As we walked westward, Chen Ying and his group gradually accelerated.

Although the speed was fast and I watched it casually, Anxi, a place where Li Xiuning lived for two years, gradually made Li Xiuning feel a little disagreeable.

In Li Xiuning's impression, most of the places in Anxi are ruined. Thousands of miles and no one has been inhabited for a hundred years.

However, in just over three years, there was no more desolation on both sides of the road. Most of them were built workshops and chimneys with black smoke. As a place where the east and west converges, the Western Regions are the most intense frontiers where the East and West civilizations collided. Here, the trade between the East and the West carried the East and the West civilizations and occupied an important position in the world economy and cultural history.

What shocked Li Xiuning the most was that in today's Western Regions, there is a school, Tang Yan School, in almost any village or town.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying and smiled and said, "I didn't expect that you actually did it!"

Li Xiuning vaguely remembered that Chen Ying once said: "One day in the future, I will let tens of millions of people from tens of thousands of miles of land learn Tang Yan with their blocks, and they will be so harsh that Tang Tang is lying on a hot bed... Haha, although I learned it very painfully and wanted to saw my neck in pain, I still have to hang my head and sting my head to the beam and prick the thighs. That scene must be spectacular and ruthless. Thinking of this, I feel so happy!"

Chen Ying corrected: "Now, this is the beginning. In the future, I will make the Pacific Ocean east of the East China Sea of ​​our Tang Dynasty, and then to the Atlantic Ocean!"

Chen Ying saw Li Xiuning's confused look and smiled and took out the world map in his carriage. There were three such maps in total. One was in Li Jiancheng's hands, one was in Li Shimin's hands, and one was in Chen Ying's hands.

Li Xiuning said curiously: "How did you do it? I saw that they were learning very painful, but they did not hire tongue people, but instead studied Tang Yan seriously?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "It's actually very simple!"

"Very simple?" Li Xiuning asked even more suspiciously: "What is the solution?"

Chen Ying was very clear about the ethnic characteristics of the Western Regions. As an example, Kucha, one of the four major countries in the Western Regions, Kucha has been in China since the Han Dynasty. At that time, the indigenous people of Kucha originally migrated from the Gansu area today, and they were also yellow people. The cultural system was completely different. Since then, although the vassal states in all dynasties have always maintained a strong Western Region color, the process of sinicization has also been repeated. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, although the Toro Fire Language System was mentioned, they were all mixed blood between Han and Serbians. From the outside, they were only a little surprised.

Moreover, most of the people in the Western Regions did not have any concept of "national integrity". When the Huns were strong, they called themselves the Huns. When the Xianbei people controlled the Western Regions, they called themselves the Xianbei people. When the Turks were strong, they called themselves the Turks.

Now the Tang Dynasty is strong, and all the people of all races call themselves Tang people to the outside world.

However, the Anxi Protectorate of Tang Dynasty would not recognize it. The Tang Dynasty only recognized the people who were registered and had rented the people. Chen Ying formulated three household registration systems for the Anxi Protectorate. It was yellow, blue, and white. Chen Ying stipulated that all war slaves or prisoners had white priests, without personal freedom and political status, followed by Lan Ji. Lan Ji included the people who surrendered voluntarily and refugees who surrendered.

It is a yellow book and household registration that is the same as Guanzhong. Such people can join the army and become officials without any restrictions. Moreover, the taxes paid are the same as Guanzhong.

The Tang Dynasty implemented the equal-field system, and the implementation method was that Ding Man was over 20 years old and granted 100 mu of land, of which 20 mu were Yongye land and 80 mu were guttered. After his death, he gave gutter land and returned it to the government. The government collected rent from the people based on the records of land granting.

Regardless of the rich and the poor, all the rents are paid for a fixed amount of rent. Rent is land rent, and two stones of grain are required every year. Yong is a strong man, serving the government for 20 days a year.

With the most ordinary farmers' income in this era, one hundred acres of land can collect about 150 stones of grain. (The tax rate is equivalent to about one-3%).

However, the natives in the Western Regions were different. They originally enjoyed the ox leg tax. One cow had to pay one tax every year. The gap was too big. Therefore, many Anxi people were very jealous.

Because Huang Cai served for twenty days, as well as two stones of food or equivalent items, Lan Cai was executed according to half of the original tax standards.

The three types of household registrations are not dead, but can be changed. For example, if the white household registration performs well, it can be converted to a blue household registration, and the blue household registration can be converted to a yellow household registration.

However, the first hard standard for changing household registration must be to be able to speak Tang Yan.

If the cattle you don't want to feed yourself and get one ox leg taken away by the government in a year, you can only study Tang Yan desperately and advance in the annual assessment, otherwise you will not be able to protect the ox leg.

