"Old man, I'm giving you a favor. If you can unify what I said, we can avoid the suffering of war. Otherwise, you may not be able to endure what comes next. Don't play the victim here. I won't listen to your tricks. These people under me also need to eat and drink. If we have to live in order for you to survive, do you think this is possible?"
Feng Chucai touched the handle of his knife and said, I am giving you face now. If you don’t want to, and pull out the knife later, I’m afraid the price will not be the same.
Moreover, the order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has also arrived here. Many people are hostile to the Tang Dynasty. If that is the case, there is no need to keep you all alive, so this method is also a relatively gentle way to reduce your numbers.
The other Tang Dynasty troops around were also looking at these people with ill intentions. Originally, they felt a little sorry for these people, but they had heard what the general said just now. If they didn't take these things away, then our salaries might not be paid.
If our salaries are not paid, our families will go hungry and cold this winter. But we are the victors on the battlefield, so why can't we enjoy the changes brought about by victory? Instead, our families will go hungry and cold. This is a bit unreasonable!
So when the general finished speaking, the cavalry on both sides immediately separated to the left and right, and they began to surround the entire tribe. If the old man still doesn't agree, then we can only go in and take it ourselves. When we go in and take it ourselves, I'm afraid it won't be the stipulated number. That is, we will take as much as you have.
"General, please wait, General, please wait... let's take..."
Seeing the malicious Tang Dynasty cavalry around them, they could only agree reluctantly.
Speaking of which, these people are all pitiful people. They originally belonged to different countries, but the people of the Arab Empire came directly to kill them and exploited them again and again. Although on the surface they were also subjects of the Arab Empire, they had always lived at the bottom of society and had almost no surplus supplies for life.
But this has nothing to do with the Tang army. The victor cannot always pay the bill himself, and this logic is reasonable.
After hearing the old man's answer, the surrounding Tang Dynasty soldiers did not relax their vigilance, and the more than 30 young men were all tied up with ropes.
Although these people are unwilling to leave their tribe, according to the orders of the Tang Dynasty army, if you do not go to the Tang Dynasty military camp to work as free laborers, then your tribe will not have any peace. The Tang Dynasty army has the power to do some bad things in your tribe.
When your army followed the Arab cavalry into battle, why didn't you foresee this day coming? If you had, you wouldn't have followed the Arab army. You could have just rebelled against the Arabs. If you were to rebel against us now, our swords would be sharper than the Arab cavalry's.
In less than three hours, the old man delivered everything Feng Chucai wanted. After the logistics general finished the inspection, Feng Chucai assigned 200 cavalrymen under his command to escort them to the Tang Dynasty military camp, and then took the rest of the people to the next tribe.
The old man and the remaining people looked at the elderly, weak and sick in the tribe, and then looked at the few livestock in the barn. Many people might starve to death this year. They didn't have much food stored. If this continued, they really didn't know how they would survive the winter.
"Why don't we go find work at the Tang army camp? They say they're building a highway to the Western Regions, and they need a lot of people. If we go, not only can we get three meals a day, but we can also bring back a pound of flour. That way, one person can support two people."
A woman in her 30s said that there are no men over 30 in the tribe. Apart from the elderly, there are only these strong women. If they don’t go to work, who knows how many people will freeze to death this winter.
In the past, the elders in the tribe would urge them to hurry up and work, but now all the men are dead and the children are still very young. If they have a conscience, these women in their 30s will bring back food, but if they have no conscience, they may just take care of themselves, and then the tribe will be even more miserable.
Forget it, let these women go. If we don't let them go, one-third of the people will definitely starve to death. Even if half of the people who go can come back, the tribe will still have food to eat during the winter.
"Pick out 300 people with children..."
The tribal leader said helplessly that this was the only way to do things. These 300 people with children would still miss their relatives. In addition to giving some food to their children, the tribe could also take back some food.
"Why don't you let us go? Our parents are here too. We won't stop coming back if we go."
There are also some women who have never been married. They also want to earn some food for their parents, but the leaders of the tribe will never let them go out. If these people go to the Tang Dynasty military camp, can they ever come back?
The time for the tribe to suffer has not come yet. Once the time comes for them to suffer, these people simply cannot endure it. The soldiers of the Tang army have extremely high incomes. Even if they become concubines, these women will never return to this tribe again.
There are still some teenage boys in the tribe. In two years, they will be able to reproduce for the tribe. If all these young girls leave, what good will all the boys do? Our tribe is probably going to end today, so no matter what these girls say, we will never allow them to go. At worst, we can just endure for another year, and next year these boys can go herding and earn money.
The entire tribe was filled with weeping, and similar to them were the other 20 or so tribes selected today. Fortunately, they had already lost the will to resist, and we didn't have to spend much effort to take away a large number of cattle, sheep, and people from them...
