After Li Tai saw Helander walking towards him, he couldn't help but smile, turned over and dismounted and strode towards the other party and hugged his fists and said with a smile: "When you meet an old person in a foreign country, it is a great joy in the world." This time I went to Longshan for fear of unfamiliar people, ignorance, unexpectedly just after passing through Longshan I met Brother Helan, great comfort to the pedestrians panicked, when this scene, you must drink music! ”

"Please rest assured, the scenery here may not be as familiar as Guanzhong, but it is also the same hospitality, there is everything in the wine and food, and the humble rank will have fun with the envoy!"

Helande responded with a smile, hearing Li Tai say this, he was also very happy in his heart, after all, they only knew each other but could not talk about a deep friendship, Li Tai was undoubtedly giving him face in front of the county people, so he was more courteous and respectful to Li Tai, and seriously introduced to him one by one the people who came to greet him.

Li Tai also responded to these county people who greeted him one by one, but he couldn't help but muttered in his heart.

According to Heland's introduction, some of these dozen people are county officials, and some are representatives of local wealthy families, but the vast majority of them are not Han Chinese, and most of them are Qiang Hao chiefs who have lived here for generations. Coupled with the county guard Heland, a Xianbei person, Hu's such a thorough county government, Li Tai has seen it for the first time.

However, the clothes and conversation of these Hu chiefs are not much different from those of the Han people, and even a few of them are more dignified and polite than the Han people in Guanzhong, which shows that they are also deeply impregnated by Sinicization.

In fact, if you really want to talk about the degree of civilization, the Qiang tribe in Longyou is no worse than the Xianbei people, and even far better than the Beizhen warriors who are now in power in the north.

As early as the Han Dynasty, Di Qiang had frequent interactions with the Han people, in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, a large number of people from the Central Plains fled to the west of the Longyou River to escape the war and military disasters, which once became the cultural inheritance of the Han people, and even surpassed the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the east of the Jiangdong.

The Qiang tribes living here have naturally fully absorbed the social organization, living habits and ethics of the Han people, and many have even changed from the Hu Buhao chieftain to the local tyrant clan, and the history of absorbing the Han culture is far greater than that of the Northern Wei Xianbei who was only sinicized in the Taihe period.

After a greeting ceremony, everyone invited Li Tai into the post pavilion, and each sat down in turn according to his status, even if there were slaves serving wine and food.

Li Tai was in a hurry, and he was hungry, thirsty and tired, so he observed with great interest the types of food on the eucalyptus.

There is no obvious difference between Longyou's eating habits and Guanzhong, the meat is mostly roasted, and the vegetables are mostly raw and mixed, and the only slightly commendable is that the condiments such as peppercorns, ginger and cinnamon are used in larger amounts and more proficient.

Especially the spicy and spicy pepper wine, the first drink is slightly uncomfortable, and it has a unique flavor for a long time, a few cups of dampness and cold in the lower stomach, and the limbs are crispy and hearty, which is very addictive.

In addition to the food and drink, when the banquet was halfway through, a county government official left the banquet and walked out of the post pavilion, and soon went and returned, followed by several musicians and two slender dancing girls in colorful skirts, and the two dancing girls danced as the music sounded.

Li Tai didn't expect Helande to have such an arrangement, and after seeing this, he put down the cup and spoon and appreciated it seriously, of course, from the perspective of art appreciation. I saw that the waist bones of the two dancing girls were flexible, and they showed charm between their gestures, and their eyebrows and eyes were even more sultry, which directly hooked the strength of the wine they had drunk before, making people become hot and unbearable.

When the dance was over, everyone in the hall showed a look of unfinished business, and Helander also looked at Li Tai with instructions in his eyes, and Li Tai raised his hand and waved to signal the dancers to retreat for the time being, and in their hearts, they couldn't help but slander these slightly yang people with bad intentions, don't you know my relationship with the boss here? Take this to test the cadres!

After waiting until he was full of wine and food, Helander asked Li Tai for instructions: "There are still a few hours away from the county seat, if you leave at this time, you can arrive in the evening, may I ask the envoy if you will go to the county town to rest temporarily?" ”

Li Tai did not answer this question directly, but looked at the crowd thoughtfully, and then asked Xiang Heland: "I didn't see the county Sima, because the county was busy with military affairs and had no time to take a break?" ”

He went to Longlong this time, in addition to serving as the governor of Dugu Xin's second prefecture and the county guard of Tianshui, there were also the military governors of the five counties, which were Tianshui, Luoyang, Hanyang, Qingshui and Heyang.

