The atmosphere after the victory was very relaxed and freehand, and Li Tai, the king of Wei, only felt that the slightly noisy wind was also full of poetry.

There was a smile on his chubby face, "Naturally it is easy to ......"

Well?

His voice stopped abruptly.

The smile on his face froze almost instantly.

The muscles that have made a smile have not yet recovered, but the brain is already frantically reminding it: stop laughing!

He raised his chubby head and looked at his father, who was looking at him with a faint smile, but he no longer had the pride of being favored in the past, only a chill.

What a terrible smile.

Father, what do you mean?

He didn't want to think about the worst answer.

But how could he not think about it?

His eldest brother Li Chengqian has just been assigned to the Qin State, and his other cousin, King Yan, is still on the Yalu River.

Li Shimin was the only one in the audience who said here, and almost everyone was silent, not daring to make any abnormal moves.

Son. ”

If asked, it was deliberate.

Li Tai only felt that suddenly a large thick dark cloud enveloped his heart, he didn't know why it was suddenly like this, he didn't know what was wrong.

From the vacancy of the crown prince to the present year, his father has no intention of making him the crown prince.

He said earnestly: "Your brother, the former prince, and now the king of Qin, will go out and become a vassal, and you will also go out to be a vassal, which is called fairness." ”

He was probably so stimulated that he asked this question in a trance.

How can the conquest of Liaodong be as important as the crown prince of the Central Plains?

Seeing this, Li Shimin knew that his clever son had already guessed, he slowly put away the smile on his face, and asked again seriously, "Blue Bird, what is nature?" ”

What a joke!

"Father, why?"

He thought of his brother, who had always been cowardly.

The courtiers who followed behind Li Shimin naturally heard Li Shimin's words, one by one, as if they had been struck by lightning, they almost couldn't believe what they heard in their ears, almost everyone was dumbfounded, silence and an uneasy atmosphere instantly enveloped everyone, and the joy of victory just now disappeared.

When the surrounding ministers heard these words, they bowed their heads deeply, this matter is definitely not something they can get involved in, whoever touches it will die.

Li Tai, who has always been smart, smiled miserably, he didn't even have the slightest meaning to speak, he was really too clever and cocooned himself.

No one knows why His Majesty suddenly had such a big change of attitude, and what really happened in it, no one knows.

Li Shimin's word by word hit the heart of Li Tai, the king of Wei, his cheeks were extremely pale, without a trace of blood, and Li Shimin's every word was like a mockery and judgment against him.

When Li Tai thought of Li Zhi, he immediately paused, only to feel that he was in the middle of a 10,000-year-old glacier.

"Son......

Those who are ambitious and want the throne can't get the throne, only those who haven't thought about it get it.

At the beginning, King Su sealed his brothers, sons and others to a distant place far away from Wangji, which was a fence for the Zhou royal family.

Because the rogue can't govern here.

Li Shimin's heart was also very painful, but he knew that it was not only Li Tai who wanted the answer to this question, but also the ministers who wanted to know why.

Your Majesty is true and is not ready to make King Wei the crown prince.

The Son of Heaven asked again, but it made the hearts of the ministers fall back in their throats, His Majesty is really asking about King Wei!

The national capital does not have to be built in Jizi City, and then to the south, there is a river called the Han River, and if you build a new city in the north of the Han River, it will be called Tang City, as the capital of the Qi State. ”

But Li Shimin had already made up his mind, and he said lightly: "Blue Bird, you are one of my most outstanding sons, and among my many sons, you are also one of the oldest, your eldest brother was named the king of Qin and went to Chang'an to build a country five thousand miles away, and your third brother was named the king of Yan, and three thousand miles away in Mobei, he was named the king of Yan.

In a short moment, countless thoughts flashed in Li Tai's mind, and these complicated thoughts kept popping up, and then there was no order, like a ball of unsorted threads, entwining his thinking, and it was chaotic.

Father, do you really want to seal me up in this desolate place?

Please take this step and let me go back to Chang'an with you, as if there was no such conversation today.

Li Tai was running his brain quickly, and with his last expectation, he said softly: "My son is a little sure, but he still wants to study with his father for a while, so as not to be dedicated to Datang in the future but lack ability." ”

There are some things that can't be asked.

I see!

Everything he did and everything he said in the past was like a clown.

Fortunately, my Datang has newly established the Six Kingdoms system, which can solve this problem.

You also have to take on the heavy responsibilities that the children of the royal family should bear.

He thought that this was the final test, after all, was there anyone more suitable for the position of crown prince than himself?

Without!

Do you want your ninth brother Li Zhi, the king of Jin, who is still a yellow-mouthed child?

The father seems to have let the Jin King Li rule the country.

Then on the peninsula south of the Yalu River, as well as Fusang across the sea, the state of Qi was established.

I went to conquer Liaodong this time, and I saw that the mountains and mountains here were steep and the land was barren, so I knew why the Han family established the Liaodong Protectorate in the end and finally collapsed.

Li Tai only felt that everyone was mocking him, and the suddenness made him unacceptable.

