There is a way to prohibit the order, Fang Niu's order was conveyed, and officers at all levels moved one after another. It's just that it is too difficult to draw 1,000 scholars out of an army of 10,000, and I can barely find more than 700 qualified to teach.

But the recruitment of soldiers and the help of the local people to open up trade routes were vigorously unfolded.

The local people basically meet these topics, and those who don't know these topics will be laughed at for just coming out of the forest.

Piguero's face was black at the moment, and when he learned the news, the recruitment of soldiers had already made a big noise.

So he was going to find Fang Niu to settle accounts, and when he saw that the people were going to sign up, he specially sent someone over to ask, but the group was despised by the people as turtles.

"Treat my royal family as if it were nothing, this is good! Those who don't know think he is the king of Nanzhao. ”

Pigro had a gloomy face, and said with a sneer, if it weren't for the officials around him to persuade him to restrain himself, he would have led his troops to slaughter Fang Niu now.

"Haha... How can the king have time to come to my harbor today, this official is really disappointed. ”

Before Fang Niu's laughter arrived, Pigero's face jumped, where did he still need to report to Fang Niu in his own land?

"This king has come to learn something about the envoy."

Pigero's voice trembled slightly, a characteristic of anger that was too much to suppress. Especially when he found out that the people guarding the gate were actually his people, he almost threw a punch in Fang Niu's face.

"Haha, the king just asks, and the official must know everything."

Fang Niu said heartily, Pigro stared at Fang Niu and said word by word, "You just let this king say it here?" Who are you king? ”

The entrance and exit of the wharf were full of people coming and going, and there were men and sellers, and a train of horses passed by, and it was dust flying. There was a luxurious mansion in the docks, and it was etiquette that he should be invited in.

Fang Niu was born with a proud body, he squinted his eyes and looked down at Piguero for a moment before pretending to be ashamed and said, "It's not the official's, I was very happy to see the king, and I actually forgot to invite the king to the official's office, it's really rude." ”

Piguero snorted coldly and walked directly towards the docks, where was he happy, it was obvious that he ignored his existence.

The two sides sat in a clear line, with the pro-Fang Niu and his subordinates on the left, and Piguero and his officials on the right.

Pigro's face sank like water, but his officials did not have a black face, and looked at Fang Niu with a smile one by one. The Tang Dynasty supported the business of Nanzhao, and these officials all sent their children to participate, which was very beneficial to them.

"The king doesn't seem to be in a very good mood, but I don't know what the king wants to ask?"

Whether it was enthusiasm or Piguero's face at the dock just now, it was all Fang Niu's show to the people, and at the formal meeting, his every move was very serious.

"The envoy is grateful for helping me to do business and trade in Nanzhao, but does the envoy need to give an explanation to the king when he recruits troops in my Nanzhao? Otherwise, this king will have to ask the suzerain, the emperor, to understand, when did the people of our country become the people of the Tang Dynasty, and they can actually serve in the Tang Army. ”

Piguero said very strongly, it is enough for him to show his loyalty to Datang by drawing such a large piece of land, but this envoy is not good!

"Don't misunderstand, the king must not misunderstand, recruiting troops and buying horses is the right of your imperial court, although this official is an envoy of the kingdom, he also has no right to recruit troops and horses in your country."

Fang Niu hurriedly explained to Pigelow, and when Pigelow heard it, he immediately turned his face, swept the things off the table, and gritted his teeth and said, "Didn't the envoy think that this king was so incompetent that he didn't know anything?" You have recruited in our country, and now even the soldiers who are on duty are the king's people, and now you say that you are not recruiting soldiers. Isn't it too much of a deception? ”

"Misunderstanding, the king misunderstood. We're not recruiting soldiers, we're hiring, we're hiring. Although we already have an army of 10,000 people, it is not enough.

His Majesty once asked the official to recruit 20,000 soldiers in Lingnan, but the official told His Majesty that he was afraid that the people of Lingnan would be unwilling to cross the ocean, and second, if he increased the army, he was afraid that the king would think too much, so His Majesty dispelled the idea.

In order to replenish the troops, we decided to hire some soldiers in the local area, those powerful people are hired by our Tang Dynasty, we give them money to do things, in addition to this official also wants to hire 5,000 soldiers from the king, a soldier is ten taels of silver a year for our king, and this year their food and salary are responsible for us. We call such soldiers mercenaries, and I wonder if the king will be willing. ”

Fang Niu's explanation didn't make Pigelow let down his guard, he really wasn't a faint king. It's just that many of his words are out of his mouth.

"King, if you have these 50,000 taels of silver, not only can you raise 10,000 soldiers for a year, but you also have extra money to renovate the palace..."

Pigro's close ministers said excitedly in his ear, the current Nanzhao should not unify the six edicts, and the whole country is poor! I don't know how to describe it, 50,000 taels of silver is a lot of money.

More than 20 years ago, they should have been able to exchange a large amount of gifts from the imperial court through annual tribute, but since Cai Cong stirred up the situation, they added a little bit to the imperial court as a return gift, and they don't know how many years they haven't seen a large amount of silver.

Jinchen's words made Piguero a little moved, but he still shook his head rationally, the military power could not be easily lent, and he did not dare to lend it to Fang Niu.

Fang Niu was a little disappointed when he saw Pigelow's refusal, he tried to move Pigelow, but unfortunately Pigelow was not moved at all, but asked Fang Niu to return the recruited people.

"There is indeed a shortage of manpower on the official's side, otherwise, these people's kings will let the officials hire them, which can be regarded as borrowing soldiers from the king, but they are not trained like soldiers, so we can only give the king three taels of silver a year per person, what does the king think?"

Fang Niu gritted his teeth and compared three fingers, and Pigero was immediately entangled, just a flat-headed people, what about lending it to Datang? In the past, the generals of the docks should have borrowed troops from him to fight pirates, but they had not been given a penny.

"They are all the people of this king, and this king will never favor one over the other, and one person will pay ten taels of silver!"

Thinking of this Pigelow crossed his two index fingers and made a cross, his appetite was really great, and 20,000 people would give him 200,000 taels of silver a year.

Fang Niu shook his head decisively and said to Piguero, "The source of our money is the commercial tax collected by the wharf, and there is not so much silver at all, otherwise the official would have borrowed 10,000 soldiers instead of 5,000 soldiers just now, not to mention that the people really can't be compared with the soldiers." ”

"Eight taels, 20,000 young men have been taken away by you, many of our fields will be barren, and eight taels of silver is no longer expensive."

Piguero said loudly, in fact, there is a fart effect on him, men are not there and women are farming, if anyone does not pay taxes next year, the house can be emptied for you.

"It's not okay, our army can't get so many silver taels, how about four taels, it's not a small amount. Eighty thousand taels a year is not a lot. ”

"Seven taels!"

"Five taels, at most five taels, if it is more, it is really impossible to take it, and the official has no choice but to show the Holy Son of Heaven and ask the court to send troops."

Fang Niu said firmly, and Piguero thought about it and finally nodded in agreement. 100,000 taels of silver is also a large amount, I can't say that he can still use this money to recruit troops and horses, and expand the territory!

After the negotiation, the faces of both sides looked much better, and Fang Niu immediately set up a banquet to invite Pigro, and the two sides were the guests and hosts, and they were drunk.

Above the banquet, Niu will send Mr. Teaching to open up the idea of people's wisdom for the people of Nanzhao, Pigero tried to open his drunken eyes, held Fang Niu's hand and called himself wrong Fang Niu, the gratitude was overflowing, making Fang Niu's thick black people a little ashamed.

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