The expeditionary force of the Tang Dynasty was a long-distance sea voyage with limited transportation capacity, so there were strict standards for the value and size of the looted goods, and only gold, silver, jewelry, and other items of high value and small size were allowed to be robbed, and the value of more than 3,000 boxes of treasure should be very high. In the same way, for women, it is only allowed to plunder the young and beautiful.

Li You nodded, expressing satisfaction.

The next thing is the most concerned thing - the spoils.

Looking at the greedy eyes of the generals, Li You smiled and said, "According to the rules of last time, get rid of the part handed over to the imperial court, and divide it." ”

The generals cheered.

In this expedition, Li You still did not let the imperial court bear the costs, and adopted the method of supporting the war by war, and was responsible for his own profits and losses.

According to the distribution ratio he submitted to Li Chengqian for approval, one-third of the looted property was handed over to the imperial court, one-third was reserved for the funds of the expeditionary force, and the remaining one-third was distributed to the whole army according to the size of the merit and the level of official position. Women are not in the realm of property, and are all at the disposal of the expeditionary force.

The distribution of the spoils was carried out on the spot, and the parts that were left for the common use of the court and the fleet were soon set aside.

For the rest of the part, it is to be distributed to the soldiers of the whole army, of course, there is Li You's share, and the generals all looked at Li You and asked him to choose first.

For Li You, the soldiers have great respect for them, they can be promoted and make a fortune, all because of the opportunities provided to them by Li You, so they left the prince's property, and everyone was willing.

Li You has money, and he will not compete with the soldiers for property, he takes a little symbolically every time, and leaves the rest to the soldiers. He said: "We will go to Persia in a few days, and we must not leave empty hands when we are guests, so let's leave 50 boxes of jewels and 20 women and give them to Hamid." ”

This time, there were more than 1,000 boxes of property, and Li You did not take much of it, and the soldiers were very happy and quickly divided the remaining property.

Next, the generals had no intention of leaving, and looked at Li You one by one.

Li You was a little curious and asked, "Do you have anything else?" ”

Liu Renliang said: "Lord Wang, Tianzhu is so rich, let's go and rob him of a few more cities." ”

"Yes, Lord Wang." The generals said one after another.

Li You smiled: "You guys are old hats, and you haven't seen the world." Haven't you heard, good things are in Rome, if you want to grab something, go there and grab it. Besides, Tianzhu has been handed over to the King of Lingnan and Su Guogong to fight, are you embarrassed to rob them with them? ”

"That's right, it's great to go and rob the Romans."

"What the prince said is right, how can we rob them with the King of Lingnan and the Duke of Su Guo, it is indeed inappropriate."

When Liu Renliang and the others heard that they were going to rob the richer Romans, they were all elated, and they were no longer interested in attacking Tianzhu Kingdom.

After dinner, Li You was drinking tea and chatting with Liu Renliang, when Baihu came in and said, "Lord Wang, there are really some good-looking women in Tianzhu, the little one specially picked two more, let them serve you." ”

Bandi, who was serving on the side, suddenly became nervous when she heard this, she was now in charge of serving Li You, and she already had a sense of security by his side, and she didn't know what to do with other women.

Li You said: "Forget it, I don't need it." I said that I would leave ten of them, and the extra two should be sent back. "The devil is in the details. Li You originally said that he would leave ten women at that time, and if he wanted two more, although the soldiers would not say anything, but this kind of taking advantage of the matter, Li You would never do it, and the real prestige of a great man was gradually established in this little detail.

Baihu has been following the prince for so long, so he naturally understands him, but he just saw that there were too few people serving around the prince, so he ignored this matter for a while. He said, "Yes, my lord, the little ones will send them back immediately." ”

Liu Renliang saw that the prince was so trustworthy, which added to his reverence for the prince.

Bandi didn't understand the problem in the middle, and when she heard Li You say this, she was relieved, her palms were sweating, and she found that she was so nervous, and suddenly, a thought popped up in her heart: "Doesn't the prince want other women to serve, is it because of himself?" ”

Bandi was a little ashamed, a little expectant, and his heart was very confused, and he stood there in a daze.

Subsequently, Li You sent telegrams to Li Ke and Cheng Yanjin respectively, informing them of today's attack on Tianzhu, sharing his impressions of the Tianzhu country's navy and army operations, and reminding them that the expeditionary force did not encounter the main army of the Tianzhu people in this operation, and they still couldn't figure out the real strength of the Tianzhu people, so they should not underestimate the enemy. It is recommended that they be fully prepared before launching an attack on the Tianzhu Kingdom.

That night, the fleet continued to sail towards the Persian Gulf.

Damascus.

After returning to China, Pedilan reported to the Caliph and the Council of Elders on the situation in the Tang Dynasty, and they were deeply impressed by the strength of the Tang Dynasty. Everyone unanimously agreed that Pei Dilan's efforts to make friends with the Tang Dynasty were correct and fruitful, and praised Pei Dilan for obtaining a lot of benefits from the Tang Dynasty for the Great Food Empire.

In short, Pei Dilan's trip to the Tang Dynasty greatly enhanced his status in the Great Food Empire.

The caliph's health was not as good as before, and he recovered a lot under the careful care of Gao Henian. However, Gao Henian had already realized that the caliph was just returning to the past, and there was not much time left for him.

On this day, Pedilan finally made a request to his father Caliph that he wanted to succeed the Caliph.

Although the caliphate of the Great Food Empire was for life, it was not hereditary, and after the death of the previous caliph, the next caliph was elected by the Council of Elders. There were a total of ten elders of the Great Food Empire, including the caliph, and it was not easy for Pei Dilan to gain the support of the other nine elders.

Although the caliph thought that Pedilan's succession was unlikely, he still agreed to help his son fight for it.

According to the method discussed by Li You and Pei Dilan, the first step is to let Pei Dilan gain military merits, expand his influence, and establish his status in the army.

Under the arrangement of the caliphate, the Great Food Empire decided to launch another war against the Byzantine Empire, and the Great Food Empire formed a Western Expeditionary Army. The Western Expeditionary Army was divided into two routes, the north and the south, and Pei Dilan became the commander of the Southern Route Army. The Great Food Empire plans to officially launch an offensive against the Byzantine Empire in early February next year.

Pei Dilan contacted Li You and asked him to lead the Tang expeditionary force to cooperate with him in his attack on Byzantium.

On this day, the expeditionary force entered the Persian Gulf, and Hamid personally went to the Persian Gulf to meet with Li You.