Section 1013 Preparation
Li Shimin also never expected the Fusang generals to understand his intentions.
Li Shimin continued to explain the general strategic direction:
"Don't worry, then someone will lead the Goguryeo people to chase them to Nagato, and then they will all be our slaves. After taking control, depending on the situation at the time, choose the right opportunity to counterattack the Goguryeo Peninsula. The specific arrangements are all under the orders of Li Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and in this battle, our Tang elite will be exhausted and destroy Goguryeo in one battle. ”
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, this is also a learning process for you, remember everything to listen to the command, and it's right to kill the enemy bravely."
Konoe Tadayi stood up and took three steps back to his knees, drew his knife and slashed his forehead, smearing blood on the blade.
Silent promise, this is a kind of ritual of the Tang general.
Success, or success.
Konoe Zhongli retreated, and Liu Mu asked Li Shimin: "Brother Huang, how do I feel that he doesn't understand." ”
"It doesn't matter if he understands or not, the important thing is that he listens to the command and makes up his mind to rush and kill, it has only been less than three years to know words, and it is a miracle that he can understand. To put it bluntly, at the moment their role is to impersonate the soldiers of the Yamato Kingdom and convince the Goguryeo Won, and that is enough. ”
"Yes." Yanagi agrees.
Liu Mu thought about it and was not quite right, and asked again: "Brother Huang, you can obviously push Goguryeo, why do you still engage in such a complicated scheme." ”
"You ......" Li Shimin shook his head with a helpless wry smile: "What is good about you, when you are stupid, you are a bad string." This is a process of bringing the people of the Fusang tribe to their hearts, and this opportunity is not easy to find, and it will not be in the future. Since Goguryeo is going to perish, it can't let go if it can use one more before it perishes. ”
Let Li Shimin explain like this, Liu Mu understood.
This is Li Shimin to the Fusang clan to send meritorious service, and at the same time support several Fusang clan Tang high nobles, if the Fusang clan does not have any power among the Tang clans, it will definitely be rejected in the future, and the consequence of exclusion is rebellion.
Li Shimin is confident that it will take a hundred years for the Fusang people to integrate into the Tang Dynasty.
How great is the power of sinicization, after Li Shimin studied history and the later history told by Liu Mu, Li Shimin said confidently that it is the Han people who will inherit the Han civilization in the next thousand years, and it is difficult to find pure-blooded Han people, or even none.
Where are the Xianbei tribes?
The Xianbei clan at the moment is the answer, Li Shimin himself still has a quarter of the Xianbei blood, and he is not a pure-blooded Han, Li Shimin believes that at this time, there may not be many pure-blooded Han people in the entire Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, the inheritance of Han civilization is the Han nationality, which is not Li Shimin's hypothesis, but a fact.
But.
What about the Goguryeo?
Li Shimin put down the teacup and slowly said to Liu Mu: "Mu, I have a plan for my brother." ”
"Visionary?"
"Yes, the Japanese are ......" Li Shimin stopped, gently shook the bell, and after a guard came in, Li Shimin instructed: "I want to talk about some confidential things." ”
"Order." The guards retreated, Li Shimin's instructions were already very clear, the guards would arrange for no one to approach within a certain area of the perimeter, and the guards and attendants were also ensuring sufficient distance.
After a pillar of incense, Li Shimin continued: "The reason why the Japanese people have always wanted to attack the Central Plains is that they live on that small island with constant natural disasters, an island with poor resources and a small area. ”
"Second brother, it is precisely for this reason that they have also created many virtues such as perseverance and obedience."
"That's right, so Brother Wei plans to make at least half of the Goguryeo people slaves of the Japanese people, so that the Japanese people can also experience the feeling of becoming a Venerable Master for a while, and then hand over the Indochina Peninsula to the Japanese people, according to the report of the Ministry of Household last year, the Japanese people are still very good at growing rice." Li Shimin did not say that the Fusang tribe was called, but was still called by the Japanese people.
Liu Mu asked rhetorically: "What about the Tianzhu Peninsula?" ”
"Wonderful!" Li Shimin patted the table lightly: "The Japanese are divided into four, the best can live in the Central Plains, the inferior can live in the Indochina Peninsula, and the first class will let them go to Tianzhu by themselves, and the last part will be sent to Africa." The Goguryeo people should be untouchables for a hundred years, and perhaps give them the opportunity to become human beings again. ”
Yanagi asked, "What about the Silla people and the Baekje people?" ”
There was a hint of fierceness in Li Shimin's eyes: "The people of Baekje are also slaves, equal to the Goguryeo people. The Silla people were equal to the Japanese people, and only the best of them were selected to become the Tang people, and they were ruled by razing. Use the excellent Tang alien race to control the various races, if the inferior people want to rebel, these alien Tang people will not allow it in the first place, which will affect their actual interests. ”
"The second brother is smart, although a little cruel."
"Is it cruel? Hahaha! Li Shimin did not think that this was cruel, because many of the rebelling tribes of the Western Turks had become slaves, but on the contrary, those tribes that had surrendered early had become the Venerable Master.
The Silk Road in the Western Regions is a route with significant profits for Datang.
The various ethnic groups and tribes that guarded this road of wealth for the Tang Dynasty still became rich and strong.
Liu Mu said: "Second brother, what if the northbound railway is only built to the state? ”
Li Shimin's fingers tapped lightly on the table, and after a long time, he said: "This is a great idea, but it is necessary to build a bridge over the Yellow River, and this bridge is not easy. ”
"In the west of Jin, there is a bridge in Luliang, which is about one mile long, and the length of the river bridge is one hundred and sixty steps, and it is two feet and three feet wide. This is a very small bridge in the later generations, but it is big enough for the Tang Dynasty at the moment. ”
Li Shimin got up and looked through a record: "Li Chun's double-decker Weishui Bridge has a total length of 400 steps, and it has taken 38,000 people to repair it for one year and three months, or to give him enough materials and 100,000 people, I don't know how long it will take him to repair." ”
Yanagi said, "Ask! ”
Li Shimin nodded: "Someone is coming, Li Chun of the Ministry of Communication." ”
The attendant received the order and immediately went to find Li Chun to come over.
The Ministry of Engineering is in the imperial city, Li Chun is studying the feasibility and design of the Fenglingdu Bridge, and when he heard the summons of the Tang Emperor, he immediately changed into court clothes and followed the attendant into the Taiji Palace.
Without waiting for Li Chun's salute, Li Shimin asked: "In the area of Luliang in western Jinxi, Liu Juma thinks that a bridge can be built, and the total length is one mile, for train traffic, what do you think?" ”
"Back to the words of the sage, the minister from Lanzhou took a boat down the Yellow River, lasted a year, measured the position of the bridge on the Yellow River can be repaired more than 40 places, there is indeed a river in the west of Jin Province is stable, even the auxiliary bridge on both sides is only about a short bridge of about a mile, but the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household have discussed, where the bridge can solve the traffic problem of the east and west of the river, but it is of no great use."
"Go on." Even if Li Shimin hears objections, he will let the courtiers finish speaking.