Shi Bufan is sure that the two of them will not be able to think of a means to stop the progress of the productive forces even if they want to break their heads, because history has proved that the productive forces cannot be reversed, and the irreversible productivity means that the general trend of history will not be reversed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Shimin also seems to understand this process, but he also doesn't understand it either. He saw that this could not be changed, and Li Shimin also clearly understood that if he continued to force the people to stay in agriculture, it would inevitably cause the grain to hurt the peasants, and it would hurt the people. Even in this way, it is necessary to absorb surplus labor through the development of industry and commerce.

"Well, I Datang didn't make it clear that I would suppress business! So let it be! Li Shimin said.

Li Shimin's words are obviously semi-supportive of industry and commerce, indicating that he will sit idly by, and will not take the initiative to support but will not stop it. Because the ancient emphasis on agriculture and the suppression of commerce was not the core of Confucianism, but only the method of suppressing commerce adopted in ancient times in order to ensure agricultural production in the case of insufficient productivity. When the agricultural productivity was sufficient, and a large number of peasants were injured and bankrupt, the imperial court could not even suppress commerce.

As for Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui also couldn't think of a solution, because productivity is irreversible, and if anyone dares to reverse it, they will die. Fang Du and the others can only choose to acquiesce for the time being, but they also think that although they will acquiesce in the future, they can use some other means to curb business when implementing the policy.

"Your Majesty, according to my plan, I will destroy the Turks first. After the Turks were subdued, they could accumulate for a few years, and then they would destroy Baekje together with the Silla Alliance, and use Baekje as a springboard to directly go north to Goguryeo. From the south, it is very close to Pyongyang, the capital of Goguryeo, and our Tang army can completely attack it. ”

"After the destruction of Goguryeo, I think the next step is to start attacking the South China Sea. The naval army we formed during the Northern Expedition to Goguryeo was not busy withdrawing at first, but attacked from the south, and along the way forced the southern Cham and other small states to submit through various military and non-military means. ”

"The so-called non-military means, we can use the metropolitan protectorate system. We can set up a metropolitan protectorate without changing their way of life and customs too much. We can use the means of ethnic regional autonomy to deprive the local people of diplomatic and military power, and then we can give it to the local people to give a certain degree of autonomy. Leaders are elected from the locals, but they do not have the corresponding military and diplomatic powers. And we try to select officials from the bottom as much as possible, so that if they want to sit in a stable position, they must rely on us. ”

Li Shimin's eyes are even brighter, this so-called regional ethnic autonomy is simply amazing! In the past, their vassal state system was actually a nominal rule, and the so-called Metropolitan Protectorate was only a nominal rule, acting as a coordinating body. Even the local positions of power were hereditary, so in fact the central court did not receive much benefit from this.

However, if this so-called regional ethnic autonomy is adopted, then some local people will be selected from the local area to serve as officials, so that the local people can not only accept it, but even make the local people not change the ethnic customs of the past.

As for the means of regional ethnic autonomy, it is completely possible to select some non-local powerful factions from the local area to be officials, so that those local officials do not have enough power to guarantee power, so they will definitely have to rely on the Tang Dynasty. This kind of method is much better than the past kind of supporting local powerful factions to rule, because the local powerful factions already have a lot of power, and if they are justified in this official position, it will be more troublesome. They can break away from the Tang Dynasty at any time, which is also inappropriate.

This kind of local protectorate system directly deprives diplomatic and military powers, which will inevitably make it impossible for local officials to rebel. When the Tang Dynasty has a chance in the future, it can take advantage of the situation to cancel the local capital and directly incorporate it into the jurisdiction of the Zhongxiang Dynasty. This is countless times better than those who rule nominally, and even the locals will mistakenly think that the locals continue to rule, so it will not be too disgusting.

What's more, if Datang wants to implement any policies that are unfavorable to the local area, it is completely possible for the local people to bear the blame, and Datang does not need to be directly responsible. This is nothing more than controlling those semi-puppets to help them manage themselves. This is an expedient measure to stabilize the local area when it is impossible to control such a large land. As for the future, you can prepare well, and when the strength is enough, you can directly cancel the local policy.

Shi Bufan, in fact, was formed through the combination of one country, two systems in later generations, and the method of regional autonomy of even ethnic groups. This method was called a new type of colonization by some countries in later generations, but it is not unusual, but I feel that this method is actually not bad. At least when the central court has no way to completely free up its hands to directly take over these lands, it can use the separation of local powers, and only take over diplomatic power and military power, so that only these two powers can be taken over, and the control cost is relatively much less. Because if all the civil affairs are to be taken over, the cost will be extremely high, from all kinds of civil officials to the land, and even all kinds of local investment and construction are also very large.

However, this only takes over diplomatic and military powers, and there is almost no need to invest in other civil affairs, so this is basically equivalent to stabilizing first, so that the local people's living habits will not be affected for the time being. Why did a lot of the territories occupied by China have to be spit out later? In fact, to a large extent, if the local area is brutally modified according to China's living habits, it will eventually arouse the dissatisfaction of the local people, and finally rise up together to resist.

But if they don't change their habits at that time, they shouldn't be too disgusted. As for controlling the local diplomatic power and military power, this is not too intuitive for the local ordinary people. Sometimes this is the case, although some power is important to the state, but ordinary people do not feel it too intuitively. The most obvious is to pay taxes, in fact, personal income tax accounts for a very low proportion of national tax revenue in later generations, but the people are the most intuitive. On the contrary, although corporate income tax and so on occupy a large proportion of the state, the people rarely have intuitive feelings, but in the final analysis, these income taxes will not be passed on to the people?

