Great Tang Southern Emperor

"Forget about the meal, and the subordinates will go to do it now." Huo Chulou put down the leg of lamb directly, and took a group of subordinates to leave.

"Oh, that's right." Not long after Huo Chulou left, Li Zhen suddenly remembered something, turned to Li Ergou and asked, "How much Yunnan Baiyao did we bring this time?"

"Yunnan Baiyao? It should be a hundred catties. It is said that it was the entire output of the Blood Dragon Guard in the past few months, but Xiao Shunzi's heart ached." Li Ergou replied, and then asked: "Isn't Your Highness planning to sell it to you?" Are you using Yunnan Baiyao for the soldiers? That medicine is very expensive."

"No matter how expensive the medicine is, it is just waste if it is not used on people." Li Zhen lowered her head and took a bite of the meat: "Besides, the reason why I brought so many Yunnan Baiyao this time is that I planned to use this war to start Yunnan Baiyao Fame, as long as the fame spreads, are you afraid that there will be no business in the future? Go, send someone to share all the Yunnan Baiyao."

"Shall we divide it all up? Isn't that too much? Shall we keep some?" Li Ergou was still a little bit reluctant.

"What's this? I don't want the child to be tied to the wolf. As long as the reputation of Yunnan Baiyao can be established, such a loss can be made up in three days."

"Yes, this subordinate will do it now." Li Ergou casually recruited a confidant to make arrangements, and then sat back in his seat and continued to eat meat.

"It's almost there, let's go." It's not advisable to eat too much breakfast, and Li Zhen only ate [-]% full. After eating, she greeted Li Ergou to go to see the captives, which was agreed before.

"Your Highness, do you really want to visit the captives?" Li Ergou knew what Li Zhen was thinking, but he also frowned deeply because of this: "Turkic people don't like to be clean like me in Tang Dynasty, they are very dirty, if you Seeing this, I'm afraid it will be so disgusting that I can't even eat lunch."

"Do you think I'm a clean freak?" Li Zhen asked back: "Are you kidding? If I had a clean freak, I would eat and sleep with craftsmen for a blast furnace? If I had a clean freak, I would be in a military camp." Live for more than a month?"

"No, no, no, this subordinate definitely didn't mean that." Li Ergou quickly denied: "In fact, what this subordinate means is that the Turkic people are too barbaric, even if they are captured, they are still extremely barbaric. The prisoner didn't know what to do, and ran into your highness, and the subordinates are afraid that they will die."

"How could it be? With your protection, who can get close to me?" Li Zhen expressed her reassurance for them, and said: "Besides, I still have one important thing that must be done before Xie Li is arrested. , sooner rather than later, let’s just do it today.”

"Yes, but it's still the same sentence, Your Highness, you'd better not get out of the carriage easily, so that the protection of your subordinates will be easier."

"Okay, okay, it's up to you, really, why didn't you realize that you are a slob before?" Li Zhen muttered dissatisfiedly, then turned and returned to the carriage.

Not long after returning to the carriage, the guards also finished their breakfast, and ordered dozens of wounded soldiers to stay behind. strong demand) went down the hill.

"General Huo." After getting off the hill, Li Zhen did not go anywhere else, but directly came to Huo Chulou's big tent. Now Huo Chulou is the highest commander in the camp except Li Zhen. Regardless of the situation, he is the temporary No. [-] person in charge. At this time, the war has just ended, and all the statistics are being counted. Huo Chulou is already crazy busy.

"So it's Your Highness. I wonder what's important for Your Highness to come here?" Huo Chulou asked respectfully even though he was dizzy from his busy schedule.

"Nothing else, I just heard that many prisoners of war were captured last night, right?" Li Zhen said with interest, "Can you lend me some?"

"His Royal Highness wants to borrow prisoners?" Hearing this, Huo Chulou frowned: "Accordingly, Your Highness is Dingxiang Army Commander Shi. In the absence of the commander-in-chief, even if he directly takes over the work in the camp, it is natural for mere prisoners It's not a big deal. But please forgive me for asking, I don't know how His Highness plans to deal with these prisoners?"

"Of course I came according to the rules." Li Zhen said casually.

"Then my subordinates can rest assured." Huo Chulou was afraid that Li Zhen would mess up, so he couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief, but he didn't know that he was a little too early.

"Take me to see it quickly." Li Zhen urged impatiently.

"Yes, this subordinate will arrange for someone to take His Highness there." Huo Chulou still has a lot of things to do, and he can spend time playing with Li Zhen.

In order to reduce the possibility of the captives rebelling, the captive camps were not arranged together, but were divided into more than a dozen different areas, and the prisoners were all young and strong among the captives. Tang Jun arranged to start working.

Seeing the prison camp, Li Zhen frowned immediately: "This is the prison camp, the guards are too lax."

It's no wonder Li Zhen said that. There were 50 prisoners in this prison camp, but there were less than [-] soldiers guarding them. Even if the prisoners had no weapons, wasn't the manpower too small?What's more, the prisoners' camp was also very simple. There was only a simple camp wall made of wood on the outside, and the prisoners inside were all tied up with ropes. Can such a camp really hold prisoners?Can a riot really be stopped?

Chapter 139

Chapter 65 The Killing of Prisoners Is Ominous

"Your Highness, that's too much to worry about." A school lieutenant who led the way for Li Zhen said with a smile, "Your Highness doesn't know something. Don't look at the rudimentary camp, it's actually quite strong, and there are so many people guarding it. The captives really rioted, and they can last at least fifteen minutes. This place is not far from the barracks, and fifteen minutes is enough for us to dispatch troops to suppress it, and it is still very safe."

"That's right, I forgot about the barracks."

