Chapter 38 Far beyond the present and focus on the future
The royal family of Silla was escorted to Chang'an. Li Zhiyun did not choose to go on a killing spree. Instead, he named Kinderman the "Gong of Silla" and raised him well. As for other royal children, nobles, and officials, they were not treated so well. He was full of evil.
The ones were directly slaughtered, the others were either sent to road construction or mining, and the female family members were all sent to the Jiaofang Department.
After conquering Silla, Li Zhiyun reached out and planted the Tang flag in the original Goguryeo area.
"Well done, Jun Xian." Li Zhiyun turned around and patted him on the shoulder.
Next door, the Prime Ministers of the Political Hall were discussing post-war rewards, and arguments could be heard from time to time.
Li Junxian said humbly: "Without your Majesty sending people to assist with artillery, it would be difficult for the general to open up territory for your majesty so smoothly. In addition, Governor Xu's strategizing is more credit than the general."
"Don't be humble in front of me." Li Zhiyun said with a smile, "You have lived up to my high expectations, very good."
"Your Majesty, the general has something to say, I don't know whether I should say it or not."
"explain."
Li Junxian said: "Your Majesty, I think that although Silla and other countries have been conquered this time, the people there are not loyal, and I am afraid that governance will be difficult. Your Majesty needs to think more."
"Yes, you are right. I and the prime ministers have been thinking about this issue for a long time." Li Zhiyun said as he walked: "Silla, Baekje, and even Goguryeo are not loose alliance countries like the grasslands.
They have been rooted in the local area for many years and have a deep foundation. It will be difficult for them to surrender in a short period of time."
The monarch and his ministers had another in-depth conversation about the affairs of Silla and Baekje.
The next day.
Political Hall.
"Silla and Baekje have been conquered. I have decided to place them under Liaodong Road and establish prefectures and counties. The imperial court will send officials to educate them. The local people will be relocated. In addition, I ordered Xu Shiji to be prepared. Once someone rises, he will immediately
Capture him and make him a slave."
It is impossible not to suck blood, but considering the actual situation, we can set up a fake archway in that area and arrest people secretly. The rhetoric to the outside world is naturally a rebellion.
This little trick works every time.
Generally speaking, the situation in Goguryeo and other countries is different from that of the grasslands. After all, they are agricultural countries, and these three countries have some public support. If they are tough, they will continue to cause trouble, which is not in the best interest. Now that they have been defeated, then
Naturally, you can slowly operate the blood-sucking. Anyway, the ultimate goal will not change, to exploit and squeeze these barbarians. It becomes just a method of operation.
Naturally, the next step is to start dividing the states and counties. However, countries such as Silla are mainly based on cities. There is really nothing to divide. We can only roughly divide the states and counties. Some local states are counties.
Overall, it's very sloppy. You can tell at a glance that it was done temporarily and can only be done slowly in the future. However, it is a long-term plan. What we need to do now is to stabilize that area.
In the future, in order to make the division more detailed, there may be another line.
to evening.
Everyone has finally finished the draft, and more detailed plans still need to be discussed, so it is impossible to decide easily.
After get off work, Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling were together.
"Silla, Baekje, and Goguryeo have been destroyed, and the revenge of the former Sui Dynasty has been avenged. Now there are no threats around the empire. It's time to take a rest next year." Fang Xuanling said with emotion.
Who could have imagined that in just eight or nine years, the empire would expand so rapidly.
Du Ruhui thought: "It's not that simple."
"Oh, what do you say?"
"Have you forgotten, there is also the Western Region." Du Ruhui said: "With your Majesty's character, you will definitely not let those places go."
"But, we should stop for a while." Fang Xuanling said hesitantly.
"Your Majesty has already realized this." Du Ruhui said: "If it were in the past, Your Majesty would not have considered destroying the Three Kingdoms of Silla so quickly. After this success, the imperial court should not raise troops for war within two or three years."
"That's good." Fang Xuanling said: "Although my troops are well-fed, if I keep fighting without giving me time to breathe, I will still be stretched thin sooner or later. If I can rest for a year or two, the situation will definitely get better."
"Yes."
Li Zhiyun has already considered what Fang and Du were talking about. If there are too many wars, problems will inevitably arise. In the next year or two, Li Zhiyun has decided to take a break and will not go to war abroad for the time being.
Anyway, now that the empire is the strongest, you can fight whoever you want. The only problem may be the Tubo side. Because in order to deal with the Tubo, the soldiers must adapt to the plateau climate. This cannot be done urgently. We can only wait until the Fuqi Governor's Mansion.
While training the soldiers.
Furthermore, if Li Zhiyun kills everything he can fight so quickly, then the army's combat effectiveness will inevitably not decline after the weapons and weapons are put into storage.
It is still necessary to maintain a certain number of battles. On the one hand, it can give military generals opportunities to perform meritorious service, and on the other hand, it can also ensure the combat effectiveness of the army. In addition, it is expanding and constantly expanding.
At present, the ministers all feel that the emperor's martial arts are extremely powerful. Not only did he defeat the rebels in troubled times with the late emperor, but he also destroyed the Turks, Tuyuhun, and Goguryeo. This is enough to be called the emperor's martial arts. There is no need to continue to let the imperial soldiers fight.
But Li Zhiyun doesn't think so. The scale of the Weihe workshop is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more machines are being developed. It won't be long before, at most 20 to 30 years, the industry will explode. By that time
, he had to find a dumping ground for the empire's products. The surrounding foreign countries were originally good choices, but they didn't work.
Why not?
Because their position threatens the security of the empire, and the empire must capture them to complete the primitive accumulation of capital, so it cannot be done.
Then, Li Zhiyun can only set his goals overseas. He wants to make the empire's external expansion something the empire has to do.
After the ships have also been industrialized, it will be time for the empire to set sail. At that time, it will be the real era of overseas expansion. What Li Zhiyun has to do now is to wipe out all the foreign countries that may pose a threat to the empire, and then use the foreign people to complete capital accumulation.
, when the accumulation of industrial knowledge reaches saturation and explodes, science and technology will advance with each passing day.
Maybe it will be twenty years, maybe thirty years, maybe fifty years. By that time, no one will be able to stop the expansion of the empire. Because this is the general trend. Whoever goes against the general trend will be crushed.
pressure.
What Li Zhiyun wants to do now is to leave a big family fortune to his son. In fact, he has to personally put the empire on the road of colonization in order to feel at ease.
The ninth year of Zhenguan is destined to be recorded in history.
In this year, Goguryeo, which had once frustrated Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, was attacked and destroyed by the Tang Empire. In this year, the empire expanded its territory again. In this year, the development of the empire reached another level.
Contemporaries occasionally couldn't help but lament that since Emperor Zhenguan came to the throne, the development of the entire empire has almost been the same every year.
The rule of three generations seems not far away.
But how could they imagine that Li Zhiyun never thought about the three-generation rule. He thought very directly. He wanted to make the empire stronger than ever, and he wanted to expand the living space of the people of the empire like never before.
He didn't tell anyone else about these things, because if he did, they wouldn't understand.
The number of people in the empire has been growing over the years, but the imperial court's land is far from saturated, and there is no need to rush to expand.
As an emperor, Li Zhiyun naturally has a vision that goes far beyond the present and focuses on the future hundreds of years from now.