Man Tanghong

"Ha ha……"

Li Yuanji smiled coyly, looked sideways at Li Shimin who was accompanying him and said with a smile: "Second Brother, do you think he is dealing with me?"

Li Shimin rolled his eyes and did not speak.

Now that he has lost his power, what can he say in front of his old minister?
Xue Shou was even more embarrassed. Li Yuanji asked his old master to tell the truth of his words. He really wanted to strip him naked and expose him to the sun.

He knew very well that it was Li Yuanji who was beating him.

Seeing that Li Shimin was unwilling to speak, Li Yuanji looked at Xue Shou again and said, "You, don't use these scenes to deal with me. You say that the affairs of other five and a half states are none of your business, do you believe it yourself?"

The governors of the other five states and a half are also Li Shimin's old department.

Xue Shou, as one of the leaders under Li Shimin's command, can he not understand them?
If they have something to do, can they talk to Xue Shou and talk to Xue Shou?
Without Xue Shou nodding, without Xue Shou making up his mind, how dare they misuse those captives?
Before Xue Shu could open his mouth, Li Yuanji said again: "As for you saying that you will work hard to reduce the loss, you didn't say how much it will be reduced. Could it be that you want to take one or two, or a hundred to deal with me? "

Xue Shou's mind was punctured. Except for being more embarrassed, he didn't feel ashamed to panic. He had experienced big storms, so he wouldn't be frightened by these few words. He immediately said confidently: "I just use Turkic It’s nothing more than dealing with them in the same way as dealing with our Han people, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”

After the Turks plundered the Han people, the way they treated the Han people was much more cruel and bloody than the six states in the northern border.

So Xue Shou said that he was giving an eye for an eye, an eye for an eye, and it made sense.

In the impression of many people, literati are gentle and gentle, very kind.

But in fact, literati are ruthless, far more ruthless than warriors.

The only difference is that the literati before the Song Dynasty were ruthless towards others, while the literati after the Song Dynasty were ruthless towards their own people.

Although Xue Shou is a civil servant, he is a civil servant of Datang, so it is reasonable for him to say such things.

This looks extremely cruel and vicious, but it is actually much more benevolent than the prairie people.

In history, the Huns, the Hus, the Turks, the Mongols, and the Jurchens all caused huge murders in the Central Plains.

Vegetable people, two-legged sheep, wheel chopping, etc., were all invented by the grassland people for the Han people.

Among them, there is no need to say more about the vegetable man and the two-legged sheep. The wheel chopping was invented by the Mongols to deal with the Han people.

So before the rise of the Mongols, there was no concept of wheel cutting.

Even if there is such a thing, there is no such saying, and this kind of behavior is not popular.

In comparison, when the Jurchens went south, although they didn't invent any specific words against the Han people, the Jurchens were far more cruel than the Mongols, because they all slaughtered cities, young and old, and even children who were below the wheels were not spared. .

The killings created are not much different from devils.

This is also the reason why the Han people resisted the rule of the Jurchens for hundreds of years.

So Xue Shou's ruthlessness is not considered ruthlessness, and there is nothing to criticize.

But Datang is currently short of people. If there is free labor available, it must be cherished and used. It is too much to lose nearly half of it at every turn.

Changsun Wuji is now almost confessing to the barbarian in order to coax the barbarian down the mountain to help him farm.

Xue Shou and others have a lot of free labor to use, but they don't know how to cherish it. This is really shameful.

"Having said that, but if the captives are overwhelmed and gather together to make trouble, how will you deal with it? It is impossible to drop the army here to help you suppress those captives, right?

Then, should my Tang Dynasty conquer the Turks?
Also, you have done so much in the northern border, if it spreads to the Turks, what will the Turks do if they resist to the death when facing our conquest by the Tang Dynasty? "

Li Yuanji stared at Xue Shou with a straight face and questioned him.

The captives were overwhelmed, and it was not a big problem to gather a crowd to make trouble.

However, it is a big problem to arouse the hostility of the Turkic people towards the Tang Dynasty, and to resist desperately when the Tang Dynasty conquered the Turkic people.

As long as anyone has the will to die in his heart, the energy he can burst out is far beyond the past.

When a group of people who can explode with energy far beyond the past gather together, it is difficult to defeat.

No matter how powerful your army is, no matter how advanced your weapons are, it is very likely that you will capsize in the gutter.

This is also an important reason why many siege battles adopt the strategy of encircling three ques and one.

Therefore, the actions of Xue Shou and others must be stopped.

Otherwise, it will easily affect Datang's subsequent conquest of the Turks.

Xue Shou is not a war rookie, he understood the deep meaning of these words, and also realized the seriousness of the matter, so he was persuaded, and bowed sincerely and said: "It's my minister Menglang, I almost missed His Highness I will go back and discuss with the governors of the other five states, and ask them to be more merciful to their prisoners."

