After a long time, there was a sudden sound of laughter in the hall, and I saw Gao Shilian smiling and brushing his beard, saluting Li Shimin, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, Xiahou's strategy, although it is a little troublesome to operate, but once it is done, it will be a plan once and for all." Now that the Turks were defeated, he thought he could give it a try. If it can be done, then in the future, my Datang will have a way to eliminate future troubles for foreign races. ”

Xia Hongsheng nodded, Gao Shilian, the old man, is not pedantic at all, nor is he a saint who comes and goes as a gentleman, very good.

"Your Majesty, Weichen thought he could give it a try." Wei Zheng nodded to Xia Hongsheng, and then bowed down to Li Shimin as well.

"Your Majesty, if this policy is successful, it will be a thousand years old, and the minister will second." Fang Xuanling nodded in agreement.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a word." Li Jing suddenly stood up at this time and said in a deep voice: "Weichen is a rough man, he goes into battle to kill the enemy, and he knows it in his heart, but he has no idea how to govern it. The minister just saw that there were only two ways to deal with those foreigners throughout the ages. The first is to kill, slaughter completely, just like when Huo Qu was sick to the Huns, and the Huns who killed him were afraid of ghosts. The first is to be gentle and exert kindness, with the intention of making him grateful and obedient. And what happened after that, you all know. Once it's been a long time, it comes back to the way it was. And what Xiahou said, the old minister felt very reasonable after listening to it. Your Majesty also knows that the son of the old minister is weak, and the grandson of the old minister is very clever, and the old minister is separated by generations, so he loves this grandson very much, and has connived at him since he was a child, but he has become an idle man, and he does not care about his studies or martial arts. Later, Lao Chen sent him to the military academy, in the military academy, the discipline is strict, regardless of identity, and the instructor teaches well, and now, he finally has some human appearance. The old minister thought that this was the situation he was in, which determined what kind of person he became. When it comes to the Turks, I'm afraid it's the same reason. The Turks have been in the Turkic environment since childhood, and when they grow up, they are naturally Turkic and want to be hostile to us. But if all aspects of the Turks are the teachings of the Han family, then the people who are educated, in addition to their appearance, where is there any difference between them and the Han people? If there is no difference, there is no dispute, and they are both the people of the Tang Dynasty and the courtiers of His Majesty. Therefore, the old minister thinks that this strategy is feasible! ”

Li Shimin smiled on the throne: "Yes, Xia Qing's strategy, I also think it is feasible." This is a one-and-done strategy and a century-old plan. However, how to resettle these more than 100,000 people is an immediate problem. Even if you want to use our Datang culture to change its education, you must first settle it down and then transform it. The imperial court can't keep him in the barracks and waste food and grass. After retiring from the dynasty, Xia Qing handed over to me a specific and detailed plan, which was a great plan to never suffer in the future, and I had to plan carefully with Xia Qing. Now, let's talk about what to do with the hundreds of thousands of captives at the moment. ”

"That's it......" Xia Hongsheng nodded: "This is simple, Your Majesty, they are all captives, and it is already a great kindness to treat captives and not kill them." How much effort did it take us to catch these captives, it had to be worth something, didn't it? The minister thought that it could be reformed through labor. ”

"Labor reform? What is this? Everyone looked at Xia Hongsheng, and they were used to Xia Hongsheng popping out of his mouth from time to time with some fresh words that no one knew.

"Your Majesty, since they are prisoners of war, then the criminals who have invaded our Tang Dynasty and bullied our Tang people are criminals. If you are a criminal, you have to accept the punishment. Labor reform is a form of punishment. Xia Hongsheng explained to Li Shimin: "If you make a mistake, you will be punished." The so-called law is not expensive, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people when he violates the law, not to mention these Turkic prisoners of war? And the so-called labor reform is a kind of punishment for these Turkic criminals in our Datang. As the name suggests, it is to work and transform at the same time. In the process of labor reform, we should implement the principles of "combining punishment and control with ideological transformation, combining labor production with political education," and "reform first, production second." We will not only exercise military control and forced labor on criminals, but also carry out ideological and political education and give them humanitarian treatment in their daily lives, so as to urge them to change from evil to good and become new people! ”

Now everyone listened even more blindly, but the eyes of some smart people lit up.

"What Xiahou means is to let those Turkic prisoners of war carry out conscription, and while letting them conscript, on the other hand, educate them in our Tang Dynasty and transform them into Tang people!" Fang Xuanling said to Xia Hongsheng.

"That's right!" Xia Hongsheng clapped his hands: "We want to build cement roads, we need manpower, right?" To build a palace, you need manpower, right? Your Majesty is sympathetic to the people and does not want to make the people too heavy, so we will send people. These hundreds of thousands of Turks, all of them tall and strong, couldn't be better at work! Let them carry out conscription, as soon as they come, the burden of conscription on the people will be reduced, and the people will certainly be grateful to Your Majesty. Second, it has solved the problem of insufficient conscription and manpower. Third, while conscripting, you can use the rest time to brainwash them...... Well, ideological and political education, transforming them, and educating them, so that in a few years, these hundreds of thousands of Turks will not become hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese, and there will be no delay in our project. Three, you can also use them to earn money for the court!

"Earn money?!" Hearing that he was making money, Liu Zhenghui, the head of the household department, immediately ran out: "How can the captives make money?" ”

"This, the construction of Jingyang Academy needs manpower, then there is no need for a military school, the military school is a project of the imperial court, and there are conscripts. But Jingyang Academy is a personal project, and you can only find someone to repair it yourself. What if there is not enough manpower? It is better for His Majesty to add these Turkic prisoners of war to the conscription, and then lease them to Weichen. Weichen rented these prisoners of war from the imperial court to work, so naturally he had to pay rent to the imperial court. Isn't this just making the court make money! Xia Hongsheng spread his hands and said to Liu Zhenghui: "Hehe, there are many places with few manpower, just Weichen knows that there is a shortage of manpower in every mine in the coal mine in the clouds, if the imperial court can rent these prisoners of war to work, then there are definitely many people who need it." ”

"And what about the clothes in between?" Liu Zhenghui asked.

"Whoever rents is in charge!" Xia Hongsheng said.

"Ran away? Dead? Done with the work? ”

"If someone runs away in the middle, pay for it! If someone dies, they will also accompany the court, and they will be counted as money! Xia Hongsheng said: "After finishing the work, it is natural to return it to the imperial court, and the imperial court can rent it to other people!" ”

"There are a lot of benefits to this." Liu Zhenghui smiled, and seemed to feel that he was too utilitarian, so he added: "If you just do this, won't it seem that our Datang is not benevolent enough?" ”

Xia Hongsheng shook his head: "If a child does something wrong, he still has to hit the board, let alone the big crime of invading our Datang?" It's already merciful not to kill them! In this way, a time limit of ten years is added, and five years of life are added, and within this period is labor reform, military control, and forced labor. If you go out for this period, you will be a helper. You can marry a wife and have children, and if you work again, you will be paid as if you were hired and worked, and this is really benevolent and righteous. ”

"Hehehe, Xiahou's thinking ......" Gao Shilian shook his head with a smile and said: "It's really unexpected, novel and peculiar, but it is extremely beneficial to Datang, which is eye-catching and can't be refuted." Xiahou's consideration, the old man is ashamed! Your Majesty, the ministers are attached to Xiahou's proposal! It was thought that the captives could be reformed through labor. (To be continued.) )