Li Shimin didn't know what Li Chao was excited about.

Isn’t it just a 300-mile pasture? Although it sounds quite large, it is outside Yinshan. It has always been a territory of nomadic peoples. It is difficult for the Huns, Rourans, Xianbeis, Turks, and Hans to gain a foothold outside Yinshan.

Although he had just opened his mouth and classified the territory of hundreds of miles as Li Chao's fiefdom, Li Shimin didn't take it much. In his heart, those hundreds of miles were actually worthless.

Rewarding Li Chao with an enclave outside Yinshan and a piece of land that is still in the hands of the Turks would not make him feel disgusted. Even if he was defeated, the court would not have the energy to control it. Even if the court defeated the Turks this time, it would actually push the actual control line to the Yinshan line at most. To the north of Yinshan, it was really powerless to control it.

Li Chao was also exhausted by the court. He drew a piece of land outside the Yinshan Mountains near the Houtao Plain to give Li Chao a reward. The Li family might be able to use it as a ranch to grazle and raise cattle and horses. But this place is far inferior to Longyou, Shuofang, and Hetao. After all, outside the Yinshan Mountains, there is a vast grassland, which is the world of the Hu people.

"Thank you for your reward!"

Li Chao was really excited, and it was hard to hide the excitement. Although the location of this place was not very good, Li Shimin really gave it to him, and Li Chao thought it was still very precious.

That is a fiefdom, the territory of the princes, not a pasture, but a territory.

A princely leader is the foundation of a family. In Li Shimin's eyes, it may be a distant enclave, remote, desolate, and worthless.

But in Li Chao's eyes, a lot of arable land can be reclaimed on the hundreds of miles of grassland, at least hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural arable land can be reclaimed, and the pastures are even more vast. There is no problem in planting at the foot of Langshan Mountain in the south, and grazing on the grassland in the north, and supporting a population of 100,000 or 200,000 people.

There are 100,000 people. In medieval Europe, many of the knights had only one small village. 100,000 people could be the size of a principality.

Even if Li Shimin sealed him there and acted as a screening on the border of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chao felt it was worth it.

There is truly a territory of his own. Build whatever he wants. Li Chao feels that he doesn't have to be too afraid of the nomads on the grassland. Whether it is the Turks or the Tielites, if the Tang Dynasty can defeat the Turks this time, then he dares to say that there will be at least ten years of peace under Yinshan.

In ten years, Li Chao was confident that he could build his own city fortress on the Arat Plain and establish his own fief guarding force there.

"Your Majesty, when I defeat the Turks, I will build a surrendered city in the north of Langshan!"

"Submitted to the city?" Li Shimin was surprised and then exclaimed.

"Okay, a surrender city."

The Sui Zhucheng has been around since history. At the Langshan Pass in the northwest of Langshan Mountain, the Western Han Dynasty built the Sui Zhucheng here. During the Western Han Dynasty, many Sui Zhucheng was established in the south of the desert, but the only Sui Zhucheng built there was the only Sui Zhucheng built to accept the surrender of the Huns.

It is also the northernmost surrender city.

The surrendered city was built by Gongsun Ao during the Han Dynasty, and there were even fierce battles there.

At that time, the Turkic Left Grand Commander wanted to kill the newly succeeded Shanyu surrendered to Han, and sent envoys to ask the Han Dynasty to send troops to support him. So Gongsun Ao first built a Suspension City outside the frontier, and stationed troops to prepare for support. After the incident was leaked, the Zuo Grand Commander was killed. The Xiongnu sent 80,000 troops to besiege Suspension City, but he could not leave because the city was strong.

However, the surrendered city was isolated outside the frontier, and was often occupied by both the Han and the Huns.

When the Northern Wei Dynasty arrived, the Sujiang City was renamed Bigan City, becoming the border city between the Northern Wei and the Rouran Khanate on the grassland. The Northern Wei Dynasty made several northern expeditions to Rouran, and all accumulated food and grass in the Sujiang City.

Although the Sujiang City has long disappeared, Li Shimin knew the significance of the Sujiang City.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the Suijiang City was built. Later, Emperor Wu of Han successively used troops to fight against the Huns. Finally, under the northern expedition of famous generals such as Huo Qubing and Wei Qing and Li Guang, he finally defeated the Huns.

Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, was also the emperor Li Shimin admired the most.

"I'm sure. If the Li family rebuilt the Suicheng outside Langshan, the court will select craftsmen to help build the city."

Li Chao is getting more and more arrogant.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. I plan to build three surrendered cities, namely the surrendered cities in the east surrendered cities in the west surrendered cities. The three cities are built along Langshan, each with a distance of hundreds of miles, forming a pincer and horns, guarding each other. In this way, a fortress chain is formed to avoid being besieged by the northern captives and becoming an isolated city."

Since he plans to develop there in the future, Li Chao certainly has to find a way to strengthen his defense.

Outside Langshan, it is the grassland in the south of the desert, which is vast and flat, and it is difficult to defend in that kind of place. Especially for the Turkic cavalry with strong mobility, it is even more difficult to defend.

To defend this fiefdom and to develop, there is only one way to build a castle, or a chain of fortresses, otherwise, there will be no place to defend the lonely city.

