In the majestic palace, above the main hall, a group of ministers are arguing in the main hall.

Someone shouted in front of the emperor: "Turks, Yi Di Ye, not my race, their hearts will be different, the strong will be robbers, the weak and humble, regardless of kindness and righteousness, and their nature." When the pit is killed, it will be a disaster! "Completely ignoring the emperor himself, he has a certain Hu bloodline.

Someone retorted: "Since ancient times, it has been ominous to kill prisoners, the killing god Bai Qi was forced to kill himself, the overlord Xiang Yu was killed by himself, and the Daowu Emperor Tuoba Jue was killed by his son!" A hegemonic country cannot last long; I, the Tang Dynasty, should subdue the four seas with benevolence and righteousness, rather than by the means of tyranny; This remark attracted the approval of a group of Confucian officials, not that they sympathized with the Turks, but that they were so naked in killing and killing, who would dare to surrender to the Tang Dynasty in the future; The killing of prisoners seems to have solved the current crisis of the Tang Dynasty, but in fact, it has left endless disasters.

There are supporters on both sides, and no one will obey anyone, and no one can convince anyone; For a moment, the hall was plunged into endless arguments.

It turned out that after the crown prince Li Jiancheng led the army to defeat the Turks and captured Jieli Khan, he continued to lead the army to the west and north; The Turkic crowd was leaderless, and it was easy to capture a lot of prisoners. And this is only the part of the Turks who invaded the Tang Dynasty, Li Jiancheng has already reported to the emperor and is ready to continue the attack, taking advantage of the power of capturing the Turkic Khan and Shenlei, crossing the Yellow River and hitting the Turkic royal court; Turn the territory of the Turks into the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

I don't complain that Li Jiancheng wants to ascend to the sky in one step and try to solve the Turkic crisis once and for all with the merits of the first war, but it is really too much pressure on the prince from the king of Qin. He can't wait to make a strong feat to change the embarrassing situation that the world only knows the king of Qin and Wuyong, but does not know that there is a prince. Now that Ye Shenren has sent such an opportunity to him, where is he not desperately seizing it,

The prince's calculations were very good, and in a short period of time, tens of thousands of captured Turks, including the wounded Jieli Khan, were sent to Chang'an; When the first batch of Turks came, Li Yuan was excited, and when he offered another batch, Li Yuan was still happy; But after sending tens of thousands of people in a row, Li Yuan had a hard time.

And looking at the posture of the prince, it is estimated that more Turks will be sent back in the future. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the country was not rich, and it was freezing in this cold weather, what did Chang'an City use to support so many Turkic people?

So it was suggested that the captives should dig their own pits and bury them all. Don't doubt that the Tang people didn't dare to do this, there are historical records that Xue Rengui killed 130,000 surrendered Tiele captives to prevent future troubles.

Of course, there are still a small number of people who support such a trap to kill a few captives, and many more people do not approve of such drastic methods against prisoners; But these Turks can't be released, then it is proper to let the tiger return to the mountain. No one could think of a safer way, so they quarreled.

Li Shimin, who was standing in front of the hundred officials, had a good idea, and that was to detain the prefecture. It was to concentrate the Turks in the region close to the Central Plains, appoint the captive leader Tang Dynasty, and respect their previous customs, and exercise regional autonomy on them, which is equivalent to the current policy of national autonomy. Under this policy, the Turks were both tribal and common people, and they only needed to pay a symbolic tribute to the Tang Dynasty on a regular basis. In short, Yi Di entered China, so that the Han people in the interior gradually assimilated those Turkic people, but he waited for the beginning of spring to go on an expedition to Goguryeo to go to Namuzhou, and he didn't want to interfere in the affairs of the Tang Dynasty, and it was not good to offend anyone. So the old god stood under His Highness to raise his spirit.

was arguing, and I heard a eunuch shouting outside: "King Shenxiao is here!" ”

Li Yuan, who was being annoyed by the ministers, heard this, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up, announce quickly." ”

When Ye Jinyu entered the hall, the ministers who had been arguing endlessly all looked at him, and they didn't know whether they wanted the god man to give a solution, or they wanted to watch this young god man catch the blind and let them see a joke.

After Ye Shenren's motorcycle was urinated on by the eunuch, he was distressed; But seeing that the eunuch was so frightened that he knelt and bowed to the ground, and he didn't even care that his body was all wet, a light scene of asking for forgiveness from the divine chariot; The fire that had risen to the top was extinguished again. Although the eunuch was at fault for urinating his car, in the end, he could only blame Ye Jinyu himself, who actually joked with an ignorant ancient. Do it yourself.

