"Brother, don't be so polite between us. Du Pushe helped me a lot in the capital. One or two tips are nothing." Li Chengqian was a little dissatisfied with Du Gou's respectful attitude.

In his opinion, guiding Comrade Xiao Du is not a big deal. If he doesn't come forward, the old Du leader will also come forward to guide him. He just wants to be a favor and can't be thankful for his words.

Just a few greetings made the two men who had not seen each other for more than two years quickly become familiar with each other again. The title of elder brother and brother Gao Ming was once again picked up by the two.

"Brother, how about it? I gave you the idea good, right?" Li Chengqian asked Du Gou beside him all the way into the city.

As a result, Du Gou shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Gao Ming, do you know what my name is in Dengzhou now?"

"Brother, do you actually have a name?" Li Chengqian was very curious about what name a dull guy like Du Gou could get.

"Don't let the slave!" Du Gou replied complainingly.

"Puff..." Li Chengqian didn't breathe, coughed with choking, and asked for a while: "Why is there such a strange name?"

"It's because of your unscrupulous idea that when that guy Wang Xuance left, he gave me all the nearly 50,000 Goguryeo slaves in his hand, which made me feel endless every day!" Du Gou said in a resentful voice, denounced Wang Xuance's all kinds of unrighteous actions before leaving.

"Brother, do you mean half of the people in this city are Goguryeo?" Li Chengqian listened to Du Gou's nagging and realized it after a while.

"This is natural, otherwise how do you think the name of 'slave' came from'?" Du Gou sighed and said, "These Goguryeo people are also miserable people. Shandong has almost developed it and there is not much work to do, so I asked them to be responsible for the land reclamation. As long as a certain amount of wasteland is opened, they can be dismissed and converted into my Tang people."

"Aren't you afraid that they will run away? Or..." Li Chengqian's face looked a little ugly.

His views are completely different from Du Gou. In his opinion, they are not of my race, and their hearts must be different. It is not a good thing to keep so many Goguryeo people in the palace. One bad thing is the ending of the rebellion. At that time, many people may die.

"Gao Ming, they are just ordinary people in Goguryeo. Their requirements are not high. As long as they have food to eat, they will be satisfied if they cannot starve to death. They are not as terrible as you think." Du Gou seemed to know what Li Chengqian was thinking. Maybe someone had reminded him before this.

"But what if a rebellion occurs? Have you ever thought about it? There are tens of thousands of people. If you include other places in Shandong, you may have more than 100,000, and you will release them like this?" Li Chengqian wanted to press Du Gou, a guy full of scholarly anger, to the ground and kick him a few times.

This guy is too brave. Can't he see the risks? Or is the so-called "benevolence and righteousness" really that important?

"The living conditions here are much better than those of Goryeo Ju. Why do they rebel? There are not so many taxes here, and no one will bully them. As long as they farm with peace of mind, they can enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Tang Dynasty. What else are they not satisfied with?" Du Gou argued and tried to convince Li Chengqian.

In Xiao Du's opinion, these Goguryeo people are also humans. They were caught from their homes and brought them to the Tang Dynasty to build roads, open up wastelands, and build houses. As long as they don't die, they will continue to work. This is a bit too inhumane.

But he couldn't tell Li Chengqian these words, after all, no matter how good their relationship is, he was a minister, and Li Chengqian was the king. If he directly criticized him for being inhumane, it would be a bit unreasonable.

But Li Chengqian's ideas were not so easy to change. Although Du Gou said sincerely, he still said with a sinister face: "No matter what you think, the Goguryeo people who were let go by you must catch me a lot of them, and no one can be missing. I don't want to bet on your speculation with the lives of my Tang people."

"Your Highness, they are all human beings!" Du Gou was anxious when he heard that he wanted to capture everyone.

He finally managed to suppress the Dengzhou sect with his father's name. Now Li Chengqian is coming out again. He really has no way to suppress it this time.

"But they are not Tang people!" He stood there, staring at Du Gou with his eyes, his tone was unquestionable: "I don't want to say the second time. You'd better catch them all sooner, otherwise I don't mind giving orders in person. Of course, if I order in person, you don't have to be a no-go. Go back to Chang'an and continue reading the sages of sages."

"But……"

"Let's go, let's go out of the city!" Li Chengqian didn't give Du Gou a chance to continue saying anything. He patted Xiao Wu on the shoulder and turned around and walked out of the city.

In essence, Li Chengqian has a genius who would rather let me betray the world than let me betray me, so his thinking habit is to consider problems from the extreme.

Du Gou released nearly 20,000 Goguryeo slaves in Dengzhou Prefecture. Although he said that the purpose of these people was to live, Li Chengqian did not think so.

Human desires are endless. When a person is about to die, he may just want to live, but once he survives, he will think of other problems, such as revenge, and then going home.

If nearly 20,000 people suddenly launched an attack, they could rescue other slaves who had not been released, and their number would increase by 50,000 or even 100,000.

If so many Goguryeo people launched a rebellion in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, the damage they could cause was very huge. After all, the Tang Dynasty now implemented a policy of strong trunks and weak branches. Local prefectures did not have much military force, and it was impossible to suppress the chaos of more than 100,000 people.

Of course, it is also possible that such a thing would not happen. Things will really be like Du Gou said. The released Goguryeo people honestly continued their peasant life, no longer thinking about going home or revenge.

But Li Chengqian did not dare to gamble. He would rather believe that human nature is evil than that human nature is good.

He could trust the people of the Tang Dynasty and the officials of the Tang Dynasty, but he would never trust the alien race, whether it was Turks, Goguryeo or Hu people in the Western Regions.

"Young Master, where are we going now?" Li Chengqian and his party did not have long entered Dengzhou Prefecture, so they quickly retreated from it.

"Look for a boat to go out to sea, right away!" Li Chengqian turned around and looked at Gou Du who was chasing out of it, and directly got into his carriage, but hesitated for a moment before closing the car door, signaling Yang Yuxin to wait for a while.

"Your Highness, do you really have no room for recovery?" Du Gou chased after him from inside, and asked with an ugly expression on his face.
Chapter completed!