The officers and men of the Tang Army were responsible for counting the losses of the port of Garigar, and they were naturally very good at counting the losses of the Tang Army itself, because they knew very well what was in the ships.

As for so many burned merchant ships, it is not easy to count, because many of the heads of merchant ships were burned to death, and the people below did not know the specific situation on the ship, how much the goods were worth, and some merchants, in order to express their anger against the Lion Kingdom, deliberately exaggerated their losses, and knew that they were lying when they heard it, which made the Datang officials in charge of statistics very embarrassed.

"General, the losses of the merchants are really difficult to count, and besides, many merchant ships have been reduced to ashes, and we have no way of knowing what is on the merchant ships, and only a very small number of them can come up with evidence to prove the cargo of the merchant ships, is such a statistic really meaningful?"

The subordinates counted the circle and reported the situation truthfully.

Li Feiyu took a look at it and said with an indifferent smile: "These businessmen are really good at nonsense, they actually wrote so much, if what these people said is all true, a thousand merchant ships can't carry so many goods!" ”

"What do you mean?"

Li Feiyu said: "Although many of what these businessmen say are not true, we still have to let the Lion Kingdom double the compensation according to this list, of course, we have to keep most of it, and we can't give it all to the merchants." ”

"Understood, subordinates understood."

The subordinates replied and retreated.

Li Feiyu walked to the beach of Garigarh Harbor and said loudly: "Don't cry, listen to what Ben will say." ”

When everyone saw Li Feiyu coming, most of them stopped sobbing, and only a very small number of vulnerable people were still sobbing quietly, trying to make them stop, I was afraid it was impossible, but their voices were very small, and they couldn't affect the overall situation at all.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this time the Lion Kingdom sent a large number of fireships to raid the port of Garigarh, which caused great losses to the merchants and people, many people died in the fire, and the loss of property was also very huge, many merchants suffered heavy losses for this, not to mention those who lost their relatives and companions, however, the army of the Lion Kingdom has been repelled by my Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses, and they have lost a lot of people, which can be regarded as avenging for you, in addition, your losses will also be compensated by the Lion Kingdom as appropriate, and you will not be allowed to lose in vain, so, Don't be sad, you have to believe in Datang, we will definitely make decisions for you. ”

Li Feiyu said loudly.

"Thank you General, thank you Datang, thank you for making decisions for us, thank you."

Everyone knelt and kowtowed, looking very grateful.

"Rise up, all of you! Our Datang is determined to let the people of the whole world live a good life, and we will not let the people be wronged, you can rest assured! All up. ”

Li Feiyu opened his mouth to let the people get up.

Be kind to the people, it sounds good to love the people like a son, and it is not good to say, that is to win people's hearts, in fact, these two are the same meaning, and it is generally difficult to distinguish, but love the people like a son represents sincerity, and enveloping people's hearts has the meaning of conspiracy, and whether a person is really for the people, or people's hearts, who can tell clearly?

However, no matter what the situation is, the actual effect is the same, as long as you give the people a certain benefit, the people will support you in their hearts, whether you are sincere or for the sake of enveloping.

It is human nature to covet benefits, whether it is an official or an ordinary person, they all hope that they can get the greatest benefit, and whoever can give themselves benefits will support whom, and whoever is not good to themselves will oppose whom.

This is the simple class characteristic of ordinary people, who are simple and pure, but it is also difficult to have foresight.

For example, many leaders of peasant uprisings, at the beginning, were able to show their great talents, but when they were close to success, they often fell into crisis.

What is the biggest ideal of an ordinary person, first to eat and clothe warmly, and then to have more wealth, so that he can live a happier life, and finally, if the power is great, then build a big harem, and serve the beauty and wine all day long, and a peasant who has not enjoyed the beauty and wine, after suddenly enjoying this treatment, will fall into it and cannot extricate himself, so as to completely lose the motivation to move forward, and finally die in the gentle country of drunken gold.

