002 Escape

There are more than 30 large and small countries on the Xinghua Continent, among which the Hedong Empire and the Hexi Empire are the most powerful, the two countries are bounded by the Dragon River, the Hedong Empire in the east, and the Hexi Empire in the west. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Hedong Empire was relatively rich and developed due to its flat terrain, planting near the river and animal husbandry along the distant river. The Hexi Empire was hilly and mountainous, with complex industries and poor and backward industries.

The grasslands of the Hedong Empire are vast, with many pastures, and the green wolf grassland is the largest grassland in the empire, which is famous for its fierce and cunning, green coats, and difficult to find in the grass. The green wolf grassland covers millions of acres, with abundant forage and very developed animal husbandry, and has always been the private pasture of the emperor, never divided.

Ouyang Hao's family lives in the dung tribe of the Green Wolf Grassland, and the dung tribe is the lowest tribe in the Xinghua Continent.

There's a lot going on here.

More than 300 years ago, the emperor of the Hexi Empire, after unifying most of the countries west of the Longhe River, thought that he was strong enough, and began to covet the Hedong Empire's flat Pyongyang and fertile fields. However, after years of conquest, the army was weak and weak, the country was empty and the people were poor, and the hilly tactics were completely inappropriate in the plains, and under multiple disadvantages, the 600,000 troops of the Hexi Empire who crossed the river to fight with the strength of the whole country were quickly divided and surrounded, and then eliminated, and the emperor fled to the south with a few guards.

The emperor of the Hedong Empire didn't like the ditches and bumps of the Hexi Empire, and thought that everything that couldn't let his war horses gallop was barren land. He had no intention of occupying it, but he was worried about the resurgence of the barbaric Hexi Empire. Bound by religious beliefs, he could not kill too many innocent civilians, so he accepted the minister's advice and destroyed most of the means of production in the Hexi Empire, and destroyed them every few years.

The means of production were destroyed, and the common people of the Hexi Empire could not produce food, so there was a lot of famine and starvation.

The Ouyang family was the second largest grain merchant in the Hedong Empire, and the patriarch was a well-known good man, and he wrote many times to ask the emperor to allow him to sell grain to the people of Hexi, but he was refused. I can't watch people starve to death, so I have to sell them secretly, and the people of Hexi have no money, so they are allowed to exchange them for mountain treasures and herbs.

The patriarch's grain saved the people of Hexi, and the mountain herbs of the people of Hexi also made him a lot of profits.

There is no such thing as an impermeable wall, and the news soon reached the emperor. The emperor was angry, although he was a son and daughter, but if he violated the law and did not punish him, it would greatly damage the emperor's majesty.

When the emperor and his brother fought for power in the civil war, in order to prepare food, he married the first and second grain merchants in the empire. When fighting the country, grain and grass were important, and now it must be the emperor's prestige, and all children and relatives are serving the emperor.

The opposite problem has always existed in the pastures and farms of the Empire, where the manure is unbearable, crushing the pasture, smelling bad, breeding mosquitoes, and the farm is short of fertilizer, which seriously affects the yield of crops.

There was a prime minister who sent a group of people to the ranch to collect manure and transport it to the farm. The emperor thought this method was very good, but such a smelly and tiring thing, if you find a group of people to go at random, it is easy to cause detachment.

Now the opportunity has come, let the Ouyang family go, and the people who betrayed the empire will not have sympathy, which not only solves the matter, but also punishes and humiliates the Ouyang family. So the edict was issued, and the nine clans of the Ouyang family were criminalized and compiled as a dung tribe.

Such a disgraced tribe, with whom no one wants to marry, reproduction has become a big problem. In order to keep this dung-collecting unit alive, the emperor thought of another trick and forcibly changed the surnames of some young men and women who had committed serious crimes to Ouyang and sent them to this tribe. So everyone in the dung tribe is surnamed Ouyang, and everyone surnamed Ouyang is from the dung tribe, Ouyang marries Ouyang, which violates ethics and shamelessness of incest.

No matter from which aspect, the Ouyang family was nailed to the pillar of shame by the emperor and could never turn over.

The news of being humiliated by the mayor and changing his name soon spread to the tribe, and every time Ouyang Hao took his son out to pick up dung, the sound of "shovel officer, shovel officer" was always in the ears, there were children and adults, and their father and son fought with them a lot.

I'm getting old, I'm being humiliated a lot, I'm used to it. But my son is still so young, and he is scolded every day, how can he grow up. It's not terrible to be humiliated by others, but it's terrible to be humiliated even by your own people.

After careful consideration, Ouyang Hao made a decision, applied to join the dung delivery worker, and took his son away from here to the farm on the edge of the Dragon River.

It's a long way to the farm, and there are lions, wolves, and beasts along the way. According to statistics, every time a batch of manure is transported to the farm, after returning, only half of the people are left, and the other half are buried in the mouths of animals. Some of them died of exhaustion and disease, and they were thrown down and eaten by wild beasts.

Occasionally, entire armies are wiped out.

Therefore, it is a difficult thing for the tribe to recruit dung workers every time, and everyone is afraid to avoid it, and it takes a long time to recruit them, and they can only recruit them by all means. Now that someone actually took the initiative to ask for it, it was naturally something that could not be sought, but Ouyang Xuan had to follow him at such a young age, which was a big burden. Ouyang Hao said that it would not be troublesome to let his son sit on the lid of the dung bucket, and the captain of the dung delivery team agreed.

Life and death were uncertain, Ouyang Hao took his son to the graves of his parents and wife to worship, begging them to appear and bless him with peace. Ouyang Hao's wife, Ouyang Xuan's mother, is the ninth aunt who was reprimanded here by the mayor for "adultery", and died in childbirth when she gave birth to Ouyang Xuan.

After a few days of preparation, the manure delivery procession set out, with a total of 75 wagons and 216 people: 20 escort wagons with 5 people in each car, 50 manure wagons in the middle, 2 people each, and 5 baggage wagons such as dry food tents, also in the middle, with 3 people each. Ouyang Hao is relatively old, and he was assigned to be the groom's assistant to the dung truck, and his son Ouyang Xuan sat on the dung bucket lid of the carriage he was in, so this dung truck was 3 people. was not allowed to sit next to Ouyang Xuan, because he was afraid that when something happened, Ouyang Xuan would only give priority to protecting his son, which would put the groom in danger.

After a long journey of about half a month, the dung delivery team finally arrived at the target farm - Zhujiang Farm.

Zhu Jiang's farm is the emperor's confidant, the farm of the great general Zhu Yan, with fertile land and developed agriculture.

At this time, the remaining dung delivery team is as follows: 119 people, 8 escort vehicles, 48 dung trucks, and 2 baggage trucks.

Most of them were injured, ranging from severe to severe, and both cars were broken, but the dung truck was fine. The empire has rules that dung is more important than people.

Ouyang Xuan's father and son were also injured, Ouyang Hao's right thigh was bitten through by the green wolf, and he pretended that it was not serious with great perseverance, so he was not thrown away. He knew a little about medicine, and on the way he was wrapped in herbal rags, which did not rot and deteriorate.

Because of his weak stature, Ouyang Xuan was besieged by wolves several times along the way. Bullying the weak seems to be a common phenomenon, both for humans and for beasts. But he's a miracle, he's jumping up and down on the dung bucket, and no wolf can get close. Only once his father was attacked by a wolf, and when he screamed and reminded, the head wolf seized the opportunity and caught him, leaving a mark on his leg, and it grew up in a few days.