—156 A.D.——

Hundreds of people have joined the service, but Dong Zhuo is not happy.

Although they are all called "rangers", their own qualifications are uneven, and they may be called rangers in normal times, but if time passes, they may become robbers or assassins.

Han Feizi once had the words of "Confucianism messes with literature, and chivalry violates the ban with martial arts", and the king of Qin agrees very much, and then there are "burning books and pit Confucianism", "collecting the world's soldiers and casting twelve golden people", but Qin died and Han Xing for hundreds of years, Confucianism and rangers revived together, and because of the meteorite of the heavenly general, the aura revived more and more.

Liang and two states, there are many people who practice martial arts, and the atmosphere of rangers is very strong, in addition to being on the border, often having to fight with foreign tribes, it is because of the inspiration of a great hero and heroic deeds.

This great hero's name is Wang Yue, a person from Liaodong, who used to patrol the border of the Han Dynasty from north to west when he was young.

At that time, there was a Qiang tribe leader who held many of his subordinates, and Wang Yue led tens of thousands of Qiang Hu to plunder Liangzhou and then retreated into Helan Mountain, Wang Yue learned that he was furious, and he killed the leader with a single sword, and the army took the leader's head from it, and then killed the Qianghu tribe, and rescued all the plundered soldiers and civilians.

As a result, in addition to marveling at Wang Yue's extraordinary martial arts, the border Han people also confirmed that the Hu people did not have the qualifications of "peerless" at all, so everyone practiced martial arts and was quite polite to the rangers, which was also the confidence of the Dong family father and son to dare to attack a thousand cavalry with only 600 miscellaneous soldiers.

In addition to the fact that most of these rangers are unusable, there is another thing that makes Dong Zhuo quite puzzled, that is, the caravan guards of this caravan have no casualties at all, and it must be known that since the scouts have returned, until the arrival of Dong's father's army, they have defended a thousand horse thieves for five or six hours with a force of more than 100 people, even if there is a vehicle barrier, it should not be without losses.

"This leader has worked hard to lead the guards to defend against the horse thieves, and if there are serious injuries that make it to the journey, we and other riders can bring them back to martial arts to recuperate." After Dong Zhuo finished the simple banquet, he found the leader of the caravan guard at the temporary station to make a letter of concern.

"There is no need to have a Lao Dong family Xiaolang," although the leader of the caravan was older, he did not dare to despise this sturdy young man, and replied when he heard this: "Because of the surprise attack, my brothers did have many wounded, but they were all treated by the 'Taiping Dao people'. ”

"Oh? Road? Dong Zhuo smiled: "Could it be that he cures his illness with incense talisman water?" ”

"The Dong family Xiaolang is like a god." The head of the guard nodded.

"......" Dong Zhuo was speechless for a while.

"I know that the so-called 'Fu Shui cures' is a trick of a wild liar, but such means can only be used to deceive ignorant women suffering from minor injuries and illnesses, and in this urgent moment, if he dares to swagger, he is afraid that he will be torn apart by my subordinates, so I let him try." The leader of the guard said again.

"Oh...... So what is the result? Dong Zhuo only felt that things seemed to be out of control.

The leader praised: "Wonderful hand rejuvenation! This 'Taiping Dao' is really not a swagger! ”

I see, Dong Zhuo nodded secretly, many rangers responded to follow before, but the rescued caravan people did not move or be grateful at all, it was because of this matter: "So, can the leader introduce this Taoist for me?" ”

"That's natural, both of them are benefactors of the rescue caravan, but the Taoist chief seems to be a little out of strength, and after the siege is lifted, he rests in the tent, and asks Xiaolang to go with me." The leader of the caravan had nothing to do, so he led Dong Zhuo to the camp.

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"You're the 'Taiping Daoist'?"

When he saw the man in the tent, Dong Zhuo was quite disappointed.

Different from the expected appearance of the fairy wind bones or the game world, this person is not so much an outsider as a businessman, with a medium build, wearing a strange yellow robe, his hair is tied up with yellow silk, and there is a bamboo box next to him that is not too small, and he is writing talismans on yellow paper with an oil lamp on a small table, and when he saw Dong Zhuo come in, he hurriedly got up to greet him.

"No, I don't dare to be the word 'Taoist'," the man said: "The villain is just a 'Taiping Taoist'." ”

"Oh," Dong Zhuo's evaluation of this "Taiping Dao" was slightly improved: "Why did you come to Liangzhou?" And how to walk with the caravan? ”

"The villain came to sell the talisman...... No, it's preaching. Zhang Niujiao quickly changed his words halfway through: "I met a caravan and was about to set up camp, so I planned to borrow it for one night, and by the way, I asked about the situation in Liangzhou, but I encountered a surprise attack by horse thieves." ”

If he was really a businessman, Dong Zhuo looked at the talisman he was writing: "You just want to sell this thing?" I heard that it was not a deception but that it really worked, but so? ”

"Don't dare to deceive adults." Zhang Niujiao took out a short scimitar, slashed his arm under Dong Zhuo's vigilant gaze, and blood gushed out, and then he took out a talisman without changing his face, leaned over to the oil lamp and lit it, and then mixed it with a few teas and drank it all.

Dong Zhuo was still frowning, but after seeing the wound on the man's arm quickly stop bleeding and scab over, he couldn't help but be shocked.

