The next day, Qiangqu and Liu Xiu traveled west together and entered the grazing land of Qiangqu, the boundary of the former Shuofang County. Shuofang County was placed in the former dynasty, it was a matter after the general Wei Qing seized Henan, and now because the population is too small, it was once abolished, and the former Shuofang Taishou is the nephew of the eunuch Shan Chao Dong Yuan, after him, no one has been in office, and now Shuofang is also managed by Wuyuan.

Qiangqu and Liu Xiu are so good that they can mix oil in honey, you invite me today, I will invite you tomorrow, I can't wait to be together, Yu Fuluo and Hu Chuquan are also familiar with Lou Lu, and they will compete together whenever they are free. Yu Fuluo's martial arts skills are good, but the equipment is too far from the one hundred black feather guards brought by Lou Lu, as Liu Xiu's personal guard horse, the black feather guards are each equipped with two war horses, a pair of armor, a good bow, an iron halberd, a knife, and the horse harness used is also more delicate than that of Fuluo, and it can be seen that Fuluo's eyes are hot.

During a banquet, while everyone was happy, Qiang Qu said, my son admires the adult very much, and hopes to follow the adult saddle before and after the horse, please appreciate the adult's face, let him be your personal guard. Liu Xiuzhong was in his arms, and he was modest in two sentences, and he didn't even dare to say it, Han Sui got up and said, don't shirk it, my lord, according to the regulations, you should have five hundred guards, but now there are only two hundred, and this one hundred is not too much. Besides, the Han and Hungarian are both a family, and with Yu Fuluo, it is also convenient to contact them in the future.

Liu Xiu agreed, and expressed his gratitude to Qiangqu. Qiang Qu is also very satisfied, he has received news from Zhang Xiu, knowing that Liu Xiu's influence on Shan Yu is very great, it seems that before the death of the great wizard, Liu Xiu had given them any hints, and what specific things were not clear, but he said, you will definitely not be wrong to have a good relationship with Liu Xiu, so that Duan Cheng, the former master of Lord Tian Yan, the Hun Zhonglang General, is Liu Xiu's teacher, and it will probably be Liu Xiu who has the final say in this area in the future.

It was precisely when Qiang Qu got this news that he made up his mind to send Yu Fuluo to Liu Xiu.

After the Yellow River enters Shuofang, it is divided into two rivers in the north and south in Linrong City, the North River is at the southern foot of Yin Mountain, the Yin Mountain of this section is called Wolf Mountain again, and the high que plug is in the Wolf Mountain. Liu Xiu traveled west along the Beihe River, arrived at Gaoquesai two days later, met Zhao Yun and Wang Lie, and after holding a banquet, Qiangqu left satisfied.

After the banquet, Liu Xiu left Zhao Yun and Wang Lie behind and asked them about their preparations.

"After receiving the order of the adults, we have already begun to prepare, abandoned Linrong City, and brought all the more than 2,000 people who were willing to Tuntian to Gaoque Fortress." Zhao Yun said unhurriedly: "I have checked the situation in Gaoquesai these days, the overall situation is good, and now there are sufficient manpower and grain and grass, even if the Xianbei people attack, it will not be a problem for us to hold on for three months." ”

Wang Lie said expressionlessly: "My lord, after three months, can you repel the Xianbei people?" ”

Liu Xiu shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"Don't know?" Wang Lie's face was even more ugly, "Spring ploughing will be in April and May, if the adults can't repel the Xianbei people before April, there will be no hope for this year's Tuntian." ”

"I know." Liu Xiu nodded solemnly: "I said that if you can't farm because of Xianbei people, it's my responsibility." You just need to be ready to let the people have peace of mind. ”

Wang Lie didn't say a word, got up and left.

