Shortly after accepting the reward, Zhao Tuo, who was located in the Land of Baiyue, received another important news.
Li Xin followed the emperor's order and led his troops to sweep the east, following the Liu family's line, and wiped out all the lurking remnants of the Chu Kingdom.
Jing Tong committed suicide and Jing Ju was hanged.
The remnants of the Xiang family were all wiped out.
In addition to Donghai County being the key target, Sishui County, Jiujiang County and other places are also within the scope of Li Xin's cleanup this time.
The three counties together killed more than 2,000 people.
More than two thousand heads fell to the ground, and thousands more people were implicated in this incident and were punished as prisoners of the imperial court under Qin Fa's crime of association.
Zhao Tuo was speechless when he found out.
This thing sounds cruel, but it is necessary for the stability of a country.
Brothers like the Jing family and the Xiang family were all Chu nobles who wanted to restore the country and were dissatisfied with the rule of the Qin State. Their lurking was equivalent to planting a time bomb within the Qin State.
If we don't clean up them and use this incident to shock the world, assassinations like Xiang Ji's are likely to happen again in the future.
These reckless terrorists who put life and death at risk are the most difficult to guard against.
Zhao Tuo didn't want to be assassinated again.
"After clearing out these latent anti-Qin forces, in the future we only need to stabilize the situation in the central government and slowly reform, so that the world can be stabilized for a long time."
Zhao Tuo took a long breath, withdrew his attention from the source, and concentrated on handling Baiyue matters.
After the Qin army defeated the main force of Luo Yue, he took gentle measures to conquer the Yue people hiding in the mountains and forests as soon as possible.
Compared to genocide or being captured as slaves, the conditions he gave to the Yue people were very good.
As long as the Yue people surrender, no matter whether they killed the Qin people in previous battles, the past grudges will be forgotten.
At the same time, for the Luoyue nobles who surrendered, Zhao Tuo followed the policies previously implemented in Minyue, Nanyue and Xiou and other places, retaining their autonomy over their tribes, having their own land and managing their people.
As long as these Yue nobles recognized Qin's right to rule this area, recognized themselves as "Qin people", listened to the sent Qin governor, and paid corresponding tributes of special products to the central government every year, it would be enough.
It was not that Zhao Tuo did not want to digest these newly conquered lands and make Baiyue become like the Central Plains, and every Yue people could accept the management of Qin officials sent by the central government.
But in fact this is completely impossible to do in a short time.
The Qin State destroyed six countries in ten years, expanded its territory several times, and was already suffering from indigestion.
Thanks to Zhao Tuo's early initiative to expand the school's enrollment, more Qin officials were cultivated in the past ten years, which greatly strengthened Qin's control over the hometown of the princes.
The Guandong region, which belongs to the old land of the Xia Dynasty, was so difficult to rule by the Qin State.
In the land of Baiyue far to the south, the number of Qin officials sent was naturally even less.
Not to mention that the Qin people and the Yue people have different races and cultural differences, and they don't even understand the language.
The Yue people only listen to their old leaders. How can they listen to your Qin officials?
Under such objective factors, Zhao Tuo had obtained the consent of the First Emperor to implement a system similar to the "chieftain" of later generations in Yue, using native officials to govern the native people.
Qin officials only managed the leaders of the Yue people, while the lower-level Yue people were governed by themselves.
This has many benefits. First of all, it reduces the cost of Qin's rule over Baiyue. The Qin army only needs to control the four counties of Minzhong, Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiangjun and some important passes.
There is no need to station troops or dispatch personnel in the vast jungle, which greatly reduces the difficulty of supply and the pressure on personnel.
Secondly, the Yue leaders of various tribes in Baiyue have always seen that their status is guaranteed. They only need to pay tribute to the emperor of Qin with some special products every year to avoid the disaster of swordsmanship. Naturally, they are more receptive and willing to cooperate with Qin.
rule.
With the active cooperation of the upper echelons of the Yue people, the land that the Qin army had just captured would not be prone to repeated situations.
"First lay down this land and establish nominal rule. Later, we will use the advanced economy and culture of the Central Plains to erode this place, allowing the Yue people to exchange furs, fruits and other Lingnan specialties with merchants, making them inseparable from the creations of the Central Plains. At the same time, many
By sending Confucian scholars here, we must also assimilate the Yue people culturally and ideologically, promote the principle of a Qin state, and instill in them the awareness that the whole world is the territory of Qin!"
"Use a powerful army to intimidate, and then use economic and cultural soft power to invade. With both kindness and power, it only takes a few generations to truly integrate Baiyue into the Qin Dynasty. When the population of the Central Plains increases in the future, Lingnan can also be gradually developed
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Zhao Tuo had a rough plan in mind for how to govern Yue territory in the future. As for the specific details, he needed to discuss it with the emperor and the Manchu ministers after returning to Guanzhong.
His top priority now is to stabilize Baiyue as soon as possible, and then return to his hometown with the soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army who have long been homesick.
But the reality is that just after June of the thirty-sixth year of Qin Shihuang, Zhao Tuo was caught off guard by a sudden edict.
"The Marquis of Martial Arts first settled in Baiyue and expanded the territory thousands of miles. I am very happy."
"However, the territory of Baiyue is vast and the people are sparse. They are all barbarians and Yue people. They have been capricious since ancient times. Today, the Qin army is afraid of its power and is afraid to surrender. If the army leaves, it will change easily, and the efforts of many years will be wasted."
"Today, the Prime Minister Wang Wan and Li Si proposed that a total of 100,000 households of criminals, concubines, son-in-laws, merchants and other people be transferred to the world to consolidate the Lingnan counties. In this way, the Yi land will be transformed into Xia land, so that the Lingnan land will always be
The territory of my great Qin."
"Zhi said: Yes."
When Zhao Tuo received the edict, he was stunned.
In history, when the Qin army conquered Baiyue, there was indeed a large-scale migration of people.
However, in this time and space, Zhao Tuo proposed to the emperor that the superficial establishment of counties and counties and the actual governance adopt the native official system made the reality slightly different from history.
At least before the expedition, when he discussed with the First Emperor how to deal with the Baiyue Land, he did not talk about large-scale immigration.
In Zhao Tuo's view, immigration is possible, but at least a period of time must first be used to stabilize the internal affairs of Baiyue and Qin, and then gradually immigrate bit by bit, which will be safer.
Why, just when the war was victorious and the soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army were about to withdraw, the central court suddenly made this move.
And there are 100,000 households. With such a large number, just how to resettle and distribute the people of 100,000 households is a big problem.
Not to mention, take a look at the composition of the people the emperor moved this time.
There are all kinds of prisoners, concubines who serve as slaves, a lazy and lazy son-in-law, businessmen who like to work hard, and officials who were demoted for committing crimes.
It's called "Immigration", but I'm afraid it's not about exile.
These people committed crimes in the Central Plains and were exiled to Lingnan, far away from the sky and the emperor. Will they still abide by the rules?
The newly conquered Baiyue barbarians may cause big problems when they encounter these migrated scum.
"Okay Li Si, are you and Wang Wan going to stumble me?"
Zhao Tuo looked at the two names on the edict and became very angry.