"Moreover, do you really want to understand what my Tang Kingdom needs?"

Chen Xiu thought for a long time and couldn't get the point, so he asked, "Please ask the king for guidance." ”

Wen Yi looked at the people sitting and said, "Including you, you all have to listen." ”

"Yes."

"Although there is a shortage of people in the Tang Kingdom now, what is lacking is people who can quickly assimilate. And not this kind of person who does not have any foundation and takes years or even more than a dozen years to assimilate. ”

"This kind of person will not only not be helpful to my Datang career, but will also consume a lot of our manpower and material resources...... How the state dragged down the imperial court, you must all know. ”

Everyone couldn't help but nod, they knew too much about the state. Because Lingnan is the state of the imperial court, it is simply constantly sucking the blood of the imperial court.

Tang Guo could not afford this kind of consumption.

"We don't need to be detained, and any method that could drag down our national strength for a long time is not advisable at the moment."

"The natives on Luzon Island have not had contact with the Han people since ancient times, and they don't know that there is a Chinese people."

"And we are quite different from them in foreign trade. We were tall and fair, and they were dark-skinned and thin......"

"This difference in physiognomy combined with differences in cultural beliefs means that it may take us more time and effort to assimilate."

"So they can use more fierce and cruel methods, but they can't kill them all without asking questions."

"There are always tribes that are more receptive to foreign cultures and are willing to join us, so we should be gentle with this kind of approach."

"There's no need to be too merciful for those who are stubborn."

"Destroy their tribes and destroy their heritage, so that it will be possible to completely occupy Luzon and complete the initial assimilation within five years."

"But don't kill everyone, women can marry our people and reproduce, and children can be educated from an early age if they are ignorant. Young and strong are also useful, and they can be captured and returned as slaves. ”

"There are still many big projects to be done in Dongning, but they can't start because of lack of manpower. The mines on Hainan Island also need miners......"

"Mining is very hard and dangerous, we don't need to use our own people, this kind of slave is the most suitable miner."

"My plan is not only to completely occupy Luzon within five years, but also to complete the initial infrastructure construction of the country, do you understand what I mean?"

Everyone only felt chills all over their bodies, took a deep breath and said, "The ministers understand." ”

Wen Yi has always been very kind before, even if he treats foreign races, and tries to persuade assimilation.

Even if he secretly cleared out a lot of restless people, it didn't affect everyone's impression of him.

Today, everyone finally saw his ruthless side, and easily decided the future of hundreds of thousands of people on one island.

But if they were to raise objections, they would not want to.

Honestly, they really can't treat the people of Luzon as their own, at least for now.

Since it's not your own person, there's no need to say so much.

After that, Chen Xiu and the others reformulated a strategy plan, and this time it was even more involved, not only external military activities, but also internal actions to be made.

For example, the reception of captive native women and children of Luzon, the use and management of indigenous young slaves, and so on.

Many of the projects that are still on the agenda can be fully implemented.

For example, the reservoir in the Ningnan Plain has only been repaired until now, and the other two have not even touched a shovel of soil.

If all of them are repaired, Ningnan can easily reclaim millions of acres of land and feed tens of thousands of households.

There are also planned ditches and galloping roads that run through the island......

After all these projects were completed, Tang Guo really took off.

Thinking about it, they became happy.

As for how many people will die in doing so, they don't think about it. Anyway, it is not the Tang people who die, and those disobedient natives are also dead if they are killed, so it is better to play a little role.

To plan well is to dispatch troops.

Wen Yi pointed out two people to be responsible: "The civil official transferred Xiao Baishan to preside over the overall situation, let Wang Youkun go to Jin'an County to replace him, and Zhao Fang went to Yancheng." ”

"The military general is Liu Meng as the main general...... For the rest, draw up a list for me. ”

It took almost half a month to complete the work of dispatching troops, but the Tang State still lacked actual combat, and the speed of mobilization of various resources when it came to war was far inferior to that of countries that had experienced war all year round.

But on the other hand, that's not a bad thing.

On June 30, Liu Meng led four battalions of troops to embark on a warship bound for Luzon.

Although the straight-line distance from Dongning Island to Luzon Island is only 600 miles, they set out from Ning'an Port to Nanyu, and the distance has more than doubled.

It's almost the same distance from Dongning to Hainan Island.

But in the end, they chose to start from this far away.

The reason has already been said before, you can divide Dongning Island into two, clean up the north first, and empty the people on the broken islands in the south one by one when you turn around.

Liu Meng knew about this plan, so he gathered his four battalion commanders together from the moment he got on the ship to discuss the specific landing plan.

The four battalion commanders are Ma Yibai, Lu Yan, Lin Xingzhu, and Zhang Jie.

In addition to the five of them, there was another person in the conference room, Liu Meng introduced:

"This is the Lu Qianjun Road Flag Officer of the Wei Wei Division, and he led people to investigate the situation on Luzon Island before, and he knows this side best. Now I would like to invite him to introduce you."

As soon as they heard that it was someone from the Weiwei Division or a third-class flag officer, the attitude of the four of them immediately became serious, and they didn't want to be remembered by the other party.

Lu Qianjun smiled bitterly in his heart, this is the consequence of being demonized. The conscience of heaven and earth, he has not monitored anyone internally since the day he became the person of the Guardian Division.

At first, he followed Zhao Zhengzhi to catch natives in the mountains, and later went to Linyi with Chang Zhu. He was promoted to flag officer and was in charge of reconnaissance work on Luzon from the beginning to this day.

But he knew that it was useless to explain, so he said with an indifferent expression: "Lu has seen several battalion commanders, and I hope you will take care of them along the way." ”

The four of them hurriedly said: "The road flag officer is polite, take care of each other, take care of each other." ”

After a few simple greetings, Lu Qianjun began to introduce them to the situation on the island, mainly Nanyu:

"Living in Nanyu is a tribe called the Tajialu people, they are the largest tribe on Luzon Island, all over Nanyu and the southern islands, with a total number of at least 100,000."

"It's just that they don't have a unified state, but live together as tribes, and they don't form a tribal alliance like the slang."

"There were even wars and fights between each other, for land and food, and for the enslavement of people from other tribes."

"Their weapons are rudimentary, mainly stone and bone, with a small amount of bronze ......"

"There are about 17,000 Tajialu people in Nanyu, divided into eleven different tribes......"