In the sub-city of Jiaozhou City, it is already late at night when the lights are flickering. The curfew patrols and knocks are beginning to resound in the streets and lanes, but they are completely unable to contain some sneaky signs and mansions shuttled between the tall houses. Figure. And sometimes when he gets hit in person, even the soldiers who patrol the sentry at night, seem to be blindfolded and pass by.
Among them were Jiaozhou Governor Gaowei and his party who had just returned from a banquet and was one of the troikas in Jiaozhou City.
Compared with Zeng Gong, who was full of thoughts while looking at the enemy in the city during the day, the Jiaozhou governor sitting in the manpower lifter was full of regret and unwillingness. He was originally from a cultural background; There is nothing special or different from others.
Although he was one of the pioneer soldiers and horsemen under the command of his uncle, he had not actually led a day of soldiers, nor had he taken the lead to face the enemy. It was only because Gao Pian was transferred to another town that he needed someone to guard and manage the properties he amassed and purchased in the local area, which made him a Jiaozhou governor.
And those local officials and army generals from the local army are also based on the fact that he is a generation of famous generals, Gao Pian Cong Sun, and he is honored as the nominal minister and highest official of Jiaozhou; but once Lingdong and Lingxi One after another, the court fell and the court broke off. After they made up their minds to surrender to the grass thieves, his assassin lost its greatest usefulness, and he was emptied in name only.
But at any rate, because of the origins of the clan of a contemporary famous general, he is quite polite and carefree to him, and even his private property and farms are not violated, and he can still breed evil and produce for him. But this was different when Zeng Yan came. He copied all the big households in the city to replenish military funds and rewards. It was not enough. He even did not let go of the wealth of the collaborators headed by Gao Wei, and ordered them to break the family for the court one by one. Call for difficulties".
And the Gao Piao who gave all of this back and forth is still the Jiaozhou provincial governor who was elevated by others and used as a walking stick; even Gao Pian left him the nursing industry and three of his bodyguards. Hundreds of generals and tribes were also taken away on the grounds of unified life. Therefore, when he thinks of the precious treasures that have been removed from the house, he feels pain and distress;
In contrast, Li Zan, the governor of Guangxi, was much better than him. He relied on the thousands of tunes gathered together, as well as the wealthy family soldiers who surrendered to him. Now the official is under the guard of Deputy Chief Annan. Serving as Tiandu supporter concurrently, and Tian is the actual number two figure in the city.
To be honest, he believes that he does not have much ambition and desires. He just wants to spend a few more years safely and steadily in this Jiaozhou governor's post, and he will just double the industries that he cares about under his name, isn't it? This is not good either. Therefore, he inevitably turned to Zeng Yan quickly and became an enemy and secretly resented him; if it weren't for the other party but the grass thief who started from killing officials and rebelling, he was afraid that he would think of another way out.
It's just that after returning to his mansion and closing the gate of Aconitum, he found that a familiar figure was waiting in the moonlight and clear courtyard, and he couldn't help being surprised:
"Tu Zhen, you are still alive... You are not the grass thief anymore..."
He immediately reacted, and suddenly his face became cold and he said cruelly at one of the old trilogy.
"You still have the face to come back. I am a descendant of the famous Gao family and a family member of the father of Bohai. No matter how unbearable, there is absolutely no reason to be a thief for melancholy..."
However, although what he said was righteousness and stern reprimand, a series of complicated calculations flashed through his heart like lightning.
This general named Gu Liumeng, whose name is Tu Zhen, was born in the south of the Yangtze River in the eastern province of Mingzhou. This time, he was able to be put back and easily sneak into the heavily guarded city of Daluo, as if it were facing an enemy, only because it was the result of a large number of people in the army echoing and covering it up.
"Ming Gong said it is very true, my generation dare not have the lintel of filthy Gao Linggong..."
Gu Liumeng continued to say more respectfully.
"I just want to give you a lesson or two. The villain Gouquan this cruel body, but I really can't bear to see.... To bear to see the great foundation left by Ling Gong.. This is buried in the selfishness of others..."
"I can't bear to see the hard work and kindness of Ming Gongjiu Town Jiaozhou, all of which are in vain and it is difficult to be alone..."
"What do you mean... dare to talk about the court's guards..."
Gao's tone became more severe, but he let out a sigh of relief in his heart.
"What is my virtue and ability..."
