Apart from these powerful families, Li Ke's second thought was how to deal with Tianzhu.
Due to its unique geographical environment and the advantages of several rivers, the entire Tianzhu continent has been a country with a large population since ancient times.
According to historical records, the Harsha Dynasty, which probably collapsed a few years later, had a total population of about 24 million at the end of its life. This is official statistics, but the actual population must be far more than this number.
What's more, the Harsha Dynasty only occupies about the richest half of the Tianzhu continent. The southern half of the continent must have a large population, at least several million.
Li Ke estimates the total population of the entire Tianzhu continent to be around 35 million. But the population on this continent is so weird.
At least there are many people inside that Li Ke doesn't want. Although it's a bit cruel to say this, he really doesn't want them.
Therefore, on Tianzhu's side, Li Ke was thinking about raising Gu to see if he could screen out a group of people first.
Li Ke is not a narrow-minded nationalist, but what he hates most is the kind of people who are lazy and don't strive for themselves, and then they believe in various gods, and then they are arrogant and always feel that others are plotting against him. People who toss out all kinds of things come out.
To be honest, this kind of person is actually the most difficult to reform, even more difficult to reform than some people who are sneaky and clever.
Fortunately, since Songtsen Gampo is willing to surrender and he is also preparing to attack the Harsha Dynasty, this is a good opportunity.
It was enough for the Harsha Dynasty to begin to involute itself.
In fact, Li Ke's method was very simple. He planned to let Songtsen Gampo continue to consume the Harsha Dynasty's national power. Anyway, now that they had the support of the Tang Dynasty, they would definitely have enough supplies.
But the Harsha Dynasty was different. By the way, Li Ke asked Datang to increase the selling price of goods from behind.
If the Harsha Dynasty wants to continue to maintain the rule of the dynasty and continue to live, then they can only find ways to buy more supplies from the Tang Dynasty, and Li Ke will provide them with second-level supplies for these supplies. Anyway, the two sides began to fight a war of attrition.
As long as the Harsha Dynasty cannot hold on, their urine will inevitably oppress the ordinary people below. At this time, Ashina Shilu, who has a long border with the Harsha Dynasty and controls the line of Pakistan and Railways in later generations, can surrender. The Tang Dynasty.
Ashina only needs to introduce one policy, which is to accept the fleeing people of the Harsha Dynasty.
As long as they are willing to escape, we will accept them and arrange land for them.
In Li Ke's view, whether you dare to resist or not is one thing, but those who can muster the courage to escape will at least have a chance to be saved. At least they don't want to die here anymore.
To be honest, the caste system on this continent can continue for more than a thousand years because there are too many people who are messing around.
You asked whether there was any resistance in their history. Yes, there was some resistance. But when they resisted, a new dynasty was established, still following the original ruling methods, and then the bottom group settled down again.
Because the process of resistance requires death. After people die, the land can accommodate more people, and they accept slightly less exploitation. If they can survive, forget it and accept their fate.
The situation is very similar to that of the nomadic peoples. There are too many people and the grasslands cannot bear them, so they try to find ways to consume the population.
But when people consume people, from their perspective they attack other people, and the way they consume people is to bully their own people first.
Anyway, there are a lot of fights between the lower levels.
There are too many weird places here, and Li Ke doesn't bother to care. Anyway, he is going to execute it like this, step by step to compress the Harsha Dynasty's survival line, but without killing them, and then gradually compress it and take things out of their pockets. come out.
When I finally can’t get anything out, I’ll figure out how to deal with it.
This cannot be implemented in a short time. It is estimated that it will take more than ten years to implement.
As for whether they will muster up the courage to resist directly.
After thinking too much, those who dared to resist ran away in the early stage and came to Datang. These people still have some backbone.
As for the group of people who dare not resist, they would rather go south to bully the weak and occupy the small countries over there. They probably don't dare to resist, so it's good. They fight in front, and Li Ke and the others just pick up the territory behind.
After Tianzhu's side is circled, they have no place to run anyway, so they can just solve it in the end.
Unless they can swim across the sea, go into the sea if they can.
The remaining three countries are Persia, Arabia and Byzantium.
Unlike Tianzhu, these three countries do not lack fighting power. Although the Tang Dynasty has been consuming their national power, the relationship between these three countries is also complicated.
If Datang wants to directly force the attack, it is even possible for them to unite, although the probability is not very high.
Of course, Li Ke wouldn't think too highly of them when he looked at them. Their own combat effectiveness was not even comparable to that of Goguryeo. The only problem was that they were too far away from the Tang Dynasty.
The railway currently built by Datang is too far away from this place and cannot be built in a short time.
Although Datang had a sufficient navy and there was enough land near Tianzhu to store logistical supplies.
But the effect of this kind of attack is to get twice the result with half the effort, so at least we have to wait until several important sections of railway construction arrive here.
In this case, materials can be transported faster and troops can be deployed faster. Of course, various aspects such as material storage can also be carried out simultaneously.
Even around Persia, operations similar to Tianzhu can be carried out. When ordinary people from Persia come over, they will be given the identity of Tang Dynasty people and then let them live in Datang.
And they sent people to start publicizing similar things in Persia and other civilians. Of course, it is not enough to propagate only in Persia. The Caspian Sea line must also be captured, and at the same time, the Byzantine side also begins to shrink.
As for Arabia, they couldn't take action against them at the beginning. After all, they had the smallest population. Facing Persia and Byzantium at the same time, they were basically at a disadvantage now.
As the population decreases, the problems become even greater.
Let's do it step by step. This will be Datang's main goal in the future. Anyway, Datang's hinterland has been dealt with. Without any worries, the main strategic goals can naturally be placed in the west.
But what Li Ke didn't know was that when he was seeking to capture the west, the last khan of the Western Turks, Zhe Lisi, was already on his deathbed.
