Chapter 89 presides over the overall situation and hangs the people

Chen Ying left, taking the 100,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty away. In fact, these 100,000 troops, except for the more than 30,000 people of the Hebei New Army that was later established, the others were all surrendered troops from various departments.

Of course, Chen Ying's whole army had a name at this time, called Anxi. With the meaning of the west of the Tang Dynasty.

As for Ko Boya and Ko Wentai, they embarked on the road back to the east. Although the father and son were captives, they enjoyed extremely high treatment, not only did they not have a prisoner's carriage, but even the chariot still enjoyed a four-wheeled carriage.

Looking at this army escorted from the east, Ko Wentai's eyes flashed with disdain, and he whispered to his father Ko Boya: "Father, ......"

However, as soon as Lu Wentai spoke, Lu Boya interrupted him: "Wentai, now that you and I are already prisoners, you and I are not as good as a grass people, how can we be so overstepping." ”

Ko Wentai looked around and noticed that the Tang soldiers who were guarding them were a little farther away. Only then did Lu Wentai feel at ease, and said with a faint smile: "Father, do you really think that Datang can stabilize the Western Regions?" ”

Ko Boya said: "Why not? Chen Ying defeated the 200,000 troops under the command of Ye Hu Khan, the Western Turkic Commander, who would dare to be an enemy of Chen Ying in the Western Regions! ”

"The sons dare not agree with their father!" Lu Wentai smiled even more: "Because of Chen Ying'er's policy, he will definitely be defeated, and he will die without a place to be buried." ”

Koji Boya was confused: "What policy?" ”

"There are many tribes of the Hu people, and they are all fierce and powerful." Ko Wentai said: "At the beginning of the chaos of Gaochang Kingdom, the ancestor King Chengping took the opportunity to rise. In order to entrap them, Hu Han's ruling tactics are quite different. In terms of laws, strict orders were imposed on the Han people, and appeasement was mainly applied to the Hu people. Han Chinese pay more taxes. Hu people pay less or even no taxes. Presumably, my father also knew very well why the ancestor King Chengping adopted this policy? ”

Lu Boya nodded and said: "This father knows that the Han people are diligent in farming and doing business, and the families are relatively wealthy, and they can pay more taxes, while the Hu people are nomadic, and many families are not even self-sufficient, and they can pay less taxes. Moreover, the wealth generated by the Han people who settled, cultivated and did business had a reasonable path to follow. The acres of land will not run there, and the shops are concentrated in the dozen or so markets, so it is easier to collect taxes, and the tax collectors can basically bring up the taxes as long as they measure the acres of fields and look at the goods in the shops. The Hu people live by grazing, and these people are widely raised, and today they are on this mountain. Tomorrow on the other mountain, the tax collectors raised by the ancestors will run all over the mountains of Gaochang, and count how many more sheep are born to each family in each family in the four counties and eighteen counties and forty-eight towns of Gaochang every year? In fact, the ancestors didn't try to let them collect taxes collectively in the tribe, but every time they collected taxes from the Hu tribe, they always caused trouble, and the taxes collected were not worth much but they had to cause all kinds of trouble, so they simply collected less or no taxes later, not only did they not collect taxes, but they also subsidized them when there was drought and heavy snow! ”

"That's the crux of the matter!" Ko Wentai said with a smile: "It is the so-called easy to go from shallow to luxurious, and difficult to go from luxury to shallow." The various ethnic groups in the Western Regions have been scattered for hundreds of years, and they have also enjoyed the tax-free privilege of our Koji Gaochang for one hundred and forty years, and suddenly let them pay the beef leg tax, it would be strange if they didn't make trouble! Chen Ying's army is not leaving, but he uses the army under his command to deter the four sides, but now that Chen Ying continues to march west, can they not make trouble? ”

In fact, Chen Ying's policy in the Western Regions was the opposite of that of Gaochangguo, with the Han people as the main focus, and the taxation of cultivated land was different from that of the Central Plains.

