Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 896
About [-] surrendered on Baideng Mountain, including about [-] Turks, and about [-] were Liu Heitai's Xia army, and some former Liu Wuzhou, Gao Kaidao, etc. The Turks descended to Qin.

All 10 people were murdered, and the emperor thought it was too wasteful.

Minister of Civil Affairs Wang Ziming squeezed over, "Your Majesty, I also think it is too wasteful to kill. One hundred thousand captives are all young and strong. At the beginning of the founding of the country, a lot of waste is waiting to be done, not to mention that the world has not yet been unified, let alone such a waste. The minister thought that the [-] captives should be demoted to official slaves, and then scattered and distributed to various places to farm and mine."

Xiao Yu said that this is too cruel. Although it is not a murder, but 10 people are demoted to slaves, it is too cruel.

"Your Majesty, I believe that benevolence should be used to rule the world, and the treatment of these barbarians should be based on civilized teaching."

Xiao Yu has always disapproved of many of the emperor's actions. For example, Luo Cheng's policy towards Goguryeo outside the customs is now a strategy of subjugating the country and species, arresting its people as slaves, seizing its land and farming, basically destroying this country and nation.

In his opinion, the real Mingjun should not be so vicious and cruel. He should only attack a small part of the upper nobles of Goguryeo. It turned out that more Goguryeo people were regarded as the people of the Central Plains Daqin, and then they had to give them Allocate land and grant land, so that they can live and work in peace and contentment.

However, the emperor ignored his advice at all.

The emperor had only one reason for his reply. Goguryeo has been established outside the pass for 700 years. From a small tribe to the overlord of the pass, they have expanded countless territories and built countless castles in the past 700 years. The most important thing is that the Goguryeo people have their own. Civilized thought, their population has also reached a staggering 600 million people.

For a large ethnic group with its own long culture, it is very difficult to assimilate, especially in places outside the customs.Outside the pass, it is difficult for the Han people to overtake these Goguryeo people in a short period of time. Then once the power of the Central Plains court declines, these Goguryeo people outside the pass may return to the country. This is not speculation, but has evolved countless times in history.

Just like the Han nationality in the Central Plains, although they have been conquered at times, they have never been completely assimilated. Why?The large population base and long history of civilization have created the basis for them to never be assimilated.

Luo Cheng didn't want to leave future troubles for future generations, so facing the Goguryeo people who were not often rebellious, he simply came up with the most ruthless and direct strategy.

Now he intends to do the same with the Turks.

Although many dynasties in history often defeated these northern nomadic tribes, they were resettled to the frontier, and even moved to the interior of the Central Plains.

But with almost one exception, their resettlement is done by the whole tribe, and even their way of life has not changed. Some of them moved inland to herd horses, cattle and sheep, and they still live in tribal groups, so they The inward relocation did not change their essence of being Hu people.

This kind of inward migration can only be useful for a while. Once the dynasty weakens, it will inevitably become a mess again.

Even more recently, Qimin Khan was supported by the Sui Dynasty and moved inland to Dingxiang, Monan. He handed over the land north of Mayi to Qimin Khan, but only maintained Qimin Khan. The loyalty of the Khan generation to the Central Plains was that the Khan was only the second generation, and the result was reversed.

Luo Cheng had researched these for a long time, and thought about finding a reasonable and reliable solution to replace them, but after much deliberation, he couldn't find it, so he simply broke and built.

Killing is a waste, and letting them go is not a real kindness, so let them all be slaves, and pay the price for the mistakes they made for the rest of their lives.

"Wang Shangshu, register all these captives. Half of the captives will be rewarded for military exploits to the meritorious soldiers of the Northern Expedition, and the other half will be sent as official slaves to the official handicraft workshops in Shaofu Temple and the mines and salt fields, etc. .”

As the emperor's brother-in-law, Wang Ziming was very considerate of the emperor at this time. He said, "I thought that I could capture half of the prisoners and one-third of them as rewards for the soldiers who made great contributions to the Northern Expedition, and reward them as slaves. Send them to the government's workshops and mines as slaves, and the remaining third will be offered to His Majesty, and they will be sent to the emperor's private palace, mines, and workshops to work."

Xiao Yu stood up and objected again, saying that Wang Ziming did not distinguish between public and private.The implication is that even if these captives are reduced to slaves, they should still be the property of the court, not the private property of the emperor.

It's just that Wang Ziming didn't budge and argued hard.

In the end, Wei Zheng and other prime ministers also expressed against their will that the emperor personally conquered and commanded the destruction of the Turks, and made great contributions, so one-third of the slaves should be dedicated to the emperor, and this matter was finally decided.

"Your Majesty, there are no fewer than one hundred thousand war horses."

Wang Ziming said again.

Now Wei Zheng, like Xiao Yu, refused to back down, and insisted that war horses are very precious. Even if those Turkic war horses are hungry and skinny, they can still recover as long as they are properly cared for. The emperor does not need to divide them any more. How about so many war horses?
Wei Zheng took the initiative to propose that from the [-] war horses, select [-] of the best horses for the emperor and send them to the imperial horse farm for raising.

Luo Cheng has no objection to this. After all, although horses are good things, they are also expensive.The cost of raising a war horse is not low.

"The soldiers of the Northern Expedition can purchase these war horses first, and each person can only buy two horses at a preferential price."

The government soldiers needed horses, and the court also needed horses, but horses were kept in the hands of the government soldiers, which also belonged to the imperial court's combat power, so Luo Cheng was very happy for the soldiers to buy these war horses, and was willing to give discounts.

As for the captured weapons and armor, they all belonged to the Weiwei Temple, and after they were selected, they were either stored in the arsenal, or returned to the furnace for remanufacturing.

Zhi Shi Si Li took Suni Shi and waited for a group of Turkic nobles to come.

The emperor looked at the large row of Turkic nobles kneeling in front of him, but he just smiled coldly.

"Bachelor Wen, read out my edict."

Wen Dalin stepped forward and read out the imperial edict.

After the edict was read out, Suni waited for a group of nobles to stay.

All demoted to slavery?

Then what else do they drop?
Why such a result?
"Your Majesty, why did we surrender?"

Luo Cheng only answered two words, "It's late!"

After coming and going many times, I lost my mind and lost my mind. Didn't the Central Plains Dynasty always emphasize tolerance?
"His Majesty?"

"I have given you a chance, but no one of you cherishes it. You insist on fighting to the end. When you are at the end of your life, you think about my generosity. Do you really think that I am so easy to bully?"

Zhi lost his mind and cried bitterly, and many Turkic nobles also cried in despair. Soon the edict was read to all the Turkic captives, and the captives cried together.

"Longevity God, save us, save your people!"

It's just that their crying didn't get a response. The only response to them was the spears, bows and arrows of the soldiers of the Qin Army. Scattered, tied with ropes and strung together, sent to the prisoner camps one after another, waiting for the unknown and confused fate.

"Your Majesty, Liu Heita is calling to see you." A guard reported.

"Liu Heida?"

(End of this chapter)