Chapter 170: The Altar
"Hehe, envy, that's good," Cai Jian smiled, his face sank, "But these people who stay in the camp will have trouble sooner or later, and they must be eliminated as soon as possible." With a hint of coldness in his voice, Bagan's heart suddenly fell to the bottom, has this day really come?
"Well, then, the next time we meet, you can contact them to flee at night, and the artisan battalion will justifiably shoot them outside the camp. Cai Jian stared into Bagen's eyes and ordered word by word. Bagen is a Mongolian in the Tuhun army, in order to prevent some people from being broken in the grassland tribes from making trouble, Cai Jian Ming Wu hero, specially transferred him, through him to control a few famous warriors among the slaves, as the saying goes, a snake without a head is not good, as long as these people are in peace, others do not have to worry.
Everyone in the room stared at Bagan, who only felt hot and dry, and a feeling of humiliation arose in his heart, and he lowered his head as if he was evading, and did not speak for a long time.
"What, is there a problem?" Cai Jian asked in an intriguing tone, and the atmosphere in the room was like the sweltering heat before a thunderstorm.
Suddenly, Bagen raised his head, his face flushed, and said word by word: "I'm sorry, I can't push my brother who believes in me to death with my own hands." After saying that, he stood up, lowered his hands, and waited for the four people present to arrest him. As a sergeant, he knew that the craftsman battalion itself had three hundred sergeants, four battalions of infantry troops stationed around, and another battalion of cavalry not far away. The other four people present were all battle-hardened soldiers, and they couldn't resist by themselves.
At this moment, Bagan only felt that the blood all over his body was pouring up on his head, but his hands and feet were cold, but there was no remorse in his eyes, and he gave up the honor and dignity of the sergeant, just not to betray his brothers.
For a long time, the room was silent, Cai Jian, Shi Yuanqing and the other four seemed to exchange opinions with each other's eyes, Yan Zhi spoke first, and broke the silence softly: "I agree." ”
"I agree. Cong Wuwei also said.
"It's a man, I'm fine. Shi Yuanqing said, as a Sogdian, he looked down on the scum who betrayed his people from the bottom of his heart.
Seeing that the other three people were nodding, Cai Jian stood up with a smile, put his hand on Bagen's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Not bad." He looked at the other three again, and all three nodded, and Cai Jian looked at Bagen again, with a serious face, and said in a deep voice: "The brotherhood welcomes you to join." Everyone thinks you are brothers, but what about you?"
Bagan's hanging hands trembled with excitement, looked at the other three, and said in a trembling voice: "I am a brother in front of everyone." "Bagen, a Mongolian sergeant of the Tuhun army, joined the brotherhood after a six-month observation period.
In fact, as early as a month ago, Cai Jian faintly revealed some information about the fraternity to Bagan and encouraged him to work hard. The Brotherhood is also privately known as the 11 Arhat Hall in the Lanzhou Army, and each organization has no more than 11 people, and the 12th position is reserved for mentors from the upper brotherhood as auditors. Although they did not act with much fanfare, most of the sergeants knew that there was such a core organization in Lanzhou, and after joining, it showed that they had been recognized by the core members of the army, and the future was limitless.
However, in the discussion of the brotherhood at Cai Jian's level, Shi Yuanqing and Yan Zhe disagreed, because they thought that Bagen betrayed his clan and lost the righteousness of brotherhood, and he could only be an eagle dog, but he could not join the brotherhood that shared weal and woe.
According to the rules set by Wu Yingying, the members of the superior brotherhood develop the subordinate organization, and only the first three members are decided, and then it is up to them to decide on the new members by unanimous consent.
When a sergeant is recognized for both morality and ability, and is discovered by a member of the Brotherhood, he will introduce him to the Brotherhood at meetings, and if there happens to be an empty seat, he will introduce the person to him, and with the consent of all the Brotherhood, he will be able to join the Brotherhood as a new member. The so-called everyone thinks you are a brother, and you are a brother.
Most of the sergeants with outstanding ability but have not been able to join the brotherhood are considered by various brotherhoods to be unable to keep the righteousness of brothers, but they can get the status of guest secretary at most in Lanzhou.
