"Uncle Liu, you say, in this world, is there no one who cares about me, is it that everyone doesn't want to see me and thinks I'm redundant?" Du He raised his head and drank a glass of wine, and asked a middle-aged man sitting next to him admiring the moon together, a big man called Uncle Liu, a big man named Liu Quan, is the janitor of the Military University, and everyone generally calls him Uncle Liu.

A lonely widow in his forties, no family, but a martial artist, but too old and illiterate, not suitable for entering a military university, so he can only be a janitor, but because of this, when Du He rode a horse to the military university, he met Uncle Liu, who was also alone in the guard room, and the two lonely people resonated, and Uncle Liu invited Du He to drink together.

There is a big window in the guard's room, open this window, you can see the bright moon outside, the so-called toast to invite the bright moon, the shadow into three people, two lonely people, the shadow into six people, but it also seems lively, but the four people can only be silently accompanied and can not speak, only two people can really speak.

"What do you want to do at a young age? Do you compare with your Uncle Liu? When Uncle Liu was young, he was in chaos, his parents died, his wife and children died, and there was no one left in the family of seven, leaving you Uncle Liu to live alone until now, more than 20 years, and there was not even a thought about the New Year's holiday, except for that mother-in-law, no one can look down on you Uncle Liu, and your Uncle Liu is miserable, can you compare to your Uncle Liu? Uncle Liu smiled and drank a glass of wine.

Du He looked at the bright moon outside and sighed: "It's better for me to have a father than you to have no parents." Dad didn't hurt my mother and didn't love, he directly left me in someone else's house to raise, and didn't come to see me at all, it is estimated that I have long forgotten about me here, and the family gathered together for Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, set off firecrackers, drank Tusu wine, ate Wuxin plate, Lelehe, hehehe. The two of us were left to drink. You say, is this called fate? ”

Uncle Liu smiled: "You little doll still knows the fate of the Tao at a young age, alas, but why did your parents treat you like this?" How can there be parents in the world who do not love their children? It's like my mom and dad. Back then, he tried his best to help me lure the rebels away. My mother-in-law herself is starving to death, and she will give me the last piece of dough to eat. In the end, I could only watch my son, who was less than a year old, starve to death......

You say, we ordinary people are poor. The poor have no choice, the poor to the most uneaten after the family fled the famine, along the way hungry and full of food, but there is a thought, who knows that a group of chaotic soldiers rushed over to kill people when they saw them, the good brothers are dead, the family is also dead, and I am left alone to live until now, you kid still has family and friends, a large group of good brothers in the military academy, what are you bored?!

You just don't go back, your family doesn't care about you anymore, treat you as if you don't exist, can you still drain your blood, cut off your flesh, break your bones, and break off the relationship? You were born as your father's child, no one can change it, besides, in the end, you still have a family, they are all still alive, compared to your Uncle Liu, in addition to burning some paper money for them every Qingming Festival, what else can you do? ”

Uncle Liu cried as he spoke, tears couldn't stop flowing, a man like an iron beat could cry, Du He felt extremely depressed all of a sudden, but at the same time, he also felt that what Uncle Liu said was very right, worse than himself, how many people in the world? Why bother? When he looked at Uncle Liu again, Du He's eyes were also red, and after a jar of wine, Du He knelt beside Uncle Liu on both knees......

"Uncle Liu, you have no son, no family, lonely and lonely, I am also a person now, lonely and lonely no one loves and no one loves, if you don't dislike it, just accept me as a righteous son, our two sons will depend on each other in the future, I will honor you in the future, we will celebrate the New Year's holidays, I will provide for you when you are old, you go, I will give you linen and filial piety, and I will burn paper money for you every Qingming Festival in the future, and you don't have to worry about no money to spend when you get below!" As soon as Du He finished speaking, he kowtowed, Uncle Liu cried and laughed when he saw this, his body collapsed to the ground all of a sudden, hugged Du He tightly in his arms, and said vigorously about good boys, good boys, and so on......

This is just a small episode of the last few hours of the last day of Zhenguan five years, accompanied by the sound of beeping firecrackers in Chang'an City, as well as the joyful noise of the crowd, the noise, Zhenguan five years became history, Uncle Liu and Du He both fell asleep, as if isolated from the world, accompanied by them, only the sky that slowly lit up, and the rising sun that slowly rose.

Suning and Su Dingfang wore court clothes, and when the sky was not yet dawn, they avoided the sea of happy crowds, and together with a large number of officials, they entered the palace to congratulate Li Er's Majesty and congratulate him on the New Year.

Not to mention those in the north, there are still the Wa kingdoms in Silla and Goguryeo in the east, that is, small Japan, as well as many tribes and foreign tribes in the south, as well as some countries in the western border, including the current countries in the Western Regions, Gaochang and other countries, probably because they learned about the reunification of the Central Plains Dynasty from the trade activities of the Western Turks, and the strength was strong, and the economy was prosperous, and they came here with the idea of trading with the Tang Dynasty.

The most striking thing is that the Western Turkic Khan Ashina Ni personally came to congratulate the Tang Dynasty on the New Year, bringing a lot of gifts, including cattle, sheep and horses and a series of materials that the Tang Dynasty currently needs.

