"Hmph, is Ma Zhi testing me?" The Han man sneered, and then said, "A few days ago, your handsome people captured the third leader of our clan's first zero department, but did not report it to the imperial court, and actually privately sent his subordinates to the first zero department to negotiate, and let the first zero department exchange tens of thousands of jewels and beautiful jade for the three leaders. Am I right? Horses engaged! ”

"You are engaged in protecting Qiang in the Han Dynasty, and your official position is only under the captain of the Qiang Protector and the lieutenant of the school lieutenant's mansion, Changshi and Sima, and this kind of action is not much different from collaborating with the enemy and treason, right? It's not much better than me, huh. The man sneered.

Ma Xuan's heart sank, and he said secretly, "This person really knows the details...... The arrogance at the beginning is long gone, and his face is full of annoyance and anger, but he doesn't want to be controlled by others like this, but he is already frightened in his heart, and he said in his heart, "Even if these Qiang people don't kill me and put me back, they tell me about my deal with the enemy chieftain and spread it to the army, and when Captain Zhao comes back, the head on my neck will not be guaranteed, and I have to connect the whole family, ala......s, "I regret it."

Ma Xuan's mind suddenly moved, "No! If this man wants my life, he has to kill me. Or let me go, and spread the matter in the army, and I won't be able to live. He must have a plan to spread out this matter to me now and not kill me! But I don't know what he wants? Could it be that he was a Qiang who wanted to avenge the capture of the three leaders of his family and humiliate me? Thinking of this, Ma Xuan asked, "Who are you?" Is it the first zero? How else would you know about it? ”

"Hmph, first zero, Ma Cheng doesn't have to bother guessing, I might as well tell you, we are burning!" The man said loudly.

"You are burners!" Ma Xuan was shocked, secretly screaming in his heart, and he had already remembered all kinds of grudges between the Han army and the Qiang people in his mind. The former leader of the burning was Na Li, who died at the hands of Ma Xian, the former captain of the Qiang Guard; And now Zhao Chong, the captain of the Qiang Guard, has a deep grudge against this burning Qiang, so in April last year, Zhao Chong attacked the Dangqiang people and burned the Qiang people, and the Dangqiang people were killed and injured countless times. In October, it was burned in Ayang County, Hanyang County. Today, he was caught by mistake, and it was really lucky.

Ma Xuan was extremely frightened in his heart, and he really couldn't guess what these Burning Qiang people wanted to do, so he simply said loudly, "What do you want to do with the Burning Dang people? If you want to avenge your leader's Nari, kill me!" ”

But I heard the man sneer, "I think that back then, the leader of the leader personally attacked the Jincheng County, and slashed the lives of countless dog officials, what a heroic hero the leader was, everyone in my department admired it, but the deceased is gone, what's the use of revenge?" What's more, the culprit Ma Xian was killed by our clan and the people of the Frozen Tribe, three years ago, although the people in our tribe did not take revenge with their own hands, the matter was settled......"

"So presumably Your Excellency is for Captain Zhao?" It turned out that Ma Xuan was tempting, and there were only two things in total to burn the great enmity between the Ministry and the Han Army, if it wasn't for the separation, it would be for Zhao Chong.

"Ma doesn't have to be so polite, the villain's name is Jia Ying, and he is good at calculating, hehe." This Jia Ying was noncommittal to Ma Xuan's words, but said, "Ma Cheng, with me burning the troops and the Han army like this, how can you, as a protector, stay out of the matter, but today we will not kill you, nor beat and scold you, but we can also let you go back." ”

"Oh?" Ma Xuan was taken aback, and said in his heart that there was such a good thing, but he immediately regained his composure and said, "I'm afraid that as soon as I go back, Your Excellency will spread the word all over the city, right?" ”

"Hehe, I'm worried about it, tell Captain Zhao what I'm doing, and then kill you, what's the benefit for us? Won't it be in vain to get you here? You only need to promise one thing, and you will be released back to Lingju County immediately, and you will not say what you have done, you must think about it carefully, otherwise you will not return to the house for a long time, and your newly married lady will be worried, haha......" Jia Ying smiled proudly, as if he was not afraid that the other party would not agree.

