Chapter 1538 Two Kinds of People in the Western Regions

It took nearly a month for this intelligence to reach Li Xiang's hands. Of course, the intelligence personnel cannot be blamed. The main reason is that all of them are in the territory of the Arab Empire. If we want to quickly transmit intelligence, it is also a test for our intelligence personnel.

Li Xiang is rectifying the entire Western Region. When he received this intelligence, he was a little surprised. However, Li Xiang has nothing to worry about such things, because we have stationed a large number of troops in the area of ​​the former Andong Governor's Mansion. If the Arab Empire's army comes, it may be a bit difficult for us to wipe them out, but there is no problem in resisting their attack.

So Li Xiang still started his work slowly, and he had to do this work well. When the war started, this was the rear area for rectifying the Tang army, and all dangers must be removed. If you voluntarily go to Chang'an City, then some things will be easier to handle, but if you continue to stay there, then a new round of cleansing will come again.

In fact, many people in the Western Regions have brains. They have already seen that no matter how many times the purge has been carried out, as long as the Tang Dynasty and the Arab Empire are going to fight, most of the local young people will go to the battlefield. You can't leave dangerous elements like you behind. Once you get sick, the Tang Dynasty court can't move at all.

Those who can understand this matter will either take their families to migrate to inland areas. As long as they are in the inland areas of the Tang Dynasty, no matter how many people you have, you will not be conscripted to the battlefield. Of course, those who can go to the inland areas must have money in their hands. If they don't have money, they can't afford the expenses on the road.

Therefore, Li Xiang's purge policy has divided the people in the Western Regions into two parts. Some people are unwilling to let their family members go to the battlefield, but they have no way to resist the Tang Dynasty army locally, so they can only sell their properties at a low price, and then take their families on a long journey to the inland areas of the Tang Dynasty.

In this way, they can escape the fate of being a soldier. The other part does not have so much money, so they can only line up to enter the temporary assembly point of the Tang Dynasty, and then follow the Tang army to Central Asia. Of course, you can also run directly to the wilderness. If you can run with your whole family and avoid the Tang army stations scattered in the wilderness, then congratulations, you really ran away with your life.

But if you can't run away and happen to be caught by the Tang army in the search, then your family's identity as free people will be gone. The Tang court will never tolerate people like you who have made mistakes. They have opinions about you. Now you are caught. Can it be good?

According to the regulations of the Tang court, you people immediately became a group of fugitives.

For these people, the Tang court also has regulations. Within 30 years, these people cannot own any assets. Even if they have assets, they will belong to the Tang court. And these people have no freedom and must be transported to the border area by the imperial army. As for what to do after arriving, it is not your business. You do what you need.

Of course, you can also restore your status as a freeman. If someone pays for you, you can buy back your original status, but the price is definitely not cheap. Each person needs at least 400 strings of money.

Although the people of the Tang Dynasty are living a slightly better life now, for ordinary people, if they can take out this money, they will be considered a wealthy family in a certain area, so it is impossible for anyone to use this money to buy the status of a freeman. Maybe they will find a pit to bury it and wait to dig it out in the future thirty years.

Xiao Shougui, who was in Chang'an, also received the news. He was supposed to stay at home for half a month, but after receiving the news, he started to rush to the Western Regions without stopping. After staying at home for only seven days, the Tang Dynasty court was not worried after learning the news. Instead, many people were happy.

According to their thinking, we have so many troops in the Western Regions, and the daily expenses are an astronomical figure. If the people of the Arab Empire do not fight with us, then we have to find a way to find this money, otherwise the court may be in deficit.

But no matter how much money we make, the daily expenses of these armies still exist. If we want to solve this problem fundamentally, we can only seize the time to fight the army of the Arab Empire. Once we defeat them, it means that the problem has been fundamentally solved, and we don’t need to keep so many troops in Central Asia.

So many civil officials and military generals applauded. They originally thought that this war would take two or three years, and we had to fight on their territory. It would be glorious to win the war on their territory, but fighting on their land would be inconvenient in many ways, and the chances of winning would also be much lower.

Now that they have all come to our territory, it is a cause for celebration for us. Haven't the armies in the Western Regions praised themselves to the sky? They can deal with the army of the Arab Empire five times as strong as theirs. Although we don't know how many times it is now, the time to test you has come. We don't need to defeat the army of Wu Bei and yours, we only need to defeat the army of the same size as yours, and then our Tang Dynasty will be able to win the Central Asian war.

The officials of the Ministry of Revenue of the court also began to speed up the transportation of various items. Although the front line can buy these things in the Western Regions, gunpowder and the like must be transported from Chang'an City. I don't know how many carts have joined this ranks along the way, and many ordinary people are also thinking about making money.

A large number of carriages drove to the Western Regions in groups. There were more than two coachmen on each carriage. Even if they ate, drank, defecated and urinated in the carriage, they would ensure that the carriage would not stop and reach the Western Regions at the fastest speed to ensure the progress of the Tang Dynasty's war and, of course, to ensure the abundance of their own wallets.

Because of a piece of intelligence from the Arab Empire, half of the Tang Empire was put into operation, even Fuso and Goguryeo were also put into operation, because they were the rear base of the Tang Empire. (End of this chapter)