.
As a result, Xue Shou became the chief historian of the governor's office of Longyou Dao, and Yu Zhining, Xu Shimo and others became the governors of various states in Longyou Dao.
Han Liang went to Daizhou, Yu Shinan went to Lanzhou, Chu Liang went to the newly recovered half of Yunzhou, and Chu Suiliang was left behind to become a member of the history museum.
Many bachelors in the history museum were taken over by Ma Zhou.
All in all, Li Shimin's party, Li Jiancheng's party, and some of Li Yuan's party were assigned to serve as governors in various places to pastor and defend one party.
The court has completely become the hall of the Yongwang Party.
During this period, except for Li Gang, whose positions did not change, the positions of everyone else changed more or less.
Wang Gui and Wei Zheng completely became the first and second leaders of Yushitai, and became two evil wolves.
Under their impeachment, nearly thirty officials received various punishments.
An Xinggui, Li Jing, Su Dingfang, Xie Shufang, Luo Shixin, Hou Junji and others began to show their prominence, began to succeed some of the royal family, became representatives of the military, and spoke in the court.
Ling Jing, Ma Zhou, Ren Gui and others also began to show their prominence.
After Ren Gui was transferred back to Chang'an City, he immediately won the admiration of Li Gang, and he took him to his side and served as his deputy.
Ling Jing followed Pei Ju, waiting to pick up Pei Ju's class.
That is to say, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda are not too old, otherwise Ma Zhou and Cai Yungong would probably run behind them, waiting to pick them up.
All in all, after Li Yi and An Xinggui, the two local emperors, were executed and surrendered, no one in the court dared to make mistakes, and they all accepted the arrangement of fate.
And this fate is Li Yuanji.
"Your Highness, are you sure that the rice here can be harvested twice a year and can be promoted?"
The weather in August was still hot and dry. Li Yuanji was wearing a very thin gauze, sitting on the dental mat, listening to Ren Gui's questions.
Discovering and promoting rice was a strategy that Li Yuanji came up with when he recently discovered that the courtiers seemed to be very idle.
He originally thought that the five-year plan formulated would be enough to keep all officials from both the government and the public busy, but when the plan began to be fully implemented, he found that the courtiers were not only not as busy as before, but also more idle than before.
So he decided to add more burdens to the courtiers.
Discovering and promoting rice is definitely something worth doing and something that must be done.
Historically, the Manchu Qing Dynasty relied on this national policy to successfully feed tens of millions of people.
Kangxi also relied on this national policy to become a sage and wise king.
It can be said that this national policy set by Kangxi laid a solid foundation for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which made the Manchu Qing Dynasty prosperous for three generations, and also gave Qianlong the confidence to carry out various major works.
Otherwise, with Qianlong's approach, let alone the prosperous era of Kangxi and Qianlong, it would be a problem whether he could maintain the power of the Qing Dynasty in his hands.
Therefore, the work of discovering and promoting rice must be done, and it must be done well.
"You answer..."
Faced with Ren Gui's question, Li Yuanji did not answer it in person, but signaled Feng Zhidai, who was specially summoned, to answer it.
He was born and raised in Lingnan, so he must have a very good understanding of the rice habits of Lingnan.
After Feng Zhidai bowed his hand, he smiled bitterly and said: "Returning to Ren Gong, it is indeed as His Highness said, the rice in Lingnan is indeed harvested twice a year, and the rice in Linyi State can even be harvested three times a year..."
When Feng Zhidai said this, he still had some unfinished meaning.
However, Ren Gui no longer cared to listen. He said in disbelief: "Is there really such a kind of rice that can be harvested twice a year or three times a year? How is this possible?"
Feng Zhidai glanced at Li Yuanji with a wry smile. Seeing that Li Yuanji had no intention of talking, he gave Ren Gui an idea and said: "Mr. Ren, Lin Yi's envoy will arrive in Chang'an in more than a month. If you don't believe it,
Then you can confront them face to face."
Ren Gui's hands trembled slightly.
Feng Zhidai dared to ask him to confront Lin Yiguo's envoy, which means that there is a high chance that what Feng Zhidai said is true.
Rice can be harvested twice or even three times a year.
If we plant hundreds of thousands of acres, how much food will be produced this year?
As long as one or two can be promoted, the Tang Dynasty will completely bid farewell to the crisis of food shortage.
As long as they can solve this food shortage crisis that has been encountered in all dynasties, then these people will definitely leave their names in history, and they will also leave a mark.
The common people, as well as the common people in future generations, will also be grateful to them and offer them high tributes.
