Li Yuanji was not happy, in his opinion, it was right to seize every opportunity to weaken the King of Qin, and that Fan Yang Lu was one of the five surnames and seven wangs; Its strength is enough to teach Li Lao Er a profound lesson. Now Wei Zheng not only does not seize the God-given opportunity, but also wants to help the second child; It's tolerable, it's unbearable. At the moment, ignoring Wei Zheng is the crown prince, he bluntly reprimanded:

"If you don't stumble, why do you need to help him? Wei Zheng doesn't want to be an enemy! ”

Wei Zheng said with a smile: "King Qi's words are wrong, you must not know how to help King Qin, so that he can break through Goguryeo as soon as possible and continue to move away from the Central Plains to the east!" To help him is to send him away from the Central Plains, and to help him is to help the prince stabilize his position as the prince! ”

Just as the king of Qin told his confidants about the Eastern Crusade; As the core staff of the crown prince, Wei Zheng also has a certain understanding of Ye Shenren's five continents, as well as the affairs of the Qin king's affairs in the domain of Muzhou.

Li Jiancheng listened, and there seemed to be some truth, the sooner King Qin took down Goguryeo, the sooner he could leave Jinzhou and go to Muzhou. Just as he was about to nod his head in agreement, Wei Zheng's tone changed, and he said:

"Fan Yang Lu's family, five surnames and seven wangs; can develop and grow into a family, and after thousands of years, it has always acted by unscrupulous means. befriended the King of Qin, and did not have the intention of taking advantage of the power of the King of Qin to strengthen himself. His Lu family has a big business, if he wants to help King Qin, there are many ways to choose; However, he chose His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to buy horses, cattle and sheep, the meaning of which must not be overlooked; If it is stuck, as King Qi said, not only can it not drive the Lu family to have trouble with the King of Qin; On the contrary, we have made a bad deal with the Lu family in vain. ”

Wei Zheng clarified the relationship in a few words, and Li Yuanji pursed his lips, thinking in his heart, this person has read too many books, and there are many twists and turns in his stomach; But he is no longer stubborn.

Li Jiancheng no longer hesitated, and said: "In this way, according to what Wei Qing said; This is a little bit of help; It's just that the amount of it has to be measured by Wei Qing, and you must not steal chickens and rice! ”

Wei Zheng gave up! Worrying for the Lord is a matter for the staff.

The infighting of the royal brothers, I heard that Wang Yifeng, an outsider, was embarrassed and committed, is this forcing himself to express his support for the prince in disguise? Unconsciously rubbing the leather gloves in his hands, he twisted his head to the side to look at the snow scene in the distance, as if it was unexpectedly wonderful in the white expanse.

I didn't think about it, but there was really something strange in the place I saw, a few black dots were abruptly stained in the white, moving towards this side. Wang Yifeng's eyesight was excellent, and he recognized it at a glance as a knight squad, but he was not wearing the uniform of the Tang Army, and he did not look like a Turk.

Regardless of what the few people next to him were discussing, Wang Yifeng shouted loudly: "Look, who is that?" Ride a horse! Mo is not the Turks appeared. ”

Savior! If you can save yourself from this embarrassment, no matter who you are, even if you are Turkic, you must try to protect you, so that you can have a good place to go after being castrated.

Sure enough, the plans of several people were interrupted, and they all looked in the direction pointed by Wang Yifeng.

"This is a bounty hunter too!" Li Yuanji opened his mouth and solved his confusion for Wang Yifeng.

Although it successfully changed the topic, it also aroused Wang Yifeng's curiosity, and it was the first time he heard this term, and he couldn't help but ignore his identity and asked: "Bounty hunter?" What? ”

"The king is dedicated to training and ignoring the affairs outside the window, which is really loyal and courageous; It's just that I didn't know that there were several batches of folk righteous deeds in the camp one after another. Seeing the combat effectiveness of the mecha, Li Jiancheng knew that this powerful combat power only belonged to his own father, but he still couldn't help but want to win over Wang Yifeng; first praised Wang Yifeng, and then explained very kindly: "Speaking of which, the bounty hunter has a lot of relationship with the king commander, and together with the machine armor people, they are all brought by the Shenxiao King. ”

"All brought by the Divine King? Isn't it a weapon as powerful as the Trap Armor? "I heard that it is related to the King of Shenxiao, and a sense of intimacy arises spontaneously. In Datang, the things that can be set up with King Shenxiao are all strange things, like divine thunder, like spaceships, like mechas; Even the things that the gods and men love to make such things as the Divine Furnace are full of infinite wisdom! And as the commander of the Trap Armor, he has a natural affinity for the Shenxiao King.

Speaking of King Shenxiao, Li Yuanji's mood seemed to have improved, and he helped his eldest brother explain:

"Bounty hunters are not weapons, they are just a bunch of outlaws who work for money! Earlier, the King of Shenxiao suggested to the sage that the sturdy Hu captives should be castrated; The saint accepted it. Later, he issued a clear expulsion order to the people, where our Tang Dynasty soldiers and civilians, into the Turkic territory hostile to the Tang Dynasty Turks, can kill them, take their scalps, go to the nearest yamen in exchange for silver taels. And the price is clearly marked in the expulsion order, and a scalp can be exchanged for one or two silver. As soon as this order came out, it attracted countless down-and-out warriors and heroes, regardless of the arrival of the New Year, and rushed into the Turkic realm to hunt for heads. poisoned and assassinated, and many evil methods were used to the extreme, just to earn scalp in exchange for silver taels. Such people who make money by hunting for scalps are called bounty hunters! ”

There was a chapter in front of it that was reported, and King Shenxiao proposed a bunch of negative suggestions to Li Yuan, so he had to do it in secret, and he didn't dare to let the reader see it, and here is a little revealed.

