Of course, beings like the high priest will not interfere with government affairs under normal circumstances. They form their own system among the barbarians.

The most powerful one is the high priest, and his subordinates are the priests distributed in each tribe.

These priests are responsible for the annual heaven-sacrifice rituals of various barbarian tribes, and they are usually responsible for treating diseases of the tribesmen.

Of course, if there is a war between tribes, these priests will also use some magical means to predict the outcome of the war and provide advice to the tribal leaders.

In fact, this time Jinlu Khan's army invaded, he brought a high priest with him.

If this were not the case, Jinlu Khan would have been assassinated by Taoist officials stationed in Luyuan Province.

After all, when facing foreign enemies, the Supervisory Department, which usually does not interfere in local affairs, will take action.

After the battlefield was cleaned and Fang Xiaoyue led everyone back to the city, the harvest of this battle was counted.

Among them, as many as 3,600 barbarian cavalry were killed or seriously injured.

This is not surprising. Let alone tens of thousands of cavalry, even tens of thousands of pigs can be killed by those county soldiers with ease.

In fact, most casualties of the barbarian cavalry occurred while fleeing.

Even those elite cavalrymen with one person and two horses, when escaping for their lives, could only disengage one horse and escape.

And the distance that a war horse can run violently is only fifty or sixty miles.

Under such circumstances, the county soldiers chased wildly on horseback. Even if the horses ran away and fell to death, the Sky-shattering Sword Technique they practiced allowed them to catch up faster with the barbarian cavalry whose horses also fell to death.

As for the prisoners, there were thousands of them.

The harvest in this battle was extremely rich.

More than 5,000 war horses alone were seized, and the horses that were burned to death were not included in the calculation.

In addition, there are a large number of cattle and sheep, food and grass, weapons, leather armor, tents and other luggage, which are countless.

This is not surprising. The barbarian armies always carried cattle and sheep with them as their staple food. As for the food and grass, some were mixed with meat and some were for war horses.

After all, war horses can't just eat grass.

Even though the war horses of the barbarians have good endurance and a rough diet, if they are not fed high-protein foods such as black beans and wheat during long-distance marches, the war horses will easily lose weight.

After losing weight, the horse's running speed will be very poor.

I have to say that winning a battle makes people very happy.

But all the troubles caused after winning the battle gave Fang Xiaoyue a huge headache.

The first is the issue of the detention of thousands of prisoners.

There were more than 300 prisoners before, so it was more troublesome to guard them.

Previously, all the county soldiers were dispatched for a sneak attack, and all the guards outside the prisoner camp were replaced by the old, weak, sick and disabled.

If those prisoners hadn't been kept in good condition before, Qiongshui County would have changed hands if there was some prisoner riot or something like that.

After all, the guards are all old, weak, sick and disabled. Even if they are armed with weapons, it is difficult to defeat more than 300 strong men with bare hands.

To be honest, this prisoner is still a little troublesome.

As long as there is no further fighting, more than 400 county soldiers will be more than enough to guard them.

The real big trouble is the captured horses, cattle and sheep.

The county seat of Qiongshui County is already very small, and it would be very difficult to separate a separate area to hold more than 1,300 prisoners.

Now there are more than 5,000 war horses, more than 1,000 cattle, and more than 8,000 sheep. The entire county has been vacated, and there is no room for them.

Not to mention that if these cattle, sheep and horses were placed in the county town, the feces and stench produced every day would be enough to make people collapse.

For this reason, Fang Xiaoyue had to have these cattle, horses and sheep sent to a valley far away from the county seat.

The terrain of this valley is not high. The highest point is only about ten meters. Inside is a gourd-shaped indented valley. The ground is covered with large and small gravels. It covers an area of ​​more than 800 acres and the width of the valley mouth is only 30 meters.

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You only need to build a wooden fence or pile stones at the entrance of the valley to keep the cattle, sheep and horses inside.

Of course, even so, the cattle, sheep and horses in the valley are still overcrowded.

Over time, various plagues will inevitably break out among these cattle, sheep, and horses.

Under such circumstances, Fang Xiaoyue had to ask the chief bookkeeper Qian Yushui to step in and ask Zhang Yuanming to escort him to Dahe Province to find buyers who could purchase cattle, sheep and horses in large quantities.

As for letting the imperial court acquire it, Fang Xiaoyue didn't consider it at all.

