Section 5 The first battle did not go well

The sky was clear, and I stood at the bow of the boat and watched the gulls rise and fall. Gao Tanglong was by my side and listened to me tell the story of the Peach Blossom Spring.

"Shengping (Gao Tanglong's expression), we will create a new era, are you willing to work with me to open the door to this new era?"

Gao Tanglong said leisurely: "If all the cultivators have their fields, the laborers have their food, and the dwellers have their houses, the people will live and work in peace and contentment." In this way, Long is willing to try to work together with the lord. ”

I followed me Gao Tanglong: "Shengping, do you know what the secret of the way of government is? ”

Gao Tanglong was stunned for a moment and asked, "I'd like to hear what the lord thinks first." ”

I looked into Gao Tanglong's eyes and said word by word: "Don't disturb the people."

Gao Tang bowed and said, "I wish to hear its auspiciousness." ”

I pointed to the seagulls flying on the surface of the sea and said to him, "The seagulls fly between the heavens and the earth and enjoy themselves, and one day someone suddenly says to the seagulls, 'You are flying between the heavens and the earth, and you have no clue, and today you do not know what will happen tomorrow, and you are confused.' Let me manage it, and I will plan your affairs tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and next year, and tell you the laws to be followed, and you will give me the fish you catch every day, and a part of the fish you catch will be used to pay taxes, and I will pay for your management. How do you think the seagull will answer? ”

"The seagulls must not like it," Gao Tang replied.

"Trees grow in the mountains, no one takes care of them, and naturally grows into towering talents, if someone pulls out the roots today to see if it grows firmly, and tomorrow shakes the branches to see if it has any insect pests, and then water it again the day after tomorrow, lest it be dry, and when it bears fruit, someone will come to pick it, and the name is to pay for the management costs. Do trees be happy? ”

Gao Tang was silent.

"If the people know the law, the people have moral constraints, the government is only responsible for dealing with those who break the law and those who have no virtue, and the people only know that there is a law, but they do not know that there are officials. Then the people will be happy, and the officials will be in their place. We'll have no worries. Let the trees grow on their own, and let the seagulls fly on their own. The sky is very high and the earth is very wide, as long as it follows the law and morality, the officials will not disturb it in this life. In this way, is it not a happy society? ”

Gao Tanglong was silent again, I know that a person's concept cannot be changed all at once. Then, to change society, let's start with Takashi Takashi.

After a few days of sailing, we returned to Liaoxi New Town. In the month I've been away, New Town has changed a lot. The dock had been repaired, and a four-wheeled carriage was docked somewhere to meet us.

Four-wheeled carriages, there has never been a four-wheeled carriage in Chinese history. This is mainly due to the fact that China has never solved the front-wheel drive and steering problems of four-wheeled carriages, and looking at Zheng Hun's smug face and Zhou Yi's smile, I probably understand.

But Zheng Hun was the first to speak: "Lord, Hun made this car today, Brother Botong (Zhou Yi's word) has promised to use "Zheng Hun car" to name this thing, the lord thinks it is good?" ”

I smiled and replied: "The most difficult thing to make this car is the front wheel, the front wheel steering device is the most difficult of the difficulties, Wen Gong (Zheng Hun's character) can conceive it, what a genius?" ”

Zheng Hun smiled embarrassedly: "Thanks to Brother Botong's reminder, I made this car, but Brother Botong has promised that this car will be named after "Zheng Hun car", if the lord thinks it is inappropriate, it is better to call it "Zheng Hun Zhou Botong car".

"Zheng Hun Zhou Bo opened the car", why don't you call it "Jin Yong Gulong Car", it's really muddy.

"Or, even if Brother Zhou is willing, he will call it 'Zheng Hunche'", I compromised.

The birth of the four-wheeled carriage has greatly improved our transportation capacity, and it can transport twice as much iron ore as the two-wheeled carriage, which greatly improves our efficiency. Although the front-wheel drive and steering functions of the four-wheeled carriage were not conceived by Zheng Hun, we are employing people, and we will not be able to dampen his enthusiasm for inventions.

Back in the city, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Yin Dong had built a greenhouse using our glass, although Zheng Hun had a big problem with building a greenhouse with such expensive glass. However, glass will go to civilian use and enter thousands of households, which makes me excited, and we have added another fist product.

