Chapter 646: Stop saying anything that is not conducive to unity
"Never say anything that is not conducive to unity in the future."
Wu Huaiyu retracted his hand with a smile, while Hou Junji nodded stiffly.
The emperor nodded with satisfaction.
Regardless of the truth or lies, he still hoped that the ministers could maintain the superficial harmony. Of course, the emperor did not object to the private struggles of the ministers as long as they were within the rules. If the ministers were all monolithic, it would make the emperor unable to sleep.
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The prime ministers took their seats again, and the other ministers and ministers also knelt down in their seats.
After two months,
There are still nine prime ministers in the Zhengshitang. Except for Qin Qiong who was replaced by Xiao Yu, the other eight remain unchanged, but there are some changes in their duties.
Xiao Yuhoujun gathered the three prime ministers Wu Huaiyu. They did not use the three high-ranking officials as prime ministers, nor did they use the chief minister to worship the prime minister. They used special advancement and Youwei General to participate in political affairs.
On the surface, Hou Junji was the worst offender. He beat a small school to death. As a result, he received three beatings. He spent two months in isolation and thought about it. He finally regained his post, but even the minister of the Ministry of War was gone.
Of course, some people think that Wu Huaiyu was even more disadvantaged. Originally, the Minister of the Ministry of War was the Inspector of the Zhongshu Ling and the Minister of Photography. He was also the Superintendent of the East Palace Army and Horses, and the commander-in-chief of civil and military affairs. So he really held great power.
Wu Huaiyu sat down and nodded to the other prime ministers.
Li Jing looked into his eyes and nodded slightly.
"The Sijie tribe originally submitted to the Turks. After Yugu set up and went south, the Sijie tribe was hungry in Mobei and the Uighurs wanted to attack it. The Sijie tribe led 40,000 people to the south and surrendered. Some of them still stayed in Mobei.
Surrender to Xue Yantuo,"
Wen Yanbo talked about the first topic today. Sijie Jinjin had been sent to the court to ask for surrender. The emperor had named him General Zuotunwei and allowed him to lead his troops south. Sijie's 40,000-man troops have now crossed the desert.
Going south, where should we settle?
"The imperial court had previously asked the Anbei Governor's Office to provide relief along the way, but Shi Bobi, the prince of Beiping County who returned to the grassland, refused to accept it.
The Sijie tribe was hungry, and some people robbed the Turks' cattle and sheep from the Anbei Governor's Mansion, which led to bloody conflicts."
Sijie tribe is one of Tiele. They are nomadic in the eastern foothills of Hangai Mountain. Their strength is not too strong. In their early years, they were willing to be the legs and dogs of the Turks. When the Turks expanded in Mobei, they all failed when they wanted to set up in the valley.
I wanted to liquidate them, but there happened to be a frost and snow disaster, there was a famine in Sijie, and I faced a powerful enemy.
Most people had no choice but to move south.
In fact, the Sijie tribe did not come south to surrender to the Tang Dynasty at first. They followed Yugushe's footsteps and went south under the orders of Jieli Khan. Unexpectedly, Jieli was captured alive by the Tang Dynasty on the way. Yugushe was also defeated and fled to the Western Regions, so he had to go to the west.
Tang please surrender.
The Tang Dynasty accepted it, but asked Tuli to accept relief. How could Tuli and the others be willing? They themselves had not lived well in the past two years, so why should they support the Sijie tribe, let alone tens of thousands of people?
More than 40,000 people from the Sijie tribe went south for a long distance. It was the cold season of spring, and they were hungry and freezing. They had no choice but to steal livestock. The unexpected men and horses started working with the Sijie tribe.
Sijie was weak at this time and could not beat the people in the Bei'an Governor's Mansion, so he had to continue running south while being beaten.
I ran to the north of Daqing Mountain, but the Jieli tribe and others here have not recovered yet. It is in a mess. The newly established governor of Beifu Governor's Office, An Guogong, is unable to do anything. The emperor's brother-in-law has a headache. How can he feed himself?
