The news quickly reached Cheng Chuliang, and they also held an urgent meeting to study this matter, and our military expenses must not be paid by ourselves, especially in the Western Regions.

If we fight in other places, our military spending may not be so serious, and now we have spent half a year's financial revenue of the Tang Dynasty, if we can't earn this money back, for the time being, the imperial court is no problem, but we must not open this opening.

Li Xiang's words are clearly remembered in their heads, and they also know about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, if a war does not return to the capital, then the whole country can still hold on, but the generals behind will take this war as an example, what if there are two or three wars in the future?

Li Xiang also told them that only by gaining wealth from foreign wars can our nation and country know the benefits of foreign wars, and if after each war, we put a heavy burden on our common people and let them not benefit from the war, then what is the use of our war? Is it just to satisfy the ruler's illusion of military exploits?

This is absolutely unforgivable, so after the generals of the Western Regions have discussed, they must arrange this money immediately.

If we hadn't fought this battle before, we could have arranged it for the tribes in the Western Regions, but now we can't do that, after all, people bring people to fight on the battlefield with us, and the strength of their group is not weak, if this money is arranged for them, maybe these guys are likely to organize a rebellion, and not only will they not receive this money, but they may also put our rule in the Western Regions into a crisis, which can be said to be the next strategy.

We can adopt this strategy when we don't have wealth on the territory of the Arab Empire, but we haven't tried it yet, so we can't do anything like that.

In order to ensure the economic security of the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, we can rob the countries of the Western Regions, but if we don't get to that point, we can't use such a barbaric way, the countries of the Western Regions are the barrier of the western part of the Tang Dynasty, and we must not rob the troops unless we have to.

But there is no such concern within the rule of the Governor's Palace of Anton, and you have already sent troops to follow His Royal Highness the prince to attack us, so what do we have to save face for you?

After about 7 days, everyone thought that the disaster might have passed, especially the tribes around Samarkand, they also thought that their guilt was over, after all, General Feng had assured them that those things had nothing to do with them, and it was all the business of Prince Salman and Governor Faisal.

So these people also put their hearts in their stomachs, plus they had heard some legends of the Tang Celestial Empire, so they thought that the Tang army would not target them, and this day would be normal.

But at noon 7 days later, they found a large number of brightly armored troops in the east, all of whom were the army of the Tang Dynasty, and the war here was over. Why are so many people coming from the east?

Feng Chucai didn't bother to explain to these people, and took his subordinates directly into the Tang military camp, Qu Tushou and his army ran for 7 days in a row, and then came to Samarkand City.

"It's really embarrassing for you, it's only been 7 days, I think there are a lot of people, are there 20,000?"

General Feng has not been idle these days, because there are too few people under him, so there is no way to rob the surroundings, but now that our support troops are over, then he can't be idle, during this period of time, he has asked his subordinates to find out the surrounding tribes clearly, which tribe has money and which tribe has no money, this is all in his mind, so that our people don't know where to start after coming.

"There were more than 25,000 people in total, all of them cavalry, but there weren't many artillery and musketeers coming, so there were no hard battles, right?"

Qu Tushou slapped the dust off his head while drinking water, the hard work of the past few days can make them tired, in order to be able to run over as soon as possible, many people are sleeping on horses all the way.

"I made it very clear to you in the letter, as long as you bring people over, I have almost investigated the situation of each tribe, generally there are at most twenty or thirty people in the tribe of 1,000 people who can fight, and the rest are basically old, weak, sick and young, His Royal Highness the Arabian prince has helped us a lot, he directly took away all the young and middle-aged people in the tribes, it is estimated that those people are now in our prisoner of war camps, so if you take action against the tribes, the existing people are enough."

Feng Chucai said with great confidence, if there were still some young adults in each tribe, then it was very likely that their task would not be so easy to complete.

The most different thing between nomads and farming people is that they have more troops, don't look at their total number, but all young adults can fight, if you don't have any combat skills in peacetime, you can't survive in such a wasteland.

The farming nation is different, their total number is relatively large, but the army that fights the war is specially trained, and in peacetime, these ordinary people are involved in various economic production at home, and have not carried out all kinds of military operations at all, especially in the rich areas of the south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, if the young adults of each tribe are still staying in the original tribe, then no matter how serious their losses on the battlefield are, it will be a difficult thing for us to take away the production materials of their tribe.

"I've heard that most of the good things have been taken, and I'm afraid we won't have anything but the cattle and sheep when we come, right?"

Qu Tushou doesn't look down on those things from the bottom of his heart, although these things are also very valuable, but they are transported to the economic hinterland of Datang so far away, just the freight, it is also a lot of wealth, but now there is no other way, if you don't want this, then you have to face the loss here.

"The general's words are wrong, and the number of war horses is also quite large, and their people!"

Feng Chucai's face showed a malicious expression, and Qu Tushou and the deputy general next to him also laughed...