A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 516
Jinlianchuan, also known as Tanshan, also known as Liangxing.

This is a great place to escape the summer heat.

But now it is early winter, the grass is dry and the wind is cold.

"We have a mighty 2 horses going to the outside of the Great Wall, so don't scare Tuli away." Riding on the horse, Cripple Peng looked at the Tang army team winding like a dragon to the north and crossing the Wangcheng Post Road, full of emotion.Who would have thought that Cripple Peng, who traded slaves and horses in Lingzhou, would now be fortunate enough to witness Tang Jun's departure.

Mr. Duan, who was wearing an official robe, was even more emotional, "It's really possible!"

After Wu Huaiyu sent out Youzhou soldiers to attack the mountain, the Xi tribe people who were close to the mountain all migrated to the northeast one after another, for fear that when the Tang army attacked the mountain, they would also beat them by raking grass and beating rabbits.

Originally, the Tanghe area near the back of the mountain was the territory of Xibu, but now they directly gave up the Tanghe Valley and ran to the Chaohe River Basin to take refuge, and many even went directly to the Fortress further north.

Kang Po was thinking about how much money and food would be spent on Wu Huaiyu's "parade to show off her martial arts"; Lue Army, Lu Long Army, Hengsai Army, etc., have a total of 2 horses.

People eat horse chews, which consumes a lot.

Kang Po has now become Wu Huaiyu's logistics manager. This former Hebei rich man and Pei Ji's chief housekeeper have shown very good skills. Anyway, Wu Huaiyu didn't need to think about money and food all the way here, it was all arranged by him.

Lu Chengye felt a little disappointed.

I wanted to plant a thorn, but unexpectedly I became a matchmaker for him. Now more than a hundred villages behind the mountain are attached to the imperial court. Gaowei and many other powerful people behind the mountain all worship Wu Huaiyu, and even become his subordinates. Lennon love is Lennon.

"Captain, the weather is getting colder. We have 2 people going out of the fortress. Isn't it a bit too sudden, without any preparation plan in advance, what if the food and grass are not available, or what should we do if we encounter any unexpected situation in the grassland?"

"For example?" Wu Huaiyu asked with a smile.

"For example, if Jieli suddenly sends troops to attack, there is no danger on the grassland? How to deal with it?"

"Hahaha!" Hearing these words, the Qingyi army at the side made Su Lie smile happily.

"Why is Governor Su laughing?"

"Lu Wulang's poems and books are great, but he really doesn't understand military affairs. If Jieli really dares to attack, then we can't ask for it. Where is Jieli Khan Court? In Dingxiang, where should we go? Liangxing, eight hundred miles away from Youzhou It is only three hundred miles away from Dushikou, but it is more than a thousand miles away from Dingxiang."

"Xieli and Tuli's uncle and nephew are at odds with each other. If he suddenly leads an army to Tuli's territory, do you think Tuli will help him or us?"

Lu Chengye was said to be ignorant of military affairs, but he said with a blushing face, "But after all, they are relatives, uncles and nephews, and they are all Turkic people, not my race, so their hearts must be different."

Wu Huaiyu just waved his hand, "Lu Canjun is too worried. Now the Turkic tribes are busy transferring the winter pastures. Even if Jieli knows the news now, he decides to recruit people to come. It will take a long time. Waiting for him to really Bring tens of thousands of troops here, we have all met Tuli in Jinlianchuan, finished eating roast lamb and came back."

Su Lie said that he hoped that Jieli would really come.

Once he comes, let him not go back, and save himself and fight again next year.

"Then even if Xieli doesn't come, we will lead 2 people just to meet Tuli outside the Great Wall. It will be too costly."

"That can't be called a waste,"

Before the Northern Expedition to the Turks, it was very important to get Tuli to fall to the Tang Dynasty, and to make Tuli fall to the Tang Dynasty, he had to truly feel that the Tang Dynasty is not what it used to be, and that it is strong enough to easily destroy it. Drop Jieli Khan.

