Li Ke opened his eyes and rubbed his forehead. There was a unique smell in the air. Hey, if I had known better, I wouldn't have slept in this so-called palace. You told me this is a palace?
This is not as good as living in a random family in Chang'an.
It's just that this belongs to the Tang Dynasty anyway. Li Ke will live here on the first day no matter what.
After breakfast, Li Ke summoned the person who should be summoned.
The first person Li Ke met was not Shi Lang, but Shi Lang's grandfather, the old man of the Shi family. He was originally going to Datang, but after hearing that this place had been completely resolved, he returned to Xianglin City.
Qiulin, the general stationed at the border, is leading eight thousand garrison troops towards here. They should have received the news at this time.
"Your Highness, Shi Ji, has met." Mr. Shi saluted.
"No courtesy, I'll give you a seat." Li Ke nodded.
The old man was quite relaxed, so he sat down directly after Li Ke offered him a seat.
"Old Shi, I have a few questions I would like to ask about Lin Yi Country." Li Ke said.
"Your Highness, just call me by my name. I will tell you everything I know." Shi Ji said quickly.
"It's like this. Before I came to Linyi, I communicated with some people from Lingnan Road. But after I came here, I found that the actual situation was not the same as what they said. I wonder if Mr. Shi can give me some advice. Let me clarify, for example, the composition of the people in Linyi. How many are survivors from the Central Plains? How many are locals?" Li Ke asked.
This is a problem Li Ke discovered yesterday. Lin Yi is very different from what Qiu He and Feng Ang said before. It’s not that what they said is wrong, but it’s obvious that their understanding of the situation is also quite one-sided. .
"Returning to Your Highness, the hundreds of thousands of people in Linyi can almost be said to be survivors of the Central Plains. Of course, there are also some locals. Many of these locals are indigenous tribes in the mountains, but when they gradually follow us After contact, they slowly began to learn our language, customs, etc. Over a long period of time, some immigrants gradually intermarried with them, forming today's situation."
"But for the most part, they are almost all immigrants from the Central Plains." Shi Ji said.
Li Ke nodded. This was much stronger than Li Ke imagined. Originally, Li Ke thought that there were quite a few indigenous people here, but now it seems that he brought in some views of later generations.
In the Han Dynasty, or even earlier, this place had been ruled by the Central Plains Dynasty. During that period, many Han people migrated here from Lingnan Road and other places, and then gradually formed the main cultural group here.
Because at that time, the local people were obviously aborigines, or they were still in the tribal era and had not even formed a country or civilization. Therefore, the immigrant Han people were naturally the dominant race.
Hundreds of years have passed since the Tang Dynasty. During these hundreds of years, many local tribes must have been influenced by the Han people and gradually got rid of their ignorance. Then they mixed into the residents and gradually lived here. of Han intermarriage.
Those noble Han people may not intermarry with them, but ordinary people will definitely gradually accept it. After all, a large number of these people are also Han people from Lingnan Road, and there is not much difference between them.
In this way, almost all people in these Southeast Asian countries in later generations can be said to be the descendants of Han Chinese and local residents.
It seems that even the so-called Malays have ancestry from the Han Chinese in the Central Plains.
After thinking about this, Li Ke suddenly discovered a problem, that is, if the Tang Dynasty implemented its rule here, the foundation of its rule would be many times higher than that of the Western Regions! The people here can almost seamlessly integrate into the Tang Dynasty! Because the writing, language, etc. here are almost no different from those in the Tang Dynasty.
"Lao Shi, the second question is that I asked people in Lingnan Road before and they said that the people in Linyi and other countries are relatively lazy, and they just set fire to the mountains and plant whatever they want, because here we can get three crops a year. , so they will not starve to death even if they plant casually. Why is this?" Li Ke asked again.
Shi Ji immediately gave a bitter smile: "Your Highness, it is neither right nor wrong to say this. The reason why it is right is because of the current situation, or the previous situation was indeed like this."
"But it's not right, because it's not that people are really lazy and don't want to farm. Of course, I don't rule out that there must be such people, but the vast majority of people are not lazy, but the reason why they are lazy is because... they are diligent and have to pay More taxes!”
"Linyi was not like this before, but because the royal family and nobles of Linyi were extremely extravagant, they wanted to have a more luxurious life, so they had to collect more taxes from the people, but a lot of land in Linyi was These nobles have been incorporated into their own property. A large part of the people in Linyi can only serve as tenants for these nobles."
"The other part of the population who have their own land are the main tax targets of the Linyi royal family. However, as there are fewer and fewer people who can tax, the tax rate can only increase."
"Then some people came up with a way. No matter how much land they planted, they would be taxed and taken away. It would be better to plant them in some wild fields. So many people just scattered a handful of seeds in the wilderness... These are not considered property."
"As for those tenants who farm for the nobles, no matter how they farm, they can only get a fixed amount of grain. Of course, they won't plant it carefully."
Shi Ji smiled bitterly after finishing speaking.
Li Ke: "..."
Is there such an operation? But he was also a little speechless, as if it was understandable for these small countries to have outrageous operations, so this is the difference between communes and household responsibility systems, right? That's probably what it means.
I can only say that the operations of these small countries are... incomprehensible. Are you saying they don't understand that the people will rebel if they can't survive?
He must understand, but Li Ke can't understand why he still does it.
Forget it, not just these small countries, the Central Plains dynasty also did a lot of outrageous operations.
Isn't this just giving yourself an advantage?
"I see, thank you for clarifying my doubts. So, when I allocate these people their own fields, they will try their best to plant them, right?" Li Ke asked with a smile.
"Of course! Because this is their own land, no one wants to live a good life. Of course, there may be some lazy people, but I guarantee that most people want to live a good life!" Shi Ji said seriously road.
"I understand. So, the situation of Zhenwa next door and Lin Yi should be similar?" Li Ke asked another question.
"The difference is not big, but there is a difference. Zhenwa once had the cultural inheritance of the ancient civilization here. Although they have been influenced by our Chinese for hundreds of years, most of them also speak Tang dialect and write Tang characters, but in some customs And culturally they have their own thing.”
