Zhao Hongyin was thunderous and decisive, and rushed towards Shunzhou like lightning, while the army was still slowly and heading towards the north.

Ye Hua brought Li Congjia to the army and gave him a very good job to feed the horses! It's a pity that Ye Hua really wanted to give the great poet some benefits. The groom is a very fat job. Before the war, the war horses ate very well, all of which were concentrated feed, and occasionally raw eggs were used to supplement protein.

Li Congjia could steal two eggs, roast them on fire, and give him a small meal. No one would care about this. However, Li Congjia's luck was so bad that he was kicked hard when he went to feed the horse on the first day, and unfortunately, he kicked off one of his teeth!

Li Dacissus was shocking the world and was missing one of the three major characteristics of the ghosts and gods, leaving only a huge front teeth, lonely and ugly.

After thinking about it, Ye Hua still let him go to the Central Army and be responsible for the sorting of simple official documents. However, what was surprising was that while handling official documents, Li Congjia would sneak out. Ye Hua asked someone to stare at him, but he did not prohibit Li Congjia from doing so.

By the time the Great Zhou people arrived in Shunzhou, Li Congjia had already added a thick book, with more than a hundred pages.

"Is this what you wrote?" Ye Hua flipped it over and smiled: "I'm quite attentive. You have learned almost half of how to feed the war horses. You are such a talented man, so you should not be underestimated!"

Li Congjia’s notes record the recipe for the forage of war horses, how to feed them, and even write about many habits of horses. One of them is that you must not run behind the horse’s butt, otherwise your front teeth may be kicked off!

"I am just afraid of being kicked by horse again!"

"Why do you need to record the ratio of the forage?" Ye Hua asked with a smile.

"This... Beizhi thinks that it's better to raise horses than to sing. Livestock are actually better than humans. The horse kicked me, but these days I gave it grass, helped it wash it, and talked to it... Not only did it not kick me, but it also allowed me to ride on my back. If the Marquis allows, Beizhi is willing to keep horses."

Ye Hua smiled, "Your explanation is very far-fetched. I would rather believe that you want to take over the power one day, so you can use this booklet to raise horses and strengthen the army."

Li Congjia was very calm and said, "What did the Marquis think? I can't interfere with the humble position, but I didn't think so much about the humble position. It's lucky that people who leave their hometowns and abandon their country and family can survive. If allowed, I would rather change my name and let others forget me forever, so as not to embarrass my ancestors."

"Hahaha!" Ye Hua laughed, "If you want to change your name, it's ready-made, so you might as well call Li Yu."

Li Congjia, uh no, it was Li Yu. He was stunned for a moment, then lifted his robe and knelt on the ground, "I, Li Yu, pay homage to the marquis!"

Ye Hua was stunned. Only then did he remember that changing the name has different meanings under different circumstances.

For example, when Li Congjia became the emperor, he changed his name to Li Yu in order to facilitate taboos, and it was a single word, and it was rather rare and not easy to make mistakes. This was the royal name change, and there was another situation, that is, the master changed the name of the slave.

Once you become a slave to a certain family, no matter what your original name is, you must change your new name to facilitate the owner's call.

In the current situation, Li Yu would only think that Ye Hua regarded him as a slave.

Even though he was very angry, he chose to obey. Even Li Yu felt that it was nothing, and he could tolerate even the great humiliation!

Ye Hua couldn't guess Li Yu's thoughts for the first time. He knelt straight in front of him, respectful and calm, but his heart would never think so... Ye Hua seemed to see a lotus seed absorbing nutrients in the filthy quagmire, waiting for the opportunity to bloom.

Most seeds usually have no chance of germination, and Ye Hua can easily crush Li Yu to give him complete news. However, Ye Hua did not do so.

He wanted to see what this great poet would become!

"Since you are willing to be my slave, I will take it away. From today on, you will be responsible for raising horses for me. Remember to feed the horses well. You must also sort out the official documents. Don't be lazy, otherwise I will punish you strictly without lending!"

"I understand!" Li Yu lowered his eyebrows and walked back to the door of the tent. Ye Hua spoke, "Your wife is not simple, and some ministers of the Southern Tang Dynasty did not give up on you."

Li Yu's waist was even more bent. He didn't stop. He turned his head and went to the horse shed. He could do nothing. He could only feed the horse and wait. I will repay you if I really have a day to stand out!

...

Li Hongji used 300,000 pieces of silk in exchange for the Khitan troops.

Some people can't figure out what the use of silk is? How could the Khitans be obedient?

This is a good thing. The silk in Jiangnan is a currency that is harder than real gold and silver.

Although the Khitan lost Youzhou, it was still the largest country in the world in terms of area, several times more than Dazhou. Their business trips could go to the Western Regions and even enter the Persian Grand Food.

There are magical war horses, sharp sabers, and countless cheap jewelry there... The Khitans are not completely barbarians, they also need business, huge profits, and support huge numbers of people.

