Outside the main building of the manor, Monk Wang squatted with his hands in the sun, feeling uneasy.
In total, it had been five days since the Han soldier named Wai Liangzi captured him from the battlefield.
For five days I was on tenterhooks, not knowing what would happen to me.
Monk Wang's wonderful journey on the battlefield began when he was tied up and thrown to the ground, with a helmet covering his head and unable to see anything.
He heard people shouting for death and felt the trembling of horse hooves. Some people even thought he was a corpse and put a musket on his belly and fired.
The battle lines were suddenly far and near. I lay on the ground and thought for ten thousand times about how to explain my experience to the nobles of Baili Army. When the helmet was lifted, the man with a crooked nose appeared in front of him.
Monk Wang will never forget what he saw when his helmet was taken off.
There were three broken arrows stuck in the chest of Wai Liangzi's cotton armor, and an ax mark was cut on the eyebrow of his helmet. There were scabs on his face after being wiped, and he said lightly: "The battle is over."
Looking back at the battlefield, corpses lay everywhere and blood flowed everywhere. Among the figures who were still standing, apart from the prisoners, no one from the Baili Army could be seen.
He is afraid of these monsters.
On the night when the war ended, the horses neighed for half the night outside the manor, and the sound of soldiers wearing armor and marching in formation lingered in his dreams.
When he woke up the next day, Monk Wang realized that the noise the night before was not a dream. There were Han soldiers everywhere inside and outside the manor.
When changing the dressing for the shaved Wai Liangzi, Wai Liangzi said that his generalissimo was here.
Monk Wang was born on the east bank of the Jinsha River, where there is a river called Sequ. He grew up by the river and was the eldest son of a small-headed man.
This time he went on an expedition with the army just because there was one Ruben who suffered from stomach problems all year round, so he was asked to be the army doctor.
Danbei Daiben, who commanded an army, was already an unattainable nobleman in his eyes... But just this morning, Wailiangzi told him that the generalissimo might meet with him.
Monk Wang waited for a long time, and finally the guards who came to convey the order were led up to the third floor in a very uneasy mood.
In the spacious living room on the third floor, he saw several Lion Army generals in different attires, chatting in front of the map.
On the cushions next to them were placed several sets of armor worn by the tiger heroes of the Baili Army. Someone was sitting on the ground, groping for the pictures.
He thought that the generalissimo would be one of those serious-looking generals, but he did not expect that the guards did not look over there. After bowing their hands to several generals, they led him directly to the balcony.
There were several couches on the wide balcony. A heroic young man in military uniform sat opposite an older monk. Several guards sat on the left and right, including Wailiangzi, who was not wearing a helmet.
Monk Wang recognized the monk as Gamalade, the master of Genbeng Temple. He had met him once in Lhasa, but Gamalad did not recognize him.
"Commander, the monk has brought it."
Liu Chengzong looked into the distance in silence, and when he heard the guard say that Monk Wang was here, he turned around and looked at it, um...it was quite different from Wang's personal use.
"Can you understand me?"
Monk Wang nodded quickly, Liu Chengzong raised his hand and pointed to the side of Ga Ma, saying: "Sit down, don't be formal."
Monk Wang looked to his left at Wai Liangzi and then at Monk Ga Ma. Seeing that neither of them had any objection to him sitting down, he cautiously sat down next to Ga Ma.
Before I could sit down on my butt, I heard Liu Chengzong ask: "Do you know how to treat injuries and illnesses?"
Monk Wang quickly stood up again and replied: "Little, little monk was born in the territory of the Dege family. He became a monk in Tangjia Sutra Hall and is familiar with stomach diseases and trauma."
Liu Chengzong waved his hand and asked him to sit down and talk, and said: "Where is Dege? How big is it?"
"Start from here and head east to the Jinsha River to the south. It takes seven or eight days of horseback riding to enter the Dege territory." Monk Wang was not sure how far it was, so he could only vaguely say: "It's three to four hundred miles."
But when it comes to how big the territory of Dege is, he knows this clearly, saying: "Since the Dayuan Emperor conferred official positions, Dege kings have been in charge of the narrow valley of seventy miles long and five miles wide in the middle reaches of Sequ for more than three hundred generations. Year."
Liu Chengzong couldn't help but smile when he heard this introduction.
The main reason is that it was a coincidence that the Dege family has been in charge of the narrow Dege Valley, which is seventy miles long and five miles wide, for generations. It is difficult not to remind Liu Chengzong of his hometown, Panlongchuan River Valley.
The middle section of the river outside Black Dragon Mountain is thirty miles long and ten miles wide. It is basically similar to the territory of the Derge family. The surrounding villages were rounded up to simulate a Derge territory in his mind.
