With Wu Huaiyu's words, Tang Fengxiao's family fortune was saved.
This Kunlun slave was also sensible. Under the leadership of Laizi, he directly gave up 3,000 acres of land and 2,000 guan of money to honor Wu Huaiyu.
Kunlun Slave has also accumulated a lot of money over the years, but this time he also suffered a heavy loss.
Wu Huaiyu looked at the list he handed over, glanced at it twice, and then gave it back to him.
"The younger one will go back and send another 300 slaves to Chang Shi."
Huaiyu shook his head.
"Give Chang Shi another two hundred horses."
Huaiyu shook his head. Kunlun Nu wanted to add something, but Huaiyu interrupted him with a smile, "Who do you think I am, Chang Shi?"
"You have made a great contribution this time, helping the imperial army to take down Shanlu City and Sunda without any blood. With eight thousand soldiers and generals, the imperial court will not touch a penny of your property, and will give you a generous reward."
Huaiyu picked up an official document and handed it to him, but he was rewarded with 100,000 yuan.
"I don't dare accept this little one,"
"Just accept the reward from the imperial court."
Wu Huaiyu asked them to sit down and boil water to make tea.
He specially took a black tea brick, pried off some tea cubes with a tea needle, washed them with boiling water, and brewed them again.
Compared with green tea, when black tea is brewed in bricks, the tea soup is orange-red and translucent, and the taste is mellow and long-lasting. This kind of tea is more popular for herdsmen who are stuffed with staple food of milk and meat and lack fruits and vegetables.
Both Kunlun Nu and Laizi were engaged in smuggling trade in the past. Of course, tea was also an important smuggled commodity, but the tea cakes smuggled in the past did not include this kind of black tea.
"This tea is a bit particular.
My family collects tea in Shu and returns it to Guanzhong for processing. We carry people on horseback. During the two or three months of the journey, the tea leaves are often soaked by the rain, and then dried in the sun when the weather is fine. The continuous drying and wetting ferment the tea leaves, resulting in perfect quality.
Different tea products were shipped at different times. At first, people sorted out the tea that had been fermented by the rain and discarded it or disposed of it cheaply. Later, they discovered that this tea had a unique flavor.
Later, I intentionally imitated this dry-wet transformation process and added a new tea-making process, thus creating this different kind of dark tea."
Pour a drink for each of them.
Kunlun slave picked up the tea cup, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, and found that the tea soup without adding anything had a rich aroma.
Take another sip and savor it, it's quite tasty.
"Mellow, sweet, good tea."
"If you like to drink it, I will give you some tea bricks later. This tea brick is now in the border city of Baicheng, Yanzhou, but it is very popular among the Turks. A two-pound tea brick can be exchanged for a big fat sheep."
While sipping tea, Huaiyu also talked about business.
"I'm going to let Sun Da and other generals go back to Shuofang City,"
Tang Fengxiao was surprised.
"I also want you, Brother Tang, to go back with him, and Song Jiang will also go."
Tang Fengxiao was in a dilemma. Sun Da had been captured by him. If he let the tiger go back to the mountains and asked him to accompany him back, wouldn't it be like letting a sheep fall into the tiger's mouth?
"Don't worry, Sun Da has already surrendered to the imperial court. The purpose of returning to Shuofang this time is for him to instigate rebellion against Li Zhengbao."
"Sunda really surrendered?"
"Sun Da is a smart man and knows how to choose. The imperial court has pardoned his past crimes. This is a rare opportunity. How can he resist to the end? Besides, he still has family members in Datang."
Sun Da is a prisoner and doesn't have much choice.
Moreover, the terms offered to him by the imperial court were not bad, giving him the rank of a fifth-grade guerrilla general and promising that if he could instigate rebellion against Li Zhengbao, he would be rewarded.
Either surrender to the imperial court and be granted an official title, or go mining or even have his head beheaded.
