Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1594 A skull bowl

  February twenty-eighth.

  The weather has begun to warm up, even if it is the cold that I can't miss, I have to retreat temporarily, giving up the earth, mountains and rivers to the spring breeze.

  In the field, the grass and wildflowers can’t wait to stretch out their heads, blooming smiling faces to welcome the spring, but what they didn’t expect is that the first thing that comes is not the gentle spring breeze, but the hot human blood...

The scenes of labor and farming that should have been lively did not appear, and even large areas of the world were barren, and even birds and beasts were rarely seen. There were only a dozen crows, jumping among the weeds and wild flowers, pecking at the undeveloped land. The bones that had had time to rot happily screamed "Croak! Ah!"

It has been a day or so since the end of a great battle, and the blood that has spread out has long since solidified. Weapons and valuable items, including the leather robes and boots that are not too shabby on the dead, have been stripped clean, and the exposed limbs And large or small wounds are everywhere in the wilderness grass.

  The spoils belong to the victors, but they are also divided into levels. The first to get it is naturally the big tribe, and those small groups who can't get anything can only be cleaned by a few people after the big army cleans up...

  Like among wolves, the strong will always be full, and the weak will either eat less or starve.

Those who are still trying to find some missing items on the battlefield now belong to some small tribes under Kirby's capable hands. It is said to be the corpse of **, see if there is anything that can be picked up.

People are dead and birds are facing the sky, this sentence is really not wrong in general, because the leather robes on many people's corpses have been stripped, so they are basically exposed, dangling, and bare bones on the body Like internal organs, it will gradually rot or fall into the mouth of wild beasts over time.

  At the beginning of the fifth year of Yanping, the Xianbei people went south to hold ethnic integration activities and besieged Yuyang.

  On February 23rd, Kebi Neng used King Xianbei as a bait to attract Fu Luohan's heart, led the crowd to leave Budugen, and went to Kebi Neng...

However, Kirby had no intention of fulfilling his so-called promise at all. After seeing Fu Luohan coming with his followers, he turned his back on that night, beheaded Fu Luohan, and annexed his clansmen and The belongings, Shi Shi ran back to Mobei with the troops.

   Budugen was naturally furious. At the beginning, it was because Fu Luohan was betrayed, but after hearing that Fu Luohan was killed and annexed, some other emotions were mixed with the anger, so he led the army here to fight against Kirbineng's team played a game.

They are all Xianbei, and they are all wearing leather robes and riding war horses. The weapons are not completely out of the era of backbone. Overall, the combat power is basically the same. When the two sides were entangled, Liu He and the Wuhuan appeared on the battlefield Together with Bu Dugen, they defeated the team that Kobe could stay behind.

Since Liu He and others cooperated with the Wuhuan people in depth, the equipment level of the Wuhuan people has improved a lot. Not only the leather armor, but even some leading hundred cavalry commanders can prepare a whole body of iron armor. This undoubtedly made the Wuhuan people feel the coming of spring, so they naturally didn't want to be a loyal dog under Xianbei.

So this time, it is natural to show their strength. After joining the battlefield, they defeated Kirbineng's troops like a torrent. When night fell, only a small number of Kirbineng's troops escaped, and the rest were basically dead. Here, corpses piled up like mountains and blood flowed like rivers.

  Kirby can lose, but Kirby can not lose at all.

   Budugen won, but he didn't make any money after the victory.

  Kirby can stay here with less than 3,000 soldiers and horses. Although basically all of them were lost, he ate nearly 20,000 troops from Fu Luohan, and he still made a lot of money every time he entered and went out.

   On the other hand, Bu Dugen, although he won, not only lost Fu Luohan's troops, but also lost some in the battle, so even if he won, he still lost all his underwear.

  Well, Hu people have underwear, but having underwear does not mean that there is any bottom line.

   It's like Kirby can lure Fu Luohan with a smile, but eats Fu Luohan as soon as he turns his head. Budugen originally looked down on the Wuhuan people, but now he has to put on a kind and gentle smile, sit with Nanlou, and call him brothers eating meat and drinking.

  Night fell again, above the bonfire, sparks danced. On the side of the bonfire, there are singing and dancing Xianbei and Wuhuan people.

For these ordinary Xianbei and Wuhuan people at the bottom, they don't even have names, and naturally they don't have to think about military affairs or future prospects. For them, the best things are a bowl of wine and a piece of meat. , As for the others, they didn't think about it, and it's not their turn to think about it...

   At night in Springfield, the breath is still slightly cold, with a little moisture, soaking into people's skin.

  Liu He smiled slightly, with the gentleness of spring, watching Nanlou and Budugen talking happily in detail, and also looked at the faces of other Xianbei leaders.