Although Helande served as the county guard of Luoyang, he did not have the title of governor of the capital, so he could not control the affairs of the men and horses in the territory, and according to the custom, the military should be managed by the county Sima in general. In this way, Sima of Luoyang County is Li Tai's real subordinate, and he must accept the jurisdiction of him, the governor.

But now the county guard Heland and the county government officials have come to greet them, but there is no county Sima. Li Tai didn't feel offended by being snubbed, but wanted to know a little about his own personnel, whether this county Sima was too busy to get out, or deliberately didn't come to see him.

Hearing Li Tai's question, Heland's face became a little unnatural, and the two county people present directly avoided the table, knelt down in front of Li Tai's seat, and bowed his head before saying in a sad tone: "When the county Sima Yang Ling is proud of the strong soldiers, insults the villagers, is arrogant and lawless, and repeatedly does evil, I implore the envoy to uphold justice and punish the wicked people for my Luoyang!" ”

Li Tai was slightly stunned when he heard this, and after a while, his face sank, and he slapped his anger and said: "Luoyang is a wild township outside of the king, and the imperial court has set up counties and appointed officials here, in order to proclaim governance and enforce the law to punish evil.

I am new to this realm, the situation is unknown, and you are anxious to avenge my grievances here, is it to deceive me into ignorance and temptation to listen to me? Now Helan is too guarded in the hall, even if I want to look down on the situation here, I ask the Taishou myself, if the description is not exhaustive, I will visit the villagers! Wait for the quick exit, don't stay this to interfere with the audio-visual! ”

As he slapped his fist, Zhang Shinu and other personal guards also drew their sabers, and without saying a word, they drove out the two people who bowed and shouted grievances and the other people in the hall, leaving only Helander alone in the hall.

"What's going on?"

Li Taiyu was furious, looked at Holland and asked in a deep voice. He is not the law enforcement imperial history of inspecting the state and county officials, so he naturally will not deeply inquire about the disputes between the powerful in these places, but the people of the county here have already shouted grievances in front of him, and the accusation is still the county Sima under his authority, of course, he has to ask about it.

"I really don't know that they will dare to ...... in front of the king."

This incident also seemed to be out of Heland's expectations, and his expression was also quite uneasy at this time, and he apologized to Li Tai again and again, and sorted out his thoughts a little before he opened his mouth to explain: "The name of Sima here is Yang Ling, and he is the chief of Qiu Chi in Qinzhou in the south of this country. In the old years, the Qingshui chieftain Li Ratren gathered the crowd to cause chaos, and the Hanoi Gongdugu opened the mansion to transfer the people of Longbian Prefectures to ......"

After listening to Heland's story, Li Tai understood the truth of the matter, although the two county people shouted very bitterly and pitifully, but to put it bluntly, it was nothing more than the fact that the head snake failed to get the entry of the strong dragon.

Sima Yang Ling of this county, just hearing the name Li Tai, thought that he had finally heard a Han county official, but he didn't expect that he was still a wealthy chieftain. He was born in the Qiuchi Yang clan, and in terms of family origin, he was the same clan as Yang Shao, the father of Fucheng County Shou and Yang Xiong, whom Li Tai knew before, but because of the late naturalization, he was far inferior to the scenery of the Yang family.

This Yang Ling was originally a subordinate of Yu Wenqiu, the assassin of Southern Qinzhou, and Yuwen Qiu was also a member of He Basheng's family, and he followed Dugu Xin out of Jingzhou, and now he is still guarding Longyou as a subordinate of Dugu Xin.

In the ninth year of the Great Unification, the Qingshui chief Li Ratren gathered people for chaos due to the defeat of the Western Wei Dynasty in the Battle of Pishan, and Dugu Xin dispatched Longyou men and horses to encircle and suppress the rebellion, including Yang Ling, the chief of Qiu Chi, and his troops.

Li Ratren relied on his own land interest rate to entrench himself at the southern foot of Liantun Mountain, and Dugu Xin could not attack it for several times, and it dragged on for nearly half a year before Zhao Chang was sent by the Huazhou Bafu to recruit and surrender, resolve the rebellion and go to Huazhou with the surrendered Di tribe.

