Chapter 249: Bloodless Blades

The city of Talas is not majestic, with low walls, only two gates, one on the south and one on the west. The caravans from the direction of Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms and the town of Broken Leaves entered the city from the south gate, and the caravans from the direction of the Zodiac entered the city through the west gate.

Although the city of Talas is located in a barren area, the past business travelers brought goods and prosperity. If it weren't for Li Huaitang's arrival, Prince Erwei's life would not know how moisturizing he would be.

Interests have always been rising, and as the number of caravans passing through gradually increased, the generals at the gates of Talas City naturally became fat in the eyes of many people. Resena is fortunate to be the object of envy and jealousy of everyone, but he is not afraid at all, jealousy is jealousy, if you have the ability, you can also send a sister to fascinate His Royal Highness the Prince!

Resena's comfortable dream was disturbed, her eyelids opened, and the beauty and the mountain disappeared at the same time.

"Which bastard bothered General Ben?" Annoyed, Resena brandished her whip and was eager to rush out of the city and whest those who didn't have long eyes.

"Ray, General Lei, is His Royal Highness the Prince." The soldier held back a smile and waited for Resena's rich expression.

"Bastard! Your Highness has returned, why didn't you tell me earlier. "Self-blame is not Resena's style, and anger still finds a suitable target to vent.

"What are you doing stupidly, and you won't let me go and open the city gate?"

"General, that, it's night, don't you need to check your identity?"

"Fart, who doesn't know that His Highness hunts outside the city during the day?"

Resena's whip finally seized the opportunity and kissed the soldier who dared to ignore the prince's majesty. No one will ever offend Prince Chalwi, and no one will offend his brother-in-law.

Since the city defenders had no opinions, the soldiers certainly did not dare to disobey and collide.

The gates were opened, and the first to enter the city was a group of arrogant horsemen, who seized the weapons of Resena and the soldiers who were guarding the gates, and drove them to a corner with a shout.

The south gate completely fell into the hands of Li Huaitang.

"General, slaughter the city?" The six monkeys were eager to try, not only him, but the whole army, and the experience of being in Broken Leaf City not long ago made them addicted to memories.

"Well, Your Highness the Prince, do you think I should promise my soldiers?" Li Huaitang had an embarrassed expression.

The city of Talas is the lair of Prince Erwei, whose mother was of noble birth and whose clan was in Talas. It was because of this light that Erwei was appointed by Sulu Khan as the lord of Talas City, and it was also a compromise made by Sulu Khan to Erwei's mother's clan in order to marry the princess of Jiaohe.

Born in Si, grew up in Si, and became in Si. Of course, Erwei didn't want to fill the city with bloody knives and ruin his hopes for the future.

"General, take whatever you want, and you will cooperate. I just ask the general not to go on a killing spree, otherwise, this city will be finished. ”

"Good! For your sake, slaughter the city,"

Er Wei was surprised, are all rogues crazy?

"It's free!" After a pause for a long time, Li Huaitang spit out three words, dispelling the boulder that was pressing on Er Wei's heart.

The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and if you can't become a friend, at least it is a force that can be used, and the power of exterminating Erwei will only help Gu Si a lot, and Li Huaitang will certainly not do more harm than good. The more types of forces the Turgish have, the more room they have to maneuver, and the enemy's internal friction will always be more effective than external pressure.

It feels really good to control the puppet, Li Huaitang sat on the throne in Erwei's big tent, and felt a lot, as if he had returned to Qishi City, Erwei was Si Jinti at that time. Although Li Huaitang had already taken Talas City bloodlessly, without the help of Prince Erwei, it would have been a great waste to collect the materials he needed. Now, in the name of Erwei, he only needs to borrow the name of Erwei to issue orders from his big tent, and all the supplies in the city have been smoothly received. Don't give? Then the result will be only to exterminate the family!

The materials Li Huaitang asked for ranged from war horses to camels, from grain and meat to pasture, and weapons such as bows and arrows were swept away.

Not all seizure operations went smoothly, and Lu Shangqing ran into trouble.

"General, those caravans have hundreds of camels, and they refuse to hand them over to us." If it was an ordinary nobleman, Lu Shangqing would not be too lazy to be verbose, let alone alarm Li Huaitang, he only needed to wave his hand, and those soldiers who had been waiting for a long time would naturally rush forward to solve the problem for him. However, for the caravan, he is a bit of a bogeyman, Li Huaitang's policy in Ningyuan City he understands, Ningyuan City's positioning indicates that she will definitely be the capital of merchants in the future. Plundering and slaughtering caravans is undoubtedly an act of self-destruction of the Great Wall.

"Let's go! Let's see! Regardless of whether Prince Erwei wanted to or not, Li Huaitang escorted him overnight to the merchant inn, which was the concentration of merchants who used to rest.

"I bought all your goods, the camels and horses you transported!" Facing the enthusiastic caravan, Li Huaitang quickly cut through the chaos.

"No, no, my buyer has already paid me a deposit, there is no goods, I have to lose a lot!"

"Even if I count on these camels to come back from Byzantium with olive oil, I will make a little more."

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The merchants obviously didn't figure out the situation, because it was at night, the whole city was curfew, and not many people knew the news of the change of ownership of Talas City, and Lu Shangqing was very polite to these merchants, so the merchants were very confident.

The merchants' confidence was also supported by the special circumstances of Talas City. The Turkishes here have always only accepted money, and as long as they pay taxes and additional fees, no one will be embarrassed by them, after all, the prosperity of Talas depends on these merchants.

"If you don't negotiate, if you don't agree, you will confiscate! Lu Shangqing, you are responsible for negotiating the price with them and giving them receipts. If you want money, you will come to me in Ningyuan City, and as for your losses, you will be offset with a year's preferential taxes. Oh, I forgot to tell you that the tax revenue in Ningyuan City is only one-tenth of here. ”

In this era when communication is basically based on roaring, if you want to wait for selfish merchants to spread the convenience of Ningyuan City, it is undoubtedly a matter of seeking skin with the tiger, and if you want Ningyuan City to be known to the caravans of the world, it is necessary to use tough means. The dozens of caravans in Talas City were the objects of Li Huaitang's experiments, and in the future, as long as these merchants came to Ningyuan City to collect debts, the facts in front of them would naturally attract them.

At this time, the merchants finally saw the clue, and Prince Erwei, who had been standing beside the domineering generals, was silent and humble, exactly the same as their virtue in front of those arrogant generals.

It's broken, there's a military disaster!

The hearts of the merchants were sinking rapidly until they froze.