"The Turks recruited 50,000 men!"

In the conference room on the third floor of the Triplex Tower, around a large round table, just after listening to the order from the military department, Wang Xuance couldn't help but collapse, and shouted: "This is too outrageous!" Even if it is Shangzhou, a state is only a few thousand, why do we need 50,000 in Shuozhou, not to mention the threat of Tiele in the north, 50,000 people will be requisitioned, and Wuyuan should be hollowed out! This is a no-brainer! ”

"Hehe, before we came, it was not impossible for the Turks to levy 100,000, but it would not be the other way around in the future. [Eye, look at the new domain name., initials, previously registered accounts can still be used]" Hearing this, Li Jie sneered a few times, but a trace of coldness still flashed from his eyes, but it was quickly hidden.

"That's right, if it weren't for the hope of relying on these Turkic subjugations, Your Majesty would not have promised to give our prince a fetter country, without making some efforts, where would it be so easy to get?" On the side, the old Yang Yi also hummed coldly, the old guy has never been with the Tang Dynasty at all, and he doesn't care about the majesty of the monarch at all, listening to Wang Xuance, he couldn't help frowning again, but after a while, he was relieved.

He also hated the requisition.

"But the grassland at this time can be different from a year ago, the Turkic people have also been compiled into household registration and included in production, if 50,000 people are transferred, the construction of all aspects of the five plains will come to a standstill, maybe the ministers of the household department have forgotten this, and they will not be weak and go to Chang'an to mediate?" Seeing the new system that had been established, Wang Xuance couldn't bear to see it collapse, and after a moment of silence, he still stood up on the table, but he didn't want Li Jie to wave his hand and press him back.

"If you send it away, how can those ministers in the political hall not know what the five originals are like now, and they can't toss a famous hall when they go, but they will cause trouble in vain."

"Your Highness, if these 50,000 strong men are transferred, the results of more than a year of hard work will be in vain!"

"Lone didn't say that he was drawing in various workshops, is there a policy and a countermeasure?" Shaking his head and standing up, Li Jie slowly opened a notebook on the desktop, clicked it casually, and sat back with a big grin.

"No, more than half of the army of 50,000 is there!"

"These?" took the notebook, Wang Xuance and Yang Yi's eyes immediately straightened.

"These are slaves, prisoners of war, can this?" Even the old Yang Yi couldn't help but wonder about his birth, but Li Jie yawned directly and said slowly: "Do you expect them to charge into battle, just follow behind and shout and do some chores, Goguryeo is different from the grassland, the mountains and rivers are evil, and they don't know the Goguryeo people, and they are afraid that they will collude with the enemy?" ”

"That's the best way to do it right now!" In the end, it was still the young man who accepted it quickly, and after thinking about it for a while, Wang Xuance first accepted it, but then he patted his head with some joy and chuckled: "It's funny to say, this time, whether it is the Taiyuan Wang family or the Xingyang Zheng family, when they learned that His Royal Highness has such a large number of prisoners of war, they all look like they are waiting to sell at a price, this time it's good, let them sell, don't sell it to them!" ”

In the last Battle of Tiecheng, after the brutal siege battle, more than 20,000 wounded and sick were abandoned by the Tiele army on the south bank of the Yellow River, and many ministers advocated killing these people, after all, the hatred between the two sides had been killed to the extent of red eyes, but in the end, Li Jie still used the virtue of a good life as an excuse, not only did not kill the prisoners, but gathered them together, gave coal for heating, and gave food and medicine to save their lives.

In the spring of the second year, there were thousands of more laborers on the construction sites of the grassland cities, coal mines, and cultivated farms, and Li Jie was greatly bargained for regardless of road construction and production, and the only fly in the ointment was the sale of the surplus population to the Wang family in Taiyuan.

