It was already the Dragon Boat Festival. The three yamen guards in Luoyang City were all out of their teams and raced on the canal outside the city according to the emperor's order.

Countless people in the capital were rushing to watch, it was so lively.

The emperor, the emperor and the crown prince watched the dragon boat competition together. With the emperor here, the soldiers worked extremely hard, fighting for each other, which was so exciting.

After the competition, the first place won a reward of 888 coins, and the second and third places also received a reward of 66 and 33.

In order to enjoy the people, the emperor even asked someone to put three thousand fat ducks and geese into the river after the dragon boat competition, allowing the people to go down the river to compete. Countless people who knew water jumped into the river to compete. The ducks and geese danced randomly, and the people were jubilant. ::

As the prime minister, Wei Zheng sat next to the emperor.

"General Li Jing was very successful in joining the generals of the barbarians in Lingnan. With a mere scattered officials and a little salt, the slang barbarians were willing to be naturalized. This is something that has never been done by each dynasty for thousands of years. You can learn it well in Qianzhong, Yunnan."

Luo Cheng nodded, "Li Jing did use a very good method, but don't be too happy too early. Although these southern barbarians are tempted and are now naturalized, once the court wants to truly clear the land and collect taxes, they are afraid they will still not agree."

"At least, I have been granted a citizenship now, and have drawn boundary lines for Zhuxidong, registered and established steles and stones. The next step is to build roads, set up post stations, and even send town pavilions to the court, step by step, and the imperial court's control over the local area is constantly increasing."

As for tax collection, the emperor had not issued a decree to Li Jing before, changing the five-year tax exemption of five-year and a half-year tax exemption to ten-year and a half-year tax exemption. When he really started to collect half-tax after ten years, he believed that the imperial court's control over Lingnan was no longer comparable to today.

In fact, the court did not lose any tax for ten years, because there was no tax levied in the past. Now, in the name of tax exemption, we use the name of tax exemption and private officials to induce these people to be naturalized. The court finds out their background, builds roads, sets up villages, and establishes pavilions.

In county towns and town pavilions, markets and ruins are established to trade with these locals. Through transactions, taxes can also be levied. This tax may even be higher than the regular tax, not to mention that through trade, you can also make a lot of money.

"The most important thing is that after reaching the current alliance with these barbarians, our government can enter with justification without being blocked. However, the seventy-two battalions of troops attacked the vanguard, and in the future, more Han people can be immigrated to Lingnan.

Luo Cheng has had experience in managing such a wild place, and it is very useful, which is the population. As long as the Han population can reach a certain proportion, no matter how rebellious the barbarians are, they cannot fight against the Han people. Moreover, the expansion speed of the Han people is very fast.

All of this is because the Central Plains has a huge base of tens of millions of Han people as support. As long as you gain a foothold and have a relatively stable environment, a large number of Han people will pour in, whether they are doing business, family members, or other things. Now the proportion of Han barbarians in Lingnan is tens, and many Han people have even lived with Baiyue for many generations.

But if the Han people could have 200,000 to 300,000, even if there were 20,000 to 30,000 Han people in a county and thousands of Han people in a county, then the barbarians would never be able to overwhelm the Han people.

"As long as we maintain the current momentum and maintain stability, there will be no chance of a comeback in ten years. But we should not be careless. After all, millions of slang barbarians are now in a mess, so we have the opportunity and we must not make these people into groups and end up dealing with us."

"Your Majesty can summon the children of the chiefs into the capital and arrange them to join the Imperial College or the Inner Court for personal troops. This is also a preferential treatment for the chiefs who have been granted scattered officials, and they can also take their children as their own."

Luo Cheng felt that this idea was good and could strengthen his connection with them. Even these barbarians had broadened their horizons in the Central Plains and witnessed the power of the Qin Dynasty, they might not make trouble easily.

"Everywhere, you can also recruit these old people from Xidongdu and Qushu. At the same time, don't forget to strengthen trade with them. Lingnan has a lot of local products. In the past, transportation was not only limited, but their things were difficult to sell. Now we need to strengthen trade, collect the things, sell all kinds of handmade goods from our Central Plains, so that these barbarians can live a good life, especially those chiefs can live a good life because of changes. In this way, no one is willing to go back to the past."

In any case, for the Xidong barbarians, the land in Lingnan was where they lived for generations. The Qin Dynasty said that it would change its land and return it to the current was actually equivalent to robbing their territory, even if they had always been nominally subordinate to the Central Plains court before.

Not giving some exchange of interests and not allowing them to feel the benefits, just forcing orders will not work, and will only cause rebellion and war. A chaotic Lingnan is not what the emperor needs.

"Building several more ports along the coast of Lingnan, and the increase in ports will not only help maritime silk supply and transit trade, but will also be a key fortress for our control of Lingnan."

Li Xian came over.

"Your Majesty, the news I just received is that Tiel Xueyantu Khan Yishuobo is almost gone."

The emperor was surprised, "What's going on? Yi Shibo came to Luoyang to worship him in person. It's only been a few months? At that time, his body was as strong as a cow, and he had offered it to me that he had hunted himself?"

