Guo Jia and Xun Yu are friends, and their opinions are similar, so they reminded Li Yi again: "Your Majesty, since Xianbei and Ding Ling have not joined the system, then they must be distinguished. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Yi nodded slightly, looked at the nine military ministers, and asked, "Do you have any good suggestions?" ”

"This ......" The ministers of military aircraft looked at Li Yi with blank eyes, in their opinion, the emperor who has always been wise will definitely think of a good way.

Sure enough, Li Yi did not disappoint them, and after finding that they had no good way for the time being, he put forward his own opinion: "National economy, plus national treatment!" ”

"National economy, national treatment?" All the ministers of military aircraft were stunned and looked at Li Yi in puzzlement.

Li Yi knew that this was a concept that had transcended the times for nearly two thousand years, and even if his subordinates were great talents, I was afraid that it would be difficult to understand, so he explained.

Different from the national treatment of "first-class foreigners, second-class officials, third-class minordinarians, and fourth-class Hans" in China in later generations, Li Yi's national treatment refers to the distinction between natives and foreigners. In general, locals have preferential treatments, and foreigners have to pay more. The elbow cannot be turned outward, this is obvious.

Li Yixian gave an explanation of the national economy with ancient characteristics, to put it simply, 360 lines make up the national economy. He also explained the national treatment, to put it simply: only the Tang people who follow the laws of the Tang Dynasty can enjoy the national treatment of the Tang Dynasty.

However, this still failed to solve everyone's doubts, no, Xu Maogong first spoke: "The two words summarized by the emperor are very incisive, just like the words of a saint who is inherently good at the beginning of a person, and one word contains sixty lines. However, what does this have to do with resolving the distinction between whether I am a Datang nationality or not? ”

Li Yi said with a smile: "Only those who have my Datang nationality can enjoy the national treatment of my Datang and enjoy the benefits brought by the national economy." People who do not have my Datang nationality are not among them, they want to enter our Datang national economic system, in short, they have to pay more taxes, more inspections, and more supervision. ”

"In the future, we will set up more customs in the border areas of the Tang Kingdom, and people who are not of Datang nationality will have to pay more taxes when goods enter the customs and pay taxes when they leave the customs, while my Datang nationals can be exempted from tax or reduce taxes. In addition, if you are not a citizen of Datang, you will be added one level for committing a crime in Datang. And my Datang nationals have violated the law abroad, they have no right to judge, and they need to return to China, accept the accountability of our Datang law, and reduce their sentences as appropriate. ”

Jia Xu suddenly realized and said: "Xianbei and Ding Lingduo communicate with my Datang, so that they will be able to improve the status of Datang people, improve their sense of national honor and belonging." ”

Others also understand that Li Yi's policy, simply put, is that the people of Datang are superior to others and enjoy various preferential policies in front of people from other countries. People who are not Datang are inferior people, and they are to be bullied.

If it is those who worship foreign people, or those whose heads are restrained by etiquette, it must be very difficult to accept such a policy, but these military ministers under Li Yi are all people who followed Li Yi to fight the world, and came out of the battlefield, believing that a big fist is the last word, and now, the Tang Dynasty is strong, and the people of the Tang Dynasty are to be superior, which is justified.

Moreover, this policy can indeed quickly improve the sense of national honor and belonging of the people of the Tang Dynasty, so they accepted Li Yi's concept without the slightest reluctance.

As a result, this policy advocated by Li Yi soon began to work, and the army of the Tang Dynasty began to recruit soldiers from other ethnic groups, and set up customs at the border, and taxes were paid for entry and exit. In this process, the people of the Tang Dynasty paid less taxes, and the Xianbei and Ding Ling people had to pay more taxes.

The merchants of Xianbei and Ding Ling were not happy, because of the overpayment of taxes, the price of goods was inevitably higher than that of the Tang merchants who paid less taxes, and the common people only bought cheap ones. This made Xianbei and Ding Ling's merchants unable to do business, and they protested to the local Tang government.

However, Datang officials didn't bother to pay attention to these people's protests, and some people pointed out bluntly: This kind of policy is aimed at Datang people, and you are not Datang people, how can you be treated like a Datang citizen?

Someone pointed to a person next to him and asked, "Then this person is not Han, why is he treated?" ”

The Datang official who spoke before glanced at him with slanted eyes, and said lightly: "Oh, you said he, he is from the Goryeo tribe, and the Goryeo tribe has joined my Datang nationality, and he is a national of my Datang Dynasty, and he also enjoys national treatment." ”

The merchants of Xianbei and Ding Ling suddenly realized that not only Han people, but also other ethnic groups as long as they joined the Tang nationality, they could also enjoy national treatment. Because his king did not agree to enter the system, he can't enjoy this kind of treatment.

In order to protect their own interests, the businessmen looked for relationships one after another, and asked Xiao Siwen and Zhai Yu to let the two families join the Tang nationality.

After Xiao Siwen and Zhai Yu learned about this incident, they were very angry, and they all gave Li Yi a table, saying that the great Emperor Wude's approach was contrary to the generosity of the Heavenly Empire, how could he be divided into six or nine like this?!

Li Yi already had opinions about Xiao Siwen and Zhai Yu, especially Xiao Siwen.

