Chapter 44: A Visit from Tibet

The three-crop rice on the southeast coast is widely ripe, and Lingnan, which was originally a land full of poisonous insects and sparsely populated, has now become an area that Datang focuses on developing.

Batches of prisoners and official slaves were no longer taken into custody as servants, but sent to Lingnan, where they cultivated the land and planted three crops of rice.

Xu Yang's original construction has now reached the moment of reaping the fruits.

This winter, the last harvest of the three crops of rice, Lingnan is ripe, with a yield of 30 stones per mu, quite a land to bear the world's momentum, and the civil and military officials in the court are all smiling from ear to ear.

Huge sea ships transported those white flowers of rice to Luoyang by sea, and the Luoyang granary was already full, and then sent to all states and counties.

Chang'an's rice warehouse has long been filled, because the first and third crops of rice are directly transported to Chang'an, and now Chang'an can no longer eat more grain.

Datang seems to have suddenly ushered in a new scene that has not been encountered in a century, that is, there are no hungry people in the world. You must know that since Li Yuan abdicated and Li Er took over the power, such a big change has taken place in just two years.

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty left behind a mess full of holes, originally thought that without decades of recuperation, the Tang Dynasty would not be able to recover its vitality, but the current situation has smashed the predictions of those pessimists.

The people of the Tang Dynasty don't know why, the civil and military officials don't know why, and even Li Er doesn't know why, but Xu Yang knows it clearly.

There is only one way to develop yourself in the world: aggression. Don't say that this sentence is impersonal and too naked, in fact, whether it is the law of nature or the law of cosmic progress, aggression is really the most convenient and effective way to develop and grow.

However, aggression on the other hand, it also represents risks, and if it does not succeed, it will fall into the quagmire of aggression and continue to increase investment until the invasion succeeds or fails, as Japan did during World War II.

During World War I, Japan succeeded in its invasion and plundered tens of millions of taels of silver from China, and this invasion suddenly injected a shot of strength into Japan's decadent economy and society, ushered in a period of comprehensive development, and even had the momentum of entering the ranks of great powers.

Then, with the recession of the world economic bubble, Japan's economy gradually fell into weakness, and the people urgently needed encouragement, so Japan brewed a long-standing war of aggression against China.

But this time China is no longer as incompetent as the previous Qing government, and the Chinese also know how to resist, and a war of resistance dragged on for eight years, and Japan, which originally clamored to "destroy China within three months", was deeply dragged into the quagmire of war.

In the end, Japan's war was fought to the end, and all kinds of tragic pictures of 'no man on the street', 'sending children to war' and 'gnawing furs' were also quite common. Is it because the Japanese people still want to continue fighting? No, neither, but they chose the path of aggression, and once they chose, there was no room to turn back, because it was a gamble with no capital, and Japan could not afford to play and lose.

From Japan's two wars, we can profoundly appreciate the benefits of aggression and its risks.

And what Xu Yang did to the Tang Dynasty was colonization with the same aggressive nature.

Colonization is a good thing, in the era of geographical discovery, almost any country that encounters this opportunity will soar in its original history, Spain, Portugal, Britain, the Netherlands, which of these countries, which did not rely on colonization and aggression, embarked on a road to become an old empire, if it were not for the World War II homeland war was greatly damaged, where would it be the turn of the United States to be the sole superpower.

Xu Yang guided the Tang Dynasty to embark on a colonial path similar to that of later European countries, and the footsteps of the Tang people did not stop for a moment, in the face of the strong execution and cohesion of the Tang people, a qiē obstacle finally either surrendered or made soil.

Huge gold and silver reserves flowed into the Tang Dynasty, which was enough to shock the world's trade surplus, the Tang Dynasty in Zhenguan two to Zhenguan five years, from Southeast Asia, Australia, South America to plunder gold and silver, with insufficient statistics, at least more than 300 million tons, this in the future, is also the rest of the continents historians and jurists most disappointed point, because the economic strength of the Tang State, since then, is difficult for countries to match.

There are some things that Xu Yang will not say to anyone, even if he knows very well in his heart that other countries have not yet had the slightest sense of resistance to this plundering road that Datang has embarked on, so this era is like a golden age everywhere.

Xu Yang believes that as long as a qiē is done according to his own arrangement, Datang, this name, will sooner or later become the existence that future generations of countries look up to

'Uncle Pafan, did you say that Uncle Mo Da has now arrived in Datang? A young man dressed in silk and wearing a strange felt hat asked curiously.

I saw a bearded old man, his eyes were closed, and he said slowly: "Songzan, are you anxious?" ”

The young man's eyes flickered, and he said slowly: "Call back Uncle Fan, Songtsan is indeed a little anxious. ”

A smile appeared on the corner of the bearded old man's mouth, and he said kindly: "You are still too young, becoming the king of Tubo is a practice for you, and the experience of this practice will not only polish your mind, but also make you a new generation of Tubo lords, in charge of the life and death of all the people of Tubo."

Listening to these words that the bearded old man had said that had been repeated thousands of times, Songtsen Gampo showed a frustrated expression, and he now wanted to know if Mo Dada had reached Datang, because this time, he had sent someone to ask for a kiss

The bearded old man chattered for a while, then stopped suddenly, and then seemed to remember something, coughed and said: "Songzan, the criminal who caught poisoned your father's murderer already has an eyebrow, and now you need a bloody killing to establish your authority, as for the love of children, hehe, those Tang people who will be out of breath when they have entered the mountains are not worthy of your affection."

Chang'an's grand expulsion activities are still continuing, as the saying goes, there is food in the hand, the heart is not panicked, Chang'an's full granary gives the people of Chang'an the confidence to sing day and night, so the past only lasted three days of the expulsion festival, now it is announced to be extended for three days, a full six days of grand celebration.

Today's Li Er is also very excited, because another delegation from a distant country has arrived in the Tang Dynasty, and according to these people's own claims, they are a people living on the roof of the world, Tibet.

Li Er has long been interested in these burly and majestic Tubo people with red mud on their faces, wearing blank coats, and R1152