As for letting the tiger return to the mountain and pretending to join him, there is no need to worry too much. After all, Sun Da has a family with the court, and secondly, the current puppet Liang has reached this point. If he has the chance, he will not leave and follow him with all his heart.
It would be foolish to destroy it.
You must know that Yuan Junzhang, Liu Wu's remaining tribe, also had repeated conflicts with the imperial court, but now he still led his troops to surrender.
Sun Da had no choice before, but now the court gave him another chance.
Of course, Wu Huaiyu did not completely trust Sun Da, so he sent Cripple and Kunlun Nu to Shuofang City.
"You have a good relationship with Liang Xuan?"
Liang Xuan is Liang Shidu's cousin, and he is also the person Liang Shidu trusts most today. He is Liang Shidu's prime minister, but Liang Xuan is the kind of treacherous minister who is very good at flattery, but has no ability to take the lead.
This guy is greedy for money and lustful. The current predicament of the Liang Dynasty has a lot to do with him. Anyway, this guy is bent on suppressing dissidents. He only knows how to fight for power and gain. He doesn't care about anything else. Many generals that Liang Guo can fight have been defeated by this guy.
Forced to rebel.
In the Liang Kingdom, no matter whether you were a civil or military officer, you had to give him gifts, otherwise he would punish you, ranging from demotion to punishment.
And as long as the money is in place, no matter whether you have the ability or not, he can give you an official position.
In the past, many mountain barbarians led their troops to defect to Liang Shidu, but in the end they were framed and killed by Liang Xuan because they asked for bribes but did not pay them, or did not give them enough.
The little demon in the temple is very powerful.
Although Tang Fengxiao is based in Shanlu, he has been able to have smooth sailing in Shuofang these years because he has long established a relationship with Liang Xuan and fed him well. Even his smuggling and other transactions were actually directly to Liang.
It's done.
It is precisely with Liang Xuan's support that he can be where he is today.
Li Zhengbao was the number one general under Liang Shidu, but his relationship with Liang Xuan was not very good. Li Zhengbao was closer to Liang Shidu's cousin Liang Luoren.
When Wu Huaiyu let Sun Da go back to rebel against Li Zhengbao, he actually had two preparations.
If Li Zhengbao knows the current affairs, he will naturally instigate him to rebel. Whether it is a latent move or a mutiny, this will be of great use.
And if Li Zhengbao didn't understand current affairs, Sun Da would have nothing to lose, and he could even backhand Tang Fengxiao to sue Liang Xuan, reporting that Li Zhengbao and Sun Da intended to subjugate the Tang rebellion.
At that time, with the help of Liang Xuan, the general Li Zhengbao who refused to surrender was killed, and Liang Luoren was even implicated in killing people with borrowed knives.
Let Liang Guo be in chaos again.
When you go to attack with troops, the soldiers are deceitful.
Sunda is just a chess piece.
It wasn't just Sun Da who was put back this time.
All captured officers, as long as they are willing to go back, will be let back. Of course, some who have surrendered will definitely be placed among them and let them go back with them.
He went back to help other Liang officers in instigating their rebellion, and even lurked in secret.
With so many people put back, whether Master Liang uses them or not, they are all a threat.
Finished talking about the business.
Keep drinking tea.
Tang Fengxiao's wives and concubines were all Han, but his children were all black without exception. But compared with him, Tang Fengxiao was glossy black, while his children became matte black.
I have to say that Kunlun Nu’s genes are still very strong.
At that time, Tang Fengxiao's father bought some Kunlun slaves, both male and female. Originally, although the nobles and powerful nobles also kept Kunlun slaves to show their strength, they generally just bred them.
The Kunlun slaves will be matched with men and women, so that purebred Kunlun slaves can be born, and they can be sold at a good price and increase in value in the future.
Tang Fengxiao's father was an anomaly. He actually visited the black wife of his Kunlun slave. Although this behavior was not illegal, she was not Hu Ji, but a Kunlun slave.
