Li Longji is not in Chang'an, and these captives will naturally not be taken into the capital. At this time, it was the middle of winter, and what to do with these 1,500 captives also became a problem. Ye Chang coordinated with the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Rites, and the Honglu Temple in advance, and they were arranged in a Beijing military horse farm in the northwest of Chang'an, where temporary shelters were set up with planks and tents.

I heard that these big food captives are coming, and many Chang'an rangers came here to see the excitement. They are rangers, they are used to causing trouble, and they are used to seeing big food merchants, but they are rare to see big food prisoners of war

Yuan Chao and Yuan Ying were mixed in these rangers.

Their brothers are all good friends with heroic rangers, and if they want to stay in Chang'an for a while this time, they naturally have to call friends and companions. They brought some money and were generous, so it only took some time, and there were many people around them who were calling themselves brothers.

"Look, these big cannibals, all with those ugly beards, and wrapping themselves in cloths, what they look like"

"I've seen the Uighurs, and even the Persians, but I've never seen such an ugly cannibal...... Gee

Yuan Chao and Yuan Ying were deaf to the surrounding discussions, and his two brothers looked a little weird.

Ye Chang didn't see them, and his porter also beat Yuan Ying out, which was a great shame for the two of them. Even if Ye Chang had never heard of their reputation and was unwilling to greet them, he should not be like this

They are all single-minded tempers, people respect themselves for a foot, and they respect others, but if a person insults himself, he will try every means to overturn him. Don't look at Yuan Chao as a small official, but there are some illegal things under his hands, otherwise he would not have anything to do with the subordinates of the great pirate Wu Lingguang at the beginning. Therefore, even if the opposite side is the world-famous Ye Chang, the two of them don't have much fear.

From respect to hate, it's just a trivial matter.

"You say, why is this, Ye Zhizhou has invited people from all walks of life to come here to watch these big food captives in the past few days, is it because he wants to show his martial arts?" Someone asked.

"You don't know that." Another well-informed person, Ha Lu Ha Da Lang, smiled: "I heard that Ye Zhongcheng is going to make a big deal"

"Buying and selling? He is a dignified man, and he still has to do business, wouldn't it be degrading to the court? ”

"It's been changed twenty years ago or so, but now it's different, the powerful and important ministers in the court, who doesn't do some businessmen to do this wind was originally brought up by Ye Zhongcheng, he does business, what's strange. And what he did, benefiting the family and the country, is those noble gentlemen who call money a blockage, and there are few reprimands. "The man who said he was doing business.

"That's because money makes a lot of money" a momentary humane.

Everyone laughed, Ye Chang's reputation in Shilin was not good, but strangely, Shilin Qingliu did not criticize him. The reason is that Ye Chang donated money to support education, and the students and teaching assistants in Chang'an City, but I don't know how many people have taken Ye Chang's funding. The so-called eating other people's soft mouths and taking other people's soft hands have obtained Ye Chang's benefits, Shilin Qingliu has some practices for Ye Chang, and he can only turn a blind eye.

This is the case in any era, most of those who have the right to speak have to give in to money and power, and it is good to be silent, and some people will even play a two-faced trick, and they will abuse him in every way if they can't really deal with him, but they can kneel and lick and shoot wildly for those who give him money.

Yuan Chao thought so in his heart, and exchanged glances with Yuan Ying.

"Don't digress, don't digress, what we just said is clearly what Ye Zhongcheng is doing with so many people, aren't you talking about a big deal, what kind of big deal is it, is it to sell people?" After everyone laughed for a while, someone grabbed the topic back.

"Exactly" the trading brother slapped his thigh: "This matter is also related to Ye Zhongcheng's border policy theory of operating the frontier, you know that he proposed the method of opening the middle in the border policy, asking merchants to hoard fields on the border, plant grain, cotton, hemp and sugarcane, supply the military resources needed by the army nearby, and also provide raw materials for the workshops run by the Chamber of Commerce." But this requires a lot of labor, so Ye Zhongcheng is ready to sell these big foods and prisoners in the river, and use this as capital to establish the Anxi Chamber of Commerce."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but fall down: "Sure enough, it was Ye Zhongcheng's habitual behavior."

It is common for the Tang Dynasty to buy and sell Hu people as slaves and maids, although the imperial court has repeatedly banned them, but they are only a dead letter. Moreover, the status of the slaves and maids of the Tang Hu people is extremely low, and they are even compared to livestock, and they are not allowed to intermarry with their lovers, so these rangers in Chang'an do not feel that there is anything wrong with this situation.

