Currently, Li Shimin is thinking of the three major Protectorate's Palaces: Mobei Protectorate, Yinshan Protectorate, and Shuofang Protectorate.
The governors were appointed by the clans of the Tang Dynasty, and the deputy governors were appointed by the generals of the Tang Dynasty. There were also several Tibetan generals, the most prestigious Turks who were willing to serve the Tang Dynasty.
Each Duhufu stationed 10,000 elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, equipped with various weapons and armors. Turkic men were only equipped with swords when not in war, and were eligible to be equipped with leather armor during war.
As for iron armor, Turkic men are never qualified to wear it.
Li Shimin's resettlement method sounds very similar to that, and it is more similar to the major protective palaces established by his son Li Zhi in history.
But doing so could not help the Tang Dynasty completely rule the Turks, nor could it help the Tang Dynasty slowly digest the Turks.
The Tang Dynasty spent a lot of manpower and material resources every year to reunite Turkic men with their wives, and even helped with marriages.
The soldiers guarding the Protectorate had to be constantly on guard against the rebellion of the Turkic men. If they were not careful, the whole army would be annihilated.
Therefore, Li Yuanji was not prepared to adopt Li Shimin's resettlement method. He had his own ideas.
How to implement it specifically will have to wait until the Tang Dynasty completely conquers the Turks.
Although the Tang Dynasty has defeated Jieli, occupied a large amount of Turkic territory, and captured a large number of Turkic cattle, sheep, horses, and people, it is only the territory ruled by Jieli, and the territory ruled by Sunisi is still in Su.
It's out of Ni's hands.
If the Tang Dynasty wanted to completely conquer the Turks, it needed to conquer not only Jieli but also Sunis.
Only by conquering Sunisi together can the Tang Dynasty be said to have completely defeated the Turks.
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In mid-July, Li Yuanji and his party arrived at the pasture of Shi Huobabu.
Li Shiji, who was guarding here, had already cleared away all the fire-fighting people in the pasture, leaving only the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, and the endless cattle, sheep and horses as far as the eye could see.
The sight of millions of cattle, sheep and horses wandering on the grassland is so spectacular.
Riding a horse galloping among them gives you a different feeling.
"Your Majesty Li Shiji meets His Highness King Yong!"
Li Shiji personally led hundreds of generals to greet him at the edge of the grassland.
Li Yuanji retracted his gaze from the cattle, sheep and horses, looked at Li Shiji and said: "You attacked Shi Huoba tribe and made great achievements. Not only did I not reward you, but I also punished you and cut off your title.
Can you blame me?"
Li Shiji cupped his fists and said, "I don't dare!"
Li Yuanji nodded, looked at Li Shiji's round face and said, "It seems your food is good!"
Li Shiji smiled and said: "There is nothing else here now, but there are many cattle and sheep. I and others feed on cattle and sheep all day long, and it is difficult not to get fat."
Li Yuanji smiled and said: "That's good. I'm really afraid that if you lose weight, it will appear that I treat the meritorious officials harshly."
After saying that, without waiting for Li Shiji's reply, Li Yuanji looked back at the endless cattle, sheep and horses and said, "How many cattle, sheep and horses are gathered here now?"
Li Shiji immediately asked the military commander to report immediately.
After the military commander saluted, he said seriously: "There are currently 540,000 sheep, 230,000 cattle, and 450,000 horses gathered here."
"Why are there more horses than cattle and sheep?"
Li Yuanji questions.
The number of Turkic cattle and sheep is always a multiple of horses. There will always be more than horses and never less than horses.
Army Sima hurriedly said: "Part of the cattle and sheep were sent to Lianqiu Mountain..."
Before Li Yuanji could continue to ask questions, Li Shiji stepped forward and cupped his hands and said: "Some of the people I have rescued from the Turks have been sent back to the Tang Dynasty, and some have adapted to life on the grassland. In addition to herding horses and sheep,
, they couldn't do anything anymore, so I temporarily placed them in Lianqiu Mountain and gave them some cattle and sheep to help the court raise."
