The wind was bitter and the snow was flying all over the sky.

In previous years, tribes everywhere would huddle in their tents full of strange smells, holding lambs or girls groggily and suffering day by day.

Aside from piling, there is really no activity to speak of.

This year, however, is different.

After the envoys of the Tang army came, the nobles of the tribe, as if crazy, drove their troops out of their dirty tents, and then took them out to fight in the bitter cold.

The subordinates, who were shivering in the cold wind, felt that the nobles had gone crazy.

In this kind of weather, we will all die in the mountains and forests.

The tribes of each tribe were very angry, but there was no way, these tribes were standard slavery, and the leaders and nobles were slave owners, and the inertia from childhood to adulthood made them dare not resist.

In this way, under the supervision of many Tang troops, countless Zahu tribes began to attack frantically to sweep away the Dang Xiang Qiang, who was also the head snake of the land.

The cold wind was howling, and the soldiers of the Tang Army, wearing thick cotton clothes, dogskin hats, and cowhide boots, gathered around the fire at the edge of the forest to cook lunch on the fire and set up a pot.

Naturally, there is a firehead army in the Tang army, but the firehead army follows the battalion level to act, and the next team, guy, once they leave the barracks and go out to act, they can only do it themselves.

In the past, at this time, it was to gnaw on a cake that was harder than a stone, and then boil some snow water and swallow it.

But the current Tang Army is unbelievably rich.

The Tang army of this Shi carried specially made individual rations for each person.

Because there is no plastic, it is packed in a wooden box and a small cloth bag.

The people from all over the Tang Dynasty will receive orders from the Four Seas Trading Company when the farming is not working.

The men made some planks and wood chips, and the women sewed cloth bags and so on to earn some pocket money.

When you open the wooden box, the first thing is a piece of dehydrated and dried fried rice, throw it into an iron pot and put it with water, and then sprinkle in salt, dehydrated vegetables, spices, soy sauce and vinegar and other ingredients, and it will soon be cooked into fragrant white rice.

At the same time, the cloth bag also contains sliced slices of dried meat, which are sprinkled into the pot and boiled with rice, and the aroma is really mouth-watering when the lid is opened.

Holding a rice bowl with white rice sandwiched with slices of vegetables and meat, and devouring it, the Tang army sergeants were all satisfied.

Compared with when I was away from the previous expedition, this treatment is really a world of difference.

After eating, find some clean snow and put it in the pot to continue to boil, then wash the dishes, and finally take out the cup and pour some tea leaves and sugar, make a cup of hot tea and sit down to drink a cup of tea.

Meimei enjoyed lunch, and the chief carefully put away the iron pot.

The iron pot, which can be called a strategic resource, is enough to exchange for a few sheep or even a cow on the grassland.

The Tang Army was directly distributed here, and it was the most valuable thing in each of them, except for weapons, armor, stomach, and horses.

You can eat hot food with an iron pot, and being able to eat hot food when you are out fighting is the greatest enjoyment.

After eating and drinking, the Tang army wrapped up the thick cotton clothes on their bodies, and except for the sentry officers, the rest of the Tang troops went into the forest to take care of their horses.

Unlike the extreme shortage of horses in the later Song Dynasty, especially now, the supply of horses in the Tang Dynasty is extremely strong, which can not only fully meet the needs of the army, but even the people can buy a large number of horses.

In addition to the northern prairie that has now become the wool and horse supply base of the Tang Dynasty, horse farms have also been built in many places in Guanzhong and Kanto.

These horse farms are basically military horses, Don hippos with super endurance and impact endurance.

At this time, the proportion of cavalry of the Tang army had already exceeded the peak of the Han Dynasty.

The horses were not only covered in thick quilts, but also on their necks and legs.

These cotton cloths were wrapped in quilts made of cotton, which greatly enhanced the Tang Army's ability to move in cold weather.

Tang Jun took out the bean cake from the blanket on the horse's back and fed the horse with water.

The so-called grain and grass refers to the grain eaten by the soldiers and the grass eaten by horses, cattle and other livestock.

In the past, when going out to fight, the staple food of livestock in the army was hay.

Everyone knows that it is far better for livestock to eat food than hay, but there is limited food, and there are not enough people to eat, so where is there any surplus food for livestock?

At the end of the Warring States Period, in order to support Li Mu's cavalry group, the Zhao State cut and fed the horses with the green seedlings that had not yet grown in the fields.

The combat effectiveness of Li Mu's cavalry was maintained, but Zhao Guo starved to death countless times.

At this time, the Tang army was able to feed the horses with grain.

The main feeding ration is bean cake.

The residue left over after soybean crushing is mixed with a large amount of salt, sugar, spices and other substances, and pressed into a block with a part of alfalfa.

Not only is it extremely nutritious, but it's also very portable.

In the midst of the busyness, the sentinel in the forest blew the whistle, and the Tang army sergeants quickly set off, each took out their weapons, untied the reins of the horses, turned over and got on the horses, and entered the state of battle.

Fortunately, after a short period of effort, the sentry ran out and gestured to everyone.

Amid the sound of squirming on the snow, a large group of miscellaneous beards escorted a group of Dang Xiang Qiang out of the forest.

There are both men and women in the party, and there are more than 100 people in total, which should be a small tribe in the forest.

There are no old or young among these party leaders who have been caught by the miscellaneous beards, because the old and the young cannot be exchanged for rewards. Only men in the prime of life can exchange them for rewards, and women can only exchange half of them.

