Chapter 19: Dock Castle Masters
"Big brother, children can't boast! Praise is heavenly! ”
Having said that, the smile on Xu Muhe's face still couldn't be hidden.
"If you do well, you should praise it."
Xu Mujiang said seriously:
"Shi Yang won this time, all the villages in my family have not been robbed by the Tartars this year, which is equivalent to Shi Yang helping us carry it all!"
Like the vast majority of Han people in this era, Xu Mujiang and Xu Muhe were also very afraid of Tartars.
If it was in previous years, a restless boy like Xu Shiyang, who took the initiative to start a war with the Tartars, even if he won the victory, I am afraid that he would have to come to a "kill even if he wins", and give his head and more tribute to the Tartars, so that they will not retaliate.
But this year's gang of Tartars who came to Juzhou was a little different from before, Xu Shiyang learned through the captives that the leader Mouke was a newly appointed young man, who had just conspired with his Tartar father who was a fierce An, and then he had his own Mouke, and was in a state of extreme desire for wealth and merit to prove his bravery.
Therefore, Haihuli will forcibly attack the dock forts in the west of Wuxiantun, and those unlucky villages also do not know this, thinking that as before, they can send this group of Tartars by handing over a little tribute and women, but they are paralyzed and careless, and they are directly broken through the wall, and end up with a family destroyed.
In fact, thinking about it in hindsight, the Tartar Mouke who was hung on the wall by Xu Shiyang and has not yet taken it off is actually very inexperienced.
Attacking the Dock Fort is a bit thankless for the Tartars.
At first, it seems that they have indeed gained a lot, but it will not be long before they fall into a state of exhaustion, and finally have to end the raid earlier.
In fact, if they had maintained their previous balance and taken the tribute from every Dock Fort they passed by, they would have ended up with no less than if they had attacked the Dock Fort directly.
Of course, Hai Huli's style of seeing who beats whom, in a sense, also covered Xu Shiyang's behavior.
At least in the eyes of the Xu family's higher-ups, there was no indication that he would let go of 15 Tun, and the other Xujiawu forts further east (they didn't know that Hai Huli was already planning to change tactics and accept tribute).
Since he has been forced to the point where he has to resist, it is not the turn of Xu Shiyang, who took the initiative to attack the Tartars, for the crime of "provoking on the side".
On the contrary, Xu Mujiang, Xu Muhe and others have to thank him, a child, for defeating the Tartars and allowing the Xu family to escape.
Moreover, Xu Shiyang did not rely on the support of other dock forts of the Xu family, and defeated the Tartars by relying on the strength of 15 Tun, not to mention the war horses he sent, the key is that even if the Tartars want to retaliate in the future, the Xu family can also push him alone, and let Xu Shiyang bear the consequences.
This kind of behavior of harming their own children is very unpleasant to say, but it is indeed the only way to save the entire Xu family.
For this reason, the decision of the three masters after discussion was to publicize this victory for Xu Shiyang, and put all the credit and consequences of defeating the Tartars on him alone - anyway, this was indeed done by him alone, and it was best to let everyone in the world know that Xu Shiyang defeated a whole Tartar with a dock fort.
The masters of the Xu family thought that in this way, the next time the Tartars came again, they would be able to clear up their relationship with Xu Shiyang.
Xu Shiyang didn't know that his father, uncle, and uncle in this life still had the intention of sacrificing themselves.
He was just a little surprised that these old men who were afraid of the Tartars like tigers didn't care about the follow-up retaliation of the Tartars, and just put on a high hat for their victory.
Even the blushing nickname of "Juzhou Tiger" has popped up.
God is pitiful, Juzhou is just a county, right? What is there to promote as a tiger or a baby tiger in such a rural place?
"Okay, praise things, I'll talk about it later, let's sit down first." As the eldest brother and head of the family, Xu Mujiang set the tone: "There are a lot of things today, let's come one by one!" ”
Xu Shiyang hurriedly confessed and walked to his place.
The Xu family has a total of 15 dock forts, and the three people at the top are directly under the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd tuns respectively.
The remaining 12 Dock Fort Lords, in numerical order, sit on the left for odd numbers and for even numbers to sit on the right.
Xu Shiyang is the 15th Tun, naturally sitting on the last on the left, in front of him, respectively, the 13th Tun Fort Lord Wang Yong, during the Great Zhou Dynasty, he used to be a green-skinned gangster, and later took refuge under Xu Mujiang, doing some dirty things that are not good for officials to come forward, and was released to take charge of a dock fort a few years ago.
Xu Shibai, the owner of the 11th Tun, is the son of the Changfang, and his relationship with Xu Shisong, Xu Shiyang and other "sister-in-law" factions is not very good.
Sun Li, the owner of the 9th Tun, was once the official army of the Great Zhou, when the Great Zhou was defeated outside the Guanwai and forced to cross south, he broke away from the army and took refuge in the Xu family, and became a gun and stick leader in the Zhuangzi of Xu Shiyang's father Xu Muhe, and after the expansion of the Xu family's power, he also obtained a dock fort.
The 5th Tun Fort Advocate Jian and the 7th Tun Fort Qiang are a pair of brothers, and their sister married Xu Mujiang as a concubine (that is, Xu Shibai's biological mother).
Opposite Xu Shiyang, is Dong Chao, the owner of the 14th Tun, who is Xu Muhe's brother-in-law and Xu Shiyang's younger brother.
Liang Jun, the castle master of 12 Tun, Xu Shisong's enlightenment teacher, an old pedant.
Huineng, the owner of the castle in 10 Tun, a flower monk who refuses to be vulgar, but does not refuse to come with wine and meat, he is Xu Muhai's person, and I don't know how the two met.
However, Xu Shiyang heard that his third uncle has a very special hobby for nuns, maybe the relationship between the two is also related to this?
Luan Tingyu, the castle master of 8 Tun, Sun Li's senior brother, is very good at guns, sticks, bows and horses, he was recruited by Sun Li, and he is also the strongest personal force of the Xu family.
6 Tun's fort advocates business, Xu Muhai's brother-in-law, unlike other "uncles", his sister is a wife, Xu Shiyang's serious 800 uncle, but this uncle's mother's family has no strength, so he can only let him eat in Xu's house.
Others, whether it is Xu Shisong or Xu Shiyang, the power of the two sisters-in-law's mothers is not small, and there is no need to bow their heads under the eaves of the Xu family.
Finally, the castle owner of the 4th Tun, Xu Shisong, the boss of the world.
After Xu Shiyang sat down, he looked around the lobby, there was no doubt that everyone present was related to the three masters of the Xu family, the son party, the brother-in-law party, and the fox friend party, which were simply .......
Hey, it's hard to explain.
Moreover, these goods are actually divided into several factions that do not like each other, although it is easier for the Xu family to firmly grasp the control of the subordinate dock fort, but these levels are uneven, most of them are just relying on nepotism to get to the top, and in Xu Shiyang's future plan, there may only be a few people who can use it.