After the leaders of the three major tribes, Ba Simi, Ge Lulu, and Hui Hui, all agreed to the oath, and the leaders of some other small tribes, such as Luo, Fugu, Guligan, Bayegu, and Fuluo, all stood up and expressed their willingness to take the oath. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hahaha······ Ok, good, good! Zhao Ziliang laughed and stood up, picked up his wine glass and said loudly: "Come, leaders, celebrate the success of our alliance, have a drink together!" ”

"Drink!" All the chiefs stood up with their glasses in their glasses and drank loudly.

After drinking, Zhao Ziliang beckoned these leaders to eat again.

Zhao Ziliang just swore an oath with all the leaders that whoever destroyed the Turkic Baimei Khan would suggest to the emperor and the court who would be canonized as the lord of the grassland, which made Cheng Yuanzhen shocked, the emperor and the court did not have such a meaning, the Tang Dynasty's established national policy on the grassland is to maintain stability on the grassland, so that the tribes who are unwilling to submit to the Tang Dynasty will be submitted, and Zhao Ziliang is obviously making decisions without authorization.

Cheng Yuanzhen didn't dare to interrupt Zhao Ziliang when he was talking just now, after all, it is still Zhao Ziliang here, Cheng Yuanzhen has been in the palace for so long, this overall situation is still there, and now that the alliance is over, he immediately got up and walked to Zhao Ziliang's side and whispered: "Master Hou, take a step to speak!" ”

Zhao Ziliang didn't think much about it, got up and walked to a no-man's place with Cheng Yuanzhen, and asked, "Father-in-law Cheng, what's so mysterious?" ”

Cheng Yuanzhen said: "Lord Hou, you just promised these tribal leaders that as long as anyone kills the White Eyebrow Khan and exterminates the Turks, you will ask Your Majesty to canonize whoever is the lord of the grassland, but Your Majesty and the court have not formulated this kind of national policy, this kind of thing is a major matter of the country, Lord Hou, you must not make a claim, once this matter is in the middle of the court, the future of Lord Hou is worrying!" Now these leaders haven't left yet, it's better to go out to our family and tell them, just say that Hou Ye drank too much just now, and what he said is nonsense, don't count, how about it? ”

After Zhao Ziliang listened to Cheng Yuanzhen's words, he looked left and right, and when he saw no one, he smiled and said: "Father-in-law, just rest assured, of course General Ben knows that the imperial court does not have this national policy, and General Ben also intends to fulfill this promise, this is just a bait released by Ben General to let them kill each other!" ”

"I see!" Cheng Yuanzhen suddenly realized, but he quickly frowned and said: "Master Hou, don't be too long-winded with our family, this fact is too big and not easy to control, once things are out of the control of Lord Hou, the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”

Cheng Yuanzhen, as the supervisor of Mobei, certainly has the right to ask about this kind of thing, after all, this is related to the interests of Datang, and if it is not handled properly, it will bring big trouble to Datang.

Zhao Ziliang understands that Cheng Yuanzhen will have such a big reaction, after all, the eunuchs have been in the palace for a long time, and they can't participate in the decision-making of national affairs, they can only be driven by others, and they are relatively timid, and Cheng Yuanzhen is one of the main responsible persons in this matter, in case something happens, he, the prison army, is not less responsible than Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang nodded, looked left and right, and saw that Brehan was standing at the door of the big tent, so he beckoned him to come over and instructed him to take people to guard the surroundings to prevent anyone from eavesdropping on his conversation with Cheng Yuanzhen.

After arranging the vigilance, Zhao Ziliang analyzed to Cheng Yuanzhen: "Don't worry, father-in-law, now in the north, the three major clans of Gelulu, Ba Ximi and Hui are all subservient to my Tang Dynasty, only the Turks are unwilling to surrender and submit, Your Majesty and the imperial court mean to eliminate the unstable factor of the Turks, as long as the war does not burn into the territory of my Tang Dynasty, nothing else, now in this Mobei there is my Mobei army to deter the ministries, and there are Shuofang troops stationed in Shuofang, as long as the Mobei Zhubu has a slight movement, you can send troops at any time." What Your Majesty and the imperial court need is not a stable and peaceful grassland, the grassland will be calm for a long time, and its strength will increase greatly, which is not good for Datang, only if the grassland continues to be chaotic, it will always be weakened, and my Datang's frontier will be peaceful! Don't look at the big clans of Ba Ximi, Ge Lulu and Hui Hui who are obedient to my Datang now, that's because their strength is not enough, and when they are strong enough to a certain extent, they will no longer listen to my Datang's words, no longer obey my Datang's dispatch, and maybe they will raise troops to invade my Datang territory in the south! Cheng's father-in-law, you have been in the palace for a long time, and you should know everything in the court, the courtiers look harmonious on the surface on weekdays, and everyone maintains a friendly scene when they meet, but secretly they attack each other, compete, and fight, and it is not uncommon to kill people without seeing blood. ”

Cheng Yuanzhen let out a sigh and sighed: "Master Hou's vision, our family is impressed!" ”

This shows his acquiescence to Zhao Ziliang's doing, as long as things are not out of control, he still supports Zhao Ziliang, the current Mobei is inseparable from Zhao Ziliang, the emperor's money bag is pinched in Zhao Ziliang's hands, Zhao Ziliang is willing to work hard, the emperor's money bag is full, and he Cheng Yuanzhen is just a person who takes care of the money bag.