The name Shoujiang City also means that it means that the Tang Dynasty court guards the border in the north of the border.

With Li Shimin's support, things will be easier.

You can build a smaller castle first, but it is not a problem to use the Li family’s financial resources. You can first set up a castle, and you can develop trade there, build a commercial station, and engage in some trade with the Turks, and first make up popularity. Then you will consider reclaiming arable land and grazing and breeding.

When the little landlords have money, they think about buying land and land. They also try their best to connect the scattered land into pieces. The great gentry clans also pursue family growth.

Now that Li Shimin opens his golden mouth and rewards a piece of land to the Li family, Li Chao will not be so excited. It is once a lifetime. If this land was not an enclave in the north of the subway and he got so much money for the court, Li Shimin would probably not have given this land to him.

Without the permission of the court, even if the Li family really had the strength to run to the Turks to grab a piece of land, they would not dare to grab it.

When Li Chao returned home, he was still very excited.

Cui Yingying asked him a little strange.

Li Chao excitedly pulled Cui Yingying into the study and explained the situation to her in a low voice.

"A piece of hereditary territory?"

Cui Yingying exclaimed in surprise.

"The princes are enfeoffed?"

"It's not as exaggerated as the ban, it's just a piece of territory."

Li Chao explained the definition of territory in detail. He did not have as much power as the fiefs of Zhou and Han dynasties, and could not divide the feudals himself, nor did he have the power of taxation, conscription, judicial and other rights.

But the power is not small. The Li family is the lord. Although the territory still has to follow the laws and tax system of the Tang Dynasty, it can enjoy half of the tax revenue. The lord, that is, the highest official in the imperial court, can also establish its own guard.

Of course, there is no right to conscription. The court can also station troops in the territory, and the court will also send appointing officials to wait.

But no matter what, when centralization is getting stronger and stronger, it is quite difficult for a minister to have such a hereditary fief, which is ten thousand times stronger than the original hereditary governor.

The hereditary governor was just to let his descendants take over an official position, and it was still the kind of hereditary governor who was undermined and had no real power. But this territory is different, this is a vassal territory.

Cui Yingying was also very happy, "Is this true?"

"Of course, Your Majesty has also allowed our family to build three surrender cities there. With these three castles, the three hundred miles will truly belong to our Li family."

"There are still Turkic people there now. We have to defeat the Turkic people first so that we can truly own it." Cui Yingying suddenly said.

I was just concerned about being happy just now, but I forgot that it is still in the hands of the Turks.

And this time, the Turks were much stronger than the Tang Dynasty.

Li Chao still looked excited, "Don't be afraid of the Turks. We will definitely defeat the Turks this time. No one can seize this fiefdom."

After chatting with Cui Yingying for a while, Li Chao began to take out paper and pen, and took advantage of this joy to start drawing the castle design.

For the three castles, where to choose, what type of fortress, size and shape, etc., some beacon stations, etc., you also need to build them.

We also have to prepare to recruit the guards, and Li Shimin allows Li Chao to recruit no more than one thousand people in the territory.

The number is a bit small, but this thousand people can be a permanent army. As long as they are well trained and equipped, it should be possible to guard the castle. After all, Li Shimin will still send troops from the court in the territory at that time, and the territory is still the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

Besides, you can also create militias. You can create some polo teams, big sword teams, bow and arrow clubs, long spear clubs, etc. to allow young and strong people in the territory to be trained in their spare time. In this way, once there is a police officer, they can call them and fight when they come.

However, how to attract people to the past is also a problem.

"Divid land and divide grasslands. As long as you are willing to go there, you will enclose land, so that they can build farms and pastures there, and reduce taxes. I believe that there will always be poor people in the Central Plains who are willing to go to the north of Seyat to find opportunities. You can also develop some animal husbandry processing industries and industrial and commercial industries. When manual commerce develops, there will be people, and of course there will be taxes, and everything will naturally be there.

Li Chao bit the pen tip, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

It feels like playing that kind of construction game. I have five farmers starting out, thinking about how to make arrangements, how to mine, log, and train and upgrade.

It was not until dinner that Li Chao's excitement calmed down.

The whole family ate around a large round table, and it was a revolving table. There were too many people who picked up vegetables and picked up a chopstick of green fried rapeseed. Li Chao asked everyone if he would like to move to Saibei to live in the future.

As a result, everyone shook their heads.

Even Cui Yingying didn't want to go, saying that it would be good to stay in Xiangyang. The child is young now and will definitely not be able to adapt to the bitter cold in the northern part of the city. When he grows up, he will have to start studying. The conditions here are better, so he must stay here to study.

Even my father said he planned to resign from the court. He planned to return to his hometown in Yangzhou to live, which was considered a fallen leaf returning to his roots. He discussed this with Qi Niang, and Qi Niang also supported it.

Zheng Wanyan, Zheng Hongxian, Du Shiniang and other groups of women were not willing to go to the northern territory outside Langshan. They thought it would be better to send some managers there, build some shopping malls there, and build a few ranches. There was no need to spend so much effort to build the Sansujiang City there. There was something good to develop in a place where birds did not shit. No one could find one. How could it develop?

Everyone's answers made Li Chao's enthusiasm fade a lot.
Chapter completed!