Chapter 202: Young Master Bai Ling These soldiers, who had just turned from Minzhuang to soldiers, had personally participated in some battles under Mu En's devilish training, and the speed of response was still very fast, of course, this was also due to the timely arrival of the alarm arrow.
The merchants were placed in the shelter of camels and cargo bags, and the soldiers were ready with bows and crossbows and broadswords, but after a long time, before the thunderous hooves of the horses could be heard, Muen and a few of his relatives met the arrows.
Yang Hao saw Tang Yanyan pinching his nose and pinching his boots with two fingers to rush over, and said with a sneer: "Actually, it doesn't stink at all." ” Tang Yanyan rolled his eyes playfully, and said angrily: "Of course you can't smell it yourself." ” In fact, even if there is a smell, it is not easy to smell in this open place, but the girl's family loves cleanliness, and she is a little repulsed psychologically.
Yang Hao didn't have time to say more, laughed, took the boots, patted off the sand on the socks, hurriedly put on the boots, fastened the straps, and stood up with a sword.
After a while, Mu Kui rushed back and said from a distance: "My lord, don't panic, we have met a tribe that is also going to the Yeli clan to attend the meeting, and now Mu En is interrogating their origins.
Yang Hao instructed the soldiers to remain on alert, greeted him himself, got on a war horse, and asked, "How many people are here, and what is the situation?"
Mu Kui said: "They have more than 200 people, more than 20 carts, all dressed in Qiang and Han, as soon as our whistle sounded, they were also very panicked, and hurriedly set up an escort to prepare for battle."
The subordinates carefully observed them, including old and young, women and children, with messy clothes and various weapons. ” Yang Hao was relieved when he heard this, and kicked his horse and said: "Let's go, lead me to see, if everyone is going to the meeting of the Yeli clan, don't have a conflict because of a misunderstanding." ” Yang Hao and Mu Kui rushed over a small hillside, only to see more than 200 people in the loess in front of them, mostly riding war horses, they guarded the more than ten carts and some women and children tightly in the middle, separated by half an arrow, Mu En rode alone, empty-handed, and was talking to those Qiang people who were forming a formation to protect themselves.
Yang Hao hurriedly stopped the more than 20 guards who came, Le Ma stood there and waited, as soon as these people of his appeared, the Qiang people who formed a formation to protect themselves could not help but be in a commotion, Mu En answered them for a while, and the other party also ran out of a horse, immediately a young man in his twenties, and saw him talking to Mu En from a distance, Mu En also pointed to Yang Hao from time to time, and it seemed that he was introducing his identity.
After a while, Mu En and the young man rushed here, Yang Hao had already ordered the soldiers to put away their weapons, so as not to cause fear to the other party, and when he saw them coming, he rode forward with his sword and horse.
Mu En introduced loudly: "My lord, this person is Tuoba Yan, the young patriarch of the Bailingqiang tribe of Hengshan, Tuoba brother, this is my Lord Yang Hao, the prefect of Luling. ” The young man was a fierce man, and his movements were very soft and coordinated when he galloped across the horse and hit the waves, and he was obviously a master of riding and archery.
His complexion was very rough, and his black skin made his face look a little older than the leopard's vigorous and powerful body, but those eyes were very sharp, and he was very attentive to his expectations.
Yang Hao has really worked the Qiang people during this time, and he has really worked the large and small tribes, and he knows the larger tribes very well, and when he heard Mu En mention the Bai Ling clan, he knew their identities.
The Bai Ling clan is said to be the same clan as the Li clan in Xiazhou, and they are all descendants of the Xianbei royal family, but their tribe returned to the Xiazhou grassland much earlier than the Northern Wei Dynasty was defeated and returned to the grassland.
When the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty wore Hanfu and learned Chinese, and even changed his surname to a Han surname, he caused the opposition of some Tuoba nobles, among whom some Tuoba nobles refused to change their surnames, so they left the imperial capital and returned to the grassland, and among these tribes were the Bai Ling clan.
For more than 300 years, some of these tribes were annexed by other Qiang tribes, and some were exterminated by the Tubo, Hui or Han armies, and the territory of the Bai Ling clan became smaller and smaller, and finally they could not survive on the grasslands of the jungle, so they moved to the east of Hengshan and lived with the Han people.
After the death of Tuoba Wei, part of the Xianbei people who stayed in the Central Plains integrated into the Han nationality, and some fled back to the grassland to integrate into the Qiang people, and became the leaders of the Qiang tribes by virtue of their advanced culture, and now occupy Xiazhou, maintaining the true character of the grassland tribes.
