When Li Jia went south, it was already mid-August, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated from Youzhou.

From the beginning of April to the present, in more than four months, I have been in Youzhou alone for almost two months. It can be said that he is sincere in dealing with this newly restored country.

The Northern Capital was left behind, with Wang Ning as the left behind, and the jurisdiction of You, Luan, Ying, Ping, Ji, Xin, Wu, Shun, Tan, Ru, and Wei, a total of eleven states. The Han people and Hu people had a population of more than two million, which was not bad at all.

Yang Tingzhang and Guo Jin were guarding one west and one east respectively, with more than 50,000 troops and horses together. They were the deputy left-behind positions, which was considered to be a high position and powerful person!

Wang Ning has no shortage of qualifications and abilities, and only he can suppress these two people and resume production.

In fact, Wang Ning's decisiveness was faster than Li Jia imagined.

In just two days, he issued an order to ban Huyi, requiring all Han people in eleven states to wear Tang Dynasty clothes and Han garments, and not to wear narrow-sleeved and short-sleeved Huyi. Those who violate the order will be sentenced to one month of labor.

In addition, the "Han surname Law" is also being released, which widely requires that Hu people must take Han surnames and those who violate the surnames are severely punished.

For example, the "Shu Hair Order" and the "Decree of Hu Ming" are all government orders that the Han people must abide by and are widely spread.

As a traditional literati and the successor of Confucianism, Wang Ning was full of hostility towards some Huhua things and urgently demanded change.

Simply, changing customs and customs does not harm the interests. Many people do not care much about this and choose to obey.

Those who do not obey will have been wiped out long ago.

After being ruled by the Khitans for a long time, the Han people in the Youyun area have long since changed their Hu, as if their sleeves have become narrower, their daily life is very convenient, and they are not as broad as traditional Hanfu.

But in Wang Ning's view, the elegant wide sleeves are the real clothes of the Tang people, and no matter what the whole reform is.

Bad habits such as braids and name Hu are also changed.

He felt that he was Boqin and he had to transform the Youyun area in all aspects.

It was precisely because of almost complete failure that Li Jia felt relieved and walked south with the Khitan girl in her arms.

At this time, the local army of Shandong Prefecture and Hebei Prefecture had been back for more than a month. Even the Imperial Camp had left nearly half, with only 30,000 to 40,000 people in their identities, protecting the emperor.

"Is this the Central Plains?"

On the carriage, Xiao Yanyan seemed to have accepted her fate, and she regained the girl's liveliness, cuteness, straightforwardness, and several months of nourishment made her full of energy and kept looking out the window.

The boundary outside the carriage is the endless Hebei Plain. The summer harvest season has passed, and the next season has even been sown. The soil is overturned, weeds are pulled, and the whole family is on the battlefield.

The farmers were dressed in a relatively simple manner, wearing straw sandals, with yellow skin and emaciated skin, but they could farm safely, which meant they could barely survive.

On the ridge of the field, children jumped around, catching grasshoppers and insects, and occasionally followed their parents to weed, chop firewood, and carry water. Although it was heavy, the family could survive and even stay together. This was a great progress in the troubled times.

If you can survive, you will not rebel. As an emperor, Li Jia doesn't have to worry about losing her position. For a ruler like him, this is the best pastoral scenery and pleasing to the eye.

In less than a few years, as long as the food is guaranteed and there is no shortage of staple food, side businesses will develop, other needs will be born, and business will naturally emerge.

Agriculture is the foundation of the world.

The people of the Central Plains, who are suffering from disasters, have gradually recovered from the troubled times.

"You Han people are so lucky with such a gentle land!" Xiao Yanyan kept sighing: "Your Majesty, you are afraid you don't know that ordinary herdsmen have a problem of water. More importantly, hay is food for cattle and sheep, and they don't eat enough, and they can't burn fire."

"So, even cow dung is the treasure of the herdsmen and is the guarantee for their hot food."

"And you Han people have strong houses and don't have to move; you have clean rivers and won't eat diseases; you can eat hot food at any time with countless firewood. You Tang people are really protected by God."

Xiao Yanyan left Youzhou and before she knew it, she talked a lot more, as if she was eased her homesickness.

"The grassland and the Central Plains cannot be generalized!"

Li Jia couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.

The differences between regions are indeed beyond imagination. In the eyes of herders, cow dung is fuel, but in the eyes of farmers, it is fertilizer.

Farmers think that herders feed on meat and eat meat and drink wine every day, so there are many people who cross the Great Wall to the north, while those who go north of the herdsmen think that farmers live in luxury houses, eat fine grain, and don’t have to worry about food and clothing, and there are also many people who surrender in Nantou.

I want to go out inside, but people outside want to come in.

However, the poor often make up the majority.

The nobles eat meat and drink alcohol, and the poor can only drink milk from ginseng and a lot of wool and cow hair.

Only powerful bureaucrats can eat fine rice and flour, while the poor can only eat coarse grains that are stuck in their throats, but they often cannot afford it.

However, after comparison, people in the Central Plains live better.

"You only look at one aspect. If you look closely, you will find that in fact, the Han people are living better than you think!"

Li Jia smiled.

"Hmph!" Xiao Yanyan heard this and knew that she had been tricked, she couldn't help but pout and said, "You will tease people."

"There are more cattle and sheep on the grassland than stars, but they are scarce in the Central Plains."

Li Jia was born as a businessman, so he couldn't help but explain his thoughts to Xiao Yanyan: "Salt, tea, and iron tools are widely present in the Central Plains and are also what the grassland people urgently want."

"With such a mutual understanding, the herdsmen on the grassland can also eat rice, use iron tools, eat salt and tea, while farmers have wool as clothes, plow oxen and farm the land, and make good ways to gain the benefit of the two."

"Do you want to do business with the Khitan?" Xiao Yanyan asked curiously with her eyes narrowed.

"You Khitans are not short of iron tools, so the Bohai people have helped me!"

Li Jia shook her head and said, "For the grassland tribes, this trade will benefit more to a greater extent. This is something that must be done."

By establishing a field of deliberation, you can implement scissor gaps through commercial means and bind the herdsmen tribes with the Tang Dynasty through interests.

The nobles who were used to eating tea, wearing silk, and drinking wine were naturally inseparable from the Tang Dynasty.

Damn, I stayed in Youzhou for two months and actually forgot about this.

Li Jia was quite helpless and greedy for beauty, and it was indeed easy to forget things.

The Khitan tribes have become dependent on Youyun's ruling trade for decades. At that time, using economic and trade as a weapon to provoke and infiltrate other tribes except the Khitan.

This alone is enough to keep the Khitans busy.

Once diplomacy is used well, it can even cause the Khitan of the tribal alliance to fall apart.
Chapter completed!