Hawking came back angrily, with the riding crop in his hand still stained with blood, and his face as black as the bottom of a pot. He stepped in the door, turned around and shouted outside: "Beat me hard, and hang up after you're done."
No one is allowed to stand on the pillar. Unless their leader makes it clear, the guy will be allowed to hang on it and become dried meat!"
There were bursts of wailing outside the door, and there were more than one person. The whip was whipped on the body, making those guys howl very loudly. Su Ren was sitting in the courtyard reading a book. These were Zhang Qian's notes he brought from Chang'an.
I read some on the way, but as soon as I entered the Western Regions, I no longer had time to read. At this time, I finally settled down and took a look at everything again.
In response to Hawking's roar, Su Ren smiled and shook his head, ignored it, and continued to read his book. Hawking sat down opposite Su Ren, grabbed Su Ren's teapot, and drank the tea leaves in one breath: "
Brother, you should also talk to that Fan Gu. Recently, the Qiang people in the city have been making trouble, and there are more and more of them. Qiang people and Westerners, Qiang people and Huns, and even the Qiang people themselves are fighting. I don’t know this anymore.
How many times have we caught three more misbehaviors?"
Su Ren put down the book and asked, "What did they do this time?"
"What else can you do? Stop those Western Regions craftsmen after work and ask for money. If they don't give it, they will beat them to death. If I hadn't happened to pass by, I guess those two Western Regions craftsmen would have been beaten to death by them!"
"Oh, are those two Westerners okay?"
Hawking shook his head: "It's nothing else, but these Qiang people are so hateful! They don't work, they always want to rob others, and I don't know how many people have been robbed by them. I dare not say! For such guys, I can't tell you.
He should be killed, keeping him will be a disaster after all!"
"Have they ever attacked us Han people?"
Hawking's eyebrows stood up: "How dare they! We took them in. If they are so ungrateful, I will lead people to destroy their entire clan!"
Su Ren picked up the book again with a smile, and slowly read through it in an orderly manner. The last time Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions was at least five or six years ago, and the Western Regions at that time seemed to be even more chaotic than now. Su Ren read and talked with him while reading.
Compare the current situation and look for something beneficial to you from between the lines. In fact, Zhang Qian had already arrived at Dayuezhi last time, but the king of Dayuezhi did not want to get involved between the Han and the Huns again, so he politely rejected Zhang Qian.
.This time, there is a big problem within the Xiongnu. Maybe the Yuezhi will agree to attack the Xiongnu together with the Han.
After Huo Jin drank enough water, he went out again with his whip. Soon, the screams outside the door became louder. Manniu came in and reported to Su Ren that Zaji, the leader of the Earth Pony tribe, was outside the door with hundreds of people.
, they wanted to see Su Ren. Su Ren shook his head slightly, Man Niu did not continue asking, turned around and left.
Hawking's most simple way to deal with prisoners is to tie them to a horse post outside the city lord's palace and whip them. The purpose of this is to let everyone know that although the method is simple, it is very effective. He used to be in Kuaiji, Suzhou
, Ma Yi, and Hawking have all done this, which really scared those young people, and either fled to other places, or did not dare to do anything else. However, this time the effect did not seem to be very good.
The guys who were tied to the horse posts saw Zaji approaching and immediately shouted for help. Zaji gritted his teeth and gasped for air. He was about to order someone to snatch someone, but someone behind him grabbed his raised arm. Zaji turned his head.
Look, the person coming is Fan Gu, and he immediately asked: "Zanpu, this..."
Shan Gu shook his head slightly at Zaji, walked up to Huo Jin with a smile on his face, and saluted: "General Huo, can you wait a moment? After I see General Su, what will General Huo do with these people?"
Hawking withdrew his whip and glared at Fan Gu: "If you want to see me, go see me. This general's handling of prisoners has nothing to do with your meeting my brother!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Huang Shisan came out of the door and said to Huo Jin: "Sir, please ask General Huo to stop first. Chief Fan Gu please come in. Sir, let you in!"
Huo Jin threw away the whip in his hand angrily and walked away angrily. Shan Gu smiled and gave Zaji a calm expression before saluting Huang Shisan and following Huang Shisan into the city lord's palace.
Su Ren was still sitting under the tree in the courtyard reading, and the water in the teapot had been filled. Seeing Fan Gu come in, Su Ren put down the book in his hand, stood up to greet Fan Gu, and poured a glass of water for Fan Gu himself. Before Shan Gu could speak, Su Ren
First of all, he said: "Oh! This guy Xiao Jinzi is messing around, and the leader of Shangu has made a special trip. Lao Huang, go and let him go!"
Fan Gu quickly stood up and saluted: "Thank you General Su, the general is really aware of everything. This matter was originally provoked by those people from the Western Regions. The general also knows that the Western Regions people killed so many of our people at Lengfengkou. Since they are all in Yumen City now,
We are all a family. My people just want to live a peaceful life. Who would have expected that those people from the Western Regions would get worse and cause so many troubles, but General Huo..."
Su Ren nodded with a smile: "What Leader Fan Gu said is reasonable. I will also tell Xiao Jinzi to stop him from doing whatever he wants. Don't worry, this kind of thing won't happen again!"