Before his northern expedition to Xianbei, the Xiao tribe was just an ordinary tribe in Xianbei, with a population of no more than 10,000 people and no more than three or four thousand soldiers. After conquering the Xianbei tribe, he saw the face of Xuan'er and supported it greatly, and even let it annex several powerful tribes of Xianbei, which made the Xiao tribe become the strongest tribe in Xianbei in just seventeen or eighteen years. And his father-in-law, Xiao Siwen, also replaced the position of Tan Shihuai and others at the beginning and became the big leader of the Xianbei clan.

But after his father-in-law became stronger, he swelled, and this time he was going to implement the Datang Nationality Law, and he was expected to support himself, but he didn't expect him to take the lead in opposing it, and he didn't give himself face at all.

Zhai Yu's kid is similar, after conquering Ding Ling, he did not annex it, but supported it greatly, so that the Ding Ling clan did not decline because of the original war, and lived a happy and stable life. Now that kid doesn't want to support himself, and he is also taking the lead in singing the opposite.

Therefore, Li Yi didn't bother to look at their whining tables, and directly threw them aside and began to carry out a comprehensive recruitment plan for various ethnic groups.

In this plan, Li Yi planned to recruit a total of 100,000 soldiers from various ethnic groups such as Jiankun, Wuhuan, Xiongnu, Goguryeo, Buyu, Rulou, Wofu, Hao, Sanhan, Qiang, Di, Jinwei, Hujie, and Nanban to join the major standing armies of the Tang Army.

Although a large number of soldiers of various nationalities were added, the standing army of the Tang Army was still maintained at the scale of twenty-four legions, that is, fourteen legions of the army and ten legions of cavalry.

In fact, this plan will not have much impact on the Tang Army, because many people in the Tang Army have been in the army for more than ten years, have passed the peak of the human body, and have reached the age when they should be discharged.

After that, Li Yi dispatched elite troops, including three major infantry corps and three major cavalry corps, a total of 150,000 Tang troops into the northeast, desert and Xiliang regions, and cooperated with the garrison corps originally established in these places to garrison. The canines of this area are intertwined on the border line of Xianbei and Dingling. In this way, the Tang army can be said to be eyeing these two strong clans in all directions.

Immediately afterwards, Li Yi withdrew his support for Xianbei and Ding Ling on the grounds that Datang's domestic construction strength was insufficient. In addition, there were more than one million immigrants of various ethnic groups in the Central Plains, and all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, and the export of materials to Xianbei and Ding Ling was interrupted.

Because the grassland peoples with Tang nationality had a gathering place that occupied half of the grassland, and the Han people also established a number of large settlements on the grassland, the Tang Dynasty's dependence on grassland specialties such as horses, beef, and animal skins was not lost.

Over the years, Datang has maintained the export of advanced products from the Central Plains to Xianbei and Ding Ling, especially the export of daily necessities. Xianbei and Ding Lingren have become accustomed to using advanced products from the mainland. For them, this is a big deal.

Just as the standard of daily life in later generations has regressed by hundreds of years, from the Internet information age to the steam engine age, where can this be endured?

As a result, the Xianbei people came to the royal court one after another, asking the Xianbei people to join the Tang nationality.

The same is true for Ding Ling's interior.

Although Xiao Siwen and Zhai Yu were kings, they did not build a country, and their rights were quite different from those of real kings. The growing discontent of the tribes made them anxious, and after consulting with each other, they began to move their troops and horses frequently across the border.

The news soon spread to Jicheng.

Jicheng Palace, the Imperial Study, Li Yi convened the military aircraft ministers of the Military Aircraft Department to discuss.

Li Yi was very angry, patting the dragon case and shouting: "What are Xiao Siwen and Zhai Yu going to do? ”

Xu Maogong, the chief minister of the Military Aircraft Department, has already made a preliminary judgment with the ministers of military aircraft, and at this moment he went out and said: "The emperor is angry, and the ministers see that Xiao Siwen and Zhai Yu will never dare to use troops, they are just demonstrating. ”

"Demonstrations? Demonstrations against me? They thought they were something! Li Yi's momentum is getting stronger and stronger, as a generation of emperors, how can anyone be allowed to demonstrate to him, and said angrily, "It seems that they have forgotten who achieved their current status, even so, I don't use some means, I think I am afraid that they will not succeed!" ”

Now more than half of the grassland is under the complete control of Li Yi, except for Xianbei and Ding Ling, other ethnic groups have recognized their identity as Tang people, and in order to defend their country, they have also joined the army of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Li Yi is absolutely sure that he will deal with these two black sheep.

Jia Xu said: "The emperor is angry, we have the support of other ethnic groups in the grassland, Xianbei and Ding Ling are not afraid at all. It's just that the use of troops at this time is not at the right time, and it should be settled first. ”

"An Nei ......" Li Yi understood what Jia Xu was talking about, eliminating Xianbei, Ding Ling was a big move, and it was difficult to ensure that Liu Bei and Sun Quan would not make a moth.

"Nope." Li Yi shook his head and said: "We must not let it develop, we must respond to the small actions of Xianbei and Ding Ling, otherwise, my Tang system is in danger of disintegrating." ”