Chapter 370 Strategies for Governing the Turkic Land
"slave?"
Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but be startled, with puzzled faces on their faces.
"Exactly!"
Li Xuan nodded lightly.
"These Turks have been harassing our borders with the Tang Dynasty all year round, invading our cities and towns, and robbing money and people. They have a bloody feud with our Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, even if these Turks surrender, they will be exempted from the death penalty, but they will not be able to escape from the living crime! Incorporating them into the slaves of our Datang and building cement houses and paving cement roads for our Datang is to atone for their sins!"
Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were all thoughtful.
"But these Turks are reckless and disobedient to the king. What if these Turks resist or run away?" Changsun Wuji asked.
"Wear iron chains on the feet of each Turk, or put iron chains on the hands, and work in pairs so that they cannot escape. Then, send out elite soldiers to jointly imprison the Turks and Han Chinese. If anyone dares to escape or escape,
If you resist, all the Turks who live or work together will be killed together!"
Li Xuan said, "However, in order to give these Turks hope, as long as they build a cement road or serve in hard labor for two years, they can be freed from their slave status and become common people of the Tang Dynasty. The imperial court can distribute fertile land and teach them to farm."
Make a living!”
"What if these Turks are accustomed to herding life and don't want to plant fields?" Li Shimin asked again.
"Your Majesty, these Turks have been able to build roads or houses in the Tang Dynasty for two years. They haven't escaped yet. They should have become accustomed to the life of the Tang Dynasty. If there are still people who like to herd, they can be released back to the prairie and let them feed themselves to the Tang Dynasty.
Tang herds, raises cattle and horses!”
Li Xuan said slowly.
"How does this happen? Isn't this the same as letting the tiger go back to the mountain?"
Li Shimin's expression changed slightly.
"Your Majesty, in two years, with so much Turkic labor, can we build a few cement cities on the Turkic homeland?" Li Xuan chuckled and asked slowly.
"It should be possible!"
Li Shimin nodded slowly.
"If it doesn't happen in two years, then three years!"
Li Xuan said again.
"At that time, from Hexi to Xiangcheng, Qikou, Yinshan, Tuntieshan and other Turkic places, a city was built every one hundred or fifty miles, with the Tang army stationed in it. Even those
If a Turkic barbarian has any thoughts that he shouldn't have, he will be crushed to death by these cities!"
Li Xuan smiled sadly.
"Building a city in a Turkic land?"
Hearing this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others were all stunned again.
"Xuanba, building a city requires a lot of manpower and material resources. Not only does it take a long time, but the money consumed is immeasurable. The whole country cannot build a few cities in those places!"
Li Shimin said quickly.
Li Xuan said: "Your Majesty, I remember hearing Gao Ming say that there were a large number of Chinese (Li Shimin called the Han people abroad as Chinese). In the late Sui Dynasty, in order to survive and avoid war, they dragged their families to the prairie and the Western Regions.
Flee away.
And this year, it seems that millions of Chinese have returned from beyond the Great Wall!"
"It's true!"
Li Shimin nodded and replied.
Seeing this, Li Xuan's expression perked up, and Li Shimin agreed. It seemed that there might be millions, or even millions, of Chinese people in the Turks and the Western Regions.
"Your Majesty, do you think those Chinese who are still far away in the Western Regions or Turkic lands want to return to the Tang Dynasty?"
"No matter where they are, they are all citizens of the Tang Dynasty. They always want to be under the rule of the Tang Dynasty and be protected by my master, the King of the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Shimin nodded confidently.
Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly. Although Li Shimin was too trusting, he had to agree that what Li Shimin said still made some sense.
You know, those Chinese who escaped did not have an easy life outside.
In fact, many Chinese who fled had to build dock walls outside, which were a series of small castles, to defend themselves against the invading Turks in order to survive.
"Xuan Ba, don't worry. This time our Tang Dynasty King's army is conquering the Turks, many Chinese people will come out from Wu Bi to support the King's army!"
