Chapter 651: Night Talk in the West Market (I)

Li Xiu and Wei Zheng have fundamental differences in their understanding of Huayi's identity, so they will have different choices, Wei Zheng wants to move the Turks to Henan, he really wants to integrate the Turks into the Han people, while Li Xiu wants to move the Turks to the south, but he treats the Turks as cattle to open up the wasteland. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In other words, Li Xiu didn't care about the life or death of the Turks at all, maybe they would really integrate into the Han nationality in the future, but this was not the result Li Xiu wanted, his ultimate goal was just to make the Turks completely lose the strength to resist, and by the way, harvest the wasteland reclaimed in the south.

Thinking of the above, Li Xiu didn't know how to convince Wei Zheng for a while, fortunately, it was already late at this time, and this was not the place to talk in detail, at that moment Li Xiu had an idea: "Wei Zuocheng, the resettlement of the Turks is very important, and it is by no means something that can be said clearly in a few words, why don't we find a place to sit and talk in detail?" ”

"Very good, but this palace is already drunk, I heard that the West Market is all night long, how about we go there and sit there?" Wei Zheng heard Li Xiu's proposal and immediately agreed, although there is a curfew in Chang'an, but only the main road is not allowed to move around, and the city is still relatively free, which also makes every time the door is closed, there will be some nightlife occasions in the city to start business.

Li Xiu naturally agreed immediately when he heard this, and the two of them left the palace at the moment, and came directly to Xishi in a carriage, although the street was still under curfew, but because of the good news of the victory over the Turks, the curfew was not very strict, and there were even drunks who drank too much during the daytime celebrations on the street, and when the patrolling Jin Wuwei met them, they just put them in the yamen and closed them overnight, and they went wherever they needed to go the next day, unlike the usual ones who had to be boarded.

The door of the West Market has long been locked, but Li Xiu and Wei Zheng are still easy to open the door, and after entering, they found that the West Market is still brightly lit, and the pedestrians on the street are much less than during the day, but the restaurants on both sides are very lively, from time to time you can see someone suddenly rushing out of the restaurant, and then rushing to the corner to vomit, but after spitting back, they will go back to drink, if you listen carefully, you can also find whether it is a pedestrian or a guest in the restaurant, The most discussed is the battle of the Tang Dynasty to destroy the Turks.

"It's really lively, although some of them are not unified, but Jieli was escorted back to Beijing is also a great joy, and it is rare for the people to be so happy!" Li Xiu looked at the scene of the West Market with interest, and then said with a smile, in fact, Chang'an City has almost fallen into a kind of carnival in the past few days, and the scene during the day is even more lively than now.

"Hehe, I don't know, this is not the most lively time, when you defeated the Turks on the grassland, and the news of Jieli captured alive just came to Chang'an, Chang'an City at that time was really lively, and it can even be described as crazy, according to Jin Wuwei, no matter day or night, the streets are full of drunk people, and even many people died due to excessive drinking." When Wei Zheng talked about the previous carnival, he couldn't help but show a helpless expression on his face, although he could understand the joy of the people, but it was a bit too much to turn the happy event into a funeral.

When he was talking, Li Xiu suddenly saw a teahouse in front of him, and now with the promotion of tea, there is finally a teahouse in Chang'an City that mainly drinks tea, in addition to providing tea, there are all kinds of dim sum, the only thing that is different from the teahouse of later generations is that in addition to roasted tea, there are tea cakes that were popular among nobles before, that is, sencha, but compared with fried tea, sencha is not only troublesome, but also expensive, and ordinary people rarely care.

Li Xiu didn't drink, and Wei Zheng had almost drunk at the banquet before, so the two discussed it and went directly to the teahouse, then ordered a pot of good tea, plus a few delicate snacks, and sat by the window on the second floor while drinking tea and chatting.

"Don Ma, I know that you, like many people, hate the Turks very much, but now that the Turks have been wiped out, and Jieli has been captured, there is really no need to continue this hatred, and the Turks are numerous, even if there are probably no less than a million Turks now, we can't completely eliminate them, the only way is to assimilate them into Han people as much as possible, so as to resolve the hatred between the two races, and secondly, it will also increase the population of our Datang."

When he said this, he saw Wei Zheng pause for a moment and then said: "As for the Turks who moved to the south to open up the wasteland, maybe they could trick some Turks into going at first, but when they go to the south and find that the environment there is bad, they will definitely be dissatisfied, which will lead to greater hatred, how can this make the Turks truly return to their hearts?" ”

Li Xiu secretly smiled bitterly when he heard this, Wei Zheng's meaning was very clear, he not only wanted to get the body of the Turks, but also the hearts of the Turks, but Li Xiu only needed the body of the Turks, as for the heart, this thing was too complicated, and Li Xiu firmly believed that it was much easier to destroy the enemy physically than spiritually, and maybe the effect would be better.

Fortunately, Li Xiu had already thought of a countermeasure on the way here, and was silent for a moment before he spoke: "Wei Zuocheng's words are not unreasonable, but I have a question I want to ask Wei Zuocheng, do you think our Datang territory is big enough?" ”

"This nature, under the whole world, Ji is not the king's land, my Tang Dynasty is rich in the world, and the land is even more vast, I don't know why the horse asks like this?" Wei Zheng was obviously stunned when he heard Li Xiu's question, but he still opened his mouth to answer.

"Hehe, Wei Zuocheng is right, my Datang is indeed a vast country, but Zuo Cheng thinks about it, how much land can I really cultivate in Datang, how much of it is real fertile land, and how much is the output of these fertile fields, and how many people can our Datang feed with these fields?" Li Xiu smiled calmly at first, and then asked a series of questions.

"This ......" Although Wei Zheng, as an important minister of the Tang Dynasty, also has some understanding of the field issue, but Li Xiu asked so many questions at once, he didn't know how to answer for a while, and he didn't know what Li Xiu was trying to say when he asked these questions?

Seeing that Wei Zheng didn't speak, Li Xiu smiled indifferently and said: "Zuo Cheng doesn't speak, then I will answer for you, although my Tang Dynasty has a vast territory, there is not much land that can really be cultivated, and there are even fewer real fertile fields, and there is a more serious problem in these fields, I don't know if Zuo Cheng knows?" ”