"Where to go to the Han people in the east?" Dore's eyes widened, and he said for a long time: "I haven't been to the place of the Han people, but I heard from the elders in the village that we were driven here by the Han people back then. []”

Adou nodded slightly. Indeed, decades of war in the Central Plains have not only hurt the Han people, but also the surrounding ethnic minorities.

The Di people are a farming people, and their farming skills are no worse than those of the Han people, which is an outlier among the ethnic minorities around the Han Dynasty.

The farming people represent a stable productive force, and after decades of war in the Central Plains, the people have been displaced, and a large amount of farmland has been barren, so the farming people like the Di people are very popular. In the past, both Liu Bei and Cao Cao had moved the Di people to live in the Central Plains, and what they valued was that the Di people could farm.

However, at the beginning, Cao Cao and Liu Bei did not move many Di people, Cao Cao moved 10,000 Di people to Yongzhou Tuntian, while Liu Bei moved 5 or 6,000 Di people into Hanzhong. If you remove the old and weak among them, there are not many people who can really produce.

For so many years, Di people have been flying in Liangzhou. Nowadays, there are about 100,000 households of Di people in Liangzhou, and the number is not less than that of Qiang people. It's just that these Di people are scattered everywhere and can't form a unified combat force, so they will be oppressed by the Qiang people.

The Central Plains needs population, especially Yongzhou, to be affected by . The privateering of the Xianbei Xiongnu army lasted for a year, and then suffered a big flood, and ten percent of the population went to at least forty percent, and Yongzhou at this time needed the most population. So Adou hit the idea on the Di people.

According to the current situation, Yongzhou needs at least. It will take 10 to 15 years to restore the pre-war level, and if 100,000 households can be relocated to Yongzhou, the population lost by Yongzhou due to the war in the last year or two can be replenished, so that Yongzhou can recover the previous level within three years.

It's just that Adou is still a little worried.

Historically, the Di people once built a powerful empire - the former Qin. Former. When Qin was the most powerful, not only did he unify northern China, but even the Xianbei and other clans had to obey the orders of the former Qin emperor, if it weren't for Fu Jian's loss of the crucial battle of Weishui, the former Qin might have unified China.

Although history has changed a lot, the war of the Three Kingdoms is still continuing. Continued, the Han people in the Central Plains are still bleeding, and the powerful former Qin Empire in history is also likely to appear. According to Adou's knowledge, the founding monarch of the former Qin Empire was in Yongzhou. So Adou is very worried about whether the migration of Di people into Yongzhou will lead wolves into the house.

"Engong, it's our village ahead!" Dorey's voice interrupted. Adou's thoughts. Adou looked up and saw streaks of cooking smoke rising from a distance, and then up a gentle slope, a village appeared in front of Adou.

It's a building. In a small village, small mud houses are planted on the ground, and Adou roughly counts that there are about forty or fifty families in this village. The outskirts of the village are all cultivated farmland, nearly half of the farmland has been harvested, and there are still people working hunched over the individual farmlands that have not yet been harvested.

"Engong, this is our village." Dorey said, driving his horses towards the village.

The sound of the hooves of dozens of horses alarmed the villagers. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked towards the entrance of the village, just in time to see Doré coming with his horses.

"Isn't that Dorey?"

"yes, it's Dorey, where did he get so many horses?"

The person who looked at it was Dorey, and all the people in the village gathered around.

An old man came out of the crowd and shouted at Dorey, "Dorey, why did you come back so soon!" Those Qiang people haven't left yet, maybe they'll come over one day, why don't you stay in the mountains for a few more days? Have you run out of food? ”

"yes, Dorey, how did you come back so quickly, and where did you get such a horse?"

"Dorey, what about the others? Are they okay in the mountains? ”

"Dorey, why did you come back alone, and what about the others?"

The villagers asked, and Dorley didn't know who to answer first.

