These days, there are also many errands that can return to Chang'an City, but Su Ding is in a high position, and there are many things in the Western Regions, if he leaves, there is no way to carry out many things, and there is no one who can replace him, so he can only endure it.

Now that he finally has a chance, he is a little carried away, and now he was beaten by Li Xiang, and he knew what to do next, the speed of the team slowly slowed down, and he could only advance fifty miles a day, which was more than the speed of the regular army.

After entering the territory of Datang, their speed can be doubled, mainly because the roads in Datang are relatively well repaired, Li Xiang has begun to burn cement in the country when he leaves, and the cement roads have been repaired on the main roads, although the cost is huge, but it is also of great significance to the entire Datang.

"The road is not slow, and it is very smooth."

Walking on the cement road of Datang, although only one carriage can be driven alone, but this is already quite difficult, if you want to remove all the people around you, Li Xiang even feels that he has come to the 21st century, of course, it is also the most useless country road in the 21st century.

"Your Highness, the construction of this road is indeed not slow, but there are also a lot of losses of manpower, our prisoners of war in order to build this road, I heard that every 1 kilometer there are deaths."

After a long period of development, Su Dingfang already knew how far 1 kilometer was, and when building this road, they used all the prisoners, and only in some places where there were not enough people would they recruit workers in the people, but in some dangerous areas, all these captives were allowed to build roads.

"Everything has to pay a price, we are fighting on the battlefield, in order to find a relatively safe environment for the people of our country, if we don't have so many prisoners, if we want to build roads, we must let the people of our country do it, then it will be our own people who will die at that time, and now foreigners can be the cornerstone for us, which is also their life."

Li Xiang didn't feel very sad about this, either the people of your own country filled it in, or let these prisoners fill it in, in this day and age, there is no machinery and equipment, if you want to repair this road in a short time, then there are some places where people can't save lives.

"Your Highness is right, no other people outside know about this matter, except for our own people, we didn't let the news leak out, but we were afraid that some people inside the court would talk nonsense, I really don't know what these people's brains think, and they actually mixed the lives of foreigners with the lives of our own people, if I heard it in Chang'an City, I would go up and beat him with a full face."

Although Su Dingfang has been in the Western Regions, he has heard some remarks in Chang'an City, some ministers of the imperial court don't know about the people's sufferings at all, and even let us treat these prisoners of war well, I really don't know what their minds think, these are all steppe wolves, when they killed our border people, why didn't you stand up and talk about it? Why don't you go to someone's court to talk about it?

You don't have this opportunity at all, as long as you cross the border line and step out of the protection range of the Tang army, these people will immediately turn you into a two-legged sheep, do you still think your doctrine has any effect?

"These are people who eat people and don't do things, they talk about benevolence and righteousness at every turn, war is actually cruel, and it is cruel for a big country to rise, and now we have finally achieved some victories, we must not be fooled by these people, if we pay attention to benevolence and righteousness, then we will be paid much less, which is a complete unfairness for our brothers who have dedicated their lives."

Li Xiang disagrees with some civil officials in the imperial court, especially these recent remarks, there will be some experts and professors in any era, these people don't understand the people's sufferings at all, they only know how to do it according to their own ideas, if you think right, it's okay, but you people have never thought right.

Take the current Goguryeo as an example, many people feel that we have gone too far, treating all the local people as slaves, not even a normal person, this is destroying a nation, if it is written in the history books, it may leave a lifetime of infamy.

But Li Xiang felt that it didn't matter, what kind of face did those people in Goguryeo have to save for them, since the Sui Dynasty, we have lost a lot of people in Goguryeo, so let them work for us day and night, and the food they bring is rewarded to the soldiers who died or were disabled on the battlefield, wouldn't it be better?

When he talked about this matter, Su Dingfang's heart was not smooth, Goguryeo is currently the highest return among all the occupied territories, the grain in the first season has been harvested, in addition to leaving a part of the rations for the local area, the imperial court has brought back truckloads of grain.

Several large warehouses have been filled, and according to Li Xiang's request, all the families of the war dead can go over to receive grain, 100 catties of grain per person per year, this amount is already enough for them to live a good life, although it is not enough to eat for the whole year, but there is no problem for three months.

The families of the soldiers used to have a lot of pensions, but now they have solved a quarter of the food problem in a year, and as long as they do some work in other places, then they will be able to have enough to eat.

Li Xiang also once visited the people, when Emperor Yang of Sui dug the Grand Canal, it was because these people worked every day that they couldn't even eat a little food, so they would stand up and resist, if Emperor Yang of Sui could give them three meals a day, let alone digging the Grand Canal, it was possible to dig directly from here to Europe.

In addition to the families of these war dead, a large amount of grain was transported from Goguryeo to the Tang Dynasty, resulting in a large drop in the price of grain, and the common people did get benefits, but for some nobles, I am afraid it is not good, and a large amount of grain within their family cannot be digested, because Goguryeo's grain is too cheap, and some of the previous harvests have made them come to naught.

For this part of the people, Li Xiang can only say to them that he can't help it, sacrificing the interests of some of you and benefiting all the people, this is our responsibility......