Li Shimin didn't know what Li Chao was excited about.
Isn't it just a three-hundred-mile ranch, although it sounds quite big, but it's outside the Yin Mountain.
It has always been the territory of nomadic peoples, and it is difficult for the Huns, Rouran, Xianbei, Turks, and Han people to gain a foothold outside the Yin Mountains.
Although he opened his mouth and made these hundreds of miles of territory into Li Chao's fiefdom, Li Shimin didn't pay much attention to it.
In his heart, those hundreds of miles of land are actually worthless.
Rewarding a piece of enclave outside Yinshan Mountain, a piece of land that is still in the hands of the Turks, to Li Chao will not make him feel half distressed.
That kind of place, even if it is defeated, the imperial court does not have the energy to control it.
Even if the imperial court defeated the Turks this time, in fact, it would at most push the line of actual control to the line of Yinshan, and north of Yinshan, it was really powerless to control it.
Li Chao was also disgusted with blood for the imperial court, and he set aside a place for Li Chao outside the Yin Mountain near the Houtao Plain, which was considered a reward for Li Chao, and the Li family might be able to use that place as a pasture to graze cattle and horses.
But this place is far inferior to Longyou, Shuofang, and Hetao, after all, outside the Yin Mountain, there is a vast prairie, which is the world of the Hu people.
"Thank Your Majesty for the Reward" Li Chao was indeed very excited, and it was difficult to hide his excitement.
Although the location of this place is not very good, Li Shimin really gave it to himself, and Li Chao feels that it is still very precious.
It's a fiefdom, a prince's territory, not a pasture, it's a territory.
A prince's domain is the foundation of a family.
In Li Shimin's eyes, maybe it was a distant enclave, remote and remote, desolate, and worthless.
But in Li Chao's eyes, in fact, a lot of cultivated land can be reclaimed on the grassland of hundreds of miles, at least hundreds of thousands of acres of agricultural arable land, and the pasture is even more vast, with planting under the wolf mountain in the south and grazing on the grassland in the north, and there is no problem in feeding a population of 120,000.
With a population of 120,000 people, many of those knights in medieval Europe were just a small village.
A population of one hundred or two hundred thousand is the size of a principality.
Even if Li Shimin sealed him there and acted as a screen on the border of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chao felt that it was worth it.
There is really a territory of his own, and he can build it as he wants, backed by the Hetao Plain, Li Chao feels that he does not need to be too afraid of the grassland nomads.
Regardless of whether the Turks or the Tiele people, if Datang can defeat the Turks this time, then he dares to say that there will be at least ten years of peace under the Yin Mountain.
In ten years, Li Chao was confident that he would be able to establish his own fortress on the Alat Plain, where he would establish his own fiefdom guard troops.
"Your Majesty, the ministers defeated the Turks and will definitely build a surrendered city north of Wolf Mountain" "Surrendered City" Li Shimin was surprised, and then admired.
"Good, what a surrendered city."
The history of the surrendered city has long been there, in the northwest of the Wolf Mountain Pass, the Western Han Dynasty built the surrendered city here.
During the Western Han Dynasty, many surrendered cities were established in Monan, but only the surrendered city built there was the only surrendered city built to accept the surrender of the Huns.
It is also the northernmost city to be surrendered.
The surrendered city was built by Gongsun Ao in the Han Dynasty, and there were a series of tragic battles there.
At that time, the Turkic Left Commander wanted to kill the new successor Shan Yu to the Han Dynasty, and sent an envoy to ask the Han Dynasty to send troops to respond.
So Gongsun Ao first built a surrendered city outside the fortress, and the garrison was ready to respond, but after the incident leaked, the Zuo Dadu Lieutenant was killed, and the Xiongnu sent 80,000 troops to besiege the surrendered city, but the city was strong and could not go down.
However, the surrendered city is a lonely city, which is often occupied by the Han and Hungarian sides.
When it came to the Northern Wei Dynasty, the surrendered city was renamed Bigan City, and became the border city between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Rouran Khanate on the grassland.
Although by now, the surrendered city has long been gone, but the meaning of the surrendered city Li Shimin knows.
In the Western Han Dynasty, the city was built to be surrendered, and later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty continued to use troops against the Xiongnu, and finally under the northern expedition of famous generals such as Huo Quai, Wei Qing, Li Guang, etc., the Xiongnu were finally broken.
Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, is also the emperor that Li Shimin admires the most.
"I'm right, if the Li family rebuilds the surrendered city outside Wolf Mountain, the imperial court will send craftsmen to help build the city."
Li Chao has to inch in.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, the minister plans to build three surrendered cities, respectively, the east surrendered city, the surrendered city, the west surrendered city, the three cities are built along the wolf mountain, each one is a hundred miles apart, in the shape of a character, for the horn of the momentum, watch each other.
In this way, a chain of fortresses was formed to avoid being besieged by the northern captives and becoming an isolated city. ” Since he planned to develop there in the future, Li Chao certainly had to find a way to strengthen his defenses.
Outside Wolf Mountain, it is the Monan grassland, vast and flat, that kind of place, it is not easy to defend.
Especially for the extremely mobile Turkic cavalry, it was more difficult to defend.
If you want to keep this fiefdom and want to develop, there is only one way, to build a castle, and it has to be a fortress chain, otherwise, there will be a lonely city, where to live.
The name of the surrendered city also means to represent the Tang Dynasty court in the north of the border guard.
