After Da Changhe's envoy withdrew with a mournful face, Shao Shude sat beside Zhao Yu's bed and had a conversation.
Most of the time it was him who was talking, recounting the past events of that year, not only what happened between the two of them, but also Shao Shude's mental journey over the past thirty years.
Talking about his initial "ambition" and the strict requirements he had for himself, even when he saw a beautiful woman, he only dared to secretly swallow his saliva and vowed never to be greedy for money and ask for bribes, never to molest women, and to bring peace to the world.
Then he said that two years later, he raped the woman.
Four years later, he drank blood from a drinking vessel with human heads without changing his expression.
Ten years later, I even held the head in my hand and watched it carefully.
More than ten years later, one could squat down to look at the burnt corpse, and even touch it with his hands.
More than twenty years later, those who hated him, those who hated him, and those who cursed him were eliminated one by one. Their wives and daughters resigned from the downstairs and went to the hall to sing in the morning and night, looking very beautiful and happy.
Thirty years later, there is no rival in the world. Looking back on my life, I am filled with emotion.
There is no personality in a person's life. You are a teenager, you are a young person, you are a middle-aged person, and you are a person in your old age. They are always changing. It is nonsense to remain unchanged.
Zhao Yu listened quietly and gently touched the warm jade on his chest, seeming to be recalling the ups and downs of the year.
After speaking, he asked Zhao Yu to have a good rest, and Shao Shude went back to the study and stayed up late to deal with government affairs.
Because of Zheng Renmin's defeat and the burning, killing and looting of the Longhu Army, the Kunming tribe was also afraid and sent an envoy to Zhu Yanshou's camp, where he was killed. So he sent an envoy to Chengdu, but did not meet King Yan, and then went south, where he was killed in Shasha.
Ye Cheng met Shao Mingyi who went to Yizhou in person and handed over the news.
The Kunming tribe expressed their submission to the imperial court and would never rebel. They asked the sage to restrain the king's master and not to commit any more murderous crimes.
Shao Shude basically agreed, and ordered the leaders of his ministries to send his direct descendants to Chang'an to serve as guards of honor for the palace and to guard the palace office. When the generals were patrolling, they would encourage and carry flags, and when hunting in the fields, Lao drums would shout for three years. When the three years expired,
Then, rotate again.
In addition, each ministry fined 3,000 households and sent them to Luoyang within a time limit. After being reorganized, they were sent to Liaodong.
Last year, the first batch of Li and Yaman horses had already gone to Liaodong after digging the canals in Luoyang and became a military force. The court didn't care whether they could adapt to the climate of Liaodong, but they were done anyway. Even if they started a rebellion, the scale would not be large, because
Scattered in various places, unable to speak the same language as the people around them, they had their own garrison, state soldiers, and government soldiers to jointly suppress them.
Nowadays, there are Khitan people, Xi people, Tatar people, Lin people, Sogdians, Mohe people, Jurchens, Goguryeo people, Bohai people, and Hebei people.
There are people from Huainan, there are people from Jiangxi, there are people from Hunan, there are people from the south... There are people with all kinds of accents, it's a hodgepodge.
The local situation is like a pressure cooker, relying entirely on the tens of thousands of imperial troops, 30,000 to 40,000 state soldiers, and more than 54,000 government soldiers who rotate in every year to suppress it. There are no major disturbances, but minor disturbances continue, and escape incidents occur one after another.
As for things like the death of Fubing Buqu, the government has been too lazy to investigate or report them. There are too many to investigate.
Some were killed for resisting, some were killed during pursuit, some died of illness, and some died of freezing - very few died of starvation, as there was really no shortage of food in the area.
The more discerning soldiers will provide their troops with felt blankets, pigskin jackets, and sheepskin clothes to keep out the cold.
It will be a difficult time when you meet a man from the government who cannot part with your good fortune.
In short, the place is like the wild west world, where the weak eat the strong and the hierarchy is strict. The economics students who go to the mainland are a little bit intolerant, but they are unable to change the status quo. This is the characteristic of the times. If you want to change, wait a few decades. There is no chance now.
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Zhao Kuanglin, the governor of Liaodong Province, reported that he believed that the situation in Liaodong was very dangerous. If there was an invasion by foreign enemies, the currently suppressed Fubing troops might respond on a large scale. He suggested that the Fubing tribes in various states should be abolished, and the whole country should be amnesty to all troops.
