Chapter 0880 Datang version: Today you are indifferent to me, but tomorrow I will make it impossible for you to reach a higher level.
Li Yuanji smiled knowingly and acquiesced to Li Xiaogong's statement.
If the imperial court stipulates that the top aristocratic families can only have one share of water transportation and sea transportation, one admission ticket, then the top aristocratic families will only sit in rows to share the fruit.
But if the imperial court allows the top aristocratic families to have two members and two tickets, then there will be no peace among the top aristocratic families.
Because under the temptation of huge profits, they will not mind having one more member and one more admission ticket.
In the case where the quota of quotas, that is, tickets, is fixed, if they want to get more quotas or tickets, they can only grab them from other people.
So when the Cui family of Qinghe has two shares and two admission tickets, other wealthy families will no longer sit still.
The most important thing is that the Cui family of Qinghe has taken a piece of the Cui family of Boling. Even if they have the same origin, there will be a gap.
As long as the interests of water and sea transportation continue to increase, sooner or later they will turn against each other.
In addition, those small aristocratic families originally stared at the members of the Bolingcui family, but the members of the Bolingcui family disappeared in front of their eyes. When another member comes out, they will become even crazier.
Some of those who have already been eliminated will try their best to grab the new elements who have emerged. Some of those who have not been eliminated and are waiting and watching will also rush into the market after new elements appear.
By then, the fight will become more chaotic and fierce.
Having already missed an opportunity, no one wants to miss a second chance.
"If this happens, we won't be able to live in peace either."
Li Xiaogong said in a deep voice.
Once all the wealthy families in the Tang Dynasty started to fight, it would be difficult for the Li family to stay alone.
After all, although Li is a member of the royal family, he is actually a member of a wealthy family.
Even if the Li family does not come to an end, countless wealthy families who are related to the Li family will come to ask for Li's help and mediate.
Some of the more extreme ones would even try to lure Li into the situation.
Li Yuanji smiled and said: "Don't worry about this. When the time comes, I will launch the Northern Expedition and personally lead the army to conquer the Turks."
As long as you jump out, and you jump out because of the war to destroy the country, it will be difficult for others to ask Li for help, or to lure Li into the situation.
After all, no matter how big the matter of the wealthy family is, it is not as big as the war to destroy the country. If anyone makes trouble for the Li family and hinders the Li family during the war to destroy the country, then Li family will raise the butcher knife, and there will be no one to blame.
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It is no longer easy for other wealthy families to gather together to help complain.
After all, privately they can regard family affairs as greater than national affairs, but publicly they must admit that national affairs are greater than family affairs.
"Are you ready for the Northern Expedition?"
Li Xiaogong instantly lost interest in continuing to pay attention to the wealthy family, and focused all his attention on the war in the Northern Expedition.
He is a warrior, and what he likes most is not fighting with others, but fighting and killing.
Therefore, he is far more interested in fighting and killing than in intrigues with others.
Li Yuanji nodded and said, "Yes, I'm ready for the Northern Expedition."
The war between Jieli and Sunishu has reached its end. Even if Jieli asked Tuguhun and the Western Turks for help, he could not do anything to Sunishi.
Although Sunisu had Datang's help, Datang didn't want him to win, so he couldn't win either.
The war between the two sides has been going on for two years now, and both sides have been exhausted.
Although they were still fighting, they no longer had the energy they had at the beginning, nor did they have the courage to swallow the opponent whole and completely annex the grassland.
Now both sides are working hard, and no one can do anything about the other.
But no one can give up or fall into the fight, because if you are not careful, the opponent may take advantage of you.
So now the two sides are in an awkward confrontation.
Although both of them still consume money in this confrontation, the consumption is far less than before, and for Datang, it can be ignored.
So there is no need for Datang to wait any longer.
If they wait any longer and someone comes forward to help them mediate and make them stop and make peace, then the Tang Dynasty will have to face both of them in its northern expedition against the Turks.
This is of no benefit to Datang, so it is better to end it now.
"But the five-year plan you set has not been completely completed, and the number of Dingkou in Datang has not been restored to the number you wanted."
Li Xiaogong spoke hurriedly.
It was not that he was afraid of fighting, nor did he want to persuade Li Yuanji to take back his life.
Rather, he was afraid that Li Yuanji was just acting on a whim and gave up the idea of the Northern Expedition when he thought about Dingkou and the five-year policy.
So he must remind him.
Li Yuanji smiled and said: "The number of Dingkou in our Tang Dynasty has almost doubled compared to the beginning of the founding of the country. The various decrees in the five-year policy are now on track, and there is no need to wait any longer."
With the joint efforts of the righteous people in the imperial court and wealthy families, and the hard work of the common people, the number of Dingkou in the Tang Dynasty increased day by day.
Most of the refugees in the northern mountains and forests have been persuaded to come out and have resettled in the Tang Dynasty. Many hidden houses in various families have also been rescued. The people are working hard with the encouragement of various policies.
population, and now the number of households has almost reached three million.
This is almost twice as much as in the early Tang Dynasty.
Compared with the time when Li Shimin conquered the Turks in history, there were fully one million more households.