"My lord, Mr. Wang has a bad temper, but he is still a good person." Zhao Yun said quietly: "These days, he has found a room in the city and gathered the children of those people and soldiers to study, which is very good for people's peace of mind. ”

Liu Xiu nodded, and didn't get too involved in Wang Lie's matter. "Zilong, this is our first battle, we have to fight well, but the difficulty is very big. What I can directly command is the current more than 4,000 people, and I have to face ten times the number of Xianbei people, and I am not sure whether I can fight well. ”

Zhao Yun chuckled, glanced at Liu Xiu, raised his wine glass and touched him lightly: "Why worry about adults, this strategy of luring wolves into the house, closing the door and beating dogs, I think it is very good, even if the Xianbei people come, we can't defeat them, and we won't fail." Duan Gong said that if you don't win, you will lose first, and your lord can be said to have comprehended the spirit. ”

"Hahaha......" Liu Xiu smiled and shook his head: "That's because I can't afford to lose." ”

Zhao Yun smiled slightly: "Yun supports adults, and I believe that adults will definitely be able to win." ”

"Something practical." Liu Xiu put down his wine glass, "If this Gao Que Sai leaves you, will anyone be able to control the situation?" ”

"There is a man named Gao Shun, who doesn't talk much, is very calm, but his popularity is not very good."

"Why?"

"Maybe it's too clear." Zhao Yun said lightly: "He is taciturn, never gambles and drinks with his colleagues, nor accepts gifts from others, and is a maverick. ”

Liu Xiu frowned, he was worried that this Gao Shun that Zhao Yun said was a moral gentleman like Wang Lie, but he had no actual ability, if this was the case, whether he was a true gentleman or a hypocrite, he couldn't use it. This is a place to fight, not a place to talk about morality, and the soldiers here are either torturers or villains, and to talk to them about morality is to play the harp to the ox.

Zhao Yun saw Liu Xiu's worries, "The ten people under him are the most capable of fighting Gao Que Seri, and he is also the one who knows the situation in the most detail in Gao Que Seri, and even the chief of the plug is not as good as him." He went to the fortress to be a pawn at the age of thirteen, if he wasn't too innocent, I am afraid that he would have been the head of the fortress long ago. ”

Liu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, hold a drill tomorrow, if it can be used, first promote him to a fake plug chief, and when the time is ripe, let him be the head of the plug." ”

Zhao Yun answered, and talked for a while before getting up to leave. Liu Xiu leaned on the city wall, looked at the dark night sky, and exhaled softly. He has already made all the preparations he can make, and now he is waiting for Xianbei to come and commit it. When the time comes, I don't know if this high fortress can hold the fortress of the throat of the Xianbei people.

Gao Que Sai was built across the mountain, it is part of the Great Wall built by King Wuling of Zhao, and is flanked by towering mountain cliffs, as Zhao Yun said, as long as there is enough food and manpower - it does not need too much, two hundred people are enough, this is definitely a place where one man is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open. In the south of Gaoque Sai, there is also a Jilu Sai, which is also a very dangerous place, as long as these two places are guarded, the three cities of Jiaohun, Sanfeng and Linrong south of Wolf Mountain are safe, and the Xianbei people have to go a long way to bypass Wolf Mountain to attack here.

The problem is that these two fortresses have actually been abandoned for a long time, there is no dangerous terrain, but there is no most basic manpower, before Zhao Yun and they came, there were actually only sixty or seventy people in Gaoque Fortress, and there were only more than thirty people in Jilu Fortress, and many of them were veteran soldiers.

How much does it cost to raise a pawn a year? 10,000 money, 200 people need 2 million, is it much? It's really a lot, but thinking about the fact that the palace has to spend 100 gold a day, and Gao Quesai's expenses for a year are actually the expenses of the royal family for two or three days, Liu Xiu feels very sad.

What makes Liu Xiu feel even more sad is that population was originally a symbol of wealth, for an agrarian society, population growth means an increase in wealth, but now it is the other way around, because of the inequality between the rich and the poor, population has become a hidden worry of social unrest. If this problem is not solved, sooner or later the issue of displaced people will become a time bomb that will tear the empire apart and shed blood.

He wants to lure the people into the annexation state, but in fact, it is also a double-edged sword, facing the problem of competing for land with the merger state. He has communicated with Wang Yun, Wang Yun himself may be able to understand, but can his family understand? If the Wang family can understand it, can the other families understand it? Liu Xiu didn't know, but he knew that it was impossible for these people to give up the land unconditionally. Even if they know that it will eventually cost them their land and even their lives, they will not give up. In the face of the loss of vested interests, all future dangers are insignificant.

