Li Buqi's question made Xiao Gu and Su Mian not know how to answer, and Su Mian asked for a long time: "Is the envoy saying that the imperial court should suppress and appease the barbarians, instead of blindly accommodating?" ”

Li Buqi said: "No, this is just a superficial phenomenon. The reality was that the court's policy of gentleness towards the barbarians was very wrong. First, the vast majority of officials shouted tenderness to the barbarians, but in their hearts they regarded the barbarians as beasts rather than the people of the Great Song Dynasty. If there is nothing to do, it will be oppressed, and if there is something, it will be gentle. In this way, when acting blindly, they are scheming, and they are doing their best to make the most of their interests, and there are even cases where they have no faith at all. Repeated a few times, the court is no longer trusted by the barbarians. ”

"Second, almost all officials don't know the inside story of the barbarians, and when they say Huairou, they are rewarding the leaders of the barbarians. In this way, all the benefits given by the court were obtained by the barbarian leaders, and ordinary barbarians did not know the favors of the court. On the one hand, it was the barbarian leaders who coerced their subordinates to threaten the court with rebellion, and on the other hand, the ordinary barbarians were ruthless to the court. Because of these two mistakes, in fact, most of the court's Huairou policies are just to put out fires with salaries. ”

"Actually, it's not that difficult to change the land and return to the river. People want to live a good life, as long as the barbarian people see that they can live a better life than in their cottage tribes after they change their land and return to the stream, and the people can live a better life than in their cottage tribes, ordinary barbarians will inevitably be willing to accept the management of the government. Rather than willing to change the land, it is the leaders who regard their tribes as private property. However, if the government directly disposes of these people, it will give these people the opportunity to provoke conflicts between the Han and the barbarians. Therefore, the best way is for the barbarian people to ask the government to govern themselves and fight against their leaders. ”

"I didn't recruit soldiers all for Jiaozhi, a more important purpose is to let these people who have never seen the world outside the mountains go out of the mountains and see with their own eyes how prosperous and powerful the Great Song Dynasty is, and how rich life can be. With comparison, they will be eager to accept the management of the imperial court, and when they return to their cottages, they will also promote for us. Provided, of course, that no one treats them like beasts. ”

"So, the success or failure of this matter depends on how we treat these soldiers. If they treat them like people, they will help the court to change the land in the future, and if they treat them like beasts, they may really become jackals in the future. ”

Speaking of this, he looked at Xiao Gu and Su Mu and asked, "Are you two willing to help me in this matter?" ”

Xiao Gu hurriedly said: "Yun Envoy's words, let Gu Mao stop, dare not be unsatisfied?" ”

Then Su Mian said: "No wonder people say that luck makes the sky longitudinal, and they are used to being able to explore the subtleties, and it is true." There is an envoy in charge of the overall situation, and he should be the forerunner and handle this matter for the imperial court. ”

Li Buqi said: "I know that both of them are talented people, so I am naturally relieved. I'm worried about your officials, and if you produce one or two, all the other people's efforts will be in vain. Therefore be diligent in this regard. ”

Su Mu asked: "The envoy may tell me how to do it?" ”

Li Buqi said: "It is to treat it like ordinary people, there are meritorious rewards, and there are punishments for mistakes." As for the soldiers, they have always been careless, and it is difficult to get them to fully obey military discipline. And I'm not going to train them to be as strong as the Forbidden Army. So don't worry too much about their formation and lineup, as long as they can follow basic discipline and follow orders at the beginning. ”

Now Xiao Gu and Su Mu got the truth, and since then they have been diligent in the work against the barbarians.

Now that we have entered the first lunar month, rice has been sown, rice is about to be planted, and sugar cane has been planted in some places. Because the imperial court exempted the war-torn areas of Guangxi and Guangxi from taxes for two years, the production of these government lands would be the first income of the Guangdong government in this year, and Li Buqi had to devote a large part of his energy to supervising production.

