Tibet

Chapter 260
Li Ye led the army all the way to the north. There were nearly [-] camels in the team, which were loaded with personal property of millions of taels of silver and Kundu stone. Three days later, the team arrived at Talas City. The road goes east to Broken Leaf City.

Although it was a huge amount of wealth, Li Ye knew that Gao Xianzhi couldn't keep it for himself, most of it had to be handed over to the imperial court, and even some precious treasures had to be dedicated to Emperor Li Longji and Concubine Yang.

In history, after Gao Xianzhi slaughtered the Shi Kingdom and plundered a lot of wealth, he went directly to Beijing and offered captives to the emperor, so he should have also handed over the wealth.

Therefore, after the fiasco of Taluosi, Gao Xianzhi was not overly held accountable, and he was named the Duke of Miyun County and served as the General of Youjinwuwei, which must be related to his surrender of wealth to the court.

Although Li Ye did not approve of Gao Xianzhi's massacre of innocent people, he did not object to his plundering of wealth. The soldiers did not fight for any beliefs, they must be profitable to do so.

The personal wealth of 100 million taels of silver and kundu stone must be divided into five parts, Gao Xianzhi herself, military supervisor Bian Lingcheng, Anxi generals, court dignitaries, emperor and imperial concubine.

If the Anxi Jiedushi's position is to be secure, all these people's sophistication are indispensable.

Talas is a small city, and it is also the place where Shiguo smelts silver mines. The three large silver mines are located in the nearby Qianquan Mountains. The ores are mined, and the ores are simply roughed in the mines, and then the rough silver is sent to Go to Talas City for refining to get an ingot of silver.

Li Ye didn't have time to go to the silver mine to investigate. After resting for half a day, he set off to continue to Suiye City. Five days later, the team arrived at Suiye City.

At this time, Gao Xianzhi had already returned to Suiye City, and he was patiently waiting for Li Ye's return.

This morning, Li Ye finally led his army back from Shi Kingdom, Gao Xianzhi was overjoyed, and quickly ordered his soldiers to move all the boxes into his big tent.

In the big tent, the soldiers opened the lids of the boxes, and there were neatly placed silver in the boxes, 50 taels for each ingot, which added up to exactly 100 million taels, which was the same as the information Gao Xianzhi had.

To Gao Xianzhi's surprise, Li Ye also brought back Kundushi's personal wealth, which were also dozens of large boxes with seals on them and a list.

This made Gao Xianzhi a little embarrassed, he smiled and said to Li Ye: "General Li, let's pick a few boxes too!"

Li Ye shook his head, "I got Feilong's treasure book, I don't need anything else!"

Gao Xianzhi nodded, "You can keep the treasure book! Then I will make a unified arrangement, and you will have a copy of it."

"Thank you, handsome!"

Gao Xianzhi patted Li Ye on the shoulder and said: "I am afraid that Dashi will not send troops to Hezhong until summer and autumn. I will rush to Chang'an immediately and ask the court and the emperor for instructions. Otherwise, in this war against Dashi, I really dare not send troops without authorization." .”

Of course, this is just an excuse. In history, Gao Xianzhi sent troops to the Stone Kingdom to fight the Dashi Army, but he did not ask the court and the emperor for instructions in advance. The key is that his term of office will expire next year, and he will return to the court after he gets the wealth of the Stone Kingdom. Go do some.

In fact, Li Ye also figured it out. He is a descendant, and he will consider stopping the Arab invasion of Central Asia and continue to maintain the Tang Empire's control over Central Asia.

But how could Gao Xianzhi see the big picture?Gao Xianzhi led the army here this time to plunder wealth. The war between him and the Dashi army was nothing more than the fact that Dashi violated his interests and wanted to seize his wealth.

If you think that Gao Xianzhi will also consider geopolitics, it is simply overthinking.

In Gao Xianzhi's eyes, his position as Jiedushi is the most important thing, and everything else can be given up. As for whether he can come back before Dashi sends troops, it depends on God's will.

Li Ye nodded, "I have a letter from home, please send it to my family, Marshal Gao."

Gao Xianzhi smiled and said: "That's right, you are the new envoy, you have to stay in Suiye for a while, and when you have stabilized, go back to Chang'an when you have time!"

