Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1035 Qin people will never be slaves

Gal Dongzan felt very angry.

He didn't dare to spread fire on the Qin people, and he didn't even dare to sneer at it. The memory of cutting firewood and burning charcoal in the Zhongnan Mountains of the Qinling Mountains has not faded away.

He could only lower his head, pretending not to see Qin Ren's arrogant and complacent look.

Moving forward, he happened to see a group of slaves farming in a field at the foot of the mountain.If you look carefully, you can see that there are Han Chinese slaves among them.Gar walked over with a gloomy face, swung the whip in his hand and whipped it hard.

Those slaves were also very innocent, and they were immersed in their work. Unexpectedly, misfortune fell from the sky, and they offended this Tubo nobleman somehow.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting."

As soon as the whip was drawn, the thin clothes on the slave's body were immediately shattered, and there were bloodstains on the flesh and blood.The painful slaves had no choice but to keep running away, shouting loudly for mercy.

Liu Rengui didn't realize that the slaves were Han people at first, and he didn't care when he saw Dong Zan go to beat the slaves. He didn't pay attention until he heard some of the slaves begging for mercy in Chinese.

Look carefully, although these people are disheveled, and their clothes are ragged, it is indeed very surprising that they may hear the Chinese accent in the Yalong River Valley of Tubo. The difference between the Qiang people.

"stop!"

Liu Rengui strode forward and shouted loudly.

But Dong Zan was suffocating in his heart, no matter what he did, he still waved his whip.

Liu Rengui snorted coldly and drew his saber directly.

The sharp horizontal knife swung across, and the long whip broke.

"Stop!" Liu Rengui yelled again.

Dong Zan held the half of the whip, "This captain, I'm just teaching a few unscrupulous slaves, I don't know how to make the captain unhappy?"

Liu Rengui said coldly, "These are your slaves?"

"Although I am not my slave, I am also a slave of Tubo. I am a nobleman. If I teach these blind slaves a lesson, their master will not blame me. Even if I kill them, I will pay their master a few slaves later. .”

"I think they are Han people." Liu Rengui turned his head and looked at the slaves, "Are you Han people?"

Several of them nodded quickly, "I am Han."

'Don't worry, come here and tell me one by one, who are you, and how did you get here? "

The slaves didn't expect that they could still see Han people in this foreign country, especially seeing their attire and the way they spoke, which seemed to make the Tubo nobles respect and awe, so they all felt hopeful, Qizui Gossip about what happened to them.

It is actually very simple to say that most of these people are Han people on the border of Jiannan and Longyou. When the Sui Dynasty was in turmoil, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and when the border was no longer strong, it could no longer restrain the Qiang Hu outside the border.

Many Qiang Hus took the opportunity to invade and harass, robbing border villages and markets, and taking people abducted.

The population taken away naturally became their slaves, and some of them were given to Tubo or sold to Tubo. Five of the slaves here are Han Chinese, and the oldest of them are all in their 50s. Yes, the young one is only seventeen or eighteen years old.And these five people were not sold in the same batch, nor did they come from the same place.

The old man in his fifties has been sold to Tubo for ten years, while the young man has only been here for more than a year.

Weeping, the old man said to Liu Rengui that he was originally from Jiacheng County in Jiannan, and that after Dangxiang Qiang's fine feudal forces captured the county, they were captured as slaves by the Dangxiang people. He was separated from his family, sold several times, and finally sold to Tubo. , became a farm slave in a Tubo aristocratic manor.

Knowing that Liu Rengui and the others were envoys from the Qin State in the Central Plains, the old man asked to take them back to the country.

Although, this old man doesn't know about Qin, he only knows about Sui Dynasty, but since they are Han Chinese in Central Plains, that's a glimmer of hope.

Liu Rengui asked each of the five people, writing down their names and experiences.

"Gal Dongzan, these are the people of our Han family. They were plundered and sold here by Qiang thieves. It is very tragic. Now that we are waiting for the Great Qin envoy to see them here, we cannot ignore them. We will take them back to the Central Plains and send them back to their hometown."

Gal Dongzan's face was very ugly.

He held the half of the whip, "Lieutenant, although my two families are now married and friendly, these people were not captured by me in Tubo. They were traded by us Tubo nobles through normal channels. Now you say If you want to take it away, it's just because it's not in accordance with the etiquette, and it's difficult for someone to force you?"

"Anyway, I must take him away today." Liu Rengui held a dazzling horizontal knife in his hand, but he refused to give up.

Seeing that the atmosphere on both sides became stiff.

The ambassador Yuanwailang came over with a smile on his face, "As the kingdom of heaven, Daqin is a state of etiquette. Naturally, it is impossible to do such unreasonable things. However, these people are the people of our Daqin, and we will naturally wait for them." It is also impossible to ignore it. How about you look at this, we are willing to pay to redeem them, so that you will not lose, and we have also redeemed the people of my Great Qin, wouldn’t it be the best of both worlds.”

Seeing what he said, Gal didn't want to continue to be tough.

"It's just a few slaves, how can it be worth so much trouble?"

Liu Rengui said coldly, "To you, they are just a few bought slaves, just like cattle and horses, but to us, they are compatriots who have fallen into a foreign country. As early as last year, I, the Great Qin Emperor, The law was promulgated. All Qin people who saw Han people as slaves abroad should redeem them and return them to the country, and the imperial court will reward them and restore good status to those who have become slaves of foreign countries.”

"As for those who dare to sell Han Chinese as slaves to foreign vassals, they are guilty of slavery."

When Liu Rengui saw these Han slaves in Tubo, he could of course turn a blind eye. The court would not pursue them, but as a Han Chinese and Habayashiro, a student of the emperor, Liu Rengui could not ignore them.

"This is the honor of each of our soldiers, the honor bestowed by the emperor, protecting our country and compatriots is our supreme honor."

Seeing Liu Rengui's very agitated look, Gal Dongzan knew that this man had committed a crime. Although he was very angry in his heart, he couldn't really push back.

After thinking about it, "I will give these five people to the Daqin Mission as a gift from me. As for their master, I will compensate him."

Thinking about when I was a charcoal burning slave in the Qin State, I also suffered a lot and suffered a lot of crimes, and the Qin people also did not regard them as human beings.

Now the Qin people want to point fingers at their slaves, and leave if they say they want to take them away.

"No, how much money, we will pay for the redemption." Liu Rengui didn't appreciate it. "I believe that there must be many Han people in Tubo that have fallen into slavery here. I ask Tubo to return all these Han people to our mission to bring them back to the country. Of course, we will not take them away for nothing. We are willing to send them all out money redemption."

Gal Dongzan said angrily, "Take them all away? There are many Han Chinese slaves, at least tens of thousands. If you buy them all, you can get a lot of money."

Liu Rengui said directly, "Even if the money brought by our mission is not enough, didn't you Zanpu say that you would give me 5000 taels of Daqin gold, 1 taels of silver, [-] yaks, and [-] sheep? We can take your Zanpu." Among the gift money and tribute given to me by the Emperor of Qin, some of it will be used to redeem the freedom of the people of my Han family."

"If it's not enough, you can owe it first. You and I are in-laws. If you don't know how much money you don't want to owe, right?"

Gal Dongzan was held there by Liu Rengui, his lungs were about to explode, shameless, this Qin person is too shameless.

(End of this chapter)