Great Tang Southern Emperor

"What year did Michael Jackson die?" After staring at Li Ergou for a while with a look of horror on his face, Li Zhen asked a question abruptly.

Li Ergou was confused for a moment: "I don't know, I don't usually pay attention to these things. By the way, Your Highness, who is Michael Jackson? Is he famous? But this name is quite strange, not like my Tang Dynasty name, Could it be the name of a Daqin person?"

"How many years were you born?"

"How many years? Oh, what year did your Highness ask about your birth? I know this. I was born in the first year of Sui Daye, and I am exactly 26 years old this year." Li Ergou replied casually.

"What is Jay Chou's masterpiece?"

"Jay Chou?" Li Ergou was puzzled and shook his head again and again: "I don't know, and my subordinates don't know a few words, so I don't know much about these celebrities."

"Forget it, if you don't know me, then don't know me." Li Zhen waved her hand boredly: "Suppress Princess Yicheng for me, and deal with it when the chief executive comes back. But you must always pay attention, and you must not let her commit suicide , She owes my Tang Dynasty the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and she must not be allowed to die so easily."

"Yes." Immediately, two guards came up to detain Princess Yicheng. As for how to detain her, there is a special person in charge of it, and Li Zhen doesn't have to worry about it.

"Your Highness, what are you going to do with her?" Li Ergou asked, licking his face.

"Let's go, I don't even know Jay Chou, so I still have the face to ask me this." Li Zhen hummed and turned over: "I'll sleep, you supervise them not to be lazy, and wake me up after the hole is dug. .”

"Your Highness, don't worry, there are subordinates here, no one dares to be lazy." Li Ergou assured, patting his chest.

"Sleep."

Li Zhen woke up again, and it was already the tip of the willow on the moon. Hearing the jingling sound not far away, Li Zhen frowned: "Li Ergou, what's going on? Why haven't you finished digging yet?"

"Hey, Your Highness, are you awake?" Li Ergou was becoming more and more like a dog leg. Hearing this, he trotted all the way to Li Zhen's side: "Your Highness, are you hungry? This is the beef that my subordinates just roasted. Do you want to come a little?"

"You kill cattle?" Li Zhen frowned even deeper: "Don't you know that my Tang Dynasty is not allowed to slaughter cattle?"

"Your Highness is wronged." Wang Jin, who was placed next to Li Ergou, heard Li Zhen's questioning, and immediately called Tian Qu: "How dare we slaughter a cow? These are the cattle and sheep that died in the rebellion last night. We didn't kill them." Yes. Besides, we seized hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep this time, and with so many cattle and sheep, if one or two were to be slaughtered, no one would say anything."

"Hundreds of thousands of heads? The statistics of the seizures came out?" Li Zhen immediately grasped the point, saying that he really didn't know how many were captured in this battle. After all, he didn't study history. Moreover, this battle was won, but the specific number of enemies killed and how many were captured are not very clear.

"That's right, Your Highness, you don't know that in this battle we not only captured hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, but also wiped out more than ten thousand enemies and captured tens of thousands of prisoners (the rest are still being pursued, so now only a few ten thousand), with countless banners and drums, and countless food and supplies, it is really a great victory."

"Not bad, not bad, by the way, what's going on with this big pit? Why hasn't it been dug yet?"

"Oh, please don't talk about it, Your Highness. What places did you choose?" Speaking of this, Li Ergou looked aggrieved again: "Look at the hill next to it. The stones dug out of the ground, the small ones are as big as a millstone, and the big ones are even larger than a bed, do you think it can be done quickly?"

Chapter 143

Chapter 69 Miscellaneous Rules

Li Zhen said in awe, "Well, well, I blamed you wrongly. Anyway, you hurriedly urged them to finish the work as soon as possible. By the way, how many big pits are under construction now?"

"Including these three, a total of twelve large pits are under construction, and each large pit has 300 people working in turns, but the nine are not as fast as these three."

"Anyway, you can figure it out. If you change people or not, you must dig out the big hole as soon as possible, preferably within three days." If the speed is fast, Xue Rengui and the others should be able to come back within three days at most. So the big pit must be dug before tomorrow. After all, it is better to wait for people in the pit than to wait for the pit.

"Yes, this subordinate will do it now." Li Ergou agreed, and suddenly remembered something: "By the way, Your Highness, didn't you say that you will hold a banquet for the soldiers who returned from victory tonight? It's ready, when do you think you'll be there?"

