The cold wind whistled, and the snow was white. Kaikai. Wulanban (now in Hongshan District, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia) was in the military camp under the Eastern Turkic Khan.

The strong winds rolled up snow and danced wildly in the sky. Under the snow that was rolled up by the strong wind, the dead bodies of Turks and dead animals and horses were everywhere.

In the corner of the camp, a Turkic general stroked the scar on the horse's buttocks with mercy and sighed: "What did the Tang Dynasty have been in Fengzhou? It has been fighting for ten days now, with more than 12,000 casualties. Even the city of Fengzhou has not been attacked."

Another Turkic general complained: "If you continue to waste like this, even if the people are fine, all the cows and horses will die."

The wounded general of the war horse said angrily: "Jie Li, this madman, is trying to bring all the people of the grassland into the fire pit..."

The Turkic generals around them sighed one by one.

At this moment, a cough sounded behind the back.

The generals looked in the voice and saw the Khan Ashina Sheer walking towards him with a gray face.

The generals were so scared that they dared not speak out. Asina Sheer walked into his tent silently without saying a word.

As a commander who has lived for the rest of his life, Asina Sheer knew very well that although there were many people and great power, when fighting, it was not that the more troops the more they would win.

Now, Jie Li Khan not only contacted the tribes and countries such as Goguryeo, Fuyu, Silla, Baekje, Xi, Khitan, Jirong, Jijie, Dangxiang, Tuyuhun, Tubo, Uighur, Gaoche, Dingling, Tiefu, Tielle, Xueyantuo, etc., but even joined forces with Byzantine and the Sassanid Empire.

In fact, there are many conflicts between these more than a hundred tribes and countries. Especially the Sassanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire located in the west of the Western Turks, the Sassanian Empire and the Roman Empire have been attacking each other for three or four hundred years since the day the Sassanian Empire was established. Three emperors during the Roman Empire were killed by the Sassanian Empire. The conflict between them, the two sides have been in a fight for generations, cannot be erased by a contract.

Unless one side can completely fall in this battlefield, they have no possibility of shaking hands and making peace.

However, Jie Li Khan was so confident that he thought that by mediating himself, both sides could turn swords into jade and silk.

The struggle between countries and the families, especially the war that has been continuously involved in hundreds of years, who dares to speak out?

Especially in the Byzantine Empire, their emperors did not rely solely on blood ties and were directly hereditary, but needed unanimous approval from the Holy See, the Senate and the military to be crowned emperor. It can be said that even Chiraclius could not make this decision easily.

After all, when the emperor could not represent the interests of the people, the Byzantine Empire would change the emperor. Heraclio, the man, turned out to be the son of the governor of Afilica, stood up at the most appropriate time and overthrew the original emperor Focas. Focas was also the emperor who became a coup. When he was clearing the world, Chiraclio opposed him and raised an army to finally defeat Focas.

The emperors of the Byzantine Empire were different from those of the Central Plains dynasty. They were nominally the supreme rulers of the country, but they were also restrained by the Senate and the Holy See.

But Jie Lihe Khan believed in Chiraclio's envoy.

Of course, it is not only the Sassanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire that have a deep feud. In fact, Goguryeo, Silla, Fuyu, and Baekje also fought hundreds of years of war, and the two sides were in the same situation.

There is no possibility of so many forces and countries being united.

However, the stubborn Jie Li no longer listened to any objections.

Just as Asina Sheer was full of thoughts, a Tang Dynasty man appeared in the big tent.

Asina Sher immediately held his hand on the hilt.

But the Tang envoy Zheng Yuanshou smiled faintly and said, "Da Khan, I'm here to help you!"

Asina Sheer said suspiciously: "Help me?"

Zheng Yuanshou laughed and said, "Da Bu Khan, you are the son of Chuluo Khan. Don't you want to know how Chuluo Khan died?"

It is well known that Chuluo Khan died suddenly.

But Asina Sheer understands.

