"Brother, there is a noodle restaurant in front, I heard that this Lingzhou noodle is very famous, let's also go and ask for a few bowls of noodles and a plate of mutton, try it?" Zhang Yi stopped with a smile, pointed to a large wine restaurant next to it with thriving business and diners coming in and out, and said with a smile. //

Xiao Shisanlang nodded and smiled, he didn't care.

And Hua Nu'er frowned slightly. She was not very interested in this kind of northwestern pasta and meat. It was too rough and not delicate, and the taste was even more average, especially the mutton was too fishy, and she couldn't swallow it at all.

Zhang Li was the first to enter the noodle shop, and as soon as she entered the noodle shop, she was greeted by a strong smell of sweat mixed with the unpleasant smell of sheep, and Hua Nu'er's brows furrowed even more and covered her mouth.

If Zhang Li hadn't insisted on coming in, she would definitely not have stepped into this kind of place for half a step.

Most of the diners in the noodle restaurant are merchants from all over the world, including Tang and Hu people, mostly people from the Western Regions, Hui people and Tugu people who settled in Lingzhou.

Zhang Chai found an empty seat at random, took a few people over to sit down, and then beckoned the guys to come over, and ordered three bowls of noodles, a plate of mutton, and a pot of wine at random.

In a short time, this side and the mutton were served.

Hua Nu'er didn't want to move the chopsticks, but it can be seen that Zhang Zhang and Xiao Shisanlang were eating with relish, and they were also a little moved in their hearts. Li took a piece of lamb and put it in her mouth and chewed it lightly twice. The fishy flesh of the weak nose rushed into the throat, and Hua Nu'er almost vomited on the spot, covering her mouth and showing pain.

Zhang Li glanced at Hua Nu'er and smiled lightly, "This mutton actually tastes very good and pure." However, if you are not used to this kind of eating, don't eat it. ”

Xiao Shisanlang also looked at Hua Nu'er, smiling without saying a word.

He actually felt a little strange in his heart, it is said that Hua Nu / [was a monk before, it should not be so "expensive", people who are at home in Pihai are at ease wherever they go, which is like Hua Nu'er who "picks and chooses". But Xiao Shisanlang didn't know that although Hua Nu'er was wearing a Taoist robe, she hadn't lived a hard life for a few days & her family.

Whether it was in Luoyang before, then in Chang'an, and then went to Fanyang, everywhere you go, you are dressed and fed. In Zhang Liri 6, this flower slave is a very petty bourgeois woman, this habit is in the bones, but it is not delicate.

Zhang Mao no longer cared about the flower slaves, and began to eat in large gulps, and the more she ate, the more delicious she became.

No one knows how he's feeling at the moment. In his previous life, it was not easy to eat a plate of lamb with real flavor. And although the current food is rough and bland, it really has the taste of mutton, and it is pure green and pollution-free. //

I was eating when I suddenly heard a noisy scolding and footsteps at the door of the noodle restaurant, and it was even mixed with the sound of whipping moss.

Zhang Di looked up and saw a team of Longshuo sergeants escorting a few Tuyuhun women passing by the door, it seemed that it was because the Guhun people were not very obedient to discipline at these times, and the leader of the soldiers who took the lead was whipping and whipping while scolding, and then there was a terrible and miserable D.

There were also a few Tuyuhun people in the noodle shop, but they looked up and looked uneven, but they immediately covered up their heads and continued to eat and drink, not daring to meddle in their affairs.

This Tuyuhun people were wiped out by Tubo and lived in Lingzhou, and they have gradually merged with the Tang people of Lingzhou and become a small and weak alien tribe. Although the imperial court granted the Tuyuhun people a certain degree of autonomy, in the local feudal towns, few people really took the Tuyuhun people seriously.

Tuyuhun is an inferior person in Lingzhou, and his status is even far inferior to that of the Hui people.

It seems that this kind of thing happens often, and the diners in the restaurant are >ge, and there is not much trouble.

Zhang Li frowned, but didn't care.

At this moment, however, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in a hurry, and the people in the street shouted and neighed into a mess.

The diners could no longer sit down, so they all crowded to the door to see the food on the table.

Zhang Jie also leaned over.

More than a dozen horsemen holding scimitars turned over and dismounted with angry expressions, and surrounded the group of Longshuo soldiers.

The soldier leader of the army, Ni's military man, was furious, holding a Mo knife and pointing at the Tuyuhun cavalry leader in the opposing camp, a young man with a strong square face, wide forehead, dark complexion, and long hair, and angrily reprimanded, "Ge Cong, you dare to lead your troops to break into Lingzhou City, Chu will not be able to rebel?" ”

Ge Congqiang suppressed the huge anger in his heart, hugged his fists and said, "Master Jun, Ge Cong doesn't dare." It's just that these women are members of Gecong's clan, may I ask what crime they have committed and want to be sent to the city to deal with it? ”

The leader of the soldiers sneered, "These ladies do not respect the decree of the Lingzhou Mansion, and enter the city to sell leather goods without authorization...... Ge Cong, you hurry up and take people out of the city, Lao Tzu will not be as knowledgeable as you. ”

Ge Cong was furious when he heard this, and said angrily, "Don't frame good people, military master≡ order from the Lingzhou Mansion, I, Tuyuhun people, never dare to enter the city to sell leather goods, but only trade with merchants around the camp...... Obviously, you suddenly ran to our clan land and arrested people indiscriminately! Although I, the Tuyuhun people, are downcast, I can't let others bully and plunder the population! ”

"If you don't let my people go, Ge Cong will not be able to give up!"

