"What? Recruit poor Tibetan people to live in the Suide Army's territory? ”

Liu Zhengyan's face was full of incredulity.

Xu Yan frowned, "General Liu, could it be that there are no poor people in Tubo?" ”

Liu Zhengyan shook his head, "Of course not, I'm just worried that there are too many poor people in Tubo, and Lord Qian can't accommodate them!" ”

If you want to talk about the understanding of the current situation of the Tibetan tribes, Liu Zhengyan really knows better than anyone else, and he has dealt with many tribesmen, and knows what the poor people in Tibet are thinking.

This is also the reason why Liu Zhengyan hesitated.

When he heard that Liu Zhengyan was worried about the number of people, Xu Yan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, "Then does General Liu know how many of these poor people can be?" ”

"If we only count the poor people of the Tibetan tribes, there may be only a hundred or tens of thousands, but the problem is that once we recruit these poor people, there are many Uighur ethnic groups who are closely related to them, and the total population of two or three hundred thousand is considered to be small!"

"I see!"

Xu Tuan didn't care about the people on the Uighur side, why they were entangled with the Tibetan tribes, but the population of two or three hundred thousand was indeed a lot, but after thinking of Qian Heng's layout and plan for the Suide army, he suddenly realized that the population of two or three hundred thousand was nothing at all.

After figuring out this question, Xu Tuan laughed loudly, "General Liu is too worried, under the rule of Lord Qian, two or three hundred thousand people, not much!" ”

Liu Zhengyan was confused, "Mr. Xu Tuan also said just now, what Lord Qian ruled is only the area to which the Suide Army belongs, and as far as I know, there is no place for such a large population in the territory of the Suide Army, not to mention that these poor people from Tibet and Uighurs are all herdsmen!" ”

Xu Jun smiled, "What the general is worried about will not happen, could it be that the general has forgotten that the Mingtang River under the rule of the Suide Army is also lush with pastures around the upper reaches!" ”

Xu Yan's words made Liu Zhengyan's wine completely sober up, "Is it difficult?" ”

Liu Zhengyan said halfway, and then sighed, "Also, Lord Qian even dares to cut back the head of the Western Xia General, what else does Lord Qian do!" ”

Liu Zhengyan acquiesced to Qian Heng's request to help Qian Heng do things, and Xu Jun and Wu Song's next task was to assist Liu Zhengyan and send the recruited people and ideas to the territory of the Suide Army.

When Xu Jian persuaded Liu Zhengyan to rush to the territory of the Tibetan tribes together, Qian Heng also encountered a little trouble.

When he came to the territory of the Suide Army, Qian Heng learned from Han Shizhong that the Suide Army was basically a retirement place for veterans of the Western Army, but even so, there was still a special garrison responsible for managing everything here.

There are people in charge of the place, but it is dilapidated and it is impossible to see that there are people living there, and the place where the garrison is full of grass and dust.

When Qian Heng walked to the gate of the barracks, a veteran guarding the barracks came out of the dilapidated grass hut.

"Brother, this is the military camp of the Suide Army?"

The veteran glanced at Qian Heng vigilantly, "Who are you?" ”

Han Shizhong behind him, his face was not good, and he was about to say something, but was stopped by Qian Heng, Qian Heng asked with a smile, "Brother, I am a privy councillor sent by the official family to undertake the order, and I am specifically responsible for the affairs of the Yongxing Military Road, I see that this place is so deserted, can my brother introduce me to the specific situation?" ”

Before Qian Heng finished speaking, the veteran knelt down tremblingly in front of Qian Heng.

"Your Excellency, you're here!"

The veteran had a handful of snot and tears, as if he had been greatly wronged.

Qian Heng felt a pain in his heart, and he could see that the old man's mood at this time was really seeing his relatives.

If he hadn't suffered a great sin, how could he have imagined himself as a stranger as a dependent to save him.

"Brother, you get up first and tell me what's going on here!"

Qian Heng looked around, overgrown with weeds, occasionally revealing patches of yellow sand, and from a distance, there was a river passing by.

If it had been cultivated, it would never have been so desolate.

It seems that he is too optimistic about the situation of the Suide army.

Pulling the veteran to sit down on a stone, Han Shizhong also came up at this time, "Lord Qian, I have never been here, it seems that Qian Pingde has made this place so smoky, it is to the point where it must be punished, you can rest assured, no matter how you deal with it, there will be no objections from the Shuai side!" ”

When Han Shizhong said this, he also understood the reason.

Before, the previous commander in charge of this place was arranged by the Seed Master Dao to take care of these veterans, and some time ago, he was called away by the Seed Master Road in the name of going south to quell the rebellion, so the highest position in the Suide Army now is the deputy commander of the Suide Army, Qian Pingde.

Qian Heng didn't expect that the person in charge here was actually his own family.

Of course, Qian Heng didn't have any concept of his own family, and listening to the veteran's intermittent explanations, Qian Heng finally figured out the current situation of the Suide army.

It can be said that the Suide Army is the most unpopular subordinate army in the entire Yongxing Military Road, and the entire Suide Army belongs to the Xiang Army, with a quota of more than 10,000 people, but the actual existence of the Young and Zhuangxiang Army is only about 2,000.

However, these 2,000 Suide Xiang troops are in charge of the food, drink and pension of more than 50,000 disabled veterans.

There is a very important reason why the original commander was recalled to Yanzhou, that is, the commander had no room to play in the Suide army, and that Qian Pingde, who didn't know what the relationship was, got on the door with Tong Guan, so he regarded himself as a concubine and recruited a group of diehards.

With Tong Guan as a backer, Qian Pingde has nothing to dare to do.

The remaining 8,000 people in the Suide Xiang Army fell directly into the pockets of Qian Pingde and a few of his subordinates, not only that, but the salaries to feed the more than 50,000 disabled veterans under his jurisdiction, although the quality of the food was not high, it could also make these veterans have enough food and clothing.

Qian Pingde stretched his hand to the veteran's pension salary. In order to seek this part of the benefits, Qian Pingde bombarded all the veterans and engaged in what kind of reclamation of river beaches and growing food for self-support.

The disabled veterans were all frail and sickly, and Qian Pingde deliberately withheld food and used all kinds of severe torture and punishment, so that 50,000 disabled veterans died in just over two years because of fatigue, freezing and starvation, and only more than 20,000 people remained.

And the salary quota of the 30,000 veterans fell into Qian Pingde's private pocket.

Qian Heng's face was pale, and Han Shizhong on the side was even more angry holding the hilt of the knife, "Lord Qian, you give an order, these soldiers under my Han Shizhong should be used by Lord Qian, when these bastards are killed, I will go back to restore my life!" ”

Qian Heng nodded, "Okay, with the words of the good minister, I will be sure in my heart that I will kill all these people who have lost their conscience, so as to comfort the souls of the deceased veterans in the sky!" ”