Chapter 236: The Slave's Need

Dirty, emaciated, numbness before deliverance, madness after deliverance.

The overseas Huqiang sheltered by Liu Cang's department in Longxi were more miserable than the refugees during the Yellow Turban period.

Looking at the slave soldiers who had been subsumed into the front army and were only behind the wolves, Liu Cang's brows were difficult to soothe.

These slave soldiers, when they are no longer afraid of the wolves bound by Liu Cang, these bastards will actually steal the flesh and blood of the dead enemy on the battlefield, as if worshipping and worshipping, secretly feeding the wild wolves, close to the wolves.

"Wenhe, the state of these slaves is too bad. Shoucheng, is the people's livelihood in Longxi really so bad?" Riding the horse slowly, a large number of foot soldiers and slaves filled the military strength, which greatly delayed the speed of the march, Liu Cang asked Jia Xu and Ma Teng beside him.

It's not that Liu Cang hasn't seen slaves, and he has quite a few of them. And as far as he had seen, he could not have made a slave like this.

After all, it's not a TV series, and people's bodies are difficult to recuperate, but they can be destroyed very quickly.

If you lack clothes and eat less, you won't need to scrap the month, and what kind of flu, dysentery, enteritis, infection, necrotic disease, etc., can kill in minutes. It's not like you said he wouldn't die if you needed it.

Slaves are used to work, and what are slaves who can't do heavy work to do? It's better to die early.

Liu Cang somewhat didn't understand how the slaves in Liangzhou could be in such a state.

Ma Teng was slightly stunned, and a handsome teenager next to Ma Teng took the lead in speaking.

"Your Highness, unless you cultivate land, the herdsmen don't need too many slaves. Most of the slaves here usually do some cleaning and harvesting work, and at most they tidy up some forage, and usually keep them from starving." The young man responded positively to Liu Cang, with childishness on his face.

Ma Chao, Ma Mengqi, Ma Teng's eldest son, the future Five Tiger Generals, has a good physique, and his actual age is younger than his appearance.

The young Ma Chao is already handsome and has a tigerish temperament, Liu Cang nodded at him with a smile, and Ma Chao was happy. Liu Cang was still a little puzzled.

Herders don't need slaves? It seems that Hu Qiang has never caught a lot of slaves, Han people, other tribes, and even their own clan, why is there no need for it?

"Hehe, lord, it is difficult for one person to cultivate ten acres of land, but as long as there is a comfortable pasture, ten skilled herdsmen can graze tens of thousands of cattle and sheep." Jia Xu chuckled.

"Nomadism doesn't need too many slaves, slaves are a manifestation of identity and strength for them, and having slaves can make their lives easier, but even if they don't, it won't have any essential impact on them."

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。」 Jia Xu explained that some people in Ma Teng and his entourage frowned, but no one refuted it, and the people around Liu Cang were similar to Liu Cang, and their original puzzled expressions were somewhat abrupt.

"Nomads don't feel comfortable grazing their animals*** with slaves, who do odd jobs and are usually thrown into wars or private fights."

"Especially outside the Saiwai, if there is not much manual work that requires manpower, in the event of a disaster or a reduction in livestock production, especially in winter, when a large number of livestock are raised, slaves will also be used by them as emergency food, which can be regarded as a kind of food reserve." Jia Xu's face was flat, and Liu Cang, Dian Wei's eyelids had begun to jump.

"Liangzhou nomads do the same?" Liu Cang tried his best to keep his tone calm, looked at the wolves and slave soldiers in the distance, and asked Jia Xu.

This is very similar to his attitude towards wolves, eat when you run out, clean and environmentally friendly.

"We're virtuous, not like those brutes. If anyone dares to do this, let someone know, and someone will kill him." Ma Chao said unhappily.

"Haha, Ma Chao is rarely righteous, and Shou Chengduan is a godson." Liu Cang smiled, Ma Teng glared at Ma Chao angrily, but the corners of his mouth couldn't stop laughing.

Slaves, there is no shortage of slave captives in Xianbei Huqiang, but there are basically no uprisings or anything like that in these places. Because they didn't have the strength to revolt, they were killed before they even revolted.

To put it mildly, if the slaves of the Han people are daily necessities that need maintenance, they are the slaves of Xianbei Huqiang

It is a very pure consumable, the kind that is consumed quickly.

Chasing water and weeds, there is no fixed place to live. One person can herd thousands of cattle and sheep, and a tribe can say less than 1,800 people. Slaves or something, it's really a relatively simple ornament for them.