It's not that way at all.

Asina Shiliversha died suddenly after less than two years as Khan. But his father was very healthy and died at the age of thirty-seven. As a man, at the age of thirty-seven, it was the golden age of a man in his life.

Asina Sheer looked at Zheng Yuanshou and said, "This is our Turkic people's business. You Tang people don't need to worry about it. The two countries will fight to fight and do not kill you. I will not kill you. Go back and tell you Jiancheng. I Asina Sheer said that the descendants of the wolf have their own pride and tradition. It is true that Jie Li and I have a grudge against my father. However, I will use dignified means to regain everything that belongs to me, but I will never join forces with outsiders to deal with my tribe compatriots at this time."

Zheng Yuanshou patiently advised: "With Jie Li Khan's strength, you have no chance to take revenge at all!"

"That's my business!" As he said this, Asina Sheer said: "Come here, send the envoy Tang away!"

...

The world is big, and the food is the biggest.

Fortunately, Chen Ying was well prepared and had a lot of food transported to Tongwan City. The hundreds of thousands of mouths under the command of Liang Shidu were not in trouble.

When Liang Shidu, the Caotou King, could only use beef jerky as the staple food, ordinary people were no longer different from refugees.

Almost everyone is hungry. But these people have a huge appetite.

Chen Ying looked at a child, holding a rice bowl that was bigger than his head, and drank two bowls of rice porridge in one breath, Chen Ying wondered if he would hold him to death.

Looking at the people eating voraciously, Chen Ying finally felt relieved.

Although the battle to pacify Liang Shidu was simple.

However, in order to reduce casualties, Chen Ying's preparation time was quite long. If it was calculated from the time when Chen Ying returned to Chang'an from the Western Regions, the preparation time had exceeded one year.

It is a blessing that the curtain came to an end with such a slight casualty.

The injured Liang soldiers were sent to the battlefield ambulance team for rescue. The uninjured soldiers walked out of Tongwan City under the escort of Tang soldiers and were then placed in various prefectures and counties.

For them, the war has ended, and letting go of hatred and starting a new life is the most important thing.

The battle to pacify Liang Kingdom is about to come to an end.

The progress was much smoother than Chen Ying imagined.

There is no way, the Liang army is now at the end of its reach. Even if the combat power is high, it must be strong enough to fight. What's more, the combat power of the Tang army soldiers is more than one piece stronger than that of another time and space.

At least, in terms of equipment, the armor-raising rate of Mingguang armor almost reached 90%. The Dingyuan Army and Hedong Army under Chen Ying were among the best strong troops in the Tang Dynasty.

The most important thing is that the people of Liang State have now hated war and they all want to live a good life. Liang State is not far from Lingzhou, and they can definitely hear and see what kind of life the people of Lingzhou are living.

In Lingzhou, ordinary people are not worried about not having enough food. Moreover, because they can work in their spare time, they can not only have no worries about food and clothing, but also have a meal of meat every now and then.

If you take all the right time, place, and people, you will take over it. If you don’t win, you will be unreasonable.

More than 37,000 Liang soldiers from Tongwancheng became prisoners almost happily, and lined up to walk out of Tongwancheng according to the instructions of the Tang army and accepted the resettlement.

Before this, many Liang soldiers came over to surrender to the Tang army without telling their heads, and were then placed in various counties, working on farms, or working in factories, and their lives could continue. There were so many examples in front of them, and most people were unwilling to fight against the Tang army from the bottom of their hearts.

Such a result is the best for them.

They were satisfied, but officials from the Chang'an court complained.

This suddenly caused more than 200,000 people, and more than 20 mouths, how could they be placed?

Eating is not a problem yet. There are still a lot of grain reserves in the warehouse, but we can’t keep so many people all the time, right? How can we divide the land and arrange their work? A headache is really a headache!

When Yang Rong learned that Chen Ying had quickly pacified Xiazhou, Yanzhou and Qingzhou with lightning speed, he came to find Chen Ying.