After the conservatory was built, the farmers began to plant the seeds we collected in Shennongjia. In this way, we will have more seeds after the beginning of spring. By planting this repeatedly for two or three years, we will be able to leave enough seeds to sow and enough for ourselves to eat. I'm very interested in soybean seeds, and these days, animal fat is used in stir-fried dishes, and the stir-fried vegetables are hard for me to swallow. I think in a few years, we will have vegetable oil stir-frying, looking forward to it.

Subsequently, I took Gao Tanglong to inspect our city wall with great interest, Zheng Hun had made a large bed crossbow on the basis of our wire crossbow, placed it on the city wall, used the steel with good elasticity as the crossbow arm, and used the rocking machine to wind, and the rocking machine used the pulley principle to reduce the effort of the soldiers when winding. Use the big pulley to drive the small pulley to pull the wire string, and you can put three or four arrows on a bow and shoot 500 steps.

Since the crossbow arm steel and the bowstring wire are mass-produced, so that the range of all crossbow bows is not much different, we can use ballistics theory to teach soldiers, greatly improving the accuracy of our shooting.

Two days after I returned, Gao Shan also returned, although his journey was shorter than mine, but because the glass products were so easy to sell, he exchanged a large amount of grain, and the ship could not be loaded, so he had to pile up at the Korean dock and fill the 10 big ships that had sailed away.

At this time, it has entered the 10th month of the lunar calendar, it is snowing in western Liaoning, standing in the courtyard, looking at the snowflakes flying all over the sky, the world is vast, I am a little worried in my heart, whether we can survive this harsh winter.

"Have all the people lived in brick houses?" I asked Zhou Yi.

"Everything has been settled, the coal is well prepared for the winter, and the grain brought from the mountains has greatly alleviated our food shortage, and 10 boatloads of grain are enough for us to support until the beginning of spring. I think their lives should be better than before. Zhou Yi replied.

"Oh, when Takayama returned, several of the elders had arrived. Right now we don't have the time to do outdoor activities, so we have time to discuss the names of our cities. In addition, the appointment of Gao Tanglong should also be carried out as soon as possible, so let's convene a meeting of the elders. "I give the order.

At the meeting, the names of the cities that everyone put forward their own suggestions were really varied, and what was infuriating was that Zheng Hun had recently become addicted to naming, taking advantage of his many apprentices and great power, which affected the results of the preliminary screening. Zhou Yi and Yin Dong's ancient texts left in the city were not good, which led to the fact that when we held a meeting to re-screen, the remaining names were all given by Zheng Hun, among which there was a city name called "Zheng Hun", this Zheng Hun actually said vigorously: "The ambition of the lord is in the world, and the ambition of Hun is only in one city, this city is named after the name of Hun, and the world can be named after the name of the lord." ”

Rebelled against you, the world is also what you can say, it seems that we have been too indulgent to Zheng Hun recently, and we need someone to take care of him, I immediately pulled up Gao Tanglong, and proposed that Gao Tanglong be the chief financial officer of Xincheng in the future, responsible for the internal affairs of Xincheng, and also a lifelong elder, this proposal was quickly approved, although Zheng Hun was greatly unhappy.

I then proposed that this city be built by everyone, Gao Tanglong disagreed with me, he thought that the peasants were the subordinates, how could they be compared with the scholars, and this city should be called Liu Bei's construction. I think the name of the city should be decided by everyone, Gao Tang Takashi resolutely opposed, how can the superior discuss things with the subordinates, tomorrow we will announce our name to everyone, Gao Tang Takashi said, the city lord directly announced it, and at the same time must say the reason for our name, Gao Tang Takashi said, this should be, everyone votes to decide whose name is elected, Gao Tang Long shouted, how can the peasants be guilty.

When Gao Tanglong spoke, Zheng Hun kept rolling his eyes, but this Gao Tanglong was a scholar, and this identity made Zheng Hun dare not argue more, since then, Zheng Hun often troubled Gao Tanglong, and the two of them often quarreled so that their faces were red and their necks were thick. Of course, the final result of the debate rejected the name "Zheng Hun Castle" and adopted the name of "Izumo Castle", which was raised by the high hall.

Izumo, out of the clouds, I like it. It is said that the name of the castle was also given during the Warring States period in Japan. Hehe, who dares to call this name again, war!

Since then, our form of meeting has continued, and whenever there is an important matter in the city that cannot be decided, if there is a joint appeal from three or more senators, a general meeting of the senators can be convened to deliberate, at which each person will state his reasons. The decision rests with the public, which we have come to call "parliamentarism".

