Duan Wenzhen said with a smile when he heard this: "Yang Chong once deduced this situation in Yulin City, and he has a record in the Ministry of War, called Ding Xice. Yang Chong concluded that after Lord Pei asked Tiele to send troops, our Great Sui would definitely be able to take Tuyuhun; However, since we do not have a suitable spokesperson in Tuyuhun, and Tiele is playing tricks in it, it is likely that we will set up counties in name, but we will only control the Chishui line. Similarly, in the forty-four countries of the Western Regions, even if the so-called soldiers surrender without blood, what they really possess is only what the army is referring to. ”

Yang Wensi asked curiously, "Then what does Yang Chong think?" ”

Duan Wenzhen said casually: "Yang Chong believes that the first thing to occupy is to be able to barely self-sufficiency in food and materials, and secondly, to use the castle and gradually encroach on it himself, just like Tuntian, step by step." We once calculated that 200 acres of land and 20,000 acres can solve the annual food supply of 10,000 soldiers and 30,000 people. ”

Su Wei sneered: "How to deal with cavalry? ”

Duan Wenzhen pointed to Yang Chong's recital and said, "Didn't Master Su see it? Three thousand horse thieves, defeated overnight. ”

"That's the curse, Yang Chong can't tell the reason, you can't have a curse every time." Su Wei unceremoniously accused, and Duan Wenzhen shook his head and said, "Yang Chong once made a suggestion to recruit soldiers based on the example of Tuoba Ning Cong. Emperor Wen opened the emperor for five years, there were more than 1,000 Qiang people who followed Tuoba Ning Cong to Xuzhou to attach, Yang Chong's meaning was to give the Qiang leaders who accepted the rule of the Sui Dynasty to be crowned, and they led the strong men of their tribes to form a soldier. The other is to recruit archers in the local tuntian, and give each soldier a certain amount of fields and pastures to be incorporated into the army. ”

Yuan Shou and Yang Wensi and the others had their eyes flashing, this is definitely a good idea, you can solve a part of the army source on the spot, and immediately the nation itself is good at fighting, as long as it is well controlled, everything is promising. Yang Guang had already heard of this plan, and immediately said: "Send a letter to Yang Chong and ask him to try to recruit a thousand archers first; In addition, five hundred people were trained in the camp of the Reclamation. However, he told him that he would find a way to solve the cost of the 1,500 people in Handchuan by himself. ”

When Yang Chong received Duan Wenzhen's letter, he was depressed and happy, happy that the plan he had designed could be implemented and that he had more power; The depressing thing is where the cost of this first year will be settled. As for Gao Junya's arrival, Yang Chong welcomed it with open arms, the first interrogation of the Chijin Turks has ended, and further torture is needed, a person who can be trusted by the center is needed, and Gao Junya is a good candidate.

Yang Chong has now roughly figured out the structure of the Chijin Turks, just like the rat club of the pyramid scheme in later generations, with layers of network relationships, and the people at the bottom only know the top bosses, and are not familiar with the people above at all. In fact, the main task of the Han and Sogdians was to collect intelligence, rob ordinary merchants, and make big deals, and when the Eastern Turks, Tuyuhun, and Tiele would send large armies; Tuyuhun is naturally dominated by Fuyun, the Eastern Turks are the Orkhon Tooth Banner under the control of the Dujishi, and the Tiele people are the Tiele tribes affiliated to the Tujishi with the Orkhon River Valley as the center of their activities, rather than the Xueyantuo Khanate.

The cronies around Gui Bird were either blown up or killed in battle, and what they caught were some small shrimps, and they couldn't tell if they were ugly; However, Yang Chong also made a small fortune, and many of the people who died in Chijin Turk left gold and silver things, which were all collected by Yang Chong, and handed over to the public account about 30,000 taels worth of silver, 3,500 weapons, and more than 900 war horses. To Yang Chong's surprise, Yang Heng and Tianjian cleaned up the scene according to his orders, and when the bad armor and weapons were added together, they actually collected more than 10,000 catties of scrap iron, as well as scattered gold, silver and copper coins worth about 2,000 taels of silver.

Most of the merchants actually did not suffer much loss, and even the two thousand cattle that Yang Chong bought were only twenty or so under the care of the party members; In order to get medical treatment, many Sogdian captives exchanged the place where the money was hidden with Louguandao, and Yang Chong regarded it as if he didn't see it. Sikong Xing noticed that two Han captives were different, and found bronze medals with tiger symbols on them, one was Zhang Caihuo, a village chief in Wuwei County, and the other was Li Di, a merchant from Yingzhou.

Yang Chong looked at the bronze medal, and a murderous aura rose from the bottom of his heart, which was exactly the same as the bronze medal that he had hidden in Shanshan to show him, and the identities of these two captives were exactly the same as those who destroyed the Great Desert Temple. Yang Chong called Zhang Guolao and Tianjian and went to the interrogation room together, Zhang Caihuo was thin and strong, and he looked like a very honest person; Li Di is dressed in a blue shirt, his face is haggard, and he still has the same demeanor as before, if he is not here, it is easy for people to look away.

Sikong Xing is very cautious, the two people are detained in different interrogation rooms, and the guards are all Sikong Xing's henchmen selected on weekdays, with three posts inside and outside; Yang Chong decided to judge the chapter first, Tianjian stayed outside the door, and after Yang Chong, Sikong Xing, and Zhang Guolao went in and sat down, Yang Chong asked directly: "What does this tiger bronze medal represent?" ”

Zhang Caihuo has been tortured twice, and he hasn't said anything yet, still shaking his head indifferently; Sikong Xing was furious and was about to be punished again, but Yang Chong stopped him and said: "There is no need to waste time, these two people colluded with foreigners to attack the Great Sui, and they are really traitors." Since you don't want to say anything, it's commonplace, so let's make a decision and execute it tomorrow. Two more documents will be repaired and sent to Wuwei and Yingzhou according to the road, and if there are still people in their families, the local government will be asked to deal with them as co-defendants. ”

Sikong Xing surrendered his promise, and Zhang Caihuo jumped up all of a sudden, but he was tied to the pillar, which looked more like a struggle; Zhang Caihuo said loudly: "I am a person from the Ministry of Rites, this tiger bronze medal is the waist card of the Sui Han Hall, everyone who leaves a file in the Ministry of Rites will be issued a bronze medal, and the number on the north side is the file number in the Ministry of Rites." ”

Yang Chong's face turned stern, and he reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense, since you are a member of the Ministry of Rites, why don't you report to the Sui Han Hall and inform Han Chuanshu in advance that the Chijin Turks are coming to attack?" Even if the Ministry of Rites has a Tiger bronze medal, it can't prove that your bronze medal is real, and it proves that you are the real Zhang Caihuo. As far as I know, the archives of Suihantang are not in the Ministry of Rites, but in the hands of some private individuals, so the people of Suihantang are not from the imperial court, but just mercenaries of some people. ”

Zhang Caihuo's face changed greatly, as a member of Sui Hantang, he knew that the purpose of the Chijin Turks' attack on Hanchuan was not only to rob supplies, but also to kill Yang Chong. Obviously, Yang Chong knew this, so he didn't admit their identities at all, and he wanted Zhang Cai to die in the fire; Zhang Caihuo sighed and said, "Lord Yang, I admit the conditions for expelling you." ”