Chapter 333: The Feast

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Xianbei people have abandoned their cattle and sheep, and they have only one way to die, because then they will not even have food and will soon starve to death. Therefore, even if they knew that the Han army was going to catch up and would probably kill them, they still couldn't abandon these cattle and sheep.

On the contrary, cattle and sheep are very slow animals, not only do they walk slowly, they also eat grass while walking, which makes them useless even if they are in a hurry, the cattle will not buy it, you rush, they will walk, and they will stop eating grass if they can't catch up. Driving a large herd of livestock, the speed of walking is not even as fast as the speed of ordinary people.

This is why the 1st Division can constantly catch up with groups of Xianbei people. Of course, to catch up with these Xianbei people means to catch up with their most important property - livestock. Zhang Bao would not be polite to them, chased them all the way, and sent a team of people and horses all the way to collect these Xianbei people and livestock, and drove them back to the royal court.

Are there those who refuse to obey? That's not simple, one word: "Kill!" There is no second option, what kind of soft policy, show kindness, move with affection and reason, and convince people with virtue or anything at this time are not used. At this time, Zhang Bao used a simpler and more crude method than the legendary deeds of his father Zhang Fei: obedience is to avoid death, and all those who are slightly dissatisfied will be killed.

At this time, who has time to reason with you slowly, persuade you with hard work, just forget what you say, obediently turn around and go, and if you are disobedient, you will go down. If this kind of brutal behavior is strictly forbidden in the territory of the Han Dynasty, the Hong Army has always been very good to the common people of the Han Dynasty, and if a general dares to kill the common people, then he not only does not want to be mixed, but simply does not want to live.

However, for ordinary people of different races, there are no provisions in the military regulations, and at this time, the first division of course adopts the simplest way to do things. Although the Hu people were unruly, as mentioned above, the remaining common people were actually old, weak, sick and disabled, and those who were strong were all transferred to the army by Budugen and turned into cavalry and fled to the front.

And these old, weak, sick and disabled naturally do not have much spirit of resistance, and even because the peoples on the grassland have a custom or habit of obeying the strong, the obedience of these people is not much better than that of the Central Plains.

The steppe people fought against each other, and generally speaking, if one tribe defeated another, unless there was a blood feud, they would not be exterminated, but would take the people of the other tribe into slavery. And the people of these defeated tribes are also very conscious of being slaves, which is one of the rules of survival on the steppe.

Now that the First Division has conquered them, they naturally have the heart to cling to the Han army, so these old, weak, sick and disabled people did not resist, and most of them were obediently driven by the soldiers of the First Division to turn around and go to the royal court.

However, because of the language barrier, some Xianbei people died in vain under the swords of the soldiers of the First Division. Zhang Bao brought some guides with him before he set off, most of these guides were able to speak Xianbei dialect, but there were not many of them after all, and now the first division continued to divide small troops to collect the Xianbei people, and these translators were soon insufficient.

In the back, there are some squads who don't know Xianbei words at all, they can only point fingers and order the Xianbei people to go back, of course, there are many Xianbei people who can speak Chinese, but inevitably, there are some people in the crowd who happen to know Chinese, so misunderstandings will naturally arise.

The consequences of misunderstanding are very serious, because for the disobedient Xianbei people, the policy implemented by the soldiers of the first division is to kill them with a knife, and this disobedience includes not being able to understand words. Because of this, many Xianbei people died unjustly because they did not understand the Chinese language and did not understand the gestures of the Han soldiers.

A palace in the Xuchang Imperial Palace, the hall is brightly lit, the cups are staggered, the smile is Yan Yan, and the delicate and lovely maids are wandering around the hall, serving food and wine to the people in the palace.

This scene of wine and wine is that Liu Hou is banqueting the minister, because there is indeed no elegant meal system for eating around the meal, besides, if there are too many people, one table can not sit down, and if the table is divided, it is easy to snub the people who are not at the main table, so this banquet, Liu Hou still follows the tradition of the Han Dynasty and adopts the meal system.

In the main hall, there were several rows of ministers sitting neatly, and each of them had a low table in front of them, on which was placed a tray, in which were all kinds of food and wine, and the ministers were kneeling behind the low table to eat and drink.

The emperor sat high on the top, the difference was that in front of him was not a low table, but a large desk, the size of which was about the same size as the boss's table in later generations, the difference was that the materials used to make this desk were definitely more valuable than the boss's desk of any boss in later generations, because it was made of the legendary golden silk nanmu for the royal family.

And this table is not only made of precious materials, the legs and edges of the table are also carved dragons and phoenixes, carved with very exquisite patterns, these carvings alone are already priceless, with valuable materials, and the emperors of the two dynasties have used this kind of historical background ~ scene, if it is put in the future generations as antiques to auction, I don't know what kind of sky-high price it will be auctioned.

However, no matter how sky-high the price is, it is not as accurate as the chair Liu Hou is sitting on now, or it is more accurate to call it a couch, because its size is enough for a person to half-lie in it. This chair is the legendary dragon chair, the whole body is golden, the whole dragon chair is carved with nine five-clawed golden dragons, of which the armrests on both sides have a tooth and claw, lifelike golden dragon.

This dragon chair was originally used to kneel on it, but Liu Hou was really not used to kneeling, so he could only let people raise the entire dragon chair, hang their feet to the ground, and use this couch-like dragon chair as a chair for future generations. For this reason, he was also criticized by some old-fashioned officials, believing that the little emperor lacked education.

Liu Hou didn't care about these criticisms at all, and still sat with his feet down, but even if he did, he still sat uncomfortable, because this dragon chair was not only wide, but also very deep, and the fart~ sat at the front of the chair, but the back was 108,000 miles away from the back of the chair.

In other words, you don't have to think about leaning back in the chair, unless you fall back, lean back at 45 degrees, and half lie on it. It's just that this way my eyes can only see the ceiling. Liu Hou hated this dragon chair that was completely unmatched with ergonomics, and wanted to replace it, but this kind of handicraft could not be produced for a while, so it could only be used first.

This dragon chair and the desk in front of it are all objects left by the Cao Wei court, at that time Cao Pi thought that the Shu army was about to fight, so he hurriedly escaped from Xuchang, and many large objects were too late to move, so these two things were retained. After Liu Hou entered the Xuchang Palace, he naturally unceremoniously carried forward the doctrine of taking it and used it.