Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 1431 Everyone is happy
After the city is broken, all the people in the city will be slaves!
The news of Qin Jun's quick attack on Dongcao and Shiguo spread throughout the Sogdian city-states in the river. For a moment, countless Sogdians trembled, angry and frightened.

Shi Guo is also considered a powerful country in the river. Although it is not as strong as Kang Guo, which has tens of thousands of troops, it belongs to the kind that can make up an army of tens of thousands of people. Many Sogdian warriors were hired, as well as Tocharian mercenaries or Western Turkic cavalry.

Although the Shi Kingdom was conquered by the Western Turkic Yipidulu Khan more than 20 years ago, even after Yipidulu Khan broke the city, he just robbed and left without saying that the whole city was destroyed. All of them were taken into slavery.

What's the difference between this and a massacre?
Even more ruthless than the massacre.

While many people were shocked, they felt that it might have been exaggerated, but the details of the battle became more and more detailed, and they even waited for the briefing from Qin Jun, the Jiedu envoy of Hezhong, soon.

The king of Wu'an County specially asked his secretary in charge, Wang Bo, a great talent from the Tang Dynasty, to draft a briefing, which described a simple battle as full of ups and downs and suspense like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Of course, in the notification, the other Sogdian city-states were also truthfully informed of the results of the disposal of the Shi Kingdom and Dongcao Kingdom. It was true that after the city was broken, all survivors were sold into slavery.As for those armed rebels, they were all executed.

Wang Bo even quoted the famous saying of Chen Tang, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, that those who commit crimes against a strong Han will be punished no matter how far away they are, but wherever Tang rides iron hoofs, they are all courtiers and concubines.

This is simply Chi Guoguo's showing off and intimidation.

However, after this circular was spread throughout the river, none of the countries in the river dared to disturb it. As the overlord of the Sogdian countries in the river, Kang Guo did not dare to take a breath, and did not even dare to mobilize its own soldiers. Ma, I am afraid that it will cause unnecessary misunderstandings with the King of Wu'an, and then he will come to punish him even if he is far away.

I could only write a letter to Qin Jun in person, and specially sent a prince to meet him with the letter, and brought a lot of camels, cattle and sheep, as well as a few camels' gold, silver and silk cloth and other gifts.

It is true that the fighting power of the Hezhong army is too strong, and Shiguo has a population of tens of thousands, and the waves are gone without a single wave.

This is the second largest country in Hezhong after Kang.

In the Sui Dynasty, the Western Turks killed King Shi, took over the Shi Kingdom with a special servant whose mother was a princess of Shi Kingdom, and sent General Khan Ting as the deputy king, called Tutun.Since then, Shi Kingdom has been directly controlled by the Western Turks and is at their disposal.

Later, Western Turkic internal strife continued, and Shi Guo was also involved. Later, in the last years of Zhenguan, when Yugu, who established himself as Yipidulu Khan, sent troops to conquer Kang Guo for disobedience, Shi Guo was destroyed halfway. .

But after Dulu was defeated, the descendant of Teqin was still the king of Shi Kingdom. The current king is Mohe Duteqin, and the deputy king is Yikule Tutun.

These two people still have some brave names. Who would have expected that the country would be subjugated if it was said to be subjugated?

The deputy king Yikule died in battle, and the main king, Moheduo Teqin, was captured and surrendered, and had already been sent to Luoyang.

The king of Kang, who has more than 9 households and a population of more than one million, can summon [-] or [-] string controllers if the whole country is mobilized, but this king who likes to drink and sing and dance has no fighting spirit.

The last time the entire Western Regions rebelled, and he joined forces with the big cannibals. He was a little hesitant that time, and finally felt that there were too many people and powerful, so he spent money to send troops, but in the end he didn't move Datang at all. Incapacitated, Dashi will also discuss the alliance and withdraw troops in desperation.

From then on, let’s not talk about going north, and dare not cross the military buffer zone Tucharo and the Caspian Sea lowland that the Tang Dynasty had set down.

Even the powerful Dashi, the Dashi that destroyed the Persian Sassanid Empire for hundreds of years in a short period of time, did not dare to use troops against Datang, nor did King Kang.

Now he can only send his son to meet Qin Jun and ask for a solution to the disaster. He even offered to increase the tribute to Datang.

Ask his son to tell Qin Jun that Kang Guo is willing to pay [-] silver coins to Datang every year in the future. For Kang Guo, who occupies the dominant position in the Silk Road trade in the Western Regions, [-] Kaiyuan silver coins are not much, but they are not many. The Sogdians monopolize The annual income of Silk Road trade is astonishing.

If money can be exchanged for peace, Kang Wang thinks it is worth it. Even if Qin Jun has a big appetite, he will let his son increase the amount of annual tribute, even [-] silver coins a year.

Even if Qin Jun shamelessly exchanged [-] silver coins for pure silver coins, it would be fine, as long as he didn't ask for pure Roman gold coins or Persian Sasanian pure gold coins.

Money, you can make it again, are you afraid that you won’t make money if you control the Silk Road trade?
In the past, they also paid tribute to the Persians, the Huns, and the Turks. They also paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty before, but now it doesn’t matter if they pay more.

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Tuozhe City, Qin Jun is still busy, He Zhongjun just broke through Baishui City, the last fortified city in Shi Country, and divided his troops to sweep all the villages in Shi Country, arresting everyone, no mercy .

If you want to do it, then do it to the end.

Shi country is famous for its horses, but also for beauties. Shi country's Tuozhi dance and Kang country's Hu Xuan dance are both very famous in Luoyang, Chang'an.

"King Kang is scared out of his wits. He's so fucking cowardly, with millions of people, he's so cowardly." A scholar with a sword shouted disdainfully.

