Cui Ning was taken care of, Zhang Huan was relieved, he ordered dozens of pro-soldiers to strictly guard the house, and he followed Lin Jiuhan to the military camp outside the city, the military camp is located in the north of the city A flat land, covering an area of more than 200 acres, together with the stables, more than 500 tents were set up, the pro-barracks Lang will be Lin Jiuhan, Lin Jiuhan followed Zhang Huan, when he was not there, he was led by the pro-barracks left and right Lang generals, at this time due to the accident in the county, the soldiers on vacation rushed back to the barracks one after another.

At this time, the barracks was particularly lively, and more than 3,000 slaves gathered in a large open space in the middle, mostly young strong men, as well as many young women, and a few old people and children.

Now they were gathering for lunch, and about two dozen people were sitting in a circle, eating sweetly bread and meat, and drinking bowl after bowl of hot broth, all wearing soldiers' uniforms to keep out the cold, while women and children gathered into tents to eat.

Soon Zhang Huan entered the barracks, the soldiers who were watching the slaves saw that the governor was coming, they all dodged a way, Zhang Huan walked to the side of the slaves and stopped, he looked at it for a moment and asked Lin Jiuhan: "Has the number of slaves ever been counted?" ”

"Back to the governor, there are about 2,300 young and strong men, more than 400 young women, and more than 100 old and weak, most of whom are Shu people."

After hesitating, Lin Jiuhan asked again, "What does the Governor want these young women to do?" Do you want them to be military prostitutes? ”

Zhang Huan shook his head, "I heard that many brothers are disabled in wars and can't marry daughters-in-law, and ordinary women don't want to marry them, so buying some slave women and giving them as wives is also a matter of my heart." ”

"The subordinates also wanted to match them to the brothers, but the governor thought more deeply than the subordinates." Lin Jiuhan sighed for a long time. He also asked, "Then there are more than 100 old and weak people who ask the governor how to deal with it?" ”

"Let's take it to Longyou together. It was handed over to the magistrate for placement. Zhang Huan saw that the slaves were almost finished, so he said to Lin Jiuhan: "Let them all stand up and line up, I will lecture them!" ”

"Yes!" With a wave of Lin Jiuhan's hand, hundreds of soldiers immediately entered the group of slaves to arrange a queue, and soon. A group of slaves lined up in a huge semicircle, Zhang Huan stepped on a high platform, he glanced at the crowd, and said in a loud voice: "Everyone, I am the envoy of Longyou and Hexi Jiedu, welcome everyone to join Xiliang."

"Since my Tang boy was born in the world, he wants to kill enemies for the country. Gain fame. How can you commit yourself to slavery, from now on I will officially liberate you as free men, equal to all my soldiers, as long as you have made meritorious deeds, you can also be promoted to knighthood, and even become generals. ”

In the cold wind, the slaves stared blankly at the young commander, and no one led them to raise their arms and shout. But their eyes shone with joy and excitement, originally, their fate was already doomed, and they would be enslaved by men for the rest of their lives, but the sky changed their fate again.

"I will send someone to find your parents, wives and children. Take them to Longyou. Grant land and houses to make them military households. If you fight bravely and make meritorious achievements, they will get more land, and you will retire in the future and spend the rest of your life with glory, but if you are greedy for life and afraid of death, or even become deserters, then your family will also become military slaves, and you will slowly know in the future that my Xiliang Army has clear rewards and punishments. ”

After the lecture was completed, a group of slaves officially became recruits, they were temporarily assigned to each army, and the commander took them back to arrange, and after returning to Longyou, they were arranged by the Recruit Bureau, and the whole barracks immediately became lively and busy.

Zhang Huan visited one military camp after another under the sanitation of dozens of personal soldiers, some recruits were being told about military regulations by the army commander, some were changing military uniforms, and some were drawing bows and trying

When I walked to the side of a group of barracks, I heard a burst of cheers inside, walked into the tent door, several soldiers at the tent door immediately saluted, Zhang Huan waved his hand, let them not be quiet, entered the big tent, only to see that there were about 100 people in the tent were forming a big circle, there were two soldiers in it fighting, one was originally the deputy of the special service battalion flying ape team, called Li Zhiyuan, who performed well in the battle of Huixi Fort, and was promoted to the pro-military battalion Zuo Lang general, he was the most famous deputy head of the Qinchuan Sword Pavilion in Chang'an before he joined the army, and he was as light as a swallow and strong in martial arts. was also assigned to the border of Hexi for drunken murder, and was used by Zhang Huan.

