Chapter 77: Celebration Banquet

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After leading the army back to Pyongyang, in order to boost morale, Li Yu also held a celebration banquet in Pyongyang for the two generals Gao Kan and Li Jinxing, who came from afar, and also gave a bunch of money to each of the officers and men of the whole army.

The 40,000 soldiers and horses led by Gao Kan and Li Jinxing were rewarded for their meritorious service on the battlefield, and Li Yu naturally didn't have so much money to reward these soldiers who were not his subordinates. The more than 30,000 subordinates he brought with him spent more than 200,000 yuan, and the money he brought when he went out from Liaodong suddenly shone brightly, which made Li Yu look at it with a pain in his flesh.

At the celebration banquet, Li Yu was greatly surprised that Li Jinxing actually brought his wife Liu with him while marching and fighting.

Liu's appearance is even middle-aged, but the skin is still as white as snow, and the beautiful and dignified image perfectly interprets what a noble lady is.

Li Yu couldn't help but turn up the records about Li Jinxing in his previous life in his mind and knew that this woman was not only a mature woman who was full of temptation for men on the outside, but also a female general who did not let her eyebrows be handy, sassy, wise and brave.

In the previous life, when Li Jinxing broke the Goryeo rebels in the west of the Gulu River, the Liu family stayed behind to defend the city of Vanu, and the Goguryeo rebels attacked it. He accompanied Li Jinxing to fight, and was a well-known virtuous helper at that time, and his achievements were recognized and rewarded by Li Yu's father, and he was named Mrs. Yanguo.

Li Yu drank a few glasses of red wine, and teased Li Jinxing, who was sitting at the same table with his wife Liu, with a red face: "General Li Youling takes his wife with him when he goes out on the expedition, is this afraid that ****** will be alone in the empty room!" ā€

"Poof!" Zhang Shi, who drank and drank with a big tongue, sprayed the wine in his mouth, and his desk was full of wine plus his saliva.

"Hahaha!" The banquet hall calmed down for a few seconds, and all the generals present laughed, while the parties Li Jinxing and his wife blushed.

Both of them are about to run fifty, and they are teased by Li Yu as a newly married couple who are tired of being together, and people who are dozens of years old are inevitably a little embarrassed.

Zhang Shi, Li Shangdan, Xue Maoxun and others looked at the eyes of their husband and wife in an instant with a strange and indescribable ambiguity, and even Gao Kan smiled at Li Jinxing and his wife, and gave Li Jinxing a look that all men understand.

"Ahem!" Li Jinxing coughed in a deep voice, put down his chopsticks, and replied with a smile: "Your Highness is really making fun of our old husband and wife, they are all old arms and legs, how can they still be as indulgent as you and other young descendants." ā€

Liu's face turned even redder when he heard this, and he stabbed Li Jinxing's waist twice, as if he thought of what happened last night, and his husband's eyes were a little shy. Seeing that everyone in the palace was looking at the two of them, Liu dared to stop his small movements, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, the husband is fighting outside, and it is inevitable that he will not take good care of his body. ā€

"Oh? General Li Youling really married a virtuous helper, which made Xiao Wang really admire. Li Yu raised his glass to pay tribute to Li Jinxing and his wife.

However, Li Yu's admiration for other people's virtuous help made Zhang Shi, Li Yesi and others look at Li Yu a little weirdly, and almost reminded Li Yu that your hair has not grown yet, so you are envious of other people's good wives here!

After such a small joke by Li Yu in the hall, everyone present completely let go, and the hall where some jokes were not big or small to each other suddenly burst into laughter.

Lu Jingzuo, the general of the Pingyi Army, suddenly made a violent report: after capturing the city of humiliation, Gao Chongli rummaged through the city to find the beautiful girl, and finally couldn't find it, so he was hungry and grabbed the five or six little girls they had just caught from a few subordinates and went into the room to do it. I didn't think that there was a black and ugly ugly monster among the little girls, and Gao Chongli's frightened pants rushed out of the room with a scream, as if he had encountered a ghost.