"Ahem......" A coughing sound came from behind the crowd, and then someone shouted from behind: "Get out of the way, the village chief is here!" ”

The villagers consciously gave way to a road, and an old man over 60 years old walked out. Although the old man's face was already wrinkled, he did not use crutches, and his movements were very agile and his pace was also very large, so it could be seen that the old man was not very tall.

"Village Chief!" Doré immediately greeted him.

The village chief nodded, and said, "Everyone is quiet and quiet, you have so many mouths, and Dorey has only one mouth, how do you let him answer?" ”

Hearing the village chief's words, the surrounding villagers immediately quieted down, but there was still a hint of curiosity on their expressions.

"Dorey, let's talk first, aren't you supposed to be hiding in the mountains now, why did you come back?" The village chief asked.

"Village chief, we were accidentally caught by horse thieves, the remnants of horse thieves who robbed us of our grain a few days ago, there are dozens of people in total...... Thanks to this benevolent father, I would have been killed by a horse thief! ”

"Dorey, you just said 'we', is there anyone else who has been arrested besides you?"

Dorey nodded: "In addition to me, there are seven other people who have been caught by horse thieves!" ”

"What about them?"

"They were all killed by horse thieves......"

"......" The villagers suddenly panicked. For such a small village with only forty or fifty households, seven strong men died at once, and the loss was very great. Moreover, almost every family in the village has strong men who have gone to hide in the mountains, so everyone has begun to worry about their relatives.

The village chief took a deep breath and asked, "Then where did you get these horses?" ”

"These are horse thieves." Dorey spoke.

"All horse thieves?" The village gasped and looked at the horses in surprise.

Just now Doré said that there are dozens of horse thieves, and judging from the dozens of horses in front of him, Doré is right.

How much effort Doray himself had, the village knew that it would be good to be able to deal with a horse thief, so it seemed that all those dozens of horse thieves were killed by the young man in front of him, who looked to be less than twenty years old. But when the village looked back, this young man looked less than twenty years old, and he didn't look very strong, how could he kill dozens of horse thieves?

Could it be that Doré has just exaggerated? Then the old village chief denied this idea, Dore, this kid has always been honest and dutiful, and he shouldn't talk nonsense, besides, the dozens of war horses in front of him all have saddles, it can be seen that each of them has been ridden by a knight, and those dozens of horse thieves should be a fact.

But how could such a young man possibly defeat dozens of bandits? At this time, the old village chief was full of doubts, but he couldn't find an answer.

"By the way, village chief, this Engong wants to go to the royal department to find Lord Pulin. In our village, the village chief, you have been to the royal department, so I will bring Engong back to our village. Dorey began.

Hearing the word "Pu Lin", the village chief's body trembled slightly, looked at Adou carefully, and then shook slightly, and said, "This gentleman is Han!" ”

The village chief has obviously seen the world, and he can see that Adou is a Han person, and he also knows that no matter what his identity is among the Han people, it must be right to call Mr.

Adou nodded: "Yes, old man, I am Han." ”

"Then may I ask this gentleman's name?" The village chief then asked.

"Under the surname Liu ......" Adou said hesitatingly, considering whether to say his name.

The village chief also saw Adou's hesitation, Liangzhou is on the border of the Han Dynasty, and there are often many Han people who commit crimes in the Central Plains, and they are wanted and run to Liangzhou to avoid trouble, so the village chief is not surprised by Adou's hesitation.

"Mr. Liu, please come and sit inside." The village chief opened his mouth to divert the topic and made a gesture of please.

Adou was just about to follow the village chief, when the sound of horses' hooves in the distance attracted everyone's attention.

In the distance, six horses appeared in everyone's sight, and a man sat on each horse.

"It's not good, it's the Qiang! The Qiang people are coming! The villagers were in a panic.

These six Qiang people also saw the dozens of war horses in front of the Di people village in front of them, and these Qiang people were stunned. The jingle of these Di people who are all poor is logically impossible to have war horses, and it is even more strange for the Qiang people to feel even more strange when all the Di people happen to gather at the entrance of the village.

