Su Qian looked over and saw a young man with disheveled hair standing up in the row of prisoners, with a hint of hesitation in his words.
Su Qi'an looked around and saw that the person speaking was in ragged clothes and his disheveled hair hid his appearance. It was impossible to tell who this person was.
But that voice made Su Qian feel familiar, and she frowned slightly, "Who are you?"
Hearing Su Qi'an's question, the man was very excited and stepped forward quickly. Seeing this, the soldiers beside him wanted to protect Su Qi'an, but were stopped.
The man fiddled with his long hair and said quickly, "Mr. Su, it's me, I'm Chen Dao."
As soon as these words came out, Su Qian was shocked.
He looked at the man carefully, with a bit of surprise, "Chen Dao? How could it be you? How could you come to Jiaozhou? How could you become a prisoner? What happened?"
Su Qi'an was quite surprised by Chen Dao's appearance. He was not disliked by Chen Dao.
In the original defense battle of Kyoto, Chen Dao did not run away directly with Zheng Liang and his group of young men, but fought together with the Tongguan defenders.
Although Tongguan was eventually breached, Chen Dao's performance was obvious to all.
The son of a dignified nobleman and a powerful marquis in Kyoto, Chen Daobei called other powerful children, and he still had some blood in his heart.
This alone was enough to make Su Qian look at him with admiration.
He remembered that after the battle to defend Kyoto, Chen Dao was also rewarded for his merits. Logically speaking, he should be living a happy life in Kyoto now, so how could he become a prisoner and be exiled to Jiaozhou.
Finally meeting Su Qi'an, which really shocked Su Qi'an.
Seeing Chen Dao who recognized him, he looked excited and wanted to say something, but because he was too excited, he couldn't say some words.
Su Qi'an quickly comforted him, and with a glance, he handed over the prisoners and refugees in custody here to Wu Yong and Song Biao. He took Chen Dao and turned around and left.
Su Qi'an could probably guess what Chen Zhi was like now, and he was afraid that his family was in decline or something had happened.
It is estimated that some words are long stories, and this is not a place for talking. There are many people and many eyes, so it is better to find a room where Su Qi'an and Chen Dao can have a good chat.
As Su Qi'an took away the two prisoners one after another, and it seemed that he had discovered their shining point, the soldiers escorted them very cautiously.
This made these refugee prisoners excited. They were prisoners, and they were guilty. Even if they were not guilty and were just refugees, they were still the most humble and unidentified people at the bottom of the Liang Dynasty.
But instead of despising them, this Marquis showed great respect for the so-called talents.
How could this not make everyone quite excited? At this time, Wu Yong showed his eloquence and took advantage of the situation to speak.
"As you can see, my Marquis has always been eager for talents. He is not only looking for great talents, but also skilled craftsmen from all walks of life."
"As long as you have the ability and can contribute to the construction of Tucheng, if you are guilty of a crime and enter Tucheng, you will be erased by the Marquis."
"Such a great opportunity, what are you waiting for? If you miss it, there will be no next time."
After saying this, all of a sudden, this group of prisoners and refugees became excited, stood up one after another, and shouted.
"I...I, I, am a blacksmith from Zhongzhou. I am good at making all kinds of iron tools and farm tools. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as you give me enough materials, there is no tool that I can't make."
"And me, I come from the northwest border and am good at raising horses. All horses raised by me are good at fighting."
"..."
Suddenly, among this group of prisoners and refugees, people from all walks of life appeared.
There are horse breeders, blacksmiths, carpenters, farmers, flood control people, textile people...
It can be said that basically all walks of life are included, and everyone is actively demonstrating their skills.
Wu Yong nodded and asked Song Biao to take his soldiers to check one by one.
Su Qi'an needs all kinds of skilled craftsmen, and Wu Yong is the one who screens them. Only those who pass his level can become a member of Tucheng.
Then after a long period of
Based on the time-based inspection and your contribution, decide whether to transfer to the R&D department.
The purpose of this is to avoid people who fish in troubled waters or even cause trouble.
Selecting suitable talents for the R&D department is one of Wu Yong's key tasks.
As this group of refugee prisoners were screened one by one, Su Qian brought Chen Dao to a quiet room.
The two began to talk, and through the conversation, Su Qian basically understood why Chen Dao ended up in such a situation.
After Su Qian left Kyoto and returned to Xizhou, the Chen family's nightmare began.
As a first-ranking official, Chen Guogong was unprepared and was directly impeached by Zheng and Zhao during the government affairs the next day.
The reason for impeachment was also simple. In addition to his status as Duke of the State, the most important thing that Chen Guogong at that time was was the highest military and political officer responsible for the security of Kyoto.
But under his responsibility, not only was the invading wolf cavalry not discovered, it almost caused the wolf cavalry to attack Kyoto.
Although Su Qi'an finally turned the tide and resolved the crisis in Kyoto, Chen Guogong's poor protection cannot be shied away from.
After the court dealt with Su Qi'an's case, Chen Guogong was directly impeached.
The impeached Duke Chen knew he was wrong and accepted his punishment. Who knew that Dukes Zheng and Zhao not only did not stop, but intensified their efforts.
