Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Okay, then let's split up and gather here in an hour."

"That's okay..."

There are still many similar conversations in this huge gathering area. Among the more than 2 people, many of them are fugitives. Not only the scholars saw the opportunity, but there are also many knowledgeable people here—— In fact, someone who can be a fugitive but not be caught by the government is not a fool in itself.Scholars saw the opportunity here, so they could all see it. In addition, the management of the immigration area was lax, so a large number of fugitives mixed in with the immigrants, intending to change their fate through this immigration.

For such people, the imperial court is not unaware of them, but these fugitives did what they wanted, but it was just in line with the imperial court's wishes-you must know that no matter when, the first batch of pioneers of immigration were prisoners, just like Australia in later generations. , even claimed to be a country established by prisoners and female cousins, because after John Bull discovered this place, he regarded it as a place of exile for prisoners. From January 1788, 1, Captain Philip led a warship to escort more than 18 prisoners When they came to this barren land, on November 700, the first group of prisoners exiled by Britain to Australia arrived in Sydney Cove, and Britain began to establish a colony in Australia. Later, this day was designated as Australia Day.In the following 11 years, a total of 26 British prisoners were exiled here, and Australia was dubbed the country created by prisoners.

The same is true of the Chinese nation, not only after Li Zhen came to the Tang Dynasty, but in fact there were immigration activities in the past dynasties, and most of these immigrants were prisoners. Even in the Song Dynasty, prisoners were specially assassinated and sent to the army. The status is not high, and it is even called a thief with the army not only because of the emphasis on literature and military, but also because of this reason.

In the minds of the ancient rulers, these criminals themselves were scumbags, and they were not worthy of living in this world. Now the imperial court has leniently spared their lives and given them a chance to survive is already a great kindness. These people The scumbags should be grateful to Dade.

For these prisoners, being able to live after committing a crime is already a blessing, so where is there any choice?What's more, if they can make a little contribution to this country, it is not in vain for them to go through this world.

After Li Zhen arrived, he did not change this system. When the Turks were just conquered, the imperial court urgently needed population immigrants to fill the empty grasslands. A large number of prisoners were gathered from all over the Tang Dynasty and became the first batch of Tang Dynasty to develop the grasslands. pioneer……

Of course, later on, after Li Yusi was established by Li Shimin, the happy life of these prisoners came to an end. Originally, as prisoners, they could not only travel for free, but also be allocated, whether it was land or tools. The living conditions are a bit colder, and the freedom is a little bit worse, but the small life is actually much better than that of ordinary people.

However, since the establishment of the Liyu Division, the prisoners have suffered eight lifetimes of bad luck, not only have they lost the good days of the past (mainly because the people know the benefits of immigration, they are looking forward to immigration, and the court no longer needs prisoners to force What's more unfortunate is that once the crime is serious, there is only one end - be reduced to a slave by the slave company, put into a slave camp, and endless jobs are waiting for you until you die.

This is why there are so many fugitives. In fact, there are many fugitives whose crimes are not serious, just like the scholars. Hou Wang stole the precious property of the local landlord. The two servants of the landlord were injured, and the farmer was also injured for the same reason.It stands to reason that this is not a felony, and the heaviest one only needs to be imprisoned for two years. If he voluntarily surrenders, the punishment may be reduced.

It's a pity that since Wang Tingchu went crazy looking for slaves and demoted a large number of repeat criminals to slaves, a large number of prisoners were thrown into slave camps and never came out again...

From then on, as long as the criminals commit a crime, their first reaction is definitely not to surrender, but to run for their lives. As for whether they can escape, we will talk about it later. Anyway, the worst result is to be caught again and thrown into a prison. Secretary...

Chapter 921 Don't Remember the Title

Chapter 281 Don't Remember the Title

Staying in place can only wait for death, there is still a chance of escaping, although this chance is not very great...

It's just that the life of a fugitive is not easy. Not only do he have to face the tragedy of his wife and children being separated from his family, but he also has to be frightened all the time. He doesn't even dare to sleep too deep for fear of exposing himself by talking in his dreams. It would be a tragedy if you meet acquaintances. Sometimes you can’t even enter the city, and you can only sleep in the wilderness. After all, it is the beginning of Tang Dynasty, and the security management is still very good. You need guides when you go out. Being able to stay in the wilderness, once you get sick and die without knowing how you died, the probability of survival is actually not high. ...

But what if?What if he could escape with his life?No matter how dangerous it is in the wild, there is still a chance of survival, but once thrown into a slave camp, it will be death.

Comparing the two, whoever would choose the former?Even if you can only live incognito in the future, it's better than dying in a dark slave camp with no place to bury you, right?

And it’s different now, the imperial court has started a new round of immigration, and the place of immigration is still overseas, which undoubtedly gave many fugitives a chance to survive. As long as they escape overseas, the imperial court’s pursuit will definitely be greatly reduced. In the following days, be cautious and live in peace and stability, basically there will be no danger.

