Gao Yu's words made Sima Guang stunned. He really didn't think about whether the laws of the Great Song Dynasty should be applied to Jiaozhi. This is something that no one has ever thought about before. It seems that there is no such example as a vassal of Jiaozhi that should be subject to the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, but logically speaking, since Jiaozhi is a vassal of the Great Song Dynasty, it is natural that the laws of the Great Song Dynasty should be applied. Sima Guang was also a little head-headed for a while.

So Sima Guang found a reason for compromise: "Jiaozhi is a vassal of the Great Song Dynasty, so naturally the laws of the Great Song Dynasty should be applied." It's just that its land is remote, and its own customs are different from those of the Central Plains, and the first emperor was merciful and allowed to practice the law of Jiaozhi......"

Gao Yu sneered and said: "A few days ago, the review also published a masterpiece in the newspaper, accusing the soldiers who went to Guangnan for shaving their hair as a courtesy and righteousness, and the ancestors did not tolerate it, and thought that the review did not know that the terroir of the barbaric land of Guangnan was different from that of the Central Plains. In the miasma land, the soldiers shaved off their hair in order to win the battle for the imperial court, but Sima reviewed it; The people of Jiaozhi invaded my land and killed my people, but they can be forgiven because of their different customs. Why is it so harsh to the people loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, and so generous to the Jiaozhi people? ”

Right Zhengyan Han Jiang saw that Sima Guang was a little unable to resist, and hurriedly went out to join the battle group: "Huairou Yuanyi is the way of the Holy King. Gao Yushi should not be too far away from the body. ”

Gao Yu said: "Yes, Huairou Yuanyi is the way of the Holy King. It's just that what holy king harms those close to him to subsidize the distant Yidi who harbors evil intentions? What holy king is willing to let his people be killed by Yidi for nothing, and not let Yidi pay the price? ”

Fu Bi, who had just returned to the center for a short time, said: "The transfer of the Guangnan capital has made Li Bu give up his great responsibility, and now he is on the verge of handing over his toes. The minister thought that the situation was embarrassing, so he tried to make peace and test the court. The court must not fall for this trick. ”

Pang Ji saw that you were arguing with each other, especially the two imperial historians who were promoted from Hebei, and the ministers of the tongue war did not fall behind, and couldn't help but secretly congratulate themselves that they had made preparations. He knew that although many of the things Li Buqi had done were very effective, they were deviant, and it was difficult for the emperor and himself to control the court and not hinder Li Buqi, so he urgently promoted two students from Qingyuan Academy to let Li Buqi make a voice in the court, so that he could have a reasonable grasp when defending Li Buqi. Now it seems that this arrangement is really wise.

At present, it seems that with these two imperial histories taking the lead, and with ministers like Fu Bi and Wang Yaochen who can do things to provide support in the back, there is no need for the emperor and himself to come forward to force pressure today, although they cannot immediately and explicitly refuse to make peace, but they can also let this matter drag on for a long time, and give Li Buqi time to fight for a settlement of Jiaozhi.

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The dynamics in the court were always sent to Li Buqi, who was far away in Guangzhou, as quickly as possible, and now Li Buqi learned that the courtiers had formed an evenly matched situation on the issue of Jiaozhi. In the past, the head of the household department Shangshu Tian Guo thought that fighting Jiaozhi was a money-losing business, but after learning that there would be huge war dividends in Jiaozhi, Tian Guo has now become a wait-and-see faction, although he will not support Li Bu to give up, but he will no longer rush to ask the emperor to stop the war on the grounds of lack of money.

Among those officials who shouted all day long that they should be allowed to sue for peace, many of them actually bought treasury bonds, and they were actually reluctant to give up the land of Jiaozhi in their hearts, just to show that they took the world as their own responsibility, and it was Confucius's good students who stood in the ranks of supporting the rest of the army. So don't look at the current court's demand for accepting Jiaozhi's request for peace, but the emperor and Pang can still bear it. Li Buqi wrote another letter asking for authorization to contact Champa to jointly crusade against Jiaozhi, and the matter was also allowed.

Of course, this was on the premise that the emperor and Pang Ji thought that Li Buqi could implement the plan smoothly. Li Buqi had no doubt that if something went wrong, the emperor and Pang Ji would not hesitate to sell him. Therefore, Li Buqi's plan of action is based on the premise of being foolproof, and he would rather be slow than risky.

