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Chapter 61 Flogging
It would be easy if the Qiang people really came to make trouble.

Fortunately, I came in advance to stop them, otherwise the nature of the matter would have been different if they ran in front of Xia Houba.

"I'm the captain under General Xiahou's command. I'm in charge of this matter. Ask your leader to speak." Yang Zheng pulled up his tiger fur coat.

Several gray-haired old men looked Yang Zheng up and down.

"What are you still doing?" Yang Zheng's face turned cold, his murderous aura leaking out.

A few people trembled in fright, and trotted back quickly.

Not long after, a middle-aged man with young feathers on his head came out with seven or eight followers, and bowed his hands to Yang Zheng, "Jiang Faye pays his respects to the general."

The man was also very polite.

Qiang people have been strongly attracted by Chinese civilization since the Han Dynasty.

Over the past 200 years, they have moved eastward either actively or passively.

A large number of Qiang people became mature Qiang people, and some people in later generations believed that the Di people were completely Sinicized Qiang people.

"What grievance do you have?" Yang Zheng said slowly, trying to maintain a sense of oppression.

Jiang Faye looked angrily, "I treat people with sincerity, this person insults our clan, which is tolerable or unbearable."

Yang Zheng glanced at Du Bin hanging on the wooden stake, "How about putting him down and confronting him?"

Jiang Faye said a few Qiang words to the time, and someone untied Du Bin.

This fellow immediately threw off the others, ran to Yang Zheng's horse, hugged Yang Zheng's thigh and howled, "General, you have to decide for me."

Jiang Faye's face was ugly.

Yang Zheng kicked him away, "What's going on?"

Du Bin sat on the ground, with snot and tears, "I followed the captain's order and came to ask them. Unexpectedly, they got me drunk and did something unethical... After I complained a few words, they came to ask them." Scold me, hit me..."

"Okay, okay." The kid obviously took advantage, so why did he look like he suffered a big loss, "Did you do it?"

Du Bin was taken aback, "It seems, it seems to have done..."

Yang Zheng glanced at the Qiang people, and the Qiang people also looked at him expectantly.

Yang Zheng got off his horse and walked towards Du Bin with the whip in his hand, "A man, if you are wrong, you are wrong. Somebody punished you with thirty lashes, do you want to accept the crime?"

Du Bin struggled to get up from the ground, instinctively wanted to run, but there were Qiang people behind him and Jiang soldiers in front of him, so there was no way to run.

"Are you willing to accept the crime?" Yang Zheng raised his whip and asked sharply.

Yang Zheng was really afraid that he would talk nonsense and do something out of the ordinary, which would make everyone embarrassing.

On the surface, it is to teach him a lesson, but it is actually the best way to ease the situation.

Besides, being beaten by the boss is better than being beaten by the Qiang people.

The situation in Longxi is like this, there are many Qiangs and few Hans. For the familiar Qiangs who are willing to surrender, we should try our best to appease them, absorb their strength for our own use, and suppress the raw Qiangs who are unwilling to submit.

"Are you willing to accept the crime?" Yang Zheng roared again.

Du Bin's whole body trembled, although he was usually in a daze, but at critical moments, his mind was bright, "This subordinate accepts the crime!"

Lie on the ground while talking.

Yang Zheng stepped forward, one whip, two whips...

The whip whistled and hit Du Bin's back.

In the blink of an eye, there were bloodstains and screams.

Is it necessary to be so loud?Yang Zheng couldn't help but slander him, he really beat him with all his strength, only ten lashes would cripple him.

The strength of each whip is controlled, trying to only hurt the skin and not the bones.

Of course, pain is definitely indispensable.

Yu Hu came out from among the Qiang people and said: "The general doesn't know something, the tribe treats distinguished guests with daughters."

Yang Zheng had also heard of this custom.

Before the reform of Shang Yang in the state of Qin, father, son, and sister-in-law lived together in the same room, and the daughter accompanied the guests.

The etiquette of the Qiang people is naturally not as strict as that of the Han people.

