The sound of firecrackers could be heard from time to time in the neighborhood, and children wearing new clothes were happily playing outside, unaware of the cold and fatigue.
The snow is falling.
Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest,
For the people, cold winter is not a bad thing. Warm winter is fatal, which often means there may be severe drought and locust plague next year.
Pingkangfang.
On behalf of the Duke's Mansion,
Wu Huaiyu came to pay New Year's greetings to his teacher Li Jing.
As soon as he stepped into Li Jing's yard, the big tiger lying on the porch and dozing off suddenly stood up and even let out a deep roar from his mouth, making alert preparations for battle.
"You scared the big bug out of me,"
Li Jing walked to the corridor, reached out and patted the tiger on the head.
Zhang Chuchen, who was burning incense and playing the harp in the house, also came out and said, "It was so frightened that its hair was all standing on end."
"Hahaha." Huaiyu couldn't help but laugh. Previously, Cheng Qian had broken his leg and was recuperating at Bailu Manor. Li Shimin sent tigers there every once in a while, sending more than a hundred tigers to him.
Wu Huaiyu stewed tiger meat today, tiger skin glue tomorrow, tiger bones the day after tomorrow, and tiger blood wine the day after tomorrow.
There is a layer of evil spirit about this person.
Although several months have passed, Li Jing, the tiger, can still feel the evil spirit keenly.
This is like those butchers who kill cattle and sheep. The cattle and sheep are particularly afraid in front of them. Even in those slaughterhouses, the cattle and sheep will tremble when they are close to them, and they can't move their legs.
"Go to the side courtyard," Li Jing patted the tiger's head gently. This tiger had been with him for more than ten years and was already very old.
The three of them came to the side courtyard.
Zhang Chuchen warmed the wine for the two of them, then burned incense and continued to play the piano.
"How about I get a tigress to keep your old man company? He's so lonely and pitiful."
Li Jing smiled and said, "I don't want to have a beast park at home like you."
The burning incense floats in the air, and the sound of the piano is ethereal and beautiful.
"Actually, I don't quite agree with the current efforts to go south and explore Lingnan,"
When the wine was warm, Li Jing picked up the jug and poured a glass for Huaiyu and himself. "The powerful chiefs and shuai in Lingnan can't make any waves at all. At most, it's just scabies. There's no need to invest precious energy in it."
Go to Lingnan,
Instead of sending tens of thousands of troops to Lingnan, it would be better to send troops to Tuyuhun.
Tuyuhuncai is always a threat, not only threatening the Hexi Corridor, but also threatening Longyou, and even Songpan and other places in western Shu.
Only by destroying Tuyuhun can the imperial court ensure the safety of the entire Longyou River and the west, and then the imperial court can continue to explore the Western Regions."
Huaiyu smiled.
The rice wine is warm and soft when it enters the throat.
As the wine entered my stomach, a feeling of warmth arose.
"The teacher is right. In comparison, Lingnan, Qianzhong, and even Nanzhong are really just mobs, and those barbarians cannot make waves.
The ones that can really threaten the Tang Dynasty are Xue Yantuo in Mobei, Goguryeo in Liaodong, even Tuyuhun in Qinghai, and perhaps Tubo, which is rising on the snowy plateau in recent years.
However, it is precisely because the barbarians in the southern and middle areas of Lingnan are scattered and weak, so the students think that they should go first from the south to the north, first from the weak and then from the strong, which is not wrong.
At present, the imperial court has just wiped out the Eastern Turks, and there are still some leftovers to collect. It is not in a hurry to continue the war with Xue Yantuo, Tuyuhun and others. It can accumulate more strength, and even use diplomacy and other means to consume some of their strength first.
We might as well take advantage of this opportunity to deal with Lingnan and Nanzhong areas first. We don't have to worry too much about attacking them. The troops invested can actually be regarded as training.
And it can also open up the Southwest Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road,
The honorable generals in the DPRK are restless.
Let them go to Nanzhong and Lingnan to train troops while fighting. They can also farm, mine, and trade. This is also a good thing.
