When the two discussed the specific implementation matters, the follow-up 27,000 riders also arrived at the tribe, and some alchemists from the Immortal Medicine Workshop were among them. However, the cavalry had traveled a lot today, and it was getting dark, so they didn't plan to act immediately, and everything would only start tomorrow morning.
After the army arrived, Chu Zheng, the vanguard officer, finished his errands and returned to the camp to patrol. After Zhang Changan arranged some details, he went to report to the governor. When he came back, he saw the shepherds who had gone out to graze, and they had driven back one after another with their cattle and sheep.
Large herds of cattle, sheep and horses drove into the tribe, and the scene was grand and spectacular, which looked no less than rushing rivers and surging waves. As the chief, Gesang's herds of cattle and sheep are naturally at the forefront, the largest in number and the fattest in size.
Normally at this time, Zhang Changan would go up to the turret to watch for a while, not only that he likes the scene of the vast number of creatures concentrating on activities, but also to check whether the number of cattle and sheep has decreased or increased.
Now that he is a great cultivator in the realm of real people, Zhang Changan can see a lot of things by looking at him casually. Sure enough, Zhang Chang'an soon saw that Gesang's herd of cattle and sheep had grown fatter, at least hundreds of cattle and sheep.
This made his forehead ache, and he was in no mood to care about anything else. He jumped in front of Gesang, pulled her aside, and said with a green face, "Why did you rob another tribe's cattle and sheep? Didn't I follow her?" You said it before, you have enough cattle and sheep, you can't just grab others'! "
Gesang blinked his big innocent eyes, "I didn't try to snatch it!"
The familiar answer made Zhang Chang'an put his hands on his forehead, feeling so sad that he didn't want to speak.
When Gesang first became the chief of the tribe, he was very cautious and timid. He didn't know how to manage the tribe or how to get along with other tribes, so he asked Zhang Chang'an many times.
Zhang Changan told her at that time, let her not worry, there is an army to maintain order in the grassland, no other tribes dare to bully them, and he himself will help her and provide her with protection.
In the end, Zhang Changan said something that he regrets until now: make more friends. As long as we are friends, a lot of trouble will be avoided.
Making friends is too easy for grassland people. They are naturally hospitable, just as they are naturally warlike.
When life is easy, they will entertain friends from far away; when life is hard, they will become friends from far away, forcing others to "entertain" themselves with bows, arrows and knives.
Zhang Changan underestimated the naive Gesang's ability to make friends, and on the first day she took her tribe out to graze, she made friends with a dozen sheep on the wasteland. According to Gesang himself, he was very enthusiastic about them. He entertained them and ate a lot of pasture from his own home, and even sang songs to them.
Then, since everyone was already friends, it was only natural to bring them home as guests, so the dozen or so sheep entered Gesang's own sheepfold. The problem is, Gesang automatically forgot about sending his friend back when he woke up the next day.
Zhang Changan heard from people that Gesang carefully distinguished the large flock of bleating white sheep in the sheepfold for a long time that morning, but he couldn't tell which ones were his own sheep and which ones were friends' sheep.
At this time, the chief Gesang was extraordinarily magnanimous. With a wave of his little hand, he announced the important decision that all the sheep are his own sheep. He also patted his chest and told them that from now on, he will take good care of you. Let you eat fat for nothing.
In this way, Gesang started his glorious journey of making friends on the grassland. At the beginning, the tribe had only 3,000 people,
The population is small and the territory is small. When grazing, it is easy to meet other shepherds and cattle and sheep.
In Gesang's clear and touching singing, the cattle and sheep of other families seemed to be summoned by the gods. When Gesang approached them, they all bleated and bleated to express their appreciation. The appearance of a friend - anyway, Gesang himself said so.
As a result, the number of cattle and sheep in the tribe increased rapidly, and the fences of the sheepfold were expanded again and again.
At this time, Zhang Chang'an's troubles came as expected. Those shepherds and tribes who had lost their cattle and sheep came to Zhang Chang'an's place one after another, crying how terrible Gesang's singing of "charming the sheep's heart" was, and accusing Gesang of "taking the sheep by hand" Damn it, ask Zhang Changan to uphold justice and order Gesang to return all the cattle and sheep to them.
Zhang Chang'an was naturally fair, so he called Gesang over, criticized him sternly, and planned to ask her to return the cattle and sheep to others.
However, his criticism education was only halfway through, and Gesang's mouth was full of tears, and he looked like he was about to cry after being greatly wronged, and told himself to be strong and desperately hold back the tears, leaving Zhang Chang'an speechless. Harsh words can no longer be uttered.
At that time, Gesang was still just a young girl after all. Long-term malnutrition made her thin and her hair was yellow and yellow. In front of that appearance, Zhang Changan, who was educated by a good family Confucianism since childhood, was kind and upright, full of sympathy. The young man of the Tang Dynasty with a heart full of compassion and pity could only be defeated.
While Zhang Changan was struggling with how to deal with this kind of thing, Gesang's ability to make friends once again showed its powerful power.
