In the Liangyi Hall of Taiji Palace, a large-scale banquet is now being held, and the objects of the banquet are General Niu and a meritorious soldier who have returned from victory, and some other civil and military officials are accompanied by various princes.

This morning, General Niu rushed to Chang'an with his people, and Li Shimin personally went out of the city for ten miles and held a very solemn welcoming ceremony to show his condolences to the soldiers of Jiannan. After the ceremony was completed, under the leadership of Li Shimin, the Jiannan soldiers entered Chang'an through the Mingde Gate, and then through the Zhuque Street, and entered the imperial city amid the cheers of countless Chang'an people. After entering the imperial city, the first thing is to sacrifice the prisoners to the Taimiao, as long as the battle is won, this procedure must be indispensable. Among the more than 10,000 Tubo people captured this time, many of them are Tibetan nobles, are these people the Brother Xi of Chapter 60 who was sacrificed this time and sold prisoners of war? However, Li Shimin only executed a few important nobles, and the others were sent to prisoner of war camps.

The protagonist of the banquet in the palace is, of course, General Niu Jinda Niu, this General Niu is also an old general, and Cheng Biting Jin, Qin Qiong and others were mixed in Wagang Village, and later they returned to the Tang Dynasty from Wang Shichong with them, but compared with Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong, this Niu General has always been famous, and even the title is only a county duke, this time it is finally in the limelight, and he broke the 200,000 army of Tubo alone, which can be described as a high degree of hard work, Li Shimin has issued an order to give Niu Jinda as the Duke of Wu, finally mixed into the ranks of Datang Yipin.

With a few cups of good five kings getting drunk, the atmosphere of the banquet entered **, and it was no longer stereotypical and orderly. As the protagonist, General Niu has been pulled aside by Cheng Yanjin's old comrades-in-arms to fight for wine, and those who have returned are also surrounded by a group of good deeds, asking them about the details of the battle with Tubo.

As a prince, Li Su of course also has to attend the banquet, but except for a glass of wine to the general Niu with Li Ke just now, Li Su has never moved the place, and has been sitting on the seat Chapter 60 Brother Xi, selling prisoners of war? Laughing with Li Ke next to him, but his eyes have been paying attention to the group of soldiers who have returned from Jiannan, and he still has something to do when he comes here today.

After he sent his son to the palace last time, he didn't expect to be summoned into the palace by the emperor's father that night, and rushed to the Liangyi Hall to take a look, and found that Li Zhi was kneeling there and being scolded.

This stinky scolding of Li Su was a little inexplicable, and he couldn't figure out what he had done wrong, he only listened to Li Shimin scolding them for not knowing what was serious, and he didn't know what good things he encountered and reported to him, who was the emperor, and almost led to misleading the country and the people, Li Su was confused. However, after scolding, Li Shimin gave Li Su a lot of rewards, including a courtyard, a hundred fields and a hundred taels of gold, etc., anyway, the rewards were very rich, but Li Zhi didn't have a single hair, and then they were driven out.

Later, Li Su finally understood what was going on, it turned out to be a disaster of saltpeter making ice, after learning that saltpeter can make ice, Li Shimin was ecstatic, Jiannan's Guanzhong generals were mostly sick because of the heat, if there was this saltpeter made of ice to cool down, the situation would definitely be greatly improved, so people were sent to Songzhou quickly at the moment.

After doing these things, Li Shimin was a little angry in his heart, such an important thing was inadvertently told to him by his young son, but the two sons put such important information in the back of their minds, and no one realized the importance of this saltpeter ice. Therefore, Li Shimin called Li Su to the palace in the middle of the night and reprimanded him together with Li Zhi.

However, after scolding, Li Shimin still rewarded and punished clearly, and after scolding, he rewarded Li Su who found saltpeter to make ice, as for Li Zhi, because he had no credit, he didn't have any points, but his son got a lot of rewards, even more generous than Li Su, but because his son was too young, he could only be entrusted to the palace people.

