Making money, in fact, everyone likes it.

Even the dignified British Princess, the three products under the door of the same Zhongshu, Taifu, and Zhongshu Ling Li Ji all like to make money.

"Your Majesty has issued a decree to set up the Wuzhen Governor's Mansion in Wuzhen Prefecture, with Xue Rengui as the Governor of the Wuzhen Governor's Mansion, in charge of Zhufan, comforting, collecting, recounting and punishing merits, and judging the affairs of the government."

This power is huge.

However, Li Xiao heard some extraneous voices, "Is the imperial court going to set up a state county and colonize the cantonment?" ”

"Of course."

Li Ji's words are very domineering, and there have always been two factions of voices in the court regarding the handling of Baekje. One school of thought believes that Baekje is far away, east of the sea. This time the army was sent to Baekje, and the target was Goguryeo. Therefore, for Baekje, it should be mainly conquered, capture its king into Chang'an, and then canonize a new Baekje king, and the imperial court should set up a metropolitan governor's palace in Baekje and send generals to lead troops to defend it.

This is actually a kind of feudal system, that is, although the imperial court conquered there and then garrisoned the army, it was still the people of Baekje who actually ruled, and the original chieftains of Baekje were appointed as governors of the prefectures.

Bondage, Ma Luotou also; 縻, Niu Jing also, is actually a cage control. The recognition of the local indigenous aristocracy, the title of prince, and the inclusion of the imperial court in the administration of the court are actually equivalent to autonomy.

The so-called "restraint" means that on the one hand, it is necessary to "bond" and use military means and political pressure to control it; On the other hand, the "縻" is used to give comfort to economic and material benefits.

This kind of system, in fact, is also a helpless means of the imperial court, mainly because it is beyond the reach of the whip and is difficult to have strong control. But this system also has its advantages, because the Han ruling class can slowly extend its power, settle prefectures and counties, and force the ethnic groups to retreat gradually. On the contrary, for example, at the end of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, the Liang rulers withdrew from Yunnan, and all the prefectures and counties were occupied by the Hao chieftains.

However, many ministers in the imperial court, led by Li Ji, were resolutely opposed to this strategy, believing that they should directly set up prefectures and counties, send court officials to take office, garrison troops and emigrate at the same time, and directly bring these Tibetan people directly under the rule of the imperial court.

Just like the policy of Lingnan at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Lingnan was mostly occupied by Han heroes and slang chieftains. After that, the imperial court strengthened its control, triggering a rebellion among the Lingnan heroes, but the imperial court did not tolerate it in the slightest, and several peaceful wars were fought, and finally the imperial court succeeded in regaining the right to rule.

Although the control of Lingnan, especially the western part of Lingnan, is not strong, at least this is progress.

Lee Ji believes that this kind of policy should also be used for Baekje.

On the one hand, the governor's palace was set up, and the soldiers and horses were stationed in the town, and at the same time, the prefecture was set up and the county was dispatched, and officials were sent there, and then they immigrated to the past, and for the powerful chieftains of Baekje, they mainly attacked them, and for the people of Baekje, they were organized into households, included in the household registration of the imperial court, and granted land and land, so that they could become households.

Li Xiao is also in favor of this strategy, such as Yunnan, which withdrew at the end of the Southern Dynasty and Liang, until now, Yunnan has always been occupied by those powerful and powerful, and has not become the territory of the Tang Dynasty like Lingnan, and even in the Middle Tang Dynasty, Yunnan also rose a powerful local power Nanzhao, which later became Dali when it came to the Song Dynasty.

For hundreds of years, it has not been incorporated into the rule of the Central Plains, if it were not for this, I am afraid that after the efforts of the Tang and Song dynasties, the southwestern territory of the empire would have been pushed further southwest.

"The land in the Wuchen Governor's Mansion must be very cheap now." Li Xiao touched his chin and said, adult men must be crowned, and adult men must also grow beards, otherwise others will say that you are not a grandfather. Li Xiao is now wearing a scarlet official robe all day long, so he also grows a beard now, and after careful trimming, it adds a bit of might.

"It must be cheap, what, you still want to buy land in Wuchen Prefecture?" Li Ji asked.

"To do business, you have to have a vision. Since the imperial court intends to incorporate Baekje into its territory, it must be done as soon as possible. Now that no one is buying, it's a good time to buy the bottom. ”

Li Xiao's idea is very simple, taking advantage of the fact that Wuchen Prefecture is still fighting now, and the land price is cheap, he will first buy a large piece of him, and then organize a slave hunting team to go over, and while going to the enemy territory to capture Baekje people as slaves and come back to Tuntian to farm, he can also buy some prisoners of war from the officials and soldiers in Baekje to come to Tuntian.

Buy land and tuntian, and then the grain produced can be sold directly to the official army, and after making money, you can buy prisoners or gold and silver and other booty from the official army, and the captives will stay in the tuntian, and the gold and silver and other goods can be transported back to the Central Plains to sell, which is definitely a good deal to make money.

Although the risk is quite large, the profit will not be less.

To do business is to support the bold and starve the faint-hearted. Besides, Li Xiao still trusts Xue Rengui very much, but he has an army of 40,000 in hand, and Su Lie, a fierce general, just with the Fuyu Yici who stole in the Tang Dynasty, is he an opponent?

"If Ying Gong is afraid of risks, we can first settle on Tamna Island. Tamna Island is also very large, and there is certainly no risk in Tuntian. Not only can you build a farm, but you can also build a shipyard and a medicine and liquor workshop there. ”

Li Ji is not a timid person, this is a naturally bold and bold person. When he was fourteen or fifteen years old, he let go of the life of a rich boy and went to Wagang to be a thief. If he hadn't been bold, he would not have become a prince of the country later, let alone become the prime minister of the DPRK and China now.

However, Li Ji is bold, but he is actually very cautious.

When he does things, he always plans before he acts.

"Tuntian, in fact, you can go anywhere."

"Ying Gong, it is true that you can farm anywhere in Tuntian, but if you grow food in Tuntian in ordinary places, how much money can you make? But if it's in Baekje Tuntian and sells grain to the Eastern Expeditionary Army, it's not ordinary, right? ”

In a good grain year, the grain producing area only sells for two or three cents. But what about the front line? Sometimes if you have money, you can buy food, not to mention two or three dollars, if you sell him twenty or thirty dollars, they are willing to buy it.

I think that at the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Miwei Wang Shichong was in Luoyang, there was a shortage of grain in the city, and the rice was sold for thousands of dollars.

Although the Eastern Expeditionary Army of Baekje can also be tuntian, after all, it is still at the time of the war, and the main task of the Eastern Expeditionary Army is still to fight, so how much time can there be for tuntian. And if you are an immigrant, you don't have such suitable conditions.

At this time, if there is a bold person like Li Xiao, it is really a good idea to go to Shangtun, which is a good thing for you, me, and everyone.

The army had more food sources, and the merchants made huge profits.

The only thing that is needed is for the businessmen to take risks and be bold.

"As long as the British Duke advises the court to let the Eastern Expeditionary Army sell the captives to the merchants who are willing to go to Baekje to serve the country's tuntian as slaves, then a great thing can be done!" Li Xiao tempted Li Ji.