Several Qiang people unconsciously stopped, looking at the Di village in front of them.

"Do you see the horses?" One of the middle-aged Qiang people spoke.

"Well, I see, those are all good war horses! It looks better than the horse we ride. Another said.

These Qiang people are just herdsmen from the surrounding tribes, and they were not recruited on this expedition, which shows that their skills are only average. And the horses of these Qiang herdsmen are just ordinary horses, not as good as the horses of those Qiang warriors.

As for the horses of the horse thieves, they are everywhere on weekdays, and they ride the best war horses, which are much better than the horses ridden by ordinary Qiang herdsmen.

"I think something is wrong, there are dozens of war horses! How could these villagers have so many war horses. The middle-aged Qiang man spoke.

"You said it wouldn't be someone from another tribe?" The Qiang man next to him spoke.

"Yes, it's possible!" The middle-aged Qiang man nodded, and then said: "This neighborhood is all the territory of our tribe, maybe it is favored by others!" Let's go up and explore the wind. ”

After the middle-aged Qiang man finished speaking, he immediately rode his horse and rushed forward, while the other five Qiang people also stepped forward.

……

At the entrance of the village, when the Qiang people stopped, everyone was still wondering why these Qiang people didn't come, but now that they saw the Qiang people coming, the villagers immediately scattered and fled back to their houses.

The villagers have been oppressed by the Qiang people for too long, even if it is six Qiang people, it is enough to scare the villagers and flee home, for a while, except for Adou and the old village chief, all the others fled, and even Dolei found a place to hide.

"Mr. Liu, you hide!" The village opened his mouth and said to Adou.

"Hide? Why hide? Adou was slightly stunned and asked.

In Adou's opinion, the other party is only six people, not to mention that the other party only has six people, even six thousand people Adou is not afraid. What's more, Adou felt that he had no grievances with these Qiang people, and there was no need to hide from them. What's more important is that Adou is strong in martial arts, and he is not afraid of these Qiang people at all, so he has the courage to stay here.

"Oh, Mr. Liu, it's too late if you don't hide......" The village chief looked at the Qiang people in front of him getting closer and closer, while Adou was still standing in place.

"Hey, it's too late!" The village shook his head helplessly and sighed, and at this time the Qiang people had come closer.

"Hey......" The middle-aged Qiang man immediately noticed Adou.

"You don't look like one of us, boy, where are you from?" The middle-aged Qiang man asked.

"My lord, he is a businessman, he got lost, he happened to pass by our village, and he wanted to ask for a sip of water to drink...... "The village chief hurriedly stood up and opened his mouth to help Adou explain.

"Merchant?" The middle-aged Qiang man nodded slightly, but his expression was obviously not believing what the village chief said.

The middle-aged Qiang man pointed to the dozens of war horses in front of him, and then asked, "Where did these horses come from?" ”

"This ......" The village chief hesitated slightly, and said, "This is the ...... we picked up."

"Picked up? Hmph......" A sneer hung on the middle-aged Qiang man's lips, and then he said: "How come I don't have such good luck to be able to pick up these dozens of good war horses!" ”

"Ahem...... Luck, luck ......" The village chief also knew that this excuse was too blind, and laughed awkwardly.

The middle-aged Qiang man dismounted, came to the group of war horses in front, and then began to carefully inspect them.

The middle-aged Qiang man came to one of the war horses, lowered his head, looked at the inside of the hind legs of the war horse, his face suddenly became solemn, and then walked to the other war horse, looking down to check.

"Hey, it's different...... the middle-aged Qiang man raised his head, waved his hand and beckoned to a few Qiang people behind, and said, "Come over here and take a look at this." ”

The Qiang people in the back dismounted one after another, came to the front of the horse, and began to investigate the dozens of war horses.

When the village chief next to him saw this, his face suddenly changed.

All nomads have a habit of making marks on their own livestock, and generally the marks of horses will be made on the inside of the horse's thighs, and the marks of each tribe and even different ethnic groups are different.