There are so many mouths down there,
We still have to ask for help from the court and borrow money from merchants, so we don't have to worry about the knot.
The Sijie tribe could not borrow food and did not dare to take action against the Turks, so they had no choice but to continue south. Now they have passed the Baidao and have entered the territory of Li Simo's Beikai Governor's Mansion.
Of course, Li Simo couldn't help the Si Jie Department.
Zhongshu Ling Wen Yanbo was very philanthropic, "More than 40,000 people from the Sijie tribe came all the way to join us. The imperial court should immediately allocate food and grass relief and arrange them properly. They should allocate a piece of land outside the Great Wall and set up a governor's office to allow them to govern themselves."
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Fang Xuanling suggested, "It is better to temporarily move the Sijie tribe to the Great Wall and place them in Shuozhou, which will also facilitate relief. At the same time, these Tiele Sijie tribes can be allowed to graze and rest."
"Zhang Jian, the governor of Shuozhou, reported that Shuozhou has a vast territory and few people, so it can be settled for farming and animal husbandry."
Wei Zheng objected, believing that Shuozhou was within the Great Wall and was an important border defense area. If more than 40,000 Sijie tribes were allowed to roam here, there would be chaos within ten years, and they could not be allowed to cross the Yinshan Mountains.
"Huaiyu,"
Li Shimin saw that Wu Huaiyu remained silent and directly called his name, "What do you think?"
Regarding the handling of the Turks this time, the six prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall had five voices. In the end, the emperor visited Wu Huaiyu at night and listened to his suggestions before making a decision.
"Your Majesty, if you want to care for the distant lands, you must first care for the close ones. Our Tang Dynasty is like the root, and the four barbarians are like the branches and leaves. Weary China to serve the four barbarians is like pulling out the roots of a tree to feed the branches and leaves.
The ministers studied the Qin and Han Dynasties from afar, visited the Sui Dynasty closely, and served the Rong and Di externally, until they themselves became weak.
Now that Si Jie came to surrender, they were not sincere. They were following Jie Li's order to follow Yugu's troops and went south. They wanted to fight against us, the Tang Dynasty, and at the same time avoid Huihe. As a result, Jieli was captured halfway, and Yugu
If you want to die and run away, you will surrender when you are desperate.
Of course, the saint is kind and willing to accept it, but we must also act according to our ability. After the Northern Expedition, three years of savings have been exhausted, and the people in the Central Plains are still poor. Now recruiting barbarians is just a waste of time and money, with little profit.
What's more, there are only a few prefectures and counties in the Yunshuo border area. They have been suffering from Turkic plunder before. It is only in recent years that they have gained some stability and started farming and harvesting. The imperial garrison also needs military garrison and merchants to transport them to Kaizhong. Now they need to
Wouldn't it be absurd to use the food that was so hard-fought from the Central Plains to provide relief to those northern captives who were originally coming to attack us?
The people will also suffer unbearably,"
Wu Huaiyu's words made Wen Yanbo speechless.
Do we need to cut the meat to feed wolves?
But if you save the wolf, you will have to eat people.
"What do you think?"
"I feel that there are two ways for the Sijie tribe to choose. Either return to their hometown in Mobei, and the imperial court sends envoys to Xue Yantuo and Huihe to say hello and ask them not to attack the Sijie tribe, and then let them rescue the Sijie tribe. After all, they are all iron
Just one of them."
Li Shimin didn't accept this. They had all gone all the way to the foot of the Great Wall. Now if they were asked to return to Mobei, half of them would starve to death on the way. If they went back, they might be annexed by Xue Yantuo or Huihe, which would give them an advantage in vain.
"What about the second way?"
"As for the second article, they can be temporarily resettled in Shuozhou and Daizhou, but the imperial court does not have food and grass to give them, and it cannot be given in vain.
