Chapter 445: Hot Springs Talking About Using Soldiers
In order to show his contempt for this stupid question, An Lushan laughed a few times and said: "It's no need to ask, of course it is for the saints. Everything is given by the saints. Naturally, the border fortress is also for the saints. Only
Only by making those wandering barbarians docile can the saint sit back and relax."
"Ha," Li Siye could only use this word to express this.
"What are you two doing standing outside? Come in and eat quickly. You can take a bath after eating." Yang Yuyao stood at the door and shouted loudly.
The two made gestures to invite each other, and An Lushan walked towards the door first. Li Siye was a step slower and had to follow him.
The dining place is on the roof of the small building to the east. There are charcoal and copper stoves in the four corners of the building, and a long table in the center. The meal is Gulouzi pancake with cut meat, and a full seven kilograms of beef shoulder meat is served on the central table.
On the plate, whoever wants to eat can take a plate and use a silver knife to scrape the meat on it.
This way of eating is not very elegant. Although An Lushan himself is in a high position, he still has not learned how to eat like a powerful person. Perhaps it is just to create laughter. This ulterior man is probably thinking about how to entertain others all the time.
.When he was eating the cake, he took big bites and pulled the cake from the heel of his teeth with both hands, successfully arousing laughter from the Yang sisters.
"Nephew An, don't eat in such a hurry, it's like the reincarnation of a starving ghost."
"Don't tell me, Lu Shan'er was really starving to death. In order to survive, I had no choice but to beg for food and steal sheep. If my foster father hadn't shown mercy on my life, I would have died long ago. If it hadn't been for the saint's mercy on me, I would have died long ago."
My life was already dead. So my only mission in this life is to repay the two people who saved me. Unfortunately, my adoptive father encountered something like that in his later years and passed away early, leaving me with no way to repay my kindness.
It's a pity... At this point, Hu'er sobbed and wiped away tears: "The only thing Lushan wants to repay now is the saint's kindness, taking care of his family for him. No matter how hard and tiring it is, it still remains in my heart."
Very sweet.”
The traces of the performance were too heavy. Li Siye, who has watched countless blockbusters, said in his heart that although his acting skills were good, he used too much force. He would pull back a little to make it more restrained, so that no one would notice it at all.
Despite this, the Yang sisters were also quite moved. They used chopsticks to give An Lushan some slices of pork belly to express their comfort, and persuaded him that today was the Lantern Festival and that if he wanted to laugh, he must not cry.
It’s already dark after dinner. Standing on the edge of the terrace on the top of the mountain, you can see Chang’an in the distance. The stars in the city are brilliant as if the Milky Way is circling in it. Chang’an, a whirlpool of countless splendors, is brewing the final carnival at this moment, and those participating in it are
People are swallowed up by it and become a mixture of black and white, making it difficult to distinguish between right and wrong.
"You two, it's time to take a shower."
Yang Yuyao had already put on her white mid laner and stepped on the ground with her bare white legs. She waved her hands to the two of them to indicate that I was going to go first.
Led by the maid of the Yang family, the two came to the side room on the left side of the yard. There was a spacious bath in the room, which was connected to the next door through a waterway. Next door was the pool where the three sisters of the Yang family bathed. Their voices were as relaxing as silver bells.
The sound came from the ground, and the laughter was as unbridled as the waves.
In winter, the water surface of the bathhouse is steamed with white steam, making the entire room look like a misty wonderland.
The Yang sisters thoughtfully sent four maids to wait on them to take a bath. An Lushan's 300-pound fat body sank into the water. The two maids also undressed and took off their belts and slowly slid into the water. One of them held a fruit and wine tray in his hand.
He picked a grape and fed it to Anlu Mountain Pass, while another woman stood next to him and massaged his shoulders.
Li Siye also had this kind of sinful enjoyment. The maid floated the fruit tray on the water, picked the grapes and fed them to his mouth with her little hands. Another maid stood beside him and squeezed his shoulders. In this environment, it is inevitable that
As soon as skin came into contact, a certain embarrassing reaction would emerge, causing his face to gradually turn red. Fortunately, he had hot water and white air as a cover, otherwise it would have been extremely embarrassing to be seen by An Lushan across the way.
