In this battle, capturing Yelu Yanxi alive can be said to be a great victory, but the results achieved by the army were limited, only killing more than 3,000 Liao soldiers and Kereh, and capturing more than 5,000 people.

In the vast grasslands, the horsemanship of the barbarians and Khitans was still higher than that of the Liang cavalry, and even if they won, it would be difficult to stop them from escaping.

The side of the beam also suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, although the beam was fully superior in weapons, but there were still a lot of casualties against the barbarians who grew up on horseback.

When everyone heard the casualties and results reported, they couldn't help but frown.

Chao Yong knew that the cavalry of Daliang could not be compared with the Khitan iron cavalry and the Kereh, and an iron cavalry could not be built overnight, so he spared no expense to equip the cavalry, hoping that the cavalry could reduce the gap between the cavalry and the people who grew up on horseback with their equipment.

His personal soldiers had almost no casualties, one was because he was one in a hundred when he first selected his own soldiers, and the other was in addition to centurions like Shi Yong, this time there were fierce generals like Sun An, Shi Bao, Fang Jie, Yue Fei, and Yang Zaixing. The Khitans killed by 500 soldiers definitely exceeded 500.

That is to say, excluding the results of his own soldiers, the casualties of the Liang cavalry, the Khitans and the barbarians were almost the same, and this was achieved when he led his own soldiers to charge into battle to boost his own morale and weaken the morale of the other party.

Yang Zhi shook his head and said, "The cavalry under my command has been practicing, but I didn't expect it to be so much worse than the tribe on horseback." ”

Dong Ping was also a little shocked, gritted his teeth and said: "Fight 100,000 people, kill all these barbarians, and they will go south to plunder in the future." ”

At this moment, Chao Yong was really a little tempted.

100,000 people is insignificant for the Liang, but it is enough to break the bones of the grassland.

Chao Yong saw that Yue Fei seemed to have something to say, but he didn't dare to interject, so he said, "Yue Fei, what do you think?" ”

Yue Fei looked at the prince and asked. Then he also got up and said, "The last general thinks that the barbarians cannot be killed." ”

Dong Ping looked at a hairy boy who refuted him, and said unhappily: "The prince is in charge of the military department, and the soldiers of the three armies use their lives, why can't they kill more barbarians?" ”

Yue Fei was not intimidated by Dong Ping, and explained: "If we kill the Kereh Division, the Mi'er beggars in the north will definitely go south to invade this grassland." Kill all the beggars, and there will be barbarians further north. Unless we can make these rivers and steppes disappear, there will always be barbarians who will be attracted to them. ”

Dong Ping said: "Then keep killing." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said, "What Yue Fei said also makes sense, destroy this tribe." And that tribe. Iron striking still needs its own hardness, and we still have to ensure our combat effectiveness in order to be invincible. Yue Fei, if you have any other opinions, let's talk about them together. ”

Yue Fei was affirmed by the crown prince, and his thinking became clearer. After thinking for a while, he said: "Judging from the map, the rivers in this area are crisscrossed, and the Liao country has also migrated people to cultivate here, which shows that the land here can be cultivated. We can move the population, both to strengthen the imperial rule over the land and to slowly assimilate these tribes. As long as my Han culture spreads here. It will certainly educate the tribes here and further north. ”

Dong Ping shook his head and said: "These barbarians don't know a single word, and they are barbaric and untamable, and it is even more difficult to educate them than to kill them." ”

Yue Fei said: "Barbarians don't understand culture, what we attract them is food, clothing, housing and transportation. After they saw the lives of the people of my Daliang. As long as we give them the opportunity, they will want to fit into our world instead of continuing to live the life of a barbarian. ”

Chao Yong agrees with Yue Fei's point of view, which culture is more attractive. It depends on which culture can create more abundant materials. People don't think so much, they just look at which culture will make them live a good life. In later generations, various cultures invaded China. Behind it are all developed countries, and people think that those countries are advanced. There has never been a cultural invasion of backward countries, no matter how long their history is.

Dong Ping said with a smile: "What you said is still on the premise that they can't beat us, otherwise these barbarians must be robbing first." ”

Yue Fei nodded and said, "General Dong is right, you must use swords and guns to deal with these barbarians first. ”

Chao Yong smiled: "What you say is reasonable, dealing with barbarians is to have a knife in one hand and money in the other." Of course, it is not to give them money like the Song Dynasty, but to let them see the wealth of my Daliang and attract them to join my Daliang's big family. My Daliang is an inclusive country, not only for Han people. As long as they are willing to lay down their knives and guns, we can still accept them. ”

When the party general in the room heard Chao Yong say this, he felt a lot better. Although Dong Ping wanted to kill all the barbarians, they always felt a little sad when they heard it, after all, they were not Han people, and before the fall of Western Xia, they were also alien races that robbed the Han people.

Dong Ping said: "What about those captives? ”

Chao Yong thought for a while and said, "Let's see if the ministries want to replace them and go back, if not, they will all be branded with slave seals and sent to the imperial court mines." ”

Da Liang successively obtained more than 300,000 middle-aged slaves from the Yue Li Dynasty, all of which were scattered to the mines in various places, such as carbon, gold, silver, copper, iron, etc., and the number of slaves of the Yue Li Dynasty in each mine would not exceed 1,000, and Da Liang had enough mines to house them. If it weren't for their rebellion, a few large mines would have housed the slaves.

In the past, the mines of the imperial court were all about employing people, and slaves only had to give them the strength to work. Since the possession of those slaves of the Yue Li Dynasty, the net profit of the imperial court's monopoly income has been higher, so the household department also supports the military department to wage a small-scale war.

Moreover, there were slaves among the people, and large families used to have slaves, but in the Song Dynasty, the status of slaves was greatly improved, and the master could not harm the slaves at will.

However, after the appearance of foreign slaves in the Liang court, large households also bought foreign slaves, and the Kunlun slaves that were prevalent in the Tang Dynasty flooded again after many years, and many slaves were from some small countries in Southeast Asia. These big families don't use these alien slaves to serve their daily lives, and the alien slaves are clumsy, and the slaves who are used to calling them are still easy to live. They bought foreign slaves for farming.

Due to the large number of auctions of land by the imperial court, many large landlords appeared, and these landlords were reluctant to hire the common people of Daliang, because the imperial court set a minimum harvest for tenants to ensure the interests of tenants, so they preferred to spend money to buy foreign slaves to cultivate.

The appearance of a large number of foreign slaves also caused a lot of controversy in the imperial court, and there was a long debate about whether or not those merchant ships should be allowed to plunder slaves in foreign countries. In the end, Chao Yong also supported the emergence of slaves, because the landlords used serfs, so that many people had no land to plant, and they were forced to make a living, so they could only cooperate with the imperial court to relocate, which was conducive to the expansion of the Han people, and the imperial court could also collect a large amount of taxes from slave ships.

It can be said that there is a great demand for slaves in the girder now. (To be continued)