This matter can't wait, and can't be in a hurry, just like cooking small fish, if the timing is not good, what comes out is not a delicious side dish, but a pot of paste.

"I want to see him." The cry of the wind and snow sounded nearby. Liu Xiu turned his head to look, signaled Yu Fuluo on duty to let her come over, Fengxue strode in front of Liu Xiu, his face flushed, and he was about to speak, but he poured a breath of wind, and as soon as the words came out, the wind blew away, and Liu Xiu didn't hear what it was, but it could be seen from her expression that she was very angry.

"Come into the house and say." Liu Xiu took her arm and walked out of the house, and closed the door smoothly: "What's the matter?" ”

"You can't do that to Adella, she's Helian's wife." Feng Xue said angrily, "You can't treat her as a camper. ”

"Camp notes?" Liu Xiu was surprised: "She is Lu Bu's trophy, when did she become a camp record?" ”

"Lu Bu is a wolf cub." Feng Xue screamed, "He was tired of playing with himself, so he rewarded Adella to his subordinates." Liu Xiu, Adella is Helian's wife, the daughter of Luo Gandla, you can't treat her like this. ”

Liu Xiu suddenly realized. Lu Bu has a very communist mentality, so a beautiful woman is actually shared with his subordinates? No wonder the horse thieves under him were as happy as the New Year.

"Keep your voice down." Liu Xiu lowered his voice and warned: "If people know that Adele is Helian's wife, I'm afraid that what she will be waiting for at that time will not be a few horse thieves, but the entire Changshui camp." ”

Feng Xuehua's face was pale, and she instinctively covered her mouth with her hand.

Liu Xiu turned around twice and scratched his brows: "She is a trophy, what do you do if you don't do camp notes, do I still treat her as an uncle?" He glanced at Fengxue with malicious intent: "I said Fengxue girl, you have to make it clear, Xianbei people will not be polite if they catch us Han, there are not many gentlemen like me." Also, shouldn't you ...... too?"

"Whew!" Fengxue was ashamed and afraid, of course she knew that if she didn't have an old relationship with Liu Xiu, she was afraid that she would also fall into the same fate as Adella and her maids. "The captives are not all camp notes, you can let Helian ransom them."

"Now that it's all like this, will Helian still redeem it?"

"Of course...... Absolutely. Fengxue hesitated: "As long as Adella doesn't say it herself, who knows." ”

"Okay, you go and tell Adella that if Helian comes to redeem her, I can let someone go back and report the news, and at the same time ask her not to do the camp record." He shook his head: "She is too beautiful, if she continues like this, I'm afraid she will die." ”

Fengxue didn't dare to hesitate and immediately went to find Adella. Adella has been going crazy for the past two days, and as soon as she hears footsteps, she shrinks into the corner, and it takes a lot of effort for the wind and snow to calm her down. As soon as she heard that there was still a chance to go home, Adella finally calmed down, and the scene of Liu Xiu and Qiang Qu talking and laughing appeared in front of her eyes, and anger flashed in her eyes.

"My husband will definitely redeem me." Before Adela could speak, tears welled up in her eyes, "And my father, my brother, they will all redeem me." ”

"Then tell me, how much ransom can they pay? The Han people are very greedy, and they may not be willing to do without him. ”

Adella looked at her with teary eyes: "Gold, we have a lot of gold, he can have as much as he wants." ”

Feng Xue breathed a sigh of relief, it's easy to do with gold, Liu Xiu is a money fan, he just said that if Helian refuses to pay, he will let Adella do camp to make money, and earn until he has the same weight as Adella. At the thought of that terrible situation, Feng Xue couldn't help but shiver.

Adella suddenly noticed the neat clothes on Fengxue's body and the meticulous light makeup on her face. "You...... You ......"

Feng Xue understood what she meant, and blushed: "I am friends with their Lord Liu. ”

Adella couldn't help but gasp, her eyelids jumped, and then she lowered her head again. Feng Xue also felt a little inarticulate, turned his head, and didn't dare to look directly into Adella's eyes.