"Then thank General Su!"
The two chatted for a while, and Shan Gu stood up to leave. Su Ren walked to the door in person, with a very low posture, which seemed a bit lowly. As soon as Shan Gu left, Huo Jin came out of nowhere and looked at it.
Su Ren spent a long time just panting.
Su Ren kept watching Shan Gu lead Zaji and the others to the main road, and then turned around and entered the house: "If you have something to say, just say it, who are you demonstrating to?"
"Hmph!" Hawking snorted: "Why did you let those Qiang people go? I saw them robbing those craftsmen from the Western Regions with my own eyes. Brother, what you do will chill others. Who will dare to come to our Yumen in the future? Outside these days
There are rumors that..."
"say what?"
"Say, this Jade Gate will become the Jade Gate of the Qiang people!"
"Oh? Is this really happening?"
Huo Jin turned his head and ignored Su Ren. Su Ren patted Huo Jin on the shoulder: "People have mouths, and we can't control their mouths. You and I are standing in the City Lord's Mansion. Who do you think the owner of this Jade Gate is?"
who?"
"Then why did you let those Qiang people go?"
Su Ren smiled and said: "You don't understand, go ahead and do whatever you have to do! If you encounter this kind of thing again while patrolling, just take action. If those leaders and leaders want someone, let them come to me."
"You shouldn't let me go again, right?"
Su Ren was stunned and kicked. Hawking immediately dodged and he was already at the door: "Whether you let him go or not, I'm still going to catch him. I'll catch him and give him a good beating to get rid of my bad temper!"
"Get out!" Before Su Ren could say anything, Hawking had disappeared.
He sat under the tree again and picked up Zhang Qian's notes. Today I happened to read the article about Cheshi Kingdom. Zhang Qian's notes recorded this: Cheshi Kingdom, the capital of the country is Jiaohe, with a population of 60,000, and the radius of Jiaohe City
Fifteen miles away, there are many wild people in the city, with high nose bridges and deep cheekbones, who are not good at fighting. It leads to Dunhuang in the southeast, Loulan and Shanshan in the south, Yanqi in the west, Wusun in the northwest, and Xiongnu in the northeast. Merchants from the Western Regions gather here, and they are among the countries in the Western Regions.
A more prosperous place.
Su Ren scrolled back and saw that there was no record, and he felt a little regretful. Cheshi Country is a good place, and it is considered to be the best geographical location among the countries in the Western Regions. If you can occupy it, you can cut off the connection between the Huns and the countries in the Western Regions.
At the same time, it can also divide the countries in the Western Regions into two, so that they have nothing to worry about. Su Ren thought while planning if Emperor Liu Che sent his own troops to attack the Western Regions in the future, whether to occupy Shanshan and Yanqi first, or directly attack Cheshi
, divide the Western Region into two parts, and then slowly digest it.
Manniu came in again. Seeing that Su Ren was thinking about something, he stood aside and said nothing. Su Ren asked, "What happened again? Did Xiao Jinzi arrest someone again?"
Man Niu said quickly: "Mr. Chen, it's not Huo Jin. There are dozens of people from the Western Regions outside the door. They carried the injured and knelt outside the door. They neither asked to see Mr. nor left!"
"Hey!" Su Ren sighed: "Why bother with this! Let's go and have a look!"
Two injured people were lying on the door panel. One had a bruised nose and face, and the other probably had a broken arm. The entire arm was fixed with a wooden board, and his head was wrapped with linen. He must have been seriously injured. Behind the two injured people, he knelt down.
There were people there, both men and women. At the front was a woman holding a child. Her eyes were swollen from crying and she was still shedding tears.
"What's going on? Come on, get up and talk!" Su Ren reached out to pull an old man next to the woman.
The old man just knelt down and said nothing. He lowered his head and remained silent. Su Ren turned around and asked Man Niu: "Who bullied the old man? Did Jin Rixi underpay me again? Or did Zhang Qian deduct his wages?"
?”
Man Niu was confused and didn't know why Su Ren asked him these questions, so he quickly replied: "Mr. Geng, Jin Rixi did not underpay his wages, and Prefect Zhang did not deduct any deductions!"
"Then why is this?"
The woman holding the child burst into tears and kowtowed: "Please, General, make the decision for us!"
"Please make the decision for me, General!" hundreds of people shouted together. It was really grand, and upon hearing it, I felt that there was a great injustice.
Su Ren helped the old man again. This time, the old man was not stubborn. He took advantage of the situation and wiped his eyes: "General Su, we are decent craftsmen. Originally, we built the city for you. You gave us wages and said,
It seems that we don't owe anything to each other, but I know that this Yumen is a good place, and I am ready to bury my old bones here, and regard this place as my home!"
The old man grabbed Su Ren's hand and said, "Besides, Mr. Su also said that day, as long as those who are willing to stay are Yumen people, they are Han people! But these days, those Qiang people keep hurting us Han people, old man
Show off your old face and ask General Su to make the decision for us Han people, and we can’t let those Qiang people take away the home we have worked so hard to build!”
The old man's words were reasonable and well-founded, and every word hit Su Ren's heart. Su Ren didn't know what to say for a while, and was quite ashamed. (To be continued)