Ashina Ni euphemistically expressed his gratitude to Suning, and then asked His Majesty Li Er to expand the scale of commercial trade with the Western Turks, mainly because the Western Turks trade with the Tang Dynasty and not with the Western Regions, which attracted a large number of Western Regions countries to covet, and a large number of Western Regions caravans also came here to do business, and then he could get taxes from the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions countries, and now the Western Turks are getting richer and richer, and he hopes that this situation can continue to develop.

What else did he say, and now the large area around the Tang garrison barracks has gradually taken the prototype of a small town. It also attracted a large number of Western Turkic people to try to settle, and even worked for the merchants of the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions to earn money, which he was very willing to see, if all the Western Turks could come and settle around his royal court, then he would definitely have stronger strength to deter the Western Turkic Ten Arrow Tribes, so that they would honestly dare not move.

More importantly, he hoped that His Majesty Li Er would not trade with the countries of the Western Regions for the time being, for a lot of reasons, in fact, he did not want the large amount of taxes from the caravans and merchants of the Tang Dynasty that could have been collected to be transferred. I can't get it. If this is the case, his loss will be great, Li Er Majesty smiled mercilessly to pierce his original intention, and Ashina smiled embarrassedly. Even said that His Majesty the Emperor was wise.

His Majesty Li Er was even happier. So go on. Ashina Ni was overjoyed and immediately said that he would double the cattle, sheep, horses and various furs that were paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty and dedicate them to His Majesty, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Guests and hosts have fun. Ashina Ni Yu happily returned to the Western Turks, and Li Erma's gloomy face dragged Suning into the study, and asked, "What is the matter with Ashina Ni that the Western Turks are getting richer and richer?" Didn't you say that you could make them poor and not even able to fight? Although this getting richer and richer has also allowed Datang to get a lot of benefits, it is also suspected of raising tigers, right? ”

Suning was originally worried, but His Majesty Li Er's words Suning was happy: "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry about the Western Turks getting richer and richer, what he wants to express is that he himself is getting richer and richer, and the country of the Western Turks is getting richer and richer." ”

Li Er was puzzled: "What does this mean?" ”

Suning said: "The Tang Dynasty caravan and the Western Regions caravan must pay taxes when they enter the Western Turkic trade, and whoever this tax is given to will naturally not be the common people of the Western Turks, but it must be the high-level nobles of the Western Turks and Ashina himself, they are naturally getting richer and richer, so they can use the money to eat and drink in the Weixian Residence and buy a large number of luxury goods in the Tang Dynasty."

And the money of the Tang caravan is earned from the country of the Western Turks, including the nobles, and naturally there are many people, the nobles can get the taxes of the people and the taxes of the Tang caravan and the caravan of the Western Regions to subsidize themselves, but the people of the Western Turks do not, the people of the Western Turks can only get poorer and poorer, and the nobles of the Western Turks will only get richer and richer, because all the money is theirs.

Generally speaking, the caravans of the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions caravans took a small part of the money earned from the Western Turks and handed them over to a small number of the nobles of the Western Turks for them to continue to squander, and the nobles of the Western Turks could get taxes from the common people of the Western Turks, so they had enough funds to squander, but the people of the Western Turks did not, and more importantly, the number of the people of the Western Turks was far more than the nobles, once the people did not have the money to continue to buy the products of the Tang Caravan, it proved that they had really been squeezed dry.

The people have been squeezed dry, and the cattle, sheep and horses on which they depend for survival are gone, what else can they do? Anyway, the taxes can't be paid, and without the biggest source of funds, the nobles of the Western Turks will sooner or later fall into the predicament of having no money, and at that time they will notice that no matter how they squeeze it, they can't squeeze any oil and water, because the commoners have long been squeezed dry, in this case, they can only finish together.

Of course, this is not very likely, before the process is completed, the Western Turkic nobles will only become more and more extravagant, the Tang Dynasty will intentionally or unintentionally sell more and more valuable goods to the Western Turks, so that their nobles are more and more extravagant, and the requirements for money are getting higher and higher, when the Western Turkic commoners find that they are unable to make ends meet, unable to continue to pay heavier and heavier taxes, the Western Turks will fall into civil strife, and the gap between the rich and the poor is too large, which will definitely lead to widespread corruption, and all the officials of the Western Turks are corrupt. The people of the Western Turks could only live in misery.

At this time, they only had two choices, one was to raise troops to resist, the Western Turkic people were fierce, and almost every household had soldiers, which may be the greatest; The other is to fend for itself, of course, it may be very small, but no matter which one it is, it is beneficial for Datang, because Datang has the opportunity to intervene in it, and intervene in the internal affairs of the Western Turks as the king.

At that time, under His Majesty, the Western Turks are not at our disposal to rub the flats and rounds? Do they still have the strength to resist? The upper echelons are getting richer and richer, which will only make the upper echelons more and more corrupt, and the regular army will become more and more powerful and corrupt, and it will not compete with the army that Datang has been training for a long time to maintain combat effectiveness, at that time, Datang's 3,000 garrisons are enough to kill the Western Turks! ”

Suning smiled wickedly, and analyzed the basic process and ultimate goal of the entire evil strategy for Li Er's majesty, Li Er's majesty was really happy when he heard it, but after a short period of joy, Li Er's majesty fell into another worry. (To be continued......)