Cai Jifeng never thought that it was such a painful thing to be watched by so many ministries, and he estimated in his heart that there were only about 6,000 Han slaves who could pay, and he could only choose 120 relatives to come out, and let them die. Cai Jifeng didn't dare to borrow a knife to kill people in this matter, because Lanzhou would naturally make public why they died, and he didn't want to make a mortal enmity with these tribes.

Sleeping Muanpu looked at Cai Jibong with hope, he took one person after another, and finally, turned around and left. Sleeping on the mud shore, the blood was freezing cold. Perhaps except for Cai Jiqian, who was not valued by him, all the Cai nobles did not regard these incompletely civilized Qiang tribes as their foundation and fettered.

The anger and blood of the abandonment seemed to rush to the top of the head, and almost all the iron harriers from Dijinze were left in the captive camp, because they were not the cronies of the adults of the state capital, and the tribes of the land of bondage were just used in the first place. Even more depressed than them were more than two thousand ordinary state soldiers and subordinates, who from the very beginning had no hope. What awaits them next, will they be beheaded or enslaved?

Ma Jing, a Han man from the Sleeping Mud tribe, sat next to the head man Kishipu, he had done his best, but the Lanzhou Cavalry Committee was too powerful, and since he couldn't bring Kishipu back from the battlefield, he had to be captured with him. The Han army rarely tortured and killed prisoners, and he was very confident in this. He was not full of fear like the rest of the tribesmen, but just looked up at the sky.

It is probably the reason why there are a lot of corpses on the battlefield, dozens of vultures in the sky have circled for a long time, turning dozens of times, but they are afraid of the bows and arrows of the humans below, and they dare not just pounce down and peck at the dead.

Occasionally, a real eagle passed farther into the sky, its vigorous wings spread, and slid away in the blue sky on the fierce west wind, until it flew over the high Helan Mountain and disappeared into the distant sky.

The corpses of the dead on the ground, the true eagles, disdain to peck at them. Only fresh flesh and blood are worthy of feeding on the eagle.

The snow is fluttering, and it is the middle of winter again, but the city of Lanzhou is no longer in the same embarrassing situation as last year. This year, the wind and rain are smooth, the grains are abundant, the livestock are multiplied, and after paying the rent of 30%, the households in Lanzhou can still have a fat year.

At this time last year, drinking gruel on wild vegetables, now every family eats white steamed buns, last year only every solar term can get a little bit of meat such as water and fat, are the sergeants slaughtered sheep and the rest of the fragments, this year before the winter each family has prepared a large number of cured meat, three days of two teeth sacrifice, individual households began to miss the days of eating wild vegetables, have planned to pickle more pickles before the winter next year, no way, who told us to develop a habit in the first half of our lives, just this bite.

Last year, the clothes were ragged, but this year, most of them have brand new clothes, shoes and hats, some of the harvest is good, and the sheep fat households have also spent a lot of money to buy sweaters produced by the artisan households to put on their bodies. However, the people who do this are definitely a minority, and most of them are military dependents, and the sweaters in Lanzhou are sold for ten yuan a piece, and the woolen pants are also ten yuan, which are rare and expensive, and are transported to the northern and southern state capitals, grassland tribes, and are snapped up by high-ranking officials and wealthy landlords. The quality of Lanzhou's products and the woolen fabrics made by those nomadic tribes are too different, almost the difference between clay pots and porcelain. In the Lanzhou factory, only the stubby and short wool is spun into carpets, and only the selected slender wool is used to make the wool needed for the sweater. With the Lanzhou workshop continues to summarize the stitching method, skilled weavers can weave a good sweater in ten days, can weave three pieces in a month, can be sold for 30 yuan, even if the stall buys wool money and the front way to select wool twist thread labor, the per capita value created is also greatly more than the output of farming households, and the Lanzhou government has made a lot of money.

In addition to the sweaters they have to distribute, the sergeants often use the military salaries they receive at the end of the year to buy a set for their wives and children. Wearing it warmly on the body saves a lot of firewood money. According to the rhetoric of the Lanzhou caravan, wearing sweaters in tents and houses to keep warm saved ten years of firewood money is enough to buy two more sets of sweaters.

The life of military households in Lanzhou is 20% better than that of civilian households, and in addition to the filial piety rent paid by civilian households, military salaries are also higher than those in other towns. Don't look at the sergeants who are inconspicuous in the barracks, they are just a character when they come out, they have a lot of money in their hands, and there are a few people under them, so they can't help but feel a little uncomfortable. Thanks to the timely opening of various workshops by the Lanzhou government, such as "Practical Bookkeeping", "How to Manage a Moe Household", "How to Be a Qualified Master", and "How to Make Others Sincerely Respect You", the success studies within these sergeant nouveau riche were very popular. Lanzhou sergeants are no better than those barbarians outside the Saiwai, they only know how to fight and kill, rob money and rob women, and they all understand the truth of three generations of a nobleman, and there is a slogan called "A hundred years of planning, start with me". On the other hand, the sergeants are more cooperative with military orders in the battalion, and now they are all masters, and if they don't open their eyes, it will make people laugh if they go to military law. There is a saying that the enemy can take your life, but the only one who can take your most precious honor is yourself.

Although Wu Yingying strictly forbids gifts, and those who embezzle bribes are also punished for damaging the honor of soldiers, and are expelled from the military, but the food invitation of each ten-captain squad is inevitable, and the centurion is recommended by the ten-division commander below. Besides, he can get the ten captains in the Lanzhou army, which one is not fought all the way up with bravery, all of them are unruly, and the military orders are strict on weekdays. To be honest, if it weren't for the strict prohibition of gifts in Lanzhou, the centurions would almost have given benefits to the ten-captain.

Even the movement between centurions is inevitable, the Mobei hussar battalion now has seven or eight hundred people, and the Baiyu battalion stationed in Jinze is now heard to have thousands of people, and now the Lanzhou forces are thriving, and the expansion of the battalions is imperative.

It's much better when you get to the captain level, more than a dozen captains are all looking down and not looking up, and they just visit politely during the New Year. From Xin Gu, Xiao Jiu, Yu Fu Renliang to Gu Tan and Zheng Bin, all belong to Wu Yingying's personal promotion, and the heads of their respective camps are usually very firmly controlled, and the New Year is just to reward the soldiers under their command as they like, like Xin Gu, who likes to be lively, will have a banquet and enjoy the whole camp, Xiao Jiu, who likes to be quiet, will close the door and thank the guests, anyway, the officers below know his habits.

Wu Yingying is even easier to deal with, and the officers under him greeted him with a smile when he came to congratulate him, and he couldn't remember if he didn't come. In this era, there is no habit of leaders going down to send warmth every New Year, and Wu Yingying himself feels that this year is quite harmonious. Others say that Wu Yingying is the destiny of heaven, and he has been in charge of Lanzhou for only one year, and the living standards of the military and civilians in Lanzhou alone are probably worth the Kaiyuan Tianbao period. Wu Yingying knows that on the one hand, agriculture and animal husbandry are developed simultaneously, and the industrial structure of industry and commerce allows every labor force to play the greatest role.