Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 629
"Your Highness, Ruguilian won the first big victory, killing 100 enemies and capturing more than [-] enemies, including You Shaohu, the younger brother of the barbarian leader!"

Xue Rengui bowed and saluted.

"Ruguilian did a good job. However, this is just the beginning. Don't be complacent. There are still big battles and tough battles waiting for Ruguilian. This time, we will reward everyone with [-] points!"

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Qin Shaoyu quickly smiled and bowed.

At this time, You Shaohu was also brought up. At this time, You Shaohu was tied up all over his body. As soon as he walked in, he saw Li You and shouted loudly: "If you want to kill, kill, if you want to cut, don't talk nonsense. .Labor and management don't want to have any conversations with you Datang people."

Looking at You Shaohu, Li You looked at him with some doubts: "Why... Datang has always been lenient to the Liao people. We have never done any bad things to you. Take your taxes as an example. Taxation is less than half of that of the Han people.

And if you really can't afford it, our Datang will also reduce it. Is there anything wrong with our management of you by Datang? "

Li You didn't understand why these Liaoren tribes were so disgusted with Datang. In fact, Datang's policy towards Liaoren was very good. The prefectures tax rice: two buckets for one stone for upper households, eight buckets for second households, and six buckets for lower households. If the households of barbarians are barbarians, they will all lose half."

"Tang Huiyao" also records: "The households of barbarians are all taxed at half. When floods, droughts and insect damage are disasters, rent will be exempted after ten losses, four will be exempted from rent, six losses will be exempted from adjustment, and seven losses will be exempted from taxation. "

That is to say, in the Tang Dynasty, the Liao people also had to pay taxes, but basically only half of the taxes paid by the Han people.These taxes are collected by Liaoren leaders (similar to native officials in later generations) and turned over to the central treasury.

Judging from the available data, the Liao people in the Tang Dynasty paid half of the taxes of the Han people. Moreover, Datang also considered that many Liao people were unable to pay taxes and were only self-sufficient.

So later, the rulers of the Tang Dynasty also frequently implemented reductions and exemptions for Liao people during the process of expropriation. This reduction and exemption was basically maintained from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the "Tong Dian" stipulates: "Foreign foreigner converts, return for ten years", that is to say, Liao people do not have to pay taxes within ten years from the time they become registered households of Qimin, so the Tang Dynasty taxed Liao people Management is relatively loose.

With such a loose management, in Li You's view, you are a bit dissatisfied if you still rebel. Do you really want Datang to treat you as a grandfather?

But what Li You didn't expect was that You Shaohu looked at Li You and sneered: "Your taxes are indeed very small, but most of us bureaucrats can't pay them. If you can't pay them, your officials will send troops. Come to copy our village, and even arrest our children to offset taxes.

After our children are taken away, they will be thrown into flower houses. Some of the unattractive ones will be sent to do illegal work. If anyone dares to find their own children, they will be given by your Tang officials directly. killed.

You keep talking about equality with us and taking care of us, which is actually an excuse to deceive us. The hearts of you Datang people are black, and you are the devil of this mountain.

I still remember the last time we resisted. One of the governors of your Datang Dynasty colluded with the leader of our Liao people and robbed children of our Liao people every day.

Both boys and girls, and even the governor official is still raising Liao people's children in the mansion, doing some bad things, and finally we started to rebel, attacking Changzhou, Zijue, Tongzhou...!

Your imperial court began to send troops, and the Jiedu envoy personally surrendered and promised himself, but after the rebellion was quelled, your Jiedu envoy immediately made a slip of the tongue, and the governor who should have been executed was merely dismissed.

You left Lingnan with a large number of gold and silver beauties, but our hero was beheaded by you. So this high-ranking Tang official, why didn't we Liao people rebel? "

After the words were finished, Li You here also frowned slightly. This is indeed the case. Many officials in the Tang Dynasty who governed Jiyi Prefecture regarded themselves as the kingdom of heaven, and looked down on Liao people in their bones. When dealing with ethnic affairs, they often liked to adopt simple and rude The high-handed means, thus arousing ethnic conflicts.

Therefore, after several incidents of Liao people's rebellion, Li Shimin personally issued an edict to the officials who governed Jilu Prefecture: "Liao Yishan is dangerous, and he should show his kindness and trust. Threatening him with military power, and being a parent?"

However, even so, with the emperor far away, those officials still went their own way, causing conflicts to increase all the time. Wang Xu also talked to Li You a lot about this.

"Now do you know any other officials involved in the robbery and trafficking of your Liao people's children?" Li You looked at You Shaohu and asked.

