"Your Majesty, you also know that my Tang Dynasty has a vast territory, not to mention 100,000 Turkic prisoners, even if there are another 100,000, it will be a drop in the bucket." Du He smiled bitterly and patted Li Er's ass first.

Sure enough, when Li Er heard Du He say this, a proud look suddenly appeared on his face, the vast territory is not his fault, who let the surrounding countries not fight?

"I know, but these 100,000 people are used too quickly, isn't there a return of prisoners everywhere?" Li Er asked.

"Your Majesty, do you know how these captives are used in various places?" Du He continued with a wry smile.

"How?"

"Your Majesty, when these Turkic captives were working in our Chang'an City, we gave them enough food to eat, and we would not let them work excessively, so the number of captives was still very stable, but it was not the case when they were assigned to the state capitals. Although there was no such thing as the torture of Turkic captives, it was still very common for them to have insufficient food, overwork, and lack of medical treatment for their illnesses, so the number of captives declined very quickly. Du Ho said.

Li Er heard Du He's explanation, and also showed a thoughtful look, this is indeed a thing, although Li Er does not treat those Turkic captives as people, but this is his precious property, so if you use it once, Li Er will also feel distressed.

"In other words, there is no need for Turkic captives to build the academy this time?" Li Er asked.

"This ...... Your Majesty, the ministers are incompetent, and the Labor Reform Bureau really can't get enough prisoners to build the academy. "Duhe has arrived.

Li Er waved his hand and signaled that Du He could retreat, and Du He stood in his position again.

"This, you Aiqing, do you have a good plan?" Li Er looked at the silent ministers one by one and asked. Since Li Er used the Turkic captives, Li Er's reputation has reached a new height among the people, an emperor who does not requisition the people of the country, that is the emperor of the ages.

So Li Er is also unwilling to recruit the people as people's husbands now, otherwise wouldn't this be smashing his own signboard?

The ministers didn't speak one by one, because the ministers also knew that Li Er didn't want to use the people to build this academy, but the ministers couldn't think of a good idea, so they all became quails.

Li Er saw that his ministers were silent as if they had been silenced by a group, and he suddenly became angry, Li Er glanced at Zhang Nan, and sure enough, he saw Zhang Nan standing there, his eyelids sinking little by little, Li Er said: "Qingquan, what good plan do you have?" ”

Zhang Nan was called by Li Er like this, and only then came back to his senses.

"Ah, Your Majesty, what's the matter?" In fact, after Zhang Nan had just finished talking about the academy, he had already begun to fugue.

Li Er was also speechless, but he still told Zhang Nan about the embarrassing situation he was encountering now. Unexpectedly, after Zhang Nan heard it, he looked disapplied.

"Isn't there just no captive? It's easy to do. Zhang Nan said.

"Oh? What is the good plan of Qingquan, let's talk about it quickly. As soon as Li Er saw that Zhang Nan had a way, he immediately became interested.

"If there are no prisoners, we will arrest them, there are not so many countries around our Datang, take your time, and when the time comes to catch the countries around our Datang, we will take a steamboat and go farther away to catch the prisoners." I think the Wa Kingdom jumped very well some time ago, so it is better to go and catch the Japanese prisoners. Zhang Nan said with a look of course.

It's as if the mouth is not talking about catching people, but about catching chickens.

Hearing Zhang Nan say this, Li Er suddenly looked enlightened, what a good way, no one will catch it, what a good method, why are there tens of millions of people in the surrounding countries of Datang, these people alone are enough for Datang to use for many years.

"Haha, that's right, I didn't expect it." Li Er said with a smile.

As soon as I heard Li Er say this, the generals were all like chicken blood, what does it mean to catch prisoners, it means that they can fight, although it must be a one-sided war, but the generals are still happy one by one, after all, their job is to fight on the battlefield and expand their territory.

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing to go to the country for the emperor to capture prisoners, if you can't catch 100,000, the emperor is the only one who asks." Cheng Yanjin was the first to jump out and said.

"Your Majesty, the minister can catch 200,000, the emperor must give the position of this expedition to the minister." Wei Chigong was also not to be outdone, and said next.

"Kuroko, why do you have to fight with me?" Cheng Biting Jin frowned and said.

"Eh, the more captives this take, the better, you said you can catch 100,000, I said I can catch 200,000, then I must go." Wei Chigong said with a smile.

", then I can catch 300,000."

"I'm 400,000!"

The two of them shouted like shouting in the morning, Li Er and the ministers all had a crying and laughing expression, these two living treasures.

As the number of people in the mouths of the two of them increased exponentially, Li Er finally couldn't help it, and said: "Okay, you two stop, where are there so many people in this country for you to catch." ”

As soon as the two of them heard this, they hurriedly bowed their hands to Li Er, and then stood back in their positions.

"Your Majesty, the ministers don't agree to rush out on the expedition, first of all, this Japanese country has not done anything offensive to my Tang Dynasty, so we will directly send troops to attack them, which is unreasonable." Although Wei Zheng was also accustomed to the existence of Turkic captives, Wei Zheng hated war from the bottom of his heart, so Li Eryi said that he was going to go on an expedition, so Wei Zheng was the first to jump out and oppose it.

"Eh, Lord Wei, do you want to change your old brains, if you don't catch prisoners, how can our Datang flourish? How will my Datang infrastructure be completed? Without infrastructure, what will we talk about the prosperity of Datang, you are also an understanding person, I am like asking you, which country is rich and strong, and there is no blood and tears of other countries behind it? Our Datang is like a rich and strong, so we can only go to them for trouble, otherwise our Datang will develop on its own, which is too slow. Zhang Nan smiled and scolded Wei Zheng back.

"Well, that's right, what Qingquan said is right, in the future, as long as it is beneficial to my Datang, whether it is to start a war, or to pay any other price, then I will do it, even if I have the reputation of a tyrant, as long as my Datang can prosper, this infamy, I, will be backed." Li Er said with a righteous look.

Zhang Nan also smiled after hearing this, if Li Er really did this, how could the people of the Tang Dynasty call him a tyrant? I'm afraid it's too late to love him, and the only ones who call him a tyrant are those captives.