The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 754
The population of Liao people in Yizhou is nearly one million, and they are mainly concentrated in the [-] mountains in the counties of Meishan, Luchuan, Qianwei, Yuexuan, and Zangke in the south of Yizhou, and the south of it is Nanzhao Kingdom.

They are not a complete tribe, but live in the mountains one by one. There are 36 relatively strong tribes, and there are countless small tribes.

At present, the most powerful Liaoren tribe is the Heiliao tribe living in Mianshui County, Luchuan. Its leader, Qin Wang, is the Liao King respected by everyone, but in fact, these 36 big tribes also have mutual benefits Entanglement, even if someone wants to unite everyone into one strength, it is because everyone is scattered in the mountains, and all kinds of precipitous mountains alone make people desperate. There is no way to combine everyone, let alone build a complete country.So Qin Wang, Liao Wang, only really controls the three tribes of black, white, and green.

Qin Wang admired the culture of the Han people, and he took this Han name for himself.Although he is the most powerful Liaowang among the Liaoren, the days are not easy these days, because after hearing his name, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi in the Tang Dynasty, sent envoys many times to marry her youngest daughter, Lan Xueer. For the concubine.

As the king of the bureaucrats, Qin Wang is naturally not reckless and ignorant. He knows that Li Yuanji is greedy for the forces under his command, and wants to tie the black bureaucrats to his Warring States in the name of marriage, and then use his fame to regain the big and small bureaucrats The tribe is for his own use, but Qin Wang doesn't want to participate in Li Tang's infighting, nor is he optimistic about the Li Tang Dynasty who has been defeated repeatedly. Unify the various ministries of Liaoren and become the de facto king of Liao.But Li Yuanji had already given him a deadline. If he didn't agree, he would attack with a large army. Although they could hide deep in the mountains, the current mountains were infested with poisonous insects and ferocious beasts. If they really entered the mountains, most of the clan members would probably die.

"Father..." At this moment, an angry clear voice sounded in the hall, and a Liao girl came in angrily.

This girl has a palpitatingly beautiful face, long black hair draped over her shaved shoulders, accentuating her perfect silhouette, a pair of silver earrings on her ears, and three shining silver collars around her neck.As he walked around, the silver ornaments shook, reflecting his skin as white as snow and his graceful neck, which added a bit of charm.

She was wearing a slanted cardigan with blue cloth and white flowers, a blue skirt from the chest down, a wide belt full of knives tied tightly around her waist, and a silver-decorated seedling knife hanging below,

"Who messed with my Xue'er again?" Qin Wang looked at his little daughter lovingly.

"Aren't you from the Tang Dynasty? Li Yuanji's soldiers were too much. They came to fight again today and killed several warriors in our village. He also said that if we don't agree, we will set fire to the village."

At the end, Lan Xueer's pretty face and big eyes were full of anger, like a cheetah angry.

Qin Wang sighed, and said tentatively: "Then Li Yuanji is the King of Qi in the Tang Dynasty, and he is very brave. If my daughter is willing, she will be a good match."

"I'm not!"

Lan Xueer said angrily: "Even if I marry someone, I will marry a great hero, and I will never marry that ugly ghost who harmed my people."

Qin Wang's face was filled with bitterness: "My father knows that my son is arrogant, and he doesn't want to agree, but what if he burns down our cottage?"

"Father, I..." Lan Xueer spoke with tears, her big eyes welling up with tears.

"My lord, there are two Taoist priests outside. The old Taoist's name is Yuan Tiangang, and they say they are old friends of the king." A Liao warrior rushed in and said loudly.

"Who are you talking about?" Qin Wang asked blankly.

"Yuan Tiangang."

"Yuan Tiangang?" Qin Wangxi, who came back to his senses, stood up and looked at his daughter who was weeping silently: "Daughter, come with me to meet Yuan Xianchang."

Before his daughter could react, Qin Wang rushed out in a hurry.

The dejected Lan Xueer was dumbfounded for a long time, wiped away her tears, followed her father's back, and ran to the gate of the village in one breath.

But he saw that his father was welcoming two Taoist priests in. The old Taoist priest who was talking to his father was holding a whisk in his hand and had an extraordinary bearing.

He walked towards the sunset, like a banished immortal.With his appearance, the setting sun seemed to be dimmed.

Lan Xueer was stunned.

In fact, not only her, but all the warriors around seemed to be dumbfounded, and they all looked at this elegant old Taoist in a daze.

At this moment, in this situation, everyone thought they saw a fairy.

Lan Xueer glanced to the side, and was stunned again.

