Ordered Cheng Wuzhong to send troops to take Tsushima Island, Li Yu felt that he should continue to advance eastward to take the Oki Islands of the Wa Kingdom and Wuling Island (Ulleungdo) in the sea east of Silla?

After thinking about it, forget it, although the Oki Islands are a remote penal colony of the Wa Kingdom, there are no soldiers stationed there, and they can be attacked in one shot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 It is not only to send troops to invade and cause the Tang and Japanese to fight and contain their own forces, but also to startle the snakes, so that the Japanese will once again fear that the Tang army will attack its homeland and strengthen its vigilance, and form an alliance with Silla to fight against the Tang Dynasty, adding variables to the future attack on the new and exterminating the Japanese.

After capturing Tsushima Island, it felt too much to attack Mureungdo (Ulleungdo) again. The fleet departed from Tsushima Island and went to Gimseong, the capital of Silla, much closer than Bulyeongdo.

"One is too chicken, and the other is not yet time, so we have to find something to do for the army, and we have to take advantage of Anton's rare peacetime to step up expansion."

Li Yu carefully examined the sand table map and chose where to use his troops next.

At present, there must be two points in the place to expand: first, there is no need to mobilize a large number of troops, at most one guard and army; Second, the local soil conditions are good, there are not many people and it is the existence of the five scum of the war, and after the capture, immigrants can reclaim 10,000 acres of fertile land.

The best soil conditions around Nuo Non Andong are the Songnen Plain and the Sanjiang Plain, but one of these two places is the territory of the Heishui Tribes. The combat effectiveness of the two clans is not low, and there is also a tribal alliance to attract Austrian reinforcements.

Li Yu thought about it, expanding in these two directions, Nuo would not be able to occupy it without tens of thousands of troops insisting on fighting in the jungle and mountains for a long time.

"At the moment, Silla has not yet been resolved, and it is too unwise to expand to these two places. I also have to send an order to Wang Hu, let him restrain himself, just hit the Fu Nirvana Department, but don't provoke the rest of the Black Water Descent to me. ”

Looking for it, Li Yu had no choice but to continue to expand overseas, so he sent troops to expedition to Ryukyu.

According to the information brought back by the Southeast China Sea expedition, there are only some uncivilized tribesmen in the Greater and Lesser Ryukyus (Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan), and the population of the largest tribe is only 2,000, and most of them are only small tribes of 1,800 people. It does not know how to smelt ironware, and only a small amount of iron is obtained from trading with the Japanese and Tang maritime merchants.

In particular, the tribesmen on the Lesser Ryukyu Islands have extremely low combat effectiveness, while the Yi people on the Lesser Ryukyu Islands are more barbaric and warlike, and some tribes have the custom of headhunting and eating human flesh.

"The name Big and Small Ryukyu is really confusing, the small Ryukyu is called the Ryukyu Islands, and the Great Ryukyu is changed to the name of the previous life, Taiwan Island." Li Yu was a little annoyed by the naming of these two places by the ancients, and ordered his attendants to change all the names of the two places to names that he was familiar with.

Li Yu muttered: "According to Zhang Qinyu's report, the largest island in the Ryukyu Islands clashed with the expedition team because of the beloved daughter of the chief of the first major shrine of the natives on the island of Uncle Sun **. In the end, the expedition team, at the instigation of Shusun Tong, conquered the other communities on the island after destroying the first and second major shrines on the island. Before leaving, the expedition also built a Tianshun city on the north bank of the estuary of the largest river on the island, and organized a native army of several hundred people, led by Shusun Tong and fifty soldiers who remained behind. ”

"It seems that it will not be much more difficult to capture the Ryukyu Islands than it is to capture the Danluo Kingdom."

Li Yu made up his mind and sent troops to the Ryukyus. However, after more than a month, Anton will be busy with the busy season of harvesting grain, and it is not suitable to transfer the new guard and army to it, and he will have to arrange to replace the troops of Chifengwei.

Li Yu pondered it for a while, and decided to mobilize the defenders of Beisha City, who were in a stable position, and the Chaos Guard led by Xue Maoxun went south. The 3,000 soldiers and horses were divided into three divisions, one to defend Xingzhou, one to expedition to the Ryukyus, and the other to garrison Tsushima.

Considering that Lu Zhaolin mentioned in the previous recital that the civil officials who went to serve in Xingzhou were not very motivated, he thought that going to serve on an overseas desert island was like degrading an official and being exiled, which was quite frustrating.

Li Yu decided to upgrade Xingzhou to the Xingzhou Governor's Office, and Lu Zhaolin was the Governor of the Governor's Mansion, with jurisdiction over Xingzhou and Tsushima Island. Officials at all levels of the Xingzhou Governor's Office were promoted accordingly to appease.