"Since everything is ready, let's go now." Li Zhen said with a smile: "It's been a long time since we had a banquet, but if there are only more than 200 people, it's still not very lively. Why don't we win the battle last night? If there is time to celebrate, how about this, you pass on the order, saying that I will hold a banquet for all the meritorious soldiers tonight, except for those who have missions, the rest will have enough wine and meat."

This was heard by the people near Huo Chulou, and they hurriedly came over to persuade them: "Your Highness, the chief executive has not yet returned from victory, so we should hold a private banquet, isn't it appropriate?"

Li Zhen said indifferently: "It's okay, today is Xiaoqing, let's celebrate again at that time, if there is any problem, just push it to me."

"Since His Royal Highness has ordered, the subordinates will naturally obey, but don't want this wine. After all, we are on the front line now, and eating some meat is fine, but drinking alcohol is a bit too much. I'm afraid that those chasing brothers will feel uncomfortable. Ah. What's more, we still guard tens of thousands of captives. If they take the opportunity to riot, what will the consequences be?"

When Li Zhen heard it, she felt that it made sense, and she couldn't help nodding her head and said: "It also makes sense. In this case, I don't want the wine. Tell the brothers, just say that Li Zhen owes them this drink, and I will definitely make it up in the future." back."

"Yes, this subordinate will convey His Highness's meaning."

"By the way, Ning Gu, where is our convoy?" After sending Huo Chulou and Alai away, Li Zhen asked another person dressed as a soldier. This person was sent to Li Zhen when Wu Liu came last time. Those around me claim to have a photographic memory and are invincible in mental arithmetic.Li Zhen saw that he was a talented person, so she stayed with her and became a clerk, but this person was boring, and if you didn't take the initiative to ask him, he would never say a word to you.

Hearing this, Ning Gu replied in a muffled voice: "Your Highness, our convoy has already set off for one day, and it will arrive in four or five days (the reason why the convoy only takes five or six days, while the army takes more than ten days is mainly because This time the march is mainly about sneak attacks, and the emphasis is on concealment and suddenness rather than speed. Therefore, the [-] troops will go out day and night, and they must pay attention to bypassing the Turkic sentries on the road. The speed is naturally very slow. If you march at full speed, At the speed of the army, it can reach the Yinshan tent in two or three days at most)."

"It still takes so many days, can you hurry up?" Li Zhen was a little dissatisfied.

Ning Gu still said in a dull voice: "There is nothing we can do about it. Although we won the battle, the grassland horse bandits would raid the convoy from time to time, which caused a lot of disturbance to the convoy. The defeated soldiers will definitely not get up quickly."

"Damn it, these rout soldiers and horse bandits are so abominable. I wish I could bring the army to wipe them all out." Li Zhen said bitterly, but he also knew that this was pure wishful thinking. They are in groups again, it is too easy to hide, and it is simply impossible to suppress them.

"It's just that if we don't suppress them, these routs are too troublesome. Is there a way to kill them all at once?" Li Zhen fell into distress.

It is not Li Zhen's temporary idea to wipe out the rout soldiers, this idea has actually been conceived in his mind for a while.After the annihilation of the Turks, the prairie was destined to be brought under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and a period of stable development was urgently needed to appease the people. However, with unstable factors such as routs of soldiers coming out from time to time, how could the prairie be stable?

You must know that they were defeated by Datang, how could they obey Datang's rule?Not only will he not obey, but he may also cause trouble, such as acting as a horse thief to rob a convoy or make a rebellion. Although it will not hurt Datang, it will definitely be annoying.Besides, the number of routs was extremely large (although I don’t know the specific strength of Xieli’s army, even if more than 10,000+ were killed and captured, more than half of them must have been able to escape in the dark night at that time), If there is going to be trouble, even Datang's will be too disturbed.

But there are only so many ways to deal with the rout, and either the effect is slow or the consumption is too great.

The first is to rein in the profiteering, but the rein in the profiteering is too costly, and then Datang will enter the stage of large-scale construction, and the money is not enough, where is there any money left to subdue horse thieves?What's more, there are so many horse bandits and defeated soldiers on the grassland, it is too unrealistic to buy them.

The second is to send a large army to encircle and suppress. This is also unrealistic. The defeated soldiers are familiar with the environment and have a mass base, just like the later guerrillas. Who can tell me how to deal with the guerrillas?