After the end of the alliance, the leaders of the various tribes left one after another, and Zhao Ziliang on the one hand sent people to pay close attention to the attacks on the Turks by the Ba Ximi, Qarlu and Hui tribes, and on the other hand, he personally led people to preside over the sale of pastures.

When Cheng Yuanzhen returned to Chang'an to report to the emperor about the sale and purchase of grassland, Zhao Ziliang had already sent people to spend more than a month to divide the thousands of miles of grassland into several areas, each area was divided into a number of grasslands, and the basic unit of each grassland was 1,000 mu, so people who wanted to buy pasture for grazing should buy at least 1,000 mu per household, and at most 100,000 mu.

In order to manage and protect the ecological environment of the grassland, Zhao Ziliang also instructed the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, the Zhenbei City Lord's Mansion and the Shan Yu Duhu Mansion to jointly issue grassland management regulations.

For example, the grassland management regulations stipulate that each acre of grassland can graze a maximum of one sheep, every two acres of grassland can graze a maximum of one horse, and every three acres of grassland can graze a cow.

Regarding war horses, Zhao Ziliang originally wanted to buy them from the herdsmen if the imperial court needed them, but after thinking about it, he changed his mind, and the breeding and cultivation of war horses could only be in the hands of the government and the imperial court, and it was also a great burden for the herdsmen to let the people raise and cultivate war horses.

For example, under normal circumstances, the imperial court needs 5,000 high-grade war horses, 10,000 medium war horses, and 15,000 low-grade war horses every year, but if the imperial court suddenly cuts expenditures, and does not purchase or purchase less war horses this year or even in the next few years, then a large number of war horses will be stranded in the hands of the herdsmen. The combat ability will decline sharply, so with the extension of time, the value of the war horse will become lower and lower, the herdsmen can not afford this loss, in order to recover the loss, they can only take the risk of smuggling and selling the war horse to other small countries and tribes around the country, thus strengthening the strength of other countries and tribes, which is not good for the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, for the breeding of war horses, Zhao Ziliang decided that Mobeicheng was responsible for setting aside a large grassland alone, sending special people to graze and breeding, and sending officials to manage it. In this way, the extremely important strategic resource of war horses is in their own hands.

Now Zhao Ziliang has tens of thousands of horses in his hands, of which only more than 10,000 are classified in the official record, and the other 30,000 are not recorded, but belong to his private ownership, in fact, these are all trophies, even if Zhao Ziliang does not register a horse in the city lord's mansion, it doesn't matter, but so many soldiers in the Mobei Army need to replace the war horses, and they also need to breed and breed war horses, so more than 10,000 horses, 6,000 cattle and 12,000 sheep are still assigned to the Mobei Army.

As the news of Mobei City's sale of grassland spread in Hedong and Shuofang, a large number of people rushed to Mobei City with money, intending to buy a pasture to graze cattle, sheep and horses.

Zhao Ziliang was very busy, not only to organize people to sell pasture, but also to organize the number of people to sell cattle, sheep and horses, after all, buyers also need to buy cattle, sheep and horses after buying pasture.

As the pastures were sold, an ingot of real gold and silver and a large amount of copper coins flowed into the warehouse of the Mobei City Lord's Mansion and hoarded them.

Standing in the warehouse where gold, silver and copper coins were hoarded, Cheng Yuanzhen was stupid, looking at the mountains of gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins, the corners of Cheng Yuanzhen's mouth kept drooling, Zhao Ziliang is also a person who has seen a lot of gold and silver, after all, he has captured a lot of money in previous battles, and it is common to capture millions of yuan in a battle, but now standing in this warehouse, he is almost dazzled by so many gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins.

Zhao Ziliang came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Cheng, General Ben remembered to tell you that as long as this thing can be done, the money will continue to roll in, far beyond your imagination, now only a small part of the grassland has been sold, and this money will be piled up into a mountain, and there will be more and more in the future!" ”

After a long time, Cheng Yuanzhen took a deep breath and said, "My God, our family has never seen so much money, I'm afraid this is the first and last time in this life!" Master Hou, all this money is registered, how can you and me and the soldiers of the Mobei Army share some benefits from it? It's too obvious, if Your Majesty sends someone to investigate, I'm afraid it will be found out immediately! ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "There is a way, no matter who comes to check, you can't find out, does your father-in-law want to know?" ”

Cheng Yuanzhen immediately became interested and asked eagerly, "What's the way?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Smelting!" The gold and silver are returned to the furnace for smelting, so many scattered gold and silver are too large in size, and the transportation is extremely inconvenient, and it is not conducive to counting the number of weights, in order to facilitate the transportation and counting the number, these gold and silver can only be returned to the furnace for smelting, and there will inevitably be loss in the process of smelting, after all, gold and silver are contained in other magazines, how much is the loss in the smelting process is not how much we say? In addition, there must be some rusty copper coins that cannot be used, and these unusable copper coins must not be sent to His Majesty, right? This is another loss! ”

Cheng Yuanzhen's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he smiled: "Okay, good, this method is good!" (To be continued.) )