Li Ji was not polite at all, but Feng Gui didn't care either, he directly laughed and said: "Brother, I know by looking at your face that you are not a person who suffers, the reason why I said that Leader Huo is the only one who can stabilize is because of these Turkic people." ”

Feng Gui pointed to the Turks who were working.

"Oh? How to say this, please give me advice. Li Ji immediately asked.

"Brother, although you are from Guanzhong, since you are doing business in Guazhou, Liangzhou, you should have heard that Turks often entered Liangzhou to plunder in Guazhou in the past?" Feng Gui said.

"Yes, I've heard of it."

"To tell you the truth, I don't have a good impression of these Turks, they are too cruel, but in this Western Regions for more than 20 years, there are some things I don't say, in fact, those ordinary Turkic herdsmen are actually the same as our people in the Central Plains, very bitter and miserable."

"Those who really looted, except for a small number of private soldiers led by some Turkic tribal nobles, most of the looting Turks were ordinary herdsmen who couldn't survive, and if they didn't rob, they wouldn't survive, so they could only shoot."

"I don't sympathize with them, my brother died in the raids of the Turks, and I say this because we Han people are actually the same. When you can't survive, what should you do if you don't rob others? ”

"My hometown is in a village in Guazhou, there is a river below us, and almost all the fields we plant depend on that river. Grab the water! If there is no water, you will not be able to plant the land, and if you can't plant the land, you will starve to death. What to do in order not to starve to death? Go and grab water, what about the people in other villages? I can't think about it so much. ”

"Because when you can't survive, you can't think about how other people are doing. The whole village fights, several people die every year, although this is not looting, but the essence is no different. ”

"It's like there are many kind and good people among the Turks, I, Feng Gui, have been running merchants in the Western Regions for more than 20 years, and I have been rescued by these Turks at least five times, do you say they are good people or bad people?" Feng Gui's tone was light.

Li Ji listened silently, these things, they can't understand many times, Li Ji has been almost following Li Shimin to fight the world in the first half of his life, how can he pay attention to these folk sufferings.

"We are no different from them before, to put it bluntly, in order to survive, it can only be like this, whose fault is this?"

"But Leader Huo is different, he let these Turks survive, and not only let these Turks survive, but let them live better. From here in the direction of Yiwu City, like our caravan will take about five days, yesterday we entered the territory of the Great Han, and today we will walk forward for more than an hour, and there will be a rest station in front. ”

"The one who sells milk tea is my former life-saving benefactor, his name is Bald Erwu, he used to be an ordinary herdsman, and there were about 100 of them at home, but one of his sons starved to death more than ten years ago, and the other son was beaten to death by a nobleman, but he could only endure it." Feng Gui drove the carriage and said lightly.

"More than a hundred sheep, how can they starve to death?" Li Ji was a little stunned.

"More than a hundred sheep were grazing for the Turkic nobles, and less than ten belonged to them, and if one of the nobles' sheep died, they had to make up for it themselves. Every year, after grazing, they could only get some coarse grain distributed to them by the Turkic nobles, barely enough for them to survive and not starve to death. ”

"But that year was not good, the sheep had no milk, and his youngest son, who was just three years old, could not graze because he was young, so he could only barely feed something, because the adults had to work and have to be fed, and the little son was hungry and screaming, and his brother couldn't bear it, so he secretly slaughtered a cub under a noble ewe, so that the Turkic nobles may not know that the ewe has a cub."

"It's just that they were unlucky, and they happened to meet the inspector sent by the noble, so his two sons died, the younger son was tied to a stake in the field by the Turkic nobles and starved to death, and the other brother was killed, and then all the sheep of their family were compensated to the nobleman, and they had to continue to graze for the nobleman, otherwise, they would kill their whole family."

"If my benefactor didn't have a son, two daughters and his wife, it is estimated that he would have worked hard at that time, but he couldn't, he could only watch, just watching his son howl alive and starve to death in front of him, and finally he buried his two sons with his own hands."

"Later, their tribe lost the war, and the Turkic nobleman was killed by someone from another tribe, and he also became a member of another tribe, but his fortune did not change, but the Turkic nobleman who was grazing became a different person."