"An uprising." Liu Cang muttered to himself, he could already see the phantom of Didao County City in the distance, and the generals around him looked at him with some doubts.

"Pang De, give an order to the wolf army, lead the wolves to run three laps of the county town, and turn to Caohan."

"Ma Teng, lead the Liangzhou Yicong to run with the wolves to the county town for a round, and the city is thousands of meters below the formation." Liu Cang ordered.

"Whoa!" Pang De and Ma Teng led the order to transfer the army.

"Your Highness, won't you attack the city?" Ma Chao was guarded by several big men under Ma Teng's command and did not let him run around. At this time, he was carrying a wooden handle and riding a gun, and asked Liu Cang.

"The Di Dao rebels withdrew early, and this time they rebelled again, there was a reason for it, and it was not appropriate to kill them." Liu Cang shook his head, seeing that Liu Cang no longer spoke in detail, Ma Chao looked at the big man beside him suspiciously, and the big man looked at Liu Cang, and explained softly to Ma Chao while hesitating.

The leader of the Di Dao rebel army, the kingdom, ran away, this guy originally wanted to establish a country, but seeing that Liangzhou gathered to suppress the rebellion, he simply pulled his army with a greatly reduced number of soldiers and ran to Caohan to get together with Song Yang.

Both of them wanted to establish a country, and they were originally separated from Beigong Boyu, Han Sui and other rebels, but after Han Sui stabbed Beigong Boyu and Bian Zhang, the two of them were even more careful with Han Sui.

Caohan and Jincheng are corners, but the soldiers on both sides are separated, and no one is involved in anyone's affairs.

If you come here, it can be said that Di Dao's side will be subdued and the war will be extinguished.

But who knew that Zhang Rang, Liu Hong and his gang were tossing blindly in Luoyang again, and they actually tossed to Didao in Liangzhou, and the voice of Didao's rebellion rose again, although there was no actual movement, but the city was closed and refused to welcome the official army, and the situation was difficult to understand.

What did Liu Hong and Zhang Rang toss again?

Didn't Liu Hong want to decorate the South Palace?

Nangong, it smoked, ablaze.

Several palaces burned to the ground.

Then, the palace issued an order to collect ten yuan per mu of land tax from the world, which was used to build the palace.

Not only that, but at the same time, timber and grain stones from Taiyuan, Hedong, and Didao counties were requisitioned to rebuild the palace.

The land tax was probably used to give Liu Hongrong bronze statues, and in the Han Dynasty, it was not a bad thing to levy local wood and stones, because if you want to give money, it will be at the market price.

But the bad thing is that a group of eunuchs from the Shaofu didn't want to give money, not only did they not want to give money, but they also wanted to make money.

Okay, don't care how many ways there are, anyway, Zhang Rang's drama is quite sufficient, this kind of thing can't be cleaned.

forcibly discounted and piled up rotten wood, the family lost all their money, and the people were miserable. It's okay to talk about other places, but here in Didao, the rebels haven't run out of a hundred miles yet.

The people squatted in total, and it was not good to say whether there was a scene in it that guarded Li Shen too much, anyway, Li Shen was imprisoned in Di Dao City, and Di Dao closed the city to demonstrate, wanting to resist the official army.

"Eunuchs are hateful!" Someone over there told Ma Chao about it, and Ma Chao was angry when he heard it, and he opened his mouth to scold.

Everyone couldn't help but look at Liu Cang, most of the people around Ma Chao were frightened, and everyone on Liu Cang's side had strange expressions.

"Look at what, just bring your majesty with you by the way." Liu Cang's eyes rolled his eyes, Ma Chao was stunned, and someone explained to Ma Chao, Ma Chao's face was at a loss.

Regarding the situation that Liu Cang, who he admired, was involved with the head of the eunuch, the young Ma Chao seemed to have a bit of a collapse in his outlook on life.

"Pan Feng! The enslaved soldiers of the above rank were going to lead them to revolt." Everyone laughed and didn't answer Liu Cang's words, and when Liu Cang drank again, everyone was shocked, but Ma Chao's eyes lit up.

"Really?!" Ma Chao suddenly felt that the king of Dongping, whom he admired, was back.

"Yes, really." His eyes signaled Pan Feng to gather troops, and Liu Cang looked at Ma Chao again, and a weird smile pulled out at the corner of his mouth.