Liu Chengzong asked: "Who is greater, the king of Dege or the king of Baili?"
This time it was Monk Wang's turn to be speechless. The two of them were not on the same level at all. He quickly replied: "King Baili, King Baili's territory is as big as hundreds of Derges. All sides of the Dege territory belong to Baili." king."
Liu Chengzong nodded slowly and said to Monk Wang: "That army has been annihilated. I think you are a talented person. Are you willing to stay and work with me?"
Monk Wang quickly stood up again: "Generalissimo, if the young monk wants to leave... what will happen?"
Wai Liangzi clasped his fists beside him and said, "Commander, I think this monk is in good shape and can be used in the quarry in Hainan."
Liu Chengzong glanced at Wai Liangzi angrily: "Why are you scaring him?"
He turned his head and said kindly: "It's okay if you don't want to be used by me. Don't worry, you understand Chinese. People who understand Chinese will be well paid no matter what they do. Even if you go to the quarry, I will let you be a supervisor."
The war is not over yet. The monk knows their strength in the manor, and Liu Chengzong cannot let him leave.
But he still has many good places to go, including quarries in Hainan, building castles in Haibei, building official villages in Chaka Salt Lake, and cutting wood in Haixi.
There are many things that can be done.
Monk Wang also realized this and nodded helplessly: "Whatever the general asks the young monk to do, the young monk will do."
"Very good, I won't treat you badly. When you have nothing to do, just follow Wai Liangzi, Wai Liangzi." Liu Chengzong said, turning his head and looking at Wai Liangzi, who had a plain cloth bandage on his head, and said: "The battle is not over yet, over here I need you, so I’ll give you a gift, and I’ll call you Shang Liang from now on.”
He turned his head and looked towards the other side of the Gaiqu River, stretched out his hand and said, "That side will be called Xialiang from now on."
Wailiangzi was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and stood up, clasping his fists and saying, "Thank you so much, Commander!"
After all, naming it like this is not a territory, it only has commemorative meaning, but meaning is better than meaninglessness. Wailiangzi was still very happy, raised his hand and rubbed his head and said with a smile: "I have to tell those two sons when I go back that there is a piece of land in the south named after their father. Named after."
Liu Chengzong laughed when he heard this: "Haha, yes! Tell your two Mongolian sons that you are the Battle of the Generalissimo."
Wai Liangzi's injuries were not serious. He had a few arrow cluster wounds on his body. There were only a few blood spots on his body through his armor. They were probably all healed by now.
Only the wound on the head was a little more serious. It was hit by an axe. Fortunately, the helmet's eyebrows were long and the ax didn't hit it too deeply. It only deformed the six-petal iron helmet.
The wound on his head was not caused by an axe, but a piece of scalp pierced by the arc of the helmet that had broken rivets.
Skin trauma.
The arrival of Monk Wang is very critical for Liu Chengzong.
First of all, with a translator here, a lot of work can continue, and secondly, there is information about Bai Lijun.
In the end, Dan Bei and other Baili nobles could not escape the pursuit, but they hid in the cave and resisted, and several of Xie Erhu's Mongolian soldiers died as a result.
Xie Erhu was so angry that he didn't care whether he was alive or not, so he simply set fire to the cave and filled the cave with smoke. He killed all those who escaped and those who didn't escape were smoked to death in the cave.
Not even a single person was brought back alive.
Liu Chengzong did not blame Xie Erhu too much. If a few of his soldiers were killed due to the enemy's defense, he would not care whether they survived or not.
But this did result in a very important lack of information. Now the only way to obtain information was a few nobles imprisoned in the manor's dungeon, and none of them could speak Chinese.
In the next few days, it will be up to Wai Liangzi and Monk Wang to extract as much information as possible.
But before that, Liu Chengzong had more important things to do, and it was his turn to fulfill his promise.
Since Liu Chengzong moved his troops to Danba, Basang's army attacked from all sides and wiped out many noble territories in Nangqian in a very safe environment. More and more slaves gathered here.
In just a few days, more than 3,000 slaves gathered outside Danba Manor.
Their origins were mixed, some were slaves who voluntarily surrendered to the army from Nangsuo Qianmo, some were recruited after attacking the manor, and some were forcibly recruited by the Mongolian herdsmen on the road.
Of course, there are also people like Bu Chi who stood up to resist and came over.
It's just that there are very few of the latter, only Buchi.
Wailiangzi took Monk Wang to find Basang, together with more than 200 Han troops participating in the battle, and selected slaves from Basang's army who were braver in the battle.
There were sixteen teams in Basang, and each team had fifteen lion soldiers. Liu Chengzong asked the lion soldiers in each team to select brave men, but in the end only fifteen people were selected.
