Chapter 158: The Power of the Family
An Xinggui really has a feeling of absurdity now, Hou Huo, the champion of the year, was at the peak of his debut when he was sick, and he was at the peak until he died! At the age of 17, he began to lead troops to fight, and then made the Huns sad from the moment he shot.
Until Huo Qu's death, in less than 7 years, the Huns were directly abolished! The problem is that the champion Hou had the entire Han Empire as the background and logistical support back then, why are you Huo Gang?!
With only a thousand old, weak, sick and disabled, sixty or seventy old soldiers, in just a few months, the population under your rule is close to 200,000?! This is completely unreasonable, your ancestors have not played like you!
At the beginning, An Xinggui already felt incredible when the news came from Huo Gang, and now An Xinggui felt that it was extremely tricky, when he defeated Ashye, he felt that maybe the Western Turkic Royal Court would not sit idly by, but now that he knew, the Western Turkic Royal Court had nothing to do with Huo Gang now.
Unless the Western Turkic royal court gathers the strength of the entire Western Turks to fight Huo Gang, the problem is, this is impossible, and there are still Eastern Turks eyeing it! So An Xinggui knows very well that Huo Gang's current situation has stabilized! And it's incredibly stable!
Even if he An Xinggui wants to clean up Huo Gang now, it is impossible! It's impossible to clean up, An Xinggui simply doesn't do any small actions, because now these small actions can't affect the overall situation at all, but it is easy to cause trouble for himself, especially when Dunhuang Fang replaced Li Shimin and Huo Gang to do business, An Xinggui was even more cautious.
Because once the emperor is involved, the matter will be more complicated. Now he has felt a kind of crisis, so An Xinggui's current idea is very simple, to be loyal to Li Erbiao, and to be absolutely loyal.
Otherwise, if Huo Gang really had a good relationship with Li Er, as Huo Gang's strength became bigger and bigger, it was really not unimaginable for Li Er to give up the settlement family for Huo Gang.
But now he really has no choice, the An family is regarded as the emperor of the soil in the entire Liangzhou, the problem is that the Li family in Longxi is no worse than him with a single Dunhuang house, not to mention that the entire Li family in Longxi has a total of nine rooms!
This is also the reason why An Xinggui has not returned to Liangzhou Wuwei until now, but stayed here to lock Yang City.
And An Hu got the source of the news faster than An Xinggui imagined, or to be precise, it was the Longxi Li family's movements that were too fast, the five surnames and Qiwang showed their strong family heritage for the first time, a thousand different craftsmen and their families, plus some beauties specially selected by Li Yi, a total of more than six thousand people, and they were assembled in less than three days.
This is still in Dunhuang, Guazhou, Liangzhou, these places with a small population in the Western Regions, if this is a place with a large population in the Central Plains, I am afraid that the strength contained in the other party is even more terrifying.
An Xinggui, who got the news, was directly shocked, although An Xinggui didn't know what Li Gong and Li Yi were going to do, but presumably even if the saint was doing business with Huo Gang, it would be impossible for him to send so many people to Huo Gang, right?
After hesitating for a while, An Xinggui made a decision directly, and directly secretly sent someone to quickly write this matter into a secret letter and send it directly to Chang'an.
It's just that An Xinggui didn't know that the people he secretly sent out had just left the An family, and the people specially sent by Li Yi already knew about it.
"Da Lang said that his home is the home of Liangzhou, and his news can be transmitted in Liangzhou, but not when he leaves Liangzhou." This person sneered and directly made a motion to wipe his neck.
Following his order, several people immediately and quickly left the place.
As for what to do if these people are found missing, they haven't thought about it at all, because thousands of miles from this Suoyang City to Chang'an, there are many bandits, accidents and so on, what are the dead people?
And the dead man is good, the dead man shows that he is derelict in his duty as the Duke of Liangguo, because who made him not even take good care of Liangzhou, there has always been Tuyuhun, and the Turks entered Liangzhou to burn and loot?
An Xinggui didn't know this, but when An Xinggui was shocked, Huo Gang was also shocked, he really felt for the first time how perverted these family gate valves of the five surnames and seven wangs of this era were, a thousand craftsmen! What is this concept? In this era, there are a thousand craftsmen, Huo Gang thought about it, and it is almost the same as a thousand graduate students in modern times!
Say send, just send it casually! And it's not just a thousand craftsmen, it's directly connected to the families of these craftsmen, and nearly 6,000 people are directly sent over! Is this supposed to say that the population of the Central Plains is too large?
Of course, not everyone of these craftsmen may be like Lu Ji and other craftsmen who can take charge of themselves, but even if they are all basic craftsmen, this is not a small number.
