Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1381
In March and April, the Liao land was still a desolate scene with a chilly spring, but as it entered May, the sky and the earth suddenly warmed up, and it directly entered the scorching summer.

At noon, the sun was still shining brightly, but suddenly it was raining heavily.Murong Jun and his party, who were walking among the mountains to recruit soldiers, were blocked on the mountain road by the sudden heavy rain.

The soldiers cut bamboo and wood in a hurry, and soon built a simple hut near the mountain road to shelter from the rain.

"Damn the weather!"

Murong Jun stepped into the hut, changed out of his rain-soaked robes, and stood in the hut with his upper body exposed.

Murong Bu is also known as Bailu, and his skin color and appearance are different from those of Chinese people. Murong Jun is no exception. His strong torso is carved like white jade. Although he is not trim, he is also elegant.When he was young, his grandfather Murong Xing often praised the child's strange bones, and when he was a strong family, he was also very heroic when he became an adult.

It's just that Murong Jun's complexion is not very good at this moment, and a sense of irritability lingers between his brows.The reason why he was upset was not only that the trip was delayed due to the sudden rainstorm, but the main reason was that the process of recruiting pawns had not gone smoothly recently.

Earlier, Murong Jun promised his father, Murong Hao, to go to Jie Country as a hostage, and Murong Hao gave him a quota of [-] followers, and directly stated that these [-] soldiers would be directly attributed to him.

The reason why Murong Jun agreed to go to Jie country was because of his father's coercion, and this lure promise made Murong Jun quite tempted.Murong Jun's heir was determined early, as his father promised that he would pass on the position to him before he passed away after he returned from meritorious service, and it didn't move Murong Jun very much, it was just a matter of course, not a reward.

But for five thousand fine and brave private songs, Murong Jun had no choice but to be tempted.He is in such a sect, and he has to be more aware of the strength in his hand is the biggest reliance.If he doesn't have his own team at all, even if he enjoys his father's position, he may not be able to sit securely, such as his uncle Murong Ren's years-long rebellion.

Murong Jun's heir position was established as early as when his grandfather Murong Xin was alive.After so many years, a group of soldiers who support him has already gathered around him.Especially after the Duan family's Xianbei collapsed, Murong Jun also got a considerable amount of Duan's remnant power because his mother's family was the Duan family.

In addition to the old and weak women and children who were dependent on him, Murong Jun really had more than [-] troops in his hands.In the entire tribe, apart from his father Murong Hao and clan elders such as Murong Yun, few people can achieve such a scale of private songs.

If he can take advantage of this opportunity of entering the Jie Kingdom to get another 5000 troops, even if he doesn't consider whether he will gain anything from this trip, Murong Jun can be said to be sitting on nearly [-] troops, and even if his father doesn't want to pass the throne to him It is impossible, and his brothers will not be his opponents at all.

Therefore, Murong Jun attached great importance to this matter, and he had to do such trivial matters as selecting the soldiers himself.

He didn't directly choose among the clansmen directly led by his father. On the surface, he said that his father was in the prime of his life and needed to control the entire Liao border, and a good son would not seek a strong father.The real reason was that Murong Jun didn't want his father's eyes and ears to be mixed into the power of his private song.

So during this period of time, Murong Jun mainly traveled among the surrounding tribes, selecting strong soldiers among these scattered tribes.

Regarding this point, Murong Hao did not object to it. This trip was inherently dangerous, and there was no shortage of dangers in which all members would perish, and these strong men under his command were the basis for him to control the entire Liao border, and he was not willing to directly allocate Murong Juntai Take more risks.

The father and the son have their own schemes, but they don't point it out, which can be regarded as a kind of tacit understanding.

Now that the Murong Department dominates the Liao border, in the past month or so, Murong Jun has achieved outstanding results, recruiting a total of more than [-] soldiers.Some of them came from the Murong tribe itself, for example, his uncle Murong Biao led more than [-] soldiers to follow him, and there were also strong soldiers selected from the surrounding tribes, large and small.

But as the weather turned warmer in May, Murong Jun's recruitment work stalled.

The winter in the Liao border is long, and the time really suitable for farming and harvesting firewood is not long. From May to September, it is the busiest time for farming. It is necessary to accumulate enough money in this short period of four or five months. Stock up for the long winter days.Because during this period of time, the people are busy with production, so they will not respond to the war.

Especially in the past few days, as the surroundings of Zimengchuan have been wandering around, almost all day without much harvest.Even for some small tribes that had been agreed before, when Murong Jun actually went to collect troops, he found that the entire tribe had disappeared.What annoyed him even more was that the soldiers who had been recruited before had also frequently fled during this period.

In the final analysis, the Murong tribe is just a fishing and hunting tribe in the Liao border. Although his grandfather has switched to farming since his grandfather and learned Han administration every day, the real control over the tribe is incomparable compared with the Central Plains. His clan members are also directly controlled by his father Murong Hao.