Not to mention how slow the imperial court's return on purchases was, and how much food and drink they had to pay. Maybe some officials got greedy and used the excuse of requisitioning military supplies to directly confiscate it. It's just that the imperial court's current attention is probably focused on the Siwan barbarian invasion.

, even if Fang Xiaoyue is submitted to the memorial, the court may not know when it will send someone down.

Instead of having so much trouble, it would be better to find some private merchants to buy it.

At least in the eyes of those businessmen, a bookkeeper still has some credibility.

As for Qiong Shui County holding a grand flowing water banquet again, it has nothing to do with Qian Yushui.

As usual, in the open space in front of the county government office, large pots were placed, the water was boiling, the pots were filled with pieces of meat, and various spices were poured in.

This time it was different from before. The big pot was full of meat, not even any potatoes or vegetables.

All the people of the county, county soldiers, etc. were surrounding, waiting.

Fang Xiaoyue didn’t want everyone to eat so luxuriously.

The main reason is that after cleaning the battlefield, too many horse carcasses, cattle and sheep carcasses were recovered.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and people will sweat slightly when walking outside at noon.

In such weather, the carcasses of cattle, sheep, and horses could not be kept for more than a few days.

Even if Fang Xiaoyue thought of a way and sent someone to a salt lake to dig some rock salt back to marinate the meat.

However, there are always too many impurities in rock salt, and eating too much of the cured meat is not good for your health.

Therefore, the most you can do is marinate a thin layer on the surface, and then store the meat in a cool cellar.

In this way, everyone can only eat as much of the remaining meat as possible.

In the following time, Qiongshui County will be overflowing with the mouth-watering smell of meat every day.

Fortunately, after this great victory, there was no movement from the Xiwan barbarians.

The people of Qiongshui County ate for five consecutive days before ending this amazing meat feast.

No way, except for the meat that was marinated and put in the cellar, the rest of the meat was spoiled. Fang Xiaoyue had people take it and mix it with wheat straw, then pour it into the earthworm pond to raise earthworms and maggots.

In this way, the chickens in Qiongshui County can lay more eggs.

At least eggs are much easier to preserve than meat.

It took half a month for the bookkeeper Qian Yushui to return to Qingshui County with three caravans.

It can be said that Qian Yushui's trip to Dahe Province was quite difficult.

Not to mention the fact that Feng Dian slept in the open on the way, just after arriving at the provincial capital of Dahe Province, looking for the caravan received a lot of looks.

This is not surprising, Qian Yushui was an official who came from the imperial examination, and was inherently inferior to Jinshi officials.

In this provincial capital, he was not familiar with the place. If he wanted to make those businessmen trust him, he would naturally have to ask someone from the government to come forward.

In the provincial capital, even those below the Chief Envoy's position and experience were all from the same background as Jinshi.

When money meets water, in front of others, not only is he a low-ranking official, but he is also from a low background. Even if he is given free money, others will not give him much good looks.

Fortunately, although I received a lot of looks and spent a lot of money, the matter was finally done.

The three caravans he brought back were subordinate to the three largest trading houses in Dahe Province.

In the past, these three trading houses went to Jie Market to buy cattle, sheep and horses.

But with the Siwan invasion, this line was broken.

After receiving the news, and with the chief envoy and the governor as guarantors, these three trading houses were naturally overjoyed and immediately dispatched a caravan.

Of course, they don't know how many livestock there are in Qinshui County, so at best, the trip will be in vain.

Anyway, the caravans under his command are now in vain.

But when they arrived in Qiongshui County and took a look at the valley, the leaders of the three caravans were shocked.

What's going on in Qianshui County?

Did he go to the grassland and rob the barbarian tribe or what?

How is it possible to have so many livestock?

What surprised them most was that when they checked the condition of the livestock, they found that the horses were of very high quality, higher than the war horses of the Daze Kingdom.

If it weren't for the fact that these horses didn't have the seal of the Great Ze Kingdom Army Horse on their buttocks, they would have suspected that the Qiongshui County Magistrate had colluded with the Northwest Army and sold the general's horses.

Of course, they also knew that it would not be easy for the entire Northwest Army to produce so many good war horses.

Then there is only one truth to the matter. Just as the Qiongshui County Chief Secretary boasted, they defeated the capture of the barbarian cavalry.

Of course, businessmen are money-minded and pursue profits.
To be continued...