A bloody rebellion broke out on the northern prairie.
Calling it a rebellion is actually a bit too much. In fact, it is just a fight between several tribes.
It's just that Tian Khan had already issued an order prohibiting fighting between tribes. This was to prevent them from annexing each other and annexing another monster.
They disobeyed the order of Tian Khan, and naturally they were in rebellion.
Speaking of the reason, it is actually very simple, just to compete for pasture.
Although the prairie is large, there are not many places with truly rich water and grass. Every place like this is a place that various tribes are fighting for, even at the expense of warriors and blood.
After the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks, they divided the pastures between the surrendered tribes and strictly ordered them not to fight with each other.
In the past few years, we had followed it well, but now it is different.
With the rapid development of the wool textile industry, the demand for wool has also skyrocketed by orders of magnitude.
The prices offered by wool buyers are increasing year by year. These goods are enough for nobles from various tribes to buy exquisite white sugar, green salt, silk, glass products, iron pots and carriages, spiced teas, and spirits in Shengzhou. Medicines and other high-quality goods.
What's even more exaggerated is that a large shop called Zehua Trading Co., Ltd. is said to be building houses for Tian Khan and can provide customized services to noble people.
Build them beautiful houses that can withstand the cold wind, have glass, and have tiled bathrooms with sinks and ceramic ware!
After being designated as pasture, the previous migration of living in pursuit of water and grass was forced to stop, and it also provided prerequisites for the tribal nobles to change from living in tents to living in houses.
Near Shengzhou, nobles from several tribes at the foot of Yin Mountain were the first to try and move into palace-like houses.
There are wool carpets and wooden floors on the floor, wallpaper with beautiful patterns on the walls, silk curtains hanging on the transparent glass windows, soft quilts and a big bed, washing and getting up and down that I have never thought about. Water system blah blah blah.
The most important thing is that the house is equipped with a stove with a long chimney extending out of the window, burning briquettes bought from Shengzhou, which is simply an artifact in the cold winter!
Of course, none of this comes in vain, and requires huge financial support.
If you have money, you can live a life like a fairy. If you don't have money, you can just watch from the sidelines.
However, the cattle, sheep and horses that used to be the most valuable in the hands of the tribe are now gradually falling in price. What is truly valuable is wool.
Li Yunze continued to provide Shire horses and Don horses. With the great attention and attention of the Tang Dynasty, after many years of development, adult horses began to be sold on a large scale.
Compared with the Mongolian horses that weigh only a few hundred kilograms and cannot run even if they wear a little armor and stomach, these tall horses are what the Tang Dynasty wants.
Needless to say, cattle and sheep, Li Yunze also continues to provide breeders, and his supply capacity has been greatly improved after years of raising them.
After all, because of the existence of the ranch in Lijiazhuang, the law banning cattle slaughter here in Guanzhong has almost become a dead letter.
The only exception is wool.
Because when sheep eat grass, they turn over the grass roots and eat all the seeds, which causes huge damage to the pasture environment.
At Li Yunze's suggestion, Li Er ordered various localities to strictly limit the number of sheep raised, and at the same time began centralized breeding, by cutting alfalfa and feeding bean cakes.
This is not included in the grasslands.
The price of wool continued to soar, and tribal leaders who were in urgent need of large amounts of money to go to Shengzhou to buy various exquisite goods for enjoyment began to raise Merino sheep crazily.
However, the supply capacity of the pasture is limited. At the beginning, the number of cattle and horses is reduced. When the tribe has almost only sheep left, if it wants to expand the scale, it will have to grab the pasture from other tribes.
Faced with the huge profits brought by wool, Tian Khan's ban was forgotten by the red-eyed nobles.
When the news was transmitted to Chang'an City via telegram from Shengzhou City, Li Er, who was dining with Empress Changsun, was laughing so hard on the spot that he even patted his thigh...his own thigh.
Empress Changsun never asks about political affairs, so naturally she won't say anything to her. "Why is Your Majesty laughing?" '
She just watched with a smile on her face, watching the laughing Li Er drop Kuai Zi, got up and walked outside.
When Li Er hurriedly left the palace, Queen Changsun arranged for the maids to put away all the unfinished dishes, while she frowned and went to find Li Chengqian.
In the past few days, Li Chengqian, who had been under tremendous psychological pressure due to the change of the title of the first official to the first wife, had caused trouble for Empress Changsun.
But it was precisely because of Li Chengqian's almost unbearable performance that it strengthened Li Er's determination.
As a mother and a wife, the eldest grandson Queen was in a dilemma and could only try her best to find a solution.
She must make Li Chengqian understand that as long as he can cheer up and as long as her eldest grandson Queen is still alive, even if it is a secret heirloom, your name must be written on it!
Li Er, on his part, galloped to Lijiazhuang.
Li Yunze was eating lunch alone when he saw Li Er come in and invite him to sit down together.
"What good thing has happened to your Majesty?"
Li Yunze, who was chewing on the chicken drumsticks, was very curious to see Li Er's face full of joy.