Two teams reported no one, and Wailiangzi's team reported slaves from two other teams, because when the bearded man from the Guan Ning Army rode against the enemy, he captured two escaped slaves from the other team and gave him a pair of horses. .
The two slaves led the horses and ran with him the whole distance. The bearded man thought that these two people were pretty good, so he signed up.
Judging from the report of the 16th Lion Soldier Team, Liu Chengzong felt that the Lion Soldiers who participated in the battle were very dissatisfied with the large-scale rout of the slave camp.
They are very demanding.
But harshness has its own benefits. The stricter the selection of personnel, the greater their military exploits and the more acres they will be granted.
Chen Shifo was ordered to clear acres of land in Nangqian and selected many places suitable for villages.
This is an easy job, because any place with a noble manor is suitable for a village.
More than three thousand slaves gathered at Danba Manor, looking up at the third floor of the main building.
The structures of noble manors are similar. Generally, the first floor is the dungeon and warehouse, the second floor is the butler and workshop, and the third floor is used as the master's living room, reception room, Buddhist hall and other functional rooms.
Most slaves have never been to the third floor in their lives, and they have never even looked up to the third floor a few times.
But today, they had to look up to the third floor, because slaves like them had climbed up and stood with the generalissimo.
Monk Wang stood on the third floor, calling out names to the crowd again and again.
Most of the slaves had similar names. In order to prevent anyone from pretending to be the slave, each team sent Han soldiers to call the candidates to the front and wait in advance.
The slaves climbed up to the third floor one by one, and Liu Chengzong issued them a field deed. Monk Wang read loudly their military exploits, land acres, positions, and security chief positions. Then they went downstairs again, and another person came up.
Their fields are all near Nangsuo Qianmo Fort, but everyone is far away. In Liu Chengzong's plan, these people will serve as security chiefs and build villages one by one.
However, after receiving the gift, they would not go to their own fields immediately, but would go to Nangqian Master Chen to learn Chinese.
If nothing unexpected happens, they will all be the security chief, teacher, village chief and captain of a village in the future.
Only if these people are familiar with Chinese will it be convenient for Liu Chengzong to establish township chiefs in the future.
Chen Shifo sent his plan from Nangqian. In the plan, the Nangqian territory was to be divided into three counties and dozens of townships. The township chiefs and county government officials used lion soldiers as officials. This basically continued Liu Chengzong's practice of training soldiers to govern. Set of ideas.
Except that Master Chen didn't consider Monk Gama, everything else was pretty good.
Liu Chengzong felt that he might need to prepare a private land for Ga Ma in Leiwuqi. At this rate, Ga Ma, who did not understand Chinese, would be completely unable to get involved in Nangqian.
Seeing that someone actually got the land, the slaves in the manor raised their necks with complicated expressions.
Liu Chengzong can see envy in people's eyes, but in addition to envy, there are many other emotions mixed in.
Such as confusion, ridicule, expectation and teasing, all kinds of emotions are there.
He wanted to loudly announce to everyone from the third-floor balcony that you are all free men, but he couldn't.
He cannot declare anything unilaterally until people understand private property and land.
In Haibei, his father and Yang Dingrui were preparing a law for him regarding the terms of service regulations, monthly wages for hired workers, tenants' points, government taxes, master and servant responsibilities, etc.
It's just that the people's circumstances are different, and it's very difficult to create laws and regulations.
The roads here have no pavements, some have no fields but only for grazing, there are no specific boundaries between the territories, and the maps are rough and difficult to read, all of which create difficulties for the enforcement of the law.
Despite this, the fact that someone was granted land still caused an uproar among the slaves, and the one who reacted the most was Buchi.
She approached Dai Daozi, gesticulating and saying something to the third floor. She didn't understand until Monk Wang passed by that she wanted to see Liu Chengzong.
From the bottom of his heart, Monk Wang was disgusted with being a slave's translator. He couldn't even say a word. He said angrily: "Can you see the Generalissimo if you want to?"
Thanks to Dai Daozi who noticed Bu Chi's disappointed eyes and pulled out half of the knife, Monk Wang translated it truthfully. Bu Chi finally got his wish and met Liu Chengzong.
This woman, who was so frightened by Master Danba that she was not in a normal state of mind, fell to the ground when she saw Liu Chengzong. She could not scream no matter how loudly she told him about her experiences and her wishes.
She is different from Basang. She does not want to be a master. She just wants to live with her first four husbands. She hopes that the generalissimo can recruit their family into the army and fight in exchange for land rewards.
Whether fighting or meeting himself, Liu Chengzong appreciated this kind of courage.
He clapped and laughed: "That's right!"