The fugitives thought so, but they didn't know that their thinking was in line with the imperial court's wishes, because the imperial court also thought so.

Although the people of the Tang Dynasty are always looking forward to the imperial court developing new territories, and then organizing people to emigrate, distributing land, farming cattle and labor tools, and the imperial court also encourages civilian immigration, and has even promoted it for many years, and the propaganda slogans are almost dead , The hearts of the people have long been lifted high.

But this time is different after all. Not only is it different from the previous policy, it is a trial policy and inherently unstable.Moreover, the place where the immigrants are located is also an isolated island. Although this isolated island is very large, an island is an island, and it is far less secure than the mainland.

Therefore, the first batch of people who explored were either people who could not survive in the interior, or prisoners transferred from various places by the imperial court, and these fugitives also mixed into the crowd, which undoubtedly helped the imperial court. They would deliberately expose these fugitives, and for a while, both sides took what they needed, and unexpectedly formed an inexplicable tacit understanding.

Under this silent tacit agreement, the first batch of 3 people gathered quickly.

"Your Highness, the number is already 3, should we go?" When the number reached 3, Liu Rengui came to urge Li Zhen again: "According to your instructions, we have dispatched a total of 320 people this time." There are [-] large and small ships in total. Among them, there are [-] passenger ships and [-] large ships, which are specially used to transport immigrants. The remaining three fleets are dedicated to Borneo is used to transport various supplies, while the remaining two fleets are heading towards the Spice Island.”

"The first fleet should be back soon, right?" Li Zhen didn't answer Liu Rengui's question, but asked about the fleet sent before.On the second day after he returned to Lingnan, that is, the day that Officer Liu Rengui was reinstated, Li Zhen asked him to send a group of fleets to the Spice Islands and Borneo respectively, transporting not only a large amount of construction materials, but also The most important thing is all kinds of talents. With them entering the two places for preliminary construction, counting the time now, the fleet should have arrived at the destination a long time ago, and it may have already begun to return, but it is not known where it has gone.

"If you count the time, it should be soon." Liu Rengui forced a perfunctory sentence, and urged: "But now we should get down to business, there are already more than 3 people in our immigration camp, should we start? If we don’t leave, our ship won’t be able to hold it.”

"How is the arrangement of the exploration fleet?" Li Zhen ignored Liu Rengui's question at all, and asked another matter, which he had planned for a long time. Now his problem is that there are enough ships but not enough It is not so easy to train the crew from the navigator to the captain of a fleet. Their experience needs a lot of time to accumulate, and what Li Zhen lacks most now is experience.

Fortunately, there are many Nanyang Islands, Li Zhen intends to hand over the task of exploring these islands to those rookies. On the one hand, it is to explore new islands, and on the other hand, it is also to train those inexperienced captains. If something happens to the team, they all have enough time to find a suitable safe haven, and they don't have to worry about the ship sinking at all, and a rookie only needs to experience a few dangers to become a qualified captain. The probability is much higher.

"The exploration fleet left the day before yesterday." Liu Rengui replied patiently: "A total of [-] fleets have been arranged, and each fleet has two large ships, one armed merchant ship, and about twenty small and medium-sized ships."

After all, the exploration fleet is a fleet whose main mission is exploration. Their mission is not mining, so they don't carry many ships. Except for two large ships, the rest are some landing craft or other small and medium-sized ships. play an auxiliary role.

"That's good, that's enough, it's none of your business, you go down." Li Zhen waved her hand and was about to drive away.

"No, Your Highness, immigrants...you don't care anymore?" It's no wonder that Li Zhen has a bad feeling for Liu Rengui. At the beginning, the two didn't have a deep contact and didn't know each other. Li Zhen saw that he was a historical celebrity. It was not bad for him, but after a long time, Li Zhen discovered his shortcomings. One was impulsiveness. After learning about America from Li Zhen, he went to find America even if he was no longer an official. The other was lack of interest— — Li Zhen has already changed the topic twice. If someone who is familiar with Li Zhen must have already understood Li Zhen's plan, this matter is basically left as it is, but Liu Rengui is not relentless, I don't know I thought how diligent he was, but Li Zhen already made him feel a little bored.

"You don't need to worry about this matter, I have my own arrangements." Li Zhen waved his hand impatiently: "Let me tell you this, two transport fleets are not enough, you can add two more for me, and I will return to the fleet." Yes, more transport fleets will be added, the more the better... that's all right, go down."

"This...yes, this subordinate is resigning." Liu Rengui saw Li Zhen's impatience at this time, and his heart suddenly became excited-damn, His Royal Highness is famous for his intelligence, so why do you need to mention it yourself?I've made the same mistake again, I'm really confused.

