"If you want to integrate an ethnic group, other than military force, you also need economic development and quality of life."
Li Yi slowly explained to Li Chengqi how to integrate the ethnic groups.
Now that integration was not important, it was because other people had sided with them.
In order to guard against the other party and for the stability of the mainland, they directly let the other party continue to stay at the border.
In the later period of history, during the An Lushan Rebellion, it was troublesome. The people at the border were disobedient.
Therefore, they became armed forces, and the Tang dynasty still had to fight with them.
In the end, both sides would die together. No one would have a good time.
"Is that enough?" Li Chengqi was eating skewers. He realized that he could always eat interesting things in Brother Yi's Zhuangzi.
"It's just a temporary solution. The root of the problem lies in propaganda. We have to keep saying that the tribes and the Tang dynasty are one family.
As time passes, the people's lives will be better, and new children will be born and grow up. Slowly, they will be recognized.
We must not let them be. If we find out that they are spreading other things, arrest them and eliminate them. "
Li Yi explained the basic policy. At that time, there were still some people who had other thoughts.
Because of the previous period, they relaxed.
What was more terrifying was religion. It was better now that those religions had not spread.
Otherwise, when the foreign religions were deeply rooted, it would be difficult to move.
"We have sent people to Leizhou and Qiongzhou with things. It's more convenient to transport things by water now."
Li Chengqi temporarily put aside the issue of integration. He needed to think about it. At the same time, he asked the officials in the imperial court about the specific strategy.
He knew that he could ask Li Yi, but why should he let the officials relax?
Li Yi drank a mouthful of soup and felt comfortable. "Actually, the Grand Canal can be connected to the Andong Protectorate. Now, the Khitans have started to rely on us.
We have to make use of shipping. Only by increasing the frequency of the exchange of goods can we let the other party gain benefits and rely on trade. "
Li Yi was talking about Beijing. The Grand Canal passed through the Yellow River and entered Beijing. They could also enter from Tianjin in the Bohai Bay.
In the past, they were always afraid of this and that. Even if the other party surrendered, they did not want to occupy the place.
To put it bluntly, the Tang dynasty did not pay enough attention to the northeast, including Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei.
They thought that it would not be able to develop there and would pose no threat to the Tang dynasty.
Li Yi knew that there were no threats there. The Khitans there were very tenacious. Even the Bohai Kingdom could not compare to them.
Moreover, in the end, Bohai was still separated from South Korea.
Li Chengqi didn't dare to underestimate them. He replied, "They are building ships with the money we have. It takes time to build a big ship, and it also takes time to train the sailors."
Li Chengqi didn't know who to blame for this.
The navy of the Tang dynasty used to be very strong, but when the third brother became the emperor, the navy was finished and barely maintained.
If it weren't for the fact that he collected seafood through the Navy and gave them benefits, those ships would have been stolen and sold.
Because of the Turks, Tubo, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the barbarians of the southwest, the Imperial Court had shifted its focus to the west and northwest.
They had invested less in the northeast, the east, and the southeast coast. They weren't even willing to invest their energy.
Now that he had harvested seafood and learned about iron mines, he understood that he could plant large amounts of pepper in Leizhou and Qiongzhou, as well as the new rice in Jiangnan.
He suddenly realized the importance of the Navy. Only with the Navy could there be transportation. They could go around the sea and didn't have to go through the Lucky River.
"Big Brother, some of the long-term military and political personnel in the border areas should be transferred back. As the border areas are integrated, it's not good."
When Li Yi mentioned this problem, he thought of the Song Dynasty.
The Song Dynasty was powerful. The military and political personnel were separated. However, the military and political personnel used the civil officials to suppress the military officials.
Now that the military and political personnel in the border areas of the Tang dynasty were integrated, it was possible to fight.
The drawbacks were that they had too much power. It was power, not power.
Some people went there to be local tyrants. They were in charge of the population of the area, and there were ethnic minorities.
If they rebelled, they might as well split the military and political personnel.
"Transfer them back. Who is familiar with the local situation?"
Li Chengqi was annoyed. If it was easy to transfer them back, Tubo wouldn't know how to fight once they attacked.
"Deputy, push the deputy up. A commander-in-chief should send more deputies. There should be a competition among the deputies. Fight for one."
Li Yi came up with the idea. If there were more deputies, they would restrain each other.
At that time, it was the same everywhere. Everyone wanted to have more power. Whoever had more power would be adjusted by the higher-ups.
Li Chengqi lowered his head and thought for a while. He didn't directly say whether it was okay or not. He still wanted his third brother to ask the officials.
"It looks like it's going to rain." Li Chengqi looked out of the window. There were clouds in the sky.
However, those clouds were light gray in color. It was not raining. The speed of movement was slow, and there was no wind.
Li Yi also took a look. He didn't understand. He didn't specialize in meteorology.
"Now that it's raining, the last batch of mosquitoes and flies will increase, especially mosquitoes. The female mosquitoes in the autumn have finally come out. They will definitely need more nutrition."
As soon as Li Yi's voice fell, bean-sized raindrops came crashing down without any warning. The wind did not even blow.
It looked like a shower. The soil on the ground was splashed up.
Not long after, the raindrops began to fall. There was wind, and the wind was not small.
It could be seen from the swaying of the lanterns. However, the sky was not dark and the lanterns were not lit.
The villagers outside hid everywhere. Many people ran to the dining hall and looked out of the window.
After half an hour, Li Yi and Li Chengqi finished their meal. The rain stopped again.
Li Yi sighed. "There are no good pesticides. The weather is hot. Even if there is no sun, the vegetables in the vegetable field will suffer."
He knew that after the short rain, the weather would become hot and the vegetables would start to have insects.
This included vegetable aphids, ladybugs, small puddles, flies, and mosquitoes. Of course, there were also many dragonflies. All kinds of dragonflies flew around.
When he was young, he used many methods to catch dragonflies. Later, when he grew up, he knew that he shouldn't catch them. However, there weren't many dragonflies for him to catch.
"Troubled times." Li Chengqi had to admit that the weather this year was not good.
Otherwise, they could continue to stay dry and water the plants with well water.
According to previous experience, after every rain like this, many people would fall sick.
"Write in the newspaper tomorrow that they must drink water and pay attention to mosquito bites."
Li Yi thought of a way out of desperation.
This was all he could do. Unless he could kill all the insects in a large area, including the dragonflies, it would be useless.
"Mosquito coils and Floral Dew. Brother Yi, take them out. I know you have more in Zhuangzi." Li Chengqi was anxious.
He knew that if the situation was serious, everyone would get malaria. If they got malaria, they would need to take medicine. The medicine of the big honey pill was more precious than the mosquito coils and Floral Dew.
"Brother, we can take out the mosquito coils and Floral Dew. However, I think we can sell them if any of the Japanese envoys get malaria.
The local garrison in the southwest took a lot of the pills. They will use it themselves and help sell it at a high price. At the same time, they will advertise it. "
Li Yi actually thought of a meeting at such a critical time.
They had said that the Great Tang would hold a meeting on the sale of malaria medicine, but even now, the meeting had yet to be held.
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