The loss of military power and diplomatic power will not change much for the local people, they are not sensitive. At most, those elites will know the dangers involved, but as long as the people don't rebel, what can those elites do?

"This ethnic regional autonomy is too good, and this is enough to expand my Datang territory a lot. And it hardly costs too much, as long as they control the local military and diplomatic power, they can't make any waves. And those local officials from poor families, in order to gain power, can only cooperate with us, and ask our Datang to guarantee for them, and then they can really take power. We rule the locals with locals, but we deprive them of diplomatic and military rights, so they can't make a fuss. Li Shimin praised.

Fang Xuanling was also speechless, he had seen someone who could play, but he had never seen Shi Bufan who could play so well. In the eyes of ancient statesmen, they never thought of splitting power in this way. In the eyes of many ancient statesmen, since the territory was conquered, there were only two ways. One is to rule directly, and the other is to support the rule of local powerful factions, who only have it in name.

However, the cost of direct rule is too great, and those local powerful factions can break away at any time to support the powerful factions, which is actually a very troublesome thing. However, Shi Bufan split the sovereignty of a country, stripped away diplomatic and military rights, and then left the local civil rights to the local officials. In this way, the locals served as local officials, but they did not have the army as a guarantee, and could only rely on the armed forces of the Tang Dynasty to ensure their power.

In this way, the Metropolitan Protectorate only needs to be responsible for the exercise of diplomatic and military powers, so that everything can be passed peacefully. As for civil affairs, they can be exempted from responsibility, which saves a lot of costs. This is actually the relationship between power and financial resources, and the greater the power, the more money will be spent. In the past, politicians could not have imagined that there was such a strange way to play, not to have other civil rights, but only diplomatic and military rights, so that the cost was only limited to diplomacy and military affairs. In fact, the local people's livelihood is still not directly responsible.

After a few years, when the time is ripe, it is entirely possible to directly abolish the so-called Imperial Protectorate, and then directly annex those territories to the places under their direct rule. This method has the dual advantages of supporting the local people and direct management, but it also avoids the shortcomings of both to the greatest extent. Such a means is really politically wise.

"Master, no wonder Pei Ju would rather choose him as his heir to the mantle, and would rather give up the so-called identity gap between the scholars and the Shu clan than choose him as the heir of the mantle. Pei Ju, Pei Ju is in front of him, what is it? It was Pei Ju who took advantage of him, maybe Pei Ju will still rely on him to leave a name in history in the future! Fang Xuanling finally couldn't help complaining.

Fang Xuanling finally had to admit that this extraordinary foreign affairs method was ruthless enough, much older than Pei Ju. Pei Ju can only provoke Turkic splits, and he can also pass through the Western Regions, but he will definitely not be able to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Western Regions. Shi Bufan's move is enough to expand the territory of Datang in the future, and it can be used as indirect control of the territory that is many times that of his own homeland. At that time, what Datang has to do is to develop as soon as possible, and when the transportation and various capabilities are enough to directly control the territory of those remote areas, it can also be directly incorporated into the direct jurisdiction.

In the past, Fang Xuanling thought that Shi Bufan took advantage of Pei Ju, but now it seems that Pei Ju is in front of Shi Bufan, what is that? Compared with Shi Bufan's means, Pei Ju's methods are not at the same level at all, and Shi Bufan's means are much stronger than Pei Ju's Taoism.

Originally, for the ancients, sovereignty meant the sum of all powers, and all rights were tied together, including the sum of civil rights, military rights, and diplomatic rights. Among them, civil power is the most expensive, and it is the most stressful for the Central Plains Dynasty, because if you want to exercise civil power, you must invest a lot of resources.

However, Shi Bufan forcibly divided the sovereignty, and the Tang Dynasty only had military and diplomatic rights, but the civil rights were still left to the local area. In this way, it is easier for the local people to accept it, and it avoids directly stimulating the living habits of the local people at the bottom.

As for the deprivation of military and diplomatic rights, the local elite class could not rebound, but because the Tang Dynasty left the civil power to them, they would not be too sensitive, and their living habits did not change much, but they would rather live a stable life than resist the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

This trick is played beautifully, Fang Xuanling thinks that he can't think of this kind of means even if he wants to break his head in his life!

Everyone present looked shocked, but Shi Bufan knew why.

"Hehe, the ancient Chinese legal system is not perfect, especially the nature of the state and the division of various state powers are too vague, and they naturally do not have this awareness. In later legal studies, the nature of the state and various political systems were thoroughly studied, and even became a specialized discipline. Later generations have studied and distributed very carefully which of national sovereignty is included. Whether it is the sovereignty of the State that can be split into separate powers, there are also several jurisprudential powers in various civil aspects. These did not exist in ancient times, and the ancients could not realize this at all, so they couldn't even think of this kind of splitting up sovereignty even if they wanted to break their heads. Shi Bufan thought.

Shi Bufan knew that in fact, his metropolitan protectorate system was a freak, which belonged to neither a unitary system, nor a federal system, and certainly not a confederation system. It is said that it is a federal system, but the power of this metropolitan protectorate does not come from individual units, but is granted by the imperial court. As for the unitary system, it is not very appropriate, because the local civil power is still left to the local officials to exercise alone, and the metropolitan government generally does not bother. However, it was also not a confederation, because the authority of the Metropolitan Protectorate was still relatively large, and it had its own army to suppress those who tried to rebel. This is just a freak, combined with the characteristics of Sanhe, to set up an organization temporarily, as a transitional organization to prepare for the Central Plains Dynasty to take over the local area in the future. Once Datang can officially take over, the Protectorate can be regarded as having completed its historical mission and can be abolished.

However, this method made everyone present gasp. (To be continued.) )