Chapter 1116 Old Friend

"Why are you here?"

Although he didn't know these people, he was a visitor from his homeland after all, so Yongning acted very cordially and asked the people behind him to bring some water.

"Your Highness Princess, you don't know. Our hometown is different from before. Now we have established government offices at all levels. We are almost starving to death in our hometown. The court has given us some emergency food, but this is not a solution. Yeah, we have to make a living after all, so we came to Fuso, saying that there is a chance for us to survive here."

Listening to the fellow villagers say this, the two sisters felt very cordial, but what Yongning heard was the literal meaning, but what Yongping heard was another meaning.

These people in front of them are obviously poor. Judging from the tatters they wear, even in a relatively peaceful country like Nanzhao, their lives are probably not very good. The reason why they come all the way to Fusang is I'm afraid I just want to live a better life.

The next thing is very simple. Just like what we saw that day in Yongping, all kinds of people recruiting workers flocked in. They didn't care whether these people were Han people from the Tang Dynasty or people from Nanzhao in the south, as long as they got off the boat people, it means they are more reliable than the local Fuso people.

Moreover, these Nanzhao people are basically similar to us in terms of language and habits, and they do not call themselves Nanzhao people. These people are very smart and will say that they are from the Tang Dynasty.

Now that you all claim to be people of the Tang Dynasty, some things will be easier to handle. We will give you the same treatment as the Tang Dynasty, but you also have to work for us honestly, like Fusang. For a relatively dangerous place, Han people rarely come here unless they can no longer survive. However, the life in Nanzhao is slightly worse than that in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, it has just experienced a war, and there are various ways to make ends meet. There are many people.

Therefore, the imperial court advanced this plan in advance and asked the existing people to go to Nanzhao to recruit refugees. They were first given a certain amount of food rations to survive, and then they were transported to the Lingnan area. From there, they took a boat directly to Fusang. This is everything today.

"Can I take a boat back to Nanzhao from here?"

Listening to these people's stories, Yongning's face showed his longing for his hometown.

"Of course you can. As long as there is a sea in the world, the naval warships of the Tang Dynasty can reach it. Although I can't reach Nanzhao directly, we can go to Lingnan of the Tang Dynasty first, and then disembark from there and transfer Go to Nanzhao on land."

Although these two are princesses, they don't know much about the geography and terrain of this era. Although Li Xiang has made it very clear, the faces of the two princesses are still confused. Li Xiang can only look at the two princesses. The princess took her back to her camp and explained slowly.

On the way back, Princess Yongping knew what happened today. Li Xiang wanted to tell himself in this way that Nanzhao no longer existed, including the common people in your country. They all regard themselves as people from the Tang Dynasty.

To be honest, the two princesses were indeed very happy when they saw these fellow villagers just now, but Yongping still got something else from the conversation with these people, that is, no one would think about restoring the country. .

During the reign of King Nanzhao, although local life was good, after a war, the prestige of the Nanzhao royal family was completely lost throughout the country. The war between the two brothers almost destroyed the entire royal city. And it caused a huge upheaval.

If not for the help of the Tang Dynasty, how could it be settled so quickly? Now coupled with the wanton propaganda of the Tang Dynasty, the people of Nanzhao regard the people of Tang Dynasty as their saviors.

Of course, the most important thing is that Datang implemented different policies in Nanzhao. The policies implemented in other areas were somewhat colonial, and they also took a lot of advantage there, causing a lot of damage to the local economy.

But Nanzhao was different. The Tang Dynasty implemented a different policy. Because the local people were relatively wealthy and lived well in other places except the royal city, the Tang Dynasty began to quickly restore the local economy. , this is also another way to make progress together.

Although we cannot rob other cities in Nanzhao and have no way to replenish the entire war at the first time, as long as it takes two or three years, will the various places be integrated with the economy of the Tang Dynasty? At that time, When we develop together, we will gain much more than we do now.

As long as you can take a long-term view, a win-win situation for both parties is definitely better than robbery, so Li Xiang formulated a new plan and handed it over to Changsun Chong for execution.

In addition to not robbing Nanzhao, he also helped develop the economy of various places in Nanzhao. This has never happened before. However, Changsun Chong has always blindly implemented Li Xiang's policies because he believed that this cousin was not an ordinary person. clever.

Thanks to the efforts of the Changsun brothers, in just over half a year, Nanzhao has not only regained its former vitality, but also many goods have been transported to Datang, making the local economy prosperous.

Under such circumstances, how could the people of Nanzhao still remember the past? Although the King of Nanzhao was still a puppet, when the Tang Dynasty established prefectures and yamen in various places, few people stood up to oppose it. This meant that the original ruling system of the Nanzhao court had collapsed, and now there was a new one. The governance system was improved.

The last group are the people at the lowest level in Nanzhao. They do not have any assets in their own country, and many of them even have their own families left. Therefore, no matter how the entire society changes, they cannot find the source of happiness.

So Changsun Chong and Li Xiang discussed it and simply sent these people to the surface. Didn't Li Xiang say that the Fusang people would never be able to integrate into the Tang Dynasty? Then let them, like the Goguryeo people, become the free labor force of our Tang Dynasty, which can be managed by the people of Nanzhao, which can not only solve the problem of refugees in Nanzhao, but also provide us with a large amount of labor force.

Of course, doing so would harm the interests of the lower class people of the Tang Dynasty. After all, this job was originally done for them. But when these people heard that they were coming overseas, many of them were unwilling to come. So how could you stop them from Nanzhao? Is anyone coming?