Don't?

I want to establish the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate east of the Great Khing'an Mountains in Liaodong, west of the Changbai Mountain, and north of the Yalu River, which will be listed as the four major metropolitan protectorates along with Anxi, Anbei, and the future Annan.

Even the most favored King of Wei, no, who should be called King Qi now, was directly exiled to this wilderness because of peeping at the storage position.

Li Tai's chubby face regained some blood, "The minister must do his best to be loyal to His Majesty and the Tang Dynasty." ”

couldn't help but do his best, in the division of the Tang Dynasty, only the Qin State of the King of Qin was too biased, and there were no countermeasures.

The rest of the kingdoms were all within the shadow of the four major metropolitan protectorates, and they were burdened with suppressing the kingdoms for the central court.

The establishment of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate was between the Yan State and the Qi State, which was to suppress these two kingdoms, and by the way, develop prefectures and counties to suppress the local resistance forces.

There are still endless Hu people in Liaodong, and even the Luo clan can't count the number, and no one knows which mountain they are hiding in.

In order to prevent the Qi State from rebelling, it is necessary to demolish those mountain cities that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and to move the capital of the Qi State to the south, which is to prevent the forces of the Qi State from being thrown into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

This is Li Shimin beating Li Tai, beating a prince who is trying to peek at the throne, don't have any extra thoughts in the future, this is my father's last mercy.

The Son of Heaven, the invincible Son of Heaven.

In Datang, no one can challenge Li Shimin's authority.

The more he came into contact with the Son of Heaven, the more he felt this way, he was invincible, sweeping away all enemies.

So it was, so it will be, and so it will always be.

……

The army continued to move forward, entering the palace of the king of Liaodong, which was not very magnificent, and the thought that this would be his kingdom in the future, it was like being in the countryside, Li Tai had the urge to cry.

"Here it is."

Li Tai chuckled in his heart.

"King Qi."

"The minister is here."

Although extremely reluctant, the situation that has developed to this point is no longer beyond Li Tai's control, and he responded numbly.

"Although the land I have given to you is not as large as that of Yan and Qin, whether it is the Liaodong Peninsula or Fusang on the other side of the sea, there is a large amount of cooked land, which has been reclaimed for farming, and is not as dangerous and desolate as Yan and Qin.

Moreover, the Liaodong Peninsula and Fusang have been influenced by the Central Plains for many years, so it is relatively easy.

In the next ten years, I will move 100,000 households to Qi, and when you enter Fusang, the Central Plains will migrate more than 500,000 households.

What you have to do is to attack forward, deal with local government affairs, and integrate the Han people and Fan people who migrated later, and completely sinicize them in terms of language, culture, architecture, and system.

Is it possible for you to do it? ”

The land of Qin and Yan is indeed large, but it is really not as good as Liaodong, especially Liaodong is closer to the Central Plains, and these two places have a large number of secondary cultures after accepting the Central Plains.

But what Li Shimin said still made everyone in the hall a little shocked, "Your Majesty, with a population of 600,000 households, how can this migrate, and how can so many people migrate?" ”

600,000 households, that's at least 3 million people, even for the Central Plains, that's too much.

It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to migrate these populations, and most importantly, the people are not necessarily willing, who wants to leave Datang?

But Li Shimin said very resolutely: "Migration is a major event that bears pressure in a short period of time and is conducive to the future.

Of course, I know what you are thinking, and the massive migration of people will swell the strength of the Liaodong Peninsula and Fuso Island.

But I am doing things now, not only about Datang, but also about the future, so as to prevent the situation after the decline of Datang.

I migrated 600,000 households because there were more than 600,000 households in Fusang and Liaodong, and if the Han people were less than half, how could we quickly change the local customs? ”

Seeing that everyone was still a little incomprehensible, they only felt that His Majesty's actions today were a little different from his previous attitude towards the Hu people, Li Shimin said in a deep voice again: "Xiangdong is an island country, and it is different from the Western Regions, King Qi, you have to cheer up."

I have already passed the qi with the national teacher, canonized Luo Xuanxing as the Duke of Liao, and Liaozhou (Liaodong City) as his principality, he will be the next Anton Metropolitan Protector, and will also lead the Tang Dynasty Navy to be stationed in Beisha City (Lushun).

I will ask the Duke of Liao to assist you in attacking Fusang, and what I want is to take Fusang quickly without increasing the expenses of the imperial court! ”

Not only do the horses run, but also don't give the horses grass, this is Li Shimin's request to Li Tai.

In addition to helping Li Tai gain a foothold on the peninsula in the early stage and providing the help of the sailor, Zhongyuan will not provide him with much help.

Again, the division is not only to expand the living space, but also to save military expenditure for the Central Plains Imperial Court, and now the destruction of Liaodong is already a considerable expenditure, if you attack Fusang again, it will drag down the Tang Dynasty.

From Li Shimin's point of view, in the future, if the peaceful evolution fails and a war breaks out on the Jizi Peninsula and the Fusang Islands, there is a high probability that it will be a war of public security, and the government soldiers cannot fight a war of public security, and what is needed to fight a war of public security is the Tang Concord Army.

