Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1516 Arrogance
After the chief and the envoy retreated with a sad face, Shao Shude sat beside Zhao Yu's bed and had a conversation.

Most of the time, he is the one who talks about the past, not only the things between the two of them, but also Shao Shude's mental journey over the past 30 years.

Talking about his "big ambition" at the beginning and his strict requirements on himself, even when he saw a beautiful woman, he only dared to swallow his saliva secretly, and vowed never to be greedy for money or ask for bribes, never to humiliate women, and to bring peace to the world.

Then he talked about two years later, he raped the woman.

Four years later, without changing his face, he drank blood from a wine vessel with a human head.

Ten years later, I even hold the head in my hand and watch it carefully.

After more than ten years, the charred corpses can be squatted down to look at them, and even touched them with their hands.

More than 20 years later, the enemies who hated him, hated him, and cursed him were wiped out one by one, and their wives and daughters resigned from the downstairs hall, singing in court and singing at night.

30 years later, there is no rival in the world. Looking back on my life, I am filled with emotion.

In a person's life, there is no one.The young you, the young you, the middle-aged you, and the old you are always changing, and what remains the same is nonsense.

Zhao Yu listened quietly, gently stroking the warm jade on his chest, as if he was also reminiscing about the ups and downs of the year.

After speaking, he asked Zhao Yu to rest well, and Shao Shude went back to the study to turn on the lamp to deal with government affairs.

Because of Zheng Renmin's defeat and the burning, killing and looting of the Dragon and Tiger Army, the Kunming tribe was also afraid, and sent envoys to Zhu Yanshou's camp, where they were killed.So they sent envoys to Chengdu again, but they didn't meet the King of Yan, and then went south, and met Shao Mingyi in Shaye City who had gone to Sizhou in person, which was regarded as a message.

The Kunming tribe expressed their allegiance to the imperial court and would never rebel. They asked the sages to restrain the king's master and not to commit any more crimes.

Shao Shude basically agreed, and ordered the leaders of his various ministries to send his descendants to Chang'an to serve as guards of honor for the palace and to guard the palace office.During the tour, the advocacy to carry the flag, and the time of field hunting, the drums are yelled, and the period is three years.After the three-year period expires, they will be rotated again.

In addition, the various ministries fined [-] households and sent them to Luoyang within a time limit, and then went to Liaodong after reorganization.

Last year, after the first batch of Li and Yaman Liao dug the canals in Luoyang, they went to Liaodong and became part of the army.Regardless of whether they can adapt to the climate of Liaodong, the imperial court will be done anyway.Even if there is a rebellion, the scale will not be large, because they are scattered in various places, and they cannot speak the language of the surrounding people, and they have their own garrison, state soldiers, and government soldiers to jointly suppress them.

There are Khitan people, Xi people, Tatar people, Mohe people, Sogdian people, Mohe people, Jurchen people, Goguryeo people, Bohai people, and Hebei people. There are people from Huainan, people from Jiangxi, people from Hunan, and people from the south... There are people with all kinds of accents, it's a hodgepodge.

The local situation is also like a pressure cooker, which is suppressed by tens of thousands of imperial troops, [-] to [-] state soldiers, and more than [-] government soldiers who rotate in the past every year.There was no big chaos, little chaos continued, and escape incidents continued to emerge in endlessly.

As for things like the death of Fubing Buqu, the government is too lazy to investigate and report, there are too many to investigate.

Some were killed for resisting, some were killed during the hunt, some died of illness, and some died of freezing—very few died of starvation, and there is really not much shortage of food in the local area.

The fu soldiers who are more particular will give their families felt blankets, pigskin jackets, and sheepskin clothes to keep out the cold.

It will be a sad day when you meet the master of the government soldiers who is hard to give up.

In short, the local area is like the wild west world, where the weak eat the strong and the hierarchy is strict.The classics students who went to the mainland felt a bit unbearable, but they were also powerless to change the status quo. This is a characteristic of the times. If you want to change it, wait a few decades. It is useless now.

Zhao Kuanglin, the governor of Liaodong Road, made a statement. He believed that the situation in Liaodong was very dangerous. If foreign enemies invaded, the Fubing tribe, which was barely suppressed now, might respond on a large scale. Register households and make them common people.

