Zhao Congfang listened to Kang Huaien's advice for money and decided to sell the Dravidian tea captives in his hands as Kunlun slaves, but in order to achieve the finished products required by Dai Wang, he hired knife operators among the cattle traders in North India, and castrated the surviving slaves while handing them over to Dai Wang.

He found endless business opportunities in it, and finally came across a business that his boss was unwilling to ask about, and of course he had to work hard to find it. After the captured captives were sold out, he specially set up a slave hunting team in the army, and set up a slave hunting captain and a capturing lieutenant general.

They sold the castrated Kunlun slaves to Dai Wang, who resold them to people in Chang'an, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Yangzhou and other places, making a profit of tens of millions of gold.

Zhao Congfang himself gained great wealth, and in the year from the thirteenth year of Tianbao to the fourteenth year of Tianbao, more than 20,000 Kunlun slaves were sold from him alone, and the profit was 106 million yuan, which was converted into 106,000 taels of gold.

Before the upheaval of the Central Plains, he had more wealth than all the Brahmins in India, and even had money to expand his army. In order to maintain the repression of the indigenous people of India, he naturally could not recruit troops locally. On the one hand, he paid high salaries to his soldiers, and on the other hand, he encouraged them to write letters to their fellow villagers and relatives, inducing them to come to North India to serve as soldiers, and on the other hand, he bribed Bi Sishen and Bai Xiaode, who were far away in the river and Tocharo, to recruit Sogdian Tocharians to join the Tang army.

Dai Wang knew that Li Siye had always hated the slave trade, but he couldn't resist the temptation of huge profits, and he was sure that the other party's attitude was to turn a blind eye.

He did not report anything related to the slave trade, and even if he made profits, he made up account books in the name of spices, in order to hide people's eyes and ears and leave no opportunity for future historians to criticize.

The Kunlun slave trade brought Li Siye huge wealth gains, and although he was reluctant to admit that his men were involved in the slave trade, Dai Wang, the head of the Chamber of Commerce, presented him with more than 20 million yuan in the account book. This gave him the idea of investing his extra money in the Thunder Temple and the Armor Workshop.

At this moment, in the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion, Dai Wang sat cross-legged on the upper right, and asked Li Siye in front of the screen: "Doctor, do you want to replace Zhao Congfang, the general of the Right Xiaowei stationed in North India?" ”

"Oh," Li Siye was surprised, "why do you ask that." ”

Dai Wang immediately crossed his hands and said: "I look at this Zhao Congfang, he has always been ambitious, he must not only be willing to be a guard general of the Tang Army in India." If the doctor is suspicious of him, he hopes to change it as soon as possible so that he does not have different aspirations. ”

Li Siye was a little hesitant, smacking his mouth and said: "I don't know that Zhao Congfang's heart is higher than the sky, but the garrison in India needs a general who is in charge of the army with comprehensive ability and comprehensive ability, and I can't find a better person to replace him for a while, but a certain person is in charge of the three towns, and Bai Xiaode and Bi Sishen are in the north, and Wang Tao is in the west, he doesn't dare to have any dissent, you can relax." ”

"What the doctor said is extreme," Dai Wang hesitated for a long time, and couldn't think of any way to give Li Siye advice, but said worriedly: "It seems that this is true at the moment, but once the situation in the Central Plains changes, and the communication between Hexi and the Western Regions is interrupted, Zhao Congfang will have a change. ”

Li Siye stood up and said with a smile: "If there is really this time, the imperial court is unable to control the Western Regions, if Zhao Congfang is really ambitious, it can be regarded as his creation." ”

Dai Wang wanted to speak again and again, he wanted to tell Zhao Congfang what he did in North India, but he was afraid that if he said it, Li Siye would not be able to change his original intention.

The emperor of North India is far away, Zhao Congfang and some generals under his command have been completely released from their nature, and they have done many things that have lost their conscience, and the so-called slave hunting and slave traders are only one of the insignificant things he has done.

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Liu Luogu of Fanyang Jinju Academy summarized all the information in Chang'an after October, and planned to write it into a report to Yingzhou, so as to facilitate An Lushan to know about Chang'an's movements at any time.

