After the leaders of the three major tribes, Basimi, Geluolu and Huihe, all agreed to the oath of alliance, the leaders of other small tribes such as Luo, Pugu, Guligan, Bayegu, Fuluo and other tribes stood up one after another.
Get up and express your willingness to swear an oath.
"Hahaha, okay, okay."
Zhao Ziliang laughed and stood up, picked up the wine glass and said loudly: "Come, leaders, let's have a drink together to celebrate the success of our alliance."
"Drink" All the leaders picked up their glasses and stood up to drink.
After drinking, Zhao Ziliang invited the leaders to eat food.
Zhao Ziliang had just made an alliance with all the leaders and said that whoever destroyed the Turkic White Eyebrow Khan would propose to the emperor and the court who should be canonized as the lord of the grassland.
This shocked Cheng Yuanzhen.
The emperor and the court had no such intention.
The Tang Dynasty had established national policy towards the grassland.
It was to maintain stability on the grassland and allow the tribes that were unwilling to submit to submit to the Tang Dynasty.
However, Zhao Ziliang clearly made the decision without authorization.
Cheng Yuanzhen didn't dare to interrupt Zhao Ziliang when he was talking.
After all, Zhao Ziliang was still here.
Cheng Yuanzhen had been in the palace for so long, so he still had a sense of the overall situation.
Now that the alliance was over, he immediately stood up and walked to Zhao Ziliang and whispered Said: "Master Hou, please take a step to speak."
Zhao Ziliang didn't think much about it.
He got up and went to a deserted place with Cheng Yuanzhen and asked: "Eunuch Cheng, why is it so mysterious?"
Cheng Yuanzhen said: "Master Marquis, you just promised to these tribal leaders that as long as whoever kills the White Eyebrow Khan and destroys the Turks, you will be crowned the Lord of the Grassland.
However, Your Majesty and the imperial court have not formulated such a national policy.
This is This kind of thing is a major matter for the country.
Mr.
Marquis, you must not make arbitrary decisions.
Once this matter comes to the court, Mr.
Hou's future will be in jeopardy.
Now that these leaders have not left, why not let our family go out and tell them, just say that Mr.
Hou drank too much just now.
It’s all nonsense and doesn’t count, so what?”
After Zhao Ziliang listened to Cheng Yuanzhen's words, he looked around and saw no one, so he smiled and said: "Don't worry, father-in-law.
Of course, I know that the imperial court does not have this national policy, and I also intend to fulfill this promise.
This is just my intention to let go."
It’s just a bait to make them kill each other.”
"So that's it."
Cheng Yuanzhen suddenly realized, but he quickly frowned and said: "Master Hou, don't think our family is verbose.
This matter is too big and difficult to control.
Once things get out of Master Hou's control, the consequences will be disastrous."
As the Mobei supervisor, Cheng Yuanzhen certainly has the right to intervene in such matters.
After all, this is related to the interests of the Tang Dynasty.
If it is not handled properly, it will bring big trouble to the Tang Dynasty.
Zhao Ziliang understands Cheng Yuanzhen's huge reaction.
After all, eunuchs stay in the palace for a long time and cannot participate in the decision-making of national affairs.
They can only be driven by others and are relatively timid.
Moreover, Cheng Yuanzhen is one of the main persons in charge of this matter. , if something happens, he, the supervisor, will bear no less responsibility than Zhao Ziliang.
Zhao Ziliang nodded, looked around, and saw Brahan standing at the door of the tent.
He waved him over and ordered him to lead people to guard the surroundings to prevent anyone from eavesdropping on his conversation with Cheng Yuanzhen.
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After setting up the warning, Zhao Ziliang analyzed Cheng Yuanzhen: "Don't worry, father-in-law.
Now in the north, the three major tribes of Geluolu, Basimi and Uighur have surrendered to our Tang Dynasty.
Only the Turks are unwilling to surrender.
Your Majesty The purpose of the imperial court is to eliminate the unstable factor of Turks.