"Hehe, he Taiyuan Wang's coal mine is excavated, and the population shortage is much more than ours!" At this time, he was already full of hatred for the Wang family, Wang Xuance smiled quite cruelly, which made Li Jie also smile evilly and nodded, but Lao Yang Yi was still full of sorrow, and raised doubts again: "However, in the conquest of Goguryeo, you can't take all the slaves with you." ”

"Of course not." Shaking his head easily, Li Jie wrenched his fingers and calculated again: "The Han people on the grassland, the existing Turkic soldiers have fifteen thousand, except for Tiecheng, the government soldiers from various families can raise a total of three thousand, Jinghu City has three thousand, and the rest of the cities will draw another thousand from the government soldiers recruited from Guanzhong, and the Shuowang tribe will draw three thousand from the cavalry, and we will have 10,000, which is enough to be used as the main force." ”

"It is enough for the slave soldiers to bring 25,000, and some of the prisoners of war are still sold to the Taiyuan Wang family, it doesn't matter if you suffer a little loss, just speed up their internal fighting, Tian Khan uses soldiers, how can the Khan not show support? Let him send 10,000 troops, I believe that Uncle Ashina Simo will be happy. ”

"But, five thousand left?"

"Isn't there still a Toulon tribe that has been plundered by the Zheng clan in Xingyang for several years? Let the crossbow lose Bi Elijin to send 5,000 troops, and tell him that after capturing Liaodong, I will give him a city, and the output will be included in the cotton textile guild, and the old guy will not come to kneel and thank him, and this king will not need him! Li Jie slammed the table very domineeringly, which immediately made Yang Yi and Wang Xuance both eyes light up.

The seemingly embarrassed army of 50,000 was solved in this way, and Yang Yi couldn't help but feel very happy, and for more than a year, it seems that this little lord has grown a lot.

"In that case, the old minister will order the prisoners of war to be transferred to the barracks south of Jinghu City tomorrow for military training."

"No, no!" As soon as Lao Yang Yi finished speaking, Li Jie waved his hand again and vetoed: "Didn't Xipinggou discover another salt mine?" There is also a lack of labor in Anyuan's farm, and the middle-aged laborers brought back from Tiele will be sent to these two places, and a group of people will be selected from among them as management, and the treatment will be more unequal, and when we go to Liaodong, we will be much better managed! ”

Listening to Li Jie's words, Yang Yi was obviously stunned, but after a while, he stroked his palms with Wang Xuance and laughed, and arched his fists in unison and complimented: "Your Highness is wise!" ”

Under one order, the fate of tens of thousands of Tiele prisoners of war changed.

Wuyuan, Xipinggou, several mountain bags form a huge basin-like terrain, a large natural cage, and there are mountain springs flowing out from the east in the ditch, gather a few shallow small lakes at the bottom of the basin, the small lakes are extremely clear, but the sun is scorching, and more than 12,000 prisoners of war are driven to the basin in the sweat.

Walking swaying against the sun, the prince of Tiele at this time can definitely be described as withered, a little haggard than the city on the north bank of the Yellow River, in addition to the torture on the *, the son of this real pearl man has also been extremely devastated mentally, since the auction on the bank of the Yellow River, even if it is not sold, the chrysanthemum set by Dadu is still very painful.

After intense labor, but eating and drinking, more than 12,000 captives, most of them were in the same state as Dadu, except for a few vicious fellows, the rest were like walking corpses, until they were driven to the side of the shed set up in Xipinggou, and these people regained some vitality, and threw themselves into the clear lake on the edge of the shed with joy.

Thirsty and smoking, Da Du set directly buried a lot of black heads in the lake, but after a while, this guy pulled his head out suddenly, and vomited in disgust.

The water is salty!

Seeing a group of crazy prisoners of war rushing into the lake, Li Yiliu, the captain of the Tang Military Academy in charge of the guards, and others did not stop them, and happily watched a group of Tiele people go out of the sea, until these people returned like walking corpses again, and then a Turkic man read out the order of the Turkic Governor's Mansion aloud.