This memorial was rejected directly in the Zhengshitang.

After reading the comments of the prime ministers, Shao Shude was also amazed. Scholars who have climbed to high positions are as dark-hearted as he is.Of course, he also agreed with the views of the prime ministers, except that the household department allocated some felt blankets from Beijing Daku to Liaodong, distributed them, and tried to improve the living conditions of the tribes so that they could survive the most difficult first few years. .

Serf uprising?There is no such possibility in the short term.The Nurhachi regime fell into a state of severe famine in the later period, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners could not eat enough, let alone coat them. Did a big mess happen?It's nothing more than some small-scale vendettas and escapes.

Moreover, Liaodong is also developing.

The further back, the stronger the economic strength, the better the environment will be improved, and the life will not be so difficult.As for those who died in the early stage, they are generally called "prices", and no one cares about them-who makes them all sinners in the new dynasty?
There is also good news from the grasslands in the north.

The Fan Han soldiers headed by the Cavalry Army had tens of thousands of soldiers, defeated the thieves several times, captured tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses and camels, and advanced into Heichengzi.It is said that the Uighurs sent more than 20 cavalry to the east to fight against the king's division. They are ready to gather more than 20 troops and plan to wipe out the invading enemy in one fell swoop. However, as long as we continue to win battles, most of the enemy's [-] soldiers will join us in the end, and the situation will be completely reversed.

Shao Shude was also very excited when he saw the news.

The pattern is opened—no, the channel is opened.Moreover, he saw the weakness of the Uighurs in Gaochang.For such a big matter, if you send more than ten thousand riders, can you do it?No wonder they only restored the royal court once in history, and then gave up in the endless waves of Tatar westward migration. Their strength was seriously insufficient, or the pressure from their old enemies was too great, and their combat capabilities on the two fronts were insufficient, so they could only strategically abandon one of them. direction.

That's right.

Shao Shude reckoned that the Gaochang Uyghurs numbered at most ten thousand riders, if there were more, it would be out of character.Thinking of this, he gave an order to Shao Siwu who was still in Dunhuang, with the Silver Spear Army as the backbone, to entangle various tribes of soldiers, try to go west, go as far as possible into the border of the Uighurs, and see their reaction.

This is called fire reconnaissance. If everything goes well, the next step is the main force's westward expedition.

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On the first day of August, Shao Shude chose the names of his four sons in one go.

The twentieth prince was named Jing Rang, and was born to the Gao family in July of the tenth year of Jianji.

21. The prince was named Zhixian and was born to Liduo in December of the 11th year of Jianji.

22 The prince was named Xingbo, and was born to Webster in the first month of the 13th year of Jianji.

23. The prince was named Mingliang, and was born to the Chu clan in the first month of the 13th year of Jianji.

Recently, the Imperial Medical Office reported that Jieyu Chong's family and Yelu's family (Bodhisattva slaves) were pregnant again, gratifying to congratulate.But obviously, the fertility climax has passed, and Shao Sheng is now slowly becoming powerless.

Yesterday, the pale-haired Shao Sheng squirmed on the body of Xiao Shiwuniang, who had black hair and a youthful body, squeezing out the last drop of vitality, and suddenly realized that in the future, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will find a way in Liaodong .

After choosing the names, Shao Shude carefully thought about the whereabouts of each son.Uh, I can't remember everything for a while, there are too many children, so I can only look at the files.

Leaving aside the seven princes, starting with the eighth son, there are sixteen sons.

The old eighth (17 years old) is the king of Husheng County, and he is already a vassal.

Laojiu (15 years old) is the King of Zhongsheng County, who is still studying in Chang'an this year, and will almost become a feudal clan next year.

The tenth (15-year-old) Shao Zhiyuan was born by the queen, so I won't show it for the time being.

Elder Eleven (14 years old), the king of Mi'e County, is still studying in Chang'an.

The old twelve (13 years old) Yingsheng County King is still studying in Chang'an.

The old thirteen (12 years old) has not yet been canonized, his biological mother Zhang Hui, Shao Shude is more fond of, he is a little hesitant to seal it out, even if it can be canonized, he will choose a better place.

The old fourteenth (10 years old) was born to Empress He, and was also not canonized.

