Chapter 955 Killing two birds with one stone
Gu Sizhi didn't want to read the charter. But Li Mu asked him to read it, but he had to stop reading it, so he had to bite the bullet and read it.
But this time, it was amazing. Gu Sizhi's eyes suddenly became blinded. When the others saw this, they became more and more curious, but without Li Mu's permission, they did not dare to come over to see it. When Gu Sizhi finished reading it, they passed it to them. Everyone's expressions were almost the same. First, they frowned, then stretched, and then they were ecstatic.
Now it was Li Shimin's turn to be curious, and he also wanted to know what was in Li Mu's charter.
"Mr. Marquis, I respect you." After reading the charter, everyone bowed to Li Mu. If they follow the charter, they would really have no worries.
Li Mu laughed, waved his hand, and said, "What are you respecting or not? It's mainly about doing things. Since there is no objection, just start doing it. The ugly words are ahead. If something goes wrong this time, I will not tolerate it."
"I will never let the Marquis down!" Everyone promised, especially Wang Rui, who slapped his chest the loudest.
When everyone left, Li Shimin couldn't wait to ask Li Mu what the constitution was.
Li Mu knew that he had been selling it for a long time, and if he didn't say it, Li Shimin might get angry, so he told it all in detail.
"Your Majesty, I know that what you and these gentry are most worried about is the force of the Turks. As the saying goes, Turks are soldiers when they get on horseback, and people when they get off horseback. They are cruel by nature. In the past, I also thought so, but my thoughts have changed during a trip to the Western Regions last year."
Li Shimin did not speak, but looked at Li Mu and waited for him to finish his words.
Li Mu continued: "Your Majesty, I want Your Majesty to think of a question - Have Your Majesty ever seen beggars?"
Li Shimin wondered what was the relationship between beggar Huazi and what was going to be discussed, but since Li Mu asked, he thought about it and replied: "I have turned to the north and south. Of course I have seen beggar Huazi, what's wrong?"
"Who is the responsibility of the number of beggars?"
Li Shimin was silent, and after a while, he said, "This is my responsibility - if I govern the country well, who would beg for food?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "It is precisely this principle, so the same principle can be put on the Turks. Have your Majesty ever thought about why the Turks wanted to plunder the Central Plains?"
Before Li Shimin answered, Li Mu directly answered: "Isn't it because he can't eat enough and wear warm clothes, so he can only plunder and fill it? If they live and work in peace, how could they have the idea of plundering?"
"If the Turks could live like the people of Chang'an City, they could have food and clothing by working, who would be willing to graz on horseback, and who would go to war?"
"I went around in the Western Regions last year. What I saw in my eyes was that I knew more about the nomadic peoples in the Western Regions. Your Majesty knew that there were often no reason for nomadic tribes to draw their swords to fight. Even if there was a reason, it might be just a woman or a horse cub. Just a little thing was enough to make them kill people."
"Is this cruel? Yes!" Li Mu sighed: "I don't cleanse them, but why do they do this? Isn't it difficult to live? The resources for survival are limited. In order to survive, he needs to kill others and take away other people's cows, horses and women. The more they take, the longer they can survive the long winter... This is why there are often killing each other on the grassland."
"When the Central Plains dynasty declines, they can come to the Central Plains to plunder. When the Central Plains dynasty is powerful, they cannot plunder. If they catch up with the heavens, wouldn't it be a death?"
Li Shimin was deeply moved by this. Although the victory over Jie Li was planned for several years by the monarch and ministers of the Tang Dynasty, the victory was essentially brought by time. If it weren't for the heavy snow that frozen many Turkic people and livestock to death, it is unknown who won and who lost.
"Your Majesty has been dealing with the Turks for many years and should have observed a rule. The strength and decline of the Turks are often a cycle. When they are strong to the extreme, they will be in turmoil. Why? Because they do not have to produce and only grazle. The grassland is so big, with too many people and too many livestock, there will be no enough share. They will strife in internal conflicts, but this is not a bad thing for the Turks. Because a person dies, his property, cattle, horse, women, and children can be inherited by living people. This will create a relatively stable time, and they don't have to live by looting."
