"It's too much!"
Su Qiyi was not far from Qiong. Dong Feng soon received the order from the Ghost King and became furious.
It is true that Yuejun was established as a county by the Han people hundreds of years ago, but there have always been more Yi people than Han people. More than a hundred years ago, most of the connections with the Han area were severed, and the Han court only left a nominal jurisdiction.
Following Gao Ding's uprising against the Han for more than ten years, Dong Feng further strengthened his belief that the Han people were good at saving face, and as long as they ostensibly lowered their status, in reality they still had the final say.
What's more, in the past few decades, I heard that the Han people themselves have been in constant war, so how can they have the energy to control them?
Unexpectedly, as soon as this ghost king came, he asked him to hand over Li Qiucheng, and at the same time, he also asked his tribe to change their customs, move to the plains, and directly become the subjects of the Han emperor!
If Li Qiucheng is really to be handed over, what prestige does he have as a tribal leader? This move simply breaks people's hearts and is extremely sinister.
Not to mention letting your tribe move to the plains and come under its jurisdiction, this is really cutting off your own foundation!
"Brother, I have inquired clearly. The Ghost King claimed to have brought 30,000 troops, but in fact it was only 5,000 Han troops. We may not be able to fight."
Dong Weiqu was short and fierce, and said to Dong Feng.
"How to say?"
"We have two thousand soldiers in our headquarters. If we recruit more, we can reach three thousand at least. My brother is the son-in-law of King Yanniu. King Yanniu will not sit idly by and ignore the destruction of our tribe. The Yanniu tribe has There are thousands of households, at least five to six thousand soldiers."
"There is also a horse-catching tribe in the north. They are extremely brave and have made it clear that they will not succumb to the power of the Ghost King. The horse-catching tribe does not discriminate between men, women, old and young. Everyone has a war horse. Even the Han prime minister did not mess with it easily. Now It’s a place of soldiers and horses.”
"In addition, the handsome man Lang Cen of Dingze County in the south, although he appears to be surrendered to the ghost king, I have always known that he is very ambitious, and his tribe has occupied the Dingze Salt Pond for a long time. How can the Han people come here? If he keeps doing this, he will definitely take back the salt pond."
"As long as we explain our interests to him, he will definitely respond. Based on this calculation, the number of soldiers we can assemble will not be less than fifteen thousand, which is three times the strength of the ghost king."
"When the time comes, we will attack his heart. The Yanniu and Horse Catchers will come from the north, and the Langcen will come from the south. How can we resist the Ghost King, who is surrounded by enemies on three sides? If he knows what he is doing, he will withdraw from Qiongdu. If not, he will retreat from Qiongdu. , he will definitely be like Gong Lu, never coming back."
After hearing Dong Kuiqu's words, Dong Feng shouted: "Okay!"
He knew that his brother had always been cunning. When King Gao died, it was his brother who persuaded him to temporarily surrender to the Han prime minister, saying that the Han army would not stay here for long.
Sure enough, the Han army only stayed for more than two months before heading south, leaving only a small number of troops. Then they gathered the old troops of King Gao Da to rebel against the Han again. The Han were unprepared and had to withdraw from Yuejun.
If you give yourself another three or four years, even if you can't become a figure like King Gao, you can still control the Qiongdu area and become the largest tribe in Yuejun.
But I didn't expect that the Han people would not give up and sent another army.
It would be false to say that Dong Feng was not afraid. After all, the prestige of the Han people had been spreading in Yuejun hundreds of years ago.
But to say that he was so scared that he was willing to do as the Ghost King said, that was not necessarily the case.
The official channels between Yue and Jun and the Han have been isolated for more than a hundred years. Especially in the past ten years or so, Yue and Jun have long been dominated by the barbarians. How can there be anything to do with the Han people?
Therefore, it is okay to ask him to raise and lower the table to express surrender, but it is impossible for the Han people to make him completely obedient.
"Now we might as well go up and down the list for the time being, saying that we are obeying the Ghost King's order and preparing to move the entire clan to delay the time. We will also send someone to inform the Yanniu Department and the Horse-Capturing Department and Dingzuo Haoshuai to agree on a date. Let’s attack Qiongdu together.”
