Tibet

Chapter 405 Appease the Warning
Five prisoners of war generals walked into the big tent. They were all about 40 years old, and all of them had big beards. It seemed that everyone looked about the same, and they stood in a row.

"Please sit down!" Li Ye said in his proficient Sogdian language.

The five generals sat down, and Li Ye served tea to the soldiers again, and said to the five: "I was the commander of the right army in the Battle of Talas last year, maybe you still know me."

"I remember you!"

A general stared at Li Ye and said, "You killed very fiercely on the battlefield. My brother Aziz died under your knife."

"I'm sorry, but we are soldiers. We should all understand that on the battlefield, you die or we live. I killed your brother, but your brother also killed Tang soldiers."

The general was silent, and Li Ye said again: "Mansur has reached a peace agreement with the Emperor of Tang Dynasty. The two sides will use the Amu Darya River as the boundary and will not invade each other. Datang and Dashi have become a brotherly country."

Smiling, Li Ye continued: "I am the governor of Datang Hezhong now, and I will soon negotiate with the governor of Khorasan to discuss when you will go home?"

"Is the general going to release us?" asked one of the oldest generals.

Li Ye nodded, "It's been more than half a year since the end of the war, and it's almost time for you to go home. I hope you will persevere for the last few months."

Everyone looked at each other, all showing joy, and the leader asked again: "When will we be released?"

"I have sent someone to inform the caliphate. Your caliphate should send Khorasan Governor Ziyad to negotiate with me. The main reason is that there will be delays on the road. It will take several months to come and go. I hope you will wait patiently."

After a pause, Li Ye said again: "If I were you, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to go back."

"Why did the general say that?"

Li Ye said indifferently: "I got the news that it was not good for the Great Food Army to attack Egypt, and the army suffered heavy losses. Khorasan is arresting strong men everywhere to fight the Western Food Army. If you go back, you will definitely be sent to the battlefield. With me, at least If you can save your life, it will be difficult to go to Egypt."

The five people were silent. They all knew that Li Ye was telling the truth. Prince Rahman fled to Egypt and established the Western Food, which was very powerful. They had also been to Egypt and knew that the environment there was harsh and the war was cruel. If they really went to the southern battlefield, it would be difficult for them to survive.

Although being a prisoner of war was a bit hard, at least there was no fear of their lives. The five of them didn't have to work. They had their own independent tents, and each had a maid by their side. They lived a very comfortable life.

The leading general sighed, "We just miss our family very much!"

Li Ye smiled and said, "You can write letters to your family members. I will send the businessman Bahan to Khorasan. Your family members will receive your letters and know that you are safe."

"Thank you General for your forgiveness, we will wait patiently and just hope to give me a little more time to pray at noon every day."

"Yes!" Li Ye readily agreed.

Li Ye stood up and said: "I have provided you with the greatest convenience, but I also hope that you will abide by the peace agreement reached between the Great Tang Emperor and the Great Food Caliph, and wait patiently for your release to go home.

But I want to warn you first, if you make trouble, my tens of thousands of troops will slaughter you without hesitation, and this place will become your cemetery. I am a soldier, and I will do what I say, and I will do what I say! "

The five generals went back, and Xu Jian said anxiously: "I want to report to the governor, they spend too much time praying every day. They wake up in the morning to pray, and they go to work after dawn, and they have to pray again in the afternoon. Pray, then basically stop working."

Li Ye shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter whether you work or not now, I just hope that they will stay for a few more months. After all, they are [-] young and strong men. Once they rebel, there are too few of you to stop them , They will really destroy the country of Bahanna, I have to stabilize them now."

"Humble job understands!"

Li Ye instructed the two of them again: "But any rebellion will have harbingers, such as dissatisfaction, emotional agitation, etc. If you find these signs, you should immediately notify Sui Ye with a flying eagle, and I will lead the army to come immediately."

Xu Jian and Yu Changyang bowed together and said, "We must cooperate with the governor to kill them all?"

"Beheaded to death?"

