Chapter 0711 The Responsibilities of Honglu Temple
Li Yuanji hid outside for five days. He hid until Li Xiuning stopped pestering him and then returned to the county government office.
At this time, Su Dingfang had already escorted Tuli back, as well as the more than 3,000 Turks, more than 10,000 cattle and sheep, and 2,000 to 3,000 injured horses that he had picked up after chasing Jieli and Sunisu this time.
Li Yuanji rushed to the north gate of Huai'an City to greet him immediately.
Although Su Dingfang only fought a battle with Sunisu during this expedition, and spent the rest of the time chasing Jieli and Sunisu, the recovery of the territory south of the Great Wall outside Qingzhou was of great significance. In addition, Su Dingfang also had
A Turkic Khan has been captured, so the scene still needs to be worked out.
When Li Yuanji led Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, Li Shentong, Li Deliang and others to the north gate of Huai'an City, the former army under Su Dingfang had already arrived at Huai'an City and was driving a large number of injured horses.
These war horses were lost by Jieli and Sunisu on their way to escape. Since most of the horses had injured hooves and could no longer be used, they had to eat meat after they returned.
Li Yuanji ordered the former army captain to hand over these horses to Changsun Shunde, who would watch and dispose of them.
In this tutu war, the Ling, Qing, Yan, Sui, Shi and other states of the Tang Dynasty suffered different injuries. The Turks just patted their butts and left, but the aftermath had to be dealt with by the Tang Dynasty.
Changsun Shunde had already made the captured Turks into serfs and distributed them to the surviving people. In addition, he had also made the remaining prisoners into slave soldiers, responsible for opening up wasteland in the newly recovered lands of the Tang Dynasty.
, construction has already started.
According to statistics from Changsun Shunde, 30,000 acres of wasteland have been reclaimed, and the number will increase as time goes by.
Changsun Shunde's goal is to cultivate all the newly recovered land in the Tang Dynasty and plant food before the end of this year.
This is a very ambitious goal, because the newly recovered land of the Tang Dynasty was as many as five states. If you include Daizhou and other places that Li Xiaogong and others captured, there were as many as six and a half states.
To cultivate these areas and plant them all within a year would require millions of labor.
Only 110,000 Turks were captured this time, and 10,000 of them were sent to Yanzhou to accompany Tudiji.
Therefore, the remaining people have to complete the workload that can be completed by millions of people.
After these Turks complete their workload, only God knows how many of them will be left alive.
In addition, during the period when the Turks opened up wasteland, the food they needed to consume was also a huge amount.
The captured cattle and sheep, as well as the food grown by the people of the Tang Dynasty, were naturally impossible to feed them, so the injured horses Su Dingfang picked up could just become their rations.
Two to three thousand horses are used as rations, which can guarantee the needs of at least 10,000 Turks for one and a half months.
This one and a half months is enough for them to cultivate 300,000 acres of fertile farmland.
With 300,000 acres of fertile land, the amount of food that could be supplied to the Tang Dynasty should be around 600,000 shi.
This was a business without capital. Changsun Shunde was not used to it, but after adding Cai Yungong, he got used to it.
"Your Highness, Su Dingfang, has lived up to His Majesty's love and finally recaptured all the territory south of the Great Wall outside Qingzhou, and captured the Turkic Turkic Khan. I would like to ask His Majesty to check it out!"
Not long after Changsun Shunde brought two to three thousand horses down, Su Dingfang led a team of seven or eight miles to Huai'an City.
Su Dingfang immediately led his troops and bowed down before Li Yuanji.
The tribesmen were also escorting a person, a rather young Turkic man, who had been kept very clean and had even been incense-scented. The scent of incense on his body could be smelled from a distance of ten feet.
Li Yuanji looked around Tu Li carefully and said with some confusion: "Are you Tu Li?"
Tu Li didn't say anything, but snorted heavily while holding his neck.
Such rude behavior did not attract anyone's rebuke, because in terms of status, Tuli was a king on the grassland, a young Turkic Khan, and he had royal blood.
Even if you are down and out and captured, you should still be treated with courtesy.
This is the etiquette of the Central Plains.
Do not insult other royal families or members of the royal family.
However, Li Yuanji always felt that this was hypocritical, because before the founding of the country, all dynasties adopted an attitude of exterminating all members of the royal family or members of the royal family.
If you treat your own people like this, but you still have to be polite to outsiders, isn't this hypocrisy?
"Your father, Shibi Khan, was also a great leader on the grasslands. He also left you a huge family fortune. You have been living around like a prisoner. What qualifications do you have to put on airs here?"
Li Yuanji snorted coldly and said to Li Jiancheng on the side: "Brother, go teach him a lesson."
The king should not be lightly humiliated, as it is directed at the common people and nobles. Those who are members of the same royal family, or those who are superior to the royal family, can be humiliated.
It's just right to let Li Jiancheng teach the Tuli rules.
In fact, it is best for Li Shimin to do this, but Li Shimin has Li Shimin's pride. He would never bully an unarmed prisoner, so Li Jiancheng can only do it.
