Chapter 787: Tusi's country within a country
"Thank you for Your Highness's concern, the old man really hasn't carried out this kind of marching forward, but the old man's bones can still withstand it, but if you speed up again, then the old man can only take leave with His Highness."
What Xiao Yu said is very real, and he is not the top, just take his old bones as an example, today's progress has reached the limit, if you continue to increase your speed, it can only be in the slave team behind you.
"What do you say about leave, you are here for the logistics of our army, and it is also the duty of the adults to follow these people in the rear, if there is no adult to follow them, I am afraid that I will run away along the way."
Li Xiang's words are very comfortable, obviously Xiao Yu's body can't keep up, but from Li Xiang's mouth, that is, Xiao Yu has to follow the team of slaves in order to work, no matter where he goes, not only is there no fault, but there is even merit.
"Thank you Your Highness for your understanding, I went to Sichuan and Shu, and the old man also made a note, please take a look at it."
Xiao Yu is a doer, the reason why Li Xiang agreed at the beginning was because Xiao Yu was more serious about his work, don't care what this old guy thinks in his heart, he will definitely be able to complete the work, just by virtue of this Li Xiang will not lose money with him, if you change to other people along the way, it is estimated that the body will not be able to adapt to it, but people still wrote a plan, which is not easy.
The first thing listed is to build roads, which coincides with Li Xiang, because of the road construction in the north, the ties between various places have been greatly strengthened, which not only strengthens the rule of the imperial court over various places, but also plays a role in guiding some displaced people in various places, these people themselves have no place to eat, and now the imperial court wants to build roads, in addition to the use of prisoners of war in dangerous places, these displaced people in other places also have something to eat.
The second is about the economy, after the road is repaired, it is not only convenient for the army of the imperial court, but also the most important thing is to facilitate the circulation of goods between various places, so that the money in various places can be circulated, and the life of the common people will be better, and commercial trade is nothing more than to let the money flow, and everyone has running water in their hands, so this day will be better.
The second is to develop local agriculture, the people take food as the sky, the imperial court now has experience, a large area of land in Goguryeo Liao has been developed, so the food of the imperial court is more than double as before, Xiao Yu also checked the terrain of the land of Sichuan and Shu, in addition to the surrounding mountains, the inland is actually a basin, and it was once called the country of Tianshu, the Shu country in the late Eastern Han Dynasty developed here, and later because of the war, it was withered.
If we can develop locally, just like Li Xiang said to Li Shimin, not only does the front line not need Chang'an City to supply a grain of grain, but even after the war is over, the country of abundance can also come up with a lot of grain to help the imperial court stabilize other regions.
The last is the local toast, according to what Xiao Yu said, if the imperial court has the strength, try to solve these toasts first, and then solve the Nanzhao, after all, there are some disobedient people in their own land, if you bypass these toasts to fight Nanzhao first, our logistics may be interrupted.
"My lord, this last one, isn't it because you can't appease these toasts?"
This point is somewhat repulsive to Li Xiang, according to Li Xiang's previous thoughts, to get Xiao Yu to Chengdu, is to let him sit in Chengdu, and then deter all kinds of Tusi in the south, so that they dare not mess around when Li Xiang is at war.
didn't expect Xiao Yu to want to hit them first, which was a little different from Li Xiang's plan.
"Your Royal Highness, the Tusi Weichen in the south have studied, although they are superficially subordinate to my Tang Dynasty, but in fact there is not much difference from the countries of the Western Regions, and they usually only play a few twists and turns, and the real benefits have never been, but they often rob my Sichuan and Shu officials and people, and the magistrates are afraid that they will be responsible, so they never write this, and the emperor likes it......"
Xiao Yu couldn't go on when he said this, although what he said was the truth, but when he said bad things about Li Shimin, Xiao Yu was still reluctant to say it.
Li Xiang understands what Xiao Yu wants to say, that is, Li Shimin is so happy that he likes the whole country to come to the court at every turn, on the surface, it is true, but in fact, how many people sincerely surrender to you?
Take these toast masters as an example, they don't have a dime of gifts except for a few letters, is this a real surrender? On the contrary, when encountering a disaster, Chang'an City needed support, and at that time, for the sake of face, Li Shimin squeezed out a part of the money from the treasury and transported it over, just to maintain the situation of all countries coming to court.
In fact, many people in the imperial court are dissatisfied, including some people in the civil official group, Xiao Yu is the most dissatisfied, he thinks that it is useless to buy a false name with real money, instead of wasting money every year, it is better to send troops to exterminate them, turn this place into the state government system of the imperial court, and set up local officials to collect taxes according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, which is the most important thing to do, instead of subsidizing them at every turn, but making up a bunch of white-eyed wolves.
After listening to Xiao Yu's words, Li Xiang really had to think about it, originally thinking about taking Nanzhao first, and then slowly solving these Tusi masters, but now it seems that this is far from the case, but Li Xiang is not in a hurry to make a decision, and is ready to go to the territory of Tusi Master to have a look, and then make a decision.
"Your Highness, let's take a look first, Lord Eldest Sun has the information of these Tusi masters, and the things that these Tusi masters have done should also be known to some people in the imperial court."
Xiao Yu saw that Li Xiang was not in a hurry to express his position, and he was not in a hurry, he was a calm person, of course, he couldn't expect Li Xiang to be so radical, even if Li Xiang was so radical, Xiao Yu was likely to let Li Xiang think about it, everything must rely on his own eyes, not his ears.
After eating, Li Xiang returned to his tent, the eldest grandson Huanting had already changed into a daughter's clothes, Li Xiang saw the eldest grandson Huanting wearing a white gauze skirt, and couldn't help but have thoughts in his heart, but the eldest grandson Huanting pulled Li Xiang to the wooden barrel next to him with a roll of eyes, and let Li Xiang bathe first.
Thinking about yourself being stinky and sweaty, it is indeed annoying, not to mention that you are all ready, and it is more comfortable for you to take a hot bath.