"If they will ransom you, who do you think would be better to send?"

Adella thought for a moment and said a person's name. The wind and snow responded, and she hurriedly walked out of the camp tent, and the soldiers who came to buy joy next to her saw her, and their eyes were anxious. Cao Hong raised his hand and slapped the soldier who was paying the money, and scolded: "Look at it, it's an adult's woman, and then look at the dog who picked out your eyeballs." ”

When the soldier heard that it was Liu Xiu's woman, he didn't dare to squeak, and someone behind him whispered: "Lord Liu is really a good taste, he actually likes such a barbarian girl." ”

"That is, Lord Liu does not refuse to come, the noble has a princess, and the humble has a brute."

"Hahaha......"

Feng Xue's face was swollen and red, so he had to pretend not to hear it, and hurriedly left the baggage camp and reported the situation to Liu Xiu. Liu Xiu readily agreed, and arranged for the person designated by Adella to meet Adella. The two muttered for a while, and the man hurriedly left Gao Que Sai with Liu Xiu's request.

Watching the man disappear into the valley, Fengxue breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is your father okay?" Liu Xiu walked behind her and asked softly.

Fengxue lowered his head, and after a long while, he said, "It's not good, he went to Ding Ling." ”

"Ding Ling, who is the bullhead tribe leading now?"

"My brother." Feng Xue's eyes turned red: "Abba has become your captive, his prestige has been lost, and he has no face to lead the Niutou tribe again." Although the king kept him, he was gone. ”

Liu Xiu touched a few short whiskers on his chin and was silent for a while. The wind crack is not in Danhan Mountain, which is good news for him, but not for the wind and snow, Ding Ling is still north of Xianbei, maybe it is close to the Arctic Circle, it is said that it snows for most of the year, and the wind crack is equivalent to exile there.

Liu Xiu changed the subject: "What are you doing in the Hongyue tribe this time?" ”

"The King...... The king wants me to be a wizard in the Red Tribe. Feng Xue lowered his head and said in a thick nasal voice: "You killed Huai Zong, they all said that I was a disaster star, and no one dared to marry me again." ”

Liu Xiu couldn't help but laugh out loud. Wizards can't get married, and they have to dedicate their virgin body to the gods for the rest of their lives, which is too cruel for a young woman like Fengxue, isn't the fire fox mixed up with the Collapse Guy because he can't control his instincts, but after all, there are not many people who have the guts like her, and the vast majority of wizards don't dare to commit such a big crime.

Feng Xue glared angrily, Liu Xiu was the culprit who caused her to be a wizard, and he could still laugh at this time.

"Okay, okay, tell me, what kind of witchcraft do you know?" Liu Xiuqiang couldn't help but laugh and teased: "I will too, let's compare the two of us?" ”

"You know witchcraft?" Wind and snow's eyes widened.

"Of course, you see." Liu Xiu put away his smile, sat cross-legged, pinched a handprint, put on a dignified expression, pretended to recite a few spells that he didn't even know, and with a twist of his fingers, a bright flame suddenly appeared on the end of his fingers.

Fengxue was dumbfounded, looked at Liu Xiu for a long time, suddenly took a few steps back, fell to the ground, trembled, and shouted in his mouth: "Ahura, Mazda, Ahura, Mazda......"

Liu Xiu was inexplicable, his left thumb released the ring on his ring finger, and pulled Feng Xue up: "What did you say?" What pulls what horse? ”

"Ahura, Mazda. Ahura, Mazda. Feng Xue's face was pale and nervous. Liu Xiu was startled, and said in his heart that he was joking with her, making her happy, and it was not fun to be scared of being a fool. He patted her face: "Don't be stupid, I'm playing with you, this is illusion, not witchcraft." ”

"No, Ahura, Mazda, you are the messenger of the god of light."