"Who doesn't want to live a stable life? The Turkic people are also humans, and they must also want to live a stable life. It is said that the Turkic people are soldiers and dismounted by the people. Why does this happen? Not being forced? In the Central Plains, we can see that people are old and supported by their children. We think that this kind of thing is ordinary and filial piety is what everyone should do. But why do the Turkic people rarely have this situation? It's not that they can't buy it? They are not that they are soldier and dismounted by the people when they are born, but that they can't do this and have been eliminated long ago."
"They have to fight with us. If they don't fight with us, they will kill each other and have no other way."
Li Mu moved him with emotion, and Li Shimin remained silent. These principles were simple, but Li Shimin didn't understand them. But before he was the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he had to be responsible for the people of the Tang Dynasty, and he could only take care of the Turks if he had spare energy. What's more, these things were not his director, and he couldn't think of any way.
"The Turks are facing a crisis right now..." Li Mu looked at Li Shimin seriously and said, "And the crisis is right in front of him and will break out soon."
Li Shimin frowned: "Don't exaggerate, why don't I know about the crisis?"
"Your Majesty, I am not exaggerating." Li Mu's tone was a little anxious, and he said: "About this, Your Majesty defeated the Turks the year before yesterday and moved the remaining Turkic troops to Hetao. There is nothing wrong with this move, but Your Majesty ignores one thing."
"What?"
"The Turks are nomads for living. What is the root of nomads? They are not humans, but livestock! And the Turks' livestock, which was frozen to death by half in the heavy snow in the thousand years. When they fought with us, they ate a small half as food. The remaining few livestock were also obtained by us as spoils. In fact, they had very few livestock in their hands!"
"This..." Li Shimin didn't know the trick here, and he said in confusion: "But they have been trading with us, horses, leather, etc., and the trade has never stopped. If they had no livestock, how did these trades go?"
"Your Majesty, what does the animals I mentioned have to do with horses? Their rations are not war horses, but cattle and sheep! As for those leathers, I have checked the purchase slips of the Office of the Internal Affairs. Most of the goods slips show that these cowhides are old and old. Your Majesty is kind and has not confiscated their property. They are using the leather they have accumulated before to do business with us and exchange food!"
"But how much of these inventory can be? After more than two years, their inventory must not be much left. If their inventory is gone, their number of cattle and sheep has not recovered-" Li Mu looked into Li Shimin's eyes and said, "Your Majesty may have thought of what will happen then?"
Li Shimin took a breath, but how could he have thought that these Turkic people who were forced to go to the forefront would repeat the same mistakes.
"I might as well tell Your Majesty another story. In "Records of the Grand Historian: The Legend of the Condor Heroes", King Wen of Wei asked Bian Que, "You three brothers are doctors, who is the most powerful?"
"Bian Que said: "The elder brother is the best, the middle brother is second, and Bian Que is the worst."
"Wang King Wen of Wei asked him why, and he said that my elder brother treats the disease before the onset of the disease. Because most people do not know that he can eradicate the cause of the disease in advance, his fame cannot be spread, and only our family knows it. My second brother treats the disease when the disease first begins. Most people think that he can only treat minor diseases, so his fame is only in the hometown. And my Bian Que treats the disease when the disease is serious. Most people see that I pass needles on my meridians to bleed, apply medicine on the skin and other major operations, so I think my medical skills are excellent, and my fame is therefore popular all over the country."
Li Mu sighed with gratitude and said, "Your Majesty, I am not trying to be Bian Que, but to be the brother of the unknown Bian Que. It is my ambition to eliminate disasters invisibly and save the people from water and fire.
After not finishing his feelings, he was hit on the head, and Li Shimin couldn't listen: "Stop pretending to be a saint here, continue to talk about it, I understand your original intention, how to do it!"