This winter, tens of thousands of acres of land have been leveled around Guangzhou by means of cash-for-work, which would not have been taken care of by each family in the past. However, now that there is a winter of running-in, most of the villages can organize labor cooperation, and the government has bought a lot of ploughing cattle from Fujian and Jiangxi for the people to use, so they have allocated a lot of manpower to work for the government and planted those tens of thousands of acres of official land, and the situation seems to be very good.

However, this is the first time that the government has organized such a large-scale labor cooperation, and although there are many students from Qingyuan Academy to supervise and help, these students only have theoretical knowledge and lack practical experience. The so-called difficulty in the beginning of everything, some flaws can easily turn a good deed that benefits the people into a bad government that harms the people, and what Li Buqi is most worried about is that the officials will take the opportunity to harm the people and apportion the people to work, so after he returned to the city, he stayed in the city for two days and then went to several demonstration counties around Guangzhou to conduct inspections, and even the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was spent in Yingzhou.

Before returning to Guangzhou, the messenger hurriedly found Di Qing to report that Di Qing had captured Kunlun Pass on the night of the New Year's Eve.

Li Buqi saw the comic strip of this story when he was a child before he crossed over, but he didn't expect that he would be able to witness this historical fact now, but Nong Zhigao was replaced by a Jiaozhi person.

Now the Jiaozhi people in Yongzhou are hard. A large number of various materials were transported around Yongzhou to wait in exchange for Jiaozhi captives, and with their toes, they knew that those tough mountain people would rush into Guangyuan Prefecture with red eyes to intercept and kill the Jiaozhi people to transport grain and grass, because this is the most expensive way of fighting. It is estimated that it will not be long before the Jiaozhi people will be short of food. The Jiaozhi people lost the dangerous Kunlun Pass again, and they couldn't stay in Yongzhou for long.

As for the Jiaozhi people in Qinzhou and Lianzhou, they are also very hard. Because Li Buqi left a fleet of three large ships and six clippers on the side of Fangchenggang later, which was dedicated to intercepting the grain carriers of the Jiaozhi people. Then there is a fleet of ships resting in the port of Qiongzhou, which rotates every few days.

At this time, the registered population of the whole territory of Guangxi was only 1.34 million, and the population of a remote place like Qinzhou and Lianzhou was only 20,000 or 30,000. As long as the sea transportation is cut off, the Jiaozhi people in Qinzhou and Lianzhou will not be able to stay.

By mid-February, Guangxi had reported that more than 2,000 Song people had escaped from the vicinity of Yongzhou, more than 2,000 prisoners and more than 1,000 heads had been taken from the barbarians.

Guangxi also needed to develop, and these captives were left in Guangxi to build roads under the supervision of the Xiang army. Now that the Guangzhou Capital Academy has also begun to produce gunpowder, a group of southern students of Qingyuan Academy have used gunpowder in various projects with the support of Li Buqi to open up mountains and blow up stones, and they also need to be captured.

In fact, the black powder used for blasting in this era is still a little worse, and the use method is still very clumsy, in fact, it can't help the project much, and sometimes it even adds chaos. But if you don't create opportunities to use it, how can you accumulate experience and find better ways to use it?

Originally, Li Buqi also had a worry, that is, due to the unstable performance of gunpowder, there were often casualties caused by squibs, which would seriously damage morale. But now it's okay, Lao Tzu has Jiaozhi captives in his hands, let them eliminate them if the cannon doesn't go off, and no one will fart if they are killed, and no one will feel distressed. Thanks to the crossing, thanks to Li Dezheng, the king of Jiaozhi, for giving Li Buqi the opportunity to experience the feeling of a slave owner.

By May, the rice and sugar cane had grown, and Li Buqi had to go and completely kill the Jiaozhi Naval Army. Because it was not long before those merchant ships going to the West would enter the South China Sea, Li Buqi did not want these merchant ships to be plundered by the Jiaozhi people who went south to Zhancheng and other places. There can be no longer delay, because in the summer, there are frequent typhoons in the Beibu Gulf, and there are at least five strong typhoons. In this era when there is no weather forecast, Li Buqi doesn't want to fight a typhoon at sea, so he must go back quickly, and he must kill the Jiaozhi Navy before entering the summer.