In the blink of an eye, it had been a while since Li Jing captured Qikou. Counting the days, the spring plowing in the Central Plains was almost over.
However, spring has returned to the Central Plains, but in Qikou, there is still no sign of warmth.
The cold wind is still howling in the sky here, and even a burst of snow will fall from time to time, making people wonder if God has slept for too long, so that he miscalculated the days and mistakenly mistaken spring for winter.
Li Jing had already left. After taking care of the prisoners of war and livestock in Qikou, he pursued Jie Li non-stop along his escape route.
Except for Li Jing, others such as Chai Shao, Xue Wanche and others also moved towards the west at this time. In Qikou, which was originally bustling with activity, only Xiao Han and Tang Jian were left to take charge of the aftermath.
However, even if they say they are dealing with the aftermath, in fact, even if they stay and watch the door, it will still be an empty door!
The 100,000 prisoners of war who once crowded the camp were released!
I remember that when Xiao Han heard the news, he felt very incredible and even went to Li Jing angrily!
The person who spent so much effort to catch him was let go so easily?
However, Li Jing just glanced at him and then asked a few questions casually. Xiao Han choked and rolled his eyes, unable to say a word.
"You won't let them go? Do you want to kill them all?"
"Kill...that won't work! But we can take them back and do labor reform, which means helping with road construction and mining. How great would that be?!"
"Well, it's quite good! But it's more than a month's journey from the nearest Shuofang. How can you feed 100,000 people in this month?"
"I……"
Xiao Han was speechless! That’s 100,000 people! Not ten people! He couldn't afford to provide so many people with water, let alone food!
Therefore, Xiao Han could only grind his teeth and watch the Turks who were let go disappear from his eyes with joy.
"Hey, before I came here, why did I forget that there is such a profitable business as slave trading in this world?! You are careless, you are careless!"
Xiao Han, who thought he had suffered a huge loss, was so angry that he even had a huge fire tumor on his cheek. Whenever he ate, the pain was as painful as an electric shock.
With the growth of fire tumors, it is impossible to eat mutton. The food is already hot and hot. If you continue to eat it, this "handsome and handsome" face may become useless.
So Xiao Han had no choice but to cover his cheeks and go to the grassland outside to see if there were any wild vegetables that could supplement vitamins.
"Hey, what a miserable place, it's all grass! I'm not a sheep, I can't even dig up a wild vegetable!"
On a grassland that had just turned green, Xiao Han looked up to the sky and sighed, what kind of world is this, where even eating a green vegetable is a luxury?
"Master Marquis, let me tell you, why don't we go back? It's too boring to stay here!" As Xiao Han's number one henchman, Xiaodong felt that he had an obligation to persuade Xiao Han to return to the warm and comfortable Chang'an instead of here. I'm almost getting hair all over my body.
"Go back?" When Xiao Han heard Xiaodong's words, he kicked a stone off the ground and said angrily: "We agreed when we came out that we would wait until Jie Li was killed before going back! But now this How can we go back if the old boy can't even find his hair?"
"But didn't Tang Gong say that all the chiefs who originally surrendered to Jieli have surrendered these days? The Turks are finished, and Jieli is the only one left who can't afford to make any trouble..."
Xiaodong looked at Xiao Han with some confusion. In his opinion: If the battle reaches this level, it will be a great victory no matter what! Now that we have won, why are we still wasting our time here without returning to the imperial court?
"madness!"
Xiao Han waited for Xiaodong to finish speaking, then turned around and glared at him fiercely: "Don't you understand the principle of cutting off the grass and rooting out the roots? Besides, can those chiefs who are just like grass on the wall be relied on? They are all a bunch of supercilious people. Wolf!
Today our fists are big, and they all rush around us. But tomorrow, if our fists are small, believe it or not, these beasts will immediately turn around and tear off a piece of meat from our body! "
"You mean they will still rebel?" Xiaodong shrank his neck when Xiao Han stared at him, but he still didn't believe what he said.
Because since the victory over the Turks, the entire army from top to bottom looks like the King of Heaven and I are number one and I am number two! Even when walking, my nostrils are pointed upward, which makes people worry about whether they will have water poured into their nostrils on a snowy day!
In comparison, the Turkic people I see these days are basically like eggplants beaten by frost. When I see Tang people on weekdays, they always bend down and lower their heads to get around. Even the Turkic general Kang Sumi, this He was trained like a grandson by his master in just two days! Is this a group of people who will rebel? Dare they rebel?
"Not rebellious? Do you think they are really loyal dogs?" Xiao Han rolled his eyes at him angrily.
As a descendant, no one knows the habits of these grassland aliens better than him! These people are just like a bunch of white-eyed wolves, and they are not familiar with them at all!
In history, the Turks were destroyed by Li Shimin and his son!
But within a few years, they used Wu Zetian to restore the country again! And not only did he not feel grateful for the goodness of the Tang Dynasty, but he also kept jumping around the Tang Dynasty as always, which made people hate him so much! I wish I could grab him and slap him to death!
"The grass on the Lili Plain dries up and grows every year. Wildfires cannot burn them out, but they grow again when the spring breeze blows..."
Thinking about the historical battles between the Central Plains regime and the alien races on the grasslands, Xiao Han couldn't help but think of this famous grassland poem by Bai Juyi!
Since ancient times, haven't the grassland peoples been just like these weeds, growing one after another and never getting rid of them?
"What a poem, what a poem!"
After reading a poem filled with helplessness, someone suddenly applauded behind him.
"Tang Gong, why are you here!" Hearing this voice, Xiao Han knew without turning around that the person coming must be Tang Jian!
Because if Liu Er and others were replaced, they probably wouldn't shout anything else besides "so wet"!
"Haha, if I hadn't come, I wouldn't have heard such a poem!" Tang Jian clapped his hands and laughed. He originally just wanted to come to Xiao Han to talk about something, but who would have thought that he would overhear such a good poem? It is better to come early than to come by chance.
"What's the name of this poem?" Tang Jian asked with eyes shining as he came to Xiao Han's side.
"No name!" Xiao Han crushed the grass under his feet irritably, and said in a muffled voice: "You came to see me for something?"
"Why, I can't come to you if I have nothing to do?"
Tang Jian rolled his eyes at Xiao Han, and then saw Xiao Han staring at him suspiciously. He couldn't help but smile bitterly, took out an imperial edict from his arms and said, "Okay, something happened! Your Majesty is going to recruit me back, and I guess you will too. Soon."