With this thought, he looked across and saw An Lushan was enjoying his VIP treatment with half-closed eyes. He seemed not to even look at the two women beside him, let alone any intimate actions or thoughts.
Li Siye was deeply impressed by this and thought that his concentration and xinxing still needed to be trained, and he had to come to places like this more often to wear them away.
"Li Siye." Perhaps because he drank too much, An Lushan began to take the initiative to speak: "I have thought carefully about the question you just asked about why we are fighting."
"A certain person used to be a businessman. Although he also stole sheep, most of the time he was a charlatan selling sheep. He knew that doing business was nothing more than losing money and making money, and he knew that losing money could not be done. But since I joined the Tang Army, I have gradually reached a high position.
Since then, I have discovered that many things are not in line with the principles of business. For example, when I attacked the Xi tribe and the Khitan tribe, I was almost guaranteed to lose money but not make a profit. If I won, I would pay a small loss, but if I lost, I would pay a big loss."
"Every time I dispatch more than ten thousand men and spend millions of money and food, after winning the battle, what I capture back is a bunch of rags and a bunch of Khitan slaves as shabby as dogs. These Khitan tribes are so damn poor that they only have tattered fur coats and tattered trousers.
, even if the tribal leader is killed and the capital is transferred to the capital, the rewards and seizures combined will not be enough to cover the losses of my troops."
"What do you think is going on? These Khitans are killing them endlessly, and the wealth of my camp has been completely lost."
Li Siye really knew something about this phenomenon. It was obvious that people who were barefoot were not afraid of wearing shoes. He could also find examples from certain phenomena in later generations, such as saying that poor countries are invincible. The Khitan people's living conditions were difficult.
Apart from their lives, they seemed to have nothing to lose. Opposite them was the highly specialized Tang Army. The price of individual armor was high, the weapons and equipment were standardized, and they relied too much on farming supplies, so every battle was a massacre.
squander.
He spread his hands and explained: "Of course, fighting is different from doing business. The only valuable thing for the Khitans is their lives, but we have many valuable things, such as battle armor, food and grass, and crossbows. The investment between the two sides is inherently
If there is no equality, there is no such thing as making money from war. How can you compare war to doing business?"
Fatty An chuckled and said: "In my opinion, fighting is just like doing business. Of course, you can earn more than just money, but also prestige, reputation, land, etc. So An doesn't like to fight that kind of thankless battle.
In order to show the country's power and conquer the poor mountains and rivers, it is simply full of food."
An Lushan's words are very reasonable, and they already contain the thoughts of most Han people. The richest place in the world is the place we occupy now. Apart from that, the surrounding area is all barren and barren land. Unless we ourselves
Otherwise, their safety would be threatened, otherwise they would never take the initiative to go deep into those barren grasslands and deserts.
Li Siye didn't want to talk about this with An Lushan anymore, so he drove away the maid serving in the bathhouse while the guy was a little excited after drinking.
"The four of you go out for a while and then come back in when I call you."
An Lushan did not stop him, as if he had already guessed what he wanted to ask.
Li Siye asked the doubt he had just been holding back in his heart: "An Zhongcheng, today we are moving from Chang'an City to this hot spring palace. You should be the one who asked Yang Yuyao and the others about what made you leave the bustling Chang'an City.
Do you have to go to this deserted hot spring to take a bath?"
An Lushan laughed shamelessly and said, "What other reason do I need to come here? This is my aunt's home. Can't I come?"
Li Siye rolled his eyes and said that's enough. A fat man in his thirties calls a widowed aunt in her twenties. Only you can do this kind of thing.
An Lushan suddenly stopped smiling, put his two fat arms on the edge of the bath, stared at Li Siye and said seriously: "Some things will happen in Chang'an City today. Only by staying out of the matter can I see it more clearly."