However, the imperial court can come forward to help them contact some merchants in the two places and sell them some grain, grass and other supplies."
borrow.
Of course, if you borrow something, you have to repay it, and you even have to have a mortgage, and you can also exchange it. For example, these Sijie tribe are herder tribes. They also bring tents, cattle, sheep and other livestock with them when they go south, and even slaves.
They could exchange whatever they had in their hands. If they didn't have enough, they could borrow it again. They signed a contract and the father would pay it back after his death. He even made Si Jie Qijin swear an oath that even if the herdsmen's family died, the debt would still have to be repaid by their tribe.
Settling Shuozhou and Daizhou, borrowing grain and grass to temporarily survive the famine, and then renting land to them for grazing or farming. In short, they have to produce to save themselves, and the imperial court cannot do everything for them.
"Shuo Dynasty has a vast land with sparse population, which can be cultivated and grazed. Now there is a lot of land that is vacant and vacant. We can rent it to them at a low price for farming and grazing, and then repay the loan after harvesting. Isn't this great?
As for their status in Daibei, even if they are refugees, they can set up some Jizhou in Daibei. Even if they have no real land, internal tribal affairs or conflicts can still be handled by their chiefs.
But if people from the Tang Dynasty are involved, they must be dealt with according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty."
It is very interesting to regard the Sijie tribe as a group of beggars who came to beg for food, and even let them become tenants of the Tang Dynasty.
Wen Yanbo thought it was inappropriate. People came from thousands of miles away to donate. How could Tian Khan treat others like this? No matter how poor and miserable the Tang Dynasty was, it was still possible to bite the bullet and tighten the belt to squeeze out some food.
There are still many soldiers and horses stationed in Yunshuo, Taiyuan and other places. He remembers that there is a lot of military rations in reserve. He can first select a batch to relieve the Sijie tribe.
After the relief, they set up Daibei, set aside land to set up states and counties, and allowed them to govern and govern themselves. How can they lend money and collect rent? This is not the magnanimity of a heavenly country.
"Furu!"
Wu Huaiyu interrupted Wen Yanbo with two words. Wen Yanbo was not the kind of ignorant scholar. Anyway, the three heroes of the Wen family in Hedong were still very famous. Their brothers worked at Luo Yi in Youzhou in their early years.
, I have been dealing with Hu people for many years, how can I not understand.
But he can still say such nonsense.
Wen Yanbo's beard trembled in anger, and he pointed at Wu Huaiyu,
"Mr. Wen Ling, your articles are beautiful, but your words are so pedantic? Isn't what I just said straightforward enough? Sijiebu is a pack of wolves, a pack of hungry wolves traveling south from the Mobei grassland, but now you want to lure the wolf into the house,
Isn’t it a big joke to cut off the meat and feed it to the wolves?”
"From the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the Sijie tribe followed the Turks southward to invade the Central Plains. They did a lot of burning, killing and looting. Even now, many of my Han compatriots are slaves in their tribe. You feel sorry for them, why don't you
Do you feel sorry for the people of this world?
During the Daye period, there were nearly nine million households in the country, but by the founding of the Tang Dynasty, official statistics only had more than two million households.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in the year or so before and after the Turks were conquered, more than 1.2 million Chinese people returned from outside the Great Wall and were rescued from the hands of the barbarians.
Mr. Wen, these 1.2 million people are lucky enough to survive the disaster. But when they come back, most of them are tired and injured. What else do they have?
Prime Minister Wen doesn't care about these Zhuxia compatriots, and doesn't think about how to resettle them, allocate fields to them, build houses for them, and marry them, but instead he says that he will be good to the Turks today and the Tiele people tomorrow. Is it possible that China has raised them?
After decades of being gentle, it’s not as good as being a captive shepherd outside the Great Wall and drinking a cow’s milk?”
"Don't talk nonsense," Wen Yanbo became a little angry.
"The Prime Minister Wu said it well," Wei Zheng over there was high-fiving him.