When Li Jiancheng heard this, he grinned for a while.
Although he has lost his authority, he is still the prince of the Tang Dynasty. It is really beneath his status and the demeanor of the great Tang Dynasty to ask him to teach an unarmed prisoner.
Li Shentong saw that Li Jiancheng was in trouble and knew what it meant to ask Li Jiancheng to teach Tu Li a lesson, so he quickly gave Li Daoli a wink.
Li Daoli understood and took the initiative to ask Ying: "Fourth brother, let me go. I don't need my eldest brother to teach this kind of people a lesson."
With that said, Li Daoli rode out and rushed directly to Tu Li. In Tu Li's astonished eyes, he severely rewarded Tu Li with two whips.
Tu Li shouted at Li Yuanji angrily, "Don't you Central Plains people always say that you Central Plains are a land of etiquette? How could you do this to me?"
Also, Yang Zhengdao told me that in your Central Plains, the king must not be lightly insulted.
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Li Yuanji ignored Tu Li.
Seeing this, Li Daoli sneered and said: "You are a prisoner, how do you want us to treat you? Besides, in our Central Plains, there is indeed a saying that the king should not be insulted lightly.
But I am also a king, and I am qualified to humiliate you."
Tu Li stared at Li Daoli in disbelief, "Are you a king too?"
Li Daoli laughed and said: "Not only me, but also my uncle and several of my brothers, so there are many people who can humiliate you here. If you don't want to live a hard life in the Tang Dynasty and be bullied every day, I suggest you restrain yourself.
The arrogance in you, please learn how to be a qualified prisoner."
Tuli gritted his teeth and lowered his head to think.
He seemed to be considering whether he should lower his head and let go of his pride as the Wolf King.
After struggling in his heart for a long time, Tuli finally compromised and bowed to reality.
He looked like a soft-legged shrimp with his bones removed, bowing his body and humbly whispering in a trembling voice: "Outside the king Tuli, I have met all the kings of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Daoli shook his head when he heard this, and said that after returning home, he must let the people from Honglu Temple teach him the Tuli rules.
Honglu Temple seems to be a diplomatic yamen, but in fact it is not a simple diplomatic yamen. In addition to daily diplomacy, the people of Honglu Temple are also responsible for liaising with the vassals, teaching the envoys of each vassal the etiquette, and maintaining the relationship with the envoys.
He used envoys to alienate his vassals and many other people due to their feelings among each other.
Among them, teaching etiquette to the envoys of each vassal was the most bloody, and using envoys to alienate the vassals was the most cruel.
It goes without saying how cruel it is to drive a wedge between vassals through envoys.
Teaching etiquette to envoys from various vassals is a very time-consuming, energy-consuming, and effort-consuming task.
Envoys who are familiar with the culture of the Central Plains do not need to be taught. Envoys who are not familiar with the culture of the Central Plains are mostly no different from barbarians. Therefore, if you want to teach them etiquette, you can only use some special means.
To deal with some captured members of the vassal royal family, you can directly use special methods.
And these methods are comparable to the top ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or even more cruel than the top ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, Li Daoli firmly believed that he would not even be able to do things like paying tribute to the princes and princes of the Tang Dynasty. After going around Honglu Temple, he would definitely become an obedient and qualified Turkic Khan.
However, Li Yuanji just wanted to kill Tu Li's arrogance, and did not think about training Tu Li into an obedient dog now, so he did not adopt Li Daoli's suggestion, but nodded with satisfaction after Tu Li lowered his head.
He said: "Just keep your head down. I can't stand people who raise their necks in front of me."
Having said this, Li Yuanji waved his hand and asked Yu Wenbao to lead Tuli down first.
As for how to deal with Tu Li, whether to take advantage of Tu Li, or to support Tu Li, that is something that President Ancheng can decide later.
Now is not the time to make a decision.
Because after this war, the Tang Dynasty consumed a lot of troops, horses, food and grass, and was unable to march north in a short period of time, so it was necessary to take a good rest afterwards.
Tu Li was deprived of power by Jie Li again, and was even abandoned by Jie Li.
After Jieli returns to the grassland, everyone related to Tuli will definitely be eradicated.
Therefore, supporting Tuli at this time will not have much effect, and it may even lead to the dilemma of Rou Baozi beating the dog with no return.
After Tuli was taken away, Li Yuanji jumped off the horse, raised Su Dingfang who was kneeling on one knee with both hands, and said with a smile: "You can say that your hard work has paid off this time. This time we fight against the Turks, you will be the best."
whose contribution is the most dazzling.
The soldiers under your command also performed very bravely, and I will definitely reward them based on their merits when they return to the capital."
Su Dingfang said humbly: "In front of His Highness, I dare not take credit. It was Your Highness who took the lead in the battles of Baijiapu and Baimachuan. He took the lead in charging into the battle, brought out the majesty of our Datang Dynasty, and inspired our Datang Dynasty."
The morale of the Turks was frightened, so I and the soldiers under my command were able to easily win so much credit.
So if we want to say who has made the most dazzling contribution in this war with the Turks, it must be His Highness."