Chapter 357, Refuge
Qin Zhongzhi hurriedly led everyone to sit down first, and then said: "Don't worry, girl, a certain party has already sent someone to call Gai Wu Xiaolangjun, presumably he should come after a while." It's better to let him tell you the reason. ”
Tan Invite Yu put down half of his heart first, and seeing Qin Zhongzhi's calm and relaxed appearance, it must not be a big deal. It's just that the stubble veteran is desperate? Is it because he doesn't use the wrong words in Chinese?
Tan Yuyu was about to take advantage of the waiting time to discuss the matter with Qin Zhongzhi again, but he didn't expect Gai Wu to come soon.
It's just that the moment he saw him at the door, Tan Yuyu almost didn't recognize him.
Tan Yingyu always said that he didn't like children, and the most unpleasant one was Gai Wu. The kid has a stinky and hard temper, and has two faces. Every time he faced her and Yun Daosheng, it was a difference between heaven and earth.
But today, Gai Wu is like a different person in the same body. If it is said that Gai Wu was a stubborn stone before, then this stubborn stone seems to have been re-polished, and it has become a diamond with sharp edges and corners.
Tan Yingyu also knew that it was not appropriate to describe a child who was just ten years old with coldness, firmness and numbness. But this is indeed the feeling that Gai Wu gave her at the moment.
Gai Wu didn't say much, and after bowing slightly to Yun Daosheng in the hall, he sat down behind the desk opposite Tan Yuyu by himself.
Tan Invite Yu looked at the child a little stunned, this kind of aura full of blood and violence was something that Invite Yu couldn't reach when he was ten years old.
"What happened?" Tan Yuyu no longer has any luck mentality.
No matter how cloudy Qin Zhongzhi's attitude was, if it weren't for the big changes in his life, Tan Invite Yu didn't believe that a child would be reborn in such a short period of time.
Gai Wu was obviously sitting across a corridor, but his voice seemed to come from a long distance, "King Beiliang gave us a reward for relieving Guangwu City, do you know?" ”
Tan Yuyu shook his head. After she left Beiliang, she went straight to the Xia Dynasty to unify Wancheng, but she really didn't pay attention to the news of Beiliang.
Gai Wu said with a somewhat mocking tone: "He named you as the Yisheng Immortal Gu, built a Taoist temple on Horseshoe Mountain, and enshrined your shrine." ”
Gai Wu turned to Yun Daosheng again, his expression softened slightly, "He also sealed Yun Dao Chang as the Blessed Holy Dao Monarch, and gave him a walking waist card in front of the emperor." Allow the Heavenly Master Dao to preach in Beiliang and recruit disciples. ”
Tan Zhaoyu was keenly aware that Gai Wu directly called him to the king of Beiliang, Fuqu Mengxun. If memory serves, Gai Wu still had some respect for the King of Beiliang before.
Tan Yuyu vaguely guessed something, and she asked in a deep voice, "What about you?" What rewards did you get? ”
In fact, in the battle of Guangwu City, the mercenary group led by Gai Wu had the greatest credit, if it weren't for the fact that they had garrisoned the army one step ahead of Guangwu City, Guangwu City would have been occupied by Helianding before the arrival of the Beiliang Wang's army.
The mockery in Gai Wu's voice was even heavier, and he recounted the decree of the King of Beiliang without emotion: "A hundred good horses, a hundred taels of gold." The mercenary group led by Gai Tiantai was given the title of Tiantai Army and included in the military ranking. ”
"Included in the military?!" Tan Zhaoyu gasped.
Since Qin Zhongzhi intended to hire Lu Shuihu, he had inquired into their situation carefully.
The Lushuihu people are one of the tribes that live more difficult in the north. Their land is uncultivable and too small for grazing.
Before the Lushuihu people became mercenaries, the entire tribe was in a state of starvation.
Later, the Lushuihu people did not know what way to go, and the men began to go out to work as mercenaries.
Some of them work alone, some in groups. Gai Wu's father, Gai Tiantai, relied on his own ability to build this Tiantai army, which can be regarded as a relatively large part of the mercenary group.
But the Tiantai Army is not unique, the population of Lu Shuihu was not much when life was hard, and later the mercenary group was formed, growing in size, and the materials brought back by the men were gradually enriched, and the population grew a lot.
This kind of guerrilla is included in the military register, and it may be like a bandit being recruited and becoming a regular army, with a good face, but there are loopholes inside. Tan Yuyu could guess how much Lu Shuihu's people would oppose this arrangement.
The army of the Northern Liang Army consisted of the Slave Army and the Wang Army. The slave army was "raised" by the royal family, and was responsible for the dirty work of sending people to death and building defensive offensives. In essence, being alive is about the same as being dead.
The Northern Liang Wang Army has some similarities with the military household system of the Great Wei, that is, the general raises soldiers. The soldiers' income depended only on battlefield plunder.
If Gaitiantai becomes a branch of the Wang army, it doesn't sound like a bad thing, but without the income of the mercenary group, Beiliang only has occasional friction with Western Qin, there is no war, no booty, then it will be difficult for them to make a living without the family members of the ranch.
Gai Wu's originally calm face gradually turned hideous with anger, his fists clenched, and his body tensed straight from emotion. He controlled his emotions and told Tan Zhaoyu and the others what had happened little by little.
When the reward of the king of Beiliang first arrived in Lushui, Gai Tiantai dragged the sick body and knelt down to refuse the reward.
Gai Tiantai explained the difficulties of the Lu Shuihu people to the envoys of Fuqu Mengxun one by one, but Fuqu Mengxun had already ordered that all the mercenary groups must be brought back. Not only the one established by Gaitiantai, but also the other Lu Shuihu armies are no exception.
What is most lacking in troubled times is population, whether it is labor or soldiers, a large number of young and middle-aged people need to be continuously imported.
Tuoba Tao did not hesitate to worship the Tao and destroy the Buddha for the sake of the population, how could Bei Liang let so many strong men live freely outside.
The envoy of the King of Beiliang said at that time that the Lu Shuihu people would be allowed to move into Guangwu City to work, and the families of the mercenary group would be exempted from paying taxes for five years.
This kind of reward was already very generous in the eyes of the envoy, but Lu Shuihu himself was not willing.
Older people don't want to leave their homes, and besides, going to Guangwu City to work is similar to half a slave, and it is tiring and restricts freedom, so a fool would want to go.
One party must take people away, and the other party does not want to leave the homeland at all, so there is a quarrel between the words, and finally it turns into a big fight.
Gai Tiantai was already seriously ill, and he tried his best to calm down the chaos during the dispute, but he was stabbed in the abdomen by someone for a while.
As soon as Gai Tiantai died, the scene suddenly became chaotic. In the cry, the dead died, the wounded wounded. Once the killing began, no one cared about the elderly, the weak, the women and the children.
By the time the frustrated messengers retreated, there were only two out of ten old and weak women and children who survived, and the mercenary group also suffered heavy casualties.
The mercenary groups that were still alive were worried that the King of Beiliang would send more troops to force them to join the army, so they packed up their bags and left the Lushui Realm for refuge.
The Lu Shuihu people, who were not originally hugged, are really united at the moment. On the border to Western Qin, they met Gai Wu and others who were rushing back to Lushui from Tongwancheng.
As soon as the two sides met, Gai Wu led the army, 10,000 mercenaries and 3,000 family members, and went directly south to Qiuchi for refuge.