And those who were the first to return to the grassland because of their refusal to integrate are now more sinicized than them.
The clansmen of the Bailing clan now make a living by selling salt, Yanzhou and Lingzhou on this side of the Western Xia are all places where salt is produced, and the main products are green salt and white salt, because the quality is pure, it is much better than the salt solution of the Great Song Dynasty, and the price is also cheap, so it is popular among the Han people.
However, in view of the fact that the local salt produced in the Great Song Dynasty had no market as soon as the green salt came, and the tax revenue was greatly reduced, the law was strictly punished and the sale of green salt was prohibited.
In this way, almost all the people of the Bailing tribe are illicit salt dealers.
The imperial court banned green salt, in order to pay tax income, but the price of your goods is more expensive than others, and the quality is not as good as others, how the people choose can be imagined, so the Qiang people who want to sell green salt and the Han people who want to buy green salt are very friendly to the Bai Ling clan who sells smuggled salt, and among the Qiang tribes in Hengshan, the Bai Ling tribe is also relatively rich and civilized.
As soon as he heard that this person was Yang Hao, the prefect of Luling, the young man glanced at him in surprise, but this person had a dark complexion, a large beard, and when he showed his shocked face, his eyes were only slightly wide, and he couldn't see too many expressions.
He saw that Yang Hao was dressed in Han military uniforms on the left and right, with bright armor and bright swords and guns, and then he showed a relieved look, busily stroked his chest and saluted, and said respectfully: "Bai Ling's Tuoba Yan, I have seen Lord Yang Hao." ” "The young patriarch is exempt," Yang Hao also gave him a chest salute, and said with a smile: "We are going to the Yeli clan tribe, and we heard a warning, so we rushed to investigate, did the young patriarch and these clansmen also go to the Yeli clan's meeting?"
Tuoba Yan showed a smile on his face: "Yes, my lord, my lord will meet in Hengshan Zhuqiang, discuss whether there is anything to communicate with, sell and buy goods, my Bai Ling clan is now in business, how can I not come."
I brought twenty carts of goods purchased from the Central Plains, went to the Yeli tribe to sell them to the grassland tribes, and then bought some green salt and white salt back, and at the same time wanted to see if there were any other ways to make profits.
Relying only on salt sales is not very appropriate after all" Speaking of this, he was slightly surprised, after all, the Central Plains is forbidden to sell green salt privately, and he is obviously smuggling, but at the moment he is facing the prefect of the Song court, and some words are of course difficult to say.
However, he is not afraid to say that the Great Song Dynasty government will not be able to control the heads of their Qiang villages when they crack down on the illegal salt dealers under their jurisdiction, and this Han prefect wants to do business with Hengshan Zhuqiang in order to gain a foothold, and there are also many topics that are not good to put on the table to talk about, everyone has their own privacy, let alone the eldest brother Yang Hao said: "I see, since it is a false alarm, then it's just that."
This government has also brought a lot of businessmen, and maybe you can find a mutually beneficial partner.
Now the merchant is a little frightened, and the government needs to return to pacify.
Although the young patriarch chooses a place to camp, the government will restrain his subordinates and do not disturb each other. ” Tuoba hurriedly said, "My lord, please."
Since the adults have set up camp here, they should move to the upper three miles and set up camp. ” The two of them each circled their horses and returned to their camp, and after a while, they saw the team of people and horses of the Bai Ling clan appear from the slope, and the people of the Bai Ling clan rode on their horses, looking here and around, pointing and pointing, looking quite curious.
Immediately, there were some women, all dressed in white robes and wearing hats on their heads, which were used to shield themselves from the wind, sand and sun when they traveled in the northwest wilderness, and some women lifted their hats and looked curiously in this direction.
Although they couldn't see their facial features clearly from a distance, the wind blew the plain robes and the veils were light, which was very graceful, which provoked some sergeants in the camp to whistle even more.
The people of the Bai Ling clan did not come to deal with them, but they went upstream along the river, and began to unload their wagons and set up camp about three miles away.
As the sun set and the moon rose, bonfires lit one after another in the two camps, and some warriors with bows and spears were faintly seen patrolling outside the camps.
Yang Hao stood on a dirt slope, subconsciously holding the horsewhip, looking at the bonfire of the Bailing tribe in the distance, Mu En walked over slowly, stood behind him, Yang Hao didn't look back, just went down to the ground with the horsewhip, and said after a while: "Li Yuchang's main business is to sell salt, and in the salt he sells, the salt is only used to hide people's ears, under the protection of Fuzhou, the salt he sells everywhere is mainly green salt, which is a huge profit, and a large part of it must be the source of wealth in Fuzhou, and Linzhou should be like this."