There are so many such leaders of the uprising that you can't count them on ten fingers, and this is the limitation of ordinary people, who can achieve temporary victories, but not permanent victories.

In later generations, there was a country that became extremely rich with its rich oil resources, and this country is a democratic country, and all the people have the right to elect the first leader of the country, so whoever is better to the people will finally get the votes for the election and finally realize their political ideals.

Because the country is very rich, all those who want to be president will promise great benefits to the people so that the people can support them.

And because of the competition, both sides are trying to increase their commitment as much as possible to ensure that they will eventually become president.

In this case, the strong demand for benefits of the people forces politicians to spend all the income that the state can obtain to improve people's livelihood, so that the people can obtain tangible benefits.

In this way, a large part of the country's income will be consumed by the people, and it will not be used for more far-sighted projects, which will cause a very terrible consequence, that is, the singleness of the industrial structure.

After the collapse of oil prices, the country's income plummeted, and suddenly there was no money to pay for the promises made to the people, and even caused a series of chain reactions, which plunged the whole country into a state similar to collapse, and the people's paradise life suddenly turned into hell.

At the beginning, when the price of oil was soaring and the country's income was high, it was entirely possible to give the people a little less benefit and use part of the saved money to develop other industries such as agriculture and high technology, so that when the price of oil plummeted, there would be other industries to support the development of the national economy, so as to avoid the crisis of the country falling into collapse.

But in this kind of democracy, this kind of far-sighted politician will not be welcomed by the people, because what the people care about is very pure, that is, whoever is good to them and gives them more benefits, they will support whomever they want, and whatever foresight is not far-sighted, they will roll the calf.

Therefore, the common people are also very easy to use, as long as they are given enough benefits.

As long as Datang gives more benefits to the local people, then the local people will support Datang's rule, so that Datang can rule here stably.

And these local people must not have imagined that as long as Datang has a firm foothold here, all their interests will be in the palm of Datang's hands, and most of the benefits will be taken away by Datang, and they can only get a small part.

However, this process is the process of boiling frogs in warm water, and when they find out, they will already be inseparable from Datang, so they have to work for Datang for the rest of their lives, and of course, they will also get a lot of benefits.

The Lion State's raid on the Datang fleet seemed to have caused certain losses to the Datang fleet and caused Datang to lose a lot of materials, but to a certain extent, it promoted Datang's envelopment of local people and merchants, and allowed the Datang Empire to gain a certain amount of popular support, which was extremely beneficial to Datang.

Li An took his escort and personally went to Gordi, the southern port of Nantianzhu, to prepare to command the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses to attack the Lion Kingdom.

The king of Nantianzhu, Ero, couldn't stay in the royal city, so he also came with his own soldiers, and he said that his army would be the vanguard of the Tang Dynasty and assist the Tang soldiers to capture the Lion Kingdom.

Although Nan Tianzhu's soldiers and horses are not very effective, since Ero has this heart, Li An is not easy to refuse, so he has no choice but to agree.

In the Gordi Harbor, the Tang Army had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the King of Southern Tianzhu, Eero, also brought 3,000 Janissaries with them.

Although the geographical location of Gordy is very important, the port is located in the protruding part of the peninsula, and the territory is not open, but there is a large shoal next to it, and if the land is reclaimed, the area of the port can be increased tenfold, so that this small port can become a large port comparable to the Tang Dynasty's Guangzhou, so that it can accept more merchant ships.

Reclamation is not a very difficult thing for Datang at this time, as long as Datang's dredging ships arrive, such a task can be completed in a few years.

As soon as they entered Gordy, the king and subordinates of Nantianzhu were all shocked by the equipment of the elite army of the Tang Dynasty, and many of the equipment they had never seen before, such as armored assault forces such as ironclad artillery vehicles, artillery units, and many protective equipment without dead ends.

These are the latest cutting-edge equipment of the Tang Empire, representing the highest industrial level of the Tang Empire, and it is a blessing for King Nantianzhu and others to see these advanced equipment.

