Volume 1 Above the Temple Chapter 120 Turning Hands into Clouds and Hands into Rain (1)
Mu Qingen returned to Yunzhou City in the middle of the night, and he came back with the Spirit Tiger Ouyang Dongqing, the Harrier Eagle Tan Bai Ming, and the evil dog Qi Sanbao, plus the two people who were already in Yunzhou City, the Blood Phoenix Iron Crazy Cloud and the Goshawk Linghu Ji, five of the six giants of Beiyu had gathered here.
What people didn't expect was that the mad tiger Shentu also rushed back at noon the next day.
At this point, the six giants of Beiyu have all arrived.
Under normal circumstances, except for Mu Qingen's birthday every year, these people will gather here, but whenever Mu Qingen takes the initiative to call them back, something big must happen...... Sure enough, after the dinner on the evening of Shen Tu's return, Mu Qingen held a military meeting in the Cloud Rain Pavilion.
As the young master of Beiyu, Mu Qiuhuang was also called to participate in this meeting.
Mu Qiulin must have been dissatisfied when he was excluded, but in front of everyone, he successfully expressed this dissatisfaction as a faint loss and full of envy for Mu Qiuhuang.
But Princess Changling is still the same, ignoring this matter, and she can't see any unusual emotions on her face.
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Now that the weather has warmed up this season, there is naturally no need to burn the earth dragon in the Cloud Rain Pavilion, and the thick layer of grassland lamb blanket that was spread on the ground before has also been removed, revealing a pure black marble floor.
Pure black marble floors with rosewood furniture...... It creates a taste of iron and blood.
The position of the several people is also very particular, Mu Qingen undoubtedly sat on the main seat, on the left hand side of Mu Qingen are Tie Qiyun, Ouyang Dongqing, Tan Baiming, and on the right hand side are Shen Tu, Ling Huji, and Qi Sanbao.
Mu Qiuhuang stood behind Mu Qingen with his hands tied, obviously not arranging a seat for him.
For this, Mu Qiuhuang has no complaints. These people are all powerful figures in the military of Beiyu, although they respect him well on weekdays and have never lost their courtesies, but one yard is one yard. When Mu Qingen held this kind of formal meeting, he could only participate as an observer, which was not enough to sit on an equal footing with these people...... Of course, this is also Mu Qingen's decision. However, what surprised Mu Qiuhuang was that Ouyang Dongqing, the spirit tiger who was praised by Mu Qingen as "a master who can enter the dynasty", not only sat at the bottom of the iron mad cloud, but even Shen Tu pressed him? However, soon Mu Qiuhuang found that he was thinking too much, and it turned out that the order of sitting here was not according to what he thought, according to personal ability, merit, and resourcefulness...... These comparisons are purely arranged according to the length of time that Mu Qingen has accepted them as righteous sons.
The appearance and characteristics of the other people do not need to be recounted, and here I will only talk about the spirit tiger Ouyang Dongqing and the harrier eagle talking about Bai Ming.
Ouyang Dongqing is older than the others, and his body is not as strong as the others, with a delicate goatee, and what is even more peculiar is that he actually has a pair of fox eyes, which can be seen from the contours of his face This is a very serious person. Tan Bai Ming is face is white and beardless, his face is angular, as if it is a knife carving, and there is a shallow scar at the corner of his eye, but this scar does not affect his face, but makes him look a little more tough and wild, and his body shape is also moderate, although it is not as tall as the three of them such as Tie Qiyun, Shen Tu, and Ling Huji, it is also a little more majestic than Ouyang Dongqing and Qi Sanbao, and his expression is faintly a little arrogant, but this is just a matter of habit, at least in this room, He wouldn't be so stupid as to deliberately look arrogant.
Mu Qingen glanced around at everyone, and finally stopped his gaze on the mad tiger Shentu, smiled, and said, "Second brother, tell me about your achievements in the grassland." ”
"Yes, father-in-law."
Shen Tu stood up and glanced at Mu Qingen, then his eyes fell on everyone, and slowly spoke: "Erchen was ordered to take 50,000 soldiers north into the grassland for hunting last year, which lasted a total of one year and two months, and the battle line ended from the border of Mangdang Mountain to Tianchi, the holy mountain in the extreme north of the grassland, and the cumulative number of beheaders was ......" Speaking of this, Shentu deliberately paused for a moment, and then continued: "The cumulative number of beheaders is more than 300,000, and the supreme leader of the grassland, the Golden Horde, has been awarded the head. ”
As soon as Shen Tu's words came out, except for Mu Qingen's indifference, which seemed to have been expected, everyone else was shocked.
Of course, if they are good people, I am afraid they will not be able to sit in their current position, and they can sit in their current position with iron and blood, even Ouyang Dongqing, the spirit tiger who is known as the "Confucian general in white" who is not good at killing by force, has a lot of blood on his hands, and there is a tendency of "one will succeed in ten thousand bones".
