Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 49
Wang Wenzuo questioned the surrounding generals, and everyone said that they wanted to punish those house slaves, and it would be best to pay off the merits and forgive them a little.Wang Wenzuo was not surprised to get such an answer. The Fubing system developed from the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty was actually a compromise with the powerful system in the Guanlong area. It supports and incorporates its military power into the Fubing system.Although the nature of the central army has become more and more serious since then, one thing has not changed, that is, the source of its troops is selected from the wealthy class, especially the officer class, and almost all of them come from powerful families, especially those in Guanzhong. , Longxi, Hedong, Hebei, etc. are close to the border, good at riding and archery, brave and good at fighting.

From the surnames of Liu An, Cui Hongdu, Shen Faseng, Gu Cihang, Yuan Aolie, Zhang Junyan, etc., it is not difficult to see that these people are powerful clansmen in counties and counties, ranging from tens of thousands of acres to hundreds of acres acres of land, raised domestic servants, and some ancestors held official positions in the court. Only such a family can support professional soldiers like them who are skilled in martial arts and skilled in military affairs.For them, the feudal order between masters and slaves is the eternal rule, and those who violate this rule must be severely punished, even if the violation is temporarily beneficial to their side.

"It's a pity!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "I think these slaves should be rewarded!"

"Sanlang! This is a man who betrayed his master!" Shen Faseng became anxious when he heard this: "If Sancho treats you like this—"

"Don't worry, let me finish first!" Wang Wenzuo smiled and raised his hand: "Everyone, we have been in Baekje for half a year, and everyone is not as ignorant of it as it was at the beginning. I dare To put it bluntly, as long as the people of Baekje can unite as one, we can't do anything to them, this land is still theirs after all!"

Everyone was stunned. They didn't expect Wang Wenzuo to say such a dejected sentence suddenly after a big victory, and they didn't know how to answer for a while.Wang Wenzuo ignored it and went straight on: "According to the historical data of the Baekje people, Baekje came from Buyeo, so their kings all took Buyeo as their surname. It was founded in the reign of Emperor An of the Later Han Dynasty, and it has been more than [-] years since then. Changes, but the fate of the country is endless. General Su destroyed his country's capital and moved his royal family and heroes back to Tang Dynasty. But for more than [-] years, dozens of generations of inheritance, how profound is the virtue, how can it be in the wild? Without one or two heroes to lead the army to restore the country? How can the people have no yearning heart? How can this be resisted by manpower?"

"Saburo is exaggerating too much. After all, Baekje is just a small country in the East of the Sea!" Gu Cihang said.

"A small country in Haidong?" Wang Wenzuo smiled and said, "Little Gu, do you remember how many troops were sent by Emperor Wen of Sui to destroy Chen?"

"Divide the troops into five groups, a total of 50!"

"Well, after Emperor Wen destroyed Chen, he checked the records of the treasury. Chen has a total household registration of 50, while Baekje has a household registration of 76. How many people do we have now? Don't forget, the Yellow Sea is much wider than the Yangtze River!"

Facing Wang Wenzuo's rebuttal, Gu Cihang was speechless, and Yuan Aolie thought a little deeper: "Then Sanlang, do you mean that Datang will lose in the end?"

"If the people of Baekje will unite as one, then we will definitely lose. According to the calculation of five households contributing one Ding, the Baekje people can send at least 15 troops, and Waguo and Goguryeo will also support them!"

Everyone was silent. What Wang Wenzuo just said about five households for one household was actually very loose by wartime standards. Three households for one household, two households for one household, and one household for one household were not impossible. There was a situation where all the men were exiled to the army and the strong women were transferred.In particular, Baekje is fighting locally, which means that besides the 15 troops, there are still a large number of township soldiers and united soldiers, and every soldier of the Tang Army has to cross the sea. Such a war of attrition will win the Tang Army anyway. no.The reason why Su Dingfang was able to win so easily at the beginning was because he caught the Baekje people by surprise, and before he could fully mobilize, the capital fell and the monarch was captured, but now it is impossible.

"So if we want to win, the only way is to prevent Baekje people from being united!" Wang Wenzuo said with a smile: "Although what you say is reasonable, don't forget that we are foreigners now, why should we fight for Baekje people?" To deal with the master-slave matter? If they have a master-slave dispute, who will benefit? When we win the battle in the future, it will be too late to re-establish Gangchang!"

"That's right, what San Lang said is reasonable!" Yuan Aolie was the first to agree: "It's good for Baekje people to be suspicious of each other, so what does it matter to us?"

"Well, you have the right to handle things, if it is beneficial to the war, you don't have to stick to it!"

"That's right. Although those house slaves are despicable, as long as it is beneficial to Datang, it is not impossible to let them go this time!"

Apu stopped before being led into the gate. He raised his head and looked at the sky. The snow had stopped, the sun was shining on the sky, and the breeze was blowing, carrying the aroma of turpentine.He couldn't remember the last time he saw such a beautiful sky, and he didn't know if he could see it again.

"Don't dawdle!"

Pushed violently from behind, Apu staggered. Although he couldn't understand what the Tang man said, he could guess it.He walked into the gate with his head down, as if walking into a beast's lair.

Sitting on the chair in the middle, Wang Wenzuo looked at the three young men who walked in with great interest. They were well-proportioned and well-fed from the outside. It was obvious that they were not slaves working in the fields, but Miao Fu's personal slaves. .Without anyone's orders, the three knelt down and kowtowed to Wang Wenzuo.Wang Wenzuo decided to win by surprise: "Can you ride a horse?"

"Ah?" Apu raised his head in surprise, he didn't understand why the leader of the Tang Army would ask himself this question.

"Can you ride a horse?"

"Yes! All three of us know how to do it!" Apu confirmed that he had heard correctly this time, and hurriedly replied, "General, what are your orders!"

"As promised, I allow the people here to leave, but it's winter now, and they only have five days' rations on them, which is very dangerous. I hope you can catch up and tell them that if they want, they can come back here for the winter! Now it's only One night, they must not have gone far, and you can easily catch up with them along the track!"

Apu opened his mouth, completely unexpected that the other party would make such a request. He hesitated for a moment, feeling that he had no room to refuse: "Yes, obey!"

"Very good!" Wang Wenzuo nodded: "For what happened last night, each of you will be rewarded with five pieces of silk and ten stones of grain. In addition, each of you will be rewarded with a house in Chaichuan Village. You can choose!"

(End of this chapter)