After the summer harvest, the entire imperial court breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed a lot, but Li Jia's spirit could not relax. He had just arranged to raise horses and gold mines, and he began to supervise the transportation envoys again.

The transport envoys previously sent to various places and states showed their respective abilities in the matter of summer harvest. Some succeeded and some failed. After all, the officials in various states and counties were already old foxes. How could they be controlled so easily.

One-third of prefecture and county transfer envoys failed to achieve their goals.

It doesn't matter, Li Jia originally had no intention of accomplishing all the goals at once. He was the survival of the fittest. Those who couldn't do it were removed and then continued to let others take office. It was like a whetstone, constantly cultivating talents for the Governor's Mansion.

Creating households and bringing together the people was an important matter. Li Jia specifically explained that it was necessary to take things slowly and boil the frog in warm water. The main thing was to do a good job in taxation, and everything else was secondary.

Due to the previous salt shortage problem, due to the vigorous development of the Xuwen Salt Field, the price of salt in Panyu continued to fall. This time, Li Jiakong took action and began to vigorously regulate the situation.

All the major salt fields were empty, and the salt and iron envoys confiscated their homes and demoted their officials one after another, which is considered to be what they deserved.

These official vacancies are for those with low status, high authority, and extremely rich people. Even decent people can have several thousand dollars a year. Li Jia carefully considered it and basically only opened it to his own people, who performed well.

Only then can there be meat to eat.

This kind of good thing should not be too isolated. It needs to be replaced every two or three years so that the rain and dew can be evenly absorbed and balanced.

For example, if you see that a certain minister is effective in doing things and is relatively honest, you can ask him to work in a salt farm for two years. The family's wealth will be abundant and he will be more energetic in his work.

Confiscating houses is a technical term, and it is the same in ancient and modern times. The Shengsheng Division was particularly enthusiastic about this. These dozen salt envoys came down and confiscated millions of dollars, including some fields and houses, etc. The amount was considered huge.

The meat was divided and eaten, and everyone was satisfied.

During the previous inspection of the army, most of them were energetic and well-trained. Iron ore from Danzhou was continuously sent to Panyu. The Ordnance Department used water conservancy to forge and spent several months to change the uniforms of nearly half of the Imperial Army.

, the weapons are also polished until they shine.

Obviously, after the new incentive measures were issued, there was a great response. Everyone was eagerly looking forward to the war. One head equals an acre of land, which is really a good deal.

After eating and having nothing to do, Li Jia was free again. He looked at the map he drew and thought about it carefully.

He has loved reading maps since he was a child. His parents taught him how to read maps when he was a child. He still remembers that there were too many traffickers when he was young, and his parents worked in other places. During the Chinese New Year, they taught him to memorize numbers and addresses every day, and pointed at the map from time to time to teach him how to identify provinces, cities, and counties.

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When he arrived in junior high school, he looked at the first page of his geography book, which contained a map of the world. He would spread it out every day at noon and count the countries before going to bed.

Therefore, he cannot understand the map of China very well.

He elaborated on this, coupled with the map of prefectures and counties in the world in the pre-Tang Dynasty, and most of China was drawn.

The Liao Kingdom was like a behemoth, lying on the top, and the Sixteen States of Yanyun were like a treasure basin, feeding it a steady stream of nutrients, thus extending its claws greedily to the south.

The Later Zhou Dynasty was still the most powerful country in East Asia. Although the area was lower than that of the Liao Kingdom, it was a fertile land. With a population of six million, it had no fear. Hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops who fought in the north and south defended its prosperity.

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Next, Nantang, who was once the dominant hegemon in the Southern Kingdom, was beaten up by Hou Zhou, half of his family property was robbed, and half of the security doors were broken, so he clung to the door aggrievedly, relying on wine to survive.

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Want to conquer her? A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the Southern Han Dynasty is not big enough.

Wu Yue is a rich girl with a small family fortune. She has no ambitions and just wants to find a rich and handsome man to marry. But the rich and handsome men in the Central Plains don't last long. The dowry is prepared, but the man is gone. Obviously, she has deep feelings for Nan.

I don't like Han's sudden wealth at all.

The Wuping Army in Hunan is known as the Chu State, but it is only closed to form a unified state with strong cohesion. To occupy it is to directly face a powerful country, which is inappropriate; the Fujian State only has two states: Quan and Zhang, but it is in Wuyue and the Southern Tang Dynasty.

A slight touch under the nose will cause a big fight, don't do it.

In the southwest, Houshu is like a half-dressed rich woman, relying on the strength of her security door to constantly enhance her sense of presence, tempting batch after batch of gangsters outside the door, feeling complacent.

Li Jia thought about his minions. He had to break them up. Besides, they were thousands of miles away and had no borders, so it still wouldn't work.

The country of Dali was thousands of miles away, twice as big as Yunnan today. He was just a female man, and his family members were extremely savage. They could not be coaxed without spending money.

He is full of ravages and is unruly and willful. Although he has recently embraced Buddhism, his character has improved a bit.

But the key point is that they are too poor and there is no benefit in fighting. The Tang Dynasty fought with others to protect Shu. It was not worth it to provoke a unruly and poor female man.

So, bordering the Southern Han Dynasty, there was only one person who was weak in national power and easy to flirt with - Annan.

Annan is like a young woman who ran away from home and wanted to gain so-called freedom. With some property she brought from her ex-husband in the Tang Dynasty, she wandered around at will, and her thoughts became wild. Although she was poor, she was

Loving freedom.

Li Jia's only word for this kind of woman is to hit her directly in the face, and then wash her clean.

Under Annan is the Champa Protectorate. After Annan is solved, it can better support Champa.

Quiet and restless, having lived in peace for almost half a year, Li Jia was somewhat moved.

Is Vietnam easy to conquer? If you look at it from a later perspective, it is difficult. The three major conquests of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yongle expedition of the Ming Dynasty, Qianlong, and the Americans were not conquered. How could the Southern Han Dynasty conquer it?

Now in Annan, the regions are divided, and the twelve states do not obey the central government. It is extremely easy to conquer.

From Ma Yuan of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, in the past thousand years, no one who went south to suppress the rebellion failed to beat Annan to the ground. Only our Song Dynasty was blocked by the river, unable to advance or retreat.

It is easy to follow the old path of horse reinforcements and directly send troops to conquer, but it is difficult to stabilize it.

What is difficult for others is easy for Li Jia. Since he is close by, he can directly immigrate there and move all the local tycoons to Hainan, which is a perfect complement to each other.

There is Jianwu Town in the north and the Champa Protectorate in the south. If Annan is unstable, it will be very convenient to suppress it.

Why get Annan?

This is because Annan was lost during the period of Emperor Liu Yan, and Li Jia recovered it, which was equivalent to recovering the lost territory. This was of the same nature as the recovery of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun in the later Zhou Dynasty, and it definitely enhanced prestige.

What can I do to improve my prestige? What else can I do? Become an emperor!
Chapter completed!