Chapter 186: Celebration Banquet and Thoughts
Li Nan didn't know where he was, but according to his past experience, he should not be far from his base camp Guizhou City. X
The procession from Roman times began to march slowly south, and soon came to the main road.
As he walked, Spartacus suddenly stopped, and after lying on the ground and listening for a few seconds, he got up and warned: "There are cavalry, hide quickly!" ”
When these survivors from Rome heard that there were cavalry, they were immediately frightened like frightened birds, and jumped into the dense forests on both sides of the road.
Seeing their performance at the critical juncture, Li Nan felt that his gimmick as a son of God was still quite effective, and nodded with satisfaction.
In the face of the approaching cavalry, Li Nan did not panic, because he had the bottom in his heart.
Although the cavalry system is very mobile, it is absolutely expensive and laborious, and the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty has not been much, and in the southern region, only Li Nan's troops have less than a thousand cavalry, and all the war horses are purchased from the Western Xia at a high price.
This five-person cavalry squad quickly found Li Nan and Dorket and others standing in the middle of the road, originally they saw a few suspicious people, all of them drew their sabers and prepared to fight, but after seeing Li Nan's face clearly, they suddenly showed a surprised expression.
The five cavalrymen hurriedly reined in the reins of their horses, then turned over and dismounted and knelt in front of Li Nan, and said respectfully: "The ninth cavalry squad of the Zhennan Army welcomes the safe return of the general!" ”
Sure enough, it was the army under his command that came, Li Nan motioned to Dokot and Vero and the others who were standing in front of him to protect him to relax, and asked, "Is everything okay in the city?" ”
Seeing Li Nan's inquiry, the captain of this cavalry squad hurriedly reported the events of the past few days.
After Li Nan disappeared that night, Zhang Hao immediately led the close guards to search the whole city, but he didn't find any clues, so he had to report to Pang Qiuxia and others in the mansion.
Pang Qiuxia and Hu Bing both had the experience of going to another world with Li Nan, so although the two girls were a little worried, they were not too panicked, and while blocking the news, they sent the cavalry units in the Zhennan army out to wait for Li Nan's return.
After knowing that his family was fine, Li Nan was also relieved and ordered the two cavalrymen to hurry up and go back to the city to report the news.
The time was not long, and the women who got the news, Lin Chong and the others, put down everything in their hands and led Li Nan's personal guards to rush here.
"Husband!"
Pang Qiuxia, who had always been worried about Li Nan's safety, jumped off the horse with a scream, and then plunged into Li Nan's arms, hugging him tightly and not letting go.
Gently patting the jade back of the beautiful woman in his arms, Li Nan persuaded softly: "Be good, don't cry, everyone is watching." ”
finally coaxed Pang Qiuxia, and then Pan Jinlian, Li Shishi and Hu Bing all came over to tell their worries, and even Sun Erniang, who had some inferiority, secretly hugged Li Nan.
Seeing that his women were safe and sound, Li Nan, who was always nervous in the Roman world, finally relaxed, and laughed: "Hahaha, don't stay here, let's go home first, eat and drink well, and I'll tell you the story this time." ”
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In the evening, the governor's mansion in Guizhou City was brightly lit, and all those who were related to Li Nan gathered here to celebrate his safe return from distress.
The Romans revered purple and silk fabrics, but silk was so expensive that even many nobles had only a few silk dresses.
At this moment, the red-haired ** Ludia, who was sitting behind the table, caressed the purple dress on her body, looked at the various delicacies and wines on the table, and felt a lot of emotion in her heart.
After Ludia married Quintus, she often went in and out of the upper classes, and was also in charge of the life and death of hundreds of slaves, and she was also a person who had seen wealth and power, but people had to die more than people, and goods had to be thrown away, and everything was afraid of comparison.
When Li Nan led everyone to the outside of Guizhou, the Zhennan Army, the Dinghai Navy and the Jiaozhi Slave Army all came to line up, and nearly 10,000 people welcomed the return of their generals.
In the Roman Republic, there were less than 10,000 legions, and General Grebault, who Quintus and Ludia were desperately trying to curry favor with, only had an army of a few thousand men, not to mention that he had no territory.
Ludia is a realist, and now that she has left her hometown and come to this other world, she has begun to think about how to get Li Nan's favor and continue to live a better life.
At this feast, the same person who thinks about Ludia is Ashur, a slave from Syria who can be described as a delicate human spirit.
Although he didn't understand the language of the others, he was not discouraged, and after studying it carefully, Ashur quickly saw the identities of everyone present.
Ashur was afraid of causing misunderstanding, so he didn't dare to approach the beauties of Pang Qiuxia and Pan Jinlian, but came to Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong, and while pouring them wine diligently, he used gestures to learn common words from them.
Li Nan sat on the main seat in the center, smiling and drinking and chatting with several beautiful wives and concubines, and secretly observing the performance of these Roman visitors.
Docott, Kress and Spartacus and others behaved similarly, because of the language barrier, so they all chose to drink and eat food silently, Spartacus's wife Sula, obviously a much smarter woman than her husband, at the moment she was sitting next to Sun Erniang and communicating hard.
Of course, the special performance of Ludia and Ashur did not escape Li Nan's eyes, but he was not worried about these people, because the system had forcibly tied their lives and deaths to himself, and in this regard, in fact, these people from the Roman world were more loyal than others.
While Li Nan was whispering to his confidantes about his experience in Rome, the three patriarchs of the Servant clan came to the table with wine glasses.
Huang Anping knelt down on one knee and said: "General Li, this incident is all to blame for our incompetence, and we have not seen through the conspiracy of the Nong-Tan clan, please punish you!" ”
At the beginning of the banquet, Li Nan made public the matter of Nong Jingzu and Qin Yun's collusion with Ma Zhizhou to assassinate him.
Although the Nong-Tan clan has never been on good terms with the Huang, Cen, and Mo clans, they belong to the same line of the Gu clan after all, so the leaders of the three clans are afraid that Li Nan, like the previous Han officials, will be provoked and indiscriminately exterminate all the servants.
Seeing that the three patriarchs all knelt down to ask for guilt, Li Nan, who had no intention of disposing of them, hurriedly came to the three of them, helped them up with his own hands and said: "This matter is all done by the two traitors, Nong Jingzu and Qin Yun, it is none of your business, please don't blame yourself." ”
These old guys were secretly relieved to see that Li Nan really didn't mean to implicate and blame.
If you want to gain a firm foothold in the south and establish a foundation, these local servants are very important, so Li Nan raised his glass and drank with several patriarchs.
After drinking a few glasses of wine, Huang Anping rolled his eyes and said, "General Li, the old man thinks that this matter can't be good, otherwise how about our three clans lead troops to avenge you?" ”
Huang Anping is indeed an old fox, but Li Nan is not stupid, he really wants them to do this.