Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 19: Chapter 19
As soon as Changsun Wuji left Anleju, that little fat man Li Tai came over.

After entering the courtyard, he glanced furtively, and seeing that Hu Ke was nowhere to be seen, he walked in quickly, and then continued to do it very familiarly.

"Old Zuo! I have a great deal for you! This time, I promise you will make a lot of money!" After taking a sip of the tea on the table, Li Tai smiled mysteriously.

Glancing at him, Zuo Ming didn't even raise his eyelids, "Let me guess? But it's about the export of colored glaze?"

"Huh! How do you know?"

Li Tai said in surprise.

Zuo Ming sighed helplessly, "Your whole body is only worth some money in the colored glaze workshop. You said that you want me to make a lot of money. What else can you do besides selling colored glaze? I don't want to know? But I Don't you fucking know?"

"Hehe. Alright! Don't worry about these details! This time, brother, I'll just come to you directly. It's interesting enough!"

With an embarrassing smile, Li Tai winked and said.

"You want to sell so many glazed products, and you are worried that if there are too many items, the price will be lowered. It must be difficult for ordinary merchants to solve this problem. The only helper you can think of is me. So, if you ask me for help, just Say, don't make it look like I'm taking a huge advantage!"

Zuo Ming was very speechless.

It's not been a day or two since he's known Li Tai, does he know how many fancy intestines he has?

"Hehe! You saw through again! But you really have to help me this time! There are so many things! I never knew that Liuli is so easy to make. After a month, it actually made us burn out There are more than 3000 high-quality goods, and there are more than 2000 crude products! If so many things are taken out at once, they will definitely not sell for a good price, but the emperor only gave me half a month. Said that the Liao people in the south There is a commotion, and the money exchanged for these glazes is estimated to be turned into military pay for counter-insurgency!"

Smiling embarrassingly again, Li Tai said in a rare serious way.

"The Liaoren?" Zuo Ming frowned slightly when Li Tai mentioned the Liaoren's rebellion.

Li Tai called it a rebellion, but Zuo Ming knew that it was nothing more than a national resistance movement.To put it bluntly, the Tang people in Lingnan did not treat those bureaucrats as human beings, which aroused their dissatisfaction.

Those Liao people, in modern times, are also Chinese, but they are just minorities.

"Isn't it? Suppression every year, trouble every year! I don't know how annoying!" Li Tai seemed to hate Liaoren very much.

"Who wants to make trouble when they can eat and drink enough? As far as I know, the reason why the Liao people made trouble a few years ago was because the government forced them to build ships for free. It's fine if they don't pay. They work day and night without giving them any rest. Can people not oppose it?"

Zuo Ming didn't like Li Tai's tone very much.According to Zuo Ming's knowledge, in the Tang Dynasty, the total population of the country was only over 4000 million. With such a small population, there was still internal friction. How would he implement the plan to unify Southeast Asia in the future?

"That's because those bureaucrats are uneducated! They don't learn etiquette! It's too barbaric! Otherwise, why would others target them so much?"

Li Tai said with a guilty conscience.

"Hearing you say this, I really should give you a slap in the face! But when I think that this is all taught by your old man, I don't bother to care about it! I just want to say one thing, Lingnan people, that is, those Liao people, since ancient times I have always been a member of my descendants of Yan and Huang, and even Tubo and Turks have my blood of Yan and Huang! The so-called Han nationality is just a halo of honor that the people forcibly added to themselves during the Han Dynasty. But compared to calling themselves Han, I am more inclined to think that I am a descendant of Chinese people! In my eyes, all people with yellow skin and black eyes are brothers and sisters, regardless of whether they wear braids or drink goat milk! This kind of harm I absolutely disapprove of my brother's actions! I have agreed to the sale of colored glaze, but I have one condition: I will take the lead in suppressing the rebellion in Lingnan!"

Zuo Ming smiled coldly, and said firmly.

Hearing Zuo Ming call Li Shimin "that old man of yours", Li Tai immediately shrank his neck, pretending that he hadn't heard it, and then Zuo Ming proposed to go to the south to suppress the rebellion, and his mouth opened wide in surprise.

You are a literati, you have no official position, and you are going to the south to suppress the rebellion?Want to be the leader?Are you out of your mind?
Li Shimin also felt that Zuo Ming was crazy.After being kicked out of Anleju by Zuo Ming, Li Tai went directly to the palace and told Li Shimin what Zuo Ming wanted.Li Shimin was angry at that time.

It's just selling a few glazed statues and a few glazed cups, how much credit can be invited?Want to be the anti-insurgency coach?Isn't this madness?
It's not that Li Shimin doesn't want Zuo Ming to be an official, he hopes that Zuo Ming can integrate into Datang, but you should be more reliable anyway!
You are a literati, so let’s not talk about applying for a military job, and you are the commander-in-chief of the armed forces!You are playing house!
"Qingque! Go and tell Zuo Ming that my official position in Tang Dynasty is not that cheap! I don't believe it anymore. Without Zuo Ming, I can't sell this pair of glass!"

Li Shimin said angrily.

When Li Shimin got angry, Li Tai naturally flinched.But soon, he was kicked back to the palace by Zuo Ming.

Seeing Li Tai go and come back, Li Shimin naturally knew that Zuo Ming had something to say, so he said with a serious face, "What did he say?"