Gao Xianzhi set off to lead the army back to Kucha that afternoon, while Li Ye stayed in Suiye. Now he has his first position that he can handle alone. Thousands of miles are under his jurisdiction.

Early the next morning, Li Ye led [-] soldiers to the Bingmashi Junya, and Zhang Xian, the chief secretary, led a group of officials to welcome Li Ye at the door.

The military yamen covers an area of ​​about [-] mu, including the official office, warehouses, and a three-mu attached official residence. The former military envoy Chen Fengzhong and his two concubines live here.

The crowd welcomed Li Ye into the lobby, and went through the simple procedure of handing over the seals. Li Ye got the military talisman, the envoy's letter, and the arrow of the envoy. The boss of Ye Junzhen.

"The former envoy Chen Bingma didn't have much to do. He would ask about some government affairs when he had time, but his main energy was still on the army. He refused to sign many government affairs, which made me very embarrassed. There were many things that he couldn't report to the Changshi Mansion."

The former military envoy Chen Fengzhong did not want to interfere with government affairs, which was not a good thing for Zhang Xian and other civil officials. The envoy did not sign, had no funds, and no one was responsible for things that happened. In the end, nothing happened.

It's like you have worked hard on a lot of projects with your own money, and in the end the leader doesn't admit it and doesn't reimburse you, then you will be dumbfounded, unless the financial power is lowered, but Chen Fengzhong is not a fool, but he holds the financial power tightly to himself hand.

Li Ye sat down in his official room and asked Zhang Xian, "How much income and expenditure does Suiye Town have?"

"Reporting to the envoys, the income of the military office mainly consists of three yuan, one is the payment of military salaries and rations for 500 soldiers, and there are empty salaries for [-] soldiers."

Li Ye was startled, "It means that the actual strength of Suiye is only 500?"

"No! No! It's not that simple. Suiye still has 2000 troops, but 500 of them are government soldiers. We don't need to pay salaries, but all of them are recruited by the court."

"Suiye and Fubing?"

Zhang Xian said with a smile: "Suiyejun Township has a very large jurisdiction, surrounding Rehai, the Chu River Basin, and a part of the Yili River Valley, with a radius of several thousand miles, and so many pastures in it are ours, Ge Luolu people, Tuqi Shiren, Tucharian, etc., there are more than 500 tribes, large and small, they have to pay taxes to us, and each tribe has to send people to serve as soldiers. [-] people are the source of troops for each tribe, of course not the government of the Central Plains. The military system is only similar to Fubing, but in fact it is Hubing."

"How will the 500 people's free salaries be divided?"

"Half of it will be handed over to Gao Shuai, and the other half will be divided according to the list of 33 people to subsidize everyone's life."

Zhang Xian handed over a list to Li Ye. There were 33 people on the list, mainly officials and generals, with Chen Fengzhong's seal on it, and the amount next to it. Chen Fengzhong received [-] guan a month.

Li Ye accepted the list and asked, "What about the taxes collected?"

"All taxes must be handed over to Feng Changshi. This point cannot be ambiguous. Feng Changshi will send someone to check the accounts every three months. Because of Feng Changshi's temper, he can't rub his eyes with sand. If you have any questions, everyone I can’t even eat and walk around, the biggest thing for a humble job is to collect taxes.”

Li Ye nodded, "Continue to talk about income and expenditure!"

"I don't care about taxes, the second income that belongs to us is rental income. Many shops in Suiye City are officially owned and leased to merchants. This income is mainly used for government expenses, and it is [-] yuan a month. About money, such as the daily expenses of the government office, the maintenance of the posthouse, the prison expenses, the salaries of the government servants, the salaries of several staff members of Chen Bingmashi, and the repair of the city, etc., are all paid by this money."

"What about the third income?"

"The third piece of income is the income of the army regiment, mainly food, fruits, sheep, chickens, ducks and fish. These incomes are still subsidized to the soldiers. During the holidays, we can also distribute some meat, milk and food as benefits."

"Is that all?"

Zhang Xian hesitated, "That's all!"

Li Ye saw Zhang Xian's hesitation, so he said coldly: "Even if I only serve as a military envoy for a few months, Master Zhang had better not hide everything from me!"

(End of this chapter)