Fortunately, now the two Guangxi have begun to recover. During the winter, the settlers and captives cultivated more than 200,000 acres of new land and planted rice and sugar cane. In the spring, the sugarcane planted last year began to be harvested, and thousands of prisoners of Nongzhigao's army were assigned to work in the sugar cane fields and sugar mills. Because Li Buqi still has more than 200,000 yuan of funds in his hands, he can build all the sugar mills into hydraulic machinery. These workshops, which line the banks of the rivers, use huge water rafts to drive heavy stone cane and even steel rollers to squeeze the sugar cane, which the workers only need to stuff between the stone and the steel rollers. This sugar extraction not only saves manpower, but also makes the sugarcane juice very clean, and now Li Buqi is troubled by the fact that there are no trucks that can transport enough sugarcane to the factory.

According to Li Buqi's temper, how can sugar production not be co-produced? On one side, the white sugar and rock sugar are transported to the port, and the remaining molasses on the other side is fermented into wine in large urns. Li Buqi separated ammonia from the coke smoke and used it on farms in Hebei and Shaanxi to increase the grain yield by half, and made those students of Qingyuan Academy go crazy to find the use of all kinds of strange things, even the bagasse. They set up several more paper-making workshops near the sugar mills, and the paper produced was not meticulous, but it was able to meet the requirements of the ships that went to sea to wrap porcelain and valuables, and it has been selling well since its launch.

Seeing this thriving scene, Li Buqi still lamented the lack of manpower. It took two years to emigrate more than 70,000 people from the north, which is not enough for the population loss caused by the Jiaozhi people, so there are still no people in Qinzhou, Lianzhou and Yongzhou, let alone mining and steelmaking in Guangdong. Fortunately, there were Jiaozhi captives who provided cheap labor, otherwise the infrastructure around Guangzhou would not have been so fast.

But the next step is to occupy Cochin, which requires a large population. Li Buqi repeatedly asked the emperor for people, not only asking all localities to emigrate to Quang Nam, but also demanding that all prisoners who could be sent to Quang Nam be sent over.

The situation on Li Buqi's side is very good, and Li Dezheng's side is sad. Now not only do the people on the seaside never dare to go out to sea to fish, but they must always be on guard against the Song people coming ashore to catch people, and they can't even cultivate the land near the sea. In order to prevent the landing of the Song army, Li Dezheng deployed more than 30,000 people along the coast.

On the other side, it was impossible to tell who owned Guangyuan Prefecture with the Great Song Dynasty, and a large number of mountain barbarians from the left and right rivers rushed in to catch the Jiaozhi people, and even ran to the vicinity of the Bailong River to attack the villages and the grain road of the Jiaozhi army. Some mountain barbarians have already caught people, and even attacked small tribes in Guangyuan Prefecture. Frightened, those natives in Guangyuan Prefecture rushed to express their attachment to the Great Song Dynasty government, so as not to destroy the Jiaozhi people.

This time, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are not as easy to talk as before - if you want to be attached, you can take the name of the petition. However, it is also beneficial to accept the nomination, you can participate in the group to catch Jiaozhi people and sell them to the Great Song Dynasty government.

Now the Jiaozhi people are like walking copper coins in the eyes of the tribes on these mountains, and they are indispensable everywhere they go. The Jiaozhi people couldn't stand it anymore and withdrew from Guangyuan Prefecture in Layue, but the natives of the left and right rivers led by Su Mian followed closely and chased them to the territory of Jiaozhi.

Li Dezheng was afraid that the Shanbarians would rush into the hinterland of Jiaozhi, so he had to deploy more than 50,000 people along the Bailongjiang River to guard against the possible attack of the Shanbarians and the Song Dynasty army.

Li Rizun, who led the troops, also launched several strikes against the Guangyuan mountain barbarians, but these mountain barbarians were the head snakes of the ground, and they immediately disappeared between the mountains and mountains when they saw the Jiaozhi army coming, and if the Jiaozhi army pursued separately, it would inevitably be ambushed. However, if the Cochin retreats, they will appear behind the Cochin Army again.

At present, nearly 100,000 troops of the Jiaozhi people are pinned down in the east and north and cannot move, which has affected the agricultural production of Jiaozhi. Li Dezheng felt that he was in big trouble, and after not getting the news of whether the Great Song Dynasty accepted his request for peace, he sent envoys to the Great Song Dynasty twice in succession to sue for peace.

However, the wind direction in the Great Song Dynasty became more and more unfavorable to Jiaozhi, because Guangdong began to have a surplus, although it was not much, but there were still hundreds of thousands of copper coins and hundreds of thousands of stone grain. This proves the correctness of Li Buqi's plan, and now everyone in the capital is waiting for Li Buqi to earn money for them. Who wants to say that you shouldn't have a toe, you will be scolded to death by the people when you go out, Sima Guang has been going out all day except for office recently.