"Why does Ming Gong need to belittle himself..."
However, Gu Liumeng continued to say in his heart with more discretion under the observation of his words and expressions.
"The leader of the thief still told Yu Minggong: If it is not my race, his heart must be different. Since ancient times, no matter who is in power in Annan, they are all subjects of my Han family."
"But if Annan is in constant chaos and the other party is empty, then the barbarians will be cheapened for nothing; then there is a reason for the enemy to come..."
"What a clever rhetoric..."
Gao Hao gave a heavy snort, but stretched out his hand to signal him to enter to avoid suspicion.
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The territory of Wu'ezhou (now near Taiyuan, Vietnam) to the northwest of Jiaozhou is also full of flames.
By the side of the small town where the corpses were all over and burnt to a white ground, a savage army of savage clothes was regrouping, along with them the mules and horses filled with things, and they were tied into a string by ropes. Stringed, unclothed, weeping woman.
Most of them wrapped their heads and feet with blue cloth towels, and were equipped with (bamboo) barrel armor, leather pockets, spears, hand markers, partial knives, rattan cards, mountain crossbows, bamboo arrows, and bolt arrows. Among them, the brave have tattoos, and the more tattoos, the more the warriors who have won the battle.
The green and black flag in the middle of these barbarians is a set of silver-embroidered Big Dipper, and the accompanying flag is a gilt tiger-head human bronze beast representing the ancestor god of the race. In the open space under the flag banners, there are many cattle and sheep on the yellow sandy ground before being dragged down. They are slaughtered one by one and divided among the warriors and eaten.
Then he took out the entrails and threw them into the raging fire pool surrounded by the dancing witch festival with a feather crown, and gave out bursts of pungent burnt smell and smoke, which was a good omen; then the animal blood collected by the copper horns was poured on that side. On the mottled green bronze drums in the array, the patterns on the drums that describe the legends of ancient shooting and hunting battles became more and more terrifying.
Among the newly built brown animal skin tents, the big chieftain Luo Fengyi, who is thick and stubborn, is chewing and eating with oil stains and residue on his breast and belly. Unconsciously he held the horn cup and drank crudely.
In the rhythm of the beating of many bronze drums, there are warriors with shirtless faces in various caves doing that fierce fighting in the open space in front of the tent, even if the sweat of the fight is dripping with blood, and they are not moved at all, until one of them The flesh and blood fell completely, and was dragged out and replaced by other people amidst the cheers and roars of throwing gold and silver ornaments at the winner.
Luo Fengyixin sat and looked at all of this with contentment, filled with a certain kind of surging hope and ambition. At the beginning, Luo's ancestors were only a certain branch of the Huang family, and a small village under the command of many vassals. Because they stood out among the "fighting enemies" in various caves, they replaced the declining original Xiaotou Dongzhu; Taking advantage of the Huang's rebellion and the imperial court's crusade against soldiers and horses, he got rid of his status as a vassal to the Huang's suzerain, and accepted himself into exile in Linxi Prefecture.
Nowadays, most of the Luos have used the methods of marriage and annexation for many generations, and they have three small states of Linxi, Dehua, and Langmang. There are tens of thousands of people in Dongding of Moqidong, and Tangquan and Lusuo. Waiting for the nineteen holes and small holes in the five Jimi small states as vassals, and donating money, food, products and labor service all the year round
Because as early as more than ten years ago, those who were originally the strongest Huang clan, Nong clan governors, and cave masters were killed and wounded by the officers and soldiers due to collusion with the Nanzhao rebellion, and they have been weakened so far. It was able to restore the old view; on the contrary, the other members who were sitting and watching by Roche took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the fire, and encroached and swallowed many surrounding villages and population.
After years and months, the Luo family led by Luo Fengyi has become the entire Xiyuan Barbarians, and even among the thirteen twenty-nine state barbarians in the Annan Protectorate, faintly ranks among the first-rate local barbarians.
Because they have lived in mountainous places and gorges and small basins throughout the generations, there are naturally large and small caves and villages inhabited areas according to the terrain. Among them, the big caves are in the same county, and the small ones also have a township. The village is the most basic rural unit compared to the Han dynasty; each village has a corresponding leader and nobleman, and the place where the bronze drum is cast is called "Du Lao".
