Although Xia Sui is calm, if he wants to digest it, he needs a process.

In terms of the current land of the Tang Dynasty, it is already one of the best.

But land area does not equal strength, and the root of the weakness of the Tang Dynasty lies in the massive loss of population in Guanzhong.

Of course, the small population also has the advantage of a small population, the land of Chang'an, Weibei and Fengxiang has basically been cleared out, and all the ownerless fields are included in the imperial village, which is cultivated by the villagers, and the imperial court is six, and the villagers are four.

It can fully afford to raise 60,000 Tang troops, plus 50,000 auxiliary troops.

But it is impossible to expand the army again, the newly formed Xiaocai has 6,000 soldiers, but there are more than 12,000 war horses, as well as 3,000 cavalry of Zhou Yunyi stationed in Xiasui, and 1,000 cavalry of Zhou Yunyi who stayed in Yangzhou Gaoxing.

War horses are not simply eating grass to live, but also need to configure concentrates, such as soybean cakes, bean grains, soybean meal, wheat bran, and corn flour, which are more expensive than what people eat.

One war horse is enough to raise five soldiers.

Eighteen thousand horses are ninety thousand troops.

The burden is already heavy.

However, no matter how big the burden is, Li Ye has to carry it, no cavalry will never be able to grasp the initiative on the battlefield, the infantry army may be able to attack the city in Middle-earth, but if you want to compete for Helong, you still have to rely on cavalry.

"Why don't you increase taxes?" Tang Ting's predicament, Li Juchuan naturally knows it.

"The peasants' taxes are already very heavy, and if they are taxed, the people will complain." In Li Ye's view, sixty percent of the rent is already very harsh, but the farmers have no complaints.

In addition to farmers, there are also some yeoman farmers, as well as small landlords, who pay 50% of the tax.

If there were no other harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, in the feudal era, it was not very high.

The people of this land have been extremely industrious since ancient times, and as long as they see a little hope of survival, they will work hard like cattle and horses.

Li Ye can only focus on the Hetao area, after the Tang army sweeped, the Dangxiang ethnic groups were heavily migrated to Weibei, scattered in various Huangzhuang, and the Han people lived together, if they can farm, they will farm, and if they can't farm, they will graze, and they will not know anything.

The imperial court could not afford to raise idlers.

The party members and other ethnic groups moved to Huangzhuang on the first line of Weibei, sandwiched between Xiliucheng and Tongzhou, which was equivalent to the deterrence of two knives, and was guarded by a large number of auxiliary troops.

Since he is a coolie, his life must be difficult, and he is forced to work under the swords and guns of the auxiliary army.

If they resist, they will be whipped in public, or beheaded in public.

In fact, the amount of labor arranged for them by Li Hao was not large, working at sunrise and resting at sunset, three meals a day, and there was no shortage of supplies, and many coolies grew a lot stronger.

In addition to forced labor, Zhongyi Hall is also distributed in it.

Every day is a regular declaration of the court's kindness and why they will become coolies.

Of course, there are also many stories of alien generals.

In the history of the Tang Dynasty, there were many foreign generals who were crowned kings, and there were also many people who worshipped the prime minister.

These people are often more hardcore than the orthodox Tang people.

An Lushan is just a special case that happens to stand on the cusp of history.

In addition to giving them hope, he also gave them a history lesson, telling in detail about the miserable life of the party people 130 years ago, first persecuted by Tuguhun, and then enslaved by Tubo.

Many party members gritted their teeth with hatred.

In the end, he said with emotion that it was the Tang Dynasty that saved them, accepted them, moved them to Gyeongju, and let them recuperate in the rich land of Hetao.

The brothers of the Tuoba family deliberately forgot that the new generation of party members naturally did not remember their history, and Li Sizhong created hatred and resisted the assimilation of the Tang Dynasty, which gave birth to a countercurrent among the party members.

Fortunately, this countercurrent was extinguished by Li Ye in time.

A lie can be told a hundred times to become the truth, especially if it is true history.

As a later generation, Li Ye naturally knows that the power of public opinion propaganda is no less than the atomic bomb in people's brains. Mao Daxiong two seals three ......

The resistance of the party coolies gradually disappeared, and the enthusiasm for work continued to grow.

Although Li Ye is in Chang'an, the wind and grass in the entire Weibei, Postfang, Xiasui, and Hetao areas are in front of his eyes.

A large number of personnel of the Imperial City Division were scattered among them, and the mental state and obedience of the party members were evaluated, and then presented to the hands of the four major leaders of the Imperial City Division, and they were directly presented in front of Li Ye without Liu Quanli's hands.

This is also no way, the history of the middle and late Tang Dynasty is a history of eunuch arrogance.

Everything, be on guard.

In view of the success of Zhongyitang's coolies in the party, Li Ye simply expanded this propaganda campaign to the entire alien ethnic group.

The big brothers from the grassland are relatively simple, have a place to stay, have something to eat, and don't care about anything.

As for history, the ethnic groups of the steppe are more intense than the ethnic integration of Middle-earth, such as the Dog Rong, the Ghost Fang, the Xiongnu, the Xianbei, and the Turkic.....

You sing and I'll appear.

Either they were integrated into the new steppe peoples, or they were integrated into the Middle Earth, and they ran to the west to make a fuss, or disappeared silently in the long river of history.

When the Tang Dynasty was a fork, he held two big knives in his hand, and he was full of martial virtues, and he was not bad for these little brothers of different races, as long as they were obedient and reasonable, their safety was guaranteed, at least they were regarded as people, and the meritorious ones could not be crowned kings at every turn, and they would not be like Tubo who turned back the wheel of history, engaged in slavery, and treated people as livestock.

I have to say that Zhongyitang is the sharpest weapon in Li Ye's hands except for the Tang Army.

Edutainment and education can not only be sunny and snowy, but also down-to-earth, and have miraculous effects both internally and externally.

In less than a month, the recognition of Datang by the low-level party members has risen rapidly.

As for the party nobles, they were strictly controlled in Chang'an City.

In the past, Li Ye still felt that the square wall was dispensable, but now he thinks that the square wall is not bad, it can not only prevent fire, but also prevent people, and some of it was demolished, and most of it remained.

Dozens of Tang soldiers blocked the entrance of the square in shifts, there was nothing special, and they stayed in the courtyard honestly.

It's not that they will be imprisoned forever, but that the current situation is special, and when the assimilation of the party members is completed, these nobles will be free to move.

Xia Sui and Post Fang have only been separated from the Tang Dynasty for more than ten years, and the Tang people's sense of identity with the Tang Dynasty is still there.

This is also why Li Sizhong took the remote land of Jinze as his old nest, wanting to get rid of the influence of the Tang Dynasty.

The four prefectures of Xia, Sui, Yin, and You, although the territory is large, the population is still insufficient.

The four states combined, according to preliminary statistics, there were only 90,000 people in total, and of course, some of them hid in the mountains because of the war.

As the war subsided, they would come back sooner or later, just like Guanzhong, the war subsided, and the population actually rebounded slightly.

At this time, the Hetao is not as serious as soil erosion in later generations, the Mu Us Desert has not yet expanded, this place can be both grazing and farming, when Helian Bobo captured this place, set up the Xia Kingdom, it is also a treasure land of feng shui.