Datang adopts a tax system, in fact, two sets of bills. Both rent and mediocrity. The Tang Dynasty stipulated that Ding men (21 years old Ding men) and middle-aged men over 18 years old were each granted 100 mu of land, of which 80 mu were divided into fields and 20 mu were Yongye fields. He was obliged to pay taxes and serve as a servant.

Each ding pays a rent of two stones to the state every year; Tune with the native place, pay silk (or silk,) two zhang every year, three taels of cotton; Where cotton is not produced, that is, Nabu is two feet and five feet, and hemp is three catties. In addition, each ding is required to serve twenty days of conscription each year, and two days in leap months; If there is no forced labor, then the silk or cloth is replaced, which is equivalent to three feet of silk or three feet seven inches and five minutes of cloth every day, which is called Yong.

If the burden of the people of the Tang Dynasty is converted, it is actually not light. In normal years, a hundred acres of land can produce at least about 150 stone of grain, pay two stones, two stone rice grain is naturally not much, but the cloth of the Tang Dynasty is very expensive, one horse is equal to four zhang, it costs 1,600 to 3,000 yuan. There are about four zhang, and if it is sold, it is almost equivalent to more than 30 stone grains.

However, in ancient times, peasants had a great ability to resist natural disasters, and drought and flood were basically no harvest, as well as diseases and insect plagues, so on average it was equivalent to about 15 percent of the annual income.

However, in the Western Regions, Chen Yingke did not stipulate 100 acres per ding, but divided it into sections. Since you have a large area, whoever cultivates it belongs to whom, and the government will make a land deed for you. Tax exemption in the first year, half tax in the second year, and full tax in the third year.

However, for the herdsmen of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, this treatment is not available. How many sheep you have, how many cows, how many horses, and the people of the tribe know it all right, and the deception is doubled.

Moreover, Chen Ying did not have a tax collector, so he directly asked the army to arrive at a place with the tax collectors, as long as the people who were grazing in this area would automatically come over to pay taxes, and if they did not pay taxes, they would resist the law and be dealt with strictly.

Lu Wentai said: "Father doesn't know, because of this tax, anyway, the Western Turks are so simple and rude to collect taxes from all ethnic groups, these people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions can still bear it, but let them learn Tang Yan, is this to let them abandon their traditional assimilation?" Do you think they can bear it? ”

Even Lu Boya sighed: "Chen Ying is still young!" ”

Ko Wentai gritted his teeth and said: "This is nothing, there are even more excessive!" ”

Ko Boya was surprised: "What else is excessive? ”

"Chen Ying asked Ma Mengming's bastard to formulate a series of laws, and it was all chaos!" Lu Wentai said indignantly: "Father, you also know that all the ethnic groups in the Western Regions have a convention and custom!" ”

Lu Boya said: "You mean to rob relatives? ”

"yes!" Ko Wentai said: "The Western Regions are still martial, of course, beauties also love heroes, and they often use martial arts competitions to capture beauties." Now, Chen Ying has abolished this custom, saying that as long as the husband and wife are willing to marry, and the government issues a marriage certificate, as long as they rob the relatives again, it is a crime. Just last month, Chen Ying, a beast, executed thousands of people in Gurhai in one go, and even the lake water of Gurhai was dyed red! ”

In fact, Ko Wentai is completely reversing black and white at this time. Chen should respect the traditions of all ethnic groups, but this tradition is limited to each ethnic group, such as snatching relatives, within his own clan, or between other Hu tribes, as usual.

But the Hu people can't rob the wife of the Han people, even if it's an unmarried woman, as long as the woman doesn't agree, it is a crime to snatch it, Chen Yingke has no law of re-education through labor, and he is directly beheaded.