The common people Li Shiji mentioned were those Han people who were taken captive by the Turks to the Turks.
Li Yuanji nodded and sighed: "They must have been kidnapped by the Turks for many years, right?"
Li Shiji nodded and said: "The longest one has been in Turks for more than twenty years."
Li Yuanji sighed: "It's so hard for them..."
Without waiting for Li Shiji to speak, he asked, "How many of them are left?"
Li Shiji said: "There are still hundreds of thousands of people."
Li Yuanji sighed with emotion: "A hundred or so thousand people are equivalent to one Zhongzhou, that's a lot. They should all be men, right?"
Li Shiji nodded and said: "Yes, the vast majority are men, and the number of old, weak, women and children is very small."
Li Yuanji ordered: "Divide them into camps of ten thousand people, and equip each battalion with one hundred thousand Turkic old and weak women and children, and send them to the pastures where most of the Turks used to be. Those pastures will be their habitat in the future.
The ground is gone.
Each habitat is equipped with 300 defenders, plus 3,000 wounded soldiers, giving them an armament of 13,000 people.
There is one garrison general, one garrison officer, ten lieutenants, and several deputies.
Each habitat has a market to provide daily needs. Daizhou border market and Lingzhou border market provide daily needs.
Once the number of people in the habitat exceeds 20,000, another city can be established, and so on.
Each commoner was given a hundred cattle, a thousand sheep, and fifty horses.
After the expiration of their term of service, the defenders and wounded soldiers who are willing to settle down and take root in the habitat will be given officers and will be accompanied by a hundred Turkic men, old and weak women and children, three hundred cattle, three thousand sheep, and one hundred horses.
With a family certificate, you can also get the corresponding cattle, sheep and horses just like the people in the habitat."
Li Shiji was stunned and said: "This..."
Li Yuanji glanced at Li Shiji and said, "What, are you having difficulty?"
Li Shiji hurriedly said: "The difficulty is not difficult at all, but what about the Turkic men?"
Li Yuanji said calmly: "I will send people to take them to fight. Those who have made great achievements can let them take off their armor and return to their fields and live in their habitat. Those who have made great achievements can even be registered as Tang citizens and move to the Great Wall.
People like Ashinasmo and Geshuhan can now move into the Great Wall."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Li Shiji stared in astonishment.
It is roughly estimated that there are millions of Turkic men, and these are adult men.
Sending millions of people to fight, not to mention who will be destroyed, and whether the other party can handle it, the logistics supply alone is a big problem.
With the current national power of the Tang Dynasty, it really cannot afford it.
It's not that the Tang Dynasty couldn't provide the food needed by so many people, but that the food couldn't be transported to the places where these people lived.
Transporting grain from the Tang Dynasty and then transporting the grain from the edge of the Great Wall to where the Turkic men were was basically measured in thousands of miles.
The consumption involved was enough to bring down the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanji saw Li Shiji's thoughts and said calmly: "Don't worry, I won't send millions of people out at once to help Datang fight. I will send them out slowly, and I won't let me
Datang will bear the rations for these people, I will let them grab it themselves."
Li Shiji nodded thoughtfully. He didn't stupidly ask, 'What if I don't want to?'
Because the Turks have now been defeated by the Tang Dynasty, the life and death of everyone in the Turks is in the hands of the Tang Dynasty.
They had to do whatever Datang asked them to do, and they had no room for bargaining.
"Now, you can select Turks among the Turkic captives who are willing to fight for our Datang, and help our Datang to clean up the remaining Turkic tribes."
Li Yuanji said with a smile.
Tu Jie... ah, Turkic warriors who are loyal to the Tang Dynasty must start to be cultivated now.
When the Tang Dynasty completely conquers the Turks, it should be able to cultivate a good group of warriors loyal to the Tang Dynasty.