After the meeting, Gao Shan immediately set off to South Korea to transport grain. There was more food, it was getting colder, I was hungry, and I couldn't stand it anymore. It was freezing cold, but I had to go around and inspect the people's houses, food and lodging. Am I easy? I declare that three meals a day will be adopted in the city henceforth.

At that time, in the Han Dynasty, the system of two meals a day was adopted to adapt to the agricultural life habit of "making at sunrise and resting at sunset". Breakfast is around 7 o'clock, and eat more because it has to cope with the heavy agricultural production labor, which is called "big food"; At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I ate again, because it was going to be dark and I couldn't go to work anymore, so I ate less, which was called "snack". At that time, the three-meal system was only popular among the upper classes and scholars. In the early days of our city, we had to deal with heavy physical labor and the cold weather, and we had to make people (especially me) physically energetic. Now that there is more food, we have three meals a day.

To tell the truth, I was starved for a while, although the pace of life in the Han Dynasty was slow, but I was a person who was used to three meals a day, planning so many things, teaching so many children, after running around, I only ate two meals a day, and every time I ate, my eyes were dazzled, so I could eat the rice made of lard. Now that I have Gao Tanglong, I can let go in internal affairs, and it's time for me to train soldiers.

The Spring Festival of the fourth year of Guanghe arrived in the midst of our busyness, during which Gao Shan traveled back and forth to South Korea several times and brought back a large amount of grain. We finally survived the harshest winter. Spring is coming, everyone has a smile on their faces, and everyone greets each other according to the custom. The fire was lit again, and we began to burn bricks, glass, and steel again.

This time I'm going to burn some ordinary glass, I teach students in the cold winter, the classroom is dark, I feel very uncomfortable, these people are the pillars of the future! It must not be like in my time, where officials carry the next generation in their arms and students live in dilapidated houses. So I decided to build a new school for the students in the spring, with large glass windows for the children to let in light, and in the winter to arrange for soldiers to burn the fire wall for the students.

This new use of glass opened Zheng Hun's eyes, and he immediately arranged for his apprentice to build a house with glass windows for him, not only took away a few cars of glass from me and did not give me money, but also said to Gao Tanglong, who asked him for money: "Ask the lord to go, and the salary he promised me hasn't been paid yet." ”

Depressed, severely depressed. All my goods have been exchanged for food and manpower, and now let me pay, and I will go there and steal it, and he will not see who he eats and drinks.

After the Spring Festival, I went to visit the Gongsun family, and learned that Gongsun Chan had used the crystal cup I gave him to bribe the eunuch and one of the twelve permanent attendants, Zhao Zhong, and was reappointed as the governor of Youzhou (the highest military governor of Youzhou), and was preparing to come here to take up his post, and at the same time unexpectedly learned that Kong Yi had become the county guard of Qingzhou.

Qingzhou, great, I just need Kong Yi. The fact that Zheng Hun took away manpower to build a house for him stopped our factory manufacturing work, and also made me deeply feel the lack of manpower, and Qingzhou is the most serious state and county of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, where I can get a large number of manpower. When I heard the news, I immediately rushed to Qingzhou.

In the last years of Emperor Ling, the imperial court sold officials and lords, increased taxes and taxes, and Emperor Ling built palaces and repaired palaces, arrogant and lascivious; Eunuchs are treacherous and abuse power to harm the country; Loyal ministers and wise men were not allowed to enter, and were subjected to cruel and merciless blows and persecution; Places that are dependent on power are tyrannical and domineering, and do evil; The people are struggling to make a living, and they are fleeing in all directions. It was against this background that I landed in Qingzhou again.

The scene in Qingzhou at this time made me even more sad, after the local tyrants annexed the land, because they had no worries about food and clothing, they did not cultivate all the land, and the people could not eat, so they wandered around.

As I walked along in the spring, the small shop on the side of the road was hung with human limbs, and the meat in the store was actually human flesh. At the entrance of the shop, there were three or two people tied to the pillar, and the guys in the shop called them "vegetable people", and when someone wanted something fresh, the guy cut off an arm or leg from them, and they just wailed and moaned by the pillar, waiting to die.

What a world this is! I'm angry, I'm in pain, I'm in tears. I drew my sword and shouted to the heavens, "Heaven and earth are unkind, and all things are dogs." If I have the will, I will kill all the evil in the world! ”

When I arrived, Kong Yi was having a headache, Haoqiang hoarded food, the displaced people begged for food everywhere, and the government was powerless to restrain the landlords.