Moreover, Huo Gang is also short of population now, which directly sent over a population of nearly 10,000 people, which has increased the proportion of Han people under Huo Gang a lot.
As for whether the other party will plant spies in these craftsmen, Huo Gang doesn't know, but if it is a spy, it must be hostile to him, right? If it's hostile, it should be...... It's red, right?
So, Huo Gang should be able to see it, right?
Originally, Huo Gang was going to go back to Yangguan, and the work there had been going on, and he would soon be able to start the next step, but now, more than 6,000 people suddenly came, and Huo Gang couldn't leave, so he had to wait for these people to come and make arrangements.
It just so happens that the population here in Yumen Pass is a little small, only about 1,000 people, but now it is possible to arrange most of these people in Yumen Pass, so that the population of Yumen Pass is almost 7,000 people, and it will be active in an instant.
So Huo Gang could only wait for two more days at Yumen Pass, and then waited for the arrival of the entire team of craftsmen.
It was Zheng Ning who came with the craftsman team, but not long after the other party left Dunhuang County, Huo Gang directly sent Gongsun Lin to lead five hundred cavalry to protect, which can be regarded as showing the strength of these craftsmen.
Because Huo Gang didn't have to think about it, these craftsmen must not come over willingly, but since they were raised by the Li family in Longxi, that is to say, the Li family in Longxi is their master, whether they want to or not, they will definitely come over, if they resist, their fate is actually known to them.
But on the bright side, you don't have to think about it to know that the Li family in Longxi must have let them "agree" to come over.
"I've seen the chief." Zheng Ning first saluted Huo Gang, and then said with a smile.
"Team Leader Zheng has worked hard." Huo Gang nodded slightly.
"It's nothing, it should be, chief, there are a total of 1,000 craftsmen who came this time, and together with the families of these craftsmen, a total of 6,112 people, and we will send them some of their subsequent possessions one after another, but this place of residence can only be arranged by the chief." Zheng Ning said with a smile.
"Thank you, this is how it should be, they are here and they are my people, of course I should arrange their residence and life." Huo Gang said seriously.
Zheng Ning nodded and smiled, not surprised.
Ning Qi is a carpenter, and a carpenter with good skills, the main family is the Li family in Longxi, he is already one of the main craftsman leaders of the Li family in Longxi, usually leading dozens of apprentices, responsible for making carpentry work for various industries in the Dunhuang house of the Li family in Longxi.
It can be said that Ning Qi is already the best in the lives of ordinary people, the family does not have to worry about food and clothing, and there is a surplus in the daily salary, which can add a lot of things to the family.
But what Ning Qi never expected was that the main family suddenly made the decision to let them go to the Western Regions outside the Guanwai, and it was also to the leader of another force as a subordinate, although nominally they were asked to go over to help, but Ning Qi and they all knew that when they left, preparation meant that they didn't even count the Tang Dynasty.
I thought this big man was ...... Although it is said to be the same as the name of the Han Dynasty hundreds of years ago, it is a country in the Western Regions, although its leader seems to be also a Han Chinese, called Huo Gang.
But if it's not Datang, it's not Datang, although Ning Qi doesn't have any sense of belonging to Datang for the time being, Ning Qi still understands the truth that it's good to enjoy the shade with his back to a big tree, it is impossible for such a big Datang Empire to fall, as long as this empire does not fall, they will have someone to protect them.
How could Ning Qi, who had lived in Dunhuang County for a long time, not know about small countries like the Western Regions? Maybe one day it won't be there, and the customs outside the Western Regions are very chaotic, these small countries can't even prevent some horse thieves, how to protect them?
But can they resist? I can't help but say that a behemoth like the Li family in Longxi is an ordinary nobleman in his main family, if he wants to rebel...... The final result is very clear, their whole family is estimated to not survive, and against such a family, for them, it is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.
So Ning Qi can only agree, no matter how unwilling his wife or the like, Ning Qi can only agree.
This time Ning Qi has a lot of family, for example, Ning Qi's eldest son learned from him and is also a carpenter, and the eldest son's wife naturally wants to follow, as well as his grandson, his two younger sons, and a daughter.
The two younger sons have been studying carpenter with him for several years, and the second son is just fifteen years old.
However, what Ning Qi didn't expect was that this time it was not just their family, but a whole thousand craftsmen! When Ning Qicong was born, it can be said that he was the servant craftsman of the Li family in Longxi, and his ancestors have been craftsmen serving the Dunhuang house of the Li family in Longxi for three generations, and he also knows the Dunhuang house very well.
This thousand craftsmen ...... Although it will not make the Dunhuang room hurt, it will definitely have a great impact on the Dunhuang room!