Chapter 133 Yuwen Tai (4k)
Su Ze opened the system store again. The store would be refreshed in two days.
It’s a pity that since the last Jinyang, the store has been refreshed several times but nothing valuable has been found. Every time it is refreshed, it is all blue and green. Not to mention useful followers, even useful goods are not found.
Su Ze casually gave the refreshed items to his subordinates. Thinking of the gains from the last refresh in the shop beside Princess Shouyang, and seeing that the army was about to enter Pingcheng, why not wait until they entered Pingcheng and try to find Princess Shouyang?
Don’t use metaphysical card drawing!
But what if metaphysics is useful?
After discovering the function of mixed grouping, Su Ze found that he was in more urgent need of high-quality followers.
In addition, if you can spawn an assassin-type follower, you can also try to forcibly assassinate Anagui.
Or maybe some kind of invisible poison? Or some kind of weapon like poison arrows would work, too.
Su Ze made up his mind that when the store was refreshed this time, he must try to be with Princess Shouyang!
In Wuchuan Town, after the celebration banquet, Heba Yun never saw the commander of Wuchuan Town. After asking the military leader Yuwen Gong, he learned that since the Rouran people besieged Wuchuan, the commander from Luoyang had been claiming to be sick in his mansion. He had not climbed up the wall of Wuchuan for inspection for a single day and had handed over all the defense to Yuwen Gong and his sons.
Yuwen Gong and Heba Yun's father Heba Duba were of the same generation. He served as military leader for a long time and served several garrison commanders.
Yuwen Gong sighed and said, "Does Yunlang think that the commanders of the six towns are the same as Commander Yang? The commanders of Wuchuan are the majority. They were exiled from Luoyang to the six towns with a lot of resentment, and they are just waiting to find a way to be transferred back to Luoyang."
"Those in Wuchuan are still relatively good. Some of the commanders started to exploit and plunder after arriving at the local areas, and tried every means to plunder and give gifts back to Luoyang."
After Yuwen Gong finished speaking, Heba Yun also lowered his head. He had heard such things from his father Heba Duba, but he did not expect that the commander of Wuchuan Town would be so outrageous. He did not even take care of Wuchuan when it was besieged, and now that Wuchuan was relieved, he did not come to see him as a reinforcement.
Thinking of this, Heba Yun was filled with anger. The nobles in Luoyang looked down on the people of the Six Garrisons, and this had been going on for a long time.
Yuwen Gong said again: "Let's not talk about that. Today you helped Wuchuan to break the siege, Yang Zhen will commend you. However, although the Rouran people who besieged Wuchuan have retreated, there are still many Rouran tribes in the entire northern border who are still looting. I would like to ask you to stay in Wuchuan for a while and help clear out the remaining Rouran bandits near Wuchuan Town."
Heba Yun immediately said, "What the uncle said is what I am thinking. I have informed the commander of the town that I will stay in Wuchuan temporarily to pursue the remaining Rouran bandits who have escaped."
Yuwen Gong was overjoyed when he heard this. He then called his four sons and introduced them to Heba Yun:
"My Yuwen family has four sons. This is my eldest son, Yuwen Hao, who is the most loyal to me."
Yuwen Hao and Heba Yun were about the same age, both were young leaders who had become famous in the Six Garrisons. Seeing how powerful Heba Yun was, he also wanted to make friends with him. Yuwen Gong said, "How about I let Yuwen Hao serve in Yunlang's tent, and we can fight the enemy together?"
Heba Yun nodded quickly. At this time, the other two young men also bowed and said, "Grandpa, I want to follow Brother Heba to kill the enemy too!"
Yuwen Gong pointed at the two men and said, "These are my second son Yuwen Lian and my third son Yuwen Luosheng. They are not yet fully trained, and I didn't want them to go to the battlefield. But yesterday they saw Yun Lang defeating the enemy on the city wall, and they wanted to lead the way beside you."
Seeing that both of them were strong and handsome, Heba Yun was delighted and said, "Brother Yuwen, if you want to fight with me, that would be the best!"
Finally, Heba Yun looked at the youngest of the four Yuwen brothers. Compared with the first three brothers, the youngest Yuwen brother was only about twelve or thirteen years old. Although he was young, unlike his brave brothers, the youngest Yuwen brother was very quiet, with a gleam in his eyes all the time, and no one knew what he was thinking about.