I don't know what she said to those shepherds and chiefs. Anyway, after half a day, they greeted each other for a good meal and drank a lot of good wine, and those scattered shepherds voluntarily joined the Gesang tribe.
And the chiefs of those small tribes also said that as long as the Gesang tribe can sell them iron pots, linen, tea, medicinal materials...these are the scarce necessities of life in the grassland, they will no longer pursue her bad deeds.
While Zhang Changan was stunned, Gesang had already finished contacting the Central Plains caravan who came to the tribe, learned to be a middleman without a teacher, and started the great cause of making friends with the chiefs of various tribes.
And when those small tribes who were actually struggling to make a living saw the increasingly prosperous appearance of the Gesang tribe and a variety of commodities that could obviously improve the quality of life, gradually, the small tribes became Gesang's family one after another because of the herdsmen. A friend, was invited to settle by the Dougsang tribe and couldn't sustain it.
Naturally, in the next few years, the Gesang tribe, which originally had a population of only 3,000 and cattle and sheep of less than 200,000, rapidly expanded into a large tribe of 20,000.
Within a radius of sixty miles, there were no more scattered shepherds, nor small tribes with dozens or hundreds of people. Bathed in the sunshine-like warm aura of Chief Gesang, the herdsmen lived a happy life with plenty of food and clothing, singing and dancing.
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When the shepherdess in the cardamom age completed her magnificent transformation into a tribal chief, she was praised not only for her kind nature, tolerant mind, but also her unparalleled beauty.
Gesang, who is now sixteen years old, after getting rid of the difficult life of malnutrition, has grown into a charming beauty at a speed visible to the naked eye in recent years, and has been praised as the pearl of the grassland within a hundred miles.
Zhang Changan noticed this process, but because he was in contact almost every day, he didn't actually feel much about it.
Sometimes when I heard the herdsmen's praise for Gesang's appearance, I didn't take it seriously, and occasionally
I will recall, when Gesang took off the dirty sheepskin jacket that he wore all year round, put on elegant and gorgeous robes, and was meticulously dressed by his colleagues' wives and concubines, and suddenly appeared in front of him. feel.
The Eighteenth Change of the Female University, the shepherd girl who used to be thin and small with a rather dark complexion, is now completely invisible, like a dream that has been forgotten.
But Gesang's changes over the years are only in appearance, but his personality and heart have not changed at all.
Sometimes it looks very smart, for example, when dealing with merchants, you can’t afford less money if you worry about it; Steal other people's things.
Zhang Changan sighed, and immediately looked serious: "There are no shepherds outside the tribe in this area of sixty miles. How did you get nearly a hundred cattle and sheep today? Didn't I say that the tribe cannot graze without leaving the tribe?" Territory, to invade other people's pastures?"
Gesang smiled triumphantly: "I didn't go to other people's pastures! How can the pasture in other people's pastures be as rich as ours? I was just herding sheep and singing normally, and then these cattle and sheep ran from the pastures of neighboring tribes. Here they come. They bleat and surround me, offering to make friends with me, how can I refuse?"
At the end, Gesang spread his hands, indicating that he was really very, very innocent this time, and was simply very, very lucky.
A black line appeared on Zhang Changan's forehead.
He knew that Gesang's singing was beautiful, and he also knew that the singing of the shepherdess had a strange attraction and soothing power to the cattle and sheep. After all, it is not surprising that it is the crystallization of wisdom produced in the long-term labor process and mutual dependence.
But Zhang Chang'an didn't believe that cattle and sheep from other tribes would come all the way to circle around Gesang.
He said in a deep voice: "Do you know that those shepherds whose cattle and sheep are taken away by you will find it difficult to maintain their livelihoods, and I am afraid they will not be able to survive. As a tribal chief, how many people follow you to beg for life, you should learn to appreciate human feelings , I know that my heart is for the common people... "
"I know, I know!" Gesang nodded without waiting for Zhang Changan to finish speaking, and then pointed to a few shepherds who were thin and ragged behind him.
She proudly said: "So I brought them back too! Look at how thin they are, they must have not had enough to eat for many days, and when they become members of our tribe in the future, they will be able to eat and wear warm clothes! What did you just say? ? Sensitive to human feelings, caring for the common people? Haha, am I doing a good job?"
Looking at Gesang's appearance that you are about to praise me, Zhang Chang'an just felt powerless. Sometimes he really has nothing to do with this simple and strange shepherdess in front of him.
Although the order of the grassland is now stable and there is a trend of prosperity. Many shepherds who were hungry before can now live comfortably, but in any era and any place, the wealth is extremely uneven, and the difference between up and down is beyond ordinary people's imagination. .
As the manager of the grassland, Zhang Chang'an certainly knows that everyone in the Gesang tribe is now full of red faces, let alone full, and can still eat vegetables every now and then. Even the lowest herdsmen can drink a sip of wine in two days, but On the vast grasslands, there are still many people without clothes and food.
Many people will still die without dignity in the cold winter.
So when he saw the fearful and pleading eyes of those shepherds looking at him, Zhang Changan couldn't say a word.
"Don't take this as an example." Zhang Changan dropped a sentence that could barely maintain his majesty, and quickly turned and left.