Although the rebellion was resolved, Dugu Xin's face was somewhat dull, and it was estimated that he secretly hated the Qiang tribes who were following and rebelling here, so he did not select the local Haoqiang Hu chief as the military attache in the county according to the previous custom, but left Yang Ling and his people in Luoyang County.

"When the lowly post entered the country, the two sides were already fighting a lot, and the situation was the same, and it was really difficult to settle the dispute with me alone, even if I added the county government officials. Several times in the state capital, all of them were not able to respond, only two appeasements, hoping to calm things down. ”

When Helander said this, he also had a sad and bitter face, thinking that this appointment as a county magistrate was an opportunity for his career to advance, but he didn't expect to jump into a fire pit.

Both sides of the fight are the chiefs of each tribe, but he is too guarded but does not even have the power to control the county and township regiments, and he will only be slapped in the face if he gets together. In the past two years, it can be described as a bitter tear.

This time, when he learned that Li Tai was going to Long, Heland was also sad and looking forward to it.

The sadness lies in the fact that when they first met each other, he was already the chief of Situ Mansion with a high rank, and Li Tai was just a young man who was still white after entering the customs, but now he was still suffering in the county government, but Li Tai had become the second person in the entire Longyou after Dugu Xin!

But putting aside the gap in their positions, they finally got acquainted, and Helander also hoped to be able to take advantage of Li Tai's momentum and make the county personnel respect him a little, so he invited the people in the county to come to greet him.

Although the county Sima Yang Ling did not come with him, the other invited county people basically came, and the scene was quite harmonious, but Helander did not expect that these people were not to save face, but to take the opportunity to complain to Li Tai.

Although Li Tai still maintained his face, and directly drove out the complaining county people to question him, he couldn't hide the embarrassment of his current job, and all of them were exposed in front of Li Tai, and he couldn't help but be ashamed for a while.

Li Tai was happy after listening to Heland's story, he didn't know what the situation in Longbian was before, but he just took it for granted that Duguxin had been in Longyou for several years, and it must have been a grand prestige, but now it seems that his old man is also a little bad.

Luoyang is the gateway connecting Guanzhong and Longyou, and the geographical location is not unimportant.

Although there is Dugu Xin's deliberate connivance, it also shows that Dugu Xin does not have the authority to say one thing or the other, otherwise why let these two parties continue to disturb.

Thinking of the rebellion of the chieftains on this border before, Dugu Xin was undecided, and Yuwentai only sent a messenger to directly persuade him to surrender, and even obediently moved to Huazhou.

Of course, it was because the envoy Zhao Chang at that time was indeed capable, but it also seemed to mean that the Huazhou Overlord Mansion was more efficient in negotiating with this side than the Qinzhou Thorn History Mansion, which was close to the late time. To put it bluntly, Yuwentai is not worried that the regional gateway of Luoyang can allow Duguxin to come and go.

Thinking of this, Li Tai glanced at Helander with some sympathy, involving the secret fighting methods of the two top elders, the situation is so torn here, I really don't blame you, I can squat in this pit for more than two years, it can be seen that Heland's endurance is also extraordinary, for Li Tai himself, even if he can't lift the table, he has to find a way to saw the table legs, and he can't be the only one who is sad and depressed.

After learning about these inside information, Li Tai would not openly contradict his father-in-law and take the initiative to sanction Sima Yang Ling of that county, although this guy didn't come to greet him, which made him very unhappy, but it was useless to ask too much for the nostalgia.

As for the local tyrants in Luoyang who shouted grievances, they may not be able to live sadly, and they don't know what kind of sinister tricks they have in their hearts, I am afraid that they think he is young and vigorous and want to use him as a gunman, of course he will not obey his wishes.

But although he has the right idea here, he can't prevent some people from playing tricks and confusion by themselves. Originally, he was just listening to Heland's grievances as a spectator, but soon Li Tai himself realized how serious the situation and dispute that made Helander feel tormented.