There is only one purpose, that is, Yanzhou's resources.

Yanzhou is actually a treasure land.

In ancient times, Yanzhou was one of the few places in China, where crude oil could be mined.

There are more than 300 crude oil wells in Yanzhou that can produce light crude oil. With the use of Chen Ying's native refining technology, these refined crude oils have become the best lighting oils among the people.

The key is that this tinder oil burns brighter than rapeseed oil and tung holes, and it can also produce soot ash when refining. This asphalt smoke is the best raw material for making ink.

Here, Chen Ying just stood up for his job.

Yang Rong walked into Chen Ying's tent with a charming smile. This Yang Rong was definitely a fairy, obviously an aunt-level woman in her forties.

However, she seemed to be the darling of God, and the years left no trace on her face. She was twenty-two years older than Li Daozhen and twenty-one years older than Li Xiuning. However, if she stood with Li Xiuning and Li Daozhen and pretended to be sisters, no one would doubt it.

She stood with Duke Ying Guo, Wu Shi Teng, saying that she was a husband and wife, but more like a father and daughter. In fact, the age of the warrior and Yang Rong was almost the same.

Yang Rong's smile was so sweet that she almost knocked Zhou Qing and Guo Luo out of sight. Until they walked in, they didn't expect to stop them.

Chen Ying was cooking rice. When he saw Yang Rong coming in, he was stunned for a moment, his cheeks were round and he asked vaguely: "Cousin, why are you here?"

Yang Rong smiled faintly and said, "You are all going to fight a big battle. Can I just come and have a look?"

As he said that, Yang Rong found a seat without hesitation and said to Chen Ying sincerely: "Little cousin, congratulations, the greatest contribution is to destroy the country. If you destroy the Liang Shidu and the country in one battle, the court will inevitably reward you in the future..."

"My cousin, you are also from aristocratic families. Even if you don't understand politics, you should understand that the greater my contribution at this time, the more you make, for me personally, it may not be all good things!... Let's talk about it, what's the matter with me?"

He didn't turn around at all. He was used to using beautiful words to hold the other party upright, and he led the topic to the core without any trace. Then he tactfully put forward his own wishes and finally reached an agreement.

Faced with this little cousin who didn't play according to common sense, there was no way. She had to calm down and said, "Actually, it's still the same sentence. Yanzhou is very interested..."

"What then?" Chen Ying asked back.

Yang Rong said: "I hope that our Wu family can take over all the mineral mining rights in Xiazhou and Yanzhou!"

Li Jiancheng ascended the throne and implemented the implementation of a streamlining of government affairs. However, this is to reduce expenditure and cannot solve the problem of insufficient financial income and expenditure in the court.

After Chen Ying's brainwashing, Li Jiancheng finally relaxed his attitude.

Preparing mineral resources, to be precise, is the privatization of salt and iron.

The salt and iron franchise was extremely profitable for the court. However, this had one of the biggest disadvantages, that is, it limited the production scale of the salt and iron industry.

For example, the state-owned insurance business in later generations was originally due to serious losses every year. Later, the private insurance business was opened, and the insurance industry quickly became one of China's pillar industries, with an annual output value of more than 20 trillion yuan.

This is the market regulation under the conditions of a market economy.

The opening of private steel business is mainly because the Tang Dynasty will need too much steel in the future. At this time, the road from Beiting to Dunhuang had been built. On this two thousand miles of road, it would take five days to walk on the two thousand miles of road, even if it was a fast horse.

However, if it is a carriage, it will take at least ten days to half a month. If it is a heavy load, the time will be extended to half a month or one month.

However, the speed of the road with steel tracks can reach 2,000 miles for heavy load transportation for five days and 2,000 miles per day. On average, it can travel more than 400 miles per day. If it is light load, it can run 2,000 miles in three days.

Li Jiancheng and all the dynasties saw the benefits of the road.
To be continued...