It was a little fairy who was as rich as jade and as graceful as a fairy...

"Xue'er, come and pay your respects to Chief Yuan Xian." Qin Wang said to his dumbfounded daughter.

"Lan Xueer pays homage to the head fairy." Lan Xueer's legs softened, and she knelt down with a "plop".

"Miss Xue'er's ceremony is too heavy, please hurry up." Yuan Tiangang waved the Buddha dust lightly, and under the setting sun, the snow-white hairs of the dust dust glistened, which made the superstitious believe that it was a magical weapon.

"Thank you, Immortal Leader." Lan Xueer was full of awe, thinking that the Immortal is indeed an Immortal, and even knows my name.When she woke up from the dizziness, she found that she had followed Liao Wang's "Wangfu".

This made her think that Yuan Tiangang cast an immortal spell.

After sitting down, Yuan Tiangang found that although the hall was still simple and crude, it was much cleaner and tidy than it was more than ten years ago, and some layouts were full of the atmosphere of Han family. He said with emotion: "I haven't seen you for many years, brother Qin's cottage has changed a lot .”

Qin Wang said gratefully: "Thanks to the advice of the elder, I am here today. We can develop and grow, all thanks to the elder."

"It's all Brother Qin's good governance. How dare I take credit for it?" Yuan Tiangang looked at the timid young girl behind Qin Wang, and couldn't help but said with a smile: "My niece is beautiful, gentle and elegant, and has something that girls of the Han family don't have. Heroic, if you put on Hanfu, you will be a beautiful woman who will overwhelm the country and the city."

"Immortal is overrated." Qin Wang didn't notice his daughter's weirdness, and sighed, "For a woman, beauty may not be a good thing."

Yuan Tiangang's heart moved, and he asked: "Brother Qin, when we went up the mountain before, we saw some warriors in the clan were wounded, why?"

Qin Wang glanced at his daughter, smiled wryly and said, "Speaking of which, I'm also to blame for luring wolves into the house."

"Oh?" Yuan Tiangang's eyes flashed with divine light: "If Brother Qin trusts me, Yuan Tiangang, you might as well tell the truth, maybe it can help you a little bit."

"We have developed relatively well in recent years, and we have a certain reputation in Yizhou, but the tree is so big that it has attracted the covetousness of the younger generations. Not long ago, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi in the Tang Dynasty, came to visit. I believe that the visitor is a guest. He led the family to welcome him up the mountain, but who knows that this person is ambitious, he even wants to annex us for his own use, and even accept my daughter as a side concubine." Qin Wang sighed leisurely: "Although I am in the mountain, I also know that the Tang Dynasty It is not the opponent of the Sui Dynasty at all. Every time it fights, the Tang Dynasty is defeated miserably. Now there is only an incomplete Yizhou. If the Sui army invades, the defeat of the Tang Dynasty will be in the blink of an eye. If we fight for the Tang Dynasty With all the efforts of the dynasty, the whole clan will surely be buried with the Tang Dynasty. If it was replaced by the immortal elder, he would not agree, would he?"

"Of course I won't agree." Yuan Tiangang said.

Qin Wang said bitterly: "But Li Yuanji is extremely cruel and domineering. Every few days, he sends people to harass us and kill our warriors in the name of a martial arts competition. Today he killed several more and threatened to set fire to the village. It's impossible , I can only take my clansmen to the deep mountains to take refuge, and I am afraid that my clansmen will die among poisonous insects and beasts, it is really difficult."

"Why didn't Uncle Qin lead his tribe to surrender to the Sui Dynasty?" Yuan Ziyan said at the right time.

"Elder Immortal, this is..."

"Brother Qin, forgive me, this is my daughter Yuan Ziyan. Emperor Shengwu of the Great Sui Dynasty canonized her as a great scholar of the Daoist Academy of the Great Sui Dynasty and a 'former official doctor'."

"Xianchang, is Emperor Shengwu Yang Tong, the God of War in the Sui Dynasty?" Lan Xueer, who was slowly recovering, looked at Yuan Tiangang with burning eyes. words.

Liao people worship warriors, and Yang Tong's various amazing achievements have already been spread all over the world. In Lan Xueer's view, the 'God of War' is much more dazzling than the 'Shengwu Emperor'.

"Exactly." Yuan Tiangang nodded.

"Sister Immortal, women can be officials too?" This time, Lan Xueer asked Yuan Ziyan who was disguised as a man.

