Chapter 0852 The Tang Dynasty is short of people everywhere!
While Xiao Yu was reading the memorial, he said without thinking, "Maybe he feels that what your Highness needs most now is a minister like him?!"
Xiao Yu's tone was full of uncertainty.
He wasn't sure why Wei Zheng had changed so much.
However, Li Yuanji understood what he meant.
In other words, Wei Zheng can become what kind of ministers he needs and what kind of ministers he lacks.
If what Xiao Yu said is true, then Wei Zheng is awesome.
There are many courtiers in history who underwent major changes on their way to becoming officials.
But most of them change from good to bad, from loyal to traitor.
For example, the traitorous minister Ding Wei in the Song Dynasty, and Yan Song, the traitorous minister in the Ming Dynasty.
When they first became officials, they all determined to be a loyal minister and a person who was useful to the country and the people.
After experiencing severe beatings in the officialdom, he changed and became a great traitor.
However, Wei Zheng's transformation was completely different from theirs. Although he was also changing, and he was changing quite quickly, no matter how he changed, Wei Zheng was still in the circle of capable ministers.
When he was an official in the former Sui Dynasty, he could become a famous local official. When he was an official by Li Jiancheng's side, he could become Li Jiancheng's confidant. Now that he has surrendered to Prince Yong's palace, he can become a resolute and iron-faced censor.
Just like a human-shaped jade Ruyi, it can be transformed into various forms at will according to the needs of the user.
I am afraid that his abilities are not only good as a scribe, good at strategy, and good at speaking outright, but he may also have other abilities.
If all this could be excavated, the energy that could be exerted would probably be greater than in history.
"Then summon Ren Gui back to the capital, summon Feng An to the capital for an audience, and let him concurrently serve as the pacification ambassador of Jiaozhou. Let's see if he can really do whatever he wants according to my needs."
Li Yuanji spoke without hesitation.
Since Wei Zheng has other abilities that can be changed at will according to the user's wishes, let's put more burdens on him and see if he can explode with more powerful power.
Recalling Ren Gui back to Beijing was originally a matter of discussion.
With Pei Ju and Ma Zhou in Yuezhou, they can succeed Ren Gui and complete Ren Gui's remaining work.
With Pei Ju and Ma Zhou in charge of Yuezhou, Wei Zheng did not need to worry about the pacification of Jingzhou.
Therefore, by leaving the problem of Jiaozhou to him, we should be able to test some of his abilities.
You must know that Jiaozhou is now not only a place where prisoners were distributed in the Tang Dynasty, but also a place where barbarians were entrenched and prevalent. It is also a place occupied by Feng An, one of the few people in the Tang Dynasty who truly controlled the local dictatorship.
At present, most of the feudal officials with local dictatorial power in the Tang Dynasty, except for the vassal kings, have either been eliminated or incorporated, leaving only An Xinggui and Feng An.
An Xinggui is about to be subsumed, and only Feng An is still thriving.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were many examples of executions to force local feudal officials with dictatorial power to rebel.
Therefore, when Feng Ang received the order to go to Beijing for an audience, there was a high chance that he would refuse.
How to persuade Feng An to put down his guard and go to Beijing for an audience, how to pacify Jiaozhou where hundreds of barbarians were entrenched and Feng An was dictatorial, all needed Wei Zheng to do.
Failure to do so may lead to Feng An's rebellion and the turmoil of the barbarians.
And whether it was Feng An who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty or hundreds of barbarians gathered together to cause rebellion because of Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng would have to bear a huge responsibility. Even if he was not beheaded, he would be demoted to the bottom and sent to the border to serve as an official.
Therefore, this will test Wei Zheng's ability and put great pressure on Wei Zheng.
After Xiao Yu heard this, his eyes widened in shock.
I just said it casually, why did you take it seriously?