  Before the banquet, there was a pile of human heads, the heads of Kirby's subordinates, forming a hill about the height of one person. The face of the human head is distorted, the skin is blue and black, the smell is foul and smelly, and under the fluffy and dirty hair, there are occasional eyeballs like dead fish, and the bone marrow is either pale or egg-yellow and bones, constructing a very unique landscape.

"Maybe my father is here, so I should hate it..." Liu He smiled slightly, looked at it calmly, and moved away calmly, occasionally making eye contact with other Xianbei heads or Wuhuan heads, and nodded slightly in greeting .

"King Wuhuan! Come and drink another bowl! Hahaha, bring me some more wine!" Bu Dugen laughed, as if this victory foreshadowed the future victory, and he couldn't see the slightest concern for him. future worries.

  Nanlou also laughed, raised the skull wine bowl, and drank it with Budugen.

   Liu He lowered his eyes and looked at the wine bowl in his hand.

   This is a wine bowl made of human skulls.

   Is it the age of bones, do you really think it's a joke?

  Generally speaking, human skulls are very smooth, smoother than ordinary clay bowls in the Han Dynasty, less prone to dirt, easy to clean, lighter than clay or wooden bowls, and easy to carry. Of course, the most important thing is to intimidate people and demonstrate one's own force...

  The wine bowl of the human skull is easy to identify, because in the wine bowl, there is a suture line similar to the shape of "T", and there are also some fine grains that vary from person to person, which are quite different from ordinary wine bowls. This custom still exists even in later generations, such as Gabala bowls.

  Does it taste like drinking...

   Except for the taste of the wine itself, there is no special taste.

   "Hahaha, Shijun Liu is really very courageous, admirable!"

   "Oh?" Liu He turned his head, looked at Bu Dugen who was coming, and said, "Why did your majesty say that?"

Bu Dugen smiled and pointed to the skull wine bowl in Liu He's hand, and said, "I also invited your father to drink back then, but...haha, your father didn't take a sip! What else did you say...well, I forgot... "

   "My father generally makes sense..." Liu He smiled, and then raised his wine bowl, "Courage is not only about drinking, but also more important... Am I right?"

   "Hahaha, what you say is not important, what matters is that you can fight well..." Bu Dugen laughed, "You Han people just like to say..."

   Liu He still looked unchanged, and said slowly: "But we Han people are not bad at fighting..."

  Budugen raised his brows and eyes, then opened them again, laughing: "Sure enough, it's not the same as your father! Hahaha! Come, come, let's find a place to sit together?"

  Liu He glanced at Nanlou standing behind Bu Dugen, nodded and said, "Good. I just wanted to say a few words to the king..."

This time, Liu and Nanlou deliberately separated to let Bu Dugen take the initiative to step down, and it is obvious that this time, Bu Dugen really left his throne as Liu He expected. , walked aside. As for Bu Dugen's deliberate behavior of letting people pile up heads in Beijing, using skull wine bowls, etc., Liu He didn't flinch.

  The noise beside the bonfire gradually weakened. Budugen stood still, looking up at the seemingly endless horizon in the distance, and the guards scattered around, creating a space for the three people to discuss.

   "Tell me...what do you want...what do you have..." Bu Dugen didn't look at Nanlou and Liu He, and said directly.

  Liu He and Nanlou exchanged glances, and then said: "We have what Your Majesty wants, and Your Majesty also has what we want, isn't it just right?"

Bu Dugen laughed twice, then turned around and glanced at Liu He, then turned to Nanlou and said, "King Wuhuan, I thought it was you who made the decision...I didn't expect...haha, ahaha... "

  Nanlou raised his eyebrows and said, "I know how heavy my bones are... Besides, the important thing is the benefits. If there are not enough benefits, even if you want to call the shots, you still can't do it, right?"

  Bu Dugen laughed and nodded, then looked at Liu He and said, "Let's talk, it's up to you, be more specific..."

   "Changshan and Jiuyuan." Liu He said, then raised his chin slightly, and pointed to the Wuhuan people beside him, "Your Majesty can get the same equipment as them..."

  Bu Dugen rejected it without even thinking about it, and said decisively: "This is impossible!"

The two counties of Jiuyuan and Changshan were originally the territory of the Han Dynasty, but since the Eastern Han Dynasty, they have been shrinking continuously. After two or three large-scale inward migrations, these two counties are no longer like the territory of the Han Dynasty. During Emperor Wu's time, it was so strong, and the concentration of Han people dropped sharply. It can be said that they basically withdrew from these two places and lost the dominance of these two regions.

  Of course there are areas like this, including many places in Bingbei, as well as Xiliang.

