The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 429
"Let's go, ignore them, let them play by themselves."

Facing Tang Jun's menacing charge, the team leader Xue Yantuo said angrily.

Then he was ready to continue patrolling according to the established route, and the other team members didn't say anything when they saw this, and followed behind and continued to move forward.

It's just that some people were dissatisfied and deliberately made loud noises and mocked, and some even raised their hands in greeting as a sign of welcome.

Don't you Tang people want to use this method to show off your force and mock us, then we will treat you as acting clowns and applaud you.

But soon someone noticed something was wrong.

"Captain, why haven't these Tang people stopped?"

The captain looked back and found that the cavalry of the Tang army had entered within a hundred meters, but there was no intention of slowing down.

You must know that in the past when the two sides played with each other, they usually kept a safe distance of [-] meters away, so as not to really miss the shot.

But today this Tang army has crossed the [-]-meter safety line, what do they want to do?
But at this time, he still didn't think too much, just annoyed the other party for going too far, so he said: "Shoot the arrow to warn them not to come closer."

Immediately, several Xue Yantuo soldiers took out their bows and arrows and shot at Tang Jun, but looking at the crooked arrows, it was clear that they were not serious.

With such a delay, the distance between the two sides has been shortened to within 50 meters.

Seeing that the Tang people still had no intention of stopping, the group of Xue Yantuo finally realized that something was wrong.

But the next moment something happened that made them feel heartbroken, and the Tang army also took out their bows and arrows and shot at them.

It's just that Tang Jun didn't shoot in the open space, but on them.

"Ah!" The two Xue Yantuo people were caught off guard and shot to the ground.

At this moment, no matter how stupid the Xue Yantuo people were, they knew what had happened. They were shocked and angry: "How dare they want to start a war with me, Xue Yantuo?"

It's just that no one paid any attention to them. The cavalry charged 50 meters at full speed and arrived in the blink of an eye. Tang Jun's bright blade was already in sight.

It is very important to accelerate the cavalry charge in advance. One side came prepared, and the other side was caught off guard. The result is needless to say.

In the blink of an eye, the entire Xue Yantuo team was cut down to the ground.

This centurion team was led by Hua Wu. He shook the blood on the halberd and shouted: "Brothers have collected the food, don't fucking grab it."

At this time, one of his subordinates came to report: "Captain, Zhao Zhen is dead."

The smile on Hua Wu's face froze, and he asked, "How did you die?"

His subordinates reported: "He was unlucky, he was shot in the mouth by a flow arrow."

Hua Wu opened his mouth again and again, and finally spit out a sentence: "Then he should die."

Such bad luck, as it should be.

Although their troops are not fully armored, they have armors for important parts, and they wear arrow-releasing vests made of silk.

Minimize the damage caused by the opponent's bow and arrow during the charge.

But being shot directly into the mouth, no matter how thick the armor is, it is useless, and it can only be blamed for his bad life.

Facing this kind of people who died in battle, Qianqi has a completely different way of dealing with other wrongdoers.

I saw Hua Wu yelling loudly: "Brothers, stop, this unlucky Zhao Zhen has been taken away by Lord Hades, don't snatch the headless heads, leave them to him."

Hearing that someone died in battle, the excitement of the soldiers calmed down a lot.

Who can remember how many people were killed by themselves during the war, and it is inevitable that there will be controversial heads.

Qianqi's handling rule is that if the heads can be clearly distinguished, they will be divided, and those who cannot be distinguished will be given to those who are seriously injured or killed in battle.

Hua Wu also dealt with it according to the rules, and no one else made any comments.

After all, the people from Paoze are gone, and no one is ashamed to compete with them for their heads.

What's more, if the earthen jar is not separated from the mouth of the well, the general will inevitably die before the battle. No one knows when this kind of thing will happen to him.

For my own sake, no one would object to it.

At the end of the count, there were thirteen unclaimed heads, including the two he hacked to death, exactly fifteen.

After that, the battlefield was cleaned up, the intact horses were dragged away, and the money on the corpses was also searched.

The looted money is kept by oneself, the war horse belongs to the public spoils, three parts are given to the two captains, and the rest is shared equally.

Everything was tidied up, and everyone quickly evacuated, leaving only dead bodies on the ground.

At the same time, countless similar incidents took place in this buffer zone, and Xue Yantuo lost more than ten 'patrol teams' in just a few days.

This is already a large number, and the key point is that the significance of this matter is extraordinary.

Tang Jun is really dead, which is more serious than death.

Facing the information sent by his subordinates, Yi Nan's face was solemn, and he said: "Restrain your respective deployment, and don't easily exaggerate the buffer zone."

"Send someone to the Tang army to question why they attacked our army for no reason. Then send someone to Chang'an to tell Tian Khan about the matter and ask him what his intention is."

Seeing how he dealt with it, everyone didn't say anything.

Don't look at them usually being very arrogant and claiming to be the masters of the prairie, but they are really upset to start a war with Datang.

No matter how powerful the Eastern Turks were, they were wiped out, and Xue Yantuo was not as good as the Eastern Turks, so they dared not start a war easily.

After all his subordinates left, the expression on Yi Nan's face became relaxed.

His son Yemang asked strangely: "Why is father like this?"

Yemang is his eldest son, and Yi Nan's favor for him is even higher than that of his eldest son.

He had written to Datang before, asking him to divide Xue Yantuo into two after his death, one for the eldest son and the other for the eldest son.

From this, it can be seen how much he loves the eldest son of the concubine.

Facing the son's question, he did not hide anything, and said: "The people of Tang are making a move at this time, which means that they are not ready to go to war with me, Xue Yantuo."

Seeing that he was still puzzled, he explained: "Before hitting someone, you have to retract your fist, so that the next punch will be more powerful."

"And when you withdraw your fist, you can also confuse the enemy, thinking that there is a truce."

"If Datang really planned to start a war with me, Xue Yantuo, he wouldn't attack our Tan Ma."

"On the contrary, they will withdraw the troops in the buffer zone, and even lure us to take the initiative to attack, so that they can justifiably send troops."

His eldest son, Ba Zhuo, also joined in eagerly, saying: "In this way, don't you ignore the Turks, don't the people of Tang be afraid of the Turks' renunciation?"

Yi Nan glanced at him, and said lightly: "Do Tang people need to care about the feelings of the Turkic people? As long as the Tang Dynasty is strong, they will not be afraid of anyone's renunciation."

Faced with his father's completely different attitude, Ba Zhuo felt extremely resentful in his heart, but he didn't dare to express it, but he hated Ye Mang even more.

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The Turkic nobles in Dingxiang City were delighted when they heard that Qianqi was attacking Xue Yantuo people.

Tian Khan did not abandon us, and sent troops to do justice for us.

Li Simo, on the other hand, showed sadness in private.

His subordinates were puzzled and asked, "Xue Yantuo will never dare to invade our tribe across the border again. Why is Khan doing this?"

Li Simo said: "Now I am getting more and more confused about Tian Khan's thoughts. If he wants to use me as a Turk to force Xue Yantuo back, he won't intervene at this time."

"But he called Qianqi here at this time, and attacked everywhere as soon as he arrived, which is very abnormal."

The subordinate said: "Could it be that Datang is not yet ready for war?"

Li Simo shook his head and said, "You still don't understand Datang's strength. You don't need to make any preparations to beat Xue Yantuo."

"Send a general to command [-] to [-] troops, and they can be destroyed with one hand."

Xue Yantuo has an army of more than 5. If other forces say that they use [-] to [-] people to destroy such a powerful force, they will definitely be considered bragging.

But if it is Datang, others will only think that three to fifty thousand is too much for Xue Yantuo.

The subordinate paused for a moment, then sighed heavily and said, "Tang's army is less than ten thousand, it is invincible."

This sentence was first released by Qianqi, and it was quickly accepted by people all over the world, and it quickly became a consensus.

This sentence greatly boosted the morale of Datang's army, and correspondingly, the negative impact on the enemy was also great.

In short, the strength of Datang has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Over there, Qianqi also received Xue Yantuo's questioning, and Li Xiaoyi's reply was:

"The buffer zone was designated by the sages of the Tang Dynasty. Neither the Turkic army nor the Xue Yantuo army is allowed to enter, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty."

"Those who disrespect the Son of Heaven will be killed."

The sentence that kills those who disrespect the emperor sent chills down Yi Nan's spine.

This sentence also completely blocked the mouths of everyone in Xue Yantuo, and then all the ministries restrained their subordinates one after another, not daring to step into the buffer zone.

On the contrary, Xue Yantuo's people like to come here.

Because after the buffer zone finally calmed down, Li Xiaoyi once again used his spare energy to cooperate with the local officials sent by the imperial court to open a small discussion field here.

Discussions are not open to anyone who wants to, and it is a capital offense to dare to open a discussion without an order from the court.

But the imperial court cannot forbid the common people to trade privately.

Therefore, in name, this place cannot be called a market, but a trading place formed spontaneously by the common people.

The reason for cooperating with the local government is because the imperial court does not allow the military to do business.

But the government is qualified to come over to collect taxes, and manage this small market in a disguised form by collecting taxes.

As for Qianqi, this small market has nothing to do with them.

They were just ordered to guard this buffer zone and maintain the dignity of the court.

The market is in this area, is there a problem with their protection?

In order to thank them, local officials and local people sent cattle, sheep and delicacies to reward the army. Is there a problem?

Everything looks ok.

The people with the most sensitive sense of money in this world are undoubtedly merchants. It didn't take long for this small market to spread, and many merchants flocked to it.

Datang merchants sold daily necessities such as salt, sugar, tea, porcelain, cloth and silk here.

The frontier herdsmen provide cattle, sheep, livestock, wool, wolf skins and the like.

Li Xiaoyi was wandering here in casual clothes, watching the gradually bustling market, he felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

In fact, compared to fighting, he prefers the sense of accomplishment of building a party from scratch.

In Chen Zhenren's words, farming.

It's just that the Tang Dynasty's first military exploits were the most important, and he was the second son in the family, so the word "founding the country" was not added to the title.

This kind of title is descended from generation to generation, and it will disappear after a few generations.

Even with bad luck, the next generation will be gone.

Only the title of the founding of the country can be hereditary.

No, right now, only the title of the founding of the country is eligible for the feudal kingdom.

Who doesn't want to create a state for himself, that's why he enlisted in the army.

The point is, he does have the talent in this area, and he has a particularly strong view of the overall situation.

He himself knew this, the sage, Chen Zhenren, and his family were all training him to be a general.

And he also knows better that once he becomes a qualified general, the closure of the country will have nothing to do with him in the short term.

No matter how great his achievements are, unless he is marginalized because of his crimes.

This is why for the second enfeoffment, some clan relatives and marginalized founding nobles were still enfeoffed, and none of those bigwigs moved.

And those big guys are not in a hurry.

Because they knew that the imperial court did not grant them titles, but that they were too important to be separated from them.

Conversely, once the imperial court seals them the country, it means leaving the center of power.

For those big bosses, this is intolerable.

As for the closure of the country, they want to get it at their fingertips, but they are not in a hurry.

Wandering on the street, looking at this kind of commodity, then looking at that kind of commodity, and chatting with market merchants to understand the market.

He behaved like a rich boy.

What impressed him the most was the tea bricks. Looking at the tea bricks wrapped in yellow paper, he couldn't help but sigh:
"Tell me how Master Chen's brain grows. This kind of food that pigs don't eat in our place can be exchanged for a sheep by making a pound of tea bricks like this."

Jing Hengyan also took it seriously and said: "Yes, this is made of old and rotten tea that is not needed. There are three or two stalks of tea per catty, just like this prairie man still treats it as a treasure."

"It is said that before Chen Zhenzhen came up with the idea of ​​tea bricks, tea was a luxury in the grasslands, and many people only drank a little when they were sick."

Li Xiaoyi nodded and said: "It is said that grassland people eat too much oil and need tea to wash their stomachs, otherwise they will easily get that disease."

The tea business was not done by Chen Jingke, but his advice to his grandson Wugou.

A tea industry alliance was formed to open up various markets and find a market for tea with this alliance as a spearhead.

After three years of operation, the initial results have been achieved. Every year, one item of tea can contribute millions of dollars to the imperial court.

This money is not worth mentioning for the current Datang. The problem is that the area covered by tea is too large.

China Tea's tea farmers, participating businessmen, etc. can all benefit.

The tea farmers' tea has a market, and the common people have benefited from it. This is the real reason why Changsun Wugou insisted on promoting the tea trade.

There are many similar situations, such as the salt fields in Dizhou, Qingzhou and other places, and the common people also benefited.

There is also the canning factory opened by Changsun Wugou in the coastal area, which gave the common people a market for their catch.

From the small to the big, the whole country is changing little by little, and the lives of the people are much better than before.

The vitality of the Central Plains Dynasty is recovering at an astonishing speed.

This is still related to Chen Jingke. With the lobbying he refused to listen to, Guan Zhong's thought of enriching the people and strengthening the country was gradually accepted by the top officials of Datang.

The imperial court's control and restraint on the people is being loosened bit by bit.

Time passed slowly, and it soon entered June. Xue Yantuo, whose war horse had been fattened up, finally couldn't help but move around.

But when everyone was paying attention to the upcoming war, an unexpected event that no one thought of disrupted everyone's plans.

Qibi Heli led his troops to defect against the Tang Dynasty and fled in the direction of Xue Yantuo.

(End of this chapter)