Harold returned to Tehran and, with the support of the great general Khalid, occupied parts of the Arab Empire.

So far, the Arab Empire was divided into three. Hemar occupied the Arabian Peninsula, and Dlambb occupied the central region of the Arab Empire, centered on Syria as Damascus. Harold occupied parts of the north.

Although the area occupied by Harold was the smallest of the three, his position was far away from the Tang Dynasty and avoided the threat of the Tang Dynasty.

Hou Junji is currently facing the area occupied by Delamb.

Harold was given a chance to recuperate, and he made reforms in the areas under his control with reference to the social structure of the Tang Dynasty, vigorously developing industry and agriculture, especially the development of science and technology.

Harold had some scientific and technological information at hand, but he lacked talents, so he set his eyes on Datang while improving the treatment of craftsmen and recruiting literate talents in the area under his control.

Harold hatched a massive kidnapping plan that consisted of:

In the Tang Dynasty, intelligence agents planted in merchants were used to provide lists of famous scholars and skilled craftsmen to carry out kidnappings to fill the talent vacancies in the Arab Empire.

He issued an order: Scholars and skilled craftsmen were to be bought by the empire at a price one to ten times higher than that of ordinary slaves. If you can catch Datang's scientists and technicians, the price can be 20 to 100 times. The specific price depends on the value of the "goods".

This is an extremely vicious plan, which not only arouses the fanaticism of the Arabs, but also has many traitors in the Tang Dynasty under the trend of interests.

Guo Ming is the second son of Gaochang County Order, a famous talent in the Western Regions, and he is 21 years old this year. Because tomorrow is going to marry the young lady of the big family in this county, today I will drink with two good partners to celebrate, the three of them drank until the time of the lamp, half drunk out of the tavern, each other supported each other and walked on the street, at this time, it was already dark, there were no pedestrians on the street.

Suddenly, seven or eight people dressed as ruffians rushed out of the alley on the side of the street, and when they came up, they knocked the three men unconscious with wooden sticks, put them in cloth bags and carried them away.

They drove the wagon to the border and, after bargaining, sold the three to the Arabs.

The next day, the county magistrate's son was gone. Usually his son doesn't come home at night, but today is the day of his wedding, and it's a little abnormal to be not at home at this time.

At this time, the parents of the other two families also came to ask if their son was here at his house.

The county order remembered that in the past few days, people have reported that people have gone missing, and they can't help but be shocked!

Gaochang County has recently received several reports of missing people, because most of the missing people are men, not the usual cases of missing women and children.

He thought that maybe they were fighting with their families, or for other reasons, they left for a while, and they didn't pay attention.

Today, it was his son's turn that he really paid attention to it. On the one hand, he reported to the Assassin's Office, and on the other hand, he organized the forces of his own county to carry out an investigation.

Recently, the Assassin Prefecture received reports from more than a dozen counties under its jurisdiction, all of which showed a similar phenomenon, with serious losses of skilled personnel such as craftsmen, teachers, and medical personnel.

Yao Ming, the male god of basketball, said so right in his public service announcement for the protection of wild animals: no buying, no killing.

Harold practiced international human trafficking, and the market was huge.

Driven by huge interests, a large number of Arabs, especially those with oriental faces, appeared in the Western Regions, from slave owners and aristocrats, to civilians, and horse thieves, as long as they could, join the human trafficking.

After all, the Arabs were not familiar with the internal affairs of the Tang Dynasty, so they bought off the local ruffians and gangsters. Taking advantage of their familiarity with the local situation, he bought "goods" from them and became second-hand dealers.

Gangs and ruffians have been active in seeing the huge profits of human trafficking. There are also those who usually have personal grudges, and they also seize this opportunity to take revenge. Anyway, if something happens, it will be pushed on the Arabs.

What's more, even some scum in the government and the army have joined the ranks of kidnapping. They went around kidnapping scholars and craftsmen with a skill, and it didn't matter if they were wrong, they were sold at the price of ordinary slaves.

All of a sudden, the social climate deteriorated dramatically.

Not only in the Western Regions, but even in the western areas of Longyou Province and Guannei Province, such a situation has occurred.

After Li Su received the report, he was extremely angry, and couldn't help but burst out with a foul sentence: "I drafted Harold's eight ancestors, and I can think of such an idea of lacking morality." ”

Li Su ordered an emergency meeting to be convened immediately. No matter what they were doing now, all the important ministers immediately put down their work and went to Li Su's conference room.

Wei Zheng, Li Jing, Huang Furui, Gao Jingming and other ministers above the minister heard the king's urgent summons, and thought that there was some major military matter, so they all hurried over. When they heard that it was a human trafficking case, most of them were unimpressed.

Li Su analyzed the harmfulness of this kind of international human trafficking, especially the huge destructive effect on the social atmosphere, which aroused the vigilance of the ministers.

Datang immediately reacted to the incident. It was decided to carry out special activities to combat trafficking in human beings and to take the following countermeasures:

First, immediately close all the borders of Datang, and only allow entry and exit. As for when the borders will be opened, it depends. All border guards should step up patrols to prevent the outflow of population.

Second, legislation strengthens the crackdown on human trafficking, making it a felony for anyone involved in human trafficking. The plot is big or small, and all of them are sentenced to death.

Persons engaged in trafficking in persons abroad shall be sentenced to death immediately upon arrest.

Not only do they crack down on human traffickers, but they also treat buyers equally, and the punishment for buyers is even more severe, punishable by death, and the living space of human trafficking is cut off from the source.

Li believes that only when there are no buyers will no one take the risk of human trafficking.

For those who really need a stepchild due to childbirth problems or the death of a child, they must apply to the civil affairs and public security departments in advance, and the stepchild must be a relative within the five suits. The process of adoption must be notarized by the civil affairs and public security departments.

Third, it is necessary to strengthen the protection of high-level intellectuals.

The resolute and decisive measures taken by Datang soon stopped Harold's conspiracy, and at the same time dealt a serious blow to the evil act of human trafficking in Datang.

Although Harold's plan to plunder the population was curbed, his harvest was also great, and the total number of people he plundered reached 23,000.