"Let's go, my brother is going to visit a friend who lives in seclusion in the South Mountain." Hearing this, Yuan Chao spoke.

"Your brother is going to do it himself." The Rangers laughed and sent them away.

The two of them were not far away, and then they slumped into a forest. Yuan Chao said in a deep voice: "Liulang, you want to come clearly, do you really want to do this?" ”

"It's natural to do it, if I don't do this, I won't be able to understand my thoughts" Yuan Ying sneered: "I don't even put our brothers in my eyes, big brother, we are well-known men in Taizhou, and we have been so salted a few times"

"Okay, let's make some trouble for this Ye Gong." Yuan Chao also smiled.

Different from Yuan Ying's hideous smile, Yuan Chao's smile was full of fierceness. The two of them didn't say a word to each other, not in the slightest fear that their actions might cause trouble.

The sky gradually darkened, and looking at the torches lit in the prisoner camp from afar, Yuan Chao beckoned: "Okay, let's go." ”

In that prisoner camp, Ye Chang looked at the silent Ziad and sighed.

"The most beautiful and told him that if he is willing to tell him what he knows, the Great Food Military System, the array, the drill, and the school, I can speak well for him in front of the Son of Heaven, and in Chang'an City, his wealth is indispensable. Maybe one day, he can go back to his hometown. ”

The translator chirpedly turned Ye Chang's words into big food language, but Ziad was still expressionless and didn't say a word.

"If that's the case, forget it." Ye Chang saw that the persuasion of the most reluctant did not work, so he got up immediately. He had already spent a day here, except to meet with those who were interested in buying slaves, and to persuade Ziyad.

He got up to leave, and when he reached the door, he heard Ziad say, "Are you going to make us your slaves?" ”

"What did he say?" This is the first time Ziyad has spoken, and Ye Chang asked Tongyi.

After the translator translated, Ye Chang sneered, it turned out that this guy was not going to surrender, but also made him happy in vain.

"As you think, you will spend the rest of your lives in the farms and pits furthest from the Great Eclipse, rest assured, you will be a very valuable possession, and we will not let you die so soon." Ye Chang said lightly, and then went out.

Ye Chang and his guards left, and he was the only one left in Ziade's wooden house. He raised his eyes and looked at the direction Ye Chang had left, as if he was thinking deeply.

Because of his identity, he was not abused, Datang gave him a separate courtyard, and allowed him to keep a few personal soldiers.

Night was about to fall, Ziyad came to the courtyard, looked at the horizon, and shouted: "Khalid, you come here"

Khalid ran over, puzzled.

He was not originally a close confidant of Ziad, but after becoming a prisoner, Ziad brought him to his side and talked to him from time to time. Khalid respected the general, but at the same time wondered how he would change.

"Khalid, do you know why I think of you differently?" Calling Khalid over, the two of them were at the door, Ziyad whispered.

The other soldiers were outside the courtyard, but Khalid was the only one here, and he didn't worry about being heard.

"I don't know what to do." Khalid replied honestly.

"Because you can speak the words of the Don." Ziad stared at him.

"What?"

"Remember what I told you on the road, find a way to escape, you see this." Ziad said as he pulled out a pocket.

Naturally, all the weapons on his body were confiscated, but neither Li Siye, who captured him, nor Ye Chang, the commander of the Tang Army, did not attack the personal belongings he was carrying. Therefore, the small cloth pocket he took out was full of colorful gems.

These were prepared by the kings of the river countries to bribe him, and the gems were quite valuable, so he carried them with him.

"You can speak the language of the Tang people, take this, after escaping from the Lang, you can be said to be a gem merchant from our Great Eclipse, so that with these gems, you can survive in the Tang Dynasty, find the right opportunity, return to our country, and put those words I let you remember, the Tang people are our greatest enemy, how to defeat the Tang people, all bring it to Governor Abu, bring it to the Abbasid Caliph I hope that one day, you can lead our army to this land, I really hope that when that day comes, I am not dead"

Ziad said as he shoved the pouch of gems into Khaled's hand. Khalid clutched the gems tightly, tears welling up in his eyes: "General, the true god will bless you, and you will live a long life...... However, now that we are all captives and the Dons are tightly guarded, how can I escape? ”

"As I thought, in any country, if the capital has been peaceful for too long, the sergeants guarding the capital will always be a little slack. Do you see today's handover, the subordinates of the young general of the Tang dynasty handed us over to the garrison of the capital, and these sergeants in the capital are all proud and arrogant, but they are far less vigilant than the border army. We'll have a chance, you just have to be ready," Ziad said.

