If you want to eat meat, but there is no meat in the city, you go out to the city to grab meat. There is absolutely nothing wrong with your logic.
Whether it was Tubo or Tuyuhun, whether they were rivals who seemed to be incompatible with each other, or vassals who were duplicitous in their words, with the size of the Tang Dynasty, was it necessary to care about the mood of its neighboring countries?
Li Qinzai's logic was so simple and crude. He did not come on this mission to make friends. He did not care about friendship but the interests of his country.
But Pei Shen was obviously more conservative and was shocked by Li Qinzai's decision.
"Uncle Li, I'm afraid this is wrong? We in the Tang Dynasty want to help Tuyuhun, why are you trying to steal it?" Pei Shen looked a little ugly.
Li Qinzai said calmly: "Let me ask you, has Tuyuhun robbed us before?"
Pei Shen hesitated and said: "They robbed them, but the Liangzhou garrison has punished them. In the past, the Tyuhun tribe herdsmen always had to pay a price every time they invaded the border."
"Whether they pay the price or not is their business. They can take the initiative to rob us, why can't we take the initiative to rob them? Just because we are the sovereign state, so the face of a big country is more important?"
"This..." Pei Shen couldn't argue.
"This has nothing to do with the war in Tuyuhun. Even if the situation in Tuyuhun is calm, I will still rob if I want to. If I were a border general, I would discipline Tuyuhun for decades and not dare to invade the border."
"If you go to the country and dominate the world, there is no reason to swallow your anger even if you are not robbed."
Li Qinzai emphasized his tone and said: "The enemy can go, so can I!"
Pei Shen was silent.
He suddenly discovered that the emperor's envoy in front of him didn't seem to be a very disciplined person, but he always kept the same principles in his mouth.
Are all the dandies in Chang'an City this good now?
Seeing that Pei Shen was silent, Li Qinzai smiled and said: "Prince Pei, please be patient for a moment. Until tomorrow, we can eat the delicious Tuyuhun mutton."
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Liangzhou City and Tuyuhun traveled hundreds of miles back and forth, and more than a thousand forbidden troops were ordered to make a raid. By the afternoon of the next day, people outside the governor's house were shouting, and Liu Asi and Sun Congdong, the captain of the forbidden army, walked into the house with happy faces.
, when they meet, they clasp their fists and salute.
"Uncle Li County, fortunately you have lived up to your command and achieved a great victory in this battle!" Sun Congdong said happily.
Li Qinzai snorted and said: "Don't put gold on your face. A great victory is nothing. More than a thousand men armed to the teeth plundered a few tribes with only old, weak, women and children left. If you don't have a great victory, you might as well kill yourself with a piece of tofu."
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When Sun Congdong and Liu Asi thought about it, the joy on their faces dimmed a lot.
Eating cucumbers raw and chopping toads alive may not seem so exciting, but normal people can do it beautifully.
"Fifth Young Master, in this battle, my king's army entered the Tuyuhun territory. They raided five small tribes in Tuyuhun, killed hundreds of herdsmen, and obtained a total of more than 3,000 cattle and sheep from each tribe, more than 2,000 war horses, and several gold and silver utensils.
There are more than a hundred girls over the age of fourteen, and they are all on their way to Liangzhou City, and the villains will go back to the city first to report their victory."
Li Qinzai was stunned and said in surprise: "It's enough to rob cattle, sheep and horses, but you also robbed more than a hundred women? What do you mean?"
Liu Asi said blankly: "Aren't women... just like cattle and sheep? If Fifth Young Master doesn't need them, he can sell them as slaves. Isn't that what we did after the Tang Dynasty attacked the city?"
Li Qinzai turned to look at Pei Shen next to him: "Did anyone steal any women from the Tang Dynasty before Tuyuhun invaded the border areas?"
Pei Shen nodded: "Not only have I robbed them, but I have also killed many."
Li Qinzai immediately decided to respect the local customs and customs: "... I will split the money sold with the governor's office 70/30."
Then Li Qinzai asked again: "Are there any casualties among our Paoze brothers?"
Sun Congdong raised his chest proudly and said: "There are only old, weak, women and children left in each tribe. They have no power to resist. We are unscathed."
Li Qinzai couldn't help but clicked his tongue, punched Nanshan Nursing Home and kicked Beihai Kindergarten. Isn't that such a long face?
Patting Sun Congdong's shoulder pleasantly, Li Qinzai said with a smile: "I will write a petition for merit later, send a horse to Chang'an, and beat the gongs and drums to tell the people of Chang'an that Sun Congdong, the captain of Guoyi, the right guard, beat up the old and weak women and children of Tuyuhun.
, you must take credit for returning with a great victory."
Sun Congdong's expression suddenly changed: "Uncle Li, you can't do that! It's so shameless. How can I behave like a human being after I return to Chang'an? I ask County Uncle Li to show mercy and never mention it!"
Li Qinzai hummed and said: "Save part of the stolen cattle and sheep as march rations, and the rest will be given to the border residents outside Liangzhou City. As for the war horses, we have collected them all. During the emergency march, we can alternate riding horses to speed up the process."
Sun Congdong took the order.
"After a few more days of rest, if the right opportunity comes, you can enter Tuyuhun a few more times to rob. Don't let Tuyuhun take all the advantages."
Sun Congdong and Liu Asi happily agreed.
Pei Shen, who was standing next to him, looked surprised. Why did this envoy look nothing like a powerful kid from Chang'an, but more like a grass bandit who came down from the mountains?
I'll have to double-check his confession papers later to make sure he's not a fake. What a joke!
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After leaving Chang'an, Li Qinzai found that he had let himself go a little bit. Sure enough, he was still upset that he couldn't go out and run wild, so he used another way to vent his long-suppressed emotions.
However, it feels really good to let yourself go. In a place where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, you can do everything according to your own ideas. There are not so many constraints as in Chang'an, and you can do whatever you want.
Li Qinzai even came up with the idea that if something happened here, he might as well write a memorial to Li Zhidi and invite Yongzhen Ganliang himself, and then take his mother-in-law and son over, so that the family of three could live peacefully in this poor place until the end of their lives.
Unfortunately, this is just a very unrealistic dream. Li Zhi will probably not agree to it. No one will let a sword hang on the wall as a decoration. Li Qinzai's weight is far more important than he imagined.
On the third day after they robbed the Tuyuhun tribe, the imperial army and the troops finally drove their cattle, sheep and war horses back to Liangzhou City. Behind them, they also strung a group of teenage Tuyuhun girls on long ropes, like a string about to be fried in a pot.
grasshopper.
The day the team returned to Liangzhou City, it caused a sensation among the people in the city. It seemed that the people had not seen such a scene for a long time.
Pei Shen, the governor, was a bit conservative and focused on defense. Now an envoy from the emperor came to the city and ordered the looting of Tuyuhun as soon as he entered the city.
Although his behavior was a bit rude, I have to say that it was very relieving.
On the night when the cattle, sheep and war horses entered the city, Li Qinzai called Pei Shen and Sun Congdong. They all had a delicious meal of Tuyuhun roast mutton and drank a lot of wine.
Liangzhou's wine is made from authentic grapes from the Western Regions. Although the wine has a weak taste, it has a strong stamina. Li Qinzai fell drunk after drinking two bottles.
Early the next morning, Buqu woke up the hungover Li Qinzai and reported that there was a visitor.
The guest's name is Zheng Rentai, and he is the governor of Liangzhou.