Chapter 923 Du He's Anticipation + Stabbing in the Back

Chapter 282 Du He's Prediction + Stabbing in the Back

"Really." Li Zhen shook her head. Liu Rengui thought that after suffering a little bit, he should improve his memory a bit, but who knows that he is still the same, are you the only one who is smart?Everyone else is a fool?I can't think of any questions you can think of?It's getting more and more annoying.

"Your Highness, I saw Liu Rengui walking out in a hurry just now, and his face was not very good-looking. What's going on?" As soon as Liu Rengui left, Du He walked in and asked very curiously: "Could it be that he offended you?" ? Was you scolded severely?"

He was originally on the battlefield of Dongcuan. Later, after the Cuanren rebellion was wiped out, the youth army was taken away by Li Jing and went to Nanyang, but Du He was left behind by Li Zhen. Due to the hardship of manpower, Du He became his candidate.

Although there are many elites around him, and even many of them are no worse than Du He, some things are not very bright after all, and they cannot be known to outsiders. Who is Li Zhen's absolute confidant? Apart from Fang Du, Xue Xi and the other four, there is no one else. Big flaw.

Among the remaining four people, three of them are military generals, and they all need to make meritorious service on the Nanyang battlefield, and the next matter just needs a civil servant, so they can only choose Du He.

Now that Du He is back, some things can finally be implemented...

Li Zhen waved his hand: "It's okay, it's Liu Rengui's own problem, I didn't scold him, don't gossip... don't talk about him, tell me about you, how do you feel at Dong Cuan's side?"

Du He sat down on the stool, stretched indistinctly, took a long breath, and said just now: "What can I do? Except that the environment is a bit worse, it's actually about the same as ours. , but the Cuan people do have some skills, especially in guerrilla warfare, we have no experience in this area, and we almost suffered from them several times."

"This is something that can't be helped. After all, experience can't be obtained by learning. But it's also good, let them suffer a few more times, and they can apply what they have learned in the future, so they don't have to worry about this problem anymore." Although the youth army has also received training in guerrilla warfare and anti-guerrilla warfare, they have never really faced the enemy in pieces. Whether in Nanyang or Tianzhu, they always confront the enemy on the frontal battlefield and rarely go deep into the enemy's rear To fight, naturally there is no experience in fighting behind enemy lines.

The easy victory on the frontal battlefield made the youth army relax their vigilance, so that when facing the Cuanren guerrillas, they almost suffered losses several times.But fortunately, Cuanren's guerrilla warfare is not very powerful, it is only in the initial stage. After a few lessons, the youth army will be able to combine knowledge and experience in the future, thus forming their own experience. I won't suffer any more.

"What do you think about the rebellion in Liuzhao?" Li Zhen casually asked an irrelevant question, but Ren'er Du He said something that surprised Li Zhen.

"I had expected this a long time ago. Sooner or later, Liuzhao will rebel."

"What do you mean? What does it mean to have expected it?" Li Zhen was curious, did Du He already see something?

"Because when I joined forces with Liuzhao on the battlefield, I found that some people's attitude towards us was not very good, especially some of the royal families, they didn't treat us well." Du He explained with a smile: " Think about it, Your Highness, the Six Edicts are attached to our Great Tang, and their territories will be divided into prefectures and counties according to the Great Tang system. And they, as the former royal family, are bound to be subject to the Great Tang. What will they become in the future? The big boss with real power can still only get a loose official in name, it all depends on my intention of Datang.

Under such circumstances, it's too late for them to curry favor with us, so how could they show embarrassment to us?But they just gave us a face, which in itself already shows that they are resistant to my Datang in their hearts, and they are very unfriendly to Datang, and they have already made plans to betray Datang at any time Prepare……"

"...You should have told me earlier." Li Zhen was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "If you had told me your discovery earlier, maybe we would have been a little more prepared, and we would not have fallen into the situation we are in today. Dilemma."

"However, it was the time when the relationship between Datang and Liuzhao was the best, so how dare the subordinates talk nonsense?" Du He smiled bitterly: "The subordinates only discovered a little clue, and they didn't even have the evidence. How could the court possibly Will you believe your subordinate's one-sided words? If your subordinate's deduction falls into the ears of Liuzhao, it will definitely affect the relationship between the two parties, and your subordinate will really be unforgivable for his crime, and maybe your Highness will be implicated and you will be punished. How dare the subordinates speak nonsense?"

"Hey...forget it." The thing has already happened, and it's useless to regret it any more. Li Zhen talked about the business: "I called you back this time, you should understand what I'm going to do, right?"

"I've already made some guesses..." Speaking of business, Du He couldn't help but look serious, he knew that the next thing might affect the safety of the whole world, so he couldn't help but be serious.

"Tell me."

Du He smiled secretly: "His Royal Highness asked his subordinates to come down... I'm afraid it's because he wants...to carry out internal cleaning, right? And this subordinate is the one who wields the knife?"

"Crack!" The brush fell on the rice paper, making a large ink blob, which completely destroyed Li Zhen's half-written plan.