Aren't the major nomadic tribes on the grassland also unrestrained for hundreds of years?
After thirty whips, Du Bin collapsed on the ground, trembling all over.

Seeing Jiang Faye's lingering anger, Yang Zheng could only increase the intensity again, "I'm not strict with my subordinates, I'm guilty, I'm ashamed of you, I'll take ten lashes myself, come!"

Two soldiers walked out of the formation, "General!"

Yang Zheng handed him the whip, "Hit!"

He took off the armor on his body again, revealing the scarred skin on his upper body.

The soldier hesitated.

"This is a military order!" Yang Zheng shouted.

I don't want the child to be unable to catch the wolf, it's just a few whips, and the battlefield is full of swords and fire, so afraid of these few whips?
Jiang Faye hurried forward to stop him, "Why is the captain doing this, it's just a misunderstanding, I accept it."

This is what he wanted, otherwise Yang Zheng would have acted so long in vain.

But acting requires a complete set, and he is reluctant to let his children be caught by wolves. Yang Zheng also wants to use this to subdue the hearts of the Qiang people, and he can also strictly enforce the law in front of the army, "This is military law. If subordinates make mistakes, the superior is responsible. Execute the punishment." !",

One of the soldiers blocked Jiang Faye, while the other waved his whip.

With a "snap", burning pain shot up from his back.

Yang Zheng was dying of pain, but his expression remained calm.

The second whip and the third whip fell hard...

Suddenly it occurred to me that this soldier was a scumbag, with melon eggs and a simple nature, if asked to beat him, he would really beat him hard...

Thousands of calculations, did not count this one.

At the fifth stroke, Yang Zheng felt like his back was on fire, and his head was sweating profusely from the pain.

But at this time, pretending and forcing must be pretended to the end, and you can't shout, otherwise the hard-built character set will collapse.

Fortunately, there are only ten whips, and it's over by gritting your teeth and enduring it.

After ten lashes, Yang Zheng's back was covered in blood.

"General!"

"General!"

……

The soldiers hurried over to support Yang Zheng. Yang Zheng pushed them away and stood up tremblingly.

Jiang Faye half-kneeled on the ground, "I am convinced, if I can use my Faye Department in the future, the captain will just say a word!"

Other Qiang people also knelt on the ground one after another, and even the soldiers looked at themselves differently.

With some awe.

Yang Zheng lamented that he didn't get beaten in vain. In this world, he not only has to be cruel to others, but sometimes he has to be cruel to himself. Compared with being in constant panic in Luogu, it is undoubtedly much better now.

Supporting Jiang Faye, "The Han and Qiang are brothers to begin with, why bother to fight and kill?"

Jiang Faye's expression was moved.

Probably no Han official had ever spoken to him like this.

The Hundred Years' War between the Han and Qiang was not caused by border officials sucking marrow and bones?

"From now on, the general will be the elder brother of my Faye Department. Ah Yue and Ah Dao come and pay respects to the general!" Jiang Faye half knelt on the ground.

Two young Qiang people, a man and a woman, stepped out of the crowd.

"This is your daughter?" I can't say how ugly it is, but I can't say it is beautiful either.

But there was a red birthmark on the left cheek, which looked a bit hideous.

No wonder Du Bin looked like he suffered a big loss.

"Exactly."

Yang Zheng glanced at Du Bin, only to see him looking at this side with resentment.

"I have a merciless request." Jiang Faye stared at Yang Zheng and said.

Yang Zheng was taken aback, for fear that he would send off his daughter again.

"My son has a few catties of strength, please stay by the general's side." Jiang Faye pushed the boy over.

There was a bit of wildness on the boy's face, but more spirituality.

With the support of blood, it seems that Jiang Faye is really convinced.

Yang Zheng would never refuse, and was willing to get closer to Jiang Faye.

There are many friends and many paths. If you can't get along in Longxi in the future, it might be a way out.

Of course, that's the worst case scenario.

"Okay, as long as he is under my command, within two years, he will be trained to be a good man."

"Thank you General!"

(End of this chapter)