"The Sui Dynasty only used talents. As long as they have the ability, no matter they are men, women, old or young, Sui people, Liao people, and Qiang people, they can be officials and generals. For example, the concubine Shui Tianji is not only a woman, but also A member of the Qi tribe, she was a general of the Sui Dynasty before she became an imperial concubine; and Concubine De Yinmingyue, who was also a general of the Sui Dynasty, once led a group of female soldiers to destroy Gaochang Kingdom, and was named the Duke of Mingyue County. Enter the palace to be an imperial concubine." In fact, Yuan Ziyan also wanted to have a military post, but 'Yang Tong' actually granted her a civilian post.

"So, they all became generals first and then imperial concubines?" Lan Xueer asked.

"Exactly." Yuan Ziyan said: "Now they are going out with the Holy One, and each of them leads an army of [-]."

"It's really enviable." Lan Xueer was fascinated leisurely, "If only I could be a general too. Father..."

Qin Wang ignored her, looked at Yuan Tiangang, changed the topic and said, "So, Yuan Xianchang has also become an official?"

Yuan Tiangang nodded and said: "I am now the Taishi Supervisor of the Great Sui Dynasty, and I am in charge of the astronomy and calendar of the Great Sui Dynasty. This time, our father and daughter came to visit Brother Qin by the holy order."

"I have long heard that Emperor Shengwu is brilliant and powerful, and is invincible in the world. Emperor Shengwu even knows me, Qin Wang?" Qin Wang's face was flushed, a little proud.

Yuan Tiangang said in his heart that Emperor Shengwu certainly doesn't know about you, and my Taishiling is still freshly released, so I don't know if it's true or not.But he said: "To be honest, we are here because the Holy Majesty hopes that all the officials will submit to the court and serve the court, and at the same time, we also hope to benefit the staff."

"The Immortal Elder has great kindness to our clan, and he should obey it, but it is about the lives of our people, so I have to be careful." Qin Wang pondered for a while, and asked: "May I ask, if we submit to the Sui Dynasty, What can you get?"

"The Holy Majesty has no national views. He treats Sui people, Liao people, Qiang people, and Qiang people equally. As long as the Liao people submit to the court and live in the mountains, the Sui government will give you land according to the unified standard. If your warriors make meritorious deeds , can also be an official or general, the highest can be the Duke of the country, and even a statue in the temple, enjoying the eternal incense."

"Really?" Qin Wang's eyes lit up.

"Even the Turkic people who had old grievances with the Sui Dynasty can get the same size of fields as the Sui people, and they can become generals; of course, the Liao people who have no enemies in the past and no grudges in the past can also." Yuan Tiangang took out a manuscript. , handed it to Qin Wang and said: "This is the policy program of the Sui Dynasty for all ethnic groups, Brother Qin can read it."

Qin Wang took it and looked at it one by one, and the joy on his face became more and more intense.

What the Liao people desire is not only land, but also equal status and treatment. However, the Han people have always discriminated against the Liao people and regarded them as objects of exploitation. There is only hatred left.

And the content of this booklet is almost what the Liao people have been expecting for generations. If the emperor of the Sui Dynasty really did what he said, Qin Wang would certainly be willing for his clansmen to leave the harsh mountains and live a stable life in the bustling towns.More importantly, Li Yuanji pushed too hard, so Qin Wang had no better choice but to submit to the Sui Dynasty.

He looked at it carefully, and said to Yuan Tiangang: "Immortal Chief, this matter is related to the future and destiny of our family, and I can't make decisions on my own. I need to discuss it with elders, shamans (priests), and generals."

"It's reasonable." Yuan Tiangang nodded and said, "But I hope Brother Qin will be as soon as possible."

"Why are you so anxious?"

"Because there is a great achievement waiting for Brother Qin tonight."

"What achievement?"

"Let's talk about this issue after Brother Qin has made a decision."

"That's good." Qin Wang said with a smile: "Speaking of which, it's a coincidence that the head of the fairy came, because tomorrow is my clan's 'eating new festival', and the villagers and warriors of the three tribes are here."

The "Eating New Festival" is a very grand festival for the Liao people. Every year when the crops are heading, the Liao people will choose an auspicious day to hold a grand celebration ceremony.Every day, all the Laozhai people will gather together to celebrate, and will send the strongest warriors to win the title of the first warrior of the Liaoren, which is very lively.

"What a coincidence." Yuan Tiangang also laughed.

"Please rest for a while, Immortal Elder, I will reply to Immortal Elder as soon as possible." Qin Wang asked his daughter to take Yuan's father and daughter to rest, and then called the clan leaders to discuss matters.

(End of this chapter)