"Lack of manpower is indeed a big problem. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After listening to Li Xiaogong's words, Zhang Liang nodded and said, "The troops from all over the country to help Fujiwara Kyo are already on the way, but I am afraid that many of them are about to arrive." The lord of the Japanese kingdom asked to surrender at this time, not necessarily because he really had the intention of surrendering. There is a great possibility that the lord of the Wa Kingdom is asking for surrender at this moment, just to confine the army of the Tang Dynasty in Fujiwara Kyo, wait for reinforcements from all over the world, and then go to the outer city, in a vain attempt to trap us in this Fujiwara Kyo. ”

"What Zhang Gong said is good!" Li Xiaogong nodded and said, "It is very likely that the lord of the Japanese Kingdom has this in mind...... Come on, quickly go to the granary and see the geometry of Fujiwara Kyochu's grain storage. ”

Li Xiaogong's personal soldiers received Li Xiaogong's order, so they immediately withdrew, and asked people to take inventory of the granary.

"Looking at the map of the Japanese country, this Japanese country is made up of four islands, and they are not connected to each other. If the Tang Dynasty wants to consolidate its occupation, it must send troops from the four islands. In this way, I am afraid that it will take at least tens of thousands of people to do it. Su Dingfang said: "If there are Japanese people who claim to be kings elsewhere, and the Japanese people gather accordingly, then we will spend so much effort." It is best to take advantage of this opportunity to take down the other four islands in one go, so as not to end up in secession. It's a pity...... 10,000 people are simply not enough. ”

Zhang Liang stroked his beard and said: "It will take at least more than a month for the troop ship to transport troops from Datang to Osaka, and now it is September, and the sea may freeze in two months." Dengzhou couldn't go here, so he could only order the soldiers to go to Gangnam Road, and then take the Ryukyu road, which would take a lot of time. ”

10,000 people, if you conquer the Japanese kingdom, that is enough. But it is not enough to occupy the land. There must be defenders in the city, troops outside the city to go to various places to pacify the great nobles, and there must be people watching the original soldiers of the Japanese kingdom, all of which require troops.

Come to think of it, it's really a headache.

Xia Hongsheng frowned, the number of people is small, it shouldn't be a problem! In the original history of the later generations, those European powers occupied colonies everywhere, and they did not send people to each colony! The Great Power sent more than 10,000 troops to its colonies? There are now 10,000 soldiers in the Tang Dynasty, which is already a lot!

How did the later powers control the colonies?

When I think back to the colonial methods I learned in history class, I was a little eyebrow-raising, and some of them were not very clear.

Later generations, the Western powers ruled their colonies differently.

France, Portugal, Spain and other countries adopted the method of direct rule, trying to integrate the colonies politically and economically with the suzerain, and vigorously inculcating the culture and way of life of the suzerain, so as to assimilate as many colonial people as possible, or at least to make the ruled people have a close sense of identity with the ruling nation. Local social institutions and customs are hardly preserved, and local languages are rarely used in the education system. The main purpose of these policies was to make the educated strata of the colonial countries, usually the local upper and wealthy, feel that their fate was at stake with their overlords and to abandon the indigenous way of life.

On the contrary, the British colonial policy adopted an "indirect rule" approach, which sought to make the colonies politically and economically self-reliant. In Africa and India, the British still retained many of their original princely states. In areas designated as Crown Crown Territories, the original tribal, village and other administrative institutions were also retained, and local people were appointed as secondary local officials. The local language and culture are also preserved and taught.

Obviously, what Xia Hongsheng wants is the first kind - to fuck the diversity of civilizations, this son can't wait to assimilate the people of the world into Han people, so that there is only one civilization in the world, Han civilization!

Of course, the assimilation capacity of civilization is directly proportional to the size of the fist of the national subject that carries this civilization. This "fist" does not only refer to force, nor does it only look at the size of the moment. It also depends on his carrying capacity, but also on his resilience. Because there is no fist that doesn't hurt at all after beating someone.

However, although he didn't want to use the British way of colonial rule, another British method in the colonies in later generations could be used by Xia Hongsheng at this time.

When Britain colonized India, did it defeat so many aristocratic forces in India and send tens of thousands of troops?

The British in later generations used Indians to fight Indians!

So Xia Hongsheng thought about it carefully, and then said: "The number of people is insufficient, or you can drive the Japanese people to do things for Datang." Use the Japanese to fight the Japanese people! ”

Several other people were discussing a solution, and when they heard Xia Hongsheng being silent for a long time, he suddenly spoke, so they all turned their heads.

Su Dingfang looked at Xia Hongsheng and asked, "Use the Japanese to fight the Japanese people?" The new Japanese people have descended, how can they be united with the Tang Dynasty? How can you help Datang to fight the Japanese people? Maybe there will be a mutiny in the army and a defection! ”

"The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit." Xia Hongsheng smiled and said to Su Dingfang: "I always talk about this, General Su forgot?" No matter where you go or what country you go to, people's hearts are the same. I don't dare to say everything, but this sentence speaks to the hearts of many people. Money can make ghosts grind, as long as the benefits are enough, why can't the Japanese fight the Japanese people? ”

"Oh?" Li Xiaogong heard Xia Hongsheng say this, so he asked, "Will the strategy come out?" ”

"Simple." Xia Hongsheng said with a smile: "There must be a brave man under the heavy reward." The country is already extremely poor, resources are scarce, and all aspects of food and clothing are far inferior to those of the Tang Dynasty. The government of the Wa Kingdom was controlled by the great nobles, and the emperor had no real power. First there is the Monobe clan, and then there is the Su I clan, these big families control the government, and the big nobles in various places also control the power of local domination, which is indispensable, and the small and medium-sized nobles who are attached to the big nobles also frantically annex the land, brutally exploiting the tribesmen, and many civilians are also deprived of their land, and the land and wealth are constantly concentrated, and the slaves, tribesmen and commoners in various places have risen up to rebel. These nobles have already provoked public anger among the people of the Japanese country, and the people are full of resentment. What is missing is someone who can lead them against the nobility. Datang is going to be this person! What we want to take advantage of is the dissatisfaction of these ordinary people with the nobles of the Japanese Kingdom. Then intensify this dissatisfaction and contradictions, make Datang become the spokesperson for the interests of these ordinary people who are oppressed and exploited, and use the interests of the people of the Japanese State to drive the people of the Japanese State and the nobles of the Japanese State to stand on opposite sides, and guide the ordinary people of the Japanese State to contribute to the Tang Dynasty to deal with these nobles. In this way, Datang not only gathered the hearts of the people, but also added countless people for nothing. It not only dealt with the nobles from all over the country who had the power to resist the Tang Dynasty, but also made the people of the Wei Kingdom support the Tang Dynasty, greatly reducing the resistance of the Tang Dynasty to occupy the Wei Kingdom. (To be continued.) )