In the vast desert of the sandbar, on the undulating sand dunes, a camel moves slowly.

On the back of the camel lay a man on his stomach, his ragged clothes bare his back, and his back was covered with scars.

This was once the seventh product of the Anxi Protectorate, and he had a bright future and unlimited scenery, but unfortunately he made a mistake and offended people who should not be offended, and he fell into this fate, and in the end he was not even as good as a beggar.

He lay on his camel with his eyes closed, wondering what was going on in his mind, did he regret what he had done? It's really stupid to think about, it's really ridiculous, he also helped his cousin Lu Qian to get rid of others, but in the end, others used his cousin to get rid of him.

Life is so absurd, and some coincidences even make him dare not believe it, just like now, a few miles behind him, a fool riding a thin horse, has been driven back to his hometown like himself.

They are actually a pair of brothers and sisters who should be sympathetic to each other, but they already have unforgivable disagreements and contradictions with each other, and to be honest, if it weren't for the wounds on his body now, according to his temper, he would have turned back now, and ended up that ungrateful fool.

Lu Qian may be guilty in his heart, I am afraid that it is not ashamed of his cousin, but ashamed of his stupidity, so he is unwilling to face Xiao Ting.

It stands to reason that even if their cousins have a big conflict, they should first defend themselves against a strong enemy, and then resolve them privately. But the real fact is that the rift accumulates in the contradictions, misunderstandings and repressions of the brothers grows bigger and bigger, and the suspicion between them even exceeds the fear of outsiders. So when Lu Qian learned that he seemed to have been calculated by his cousin, he chose to turn back without hesitation.

Sure enough, my brother was an enemy in his previous life, and so were my cousins.

Lu Qian was muttering on his horse, when suddenly there was a shadow blocking the sunlight in front of him, but it was three or four swordsmen wearing sheepskin jackets and torn fur coats on horseback to stop in front of him.

While he was panicked, he also pretended to be calm and bowed his hand: "Are you heroes trying to rob money?" What I have on me is worth taking, so you can take it! ”

A swordsman laughed out of his yellow teeth, took out a horizontal knife from his waist and slapped it in his hand and said: "That's right, I took the initiative to stretch out my neck, let's swing the knife faster, it definitely doesn't hurt." ”

Lu Qian screamed, he didn't even have the courage to pull out the knife at his waist, and ran towards his cousin Xiao Ting's direction with a whip.

As long as his horse is fast enough to overtake Xiao Ting, these people will definitely kill Xiao Ting first, and maybe they will be able to buy time to escape.

The swordsmen just looked at each other and smiled, and the five of them outflanked Lu Qian in five directions, Lu Qian shouted beyond Xiao Ting, and shouted for mercy from his mouth: "Don't kill me, don't kill me, kill the person who rides the camel, he is not a good thing!" ”

Xiao Ting calmly lay on the camel and let out a giggle, and he laughed even more insolently as these murderous swordsmen passed by him.

"Haha, good kill!"

There was a pool of blood on the dry sand dunes, and Lu Qian's head was taken off and thrown on the ground. The nameless swordsman rode back and surrounded the camel, Xiao Ting was still lying lazily on the camel, closed his eyes and smiled: "Sure enough, it is to kill all of them, leaving no trouble, I Xiao Ting died unjustly, come on!" ”

The five swordsmen looked at each other, and one of them stepped forward to unsheath his sword.

Cha!

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Cang Cao's participation in the army of the Anxi Protectorate is considered a fat fat difference that can no longer be fattened, and the transportation of grain and grass, the distribution of armor, and the supply of weapons and equipment in the entire Anxi are all dispatched by Wu Sangao.

Li Siye has been fighting with this Wu Senjun these days, and almost every day he feasts Wu Sangao in the most upscale wine shop in Qiuzi, and when the staggered time, there are beautiful Hu girls in fox fur to accompany them, and the beauties of Kangju are dancing on the stage, and the pink long silk skirt is swaying like sea waves.