Dongkuiqu suggested again.
"This is a great idea! Then follow your plan."
Dong Feng said with great joy.
In March of the fourth year of Jianxing, Meng Yan, the prefect of Yuejun, led 2,000 men and horses northward along the Sunshui Plain to attack the horse-catching tribe in Chan County.
At the same time, Feng Yong, as the ghost king, sent orders to all directions, calling the leaders of the Yi tribes, regardless of their size, to come to Qiongdu to discuss strategies for governing Yuejun.
The Dongqu Department of Su Qiyi was specifically singled out and ordered to hand over Li Qiucheng, the murderer of the former Yuejun prefect, within three days. The leader of the Dongqu Department must go to Qiongdu in person to receive the punishment.
For a moment, Yue Jun was shaken, and the barbarians were all shocked and confused.
Dong Feng, the leader of the Dongqu tribe, was frightened and expressed his willingness to move his entire clan to Qiongdu. He only asked for some time to allow the clan members to gather together.
Feng Yong agreed, but still ordered that Li Qiucheng must be handed over within a time limit. Dongfeng did not expect that Feng Yong was so urgent. Seeing that he could not deceive and delay the time, he immediately rebelled against the whole family.
Feng Yong ordered E Shun to lead 500 people from Gaoding's old tribe as the vanguard, with Zhang Ni as the main general and Huang Chong and Wang Xun as deputy generals. He led 2,000 people to Su Qiyi to attack the Dongqu tribe.
In the winter, people were ordered to erect stone gates at key points in the mountains and store huge stones at the same time.
E Shun led his men to attack fiercely, but the mountain road was bumpy and they could not deploy their formation. Stones rolled down the mountain and many people were smashed to pieces.
Eshun had no choice but to temporarily stop the attack and at the same time sent people to the mountains to warn the Yi people.
"You have been able to defend for a while, how can you defend for a lifetime? The Ghost King came in person and issued orders to all directions, but you were the only ones who disobeyed and refused to listen. Once General Zhang's army is deployed, he will kill you all, and it will be too late for you to regret it. "
"If you wake up early and turn around before the army attacks, the Ghost King can still be open to you and teach you how to farm so that you can live and work in peace and contentment from now on."
Eshun was originally Gao Ding's most powerful general, but now he threatened him in the name of the Ghost King, and people in the Dongqu Department were suddenly panicked.
After only two days, Zhang Yi led his army to arrive. When the Yi people on the mountain saw the arrival of the Han army, they became even more panicked.
At night, a leader secretly went down the mountain to surrender and told him about other routes.
Zhang Ni was overjoyed and personally selected the best troops, marched around the mountain, and attacked from front to back with King Xun of Huang Chong of Eshun.
The Dongqu tribe was already in a state of unrest, but now they were suddenly attacked from both sides. There was an uproar all of a sudden, most of them surrendered, and a few fled to the mountains.
The big leader Li Qiucheng was unable to escape and was captured alive. Jun Changdong was killed in the rebellious army. Only his younger brother Dong Kuiqu led his cronies to escape to the west. Zhang Yi ordered Eshun's troops to enter the mountains and forests to pursue them, and at the same time sent people to Qiondu. Report the news.
On the edge of Qiongdu City, Feng Yongzheng stood with his arms crossed in front of the broken city wall, thinking about how to rebuild the city as soon as possible.
Hua Wan came skipping over, holding a branch in her hand, swinging it, and she asked in a clear voice, "Brother Feng family, what are you going to do with so many Yi people?" ? Doesn’t the racecourse already have enough labor?”
When Feng Yong heard Hua Wan's question, he couldn't help but glance at the little girl strangely, "Don't talk nonsense! Those Yi people who followed the call are my people, not just laborers? Besides, there is not enough labor in the racecourse. ?”
This little girl arrived in Yuejun a few days earlier than Feng Yong. I heard that she had put in a lot of labor in Beishui shopping a few days ago.
The weather started to get hotter. Hua Wan came to Nanzhong and started to put on short skirts again, revealing her white calves, which were a bit dazzling under the sun, making Feng Tibi couldn't help but take a second look.
"Brother, don't try to deceive me into being ignorant."