"The Great Zhou should develop the navy, and at least cut off the routes from Liaodong and Jiangnan!"

Ye Hua picked up his pen and filled in the small notebook he carried over the word "Water".

The next day, Li Yu got up before dawn and went to wash Ye Hua's big green horse, then mixed a full pot of feed, including chaff, bran, bean cakes, tender grass, and a handful of white salt... Li Yu only learned not long ago that war horses also need salt, and the salt they eat is better than ordinary people!

Jiangnan faced the blockade of the Great Zhou Dynasty. After losing Yancheng, salt became more expensive and the quality was extremely poor.

A handful of salt has half a handful of sand inside, which is simply incomparable to the ones that a war horse eats.

Li Yu woke up for the first time and found that life is not just about poetry and distant places, but also about the firewood, rice, oil and salt in front of him... Don’t think that the eldest brother is cruel, and will be despised by the people.

Wrong, completely wrong!

If the elder brother could make all the people eat clean salt, they would definitely kneel at the elder brother's feet and praise the emperor's wiseness.

What about killing fathers or brothers? The people will only think that those people deserve to die!

Even Li Yu had to admit that Ye Hua gave him a new perspective to look at the world.

He was desolate to find that if you look up from below, there were too many things, completely different from what he imagined...

Li Yu didn't know that he was about to face a greater shock. He walked forward in less than twenty miles, and was Shunzhou. He had just experienced war here, and the smell of gunpowder had not yet dissipated.

You can still see corpses that are too late to clean up, woods, valleys, grasslands, and ownerless war horses, aimlessly gnawing on the grass, waiting for the new owner to gather them together.

An old general led his men to greet him.

"The last general Zhao Hongyin pays homage to the Marquis."

Ye Hua jumped off the war horse, "Why are you polite to the old general? I and Lang are good friends, you are my elders."

Zhao Hongyin waved his hand quickly, "The Marquis is so polite. The second son of the Mo General is thanks to the Marquis' teaching and care. The Mo General dares not regard himself as an elder!"

Ye Hua also smiled. What he didn't know most now was his seniority. He and Zhao Da are friends, but Zhao Er's master, and Feng Dao is his master, but he wanted to marry his granddaughter to him. It was so messy that he just ignored it.

Ye Hua asked Zhao Hongyin to lead the way and came to the east of the city. This was a huge open space, surrounded by deer antlers, and there were more than 2,000 prisoners. They held their heads and squatted on the ground, trembling, waiting for the arrangement of fate.

"All of them are Khitans?"

"There are also Han people!" Zhao Hongyin said with a dark face: "Mr. Marquis, let's just kill all these shameless beasts!"

"Don't!"

Ye Hua sneered, "It's a bargain to kill them. Leave them all over to Yanyun Development Company, and you can also sell them for a good price."

Ye Hua said lightly, as if he didn't care, but this sentence directly determined the fate of more than 2,000 people. Li Yu saw a creepy scene.

The veterinarians in the army were dispatched. They were holding sharp knives in their hands. Soldiers carried out the prisoners and sent them to the veterinarian.

Then there were screams after scream... Li Yu subconsciously covered his crotch and his face turned green.

"What are you afraid of? Is there no eunuch in the palace of Southern Tang?" Zhao Er said sneerly.

Li Yu swallowed with difficulty, "Can they be used as eunuchs in the Great Zhou Palace?"

"Of course not!" Zhao Er smiled and said, "These people were sent to do coolies."

"Then, why do you have to?..." Li Yu couldn't continue to say anything. He just felt that it was too cruel to do this.

"There is no way. The ancestors of your Li family, Emperor Taizong, once all over his tribe and followed the customs. As a result, the barbarians resembled and survived. After decades, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, so only by cutting a knife can you feel at ease!"

Li Yu quietly lowered his head. In the education he received, the Anshi Rebellion was because Emperor Xuanzong of Tang favored Yang Guifei and appointed the treacherous minister Li Linfu. Where Yang Guozhong went, it was because the emperor did not cultivate virtue and rule the kingly way, and it was a cycle of heaven and law, and the number of days was like this... The Tang Dynasty was prosperous and declined, which was a natural principle.

But Zhao Er told him another answer, and what's worse was that he believed it without doubt. The original cliché was thrown away by Li Yu.

"For the same book, some people have become good people in governing the country, while others have read it as a elm. This is a matter of opinion! Your current condition is far worse than Brother Ling, and you have to work harder!"

Li Yu was silent, and he followed Zhao Er and led the war horses for Ye Hua to the northern city of Shunzhou. Here, the number of soldiers was twice as many as the number of prisoners in charge, almost three thousand people.

Zhao Hongyin said a few words, Ye Hua frowned, "What are these people still doing? They killed them directly!"

The old general gritted his teeth, "The last general obeyed the order!"
Chapter completed!