The night in Ankara, where there is no war, is still very peaceful, although under this quiet night sky, there may still be something brewing in some places, but as long as it has nothing to do with himself and his own people, Lao Luo will not care.

Hux is caught in a tussle with the bureaucrats in Ankara, Governor Augustus is also busy clearing his name, and the high-headed Malaysia that had attracted a lot of attention is no longer cared for, and the old Luo who no one pays attention to can actually lead the team away, and the only reason to stay here is to wait for the wounded from the last night battle to recover.

As for finding a guide and coincidentally rescuing Ge Shulie and others, it was just a matter of convenience.

A smooth road can save time, and the wrong road can also play a role, at least you can run in your own subordinates, of course, you can also collect some money and materials, Lao Luo has no resistance to black and black.

He has no tolerance for robbers.

Since you have chosen greed and unearned gains, then you should be punished for unearned gains.

At least Lao Luo felt that there was nothing to dispute about such a simple truth, but what Ge Shulie, who had washed and changed clothes and eaten, came to Lao Luo and said made him have some doubts.

Ge Shulie changed into a clean robe, although he still looked weak, but the thick skeleton still had some courage to support his straight figure.

He didn't think he could do anything because his ancestors had followed the Tang people two hundred years ago, and when he came to Lao Luo, he still knelt on his knees in front of Lao Luo - this posture was not the kneeling of the Central Plains, but the body language of submission on the grassland.

"Why did you kneel down again? I said I don't need to look like this. Even from later generations, Lao Luo has seen many of the same groveling scenes, but he is a little shameful about such behavior, so he can't help but reprimand Ge Shulie's actions: "The Han family has a saying, and men have gold under their knees." Can't you be a freshman with a little backbone? ”

"Yes, master." Ge Shulie had no grievances in his heart, but he had a sense of relief that he had been forgiven, but Lao Luo's reprimand was as heartwarming as encouragement.

Lao Luo watched the other party stand up, fortunately, standing straight, he shouldn't be the kind of obscene and timid man, otherwise he would be too disappointed with the surname Ge Shu, and legend has it that Ge Shuhan is a fierce man. He pointed to the futon by the fire, "Geshulie, sit down and tell me about the Goshu tribe." ”

Geshulie sat down as calmly as possible, and then began to tell the past of the Geshu tribe over the years in Chinese, which he was not proficient in. Of course, his calmness is still full of timidity in Lao Luo's opinion, but it is all in the understandable category. It's just a pity that the Ge Shulie in front of him is obviously not the material used as a general, and he is not as brave as the Ge Shuhan recorded in the book.

The things inside the tribe that Ge Shulie told did not surprise Lao Luo. Since the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty began to decline, followed by the rise of military customs on the lower grams, as well as the counterattack of the local wealthy clans against the Tang royal power, the large and small forces you have me, I have you and you erode each other, the Geshu tribe lost the leader and backbone of Geshuhan, and participated in such a big environment, hitting the head and breaking the blood.

In particular, although the Geshu tribe has such a brave general as Geshuhan to take the lead, its own heritage is not enough, and on the geographical boundary of the Tang Dynasty, up to more than ten or two hundred thousand people abound, Shatuo people, Dangxiang people, Tiele people, and even Khitan people, all of them are involved in it, and the Geshu people have no choice but to retreat to the Western Regions. However, from Jiuyuan (later Baotou, Inner Mongolia) to Ili, from Ili to the Qihe River Valley, there is no peaceful territory, and the Qiang people, the Tibetan people, and various tribes within the Turkic region also have constant disputes over pastures or habitats.

After the Geshu tribe retreated to the Western Regions, they crossed the sand sea, crossed the green mountains, and looked for a place to settle in the Seven River Valleys, only to encounter the Qarluq tribe that had taken refuge in the Abbasids, as well as the Uyghurs who also moved westward, and the Geshu tribe was tragic, in the gap between the two major tribes to survive, and from time to time to face the Tubo people who came down from the plateau, and the tribe of more than 10,000 people has now fallen apart.

Geshulie was a blacksmith, and when the tribe had enough warriors, he was the blacksmith who was the object of everyone's protection. But now many men who dared to fight were all killed by the Qarluqs, and the original pastures were also occupied by the Qarluqs, and the women of the tribe were either humiliated or killed, and some were captured as slaves, and most of them have now lost contact, and he survived because he was a blacksmith, and his son and several other teenagers also survived the stumbles when they were young, but now they were kicked away and sold to Ankara.