However, because the land is narrow but fertile and rainwater is plentiful, farming and animal husbandry are quite developed. Therefore, the caves are known as "there are many people, and the grains are abundant"; they also have a large number of slaves and servants as a driving force; therefore, It is in the social mentality between primitive clan and slavery; among them, it is close to Han and civilized, and there are corresponding official offices, bazaars, temples and schools.
Among them, the native products include raw gold, silver, copper, lead green, cinnabar, cuiyu, cave, cloth, fennel, grass and fruit, and many other names. They are often released along many water systems in the mountains and sold in plain areas for their own interests. Therefore, as the upper-class adults of the caves, they are still quite wealthy. The paddy fields are endless in the mountains and the clouds are in the manor, and the slaves, maids, and servants are counted in the thousands.
Among them, most of the cave owners chose the brave and strong under the leader, and they were called caves by practicing swords, guns and bows. These caves often work hard, wear leather shoes and are good at shooting and hunting, and do not stop up and down the mountain. When they fight against each other, they set up an array, each with two wings wrapped in each other, and the elder with many wings wins it. Therefore, these savage leaders and cave owners of Nishihara often belong to mountain water sources, grass fields, forests and the like. Frequent armed fights and even generations of vendettas have also cultivated a rather sturdy and fearless folk style and vigor. (Traditional).
Although they fight with each other on weekdays and maintain the tradition of looting each other as goods and plundering people as slaves; but once there are strong men's skills to integrate them into one place, it will become a disaster for going out and plundering and raging places. ; In history, it has been intermittently running through for hundreds of years, rebelling against the indeterminate "Huang's Cave Rebellion", and even more than ten years ago by Nanzhao, the leader of Qiyuandong and the governor Li Duyou, who led Nanzhao into the bandit. The place where the native Zhu Daogu is located in Menshan is the best portrayal of it.
And now most of the Luos who have taken advantage of the times are obviously also one of the successors who want to learn from the ancestors. In fact, his honorary name was given by the tutor hired by the former Lord Luo Bu, who was loyal to Fengjieyi.
But Luo Fengyi is not the eldest man who is naturally favored by others, nor is he the youngest son of the previous generations of adults; but he can stand out among a dozen brothers of the same generation with his crude appearance and despicable manners, and even laugh to the end. Obviously it was not a matter of luck. Although it has always been said that he was the fateful choice favored by the ancestor god.
This time, most of the Roche he came from also brought the vassal tribes together, pulling out a total of 30,000 dongs and enclosing the ministries along the Xidaojiang River. Since then, the lineup of the 50,000 troops is of course not just for the purpose of plundering several counties Caibo’s children’s appetite is nothing more than; according to his adviser, Duan Jie, who had been taken over from the defeated Nanzhao army in the early years, the Tang Dynasty is now weak and civil strife, and Annan Hailu meets infighting again. It should be the reason for the rise of Luobu. It's time.
What's even better is that, just like God's will, his army only came out of Fuxian Mountain, so he ran into the powerful Handi representatives who came to look for in-laws as foreign aid. This made it even more famous and easy to handle. He thought about it so much that he saw his relatives hurried past the drinking crowd, and sent him a silk-wrapped thing blankly.
"Since there is a better name, those people are useless..."
After a while, Luo Fengyi stood up suddenly, showing a non-smiling expression.
"Take them out and cut down to sacrifice to the gods..."
Suddenly the sturdy soldiers with tattoos rushed in and dragged out some of the leaders in the hall who were in the banquet, some of them dressed as Tang people, and turned them into the bloody heads on the tray.
This sudden scene and the familiar expression on his face could not help but remind some people of him who was young and stout many years ago. He rushed back with dozens of entourages and broke into the residence of the dying leader of the Ministry, and then took the whole The scene when the manor turned blood.
"Happy event, really happy event..."
Then, Luo Fengyi said to the others with different expressions, but the cave masters and dong generals on the spot still rubbed their greasy stubby palms loudly.
"It was the guardian of the Han family who invited me to beg a thief..."
"Blessed by the ancestors, the time has come for most of my Roche to take over Annan..."
"Where the big (red) river flows, the land of the Han family can be used by the children of Caibo..."
"Everyone can be the governor, the general, and the treasures of Daluo City, waiting for us to enjoy it..."
"The big boss finished the game (Wan Sheng)... King Luo finished the game..."
Immediately the audience shouted in joy. (End of this chapter)