Chapter 460: Martial Arts
Lin Sen's bounty came down with the triumphant army, and his position had reached its peak for the time being, and he could not be promoted again.
In front of him, most of them are veteran generals like Niu Jinda, whether it is seniority or seniority, they are there, and their merits are not bad, so it is impossible to give Lin Sen a position.
At a young age, he became the general of the Sixteenth Guard, which was really impossible to promote, so he was only promoted to his rank and title.
Now he can barely be called "Grandpa", but it would be a little earlier to say Guogong, because he is the lowest founding county duke among dukes, but it is indeed a great honor.
Among his peers, except for the lucky guy who inherited his father's title early like Eldest Sun Chong, he is actually the self-made guy with the highest title.
However, he didn't have much time to rest at home, and after arranging the necessary retreat route for his wife and children, he set off with the army that went out to conquer the Japanese kingdom.
In addition to leaving some of the necessary defenders behind, the Goguryeo side relied more on the partial division to attack and harass, affect their agricultural time, create famine, and by the way, drive more of the Khitan and Jin tribes to start a death fight with Goguryeo.
The main energy of the Tang Dynasty is still on the side of the Wa Kingdom.
In the face of the Tang Army, which had been prepared for a long time, the Wa State, which was in a hurry to respond to the battle, was obviously very passive, and the pressure that could be inflicted on the Tang Army was extremely limited.
Now they are far from the future katana manufacturing technology, in the face of the Tang Army's swords, guns and bows, their poor bamboo armor and papier-mâché are no different, and their swords can inflict extremely limited damage to the Tang Army's armor.
In addition, the warriors of the Japanese Kingdom who have not experienced a large area of borrowing from Middle-earth are generally short in height, and in the face of the tall elite of the Tang Army, it is like an adult bullying a child, and they are beaten to the point of crying and calling their mother.
The advance speed of the Tang army was even faster than when facing Goguryeo, especially the large-scale killing weapons such as incendiary canisters, which were also more fully prepared, and the warships were constantly replenished.
In addition, the distance between most of the cities in this island country and the coast is very limited, and the Tang army can take advantage of the fact that it has completely occupied the sea dominance, and replenish grain and grass materials from the sea to its heart's content.
If Li Chengqian hadn't given the order to capture the entire island of the Wa Kingdom for the time being, I am afraid that the Tang Army would have already washed all the cities of the Wa Kingdom in blood.
For now, it's better to include those important gold, silver and copper mines into the actual control area of Datang.
All those who participated in the battle and became prisoners of the Tang Army were undoubtedly thrown into various mines and became mine slaves to contribute to the development of the Tang Dynasty.
After acquiring these mines, Li Chengqian did not blindly and directly start to engage in a three-tier currency system of gold, silver and copper, but first replenished the resources of copper coins and established that Datang's Tongbao had sufficient credit, and then gradually relaxed the restrictions on gold and silver, and the official gold and silver reserves also had a restricted flow into the market.
Of course, this is all thanks to Lin Sen's guidance, after he told several typical cases of currency collapse, Li Chengqian quickly put away his idea of smashing all this gold and silver into Datang.
Development is not achieved overnight, and it is possible to play Datang to death in a hurry.
If he hadn't been ruined by the hands of foreign enemies, but had been supported by a half-hung economy, then he Li Chengqian wouldn't have to laugh and be generous, and it was not impossible to leave a stench for 10,000 years, so he couldn't be allowed to be imprudent.
After seeing the benefits of the Wa Kingdom, the Tang Dynasty unified their ideas, first recruited a large army, and defeated the entire territory of the Wa Kingdom.
Based on several major mines, the entire Wa Kingdom will be built into a wealth base of the Tang Dynasty.
As for the local people of the Wa Kingdom, they naturally had to accept the enslavement education carefully prepared by the Tang Dynasty.
started from the time of Xu Fudongdu, and arranged it until this time in Datang.
The purpose is one, to tell the locals of the Wa Kingdom, in fact, you are destined to be slaves of the Tang Dynasty.
Of course, as long as you work hard, you can still hope to be able to live a decent life as the people of the Heavenly Empire.
Compared with untouchables who don't even have a name, even being an ordinary person in the Tang Dynasty is definitely an extremely happy thing.
So, let's struggle, let's work hard.
After that, civil strife finally broke out on the Tibetan side, and Songtsen Gampo was successfully assassinated by the old-school nobles who had always been at odds with him.
Lu Dongzan, who was also the patriarch of a powerful clan, was unable to turn the tide, because he had also become the target of all the other nobles.
Just when their fight was in full swing, a force supported by the Tang Dynasty was obviously the one established by the Gurkha war slaves under Lin Sen, under the banner of "overthrowing the slave owners and dividing the fields to be the masters", successfully won the support of a large number of Tibetan serfs, and began to grow rapidly.
In the end, Tubo ceased to exist, and the newly established Tibetan regime directly declared its submission to the Tang Dynasty.
If you take a closer look, it is not difficult to find that in fact, among their ruling class, there are many real Tang people, all of whom were the same people who used to trade on the plateau with the hired Mulbhara warriors.
After cleaning up Tibet, the Goguryeo side fought with the Khitan and the Ya tribe about the same, and the vitality was consumed.
On the side of the Khitan and Tatar tribes, because of the perennial trade with the Tang Dynasty in exchanging women for spirits, the speed of their own reproduction has been greatly affected, and there are no children from women, coupled with their long-term alcoholism caused by near-sterilization, their offspring have become extremely scarce.
In the process of fighting Goguryeo, most of the mature warriors died in battle, and the threat was naturally greatly reduced.
At this time, the new generation of Datang has grown up, and the number of Dingkou has more than doubled, and the original land can no longer meet the needs of so many people.
Some people naturally go to the south, which is relatively more prosperous, and with the increasing number of exchanges between the north and the south, northerners will not regard the south as a daunting path as before.
We all know that the grain over there can be harvested several times a year, the output is very rich, and the trade has also become developed, with the encouragement of official policies, there will always be some people who will actively or passively move to the past, and eventually take root there.
The same situation also appeared between the white mountains and black waters.
After the industrious and capable Han people of the Central Plains came, relying on their strong assimilation ability and perseverance, those Khitan and Tatar people either integrated into the Han people or migrated to other places, and it was difficult to become a climate again.
After a period of development, the Tang Dynasty, which was strong and strong, and had a vast territory, finally freed up its hands again after completely digesting the Tubo Plateau in the southwest, the black soil in the northeast, and the Wa Kingdom, and aimed at the Western Turks, who were still engaged in internal strife.