There was a period of three to five years when Lingnan and Nanzhong were on the same level and were basically in line. By then, no matter whether the imperial court wanted to go to war against Tuyuhun or someone else,
Not only will the southern and middle areas of Lingnan not become a hidden danger, but they can also provide support in terms of soldiers, money and food."
Wu Huaiyu even proposed a timetable, which was to conquer Lingnan and Nanzhong in three to five years, and then send troops to Tuyuhun and capture Qinghai in five years.
It will take another three to five years to wipe out Qinghai.
In other words, ten years later, the imperial court can use troops against Xue Yantuo. Whether it is sending troops directly to the desert or pushing the Turks to the front, they can teach Xue Yantuo a lesson. Once Xue Yantuo is brought into line, the imperial court can then confidently march into the Western Regions.
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Five years.
Or ten years to stabilize the Western Region.
At that time, the imperial court will be free to deal with Goguryeo, and even take down the entire three countries of the Korean Peninsula.
"It may take fifteen years as quickly as possible, or thirty years as slowly as possible. According to this timetable, we can wipe out all the barbarians around the Tang Dynasty,"
When Li Jing heard Wu Huaiyu's words, he couldn't help but smile while stroking his beard.
"First south then north, first west then east, the plan is good."
"Do you think we can wipe out Lingnan in three to five years?"
"Actually, there won't be any big wars in Lingnan. The three major wealthy families in Lingnan, led by Feng Ang, Chen Longshu, Ningchun and others, don't dare to fight against the imperial court. What we have to face is just the slanderous barbarians in Lingnan. To deal with those Xidian barbarians,
It’s actually not difficult.”
"oh?"
Ten years ago, Li Jing went to Lingnan after pacifying Xiao Xian and stayed in Lingnan for more than a year. He also knew the situation in Lingnan relatively well. It was very backward and complicated, and the place was still very large.
"To pull the net, we only need to control the core points, and then build cities and station troops along the rivers and seas and other major transportation lines to separate Lingnan.
Then the slang barbarians will not be able to make waves. Even if they can rely on dangers, the worst they can do is blockade them in the deep mountains and forests and ignore them."
If they dare to come out of the mountain, then fight, kill some, capture some, and the other will increase. They will become weaker and weaker, and the power of the imperial court in Lingnan will become stronger and stronger.
The imperial court will slowly encroach on those rivers and lakes, and then build castles and castles.
We even encouraged wealthy families and poor people from the Central Plains to develop in Lingnan and allowed them to reclaim wasteland and enclose the land. How could the indigenous people be the opponents of these athletes in the Southern Expedition?
Li Jing knew that this would be a cruel development,
But he didn’t say much,
For example, the imperial court has been doing this in Bashu in recent years. They have suppressed and massacred again and again, and thousands of barbarians have been demoted as slaves.
Wu Huaiyu didn't think there would be much resistance,
As long as they are willing to surrender, organize households and pay taxes, then the court will accept these people.
Now that the imperial court is implementing the Two Taxes, this time it can also directly implement the Two Taxes Law in Lingnan. Based on the new Two Taxes Law, even the barbarians who have registered their households will not actually have much of a burden.
Even those newly registered households in Xidian can be given some discounts, such as half a tax for the first three years, and some exemptions and exemptions for newly reclaimed land in the future.
Regardless of whether they are Han people, Li people, Han people, or Dan people, if life goes by, no one is willing to throw their heads and blood to rebel. Only the oppressed will rebel if they can no longer survive.
For example, why the Xiduo barbarians in Nanfuzhou refused to accept Chen Longshu's plan to create a household system for the people, and why they kept rebelling. Firstly, it was the struggle between Tan Dian and Chen Longshu, and secondly, after Chen Longshu established a household system, those Xiduo people
Although you only need to pay half of the tax, this half of the tax is also levied according to the mediocre half of the tax.
In fact, this burden is very heavy for those Xitan barbarians.
So under the instigation of people like Tandian Fusan, they naturally rebelled.
After Wu Huaiyu went south, he only needed to kill a few chickens to scare the monkeys, wipe out the barbarian kings like Tan Dian and Fu San, and kill a group of them ruthlessly. Later, he would organize households and equalize the people, equalize farmland and grant land, and even give them tax exemptions.