Khalid answered, slightly skeptical that they would really have such an opportunity.

In a Zhuangzi about ten miles away from this horse farm, a man in a Taoist robe gently tapped the horse's back, he looked at the more than ten horsemen around him, and said with a smile: "Do you remember everything clearly?" ”

"Remember clearly, don't hurt people, only set fires."

"That's it, what we have to do is just to make our Ye Zhongcheng so proud, instead of offending him to death." The man tilted his head and looked to the east: "Let's go." ”

If it weren't for the insistence of the person behind him, he didn't want to start this operation, but he couldn't resist that person, so he could only carry out this operation symbolically.

"Your Highness, although the news from the Hot Spring Palace, the Son of Heaven seems to have changed his mind, you are in a hurry to spoil Ye Chang's favor, but ...... This kind of method may not be really effective......" Thinking of his previous relationship with Ye Chang, the man who looked like a Taoist priest sighed slightly.

If he can follow his thoughts, he really won't be embarrassed by Ye Chang, and let go of Ye Chang, he will be able to get a miracle of strength, and if he intends to be hostile to Ye Chang, he can only add a terrible opponent to himself. But the highness he served listened to the persuasion of others in other matters, but on the issue of Ye Chang, he was a person who could not listen to the persuasion of others.

The group followed the trail from the southwest to the valley where the captives were housed. They were accustomed to this road, and they often came, so that the ten-mile road was only a small half-hour effort, and when they arrived, the stars were faint, and a crescent moon was already hanging over the sky.

They dismounted from a distance, took off all the flammable things from the horses, and masked their faces in black scarves, and approached the valley under the guidance of the man. A tent and a wooden hut in the valley was the target of their attack.

"Wait a moment, the southeast wind will rise, and there will be clouds in the sky to cover the moon." The Taoist priest looked at the sky and said slowly.

Everyone looked up at the sky, the moon and stars are scarce, there are no clouds, where will there be clouds to cover the moon, but this gentleman, even their lord respected, and when he was young, he was already famous, known as Wolong, Phoenix Chick first-class figures, he said this, there will always be some basis.

In the northeastern mountains of the valley, the Yuan brothers have also arrived.

The two of them stared at the camp in front of them on the mountain by the moonlight, and by the light of the fire in the camp, they could roughly see the figures in it.

"It is said that Ye Chang will govern the army, I don't think that's it, you see, some people are drinking in the army, and those patrols are also messy, today you can definitely ⊥ Ye Chang is good-looking" Yuan Chao smiled after looking at it for a while.

He couldn't tell the difference between the soldiers in this valley and Ye Chang's soldiers, so he mistakenly took these Gyeonggi forbidden troops who were not strict in military discipline for Ye Chang's subordinates.

"What my brother said is, in my opinion, Ye Chang and others can become famous generals, and my brother and I can be famous generals among famous generals" Yuan Ying was even more unconvinced: "Just like this, it can even be powerful, it seems that Ye Chang's fame is all bragged brother, and there is a chance that our brother will also be a general and marshal...... When my brother is the son of heaven, I will be a general."

They saw the Son of Heaven's honor guard at Chang'an East Station, and they originally had a yearning heart, but at this time, they were resentful, and when they saw the level of the forbidden army, they couldn't help but be a little arrogant.

"Hehe, talk about it behind your back, Hugh go to someone to mention these words." Yuan Chao heard his reckless words, and shook his head with a smile.

At this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew in the sky, and then, I don't know where it came from, a faint cloud obscured the moon, and the surroundings instantly darkened.

Although there was the light of torches in the camp, it could illuminate the camp, but it could not illuminate them, so the two of them felt a little uncomfortable.

At the other end of the valley, there was a slight commotion at this time.

When the Taoist priest talked about the wind and clouds, it turned out to be really wind and clouds

They looked at the Taoist priest's eyes and felt a little wrong, but the Taoist priest himself was indifferent: "Let's start, remember the location of the forage...... Whatever the result, after shooting the rocket, leave with me"

"Yes," the crowd replied respectfully.