In order to ensure the sale of salt and crack down on the smuggling of green salt, the two states of Linfu will inevitably make it difficult for them to monopolize the sale of salt, so it is not surprising that Bai Ling's clan came uninvited and wanted to open a passage from me.
However, I really don't know what to do with these people who have high hopes for me.
Let's take this Bai Ling clan as an example, if I cooperate with them, from a close perspective, then I will compete with Linzhou and Fuzhou for profit, which will inevitably cause dissatisfaction between Linfu and Fuzhou, and from a distance, as an official of the imperial court, he actually violated the ban of the imperial court and sold salt with others, and his crime is not light.
If I don't agree, with my current military power and small grace and Xiaohui, I can envelop them Seeing this Bailing tribe coming, I suddenly thought that the original plan was still not meticulous enough, and the Zhuqiang tribe came for profit, and the first thing to propose cooperation must be something that they can't do by themselves, and it is not allowed by the two states of Linfu, I am really dancing on the tip of the knife."
He was silent, the evening wind on the grassland was very strong, blowing his robe hunting ground sound, after a while, Yang Hao sighed lightly, and said: "In less than a year, I have become a prefect and regimental training envoy in Luling Prefecture from a family member of the squire family in Bazhou, with great power, soldiers and money, I couldn't imagine this kind of scenery before, and many people in the world must be envious of my chances."
However, until now, the path I have taken is not what I want to take.
None of the things I did were what I wanted to do I can't walk the way I want to go, I haven't done what I want to do, so I can't help myself, but I can't help myself, but I wander between the imperial court, Fuzhou, Linzhou, and Xiazhou Zhuqiang, each of which I must rely on, and each one is not something I can rely on, the more I go up, the heavier the authority, the more afraid I am, the higher I go, the stronger the wind, and where are my roots, that feeling, is like walking on thin ice, like facing the abyss, you don't know when you fall, you will be crushed, and you will not be able to turn over" Mu En stood behind him like a mountain, and said quietly: "What the young master said, the villain can understand. ” He slowly walked to Yang Hao's side, stared at the bonfire in the distance, and said slowly: "At the beginning, when he fled to the grassland with the Lord, Mu En was still a teenager, and we only had dozens of people, dozens of horses, no food, no property.
The people chasing and killing in Xia Zhou may come out at some point.
Free novels bring you joy and joy ---> storyskyline.net
When you open your eyes, hold the knife.
When you close your eyes, you still have to hold the knife.
When the enemy comes out, we have to fight bloodily, we have to protect the Lord to fight a way out, there is no direction, where we feel safe, we naturally rush to that place.
When the enemy comes out, it's dangerous, but when the enemy doesn't, we're even more nervous, you don't know when they're coming, when you're eating, when you're sleeping, or when you're feeling good when you see a blue sky.
Sometimes, after walking for a long time, we can't meet people, so we have to dig grass roots, gnaw tree bark, and eat earthworms.
When we meet a tribe, we have to please them, befriend them, and try our best to be friends with each tribe, but we can't trust them, and we don't know when they will receive the benefits of Xia Zhou, they will suddenly stab us in the back."
"How similar those days are to the young master's situation today.
We don't want to live like that, but if we slack off and retreat at that time, we will never survive again, and we will end up feeding ourselves to vultures and wild wolves.
We have tried every means to live to get to where we are today.
Luling Prefecture is now our home, although we still have to fight and fight outside, at least our family is in a safe place, so that we have no worries.
Days like this are as beautiful as heaven than before.
All this is thanks to the young master, we still want to live a better life, so that our children and grandchildren will no longer fight and kill, I know that what the young master is doing is for all this.
The three thousand warriors in our clan are willing to follow the young master, swords, mountains and fires, fearless, and have no regrets. ” Yang Hao sighed and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Compared to you at the beginning, my current situation is much better."
Listening to you, I feel that I am moaning without illness, and I don't know the blessing in the blessing, hehe, don't say it, this is not the time to be depressed, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, which step is counted, go, let's go back. ” As soon as the two of them turned around, they heard the sound of questioning in the distance, Yang Hao and Mu En looked back, and saw a person walking in the camp of the Bai Ling clan, and the outermost sentry arranged in Yang Hao's camp was appearing, asking them the reason
.
: