Chapter 1380 Detection 400 Miles

When Cheng Chuliang arrived at the city of Samarkand, it had become a herd of cattle and sheep. Following Cheng Chuliang were businessmen from various countries in the Western Regions.

While Feng Chucai and Qu Tutong were busy robbing, Cheng Chuliang was not idle either. He gathered together the tribal leaders from various countries in the Western Regions who were following the war and told them that they could go to Samarkand at 80% of the price. Go to the city to buy cattle and sheep.

But you have to transport it back by yourself. We don’t care what method you use. If you need the Tang army to escort you, then you have to pay 5% of the freight. Even if this is the case, it only costs 85%. These cattle and sheep can be bought back at the price.

Although the 15% profit is not very big, for these nomads, cattle and sheep are really important to them, just like the land of us Han people, so the 15% profit is not low. , and except for the tribes that followed the Tang army and had this benefit, other tribes did not have this benefit at all.

So under such circumstances, a large number of businessmen followed Cheng Chuliang. When they saw the large number of cattle and sheep in the military camp, these people's eyes almost glowed.

"See the Marshal..."

Looking at the dusty subordinates on both sides, Cheng Chuliang knew that they had worked hard these days. After arriving in the city of Samarkand, they must have been trying to make up for the financial hole. These people were sleepless day and night.

"Brothers, you have worked hard these days, and I see your efforts. After returning to Beijing, you will have your own sharing. This time, His Highness Taisun also wrote a letter to you, and I also brought it with you. Okay, you all should take it and take a look!"

After Cheng Chuliang finished speaking, the people present could not get up even if they were too tired. At this moment, they were full of energy. Your Highness is the future emperor. As long as he can see through our efforts, we will still worry about not having one in the future. What a great future, isn't it that fighting in the Western Regions is just to make future generations live a little more comfortably?

In the past, they also had the habit of writing letters to Li Xiang alone. Now, although Li Xiang's reply only has a hundred words, all the answers are focused. Of course, they all understand that Li Xiang is very busy at work. They have all worked for Li Xiang. There are countless letters from various places every day. It is not easy to be able to reply to you with a hundred or ten words.

"Reporting to the Marshal, the businessmen outside are a little overwhelmed. They are already preparing to select cattle and sheep. I wonder what the Marshal means?"

After reading the letter from Li Xiang, Qu Tutong remembered how uncomfortable they had been during this period. There were cattle and sheep shipped from all over the place, as if there was a smell of cow dung in the air. If so, If these merchants can complete the selection, they can hurry up and get on the road, avoiding the mess in the entire military camp, which will also affect the combat effectiveness.

"If they are not tired, then hurry up and let them go down and choose. In addition, these people have not brought cash, but they all have banknotes in their hands. Just let them use the banknotes for transactions."

Since people on both sides are not afraid of hard work, Cheng Chuliang will naturally not stop them from getting rich, and just let them seize the time to trade. The smell in this tent is indeed not very good. If Cheng Chuliang stays here for a long time, I guess Cheng Chuliang will I can't stand it either.

After hearing Cheng Chuliang's permission, Qu Tushou quickly asked his generals to go down to work and seize the time to sell all these things.

Seeing that his men had all gone out to do business, Cheng Chuliang looked outside the tent at the city of Samarkand in the distance. He originally wanted to see the majesty of the Anton Governor's Palace, but he didn't expect that there was nothing there. The whole city had been destroyed. After burning it all, the people of the Arab Empire are really good at getting things done. They left us nothing when they were defeated. This is much more difficult to deal with than the previous enemies.

"It's all our fault. If we could have been faster at that time, maybe this city could be preserved. Nowadays, if we build a big city here, it will cost a lot of money."

Feng Chucai said with some embarrassment that when he came here, the whole city was already on fire. If his men were sent to put out the fire, they might be able to save it, but it might cause casualties to their men, and The saved city was also troublesome to deal with, so Feng Chucai asked his men to abandon the city.

"What you did was not wrong at all. It was a very normal thing. If I had been in your position at that time, I would not have let my men go in and take risks. If it were within the borders of our Datang City, , if they are all ordinary people of the Tang Dynasty, then it is worth the risk for our people. It is absolutely impossible to put our people in such a place in the territory of another country."

Regarding Feng Chucai's choice at that time, Cheng Chuliang could be said to support it with both hands. There is no need to sacrifice our own people for the unstable land of other countries. All the generals of the Tang Dynasty know this, although the city of Samarkand is now in our hands. , but it is still in a war zone. Who knows whether the people from the Arab Empire will come back? Even if we save the city at that time, it may not be ours.

Feng Chucai also breathed a sigh of relief next to him. If someone insists on this matter, he will most likely be held responsible. Now that the commander has said so, there will definitely be no one in the future. They were looking for the back account. Even if they wanted to find it, they would have to go through Cheng Chuliang first.

"Didn't you continue to investigate the Arab Empire's army?"

Among all the reports, there is only no news about this aspect. Cheng Chuliang is also a little worried. His Highness, the enemy in the past, told us not to pay too much attention to them, but the Arab Empire is different. Their overall strength is as big as The Tang Empire is also somewhat similar, so this matter also needs to be taken seriously.

"Our scouts were sent out, but no one was found within a 400-mile radius. In view of our limited manpower, we did not continue to send out scouts."

After hearing this result, Cheng Chuliang nodded very understandingly. At this stage, 400 miles of investigation is enough... (End of this chapter)