Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 257 Princess Yangu's Confusion

Under the heavy snow, not only the wilderness is white, but the city of Liaoyang is also white.

Sweeping the Khitan and Xi tribes, wiped out Jia Xun's Youzhou rebels who rescued the Xi tribe, won three battles and three victories, defeating and annihilating more than [-] troops in total.

Of course, the Anton Army itself would inevitably suffer many casualties.

There were 210 Anton Army soldiers, and 560 were killed or injured.Among them, 650 people died in battle directly, or were still seriously injured and died in battle after treatment, and the remaining [-] people were taken all the way back to Liaoyang City to recuperate.

The captives of the Khitan tribe were handed over to Princess Yangu and Yelucha, and the prisoners of the Xi tribe were also handed over to the newly established leader of the Xi tribe. Only the Youzhou rebel prisoners were brought back to Liaoyang City. .

The reason why there are so many is that Li Fei ordered the Blue Dragon medical team to rescue the seriously injured rebel soldiers as well as those who could be saved.There's no way, the Anton Governor's Mansion is short of people.

With the development of the Anton Protectorate's Mansion to such an extent, the population potential was basically exhausted, and the more than 400 captives were rare young adults.Although they used to be anti-army soldiers, after all, almost all of them are Han Chinese. Li Fei is going to "educate" them first, let them realize the huge mistake of following the barbarian rebellion of An Lushan, and make them "correct" chance.

It is of course the most appropriate thing to 'educate' the captives to the literati, and Du Fu is the most talented literati in the Anton Governor's Mansion, so Li Fei arranged the matter to Du Fu, and discussed some rough ideas with Du Fu. 'Education' direction and so on.

When Li Fei returned to the army from Youzhou City, when he passed Khitan, Princess Yangu also followed Li Fei to Liaoyang City, she was here to ask Li Fei for someone.

"When did you let me bring the Khitan who captured my father Khan's tribe back to Khitan?" This is not the first time Princess Yangu asked.The last time Li Fei attacked Chifeng King City, the Khitan women and children captured from the city were all Khitan people from the Huaixiu Khan tribe. It is understandable that the Khitans of the Khan tribe returned to Khitan.

"They live very well in the Anton Protectorate's Mansion, why do you want them to go back to Khitan?" Li Fei said helplessly.After such a long time, the more than 5000 Khitan people in Chifeng King City have already become part of Anton's production, and he would never consider letting Princess Yangu bring them all back to Khitan.

"They are originally from Khitan, shouldn't they go back to Khitan?" Princess Yangu asked back as a matter of course.

Li Fei stared at Princess Yangu, and Princess Yangu looked at Li Fei without flinching.

After a while, Li Fei opened his mouth to speak.

"Forget it, I'll take you to a place first."

The place where Li Fei took Princess Yangu was more than 100 miles south of Liaoyang City, in Haicheng County, Xinxing County near the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula.

Haicheng County has the largest garment industry production base in the Anton Governor's Mansion, and it is also the place where the largest number of Khitans returned from the captives were resettled. Nearly [-] Khitan women and children were resettled here.

Khitan women are engaged in clothing production and get wages when they go to work, while their children receive free education, study, and practice calligraphy in the city, living a very comfortable life.

It is said that they are Khitan people, but in fact, whether they are women or children, the clothes and headgear they wear are no different from those of Han people, and many of them have even learned some Chinese.

Li Fei didn't directly disturb the life of any of their households, but took Princess Yangu to a high point in an attic, and let her observe the daily life of those Khitan women and children through a telescope.

"I didn't treat any of them badly. They only work four hours a day and have a whole day off every seven days. They can get a full salary every month. They don't have to worry about food and clothing. They live comfortably and even Some Khitan women even married local Han men. They don’t have to bring their children to suffer from cold and starvation on the grasslands. They don’t have to worry about cattle and sheep freezing to death because of the too cold weather. They don’t have enough food in the coming year. They are guarding against possible enemy attacks, and they don’t have to worry about their men or adult children going out with bows and arrows and scimitars and never coming back——"

"They are happy now, and their children are also happy. With the further development of the Anton Protectorate, they will be even happier. Why do you disturb their happy and comfortable life now? Why do you think they are happy?" Are you still willing to go back to Khitan with you now, and go back to the old life of losing men and children at any time, year after year? You—"

Princess Yangu has been looking through the binoculars for most of the day, and what Li Fei took her to see happened to be the current families of two of the Khitan women who carried the stretcher for her back then.

Through the binoculars, Princess Yangu saw the happiness on their faces, and saw their children playing happily with other children. That was happiness she had never seen on the grassland.

On the grassland, every adult man is a soldier. Almost every Khitan family and every Khitan woman has experienced the death of her own man or child in battle. Many Khitan women, their children have just grown up, the first It is commonplace to die in battle as soon as you go out in one day.

On the grasslands, women without men had a hard time surviving. They had to find another man after the death of their own man, and give birth to another child after their own child died. Every month, a 'husband' died in battle, and every month for several months, he was 'married' to another Khitan man.

People who have not lived in the grassland cannot understand the hardships of the grassland.

Every word of Li Fei seemed to hit Princess Yangu's heart directly, making her face even paler.

"But they are originally Khitan people, that's their fate—" Princess Yangu murmured, but in the end, even she couldn't go on talking, because in that case, she felt that even she could convince herself No, my heart was suddenly at a loss.

"The Khitan people are no different from the Han people. They are all human beings, and their fate can be changed. They all have the right to pursue comfort and happiness. Peace, without too many worries, is the greatest happiness." Li Fei said lightly, eyes There was a flash of calculation.

"Murhu is still fighting for Mount Anlu. When he hears about what happened in Khitan, he will definitely return to Khitan to take back Khitan. At that time, you, Yelucha and the leaders of the various ministries will inevitably have a battle with him. I promise you, wait After you defeated Mu Erhu and stabilized the Khitan completely, I asked you to ask all the Khitan people in the Anton Protectorate Mansion one by one, and I will not stop anyone who voluntarily returns to Khitan with you!"
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