Don't look at the fact that when Tuli followed Jieli to invade the south during the reign of Wude, he secretly hooked up with Li Shimin several times to release water, but if he didn't have enough strength, he wouldn't say that it was inappropriate to let the little Turkic Khan come to invest Tang's.

Of course, with 2 horses, it is also a way to inspect the area behind the mountain first, and then frighten Xibu. Action is necessary.

Only those who are afraid of power will be virtuous.

Although Gaowei and the others finally lost their fighting spirit in the face of the enemy's firearms and surrendered, the other villages still had to show off.

Under Wu Huaiyu's arrangement, the Tang army marched along the Wangcheng post station, from Diaowo to Chicheng, and then along the Baihe River Valley to Dushikou, passing through many valleys and villages along the way. Huaiyu would meet the powerful families in Xiazhai every time he passed one place. And the elderly, even rewarding the elderly and widows, recruiting and recruiting the children of some powerful and powerful surnames.

Of course, it is unavoidable to show off the magic weapon.

Everywhere you go, you have to show it to the public.

The palm thunder, the sky-shaking thunder, and the bursting gun, every time they are displayed, they can shock the people in the villages in the border areas, and they all think it is some kind of fairy magic.

Everywhere Kang Po went, she would exchange gold, silver, silk or salt for food and livestock in the border villages to supplement military supplies. The price was fair, and the border residents were also very happy.

In the past, they would also sell the surplus of the output to the strong surnames in the village, and then sell it to Youzhou, or sell it directly to the Youzhou caravan entering the mountain. Now the price given by Kang Po is even higher than what they sold before. Still tall, naturally happy.

Every time a village is passed, one or two firearms are displayed.

Not to mention the shock of the border residents, even Tang Jun himself, except for the Shenji Battalion, the rest of the army were equally shocked. Who has seen these things before.

The sacred fire crow looks like a kite, but it can really be pushed by gunpowder to fly far away, and then explode.

Not to mention the various poisonous smoke bombs, which can continue to release poisonous smoke after being thrown into distant enemies.

And all kinds of fireballs, good things for setting fire to the enemy.

Let alone ten or a hundred rockets at a time, it is really like a galloping horse, or a swarm of bees.

A row of soldiers stood in three rows with tuskers in their hands, lit the fuses, and fired successively, three rows fired continuously, and a row of targets at a distance of twenty steps were beaten to pieces.

Like thunderbolts, the smoke billowed out, and then everything in front of me turned into dust.

Who is not surprised?
It's just that what most Tang soldiers don't know is that these firearms still have many flaws, such as the burst gun, which is shot at close range, not very accurate, and the bamboo burst gun is useless after a few shots, but I don't know the details The people watching Shenjiying's muskets fired in three stages, who would not fight with each other.

Anyway, the Tang army led by Wu Huaiyu had an armed parade all the way, and all the villages they passed were extremely respectful to the imperial court, and the prestige of the Tang Dynasty became unprecedentedly high behind the mountain.

Especially the small fanhu tribes behind the mountain, who used to be very rebellious, but now they are all extremely hospitable.

Not only was Mrs. Tang very enthusiastic when buying and selling supplies with them, even the tribal leaders and patriarchs took the initiative to donate money and food to the court and the officers and soldiers.

Donate horses, sell cattle and sheep, donate food, and even compete to lead their children to volunteer.

It’s not enough if you don’t accept it, that’s to look down on us Fan Hu and don’t regard us as Tang people. We have already naturalized.

The fanhus cut their braids and dressed easily, and all of them talked about my Tang Dynasty.

Originally, Wei Siren thought it was a waste of Wu Huaiyu's display of firearms like this, but seeing the effect of this way, he immediately shut up.