In order to prevent someone from using the Brotherhood to form a party and cause chaos, Wu Yingying strictly forbade the mentor or the head of the Brotherhood to force the lower-level Brotherhood to recruit new members. Cai Jian couldn't convince Shi Yuanqing and Yan Zhe, so he came up with this solution, he knew that Bagen was willing to go undercover in the slave camp, but he didn't want these clansmen to make senseless sacrifices. The lower brotherhood will test the new brother in a strange way. Thus, there was the ritual of this trial.
A day later, Wu Yingying met with the top members of the Lanzhou Brotherhood in the command embassy.
"Cai Jian has a new person to join there, a Mongolian sergeant named Bagen. Chase reported.
"Well, there are more and more Hu people in the Lanzhou army. Cai Jian is doing things safely, this root is easy to cultivate, and it can be used in the future. Wu Yingying nodded, this was also a piece of his heart. Zhang Zhongyao proposed to advance into Hexi, and then cover the Western Regions, and then seize Guanzhong while the Great Song Dynasty was at war with Liao, and at the same time cut off the passage between Bianliang and Bashu, and Xu Tu the world. Wu Yingying was worried that the Han people in the Western Regions accounted for less than half of the total population, and if they could not effectively integrate the Hu people, it would be difficult for this force to confront the Great Song Dynasty for a long time.
When Wu Yingying talked about the Hu nationality, Shi Yuanguang's face was as usual, the Sogdians were not ashamed of being Hu, and in the Tang Dynasty, they also did everything possible to avoid their household registration being converted to Han nationality, because ordinary Han households were not allowed to engage in commerce, and there were many restrictions on traveling everywhere, and the Sogdians were much better.
Chase reported the situation of some households, and said with a smile: "A few months ago, the Zoroastrian Church opened an altar in the city, and there are quite a few people who have joined the Church. Recently, some Buddhists, Taoists, Nestorians, and Manichaeans have asked to preach in the city. He looked at Wu Yingying and asked him to come up with an idea.
"It's all allowed," Wu Yingying said with a smile, "as long as it's not a lie, confusing the public, and making people rebel." He paused for a moment, and said to Chase in a deep voice: "In the long run, it is inevitable that there will be some magic sticks fishing in troubled waters to make waves in my Lanzhou, you go and gather the heads of the sects for me, let them consult, draw up a Wu, explain clearly, what is the orthodox religion that leads people to goodness, what is the cult that confuses the people with fallacies, if it is reasonable, then on the basis of this article, the Inquisition will be set up, and the demons who use the demons to confuse the people with gossip will be specially locked, but in the end it must be handed over to my Lanzhou government for questioning." ”
"Yes," Chase Zun Rin thought about how to gather these religious leaders who usually don't get along with each other for a while, and secretly praised and commanded this trick to use their strength to let those Orthodox priests who are ruthless to the tongue and lotus and deal with heresy to lock up the demon god stick, which is a hundred times harder than the official officials, and in the future, in the territory of Lanzhou, I am afraid that even a witch who dances the great god will not be found.
"After the opening of the Lanzhou desert trade route, the caravans passing through the territory of the party in Xiazhou have plummeted, and the party departments have been ready to move recently, and I am afraid that there will be a move in the near future. Shi Yuanguang said in a deep voice.
"Oh?" Wu Yingying's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said with a smile, "The party has occupied the land of the five states of Dingyan for nearly a hundred years, and it is deeply rooted and difficult to crusade, and I am still afraid that he will not be able to shrink back." He turned his eyes to look at Xin Gu, Xiao Jiu and the other six people present, and said in a deep voice: "Since he is about to move, we will lure the snakes out of the hole, let them bleed, and consume the capital and vitality accumulated by the Xiazhou Tuoba clan for a hundred years." Although he had a smile on his face, his tone was Senran, the Xiazhou Party Xiang Tuoba clan dragged the Northern Song Dynasty down and didn't collapse himself, and it lasted for three hundred years, which was really hard to bite.