After negotiations, he immediately agreed with my idea of exchanging the displaced people for food, and in his opinion, this move would not only resettle a large number of displaced people so that they would not cause rebellion in Qingzhou, but also enable the imperial court to appease the people of Qingzhou without spending a penny, which was absolutely feasible.

By the way, I asked him to keep my actions secret, which of course made him even happier. In this way, the credit is his. Of course, he also praised me for doing good and not asking for knowledge. And I just want not to attract the attention of the imperial court and the Gongsun family at this stage, which is also the original intention of not doing business with China.

After all, the imperial court still has residual power, let them know that Izumo City is a treasure of feng shui, and a large number of officials will immediately come to the door with tax books. Soon, a large number of leaders' children will come to us as officials. In that case, we will work hard, but we will only work for the imperial court.

I made a plan with him to gather the displaced people at Longkou Port to repair the port to obtain relief food, and I immediately returned to Izumo Castle by boat. At the beginning of spring, we need a large number of people to sow seeds and start work, and there is no point in transporting grain during this period. We have enough food to eat, and besides, our mountains and forests here have not yet been developed, so we can pull out the army to hunt, on the one hand, we can train riding and archery, and on the other hand, we can obtain food. So we decided to use all the boats to transport the displaced people at once. Subsequently, our population swelled rapidly, reaching a total population of 20,000.

In the spring, we planted the seeds and sowed hope. The peasants of the Han Dynasty basically adopted the sowing method of planting and leaving it alone, and after the spring was busy, people were idle. We have gathered 1,000 people to renovate the Luanhe River, which will circulate around the farmland, which will greatly increase the yield of our crops.

At the same time, the newly arrived 2,000 farmers began to build another outer wall along the interior, 5 kilometers outside our original walls. As the population grows, so will our city.

We then gathered 1,000 men to cut wood in the forest, and after six months of sailing, we trained a large number of qualified sailors. The sea is vast, and what is most needed in navigation is nautical charts and positioning systems, both of which we do not lack. We need to build ships, sail to Indonesia, sail to Rome.

We discussed shipbuilding together, and we planned to build a Spanish-style wooden sailing ship, and at first we could build a smaller one, and we tried to sail Indonesia to purchase rubber. Later, build a bigger point and sail to Rome.

In addition, there is no need for Gao Shan to do business with South Korea in person, Wang Zhi ran with him a few times, and he was familiar with it, so he took over. Takayama has to make every effort to develop a steam engine, and without rubber we can use cork and felt as seals. With a steam engine, our ship could go faster and go farther.

In order to buy felt from the herdsmen, I made a special trip to the grassland and recruited a few small tribes. In these years, our strength was not great enough, and it had nothing to do with Maudun Shan Yu, and I had recruited small tribes of several hundred people, and agreed with them to exchange horses and wool for grain and iron tools. During the Han Dynasty, the trade in iron tools with nomads was strictly regulated, a condition that they could not refuse.

After completing the task, I started to return, and only then was I in the mood to see the scenery.

The savannah is truly magnificent, and when you look at it on a horse, the emerald green grass carpet seems to be spread all the way to the end of the sky. A gust of wind blew, and a burst of green waves was immediately set off on the field, with a little flowers slightly exposed in the waves, and in the distance, there was a sound of "moo" one after another, accompanied by bursts of cowbells. Occasionally, one or two rabbits were startled by our fast horses and ran quickly through the grass, making a sighing sound, as if the grass was murmuring. Our horses felt the smell of their homeland and became excited, and this excitement infected us, and we believed in the horses and ran away.

"Chile River, under the Yin Mountain. The sky is like a dome, enveloping the four fields. The sky is blue, the wilderness is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep. "I read the poem aloud, and the 300 soldiers and 50 of my students were infected and sang aloud.

"Stop, whole team," I shouted.

I faintly heard the sound of a large number of horses running.

"Queue, bow string," I shouted.

Could it be that someone came to rob me, I looked up and looked, oops, we are now under a hillside, and there was a rush just now, and the team had already run away.

I immediately ordered: "Bingyuan (the word I gave Guan Hai), you bring a group of soldiers to gather the team here, and the rest of the people, raise their guns, target the mountain, and charge."

The horses' hooves trampled on the ground, the earthquake trembled, and we ran up the hill.