Old Tang has very strong tastes and likes the female Kunlun slaves in his family. Anyway, every one of them has been lucky. These female Kunlun slaves have given birth to many children for him, but even if they look like him, he has never considered these children
Think of it as a Tang family.
He has been a domestic slave since he was a child and has been engaged in slave work.
Tang Fengxiao had many black brothers and sisters. He was the lucky one because he saved Old Tang's life from a tiger's mouth and got his name. Later, he was able to join the Xiaoguo Forbidden Army with Tang Fengyi.
When Wu Huaiyu heard about his family, he couldn't help but think of a certain president of the beautiful country who had six illegitimate children with female black slaves, but he refused to admit it until his death. He locked them up since childhood and picked cotton all his life.
Let his son set them free.
It is said that Old Tang was a romantic man who made countless achievements in his life. Not only the female slaves from Kunlun in his family gave birth to children for him, but also all the other young slaves were unlucky.
But Old Tang never acknowledged any of these children born to humble slaves. They were born into a slave family. They were always just the property of the Tang family. Old Tang worked hard to increase the value of the Tang family.
Tang Fengxiao is quite pathetic.
But it’s really not easy for this guy to work hard to get to where he is today.
Wu Huaiyu planned to recruit him as a peripheral spy of Liumen Xingxian Division.
Before Sun Da left, Wu Huaiyu specially summoned him once, made him a pot of tea, and chatted for a while. Sun Da was also a greedy, lustful and cruel guy.
When the rebellion failed, he fled to Liang alone and could not even take care of his parents and wife in his hometown. Fast forward seven or eight years. In Shuofang, he also remarried and took concubines and raised children. During this period, he even took over many other people's wives.
female.
This time in Yamalu, some of the concubines and children who were with him were captured, and there were still wives and children in Shuofang.
"I'll take tea instead of wine and wish you a smooth trip,"
When Sun Da faced Wu Huaiyu, he was very honest and quickly picked up the tea cup and drank it in one gulp.
Huaiyu handed him a petition.
A special general from Baichi Tongjunfu in Yanzhou was demoted from the fifth rank.
Yanzhou originally had only one Tongjunfu, which was still located in Lingzhou. Now there is a new Tongjunfu. The two Tongjunfu are located in Wuyuan and Baichi counties of Lingzhou.
This general is a deputy in the Tongjun Mansion, and his rank is neither high nor low. He has reached the fifth rank of the actual job. In addition, the guerrilla general number given to him is also the fifth rank. Sun Da can at least be considered a tonggui.
Wu Huaiyu used Zhang Ju, Liu Min and other Liang generals who had previously defected to the Tang Dynasty as examples. For example, Liu Min is now the long history of the Dudu Mansion and is in the fifth rank, so he is doing well.
Seeing Sun Dazhen carefully put the body in his arms and respectfully bid farewell, he bowed and stepped back a long way before turning around and leaving.
"This guy is as honest as a civet cat in front of Chang Shi." The lame man came out from behind.
"There is never a shortage of smart people in this world,"
Sun Da was indeed arrogant before, but that was all because the troubled times gave these guys the conditions to be arrogant. Now that he no longer has the capital to be arrogant, he has naturally become honest and submissive.
This kind of person is actually quite dangerous, just like a chameleon, there is no loyalty at all, but it is still possible to use it, just be careful.
"I have inquired clearly about what Chang Shi asked me to inquire about. Duan Shen does have a girl. She is already eighteen years old. She has not been married or engaged. It is said that Duan Qiniang likes reading and poetry. One condition is to marry a poet."
"Are you kidding?" Huaiyu didn't expect there to be such a woman in the world.
"It's true. In fact, I'm quite familiar with Mr. Duan. I've even met his girl several times. She's not pretty, but she's definitely not bad. There were many people who wanted to propose marriage to the Duan family in the past, but Duan Qiniang has to give each other questions and ask them to compose poems on the spot. If they can't compose them, or if they don't do well, she won't accept them. Anyway, she has never met one that satisfies her so far."
"What do you think of Duan Shen?"
