Li Ke opened his eyes and rubbed his forehead, there was a unique smell in the air, hey, I knew that I wouldn't sleep in this so-called palace, you tell me this is the palace?

This is not as good as living in a random family in Chang'an.

It's just that this also belongs to the territory of Datang, and Li Ke is going to live here on the first day anyway.

After breakfast, Li Ke summoned the person who should be summoned.

The first person Li Ke saw was not Shi Lang, but Shi Lang's grandfather, the old man of the Shi family, he was originally going to Datang, but after hearing that this place had been completely resolved, he returned to Xianglin City.

And the general Qiu Lin stationed at the border is leading 8,000 garrisons to rush here, and they should have received news at this time.

"Chen Shiji has seen His Highness." Old Man Shi saluted.

"Excuse me, give me a seat." Li Ke nodded.

The old man was also relaxed, and Li Ke gave him a seat and sat down directly.

"Shi Lao, I have a few questions I would like to consult, about this Linyi country." Li Ke said.

"Your Highness can call me by my name, and the minister knows everything and says everything." Shi Ji hurriedly spoke.

"That's right, before I came to Linyi, I communicated with some people in Lingnan Road, but after I came here, I found that the actual situation is not quite the same as what they said, I don't know if Shi Lao can give me some explanations, for example, the composition of the people in this Linyi. How many are remnants of the Central Plains? How many are locals? Li Ke asked.

This is the problem that Li Ke discovered yesterday, Lin Yi is very different from what Qiu He and Feng Ang said before, not that what they said is wrong, but obviously their understanding of the situation is also quite one-sided.

"Back to Your Highness, the hundreds of thousands of people in Linyi can almost be said to be the remnants of the Central Plains, of course, there are also some locals, many of these locals are originally some indigenous tribes in the mountains, but when they gradually come into contact with us, they slowly began to learn our language, customs, etc., and gradually some immigrants intermarried with them in a long period of time, forming today's situation."

"But for the most part, it's almost all Central Plains immigrants." Shi Ji said.

Li Ke nodded, this is much stronger than Li Ke imagined, originally Li Ke thought that a considerable number of people here were indigenous, but now it seems that he brought in some of the views of later generations.

In the Han Dynasty, and even earlier, it was ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty, and during that period, many Han Chinese migrated here in Lingnan Province and other places, and then gradually formed the main cultural group here.

Because at that time, the local people were obviously indigenous, or their locals were still in the tribal era, and they had not even formed a state and civilization at all, so the Han people who immigrated were naturally the main race.

Hundreds of years have passed since the Tang Dynasty, and in these hundreds of years, there must have been many local tribes influenced by the Han people, gradually getting rid of the state of ignorance, and then mixing into the residents, and gradually intermarrying with the Han people living here.

Those aristocratic Han people may not intermarry with them, but ordinary people will definitely accept it gradually, after all, a considerable number of these people are also Han people in Lingnan Province, and they are not much different.

In this way, almost all the people in these countries in Southeast Asia in later generations can be said to be the descendants of Han Chinese and local residents.

It seems that even those so-called Malays have the blood of the Han people of the Central Plains.

Thinking of this, Li Ke suddenly discovered a problem, that is, it seems that if the Tang Dynasty executes its rule here, the ruling foundation does not know how many times higher than that of the Western Regions! The people here can almost seamlessly integrate into the Tang Dynasty! Because the text, language, etc. here can almost be said to be no different from Datang.

"That Shi Lao, the second question is that I inquired with the people of Lingnan Road before, saying that the people of Linyi and other countries are relatively lazy, and they all set fire to the mountains and plant at will, because they can grow three times a year here, so they can't starve to death even if they plant casually. Why is that? Li Ke asked again.

Shi Ji immediately smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, it's not right to say that." The reason why I say this is because the current situation, or the previous situation, is indeed the case. ”

"But it's not right, it's because it's not that the people are really lazy and don't want to farm, of course, I don't rule out that there must be such people, but the vast majority of people are not lazy, but they are lazy because...... You're going to have to pay more taxes! ”

"Lin Yi was not like this before the earliest, but because the royal family and nobles of Lin Yi were extremely poor and luxurious, they wanted to have a more luxurious life, so they had to collect more taxes from the people, but a lot of land in Lin Yi was included in their own property by these nobles. A large part of the common people of Linyi can only serve as tenants for these nobles. ”

"The other part of the land with their own land is the main tax object of the Linyi royal family, but the people who can tax are getting fewer and fewer, and the proportion of tax can only increase."

Then some of the people came up with a solution, anyway, no matter how much land they planted, they would all be collected and taken away, so it would be better to plant it in some wild land. So many people directly sowed a handful of seeds in the wilderness...... These are not considered farm products either. ”

"As for those tenants who farm for the nobles, no matter how they plant, they can only get a fixed amount of grain, and of course they will not plant it with their hearts."

Shi Ji smiled bitterly after speaking.

Li Ke: "......"

And this kind of operation? It's just that he is also a little speechless, as if it is understandable that these small countries have outrageous operations, so this is the difference between the commune and the household contract responsibility system, right? That's probably what it means.

It can only be said that the operation of these small countries ...... People can't understand it, do you say they don't understand that the people can't survive and want to rebel?

must understand, but Li Ke can't figure it out if he still does this.

Forget it, not only these small countries, but also the outrageous operations of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Isn't that just cheapening yourself?

"I see, thank you for your doubts, so when I distribute their own land to these people, they will do their best to plant, right?" Li Ke asked with a smile.

"Of course! Because this is their own land, who doesn't want to live a good life? Of course, there may be those who are lazy, but the minister guarantees that most of the people want to live a good life! Shi Ji said seriously.

"I understand, so in that case, the real wax next door should be similar to Lin Yi's situation?" Li Ke asked another question.

"The difference is not big, but there is a difference, the real wax once had the ancient civilization and cultural heritage here, although it has been influenced by our China for hundreds of years, most of them also speak Tang dialect and write Tang characters, but they have their own things in some customs and culture."