Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Bloody Primitive Accumulation

Grass-headed tartar!

The so-called Tatar, in the earliest days, referred to those who were of mixed blood, and it was also a contempt for those of mixed blood by other races. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It was only later that it became a general term for people of different races in China.

This also shows in disguise how the confusion of the national nature outside the Yumen Pass is.

In many cases, the Chinese dynasties closed the Yumen Pass and then ignored what happened outside the pass.

It's like a hunter who doesn't care about how the beasts outside the door fight after closing the door of his house, with a mentality that he doesn't care about himself.

It is this mentality that leads China to ignore, not understand, and even not understand what is going on outside.

Closing the country is not only a ban on going to the sea, but also a matter of locking the border and cutting off transportation.

The merchants of the Great Song Dynasty thought that the Western Xia was the biggest culprit in cutting off the Silk Road, but they did not know that the Great Song Dynasty itself was also pursuing a policy of high barriers to the outside world, and the enemies on the sea were relatively far away, so the Great Song Dynasty opened the sea ban, and the enemies on land were not only close, but also fierce, so the Great Song Dynasty government would naturally not actively open up the trade routes that could grow and enrich the enemy.

Tie Xinyuan is actually unwilling to open up this trade route, and if he has a choice, Tie Xinyuan is not willing to fully develop the commerce of this part of the Western Regions.

This is a chaotic land, but also a wild land, and the only fruit that can be born in the wilderness is savage and bloody.

Without the efforts and naturalization of several generations, after the prosperity of the Western Regions, his first choice was war, after all, war was their first reaction to wanting to understand the world.

Meng Yuanzhi is very familiar with the grass-headed Tatars, he has already plundered the grass-headed Tatars once, and now, in order to make the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty familiar with the style of the Western Regions for the first time, the grass-headed Tatars who want to be the wall-head grass are naturally the best training objects.

An army of 5,000 people swept over the grassland like locusts, and although there was no grass everywhere they went, they were almost the same, Meng Yuanzhi spared the scattered herdsmen, but he was very interested in their cattle and sheep.

According to the rules of Qingxiang Valley, taking half of other people's cattle and sheep is regarded as collecting taxes.

The steppe was littered with the corpses of grass-headed Tatar warriors who had died fighting to protect their tribes, and the snow-capped vultures hovered high overhead but did not dare to fall.

The women and children buried the corpses with firm expressions, but there was not much sadness on their faces, even when the Song soldiers were dragging their cattle and sheep, they were still numb, and when they found that the soldiers in battle armor did not drag all the cattle and sheep away, they were even a little happy.

For the nomads of the steppe, life and death are indeed not a big deal.

The leader of the rangers, Hong Laoqi, was chewing on the jerky in his mouth, and he had been watching those women and children for a long time.

When Liu Man walked over with a horizontal knife, he was still fascinated.

Liu Man followed his gaze and said, "What's so beautiful, haven't you seen the dead buried?" “

Hong Lao didn't raise his head, and said faintly: "In Tiannan, there are more dead people, and there are more messy carrion corpses bitten by wild dogs and beasts, nothing unusual, I'm just looking at those women and children, you look at the way to bury people." ”

Liu Man frowned, looked at the women and children again, and looked at them for a while before he said in surprise: "Are they stripping the dead people's clothes?" ”

Hong Laoqi said slowly: "You read that right, they stripped the dead man's clothes clean, and then threw the corpse into the big pit naked, and finally buried it with soil, just like his mother's crops, and Lao Tzu's heart was cold." ”

Liu Man shook his head indifferently and said, "What do they want to do, what can they do?" Lao Hong, you are also an old soldier, why do you care about these things? ”

Hong Laoqi rolled his eyes and looked at Liu Mandao: "Lao Tzu is a scout, not for you to jump and kill talents, but if there are clues, you can't let it go." ”

Liu Man smiled: "Why don't Lao Tzu go over and kill all those mother-in-law dolls now?" ”

Hong Laoqi sighed and said: "It's best to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but the general has a military order to only kill men who dare to resist, not women and children, if you do this, you will lose your head." ”

Liu Man smiled: "Yes, there are so many balls, as long as those mother-in-law dolls don't commit Lao Tzu's taboos, they can do whatever they want."

Lao Hong, did you say that the price we asked the king for was too low, not to mention anything else, just this one transaction, we got more than 5,000 cattle, and even more sheep......

Hong Laoqi smiled bitterly: "The king, the general, how much they earn has nothing to do with us, Lao Tzu only hopes that the king can divide the reward promised to us safely, as long as he gives us silver money according to the agreement, Lao Tzu has nothing to say." ”

Liu Man said with a smile: "That's a good thing, only when the king and the general have money, they won't deduct our poor wages......"

Although the scene in front of them was depressing, the topic of the two of them quickly turned to the military salary that was closely related to them, they had seen what the real killing was in Tiannan, and the little debt they had created so far was not enough to put it in their hearts.