These horses were stolen by horse thieves from various places and belonged to different tribes, so the marks on the horses were also different.

"The markings on my side are different! What about your side? ”

"It's different on our side?"

"My side too, why is this happening?"

"Hmph, it doesn't need to be said!" The middle-aged Qiang man's face showed a hint of cruelty, and then he spoke: "The marks on these horses are all different, only the horse thieves may have snatched them from all over the place. ”

"Stolen by a horse thief?" The others suddenly realized.

"These horses were stolen by horse thieves, where did you get them?" The middle-aged Qiang man asked the village chief.

"This ...... This one was picked up by us! The village chief had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue to lie.

"Hmph, nonsense!" The middle-aged Qiang man's face sank, and he suddenly glanced thoughtfully at the pile of war horses.

"I see!" The middle-aged Qiang man looked at the village chief, and then said, "I finally understand! It turns out that your village is in collusion with horse thieves! ”

"My lord, wronged, how could we collude with the horse thief, a few days ago, we were robbed of food by the horse thief." The village chief said with a bitter face.

"Hmph, don't think I don't know. You've been in collusion with the horse thieves for a long time, so you deliberately let the horse thieves steal the grain, so you don't have to pay us tribute, right? When we're gone, the thieves will give you back the grain!" The middle-aged Qiang man said this, smiled proudly, and continued: "It's a pity, I found these horses today, this is the best evidence of your collusion with the Qiang people!" ”

"The Qiang barbarian is the Qiang barbarian, a headless and brainless fool!" Adou's voice came from the side.

"What do you say? How dare you scold me! The six Qiang people looked at Adou angrily at the same time.

"I'm not scolding you, I'm just telling the truth! I heard that a few days ago, you Qiang people sent people to exterminate those horse thieves, and killed many horse thieves. Adou said.

"Not bad! Just a horse thief, how can it compare to our Qiang warriors! ”

"I've heard about the whereabouts of those horse thieves, and the people of this village told you."

"Hmph, even if they don't report it, our Qiang warriors will drive those horse thieves away!" The middle-aged Qiang man said arrogantly.

"Okay, then let me ask you, if the people in this village really colluded with horse thieves, why did they tell you the whereabouts of the horse thieves, and let you kill hundreds of horse thieves?"

"Well, this ......" was asked by Adou, these Qiang people were all speechless, the Qiang people all knew that what Adou said was reasonable, if the people in the village really colluded with the horse thieves, they would not report to the Qiang people, even if it was a report, they would send a fake news, and they would not let the Qiang people really kill a lot of horse thieves.

"Hmph......" The middle-aged Qiang man was said by Adou, and suddenly felt very faceless, feeling the suspicious gaze of the Qiang man next to him, the middle-aged Qiang man was unconsciously annoyed and angry.

"I think you look like you're a Han! People say that Han people are cunning, and that's true. Our king, Cherriji, is at war with the Han Chinese, and perhaps this person is a spy sent by the Han Chinese. Brothers, follow me, catch this spy together, and escort him back for strict interrogation! The middle-aged Qiang man said, took out an old scimitar, and walked towards Adou.

Adou looked at the scimitar and smiled disdainfully. The scimitar has lost the slightest luster, the blade has been sharpened many times, the handle is full of greasy, and when he looks at this knife, Adou knows that the Qiang people he met today are incomparable with those Qiang soldiers on the front line. The Qiang soldiers on the front line would never use such a shabby weapon, this scimitar can only be regarded as self-defense at most, and if they go to the battlefield, they will not be able to withstand that kind of high-intensity combat at all.

Feeling Adou's contemptuous gaze, the middle-aged Qiang people were even more angry, only to see the middle-aged Qiang man roar, pounced on Adou, and at the same time raised the knife and slashed at Adou, that posture was ready to put Adou to death.

"Hmph, die!" For the Qiang people, Adou didn't have any mercy, and while saying this, Adou kicked out.