Ye Jinyu, who was wet with urine, didn't want to ride it for the time being, but fortunately, it was only a hundred and ten meters away from the palace, so he let the eunuch lead the way and pushed the car into the palace. Walking kung fu, and by the way, I also learned about why the emperor wanted to find him.

So, after entering the main hall, he said: "Since the big guys think the Turks are barbaric, then they will be castrated; If you can't afford to raise political axes, you will hand them over to the people to raise! ”

Full gelding? Tens of thousands of captives are all gelding? What is this operation?

Even the emperor looked at Ye Shenren with his eyes open in surprise.

"Yes, it's a gelding! Didn't you say that the Turks were barbaric? No matter how savage the beast is, even if it is a short-tempered boar, as long as it is gelding, it will become much more tame. This is the experience that Ye Jinyu brought from the countryside.

Just to make savages tame and obedient, it is necessary to gelding the balls of tens of thousands of men; Ye Shenren said it as a matter of course, and it seemed reasonable, but the people in the hall were all men, and when they heard these natural words, they were very sad that the rabbit died and the fox died.

A senior official couldn't help but stand up and said, "King Shenxiao, this is too barbaric, how different are we from barbarians in such an act?" ”

"Leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered, the wildfire burns inexhaustibly, and the spring breeze blows and grows again." Ye Jinyu watched him read a poem, and then said: "This Turkic barbarian is like a weed on the grassland, it can't be extinguished, it can't be burned to death, as long as there is a little spring breeze, it will be resurrected; Do you want to see your children and grandchildren harassed like weeds in the future? Since this is the case, it is better to cut everything that can fight, include it in the territory of Datang, serve Datang, and see how many he can give birth! ”

Ye Jinyu looked quite unreasonable, so angry that the old minister blew his beard and glared, but he didn't dare to take his anger with the gods seriously, so he had to shake his head again and again and retreat to the class.

saw Ye Jinyu standing in a serious place like the main hall, but he always talked about cutting JJ; Li Yuan coughed awkwardly, decided to skip the topic, and asked, "King Shenxiao, I, the Tang Dynasty, need to recuperate, and I can't raise taxes on the people for the sake of just Turkic captives. ”

Li Yuan thought that Ye Jinyu wanted to follow the example of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to raise taxes to the people, so he explained to Ye Jinyu.

Ye Jinyu hurriedly shook his head and said:

"Your Majesty, you have misunderstood what I mean; I mean, the war with the Turks is not just a war with the political axes of the two countries, but a war for the whole people; Now that the Tang Empire has won, as participants and supporters of the war, the people of the entire Tang Dynasty should also enjoy the dividends of the victory in the war. All these prisoners of war were reduced to slavery, and then gelding, and sold to the people at a very cheap price; In this way, the political axe can not only save the cost of raising prisoners, but also recover a sum of money; ”

Speaking of this, Ye Jinyu glanced at the ministers, and then said:

"The political axe lightens the burden, and the people can also benefit, only a very small amount of money can be purchased to a strong labor force, which not only alleviates the lack of labor force of the people; It also allows the people to enjoy the dividends of the war, and when the next time Datang needs to wage war with foreign countries, as vested interests, the people will eat pot pulp and support it from the whole people. ”

This passage, Ye Jinyu thought about it for a long time on the road before he organized, whether it made sense or not, and now he said it all in one breath;

Li Yuan sat on the top, and after listening to Ye Jinyu's explanation, his eyes met that of his second son; Although the idea of this man of God is very bad, it will not only destroy the kingdom, but also make the people die! But it seems to be really operational.

Ye Shenren said a relatively superficial effect, but Li Yuan and Li Shimin knew that such an operation would cause the death of a large number of Turkic men in the prime of life, which greatly weakened the war potential of the Turks, and only the women and children in the tribe were left in the old and weak, and it would be difficult to survive; If this operation continues in the long run, it will not be able to fight for a few years, and the Turks will inevitably disappear from the world.

On the other hand, the people of Datang have more of these fertile people, and their lives will inevitably get better and better.

If every time you encounter an enemy, including Goguryeo, the Wa people, Tibet, Linyi, and other countries, they all operate like this, the enemy country will become weaker and weaker, and the Tang Dynasty will become stronger and stronger!

In a few hundred years, there will only be Tang people left in heaven and earth!

Li Yuan had already acquiesced to Ye Shenren's words in his heart, but because of the face of benevolence, righteousness and morality, it was difficult to say it directly; could only change the topic and said: "The prince asked for war to go deep into the Turks, and the ministers discussed, can this matter be discussed?" He asked Ye Jinyu again: "I don't know what the King of Shenxiao can have?" ”