A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 274
The chefs in Li Daozong's house are very skilled. The steamed corn is very tender and has a milky aroma. In addition, the corn is a kind of waxy corn, which is more fragrant and glutinous. The crispy fried potato chips are just right. These are obviously from the Wu family. Craftsmanship is a bit like green out of blue.

Paired with a cup of persimmon burnt, it also tastes like a high-end meal.

After all, although the dishes are ordinary, they are auspicious at the moment. They have not yet entered the homes of ordinary people, and the beauties on all sides are screens, adding to the difference.

After the meal, King Ren Cheng clapped his palms a few times, and the beauties acting as meat screens dispersed.

"Show Lord Shouyang how brutal the Qiang Hus are."

A group of Lingzhou dental soldiers brought up a group of chained slaves.

"You perform for the new Yanzhou Inspector Wu Gong. The final winner, I will grant you freedom and reward you with a maid!"

Li Daozong's words caused a commotion among the slaves.

"Those people are Qianghu warriors, and they are all famous and capable fighters in various tribes," Li Daozong told Huaiyu. The warriors are still more valuable after they are captured as slaves. These tribe warriors can be bought to serve as guards.

In addition, they have another place to go, which is to become fighting slaves.

Just like cockfights, dogfights, bullfights, and even cricket fights, some people would compete with these warriors and slaves, some of which were purely pastime for the nobles, and more of them were a business, fighting and betting.

In Lingzhou, slave fighting is very popular, and there are even many slave fighting fields.

There are also many ways to fight slaves. Some fight alone, two teams fight each other, some fight with bare hands, some fight with swords, and even fight with horses and shooters.

A little to the end, but also endless.

Many Qiang and Hu fighters are now reduced to dedicated fighting slaves. If they perform well, they can get good treatment and enjoyment. However, the elimination rate of fighting slaves is also high. Talk about injuries.

Today, in order to welcome Wu Huaiyu, Li Daozong gave him a performance of the highest standard, which is also the most entertaining cage death fight.

Different from ordinary competitions, war slaves have to fight in a small arena, and it is surrounded like a cage, so it is also called cage death battle.

It is mainly based on two-person fighting, and it will never stop dying.

The nobles like bloody performances, and as for Dou Nu's life, it is not human in their eyes.

In other words, all slaves are not human beings in the eyes of free people.

Li Daozong sent two teams of war slaves to escort him, one team was Dangxiang Qiang, and the other team was Buluoji.

Huaiyu looked at the slaves.

Buluoji is known as the last Huns, from the Southern Huns who moved inland, and then dispersed to the canyons of Shanxi and Shanxi after the fall of the former Zhao Dynasty, and gradually mixed with the Han people.

The former tribal warriors in front of Huaiyu, now Dou Nu, are short and stocky, with big and round heads.

Broad face, high cheekbones, wide nose, thick beard on the upper lip, and only a handful of hard beard on the lower jaw.

There are piercings in the long earlobes, a large copper ring, thick eyebrows, and big piercing eyes.

Perhaps it was intentional by the slave owners that these people wore animal skins and leather helmets such as ox horns and wolf heads in the cold weather.

It looked savage.

Huaiyu even felt that their looks were a bit like dwarves in Warcraft.

That big face, small eyes, wide nose, thick limbs.

Of course, they are not very short, but they just feel very short and strong, but he estimates that all of them must be more than 1.7 meters five, and some of them may even be two meters, because they are too strong, so they do not appear tall.

On the other side, the Dangxiang Qiang Dou Nu, they generally have shaven hair, shaved in the middle, and pigtails on both sides.Round face and high nose, plump cheeks, and a burly body like a wine barrel.

There is a kind of general stoutness of nomadic tribes, with a big face, big belly, thick limbs, and tall.

Buluoji are short and stocky, while Dangxiang Qiang is very strong.

Shanhu has big eyes, many of them have blue eyes, while Dangxiang Qiang has many narrow eyes.

A small arena surrounded by fences.

The two teams of fighting slaves will first draw lots to catch the match, the dead ones will be eliminated, and the survivors will enter the next round.After one round is over, there will be another round.

There are eight people in each of the two teams. After three rounds, there are only two people left. In the end, it will be a battle of strength and death.

Li Daozong asked Wu Huaiyu to watch Dou Nu, and 15 people were about to die.

Huaiyu was secretly startled.

Although he also bought a lot of slaves in Chang'an, he is still planning to set up a polo team for men and women at home, and he also wants to bring some other polo teams from the noble families together to form a Chang'an polo league or something. Playing games can be entertaining and watching, maybe you can collect a ticket and place a bet to buy some snacks to earn some income, and you can also gain some fame for the martial arts.

