Chapter 467: Sweeping Nanyang III

On the 10th, the city passed quietly amid the cries of the people, and the Buddhist temples that were once the most dazzling in the city, with magnificent and splendid buildings, were reduced to ruins, and thousands of monks and nuns were living in the streets of Ai Ai, begging for food from passers-by in tattered clothes.

A third of the city's buildings were set on fire when the Tang army plundered the city, and the charred, slain corpses were scattered everywhere, uncleaned, and they all began to rot and smell of rancid in the hot weather. Whether it was the death of Sri Buddha or the fact that he had not been able to run away from doing business here, the merchants of Tianzhu, Persia, and Linyi, who had lost their fortunes, all looked at the ruins around them with numb expressions. Seeing the Tang Army soldiers passing by, they all looked frightened, and couldn't wait to bend over and kneel on the side of the road with their legs.

Li Yexu inspected the city on his horse, and the natives he saw along the way were very deferential to them and their party, and they knelt down to greet them with fear on their faces, which made him very satisfied. That's what a conqueror should be treated with.

"His Royal Highness still sees it profoundly, for the barbarians who are afraid of power but not virtue, they should kill to stop rebellion, kill them to the bones, and naturally become deferential like a lamb, so that they can be used by the Tang Dynasty......"

After looking at it, Li Yexu said with emotion.

The palace of Sri Buddha in the center of the city is the only building in the whole city that has been preserved intact, and this place will be used as Li Yexu's office station.

The large number of gold and silver treasures in the palace of Sri Buddha in the magnificent yellow hall was not taken by anyone, and it was completely preserved.

Li Yexu entered the hall where the deceased King Sri Buddha held a court meeting, and his eyes were on the pure gold throne weighing 100 catties and inlaid with countless jewels.

The whole hall is supported by dozens of huge teak trees hugged by two people, and there is a layer of gold on it, and the floor is also paved with a finger thick gold brick, not to mention the seats and various dining utensils, which are either made of gold or silver, and the luxurious atmosphere of the local tyrant is paved.

Let Li Yexu and other officials of the Dianzhou Governor's Mansion, who entered for the first time, have a heavy breath and golden eyes.

Anyone took an object in the palace and returned to the Central Plains, and they were all rich overnight, and they lived a happy life as a rich man from then on.

"Governor, the treasures in the palace should be packed as soon as possible and the South China Sea Fleet should be transported back to Pyongyang to present to His Royal Highness King Yan."

There are too many gold and silver treasures in the palace, and many items are still used exclusively by the deceased king of Sri Buddha, and the officials of the Dianzhou Governor's Mansion will not dare to swallow them privately, let alone take them privately. Otherwise, he was sued by several other governors to King Yan, and a private use of the soil king's supplies is a big crime.

Changshi made a dry suggestion to Li Yexu, which made many officials and generals with straight eyes on the side unhappy, although they had robbed enough in the city, but who would think that they had little money?

"Governor, according to the right to distribute the wealth and silk seized by the overseas governors given by King Yan, all the wealth in this palace, our soldiers of the Dianzhou Governor's Mansion can share seventy percent of it. Changshi said that all of them were sent back to Pyongyang for presentation, which is obviously unreasonable? ”

Wealth is moving, not to mention that there is a legal basis, and immediately some people couldn't help but stand up and say greedily.

Li Yexu's face suddenly squinted at him gloomily, and he glanced at the generals and said in a deep voice: "I see that some of you have been in this overseas wilderness for a long time, and you have been dyed with some barbarian breath, I don't know who your surname is?" The entire city outside this palace is full of innumerable gold and silver treasures, and you are not satisfied? Do you want to divide the wealth in the palace into seventy? Is this something we can leave behind? A group of rat-eyed Tian Shefu, do you only have the word wealth in your mind? ”

"Come, according to the long history, count all the gold, silver and jewelry in this palace, make a book, pack them, notify Xue Yao, the commander of the South China Sea Fleet, to check with him, and ask him to send a ship to escort this batch of treasures back to Pyongyang."

The generals had to retract their gaze and reluctantly respond.

"Governor, what should be done with the more than 40,000 Sri Buddha dead people in the city?"

"What's this?"

Li Yexu didn't have a good idea for the time being, this expedition brought 6,000 soldiers, and the South China Sea fleet was only 10,000 people, and broke through the capital of Sri Buddha's death, but its king Long Jing led his troops to flee westward, and there were more than a dozen cities to be broken. After doing this, he had to join forces with Li Wenchang to attack the two kingdoms of Tamora and Heling on Jawa Island, but there were no remaining troops to garrison the place.

"It's better to slaughter them all, the death of Sri Buddha is uninhabited, won't our army sit back and relax?"

"It's not good to slaughter them all, our Governor of Dianzhou needs slaves to cultivate the rainforest and cultivate the fields, and those murderous Dayas in western Borneo can't be used as slaves, so it's much easier to use the farming Sri Buddha as slaves. For example, the Boni Governor's Mansion under the conquest of the Bavo, Marano, and Bori people was driven to cultivate, and three seasons of grain a year, each season collected seventy percent of the harvest, and there was no need to collect taxes from immigrants, and there was still a large amount of grain surplus every year to feed the governors. This is worth learning from the Governor's Mansion of Dianzhou. ”

"Changshi is right, slaughtering is not a way, Chen Tianxi should destroy Mo Luo You, send someone to inform Xue Yao and see how they deal with Mo Luo You, let's make a decision."

"It is not a good thing for Sri Buddha to remain in the city, so from this day onwards they will be cleared out of the city and a concentration camp will be built in a place outside the city, with 5,000 people in each camp. Young men over the age of 14 were organized separately to clean up the ruins of the city, repair the streets and build buildings, and by the way, renovate the city. The low city wall is really not good, and within half a month, it will be rammed to a certain earth, and the height of the city must not be less than three zhang, and the wharf by the Musi River in the east of the city must also be transformed into a port with complete facilities for ships to dock......"

"Olino is not enough, just recruit women, it's not enough, the old and the young are recruited to work, anyway, they are all barbarism, so they don't need to talk about our Chinese virtue of respecting the old and loving the young."

Li Yexu gave the order, and the generals led the soldiers and horses to drive out the natives in the city from the west, north, and south of the city, regardless of whether Sri Buddha died or not, as long as they were not Chinese, they all rushed to the east of the city.

The Governor's Office had planned to build ten civil camps in the east of the city, on the east bank of the Musi River.

In ten days, the natives, who were already alone, had only a few strips of rags on them to cover their shame, and under the threat of thousands of Tang sabers and sticks, they slowly left the city, entered the east bank through the pontoon bridge erected over the Muxi River, and built a concentration camp by cutting down wood and transporting earth with their own hands.

On the day of the establishment of the concentration camp, he sent an envoy to inform Xue Yao, who was in the city of Moluo You, to return, and brought Chen Tianxi and Xue Yao to Li Yexu to discuss the method of disposing of the Moluo Youren and building the Liunu Department.

Li Yexu slapped his thigh and shouted, "I really can't see that these two rough people have come up with such a good idea." Our Dianzhou Governor's Mansion also learned, they have set up a six slave department, let's build a ten slave department, which corresponds to ten concentration camps in the east of the city. The slave department forbade business and soldiers, divided the labor, cultivated the wasteland and planted grain, mined the mine, and felled the wood. ”