For the sake of money, Zhao Congfang listened to Kang Huaien's advice and decided to sell the Dravidian captives in his hands as Kunlun slaves. However, in order to achieve the finished product shipment required by Dai Wang, he hired operators from livestock traders in North India.
On the one hand, the castrated slaves were handed over to Dai Wang.
He found endless business opportunities in it. It was not easy for him to come across a business that his immediate boss was unwilling to interfere with. Of course, he had to work hard to explore it. After selling out all the captured prisoners, he specially formed a hunting team in the army.
In the slave team, a slave-catching captain and a raw-catching lieutenant were set up.
They captured the castrated Kunlun slaves and sold them to Dai Wang, who then resold these slaves to human traders in Chang'an, Luoyang, Taiyuan, Yangzhou and other places, making a profit of tens of millions of dollars.
Zhao Congfang himself gained huge wealth. In the year from Tianbao's thirteenth year to Tianbao's fourteenth year, more than 20,000 Kunlun slaves were sold from him alone, making a profit of 1.06 million yuan.
Converted into gold it is 1.06 million taels.
Before the turmoil in the Central Plains, his wealth had exceeded that of all the Brahmins in India, and he even had money left to expand the army. In order to maintain the suppression of the Indian natives, he naturally could not recruit soldiers locally. While he paid high sums to the soldiers in the army,
On the one hand, he encouraged them to write letters to relatives in their hometowns and persuade them to come to North India to serve as soldiers. On the other hand, he bribed Bi Sixhen and Bai Xiaode who were far away in the river and Tocharo to recruit Sogdians locally.
The Tocharians joined the Tang army.
Dai Wang knew that Li Siye had always hated the slave trade, but he could not resist the temptation of huge profits. He was sure that the other party's attitude was to turn a blind eye.
He did not report anything related to the slave trade. Even the profits he made, he compiled accounting books in the name of spices, in order to cover up the public and not leave the opportunity for future historians to criticize.
The Kunlun slave trade brought huge wealth gains to Li Siye. Although he was unwilling to admit that his subordinates were involved in the slave trade, the account book presented to him by Dai Wang, the head of the Chamber of Commerce, showed an increase of more than 20 million yuan. This made Li Siye
He came up with the idea of investing the extra money into Thunder Temple and Armor Workshop.
At this moment, in the Governor's Mansion of Liangzhou, Dai Wang was sitting cross-legged in the upper right corner. He crossed his hands to Li Siye in front of the screen and asked, "Doctor, do you want to replace General Zhao Congfang of the Right Guard who is stationed in North India?"
"Oh," Li Siye was quite surprised: "Why do you ask like that?"
Dai Wang immediately crossed his hands and said: "I think this Zhao Congfang has always been very ambitious. He is definitely not only willing to be a guard general of the Tang Army stationed in India. If the doctor has doubts about him, I hope he can be replaced as soon as possible to prevent him from having different ambitions."
Li Siye was quite hesitant, smacking his lips and said: "Don't you know that Zhao Congfang's heart is as high as the sky, but stationing in India requires a general who is responsible for his own affairs and has comprehensive capabilities to lead the army. I can't find a better person for a while.
Replace him? But I am in charge of three towns? And Bai Xiaode and Bi Sixhen are in the north, and Wang Tao is in the west? He still doesn't dare to have any different intentions? You can relax for the time being."
"What the doctor said is absolutely true," Dai Wang hesitated for a long time. He couldn't think of any way to give Li Siye advice, but said worriedly: "It seems to be true at the moment? But once the situation in the Central Plains changes? The communication between Hexi and the Western Regions is interrupted, Zhao Congfang will
produce changes."
Li Siye stood up and said with a sigh: "What if there is such a time when the imperial court is unable to control the Western Regions? If Zhao Congfang is really ambitious? It can be considered his fate."
Dai Wang hesitated to speak. He originally wanted to tell the whole story about what Zhao Congfang did in North India, but he was afraid that if he told it, Li Siye would not be able to change his original intention.
In North India, the sky was high and the emperor was far away. Zhao Congfang and some of his generals were completely unleashed and did many unscrupulous things. The so-called slave-catching and trading were only a trivial one among the evil things he did.
