Chapter 672: Murder with a Knife
Li Mu never responded to these accusations from beginning to end. In the past few days, he has been doing two things, which is throwing money and killing people.
On the one hand, he asked Li Chongyi to lead people to clean up the trash fish that slipped through the net, and killed them after catching them, and on the other hand, he asked Li Siwen to lead people to start raiding the house, Li Siwen had the experience of 'robbing tombs', and in the skill of finding treasures, he was like a dwarf who had clicked on the talent of 'treasure hunting', no matter where these magnates hid the gold and silver treasures, he could find them, and what basement organs were in front of him were nowhere to hide.
As for the treasure found, Li Mu did not withhold a penny privately. He divided the treasure into three parts, thirty percent was returned to Dingxiang and kept for development, thirty percent was returned to the treasury, packed and ready to be transported back to Chang'an, thirty percent was given to the people of Gaochang, and the remaining one percent was used to reward the three armies.
Gaochang has been established for hundreds of years, and the stock of the treasury is really not small, and the magnates have exploited the people for generations, and everyone is very rich in their families. This time, the 'copying of the house' can be described as a lot of money, and only the thirty percent that were transported back to Datang had as much as 500,000 yuan.
This money is not only enough to support the use of this war, but even has a surplus. can have such a result, thanks to Li Mu's decision, if Gaochang's national leaders and magnates are left, there will be no such windfall.
This is also one of the reasons why Li Mu decided to kill someone, but he will never admit it. It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, so what war does she have no money for? Gao Chang has long been like a pig on a board, and since Ju Zhisheng found Li Mu, its demise was a matter of time.
The battle destroyed Gaochang, and the Tang Dynasty captured the entire territory of Gaochang, three counties, five counties, 22 large and small cities, 8,000 households, 40,000 populations, 5,000 horses, covering an area of 800 miles from east to west, and 500 miles from north to south. When Li Mu got this data, he had only one thought in his heart, Gao Chang was really too small and too small, just like eating meat, opening his big mouth and biting it, it was only enough to stuff a gap between his teeth.
Li Mu roughly calculated that more than half of the more than 40,000 people in Gaochang must be in Gaochang City. In other words, the other twenty-one cities, large and small, add up to not even 20,000 people, which can also be called a city?
But in any case, this is also the work of opening up the territory, Li Mu found a few teachers, and asked them to draft a gorgeous report on his behalf, ignoring all the things at first glance, and describing himself as an effortless, invincible general who descended from the sky, he was like a marshal of Tianpeng, with 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals, and gave a war book to slip on the horse, and Gao Chang took it.
And the attitude of the people of Gaochang has basically stabilized under the offensive of Li Mu with a big stick and sweet dates with one hand. Li Mu's posture of handing out money while killing people is already very clear, so he responded to that sentence, those who obey me prosper, those who oppose me die, and return to the people of the Tang Dynasty, eat and drink well and have money to take, don't you return to obedience? It's okay, can you go, or not? It's very simple and crude.
At the same time, Li Mu also summoned envoys from many countries near Gaochang to announce Ju Zhisheng's criminal act of killing his father and seizing power, as well as the righteous act of the Tang Dynasty Wangshi sending troops to suppress it. In this regard, everyone knows that Li Mu's words are completely nonsense, not to mention that Ju Wentai only has Ju Zhisheng's son left, there is no need to kill his father and seize power, even if this is really the case, what are you doing to kill the powerful people of the family? I can't wait to cut down all the people surnamed Ju in Gaochang, Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it.
It's just that no one dares to say it.
According to some statistics, Li Mu has killed nearly 6,000 people around the past few days, and you must know that there are only more than 40,000 people in the entire territory of Gaochang. That is to say, one of the seven or eight Gaochang people was killed by Li Mu, and such a proportion is no different from a massacre.
Ju He hid in the crowd of ordinary people, and the resentment in his heart had reached its peak. He immediately fled to Tuyuhun that day, returned halfway, and disguised himself as a common man and blended into the city. After observing for two days, seeing that Datang gradually stabilized the situation, and those who did not want to stay, they were also given severance pay, so they also pretended to be one of them and received a severance pay.
He didn't want to take the money, but if he didn't, he didn't have a penny, his house had been raided, all the men in the clan died, and the women were all rewarded to the meritorious as slaves, and he had lost everything.
In this era, it is not easy for a soldier to ask for a wife, and meritorious service on the battlefield is one of the easiest ways to get a wife.
It's just that they don't get it now. Li Mu also saw this kind of distribution method for the first time, and he felt that it was quite reasonable.
This is done in such a way that age and appearance can be preferred according to the size of the meritorious service. But you can't choose a man, for example, if a soldier kills two enemy soldiers during a siege, he can choose a slave of medium appearance who is about twenty years old. And the evaluation of age and appearance is in charge of special people. If you want a wife, you don't have a reward, and in the end, you still treat slaves as a kind of property.
Jun Han will receive a wooden plaque to prove his qualifications, and when he returns to Chang'an, he can exchange this wooden plaque for a female slave who is attached to the wooden plaque. He can also sell this place and dispose of it to him.
These slaves had no choice, and she had to accept it.
After Ju He and the others received their severance pay, they were asked to leave Gaochang City before sunset. After receiving the money, the people who belong to the Tang Dynasty can receive a temporary cloth strip to prove their identity, with their names and identities written on it, which can be compared with the official booklet, and there is no mistake in the decision.
If you don't want to go, it's okay if you don't want to go, but if you are found and you can't get a strip of cloth to prove your identity, then you will be punished according to the details, and there will be no forgiveness.
With the only four people around him, Ju and Grinding, he went out of the city before sunset, and he looked back at the big hole that had not been blocked at the gate of the city, and his heart was miserable. Losing everything overnight, the king of the county, the old country, and the family, the blow is too great.
"Prime Minister, let's fight with him!"
Ju He smiled sadly: "What to fight?" The courage of the horseman! ”
"So what do we do!"
Ju He turned his head, looked to the east, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go to Chang'an!" ”
"Isn't that self-defeating!?"
"No!" Ju He gritted his teeth and said: "There is no hope of recovering the country, there is no hope of revenge, I want the Tang Emperor to lose face in front of the world, and only in this way can we borrow a knife to kill people, get rid of Li Mu, avenge the two former kings and our families!" ”
Seeing that Juhe had already made a decision, they looked at each other, nodded heavily, and said, "I just want to avenge my family, everything is arranged by the prime minister!" Let's go! ”