Chapter 1166: Neither Good nor Bad

Yun Chu was still in Qinling Mountains, but his poems had already arrived in Chang'an.

Wenrou's face was as calm as a lake after reading it, and there was no thunder in her heart.

After reading it, Di Renjie just sighed, and felt that his blood was boiling, and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

After reading it, Liu Rengui only said "real general" and nothing else.

Only the people in Pingkangfang were Yun Chu's confidants. The musicians abandoned various musical instruments and only used the sounds of swords and swords, water breaking in clay jars, and thousands of horses fighting to harmonize, and urged the high-pitched sound of the iron man in Guanxi to interpret these three sixteen-character songs, which made people's blood boil.

The general led 50,000 tiger soldiers to return to the court in victory!

And there were no more thieves in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty, and the people were singing and dancing.

Such a mighty army and such a general are the best in the Tang Dynasty.

Yun Luan slept soundly with her face up to the sky, not paying attention to what was happening outside, even when Aye's footsteps were approaching, she was still sleeping soundly.

When the sun was setting, she opened her eyes, shouted "continue", and went back to her studies.

Yu Xiurong was very busy these days, mainly to entertain the families of the southwestern soldiers who came to inquire about the news.

Fortunately, the number of soldiers killed in the southwest war did not exceed 300, so when Yu Xiurong received the families of the soldiers, she was mostly smiling and gave out congratulations without paying.

The news of the dead soldiers was naturally delivered in advance, and those who were not on the list of the dead were naturally meritorious officials.

When the soldiers went to the battlefield, the families of the soldiers took the initiative to approach the Yun family, and always took the Yun family as the main one. This was also a practice during the Tang Dynasty generals' expedition. Speaking of it, on the days when the soldiers went to the battlefield, the Yun family had the obligation to take care of the soldiers' families and support their families when the men at home were not at home.

In the past two years, Yu Xiurong has been very qualified as the general's wife. Whenever the families of the soldiers in the army have any problems, the Yun family will take the initiative to help.

Over time, there were families related to the Yun family in the thirty-six military states in Guanzhong. When the families of the soldiers encountered difficulties or had good things, they were willing to come to the Yun family's house to say a word.

The families who could become the soldiers of the palace were basically well-off upper-class households, otherwise they could not afford the expensive clothes. Moreover, because the military households were inherited, the military households were more willing to find their own generals instead of the government when they had conflicts and disputes.

When the general led his men to the war, the women in the family had things that could not be solved, or there was a conflict between the two sides, they would naturally find Yu Xiurong, a woman with an imperial decree.

So far, the Yun family has truly become a general family of the Tang Dynasty. From now on, the Yun family has a group of people who are willing to listen to the Yun family and are willing to follow the Yun family in the thirty-six states of Guanzhong.

The reason why Li Zhi was so afraid of Li Ji back then was that there were too many families who were favored and promoted by Li Ji in various parts of the Tang Dynasty.

This is why the court is so vigilant against the general who leads the army and can control one line.

Yunchu used the money and grain in Chang'an for this expedition. After paying back the investment of the Chang'an government, all the spoils were the soldiers' income and did not need to be handed over to the court.

Many people think that the southwest is a wild land and the army will not get much benefit from the expedition.

The court also thinks so. They are even worried about pitting Yunchu. After all, Yunchu is famous for not taking losses.

However, they forgot one thing. Yunchu's expedition to the southwest basically took away a layer of land in the southwest. All the good things in the southwest are now in Yunchu's hands.

The food, cloth, salt, and even furs cherished by the people of the southwest were not cared about by Yunchu's army, and they gave them more.

However, Yunchu thought that the people in the southwest might not be able to use gold, silver, cinnabar, natural mercury, copper, nickel ore, tungsten ore, and even pearls, gemstones, giant clams, hawksbill turtles, and corals that the people in the southwest did not value so much, so he brought them all back.

Of course, there were countless bronze artifacts covered with verdigris, which Yunchu also thought the people in the southwest might not be able to use. If they knew that these things were good things in the future, he would return them some bronze artifacts with inscriptions and tripod inscriptions, so that they could truly realize that everyone came from one or three ancestors.

In order to take away these worthless things, Yunchu frantically sent blankets, pots, linen, knives, scissors, saws, salt, and food in the southwest, and even used a large army to hunt and sent the wild boars that the people in the southwest loved the most.

In short, this great gift not only satisfied the people of the southwest who had lost their leaders, wizards, and smart people, but also made them feel the warmth from the Tang government for the first time in their lives.

Yun Chu did not do such a thing because he was shameless, but these things themselves had nothing to do with ordinary people in the southwest. At the same time, the original chiefs, leaders, clan leaders, and cave masters in the southwest had never told the people under their rule the true value of these things.

In the battle of the southwest, Yun Jin and his men killed almost all the clan leaders, chiefs, and cave masters. His father Yun Chu killed all the families with inheritance of the Cuan people, and finally killed all the upper-class people of the Baiman people in Cangshan and Erhai.