Kill people to take the scalp? Wang Yifeng only felt that his scalp was numb for a while, why would King Shenxiao propose such a vicious method.

"This ...... The scalp is not as good as cattle, sheep, horses, and other goods, so what is the use of taking them? "The scalp has no practical value at all, and there is no economic benefit; Why did the Shenxiao King and the Saint pay people to use such cruel means to get this thing?

Yuan Peng, who had been staying quietly beside him, suddenly opened his mouth and said: "Without other ears, this strategy is only born to destroy the Turks!" "As a Tang soldier stationed in the northern land who fought with the Turks and witnessed the death of countless robes, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this expulsion order; To paraphrase a fashionable saying: only the dead Turks are good Turks; In Yuan Peng's opinion, even the castrated Turks are not as good as dead.

On the battlefield, you live or die, there is nothing to say; However, to come up with such a policy only for the purpose of exterminating the Turks, from the bottom of his heart, Wang Yifeng felt that it was a bit excessive.

"There are thousands of Turks, and they are scattered all over the desert, and the bounty hunters are afraid that they will not be able to get too much scalp! In the end, the expulsion order is only afraid that it will be a mere formality. ”

Li Yuanji said disapprovingly: "How can it be a formality, yesterday a team of heroes came to the army camp with more than 300 Turkic scalps in exchange for more than 300 taels of silver; According to him, the more than 300 taels of silver were obtained by raiding and slaughtering a small Turkic tribe. 300 scalps are cut off in one day, even if there are millions of Turks, how many days can they be cut? ”

Of course, the number cannot be counted in this way, and to be able to massacre a race, you must first be able to overwhelm the other party militarily; Just like now the Don army suppresses the Turks. Secondly, this kind of killing only works in the early stage, and the further you go, the more difficult it becomes. After all, the Turks are not pigs to be slaughtered, they are waiting for you to kill, they will resist, they will hide. Just like the Americans slaughtered the Indians in the past, they did not kill them for a hundred years, but the results were remarkable, reducing the Indian population from tens of millions to 200,000.

It's just that the Americans, after taking their scalps for a hundred years, stopped this reward; As for Datang, I don't know what year this policy will be canceled.

According to Li Yuanji's algorithm, three hundred a day, ten days is three thousand, and one hundred days is thirty thousand. This is only the harvest of one team, if there are hundreds of teams shuttling through the living places of the Turks every day, then it is not that even if there are tens of millions of Turks, they will disappear in a year. And what Datang needs to pay is only 10 million taels of silver.

Ten million taels of silver, destroy a fierce enemy!

After those down-and-out heroes make a fortune through this means, I am afraid that more and more strongmen will join the ranks; Even if the Turks have been wiped out by then, in order to maintain the continuation of the industry, these vested interests will coerce the Tang Dynasty into the path of constantly destroying the surrounding enemies. For example, Tibet, Goguryeo, and the Wa Kingdom.

No, Li Yuanji said: "The sage has promised me to be in the Tuzhou, if it is not easy to lead the army to conquer along the way, he will have to invite the bounty hunter to go to the Tuzhou for a walk, and open up a place for my Tang people to live." ”

Li Jiancheng said: "The army occupies the main point of transportation, and the bounty hunters can supplement it; Bounty hunters can kill the enemy when they go into battle, and fill the territory for the people; If the younger brother is a vassal, he can gather a large number of idle heroes; My brother is willing to help my brother from this. ”

If Li Shimin leaves the Central Plains, then among the brothers, the person who poses the greatest threat to Li Jiancheng's storage position will become Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, who is just a young man; Supporting King Qi to cross the ocean to Tuzhou to become a vassal is not only the reward of Li Jiancheng's eldest brother to his supporters, but also satisfies Li Yuanji's intentions; At the same time, it is also in the interests of Li Jiancheng.

"Thank you, big brother!"

A few people were chatting about the bounty hunter, and a guard came to report: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, there is a team of heroes from Longxi who has brought back two hundred scalps; Eighty women, one hundred horses, and a thousand sheep were seized and were still in the Turkic camps, but they were not brought back. The Lord of the Records Army asked His Highness what to do. ”

Originally, there was no need to alarm the prince for such trivial matters, but the territory in the north had just been occupied, and the administrative institutions had not yet been perfected, and the military and political affairs were temporarily in the hands of Li Jiancheng, so a trivial matter was reported to Li Jiancheng here.

In the past few days, he has dealt with several such things, and Li Jiancheng is quick to deal with them:

"The reward is as usual, and after identifying the scalp as Turkic, it will be distributed in accordance with the amount. As for the seized property, the Chinese army can be ordered to send a team to assist in retrieving it; The army collects 30% of the protection fee for the recycled materials, and another 20% of the tax, and the rest is disposed of by itself. ”

Li Yuanji said suddenly: "Big brother, the army has divided all kinds of materials from the bounty hunters, so it is better to give them directly to the Fan Yang Lu clan." ”

Wei Zheng said: "This move is feasible, but it is not appropriate; In the opinion of the ministers, not only can the materials in the hands of the army be exchanged, but also the materials that have not been handed over in the hands of the bounty hunters should be purchased and sold to the family and the merchants. ”

Although he didn't understand what pricing power was, Wei Wei subconsciously felt that as the landlord of this place, the prince's mansion should control the exchange of such materials in his hands.

Li Jiancheng is going back to Chang'an in the future, and he doesn't care much about this kind of thing, and when he heard this, he said: "This discussion will be handled by Wei Qing with full authority." ”