Li Yuanji nodded in satisfaction.

As long as Xue listened to his words, if he didn't listen, then he had to use some means to make Xue Shou listen to his words.

"I've said almost everything I need to say, let's go back to camp."

Li Yuanji smiled and gave instructions to Su Dingfang and others.

Su Dingfang agreed with his hands, and ordered the front team to become the rear team to escort Li Yuanji and his party back to the Daizhou camp.

Daizhou Camp is located in Daizhou City.

Because Daizhou was newly recovered by the Tang Dynasty from the Turkic people, there were no people in Daizhou, and the same was true in Daizhou City. Now it is only a little bit of vitality, and it has not fully recovered.

Therefore, setting up the camp in the city does not disturb the people.

Daizhou can be said to be a state of heroes. Many well-known heroes in history have fought fiercely in Daizhou, and Daizhou has also seen many famous and powerful troops in history.

For example, the famous generals of the Yang family once fought fiercely in Daizhou, and historically famous powerful troops such as Jingsai, Jianxiong, and Zhenwu were also located in Daizhou.

Among them, Zhenwu was a strong army set up by the Jin people, and Jingsai and Jianxiong were both set up by the Han people.

It can be seen from this that Daizhou is a place that produces heroes, a place that can make heroes famous, and even a place that produces fierce soldiers.

It's just that Daizhou today doesn't look like a hero or a soldier at all.

After many years of torture by the Turkic people, today's Daizhou can only see some captives working and soldiers running on the official road. Few people walk through it. Even people dressed as people are mostly merchants or merchants. servant.

After seeing the majestic Wang Jia, instead of kowtowing excitedly, he hid far away, not even daring to show the corners of his clothes.

Because they were suspicious because they were hiding in the corners. If they showed their heads, or the corners of their clothes, and let the guards see them, they could easily be caught as assassins or shot on the spot.

This death is useless, and there is no chance to complain.

His family members wanted to seek justice for him, but they couldn't find a yamen that could uphold justice.

"Daizhou Border City has been established for a year, and the annual income is still quite a lot. Why is Daizhou City so depressed?"

He couldn't see the hurrying pedestrians, the merchants coming and going, let alone the pretense of opening a shop or waving flags. Li Yuanji couldn't help turning his head to ask Su Dingfang who was accompanying him.

Logically speaking, the border city of Daizhou has already developed. Even if the population of Daizhou cannot be skyrocketed, and the vitality of Daizhou before the Turkic occupation has not been restored, there should be some prosperous scenes.

After all, merchants who do business in the border city of Daizhou also need to eat and drink, arrange manpower, and rent places to store goods.

There are not so many places in the border city for them to place their accompanying servants, and there are not so many places for them to store their goods, so Daizhou City is their first choice.

With them settled in, some businesses in Daizhou City can be restored anyway.

But now there is no shop in Daizhou City, which is a bit contrary to common sense.

Hearing this, Su Dingfang said with some shame: "Originally, there were still many merchants and their servants staying in Daizhou City, and there were also small merchants and peddlers who made money from those merchants and their servants, but since Master Liang sent people After you raided the border market and you decided to conquer the Turks, they felt that the business could not be done in a short time, so they left Daizhou City with their goods and servants.

If you come earlier, you can still see the scene of them leaving Daizhou City in a hurry. "

Li Yuanji curled his lips and said, "So I'm late?"

Su Dingfang said embarrassingly: "Don't dare, it's because I didn't manage Daizhou well, which disappointed His Highness."

He is a commander in chief of a large army, and his mission is combat, not local development, so it has nothing to do with him if the local area is not well developed.

But speaking of this, if he didn't admit his mistake, it would appear that he was a little ignorant.

"It's not your fault, it's because the people and merchants don't have confidence in us. If they have confidence in us, even if the business in the border market can't be done in the short term, they will stay to do business in Daizhou.

So we have to work harder and let the people and merchants have confidence in us. "

Li Yuanji said with emotion.

The business in Daizhou is not limited to the border market. Without the border market, merchants can also do other businesses.

For example, open a store in Daizhou City to meet the daily needs of some soldiers in the army who are resting.

For example, buying some captives, reclaiming wasteland in Daizhou, becoming a big landlord, etc.

But all the people and merchants who have confidence in the imperial court can find their livelihood in Daizhou.

But they didn't, which means they have no confidence in the court.

Their lack of confidence does not mean that they do not believe that the imperial court can defeat the Turks, but that they do not believe that the imperial court can protect them when they are fighting the Turks.

After all, a war together is a collision between countries.

The gains and losses between a city, a place, a grass and a people, the superiors will not care about it.

What the superiors want is a comprehensive victory. If a city, a place, or a part of the people can be sacrificed in exchange for a comprehensive victory, then any wise superior will not hesitate.