"It's easy!" Li Mu put away his performance and continued: "Just need your Majesty to transfer the Turkic people who are proletarians to the south of the Yangtze River to cultivate land, and everything else will be easy to deal with."
"How is it easy to deal with? I don't think it's okay!" Li Shimin said angrily: "You are so easy to do things? Let's not talk about our side, just talk about the Turkic side. Even if Asuna Smo is friendly to the court, he will not be so stupid as to reveal his population, right?"
"How can this be called Xian?" Li Mu looked puzzled: "They have already attached themselves, they are the people of the Tang Dynasty. Your Majesty is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. The imperial edict is to follow the rules. He can only follow the orders and execute them. How can he question it? If he questioned, he would deceive the emperor and rebel. Your Majesty would kill him!"
"This..." Li Shimin was choked and glared at Li Mu. In fact, this introductory word was just a saying. In order to take into account the overall situation, everyone came up with a proper noun. There were such things in the past. When nomadic people were defeated, they said they wanted to possess it. But in fact, they still did their own things and there was no complete surrender. Li Mu could not have known it, but he still said this on purpose, and Li Shimin was very unhappy!
Seeing Li Shimin snorting coldly, Li Mu hurriedly said, "It was the same before, but when you reach Your Majesty, you can't be different? Is this true all the time?"
This made Li Shimin think deeply. After a while, he nodded and said, "I can issue an order, but how do you guarantee that Ashina Simo will be obedient? If he is slanderous, it is not surprising that he will delay a year or two!"
"Your Majesty, do you think Ashinasmo's life is better?" Li Mu sneered and said, "The Turks are different from the Central Plains. Although the Turks are one clan, they are not the same. Their alliance is loose and there are frequent internal struggles. Ashinasmo's tribe is not the largest tribe, and it is not enough to shock all tribes. Once the conflict breaks out, he cannot adjust it at all. So I predict that Ashinasmo will not be able to act according to the order. For him, this will also solve a big problem!"
"Okay, it's as you said!" Li Shimin asked, "How do you resettle people when they move here? How can you guarantee that if their tribes move here, they will definitely listen to you?"
"Your Majesty, what I want is the proletarian Turks." Li Mu said clearly: "Proletarian means hardship, and eating is a problem. What is the most important thing for them?"
"The most important thing is to eat?" Li Shimin guessed tentatively, Li Mu nodded and said, "Yes, it's just to eat. At this time, their requirements are the lowest. In order to be able to have enough food, their cooperation is also the highest!"
"Then how do you guarantee that there will be no problems in the future?"
"I can't guarantee it, but I've made preparations." Li Mu opened the charter and introduced to Li Shimin: "First of all, I will break them up. In the same resettlement village, try not to resettle the Turkic people of the same tribe. As far as I know, most of the Turkic people of different tribes are incompatible. This can ensure that they do not unite, and the proportion of Turkic people in each resettlement village cannot exceed one-quarter. The disadvantage in the number of people will also make them afraid of the rats!"
"In addition, the resettlement villages are managed in a unified manner. Each household is not allowed to store iron tools. If they do not have weapons in their hands, the possibility of chaos will be greatly reduced."
"The most important thing is that I bet that they can't bear to live a life of full food and warm clothes." Li Mu said firmly, "Your Majesty, I don't believe that there will be someone. I like to lick blood when I have a good life. If there is really such a person, I have a way."
"oh?"
Li Mu sneered and said, "Most of the people obey, and a few of them sing opposites. There is nothing we can do about it, kill!"
Li Shimin was speechless. He thought there was a better way. Who wouldn't kill him?
"I have another thing to worry about." After reading the charter, Li Shimin expressed his doubts: "These Turks were originally moved here. At first, it was fine, they knew that they were foreign and would not covet land. But what if they really regarded themselves as Tang people in ten or twenty years later, and they also asked to divide the land?"
"Then give it to them!"
Li Mu took it for granted, but Li Shimin was stunned and said, "Can the people of Jiangnan agree to the distribution of land?"
Chapter completed!