The sky is big and the earth is big, the food is the biggest, and the farming season is like fire, who cares about your dominance!
Murong Jun couldn't recruit full staff here for a long time, and the Jie army in Youzhou frequently put pressure on Murong's Ministry, and his words became more and more severe, even Xu Wu's Zhang Ju sent troops several times to expel Murong's Ministry Yu Lingzhi's soldiers.Murong Hao is also unbearably disturbed, and frequently orders Murong Jun.

The summer rainstorm came and went quickly, and when the rain eased, Murong Jun continued on the road regardless of the muddy road.There is a small tribe with a size of about a thousand households in the mountains ahead. Half a month ago, Murong Jun ordered them to select [-] soldiers to join the army, and today they will take them away no matter what.

But when Murong Jun arrived at this tribal village, he couldn't help being dumbfounded. The entire tribal gathering place had already been deserted and disappeared.

"Damn!"

This is not the first time this kind of encounter has happened, Murong Jun cursed, and ordered his entourage to search around for any traces of migration, but there have been frequent heavy rains recently, even if there are traces and how many traces can be left, in the end there is nothing achievement.

Murong Jun angrily ordered those attendants to demolish all the simple houses in this tribe, and then returned to Zimengchuan full of resentment.

On the way home, Murong Jun frowned deeply. He gradually had some guesses in his mind. It was not the first time that such a breach of appointment happened recently. Those tribes seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding, and they would rather abandon the difficult-to-manage gathering place than Willing to join the army, it seems that he is not afraid of his revenge afterwards.

Someone is dealing with him!

With such a guess in his heart, Murong Jun couldn't help feeling even worse.Although he already had this suspicion in his heart, he didn't have any conclusive evidence. Even if he asked to sue him in front of his father, his father would only urge him to make a quick trip at the moment, and might not pursue him to the end.

As for who is holding him back secretly, there are too many targets, or his brothers don't want to see him continue to dominate.Or those who opposed his father's casting, hoping to spoil the matter by preventing him from making the trip.What's more, his father Murong Hao didn't want him to get out of control, so he had such motivation and possibility.

When we returned to Zimengchuan, the sky was already dark, and before we entered the camp, Murong Jun saw his father's cronies coming to ask how the progress was going, and he just put it off, and his mood became even worse, he didn't even eat dinner, Go back to your own house and fall asleep.

The next day was not yet dawn, and Murong Jun hadn't gotten up when he heard noises coming from the camp outside.

He got up and put on his armor and went out. Seeing that there were many noisy soldiers, he felt even more irritable, so he summoned Murong Biao, who was in charge of military law and prohibition, and gave him a scolding, and then asked the reason. When the cooking was cut off, the sergeant was clamoring.

"Out of food?"

When Murong Jun heard this, his face was filled with anger, and he directly led hundreds of fierce soldiers to the military supplies camp.

When he came here, Murong Jun first saw hundreds of soldiers escorting a dozen convoys full of food and grass away happily, so he frowned, stood outside the gate of the camp and asked the general to come here directly, Shaking off the whip in his hand, he shouted angrily: "Why is there a shortage of military supplies in my camp? Quickly count and make up for it in full!"

The military quartermaster was a son of a dead family from the Jin Dynasty. This kind of general affairs that required actuarial calculations were mostly performed by the children of the Jin people in the Murong Department. talent.

Seeing the prince's angry expression, the quartermaster looked even more terrified, and said tremblingly: "The living food in the camp is getting scarcer, just now we took [-] hu from the Ping Liao camp, and the rest is less than [-] hu..."

"Ping Liao camp?"

When Murong Jun heard this answer, he became even more annoyed, he ordered the quartermaster to be tied to the ground, while he led the soldiers directly into the supply camp, and all he saw were empty warehouses.Of course, it is not that there is no grain storage, but the warehouses where the grain and grass are stored are all locked with big locks, and they are specially stored for the grain that directly belongs to his father, King Yan's army, so Murong Jun naturally dare not tamper with it.

"Go to Ping Liao camp!"

Walking out of the empty warehouse, Murong Jun whipped the quartermaster again to vent his anger, and then waved his hands and shouted again.

The so-called Pingliao camp is the camp of Murong Ba, Murong Jun's brother.In the battle of Lingzhi at the beginning of the year, Murong Ba's striker arrived first and gained a lot of gains. Afterwards, Murong Hao accepted the title of King Yan conferred by the Jie Kingdom, and named this young son General Pingliao, and filled his army with elite soldiers.

This matter made Murong Jun very upset. At the beginning of the year, the tribes were divided into two groups, one way was to attack Lingzhi in the west, and the other way his father raided Murong Ren. Murong Jun's heir had to stay in Dathorn City because of this turmoil. Not much benefit was received.

Afterwards, Murong Ba received the title of General, which also made Murong Jun very unhappy: "The Liao border is my home garden, and Shuzi is pacifying Liao, which Liao he wants to pacify!"

(End of this chapter)