Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 183 180 Redemption of Slaves

After the dance, Huan Xi returned to his seat, while Tu Fa Yao left the stage and never appeared again.

But this did not affect Huan Xi's interest. After confirming that Bald Xianbei was willing to surrender, he became more and more looking forward to the upcoming alliance.

Long before leaving Yuzhong County, Huan Xi had already sent people to inform the Xianbei tribes in Hexi.

Setting the time around the Mid-Autumn Festival can also ensure that all ministries can arrive smoothly.

As for the tribes that were unwilling to participate in the alliance, they should be the targets of conquest, and Huan Xi and the various tribes in the alliance would divide up their humans and animals.

I just don’t know if any tribe will give Huan Xi this opportunity.

As for the Siyin, Chulian, and Tulu tribes who fled to the north, Huan Xi also sent people to persuade them to come back, but they had already left Hexi and were hard to find in the vast desert.

In general, after Huanxi controlled the Qifu tribe and obtained the allegiance of Bald Xianbei, the general trend of Liangzhou was set.

Youdao is a person who is in high spirits during happy events. Without noticing, Huan Xi got drunk and had to leave the party early.

When Huan Xi returned to the military camp, Shen Chiqian, who was guarding outside the camp gate, came up and whispered a few words to him, and Huan Xi's drunkenness immediately disappeared.

It turned out that Tufa Yao was sent to the military camp, so naturally he wanted to donate it to Huan Xi.

But Huan Xi was not there, and Shen Chiqian did not dare to let her go into the handsome tent to wait alone. After all, there were many confidential documents inside, so a small tent was arranged for her to rest.

Huan Xi's female relatives are all in Chang'an now. He has not been close to women for a long time. When he learned about this, he was naturally distraught. However, he was cautious by nature, so he asked one more question:

"Have you ever searched me?"

Shen Chiqian replied:

"Weichen specially found a female slave to enter the camp and searched her body. No sharp weapons were found."

Huan Xi was very satisfied with Shen Chiqian's approach. He nodded and said:

"Go and ask Bald-face Sifu Dan how many Jin slaves there are in their tribe.

"Whether they are young, old, women or children, Huan will redeem their lives for them all."

Shen Chiqian was puzzled and asked:

"Bald Xianbei has surrendered to Duke Liang and pardoning the slaves is just a matter of instructions. Why go to such trouble to redeem their lives?"

Huan Xi shook his head and said:

"You don't understand, they have become slaves and are also the property of Bald Xianbei.

"Since Bald Xianbei has surrendered to me, I must protect the Xianbei people's property as long as they have not violated the law.

"Now that Bald Xianbei is newly attached, if I force them to release the Jin slaves without compensation, how can I establish trust in the future?

"When other ministries hear about it, they will also have doubts."

Of course, Huan Xi had another reason that he didn't explain clearly: hard-won freedom is what makes people especially cherish it.

Compared with a light word, Huan Xi's act of paying for their redemption was more precious.

As for the bald Xianbei who used Jin slaves as slaves, Huan Xi was not angry about it. After all, among those aristocratic families, there were not many slaves in the house, and who would really treat their slaves and maids as human beings.

"Book of Jin: Biography of Wang Dun" records that Wang Dun and Wang Dao were guests at Wang Kai's house when they were young.

During the banquet, a female actress was beaten to death by Wang Kai because she played the flute out of tune.

A few days later, Wang Dun and Director Wang went to Wang Kai's home for a banquet. Wang Kai asked the beauty to toast the guests, threatening that as long as the guests did not drink all the wine, the beauty doing the drinking would be killed.

When the beauty held the wine glass in front of Wang Dun and Director Wang in fear, Director Wang was worried that the beauty would be killed, so even though he couldn't drink, he still drank it all in one gulp.

But Wang Dun refused to accept the cup. He wanted to see how Wang Kai would kill the beauty. Therefore, no matter how much the beauty turned pale with fear and begged, Wang Dun remained indifferent and ignored her arrogantly. And Wang Kai would not break his promise. In the end, the beauty died because of Wang Dun's unwillingness to drink.

Wang Kai was the biological brother of Emperor Wen of the Jin Dynasty, Queen Wang Yuanji, but he killed a female flute player because he was in a bad mood. Naturally, a beauty who was a drunkard would not be punished by the court.

Later generations still had to cover up for him. "Shishuo Xinyu" written during the Liu Song Dynasty added more fuel to this story and grafted it onto Shi Chong, who had a rich fight with Wang Kai.

Not only did Wang Kai not treat his slaves as human beings, but so did Wang Dun.

Of course, Huan Xi is not one of them.

Huan Xi could forgive Hexi Xianbei for enslaving Han people in the past, but now, after Huan Xi spent his own money to redeem the Han people's lives, whoever dares to rob Han people as slaves privately would be slapped in the face in public, and the consequences are self-evident.

After receiving the order, Shen Chiqian left the military camp and went straight to the bonfire venue.

Huan Xi went straight to the commander's tent, and someone would bring Tufa Yao.

The next day, Huan Xi woke up from his sleep. The girl next to him was still sleeping soundly on his arm.

Huan Xi gently pulled out his arm without waking Tu Fa Yao. He put on his clothes and walked out of the handsome tent. It was the crisp autumn weather, so Huan Xi stretched comfortably.

While he was washing, Shen Chiqian had already heard the news and rushed over.

"Mr. Liang, I have discussed this with the bald Sifu Tao last night. Si Fu Tao did not dare to let Mr. Liang spend money at first, but now that he understands Gong Liang's painstaking efforts, he agreed to exchange five sheepskins for a slave."

The bald Sifuxing didn't dare to rip off the customer. Five sheepskins were definitely a reasonable price.

At that time, Duke Mu of Qin wanted to pay a large sum of money to buy back an elderly slave from the state of Chu.

The minister Gongsun Zhi told him that the slave was seventy years old and you had to pay a lot of money to buy it. The Chu people knew that this man was extraordinary and would not let him go. Why not just buy it with five sheepskins? How could the Chu people be suspicious.

Sure enough, Duke Mu of Qin followed Gongsun Zhi's suggestion and brought the old slave to Qin with only five sheepskins.

The man's name was Baili Xi. He was over seventy years old. He entered Qin as prime minister and assisted Duke Mu of Qin in dominating Xirong.

When Bald Sifu set such a price, he was naturally trying to please Huan Xi.

However, Huan Xi knew in his heart that although Baili Xi was a slave, he was a high official of the Yu State before his disaster, and the allusion about lips dying and teeth cold coming from his mouth.

Huan Xi is now redeeming the lives of Jin people in distress, but he never expected that a talented person comparable to Baili Xi would emerge among them.

Besides, Huan Xi really has no shortage of sheepskins now.

When they escorted the women and children of the Qifu tribe to Yinchuan, they took 140,000 prisoners and 10,000 cavalry, and ate more than 100,000 sheep along the way.

You can find all kinds of sheepskins, but they are all placed in Yinchuan.

Since Zhu Xu had hoarded a lot of grain in Yuzhong County before, Huan Xi did not bring many livestock with him on this trip, so he had to temporarily transfer sheepskins from Yinchuan.

When the Xianbei tribes went to join the alliance, Huan Xi would also take the opportunity to discuss with them the redemption of slaves, and the amount of sheepskins required must not be a small amount.

"Go and tell Si Futan, asking him to restrain the tribal nobles and not to bully the Jin slaves. Soon after, I will have someone deliver the sheepskin."

Shen Chiqian agreed and hurried to Bald Xianbei's camp.

　One more chapter before two o'clock in the morning

　　

　

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