"How can he even know about the concubine I married a few months ago? Have you been paying attention to me for a long time? Thinking of this, Ma Xuan was even more secretly frightened, "This person is planning to arrest me like this, but he wants to let himself go so easily, and the matter he promised must be very important, but he can't agree rashly......" Ma Xuan's brows were tightened, and he looked hesitant.

"If I don't tell you why I am engaged in this matter, I will definitely be suspicious and dare not agree, well, I will definitely remember that last year, Captain Zhao captured a total of 3,000 people from my burning department in Shendi and Ayang......" At this time, Jia Ying's voice paused, Ma Xuan, as a protector, was also involved in these two battles, and he knew it, and he wondered why he mentioned this matter, could it be ......

"Not bad! These 3,000 people in our tribe hope that they will be able to return to their homeland. Jia Ying saw that Ma Xuan seemed to have thought of it, so he continued.

"What! You say I'll bring you these 3,000 Qiang captives? "It is said that these 3,000 Qiang people say that there is not much, and there is no lot to say less, if the burning department can have these 3,000 Qiang people to help, although it is not very useful, but it is also a help, this person is so careful to plan is it for these 3,000 Qiang people to capture, I still have doubts in my heart.

Na Jia Ying saw that Ma Xuan was still suspicious, so he said, "Don't hide it, do you know why I urgently need these 3,000 people in the burning department?" ”

Ma Xuan was also puzzled by this joint, so he frowned and looked at Jia Ying, Jia Ying continued, "I must know that the three most powerful tribes of my Qiang clan are Xian Ling, Zhong Qiang and me, do you know why my three tribes and other large and small tribes have frequently attacked the county town of Han in recent years?" ”

Ma Xuan also suddenly remembered that over the years, the Qiang tribes have always raised large armies to harass border counties, such as in July of the third year of Yangjia, Zhongqiang leader Liangfeng invaded Longxi County and Hanyang County; In the second year of Yonghe, Baimaqiang attacked the subject state of Guanghan; Another example is the third year of Yonghe, burning the Qiang Kou Golden City; In the fourth year of Yonghe, Frozen Qiang and Fu Nanqiang united with Hu Dakou Sanfu to kill the chief official; In September, they attacked Wudu and burned Longguan; In the sixth year of Yonghe, and Frozen Qiang killed Ma Xian, the captain of the Qiang school, the whole country was shocked, and then Gong Tang Qiang Kou Longxi, Sanfu, burned the garden mausoleum, killed and plundered the people; July, Gongtang Qiangkou Beidi County; In September, Zhuqiang attacked Wuwei County; Coupled with the battle between the burning troops and the Han army that Jia Ying said last year.

Thinking about it this way, the Qiang people's large-scale, large-number, brutal methods, and long-lasting large-scale attack on the counties of the Han Dynasty must have been premeditated for a long time, and they were determined to fight the Han army to the end. In the past, I only thought that these Qiang people were at odds with each other, but today you came to fight and tomorrow you came to disturb them, and you did not see them as a whole. At this time, listening to the meaning of Jia Ying's words, this Xiqiang department turned out to be a joint attack on Han, how could he not be frightened.

But I heard Jia Ying continue, "I have heard about the incident thirty years ago, when Emperor An of the Han Dynasty was still in power, the Han court wanted to go to the Western Regions, and the conscription was insufficient, so it wanted to recruit the local Qiang people to join the army, so they forcibly recruited strong men of the Qiang people, and the Qiang people all have families, wives and children, what is the difference between us Han people?" The Han people don't want to go, so do the Qiang people want to attack those aliens who they have never befriended? ”

Jia Ying was already excited when he said this, "They don't want to go but they can't help it, the Han army said that if they don't attack the Western Regions, the Han army will attack them, kill all their cattle and sheep, and turn all their wives and daughters into slaves." They had no choice but to apply, but ......"

