Chapter 1376: Pressing Forward
In addition to these gate valve families, Li Ke's second thought is how to deal with Tianzhu.
Because of the unique geographical environment and the advantages of several rivers, the entire Tianzhu Continent has also been a populous country since ancient times.
According to historical records, the total population of the Ring Sun Dynasty, which collapsed after a few years, was about 24 million at the end of the year, which is an official statistic, but in fact the population must have been much higher.
What's more, the Jieri Dynasty only occupies about half of the richest position in the Tianzhu Continent, and there must be a large number of people on the half of the continent on the south side, at least a few million.
The total population of the entire Tianzhu Continent is estimated by Li Ke to be around 35 million. But the population on this continent is too strange.
At least there are many people in it that Li Ke doesn't want, although it's a bit cruel to say this, but he really doesn't want it.
Therefore, on Tianzhu's side, Li Ke pondered that he wanted to use the method of raising Gu to see if he could screen out a wave of people first.
Li Ke is not a narrow-minded nationalist or anything like that, but the people he hates the most are the kind of people who are lazy and lazy, do not struggle for themselves, and then want to believe in various gods, and then they are arrogant, always thinking that others are plotting against him, and people who toss all kinds of things out.
To be honest, this kind of person is actually the most difficult to transform, even more difficult to transform than some people who are cheating and playing smart.
It just so happened that since Songtsen Gampo was willing to surrender, and he was also preparing to attack the Ring Sun Dynasty, this was a good opportunity.
It is enough to let the inner body of the Ring Sun Dynasty start to roll up on its own.
In fact, Li Ke's method is also very simple, he is ready to let Songtsen Gampo continue to consume the national strength of the Jieri Dynasty, anyway, now that they have the support of the Tang Dynasty, the materials must be enough.
But the Jieri Dynasty is different, and by the way, Li Ke asked Datang to raise the price of goods from the back.
If the Jieri Dynasty wants to continue to maintain the rule of the dynasty and continue to live, then it can only find a way to buy more materials from the Tang Dynasty, and these materials Li Ke will provide them with second-level things. Anyway, the two sides began to fight a war of attrition.
As long as the Jieri Dynasty can't hold on, then with their urine nature will inevitably oppress the ordinary people below, at this time, Ashina Shilu, who has a long border with the Jieri Dynasty and controls the first line of the Batie in later generations, can be attached to the Tang Dynasty.
And Ashina's side only needs to launch one policy, that is, to accept the people of the fleeing Jieri Dynasty.
As long as they are willing to escape, they will accept it, arrange land for them and so on.
In Li Ke's opinion, it is one thing to dare to resist or not, but those who can muster up the courage to escape, at least there is a chance to save, at least they don't want to rot here anymore.
To be honest, the caste system on this continent can last for more than a thousand years, because there are too many people in this kind of rottenness.
Do you say that there has been a rebellion or something like that in their history, and there were, but they rebelled, and as a result, a new dynasty was established, or according to the original method of governance, and then the lowest group settled down again.
Because the process of resistance is to die, when people die, the land can accommodate more people, they accept a little less exploitation, they can survive, forget it, accept their fate.
It is very similar to the situation of those nomads, the population is too large to be carried by the grassland, so they find a way to consume the population.
But people consume the population, and from the perspective of others, they attack others, and the way they consume the population is to bully their own people first.
Anyway, there are more people fighting with each other at the bottom.
There are too many strange places here, and Li Ke doesn't bother to care about it, anyway, he is ready to do this, step by step to compress the survival line of the Ring Sun Dynasty, but not to kill them, and then gradually compress and take things out of their pockets.
When I can't get something out in the end, I'll see what to do with it.
This is not something that can be executed in a short period of time, and it is estimated that it will take more than ten years to execute.
As for whether they will muster up the courage to resist directly.
After thinking too much, I ran away in the early stage of daring to resist, and ran to Datang's side, and these people still have some backbone.
And the group of people who don't dare to resist, they would rather continue to bully the weak and fear the hard in the south, and occupy those small countries over there, it is estimated that they will not dare to resist, so it is good, they fight in front, and Li Ke and them will choose the territory behind.
After Tianzhu's side is circled, they have nowhere to run anyway, so they just need to solve it in the end.
Unless they can swim across the sea, they will go to the sea if they have the ability.
And the rest are the three states of Persia and Arabia and Byzantium.
Unlike Tianzhu, these three countries do not lack combat effectiveness, although Datang has always consumed their national strength, but the relationship between these three countries is also complicated.
If Datang wants to directly force the attack, it is even possible to let them unite, although this probability is not very large.
Of course, Li Kegao looked at them, and he wouldn't look too highly, their own combat effectiveness was not even as high as Goguryeo, the only problem was that they were too far away from Datang.
At present, the railway built by Datang is too far away from this place to be built in a short time.
Although Datang has an ample navy, and there is also enough land near Tianzhu to store logistics supplies.
But the effect of such an attack is to do more with less, so at least wait until a few important sections of the railway are built to reach the area.
In this way, the speed of material delivery will be faster, the speed of troop deployment will also be faster, and of course, all aspects such as material storage can also be carried out simultaneously.
Even around Persia, actions similar to Tianzhu can be carried out, that is, when ordinary people from Persia come over, they will be given the identity of Datang people, and then let them live in Datang.
And send people to start propagating similar things in Persia and other people, of course, it is not enough to propagate only on the Persian side, and the Caspian Sea line must also be taken, and at the same time, the Byzantine side will also begin to shrink.
As for the Arabs, they could not do anything against them at first, after all, they had the smallest population, and they were facing both Persia and Byzantium, and now they were basically at a disadvantage.
If the population is declining, the problem is even more.
Come step by step, this is the main goal of Datang in the future, anyway, the hinterland of Datang has been dealt with, and if there is no worries, the main strategic goals can naturally be placed in the west.
However, what Li Ke didn't know was that when he was seeking to conquer the west, the last khan of the Western Turks had already entered the dying moment.