And he seems to be today's recruit, I saw that he was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, his face was like a heavy date, his eyes were cold, his biggest feature was that he was extremely tall, and the number one general of the Xiliang Army, Cheng Lie, was compared, like a mountain, this person Zhang Huan seemed to have seen in the slave market, when he and more than a dozen other slaves were tied hand and foot by huge iron chains, and he was going to be sold as a nurse, but he didn't expect him to have martial arts.

Li Zhiyuan swam around him like a fish, faster and faster, as fast as a whirlwind, but this person stood still, and his eyes were like a thread firmly tethering Li Zhiyuan.

Li Zhiyuan suddenly turned around, his body accelerated suddenly, like a ghost running behind him, with a loud shout, he flew up and kicked him in the back of the waist with great speed, this is one of his famous skills, called Bawang Ding, once kicked and broke a three-inch thick stone slab, if the kick is solid, even the bear may not be able to withstand it.

The barracks exclaimed in unison, although the competition in the army was not merciful, but Li Zhiyuan used a stunt against the first acquaintance, but it was the first time, Zhang Huan smiled and said nothing, his eyes were sharp, and he saw that Li Zhiyuan was forced to do so, although the big man did not move, but his eyes were very powerful, firmly staring at Li Zhiyuan, so that he had no chance to make a move.

In an instant, Li Zhiyuan's feet had reached his lower back, the big man didn't seem to have any reaction, his face was just cold and smiling, and everyone's faces in the big tent changed greatly, thinking that the big man could not escape this catastrophe, at this moment, Lin Jiuhan, who was next to Zhang Huan, blurted out: "Good kung fu!" ”

Zhang Huan glanced at him, and he also saw that at this moment, in addition to Zhang Huan and Lin Jiuhan, only Li Zhiyuan knew it in his heart, and his kick seemed to be about to kick the back of the big man, but the big man was just the moment he got up, and his body moved forward a foot strangely, which was impossible for people to notice. But it's this one. When you kick him, the momentum just disappears, and the opponent hasn't made a move at all.

Just when Li Zhiyuan was secretly complaining in his heart, Zhang Huan smiled and said, "Okay, it's over!" ”

Only then did the people realize that the governor was also in the tent. They all knelt down on their knees and saluted, "See the Governor!" ”

"Everybody, get up!" Zhang Huan waved his hand and walked to the side of the two, Li Zhiyuan gave another salute nervously, Zhang Huan glanced at him, and said coldly: "Recruits entering the camp should talk about military regulations and know military history, and veterans are not allowed to bully recruits." This is Xiliang military regulations. What about you! As a dignified general, he first fought bravely with the newcomers, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to fight others, and he would fall into the military prestige of my Xiliang army among the recruits? ”

"The last will be convicted!" Li Zhiyuan said ashamedly: "I am willing to be punished by the governor!" ”

Zhang Huan looked at him and said in a deep voice: "Look at the recruits entering the camp, I will save face for you this time, but write down the thirty military sticks, go first!" ”

"Xie Dudu's mercy!" Li Zhiyuan gave a deep salute and turned around, Zhang Huan looked at the big man carefully, and he nodded secretly. This man's martial arts are still secondary, the key is that he is very good at being a person, and he can easily defeat Li Zhiyuan, but he always saves his face in front of everyone.

"What's your name?"

The big man half-knelt down and replied: "Back to the capital, the villain's surname is Fang." The name is unforgiving. ”

"Fang ruthless?" Zhang Huan smiled slightly and asked, "Is this your real name?" ”

"Return to the Governor. The villain is a real disciple of Jiangyou Laojun Mountain Nezha Palace Qingniu, and his name is given by the master. It's been used for more than 20 years, and it doesn't matter what your real name is. ”

Zhang Huan nodded, and asked again: "How can you become a slave with such a strong martial arts, it is really incredible." ”

Fang ruthlessly sighed and said: "Zhu ordered my master to lead his disciples to join the army, but the master did not obey, so Zhu sent someone to lead the army to fight Laojun Mountain, burned Nezha Palace, everyone was separated, the villain was also injured and captured, and finally sold as a slave, the villain originally thought of the new master's house and then fled, but was unexpectedly rescued by the governor!" ”

"I see, then you are willing to follow

"The villain is willing, but the villain still has a little difficulty."

"What's the difficulty?" Zhang Huan still asked expressionlessly, he was already a little unhappy in his heart, but he was just a recruit, could he bargain with himself?