After Xue Maoxun conquered the Ryukyu Islands, the Ryukyu Governor's Office was set up, with Xue Maoxun as the governor.

It can be considered that both Xingzhou and the Ryukyus, which will be conquered, have a serious shortage of Chinese people, and the assimilation of the local natives may not be ideal by relying on the officials and garrisons sent alone. If you can't assimilate quickly, you may leave a legacy if it drags on for a long time.

Nuo ordered to kill all the local natives, and Li Yu couldn't accept it psychologically. After all, the Danars and Ryukyuan people are not Southeast Asian monkeys, so they won't feel distressed to kill.

Simply bringing all the families of the Chaos Guards to settle in Xingzhou and the Ryukyu Islands not only solved the cumbersome cost of the future transfer of the garrison, but also increased the Chinese population in the two places, which was conducive to the assimilation of the local natives.

For this reason, Li Yu sent Li Yuan, Xue Jun, Xiao Shu and others to seek their opinions.

"Your Highness, the families of the Chaos Guards are probably more than fifteen thousand, and they are distributed in Henan, Hebei, Huainan, and Guanzhong. It is not easy to gather and transport it to Xingzhou and Ryukyu to settle down, and the cost of money and food is not a small amount, please think twice! ”

Just after the end of the transportation of the victims to Andong to settle this big burden, His Royal Highness has to move the families of the soldiers from various inland provinces of the Tang Dynasty to overseas. Li Yuan was unhappy in his heart, so he persuaded Li Yu to withdraw his troops from the so-called Xingzhou and put the Danluo Star Lord back.

"More importantly, are the Chaos Guards willing to move their families to Xingzhou and Ryukyu, which are far away from the land of Shenzhou!"

Xue Jun thought more practically, His Royal Highness has no shortage of money, the key is the question of whether people are willing or not.

"There is an ancient saying: wealth moves people's hearts!" Li Yu smiled confidently: "As long as the Chaos Guards can't refuse the land in their hearts, won't they move their families there?" ”

"Oh? How much does Your Highness want to give? Li Yuanyuan, Xue Jun and the others said curiously.

Li Yu stretched out a hand with a smile, "Each adult is divided into 300 acres of land, and the adult is divided into 200 acres, and each of the old and young, whether male or female, can get 100 acres!" The higher the rank of the Chaos Guards, they themselves can add an additional hundred acres of land according to their military rank. The land and mountains and forests that were previously divided in Andong can also be exchanged for twice as much in Xingzhou and Ryukyu. ”

"Wow......"

Xue Jun and the others couldn't help but exclaim, a family of five, with two husband and wife, one son and one pair of parents, if Nuo moved to Xingzhou or Ryukyu, wouldn't it be a middle-aged landlord with 800 acres of land overnight? Not to mention that the higher the military rank, the more land you get, and you can exchange twice the land you got for your previous meritorious service in Anton. In this way, each household will have more than 1,000 acres of land.

Li Yu laughed and said, "Hahaha! What do you think? Will the soldiers of the Chaos Guard be tempted? ”

Don't you just be tempted? Even those of us who are four or five officials are moved, okay?

Hu Cao participated in the military Lu Jingyu said: "The land given by His Royal Highness must be difficult for the Chaos Guards to refuse as long as they are normal people. But there is a primary condition, that is, is the land that can be cultivated on the two islands of Xingzhou and Ryukyu enough to be distributed to the Chaos Guardians according to His Highness's requirements? Is the land more fertile than the Central Plains for farming? The soil conditions are not good, and no matter how much land His Highness gives, the soldiers are not willing to ask for it. ”

"You can rest assured that Lu joined the army, whether it is the Southeast China Sea expedition or Lu Zhaolin, who went to Danluo this time. Although the two places are wild and uncultivated, the soil is unusually fertile, with rain and heat at the same time, and rivers crisscrossing them. There are more than 2 million acres of land that can be cultivated on Seongju Island alone, not to mention the Ryukyu Islands, which are much larger than Seongju Island! ”

Li Yu was not worried at all, Xingzhou Island had cultivated 2 million and hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land in the previous life when South Korea had not destroyed Jeju Island on a large scale, and according to the distribution principle proposed by himself, it was more than enough to resettle 2,000 soldiers of the Chaos Guard. The larger Ryukyu Islands have only a lot more arable land to cultivate, and cash crops such as sugar cane can be grown. The Chaos Guards settled their families in the local area, and after a few years, they were definitely richer than staying in the interior of the Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, sugar was still a luxury.