As long as we give them relatively fair treatment, give them a little more treatment that only the Turkic nobles and the Turkic royal family could enjoy in the past, and allow them to move to the Tang Dynasty with a large amount of rewards after they have made great achievements, I believe they will
He served the Tang Dynasty one after another and gave his all to the Tang Dynasty.
After all, from the moment Tang Dynasty defeated Jie Li, the people of Tang Dynasty became the noblest people on this land.
I believe no one can refuse to become a noble Tang person.
Even if the laws of the Tang Dynasty and the Tang people were unfriendly to them after they arrived inside the Great Wall, they would still regard themselves as Tang people and work hard to maintain their identity as Tang people.
Just like those people in later generations who went to ugly countries to become second-class citizens.
"When it comes to this, I have something to say. To be honest with Your Highness, many people in Shi Huoba's tribe who were defeated by me are willing to give a lot of money to redeem themselves, and some are willing to give more money to get it.
With my status as the Tang Dynasty, many people are willing to serve me as the Tang Dynasty.
It's just that I am not qualified to agree to these things, so I have been undecided.
Now that His Highness has spoken, I can agree to them and earn a lot of money for our Tang Dynasty."
Li Shiji laughed for a moment. He was obviously very enthusiastic and optimistic about cultivating warriors loyal to the Tang Dynasty.
Li Yuanji smiled and nodded, "That would be better, but you have to be careful. There are some people I cannot keep in the Tang Dynasty."
Li Shiji said with a bright smile: "I understand!"
Who can’t stay in the Tang Dynasty?
Naturally, they are the chiefs of various tribes and their descendants.
Since the Tang Dynasty wanted to rule the Turks, it could not leave any head to the Turks.
Their heads must be chopped off before they will listen to the Tang Dynasty in everything.
Once you leave your head behind, it would be strange if they keep causing trouble for you from time to time.
"Where is Li Jing?"
Li Yuanji asked with a smile.
Li Shiji smiled and said: "There are still thirty miles away from here, and we can reach here in two days."
If he had been alone, Li Jing would have been able to get here in half a day, but Li Jing not only brought the wounded who needed to be rescued by skilled doctors, but also all the people of the Geshu tribe, as well as some cattle, sheep and horses captured along the way, so the journey was natural
It's slower.
"Then get ready. When our hero comes back, we will reward him well."
Li Yuanji said with a teasing smile.
Li Shiji chuckled and agreed, and ordered people to prepare. At the same time, he welcomed Li Yuanji and returned to the location of the Chinese army camp.
It is said to be a Chinese army camp, but in fact there are only a few thousand people staying here, and thousands more people are staring at the cattle, sheep and horses outside the area where the cattle, sheep and horses are entrenched.
The real army is not here. It has long been divided into groups to conquer those Turkic tribes that refused to surrender.
So after Li Yuanji arrived at the camp, the camp seemed a little empty.
On the other hand, the rows of cattle and sheep on the barbecue grills and the pots simmering soup were particularly eye-catching.
"There is also roasted camel, you are quite luxurious!"
Li Yuanji saw a huge beast that was obviously different from cattle and sheep simmering on the charcoal fire, and couldn't help but laugh.
Li Shiji smiled and explained: "This thing is for entertaining you. Normally I would be reluctant to eat it."
It is a joke for Li Shiji, a prince, to say that he is reluctant to eat camels.
With his current status, just the filial piety of the various units in the army and the sharing of the spoils of war are enough to eat camel humps every day until he dies, let alone eat camels.
However, camels were a strategic resource for the Tang Dynasty to subsequently enter the Western Regions and conquer the Turkic tribes entrenched on the edge of the desert or in desert oases.
Therefore, only the injured camels that have been affected by the war can be slaughtered. The intact camels are not allowed to be slaughtered if they are not of a high level. Although they are not allowed if they are of a high level, no one will care if they are really killed.