The first thousand two hundred and seventy-two chapters let the fusang man play
The matter of official administration must be taken slowly and cannot be rushed. Li Xuan plans to rectify the official administration every few years in the future.
He could not ensure that the officials of the Tang Empire would not be corrupt, because this kind of thing could not be prevented at all, but he could control this kind of thing within a certain range so that it would not affect the overall situation.
The rectification of officialdom also brought another benefit to Li Xuan, that is, his prestige among the people has been further enhanced!
Corrupt officials are something ordinary people hate. Now that the Holy Emperor has taken action to crack down on corrupt officials, he will naturally gain a lot of prestige.
It's just that Li Xuan himself doesn't pay much attention to this anymore, and starts to pay attention to other things, such as Fuso!
The Ryukyu Prefecture reported that there have been changes in Fuso recently. Several powerful daimyo have united together and seem to want to unite to unify the Fuso Islands.
Naturally, the Tang Empire could not sit idly by and ignore this matter!
A unified Fuso is not in the interest of the empire!
Li Xuan immediately forwarded the Ryukyu Mansion's report to the imperial study room and asked them to come up with a practical charter.
Li Xuan doesn't care about the specific process, he only needs to see the result, which is to keep Fusang in its current state of division, and there must be no unification.
At the same time, he also added an additional requirement, which was to gradually increase the encroachment on the Fuso Islands.
The empire's encroachment on Fuso began within a few years. Later, it captured the Osumi Islands and established Osumi Prefecture. It also captured Tsushima Island and established it as Tsushima Prefecture. In addition, it also successively captured some small islands over the years. In addition,
In many areas of the Fuso Islands, especially in the more important coastal port areas, many colonies were acquired in the name of purchasing and leasing land to build trading stations, such as in Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Osaka, Nagoya, Jiang
Hu, Sendai and other places are all trading stations of the Tang Empire. These trading stations are all located in the port area. Although the places are generally not large, most of them cover several square kilometers or even dozens of square kilometers.
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Datang usually arranged small-scale garrisons and even a small number of warships in the above-mentioned colonies.
The above-mentioned colonies were obtained by different means. Some were obtained through friendly negotiation, and some were simply obtained through the threat of force or simply through military strikes.
Relying on the many colonies on the Fuso Islands, the Tang Empire established a complete commercial network on the Fuso Islands, purchased many special products produced on the Fuso Islands, and sold many of the Tang Empire's industrial products to the Fuso people.
At the same time, relying on these colonies, the Tang Empire also maintained a relatively strong military force on the Fuso Islands, which was able to influence the daimyo near the colonies.
However, today's Fuso Islands has too many various daimyo. There are not just a few dozen, but hundreds or thousands of daimyo. Some daimyo are also village chiefs and the like.
Some daimyo are powerful daimyo with thousands or even tens of thousands of troops.
Therefore, even though the Tang Empire had very strong penetration into Fuso, it was still difficult to influence all the daimyo, especially the powerful daimyo.
In recent years, many daimyo on the Fuso Islands have also emerged with many outstanding talents. After these talents came into contact with the Tang Dynasty, many of them came up with the idea of learning from the Tang Empire!
Through various innovations, a powerful modern army was formed, Fuso was completely unified, and industry and commerce were developed.
It has to be said that the Tang Empire now serves as a very good teacher for the Fuso people, and has pointed out to them a very clear path to prosperity that has been proven to be feasible.
These people advocated unifying the Fuso Islands as soon as possible and concentrating all the efforts of Fuso to develop industry and commerce.
This kind of situation would not have been possible in the Fuso Islands in the original time and space, but it has happened now.
It has to be said that the Fusang people are a nation that is very good at learning. When facing a powerful enemy, their first reaction is not fear, but worship, but learning.
Under the influence of this trend of thought, many daimyo on the Fuso Islands have now begun to unite and form a powerful coalition to conquer other daimyo in an attempt to unify the Fuso Islands.
But this situation is not allowed by the Tang Empire!
The imperial study room quickly came up with relevant regulations, which were to intervene decisively and quickly in the situation on the Fuso Islands, through financial support, ordnance support, and other means, and to directly use military force when necessary, and the purpose was only
One is to hinder the unification of the Fuso Islands.
At the same time, many ministers in the imperial study room agreed that the empire's presence on the Fuso Islands is still too weak. There are only a dozen small colonies with troops stationed on them ranging from dozens to more than a hundred people. This is completely unable to respond at critical moments.
To safeguard the interests of the empire, they believed it was necessary to increase troops to the Fuso Islands.