With Li Shimin's support, things will be easy.
The castle can be built first, and it is not a problem with the Li family's financial resources.
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First set up a castle, you can first develop trade there, build a trading station, engage in some trade with the Turks, first get popular, and then think about cultivating farmland, grazing and breeding, and so on.
When the small landlords had money, they thought about buying land, and they had to do everything they could to connect the scattered plots of land.
The gate valve of the Tuas clan is also pursuing the growth of the family.
Now that Li Shimin has opened his Chrysostom and rewarded a piece of land to the Li family, how can Li Chao not be excited, it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
If it weren't for the fact that this land was an enclave in Saibei, and at the same time he got so much money for the imperial court, Li Shimin probably wouldn't have given him this land.
Without the permission of the imperial court, even if the Li family really had the strength to go to the Turks to grab a piece of land, they would not dare to rob it.
Back home, Li Chao was still very excited.
Cui Yingying was a little strange and asked him.
Li Chao excitedly pulled Cui Yingying into the study and explained the situation to her in a low voice.
"A Hereditary Domain" Cui Yingying exclaimed.
"Princely feuds" "It's not as exaggerated as a feudal country, it's just a territory."
Li Chao elaborated on the definition of the lower territory, which did not have as much power as the fiefdoms of the Zhou and Han dynasties, and could not be divided into feuds by himself, nor did he have the right to tax, conscription, and justice.
But the power is not small, the Li family is the lord, although the territory still has to follow the law and tax system of the Tang Dynasty, but can enjoy half of the tax, the lord is the highest official of the imperial court in the territory, and can also establish a guard of his own.
Of course, there is no right to conscription, and the imperial court can also station troops in the territory, etc., and the imperial court will also send appointed officials to come over, etc.
But in any case, in today's time when centralized power is getting stronger and stronger, it is not easy for a courtier to have such a hereditary fief, which is ten thousand times stronger than the original hereditary assassin history.
The hereditary assassin history is just for future generations to inherit an official position, or the kind of hereditary assassination that is hollowed out and has no real power.
But this territory is different, this is a vassal territory.
Cui Yingying was also very happy, "It's true" "Of course, Your Majesty has already given our family permission to build three surrendered cities there.
With these three castles, those three hundred miles of land really belong to our Li family. ” "Now there are still Turks there, we have to defeat the Turks before we can really own it."
As she spoke, Cui Yingying said suddenly.
Just now, I was so happy that I forgot that it was still in the hands of the Turks.
And this time, the strength of the Turks is much stronger than that of the Tang Dynasty.
Li Chao still looked excited, "Don't be afraid of the Turks, we will definitely be able to defeat the Turks this time, and no one wants to seize this fiefdom." ” After chatting with Cui Yingying for a while, Li Chao began to take out a pen and paper, and took advantage of this joy to start drawing the design of the castle.
Three castles, where to choose, what style of fortress to use, size and shape, etc., and to build some beacon post stations.
He also had to prepare to recruit guards, and Li Shimin allowed Li Chao to recruit no more than a thousand territorial guards.
The number is a bit small, but these 1,000 people can be a standing army, and as long as they are well trained and equipped, it should be possible to guard the castle.
After all, Li Shimin will also send soldiers and horses from the imperial court to the territory when he arrives, and that territory is still the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Besides, you can also engage in militia.
Get some kind of polo team, broadsword team, bow and arrow club, spear club, etc., so that the young and strong people in the territory can be trained in their spare time, so that once there is a police, they can also be summoned and can fight.
However, how to attract people to the past is also a problem.
"Divide the land and divide the pasture.
As long as they are willing to go over, they will give them enclosure land, so that they can establish farms and pastures there, and then reduce taxes, I believe that there will always be poor people in the Central Plains who are willing to go to Saibei to find opportunities.
It is also possible to develop some animal husbandry processing industry, industrial and commercial mining, handicraft business, etc., and there will be people, and of course there will be taxes, and everything will naturally be there.
Li Chao bit the tip of his pen, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
It's a feeling of playing that kind of construction game, with five farmers to start the game, thinking about how to lay out, how to mine and log, and train and upgrade.
It wasn't until dinner time that Li Chao's excitement calmed down.
The family eats around a large round table, and it is also a rotating table, and there is no fear of picking up dishes when there are many people.
Picking up a pair of chopsticks and green fried rape, Li Chao asked everyone if they 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 he will definitely not be able to adapt to the bitter cold of Saibei, and when he grows up, he will have to study in enlightenment, or the conditions here are better, and he will definitely stay here to study.
Even the father said that he planned to resign from the imperial court, and he planned to go back to his hometown in Yangzhou to live, which can be regarded as a return to his roots.
This matter has been discussed with Qi Niang, and Qi Niang is also supportive.
Zheng Wanyan, Zheng Hongxian, Du Shi Niang and a group of women, none of them are willing to go to the Saibei Territory outside the Wolf Mountain, they think that it is good to send some stewards there, just get some merchant houses there, and build a few pastures, there is no need to really spend so much energy to build a city of three surrenders, where birds don't, what is there to develop, no one can find one, how to develop Everyone's answers made Li Chao's enthusiasm fade a lot.
However, after thinking about it, this still did not make Li Chao cancel his plan to run the territory.
Women are reluctant to bear the prosperity of the Central Plains, and they are unwilling to take their children to suffer and suffer, it doesn't matter, the territory develops first, and when they get up later, they will always be willing to pass. t1706231537: