It was said that Taiji was not wearing armor and was sitting on the pier in a satin robe. He was not afraid of the military formation.
He is over forty years old. Xiao Lazun is the youngest of the eight sons of the Huo Luochi family. The first few sons are all very old and have all dealt with the Ming Dynasty.
When Baiyan was still a boy, he accompanied his father to support Kuaibai in Ningxia and saw the Ming army's large battles.
"Am I too old? Do you young people talk like this now?"
Baiyan gave a wry smile: "Luozhe Gyatso said the same."
Liu Chengzong didn't understand and called Master Chen over: "Translate."
He originally wanted to show off his Mongolian language, but considering his poor vocabulary and only knowing a few words like 'put down the knife' and 'don't kill the one who surrenders', he finally gave up.
He asked Master Chen: "Who is Luo Zhe Gyatso?"
Master Chen didn't even need to ask questions and said directly: "Luo Zhe Gyatso is Xiao Lazun, the reincarnation of the White Buddha, the master of all Qinghai Mongolia."
Liu Chengzong was stunned for a moment, and he roughly understood in his mind why Lazun's brother was old enough to be Lazun's father.
It was political necessity to cooperate with Huo Luochi to give birth to this son.
Like the fourth lama of Mongolian origin, Huo Luochi must have given birth to little Lazun because a living Buddha said that my reincarnation will be born in your family, so Huo Luochi gave birth to a baby in his later years.
"Ask him, does Lazun also want me to pay tribute to him? If so, it goes without saying. From now on, everyone will depend on their ability to see who pays tribute to whom."
Chen Shifo relayed Liu Chengzong's words to Baiyan. There was no big change on Baiyan's face. He still smiled and said: "I'm not here to declare war. When you come to Qinghai, you must fight. I'm just here to prevent you from fighting with us. I'll first Tell me the conditions, you think about it for a few days, and I will live here."
Liu Chengzong said nothing and just nodded.
Then he waved to his entourage, who brought a book made of Wolfsbane papyrus and placed it on the pier.
He said pretentiously: "This is a gift given to you by Lazun. If you let someone take a look at it, if it is used as intended, Lazun will not blame the Seven Divisions of Riyue Mountain and will give you Haibei. As long as A thousand horses a year.”
Liu Chengzong laughed when he heard this. This little Lazun, how can I put it... is like a mirror in Qinghai, how can he be so similar?
This guy is almost modeled after him.
"Lazun is so generous, giving me such a piece of land that is not under his control." Liu Chengzong laughed and said: "How about this, you tell Lazun that you will give me a thousand horses every year, and I will allow him to hide in Us Herding horses.”
I felt extremely uncomfortable and wanted to fight.
He felt that he should not have come, and that Xiao Lazun should have come to talk to this person on his own.
Bai Yan used to think that his youngest brother was the person in the world who didn't want to suffer the most, but who knew that now there was someone in front of him who was even more unwilling to suffer than Lazun.
"I hope you know that the conditions given by Lazun are already very suitable. You come from Han. Horses are very precious to you, but not here."
Baiyan finally frowned, raised his hand and couldn't control it, pointed at Liu Chengzong and said: "Besides Haibei, where else do you want to farm in Qinghai? If you were not Han, we would have started a war since you occupied Riyue Mountain."
"With a thousand horses, Riyue Mountain can give you 400 horses a year. There are so many fans in Haibei. These things are all given to you for free!"
Seeing him angry, Liu Chengzong felt comfortable.
He chuckled and said, "Why are you still in a hurry? Us has such a good place, but you couldn't raise hundreds of thousands of horses in the past year? I only want a thousand horses."
The Haibei they are talking about means north of Qinghai Lake.
After that, he stopped smiling and said: "Of course I am going to Haibei. If Lazun can evacuate all the tens of thousands of captives from Haibei, I will give him a thousand horses every year. Can he? If he can't, then I Why did you give him the horse?”
He patted the book that Xiaoyan had brought, waved his hand and said, "You can stay here, or you can go back and have some fresh air with Xiao Lazun. I'll take a look at this thing, and we'll talk about it in a few days."
In his heart, Liu Chengzong wished that Xiao Lazun would send troops to attack him here, because he could not attack Xiao Lazun.
His soldiers are still getting used to the height of the Hehuang Valley. It is more than a thousand meters higher than northern Shaanxi, and the oxygen is less, which increases their physical exertion.
This is not a big problem, Hehuang Valley is the lowest place here.
But if you go further west to the area around the lake, it will be higher.
The Baishi Cliff on the south bank of the Yellow River where Xiao Lazun is located, although it is among the mountains in the southeast, is as high as the area around the lake in Qinghai.
Even the soldiers from Xining will lose their physical strength for a day or two when they go there, let alone these soldiers from northern Shaanxi.
That's why they need to train in Juerwan and then advance to the Qinghai Lake area.
Seeing that it was easy to explain a thousand horses, Liu Chengzong still couldn't be persuaded, so he simply stopped talking and placed his hope in the set of laws, so he nodded and said: "Then I will wait here."
After that, he took a deep look at Master Chen and said, "Take a good look, it will be good for you."
Liu Chengzong noticed this gesture and ordered the guards to take them down, make a den in the ground, provide them with food, and keep them under strict supervision. Then he asked, "What is this, a scripture?"
Master Chen opened it, looked at it, and said, "Commander, this should be the law enacted by Zangba Khan of Uzang."
"Law?"
For the first time, Liu Chengzong was puzzled by Xiao Lazun's intentions.
In fact, he had a good sense of little Lazun. He asked for a thousand horses every year, which was not harsh at all. He even suffered a loss from Lazun's point of view.
Because this is nothing more than treating Liu Chengzong as a tax collector similar to the Yuan Dynasty. If he collects a thousand horses, the rest belongs to him. It is nothing more than a matter of the degree of excessive extortion.
But he originally thought it would be a sutra or something, a set of laws?
It's funny. He came from the Ming Dynasty and has the most complete and advanced laws in the world at this time. What's the use of giving him this?
It would be better to send them as a gift to their young mother-in-law.
But he still planned to see if it could improve his understanding of Wu Zang, so he said: "It will be a bit difficult for you to translate this by yourself. I will find a few more people to help translate it together, so it can be faster."
In fact, it is not a matter of speed. This kind of thing cannot be explained by one person, otherwise it will easily deviate from its original meaning.
He asked people to go to Xining City to find a few more people. They came here to translate books with Chen Shifo, and he continued to train troops. As a result, he never expected that his brother sent someone to report that Zuo Huachun, who had left with Cao Huachun earlier, The light first came back.
Seeing Zuo Guangxian again, Liu Chengzong felt very strange: "Why are you coming back?"
But he didn't expect Zuo Guangxian to immediately prostrate himself: "Commander, give me my soldiers back!"
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Liu Chengzong looked confused. What the hell did Zuo Guang say first?
He really likes people to bow to him at the first glance. Some time ago, Li Bei and Ma Ke bowed to one guy each, which was quite beautiful in his heart.
But that was because he wanted others to worship him, and he put in a lot of mental effort to achieve the result of making others worship him.
Zuo Guangxian didn't do anything. He felt very uneasy when he was worshiped. He quickly said: "Get up first. What's going on? I'll return the soldiers to you."
Zuo Guangxian really had no choice. When he came, he had more than 500 soldiers.
When we left, there were still more than 500 soldiers.
Liu Chengzong specially allocated 500 shi of grain to him and sent 55 donkey carts as a reward for opening the road during this period.
There were three cars inside that belonged to Cao Huachun. Eunuch Cao helped him a lot and gave him some Lion Camp specialties, calligraphy and painting equipment and so on.
Anyway, on the day of departure, Liu Chengzong achieved his wish, Cao Huachun escaped from the sea of suffering, and Zuo Guangxian escaped from struggle. Everyone was heading towards a bright future and were in a good mood.
But leaving Xining was not the same for Zuo Guangxian. From the first day after leaving Xining, his soldiers began to fall ill.
Today we are short of a commander, and tomorrow we are short of a captain. When we went to Lanzhou to count the soldiers, we found that there were still 320 people left, and there were still 20 carts of rations left.
Cao Huachun was so angry that he simply took the Jing Army away without them. There were always soldiers who wanted to get something out of the vehicle guarded by the Jing Army.
Later, Cao Huachun found a general from Lanzhou to escort him along the way. Zuo Guang went on the road first. On the way, the soldiers ran even more violently and could not be stopped at all.
When we got to Yanshouyi in Anding County, there were more than a hundred people left, and no matter how hard we moved, we couldn't get back to Ningzhou with five carts of military supplies.
There was really no other way, so he could only go back to Xining to find Liu Chengzong to ask for someone.
Zuo Guang didn't get up first, and he firmly believed that Liu Chengzong sent people to his team to engage in rebellion activities.
Liu Chengzong was very wronged.
He smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't keep your people, nor did I give you any obstacles. I don't know where they are."
Zuo Guang didn't believe it at first.
Or rather, I don’t want to believe it.
His soldiers followed him and shared weal and woe for so many hard days without running away.
They went on the road with dozens of carts of food and grass, and all the soldiers left more than a dozen kilograms of fried noodles. They clearly had food, but they collapsed and fled?
He couldn't accept it.
The last straw in his heart drove him to return to Xining, just to make Liu Chengzong admit face to face that he had tricked the soldiers secretly and cheated them away.
His soldiers are uneducated and easy to deceive.
Mr. Zuo Guang couldn't bow, he bowed his head on the ground and hid his face deeply.
Liu Chengzong was a little caught off guard. The guerrilla general's shoulders were shaking. If he wasn't hiding his face and snickering, he would have collapsed.
Liu Chengzong sighed. He could understand what Zuo Guangxian's troops had gone through.
Perseverance is the easiest thing in the world, whether it is for soldiers or hungry people.
With the rations that were still hungry after eating, and with good hopes for the future, we didn’t have to do anything and just passed by.
No need to resist, no inner struggle, no need to be frightened, no need to change the living conditions, just business as usual.
Change is much harder than persistence. A person who can be a good soldier may not necessarily be a good robber. People are always afraid of entering unknown territories.
So as long as no one takes the lead, most people can hang on half-dead.
Comparing this, He Renlong was still smart and let Cao Yao go early.
Liu Chengzong could even imagine that even if He Renlong did not release his troops, he would not be serving as a soldier in Yulin now, and he would probably be following Cao Yao to become a bandit.
Liu Chengzong sighed and waited for a long time without saying anything, pretending that he didn't see Zuo Guangxian's shoulders shrugging.
Until he calmed down and regained his dignity, he wiped his face quietly.
He just stepped forward and pulled Zuo Guangxian up. He met Zuo Guangxian's grateful eyes and said, "You go out and look for me in my camp. I don't care whether they are your soldiers or not. As long as you find someone who is willing to go with you, I, the Lion Army, will You are always free to come and go, it’s up to you to take people away.”
After walking out of the Chinese military tent, Liu Chengzong's guards were chatting with Zuo Guangxian's servants, which made Zuo Guangxian even more ashamed.
Because his servant was stepping on the hitching post and talking: "What are you afraid of? There is food to eat. My baby is still in Yulin, otherwise... General!"
The guard and the servant immediately stood at attention. When Zuo Guang walked past him first, the servant was frightened.
It wasn't until Liu Chengzong and Zuo Guang passed by them first that the servant looked at the guard and let out a long sigh of relief. He pursed his lips and smiled, lightly slapped himself on the mouth, and then followed.
Liu Chengzong heard the conversation between the two clearly, and said to Zuo Guangxian: "You and I have traveled thousands of miles together, and I won't make it difficult for you."
"If you can find someone, and you can raise five hundred, I will let you take it away, and I will also provide you with food for five hundred people for a month. If you can't find someone, you won't be able to do anything when you go back."
"You are from a martial arts background. This is the time when I am employing people, so I will ask your servant to ride back on a fast horse with a warrant and bring you and the servant's family over."
Zuo Guang didn't speak at first.
"You're a boring person, what do you have to be afraid of?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head and said: "I have no shortage of horses. Let them change freely on the road. If they are quick, they can come back before the end of the year. If not, they can spend the New Year at Prince Han's Mansion. With my soldiers there, no one can touch them."
Zuo Guang frowned and thought for a long time, then said, "You have hundreds of wounded soldiers over there, can you protect them?"
"No one can defeat hundreds of wounded soldiers."
When Liu Chengzong heard his rebuttal, he narrowed his eyes and smiled, and said very relaxedly and seriously: "But they can protect Han Fan from falling."
Zuo Guang first said: "You won't be trapped by them, right?"
"Isn't this enough? Let me ask you something. If I, Liu Shizi, don't speak, who would dare to lead troops into Pingliang? Han Fan will fall immediately after entering Pingliang."
Liu Chengzong turned to Zuo Guangxian and said: "Except for Pingliang, they have to go around the remaining roads through Liupan Mountain. So as long as you get to Pingliang, your family will be safe. Even if there are pursuers, they will not be able to catch up. .”
Zuo Guang didn't know first.
The matter of defecting to Liu Chengzong had crossed Zuo Guangxian's mind when Liu Chengzong was still a thief.
After all, the thief has food but he has no food.
But this matter would make him resist, so there was no need to think about it further.
But now that I think about it carefully, I can’t help but think about this kind of resistance.
Now it is said that he surrendered to the thieves, but it seems that he did not surrender to the thieves. Even if Liu Chengzong was a thief, Zhou Qiang, a colleague of the fourth-rank Qinghai Xuanwei Envoy, was also given by the imperial court.
Besides, his soldiers could still get food.
"Don't be so ink, just say one sentence, either go and pick someone, and you will leave if you can't find anyone; or you can stay and work for me, and the servants will go pick up the family members, and fight the Beilu in another place."
"Can the family members arrive safely as the commander-in-chief said?" Zuo Guangxian made up his mind, cupped his fists and said, "If we can reach Xining, I will work for the commander-in-chief from now on."
"What I want is your words. Zhou Zhizhou's family is in Baoding Mansion, so it will be difficult to pick him up. Your family is in Yulin, what are you afraid of?"
Liu Chengzong secretly made some calculations in his mind. He went south from Yulin and was picked up by He Yong at Yuhebao. When he entered Yan'an Prefecture, he was joined by Ren Quan'er, Yan'an Guards General Yang Yanchang and the farming king Gao Yingxiang. He entered Qingyang Prefecture to join him. Jiang Yingchang of Shuizhi County can help. After Ningzhou, we will reach Pingliang.
Then just mix in Han Xiaowang's caravan and walk all the way.
Conveniently, Li Bei's family members can also be taken over, which will completely reassure the military commander with the highest rank of lion officer.
Liu Chengzong did not tell him his plan, but just said: "That matter should not be delayed. I will find someone to write a letter, and your servant will be on his way in the next two days."