In the process of intervening in the situation on the Fuso Islands and increasing their troops, they also proposed that they need to further increase their control over Fuso. They proposed expanding colonies and even directly occupying Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island.
However, although Li Xuan agreed to the previous suggestions, he vetoed the plan to directly send troops to occupy Kyushu and Shikoku Island!
Li Xuan did not give a clear reason for the rejection, at least he did not leave any reason for the rejection in writing.
However, at the private meeting of the ministers on duty in the Royal Study Room, Li Xuan directly explained that there are still too many barbarians on the Fuso Islands and have formed their own traditional culture. The empire's hasty annexation of the Fuso Islands will easily lead to a huge backlash.
Li Xuan only said that there are too many people on the Fuso Islands!
There is no need for Li Xuan to explain the rest, the ministers already know what to do!
do what?
Reduce the population on the Fuso Islands!
In fact, the years of melee on the Fuso Islands have greatly reduced the local population. When the Tang Empire set foot on the Fuso Islands, due to the export of ordnance and the continuous war, in the past seven or eight years, the population of the Fuso Islands
The total population, especially the number of young adults, has dropped by at least 20% compared to the past.
But this is still not enough!
After internal discussions, the minister on duty in the imperial study room decided to formulate targeted measures in response to the concerns of Emperor Sheng. At the same time, the policy on the Fuso Islands was also adjusted!
The adjusted Fuso policy!
The most important point is to keep the current situation on the Fuso Islands unchanged. In other words, let Fuso continue to be in a state of war, not allow them to unify, and not allow them to be in a state of peace.
Secondly, it is to increase troops, expand the size of the colony, and expand the military power and political and economic influence on the Fuso Islands.
Then the plan to annex Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island was suspended, and instead it was changed to a more relaxed marriage policy!
The first few words are very easy to understand in literal terms, but the subsequent marriage policy is worthy of emphasis. 1
On the surface, this marriage policy refers to the marriage between the ruling class of the Tang Dynasty and the ruling class of Fuso. After all, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the eternal sage Li Xuan had already adopted two legitimate daughters of the royal family of Emperor Fuso.
From this point of view, the Tang Empire has already implemented a marriage policy towards the Fuso Islands, but in fact, this is only the most superficial one!
In fact, the marriage policy formulated by the ministers on duty in the imperial study was not aimed at the rulers of both parties, but at the people.
This policy encouraged male subjects of the Tang Empire to marry Fusang women as wives and concubines!
This policy is actually very similar to the marriage policy adopted by the Tang Empire for the Koryo Peninsula. One of the policies was to take advantage of the huge population advantage of the Tang Empire to directly absorb a large number of women of childbearing age in the Fuso population!
They simply married off all their women of childbearing age. If the Fusang people were not finished, a group of ministers in the imperial study would dare to write their names upside down.
At that time, the Korean Peninsula did not have a population of one million, but the Tang Empire only dispatched hundreds of thousands of bachelors, marrying almost half of the women of childbearing age on the Korean Peninsula.
Subsequently, the birth rate of pure Korean people plummeted to the point of being negligible.
In just a few years, the Korean people, as an independent ethnic group, have actually ceased to exist and have been completely integrated into the Chinese nation.
With a population of more than one million, in front of more than 150 million Chinese people, there was not even a splash of waves, but they completely disappeared without a trace.
Nowadays, those Korean people who have integrated in, if you want to say that they are Korean people, not from the Tang Dynasty, people will be angry with you. They will argue that Korea is also a part of the Tang Dynasty, and the name of the Korean people is just a name for their place of origin.
It’s the same name as people from Guangdong, Zhejiang, etc.
Some even impatient people simply abandoned the title and completely concealed it.
All this is to better integrate into the Tang Dynasty Empire and become a true Tang Dynasty person!
The Tang Empire's policy towards the Fuso Islands was naturally impossible to be the same as its policy towards the Koryo Peninsula. The population of the Koryo Peninsula at that time was only a million, and their sense of cultural identity was very strong. They themselves were very happy to be the
A Tang Dynasty man.
But it's different in Fuso. Even though the modern national concept has not yet appeared, and they have been greatly influenced by Han culture, they still formed a very unique traditional culture, and they have an emperor that lasts for thousands of years. I think
It is unlikely that they will actively integrate into the Tang Empire with a smile.
Therefore, the Tang Empire did not force any integration or military conquest. They directly used a simpler method, which was to marry all their women!
The ministers on duty in the imperial study hope to see such a scene in a few years: in the entire Fuso Islands, there will not be even a single young woman of working age, only groups of bachelors left!