Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

"That, Your Highness, I don't quite understand." Dang Renhong hesitated for a moment before speaking directly.

"Tell me." Li Ke looked at him and asked.

"Since we want to take him down, why do we still have to do business with them? After we take them down, can't we plant the fields directly with our own people?" Dang Renhong asked hesitantly.

"What's wrong with this, even if you do business with them, it won't increase their strength. When the time comes to encourage their royal family to do business with Datang, and let their royal family force the people to plant fields, it can be regarded as opening up wasteland for our subsequent immigration. .” Li Ke said.

"Speaking of this, I still have a doubt, Your Highness." Feng An also spoke.

"Mr. Geng, please tell me." Li Ke looked at him.

"Your Highness, most of the people in Linyi and Zhenwa are very lazy, because their land is fertile, and many people just need to burn the barren hills and sprinkle a handful of seeds casually, without intensive farming, and they can be full and hungry. Immortal, they are not as industrious as our Tang people, even if we do business with their royal family, they may not be willing to plant more arable land, right?" Feng An said.

"I have a solution for this." Li Ke smiled. This is indeed a problem. Speaking of it, human inertia is cultivated in this way. This is why so many countries in Southeast Asia in later generations, when the Chinese began to immigrate, they quickly Become a richer local person, and then gradually start to contact the middle and upper classes of these countries.

Because the locals are really too lazy. To put it bluntly, everyone basically lies flat and is used to it.

The solution to this is also very simple, just make good use of the catfish effect.

Of course, the catfish effect can't be used indiscriminately, otherwise the tragedy of a certain monkey's exclusion of Chinese in the future will be a lesson.

People are social animals, Li Ke still doesn't believe it, is it really impossible to influence?

"Let's put this question on hold for the time being. You just need to pay for the investment 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. Are there many barbarian tribes in the mountains and forests in the mountains and forests?"

"Yes." All the governors nodded one after another, this is the local ecology.

The entire nine prefectures of Lingnan Road, including Jiaozhou (later Vietnam), Guizhou (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.Also known as the division of the three prefectures, these three prefectures belonged directly to the Tang court to a certain extent.

For example, Qiu He, although he is also a local wealthy family, but several of his sons, the eldest son, etc. have participated in the Xuanwu Gate Change with Li Shimin, and are now also serving in Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, so this is directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, and the governor of Guizhou Prefecture Li Xizhi has already said that he comes from the Li family in Longxi and belongs to the royal family.

Dang Renhong, the governor of the Guangfu, had just moved to his post, and was directly appointed by Chang'an. Through these three prefectures, Datang was basically able to 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 most of the time they are not willing to communicate with Han people, and they basically live in the mountains." Li Xizhi said.

"Well, if we want to defeat the Liuzhao Kingdom in the Southwest, is it easy?" Li Ke looked at them and asked again.

Liuzhao Kingdom is the predecessor of Nanzhao in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. There is no such thing as Nanzhao yet. Liuzhao Kingdom refers to six small countries located near Erhai Lake, each with six kings.

They are the Mengzhe Xizhao, Yuexizhao, Langqiongzhao, Bingteng赕danzhao, Shilangzhao, and Mengshezhao. Among them, the Mengshezhao later quickly unified other tribes and the Erhai area with the support of the Tang Dynasty. Then it was attached to Datang, and finally called Nanzhao.

The reason why Mengshe Zhao was willing to annex the other five tribes with the support of the Tang Dynasty was actually threatened by Tubo. That is to say, if Tubo fell into Li Ke's hands, the future Nanzhao would not be successful.

Now the restriction that 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 caused by the primitive jungle, which may include malaria, dysentery, beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency ), sand lice, poisoning, throat disease, 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 Handbook" in his hand. It is no exaggeration to say that places like the Yunnan Edition can be used in Southeast Asia!In other words, Li Ke now has a treatment plan, but lacks Chinese medicinal materials!

And in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guangdong, Vietnam and other [-] mountains, there are countless Chinese medicinal materials!And it's all wild!

This is also the reason why Sun Simiao came with Li Ke. Li Ke thought about it and did not reject the old man, because the old man has actually been to these jungles. He is an authority on medicinal materials. If Li Ke buys Chinese medicinal materials locally, the most important thing is Yes, Chinese medicinal materials are prepared so that they can be stored.

Fresh Chinese herbal medicines cannot be stored for a long time, and proper drying and other treatments must be done by old grandsons. Although Li Ke has related techniques in his hands, these techniques must also be guided by experts.

You must know that if some Chinese medicinal materials are not handled properly, they may become highly poisonous 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 military forces are secondary. Soldiers from the north will definitely get sick when they come here. Multiple diseases such as climate, environment, and various insects will cause them to get sick. 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 those tribes living in the jungle of Yunnan today.

This is why the witch doctors and shamans of many tribes in the deep mountains have absolute authority.

"Your Highness, their strength is mediocre, but the main thing that restricts us is the environment." Qiu He hesitated before speaking.

"Well, I understand. In this way, we will train local soldiers, especially those tribal men living in the deep mountains, and let them serve as soldiers." Li Ke nodded with a smile.

Everyone was a little helpless. Sure enough, His Highness has never been to Lingnan Road, so he doesn't know the local conditions. If you want to recruit them, Your Highness, just recruit them?To put it bluntly, those people are only Datang people in name, and they may not communicate with the people down the mountain once a year. Do you want to recruit them?Go into the mountains and attack?Their villages are not big, and they can be relocated. The point is that there is no benefit in defeating them, but the soldiers who go there may die, many of them.