Qin Jun laughed.

"Isn't this exactly what we want? The annual tribute of [-] silver Kaiyuan is nothing."

The scholar with a sword has a big beard, and his age is not much different from Qin Jun, but it is Wang Bo, the secretary in charge of Hezhong. With his rude words and slovenly appearance, it is hard to imagine that this is Wang Bo, who is extremely talented in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that his articles and poems are extremely popular in the newspapers. Many newspapers use his poems and articles, starting with at least [-] yuan. If you write a poem, various newspapers are rushing to ask for it, and the price is a hundred times higher than that of the prime ministers. It's not bad to write epitaphs for those rich and powerful.

He curled his lips disdainfully, "Is 120 silver a lot? I have 72 soldiers in Hezhong Town, with an annual expenditure of more than [-] million pieces of silk cloth and more than [-] shi of grain. Also big..."

More than 6 soldiers and horses, plus a large number of war horses, poor horses, etc., the military expenditure is very high. The rations and clothing materials for the soldiers are amazing, and they are also paid. The system is not what it used to be.

Even if the fields are divided, they spend more time on the frontier, which is of a permanent nature. Compared with the past soldiers who spend most of their time farming at home, they are not only provided with weapons and armor by the court, but also provide training expenses. There must also be military pay, military rations and even military uniforms, as well as New Year's rewards.

These frontier troops are already equivalent to the professional troops of the Tang Dynasty, and their expenses are several times higher than those of the government soldiers at the beginning of the country.

There are more than 6 soldiers and horses in Hezhong Town, and each soldier needs at least 6 guan military expenditures a year, and more than 300 is more than [-] million. What's more, building cities and fighting wars are not included in the regular expenses.

500 guan is really nothing. A battalion of [-] people costs [-] guan a year, so [-] guan is not enough to support a battalion.

"Would you like to give it away for free?" Qin Jun is not too small, there are more than 6 horses, followed by 30 to [-] family members. Although the land is divided and the land is granted, it is not easy to support.

"Just go straight to the robbing, just break into a village, capture hundreds of people, it's worth two to three thousand yuan, plus cattle, sheep, livestock and their property, wouldn't it be worth a lot? If you capture a small city with a population of over a thousand , then you can easily earn a small hundred thousand, isn’t it better than this?”

"Kangguo is the largest country in the river. For the time being, we can't beat him yet. We have to be weak first and then strong, and we will finally get him. So now that he is willing to pay, we will accept it, and we can temporarily appease him."

This time when the Shi Kingdom and Dongcao Kingdom were destroyed, some Sogdians ran away quickly, and many of them fled to the territory of Kang Kingdom.

Qin Jun planned to accept the [-] Kaiyuan silver coins, and then asked Prince Kang to go back and tell King Kang to send back all the people from Shi and Dongcao who fled into the country.

"Jie Shuai, we have gained a lot from this time. Shi Kingdom alone has a population of several 10. The money for selling slaves alone costs millions. I am worried that there will be too many slaves for this ticket. Everyone can’t afford so much money, and if there is so much supply all at once, I’m afraid the price will have to drop, what a loss.” Wang Bo shook his head, “We can’t be so reckless next time, we have to take our time, every now and then. Take a city in time and catch him for thousands of dollars, so that the price will not fall."

"You don't have to worry about this. Dawan has newly opened the Hezhong Bank, which has strong capital and can provide loans to the soldiers and civilians in Hezhong."

"Hezhong Bank?" Wang Bo looked at Qin Jun. As the secretary in charge, he was Jie Shuai's confidant, but he didn't know about it yet.

"To tell you the truth, I introduced Bank of Luzon, Nanhai Bank and other major shareholders to set up this Bank of Hezhong, and I intend to establish a foothold in Hezhong and serve us in Hezhong."

Wang Bo gave a thumbs up, "The festival is handsome."

Luzon Bank and Nanhai Bank are both properties of the Qin family. Qin Jun pulled him over to jointly open the Bank of Hezhong. Isn't this still the property of the Qin family?

The Qin family's bank lends money to the soldiers and civilians in Hezhong. The soldiers and civilians have money in their hands, and then buy slaves from the Hezhong army. In this way, Hezhong Town sells the slaves in exchange for a large sum of money for military expenses .

The soldiers and civilians of Hezhong Town obtained loans through Hezhong Bank, and bought the cheap labor they needed from the Hezhong Army.

Hezhong Bank lends money to earn interest, and Qin Jun is still the major shareholder.

Everyone is happy.

"The Bank of Hezhong has applied to the imperial court for a coin minting license, and will set up a coin casting supervisor in Hezhong to mint Tang coins in the river, which is convenient for us to circulate and use in the river."

Wang Bo's eyes widened, "Did Shuai Jie discover the gold and silver mine?"

"Is there still a need to discover? Aren't the minerals in the river all there? Just send someone to continue mining."

"It's not easy to mine gold and silver mines. There are a lot of people. You might as well use the Silk Road trade to exchange gold and silver, and then mint coins. Now we have taken down Shiguo. The Silk Road in the Western Regions and the third-line route are all in our river. Also, our Dawan Basin is an authentic hard-earned BMW production area, there are so many good ways to make money, why bother to dig mines, leave this kind of dirty work to others."

Qin Jun said, "Many of them are ready-made mines, just take over. The mining income is quite high. Now there are money supervisors, and they can turn around and use the mined gold and silver to mint coins, and they can make a fortune. Besides, we are really rich in Hezhong. We need coins, so we can’t always use Persian money, Roman money, Sogdian money from Sogdian traffickers, right? The profit of this coinage is very high, how can we let them make a fortune for us.”

(End of this chapter)