"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I have never carried out such a march-like advance, but my bones can still withstand it. But if I speed up again, I will have no choice but to ask for leave with Your Highness."
What Xiao Yu said was very true, and he did not insist on it. Taking his old bones as an example, today's progress has reached the limit. If he continues to increase the speed, it will only be the team of slaves following him.
inside.
"Sir, what are you talking about asking for leave? You are here for our army's logistics. It is your duty to follow these people in the rear. If you don't follow them, I am afraid that you will all run away along the way.
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Li Xiang's words made people feel comfortable. It was clear that Xiao Yu's body could not keep up, but from Li Xiang's mouth, it was that Xiao Yu had to follow the team of slaves in order to work. No matter where it was mentioned, not only did he not
Faults, and even merit.
"Thank you for your consideration, Your Highness. Now that I am going to Sichuan and Sichuan, I have also made a note for Your Highness to read."
Xiao Yu is a practical person. The reason why Li Xiang agreed at the beginning was because Xiao Yu was more serious about work. Don't worry about what the old guy was thinking. He would definitely be able to complete his work. Based on this, Li Xiang would not be able to do anything with him.
Unfortunately, if it had been anyone else's body along the way, they probably wouldn't have been able to adapt, but they still wrote a plan, which was already quite difficult.
The first thing listed is the construction of roads, which coincides with Li Xiang. Due to the construction of roads in the north, the connections between various places have been greatly strengthened, which not only strengthened the imperial court's rule over various places, but also helped to ease some refugees in various places.
The role of these people is that these people have no place to eat. Now the court wants to build roads. In addition to using prisoners of war in dangerous places, these refugees in other places also have food to eat.
The second is about the economy. After the road is built, it will not only facilitate the imperial army, but most importantly, it will facilitate the circulation of goods from various places, allowing money to circulate everywhere, and the lives of the people will be easier, and business will
Trade is nothing more than making money flow. If everyone has flowing water in their hands, then life will be easier.
The second step is to develop local agriculture. Food is the most important thing for the people. Now the imperial court has experienced it. Large areas of land in Liaozhong of Goguryeo have been developed, so the imperial court's food has more than doubled than before. Xiao Yu also checked the relationship between Sichuan and Sichuan.
The terrain of the land, in addition to the surrounding mountains, is actually a basin inland, and it was once called the Kingdom of Shu. The Shu Kingdom developed here in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, due to wars, it was instead
Somewhat withered.
If we can develop locally, just as Li Xiang said to Li Shimin, not only will the front line not need a grain of food from Chang'an City, but even after the war is over, the Kingdom of Tianfu will be able to provide a lot of food to help
The imperial court stabilized other areas.
Finally, there are the local chieftains. According to Xiao Yu's regulations, if the imperial court has the strength, it will try to deal with these chieftains first, and then deal with Nanzhao last. After all, there are some disobedient people in its own land.
If you bypass these chieftains and attack Nanzhao first, our logistics may be interrupted.
"Isn't it possible that this last point, my lord, cannot appease these chieftains?"
This point is somewhat objectionable to Li Xiang. According to Li Xiang's previous idea, bringing Xiao Yu to Chengdu was to let him sit in Chengdu and then frighten the chieftains in the south so that they would not dare to fight when Li Xiang went to war.
Recklessly.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Yu wanted to fight them first, which was somewhat different from Li Xiang's plan.
"Your Highness, I have studied the chieftains in the south. Although they ostensibly submit to the Tang Dynasty, they are actually not much different from the countries in the Western Regions. They usually only submit a few memorials. The real benefits have never been.
They often plunder our Sichuan and Shu officials and people. The local officials are afraid of taking responsibility, so they never write about it. The emperor likes it..."
When Xiao Yu said this, he couldn't go on. Although what he said was true, Xiao Yu was still unwilling to say bad things about Li Shimin.
Li Xiang understood what Xiao Yu was going to say, that is, Li Shimin was so happy with his achievements that he always liked to have all the nations come to court. On the surface, this was indeed the case, but in fact, how many of them truly surrendered to you?
Take these chieftains as an example. Apart from a few memorials, they did not receive a dime of gifts. Is this true surrender? On the contrary, they needed the support of Chang'an City when encountering disasters. At that time, Li Shimin wanted to save face.
, some money was squeezed out from the national treasury and shipped over, just to maintain this situation where all nations come to Korea.
In fact, many people within the imperial court were dissatisfied, including some people in the civil service group. Xiao Yu was the most dissatisfied. He believed that using real money and silver to buy a false reputation was of no use at all. Instead of wasting money every year, it would be better to
It is better to send troops to exterminate them, turn this place into the state government system of the imperial court, and set up local officials to collect taxes according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty. This is the most important thing to do, instead of constantly subsidizing them, but instead creating a bunch of white-eyed wolves.
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After listening to Xiao Yu's words, Li Xiang really had to think carefully. He originally thought of taking down Nanzhao first, and then slowly deal with these chieftains. Now it seems that this is far from the case, but Li Xiang
Xiang didn't make a decision in a hurry. He planned to go to the toast master's territory to have a look, and then make a decision.
"Your Highness, you might as well take a look first. Lord Changsun has information about these chieftains. It's time for some people in the court to know what these chieftains have done."
Xiao Yu saw that Li Xiang was not in a hurry to express his position, and he was not in a hurry either. He was a calm person himself. Of course, he could not expect Li Xiang to be so radical. Even if Li Xiang was so radical, Xiao Yu would probably still
Let Li Xiang think carefully. Everything must rely on his own eyes, not his ears.
After dinner, Li Xiang returned to his tent. The eldest grandson Pingting had already changed into a daughter's dress. When Li Xiang saw the eldest grandson Pingting in a white gauze skirt, he couldn't help but have some thoughts in his heart, but the eldest grandson Pingting rolled her eyes.
The son took Li Xiang to the wooden barrel next to him and asked Li Xiang to take a bath first.
Thinking about how stinky and sweaty I am, it is really annoying to others, not to mention that it would be more comfortable for me to take a hot bath with everything prepared.