Although the consumption level of a border town like Qiuzi is not as good as that of Luoyang, the eastern capital, and Chang'an, the western capital, according to Li Siye's squandering like this, it also takes thousands of dollars to splash out like sprinkling water every day.

This is all the hard-earned money that the Green Ridge guards used to bounce out of the slingcotton bow, and it is also the hard work of the Green Ridge ladies sewn out with a needle and a thread, even if he has a box of 500 catties of gold, but if he wants to make it like this, sooner or later there will be a day when the mountains are empty.

Wu Sangao sat on the Hu bed, his big butt occupied the entire Hu bed, and the Hu Nu had to twist Xiaoman's waist and sit on his lap, holding a wine glass to feed the wine.

Fujimaki and Tian Zhen were not very accustomed to this scene, but they stayed away from them and sat at the other table, and they despised the big fat man in their hearts.

Li Siye spread his hands on the table, and there was also a bearded girl sitting beside him, but Li Siye was not very close to this bearded girl, and the bearded girl did not dare to get too close, because his face seemed to say - I don't like you.

Wu Sangao put down the wine glass, exhaled with satisfaction and said: "Si Ye Lang, you are really interesting, I, Wu Sangao, have no ability, but the only thing is a little bit, righteousness, in the future, you will be sent by Ye Lang, just give orders, and Sangao will not hesitate to go to the soup." ”

Li Siye grinned and nodded, took out a lotus flower bowl with a gold pattern from his arms, and pushed it in front of Wu Sangao.

"I heard that you believe in Tianzhu Mahayana Buddhism, this golden bowl is the hand of the merchant over there in Tianzhu, you see the golden lotus at the bottom of this bowl, is imitated by the Buddha Shakyamuni sitting on the lotus platform carved out, every day to accompany the use, there will be merit."

Wu San glanced at the golden bowl a few times, and hurriedly stretched out his hands to refuse: "No, no, no, I can't do it, how can I accept such a precious gift from you." ”

"Please accept it, otherwise it will be difficult to talk about it."

"No, no, if there is anything you need my help with, even if you ask, this gift is still not ......"

"Third brother, it's hard for you to accept me."

"You speak first."

"No, you take it first."

"Okay." Wu Sangao glanced left and right, touched the golden bowl and stuffed it into his arms, and then asked in a big way: "Do you want to sell grain, cloth, and iron tools in your hand?" If you have a lot of this stuff, I can get it in the treasury at a price higher than the official one. ”

"No," Li Siye shook his head: "I want to spend money to buy things from you." ”

"Buy something from me?" Wu Sangao was surprised at first, then shook his head and smiled: "In addition to grain and grass in my hands, it is weapons and armor, where is there anything you can see." ”

"That's right, it's armor, and I'm going to buy good armor."

Wu Sangao's expression became embarrassed and asked, "You're not joking, are you?" ”

The early military system of the Tang Empire was to adopt the government military system, and there were more than 600 Zhechong prefectures in the country, which were divided into three classes, 1,200 people in the upper government, 1,000 people in the middle government, and 800 people in the lower government.

The government soldiers are in the farm, farming during farming, training in leisure time, and when necessary, they go to the Beijing division or garrison to defend the capital, and they are exempt from rent. However, the soldiers needed to bring their own horses, weapons, armor and dry food. In the past, the Cangcao Mansion Treasury was open to the vast number of government soldiers, and only if you had money, you could buy armor and weapons in it.

However, after the Juntian system was destroyed, the military system of the prefecture also withered, and there were only captains in the prefecture, and there were no soldiers. In the later period of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Emperor Li Longji took Zhang Shuo's suggestion and personally recruited strong men to supplement the Sixth Army of the Northern Ya, known as the Changcong Su Guard.

In order to better control the army, the Tang government did not open the armor to the grassroots soldiers, and only the envoys and protectors of the border towns could purchase military supplies, so the question is, should Wu Sangao sell the armor in the treasury to Li Siye?