The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 266

It is said that Su Lie rectified the [-] horses, sent his lieutenant to escort them, and sent [-] soldiers to send the [-] horses back to Chang'an along with hundreds of soldiers from Shuozhou Prefecture.

But just three days after the people he sent out left, his old uncle, that is, Su Zhen, came to the door.

"Old uncle? Why are you here?" Su Lie respected this old uncle of his own family. Hearing the report from his subordinates, he hurriedly greeted him from the camp, and took the old man into the Chinese army at the gate of the camp.

"It's not about our uncle's business." Su Zhen sighed, and sat down on the guest seat in Su Lie's military tent with a sad face.

"Mu Yun? What's the matter with that kid?" Su Lie frowned, and said with a slightly strange expression: "Isn't that kid busy with his adoptive father's gambling king competition these days?"

"Yes, he is busy with that matter, otherwise, it is impossible for me, an old guy, to come to you." Su Zhen said angrily.

After hearing Su Zhen's words, Su Lie remembered that he didn't seem to know the reason for his visit, so he asked, "By the way, old man, you haven't said anything yet."

This time Su Zhen didn't go around in circles, and said directly: "I want to borrow some soldiers from you, my uncle needs to transport 500 million catties of cement to Chang'an."

When he heard that he had to transport 500 million catties of cement to Changchang, Su Lie became angry at that time, and said with his eyes wide open, "What? Transporting something again? Is he using Lao Tzu as his transport captain?"

500 million catties of cement, that’s not fifty catties, even if it’s two thousand catties per cart, that’s [-] carts, and the horses or oxen that pull the carts alone cost thousands, not counting the drivers.

In addition, you want to transport cement, why did you say it a long time ago, now what is going on, [-] war horses have already been shipped, now where the hell am I going to find big animals!

Su Lie is so angry, if Li Muyun sits here, Old Su will have his heart set on him.No wonder this kid sent the old man Su Zhen over, but he hid himself in the cottage. He probably felt guilty.

As Su Lie thought so, Li Muyun sat comfortably on a rocking chair on the other side of the cottage, with two pieces of steamed buns baking on the stove beside him, and Su Wanqing was sitting beside him, embroidering something.

Li Muyun is very satisfied with this last-year-old wife who has won the battlefield and the kitchen. She has been a grandson for a whole year, and now she can finally be a wife and child, which can be regarded as fulfilling her wish.

However, it seems that it is still too early to think about his wife and children. Although he and Su Wanqing have established a relationship, they are still not married, and there is no such thing as children. Everything only exists in imagination.

"Muyun, is it really okay for you to behave like this? Brother, I'm afraid I don't know how angry I am going to be." Su Wanqing seemed to have thought of something, she suddenly put down her embroidery work, looked at Li Muyun and asked.

"It's okay, but I just asked my elder brother to send a few people, not my elder brother to escort him personally, don't worry!" Li Muyun squinted his eyes, looked at the beam above his head and said nonchalantly.

"Then why didn't you bring this up a few days ago? Wouldn't it be possible to use those war horses to carry it?" Su Wanqing continued to ask.

"Didn't I forget it a few days ago!" Li Muyun blinked innocently, and sat up straight: "But it's okay, we still have a lot of cattle, we can use the cart to transport them, and wait until we get to Chang'an. Once the cattle are sold, the cost is recovered.”

"You are always right!" Su Wanqing gave Li Muyun a reproachful look.

The girl was extroverted, she didn't realize that Su Lie actually had no soldiers to send, if he sent people to transport cement, it is estimated that he would not even have 500 men left under him, how could such a small number of people complete the task of defending the border, let alone Said that he is still in charge of guarding more than 1 "prisoners of war".

But anyway, Li Muyun is a bit conscientious, and within a day, he sent another person. This time, the person who came to find Su Lie was a Xue Yantuo. The Chinese name was Xue Yi. He was coaxed by Li Muyun The commander who surrendered.

"General Su, the villain came here to pick people under the orders of the young master." After seeing Su Lie, Xue Yi looked very scared, as if old Su could eat people.

But in fact it is true, ever since Su Lie led two hundred cavalry straight into Jieli Yazhang, his name has been spread on the grassland, he can almost stop children crying at night, no worse than Huo Huoqi back then.

"Pick someone? Who will you pick?" Su Lie looked at Xue Yi who looked like a mud monkey, and asked suspiciously.

"Oh, that's right. There is a construction team in our cottage, which is dedicated to repairing houses and roads. Isn't this going to Chang'an to build the palace after the spring? We don't have enough manpower, so we'll pick some people to replenish our manpower." Xue nodded and bowed. explained.