Everyone in the hall laughed back and forth, and Zhang Shi and Xue Maoxun slapped the table and laughed wildly after hearing this.

Gao Kan and Gao Chongde looked at Gao Chongli beside them with some suspicion, Gao Chongli lowered his head in shame and anger, this matter has only been known by a dozen people, who was sent out by himself?

Li Yuxiao's throat couldn't stop coughing, and Xing'er, who was sitting next to him, patted him on the back with concern.

Li Yu never thought that Gao Chongli, who had long shoulders, big waist, round waist and a simple face, would be so impatient.

Fortunately, Wang Hu, who didn't deal with Gao Chongli, was not there, otherwise he would have to make fun of Gao Chongli to death.

During the whole celebration banquet, the whole army celebrated in Pyongyang for four days, and cooking sheep and slaughtering cattle was as lively as a festival. More than 70,000 officers and soldiers of the Tang Army insisted on making a sparsely populated Pyongyang city, full of festive joy, and the only pity was that the reward money they had just received in their hands was nowhere to be spent.

The soldiers are depressed for a while with the copper coins in their hands, the war in Goguryeo is not over, but there is money in their hands but they can't spend it, maybe they will die in battle one day, it's a pity that the money on this body is not spent!

However, the city of Pyongyang did not make these soldiers who had money and nowhere to spend it miserable for long, and on the third day after the celebration banquet, the city opened the Chunxiang Building, which occupied a square of land. The worst of them are some slightly beautiful Goguryeo and Jeonju women, they are all the daughters of Goguryeo rebel soldiers and daughters captured in Han Shicheng, Mayi City, and Baishui City before and after the Battle of Shimen, and there are thousands of them.

Li Yu kept them idle and wasted food, but because they were the families of those rebels, he didn't want to let them go like that.

When Zhang Wengxi, an accompanying subordinate official, said that the soldiers in the city were distressed by the lack of money to spend in their hands, Li Yu couldn't help but light up when he thought that Ming Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty had demoted the female dependents of the offenders to the Jiaofang Division and turned them into tools for the court officials to vent their desires, in order to punish the officials for breaking the law.

Anyway, these women were the daughters of Yidi, and Li Yu had no sympathy for them, so he ordered the whole courtyard in Pyongyang to be enclosed to build a Chunxiang Building, and these women were divided into grades according to their appearance, and the more beautiful the appearance, the more expensive the price.

On the third day after the end of the celebration banquet, it was open to the soldiers who had money in their hands and had nowhere to spend, and the good men of Huaxia who had been holding back for several months flocked into Chunxiang Building like hungry wolves after hearing about it, causing Chunxiang Building to be full day and night, and those women could not meet the needs of more than 70,000 Tang Army soldiers by receiving five guests every two hours.

As soon as Chunxiang Building opened, it not only solved the problem of disposing of these rebel women's dependents, but also quickly earned a lot of money for Li Yu, who spent a lot of money.

Li Yu led troops to quell the rebellion of the remnants of Goguryeo, not only to quell the rebellion, but also to severely punish the Goguryeo people who participated in the rebellion in addition to his own selfish interests. This move is to kill chickens to show monkeys and deter the northeast. Through bloody means, these Yidi Hulu understood that betraying the Tang Dynasty had a price they could not bear in blood.

From the past life to the present, Li Yu was not interested in the set of gentle techniques pioneered by Tang Taizong to Yidi Hulu, and even despised it in his heart. regarded as a major failure in Tang Taizong's life, and the dazzling brilliance left a black glow for the Tang Dynasty.

Since Gaozong destroyed Goguryeo, the Tang Dynasty began the Siyi Rebellion - the Tang Army's rebellion was repeated, resulting in the Tang Dynasty's national strength being wasted on those who were not strong enough such as the Khitan and Xi people.