"Bang ......"

Ero curiously tapped the body of a blacksmith gun carriage with his hand, and exclaimed: "Li Shilang, such a thick iron sheet, a sword can't hurt it in the slightest!" It must be heavy! How many horses do you need to pull it! ”

Li An smiled: "It's really heavy, but you don't need a horse, the chariot can travel on its own, the maximum speed is much faster than the horse, and the power is extremely powerful, come, drive to the fork in the road, bombard the big tree a hundred steps away, let His Royal Highness the king see the power of the ironclad chariot." ”

The ironclad chariot immediately started, with unstoppable momentum, quickly rushed to the bend not far ahead, and immediately slowed down and stopped, and then clicked the turret to aim at a large coconut tree, and fired a cannonball.

With a violent explosion, the tall coconut tree was immediately broken by the bombardment and fell to the ground weakly.

"Good, good, it's amazing, it's amazing."

"Datang has such a powerful weapon, no wonder it can defeat the soldiers and horses of the Lion Kingdom so easily."

"This guy is much more powerful than the elephant troops in Beitianzhu, what the elephant is most afraid of is fright, this boom, the elephant has already been frightened, but will trample on his own team."

"This is the national strength of Datang, and the Lion Kingdom is too self-sufficient."

The ministers of Nan Tianzhu opened their mouths to discuss.

King Eero stroked another ironclad artillery carriage and said: "Datang has brought so many ironclad artillery carriages with him once he went south, it seems that there must be more ironclad artillery carriages in Datang, if this is to attack in a line, no matter how many soldiers and horses there are, it will not be enough to fight!" Such a heavy ironclad cart can crush the enemy's men and horses into pulp! ”

Li An smiled: "Your Royal Highness, this ironclad artillery truck is an important weapon of my Tang Dynasty, of course, this is not the most powerful, what is even more powerful?" ”

"Oh, there are more powerful weapons, I don't know what kind of weapons they are."

Ero asked curiously.

Li An pointed to the Steam Celestial Army mothership anchored in the harbor and said, "You see that ship!" The Heavenly Army fighter plane docked on it is the most elite weapon of my Datang. ”

"Celestial fighters? What a heavenly army! ”

Hérault continued.

Ang Lee replied, "The Celestial Army is an army that fights in the sky, and those weapons can fly in the sky like birds, and then throw weapons that kill and injure the enemy to the ground and strike at the enemy. ”

"Oh my God, they can actually fly in the sky like birds, this is too powerful, Li Shilang, can you let them fly up and take a look?"

King Eero asked curiously.

Li An waved his hand and said, "Your Royal Highness the King should not look at it for the time being!" It takes a lot of money to take off and land, and there is still a certain amount of risk, and the wind and waves are a little strong today, so it still won't take off, but it will definitely satisfy His Royal Highness's wish to see the plane. ”

"Okay, it's good to see it, now that the main army of the Lion Kingdom has been defeated by the Tang Dynasty soldiers and horses, I don't know what Li Shilang plans to do next, is he planning to destroy the Lion Country?"

Hérault asked with concern.

Li An said: "This depends on the attitude of the Lion Country, if their attitude is better, then we can open the net, if they don't agree to my request, then just cross the strait and continue to attack the Lion Country." ”

"Oh, what is Li Shilang's request?"

Eero is very concerned with Ang Lee's request.

Li An looked at Ero and said with a smile: "It's just a small request, just a little land, a compensation." ”

Although it is an understatement, Ang Lee's request is definitely a lion's big mouth, a request to make the lion country suffer a lot.

"Li Shilang, the list of losses from the Garigal seaport has been delivered."

A soldier arrived from Garigarh and handed the list up.

Li An glanced at it and sighed: "Good guy, the loss is so big, this is really enough for the Lion Country to compensate, fortunately, the Lion Country has controlled the trade routes over the years, and must have earned a lot of money, it should be able to afford it, hahaha!" ”