At this time, the people of Anxi discovered that learning Tang Yan could not only exempt some of the taxes, but also join the army and make meritorious service. These people of Anxi or war slaves learned Tang Yan one after another.

In fact, in the era before Chen Ying traveled through time, because the country treated the young people preferentially in all aspects, many people changed their nations and changed their ancestors when they saw profits. At the beginning, they just wanted immediate benefits and did not have the consciousness of being a young people in their hearts. However, after two or three generations, after a long time of falsehood, the concept of nationality naturally formed.

In contrast to the ridiculous "turning Han into Hu" in later generations, the Anxi people at this time took the initiative to "turning Hu into Han" in order to pay less taxes.

If you want to become a Huang citizen, you not only need to be able to speak Tang Dynasty, but also need to wear Hanfu and practice Han customs. Only in this way can you officially join the Tang army and rely on joining the army, making meritorious service, and becoming an official.

Of course, this kind of turning Hu into Han was fake at the beginning, but because most people look yellow-skinned and dark-haired, many of them are mixed-blooded Hu and Han, and it is not rare for people in Anxi to speak Chinese, so it is extremely easy to "report the book", which is nothing more than Tang Yan, changing the style of clothes.

Although Lan Ji was only half of the tax rate of Anxi, for this half of the tax revenue, the tribe not far away joined Anxi from the distant West and became a Tang people.

At the beginning, this change only appeared on the surface. They would only say Tang Yan in formal occasions, wearing Hanfu and practicing Han customs. However, as time goes by, more and more people have developed habits. The people of Anxi hurriedly hunched off their Hu leather robes...

In order to integrate, Chen Ying adopted a policy that was actually very domineering.

For example, for intermarriage, every time the Tang people take a Hu concubine, they will reward 100 acres of land for land reclamation. Of course, this cannot be forced, and they can only be voluntarily.

The indigenous people of Anxi have no idea about land, but the people who migrated from the mainland and refugees, all their land perceptions are no less than the feelings of nomadic peoples against war horses.

No one thinks that the money is too much.

There is no large amount of land among farmers.

The craziest thing is that a dilapidated man named Zhang Muzhi came to Anxi alone and divided him into five houses and a hundred acres of land. Later, after getting familiar with this rule, he took more than 160 concubines, including Dingling, Gaoche, and Kucha. In a blink of an eye, he became a landlord with nearly two thousand acres of land.

That morning, Chen Ying and his party met an Anxi army on the road. The army was not large in number, only four or five hundred people.

But they were all cavalry, one man and two horses, as if they were carrying out some missions.

The knight slowly disappeared from sight. Li Xiuning looked at the flag flying in the air, vaguely with the words of Shuimu Town of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xiuning suddenly rushed to Chen Ying and said, "The Anxi Army is really majestic, elite army, well-equipped and well-trained."

"This army should be the Zigu Army of Shuimo Town, judging by the banner!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "In Anxi, such troops have no less than a thousand, and they are only considered second-rate troops, not first-class elite!"

"What, is it just a second-rate army?" Li Xiuning questioned: "Didn't you see it? Their march was like flowing water, with skillful movements. Except for the neighing of war horses, no soldier made a sound, which shows that they were rigorous in training, and a strong murderous aura in their bodies could not even hold back the slow horse. Such an army was just a second-rate army?"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "This is the truth..."

The equipment of the Tang army is not bad, but it is more than a little different from the local rural heroes of the Anxi Army.

The armor of this army is not like ordinary armor. It is made up of small pieces. They are all large pieces. The entire chest is a whole piece, and the back is a whole piece. There are only four large pieces of armor on the arms and legs.

Li Xiuning suspected that how a large piece of steel was processed into an arc, just in line with the shape of the human body... This is definitely not the processing technology of this era.

In fact, Li Xiuning guessed well, and this is indeed not the craft of this era.

In this era, except for heavy infantry, ordinary soldiers were equipped with armor, leather armor, and Mingguang armor. In history, except for the legendary infantry armor in the Song Dynasty, he was the most powerful.

However, the production efficiency of Mingguang armor was too low. Later, Anxi invented a hydraulic forging press, which changed the standard of armor.

But he could use a hydraulic giant stamping machine, and with a direct press, the armor would be formed. There were only 39 pieces of armor in total, and he could make armor that could protect against a stone bow within twenty steps.

The armor has been carefully polished and polished, as bright as a mirror. At least it will not be worse than the bright light armor used by people now.

Li Xiuning was secretly surprised that the Anxi Army even the second-rate army that was fighting against thieves was equipped with such equipment, and it is a wealthy man.

Li Xiuning is speculating that Chen Ying not only vigorously wins over the down-and-out aristocratic and refugees, but also lends money to farmers with such low interest rates. Where did his money come from?
Chapter completed!