Yan Zhuang held a hard yellow paper in his hand, and read the contents of the newspaper in a mellow voice, and the corner of his eyes always paid attention to An Lushan, who seemed to be sitting in front of the desk with his eyes closed.

"Hexi, Anxi, and Beiting Jiedu made Li Siye send a letter to the sage asking for an increase in officials, asking for the position of general for his henchmen and generals, and successively promoted 1,500 people to serve as Zhonglang generals.

An Fatzi suddenly opened his eyes, and his face was hideous and scolded: "This Li Siye is really hateful, what did he ask for from His Majesty, he also offered slander to His Majesty, he really regarded himself as the number one person, if he knew what Lao Tzu was going to do, wouldn't he want to ruin my big thing." ”

Gao Shang took the initiative to step forward and said: "The lord does not have to worry, although Li Siye is in charge of the three towns, except for Hexi, Anxi Xiting and other towns can not be compared with Fanyang, Pinglu, and Hedong, his troops are not many, and they are scattered and widely distributed, even if he leads the army into the pass to rescue him in the future, the number of troops that can be mobilized will not exceed 100,000, and the combat effectiveness under his command is far from the opponent of our three towns in Hebei." ”

Yan Zhuang also squinted his eyes and stepped forward, and when the noble words were finished, he was just about to make up for it, the power of this kind of round-robin speech was to brainwash the target continuously.

"Since the lord is worried that Li Siye is a big trouble, why not send a detailed work to spy on the military situation in Hexi, it is best to know the number of troops under his command, and even more to know how many people he can take south to Guanzhong once he learns of the great changes in the Central Plains. This is knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, and not being defeated in a hundred battles. ”

"That's very good." An Lushan patted the case heavily and said loudly: "Come on, go and call An Shouzhong to come in." ”

An Shouzhong, the tooth general, stepped in from the side door, knelt on one knee and crossed his hands and said, "The lord called me?" ”

"I order you to select sixty or seventy people from the camp, preferably Sogdians, and you will personally lead them to disguise themselves as merchants and go to Anxi, Beiting, Hexi, and other places to investigate the total strength of the army in the three towns, and to find out the details of the Hexi army."

An Shouzhong replied decisively: "Well, it will definitely live up to the doctor's expectations." ”

Waiting for An Shouzhong to take the order, An Lushan rubbed his fat stomach and dozed off, and the chamberlain Li Zhu'er knelt in front of his bed, his hands clenched into fists and gently tapped his knees.

Thunderous snoring rang out in the main hall of his mansion, and Yan solemnly exited the room lightly. In the face of such a noisy environment, Yan Junshi concentrated on writing without distractions, which is really impossible for ordinary people to do.

I don't know how long it took, even Li Zhu'er, who was kneeling and beating An Lushan's legs, fell into a coma, there was already a crescent moon hanging high outside the window, and there were only three candles in the house. Gao Shang rubbed his sore fingers, and the thunder in his ears was endless.

Until the rooster crows sounded in the sky, and the military regulations copied by the noble hand had been piled up in a thick stack, and he did not feel sleepy at all after a long night, and he did not even notice that the snoring had stopped. When the coolness of the early morning penetrated into his shirt through the crack in the door, his body trembled involuntarily, and he didn't realize that a black fox fur covered his shoulders.

Gao Shang was shocked and hurriedly turned around to salute, but was pressed by An Lushan's shoulder, and he did not hesitate to praise the words in his mouth: "Gao Junshi is really a resolute person, with thunder in his ears, he can write tens of thousands of words neatly in one night, this is my blessing." This fox fur has been with you for many years, and now it is given to you. ”

Gao Shang hurriedly turned around and knelt on the ground, crossed his hands and said: "The lord knows the grace of the encounter, and the noble dare not to repay the love!" ”

An Lushan stretched out his hand to help him, noble may be due to the excessive range of movements, a book fell out of his arms, and the cover was just facing up, which was Yuan Tiangang's "Pushing Back Picture".