The attitude of the Son of Heaven is resolute and terrifying!

At this time, everyone felt Li Shimin's attitude that he must take Fusang, although he didn't know the reason, but Li Tai recovered from his numbness.

Although it is a very sad thing not to be able to become the prince of the Tang Dynasty, it is not necessarily a bad thing if you can really become the lord of Fusang.

The migration of three million people, Fuso originally had two or three million people, the lord of six million people, which is already quite terrifying, and the taxes that can be provided are extremely considerable.

Fuso does not have a majestic palace, you can build it with craftsmen, you can take it from the Central Plains without books, you have printing, you can take as much as you want.

He is on Fuso Island, and he can do whatever he wants, and no one can control him.

Li Tai's artist's heart suddenly beats.

He suddenly found that Fusang was like a blank sheet of paper, and what the future would look like was completely up to him, and if he could lay down Fusang, it would be interesting to build everything from scratch.

And.

In the future, you can move the capital of Qi to Fusang Island, and then train the navy, you can completely establish yourself as the emperor on Fusang Island, and whether the Central Plains can manage yourself in the future, then it is really uncertain!

It is still very beneficial to be a feudal feudal domain, although it is not as good as being the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but in addition, it is already the best choice, at least the emperor has a sentence that is not nonsense, that is, the initial environment of the Qi State is much better than that of the Yan State and the Qin State.

Needless to say, in another thousand years, ten thousand years, no one will ever want to go to that kind of climate and land, so the Central Plains has the deepest precautions against Mobei, because from top to bottom, they all think that Mobei Yanguo will not be willing to stay in that desolate place.

The state of Qin is too far away, and it is the only one that does not need to be guarded against, because the cost of running all the way back to seize power can drag a country down.

Only Qi State, although the land is not fertile, but it can be farmed, the climate is similar to the Central Plains, the population is large, and the Central Plains can also trade smoothly, according to historical experience, it will definitely be a rich vassal country in the future.

The people of Fusang still don't know that Li Tai, a living ancestor who is quite ruthless to his brothers, is about to take the Tang Heavenly Soldiers to the island.

Of course, the Fusang people at the bottom will probably welcome the king, after all, although the magnates of the Tang Dynasty are ruthless, compared to those Fusang nobles who are still in the early stage of slavery, they are simply living bodhisattvas.

After Li Tai, the king of Wei, was renamed the king of Qi and guarded the Jizi Peninsula, the Son of Heaven threw out another appointment that was enough to shock everyone, that is, to canonize Luo Xuanxing as the Duke of Liao.

And it is not only the canonization of the dukedom of the country, but the most important thing is that in the second half of the sentence of the Son of Heaven, Liaozhou (Liaodong City) will be turned into a duke and become a real duke of the ancient Bang Zhou.

In fact, as early as the early years of Zhenguan, Li Shimin thought about separating the heroes and clans in various places, hereditary state assassination, and achieving the actual separation, but was finally stopped back.

Now it seems that although he does not do so in the Central Plains, the Son of Heaven still has such considerations in the frontier.

Liaodong City became Liaozhou, Gaimu City became Gaizhou, and the Son of Heaven did this to implement the state and county system on the land of Liaodong, and then use the military management of the Governor's Mansion and the Metropolitan Protectorate to control here.

It is very likely that the canonization of the Duke of Liao now will not be the last person, and it is very likely that he will continue to divide some trustworthy heroes and clans in places that other empires cannot control.

Of course, it will not be like the division of the six kingdoms, but just like the Duke of Liao, it is very possible to divide a city, and this kind of division is not a big deal for the empire, and it will not affect the power of the central empire, which is very suitable for the current empire.

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The Tang Empire's real overseas exploration of the empire began from Yingzhou (that is, the original Fusang Island), and in the exploration of Yingzhou, those harvests related to land, population, and resources will not be repeated, and the most precious experience and harvest are actually the development of technology.

In the process of turning the Imperial Navy from the rivers to the sea, after experiencing several shipwrecks, the Imperial Sea Ships extensively absorbed the technology of various coastal countries and improved it, and the shipbuilding technology was greatly improved.

According to records, in the first hundred years of the empire alone, the tonnage of imperial ships increased fivefold on average, and all kinds of tools that were conducive to sailing on the sea, such as stern rudders and sailing rigging, ushered in a major explosion.

At the same time, due to the huge demand for sea navigation, especially the constant demand for the accuracy of Sinan, astrolabe, and map, the empire's mathematics and astronomy ushered in a great explosion, driven by huge interests, among the aristocracy, even surpassed the exploration of Confucian classics.

For an empire as inclusive and expansive as the Tang Dynasty, what could be more important than conquering the seas?

The ocean is money, and there is nothing more important to the nobility than getting more money, and around the ocean, this vast empire has generated power struggles, as well as fighting, and blood envelops everything.

But no one can stop it, and the great voyage of the great empire begins here. -- "General History of the World: Ocean World"

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