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Chapter Thirty-One Welcome Home

After three days of detailed discussions between the Ministry of Rites and the Tubo envoys, two thousand people trapped in Tubo were finally exchanged for the Tubo soldiers in Pei Min's hands.

Pei Min received such news in Taozhou and nodded with satisfaction.

When learning about the situation of Jiuqu in Hexi with Feng Changqing, he inevitably talked about his career as a shepherd slave.

Most of the herd slaves were prisoners of war in Tubo, the lowest-ranking existence, and even not as good as the animals in the beast pen. Not only did they live in the animal pen, the owner could also kill them at will.

Feng Changqing also said something at that time that a sheep lost a sheep while she was grazing and directly beaten to Tubo to death.

When Pei Min heard this, he immediately said to Feng Changqing: "If one day I can kill the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and capture the Tubo royal family! I will not kill any of them. I will lock them all in the beast pen and raise them as pigs!"

Pei Min asked himself that he could not save everyone in the world, but within his ability, he could save one person.

Using tragic means to deal with the Tubo prisoners was aroused by one's anger, and on the other hand, it forced Tubo to compromise for the sake of face and rescue some of the people of the Tang Dynasty trapped in Tubo.

Now that the purpose is achieved, those disabled people will be kept, and they will give Feng Changqing a message to prepare to release him, and at the same time arrange for the Chief Gu Xin to prepare to accept the people.

The fourth year of Kaiyuan, March 20th!

Two thousand ragged people officially entered the territory of Taozhou.

Pei Min brought Gu Xin and the prepared clothes and medicines to greet them personally. Pei Min only said four words to them: "Welcome home!"

Welcome home!

The four short words seem to have infinite magic power, which makes the people of the Tang Dynasty trapped in alien races burst into tears.

They had soldiers, people, scholars, some were trapped in Tubo for a year, some were five years, and the longest was even ten years...

During the long days, they had long forgotten what home looked like, and they felt that their home was in the corner of the livestock bar! Now that they heard the word "go home", the home hidden in their memory surged in their hearts and tears poured out.

After they vented their joy, Pei Min said: "Your Majesty is kind and specially ordered me to take you home. If you still have family members, I will arrange someone to send you back. If you have no relatives, Taozhou will be your home. You will also arrange for the chief and historian to apply for your household registration and arrange for your accommodation. Taozhou is suitable for animal husbandry. You are all proficient in this way and will definitely have a place to use it in Taozhou."

Under the arrangement of him and Gu Xin, the people who were willing to go back to their hometown to find relatives were sent home. Those who were willing to stay enthusiastically applied for their household registration and rented their sheep and horses so that they could live a comfortable life in Taozhou.

This victory is of great significance to Taozhou.

Driven by the quarry workshop, inkstone making workshop, carving workshop and three major workshops, Taozhou's economy has recovered and recovered, and began to develop well. It has begun to show prosperity and business opportunities have emerged. It is just worried that the Tubo attack and invasion, and all major merchants are in a wait-and-see state. Now Pei Min has proved with his strength that he has enough strength to protect the people of Taozhou.

All major businesses want to get a piece of the pie and open stores one by one when they are exempt from taxes, making the scarce supplies in the county rich.

The promotion of animal husbandry also gave the people in the territory one more choice.

Especially Pei Min has a total of 30,000 sheep on his hands, and there are not many people or animals.

With supplies, don't worry about no one?

This secondary industry is almost effortless to promote. Those who have surplus money can buy it directly, and those who have no surplus money can rent it. Just pay interest. If you rent it for five years, the sheep you borrow will belong to the lender. The benefits are simply too good.

Under various preferential treatments, the 30,000 sheep in Pei Min's hands were rented and sold within one month.

The vast Taozhou grassland can be seen everywhere in the scene of sheep and horses eating grass.

On that day, Pei Min called Gu Xin in front of him and said, "I want to visit Shanzhou and go to the appointment of Governor Guo. I will leave this place to you!"

Gu Xin bowed and said, "Don't worry, the overall situation is handled properly. The remaining trivial matters are enough to deal with."

Pei Min nodded. Gu Xin's talent is not particularly outstanding, but he has a heart to protect the people and handle things very seriously, which is enough to trust. He pointed out: "Don't worry about animal husbandry matters. Don't sheep are sheep milk and wool. The benefits are too small and you are not rational or smart at all. You must be determined to develop the industrial chain and build this industrial chain is the real way to show."

Industrial chain is a concept in industrial economics and a vocabulary that will only be found in later generations. However, when promoting Taoshui stones, Pei Min had already proposed them and was recognized in terms of factual results.

Gu Xin naturally understood that now he respected Pei Min as a god and listened very seriously.

"I don't know much about the animal husbandry industry chain, but I can develop the materials from the aspects of wool, butter tea, milk wine, cheese, cakes, and milk candy, and process the materials, and draw out their maximum value to form a reasonable industrial chain, which is definitely beneficial to the economy of Taozhou. You think that almost all of my Tang Dynasty are farming, and which place is like our Taozhou, mainly livestock? As long as this aspect is developed, things are rare and precious, it will definitely bring great effects."