"He said, the descendants of Yan and Huang are always one family! Since your majesty has the ambition to rule the world, you should also have the measure to tolerate all people! The Han people are from the Tang Dynasty, so why aren't the Liao people from my Tang Dynasty? Your majesty's tolerance, why not divide the Liao people?" more people?"

Li Tai imitated Zuo Ming's appearance and said.

Looking at that posture, it was quite imposing, but as soon as he finished speaking, his whole body broke down in an instant, and he returned to the frightened look, and carefully observed Li Shimin's expression.

At this moment, Li Shimin no longer had the previous anger, but his face was still gloomy.

After a long time, he said, "Go over and tell him that I can bear anything, except betrayal!"

Hearing this, Li Tai suddenly made a bitter face, "Father! Please spare the boy! You should call him into the palace! The boy's legs are almost broken!"

Li Shimin was slightly taken aback, and then his face became embarrassed.He was angry before, and he never thought that Zuo Ming would not be allowed to enter the palace without his will, so he could only use Li Tai to deliver the message.Immediately, he gave Li Tai a decree, asking him to announce Zuo's order to enter the palace.

Entering the palace this time, Zuo Ming rarely had a hippie smile on his face, and when he saw Li Shimin, he saluted with a serious expression.

"I listened to what you said just now! However, I cannot allow the existence of betrayal! Since they violated my bottom line, they should be punished as they should!"

Seeing that Zuo Ming had finished the ceremony, Li Shimin spoke out first.

"Then I dare to ask Your Majesty, what is your so-called standard of betrayal? Did those bureaucrats ever claim to overthrow His Majesty and Li Tang's rule?"

Zuo Ming said in a deep voice.

"They have already killed officials and set fire to them, isn't that counted as rebellion?" Li Shimin said through gritted teeth.

"It doesn't count! Because their motive for killing officials and setting fire to them is not to overthrow His Majesty's rule! The grassroots people think that the so-called rebellion must first negate Li Tang, and third, negate His Majesty! This is the real rebellion! Everything is not to overthrow the Dalai Lama." The use of force on the grounds of the Tang rule, the grassroots thought it could only be called riots or riots."

Zuo Ming categorically denied Li Shimin, and then spoke eloquently.

After this passage was finished, Li Shimin, who was about to go into a rage, fell silent.

After a long time, he said two words lightly, "Continue."

"Your Majesty, there are too few people in the Tang Dynasty. According to the statistics of the family teacher, the total population of the Tang Dynasty was only 4000 million at the beginning of the founding of the country, and the territory of the Tang Dynasty is so vast? There are countless grassroots people. I have calculated it. If we The people of the Tang Dynasty are evenly distributed throughout the map, and there is only one person per mile! One person per mile, Your Majesty, have you ever imagined it? Such a sparse population, how should such a large land be guarded?
The Liao people may hate it, but just imagine, Your Majesty, if they really had enough food, warm clothes, and a good house, would they still be rioting?Fighting is going to kill you!Although it is said that people make money and birds die for food, how many people will hold on to wealth when they really face death?Don't those Liao people know the sharpness of Datang's weapons?Don't they know how powerful Datang's iron hooves are?
But they are still rioting!Why?Is it just to go to the state capital to grab some money and women?For these, you don't even want your life?Don't even want a home?Caomin didn't even need to read the memorial from Lingnan to know what they were talking about!It is nothing more than the fact that Liao people do not obey their education, are barbaric and cruel!To be honest, the grass people don't believe it.

My teacher once said that among all the people in this world, there is no one who refuses to be educated!Ever since the Three Emperors ruled the world and the Five Emperors established the ethics, all the people in the world have been enlightened. If there are barbarians, it is just that the way of enlightenment is wrong!Therefore, in the eyes of the grassroots, those bureaucrats are not uneducable, but some people have never given them a chance from the beginning!

The people of Tang have arrogance, so they are arrogant. They have never accepted those Liao people they considered barbarians.Caomin once went to Lingnan, and there were no so-called cannibals there.Although it is wild over there, there are three crops of rice a year, and there are endless melons and fruits!How could it be possible to eat people?
His Majesty has not seen many things in person, so he does not know.To be disrespectful, as the saying goes, "the sky is high and the emperor is far away", how many people in the court know how those officials in the south are domineering over there?After all, it is all obtained from the memorial, and you will believe it no matter what they write!Have you ever sent spies to investigate?Come to think of it, His Majesty won't either!After all, although His Majesty conquered them physically, he never accepted them spiritually!Therefore, they naturally do not have the qualifications to be noticed by His Majesty! "

Having said this, Zuo Ming stopped, because Li Shimin was about to explode again.

Although he knew that what Zuo Ming said must be true, but Zuo Ming's words were too sharp, which really made Li Shimin feel a little embarrassed.

"You want to educate them?"

After a long time, Li Shimin gradually calmed down, and then said mockingly, "I'm afraid they may not be willing to listen."

"This is the meaning of the counter-insurgency army! They may not want to listen, but they must!" Zuo Ming said affirmatively.

"I'm looking forward to the day when you start killing!" Li Shimin's expression flickered a few times, and Li Shimin finally made a decision.

"I passed on the imperial edict, ordering the Zuo Ming of the three-star cave in the oblique moon to be the Lingnan counter-insurgency supervisory army, and strictly supervise all counter-insurgency matters. Permit, kill first and play later"

(End of this chapter)