"Well, I don't quite understand Your Highness." Dang Renhong hesitated for a moment but spoke directly.

"You say." Li Ke looked at him and asked.

"If we want to take him, why do we have to do business with them, and after we take them down, we can't directly plant the fields with our own people?" Dang Renhong hesitated and asked.

"What's wrong with this, even if you do business with them, it won't increase their strength, and when the time comes, encourage their royal family to do business with the Tang Dynasty, and let their royal family force the people to plant fields, which can be regarded as opening up the wasteland for our subsequent immigrants." Li Ke said.

"Speaking of which, Your Highness, I still have one more doubt." Feng Ang also spoke.

"Geng Guogong, please speak." Li Ke looked at him.

"Your Highness, most of the people in this Linyi and Zhenwax country are very lazy, because their land is fertile, many people just need to burn the barren mountains, and then sprinkle a handful of seeds casually, they don't need to be intensively cultivated, they can eat and starve without dying, they are not as industrious as our people in the Tang Dynasty, even if we do business with their royal family, they may not be willing to plant more arable land, right?" Feng Ang said.

"I have a way to do this." Li Ke smiled, this is indeed a problem, speaking of which, people's inertia is cultivated in this way, which is why in the whole of Southeast Asia in later generations, when the Chinese began to immigrate, they quickly became the local wealthier people, and then gradually began to contact the middle and upper class of these countries.

Because the locals are too lazy, to put it bluntly, everyone is basically lying flat and is used to it.

The solution to this is also very simple, just make good use of the catfish effect.

Of course, the catfish effect cannot be used indiscriminately, and the tragedy of a monkey in the next generation is a lesson.

People are social animals, Li Ke still doesn't believe it, really can't influence?

"This issue is put aside for the time being, you only need to invest money, wait for dividends, of course you can not participate." Li Ke smiled and said, "I have another question here, that is, you are all local wealthy families, Guifu, Jiaofu and other places, whether there are many barbarians in the mountains and forests (the name of ethnic minorities in the Tang Dynasty, the south is generally called barbarian, the west is Rong, and the north is Di. Example: Nanban invasion. Tribes? ”

"Yes." The governors all nodded their heads, this is the local ecology.

The entire Lingnan Province has nine prefectures, of which Jiaozhou (later Vietnam), Guizhou (later Guangxi), and Guangfu (Guangdong, Hainan) are the upper three prefectures, and the rest are the lower prefectures under the jurisdiction of these three prefectures. It is also called the division of the three provinces, which to some extent belong directly to the Tang court.

For example, Qiu He, although he is also a local wealthy family, but his sons, the eldest son, etc., have participated in the Xuanwumen Revolution with Li Shimin, and now they are also serving in Chang'an, Tang Dynasty, so this is directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and Li Xizhi, the governor of Guizhou Mansion, has already said that he is from the Li family in Longxi and belongs to the royal family.

Dang Renhong, the governor of Guangfu, has also just been relocated and was directly appointed and dispatched by Chang'an, and through these three prefectures, Datang can basically control the local area of Lingnan Province.

"Can we communicate with these barbarian tribes?" Li Ke looked at them and asked.

"Communication is possible, but many times they are not very willing to communicate with the Han people, and they basically live in the mountains." Li Xizhi said.

"Well, the Six Zhao Kingdoms of the Southwest, if we want to defeat them, is it easy?" Li Ke looked at them and asked again.

The Six Zhao Kingdom is the predecessor of the Southern Zhao in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and there is no Nanzhao yet, and the Six Zhao Kingdom refers to the six small countries located near the Erhai Lake, each with six kings.

They were the edict of Meng Xi Zhao, the edict of Yue Xi, the edict of Langqiong, the edict of Shi Lang, and the edict of Mengshe, and among them, the edict of Mengshe was later quickly unified with the support of the Tang Dynasty, unified the Erhai region, and then annexed to the Tang Dynasty, and finally called it the Southern Zhao.

And the reason why Meng Shezhao was willing to annex the other five tribes with the support of the Tang Dynasty was actually threatened by Tubo, that is, if Tubo fell into the hands of Li Ke, the future Nanzhao would not become a climate.

The restrictions that now prevent the entire Yunnan region from being included in the Tang Dynasty are nothing else, but the unique miasma of the region, in fact, miasma is a comprehensive name for a variety of causes caused by the primitive jungle, which may include malaria, dysentery, beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency), sand lice, poisoning, laryngeal diseases, hemorrhagic fever, jaundice, etc.

But what does Li Ke have? Li Ke has the Yunnan edition, Guizhou edition, and Guangxi edition of the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" in his hand, and it is no exaggeration to say that places such as the Yunnan edition can be applied in Southeast Asia! In other words, Li Ke now has a treatment plan, but he lacks Chinese medicinal materials!

And in the 100,000 mountains such as Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, and Vietnam, there are countless quantities of Chinese medicinal materials! And it's all wild!

This is also why Sun Simiao wanted to follow Li Ke over, Li Ke thought about it and did not refuse the old man, because the old man had actually been to these jungles, and he was an authority on medicinal materials, so if Li Ke purchased Chinese medicinal materials locally, the most important thing was to prepare Chinese medicinal materials so that they could be stored.

Fresh Chinese herbal medicines can not be stored for a long time, to be suitable for drying and other treatments, these aspects must be done by the old grandson, although Li Ke has relevant processes in his hands, but these processes also have to have expert guidance.

You must know that if some Chinese herbal medicines are not handled well, they may become highly toxic or ineffective, so of course Li Ke should pay attention to it.

If you want to conquer Southeast Asia, the most important thing is medicinal herbs! Other forces are secondary, soldiers from the north will inevitably get sick when they come here, multiple diseases such as climate, environment, and various insects will cause illness, even if they recruit soldiers from the local area and stay in the jungle for a long time, they may get sick, you must know that the miasma is fatal to those tribes living in the jungle of Yunnan now.

This is also the reason why witch doctors and shamans of many tribes in the deep mountains have absolute authority.

"Your Highness, their strength is average, but the main thing that restricts us is the environment." Qiu He hesitated for a moment but then spoke.

"Well, I see, in that case, we're going to train the local soldiers, especially the tribal men who live deep in the mountains, and let them serve as soldiers." Li Ke smiled and nodded.

Everyone is a little helpless, sure enough, His Highness has never been to Lingnan Road, and he doesn't know the local situation, Your Highness, if you want to recruit them, recruit them? To put it mildly, those people are just nominally Datang people, and they may not communicate with the people under the mountain once a year, do you want to recruit them? Do you go into the mountains to attack? Their stockade is not large, and they can all be relocated, the point is that there is no benefit in defeating it, and the soldiers who go there may die, and many people will die.