Liu Man and Hong Laoqi didn't care, and the generals Leng Ping, Wang Guan, He Yuanwu, and Pei Ping didn't care.

As for Meng Yuanzhi and Wei Chiwen, their whole bodies and minds were devoted to the search for the grass-headed Tatars.

The water and grass in the Nuoda Inverted River Basin are abundant, and now is a good time for cattle and sheep to chase fat. The cattle and sheep who have been hungry for a winter and spring are also the time when they need to eat well for a while, and for the herdsmen on the grassland, there is nothing bigger than the cattle and sheep chasing fat.

Once the grass and trees are yellow, and the cattle and sheep have not yet grown fat and strong, once the heavy snow covers the grassland, a large number of cattle and sheep will die in the harsh winter.

The scouts in the Song army were not useful in searching for the traces of these shepherds, who might have been able to spot the enemy in advance, but they knew little about the habits of the shepherds.

The only way to find those shepherds and their settlements is to let those Qingxiang Valley warriors who are familiar with the living habits of the herdsmen go out.

However, the news from the samurai was not promising, and they searched for a full fifty miles along the river and did not find the shepherd.

The manure left over from the cattle and sheep on many pastures is fresh, but the shepherds and the cattle and sheep are nowhere to be seen.

After chasing fifty miles, the warriors of Qingxiang Valley did not dare to continue deeper, and if they were too far away from the main army, it would be the turn of those grass-headed Tartars to pursue them.

Meng Yuanzhi nodded at the river bend part of the map with his finger irritably: "They must be hiding here."

The place is full of swamps, and only they know which roads can be walked and which roads cannot be walked.

We can't go to Riverbend until we get the real news. ”

Wei Chiwen hurriedly said: "General, the refuge in the river bend of the grass head Tatar is a problem that we must encounter in the future, and my subordinates think that it is better to start late than early, and now that our army has already driven over, we will calm down at one time, so as not to send troops twice in the future."

It is not without a price for us to send an army, especially this time, the king has already paid a great price in order to appease these soldiers.

If they can't quickly recover all their investment, after these people come to Hami, they will bring great trouble to Mr. Big and Tie Yi. “

Meng Yuanzhi frowned and said, "You mean at any cost?" ”

Wei Chiwen said with a smile: "It's just a mercenary, it's just a tool, not a soldier, isn't it right to sacrifice it?" ”

Meng Yuan looked at Yu Chiwen and shook his head and sighed: "Boy, you can't always learn from the cold side of the king, you also have to learn from his good side."

Otherwise, you won't have any happiness in the future. ”

Wei Chiwen's eyes widened and said: "I'm very kind, every month's income is given to the old and weak in the clan who lack food and clothing, if I can help others, I will definitely not stand idly by, but what does kindness have to do with mercenaries?"

We pay them handsomely, and they are responsible for fighting and selling their lives, and what you want and I want to do has nothing to do with goodness, right?

We don't need to buy the hearts of these people, we just want their obedience, sacrifice if necessary. Let them go, if they are kind now, it will be cruel to our soldiers in the future. ”

Meng Yuanzhi found it difficult to explain one thing clearly to this kid, his cognitive outlook had been formed, and it was indestructible.

Unlike Gaga, this guy still stupidly followed Ouyang Xiu before he began to shape his own cognitive outlook.

Thinking of this, Meng Yuanzhi suddenly had a sudden suddenness in his heart.

He suddenly came to his senses, this was Tie Xinyuan deliberately causing the current situation, not Yu Chiwen and Gaga's problem.

You don't have to think much about it to understand that whether it is Wei Chiwen or Gaga, they will definitely take on a big role in Qingxiang Country in the future.

Wei Chiwen is likely to rule the civil officials of the Qingxiang Kingdom in the future, and Ga Ga will naturally become the leader of the military generals.

A sinister and vicious civil official leader, and a simple and fearless military leader, if the two grew up together since childhood and established a deep relationship, then the king of Qingxiang Kingdom only needs to control one of them, then, it is equivalent to controlling the entire court.

Meng Yuanzhi didn't know what the Imperial Technique was, but he had seen countless examples of the practical application of the Imperial Technique.

Zhao Zhen has completely received the influence of the emperor's technique, so Meng Yuanzhi has never eaten pork and has always seen a pig run, how can he not understand Tie Xinyuan's intentions in such a deliberate arrangement.

Since it was arranged by the king, Meng Yuanzhi immediately ended this meaningless education and refocused his attention on the army under his command.

Outside the tent, there was a great deal of cheering, and the civil servants who were responsible for receiving the spoils of war let out a burst of cheers from time to time.

The boundless cattle and sheep, war horses, and camels in front of them finally settled down their frightened hearts.

Even if Hami is not as good as Tie Xinyuan said, with so many cattle, sheep and livestock, it is enough for this team to consume for a year. (To be continued.) )