"My Taiping Dao creator is favored by the immortals, and has been awarded three volumes of the Book of Heaven, which has many ways to save people, implying the meaning of making the world peaceful, so it is called 'Taiping Dao'," Zhang Niujiao said: "However, the Book of Heaven is huge, it is difficult to comprehend, at present, only this water saving technique is available, and it is limited to the injuries and diseases that will heal on their own if they are ignored, so they entrust us and other Taoists to go to the border where there are frequent wars to sell...... Preach. ”

The so-called immortal bestowing the Book of Heaven is mostly boasting, Dong Zhuo thought, it is about some kind of special "peerless", which has no combat effectiveness, but can save people.

"How much money do you need to buy this?" Dong Zhuo picked up a talisman casually, and in addition to the surrounding decorative patterns, there was a variant of the words "South China Old Immortal" written in the center.

"One hundred dollars per piece," Zhang Niujiao said: "The law cannot be passed on lightly, if it is sold for less than 100 yuan, it will be invalid." ”

The price was not too high, for a good drink in a restaurant cost fifty cents, and the ordinary weapons of an ordinary soldier were worth about five hundred to a thousand dollars, and the horses on which the thieves were captured, though mostly pack horses rather than war horses, were worth thousands of dollars.

Because of the need to improve the prison knife, he originally planned to return to Longxi to obtain the money he had saved over the years, but now that he has captured a group of horse thieves, even if he wants to share most of the harvest with the rangers, he has to leave a lot of money left for the sake of the family's cavalry and his father's face.

Sure enough, grabbing is the fastest way to get money.

However, I have never heard that if the medicine is sold cheaply, it will become invalid, and most of it is the restriction of the creator's own "unparalleled" characteristics, so as to prevent being robbed?

"And give me five," Dong Zhuo handed over the five hundred silver coins that his father had spent with him to Zhang Niujiao.

"Hey-you put it away," the Daoist counted out five talismans, packed them in a small bag, and handed them to Dong Zhuo: "Burn them out when you use them, mix them with tea and drink them, but the villain has to say a word, for the same wound, even if you use it many times, the effect will not be superimposed." ”

"Hmph, I know it." Dong Zhuo confirmed that this person was just a minor vendor in Taiping Dao, so he didn't bother to ask anything more, took the talisman and turned to leave.

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The next morning, the cavalry of the family and a group of rangers returned to Wuwei.

There were not many people who knew when they left, but when they returned, the momentum was quite huge, for no other reason, this group of people were embarrassed to two people and one horse when they went out at night, but when they returned, there were at least one person and two horses, which made the rangers who did not get the news last night or did not go after the news beat their chests.

Assassin Shi Chengcheng was originally dissatisfied with his younger brother's unauthorized use of private soldiers, but the capture and exploits of a thousand horse thieves were enough to smooth it out, and the Dong father and son who commanded the battle also gained prestige.

Probably the only people who are dissatisfied with this are the horse dealers in the market, and nearly a thousand horses are pouring in, and even if only half of the people are willing to sell, it will be enough to deal a serious blow to the price of horses.

Dong Zhuo, who received the bounty to find the blacksmith Ma Su, naturally did not feel guilty, and he was quite proud when he passed by the chaotic horse dealers.

"I actually looked away," Ma Su was waiting for Dong Zhuo in the blacksmith shop, and the little boy Jia Xu was also there, and sighed quite oldly: "I can only see the current net worth but I can't see the future prospect, it seems that I still need to exercise." ”

"How? Do you want to raise the price? Dong Zhuo glared at him.

"No, I'm just here today to try my luck," Jia Xu said: "Uncle Ma originally planned to strengthen your weapons early in the morning, but I stopped him, and promised that if you didn't come before noon, I wouldn't delay anything. ”

"I can't tell if something is good or not, but it doesn't match my personality," Dong Zhuo said, handing the five talismans to Ma Su and Jia Xu, and after telling the origin, he said: "I prefer to make the enemy's wounds difficult to heal rather than speed up the recovery of wounds." ”

"Hmm......" Jia Xu looked at the talisman over and over again: "There is actually a 'warm jade' breath, if it is used to strengthen ordinary weapons, it can probably achieve the effect of 'gradually recovering physical strength with the time of battle', but if it is used at the same time as the Yanyu fragment, the weaker side will be canceled out." ”

"What does your master's house do?" Dong Zhuo suddenly asked.

"Precious jade business, those eldest sons and second ladies don't bother to go to the corner brick cracks to pick up fragments," Jia Xu glanced at him: "It's the Jia family you think." ”

Xiliang is vast and sparsely populated, and many families only regard the city as a trading and distribution center, and usually live in the dock fort they built, the Ma family and the Jia family, as well as the Han family, are the more powerful families in Xiliang today - speaking of which, the little ghost who drank down in Chengji Restaurant before was called "Han"?

But it's really good, all the people I met were side branches of the family, Dong Zhuo laughed at himself.

"Hmm...... Because it can only be used once, it can't be fixedly strengthened," Ma Su's research also came to a conclusion at this time, but it can make a temporary strengthening powder, which can be applied before the war, and it can be effective in about half an hour, making it difficult for the wounded to heal, but each talisman requires an additional cost of 200 yuan. ”

So the cost price of the powder, which makes it difficult for the wound to heal, is 300 yuan? Rather than spending this money, it would be easier to simply hack the enemy to death.

Dong Zhuo was calculating, and suddenly saw a certain "uncle" who was originally lukewarm to their father and son rushed in: "Dong Xian's nephew! Why are you still here? Lord Assassin Shi talks about meritorious deeds and rewards, and recruits you to 'engage in thieves'! ”