Chapter 48: The Huns

The conversation between Liu Tong and Xu Shuo in the ancestral temple, Liu Si also listened to it, saw Liu Tong's actions, and knew that he was going to Zi's to deal with the matter, so he ordered Liu Yin to let Liu Yin go back, and he followed Liu Tong and others in the rain.

Liu Kuan pays attention to the legal system, the rule of officials is clear, and he never thought that Xu Yu would see the stitches, knowing that Liu Kuan attaches great importance to the teacher, so he went up the pole and made such a plan, which not only patted the sycophants, but also achieved the purpose of filling his own pockets. Liu Tong thought that he had ruined the reputation of Liu Kuan and the Five Elements View so much, and he was furious.

Liu Tong and his entourage out of the ancestral temple will no longer enter the city of Shixian, detour through Zhongyang, to inquire about Zhongyang's Five Elements True Ancestral Hall, outside the city, Liu Tong visited two Five Elements True Ancestral Temple, but also understood the dissatisfaction of the locals, and then ran all the way to Zishi.

Zishi is quite prosperous, and it is the trading center of the border plug, where horses and leather from the grassland, cloth, salt, and iron tools from the Central Plains are gathered here for trading.

Liu Tong and others could see some vendors walking together along the way, and when they came to the south gate, they saw a sea of people in front of the door, and the carriage was stranded.

"I've been here for so long, how can I let them go first?"

At this time, there were vendors in line and shouted at the guards guarding the door. Seeing that the soldiers looked at him viciously, the person who shouted stopped making a sound, and the others whispered their dissatisfaction.

At this time, Liu Tong saw a group of more than 30 people pulling horses, walking through the passage cleared by the soldiers, and the horses were carrying some sheepskins, which were simply tied with ropes. It seems that they must have come on sheepskins, and had no saddles or other equipment.

This group of people wore sheepskin jackets, and their appearance was different from that of the Han Chinese, with high cheekbones, a face that seemed to be wider, thick eyebrows, small eyes, and a relatively narrow forehead, a slightly longer nose bridge, and a generally tall figure. Except for the horses and the sheepskin on horseback, he didn't bring anything else, not even weapons, which made Liu Tong a little strange.

Liu Tong has the impression that the horse-riding people are fierce, and weapons such as scimitars should be standard. Judging from the young and strong, they don't look like real businessmen.

"Young Master Luo!"

Liu Tong was standing behind the crowd, but when he heard someone calling him behind him, he looked back and saw that Xu Shuo and his party had just come to the city gate.

Seeing that Xu Shuo had lost his previous vigilance and sense of distance, and was walking towards him, Liu Tong nodded at him and motioned to Xu Shuo to look at the group of Hu people.

"What kind of person has the privilege of passing, but he doesn't look like a businessman?"

"Childe doesn't know, this is a Huns, and the relationship with the county guard is good, I've seen it a few times. Among them, the joints can be hidden from others, but they can't be hidden! ”

"Oh, how do you say?"

"Childe, you see, this is how they went into the city, but when they went out of the city, on the surface, they only brought a little salt and cloth, but in fact they brought out more important things!"

Liu informed Xu Shuo of his shrewdness and asked, "What else is there?" ”

"Everyone only paid attention to the goods, but they didn't find that there were more saddles on the horseback, and more weapons such as Mo knives and Pu knives in their hands!"

Liu Tong was shocked, this is indeed not going to attract attention, the Hu people rode out of the city with weapons, everyone habitually thought that they already had standard saddles and weapons, and their attention was focused on the little goods on horseback.

They do this with evil intentions!

"Boss Xu, who are these people?"

"It's all the Huns who came from the northwest, Hu Chuquan's subordinates!"

Liu Tong didn't know about this Huchuquan, and he didn't know much about the current situation of the Xiongnu, after all, many tribes had already submitted to the imperial court, and from the point of view that they could swagger into the city, they should be friendly with the Han people, but there was obviously no goodwill in the saddle and weapons like this.

Moreover, the imperial court has relatively strict control over ordnance, and the officials of this Zi clan are too bold!

There was a sudden panic ahead, and someone screamed.

Liu Tong looked at it, it turned out that less than half of the Huns had entered, because the open space that had been cleared was large, and the merchants in front of them moved the carriage in the back row forward a little and ran into the Huns in front. A Hun was pushing a man driving a carriage to the ground, kicking it vigorously.

Wu Ji saw that Liu Tong's face was not good-looking, squeezed over, grabbed the wrist of the Hun man, twisted and sent, the big man stumbled, almost fell, several Huns were ready to step forward to make a move, and several soldiers at the door drew out waist knives to separate everyone from Wu Ji.

Wu Ji was just about to make a move, as if he remembered something, he looked back, and when he saw Liu Tong shaking his head, he put away his fist and helped the guy who fell to the ground up.

The Huns saw that the Han people at the gate were indignant, and it was not easy to attack, so they turned around and continued to enter the city.

After the vignette, everyone continued to enter the city, and Liu Tong saw that Xu Shuo had more materials, so he let him go first and deliberately fell behind.

"Master Jun, we have already paid the commercial tax for this batch of goods in the freight yard, why do we still need to collect this city gate tax?"

Xu Shuo looked at Liu Tong and said to a small army leader who collected money. Liu Tong looked at him, and seemed to ask knowingly, as if he was rehearsing for Liu Tong, and seemed to say, look, I'm right, this increased fee is an excuse to build the Five Elements True Ancestral Hall.

The military commander really cooperated, "The merits of the five elements are immeasurable, and building an ancestral temple for them is a good deed of the prime minister for the benefit of the country and the people, how dare you make noise!" ”

Xu Shuo saw that the goal was achieved, and Xiaoxiao still paid the fee for entering the door. Xu Shuo looked at Liu Tong's gloomy face, and naturally doubted Liu Tong's identity even more, the temperament, clothing, and entourage mounts, weapons, looks, etc., all revealed an extraordinary. Xu Shuo, as an old man who traveled south and north, would not be unconscious.

"Young Master Luo, the Xu family's warehouse is in the west of the city, welcome Gongzi to come and be a guest!" Xu Shuo entered the city gate and warmly invited.

"I'm going to bother when I'm free." Liu Tong still wanted to find an inn that no one knew to live in, so he declined Xu Shuo's invitation.

Liu Tong and Xu Shuo were just about to break up, only to see a group of people surrounding them, and a Hun with hair and a sheep's jacket pointed to Wu Ji and muttered a few words. The group surrounded Liu Tong and the others, separating Xu Shuo and the others from the carriage.

When Xu Shuo saw the comer, he was frightened, and hurriedly restrained the caravan to retreat to the side, as if he saw a plague god, and at the same time threw a concerned look at Liu Tong, but found that Liu Tong's entourage had all taken their weapons and surrounded Liu Tong in the middle. Xu Shuo said in his heart, this son is indeed a nobleman!

Liu Tong looked coldly at a black and strong fat man in his twenties, the fat man was dressed in purple and red clothes, followed by four strong Huns with bearded hair, and more than 20 people who looked like nurses drew knives and surrounded everyone in the middle.

When the people on the street saw this situation, they avoided it one after another, and they were bold enough to watch from afar.

The fat man in the lead saw the weapons in the hands of Wu Ji and the others, and hesitated a little, thinking that it was just ordinary people who had offended their Hun friends, but now it doesn't look like a good stubble.

But his consistent pretensions still made him less scruples.

"Where did the bandits come from, they dared to go wild in the Zi clan!"

The fat man saw that the other party's eyes were fierce, his heart softened, and he just wanted to verbally threaten him, but he found that his voice had not fallen, and a young man in black suddenly flashed, swung his sword tightly, and swiped his brocade purple robe as a chest with two swords, and his clothes suddenly spread out, revealing his sweatshirt.

The young man's body was too fast, the fat man was startled, and when the young man stepped back and looked at himself, the fat man's chest was cold, and when he looked down, he was furious, crying and shouting:

"Kill them for me!" The voice was long and had a hysterical flavor.

Wu Ji recognized that the person with the hair was the Xiongnu man who pushed the Han people at the city gate, and when he saw that everyone was besieging him, he swung his sword and slashed at him.

Liu Tong didn't know who the other party was, and he didn't want to cause national contradictions, so he knew that Wu Ji was not light or heavy, so he hurriedly shouted: "Don't hurt people's lives!" ”

Wu Ji hurriedly tilted the big knife, and the blade slashed past the bearded man, the Hun man didn't expect the other party to be so brave, and he came up with a killing move, and he also swung his fist, and the other three Huns also let go of the others and rushed to Wu Ji.

Wu Ji dragged the big knife to the ground, his left elbow was a fist, and he struck at the chest of the bearded man with all his strength, Wu Ji was originally strong, and the small tree with thick fists could be broken, although the bearded man was brave, but after all, he was a living person.

I only heard a sound from Peng, fell backwards, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and fell heavily to the ground, Liu Tong said secretly, this guy is unlucky, and he will be paralyzed for half a year if he doesn't die.