Gu Xin nodded constantly and remembered every word in his heart. He didn't pretend to understand what he didn't understand, and asked directly: "Wooler, butter tea, milk wine, Beizhi understands, what are cheese, cakes, and milk candy?"

Pei Min smiled and said, "Cheese is a fermented dairy product, that is, the product after the milk is solidified through fermentation, which is easy to carry and preserve for a long time; cakes are heated by mixing eggs, bean flour and milk. As for milk candy, it is combined with various seasonings to cure into pieces, which tastes great. These are not difficult to make. These things are available in the West, but they may not be called this name. We do not use milk as the staple food here, so it is not very common."

Gu Xin admired: "I also claim to be well-read books, but compared with the governor, it is far inferior to that of the governor."

"Haha!" Pei Min was not polite, and he enjoyed it. As a time traveler, the advantages and advantages are everywhere.

After seeing Gu Xin off, Pei Min directly came to Jiao Chen, hugged her slim waist and said, "For my husband, I want to visit Shanzhou. Can my wife be willing to go with me?"

Jiao Chen put his head on his arms and smiled and said, "Of course we have to go with you. As long as you don't dislike me, I will go wherever you go! I'll prepare my clothes now..."

"Go!" Pei Min gently slapped the graceful buttocks of sweetness and charming eyes.

Pei Min was immediately distracted. When showing her charm, her every frown and smile was full of temptation. Thinking of cleaning her up at night, she walked towards the side courtyard.

Although the business is busy, Pei Min always insists on it. As long as he is in Taozhou, he has to meet Wang Zhongsi every day and ask him what he doesn’t understand.

In his memory, Wang Zhongsi was raised by Li Longji in the palace in history. Under the arrangement of Li Longji, Wang Zhongsi studied with Zhong Wang Li Heng. He eventually became the number one general of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and taught all the enemies around the Tang Dynasty a lesson.

Now history has deviated. With his interference, Wang Zhongsi's mother is still alive. Wang Zhongsi did not become an orphan like history. He asked Li Longji to take it as a fake son, but instead took it to him to take care of him.

The trajectory of growth has changed, and Pei Min cannot be sure whether the wise and brave Wang Zhongsi in history will appear.

In order to avoid being disabled by a famous general, he dared not be careless about Wang Zhongsi's guidance.

Wang Zhongsi was also very successful. At the age of eleven, he had grown into a strong boy. Not only did he wave his halberd under his horse, he immediately set off his bow; he also recognized all the characters and began to study military tactics.

For this reason, he was beaten by his mother Wang because he refused to continue to learn the teachings of Confucius and Mencius from his husband. He studied culture with all his heart just to be able to understand military books. His purpose was to achieve his disdain for the profound learning of Confucius and Mencius.

"Brother Min!" Seeing Pei Min arrive, Wang Zhongsi greeted him, holding a book in his hand, and ran over and said, "I can't understand this book! Isn't this a military book? Whatever it says is the great principle of governing the country."

Pei Min didn't read the title of the book, so he thought it should be "Wu Zi's Art of War". He took it in his hand and saw it. As expected, he squatted down and smiled, "If you can't understand it, you don't have to read it! This military book is indeed a bit profound for you now. Simply put, every military wise man in history has his own characteristics. For example, Sun Wu, Sun Wu used military forces to attach importance to strategy, he disturbed Chu and exhausted Chu and eventually defeated the strong with less, and defeated the strong with weak. Han Xin valued planning, he made all kinds of plans, and he could win by any enemy. Even if the soldiers in his hands were weak, he could exert the maximum combat power with the help of his merits. Wu Qi used military forces to govern and rarely used any conspiracy and ghost strategies. He believed in a little that in the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and tricks could be irresistible."

"It's like the battle of Yin Jin. The Qin army was 500,000, and Wu Qi only had 50,000. In terms of strength, the Qin army was ten times that of Wu Qi. What should you do if it were you?" Pei Min asked with some test.

Wang Zhongsi thought for a while and said, "I will defend the enemy. The cost of the 500,000 army cannot be easily afforded. As long as I defend, drag the Qin army to the death, and wait until they run out of food and grass before counterattacking!"

"Yes!" Pei Min touched Wang Zhongsi's head and praised.

Wang Zhongsi smiled happily.

Pei Min said: "Wu Qi's method is even simpler, it's just a fight! He used no strategy and directly led 50,000 to meet 500,000, and then won."

Wang Zhongsi opened his mouth wide and couldn't say a word.

"This is the real essence of this book!" Pei Min shook the "Wu Zi's Art of War" in his hand and said: "Wu Qi is not a foolish person, but he believes that the soldiers he trained have the strength to win head-on victory when they are ten times weaker than the Qin army!"

Wang Zhongsi's eyes were glowing.
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