Zhao Deyan was able to do things well and moved 100,000 Turks from the grassland to the south in a year. This number may not be anything in later generations, but in the era of extremely inconvenient transportation in the Tang Dynasty, it was a very impressive number. Moreover, this was only the first year. Many early preparations took too much time. By the beginning of the second year, the speed of migrating the Turks will definitely accelerate again.

The Tang Dynasty placed these Turks who moved inwardly in the area south of Yuezhou and north of Tanzhou. In fact, it was the east bank of Dongting Lake in later generations. Later generations were considered a famous fish and rice town in China. However, in the Tang Dynasty, there was a severe flood here. Dongting Lake was called Yunmengze in ancient times. In other words, there was actually a huge swamp near Dongting Lake. Although the area of ​​Dongting Lake was affected by the climate during the Tang Dynasty, the swamp area of ​​Dongting Lake decreased, but the surrounding environment was still very harsh.

However, although the environment in Dongting Lake is a bit bad, it is not unchangeable. In fact, as long as the flood here is well managed, with the fertile land here, it will not take long to become a land of fish and rice like in the future. It only takes a lot of manpower and material resources to manage it. In the past, the Tang Dynasty did not have this ability, but now there are ready-made labors delivered to the door, so naturally it is not useless.

Hundreds of thousands of Turks were moved to the area south of Yuezhou. In fact, there is another name in Yuezhou called Yueyang, which is the Yueyang in Fan Zhongyan's "Yueyang Tower Notes". Compared with later generations, Yueyang during the Tang Dynasty was really vast and sparsely populated, and large areas of land were not cultivated, mainly because of the floods of Dongting Lake.

When the Turks moved to the area south of Yueyang, there were long-term special officials responsible for taking over these Turks, centralized management, and organized the young and powerful Turks to reclaim land, build water conservancy, etc. Although these Turks did not understand these technical tasks, it didn't matter. Anyway, there were officials sent by the Tang Dynasty, and these Turks only needed to obey orders.

If so many Turks gather together, management must be a big problem. In addition, there is also the most important issue of food and accommodation. The problem of accommodation is easy to solve. Anyway, these Turks used to live in tents, and the Tang Dynasty would not fight again in a short period of time. The tents in the army could be transferred to them for living. As for the problem of eating, it would be a little more troublesome. However, now sweet potatoes have been promoted to the south, which has greatly increased the grain output, so it is not difficult to support these 100,000 Turks for the time being.

However, the biggest trouble comes from the Turks themselves. They thought that after moving to the Tang Dynasty, they could live the life of ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty. Even if they had to farm, they thought that they just needed to reclaim wasteland like they were in the north.

But what these Turks never expected was that a lot of the land distributed to them by the Tang Dynasty was covered with flooded land. If you wanted to farm, you had to manage water conservancy. At the beginning, there were few Turkic people migrated, and there were Tang troops stationed around them, so they were very strict in their management, which made them dare not resist, and they could only obediently obediently obediently to govern water conservancy.

However, with the increasing number of Turkic people moving inward, there are still 100,000 people, and these Turkic people are gradually becoming more courageous. However, they have no weapons or horses. Even if 100,000 people gather together, they cannot cause a big mess. However, they united and refused to obey the command of Tang officials, which is quite a bit like a strike in later generations. The officials of the Tang Dynasty were afraid that they would really anger these Turkic people and cause big chaos, so they did not dare to force them too much. As a result, the two sides were in a stalemate.

Among all the officials of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Deyan is probably the most suitable person to manage these Turks. After all, he used to help Jie Li handle the internal government affairs of the Turks, but now he is naturally no problem to manage a mere 100,000 Turks. Moreover, Zhao Deyan himself wanted to go to the south as soon as possible, so he personally begged Li Shimin. In the end, Li Shimin finally agreed to let him go to the south.

Li Xiu also agreed with Zhao Deyan's intention to go to the south in advance, but he was also worried that Zhao Deyan would impose severe punishments on the Turks because of his personal grudges, so he also reminded him a few words openly and secretly. In response, Zhao Deyan also said that he was responsible and would never miss the serious matter.

The five years of Zhenguan have passed like this. Because of the destruction of the Turks, the Tang Dynasty was in a state of ecstasy this year, and the rest and recuperation in China also showed excellent results, especially the promotion of sweet potatoes and corn. The problem of food has almost been solved. The drought in Hebei area did not starve a single person to death, which is all due to sweet potatoes and corn.

After the Spring Festival, the sixth year of Zhenguan also came. Zhao Deyan took the lead in saying goodbye to Li Xiu, and then took a group of officials to the south to take office. Li Shimin appointed him as the chief general of military farming in Jiangnan Road. The prime minister moved to the Turks inwardly. The chief general was a military position. In other words, the Tang Dynasty also managed the Turks inwardly with military law, and the life and death of the Turks were almost all in Zhao Deyan's thoughts.

A few days after Zhao Deyan left Chang'an, the Tang Dynasty mission led by Gao Biaoren also left Chang'an with the Japanese mission. They first went to Shandong, then took a boat from Dengzhou to Silla or Baekje, and then crossed the Tsushima Strait to reach Japan.

There was no grand ceremony when Gao Biaoren left, and the fact that Japan had never been taken seriously by the Tang Dynasty, so Gao Biaoren's mission was naturally not valued. However, before leaving, Li Shimin summoned Gao Biaoren to the palace and told him a few words, and then asked him to leave. However, when he left, Li Xiu came to see him off in person, which made Gao Biaoren feel grateful and wiped away a few tears of bitterness when he left. After all, he didn't know when he would be able to come back when he was leaving.

Li Xiu watched Gao Biaoren's mission slowly disappear at the end of the official road, and then got on the carriage and prepared to go home. He also attached great importance to Gao Biaoren's mission this time, but he had already explained what he should have done. He hoped that Gao Biaoren would not let down his expectations.

"Huh?" But just as Li Xiu's carriage was walking home, he suddenly saw the hustle and bustle of people on the official road in the distance, and flags were waving. He could tell at a glance that a huge team was coming. This made Li Xiu stunned, and even wondered if Gao Biaoren's team was back. After all, ordinary caravans would not have such a large formation?

However, as the team approached, Li Xiu dispelled his suspicion. Although this team was huge, it was definitely not Gao Biaoren's mission. Judging from their clothes, they should have come from the Western Regions, and it is likely to be a mission from a small Western Region country.
Chapter completed!