"Of course. Guangzhou, Guizhou, Rongzhou, Yongzhou, Jiaozhou. There are places selling Liaoren's children in any state capital. Don't you know how to see it yourself? As long as you really want to see it, you won't come to ask me Already!" You Shaohu looked at Li You and said viciously: "We attacked Sangcheng because someone said that my younger sister who was only ten years old appeared in Sangcheng, but we did not find it.

But we don't give up, we will continue to attack other places until we find our relatives, you killed me, there are thousands of Liaoren, our Liaoren are endless.! "

You Shaohu yelled at Li You crazily and loudly. Originally, You Shaohu thought that he would be chopped off by Li You after he finished yelling, but what You Shaohu didn't expect was that Li You suddenly said: "Untie...!"

"Untie?" Everyone was stunned, but no one dared to disobey Li You's order, and You Shaohu was soon untied. To be honest, You Shaohu was so stupid at this time that he didn't know what Li You meant by doing this.

"What's your sister's name, whether she has any special characteristics, and where she might be caught, please tell me clearly one by one, and I'll help you find it."

"Ah, you want to help me find my sister?" You Shaohu was dumbfounded.

Li You walked over and bowed apologetically to You Shaohu and said, "My king hereby apologizes to you. Datang has done something bad. I hope you can give us Datang a chance. I am the number one in Datang." The fifth prince Qi Wang Li You swore once again that he would definitely seek justice for you Liao people.

For example, it is heard that the people living in the states outside the mountains live in the same way as the barbarians, farming and farming, starving at night and starving, and are forced to collect taxes. They sell men and women, and traitors take advantage of them, trusting them for profit.

This time, this king, Li You, is acting on behalf of the Son of Heaven to legislate. From today onwards, from here onwards, Lingnan officials will punish anyone who dares to take captives and sell them, so as to get rid of their harm.

No matter how high your official position is, and it doesn't matter whether you are Han or not, anyone who touches this law will be executed.!"

With a plop, You Shaohu knelt down, his eyes filled with tears!
Some people must be surprised, why didn't they just take down Sangcheng, and what's the use of talking to these Liao people?

In fact, it is very easy to fight down. Li You only needs to send people to make some catapults to bring down the Sang City in front of him. In that sentence, Li You developed Lingnan, not to destroy it, and Lingnan is of great significance to Datang.

The Liao people's residential area in the southwest is connected to the borders of Nanzhao and Tubo, and has an important strategic position.

Only by building a good relationship with these bureaucrats can we prevent the invasion of these countries, so Li You will do these things. The first killing is to deter the opponent, and the later promise to find Youjia's little girl is to give the opponent sweet dates.

An hour later, the captured barbarian soldiers were released back.

When You Shaolong saw his younger brother coming back, he greeted him immediately in pleasant surprise.

"It's okay!"

You Shaolong looked at his younger brother worriedly, but at this time, You Shaohu took out a letter written by Li You and handed it to You Shaolong, saying, "Brother, His Royal Highness King Qi wants to make a truce with us, and he hopes that you can give He has a little time, he wants to help us find the little sister."

"Ah?" You Shaolong was horrified, and asked in disbelief: "He would be so kind, Shaohu, you have to know that these Tang people are very cunning, we can't trust them easily!"

You Shaohu gave an 'hmm' and said: "I know, brother, but I can feel that His Highness King Qi this time is different from those officials of the Tang Dynasty in the past. Why don't you take a look at His Highness King Qi first?" Let's write a letter!"

"Really?" Although You Shaolong still had doubts, he did not resist at this time. Instead, he took over the letter written by Li You and began to read it. I apologize for the incident, and Li You personally helped to find the little girl from Youjia, and Li You promised that if someone dares to arrest the child wantonly in the Liaoren tribe next time, no matter whether it is the captor or the seller, Li You will Buyers are all questioned, and their attitude is very firm.

This fact surprised You Shaolong a bit. You must know that this is the first prince of the Tang Dynasty who cared so much about the children. In the past, those who came to the Tang Dynasty always sneered at the Liaoren, but the fifth prince of the Tang Dynasty, King Li You It seems that there is really that little difference.

After reading the letter, You Shaohu immediately stepped forward and asked, "Brother, how is it?"

You Shaolong looked at You Shaohu and said: "It's a good proposal, if Datang can really be like the prince and our promise, then why should we rebel, we barbarians are not born rebellious, you must know that every rebellion means death People, those who died were our clansmen, and we will also feel heartbroken.

But for the sake of our children, we are fearless, but if His Royal Highness Qi can keep his word, then we can also consider giving in, but all this depends on whether His Royal Highness can find the little girl back Come.

You help me to reply to the letter and I will give them time, but the time is only three days, they can't deliberately delay the time, our food is actually running out, we can't wait for them endlessly. "

"En!" You Shaohu nodded again and again.

(End of this chapter)