"The Tiel Huihe tribe rebelled, and Yi Shibo went to the expedition, but was attacked, and was defeated. Although the man withdrew from the Khan Court, he was seriously injured. The arrow that shot him was even covered with wolf dung, which was poisonous. Yi Shibo had sent someone to Luoyang to ask His Majesty to let his grandson Yi Nan go back to succeed the throne, and asked His Majesty to send troops to help Xue Yantuo fight against the unofficial Huihe."

Uighurs are also called Weihe, which is a branch of Tielle, and Tielle is also called Chile. It was originally a tribal alliance living south of the North Sea (Lake Baikal). It is also called a high car because it is commonly used for cars with tall wheels.

They are considered different species of the Huns.

Xueyantuo and Uighurs were both branches of the Tiel tribes. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Tiel tribes swayed continuously among the East and West Turks, and the rebellion did not last long. During the Daye period, the Tiel tribes were originally affiliated with the Western Turks, but later they were defeated in the rebellion, so they defected to the Eastern Turks.

Later, when Bi Khan was in the southern expedition of Sui Shi, he was defeated by the Sui general Luo Cheng, so the Tiel tribes replaced him and obeyed Luo Cheng.

After Luo established the country, he defeated Jie Li Khan who went south. So Yi Shibo, who was attached to Luo Cheng, led his troops to take advantage of the severe injury to the Eastern Turks' vitality and began to besiege the Turks and seize control of the northern desert grasslands.

Yi Shibo was supported by the leader of the Xueyantuo tribe and was supported by Luo Cheng, and the Xueyantuo Khanate Kingdom was established, and all the Tiel tribes belonged to him.

The Uighurs are the tribes second only to Xueyantuo among the Tiel tribes. Earlier, the strongest Tiel tribe was the Qibi tribe, but was plotted against Shibi, so Xueyantuo became the boss of Tiel.

"Why did the Uighurs rebel? Please send troops to attack?" Wei Zhengdao.

Xue Yantuo was a vassal state of the northern desert of the Great Qin Dynasty. Now there is chaos within him, and the Great Qin Dynasty does help him to quell the rebellion.

But Luo Cheng asked him calmly, "When the two Khans of Bi and Jie Li were defeated, Yi Shibo did siege the Turks in Mobei, and made a lot of efforts. Last year, he sent troops to the Western Regions to attack Shikui, and made contributions. But now the East and West Turks are either destroyed or surrendered, almost in name only, and are no longer in danger of our Great Qin. However, Xue Yantuo now occupying Mobei, commanding the tribes, but have 200,000 tents. This is not counting the other tribes, but the Xue Yantuo tribe has 200,000 tents. This means that Xue Yantuo can pull out 200,000 cavalry at any time, not counting the other Tiel tribes. Wei Zheng, Xue Yantuo occupying Mobei, with hundreds of thousands of people, has become a potential threat."

For the country, there are no absolute loyal vassals.

Just like the Qimin and Shibi Khan, the father and son of the Eastern Turks, they were supported by the Sui Dynasty, but they did not pass by two generations. Will Shibi be strong and will he attack the Sui Dynasty?

Once you have strong strength, this will inevitably happen.

Xue Yantuo is indeed too strong now.

Unified the tribes in the northern desert, and the Western Turks in the Western Regions are now fleeing with the defeat of Shekui. Although Mohedu Khan was a Western Turkic Khan, he was just a puppet. The Western Turkic Khan had been beaten to the point of losing his backbone.

There are three counties in Anxi, plus the seventy-two princes of Yili, and although the Western Turks have not yet perished, they no longer pose a threat.

At this time, Xue Yantuo actually had no other restraints and threats.

Yi Shibo actually appeared to be loyal to the Qin Dynasty on the surface, but secretly he was already a little domineering. He had strict control over the Tiel tribes, but in fact he wanted to imitate the Qin Dynasty, strengthen the authority of the Khan Court, and weaken the strength of the tribes. He was not satisfied with the traditional form of tribal alliances.

Luo Cheng had seen Yi Shibo's behavior for a long time and had even raised his vigilance.

The Uighurs' rebellion was a good thing for Luo Cheng.

"Weihe tribes joined forces with Pugu, Luo, Bayegu and other tribes to form alliances, and were collectively called Uighurs. This is dissatisfied with Yi Shubo's autocratic behavior. They want to maintain the traditional tribal alliance system. Wei Zheng, the land in the north of the Mobei, is far away from the vast sea and gobi, and the court cannot directly control it. If a powerful autocratic Khan appears in the north of the Mobei, sooner or later, it will be another Turkic Shibi. Weihe and several other alliances will revolt, it will be a good thing for the court. If there are two tribal alliances in Mobei, Huihe and Xueyantuo, and they will restrain each other, it will be better than a single dominant family."

Wei Zheng was stunned and was stunned. The emperor's words were really good, but they also revealed the essential interests between countries.

Rather than believing that Xue Yantuo would always be loyal, it would be better to let the Uighurs help watch the balance.

"But we are the sect leader of Xue Yantuo, and the vassals are in civil strife. Are we just watching?"
Chapter completed!