Chapter 831

Sure enough, he borrowed 7,000 cavalry from Nepal.

This dark move set in advance would probably make Bianji very annoyed, right?

"The captured war elephants should be trained on the spot in Yelang. As for those prisoners, send them all to Liaodong to farm for Qi Jiguang."

Qin Mu arranged the fate of the Harsha Empire's prisoners casually.

In his view, the Harsha Empire's soldiers really had nothing useful.

Just let them go farm; perhaps they could still play some role.

"Your Majesty, Lu Yu has returned to Chang'an and requests an audience."

"Proclaim her."

Qin Mu was actually quite looking forward to Lu Yu's news.

She was the one who truly went to Yelang and took a trip.

Lu Yu's mission to Yelang was different from everyone else's.

Qin Mu specifically asked her to recruit some elephant drivers, and also blacksmiths from the Harsha army.

These two types of technical talents were what Great Qin was urgently lacking.

Lu Yu ascended the hall.

"Subject Lu Yu, pays respects to Your Majesty!"

Qin Mu was unconventional and bestowed an official position upon Lu Yu. Although the position was not very high, it was a team leader of a human resources merchant fleet.

But this was a special case in history where a woman became an official.

For this reason, it had caused quite a bit of controversy in the court.

"Lu Yu, what did you see and hear on this trip? Tell me about it."

Lu Yu's state now was completely different from when she first came to Great Qin from Great Tang.

At that time, she was just the person in charge of business within the family.

The position was very important to the family, but she was not valued within the family and did not receive respect.

After pledging allegiance to Great Qin, Qin Mu gave her an official position. This woman had been like a different person ever since, full of passion.

It seemed she was deeply moved by Qin Mu's recognition.

"Your Majesty, this time I recruited more than 3,000 elephant drivers, all of whom stayed in Yelang to teach the soldiers how to train war elephants."

"In addition, I recruited more than 1,000 blacksmiths and 2,000 other types of craftsmen."

"Having dealt with the Harsha people more, I discovered a strange thing."

Regarding the strange thing Lu Yu mentioned, the court ministers were all very curious.

In this court, except for Lu Yu, no one had ever seen Harsha people.

Subconsciously, they felt that Harsha people might be like other barbarians, just a bit backward and a bit savage.

But generally, those wouldn't be called strange.

A smile appeared on Lu Yu's face, appearing somewhat unable to hold back laughter.

"It turns out that Harsha people not only believe in Buddhism but also believe in a kind of Jainism. Their nature is keen on harsh self-abuse and blind self-confidence."

"At first, I thought Harsha people were very difficult to persuade. After all, reasoning with them was completely useless."

"But later, by chance, I discovered that as long as you threaten them with beef, they will compromise."

Threaten with beef??

This was indeed a strange thing!

If it were normal people, beef would be a reward.

No one could figure out what was in the Harsha people's brains? Why would they be threatened by a piece of beef?

Lu Yu smiled.

"Your Majesty, this method works every time. As long as you take out the beef and threaten to force-feed it to them."

"I guarantee they will instantly become obedient; tell them to do whatever, and they will do it."

Truly bizarre!

The ministers were all stunned; this was the first time they had heard of such a method of threatening people.

Too incredible!

Could it be that Harsha people treat cows as devils?

Qin Mu, however, knew what was going on.

"Harsha people treat white cows as sacred objects, the mount of Shiva. Killing cows and eating beef is equivalent to blaspheming Shiva."

"This method of threatening is indeed quite good."

A group of ministers then understood.

In the Central Plains, whether it's Daoism or Buddhism, not many people believe in them particularly much. So they couldn't quite understand the state of the Harsha people.

Feeding them beef and defiling their souls is more uncomfortable than killing them.

Now, it has become a weakness that can be used to coerce them.

Many people think that the Harsha court is very unwise to create such a weakness artificially.

Now, it has benefited Great Qin.

Lu Yu smiled.

"Just as Your Majesty said. Therefore, when General Yue Yun crushed the Harsha army, the fire ox formation played a huge role."

"Harsha people, seeing fire oxen, subconsciously wouldn't harm them, only dodge."

"Therefore, the fire ox formation caused great damage to the Harsha army!"

So, the battle where Yue Yun crushed the Harsha army had such an inside story?

This was somewhat unexpected.

If this move is used to continue attacking the Harsha Empire. They definitely won't be able to resist either!