Lu Wentai continued: "The Hu people are generally not governed by the law in the wilderness, and our Gaochang Kingdom just let it go, and the Han people are either in the city or in the village, and the control is more strict. If you encounter a Huhan quarrel and a brawl. If the Han people kill the Hu people, they will generally be severely punished, and if the Han people kill the Hu people, unless it is a particularly big trouble. Otherwise, if you can be lenient, you will be lenient, or you will be locked up for a few months. When the situation calmed down, they were let go, and if the Han people who were killed did not have a bitter master, sometimes they would not even be tried. Just think that the Han people died in vain. ”

Koji Boya nodded.

Lu Wentai said: "But Chen Ying, that brute, he has now changed all the laws of our Gaochang Kingdom, saying that once the other party strikes first, he can defend himself." Father, you also know that we Han people like to quarrel, but the Hu people like to do it, when they can do it, they will never quarrel, in the official palace of the Tang State, as long as it is a Hu person who does it, he will be assigned to the army, act as a dead soldier in battle, and be directly beheaded. Just a few days ago, a Han man with no long eyes blocked Uncle Hu's way in Gaoche City, and Uncle Hu went up with a whip, and the untouchables who didn't have long eyes, what happened to a few whips? But Chen Ying actually ordered to shoot ...... directly."

As soon as he said this, a terrible cry suddenly sounded outside the carriage: "Enemy attack!" ”

Koji Boya trembled with fear.

However, Lu Wentai was indifferent, he smiled lightly: "Father, don't panic, the people who saved us are here, our Koji clan has enjoyed the country for one hundred and forty years, and has won the hearts of the people in the Western Regions, and now there are warriors to save us, as long as the father raises his arms, the warriors of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions will respond, and we will return to the country when Chen Ying leaves Gaochang Kingdom." As long as the warriors of all races are united, the father and Chen Ying are not without the strength to fight! ”

Just after the sound of "enemy attack" sounded, the Tang soldiers who were guarding the prisoners turned over their horses one by one, frantically whipped their horses, and rushed in the direction of the enemy.

Seeing these Tang Army soldiers reacting so quickly, Lu Boya couldn't help but think of a word in his head: "Quiet as a virgin, moving as a rabbit!" ”

Lu Boya looked at the attacking enemy, only to see that there were only three or five hundred horsemen, and he couldn't help but be a little disappointed. The 200,000 horses of the Western Turkic cavalry have not yet won the battle against the 20,000 or 30,000 horses under Chen Ying's command, and now these rescuers are not as many as the Tang soldiers guarding them, so there is no reason to succeed.

Lu Wentai said unhurriedly: "Father, don't worry, this is just a bait in front to attract the Tang army to pursue, as long as they dare to pursue, they will be greeted by a thunderous blow!" ”

Sure enough, the two sides looked at each other. The rescuers left behind more than a dozen corpses and turned around and ran.

As soon as they saw that the enemy was about to run, these Tang soldiers chased after each other.

The two sides chase me and run, going farther and farther.

The sound of tearing and killing came faintly, and the Tang army obviously had the upper hand. Only the audience Tang soldiers shouted: "Don't let them escape, don't let them escape!" ”

Lu Wentai said with a smug face: "The carving insect trick will play them stupid Tang people around, father, let's kill them!" ”

At this moment, the originally flat sand pile suddenly seemed to come to life.

I saw the sand dunes rolling, and from the sand dunes came out of the majestic Hu men, and the number of these Hu men exceeded five or six hundred.

There were less than a hundred Tang soldiers left in custody, and looking at these majestic Hu men roaring and killing, they actually turned their horses' heads and galloped away into the distance.

Looking at the Tang soldiers fleeing in embarrassment, Li Wentai excitedly bowed down in front of Lu Boya, and shouted, "Father, you are free now, you are now our King of Gaochang, and the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions hope that you will come forward to preside over the overall situation, and you can hang the people and fight crimes!" ”

The warriors of the Hu tribe shouted in the languages of various ethnic groups: "I hope that King Gaochang will preside over the overall situation, lead us and others, and hang the people to fight crimes!" ”