Li Mu never responded to these accusations. In the past few days, he has been doing two things, spreading money and killing people.
On the one hand, he asked Li Chongyi to lead people to clear out the miscellaneous fish that slipped through the net, and to kill them without mercy after catching them. On the other hand, he asked Li Siwen to lead people to start ransacking the house. Li Siwen had the experience of "grave robbing", and he was very good at finding treasures.
Like a dwarf who has the "Treasure Hunting" talent, he can dig out the gold and silver treasures wherever the dignitaries hide them, and no matter what kind of vault or mechanism they have, they can't hide from him.
As for the treasure he found, Li Mu did not keep a penny privately. He divided the treasure into three parts, with 30% going to Dingxiang and reserved for development purposes, 30% returning to the treasury, packed in boxes for transportation back to Chang'an, and 30% given to the people of Gaochang.
The remaining 10% was used to reward the three armies.
Gaochang has been a country for hundreds of years, and the stock of the national treasury is really not small. The powerful have exploited the people for generations, and everyone's family is very rich. This time's 'house raid' can be said to be full of money, and only 30% of it was shipped back to the Tang Dynasty.
There are as many as five hundred thousand strings.
This money is not only enough to support the cost of this war, but there is even a surplus. Such a result is possible thanks to Li Mu's decision. If Gaochang's Guo Zuo and the dignitaries had been left behind, there would not have been this windfall.
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This is one of the reasons why Li Mu decided to kill people, but he will never admit it. A good woman can't make a living without rice, so what war can she fight without money? Gao Chang has long been like a pig on the chopping board, ever since Ju Zhisheng found Li Mu
, its demise is only a matter of time.
This battle destroyed Gaochang. The Tang Dynasty captured the entire territory of Gaochang, three counties, five counties, and twenty-two cities. It gained 8,000 households, a population of 40,000, and 5,000 horses. It occupied an area of 800 miles from east to west and 500 miles from north to south.
When Li Mu got this data, he only had one thought in his mind. Gaochang was really too small. It was like eating meat. If he opened his mouth and bit it, it would only be enough to fill a gap between his teeth.
Li Mu made a rough calculation and found that more than half of the more than 40,000 people in Gaochang were in Gaochang City. In other words, the other 21 cities, large and small, did not even have 20,000 people in total. This can also be called
city?
But no matter what, this was also a contribution to the expansion of territory. Li Mu found a few teachers and asked them to draft a gorgeous memorial on his behalf. He ignored all the things that appeared at first glance and described himself as
He created an invincible general who effortlessly sent down divine troops from the sky. He was like a marshal with a sky canopy, leading a hundred thousand heavenly troops and generals, and he quickly captured Gaochang with a letter of challenge.
The attitude of the people in Gaochang has basically stabilized under Li Mu's offensive with a big stick and sweet dates. Li Mu's attitude of killing people and handing out money at the same time has been very clear, so he responded to that sentence and followed me.
Those who resist me will prosper, those who rebel against me will perish. People who submit to the Tang Dynasty will have good food, drink, and money. Why don't you submit? It doesn't matter. You can leave, or you can't? Die. It's very simple and crude.
At the same time, Li Mu also summoned envoys from many countries near Gaochang, announcing Ju Zhisheng's criminal act of killing his father and seizing power, and the righteous deed of the Tang Dynasty king's army to suppress it. Everyone knew very well that Li Mu's words were completely nonsense, and
It is said that Ju Wentai only has one son left, Ju Zhisheng. There is no need to kill his father to seize power. Even if this is true, what are you doing to kill the powerful people? You wish you could kill all the people surnamed Ju in Gaochang. Sima Zhao's intentions are known to everyone on the road.
Already.
It's just that no one dares to say it.
According to some statistics, Li Mu has killed nearly 6,000 people in the past few days. The total number of people in Gaochang is only more than 40,000. In other words, one out of seven or eight Gaochang people was killed by Li Mu. Such a ratio
, is no different from massacre.
Ju He hid in the crowd of common people, and the resentment in his heart had reached its peak. He made the decision to flee to Tuyuhun that day, and returned halfway, pretending to be a common person and sneaking into the city. After observing for two days, he saw that the Tang Dynasty had gradually stabilized the situation.
And those who didn't want to stay were paid severance pay, so they pretended to be one of them and received a severance pay.
He didn't want to take the money, but if he didn't take it, he wouldn't have a penny. His home had been ransacked, all the men in the family were dead, and the women were all given as slaves to the meritorious. He had lost everything.
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In this era, it is not easy for a soldier to find a wife, and performing meritorious service on the battlefield is one of the easiest ways to get a wife.
However, they can't get it now. This is the first time Li Mu has seen this distribution method, and he thinks it is quite reasonable.
This is done in this way. According to the meritorious service, you can give priority to age and appearance. But you cannot choose people. For example, if a soldier kills two enemy soldiers during the siege, he can choose one of the two.
A slave of about ten years old with average appearance. There is a special person responsible for the evaluation of age and appearance. Those who want a wife will not be rewarded with silver. In the final analysis, slaves are still regarded as a kind of property.
The military man would receive a wooden sign proving his qualifications. After returning to Chang'an, he could use this wooden sign to exchange for a female slave who agreed with the rules on the wooden sign. He could also sell the quota and do whatever he wanted.
As for these slaves, she has no choice but to accept it.
After Ju He and others received the severance pay, they were required to leave Gaochang City before sunset. After receiving the money, the people who joined the Tang Dynasty could receive a temporary cloth to prove their identity. The cloth said
Their names and identities can be compared with those in the official books, and there is no doubt that they are correct.
It doesn't matter if you don't want to leave, as long as you don't get discovered. If you are discovered, and you can't produce a piece of paper to prove your identity, then you will be dealt with in detail and killed without mercy.
With the only four people around him, Ju He slowly left the city before sunset. He looked back at the large hole at the city gate that had not yet been blocked, and felt miserable in his heart. He lost everything overnight, and the prince,
The impact on my homeland and family is really too great.
"Prime Minister, let's fight him!"
Ju He smiled sadly and said: "What are you fighting for? The courage of an ordinary man!"
"Then what should we do!"
Ju He turned around, looked to the east, and said in a deep voice: "Let's go to Chang'an!"
"Wouldn't that be like throwing yourself into a trap!?"
"No!" Ju He gritted his teeth and said: "There is no hope of restoring the country and no hope of revenge, so I want the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to lose his face in front of the people of the world. Only in this way can we use the knife to kill people, get rid of Li Mu, and replace the two ancestors.
Avenge our family!"
The four of them all had no idea, and Ju He was the main one. Seeing that Ju He had already made up his mind, they looked at each other, nodded heavily, and said: "I just want to avenge my family, and everything will be arranged by the Prime Minister! We