"So, there is a saying among the ordinary herdsmen of the Turks that the sheep that belong to them are not their own, but are ready to become those nobles at any time. No herdsman dares to eat his own sheep, at most they can drink some goat's milk, wild vegetables, and the coarse grain rewarded by the nobles, no matter who the tribe is with, how many leaders are changed, their lives will not change. ”

"Drive!" Speaking of this, Feng Gui shook the horsewhip in his hand and snorted.

"And now?" Li Ji heard a little blockage in his heart, Li Ji had seen all kinds of iron-blooded scenes, but he couldn't imagine what it was like to see his son starved to death with his own eyes, and watch one of his sons being beaten to death, but in order to save the other children, he could only endure it alive.

He killed the Turks and the Han on the battlefield, but dying on the battlefield was completely different from this situation.

However, he also knew that there must be something to say later, so Li Ji asked this question.

"Now, now my life-saving benefactor is called Feng Yuan, after the first establishment of this post station, when I saw him, I was also a little surprised, but he told me that their leader Huo said that if a nation wants to prosper for a long time, it must learn to absorb the advantages of other nations, and Leader Huo said that Chinese characters and Chinese are the best among all ethnic groups, let them learn Chinese characters."

"So he asked me what kind of surname I should have, and then I told him, it's better for you to have my surname Feng, and then he smiled and said that it was surnamed Feng, and his name was given to him, and his family's name was also given by me, and I also paid for an old gentleman to give it."

"Now my benefactor Feng Yuan, his son has married his daughter-in-law, not to mention the marriage, his son also has two children. There are now a total of six people in his family, and after the leader of Huo came, he collected all the cattle and sheep of the Turkic nobles, and then distributed them equally among all the Turkic herdsmen. ”

"Of course, it can't be said that it will be distributed to them, they will pay it back in ten years, now each of them can receive 3 sheep, the whole family has received a total of 18 sheep, and they will return 48 sheep to Leader Huo in 10 years, and their whole family is very grateful to Leader Huo." Feng Gui said with a smile.

"This ...... Although it is said that 10 years, there are still 48 of them, which is too much, right? Li Ji was stunned for a moment, a little unintelligible, why do you have to thank for this?

"Hahaha, brother, so you must be the one who does great things." Feng Gui immediately laughed a few times, and then spoke: "Brother, you didn't calculate the account like this, it looks like 48 sheep is a lot!" But my benefactor didn't have a single sheep in his family before, and he received 18 sheep, 16 ewes, 2 rams, and five ewes, but after a year they could give birth. ”

"And some of these sheep can have two births a year, but most of them have three births in two years, ranging from one to four lambs in one birth."

"Even if one is born each time, even if these 16 ewes give birth to three litters in two years, after these two years, they will become 48 sheep. After 10 years, there are more than 200 sheep, and this is not counting the little ewes, and the little ewes can basically give birth after one year old. Brother, do you say that after 10 years, will you give 48 sheep to Leader Huo? ”

"The point is, these sheep will be their own! And not only that, each of the leaders of Huo also allocated 5 acres of land to each of them, according to my benefactor, the land allocated to them is the land blessed by the head of Huo, not to mention the alfalfa grass, and they can grow more than two feet high, basically two or three acres of land is enough for their dozen sheep to eat! ”

"The remaining alfalfa grass can be prepared from the summer, and the sheep will not lack forage in winter, the sheep will not lack grass, and the cubs can basically survive, and the leader Huo said that whether it is land or sheep, it will be their own in the future."

"It is said that these lands can be reclaimed into fertile land next year. They will be given seeds so that they can learn to grow food on their own. ”

"And not to mention this, now my benefactor's daughter-in-law is grazing at home near the Huo Ci River, and my son is working in the factory of the head of Huo, and it is said that he can receive a salary of one kilogram of grain a day."

"My benefactor sells some milk tea, grain and other food at this post station every day, and there is a surplus every month, and this year, they can even earn next year's grain, not to mention that the sheep is for nothing."

"You say, what is the status of a person like Leader Huo in the eyes of my benefactor." Feng Gui asked with a smile.

"That has to be high." Li Ji paused, and then said decisively.

"Yes, my benefactor said that when the Great Khan fought in the past, they herdsmen would only go if they couldn't hide, but if they recruited troops to fight, even if their whole family was lost, they would never take half a step back."

"But it's a pity that Leader Huo doesn't seem to need them to fight, otherwise, my benefactor said that he would definitely let his son fight for the leader."

Speaking of this, with a "snap", Feng Gui's horse whip threw a crisp whip in the air.