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Fan Yang went to the memorial hall and Liu Luogu compiled all the information about Chang'an after October, and prepared a report to be sent to Yingzhou, so that An Lushan could learn about the news in Chang'an at any time.
Yan Zhuang held the hard yellow paper in his hand and read the contents of the Di newspaper in a smooth voice. He always noticed An Lushan sitting in front of the desk with his eyes closed and concentrating.
"Li Siye, the governor of Hexi, Anxi and Beiting, wrote a memorial to the saint asking for promotion. Asking for the general position for his confidant generals? And he successively promoted 1,500 people to the position of Zhonglang General.
Fatty An suddenly opened his eyes and denounced with a ferocious face: "This Li Siye is really hateful. When someone asked Your Majesty for something, he also gave His Majesty slanderous words to ask for it. He really regarded himself as the number one person. If he knew that I wanted to
If you do something, it will ruin my big deal."
Gao Shang took the initiative to offer advice and said: "My lord, don't worry. Although Li Siye is in charge of three towns, except for Hexi, Beiting and other towns in Anxi cannot be compared with Fanyang, Pinglu, and Hedong. His troops are not many, and they are scattered widely."
Bu, in the future, even if he leads the army to rescue, the number of troops that can be mobilized will not exceed 100,000, and the combat effectiveness of his subordinates will be far from the opponents of our three towns in Hebei."
Yan Zhuang also squinted his eyes and stepped forward. When Gao Shang finished speaking, he just finished it. The power of this turn-of-talk technique is that it brainwashes the target continuously.
"Since my lord is worried that Li Siye is a serious threat, why not send a spy to spy on the military situation in Hexi. It is best to know the number of troops under his command, and also to know how many people he can lead south to Guanzhong once he learns of the great changes in the Central Plains. This is to know yourself and your enemy.
You can fight a hundred battles without danger."
"That's very good." An Lushan patted the case hard and said loudly: "Come, call An Shouzhong to come in."
General An Shouzhong stepped in from the side door, knelt on one knee and crossed his hands and said, "My lord, are you calling me?"
"I order you to select sixty or seventy people from the Xizuo camp, preferably all Sogdians. You will personally lead them disguised as merchants and go to Anxi, Beiting, Hexi and other places to investigate the total strength of the armies in the three towns.
Find out the details of the Hexi Army for me."
An Shouzhong responded decisively: "Well, I will definitely live up to the doctor's expectations."
After An Shouzhong took the order and left, An Lushan rubbed his fat belly and dozed off. The chambermaid Li Zhuer knelt in front of his bed, clenched his hands into fists and gently tapped his knees.
Thunderous snores resounded in the main hall of his residence, and Yan Zhuang quietly exited the room. Gao Shang was writing military orders on the desk beside him. Faced with such a noisy environment, Master Yan concentrated on writing without any distractions, and he was really like an ordinary person.
What cannot be done.
I don’t know how much time passed, and even Li Zhuer, who was sitting on his knees and beating An Lushan’s legs, fell into a drowsy sleep. There was already a crescent moon hanging high outside the window, and there were only three candles in the room. Gao Shang rubbed his sore fingers,
The sound of thunder echoed in my ears.
Until the sound of roosters crowing in the sky, Gao Shang had already piled up a thick pile of copies of military regulations. The long night was long, and he didn't feel sleepy at all. He was so focused that he didn't even notice that his snoring had stopped. When the coolness of the morning penetrated him through the crack of the door,
His body trembled involuntarily when he was wrapped in his clothes, and he didn't realize that black fox fur was covering his shoulders.
Gao Shang was shocked and quickly turned around to salute, but An Lushan held his shoulder. He did not hesitate to praise him: "Commander Gao is really a man of perseverance. With thunder in his ears, he can actually write tens of thousands of words in one night."
Neat, this is my blessing. This fox fur has been with me for many years, and now I give it to you."
Gao Shang hurriedly turned around and knelt on the ground, folded his hands and said, "My lord, I have shown you the kindness of encountering you. Gao Shang dares to repay your kindness without any hesitation!"
An Lushan stretched out his hand to support him. Gao Shang may have moved too much, and a book fell out of his arms. The cover happened to be facing up. It was "Tui Bei Tu" written by Yuan Tiangang.