Create households and make them common people.
This memorial was rejected directly at the Political Affairs Hall.
Shao Shude was amazed after reading the comments of the prime ministers. Scholars who had climbed to high positions were as dark-hearted as him. Of course, he also agreed with the comments of the prime ministers, but the Ministry of Revenue transferred funds from the Daku in Beijing.
We sent some of the rugs to Liaodong and distributed them to improve the living conditions of the tribes as much as possible so that they could survive the most difficult first few years.
Serf uprising? This possibility is not seen in the short term. In the later period of the Nurhachi regime, there was a severe famine. The Eight Banners soldiers could not eat enough, let alone clothe them. Will there be a big chaos? Some small-scale vendettas and
It's just an escape incident.
Moreover, Liaodong is also developing.
The further back in time, the stronger the economic strength, the better the environmental transformation, the less difficult the life will be. As for the people who died in the early stage, they are generally called "prices", and no one cares about them-who let them live in the new dynasty?
Are they all sinners?
Good news also came from the northern grasslands.
Tens of thousands of Fanhan soldiers and horses headed by the cavalry army defeated the thieves, seized tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses and camels, and advanced into Heichengzi. It is said that the Uighurs sent more than ten thousand horses to the east to fight with the king's army, and they were ready
, gathering more than 100,000 troops, intending to destroy the invading enemy in one fell swoop - the grassland is like this. Maybe the enemy originally had 200,000 soldiers, and you only had 50,000, but as long as you keep winning battles, most of the enemy's 200,000 soldiers will eventually defect to you.
Come here and the situation is completely reversed.
Shao Shude was also very excited when he saw the news.
The pattern was opened - no, the passage was opened. Moreover, he saw the weakness of the Gaochang Uighurs. Can you send more than ten thousand people to handle such a big thing? No wonder they only restored the royal court once in history.
Then they gave up in the endless wave of Tatars moving westward. Their strength was seriously insufficient, or the pressure from their old enemies was too great, and their combat capabilities on both fronts were insufficient, so they had to strategically abandon one direction.
That's right.
Shao Shude estimated that the Gaochang Uighurs could ride in the tens of thousands at most, and any more would be out of character. Thinking of this, he gave an order to Shao Siwu, who was still in Dunhuang, to use the Silver Spear Army as the backbone, gather various Tibetan soldiers, and try to advance westward.
Go as far into the Uighur territory as possible and see their reaction.
This is called fire reconnaissance. If everything goes well, the next step will be the main westward expedition.
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On the first day of August, Shao Shude named his four sons in one go.
The twentieth prince was named Jingrang and was born to Gao in the seventh month of the tenth year of Jianji.
The twenty-first prince was named Zhixian and was born to Liduo in the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Jianji.
The twenty-second prince was named Xingbo and was born to Wei Shi in the first month of the thirteenth year of Jianji.
The twenty-third prince was named Mingliang and was born to the Chu family in the first month of the thirteenth year of Jianji.
Recently, the Imperial Medical Office reported that Jieyu Zhongshi and Yelushi (Bodhisattva slave) are pregnant again, which is a joy to congratulate. But it is obvious that the fertility climax has passed, and Shao Sheng is now slowly becoming helpless.
Yesterday, when the pale-haired Shao Sheng was squirming on the body of Xiao Wanniang, who had beautiful black hair and a youthful body, and squeezed out the last drop of vitality, he suddenly realized that from now on, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will have to think of a solution in Liaodong.
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After picking up the names, Shao Shude thought carefully about the whereabouts of each of his sons. Well, he couldn't remember them all at the moment. There were too many children, so he could only take a look at the files.
Let’s not talk about the seven princes. Starting from the eighth, there are sixteen sons.
Lao Ba (17 years old) is the protector of the holy county and has become a vassal.
Lao Jiu (15 years old), Prince of Zhongsheng County, is still studying in Chang'an this year and will be vassal next year.
The tenth old man (15 years old), Shao Zhiyuan, is the daughter of the empress, so we won’t reveal it for the time being.
Lao Shi (14 years old), Prince of Mi'e County, is still studying in Chang'an.
Lao Twelve (13 years old) welcomed King Shengjun and was still studying in Chang'an.
Lao Shisan (12 years old) has not yet been canonized. His biological mother Zhang Hui and Shao Shude are very fond of him. He is a little hesitant to seal him out. Even if he is canonized, he will choose a better place.