"By the way, is it true that General Huo said that I can mobilize a thousand prisoners? If so, give it to me. I can be of some use." After inspecting the prisoner camp, Li Zhen lost interest and told her the goal of.

"One thousand captives is not a problem, but I just don't know what His Highness is going to do?" The captain asked, and immediately said: "Of course, if it's something confidential, it's assumed that the subordinate didn't ask."

"It's not a secret. It's okay to tell you. I want prisoners to dig a hole for me, a big hole." There is nothing that can't be said, and Li Zhen will naturally not hide it.

"Dig a hole?" The captain was confused, what are you doing digging a hole at this time?

"Don't worry about it, just give me the captives." Li Zhen didn't explain too much. Anyway, with his right, it is still possible to call some captives. There is no need to explain the reason to others. The reason why he said it was purely It was because what he was going to do was not secret, and there was no need to hide it at all.

The captain knew that he had asked a little too much, so he quickly said, "Yes, please wait a moment, Your Highness."

The [-] captives assembled quickly, and under the escort of [-] guards, they walked outside the camp.

Huo Chulou got the news very quickly, and immediately had a headache, because Li Jing had told him before leaving, telling him that there was nothing else, except to pay attention to His Royal Highness Yue Wang.His behavior is too weird, no one knows what he will do until he takes the last step, but his personality is also like this

So before leaving, Li Jing repeatedly asked Li Zhen's request to be carefully considered and considered. Huo Chulou also agreed with all his mouth, but when he actually faced Li Zhen, Huo Chulou realized that he still took the matter into consideration. It's easy to think - Li Zhen is a long history (although he has no real power). In theory, he is the biggest in the camp now. When the commander is not around, he can have the right to control the military. I know Li Zhen It's just a name, but the people below don't know it.What's more, in addition to his military position, Li Zhen is also the King of Yue in the Tang Dynasty. You, Li Jing, can refuse his request. He agreed without having time to think about it, but when Li Zhen started to do something, he regretted it and hurriedly put down what he was doing and rushed to Li Zhen.

The captives were dishonest along the way, constantly struggling, resisting and cursing, and some tried to attack the soldiers or escape. If it weren't for the straw ropes in the middle, some people would have already run away.

At first, Li Zhen thought that the captives were too unruly, and was about to kill some monkeys to frighten the chickens, but someone who could speak Turkic told Li Zhen that the captives had misunderstood, and they thought it was a mistake to lead them out. Ready to kill them—this is the rule on the grassland, the victor has the right to deal with everything of the loser, and the rule on the grassland is that half of the winners will kill all the young, strong, old and weak among the losers, Only women and children were left. They thought that Li Zhen was the same, so they reacted so violently.

Only then did Li Zhen suddenly understand, but she didn't explain much, because although she didn't intend to kill, the fate of these people might not be as good as death in the future, let alone after a while, they will know the specific situation.

The camp was very large, and because it was in a mountainous area, the distribution was sparse. Li Zhen was impatient and hadn't left after walking for a quarter of an hour, so she chose a place to dig a hole. groups, with more than [-] people in each group, and the construction of the three large pits started at the same time.

With the help of a translator who understands Turkic, the captives also understood what Li Zhen meant. It turned out that Tang Jun didn't intend to kill himself, but needed to dig a hole manually.In an instant, the captives calmed down and began to work obediently with their tools.

"Your Highness, what are you doing?" Huo Chulou should have come a long time ago, but he was stopped by another incident, which was not resolved until just now. By the time he came, the outline of the big pit had been dug out. It took shape.

"Such a big pit? Is His Highness planning to bury the corpse? That's right, in this hot weather, if you don't bury it as soon as possible, it will stink within a few days." Huo Chulou guessed, because Li Zhen asked to dig The pit is very big, otherwise it would not take more than 100 people (two shifts) to work together, the diameter alone reached [-] feet, and the depth is also [-] feet deep. Come on, it can only be used to bury the corpse.

"Who told you that I'm going to bury the corpse? If I bury the corpse, why do I need the corpse collection team?" Li Zhen gave Huo Chulou a look, burying the corpse, you really thought beautifully.

"Then what is His Highness planning to do?"

"Of course they buried people."

"Is there a difference?" At a certain moment, Huo Chulou really wanted to hit someone.

"Oh, you'll know when the time comes." Li Zhen said impatiently: "You have this spare time, why don't you transfer thousands of captives to me so that I can dig a few more."

"This..." Huo Chulou hadn't figured out what Li Zhen meant, but a person next to him suddenly knelt down.

I saw Li Ergou hugging Li Zhen's thigh fiercely, crying and persuading: "Your Highness, Your Highness, it is not good. Since ancient times, it has been ominous to kill prisoners. There was Bai Qi before and Xiang Yu later. You know their fate, we can You can't learn from them."

"What? Kill the prisoners?" Huo Chulou's mind suddenly went 'bang', and everything was figured out. Yes, the pit was dug to bury people, but it wasn't four people who were buried. What else can a living person be?

Huo Chulou also knelt down, hugging Li Zhen's other leg and persuading him endlessly: "Your Highness, brother Li is right, since ancient times, killing prisoners is ominous, and it is the most detrimental luck. Xiang Yu's fate is not very good."

The rest of the people also understood what Li Zhen was going to do, and immediately fell to their knees, trying to persuade them.

"Your Highness, there is enough food and grass in our army, enough to feed millions of troops for a few months, and there is no sign of food shortage. Why would Your Highness do such a thing that harms others and does not benefit oneself?"

"Yes, Your Highness, these captives are all high-quality and strong. It would be a pity to kill them like this."

"Your Highness can't do it, you are a noble man in the sky, you are a role model for the world, and you should set an example. If news of your killing of prisoners is reported, it will not only damage your reputation, Your Highness, but also cause other countries to misunderstand us. .”

"Think twice, Your Highness"