In a blink of an eye, it has come to the Dragon Boat Festival, and the three yasu guards of Luoyang City, according to the emperor's order, each sent out a team to race in a dragon boat on the canal outside the city.

Countless people in the capital rushed to watch, so it was not lively.

The emperor and the emperor and the crown prince watched the dragon boat race together, with the emperor there, the soldiers were extremely hardworking, you fought for me, it was not exciting.

At the end of the competition, the first place won a prize of 888 yuan, and the second and third places also received 66 and 303 prizes respectively.

Even in order to have fun with the people, the emperor also deliberately let people put 3,000 fat ducks and geese into the river after the dragon boat race, and let the people go down to the river to compete, and countless people who know how to water jumped into the river to compete, ducks and geese danced wildly, and the people were jubilant.

Wei Zheng, as the prime minister, sat next to the emperor.

"General Li Jing was very successful in meeting the barbarian chieftains in Lingnan, and with a few scattered officials and a little salt, he made those slang barbarians willing to naturalize, which is really amazing, which has not been done by any dynasty for thousands of years. Yunnan Qianzhong can learn a good thing. ”

Luo Cheng nodded, "Li Jing did use a very good trick, but don't be too happy, although these Nanban are tempted and naturalized now, once the imperial court wants to really clear the land and collect taxes, they are afraid that they will still not be willing." ”

"At least now that I have been naturalized, and I have demarcated the boundaries of Zhuxitong, registered them, and set up boundary stakes and steles, the next step is to build roads, set up post stations, and even send township officials, step by step, the imperial court's control over the local area is constantly increasing."

As for taxation, anyway, the emperor didn't give Li Jing an edict before, directly changing the five-year tax exemption and five and a half taxes to ten years of exemption from two taxes and ten and a half taxes. Ten years later, when the half-tax began to be levied, it is believed that the imperial court's control over Lingnan was no longer comparable to today's.

Ten years of tax exemption, in fact, the imperial court did not lose the slightest, because there was no tax in the past. And now, in the name of tax exemption, and then induce these people to naturalize with loose officials and private individuals, the imperial court finds out their details, builds roads into them, sets up townships, and establishes pavilions.

In the county seat and the township pavilion, markets and bazaars were set up to trade with these locals. Through trading, you can also collect taxes, which may even be higher than the regular tax, not to mention, you can also make a lot of money through trading.

"The most important thing is that after reaching the current alliance with these barbarians, our government can enter justifiably and unhindered, and with 72 battalions of government soldiers to fight in the vanguard, we can also immigrate more Han people to Lingnan in the future.

For the governance of this kind of wild land, Luo Cheng actually has long experience and is very easy to use, that is, the population. As long as the Han population can reach a certain proportion, the barbarians will not be able to fight the Han no matter how unruly they are. Moreover, the expansion rate of the Han people is very fast.

Because of the huge base of tens of millions of Han people in the Central Plains, as long as they gain a foothold and have a relatively stable environment, then a large number of Han people will pour in, whether they are doing business, family members, or others.

But if the Han people can have two or three hundred thousand, even if there are twenty or thirty thousand Han people in a county, and a few thousand Han people in a county, then the barbarians will never be able to suppress the Han people.

"As long as we maintain the current momentum and maintain stability, then ten years later, there is indeed no possibility of a turnaround. However, we can't be careless, after all, millions of slang barbarians, now they are a mess, so we have a chance, we must not make these people into a group, and in the end they will deal with us. ”

"Your Majesty can summon the children of the chieftains into Beijing and arrange for them to either enter the national eunuch or the inner government and pro-army, which can be regarded as a preferential treatment for those chieftains who have been granted loose officials, and at the same time, they can also be held hostage by their children."

Luo Cheng felt that this was a good idea, it could strengthen the connection with them, and even after these barbarian disciples broadened their horizons in the Central Plains and saw the strength of Great Qin, they might not be able to make trouble easily.

"The county schools and county schools in various places can also recruit these old and handsome children of Xitong to enroll. At the same time, don't forget to strengthen trade with them, there are a lot of local products in Lingnan, in the past, not only transportation, but also limited channels, their things are not easy to sell, we now need to strengthen trade, collect things, and sell all kinds of handicraft goods in our Central Plains, so that these barbarians can live a good life, especially those chieftains can live a good life because of the change, so that no one wants to go back to the past. ”

In any case, for those Xi Tong barbarians, those lands in Lingnan are where they have lived for generations, and Daqin's saying that he wants to change the land and return it to the stream is essentially equivalent to grabbing their territory, even if they have been nominally subordinate to the Central Plains Imperial Court before.

If you don't give some benefits in exchange, don't let them feel the benefits, just coercive orders, it will not work, it will only cause rebellions and wars, and a chaotic Lingnan is not what the emperor needs.

"The construction of a few more ports along the coast of Lingnan and the increase of ports will not only facilitate the navigation supply and transit trade of silk at sea, but will also be a key fortress for us to control Lingnan."

Li Xian came over.

"Your Majesty, I just received the news that Tiele Xue Yantuo Khan is about to lose his bowl."