Looking at the man who was crying while talking, Lao Luo was really a little speechless, this is the trouble he has to recruit his upper body, right? However, the trouble in Baku is even greater, compared to the trouble of tens of thousands of people over there, the matter in Goshubu in front of him is nothing at all. And the Qarluqs must be the one they will have to face sooner or later, and it is not bad.

"Brother Shulie, let's stop here today, you will be serious about recuperating your body in the past few days, and I will ask Alke to find you when I go back, and be a guide first."

"Yes, master."

"On the way east, you will inevitably encounter Qarluqs, I will pay attention to the situation of your people, go ahead."

"Yes, thank you, master." This time, Geshulie did not kneel, but according to the custom of the Turks, he beat his chest with his right hand and made a bow.

"Master, this brother Shulie is too cowardly, not like a man." Alki has always followed Lao Luo's side, and he is also the most diligent in learning Chinese, and Lao Luo does not shy away from him in many things, so naturally he hears them all.

"The living environment of man is different, he is not a warrior, just a blacksmith, the survival of the grassland is actually more cruel than yours, and everyone cannot be forced to have a warrior's heart." Lao Luo said this to Alki, and at the same time to himself, but he was indeed a little disappointed, thinking that he could find a warrior. In fact, if Ge Shulie could become a warrior, maybe at this time, he would either be killed by the Qarluqs or would be very attracted by the Qarluqs, and Lao Luo would not be able to see Geshulie.

"Probably." Orki is a Bulgarian, probably from Thracian origin, a tribe full of mountain warriors who really don't know much about steppe life.

"The boss is right, even in my hometown, not everyone will become a pirate warrior." It was Stan who spoke, and the guy walked over after seeing Goshulie leave. Pirates in the West in this era were not a derogatory term, but warriors who dared to fight the sea.

"Well, Stan is right," Ro didn't disagree with Stan's opinion, the pirates of this period were very different from later generations, the former were mostly forced to survive, and the latter were mostly motivated by greed and unspeakable political reasons. Thinking of this, he also looked away at the bandits on the grassland, "Actually, the bandits on the grassland are almost the same, they may be ordinary herdsmen." ”

"It's very different in my hometown where there are Thracians, a man who can't be a warrior is despised by everyone, including that man's father and brothers." Olki said calmly.

"That must have been around since the time of Alexander the Great, right?" Lao Luo didn't know much about this custom of all the people being soldiers, so he asked casually.

"Listening to the old people, it should be earlier than that, there is a legend that when the gods were still living at the same time as humans, there was this custom, and the Macedonians actually inherited it the best." Olki said as he recalled, his brown hair and angular face looking more and more resolute in the light of the fire.

"We Goths also attached equal importance to the number and quality of our warriors, but unfortunately we could not stop the machinations of the Romans." Alc's self-proclaimed have always been Goths, the Goths are actually the Germanic branch of later generations, the Visigoths first settled on the northern shore of the Black Sea, that is, the later generations of almost Ukraine and Moldova, and later were driven to the Balkan Peninsula in Rome by the Huns, and then revolted under the oppression of the Romans, and conquered the city of Rome, and then established a Visigothic kingdom centered on Toulouse, Alc actually came from this extinct kingdom.

"But strong warriors alone are not enough to establish a state, otherwise Rome would not be the most powerful empire." Lao Luo saw that everyone was about to hold the warriors to the supremacy of the people, and couldn't help but pour cold water on them, making them clear their minds, "Only warriors can only plunder or forcible take, and it is difficult for a tribe without creativity to survive for a long time." ”

"Yes, boss. That's why the Romans would have been the most powerful, because they had countless craftsmen, they had countless scholars. Stan, the Viking Viking, reacted faster than the others, and Rowe didn't ask Stan about his past, but he felt that this big man must have an extraordinary past.

"Yes, if one day Roman craftsmen stop working, Roman scholars stop doing research, and warriors stop training hard, that is when Rome falls." Lao Luo then concluded, "All nations are like beasts of prey in the forest, if one day they lose their teeth and claws, it will be the result of being bitten to death and devoured by other beasts. ”

"Oh, boss, are you a philosopher?" Alker's word "philosopher" is particularly pronounced.

"No, I'm not, I'm just a warrior." Lao Luo made a serious statement.

In exchange, everyone made it clear that "I don't believe you, and I shirked it", in fact, he has said this many times, but no one has ever believed it, because he has shown too many different places.

The fighters of this era mostly liked to show the strength of their muscles, liked to drink, and liked to brag...... It's rare to think about something all the time, or discuss something with people like Ronaldo, and for Stan and Alke, that's what generals do, or what scholars only pay attention to.

As everyone knows, the truth is sometimes hidden in the words, but no one can tell the difference.