"Well, Your Highness, I don't quite understand." Dang Renhong hesitated before speaking directly.
"Say." Li Ke looked at him and asked.
"Since we want to capture him, why do we still need to do business with them? After defeating them, can't we just plant the fields directly with our own people?" Dang Renhong asked after hesitation.
"Is there anything unreasonable about this? Even if we do business with them, it will not increase their strength. When the time comes, we will encourage their royal family to do business with the Tang Dynasty and let their royal family force the people to plant fields. This will be regarded as opening up wasteland for our subsequent immigration. ." Li Ke said.
"Speaking of this, Your Highness, I still have a doubt." Feng Ang also spoke.
"Mr. Geng, please speak." Li Ke looked at him.
"Your Highness, most of the people in Linyi and Zhenzhou are very lazy because their land is fertile. Many people only need to burn the barren hills and sprinkle a handful of seeds without intensive cultivation to get enough food. If they don't die, they are not as hard-working as us Tang Dynasty people. Even if we do business with their royal family, they may not be willing to plant more farmland, right?" Feng Ang said.
"I have a way to do this." Li Ke smiled. This is indeed a problem. Speaking of it, people's laziness is cultivated in this way. This is why so many countries in Southeast Asia in later generations quickly began to immigrate to China. He became a relatively wealthy person in the local area, and then gradually began to contact the middle and upper classes in these countries.
Because the locals are so lazy. To put it bluntly, everyone basically lies flat and is used to it.
The solution to this problem is also very simple, just make good use of the catfish effect.
Of course, the catfish effect cannot be used indiscriminately, otherwise the tragedy of a certain monkey's anti-Chinese incident in later generations will serve as a lesson.
People are all social animals. Li Ke still doesn't believe it. Is it really impossible to influence?
"Let's put this issue aside for the time being. You just need to invest money and wait for the dividends. Of course you don't have to participate." Li Ke said with a smile, "I have another problem here, that is, you are all local wealthy families, Gui Are there many Barbarian tribes in the mountains and forests in places such as Fufu and Jiaofu?
"Yes." All the governors-in-chief nodded. This is the local ecology.
There are nine prefectures in the entire Lingnan Road, among which Jiaozhou Prefecture (later Vietnam), Guizhou Prefecture (later Guangxi), and Guangfu (Guangdong, Hainan) are the upper three prefectures, and the rest are the lower prefectures under the jurisdiction of these three prefectures. It is also called the division of the three prefectures. To a certain extent, these three prefectures were directly affiliated with the Tang Dynasty.
For example, although Qiu He is also a local wealthy family, several of his sons and eldest son all participated in the Xuanwu Gate Revolution with Li Shimin, and are now serving in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, this is considered to be directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and the governor of Guizhou Prefecture Li Xinzhi, as mentioned before, was from the Li family in Longxi and belonged to the royal family.
The governor of Guangfu, Dang Renhong, had just moved to his post and was directly appointed by Chang'an. Through these three offices, Datang could basically control the local area of Lingnan Road.
"Can we communicate with these barbarian tribes?" Li Ke looked at them and asked.
"Communication is possible, but many times they are not willing to communicate with Han people. They basically live in the mountains." Li Xinzhi said.
"Well, if we want to conquer the Southwest Six Zhao Kingdom, will it be easy?" Li Ke looked at them and asked again.
The Liuzhao Kingdom was the predecessor of Nanzhao in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. There is no such thing as Nanzhao yet. The Liuzhao Kingdom refers to six small countries located near the Erhai Lake, each with six kings.
They are Mengxixi Zhao, Yuexi Zhao, Langqiong Zhao, Uiteng Zhidan Zhao, Shi Langzhao, and Mengshe Zhao. Among them, Mengshe Zhao later quickly unified other tribes and the Erhai area with the support of the Tang Dynasty. Then it was attached to the Tang Dynasty and finally called Nanzhao.
The reason why Meng Shezhao was later willing to annex the other five tribes with the support of the Tang Dynasty was actually threatened by Tubo. In other words, if Tubo fell into the hands of Li Ke, Nanzhao would not be able to survive in the future.
The restriction that currently prevents the entire Yunnan region from being included in the Tang Dynasty is nothing else but the unique local miasma. In fact, miasma is a comprehensive name for a variety of diseases caused by the primitive jungle, which may include malaria, dysentery, athlete's foot (vitamin B1 deficiency) ), sand lice, poisoning, laryngitis, hemorrhagic fever, jaundice, etc.
But what does Li Ke have? Li Ke has the Yunnan Edition, Guizhou Edition, and Guangxi Edition of the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" in his hand. It is no exaggeration to say that the Yunnan edition and other places can be used in Southeast Asia! In other words, Li Ke now has a treatment plan, but he lacks Chinese medicinal materials!
And there are countless amounts of Chinese medicinal materials in the hundreds of thousands of mountains in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Vietnam, etc.! And they are all wild!
This is why Sun Simiao came with Li Ke. Li Ke thought for a while and did not refuse the old man, because the old man had actually been to these jungles and he was an authority on medicinal materials. So if Li Ke purchased Chinese medicinal materials locally, the most important thing Yes, Chinese medicinal materials must be prepared so that they can be stored.
Fresh Chinese medicinal materials cannot be stored for a long time. To carry out suitable drying and other processing, Lao Sun is required to do these things. Although Li Ke has relevant processes in his hands, these processes also require expert guidance.
You must know that if some Chinese medicinal materials are not handled properly, they may become highly toxic or ineffective, so of course Li Ke must pay attention to them.
If you want to conquer Southeast Asia, the most important thing is medicinal materials! Other forces are secondary. Soldiers from the north will definitely get sick when they come here. Multiple diseases such as climate, environment, and various insects can cause illness. Even if soldiers are recruited from the local area and stay in the jungle for a long time, they may get sick. , you must know that miasma is fatal to the tribes living in the jungles of Yunnan today.
This is also why the witch doctors and shamans of many tribes in the deep mountains have absolute authority.
"Your Highness, their military strength is average, but the main limitation on us is the environment." Qiu He hesitated before speaking.
"Well, I understand. In that case, we have to train local soldiers, especially the tribal men who live in the mountains, and let them serve as soldiers." Li Ke smiled and nodded.
Everyone is a little helpless. As expected, Your Highness has never been to Lingnan Road and does not understand the local conditions. Your Highness, if you want to recruit them, just recruit them? To put it bluntly, those people are only from the Tang Dynasty in name only. They may not communicate with people at the foot of the mountain once a year. Do you want to recruit them? Going into the mountains to attack? Their strongholds are not big and can be relocated. The point is that there is no benefit in defeating them, but the soldiers who go there may die, many people.
