The messenger of the Yeli Ministry rushed back all the way.

After leaving Jiangxin City, more than a hundred miles south, it turned out that there were a lot of camps on the territory of Heiyeli.

The remaining six tribes of Yeli gathered 10,000 soldiers to come here at an unprecedented speed, without carrying women and children, and even entourages. The six leaders of the Yeli tribe were all ready to be courtesy and then soldiers. If the Tang people in Taozhou returned the Hei Yeli tribe, then this matter would be fine. Otherwise, they would have to jointly attack Taozhou.

"What did the governor of the Tang Dynasty say?"

The messenger said everything.

"Zhang Wenyuan really said that?" asked an old man with a white beard. The old man's hair was white and his robe was white. He was the leader of the seven tribes of Yeli, Hou Yelizhen of the Hexi tribe of Tuyuhun Khanate. He was also the leader of the Bai Yeli tribe of the three tribes of Shangxia in the seven tribes of Yeli tribes, and the Pushe of Tuyuhun.

It was precisely because of him that the six ministries of Yeli did not rush to Taozhou this time, but stopped here and sent an envoy to him.

"Old Marquis, this Zhang Wenyuan is too arrogant. He lets the warriors kill into Taozhou and massacre the city." A strong man in a green robe spoke loudly. He was the leader of the Qingyeli tribe.

The seven divisions of Yeli were divided into three divisions of Shangxia and four divisions of Xiaxia. However, that was the division when they were still in the Taohe area. They had long lost the land of Shangxia and Xiaxia. After retreating to Henan, they began to distinguish them by the colors of tribal flags.

The three parts of the upper gorge are white, black, red, and the four parts of the lower gorge are blue, blue, yellow and purple.

"I didn't expect that Zhang Wenyuan was very wise and had a bigger appetite. After destroying Hei Yeli, he would still have to take over Hei Yeli's territory."

Lao Yelizhen sighed.

"Let's withdraw!"

"What?" Ye Lizan, who was in the green robe, was puzzled.

"Unless we really want to compete with the Tang Dynasty, we will have to retreat." Lao Yeli is really not as impulsive as a young man.

Last time, Tuyuhun took advantage of the situation to rob, but unfortunately the Khan retreated at the last moment. If he could withstand the pressure, capture Li Shimin, and then defeat the Tang army that would be supported, then they would have the chance to seize the land of Longyou at that time.

Maybe Tuyuhun can take the opportunity to swallow Hexi, and even the Turks may send troops again.

But the Khan retreated.

Even the four states seized were given up.

Now the rebellion in the Tang Dynasty and Jianghuai River has been quelled, and the Turks have retreated.

While the Tang Dynasty was in harmony with the Turks, it also sent people to discuss peace with the Khan.

At this time, the Hei Yeli army sent troops to attack Taozhou. If it won, it would be fine. Tangren would probably suffer this secret loss. But he still lost so badly. This time he wanted to lead his troops to come, scare Tangren and ask them to return Hei Yeli.

But now the reply from the governor of Tang is quite tough.

He didn't expect such toughness at all, which also means that the other party really doesn't take them seriously and is not afraid of them fighting.

Ye Lizhen also had no confidence to conquer the Taozhou of Zhang Wenyuan, a new famous general in the Tang Dynasty.

He didn't dare to send troops and take the initiative to attack Taozhou.

If the Tang army really attracted a large revenge on the expedition, Tuyuhun might not have fought the Tang army.

Since I can't scare Tangren and can't beat him, I can only withdraw.

"That Hei Yeli's territory? Have you handed over to Tangren?"

"Of course it's impossible, but let the Khan negotiate with the Tang people. Let's not worry about this land for now."

"But we don't care, Tangren will really take the opportunity to occupy it!"

Yelizhen certainly knew that things might be like this, but he dared not take risks now. If he occupied Hei Yeli's territory, what if it really attracted the Tang people's conquest or even a war between the two countries?

Yelizhen is not a young tribal warrior. He followed Murong Fuyun for a long time. His understanding of the overall situation and Tuyuhun's strength was more than the young people in the tribe.

"Silly Hei Yeli!" When Yelizhen stood up and walked out, he cursed hatefully.

Taozhou, Jiangxin City.

Zhang Chao did not take the envoy of profit at all. This confidence was due to the great victory of the last war and the current situation.

The Tang Dynasty has already made a free move. If Tuyuhun wants to fight against the Tang Dynasty, he must first think about it. Although the Tang Dynasty actually doesn't want to fight against Tuyuhun now, Tuyuhun doesn't know.

Tuyuhun dares to take any risk the most.

Murong Fuyun really had the courage to sacrifice himself, and he would not have retreated like that last time the city of Longxi was not going to be so.

As long as Tuyuhun does not make another full attack, just relying on the six ministries of Yeli, Zhang Chao, with tens of thousands of government troops from Taozhou, and a newly built defense system and reserve mobilization system, he is really not afraid of their war threats.

The auction in Jiangxin City went smoothly.

The materials are classified, priced, and then auctioned.

The best auction is the slave, and then the cattle and horse.

The minimum price of a young and strong slave is fifteen sheep and ten women. If it is converted into points, a young slave is worth 7,500 coins and a young woman is worth 5,000 coins.

For many soldiers from the government, they came to Taozhou to become soldiers and moved their families, each of which divided at least six or seven hundred acres of land.

Although half of so many land is mountainous, the remaining half of the valley and slopes each occupy half. But even if it is only one-quarter of the valley, there must be one or two hundred acres. It is very troublesome to reclaim so many land, let alone plant trees in the mountains, and the slopes will also have to reclaim land and plant sorghum in the future.

What the soldiers in the palace need most is labor, slaves and large animals, all of which are needed.

