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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 208 Amazing War Dividends

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    The patrolling barbarian soldier raised his head in shock. Before he could recover from the unfamiliar enemy, the arrow shot instantly penetrated the fragile neck, and blood spurted out high.  f¨JTop f¨JPoint f¨JLittle f¨J said, w¨Œww.23w¡üx.co¡Ñm The silent night was broken, and the shadow of death instantly enveloped the peaceful city.  A master craftsman of Yelang covered his arrow wound and vomited blood. His lungs were severely injured. Every time he breathed out, blood surged from his pulmonary artery. He grabbed the alarm bell and shook it desperately. A sharp arrow took away his strength and softness.  Soft fall.  Dang, Dang, Dang The sentry in the distance finally sounded the alarm bell, and the bell rang the melodious bell. The quiet Prince Yelang suddenly fell into panic.  "Han Army! The Han Army is coming!" The embarrassed Yelang barbarian soldiers ran to the street and shouted desperately. Suddenly, they felt a pain in the back of their neck and fell down.  Next to the corpse are golden torches and fiery red military uniforms, which are the armor robes of the elite Han soldiers. The Chu people are still red, and the Han army is red all over.  In the dark night, a long flame dragon passed through the street, and the bright flames illuminated the silent city, like flowing lava.  "Han Army, why Han Army?" The barbarian soldiers in the city woke up one after another and watched the red lava-like flow of people slowly flowing. They could hardly believe what they saw. They remembered that the weak Han people had clearly escaped.  The sudden appearance of Wang Jing in the Yelang Kingdom is simply unbelievable. Could it be that King Jinzhu led hundreds of thousands of barbarians to attack Shuzhong as a trick, and the main force of the Han army encountered an accident on the way and was wiped out.  The barbarians were frightened. It was dark in the city in the middle of the night and they could not see clearly. The barbarians did not know the strength of the Han army sent.  Sound the alarm and flee to the inner city.  Harong, the garrison minister of Yelang Kingdom, got up in a hurry, pushed away the barbarian concubine who was blocking the way, and shouted: "Bring all my armor, my clothes, and my weapons. I want to see what they are."  What bastard dared to sneak attack on our Yelang Kingdom!" "No, no! The Han army breaks through the four gates and approaches the palace at a fast speed! Anyone who messes with our army must be killed!"  Harong pulled out the iron knife and flipped it with his backhand. The messenger's head was separated. The servants and slaves were too frightened to move a step. The ferocious Harong was like a jungle bear with infinite strength.  He was famous among the barbarian tribes in southwestern China for his brutality and murderousness.  No one dared to reason with him.  The barbarian soldiers patrolling out of the courtyard city were scurrying around like headless flies. Harong raised his iron sword and beheaded several of them to shock the soldiers' morale. He shouted: "Don't just get into formation and fight back. Guard."  None of you can survive without staying in the royal city!" The barbarian soldiers were very scared.  He cowered and formed a good formation, but was instantly defeated by a few sharp arrows.  The armor of barbarian soldiers is mainly made of bamboo and wood.  There was no resistance when encountering the rockets wrapped in oilcloth, and a few unlucky ones were surrounded by flames and jumped and burned to death.  "The Han army is coming, everyone, run away!" The remaining barbarians were frightened.  Dropping his weapons and running away, Harong continuously killed the defeated troops but could not stop the collapse of the situation. He scratched his head and yelled anxiously: "All those who can fight, move to stop the despicable Han army!" He didn't have time to wait for the barbarian soldiers.  They responded, and the answer was a powerful and deadly arrow. Harong's body swayed from side to side like catkins in the wind, and he fell down clutching the wound on his abdomen with a pale face.  The red Han army passed by him. Harong lay on the ground and stared blankly at the red figure passing by. He felt extremely desperate.  Suddenly, he saw an iron-armored general walking among the red-armored men. The style and color of his armor was completely different from that of ordinary Han soldiers. Under the light of the fire, he finally saw his appearance clearly. He was a young man less than twenty years old, with a smile on his face.  with a cheerful smile.  He smiled.  He gently leaned down, like a good friend he hadn't seen for many years, and patted Harong on the shoulder. With a gentle smile on his face, he whispered to Harong affectionately: "Yelang barbarians are arrogant and overestimate their abilities. Yelang people must do this for them."  Arrogance pays the price with blood. You are the first victim, but you will never be the last. I promise to make your people live in pain. This is the result of going against us Han people. " Harong was shaking all over, with that smile.  Like a devil's smile, he tremblingly pointed at the armored general and roared: "Youyou evil ghost!" "No! I am the messenger of God Taiyi, the messenger who brings God Taiyi's good wishes for peace and stability.  The era of annexation of the southwestern Yi countries is about to become a thing of the past. You and I will become proud Han people in the Land of the Rising Sun. Are you excited? It doesn¡¯t matter if you are not. Your children will be proud of your right choice. They don¡¯t have to worry about it.  