Su Lie roughly guessed what Xue Yi was talking about, but he was still a little uncertain, so he continued to ask: "Are you going to pick someone from the 'prisoners of war'?"

"Ah, yes! That's right, that's it. You don't need too many people, just 2000 people." Gong nodded quickly.

Now his life is much more comfortable than before. Since the day he became a contractor, he has fallen in love with this profession deeply.

The first point is that there is no risk in this business, and there is no need to fight. Although it is boring to deal with sand and cement every day, it is better than licking blood with the head of a knife. There is no tomorrow.

The second is to have a sense of accomplishment. In the past, he was only responsible for destroying, burning, killing and looting. .

At least he can say to his children in the future: Look, these houses were built by Lao Tzu, without Lao Tzu, land turtles can only sleep in grass nests.

But if it was before, he couldn’t tell his children: Look, this land was burned by Lao Tzu, how many women and children I killed here.

What's more, this is Datang, not the grassland where the birds don't shit.

There are beautiful women, exquisite food, as long as you have money, you can get everything.

Speaking of this, I have to say that what Xue Yi likes most is that he can earn money from doing projects now. Although it is not a lot, it is enough for him to find a wife in Datang.

No, a matchmaker was contacting him these few days. The other party was the daughter of a businessman in the county. Although she was not as beautiful as a fairy, she was much better than a rough prairie woman.

Thinking of meeting the woman introduced by the matchmaker tomorrow, Xue Yi felt his blood boil, and he didn't even feel scared when he saw Su Lie. After all, he was the boss's uncle, so he was not an outsider.

So this guy smiled awkwardly, nodded and bowed and continued to Su Lie: "Look, General Su, we built all the buildings in our village now, and cement is a unique product of our county. There may be more and more projects, so our construction team will definitely be bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more people.”

"What exactly do you want to say?" Su Lie asked impatiently looking at this Xue Yantuo who didn't look like Xue Yantuo at all.

"General, what I mean is, can you help me to identify those 'prisoners of war' who are more obedient and less resistant to isolation? These people will be our engineering team in the future. The potential labor force cannot be polluted by those who want to fight against Datang."

What Xue Yi said was sincere, and Su Lie couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, he thought that you, a Xue Yantuo, told Lao Tzu these things, so this is Xue Jian.

But after thinking about it again, it seems that what Xue Yi said is also correct. When the next spring begins, the new city mentioned by the emperor will probably start construction. At that time, labor will be needed. These Xue Yantuo prisoners of war are the best labor, but not all of them. Starved to death or sold.

Thinking of this, Su Lie glanced at Xue Yi, clicked his tongue and said, "If I remember correctly, you should be from Xue Yantuo, right?"

"Ah..., yes!" Xue nodded, looking at Su Lie sincerely, as if to say, although I am from Xue Yantuo, my heart is for Datang.

Su Lie couldn't help being a little speechless. He really didn't know what to say, so he said after a long while: "That's it, you go to the prisoner-of-war camp, talk to those prisoners of war, and tell them that as long as they behave well during this time, there will definitely be more people in the future." The opportunity goes out, if you appease those prisoners of war, this general will give you credit."

Xue Yiben thought that Su Lie would make some more difficult request, but he didn't expect it to be so simple, so he nodded without hesitation and said, "It's no problem, this is what a small person should do."

Seeing that he agreed, Su Lie nodded and said, "Okay, you can go to Cheng Xiaowei to pick someone. Remember, don't make any mistakes. If these 2000 people cause anything in the future, you will be the only one to ask questions." .”

"No!" Xue Yi agreed, and left with Su Lie's personal guard at the door.

In fact, he was not worried that those compatriots would run away, nor that they would cause trouble, because with the 3000 people under him before him, the 2000 people had no idea of ​​resistance at all.

After all, Xue Yi himself is from Xue Yantuo, and he knows very well what his compatriots need.

If there is a stable living environment, if it is not for the ambitions of those superiors, ghosts are willing to fight with their heads on their belts.

And now in Shanyin County of Datang, there happens to be one person who can satisfy their wishes. Li Muyun doesn't need them to fight, and he doesn't need them to pay much tax. As long as they are obedient, they will work hard and treat them like ordinary people of Datang , and even some of them performed particularly well, and they would be issued their Datang household registration.

In this way, it means that they will be citizens of Datang in the future, they can marry wives and have children in Datang, enjoy the protection of the army of Datang, and no one will rob them just because they fancy their cattle and sheep.

(End of this chapter)