Moreover, the soldiers of the palace also need to fight horses or prepare mules, which are all urgent needs.

Tuyuhun slaves who can work, cattle and horses who can plow the fields and ride are very popular.

Fortunately, there are many, and Zhang Chao has set special rules, each mansion soldier is limited to buying two slaves, two horses, and five cows.

If there is no limit on buying, the price will definitely be very high, but this is not the original intention of Zhang Chao to take the auction.

In order to ensure that the auction will not be too hot and the competition is too fierce, Zhang Chao adopted a new auction method.

In a dark auction, each item has a minimum and maximum price, and then the person participating in the auction bids, writes his own price on paper, and finally shows the price together. The higher one gets!

This method only has one chance to bid once, and after setting a ceiling, it will prevent the soldiers from selling too high prices and allowing them to bear the losses.

Since many soldiers in the palace need to be on duty, many of the people who came to participate in the auction today were replaced by the families of the soldiers.

Cui Yingying also brought Xiaoqing and Du Shiniang to the auction. She got Zhang Chao’s credit points of more than 300 points. Qiniang took her father’s more than 50,000 points.

"What do you want to take a photo?" Thirteen Niang got a private room, and the whole family sat in the private room. She asked Qi Niang with a smile.

Qi Niang thought for a while, "Forget about the cows and horses. As for those young and strong male and female slaves, I see that everyone is fighting very hard, so I won't interfere. I discussed with your uncle and planned to buy a few smaller girls to raise."

A woman from Tang Dynasty used to call her husband's father the uncle and her mother the aunt.

Trading slaves and servants is a very common thing in the eyes of the Tang people. Zhang Chao sold more than 20,000 black and li prisoners as slaves, and no one would say that Zhang Chao was cruel and unkind. The Tang Dynasty was a dynasty established shortly after the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the ruler Li family was even the generals of the Northern Dynasties.

Therefore, they also carried the Sihu style, and there were quite a lot of slaves in the Tang Dynasty. Various official and private slaves were slaves, and even a quarter of the population in Chang'an City were slaves.

In the mind of the Tang people, buying a slave is really as ordinary as buying a cow and a horse. In fact, in the eyes of the Tang people, the status of slaves is just like that of a cow and a horse.

Since buying slaves is equivalent to buying cattle and horses, there are naturally those who choose young and strong, and some buy small ones to raise large ones.

"So, I want to buy more small ones," Cui Yingying said with a smile.

Although Cui Yingying only has more than 300,000 points in her hand, she can only buy dozens of small slaves. However, Cui Yingying also manages a huge commercial group for Zhang Chao and has a lot of resources.

Nowadays, many Central Plains merchants come to Taozhou to sell tea and horses, but Cui Yingying plans to open up the liquor market in Taozhou. He does not plan to sell horses in Zhongyuan. He plans to sell some beautiful female maids in Tuyuhun, and even buy some young and beautiful Tuyuhun slaves to sell them.

At first, when Zhang Chao heard that Cui Yingying wanted to do a slave trade business, he felt a little embarrassed.

Although he turned tens of thousands of people into slaves at once, he did not want his wife to become a slave trader. But after thinking about it, he felt that this was really not a big deal.

Because Tang people's three views are completely different from his three views. There is no difference between a slave merchant and a cattle and horse dealer, they are just merchants.

Cui Yingying also planned to recruit some people from the Central Plains to Taozhou for commercial treasury, recruit those unemployed, landless, and poor people, and be responsible for transporting them to Taozhou. They didn't need to buy fields, cattle, horses, and farm tools. They just needed to follow the instructions of the heads of the village and then grazed or even processed them.

They are equivalent to employees in Shangtun Farm and are paid.

If they think they are willing to take root in this company and settle down here, the farm can also terminate the contract with them and let them settle down here. If they are unwilling to move their families to Lianguan, just want to work here and make money, and then return to the Central Plains in a few years, it doesn't matter.

Shangtou was established here, recruiting people to reclaim wasteland and farmland, and the grain produced was exchanged with Taozhou Lianjun for some specialties in Lianshi, and even obtained some tax exemption privileges. Cui Yingying thought it was actually very cost-effective and supported her husband's career.

This Shangtun was originally proposed by Zhang Chao himself from the beginning, and he also supported Cui Yingying's desire to do this.

Shangtun is an ordinary civilian camp. It is a means of filling military camps, which is naturally very beneficial to the development of Taozhou.

Zhang Chao, Ma Zhou and others watched a group of soldiers fighting fiercely for slaves, and couldn't help but shake their heads.

The maid is actually more popular than the male slaves, and the competition is more intense. If it weren't for the limit and the secret mark, the situation would probably be out of control.

"Sanlang, you have to order to reiterate that after the soldiers of the government bought the Hei Yeli maid, intermarriage was prohibited."

If a good person does not marry, it is the law of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Chao just shook his head. Even if the order was issued and reiterated, it would not be of much use. Especially those young soldiers, who were originally sixteen or seventeen years old, most of them had not yet got married, but they were still mature.

Now buy one or two women from Yili to go home. You can stop him from marrying them or taking them as concubines, but you cannot prohibit them from happening to these women, because the Tang Dynasty law does not prohibit the master from raping his own daughter-slave. If the raping is from someone else's family, he will have to be beaten and compensate him, that's all.

Zhang Chao doesn’t care whether he or she is raped or not.

However, Zhang Chao knew what Ma Zhou was worried about. These young men were getting so many women from Yeli to go home. It is estimated that a large group of women from Yeli will be pregnant with the men from Taozhou next year.

By then, a large number of traitors will be born, and there will be some mixed-race Chinese!
Chapter completed!