Summoning Feng Ang to an audience and pacifying the hundreds of officials in Jiaozhou, as well as the hundreds of barbarians entrenched in Jiaozhou, are things that require the combined efforts of both the government and the public. If Wei Zheng is left to do it all by himself, doesn't this mean that Wei Zheng must die?
"Gudu..."
Xiao Yu swallowed subconsciously and stuttered: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty, is there something wrong with this?"
The Hundred Barbarians have been entrenched in the southwest for thousands of years. They have been pacified and recovered since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. However, to this day, the Southwest is still respected by the Hundred Barbarians.
Although during this period, the various forces established by the barbarians changed one after another, the ones who truly dominated that area were still the same bloodline.
Therefore, it takes a lot of perseverance and a lot of time to appease them.
It cannot be accomplished by one person, nor can it be accomplished overnight.
Li Yuanji glanced at Xiao Yu and said with a smile: "I just asked him to do it, and I didn't say that he had to make it happen. What are you worried about?"
It's not like he didn't understand the history of Jiaozhou, and he knew that pacifying the barbarians couldn't be accomplished overnight, so he didn't ask Wei Zheng to complete the work of pacifying the barbarians.
He just asked Wei Zheng to fight a preliminary battle, just to see what Wei Zheng could do, and then use this to prepare for the complete integration of Jiaozhou into Wanghua in the future, and to test Wei Zheng's limits.
Xiao Yu was obviously relieved when he heard this, and then said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid that Feng An will kill him before he has time to appease Jiaozhou."
People in the Tang Dynasty didn't know much about Feng An, and the most they knew about Feng was Mrs. Xian, and Feng Zhidai, who was sent to Chang'an City as a hostage.
No one knows what kind of person Feng Ang is, whether he will go to Chang'an City to pay an audience regardless of his own safety, or whether he will let go of Jiaozhou and let the Tang Dynasty change it.
After all, His Majesty Li Yuan, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, killed too many people. The souls of Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Li Zitong and others have not yet been completely put to rest. After Feng An saw the endings of these seniors, he felt a lot. There is a high chance that the invitation from the imperial court will be rejected.
Feng An now has very high control over Jiaozhou. Several generations of the Feng family have completely taken root in Jiaozhou, and Feng An has become the local emperor of Jiaozhou.
There is a high chance that Feng Ang will not let go of this business that has been in business for several generations.
It was not that easy for the Tang Dynasty to conquer Feng An.
There are many difficulties to overcome.
The biggest difficulty is that none of the existing elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty can adapt to the harsh climate of Jiaozhou.
Therefore, before Datang overcomes these difficulties, once Feng Ang faces Datang, he will have a great chance of winning.
This was also the reason why Feng Ang was able to reject Datang.
Faced with Xiao Yu's worries, Li Yuanji said confidently: "You don't have to worry about this, Feng An will never hurt Wei Zheng."
Historically, the relationship between Feng Ang and Li Shimin was far less harmonious than he is now with Feng Ang. Feng Ang even went to Chang'an City to meet Li Shimin, but now he has tied Feng Ang to his profit warship. Feng Ang How could he refuse his summons?
As for killing Wei Zheng, that is even more impossible.
Feng An was about to come to Chang'an City to meet him. Why did he kill Wei Zheng?
Are you looking for fault for yourself?!
Was he kicked in the head by a donkey?
Xiao Yu didn't understand Li Yuanji's confidence, and still said worriedly: "I hope Wei Xuan becomes Ji and his people have their own celestial phenomena."
Li Yuanji laughed and said, "You have time to care about Wei Zheng's safety, so you might as well care more about what Li Daoli raised."
Li Daoli had been in Silla for several months. He had already discussed the site for building the city with King Jin Baekjeong of Silla and had already started building the city.
The new city is almost as big as the county seat of a small county and can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people.
There were only a few thousand people brought by Li Daoli, and there were enough civilians given by Jin Baijing, but there were not many craftsmen, and there were almost no skilled craftsmen. And the skilled craftsmen Li Daoli brought there were sent to build docks, so there was an urgent need for craftsmen to build the new city. There is also a shortage of people to fill it.