Under the ebb and flow, the nomads naturally occupied these places, the original farmlands became grasslands, and the original villages became cattle sheds, but the nomads would not settle down or rest these villages, so these Local towns were destroyed and collapsed under the grazing of nomads.

  So strictly speaking, these places do not have much industrial value, but because the climate is milder than Mobei, it is naturally more suitable for nomadic people such as Xianbei.

  Liu He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, do you know that for the sake of Ke Bi Neng, this man, although he is called Gong Yuyang, but he did not attack Yuyang, so he retreated like this, even if he gave up three thousand troops, would he not hesitate?"

  Bu Dugen was obviously very unhappy when he heard the word Kebi Neng, but he was still depressed, and said in a deep voice, "Why?"

   "Because one has already been obtained, and the other is about to bleed out and I don't know how much I can get. There may be more, or there may be less..." Liu He said with a smile, "If the king chooses, which one will he choose?"

  Budugen frowned and didn't speak.

"So, the most important thing is what you can really hold in your hand..." Liu He looked at Bu Dugen, "I can provide the king with things that Kirby can't have...a sharp sword, a solid armor, and a useful Arrows that won't break ten or twenty times... the king has these things, is he still worried that he won't be able to beat Kirby and get back his troops?"

   "Although I am worried that Kirby will be able to?!" Bu Dugen stared.

"It was a slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue..." Liu He didn't care, and continued, "With me here, the king doesn't have to worry about General Zhengxi... and these things are the things I worked hard from General Zhengxi and spent a lot of money on. The price was just shipped... just exchanged for Jiuyuan and Changshan..."

Liu He looked at Bu Dugen, "Besides...without Jiuyuan and Changshan, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry about those soldiers and horses under the Yin Mountain in Zhengxi... All these years, Kebi was able to take advantage of the time when Your Majesty was in the south, but I really gathered a lot of people who were originally in Mobei... the three thousand troops who were cut off, I just threw it away... tsk tsk..."

   "I want Yuyang!" Budugen thought for a moment, stared at Liu He and Nanlou, gritted his teeth and said, "You help me take Yuyang, Changshan and Jiuyuan are yours!"

"Your Majesty really likes to joke..." Liu He looked up to the sky and said with a haha, "General Yuan's cavalry is probably on the way now... If this is the same as last time... But don't worry, Your Majesty... I think it can be done from fishing. Take some things from Yang's place... Although it may not be a lot, it's better than nothing, right? And Kirby can't get any benefits from Yuyang's place, but the king can. Does this prove something? What's the matter...how does the king feel?"

   Bu Dugen stared at Liu He with erect eyes, then slowly moved to Nanlou's face.

  Nan Lou also smiled, and didn't speak, but took a small half step towards Liu He...

"I want money, food, utensils, women with salt and iron cloth!" Bu Dugen took a step back and said, holding his fingers, "I want half a million stones, grain and grass! I want one million gold! Fifty thousand dans of salt, twenty thousand catties of iron! Plus Five thousand for cloth, three thousand for women!"

   Liu He turned his head and exchanged glances with Nanlou, then shook their heads together. Liu He said with a smile: "Otherwise, we will give the king some equipment for free, such as ladders for charging cars, and the king will go to Yuyang by himself, and most of the shots will be yours alone. We don't want any, how about it?" ?”

   Budugen was not angry, and said, "Then how much can you get?"

"Yuyang has been trapped for so long, so the people in the city don't need to eat and drink? Even if it is really captured, there are not so many things..." Liu He counter-offered, "Well, what about food, 30,000 shi, salt, let's see how much there is , Two or three hundred dan should be there, iron, look at what irons are collected for ten carts, and the rest, if you can ask for more, just ask for more, if you don’t have it, forget it... As for the large amount that the king said, Naturally it is impossible... Besides, I can also ask the people in Yuyang to prepare more banners, battle armor, and some seals, etc., so that it will be convenient for the king to display..."

"I don't have this, and I don't have that... Huh, can I eat those tattered flags? Forget it, just for the sake of the two of you..." Bu Dugen thought for a moment, then said, "But Jiuyuan can't For you, just Changshan..."

   Liu He and Nan Lou glanced at each other, then nodded in agreement.

   "Hahaha... good, good!" Bu Dugen laughed and clapped his hands, "Okay, then we will be good neighbors and good friends! Come on, come on! Keep drinking!"

   "Your Majesty please..."

   "Your Majesty can drink a lot!"

   "Hahaha, if you don't get drunk tonight, you won't go home!"

  After the three people negotiated the conditions, they walked back as if they were intimate, laughing all the way, but it is not known to outsiders whether they are really happy or just perfunctory...

  (end of this chapter)