Seeing that the banquet was almost underway, the group of people around the soldiers slowly dispersed, Li Su said goodbye to Li Ke, and walked to a meritorious soldier with a cup, this person is burly and stocky, the muscles on his body are bulging high, and even the wide clothes can't cover it, and he should be a rare fierce general on the battlefield.

"Dare to ask what this brother is called?" Li Su stepped forward and saluted and asked.

When the brother of the fierce general saw the royal dress on Li Su's body, he was immediately startled, and hurriedly stood up and saluted: "The last general Xi Jun buys, I don't dare to be such a big gift to His Royal Highness!" ”

"Hehe, Brother Xi is polite, all the soldiers fought bloodily in Jiannan, in exchange for the prosperity of my Tang Dynasty, as a prince, I thank my brother, is there anything else to deserve?" Li Su tried his best to get close to the other party, but when he heard that this person's name was Xi Junmai, his heart was also moved, where did he seem to have heard this name?

"Uh~" This Xi Junmai is not a person who is good at speaking, of course, it is impossible to say Li Su, although he still feels inappropriate in his heart, but he still can't speak when he opens his mouth.

"I don't know where Brother Xi is from, and what is his official position now?" Li Su saw that this person had a simple temperament and was a good person, so he sat next to him with a smile and patted the other party's shoulder and asked.

"Your Royal Highness, the last general is from Liangzhou, I was previously a captain under General Niu, because of this battle with Tubo, I made some contributions, so His Majesty transferred me to Qianniuwei and promoted to General Yingyanglang." Xi Junmai is an honest man, and he answered Li Su's question very respectfully.

"Oh? can leap from a lieutenant to a general, it seems that Brother Xi must have made a lot of contributions this time. Li Su's eyes lit up and said, you must know that there is still a lieutenant between the lieutenant and the general, and he can be promoted two levels at once, it seems that it is not easy for this Xi Jun to buy.

"Hehe, I don't have any credit, it's just that I captured a few Tibetan nobles, not as good as other brothers, some of them have beheaded hundreds." Xi Junmai said with a honest smile. Although he knew that the other party's identity was the prince, this Xi Junmai was a straight man, and he saw that Li Su was very kind, and he didn't have a prince's frame at all, so he relaxed.

"Hehe, Brother Xi is polite!" Li Su smiled, but he soon revealed his true colors, and asked again, "Brother Xi, I heard that you captured more than 10,000 Tubo soldiers this time?" ”

"Well, yes, in addition to these people in the palace, we came back this time with more than a thousand soldiers, in order to escort these Tubo people." Xi Junmai nodded.

"Hehe, I also heard that these prisoners of war are to reward you soldiers who have made military achievements?" Li Su smiled a little obscenely, his idea of beating these Tibetan prisoners of war was not a day or two, and now his coal mine has not yet opened, and the difference is these coolies digging coal.

"That's right, General Niu has already told us that in addition to His Majesty's reward, those prisoners of war will be distributed to us according to merit." Xi Junmai replied, but he suddenly frowned, and said again, "But those prisoners of war are also a problem for us, and they can only be sold at a low price, and they can't be bought for a few dollars together." ”

"Oh? Why is it that those prisoners of war are all strong and strong, and they are strong laborers everywhere? Li Su asked with some surprise, which was obviously a little different from what he imagined.

"I've heard this from my brothers in the army." Xi Junmai picked up the wine bowl, drank the five kings in the bowl in one gulp, and said with a depressed face, "Those prisoners of war are indeed strong laborers, but the key is not to use them, these prisoners of war have all been on the battlefield and seen blood, and their temperament is relatively fierce, and they are afraid that there will be any danger in buying them back, so it is generally difficult to sell." After all, Datang buys and sells so many people every day, there is no need to buy an unsafe prisoner of war to go back. ”

"So that's it?" Li Su thought to himself in his heart, he didn't expect this, but this was not a problem for him at all, he just wanted these prisoners of war to dig coal for himself, and he didn't put it at home, even if he rebelled, he couldn't hurt himself. And he, the prince, is not in vain, he has two pro-armies under his command, the family affairs and the tent house, and there are about more than 1,000 people together, these people have nothing to do in the palace every day, and they just happened to be sent over to be overseers.