"A well-rounded guy, quite capable. Although he is Duan Decao's grandnephew, he still relies on his extraordinary ability to control the fortress. The trade in Yansui, especially the smuggling, is all done by him. Have the final say,
What Chang Shi may not know is that Duan Shen has a slave-catching team of more than a thousand people, which is well-equipped and very powerful.
This slave-catching team not only captured and sold slaves for Mr. Duan, but also dared to engage in smuggling business in the Yansui area. Those who did not cooperate with Mr. Duan would often be killed by "Mountain Hu" and "Turk" within three months. Liang Qi, "horse thieves" and others robbed and even killed people and expropriated goods."
"You mean Mr. Duan's private armed forces did it?"
"It's obvious."
Huaiyu nodded, it seemed that Mr. Duan was really capable and ruthless.
"Miss Duan admires Chang Shi. I think it is true. There should be nothing wrong with that girl, but Mr. Duan has to be careful. Although this guy looks like a romantic scholar on the surface and is harmless to humans and animals, he is very vicious on the road. .”
"This guy has been very busy lately,"
"What are you busy with?"
"Many of the people in the territory captured by the Xiazhou Governor's Mansion fell into the hands of this young man."
"Sold into slavery?"
"Well, Xiazhou soldiers basically sold him all the trophies they captured,"
"How much will Mr. Duan give Duan Decao?"
"I don't know about that. I heard that Duan Decao got half of it."
Wu Huaiyu admired Duan Decao very much. Regardless of whether he used this to taint himself or was really greedy for money, he was really brave.
Being dignified and handsome is not easy at your age.
When Wu Huaiyu turned around, he wrote a secret report to Li Shimin, reported it truthfully, and suggested to the emperor that Duan Decao was old and now somewhat unable to do what he wanted, and many of his subordinates were dissatisfied, so he should retreat to the second line.
That Duan Gongzi Wu Huaiyu was also brought up directly. This guy had built up a huge power network in Yansui over the years through the power relationship of Duan Decao, his uncle.
After sending the secret letter, Wu Huaiyu opened the latest issue of the Beijing News sent by Chang'an Laiji and looked at it. There were still many areas worthy of improvement in this Beijing News.
Shanlu County was captured, and eight thousand soldiers and horses surrendered directly. It can be said that it truly shocked the government and the public.
But the Tang army actually released more than a hundred Puppet Liang officers, which was unexpected.
Here a large number of Puppet Liang officers were released and left, but the Tang army's offensive over there did not stop and was still mopping up ferociously.
Keep pushing along the Hongliu River.
When encountering strong cities and fortresses, they ignored them and focused on raiding the countryside, moving away people and livestock, trampling and destroying crops and young crops.
Even water channels and so on are not spared.
The flames of war never stopped, and almost no Liang Jun in each castle dared to fight. Occasionally, those who were bold ended up being beaten with bruises and bruises as soon as they left the city, or they were surrounded and captured.
Liang Jun in some small castles even surrendered directly to Kaicheng.
Wait until early June,
Yang Gongren, Wu Huaiyu, Su Lie, Duan Decao, Fan Xing, Liu Min, Liu Lancheng and other troops have joined forces by the Wuding River and surrounded the east and west cities of Shuofang.
Although the east and west cities are tall and strong, there are also many castles on the outside to defend them.
However, when the Tang army came in force, Master Liang did not even have the courage to leave the city and fight, so he only dared to close the city and retreat.
Fortunately, the Tang army did not plan to attack the city at all this time. They did not even carry siege equipment and other preparations. This time when they reached Shuofang City, they divided their troops to sweep the countryside and were busy demolishing and relocating the people.
Many generals saw Liang Jun's cowardice and couldn't help but suggest using local materials to build siege equipment and directly destroy the puppet Liang.
However, no one, whether it was Yang Gongren, Wu Huaiyu, veteran Duan Decao, Fan Xing, etc., paid attention to these voices. Everything was proceeding according to plan.
And according to the plan, they will retreat soon.