I immediately shouted: "Front row, ten steps forward, spears lined up, back row, bow raised, arrows loaded." ”

Looking around, there were only 60 of us, in two rows, and most of them were my students.

When I looked up, I was taken aback to see that it was actually two teams of 1,000 people of different races fighting each other. Any one of them can easily eat us. I immediately instructed the students around me: "Liu Hong (one of the six boys we bought in Tai'an County), you go down the mountain immediately and tell Guan Hai not to rush up." And thou shalt take three troops of soldiers, each with a trumpet, and each of them shall be separated by three miles, and when they hear our trumpet, they shall blow the trumpet and march toward me."

I can't fight people, so I have to use suspicious tactics.

The two sides who were fighting seemed taken aback when they saw us suddenly appear on the top of the mountain. One of the tribes, who had the upper hand in the fight, sent a hundred-man squad at us.

"Gun platoon, ten more steps forward, gun raised".

Immediately, 25 spears were raised in an upright position, and a row of steel fences was erected, and the noon sun shone on the tips of these spears, shining with stars and revealing the coldness of metal.

"Bow and crossbow row, target 300 steps, ruler 6, shoot", a row of crossbow arrows shot out, flew over a distance of 300 steps, and slammed diagonally into the ground, the tail of the arrow still shaking. At this time, Guan Hai had already come up as a team.

It seemed that my attempt to frighten them with bows and arrows had failed, and the opposing cavalry crossed the tail of the arrows on the ground, and with a strange cry, they pounced on us, 200 paces, 100 paces.

"Shoot the arrow," before the third arrow was released, the enemy had already pounced, "abandon the bow, Bingyuan, and attack with one or two platoons."

Cavalry only has the speed of impact when they run, it seems that I used to talk too much on paper, like this cavalry array, both consume horsepower, but also lose mobility, the cavalry that stands still, can not fight the rushing enemy, and also, counting on deterrence to intimidate the enemy army is not effective at all, the world has to rely on strength to speak.

Ridiculously, just to deter the action, I shot all the arrows from the bows of the soldiers in the array, so that the enemy could pounce without worry. It seems that my first battle was really full of loopholes, and I didn't know who I was, and I suddenly broke into the battlefield.

Guan Hai did not live up to my hopes, and 50 men rushed into the enemy's hundred-man team, and in a few moments they crashed into formation, and at this time, the enemy's vanguard had already arrived in front of me.

"Liu Huang, bring two rows of soldiers to meet and kill!" Two rows of soldiers immediately came out to meet them, and the initial panic of the soldiers had passed, and they all clutched their weapons tightly in their hands. The soldiers who came up after took their bows and crossbows from their horses.

In the distance, the fight seemed to be coming to an end, with the stronger side remaining 800 men and slashing around a team of less than 300 men.

800 men, it seems that they will be more than enough to destroy us after victory. We can't let that happen. Just now, when I was ineffective in deterrence and fell into passivity, I made a decision: in the future, only I will be the first to move the rule, and the enemy will never be allowed to take the first move, since I have decided to fight, I must let the enemy bear my attack first.

"Liu Zhou, take four platoons up, and after solving these people, immediately form a team, led by Bingyuan, and attack the opponent's own formation. Remember, I asked Bingyuan not to rush into the formation immediately, but to guerrilla outside the opponent's formation, and to open up the distance to meet the enemy with a bow and arrow. After the arrow is fired, it will enter the opponent's formation, crash out, and then reflexively attack. Although there are few people in my place, as long as you play well, I will be as stable as Mount Tai. Just go. ”

By the time Liu Zhou rushed over, Guan Hai had basically ended the battle, and the sporadic resistance was quickly shattered. After Liu Zhou communicated with him, he quickly formed a team and rushed towards the enemy's main formation.

I nodded, it seems that we were indeed a little flustered just now, with a fierce general like Guan Hai, a hundred people still spent so much effort on a hundred people. Now calm down, the soldiers are organized into a line, although there are only 200 people, but they are not panicked at all in the face of 800 people. They wandered outside the local formation, shooting at the enemy with dense bows and arrows, obviously the enemy had a headache for them, there were still 400 enemies in their array, and the enemy who emerged outside the formation kept shooting arrows at them, and every time a hundred-man team was drawn to attack the enemy outside the formation, Guan Hai immediately led people to retreat and meet the enemy with bows and arrows. After eliminating these people, Guan Hai led people to force them up.

So many times, I think, these people's fate is sealed.