Hua Wan held a branch in his hand and said, "Brother is unwilling to accept the surrender of the Dongqu Department, isn't it just to find more labor? I heard that there are thousands of households in the Dongqu Department. After calculation, Don’t we have nearly 10,000 laborers?”
Hua Wan, who was born as a barbarian in the south, now talks about the word "labor" very smoothly, without any trace of sadness.
This made Feng Tubiao a little sad. He had fallen. The speed of his fall was really fast.
It seems that the aristocratic family really has a way of corrupting people, otherwise this girl has only been in contact with them for a few days, and she already looks like a female slave leader.
And there should have been a lot of money and food support for this little girl. Otherwise, how could she have the strength to rob people in Beishui's labor market?
"Don't talk nonsense. Why don't I accept it? They are unwilling to accept the control of the big man, so I have to punish them severely. Look at those people over there, they obeyed my orders, and they haven't started working yet. I have already eaten food for several days in vain.”
Feng Yong pointed to the gathering place of the Yi people not far away.
Some of those Yi people are family members of the old Gaoding tribe.
In part, Gao Yuan followed Feng Yong's order and personally came forward to find slaves to buy from the nearby Yi Rentou people.
Yes, in many Yi tribes, the bottom Yi people are regarded as the private property of the leaders.
Since it is private property, the leader does not mind selling these two-legged animals as long as he can afford the price.
As for the Yi tribes who took the initiative to seek refuge, that's not to say there weren't any, but they were all small tribes living close to Qiongdu.
They really had no control over their own destiny. When they saw the Han army entering Qiongdu, and then heard the Ghost King's order, they were so frightened that they rushed over overnight to avoid being exterminated.
As for the tribes a little further away, they are all waiting and watching with luck.
Feng Yong was not in a hurry. There were three things that the new official would do when he took office. Since the Dongqu tribe was the chief culprit, exterminating the Dongqu tribe would be the first thing to do.
Once the fire is lit, I believe they will know what to do.
After hearing Feng Yong's words, Hua Wan looked like he was suddenly enlightened. He nodded repeatedly and asked quietly, "Brother of the Feng family, can you give some of the labor from the Dongqu Department to my little sister in private?"
"Aren't your tribe planning to move here? I heard there are more than 20,000 people there. How big do you plan to open your horse farm?"
Feng Yong asked strangely when he heard her words.
"My little sister didn't want it herself, but someone entrusted her to pay a high price for her labor."
"who?"
"One is the Liu family and the other is the Mi family."
Aren't those Liu Liang and Mi Zhao who were forced by the powerful to feed mosquitoes in Nanzhong?
"How much?"
"One of two hundred."
Huawan stretched out two fingers and said with a smile.
"How generous!" Feng Yong said with a smile, "Aren't you afraid that I will be angry?"
"Brother is selling labor here, and the base price is only seventy cents per piece, and the highest price is only one hundred cents, no matter how high it is. These two families offered two hundred cents, which is obviously to make amends for my brother."
"My little sister is just a messenger. If brother is willing to accept it, then my little sister will earn some hard money. If not, then they deserve it. Just pretend that my little sister never said this!"
Liu Liang and Mi Zhao originally belonged to the powerful camp, but they were squeezed out by the powerful. No one was willing to help them find a way out.
I didn't expect to find the Huawan Road when I went to Nanzhong, and my sense of smell is really sensitive.
"They are willing to pay more, of course I am willing to accept it."
The Liu family is okay, but the Mi family is Adou's relative after all, and Mi Zhao was ordered by the queen to do so.
Besides, now that he and Guan Ji are married, the dignitaries should feel relieved. To be fair, it can be regarded as a good relationship with Adou and the Queen.
"really?"
"I don't even want money from people. Could it be that I'm stupid?"
"Thank you, brother!"
Hua Wan jumped up all of a sudden and said with a happy face.
"What benefits did they promise you?"
"It's nothing. I just promised to provide some money and food for my horse farm."
"In that case, then you can count the racecourse as a share of the Mi family. It may be good for your family in the future."
"Brother has said this, so my little sister will naturally obey. Isn't it just that this share should be given to the Mi family, not the Liu family?"
"I'll screw the Liu family!"