"King Shuo has an order, and you and other barbarian people, against Wang Hua, the crime is extremely evil, and it needs to be reformed through labor to forgive his sins! However, God has the virtue of a good life, and King Shuo is particularly gracious and allows one out of ten to join my Datang and take care of production! ”

With the shouting of the Turkic language, hundreds of Tang troops moved quickly, very lost, the 12,000 captives were all divided into groups of ten, and Dadu was also confused and followed the other nine Hu people who were also unlucky I don't know which clan stayed together, and the next moment, the eyes of these prisoners of war quickly lit up like light bulbs.

"Those who join my Tang Army, have plenty of food, warm clothes, and ensure that the same group completes the labor task, and now, the selection of ten people begins!"

After being hungry for several days, seeing his fellow Tang Jun gnawing on white flour buns and drinking sour and hot mutton soup with large pieces of meat, these prisoners of war had long had green eyes, and now they had the opportunity to change their fate, and immediately let the green eyes turn red again, the Tang people didn't say how to choose, under the strong sun, more than 10,000 Tiele people were red-eyed and panting, and they were a lot of each other.

I don't know how long it took, maybe just a moment, there were already people among the ten thousand people who couldn't bear it anymore at first, roared angrily and rushed towards the other nine people's companions, and waved their big fists, like a signal, and the rest of the people also burst out, screaming like wild beasts, and the big scuffle quickly broke out in the entire workshop.

Stunned by a servant man knocked to the ground, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, the taste of blood seemed to finally arouse the fierce genetics of Dadushe, seeing that the other nine people were in a mess again, howling like a wolf, Dadushe also suddenly turned over, rounded his fists and howled and rushed into the battle group.

In the afternoon, the melee on the hillside suddenly stopped, a brutal fight finally exhausted the last trace of physical strength of these prisoners of war, and at the same time left more than 2,000 corpses, the grass of the generous group, blood stained a large area, all nine people collapsed on the ground, five have lost their breath, and the wounded Dadu set himself is also shaking, fortunately at this moment, the sweet clear water suddenly came to his mouth.

"Is the kid quite capable of fighting!" patting Dadu's shoulder, Li Yiliu said with appreciation, and then dragged his shoulder and threw him back and shouted: "This one, register!" ”

reported the name of Xue Siwen's magnanimity, which made the Tang soldiers who had heard of Xue Yantuo's commander laugh again, and then Dadushi waited for hundreds of people who were staggering down before they were led by the Tang army to their camp at the mouth of the valley, and before they could go in, the fragrant smell of minced meat porridge soup inside had already made Dadu's eyes turn green.

The hot and sour mutton porridge was served in front of him, and he sniffed it in disbelief at first, and then poured it into his mouth after a while, even if the hot lips were foaming, the taste of the fragrance still made Prince Tiele, who had never eaten the delicacies of the mountains and seas, feel how to move the inner cow.

At the time, more than 900 Tiele people who had experienced blood type fighting and stood out returned to the shed wearing the black infantry armor of the Tang Dynasty, and everyone entered the shed of the longhouse in turn according to the number, these sheds are very distinctive, there are not ten simple bunks next to it, there is one more wooden small house, the simple bed, the table and quilt are all available, and the new nine hands entered the small house, for a while, the magnanimity that had led thousands of troops and horses actually had the feeling of being a kind of man again.

The next day, at dawn, each group of nine prisoners of war was desperately carrying a wooden basin of salty water to the salt pans halfway up the mountainside, the Tang army had a spirit, could not complete the task of drying salt this day, there was no food that night, the drinking water was halved, carrying a leather whip, and Da Du set was leisurely following the side and constantly drinking and urging, and from time to time he also drank a sip of the distilled spirits issued by the Tang army.

The nine prisoners of war in the same group, each of them looked at Da Du Shi as if they were about to kill people, with unforgettable hatred and jealousy, and the whole salt mine was everywhere.

This is exactly what Li Jie wants!