Coupled with the disappearance of a large number of males, the people in the southwest basically had a generational gap with the previous inheritance.

As long as the officials who stayed in the southwest were not too greedy and could provide the people of the southwest with an environment where they could live and work in peace and contentment, within 20 years, there would be no black barbarians, white barbarians, or Cuan people in the southwest. There would only be some Tang people whose living habits were different from those of the people in the Central Plains.

Killing Sheng Lupi was nothing, killing the Cuan Hongda clan was nothing, and even killing 300,000 men in the southwest was nothing.

Killing people while making the people of the southwest return to the Tang Dynasty and ensuring that there would be no disasters in the southwest for 50 years was Yunchu's real strength.

While the people of Chang'an were still bragging about how the county lord led his own soldiers to pacify the southwest and how many people he killed in battle, people with discerning eyes had already keenly noticed that Yunchu's expedition this time was similar to Zhuge Wuhou's crossing the Lu River in May, and it was even better.

Zhuge Wuhou killed a lot of people in the southwest. He burned 30,000 rattan armor soldiers alive, not to mention others. After Zhuge Wuhou returned to Shu, the rebellion of the barbarians in the southwest has never stopped...

Chen Shou, an authority on the history of the Three Kingdoms, did not mention Zhuge Wuhou's seven captures of Meng Huo. I don't know why.

Yunchu's expedition to the southwest must have been written about by Tang historians. However, there may only be one sentence: In the second year of Qianfeng, the general Chu was ordered to send 50,000 troops to attack the rebellious southwest. The next year, he won a great victory and the southwest was pacified.

As for the things that happened during the crusade against the southwest, it is not important to historians. They are just calm and objective bystanders and recorders. As for the blood and tears contained in this passage, after mixing into the long river of time, it will disappear without a trace...

"The rolling Yangtze River flows eastward, and the waves wash away all heroes. The right and wrong, success and failure are all in vain. The mountains and rivers remain, and the sunset is red several times..."

With Wenrou and Di Renjie, Yunchu's seizures in the southwest were sent to the gradually prosperous Chang'an water sign for a turn, and those goods were swallowed up by the insatiable Tang Dynasty market without any dregs left.

In a blink of an eye, a large amount of copper coins flowed out.

These copper coins have been clearly divided by the accountants of the county government offices of Chang'an and Wannian according to the merit books, waiting for the soldiers to return so that everyone can share the money.

Yu Xiurong had already taken Yunchu's share. This time, she would not send such a large sum of money to the kitchen of Daci'en Temple. Instead, she discussed with Naha, and the copper coins were turned into huge gold bricks and sent back to the Yun family. In the end, only Yunchu and Yu Xiurong knew where the money went.

Where there is money, there is business. This is common sense for Chang'an merchants. There is no way to hide how much money will be given to the soldiers. There are too many people who handle this money.

Chang'an merchants have called this business a big business of 100,000 oxen.

The soldiers returned with a full load, and the biggest expenses were nothing more than building houses, buying cattle, buying land, and marrying wives. Chang'an merchants have already thought about it. They will never let the soldiers take such a large sum of money back to their hometowns. They must spend every penny in Chang'an.

Dozens of carts of gold entered the house, and Yu Xiurong finally no longer felt that her family was poor.

Naha looked at her sister-in-law sitting in the hall, arrogantly rewarding her retainers and servants, and felt that her sister-in-law had a feeling of being poor and suddenly rich.

Looking at her daughter, Li Huarui, the Princess of the Western Regions, who threw herself on Yunluan's back and refused to get off, she said to her sister-in-law who was drinking tea with a tea bowl: "When will my brother come back?"

Yu Xiurong said: "There are still three days, but the soldiers will be disbanded in Chang'an, and your brother can't go home. He has to go to Luoyang to meet the emperor and be relieved of his military duties before he can come back."

Naha sighed and said: "I just came back from Luoyang, so it's not good to follow him to Luoyang."

Yu Xiurong said: "Well, Pei is the Crown Princess after all, and it's right to give her some face."

Naha said: "It's none of my business. It's Li Hong who stays here all day and doesn't go back to the East Palace. He can't be driven away."

Yu Xiurong rolled his eyes at Naha and stopped talking.

Naha sighed and said, "I've checked. The men of the Li family always think that women outside are better than women at home. This problem has been going on since Li Hong's grandfather's generation."

Yu Xiurong said, "You have completely cut off your way to the palace, right?"

Naha shook her head and smiled, "Isn't it good for me to be the queen of my Buddhist country in the Western Regions? I'm not a Han woman. I can't tie a man to his belt. If Li Hong is alive, I will follow him. If he dies, of course I will find another one, or maybe many."

Yu Xiurong waved his hand weakly and said, "It's up to you."

Naha laughed and said to Yu Xiurong, "If my brother dies, will you stop looking for him?"

An exquisite vase flew over and was firmly caught by Naha, who carefully placed it on the table. Seeing that her sister-in-law was already looking for the stick, Naha lifted the hem of her skirt and jumped out of the window to escape...