He was waiting to comfort Helande here, when he suddenly heard the chaotic roar of people and horses outside the post pavilion, and before he could ask what was going on, Zhang Shinu, the captain of the hall guard, had already walked into the hall and said loudly: "Lord Lang, hundreds of horsemen have appeared in the south of the Luoyang River Valley, coming straight to the post pavilion here!" ”

Li Tai's brows furrowed when he heard this, and he first took a pair of light armor and hung it on his body, and then walked out of the hall, and a county chief who had been driven out of the hall before shouting grievances had already said with an angry and panicked face: "It's Yang Ling, it's Yang Ling!" This thief is really bold, and he bullies the villagers on weekdays, but today the envoy crosses the border and the masses come out to greet him, and he doesn't respect him to see him, and he even dares to gather a crowd to disturb ......."

Li Tai glanced at this person again, and remembered his appearance in his heart, Lao Tzu is not familiar with you, but you are dancing happily, and when I feel the strange behind me, if you don't clean your wool, you have to fade quickly!

Anger was secretly born in his mind, and the retinue was already quickly arrayed and surrounded and defended the post pavilion here.

At the same time, the procession on the road in the southern valley was also gradually approaching, and soon came to the vicinity of the post pavilion, stopped an arrow away, and a short middle-aged general shouted to the place: "Is Li Sanqi from Chang'an here?"

A certain is Dugu Kaifu under the account to join the army, General Jianwei, Sima of Luoyang County, and Governor Yang Ling, afraid that I will be clumsy and offended, so I asked Li San to ride in and come to sue. The people here have not changed, and thieves are infested, if you don't go with me, I'm afraid it will be difficult to ensure safety! ”

"Yang Ling, you are so bold! The village sages here are gathered, and when the county Helan envoy is also there, what bandits dare to come to disturb? On the contrary, it was you who attracted everyone here without informing, did you want to take advantage of Li Yuanjun's unstable foothold, so you wanted to be arrogant and intimidating! ”

During this time, the people of the county often fought with Yang Ling, and the enemies were already very red when they saw each other, and they felt a little fearless because Li Tai was also standing here, so he pointed at Yang Ling and shouted and scolded.

Not to be outdone, Yang Linggong and his subordinates immediately scolded back, and even shot directly at the post pavilion with their bows, not caring at all whether they would frighten and hurt Li Tai, as for Helande and other county government colleagues, they were even more ignorant.

When Li Tai saw this scene, he was also a little speechless for a while.

Just looking at the unscrupulous appearance of Yang Linggong and his subordinates, it can be seen that although they have not yet fully subdued the local heroes of Luoyang, they probably rely on the backers behind them to suppress the output of the heroes of Luoyang on weekdays.

But the question is, you have played all the tricks on Lao Tzu's head, aren't you forcing Lao Tzu to clean up your dog thing? is so unscrupulous in front of me, do you really think that Lao Tzu is just a waste wood son-in-law who fights for Duguxin's momentum?

Because these Luoyang Hao chieftains of Helan Degong came to greet Li Tai, they did not carry too many weapons, armor and staffs, but Li Tai and his subordinates were all equipped with bows, swords, armor and horses.

As Yang Ling's subordinates shot their bows and arrows towards this, Li Tai's subordinates also drew their swords and stood by.

Although Li Tai didn't want to get involved in the dispute between the Turks in Luoyang, it didn't mean that he had to spit on himself and be played by the other party in the face. It must be known that there are more complicated personnel disputes waiting for him in Qinzhou, and these people in Qinzhou should be allowed to see and understand their own style of acting.

So he first ordered the people who were still scolding Yang Ling's tribe to be expelled into the post pavilion and guarded, and they were not allowed to go out to fan the flames again, and by the way, he also showed that his next behavior had nothing to do with these people.

Then he ordered someone to fetch his big lance and mount, turned over his horse and pointed to the opposite side, and ordered loudly: "Beat the drum, after the three-way drum order, and still do not dismount and abandon the weapon, will be killed!" ”

After Yang Ling on the other side heard this, his face suddenly changed faintly, and when he saw that Li Tai's tribe was gathered and the people and horses he brought this time, he was also a little uncertain in his heart, so he glared and shouted: "That young general, don't talk wildly, I came here to greet and escort Li Sanqi is a courtesy, but I am afraid that he will be ......deceived by the treacherous and evil bewitchment in the township."

The drum order sounded, covering all the shouts behind Yang Ling, he made several gestures to interrupt and still didn't see the drum sound stop, his face quickly turned hideous, and he said hatefully: "In my power, how can you allow distant guests to be powerful!" No matter where it comes from, teach you how to be a man today! ”

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