Li Xuan chuckled lightly and said: "In this case, your Majesty, why worry about not being able to build a city?"
"Um?"
Hearing this, Li Shimin looked happy.
Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and others also thought of something and looked overjoyed.
"Your Majesty, with the help of the Chinese people from the Turkic lands, not to mention a dozen cities, even hundreds of cities can be built."
Li Xuan looked confident, "Those Chinese people far away in the Turkic lands have been living in the Turkic lands for decades, even hundreds of years, and have long been accustomed to the life there.
Your Majesty can send officials and troops to those Chinese people to protect their safety. I believe that those Chinese people will be very happy to accept the rule of the Tang Dynasty.
With so many people and a city to be built, it must be a gold mining place for the merchants and aristocratic families in the Tang Dynasty. Even if they transport some salt or grain to the Chinese, they can make a lot of money.
.
Without your Majesty or the imperial court having to worry about it, a large number of aristocratic families and merchants would go to the Turkic lands.
If your Majesty could build a concrete road from Chang'an City to the Turkic lands again.
In this way, there are even more merchants going to the Turkic lands, and with cement roads connecting them, I, the King of the Tang Dynasty, can go to the Turkic lands in no time.
At that time, the Turkic lands will be firmly controlled by the Tang Dynasty."
"As for how the Chinese people in the Turkic land live, they can build a big city in the Turkic land to trade with the Western Regions or barbarians from all directions. Your Majesty can also raise horses, cattle and sheep in the Turkic land, and then use these to communicate with us.
Trade in the Tang Dynasty, exchanging grain.
The Turkic land will be very prosperous in a few years. By then, how can it not bring millions of dollars in tax revenue to the Tang Dynasty a year?"
"As for those Turkic barbarians who want to go back to the Turkic land to graze, let them go back. Maybe by then, the people of the Tang Dynasty in the Turkic land will already be several times the number of those Turkic barbarians. Even if those Turkic barbarians are sent back
, I can only continue to live with my head bowed under the supervision of the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Moreover, the taxes recovered from the Turkic lands were used to build some schools in the cities of the Turkic lands, and sent some loyal and patriotic masters to teach the people of the Tang Dynasty to read and read, and to be educated by the Tang Dynasty.
If things go on like this, there is no need to worry that the Chinese in the Turkic lands will develop villainy intentions."
After Li Xuan said this, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others had dull expressions on their faces.
Perhaps they came to Lijiazhuang to ask Li Xuan for advice.
However, what I want more is to relax and unwind, and I want to take a few bottles of liquor back with me.
However, I never expected that General Li Xuan could really come up with a strategy to govern the Turkic lands.
Moreover, after their analysis, it seems that they only need to make some subtle modifications to Li Xuan's strategy, and it can really succeed.
"Xuanba talks!"
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin is the great sage of the country!"
Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others couldn't help but praise Li Xuan.
Afterwards, Li Shimin asked Li Chengqian who was standing aside: "Gaoming, can you record all the strategies Xuan Ba said?"
"Father, please forgive me. I was just shocked by Master's plan and did not record it. However, we have kept it in mind and will record it right away!"
With that said, Li Chengqian hurriedly walked to the hut on the side.
------Digression-----
"Zi Zhi Tong Jian" records: During the heyday of the Sui Dynasty, the population was 8.95 million households. It was not until the early Tang Dynasty that the world was established, and it was discovered that there were more than 2 million households in Qi. Some of the more than 6 million households that disappeared were due to death.
During the war, some of them were deported, and some of them probably fled overseas or to places in the Western Regions and became Chinese.
It is also recorded in "Zi Zhi Tong Jian" that China had a great harvest in the third year of Zhenguan, and the result was: "More than 1.2 million Chinese people returned from outside the Great Wall and established four barbarians as prefectures and counties."
No matter what, in the early Tang Dynasty, there were really a large number of Chinese in the Western Regions or Turkic places.