Lin Jiuhan beside Zhang Huan admired Fang Ruthless's martial arts very much, he slammed his eyes at Fang Ruthless, and ordered him not to take his life, but Fang Ruthless turned a blind eye, he was still very stubborn and said: "The villain also has an old mother in Shu, Ben lives with his brother and sister-in-law, but after this rebellion, he doesn't know whether he lives or dies, the villain wants to go back to find his mother, no matter whether there is a whereabouts or not, within a month, the villain will return to the team!" ”

Zhang Huan was silent for a long time, and Fang said lightly: "There is no such precedent in the army, but there is a family leave once every three years, if you want to use it in advance, you can also use it, but the military service time is three years longer than others, you have to think about it." ”

Fang ruthlessly saw that he didn't mention that he was gone and never returned, only mentioning family leave, knowing that he was actually making an exception for himself, he was moved in his heart, knelt down on one knee, and respectfully gave a military salute, "My subordinates are willing to exercise family leave in advance." ”

"That's good!" Zhang Huan glanced at Lin Jiuhan, "Since you care about him so much, then it's up to you to arrange this matter." ”

With that, he turned around and left the big tent, in the open space of the camp, hundreds of women and the old and weak were registering their names, and dozens of carriages had been hired outside the camp, ready to send them back to Longyou first.

At this time, a personal soldier rushed from outside the camp and bowed down to report: "Mr. Hu has returned to the inn, and he has something important to report to the governor." ”

"Got it!" After dealing with these slaves, Zhang Huan couldn't rest assured that Cui Ning was relieved, and he led a hundred personal soldiers to turn over and gallop towards the county seat.

Hu Yong and Pei Jundi spies went to Fengxiang overnight last night, and just rushed back to the Yuxian Inn, but learned that Zhang Huan had gone to the barracks, and after a while, Zhang Huan rushed back to the inn, Hu Yong immediately greeted him and said: "Dudu, do you know who I met in Fengxiang?" ”

Zhang Huan spread his hands and smiled: "Mr. Hu is playing dumb riddles for me!" How do I guess? ”

"It's the Tibetan envoy who entered Beijing to thank the Huimeng!" Hu Yong stroked his long beard, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Not only the envoys of Tubo, but also Pei Yi, the servant of the envoy to Tubo, also returned, at this moment they are all resting in Fengxiang, does the governor know what Pei Yi did in Fengxiang?" ”

Zhang Huan smiled slightly and said, "Could it be that Lord Pei swore that he would guarantee the Fengxiang garrison the same pension?" ”

Hu Yong laughed, "Du Du guessed very right, it is with the full guarantee of Pei Taifu's servant that Fengxiang City, which is almost out of control, has calmed down again, Pei Xiangguo is probably so angry that he is about to vomit blood." ”

"Since Mrs. Pei is in Fengxiang, then we must take advantage of this opportunity." Pei Yi is Pei Jun's fourth brother, with him in Fengxiang, it will be easier for him to act, today is the fourth day of the first lunar month, and there are no days left before the New Year's Day, at this time Pei Jun must be looking forward to it, whether it is true or not, he should act.

Zhang Huan pondered for a moment, immediately made a decision, and said to a personal soldier behind him: "You quickly go to the barracks to inform Lin Jiuhan, and early tomorrow morning, the whole army will pull out the camp and go to Fengxiang!" ”

The next day, the sky was dark, Zhang Huan and his entourage left Yu County, to Fengxiang, Cui Ningdi's illness also improved slightly, although the body is still very weak, but can barely be a carriage to accompany her, the two newly harvested little maids also sit in the carriage to accompany her, someone to serve, along the way is also a lot more convenient.

About two hours later, the team arrived at Fengxiang City again, this time because the situation in the city had calmed down, Fengxiang Jiedu made Li Mo not prevent Zhang Huan from entering the city, but sent someone to arrange Zhang Huan's army in the barracks outside the city, and led him into the city to rest.

Zhang Huan led 300 guards to enter the city gate, but he was greeted by a team of about 1,000 people, all of whom were dressed as Tibetan cavalry, and on a dozen horses among them, there were more than a dozen Tibetan officials, who were the Tibetan envoys who went to Chang'an to thank them.

The two armies met at the city gate, stopped their horses together, and looked at each other coldly, at this time, an old man in gorgeous clothes urged the horse to come out, he glanced at Zhang Huan a few times, and suddenly asked: "Is the person who came is the governor of Liangzhou Zhangdu?" ”

Zhang Huan stepped forward and arched his hand and smiled: "I am exactly, who is Your Excellency?" How will you know me? ”

"I am the second minister of the Tibetan country, Shang Zanpo." The old man smiled and said, "I've seen your portrait there, and I've often heard you talk about you, and the prime minister wants to see you, how about it?" When I return, will you come with me to Logos? ”