Li Daoli looked down on the Silla people and wanted the people in Xincheng to be pure, so he wrote a letter asking the court to support more than a thousand craftsmen, as well as merchants from various industries and tens of thousands of traders.
Although when Li Daoli went there, he had already recruited many merchants from small households, and let them produce many people who filled the new city.
But those merchants who come from small households also do big business.
For example, there are very few people who make all kinds of food, make various daily utensils, and engage in various entertainment industries.
Li Daoli didn't want to hand over the whole new city to merchants from small households, so Li Daoli hoped that the court would help him find the merchants and traders he needed daily.
It is best if they all have no background, and if they cannot survive in the Tang Dynasty, they can move their families to Silla.
It was impossible for Li Yuanji to handle this task personally, so it fell to Xiao Yu.
Anyway, Xiao Yu has been idle recently. He participates in all major affairs in the court, but rarely makes decisions, so Chen Shuda is always busy.
Therefore, it is most appropriate to leave this task to Xiao Yu.
When Xiao Yu heard this, his face instantly turned into a bitter melon face.
Although the population of Datang increased greatly last year, a large part of them were children under one year old, and the rest were hermits rescued from aristocratic families, and escapees recruited from the mountains and forests. Households are not enough to distribute among various places, let alone supply people to Silla.
Li Daoli still had requirements for manpower, and he wanted small traders from all walks of life.
This will make it more difficult to supply.
"Your Highness, please spare me. Now everywhere is in need of manpower, and I really can't get the manpower King Gaoping needs."
Xiao Yu smiled bitterly and begged for mercy.
He didn't say this deliberately to evade Li Daoli's petition, but he told the truth.
Nowadays, there is indeed a shortage of people in all parts of the Tang Dynasty. Hebei Province is short of people. It lacks a lot of men. Jingzhou is also short of people. It lacks a lot of labor for planting rice. The Ministry of Industry is also short of people. It lacks a lot of labor for building official roads. Water transportation yamen
There is also a shortage of manpower in the country, and there is a shortage of labor for dredging water transportation and building docks. There is also a shortage of manpower in several newly recovered states, and there is a shortage of manpower to fill these places.
Nowadays, people in jails in all provinces, states, and counties have been emptied. Some people who have just committed crimes have not been able to go through the process of distribution. They have been sent to Hebei Province, Jingzhou, the Ministry of Industry, the Water Transport Yamen, and several newly recovered states.
It was snatched away.
Nowadays, the criminals in jails everywhere are no longer just guys who are disgusted by others, but they are hot meat and potatoes.
As long as he has not committed the serious crime of beheading, everyone from all over the country is rushing to get it.
Some people with high status or backgrounds even have connections across roads and states, and have entrusted connections with important people.
Some people with low social status and little background even began to buy people secretly.
It is said that if you catch a Turk or a Liang person and send him to the Yamen of Xue Shou's state, you can get three guan of money, ten acres of land, and a sheep.
Han Liang went even further. He had already used his connections to go to Sunisi, Tu Diji, and the powerful Ye Hu, in order to buy the prisoners from their hands.
It can be said that after the imperial court spread a lot of profits from border markets, water transportation, and sea transportation, everyone stopped working and changed their ways to enrich the labor force and the place.
So now in many places in the Tang Dynasty, if you ask for money, people will happily give it to you, but if you say you want people, you are likely to be beaten out with sticks.
Therefore, even if Li Daoli's petition was left in the hands of Prime Minister Xiao Yu, it would not be easy to handle.
It's not that he really can't gather such people, but once he gathers these people to send to Li Daoli, other people's requests will soon arrive.
There was no way he could refuse those with relatives or interests.
He could still think of something to do with 10,000 or 20,000 people, but when the number turned into tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, or even more, even if he sold him, he still wouldn't be able to get it together.