The fourth child (10 years old) was born to Queen He and was also not canonized.
Lao Fifteen (10 years old) was entrusted to the Holy Commandery King and was not yet a vassal.
Lao Shiliu (8 years old) held the title of Holy Commandery King and became a vassal.
Born to the 7-year-old Zhong family, he was not canonized.
Lao Shiba (6 years old) Baosheng County King, Wei Zhifan.
The old nineteen (6 years old) Lishengjunwang was not the vassal.
The next four newly named princes have not been canonized.
After counting, there are still eight sons who have not been canonized. Considering that the queen clearly stated that Shiro will stay in the capital, and Shao Shude promised that Zhong's son will also stay in the capital, there are only six.
Considering age again, in fact, there are only Thirteenth Prince at present, and Fourteenth Prince is the most suitable for canonization.
The two vassal towns of Lishui and Tonghai are also ready-made, so there is nothing to give them. The problem is that Liulang also vaguely expressed his willingness to seal it outside in the letter, which makes it difficult to handle.
In fact, there is a territory. The area under the jurisdiction of the Yin Sheng Jiedu Envoy is very large, with about nearly 20 towns, including Pu'er in later Yunnan, all of Xishuangbanna, part of Shan State in northeastern Myanmar, Chiang Rai in northwest Thailand, and northern Laos including Luang Prada.
A vast area including the state.
But its core is actually in the Pu'er and Xishuangbanna areas. The Jiedushi Lisuo is in the north, and its main financial source (more than 100 salt wells) is also located in this area. To the south are the Black Teeth Division and Nanzhao Yinshengjie.
When the Du envoys expanded southward, they encountered resistance and failed to build a city there, so they implemented Jisi rule.
To put it more bluntly, use the army to scare them and use salt to control them.
When Nanzhao attacked Jiaozhi, ten troops from Black Teeth were sent to accompany them, but they were defeated by Gao Pian and suffered heavy losses. Maybe they were angry because they felt that not only did they not get anything, but a lot of people died, so they were a bit disobedient.
Shao Shude felt that it was difficult for the queen to pass such a place to Liu Lang. Although the queen herself did not want Liu Lang to leave the capital - the second son was about to be sealed away, so you are not willing to give a good place. Is it okay? No.
Scolded to death by the queen?
If that didn't work, Yongchang Town would be demolished, the northern cultivated land would be implemented in the county system, and the southern Lancang River area (today's Lincang, Yunnan) would be allocated to Liulang, so that the area would be even larger.
But to put it bluntly, this land is still mainly mountainous. The plain area is small and the agricultural potential is limited. The only place where you can make money is probably that there are many salt wells. This is God's food, and this is the early geological forming era.
It may have been the sea, but later it became land. There were underground salt water wells everywhere. Yin Shengjiedushi relied on this to control various tribes in the south and make them serve him.
In a word, there are so many mountains that one would almost vomit, interspersed with small broken plains, and the barbarians are so poor that there is not much oil or water to scrape.
It is precisely this kind of terrain that makes the local barbarian forces extremely dispersed, and the strength of individual tribes is relatively weak. In the later period, Nanzhao invested a lot of resources in Yinsheng Town to move southward, and the barbarians they encountered had "no kings", which pushed them to the black.
It was only when the tooth section was ten that it encountered resistance and stopped there.
It is relatively easy to rule, and the population is large. However, it is too poor and has too many mountains to handle.
Shao Shude planned to ask Liu Lang for his opinion.
If he agrees, the problem won't be big. At most, we can make up for it in terms of financial resources in the future, and then help him develop some pillar industries, such as sugar cane cultivation, etc.
If he doesn't agree, then go back to the capital and become a royal prince. Don't blame your parents if your second brother doesn't let you leave the capital in the future.
In addition, Shao Shude also planned to see how Liulang's military exploits in Yunnan were.
If he fights well and has many meritorious deeds, he would not mind granting him the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, which would match his status as the legitimate son and prince.
Of course, princes and princes will not be completely equal. Look at your mother's family, your merits, your parents' love, and your opportunities - whether you were canonized at the right time.
The arrangements in Yunnan are generally like this.
Shao Shude maintained enough "arrogance" in this matter. Before the land was conquered, he had already divided up other people's territory. But he did it, Zheng Renmin, what can you do to me?