Ge Cong waved his hand, and the dozen or so Tuyuhun men under him also showed their weapons one after another, putting on a posture of using force to snatch.

Some of the Tuyuhun people next to him had a somewhat complicated complexion.

Those who can enter the city to live are mostly small nobles with errors and power in the various tribes of Tuyuhun, and they gradually moved to the city to run industries through their "relationship" with Tang Dynasty officials or generals, and became the Tuyuhun people who gradually became Sinicized in the city.

Most of the Tuyuhun people could only live as nomadic herders at the foot of the mountains outside Lingzhou, and relied on selling leather goods to trade with Tang merchants to obtain food and materials, and make a difficult living.

Last year, the Lingzhou government issued another decree to strictly prohibit the Tuyuhun people from entering the city to sell leather goods in the name of maintaining law and order, and the Tuyupu people could only trade with merchants around the camp outside the city.

Zhang Qi had just arrived in Lingzhou, and he didn't know such an edict.

Listening to the whispers of the diners around him, and looking at the tense Tuyuhun people and a team of soldiers at the door of the noodle restaurant, Zhang Jin frowned.

Looking at this situation, it turned out that the officials and soldiers went out of the city to arrest people, and all the arrests were women. And judging from the complaints of the diners next to them, this has long been a commonplace thing, and it seems that the many slaves of Shiguhun in the city came about in this way.

"This must be the slave catcher under the boat...... a diner and his partner next to him said softly, "I don't know if this Tugu Epsom man dares to have such a big courage to break into the city and rob people!" Look, after a while, the brigade of military horses under the boat will arrive, and Ge Cong and these people will not be able to eat and go! ”

Zhang Li raised his eyebrows, and took the initiative to whisper to this person, "This brother, may I ask what is going on?" Who is Zheng Wei? ”

The diner glanced back at Zhang Jie, and said in a low voice, "Brother, you must be a foreigner, don't be nosy, we j-l'

The head of the common people can't control this kind of idle business. ”

"That boat is Guo Ziyi's henchman, Lingzhou Weizhong Lang General, it is said that this person has a slave hunting team, specializing in catching Tuyuhun women as slaves, and selling them to Chang'an and Beizhou......"

"Boat? Zhonglang will? Guo Ziyi's subordinates? Zhang Li frowned.

He didn't know that this Lingzhou official army dared to secretly do this kind of slave trade, and even attacked the Tuyuhun people.

If it is an ordinary matter of the palace army oppressing the people and the Tuyuhun people, it will definitely not arouse Zhang Jie's interest ♀, even if he suppresses it strongly, I am afraid it will be difficult to ban it. But this kind of thing is sold as slaves, since Zhang Zhang has encountered this kind of thing, he will not ignore it.

He may not be able to control other feudal towns, but in Longshuo, under his rule and under his nose, this bloody trade will never be allowed. "Ge Cong, Lao Tzu advises you to get acquainted, it's still too late to quit now, if you wait for the Lingzhou defenders to arrive, you will study a road." For the siege of the Tuyuhun people, the leader of the army was not afraid at all, and threatened with a big thorn.

Ge Cong is the son of the leader of the Toothless Division, the largest tribe of the Tuyuhun people, and can be regarded as an upper-class nobleman of the Tuyuhun people. Although Hammer knew that he had committed a felony by leading his team into the city, he could not watch his people being sold into slavery.

"Do it, grab people!" Ge Cong knew that he couldn't explain the reason with this group of robbers carrying the armor of the Tang Dynasty official army, so he simply took the lead and robbed people out of the city, and returned them to the clan first. As for himself, he would rather go into the city alone to plead guilty to the Lingzhou Mansion.

The Tuyuhun people who are full of foot and soul are all a group of bloody men, and the Tang army has been jealous for a long time when he secretly grabs his own people as slaves, and now that he has collided with him face to face, he has long been unable to hold it back. As soon as Ge Cong gave the order, this group of Tuyuhun soldiers waved their scimitars and prepared to attack.

The scene was chaotic, and the pedestrians on the street saw that the Tuyuhun people dared to clash head-on with the officers and soldiers, and they retreated one after another.

"Stop!" Zhang Li squeezed out of the crowd and shouted.

The two groups of people who were about to start saw a young man dressed as a scholar rushing out of the noodle shop, and they all turned their heads to look at Zhang Mao.

Zhang Yi frowned and bowed to Ge Cong, "If you have grievances, why don't you appeal to the Lingzhou Mansion?" Rushing into the official army on the street like this and disrupting the public security in Lingzhou is a capital crime! ”

Ge Cong sighed, glanced at Zhang Li, and returned the salute, "This gentleman is invited...... If we complain to the Lingzhou Fuya, we can only get a cane in ♀ exchange for a few years, and my 1b people have been forcibly abducted or secretly disappeared, and there are no less than 100 people. ”

"I knew that I had violated the criminal laws of the Tang Dynasty, but I didn't hesitate to save my clansmen. You must not watch your sisters being sold into slavery! ”

Ge Cong shouted angrily, "What are you waiting for, hurry up and teach people!" ”

The soldiers also rebuked angrily without showing weakness, "You want to find death! Who would dare to do it? ”