Therefore, Datang now had the confidence to fight the Turks.
This means that the barbarians in the mountains and forests in the south are not included in the register, and the barbarians in Jiaozhou and other coastal areas are not included in the register, otherwise the number of Dingkou will be even greater.
It should reach about four million households.
This is not to say that the imperial court was unwilling to enroll these barbarians, but that they were unwilling to enroll them.
In addition to acknowledging the rule of the Tang Dynasty over them, they did not want the Tang Dynasty to control anything, and they did not want the Tang Dynasty to ask anything.
Even if Datang tried to register people, they would not cooperate.
For a period of time, Li Yuanji always thought that the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to register the barbarians or bring them under its command, so the barbarians became vassals. As a result, Xue Shou sent a letter to naturalize some Turks.
, and after successfully passing the review of the Ministry of Household Affairs, he realized that it was not that the Tang Dynasty was unwilling to accept the barbarians, but that they did not want the Tang Dynasty to control them.
Li Yuanji also discussed this issue with Chen Shuda.
According to Chen Shuda, with the current number of Dingkou in the Tang Dynasty, it is impossible to build a rich and powerful country. Therefore, let alone barbarians, they are just talking monkeys. As long as they are willing to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, he will naturalize them.
There is nothing else but to enrich the population of Datang and increase the tax revenue of Datang, so that Datang can be self-sufficient while still having enough energy to benefit various places and rejuvenate the country.
Therefore, the current Tang Dynasty is not exclusive. Even some wealthy families who attach great importance to blood do not care about the Tang Dynasty regaining the barbarians in the border areas, registering the barbarians, and making them a part of the Tang Dynasty.
From a historical perspective, when Li Shimin first came to the throne, he did not seem to pay much attention to blood, Han Barbarian, or Han Tu. However, he seemed to have taken under his command all those who were willing to follow him and be loyal to him.
In other words, no matter whether it is the current Tang Dynasty that has been changed or the Tang Dynasty in history, it was not very xenophobic in the early days.
It's because they don't recognize the Tang Dynasty, they don't want to be naturalized in the Tang Dynasty, and they don't want to really follow the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanji has not yet made a decision whether the Tang Dynasty will continue to adhere to this approach and not be xenophobic in the future. But historically speaking, after the Tang Dynasty grew in population and developed, it seemed that it began to be xenophobic. Although it was not that serious, it was still
Not just anyone who wants to become a Tang nationality can do so.
At least, it would be difficult for the barbarians in the three states of Yi, Jiao, and Jing to become Tang citizens after the Tang Dynasty became powerful.
The Tang Dynasty in history perfectly explained to everyone what is meant by "Today you are indifferent to me, but tomorrow I will make it impossible for you to reach high".
Therefore, there are actually more than 4 million households in Dingkou in the Tang Dynasty, but only 3 million households have been registered.
But three million households are enough.
According to the one-out-of-ten drawing method, two households can pick out one strong man and pick and choose, and eventually one million soldiers should be organized.
In addition to the garrison in the capital, the guards at the city gates, the guards at the royal palaces, and the servants at the yamen, there should be 600,000 to 700,000 soldiers left in the end.
Six to seven hundred thousand soldiers, let alone the now half-disabled Eastern Turks, would be enough to fight the Western Turks and Tuyuhun together.
However, Li Yuanji would definitely not use so many soldiers to attack the Eastern Turks. Historically, when the Eastern Turks were relatively strong, Li Shimin did not use many soldiers and horses when attacking the Eastern Turks. Now the Eastern Turks are half disabled, and there are ten
Ten thousand or 150,000 soldiers would be enough.
The rest will be left for the time being to build infrastructure, grow a certain kind of food, and add more children.
When the 100,000 or 150,000 soldiers who went out for the expedition are almost tempered, another 100,000 or 150,000 soldiers will be selected from among them to replace them.
By repeating this process, it will take three to five years to hone and select an army capable of galloping across the grasslands.
East Turkestan was Li Yuanji's military training ground, not a real battlefield.
Therefore, it is important to destroy the Eastern Turks, and training troops is even more important.
After the Tang Dynasty, it had to face not just one Eastern Turk, but also a Western Turk, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, Linyi, and the Japanese Kingdom.
As for Japan, it is estimated that they will never have the chance to change their name to Japan, because if Wu Zetian does not come to power, no one will give them this name.
Yes, the name "Japan" was given to the Japanese country by Wu Zetian.
Before Wu Zetian, Japan had always used the name of the Japanese country given to them by Liu Xiu.
Now that Dingkou of the Tang Dynasty has recovered to the point where he can train troops, the military training project can be put on the agenda.
As for the five-year plan that Li Xiaogong is worried about has not been completely implemented, there is no need to worry, because the remaining things in the five-year plan are all things that need to be done for a long time.
It’s not that it really only takes five years to complete. As long as you get on the right track, you can continue to work on it. There is no need to wait for them to be completed, and there is no need to wait for them to be completed.
Because many things can never be completed.
For example, building roads, bridges, water conservancy and other infrastructure projects will never be completed.
Because people's needs and various means of transportation are always improving, things like infrastructure are always being upgraded.