Although there are not many people who are still determined to resist.
Furthermore, it doesn’t necessarily have to be a fight.
Whether it is the wealthy Han people who migrated south or the barbarian kings of Xidian, they can also cooperate, grant them official titles, and cooperate with them in mining, trade, etc. It is also possible for everyone to win-win and mutually benefit.
Zhang Chuchen finished playing a song,
Come here and add wine to the two of you,
She said on the side, "I recall that after the Sui Dynasty Ping Nanchen, within two years, the entire Nanchen hometown announced an uprising against the Sui Dynasty.
Wang Wenjin of Wuzhou, Gao Zhizhi of Yuezhou, and Shen Xuan of Suzhou all rebelled and claimed to be the emperor, Cai Daoren of Le'an, Jiang Shanli, Wu Shihua of Raozhou, Shen Xiaoche of Wenzhou, Wang Guoqing of Quanzhou, Yang Baoying of Hangzhou, and Li Chun of Jiaozhou all claimed themselves to be governors.
, captured the prefectures and counties. In Chen's hometown, most of them rebelled, the big ones numbered tens of thousands, and the small ones numbered thousands."
Li Jing said, "The rebels are all wealthy noble families."
At first, it was easy for the Sui Dynasty to destroy Chen. After the Sui army entered Jiankang, all places in southern Chen and Chen surrendered. But two years later, the whole territory rebelled.
In fact, the reason is also very simple. It was the powerful nobles who surrendered at the beginning, and they were the same people who turned against them later. They thought that the Sui Dynasty could destroy Chen, and they could just change the emperor anyway, but after the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, Jiangnan should still be governed by them.
No matter whether you are Sui or Chen, whether the emperor's surname is Chen or Yang, the status of these powerful nobles should not change.
But in fact, after the Sui Dynasty defeated the Chen Dynasty, it implemented a policy of unification. Not only the governors and magistrates of prefectures and counties had to be dispatched from the Central Plains, but even all local officials above the ninth rank had to be supplemented by the province.
The governor also lost the power to recruit subordinate officials.
As a result, the powerful nobles in Jiangnan gave up and started rebellions one after another.
However, their rebellion only lasted for a few months before they were suppressed by Yang Sushi Long Live and others. Then Yang Guang took control of Guangling, and the Sui Dynasty forcibly moved many powerful Jiangnan nobles to Guanzhong.
Compared with the powerful Jiangnan gentry who were powerful when Nanchen was destroyed, the powerful people in Lingnan were much weaker.
Zhang Chuchen's family was also a member of the Jiangnan gentry at that time, but was later forcibly moved to Chang'an.
"You don't have to worry about this for Erlang. The families of Feng Ning and Chen in Lingnan are nothing compared to those of Gu, Lu, Zhu, Zhang, Wang Xie, Chenxiao, etc. of Jiangnan.
Those Xidong barbarian kings, let alone those in front of the soldiers of Guanzhong.
Think about the Sui army's expedition to Linyi, how far away it was?
But the Linyi Kingdom had not been beaten and all its capitals had fallen, and all the golden statues of its ancestors had been plundered by the Sui army."
"Besides, you see that Feng An took the initiative to come to Beijing, Chen Longshu, and Ning Chun have also accepted the imperial court's transfer. They simply do not have the courage and determination to confront the imperial court."
"Erlang's trip to Lingnan this time is probably easier than your trip to Lingnan ten years ago."
Huaiyu smiled and said, "Master's wife, why don't you ask Dalang to go to Lingnan with you?"
Li Jing shook his head. He knew very well that his eldest son Li Deyu should stay in Chang'an and live his life.
Zhang Chuchen said, "You have always had a good relationship with Dezhou. How about you let him go to Lingnan with you and help you as well. Anyway, he doesn't have any official duties now, so he is very leisurely."
Li Jing is not very willing to let his son go to Lingnan, although there are so many nobles and nobles going to Lingnan now.
"Alang, just let Erlang go around and practice." Zhang Chuchen persuaded.