Their expressions were sluggish, and many of them still had blood stains on their bodies, and they staggered out of the woods and onto the road under the drive of the miscellaneous beards.

The Tang Jun Shi who led the team counted it, nodded and led everyone towards the camp in the distance.

Before dark, they came to the temporary camp, and their own military Chinese book Sima came forward to inspect it, and after confirming their identities, they issued corresponding rewards to the Zahu.

The rewards can be selected by multiple choices, and the rewards chosen by the beards are mainly salt, sugar, and spiced wine.

As for why the more important grain cotton cloth was not chosen, it was because these rewards were to be taken away by the tribal leaders.

In the slave tribes, everything was owned by the slave owner, and the slave was not entitled to private property.

"Take it, these are for you."

Before the Zahu tribes left, Sima Ming, the clerk in the Tang army, would give them some more things, either a bag of tea, or two pieces of cloth, or a jar of wine.

These things are all the favorite of the leaders and nobles of the Zahu tribe.

Tang Jun's clerk Sima will also specially tell them, 'Hide it, don't let your leaders find it, this is your reward.' ’

Needless to say, the miscellaneous tribesmen will leave with great gratitude.

As for the reason for this, there is naturally only one reason, and that is to provoke a conflict between the miscellaneous tribes and their leaders and nobles.

No matter how well the subordinates hide it, there will be a day when they will be found and snatched away.

The things that you exchanged for your life were robbed, and the extra rewards were also snatched away, which must be uneasy!

After the accumulated contradictions, there will eventually be a day when they will erupt.

At the same time as exterminating the party Xiang Qiang, Li Yunze was also digging a pit for the miscellaneous beards here.

After all, in his opinion, the miscellaneous beards, like Kunlun Nu, are existences that must be cleaned up. Nothing is more effective than internal friction.

Many people in the Tang Army could not understand Li Yunze's methods, and felt that they could win the war without giving them these materials.

Now not only give but also give more, many people are complaining, why don't they give it to us.

Li Yunze can't say bluntly that these are all routines, in order to lose less of his own people and more enemies. Exchanging goods and materials for people is the most cost-effective deal in the world.

In the face of Tang Jun's anger, he naturally threw the black pot on Cheng Yanjin's back.

What he said to Cheng Yanjin was, "You are the main general, of course you have to carry it." ”

Cheng Yanjin is a standard general, unlike Li Yunze, who has too many human concerns about the mood of the sergeants.

It's just a wild spray, plus an angry roar 'Who dares to beep again, military law is engaged in ~~~'

Without the slightest surprise, the sergeants quickly quieted down, at least on the surface, no one dared to speak coldly about this matter.

In the winter, Dang Xiangqiang's days were already sad, and under the siege of the Zahu tribes around him, he was almost on the verge of collapse.

Under the dog jumping off the wall, the big chief tried his best to gather the last young men of the tribes, braved the cold wind and traveled more than 200 miles, trying to raid Di Dao, the logistics base where the Tang army had hoarded countless supplies.

Although Cheng Yanjin is not obvious among the famous generals in the early Tang Dynasty, he is definitely not bad in terms of ability.

The army is outside, and he naturally understands the truth of the first grain road.

In addition, the reports of the Zahu tribe, as well as the whistleblowers of the small Qiang tribes who couldn't resist. When the last young man of Dang Xiangqiang came to the vicinity of Di Dao, what was waiting for them was more than 10,000 Tang Dynasty iron horsemen who were waiting for work.

There was no surprise in the battle, and in just one afternoon, the last strength of Dang Xiangqiang disappeared.

With the strength of Datang to deal with Dang Xiang Qiang, this is undoubtedly crushing.

The rest is the follow-up aftermath, and this kind of thing is naturally handled by the chief manager.

Li Yunze, on the other hand, began to arrange wagons to transport prisoners.

Qingzhuang usually has only two places to go, one is to go to the various mines and salt works in Datang to take charge of the most tiring and dangerous work.

Some of them were sent to work in the mines of Luzon and the Wa Kingdom, and in the rubber plantations and spice plantations of the South Seas.

These places are in urgent need of labor, and the people of the Tang Dynasty can eat and drink enough to eat and drink in their own homes, and no one wants to go.

However, these Qiang people are young and strong, and they must be extremely popular over there.

The mines in Datang are better, and the treatment is okay.

But those overseas mines are purely predatory and frenzied mining, the kind that directly takes human lives to fill, and the demand for miners is extremely urgent.

As for the Qiang women, they naturally have a place to go...

The frenzied development of mining, construction, and plantation, as well as the emergence of a large number of textile and iron-making factories, caused the entire Datang to explode into an extreme thirst for labor.

Almost all industries are hungry for more than enough people.

Historically, it was the sheep that had eaten people to drive the peasants into the factories.

On the Datang side, because of Li Yunze's move, he can't force his own people, at least on the surface, he can't force his own people to work, so foreign input is naturally inevitable.

On this day, when Li Yunze was inspecting the freight in Didao, he received a telegram.

The content of the telegram was that a large number of Kunlun slaves had appeared in the coal and iron mines near Shengzhou.

The background of these coal and iron mines is very hard, and there is no way to evict them.

Putting away the telegram, Li Yunze, who had a black face, immediately boarded the train back to Chang'an City.