The emperor was surprised, "What's the matter, Yi still came to Luoyang to worship when he lost the bowl, and it has only been a few months?" At that time, his body was as strong as a cow, and he was sacrificed to the tiger skin he hunted with his own hands. ”

"Tiele returned to the rebellion, Yi lost his bowl and went to the conquest, but was raided, he was hit by several arrows, and returned defeated, although the people withdrew to the Khan's court, but the injuries were very serious, and the arrows that shot him were even coated with wolf dung, which was poisonous. Yi Lost Bowl has sent someone to Luoyang, asking His Majesty to let his grandson Yinan go back to succeed to the throne, and asking His Majesty to send troops to help Xue Yantuo to conquer the return of the minister. ”

The Uighur, also known as the Wei Su, was a branch of Tiele, and Tiele, also known as Eile, was the first tribal confederation that lived south of the North Sea (Lake Baikal). It is also called a tall car because it is commonly used with tall wheels.

They are a different species of the Huns.

Xue Yantuo and Hui are one of the Tiele tribes, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tiele tribes in the Eastern and Western Turks swayed constantly, rebellion is not frequent, the great cause of the Tiele tribes were originally subordinate to the Western Turks, and later rebelled and lost, so they defected to the Eastern Turks.

Later, when he followed the southern expedition of Bi Khan, Luo Cheng was defeated by the Sui general, so the Tiele tribes were reattached to the Sui and obeyed Luo Cheng's orders.

After Luo established the state, he defeated the Jieli Khan who went south, so Yi Shibo, who was attached to Luo Cheng, led his troops to take advantage of the great injury of the Eastern Turks and began to besiege the Turks and seize control of the Mobei grassland.

With the support of Luo Cheng, the leader of the Xue Yantuo tribe, Yi lost the bowl and established the Xue Yantuo Khanate, and all the Tiele tribes belonged to him.

Hui is the tribe second only to Xue Yantuo in the Tiele tribes, in the past, the strongest of the Tiele tribes was the Qibi tribe, but it was plotted by the beginning, so Xue Yantuo became the boss of Tiele.

"Why do you want to rebel, please send troops to fight against your majesty." Wei Zhengdao.

Xue Yantuo is a subject state of the Mobei Domain of Great Qin, and now that he is in internal turmoil, Great Qin is indeed responsible for helping him quell the chaos.

But Luo Cheng calmly asked him, "After the defeat of the two Khans of Bi and Jieli, Yi Lost Bowl did make a lot of efforts for me to besiege the Mobei Turks, and last year he sent troops into the Western Regions to attack and shoot Kui, which was meritorious. But now the Eastern and Western Turks have either died or surrendered, almost in name only, and they are no longer in danger of our Great Qin. But Xue Yantuo now occupies Mobei and orders the ministries, but he has 200,000 accounts, not counting the other ministries, only Xue Yantuo's department has 200,000 accounts. This means that Xue Yantuo can pull out 200,000 horsemen at any time, not counting the other Tiele tribesmen. Wei Zheng, Xue Yantuo occupies Mobei and has hundreds of thousands of people, which has become a potential threat. ”

For the state, there is no such thing as an absolutely loyal vassal,

Just like the Eastern Turkic Qimin and Shibi Khan's father and son, which were supported by the Sui Dynasty, but two generations have not passed, and Shibi is strong, won't he want to devour the main attack on the Sui?

Once the strength is strong, it will inevitably be so.

Today's Xue Yantuo is indeed too strong.

Unifying the Mobei tribes, and the Western Turks in the Western Regions are now fleeing with the defeat of the shooting army, although Mohelu Khan is the Western Turk Khan, but he is just a puppet, and the Western Turks have been beaten without a backbone.

With the three counties of Anxi and the seventy-two princes of Eli, the Western Turks have not yet perished, but they no longer pose a threat.

At this time, Xue Yantuo actually had no other restraints and threats.

In the past two years, Yi Lost Bowl has actually been loyal to Daqin on the surface, but secretly he has been a little arrogant. He had strict control over the Tiele tribes, in fact, he wanted to emulate the Great Qin, strengthen the authority of the Khan's court, and weaken the strength of the tribes, and he was not satisfied with the traditional form of tribal alliances.

In fact, Luo Cheng had already seen this kind of behavior, and he had even raised his vigilance.

Hui Hui's rebellion is a good thing for Luo Cheng.

"The Wei Hui tribe united with the Fugu, Tongluo, Bayegu and other tribes to form an alliance, collectively known as the Hui Hui, which is an authoritarian act of dissatisfaction with Yi Lost Bowl, and they want to maintain the traditional tribal alliance system. Wei Zheng, the land of Mobei, far away from the Hanhai Gobi, the imperial court is powerless to directly control, if a strong authoritarian khan is allowed to appear in Mobei, sooner or later it will be a Turkic beginning. Wei Su and several other alliances rebelled, which was a good thing for the imperial court, and if there were two tribal alliances in Mobei, Hui and Xue Yantuo, to contain each other, it would be better than a monopoly. ”

Wei Zheng was stunned, the emperor's words were really outrageous, but they also showed the essential interests between countries.

Instead of believing that Xue Yantuo would always be loyal, it was better to let Hui Hui help watch the balance.

"But we are the sect master of Xue Yantuo, and the vassal is in civil strife, can we just watch it?"

Luo Cheng smiled lightly, "Why didn't you turn the corner, of course we can't directly admit Huifu, but we can make peace in the name of mediation, the means are not important, the result is important." ”

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