Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

Seeing that everyone's emotions had calmed down, Tian Meng hurriedly said: "Besides, it's not that we have nothing to do. His Highness has also given you a task."

"What mission?" Everyone immediately became interested when they heard this, and immediately asked excitedly.

"That is to provide a transport team of 4 people. This team does not need to go to the battlefield. Each person has two pack horses. When necessary, supplies will be transported to the front line."

"Everyone's monthly money is settled according to the normal monthly money of ordinary soldiers. And each village must provide a certain amount of dried meat as support, and the price of dried meat will be purchased by Datang Grain Storage according to the market price." Tian Meng spoke directly.

Seeing that everyone opened their mouths to refute, Tian Meng said directly: "Everyone is not allowed to refute, and the money must be taken, because now our Tang Dynasty is not short of money. Your Highness said that when the people are rich, the Tang Dynasty can be richer."

"You guys are rich, don't you want to buy grain, cloth, and salt from the Tang Dynasty in the future? Naturally, the profits will be returned to the imperial court, so the money must be kept. If you don't collect money, your highness won't You are permitted to use and participate."

"In addition, the jerky provided by each village is fixed, and no overspend is allowed, because if too many cattle and sheep are killed, it will affect the national security of our Datang in the future. Don't believe it, the stock of cattle and sheep is also the same. For the national security of our Datang, the cattle and sheep must ensure a certain amount of survival!"

"In the future, we will be able to provide more wool, more cowhide, tendons, horns, and even animal power, right?"

Having been on the grassland for so long, Tian Meng knew exactly what these people were thinking, so he blocked their words in advance.

"This...transporting supplies and providing dried meat are of course fine for us, but if we collect money, this...wouldn't be a national calamity, and we still make money, wouldn't it be a national calamity?" A village chief hesitated. He opened his mouth a few times.

"You are the only one who can speak, right? You have just studied for a few days. What kind of national wealth is this? If you don't know how to use words, you don't have to use them." Tian Meng looked at him angrily and said, these village chiefs are also in winter leisure When you need to learn.

These words seem to have just been learned not long ago.

"This is called national co-ordination. It is bought from you when the imperial court needs to replenish certain supplies. What is national disaster wealth? National disaster wealth means that the Tang Dynasty has been destroyed and foreign enemies have invaded. At that time, you did not sell things according to market prices. Prices, if sold at a high price, that’s called national calamity.” Tian Meng explained to them.

"Look at you, you can't talk, what you said is a fart." Another older village chief directly kicked the village chief just now.

"Hey, it's my fault. Didn't I just use what I learned, then...then we are always uneasy." The village head said a little embarrassedly.

"Actually, I can understand everyone's feelings, but everyone, you are all village chiefs. To put it bluntly, you are all officials of our Tang Dynasty. Although you are grassroots officials, you should stand with His Highness. If you even say something different , how do you expect you to go back and convince your respective villagers?"

"I can understand that everyone has a good day today, and I don't want anyone to ruin our good life. I can understand the idea that such a good life will continue forever. But please believe in the court, even if you are If you don’t trust the court, don’t you trust His Highness?”

"To put it bluntly, bastards like Goguryeo are not worth our Tang Dynasty's full efforts to deal with them. His Highness didn't want you to participate, and he didn't even want to send troops from Hanhai Prefecture."

"But for the sake of everyone's high fighting spirit, everyone is allowed to participate, but they must follow the normal wartime discipline. Don't delay things."

"Everyone should understand that the law of the Tang Dynasty is the highest standard now in our Tang Dynasty. The army naturally has military discipline. This foreign war is also a time to collectively test this discipline."

"Think about it, everyone, you are all well-intentioned, but if you do this in the future, when you meet a fair and honest official, he will truthfully report the things you provide for free."

"But what if I meet a corrupt and bribe-taking person? If I, Tian Meng, are a corrupt and bribe-taking person, all of you are kind enough to contribute to Datang for free, but in fact the imperial court gave you a monthly payment, but in the end the monthly payment was taken by me. Swallow it yourself. Tell me, is this a wedding dress for the bad guys?"

"Everyone is a man from the grassland, and they are all straightforward people, but you can't deny that none of us can guarantee that there will be no bad guys, right? Every bad guy is not a bad guy at the beginning, and he learns to be bad step by step. "

"There are many big rats on this grassland, not to mention people who are far smarter than rats?" Tian Meng looked at the village chiefs and said seriously.

Everyone looked at each other, and after thinking for a while, an old village head said: "Tu Dudu is right, we can't make trouble for the imperial court, we are the most low-level officials in the Tang Dynasty, we should set an example and follow the imperial court's lead." Go, follow Your Highness."

"In this way, after we all go back, we will tell our respective tribal herdsmen according to Tian Dudu's words, and then strictly follow the requirements of the above to complete our tasks."

"We let our herdsmen take all the money that should be taken. We can't break the rules and laws of the Tang Dynasty just because of ourselves."

"Yes, we didn't think about it before."

"Tian Dudu, then we know, you can issue the task."

Those who can be elected as village chiefs are also highly respected and flexible in mind. Tian Meng has already mentioned this, and they gradually understand it.

The main reason is that they have corrected their identities. They are not only ordinary herders, but also the grassroots officials at the last level of the Tang Dynasty.

"Okay! Thank you for your cooperation. Later, the dried meat and related materials provided by each village will be sent to you, including how many people can be produced in each village, and the monthly payment of relevant personnel, the cost of using horses, etc., the imperial court There will be someone here to connect with you.”

"Everyone can rest assured, tell the herdsmen in our village, tell them that His Highness hopes that they will become richer, because the richer we ordinary people are, the richer Datang will be."

"To put it bluntly, if each of our households has thousands of sheep, in the future when our Datang really encounters natural disasters and man-made disasters and needs donations, each family will donate a thousand sheep, which will not hurt us. Isn’t that the reason why it can be of great help to the whole country when it’s still in its bones?!” Tian Meng laughed loudly.