As long as the war does not reach our territory of the Tang Dynasty, everything else is nothing.
Now in this desert We have the Mobei army in the north to deter the various tribes, and the Shuofang army is stationed at Qikou in the north.
As long as the tribes in Mobei have the slightest movement, they can send troops at any time.
What your majesty and the court need is not a stable and peaceful grassland, but a stable and peaceful grassland.
As time goes by in peace, our strength will greatly increase, which is not good for the Tang Dynasty.
Only if the grassland continues to be chaotic will it continue to weaken, and our borders of the Tang Dynasty will be peaceful.
Ning don’t look at the big clans like Bashimi, Geluolu and Huihe who are obedient to our Tang Dynasty now.
That’s because they are not strong enough.
When they reach a certain level, they will no longer listen to our Tang Dynasty.
If you do, you will no longer obey the orders of the Tang Dynasty, and may even send troops south to invade the territory of the Tang Dynasty.
Mr.
Cheng, you have been in the palace for a long time, and you should know everything about the court, courtiers.
On weekdays, everyone looks harmonious on the surface, and everyone maintains a friendly scene when we meet, but secretly they attack, compete, and fight with each other.
It is not uncommon to kill people without blood.
The relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the tribes in Mobei is not uncommon.
The relationship is actually just like the relationship between courtiers in the court.
Everyone wants to kill the other, so we must not treat these Mobei barbarians with a woman's kindness."
Cheng Yuanzhen took a long breath and sighed: "Master Hou's foresight, our family is impressed."
These words showed his tacit approval of Zhao Ziliang's actions.
As long as things did not go out of control, he would still support Zhao Ziliang.
Mobei could not do without Zhao Ziliang now.
The emperor's money bag was in Zhao Ziliang's hands.
Zhao Ziliang was willing to work hard.
The emperor's money bag was full, and Cheng Yuanzhen was just a person who looked after the money bag.
After the alliance, the leaders of each tribe left one after another.
On the one hand, Zhao Ziliang sent people to pay close attention to the attacks of the Bashmi, Geluolu and Uighur tribes on the Turks.
On the other hand, Zhao Ziliang personally took charge of the pasture trading matters.
When Cheng Yuanzhen returned to Chang'an to report the pasture sale to the emperor, Zhao Ziliang had already sent people to spend more than a month dividing the thousands of miles of grassland into several areas, and each area was divided into several pastures.
The basic unit of each pasture It is one thousand acres, so those who want to buy pasture for grazing must buy at least one thousand acres per household, and the most they can buy is one hundred thousand acres.
In order to manage and protect the ecological environment of the grassland, Zhao Ziliang also instructed the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, the Zhenbei City Lord Mansion and the Shanyu Duhu Mansion to jointly issue grassland management regulations.
For example, grassland management regulations stipulate that a maximum of one sheep can be grazed per acre of grassland, a maximum of one horse can be grazed per two acres of grassland, and a maximum of one cow can be grazed per three acres of grassland.
Every autumn, grassland owners must collect grass seeds and sow them in the following spring. , fertilize, water, etc. to speed up the growth of weeds.
Once the owner of the pasture is found to have raised more livestock and destroyed the ecological balance of the pasture, he will be fined or even confiscated the excessive livestock.
Regarding the war horses, Zhao Ziliang originally thought that if the court needed war horses, he would buy them from herdsmen.
However, after thinking about it later, he changed his mind.
The raising and breeding of war horses can only be in the hands of the government and the court, and the common people can raise and breed war horses.
It is also a huge burden on the herdsmen.
For example, under normal circumstances, the imperial court needs 5,000 high-grade war horses, 10,000 medium-grade war horses, and 15,000 low-grade war horses every year.
However, if the imperial court suddenly cuts expenses, it will not purchase or purchase less this year or even for several years to come.
Purchasing war horses will leave a large number of war horses in the hands of the herdsmen.
These are all money.