Li Ye laughed, "Don't be kidding, I will rely on everyone's hundreds of thousands of salary this year!"

Li Ye did not return to Kesai City, but traveled west for tens of miles, arrived at the entrance of Qianquan Mountain Canyon, and then crossed the Qianquan Mountain Grand Canyon, turning the road to the east. The thing is, it will take two or three days to go from Qianquan City to Kesai City.

After walking for about six days, they were only fifty or sixty miles away from Suiye City. They arrived at a small river called Tutu River. Li Ye stopped his horse and asked a soldier, "Is this here?"

The soldier nodded, "Report to the governor, it's here, just walk a dozen miles along the river."

The place Li Ye is going to is naturally a silver mine secretly developed by Gao Xianzhi in Suiye. From the sixth year of Tianbao, after Gao Xianzhi took power, he arranged for people to open the mine, transport it to Suiye for smelting, and produce 10 taels of silver every year. After five years, Gao Xianzhi was transferred away last year, and the silver mine stopped mining.

The silver is not a subsidy for the soldiers. Anxi soldiers can't get a penny. Gao Xianzhi has to go back to Chang'an every year just to pay tribute to the important officials of the court. collect?
This silver mine is actually Gao Xianzhi's private silver mine, and even Bian Lingcheng, the supervisor of the army, doesn't know about it. Chen Fengxian, the military envoy of Broken Leaf, is Gao Xianzhi's confidant, and he conceals it for Gao Xianzhi.

Only Feng Changqing knew about the Anxi Army, but Feng Changqing also kept silent.

Li Ye urged his horse to go along the small river to the mountain area, but soon the road became difficult, so Li Ye abandoned his horse and followed the guide soldiers on foot. After walking for about fifteen or six miles, several wooden houses appeared in the open space in front of him.

The guide soldier pointed to the wooden house and said, "That's it!"

An old man walked out of the wooden house here, looked at them and asked loudly: "Are you sent by Marshal Gao?"

The guide soldier whispered to Li Ye: "This old man Wang was invited by Shuai from Suiye to see the mine. He probably doesn't know that the mine has been abandoned."

The guide soldiers stepped forward quickly and introduced Li Ye to the old man who watched the mine.

Li Ye walked up to the mine and looked around. The mine is located halfway up the mountain, and the ground is fairly flat. There is a lot of slag piled up in a far corner. It should be rough smelted in the mine first, and then transported to the crushed leaves for refining.

At this time, the old king who guarded the mine stepped forward to salute, "The villain sees Li Dudu!"

Li Ye nodded and said with a smile: "You are still guarding the mine alone, it's hard for you."

"Gao Shuai gave me the same amount of money every month, and it expires in March. I want to leave! But once I leave, all these tools are gone, so I have to wait another two months. If I don't come this month, I will have no food. I'm really leaving."

Li Ye smiled and said: "You stay here! I will make up the money I owe you, and I will also give you food and supplies."

"Thank you Governor Li!"

Li Ye pointed to the surrounding mines and asked, "Is this the mining site?"

"Reporting to Governor Li, in fact, a total of six mines have been discovered. This is only the first one. The other five have not been mined yet. This one has been mined almost. It is said that the second one will be mined this year. There are blueprints in the wooden house over there."

The guide soldiers brought out a thick stack of drawings, and indeed there was a distribution map of the mines, all of which were in the mountainous area, and the farthest mine was at least twenty miles away.

"Who are the miners?"

"They were all recruited from several Tuqishi tribes, and each person was given one hundred cash per day! They were all willing to do it, but last year they were given no money, and they all went back."

"Tuchish from the Talas River?"

"Yes! That's them."

Li Ye briefly inspected the mine surface again, and there were still several piles of mined silver ore in a large shed that had not been smelted.

Li Ye attaches great importance to this mine. His army spends 60 taels a year. If it only produces 10 taels of silver, it will definitely not be enough. , it can barely solve the problem of military expenditure that bothers him the most.

(End of this chapter)