The old fifteen (10 years old) is the king of Fengsheng County, who has not yet been ruled.

The old sixteen (8 years old) holds the holy county king, Wei Zhifan.

The old seventeen (7 years old) was born in the Chong family and was not canonized.

The old eighteen (6 years old) is the king of Baosheng County, Wei Zhifan.

The old nineteen (6 years old) is the king of Lisheng County, Wei Zhifan.

The next four princes who have just been named have not been canonized.

After counting, there are still eight sons who have not been canonized.Considering that the Queen made it clear that Juro would stay in the capital, and that Shao Shude promised that Zhong's son would also stay in the capital, there were only six of them.

Considering the age, in fact, only Thirteenth Lang and Fourteenth Lang are the most suitable for canonization.

The two feudal towns of Lishui and Tonghai are also ready-made, so there is nothing for them.The problem is that Liu Lang also vaguely offered to seal the letter in the letter, which made it difficult.

In fact, there is a territory. The area under the jurisdiction of Yinsheng Jiedushi is very large. There are about [-] towns, including Pu'er in Yunnan, all of Xishuangbanna in later generations, and a part of Shan State in northeast Myanmar, Chiang Rai in northwest Thailand, and northern Laos including Luang Prah. wide area within the state.

But its core is actually located in Pu'er and Xishuangbanna. The Jiedushili is in the north, and its main source of income (more than 100 salt wells) is also located in this area.There are ten black teeth in the south. When Yinsheng Jiedu envoy of Nanzhao opened up to the south, he encountered resistance and failed to build a city there. He implemented the rule of Jimi.

To put it more bluntly, use the army to frighten them and use salt to control them.

When Nanzhao attacked Jiaozhi, the ten Heizhi tribes sent troops to accompany them, but they were defeated by Gao Pian and suffered heavy losses.It may be that I was angry, and felt that not only did I not grab something, but a lot of people died, and I was a little disobedient.

For such a place to be sealed to Liu Lang, Shao Shude felt that the empress would not be able to pass the test. Although the empress herself did not want Liu Lang to leave the capital—the second son was about to be sealed off, you are still not willing to give a good place, is it justified?Must not be scolded to death by the queen?
If it doesn’t work, Yongchang Town will be demolished, Shudi in the north will implement the prefecture and county system, and the Lancang River area in the south (now Lincang, Yunnan) will be assigned to Liulang, and the area will be even larger.

But to put it bluntly, this land is still dominated by mountains, with a small area of ​​plains and limited agricultural potential.The only place that can make money is probably because there are so many salt wells.This is God's reward for eating. In the early geological formation era, this area may have been the sea, and later it became land. There are underground saltwater wells everywhere. Yinsheng Jiedushi uses this thing to control the various tribes in the south and make them work for him. .

In a word, there are so many mountains that people are about to vomit, dotted with broken small plains, and the barbarians are so poor that they have nothing to scrape.

And it is precisely this kind of terrain that makes the power of the local barbarians extremely scattered, and the strength of a single tribe is relatively weak.In the later period of Nanzhao, a large amount of resources were invested in Yinsheng Town to move southward, and the barbarians encountered "no emperor and head", and they encountered resistance when they pushed to the ten divisions of Heizhi, and stopped here.

It is relatively easy to rule, and the population is quite large, but it is too poor, and the mountains are so frantic that it is a bit overwhelming.

Shao Shude intends to ask Liu Lang for his opinion.

If he agrees, the problem will not be big. At most, he will find supplements from the financial side in the future, and then help him develop some pillar industries, such as sugar cane planting and so on.

If he doesn't agree, then go back to Beijing and become a clan prince. Don't blame your parents if your second brother won't let you leave the capital in the future.

In addition, Shao Shude also intends to see how Liu Lang's military achievements in Yunnan are.

If he played well and made more meritorious deeds, then he would not mind granting him the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, so that it would match his status as a prince.

Of course, there will not be complete equality between princes and princes.Look at the mother clan, look at the achievements, look at the love of the parents, and look at the opportunity-whether you got the canonization at the right time.

The arrangement in Yunnan is basically like this.

Shao Shude maintained sufficient "arrogance" in this matter, and he had already divided up other people's territory before the land was settled.But just do it, Zheng Renmin, what can you do to me?
(End of this chapter)