The precarious life is painful. The Southwest Yi people are from Chu and were once from Qin, and now they should be Han people. " Harong's eyes flashed with horror: "What what is the right choice? " " Die!  The stubborn old guard is dead.The only people left here are the new humans who support integration. They will be sincerely happy for your death, so go with peace of mind!  I will erect an inscription for you to commemorate your courage to sacrifice yourselves in exchange for the opportunity for Yelang Kingdom to be safely merged into the Han Empire. What a wonderful prospect, are you moved?  "Poof! The arrow was pulled out. Harong clutched his injured lower abdomen and struggled in pain. More and more blood was flowing out. His lungs were like bellows with holes. Every breath required all his strength, bringing with it  Xue's right hand firmly grasped the Iron Armored General's skirt: "Youyou evil ghost in hell, you want to destroy Yelang Kingdom, I hate you!  " "I prefer long-term peace to endless war. The existence of Yelang Kingdom hinders long-term peace. We cannot allow a country with a hundred thousand armors to exist on the border, whether it is restrained or not.  It's crazy. I didn't want to use ruthless means to deal with you and your soldiers. If you want to blame it, it's your King Jinzhu who also invaded Shu with 130,000 armored soldiers. This is a courtesy exchange!  " Cao Shi gently closed Harong's eyes. He didn't know Harong's name. Such separations of life and death were too many in BC. " War inevitably has casualties. Invasion and counter-invasion are as far back and forth as Yelang Kingdom.  It is not noble, and the Han army is not despicable. There has been no so-called righteous war since the Spring and Autumn Period. The barbarians on the streets collapsed in the hands of Cao Shi, who lacked the command of a general to organize.  Effective counterattack. Don't expect the barbarians to have high military literacy. When faced with the fierce Han army, their reaction was to flee. The barbarians who were originally staying in the city were by no means elite. Most of them were old and weak.  The disabled and strong barbarian soldiers followed King Jinzhu to see the colorful world of Shu. The guard general was strangled to death by beheading. The old, weak, sick and disabled who lost their command faced the Han army that appeared out of nowhere.  It was too difficult. The Han soldiers raised their sharp iron knives and easily cut through the thin bamboo armor. The bronze weapons in their hands had no reaction when they slashed at the armor. They rushed over and stabbed with their swords, and found the bronze sword.  Bend into an S shape. Yelang Palace was also in chaos. All the guards in the palace ran outside the palace gate to resist. Only two old Imperial Guards and a dozen old men were guarding the palace.  , saw several women with disheveled hair, and said in a hurry: "Run away!  Run away quickly!  The maids took the queen and fled westward!  " "The city is surrounded, where can we escape!  "The queen sat on the ground with a sad expression. "Then you have to escape.  Maybe we can break out of the city.  Go north to find the king and bring reinforcements.  "Boom, boom, boom! The palace door was shaking crazily. The two-colored door bolts were gradually twisted, and every impact of the giant wood was like hitting the heart, causing heart-wrenching pain. The Han army was attacking the door. All the guards of Yelang Palace were dead.  Boom! The unguarded palace gate finally reached the end of its life. The fragments of the wooden door were smashed into pieces, and the Han troops filed in and surrounded them. "I will fight with you!"  " The Imperial Master fell to the ground before running a few steps. Cao Shi put down his bow and arrow: "Queen Yelang, please stop the Yelang people from making unnecessary resistance, which will only bring greater disaster.  " Hundreds of red-armored soldiers surrounded the palace, and Queen Yelang cried out: "I surrender!  Please spare my people, they are innocent.  " "As you wish.  "Cao Shi showed a smile. That night, the Han army captured Yelang Wang Jing and captured thousands of his family members, including the national advisers, ministers, and master craftsmen from the king's tent. They were all imprisoned in a temporary military camp outside the city and under strict supervision. At the same time, they sent a message to  The guards at the border of Yelang Kingdom were not suspicious, and the chief of the Gouding Man tribe, as well as the Yelang King Jinzhu who was far away in the border of central Shu, took over Wang Jing with full authority and confiscated all the gold and silver jewelry of the Yelang people.  The Yelang people who suffered losses would be compensated with grain and cloth from the treasury. In short, the Yelang people were not allowed to keep gold, silver and jewelry. The Han army traveled thousands of miles to Yelang country to fight a surprise war, not for the sake of the Han Dynasty.  The family is in a bad mood, the huge cost of feeding, drinking and training tens of thousands of people needs to be recovered, and the net outflow from the national treasury must be curbed. The original intention of fighting is to obtain war dividends, and we will never fight a war without war dividends. Yuna, the temporary staff of the Shogun Shogun.  The captain of the Qunnan Army did the work for them. They counted the war dividends collected from the treasury: "20,000 gold, 250,000 silver, 1.2 billion copper coins, 17,300 pieces of silk, 52,100 pieces of linen, corn, rice, and barley.  