"I ......" Liu Xiu couldn't cry or laugh, pointed to his nose and said, "How did I become the messenger of the God of Light again?" ”

At the beginning, Zhang Ming asked God in Fuyang, saying that the old man was the messenger of the Yellow God, and later Tang Yingzi came to him with the ring and handed the ring to him, Zhang Jiao said that he was the holy envoy of Taiping Dao, and Mrs. Lu said that he was the representative of Heaven's will, and now he made a joke with Fengxue, and Fengxue actually said that he was the messenger of the God of Light.

Isn't it just a ring with a holographic projection function?,At best, it's just a more popular computer.,How can it be so magical.。 Besides, brother is also considered to wear many hats, isn't he too busy?

Fengxue didn't care as much as Liu Xiu, it took her a long time to come to her senses, but the trace of awe between her eyebrows and eyes could no longer be erased. She trembled and said to Liu Xiu, "Ahura? Mazda is the only creator, the god of light. ”

Liu Xiu still didn't understand, it sounded like what kind of religion it was, judging from the name, it shouldn't be from the Central Plains. In fact, the religion of the Han people is also very complicated, before the emergence of Taoism, the Chinese and the Romans believed in multiple gods. There was still a system of gods in Rome, but the sources of gods in China are complicated and difficult to identify, and people in different places believe in different gods. When Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, most of the backbones were Chu people, Chu people were heavy witches, what Eastern Emperor Taiyi, Yunzhongjun, most of them were brought into the empire's god system, the Queen Mother of the West, the Prince of the East, Lao Tzu, the Yellow Emperor, the master of the soldiers, and the god of word creation had Cangjie, so many people were dizzy and confused, not to mention Liu Xiu, who did not believe in God, even professional Taoist priests could not be counted.

Fengxue briefly explained to Liu Xiu, it turned out that the god of light she was talking about was not only not the god of the Central Plains, but also the god of the Xianbei people, he was the god of the Parthian Empire. The so-called Parthian Empire is the rest of the Han people.

Speaking of rest, Liu Xiu somewhat understood, when Luoyang was talking about the Tao, An Shigao once came to the stage to talk about Buddhism, and he was a resting person.

"How do you know the god of Parthia?"

Feng Xue hesitated for a moment: "I am not a Xianbei person, I am from Parthia, and I originally believed in the God of Light. ”

"But you don't look like the Sabbats." Liu Xiu has seen An Shigao, he is not yellow-haired and blue-eyed.

"He who believes in the God of Light is not necessarily a restist." Feng Xue said, "The god of light is incarnated by tens of thousands, and the god of fire that the Xianbei people believe in is an incarnation of the god of light. ”

"!" Liu Xiu was disdainful, Lao Ma and Lao En both said that the use of fire is a sign that human beings have entered civilization from ignorance, and everyone will use fire, so all ethnic groups have the legend of the god of fire. The fire god of the Han people is Zhu Rong, according to what you say, Zhu Rong is also one of the incarnations of Na Hela? He waved his hand: "Okay, I am the messenger of the God of Light, you must listen to me in the future, serve me well, and don't have any bad intentions." ”

"I am willing to serve the God of Light, the only messenger sent by Allah." Feng Xue didn't have any intention of joking, so he knelt on the ground respectfully and said reverently.

Liu Xiu's eyes rolled: "Then you dance a dance to Allah first." ”

Fengxue blushed again and stammered, "You...... You can't blaspheme Allah, you're not Allah, you're just ...... Messenger of Allah. ”

"Well, whether he is Allah or the Messenger of Allah, let's dance first." Liu Xiu said impatiently: "Be unrestrained, hahaha......"

Feng Xue looked at him helplessly, holding the hem of his clothes with both hands, not knowing whether to jump or not, judging from the flames on Liu Xiu's fingers just now, he did look like the messenger of the legendary God of Light, but he didn't have the solemnity that a god should have, how to look like a scoundrel. Still a little more unrestrained? It's a little debauchery.

Is this your test for me, O Allah? Fengxue clasped his hands together, prayed silently for a while, took off the fox fur outside, lifted the skirt and began to dance, Sakura's lips opened slightly, and softly sang a mysterious ballad:

"Once upon a time, the heavens and the earth were dark, and the God of Light came to earth with holy fire......"

(To be continued)