It stands to reason that in the eyes of this group of "embryo-killers", they should have long been accustomed to life and death, and they don't know what compassion is. But even so, they were still shocked by the news, which can only show one thing, that is, this news has greatly exceeded their expectations.
In fact, it is precisely the case that no matter where this news is placed, it is bound to be a thunderbolt.
You must know that the grassland is vast and sparsely populated, coupled with the harsh living environment, the survival rate of young children, the average age of the elderly, etc., these are not as good as these rich places in the Central Plains, that is to say, although the grassland is large, but its population is not much. Not to mention that it is compared with the population of the entire Great You, even in terms of Beiyu alone, it is also on the disadvantaged side...... Someone once made a rough statistics, that is, all the populations of the various tribes of the steppe combined, the total does not exceed five million.
Moreover, the population here also includes the elderly and children who have not yet been weaned, according to the general law of the grassland people, an ordinary family is five or six people, that is to say, all the tribes of the grassland together are only more than 800,000 households, according to every two families out of a soldier to calculate, all the tribes of the grassland together only have 400,000 soldiers, this proportion is already very high, if it is placed in Beiyu, basically every seven or eight families only send out a soldier.
That's it, it was still the population base in the heyday of the grassland, and it was known that there was no arable land on the grassland, and they lived on nomadism alone, although the grassland people had a strong personality and strong physical fitness, and in the past they could invade the Central Plains and rob for a living. But since Mu Qingen succeeded to the throne, the grassland people no longer dared to take a step into Mangdang Mountain...... In other words, the number of grassland populations has not increased since then. But don't forget, every year at the beginning of spring, Mu Qingen will send troops into the grassland to "hunt" in turn, which means that over the years, the number of people in the grassland has not increased, but has been decreasing year by year. Coupled with such a reckless military force on the grassland, there are naturally many rebellions among the people, which has accelerated the reduction of the number of people in the grassland.
In the third year of dragon diving, Mu Qingen killed 50,000 troops of the Ninggade tribe in one battle, plus the rotation of "hunting" over the years...... That is to say, by the time Shentu entered the grassland this time, the 100,000 troops gathered by the Golden Horde Shan Yu were already all the armored soldiers on the grassland.
To put it simply, after Shen Tu returned from a trip to the grassland this time, it was equivalent to killing all the living forces of the grassland...... The grassland is now a serious injury, which means that for at least 20 years, the grassland will no longer be able to touch the Central Plains...... In other words, in the future, Beiyu will no longer need to enter the grassland to "hunt", because except for those old people and children who can't hold a scimitar, there is no more "prey" to hunt in the grassland.
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Shen Tu casually said that he would kill 300,000 people, then this number would only be a lot more, and no one would go back to doubt the authenticity of his words.
In other words, in addition to the 100,000 armoured troops that were assembled, he also killed at least 200,000 ordinary poor people, which was the reason why everyone was shocked. Although in the eyes of the Beiyu sergeant, he never regarded the grassland barbarians as normal "people", but this, after all, is a human being and not an animal, and besides, even if it is a slaughter of 200,000 livestock, this is terrifying enough. You must know that the army led by Shen Tu this time is only 50,000, and if you want to kill several times your own people, the test is not only strength, but also involves your heart...... They asked themselves, if they were under Mu Qingen's military orders, they would all have the ability to do it, but they would never do such a tragic thing before Mu Qingen had an order, and after doing it, they would never be as light as Shen Tu.
What's more, Shen Tu's expression and attitude were very calm, and he didn't have the consciousness of being an executioner at all, just like he didn't go to the grassland this time to slaughter 300,000 troops, but simply walked around...... To him, killing people is as common as eating, drinking, and drinking.
Looking at Mu Qingen's expression again, they knew that although all this was not under Mu Qingen's instructions, it was under Mu Qingen's acquiescence.
Although they didn't think like ordinary people before, Shen Tu couldn't be loved by Mu Qingen, but they didn't have a fear of Shen Tu, and even had a trace of contempt, for the fact that he was ranked second only to Tie Qiyun, there would be more or less dissatisfaction, after all, Shen Tu's name was far less loud than his own, and what he relied on was nothing more than that he was accepted as a righteous son by Mu Qingen...... After this battle, they were completely convinced, and the ruthless bloodthirstiness on Shen Tu's body was beyond their reach.
They even thought of it, the name "Mad Tiger" has the word "crazy" in it, although they don't dare to call Mu Qingen's name, but they also know that Mu Qingen has a name called "Mu Crazy", and the name "Mu Crazy" also has the word "crazy" in it...... Is this what it is: a mad man will do crazy things?