350,000 shi of miscellaneous grains, in addition to more than 2.5 shi of honey imported from Magadha, 1,200 ivory tusks, 5 dou of tortoiseshells, more than 800 rhinoceros horns, 300 tiger teeth, more than 2 dou of pearls, agates and opals imported from Magadha  , emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and some emeralds. Although the sparrow of Yelang Kingdom is small and has all the internal organs, it is quite wealthy  "  The country is small, and the treasures in the treasury are enough to make many people stunned. The eyes of the Han army captains were glowing green, and they were impressed by the considerable loot. Ding Ding dropped the strange-shaped gold that weighed almost half a catty.  The sound of gold and silver colliding with each other was a visual shock. Cao Shi clapped his hands and said calmly: "To be honest, it's not much, it's a little less than I expected."  , it is estimated that a lot of jewels were brought to the army by the old man Jin Zhuna as rewards. There was a lot of food and cloth in the treasury, and I gave them to Yelang civilians as compensation, but the food of Yelang Kingdom will never be like this.  Yelang's army consumes astronomical amounts of food and grass every day. King Jinzhu of Yelang should carry a lot of food and grass to the front line. Sima Xiu, tell them to come from the palace of Yelang, the noble families of Yelang, and the common people of Yelang.  How many valuable treasures were found in the house.  " "Here!  " Sima Xiu coughed twice: "In the past two days, three secret rooms have been discovered in Yelang Palace, and more than 130 gold cellars of Yelang nobles have been discovered. Gold and silver hidden in the homes of Yelang people have been collected one after another, and they have been collected from the palace and nobles.  The trophies collected at home are as follows: 32,000 kilograms of gold and 650,000 kilograms of silver, mainly all kinds of gold and silver jewelry. Yelang people like to make expensive gold and silver jewelry for women. Each set of jewelry weighs in  The price is about 5 to 20 jin. The more noble the status, the heavier the jewelry. The rich use goldware, and the poor use silverware. Yelang people do not use copper coins, so there are only 200 million coins in copper coins, rhinoceros horns, tiger teeth, and ivory.  , bears skins, tiger skins, leopard skins, gems, amber, agate, jade, and pearls are countless, and the total is more than double the national treasury.  " "Oh my god, 850,000 pounds of silver?  So rich!  " Li You explained: "Yelang's currency is very mixed. Copper coins are used relatively rarely. Gold, silver, cloth and grain are generally used as currency. Gold and silver have a very high status. From the poor to the royal family, everyone loves to use gold and silver to cast exquisite objects.  Jewelry, the more jewelry a woman wears, the more noble her status will be. Men also like to wear gold necklaces and bracelets as decorations.  " Sima Xiu asked doubtfully: "Yelang country is really rich. It is a small country with a population of only 500,000 and lives in a mountainous area. Why is it so rich?  "    "good!  " Cao Shi turned around and cast an approving look at Sima Xiu: "First of all, the Yelang Kingdom has the veins of gold mines in their hands. They have the technology to mine and smelt gold. Secondly, the Yelang people are very good at doing business. Building a capital in mountainous areas is not a good choice.  , but if you look closely at Yelang Wang Jing, you will find that this rough city smells of gold and silver everywhere. The southwestern Yi caravan that did not have time to leave is doing business in the city, even if Yelang, who was robbed of gold and silver jewelry by us,  People are still willing to use their little remaining property to do business, which also shows that Yelang Kingdom has been influenced by Magadha for a long time. There is also a country called Bactria in the northwest of Magadha that does business. Both countries are  Famous for doing business, one can imagine how much the Yelang people like to do business.  " Chen Wushang was not to be outdone: "The locations of the gold mines have been found, and several gold mines have not stopped production yet. Yelang people are really people who want money rather than their lives.  ¡± Where there are gold mines, there are silver mines. Gold and silver always accompany each other, and the reserve ratio is also very stable. There are many gold mines in Southwest Yi, which is great good news for the Han army. The Southern Army sent tens of thousands of troops to cross mountains and rivers.  The cost of food, grass, medicine, and supplies is huge, and there must be sufficient profit returns for death compensation and rewards for meritorious service. Gold mines are the best profit returns, and gold mines are also an important reason to continue the war. As for the spoils of war, that is.  The most powerful weapon in Cao Shi's hand. Glancing at the Confederate Army captain who was trapped in a golden nightmare, Cao Shi turned around and walked out of the glittering treasury: "Don't go crazy because of yellow and white things. Go back and tell the Confederate Army officers immediately that by tonight.  So far, I can eat and drink with open arms. From tomorrow on, I will rectify military affairs, build cities and walls, and prepare to face the wrath of Yelang King Jinzhu!  "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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