The people behind the mountain are too enthusiastic, especially those who are attached to the small tribes of Fanhu. Their enthusiasm is more direct and bold. They not only donate money and food to livestock, but also lead their children to voluntarily join the conscripts. in his arms.

In some tribes, not only their unmarried daughters pounce on them, but even their own daughters-in-law.

But people don't feel ashamed at all, but feel quite honored, and say it's their tribal tradition.

"Don't be surprised under the festival. In fact, this kind of thing outside the Great Wall is really a tradition. The herdsmen outside the Great Wall live nomadicly, unlike the Central Plains where they settled,"

According to Kang Po, the Sogdian Hu, some herdsmen let their wives and daughters entertain passing outsider men, in fact, for the purpose of planting. The reason is due to their living habits. Although the vast grassland is large, the interior of the tribe is relatively closed, sometimes with a radius of hundreds of miles. Here, there may be a tribe of close relatives, and they all have some blood relationship.

In this case, the children born are prone to illness or premature death, so some tribes will form some customs to seize every opportunity to introduce new blood, which is conducive to the continuation of the race.

On the grasslands, population is very important, and health is even more important, so they generally adopt the system of adoptive marriage. After the father dies, the son will inherit all the other women of the father except the biological mother and become his own woman.It has become the highest etiquette for them to treat guests with their wives and daughters, and the children they give birth to will also be regarded as having been born.

Kind of absurd, but realistic.

After Wu Huaiyu took Lu 35 and Gao Shier as concubines, during this period of time there were countless tyrants and tribesmen who wanted to marry daughters or even give them concubines, and Wu Huaiyu could only keep rejecting them.

He really didn't dare to open his mouth again, otherwise he could create a group or even a group of concubines at any time. He didn't want to add another army of women to his army.

When those people hit a wall at Wu Huaiyu's place, they also turned their heads to attack Su Lie and others, even Wei Xiaojie, an old man in his 60s, was not spared.

Even Li Tudiji, a fanhu, has become very popular.

Huaiyu's Kunlun slaves Tang Fengxiao, Peng Laizi, and Li Jinyan with the scarred face are all missing. Even the old soldier Cao Qing and the others were fought over by many women.

This world is crazy.

It was hard for Wu Huaiyu to refuse their enthusiasm, and in the end they just issued an order not to mess around, if they accepted it, they had to admit it, and if they couldn't lift their pants, they didn't recognize anyone.

Of course, those fanhus who treated their wives as guests did not intend to send their wives away. I would like Wu Huaiyu to ignore this, but if it is your love, I would like to force myself into other people's tents.

And those who gift their daughters must at least leave a concubine marriage certificate, give some concubine gifts, and at least give them the status of a concubine. They cannot take away other people's daughters casually, and end up treating others as slaves, or even reselling them.

The last one is that all women are not allowed to join the army.

For this reason, he asked Lu 35 and Gao Shier to go back to Youzhou, but the two immediately organized a group of ladies, set up a caravan with the army, and followed Wu Huaiyu openly.

The army came out of Dushikou,

The boulder stands alone.

This is the boundary line between the Bashang Grassland and the northern Hebei Mountains. In Wu Huaiyu’s plan, a strong fortress of Guancheng will be rebuilt on the abandoned site of Guguan, and there will be a beacon tower on the mountain.

Guard the gate of Yanbei.

"Report!"

Xu Siye led a light horse and rushed back. He was ahead of Wu Huaiyu's army.
"Report, Tuli Khan learned that the governor led his troops out of the fortress and was going to meet the Jinlianchuan Khan Court. He was very happy. He had already led the tribesmen to mow the grass to clear the road. He wanted to cut a [-]-mile road from Jinlianchuan to Dushikou. Greeted by the avenue."

As he said that, Xu Siye also carried a box, which contained a box of deer tongues. It was Tuli who took his nephews to hunt deer and cut off fresh deer tongues, and asked Xu Siye to send them back to Wu Huaiyu to taste.

(End of this chapter)