In an instant, Ren Gui's eyes became eager.
Feng Zhidai felt that Ren Gui's eager gaze was a bit scary, so he couldn't help pouring cold water on Ren Gui, "Mr. Ren, although Lingnan and Linyi have two or three crops of rice a year.
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But no one knows whether this kind of rice can grow in other places.
Even if it can grow in other places, it may not be able to achieve two or three crops a year.
So you still don’t have high expectations.”
After saying this, Feng Zhidai realized that these words were a bit contrary to Li Yuanji, so he quickly bowed to Li Yuanji and said: "Your Highness also knows that oranges born in Huainan are called oranges, and those born in the north of Huaibei are called oranges.
The truth is, so whether this thing will work or not, you still have to try it before making a decision."
Li Yuanji was in no hurry to speak.
Ren Gui's eyes were still eager and he said: "It won't be a problem, it won't be a problem, as long as Lingnan and Linyi are fully planted."
Feng Zhidai had a bad feeling in his heart, and his heart started beating wildly.
Lingnan is their family's private land. Once it is targeted by the court, what will happen to their family?
Linyi was a vassal, so why did Tang Dynasty go to other people's land to farm?!
Of course, he already had an answer to the last question in his mind, but he didn't dare to say it.
Linyi was a vassal, and it was not easy for the Tang Dynasty to go to other people's land to farm, but as long as they sent an army there and turned other people's land into their own, it would be fine.
He knew very well that Datang would not reason with Lin Yi on such a major matter related to food.
If Lin Yi was good enough, Datang could pinch his nose and enslave them. If Lin Yi was not good enough, Datang would definitely choose to clear the place and fill every place in Lin Yi with its own people.
Anyway, the Tang Dynasty did not feel any guilt at all when it came to massacring a city, destroying a country, or even wiping out an ethnic group, and even felt extremely glorious about it.
After all, as a hegemonic country, the most important thing is that I am happy. As for whether other people are happy or not, what does it have to do with me?
As an overlord, I want to please you and take your feelings into consideration, so what kind of overlord am I?!
He didn't care about Lin Yi's life or death, but he did care about Lingnan's survival.
He didn't want the private land that the Feng family managed to manage with great difficulty to be easily taken away by the court, so he poured cold water on Ren Gui again.
"Ren Gong, although Lingnan and Linyi are uniquely endowed by nature and can grow two crops of rice a year and three crops a year, both Lingnan and Linyi are surrounded by barren mountains and harsh waters, with countless poisonous insects and miasma. In addition to the local soil,
Except for human beings and the Han people who have adapted to the local poisonous insects and miasma, there is no way for anyone else to survive in it.
Therefore, if the imperial court wants to vigorously promote rice in Lingnan and plant rice in Linyi, it must first overcome the local poor mountains and rivers, as well as poisonous insects and miasma."
The reason why the southwest has not been developed in history is not only because of the gathering of Baiyue in the area, but also the biggest reason is that there are countless poisonous insects and miasma in the area. In addition, the roads are difficult to travel, making survival very difficult, so it cannot be overcome.
Given these problems, there is no way to develop Southwest China.
Therefore, the Southwest was not slowly developed until the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was not fully developed until the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, if Datang wanted to grow rice in the southwest, it really had to solve these problems.
Although Feng Zhidai had selfish motives, the issues he mentioned were indeed correct.
"Then let the local natives help us plant. We only need to send people to collect grain once every half a year."
Ren Gui was not dissuaded by Feng Zhidai's basin of cold water from the idea of farming in Lingnan and Linyi.
Since the people of the Tang Dynasty were not suitable to farm in Lingnan and Linyi, let the local people help them farm.
Feng Zhidai said with a bitter face: "The local natives are very free-spirited. Let alone letting them farm the land, they may not even be willing to let them go down the mountain."
Ren Gui waved his hand without hesitation and said: "It doesn't matter, they will be willing to put the knife on their neck."
This is a bit irresponsible.
But Ren Gui obviously didn't feel any guilt.
I believe that after other civil and military ministers of the Tang Dynasty confirmed that Lingnan and Linyi could indeed help the Tang Dynasty grow a lot of food, they would also agree with Ren Gui's approach, and they would not feel any guilt.
In the eyes of the people of the Tang Dynasty, all things were born to nourish people, and people were divided into ten thousand states to nourish the Tang Dynasty.
If any vassal did not agree with this statement, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty would make them agree.
After all, the Tang Dynasty had strong soldiers and horses, but was also extremely poor. If the younger brother had money and didn’t know how to help the older brother, then he should be beaten!