But who would have thought that Li Daozong had already played to this extent in Lingzhou.

"Your Majesty, just the two of us will watch such a good fighting slave, there is no need to fight to the death, why don't we stop here?"

Li Daozong looked at Wu Huaiyu and smiled, "Since Erlang asked, then click as far as possible, but remind in advance, it is not as exciting as a life-and-death battle."

A bell rang and the fight began.

In the battle cage, Buluoji Hu was tough and Dangxiang Qiang was rough. They were all top tribal fighters. Even after being reduced to fighting slaves, they had rich experience in duels.

Due to Huaiyu's intervention, the unrestricted deathmatch turned into a fist fight. Without weapons or armor, they fisted and kicked shirtless in the cage, punching to the flesh.

Beat the opponent to the ground to win.

From killing to beating.

But as soon as the competition started, both sides went all out very fiercely.

Because there was a cage separating them, Wu Huaiyu and Li Daozong watched directly from outside the cage, watching from a very close distance, but they didn't have to worry about endangering themselves.

The two fighting slaves in the first match are also the two strongest. They are strong men like iron towers nearly two meters in length. Normal human thighs.

Their fighting is aggressive and fast, which is very different from the fighting in Huaiyu's impression. In terms of viewing, the moves are not worth watching, but in terms of danger, they are full.

They are all fighting moves on the battlefield, they move to the vital point, and they make deadly moves everywhere, even if this is not a death cage fight, they will not show mercy.

After a few tricks, both of them failed.

One brow was cut deeply with an elbow knife, blood was all over his face, and half of his face swelled rapidly, while the other was hit hard in the face by a swinging fist, and several teeth were knocked out.

But they didn't stop at all, and no referee stopped.

Continue to fight, whoever makes a mistake may be knocked down by one move, and even sent to see Hades.

In such a fierce battle, and in a small cage, both sides did not intend to delay, and the battle was almost over within a cup of tea.

In the end, it was the strong man who was stepping down, and he punched that Dangxiang Qiang directly on the ground with a heavy punch.

Li Daozong clapped his palms and asked people to go up to clear the field. He turned his head and said to Huaiyu, "The Qiang slave's fist was a little slower, and his fist had already touched the Shanhu's chin. It's a pity that it was just a little bit short. The punch was not light, and he was knocked out directly.

The fists of these fighting slaves are so strong that they can kill a cow with one punch. "

The guards went up to check, and that Dangxiang Qiang survived such a heavy blow, but passed out, and was dragged down like a dead dog. The victorious Shanhu advanced to the next round.

He proudly walked out of the cage and came to rest on the sidelines. Two female slaves kneaded his shoulders to relax him, and a doctor bandaged his wound briefly.

Wu Huaiyu found that in the eyes of the victorious Shanhu, without the determination of a warrior, he had already become a fighting slave, proud of a victory, and even had the mood to reach out and squeeze the female slave to take advantage of it.

"If you win with good wine and good meat, you can also get a female slave for one night. If you lose with cold water and leftovers, if you keep losing, you will be sent to the salt pond to fish for salt, or go to the mine to dig ore, or go to the manor to grow Land, those treatments are not as good as those in the slave field." Li Daozong said.

Wu Huaiyu thought of the gladiators of the ancient Romans, Spartacus, blood and sand, and the golden mask, um, thinking far away.

According to what Li Daozong said, fighting slaves has become a very famous activity in Lingzhou, and those fighting slaves have also become a profession. Although there are heavy casualties and a high elimination rate, those who can survive in the fighting cage and gain fame Those people, they will also be very beautiful in their glory, with good wine and beautiful women, and they will not lack anything except freedom.

Although the glory is always short-lived, they may die in the cage on a certain day or in a certain game, but for many prisoners of war, they would rather die like this, at least they have a good time, especially those who were sent to the For the prisoners of war in farms, mines, and salt ponds, it is better to fight than to do hard labor in the dark, and it is better to fight. Every year, some famous slave fighters achieve fame and success, and they are free. hope.

After some Dou Nu gained a certain reputation, although they may suffer from injuries, etc., they may also be bought by some nobles to be Dou Nu trainers or servant guards.

Game after game.

Every game was bloody, and even two of them were beaten to death by merciless opponents. One guy directly broke the opponent's neck, and the other picked up the opponent and smashed it on his knee Go up, smashing the opponent's spine directly.