However, these Qiang people rebelled halfway through, and at that time they were led by the leaders of the three tribes of Xianling, Yaodang, and Zhongqiang, and after two years, they defeated 50,000 officials and troops, and the court was also exhausted and the national strength was seriously depleted. This uprising lasted for ten years, and in the end it still failed......" The words behind this were actually Ma Xuankou added, he was engaged in protecting Qiang, how could he not know such a big thing.

"Not bad! Yes, I know it clearly, since the failure of the uprising, the Han army has fought with the Qiang people in the past ten years, and I don't know how many people are buried in the wilderness, why don't we Qiang people do the same? But in this way, the Han army has hated the Qiang people to the core, and the enslavement of the Qiang people has increased more than ten times compared with before. Every year, we are asked to supply millions of cattle and sheep to each department, and tens of thousands of Qiang men are recruited into the army, how can we have so many cattle and sheep population, so our departments are united again......" Jia Ying told all kinds of past.

"So you're going to unite again to revolt against the court!" Speaking of this, even a fool understood what Jia Ying was going to say.

"Not bad! Our Qiang tribes are going to attack your Han Dynasty county together, so that you will no longer dare to forcibly recruit cattle and sheep from us! Jia Ying said righteously, but Ma Xuan snorted coldly, "Don't forget, you are also Han, what 'we' and 'we' say so affectionately, and shameless!" Ma Xuan saw that Jia Ying had regarded himself as a Qiang person, and he was already angry, and he didn't care about being a prisoner.

"Hmph, the Qiang people are thousands of times better to me than the Han people!" Ma Xuan also remembered this person's great enmity, but he still disdained his attitude of recognizing the thief as his father, he just snorted coldly, suddenly thought of something, and said, "I think the various tribes of the Qiang tribe are not as united as you said, otherwise why don't they unite and attack together, how can our Han army resist at that time?" ”

"It's really thoughtful, yes, our three major tribes are big and big, and no one obeys anyone, so no one can order anyone not to move. Although the first zero has dominated the West two hundred years ago, its strength has long since disappeared in recent decades, and even the momentum is not as good as the newly rising Ru and Leng, Sister Le, Gong Tang, and Dang Fried. But the thousand-legged insect, although it is not stiff, the first zero and most of the new strong Zhong Qiang are friendly, and the two join forces, and I can't get any benefit from burning it...... "Jia Ying didn't hide it, and told Ma Xuan about the danger in his department, which shows that his intention is quite sincere.

And so...... Do you think that if you can have more soldiers, you will have more soldiers, so as to compete with the two departments of Xian Ling and Zhong Qiang? Ma Xuan had already understood Jia Ying's intention in saying these many words, and most of his previous doubts had been dispelled, but he always faintly felt in his heart that what Jia Ying planned was far from being as simple as he said, but he didn't know what it was.

"Exactly! I've told you all about the danger in the clan, and I can see the sincerity of our burning, right? Jia Ying said sincerely.

"Yes...... If I return these 3,000 captives to you, I will not be able to serve as an official in the Han Dynasty, and you will always know this, right? Ma Xuan followed Jia Ying's words and thought about it, and couldn't help but think about his future.

"That's nature! Engage and rest assured, there are four generals under the leader of my department, if you are engaged in the burning of the department, the leader of the department has already promised, and he will be the fifth general! Jia Ying smiled, and was also happy to see that the matter had been negotiated.

"Oh? Your Excellency is so wise that you are not an ordinary person in the burning department, I don't know what your position is in the burning department? In the future, everyone will serve so many leaders, so it's better to get close to them first......" Ma Xuan couldn't help but ask when he saw that this person had an extraordinary plan.

"It's just a counselor of the chief, not worth mentioning, engaged in ...... No, the general was polite. Seeing that Jia Ying was still noncommittal, Ma Xuan couldn't help frowning, so he changed the subject, "Then how will my family be settled?" If you are an official in your ministry, if your family is still in Han Land, it is not appropriate. Ma Xuan asked again.

"The general doesn't have to worry too much, the general's family has been invited to the Qiang Ministry since the general left the house the day before yesterday, and he wants to come to taste mare's milk in the account at this time." The smile on Jia Ying's face was still undiminished, but in Ma Xuan's opinion, this smile made his indescribable heart tremble.