"Brother Xi, how many prisoners of war can you get there?" Li Su secretly calculated in his heart, Wang Zihao and the several coal mines bought by Gao Zhong together, he probably needed two or three thousand laborers, after all, in this era without machinery, all labor had to be done by human hands, and it was normal to need more people.

"Your Highness, do you want to buy those prisoners of war?" Although Xi Junmai is generous, it does not mean that he is stupid, and he quickly guessed Li Su's intentions, and asked with a surprised face.

"Hehe, that's right, my house has been short of manpower recently, so I plan to buy some prisoners of war to go back." Li Su smiled.

"Yes...... Can...... But His Royal Highness is a body of ten thousand gold, in case those people who don't have long eyes hurt His Highness, then ...... "Xi Junmai is very worried about Li Su, after all, after this conversation, he has a good impression of the approachable Li Su.

"Thank you Brother Xi for worrying, those Tubo people are not placed in the mansion, and they are in a place outside the city, and my mansion will also send pro-troops to supervise it, so I don't have to worry about safety." Li Su explained with a smile.

"In this way, you can rest assured when you buy it." After listening to Li Su's explanation, Xi Junmai put his mind at ease, thought about it and said, "I can probably get one or two hundred prisoners of war here, and since Your Highness is short of people, then just give them all to Your Highness, it's not worth a few dollars anyway." Xi Jun didn't buy it to please Li Su, but he felt that Li Su was befriendable, so just like friends giving things to each other, he planned to give prisoners of war to Li Su.

"Hehe, I appreciate Brother Xi's kindness, but I want more people here, and it is estimated that there will be at least two or three thousand people, so I want to ask Brother Xi to help and contact those soldiers who want to sell prisoners of war, I can buy them at a high price." Li Su said with a smile, he was already thinking about how much benefit these free labors could bring to him.

"This is easy to do, thanks to His Highness's opinion, I will help you find someone." Xi Junmai is worthy of being a soldier, and he is in a hurry to do things, and as soon as he heard that Li Su asked him to help, he immediately stood up and hugged his fists, turned around and went to find someone.

After a while, Xi Junmai came back with more than a dozen Jiannan soldiers, and they were all worried about the prisoners of war who had been allocated. These people were all straight, and after giving a salute to Li Su, they immediately surrounded him and began to inquire about the trade of prisoners of war.

Don't be surprised to see this, in Datang is not forbidden to buy and sell slaves and maids, almost every big city has a special market, generally adjacent to the cattle and horse market, the status of slaves and maids is also similar to that of cattle and horses, without any personal freedom, belonging to the master's private property, can be bought and sold at will, gifts, and the law also stipulates that the legal status of slaves and maids is inferior everywhere. Therefore, Li Su's statement that he wanted to buy prisoners of war as slaves was a very normal thing in the eyes of everyone.

In the end, Li Su counted that there were more than 3,000 people brought by Xi Junmai plus the prisoners of war he owned, which was more than what he needed, but Li Su was not short of this money now, and he bought them all very boldly, and the price was two percent higher than that on the market, which made these soldiers have a great impression of Li Su, and they came forward to toast.

Looking at the big wine bowls dedicated to these soldiers, Li Su secretly complained in his heart, and he was obviously sorry for the enthusiasm of others if he didn't drink, and finally he simply had a heart, and he fought with this group of soldiers, but unfortunately the amount of wine was not increased by human will, but after a few bowls, Li Su couldn't stand it anymore, and hurriedly pulled the third brother Li Ke over to the top, and found a place where no one was there and vomited.

ps: It's still two chapters today, and the rules are the same as yesterday. In addition, I recommend a book "Warrior World" written by my friend 'Gentleman Ai Cai 02': a glamorous, miserable, and perverted growth history of an outcast. It's not easy for newcomers, so if you're interested, you can check it out.!!