Cruel.

King Ren Cheng still had that elegant look, watching the bloody scenes with a smile all the time, Huaiyu was greatly touched.

Compared with these people who are perverts, I am still far behind.

He found that many people in this era have strong psychological qualities.

After the competition, there were still 14 people left, and the final winner was Buluojihu, whose surname was Liu, who was neither the tallest nor the strongest.

Many Shanhu are surnamed Liu, because after the Southern Huns belonged to the Han Dynasty, many leaders changed their surnames to Liu.

Nowadays, many Shanhu not only have the surname Liu, but also say that they are the descendants of the Xiongnu Shanyu, and even say that they have Han blood, because the Han and Xiong have been married for many years.

"These fighting slaves were given to Duke Shouyang."

When Wu Huaiyu left Lingzhou Dudu's Mansion, the fourteen slaves followed behind. Besides them, Li Daozong also gave Huaiyu sixteen beautiful maidservants, saying that he was short of people to serve him when he just arrived.

Sitting in the carriage, Huaiyu glanced at the land deed in his hand. Li Daozong gave him a farm of [-] acres, plus two pastures of [-] acres, making a total of [-] acres of land, which was used to buy some auspicious corn and potatoes from Huaiyu. , Sweet potato seeds.

In addition, there is an oral salt and grain trade agreement, Yanzhou Yamen uses the salt from the Wubai Salt Pond in exchange for grain from the Dudu Mansion in Lingzhou.

Of course, these are transactions that can be brought on the table. The real transaction is actually the in-depth cooperation of salt, horse, and slave sales.

Wu Huaiyu's acceptance of these means that he agrees to join the business that Li Daozong and Duan Decao have been doing.

It's just that Li Daozong might not have thought that the new governor of Yanzhou was still a member of the six sects.

Wu Huaiyu put the land deed of [-] mu of land in his arms, and directly in the carriage began to write a secret performance for the emperor who was far away in Chang'an, and recorded all the situations he knew truthfully and recorded one by one.

Wu Huaiyu believed that the emperor knew this a long time ago, so he must play now.

In order to prevent this secret melody from being intercepted, Wu Huaiyu used the code words in the six doors. When the letter arrived in Chang'an, it was sent directly to the emperor through special channels.

His secret performances will not go through formal procedures, will not go to the political affairs hall of the three provinces, and will not be seen by other people without the prime minister. This kind of power is actually very huge, because under normal circumstances, all officials need to go through formal channels , through Shangshu Province, Zhengshitang, etc., before the emperor sees it, multi-level departments will check or even copy the record and file, and give preliminary disposal opinions, and may even be detained directly, and they will not be able to reach the emperor at all.

Officials with lower ranks do not even have the power to directly report to the emperor, and can only report to the corresponding superiors.

As the governor of Yanzhou, he had to go through the provincial yamen to make a statement, but as a member of the six gates, Wailang, he could directly report to the emperor in secret, and the emperor's reply did not need to go through the provincial government affairs hall, etc.

Li Daozong is really nice, but Wu Huaiyu can only do so.

The carriage was escorted by the soldiers of Buqu to the Yamen of Yanzhou, Yuanqiaozhi in the city, and when it turned a street corner, Chen Sheng, who was riding on the horse, suddenly yelled.

"who!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a sudden scream.

"There are assassins!" Chen Sheng shouted, quickly pulled out the leather shield in front of him, then jumped off the horse and stood in front of the carriage, "Master, there are assassins, be careful."

In the next moment, countless arrows struck, followed by figures jumping out from the darkness, and they rushed towards them with knives and crossbows.

The screams kept ringing.

Someone was shot and fell to the ground.

Chen Sheng defended himself in front of the carriage, and loudly commanded the guards.

More than a dozen members quickly retreated and surrounded Wu Huaiyu's carriage, holding up their shields and crossbows, without leaving an inch.

Another dozen or so personal soldiers drew their knives, raised their spears and drew their bows, in groups of three and three, and quickly faced the incoming assassins.

The slaves and maidservants Li Daozong gave to Huaiyu were exposed between the two groups of people.

The assassin raised his crossbow and attacked without any scruples.

The beautiful servant girl couldn't dodge in time, screamed and screamed, and several people fell to the ground with arrows, bleeding all over the ground.Those fourteen slaves, although Bi Douduo was injured just now, they all yelled and dispersed quickly at this time, some even directly held the dead maid in their hands as a shield to block the arrows, and some directly Rush towards the assassin,

Long Street ambushes, chaotic battles!
(End of this chapter)