Zhao Deyan did his job well, and moved 100,000 Turks from the steppe to the south in one year, this number may not be anything at all in later generations, but in the era of extremely inconvenient transportation in the Tang Dynasty, it is a very remarkable number, and this is only the first year, many preliminary preparations took too much time, and when the second year begins, the speed of migrating Turks will definitely accelerate again. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tang Dynasty placed these Turkic people in the south of Yuezhou and the north of Tanzhou, in fact, it was the east bank of Dongting Lake in later generations, which was regarded as a famous land of fish and rice in China in later generations, but in the era of the Tang Dynasty, it was a serious flood, and Dongting Lake was called Yunmengze in ancient times, that is to say, there was actually a huge swamp near Dongting Lake, although the Tang Dynasty was affected by the climate during this period, the swamp area of Dongting Lake was reduced, but the surrounding environment was still very bad.

However, although the environment of Dongting Lake is a little worse, it is not impossible to change, in fact, as long as the floods here are well controlled, with the fertile land here, it will not be long before it will become the land of fish and rice like later generations, but if you want to govern here, you need to invest a lot of manpower and material resources.

100,000 Turks were relocated to the south of Yuezhou, this Yuezhou actually has a name called Yueyang, that is, the Yueyang in Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower", compared with later generations, Yueyang in this period of the Tang Dynasty can really be described as vast and sparsely populated, and large tracts of land are uncultivated, mainly because of the flooding of Dongting Lake.

When the Turks moved to the area south of Yueyang, there were already special officials responsible for taking over these Turks, centralizing their management, and organizing the young and strong Turks among the Turks to reclaim land, build water conservancy, etc., although these Turks did not understand these technical work, but it didn't matter, anyway, there were officials sent by the Tang Dynasty, and these Turks only needed to obey orders.

So many Turks gathered together, management must be a big problem, in addition to the most important problem of food and housing, the problem of living is very easy to solve, anyway, these Turks used to live in tents, the Tang Dynasty will not fight again in a short time, the tents in the army can be transferred to let them live, as for the problem of food is more troublesome, but now sweet potatoes have been promoted to the south, which has greatly increased food production, so it is not too difficult to temporarily feed these 100,000 Turks.

However, the biggest trouble comes from the Turks themselves, they thought that after moving to the Tang Dynasty, they could live the life of ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty, even if they wanted to farm, they thought that it was like being in the north, and they only needed to reclaim the wasteland.

It's just that these Turks never expected that many of the land allocated to them by the Tang Dynasty were flooded land, and if they wanted to cultivate, they had to manage water conservancy.

However, with the increasing number of Turkic people who moved inward, until now there are 100,000 people, these Turks are slowly becoming bolder, but they have no weapons and no horses, even if 100,000 people get together, they can't afford to make a big mess, but they are united, and they refuse to obey the command of the Tang officials, which is quite a bit of a strike in later generations, and the officials of the Tang Dynasty are also afraid of really angering these Turks and causing a big mess, so they don't dare to force too hard, and the two sides are so deadlocked.

Among all the officials of the Tang Dynasty, the most suitable to manage these Turks is probably only Zhao Deyan, after all, he used to help Jieli deal with the internal affairs of the Turks, and now he manages only 100,000 Turks, and Zhao Deyan himself also wants to go to the south as soon as possible, so he personally pleaded with Li Shimin, and finally Li Shimin finally agreed to let him go to the south.

Li Xiu also agreed with Zhao Deyan's decision to go to the south in advance, but he was also a little worried that Zhao Deyan would impose severe punishment on those Turks because of personal enmity, so he also reminded him a few words openly and secretly, and Zhao Deyan also said that he was measured and would never miss the right thing.

Zhenguan five years have passed, because of the extermination of the Turks, this year the Tang Dynasty has been in a kind of ecstasy, the domestic recuperation has also shown excellent results, especially the promotion of sweet potatoes and corn, the problem of food has almost been solved, the drought encountered in Hebei did not starve to death, this is also thanks to the credit of sweet potatoes and corn.

After the Spring Festival, the sixth year of Zhenguan also came, Zhao Deyan took the lead in saying goodbye to Li Xiu, and then took a group of officials to the south to take office, Li Shimin named him the governor of Tuntian in Jiangnan Province, the prime minister moved the Turks to Tuntian, the general manager is a military position, in other words, the Tang Dynasty also managed the Turks who moved inward with military law, and the life and death of the Turks were almost between Zhao Deyan's thoughts.

A few days after Zhao Deyan left Chang'an, the Tang delegation led by Gao Biaoren also left Chang'an with the Wa delegation, first to Shandong, then by boat from Dengju to Silla or Baekje, and then through the Tsushima Strait to the Wa Kingdom.

There was no grand ceremony when Gao Biaoren left, and the fact that the Wa Kingdom had never been taken into account by the Tang Dynasty, so Gao Biaoren's mission was naturally not taken seriously, but before leaving, Li Shimin summoned Gao Biaoren into the palace to confess a few words, and then let him leave, but when he left, Li Xiu came to see him off in person, which made Gao Biaoren also grateful inexplicably, and wiped a few bitter tears when he left, after all, he went and didn't know when he would be able to come back?

Li Xiu watched Gao Biaoren's mission slowly disappear at the end of the official road, so he got into the carriage and prepared to go home.

"Huh?" However, just as Li Xiu's carriage was walking home, he suddenly saw the hustle and bustle of people and horses on the official road in the distance, waving flags, and at a glance, he knew that a huge team was coming, which made Li Xiu also stunned, and even wondered if Gao Biaoren's team was back again, after all, ordinary caravans would not have such a big formation?

However, as this team approached, Li Xiu dispelled the suspicions in his heart, only to see that although this team was huge, it was by no means Gao Biaoren's mission, and judging by their clothes, they should have come from the Western Regions, and it was likely to be the mission of a small country in the Western Regions.

Seeing this team, Li Xiu didn't care at first, but when they approached, Li Xiu also saw the words on the flag, but immediately ordered someone to stop, and his face also showed a look of surprise.