The guerrillas are running rampant. To put it bluntly, they are the mass base. If you want to completely eliminate the guerrillas, as long as the local government does better than the guerrillas and improves the lives of the local civilians so that they have enough food and clothing, they must at least make them feel that the occupying forces are better than the previous government. Well, cut off the soil where the guerrillas breed, and the guerrillas will naturally fall apart.

But here is the prairie, the prairie where Wangshan ran dead horses, and the defeated soldiers could not survive in one place, so they could naturally go to another place. Do you still expect the entire prairie to be good officials?impossible.

What's more, Datang is playing the role of an occupier at this time, and it is not easy to win the hearts of the people. If the Turks really want to return, they need at least five to ten years of careful governance. This still means that the local officials are good In the case of officials, if there are a few more bastards, it will take even longer. Could it be that they are allowed to make trouble for such a long time?

Another thing is to collect villages and households for centralized management. People in large-scale occupied areas are concentrated in a small area to live and take care of them. The occupying army provides small batches of supplies for a period of time, so as to meet the standard of fixed population and fixed quota. At the same time, the available resources in the no man's land should be emptied as much as possible, so as to cut off the way for the guerrillas to obtain survival resources from the local people.

This method can eliminate the rout in a short time, but do you still want the support of the people?Take Turkic people as captives. Is it strange that they can obey you?Besides, this is very resource-intensive, and Datang doesn't have so many resources for them.

"Your Highness, there is no need to blame yourself. Troubled soldiers have been the most difficult problem to solve since ancient times. It's okay if you can't think of a solution for a while. The subordinates just shot a few gazelles. I heard that the taste is good. Would you like some?" Li Er The dog just came back, and knowing Li Zhen's difficulties, he couldn't help comforting him, as for Ning Gu, it's impossible for him to take the initiative to talk to you without talking to him.

"It makes sense. The boat will be straight when it reaches the bridge. Why should I bother with these nosy things? Li Jing is the coach. Why should I worry about him?" I ate it once, but it seems that there are not many now), the aroma attracted me, I took it and buried my head and gnawed: "Well, it's not bad, although it's different from the ones I've eaten before, but it has a different flavor, give me another piece."

"Your Highness, mutton is hot. You are too young. Eating too much is not good for your health." Seeing that Li Zhen was eating without restraint, Li Ergou quickly persuaded him.

Li Zhen is still very persuasive, but the premise is that you are sincerely doing his best. Hearing this, he threw away the sheep bones and sighed: "When will I grow up? I have small arms and legs, and I can't go to the battlefield, and I can't I’m really tired of eating delicious food (The dog leg Zhao Bensan appears: Your Highness, don’t worry, after this volume, the little ones will be ‘biu’, and the time will be pushed back by ten years, and they will grow up straight away , when the time comes, you want girls and girls, you want capital and capital, and you can do whatever you want. Li Zhen: Jing f*ck nonsense, you passed by 'biu', but I grow up day by day In the past. Also, who are you? How did you mess in? Zhao Bensan apologized: Zhao Bensan, the villain. Li Zhen was furious: Good boy, it turned out to be your Zhao family, who took away the world of my old Li family Ah. Zhao Ben's three major urgencies: It's none of our old Zhao's business, that kid Zhu Wen did it. Li Zhen continued to be angry: Didn't your old Zhao's take advantage of it in the end? Don't argue, three thousand Personal guard, drag this traitor down oooxx a hundred times a hundred times. Zhao Bensan was terrified: No, spare your life, ah, a Kuzu)."

"" Li Ergou began to perform that silence is golden - he really couldn't accept this.

"Forget it, let's go to the banquet." After thinking about it for a while, Li Zhen cheered up again.

"Yes, Your Highness, please come down with me."

Qing, when Li Zhen woke up again, it was already noon the next day.

"Has the chief executive not come back yet? Where are Xue Rengui and the others?" After washing, Li Zhen asked casually.

Li Ergou was about to answer when a pawn suddenly sent a message: "Master Chang Shi, there is news from the scouts that the general manager chased the enemy yesterday, beheaded a total of [-] levels, captured tens of thousands, and is rushing back to the camp. You will be able to return to the camp, General Huo, how do you greet Master Changshi?"

"You tell General Huo, just follow the previous rules, but the scale should be bigger." How would Li Zhen know how to greet him?He could only play a sloppy eye, let Huo Chulou follow the previous plan, and thought that this time was a rare big victory after all, different from the past, it is very appropriate to expand the scale.

"Yes." The pawn got the order and turned around to leave.