Chapter 787 The Chieftain’s State within a State

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. I have never carried out such a march-like advance, but my bones can still withstand it, but if I speed up again, I will have no choice but to ask for leave from Your Highness."

What Xiao Yu said was very true, and he did not insist on it. Taking his old bones as an example, today's progress has reached the limit. If he continues to increase the speed, it will only be the team of slaves following him. inside.

"Sir, what are you talking about asking for leave? You are here for our army's logistics. It is your duty to follow these people in the rear. If you don't follow them, I'm afraid that everyone will run away along the way. "

Li Xiang's words made people feel comfortable. It was clear that Xiao Yu's body could not keep up, but from Li Xiang's mouth, it was that Xiao Yu had to follow the team of slaves in order to work. No matter where it was mentioned, not only did he not Faults, and even merit.

"Thank you for your understanding, Your Highness. Now that I am going to Sichuan and Sichuan, I have also made a note for Your Highness to read."

Xiao Yu is a hard worker. The reason why Li Xiang agreed at the beginning was because Xiao Yu was more serious about his work. Don't worry about what this old guy was thinking. He would definitely be able to complete his work. Based on this, Li Xiang would not be able to take him with him. Unfortunately, if it had been anyone else along the way, their bodies might not have been able to adapt, but they still wrote a plan, which was already quite difficult.

The first thing listed is the construction of roads, which coincides with Li Xiang. Due to the construction of roads in the north, the connections between various places have been greatly strengthened, which not only strengthened the imperial court's rule over various places, but also helped to ease some refugees in various places. The effect of this is that these people have no place to eat. Now the court wants to build roads. In addition to using prisoners of war in dangerous places, these refugees in other places also have food to eat.

Secondly, it is about the economy. After the road is built, it will not only facilitate the imperial army, but most importantly, it will also facilitate the circulation of goods from various places, allowing money to circulate everywhere, and the life of the people will be easier. Business Trade is nothing more than making money flow. If everyone has flowing water in their hands, then life will be easier.

The second is to develop local agriculture. Food is the most important thing for the people. The imperial court has now experienced it. Large areas of land in Liaozhong of Goguryeo have been developed, so the imperial court’s food has more than doubled than before. Xiao Yu also checked the relationship between Sichuan and Sichuan. The terrain of the land, in addition to many high mountains around it, is actually a basin in the interior, and it was once called the Kingdom of Shu. The Shu Kingdom developed here in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, due to wars, it was instead Somewhat withered.

If we can develop locally, just as Li Xiang said to Li Shimin, not only will the front line not need a grain of food from Chang'an City, but even after the war is over, the Kingdom of Tianfu will be able to provide a lot of food to help The imperial court stabilized other areas.

Finally, there are the local chieftains. According to Xiao Yu's regulations, if the court has the strength, it will try to deal with these chieftains first, and then deal with Nanzhao last. After all, there are some disobedient people in its own land. If you bypass these chieftains and attack Nanzhao first, our logistics may be interrupted.

"Isn't it possible that this last point, sir, cannot appease these chieftains?"

This point is somewhat objectionable to Li Xiang. According to Li Xiang's previous idea, bringing Xiao Yu to Chengdu was to let him sit in Chengdu and then frighten the chieftains in the south so that they would not dare when Li Xiang went to war. Recklessly.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Yu wanted to fight them first, which was somewhat different from Li Xiang's plan.

"Your Highness, I have studied the chieftains in the south. Although they ostensibly submit to the Tang Dynasty, they are actually not much different from the countries in the Western Regions. They usually only submit a few memorials. The real benefits have never been. They often plunder our Sichuan and Shu officials and people. The local officials are afraid of taking responsibility, so they never write about this. The emperor likes it..."

When Xiao Yu said this, he couldn't go on. Although what he said was true, Xiao Yu was still unwilling to say bad things about Li Shimin.

Li Xiang understood what Xiao Yu was going to say, that is, Li Shimin was so happy with his achievements that he liked all the nations to come to court. On the surface, this was true, but how many of them actually surrendered to you sincerely?

Take these chieftains as an example. Apart from a few memorials, they didn’t get even a dime of gifts. Is this true surrender? On the contrary, Chang'an City needed support when encountering disasters. At that time, Li Shimin squeezed out some money from the treasury and shipped it over for the sake of face, just to maintain the situation where all nations came to visit the DPRK.

In fact, many people within the imperial court were dissatisfied, including some people in the civil service group. Xiao Yu was the most dissatisfied. He believed that using real money and silver to buy a false reputation was of no use at all. Instead of wasting money every year, it would be better to It is better to send troops to exterminate them, turn this place into a state government system of the imperial court, and set up local officials to collect taxes according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty. This is the most important thing to do, instead of subsidizing them at every turn, which will create a lot of white-eyed wolves. .

After listening to Xiao Yu's words, Li Xiang really had to think carefully. He originally thought of taking down Nanzhao first, and then slowly deal with these chieftains. Now it seems that this is far from the case, but Li Xiang Xiang didn't make a decision in a hurry. He planned to go to the toast master's territory to have a look, and then make a decision.

"Your Highness might as well take a look first. Lord Changsun has information about these chieftains. It's time for some people in the court to know what these chieftains have done."

Xiao Yu saw that Li Xiang was not in a hurry to express his position, and he was not in a hurry either. He was a calm person himself. Of course, he could not expect Li Xiang to be so radical. Even if Li Xiang was so radical, Xiao Yu would probably still Let Li Xiang think carefully. Everything must rely on his own eyes, not his ears.

After dinner, Li Xiang returned to his tent. The eldest grandson Pingting had already changed into girl's clothes. When Li Xiang saw the eldest grandson Pingting in a white gauze skirt, he couldn't help but have some thoughts in his heart, but the eldest grandson Pingting rolled her eyes. Er took Li Xiang to the wooden barrel next to him and asked Li Xiang to take a bath first.

Thinking about how smelly and sweaty I am, it is really annoying to others, not to mention that it is more comfortable to take a hot bath with everything prepared.