I said to the students around me, "Look at it, this is your first battle, why the other side lost this battle, you have to remember it." In this way, every time a hundred-person team is mobilized to attack the opponent's battle formation, it will only be eliminated by the opponent little by little. We made this mistake in our first counterattack against the enemy hundreds, and you must remember this lesson.

And the enemy, in an unfavorable situation, did not want to preserve its strength and withdraw in time, and made a second mistake. When we charged at them, instead of mobilizing the main forces and launching the main attack on us, the new forces, we made the third mistake, but entangled with the enemy who was crippled by them.

This third mistake is fatal, we have few men, if the enemy has 300 men in the first attack, we may have broken up, and when Guan Hai attacks, if the enemy leaves 300 or even 200 men to entangle with the remnants, the remnants will only wait for the results of their fight with us, and we will seize the time to rest. After they defeat us, the fighting spirit of the remnants of the enemy will be broken.

Remember, at all times, defeat is caused by a series of mistakes, and victory is brought by timely correction of mistakes. Remember this truth, discover mistakes in time, and correct mistakes, and you will be a famous general who wins every battle."

We stood on the hillside and watched the battle come to an end. After Guan Hai had shot all the arrows, I ordered someone to blow the horn, and in the distance, there was a response, and the sound of the horn gradually rushed towards us, as if three troops were rushing to help.

In the panic of the enemy, Guan Hai launched the final assault on the enemy, and what remained was a one-sided massacre. With the help of the remnants of the tribe, Guan Hai pursued and killed for 30 miles, slaughtered all the enemies, and when night fell, he led his team back. Bring back a large group of captured women and children.

On the hillside, in the temporary camp, I met with the leaders of the remnant tribes, it turned out that they were not the Karasuma tribe I feared, but the Liaoxi Xianbei tribe, and the attack on them was the Tuoba Xianbei tribe, that is, the Wuheng tribe (Karasuma), the Wuheng tribe has recently expanded vigorously, and has fought with them in the east of Liaoxi Xianbei, the west of Hexi Xianbei many times, this time with them is a medium-sized tribe that is related to the Wuheng tribe Shan Yu, the two tribes compete for the pasture, and the winner zhan has the other's pasture, However, due to the fact that the commander of this Xianbei army in Liaoxi was the first to die in the battle, according to the regulations, they also had to hand over women and children, cattle and horses, etc., and merge them into the other party's tribe. Unwilling to exterminate the clan, they supported the 9-year-old son of the old patriarch and fought to the death with the other party, but fortunately, at the last moment, we were saved. According to the regulations, we can treat the other party's women and children as slaves, so he led Guan Hai to attack the other party's camp. As for them, according to the regulations, they will also be sent by us.

I immediately announced that all the women and children seized this time would belong to the Xianbei tribe of Liaoxi, and that the Xianbei tribe of Liaoxi would also be freed, and that I would provide the other party with a piece of land for them to recuperate.

Of course, the warriors of their tribe will be incorporated into my army and fight for me. As for the 9-year-old son of the former patriarch of their tribe, Wu Guerhun, I will take him as a student and I will teach him to become an adult, so I specially named him Liu Hun.

This condition has both gains and losses for them, what they get is the salvation before the extinction of the clan, hundreds of women and children who can reproduce and grow in the future, what they lose is the freedom of the clan, so the elders of the clan are mixed, but most of the warriors in their clan are killed in battle, and most of the remaining less than 400 warriors are injured, so they have to endure for the time being. Looking at their faces, I didn't say anything.

We returned to the city overnight, and after taking all the young warriors and half of the elders of their clan away, I arranged for them to be in the west of Izumo Castle, between the right Hokupaira County and Izumo Castle, to herd horses for us.

The Chinese officials have always been weak on the outside and barbaric on the inside, and with them as a screen between Izumo Castle and Youhokuhei-gun, the officials would not come to harass us, and I even hope that the imperial court will not find out about us because of this.

After bandaging all the tribal warriors, I summoned Gao Shan overnight to consult with him on the affairs of the tribe, and we asked the tribe to form a caravan, and we provided chariots and horses, five financial personnel, and 50 soldiers, and the tribesmen sent two elders and 150 warriors to the grassland to buy wool, cattle and horses, and the wool purchased was processed into felt by us. We paid 50 stone of grain, 100 catties of salt, and 120 taels of gold for each trip, and the elders who led the team were responsible for the disposal. I believe that after a few trips to business, the elders who have benefited will no longer oppose us.