"Your plan is working." Li Er happily picked up the jug and poured himself wine. "There are tribes in the Northland grassland who are fighting over the pasture."
"Oh." After hearing this, Li Yunze immediately realized, "We can reduce the number."
For the Central Plains dynasty, which has occupied almost all the sacred lands in East Asia, harassment from the northern grasslands has always been a threat.
It is impossible for Li Er, who became Tian Khan, to really think that he was the boss of the grassland tribe and was always thinking about how to deal with the threat in the north.
Historically, he adopted a strategy of integration, integrating through absorption.
It was indeed effective in the short term, but the Anshi Rebellion broke out in just a century.
Although there are many reasons for the Anshi Rebellion, the fact that the Tang army was filled with a large number of foreign races, just like the Roman Empire back then, was indeed a very important reason.
In this world, Li Er accepted Li Yunze's suggestion and adopted the strategy of reducing the number of soldiers.
The so-called reduction means setting a population limit for each tribe. If it exceeds, all tribes must be eliminated, thus curbing the growth of their strength from the source.
It's just that an excuse is needed to promote the reduction policy. After all, Li Er is the Khan of Heaven and needs face. It's not like directly slaughtering the wild boar skin with a knife and a gun. Of course, more importantly, the tribes are not cattle and sheep. Of course they will not stick out their necks and let the Tang Dynasty reduce their tribes. This requires
Need opportunities.
Now comes the excuse and opportunity for tribes to compete for pasture for wool.
"Not bad." Li Er, who narrowed his eyes, said with satisfaction, "I plan to teach you how to disobey. If you violate the holy order, I can only reduce my rank."
"It is indeed a good opportunity." Li Yunze nodded repeatedly, "It's just that we shouldn't do it now."
"Oh." Li Er raised his eyebrows, "Be clear."
"This is an opportunity. Not only should we not reduce the tribes now, but we should encourage them to merge and spread the war across the prairie."
Li Er's experience is so rich. After a little thought, he understood: "What you mean is to give up the step-by-step plan as promised before, and simply make the matter bigger, let all the grassland ministries become a mess, and then reduce the number of people." Carry it out.”
"right."
Li Yunze put down the chicken legs and wiped his hands. "Let them fight, or even encourage them secretly. Whoever wins will be able to occupy more and better pastures. After all the tribes in the capital have formed a blood feud and lost the power to resist the Tang Dynasty, , the strategy of increasing the number of digits will make them
From now on I can only be a sheepherder. "
Looking at Li Yunze, Li Er praised, "You have the talent of a prime minister."
These words successfully made Li Yunze laugh. He had been an emperor. Although I had little experience at the beginning and did a lot of embarrassing things, things gradually got better later on.
Satisfied, Li Er decided to arrange manpower after returning to add fuel to the fire to the tribes on the grassland, and let them kill each other in order to compete for pasture to raise sheep.
In Li Er's view, this is an excellent plan to completely eliminate the threat from Northland.
Just pick up the wine and drink, pick up the vegetables and eat. Li Er even had the leisure to talk to Li Yunze about poetry and music.
Seeing Li Er in front of him proudly showing a poem to him, Li Yunze still nodded in admiration.
When it comes to writing poetry, Li Yunze can become a porter and reel off three hundred Tang poems in front of Li Er.
But these are at most what he memorized by rote when he was in school. His real ability cannot be said to be absent, but it is definitely not as good as Li Er.
He has passed the stage of relying on poetry to gain a sense of superiority and attention.
Li Er's poems cannot be said to be very good, but he is capable of producing them.
On the contrary, Li Yunze was educated in an examination-oriented manner. He could memorize poems but could not compose poems. He could only memorize by rote but had no creativity at all.
Li Er, who had gained a sense of superiority with Li Yunze, was in a better mood.
Even after dinner, he was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he wandered around Lijiazhuang leisurely.
Li Er was in a good mood until he saw the gift Li Yunze was going to give Li Ji.
"...This is..."
Looking at the photo of Li Jirong, who was about ten feet tall, Li Er's voice was a little dry.
In the photo, Li Ji is wearing a helmet and armor, and is covered all over.
The armor and stomach are bright, the leather boots are shiny, and the sword is in the hand, looking proudly ahead.
That look and demeanor are truly lifelike, just like a real person.
"This was blackmailed by Li Gong." Li Yunze became angry when he mentioned this matter. Li Ji saw through his plan to deceive the Guandong family and threatened him to give an explanation.
Li Yunze, who didn't want to cause any trouble, simply ordered a military uniform photo of him in such a large size in the modern world.
Looking at Li Er who was looking blankly at the photo in military uniform, Li Yunze said thoughtfully, "Your Majesty, you want it too?"
After coming back to his senses, Li Er raised his hand to cover his mouth and coughed, "This painting is magnificent, and the exquisiteness of the painting is clearly visible. Even Yan Qing has never done anything like this."
This is not a painting. Of course Yan Liben's hands cannot compare with the camera's pixels.
But these are not important. Li Yunze immediately said, "What do I mean? If your Majesty wants to take a picture, it's just a trivial matter of a few thousand yuan."