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The hoarding of so many war horses that can be converted into money will put too much pressure on the herdsmen, and War horses have a growth period, adulthood and old age.
Once a war horse passes its prime, its combat ability will decline sharply.
Therefore, as time goes by, the value of a war horse will become lower and lower, and herdsmen cannot afford this kind of In order to recover the losses, they had no choice but to take desperate measures and smuggle and sell their war horses to other small neighboring countries and tribes, thereby increasing the strength of other countries and tribes, which was detrimental to the Tang Dynasty.
Therefore, for the raising of war horses, Zhao Ziliang decided that Mobeicheng should be responsible for setting aside a large piece of grassland separately, sending specialized people to carry out grazing, breeding and breeding, and sending officials to manage it.
In this way, the extremely important strategic resource of war horses is in his own hands.
Now Zhao Ziliang has tens of thousands of horses in his hands, of which only more than 10,000 are registered with the government.
The other 30,000 are not recorded in the records, but belong to him privately.
In fact, these are trophies.
Even one horse from Zhao Ziliang It doesn’t matter if you don’t register with the city lord’s palace, but so many soldiers in the Mobei Army need to replace their war horses, and they also need to breed and breed war horses.
Therefore, it is better to keep more than 10,000 horses, 6,000 cattle and 12,000 cattle.
The sheep were returned to the Mobei Army.
As the news of the sale of pasture in Mobei City spread in Hedong and Shuofang, large numbers of people rushed to Mobei City with money, intending to buy a piece of pasture for grazing cattle, sheep and horses.
After the news spread to the Central Plains and Jiangnan, more people came to Mobei City.
They rushed to Mobei in groups.
Zhao Ziliang was extremely busy.
He had to organize people to sell pastures and sell cattle, sheep and horses.
After all, buyers also needed to buy matching breeds of cattle, sheep and horses after buying the pastures.
As the pastures were sold one by one, ingots of real gold and silver and large amounts of copper coins flowed into the warehouse of the Mobei City Lord's Mansion and were hoarded.
Standing in the warehouse where gold, silver and copper coins were stored, Cheng Yuanzhen was stunned.
Looking at the mountains of gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins, Cheng Yuanzhen's mouth kept drooling.
Zhao Ziliang also saw a lot of gold and silver people.
After all, he In previous battles, a lot was seized every time.
It was common to seize millions of coins in one battle.
But now, standing in this warehouse, he was almost dazzled by so many gold, silver, jewelry and copper coins.
Zhao Ziliang came back to his senses and smiled and said: "Eunuch Cheng, I remember that this general told you that as long as this thing can be done, money will continue to come in, far beyond your imagination.
Now we have only sold a small part of the pasture.
This Money has piled up into a mountain, and there will be more and more in the future.”
After a long time, Cheng Yuanzhen took a deep breath and said: "Oh my God, our family has never seen so much money.
I'm afraid this is the first and last time in this life.
Master Hou, all this money has been registered."
Yes, how can you and I and the soldiers of the Mobei Army get some benefits from this?
It’s too obvious.
If His Majesty sends someone to investigate, I’m afraid they will be found out immediately.”
Zhao Ziliang smiled and said: "There is a way.
No matter who comes to check, they will not be able to find out.
Do you want to know, father-in-law?"
Cheng Yuanzhen immediately became interested and asked eagerly: "What can I do?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "Smelting brings the gold and silver back to the furnace for smelting.
Such a large amount of broken gold and silver is too large to transport, and it is not conducive to counting the number and weight.
In order to facilitate transportation and counting, we can only put the gold and silver into the furnace."
The silver is returned to the furnace for smelting, and during the smelting process there will inevitably be Loss, after all, gold and silver contain other magazines.
The loss during the smelting process is not what we can say.
In addition, there must be some rusty and unusable copper coins.
These unusable copper coins cannot be given to His Majesty.
Send it over, this is another loss."
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Cheng Yuanzhen's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he smiled and said: "Okay, okay, this is a good method":