The wanton impeachment, I don’t know where I collected it, about how Chen Guogong used his status as a first-class official in Kyoto to suppress officials in various ministries for so many years.
Indulging government officials and maliciously acquiring major stores in Kyoto, the people of Kyoto aroused complaints.
If this sudden series of evidence had not been presented, Su Xuanyong would have wanted to minimize the big issue and simply move from the first rank to the second rank.
There are all the verifiable physical evidences, and this matter has caused an uproar in Kyoto, and it is difficult for Su Xuanyong to suppress it.
He had no choice but to leave the matter to the second and fourth princes for interrogation. This interrogation lasted for a month.
More and more criminal evidence was implicated, and it was even discovered that there were many military contrabands hidden in Chen Guogong's house.
As soon as this incident was exposed, everyone in Kyoto was in an uproar.
In the end, he was deprived of the dukedom of Chen Guo, ransacked Chen Guo Gong's house and demoted him to the common people, but in recognition of Chen Guo Gong's many years of hard work.
Including his family members, he was spared one life, but he could avoid the death penalty but could not escape the living penalty. The whole family was exiled to Jiaozhou.
Kyoto is thousands of miles away from Jiaozhou, and the journey is long.
It has been quite a hard journey along the way. Bandits and robberies and illnesses are common occurrences.
After walking and stopping along the way, when they arrived in Jiaozhou, less than one-third of the Chen family of thousands of people were alive.
The rest of them either died of illness while sleeping in the open air, or were intercepted and killed by bandits.
Among them was Chen Dao's father, Chen Guogong.
On the way to exile in Jiaozhou, I walked about five hundred miles, maybe because I couldn't accept this reality, or maybe I was depressed.
In the end, he became angry and died of illness on the way.
Chen Dao and others who made it to Jiaozhou alive also lived a miserable life.
Being exiled to Jiaozhou is not a place of enjoyment, but one has to perform corvee service. There are more than 300 people left, and Chen Dao can contact them, but there are only a dozen people around him.
As for the others, they were all dispersed and assigned to other places in Jiaozhou to serve as corvees. Chen is still in such a miserable state, not to mention the children of other families, who are probably in bad luck.
Listening to Chen Dao's story, Su Qian also had a complicated expression on his face.
The originally famous Chen family in Kyoto fell down in the blink of an eye.
The family was destroyed, and the power accumulated over the years became a thing of the past. It can be said that the family was destroyed.
Chen Dao, a powerful man from a generation, has fallen to his current situation, which can't help but make people feel sad.
He didn't have much favorable impressions of the Chen family, Chen Guogong, and Su Qi'an. During the impeachment in Kyoto, Chen Guogong targeted Su Qi'an frequently.
But Su Qi'an was not so disgusted with Chen Dao from the Chen family. After all, he was a comrade who had been on the battlefield together twice.
Not to mention they are as close as brothers, but it doesn't count as being annoying.
Moreover, now that the huge Chen family has been wiped out and Chen Guogong has died of illness, there is no need for Su Qi'an to have trouble with the remaining family members of Chen Dao.
When Chen Dao talked about these things, his face was very calm. It seemed that his experience during this period had made him grow a lot.
This kind of ups and downs has not yet been defeated. This Chen Dao is indeed much better than those dudes in some aspects.
Su Qian patted Chen Dao on the shoulder and said softly, "Chen Dao, since you have come to Tucheng County, you can live here with peace of mind from now on. As for your lost family members, I will also send people to look for them."
Su Qi'an's words moved Chen Dao very much. Without saying a word, he knelt down directly in front of Su Qi'an with a plop.
"Chen Dao, what are you doing?"
Su Qi'an wanted to help him, but Chen Dao was determined and refused to get up, he said seriously.
"Mr. Su, by kneeling down, Chen Dao expresses his gratitude to Mr. Su for his great kindness and kindness on behalf of his family."
"The Chen family has been standing in Kyoto for many years and has many friends. However, after something happened to the Chen family, no one was willing to lend a helping hand. They hid as far away as possible for fear of getting bad luck."
"I have seen through this bleak world, but you, Mr. Su, are so generous and helpful. I feel ashamed to say that my father treated you like that and impeached you when he was still alive.
"I tried to persuade my father many times to no avail. I didn't expect that when the Chen family was in the most difficult time, my husband helped me regardless of past grudges. This makes me feel quite guilty."
"Sir, you are so kind and kind that I will never forget it. Now I have nothing to repay you, but I swear, as long as you can use me, I will just ask."
"Even if you go up mountains of swords and go down into seas of fire, Chen Dao won't hesitate."
Chen Dao's words were very sincere. He hit his head heavily on the ground and kowtowed a few times until Su Qian helped him up.
His eyes were obviously red.
Today, Chen Dao really understood what it means to provide help in times of need, and he felt very regretful.
If he had known that this day would come, he would have persuaded his father to help Su Qi'an no matter what.
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in this world. All Chen can do now is to obey Su Qi'an's orders.
Even if Su Qian asked him to commit suicide on the spot, he would never hesitate.
Based on the promise Su Qi'an made to him, Chen Dao would die without regrets.