Yuwen Gong said, "This is my youngest son, Yuwen Tai, nicknamed Black Otter. He is too young to go to war, but he also wants to see Yun Lang."
Heba Yun looked at Yuwen Tai and felt that this child was more talented than his three older brothers. For some reason, when Heba Yun saw Yuwen Tai, he thought of his younger brother Heba Yue.
Both are the youngest of brothers and both are the oddities in a family of warriors. However, Heba Yue is different from his two brave brothers in that he likes to think quietly and read when he has nothing to do.
The people of the Six Garrisons are not all ruffians and poor. You should know that powerful families in the Six Garrisons, such as the Heba family and the Yuwen family, have been operating in the Six Garrisons for several generations. They are already powerful and even have family heirlooms of military books and combat skills.
The Six Garrisons were different from the powerful people in the Central Plains. Even if the powerful people in the Central Plains started out as military men, they would gradually turn to civil service and let the next generation go to school.
However, the Six Garrisons was a place surrounded by wars, and even the powerful would rarely have their children go to school. Moreover, the rule of the Six Garrisons was to respect the strong and despise the weak, and there had always been a trend of valuing military affairs over literature. Even children were learning how to kill and fight, and studying would be despised.
Heba Yun said to Yuwen Tai: "I have a younger brother named Heba Yue, who is quite similar to you. I think you will get along well with him. I will introduce you to each other someday."
Yuwen Tai bowed respectfully to Heba Yun.
Yuwen Gong said helplessly: "This child has been more of a Confucian scholar than a warrior since he was young. Fortunately, I have many sons, so I don't expect him to inherit the family's martial virtues."
Next, Heba Yun received an order from Yang Jun, asking him to stay in Wuchuan and send troops to wipe out the surrounding Rouran people with Wuchuan as the center.
Heba Yun, with Gao Huan, Hou Jing, Sima Ziru, and the three brothers of the Yuwen family, continued to attack and repeatedly defeated the Rouran cavalry around Wuchuan Town, and became famous in Wuchuan. Several large and powerful families in Wuchuan City, such as the Houmochen family, the Dugu family, and the Li family, all sent their young sons to join the army, and the Rouran people around Wuchuan were soon wiped out.
However, Wuchuan Town was only one of the six towns. The entire defense line of the six towns stretched for a thousand miles from west to east. Several towns were still being besieged by the Rouran people, and in the wilderness outside the town, the tribes of the six towns were also being robbed by the Rouran people. The six towns were still in the midst of war.
Heba Yun's pursuit also stopped near Wuchuan. The reason was very simple: the military rations and fodder he brought had been used up.
At that time, Yuan Huai set up a town granary in the town of the Six Towns. Only the town commander had the power to open the granary to release grain. If the army was going on a long expedition, it would naturally need food. However, the commander of Wuchuan Town refused to see him and did not agree to open the granary to release grain to Heba Yun. Now that their military food and fodder had been used up, they naturally had no way to continue the pursuit.
Heba Yun's men were all excited, only Gao Huan remained silent.
When everyone returned to the barracks, Sima Ziru and Hou Jing looked at Gao Huan's calm expression and couldn't help asking, "He Liuhun, aren't you angry?"
Gao Huan said calmly: "This is just a reasonable thing. There is no need to be angry."
Sima Ziru couldn't help but ask, "It makes sense? We have won many battles, but the commander of Wuchuan Town refused to give us food. How can this be reasonable?"
Hou Jing also looked at Gao Huan, waiting for his answer. Gao Huan said, "For the court, it is more important to guard against the six garrisons than the Rourans. The garrison commanders are unwilling to open the warehouses because they are afraid that we will become stronger and stronger and we will be unable to control us in the future. The more we win, the less food we will get."
After Gao Huan finished speaking, Hou Jing and Sima Ziru also started to think about it. After carefully considering the current situation in the Six Garrisons, they actually felt that what Gao Huan said made sense.
At the same time, the three Yuwen brothers also returned to the mansion and were indignant when they talked about the incompetence of the town commander. The youngest brother Yuwen Tai, who had been silent all the time, said:
"Brothers, please don't be indignant. We are the commanders of the six towns. We are commanders first and commanders second."
The third brother, Yuwen Luosheng, loved his younger brother, Yuwen Tai, the most. He asked, "Heita, what did you say?"
Yuwen Tai said: "The court set up the Six Garrisons to guard the borders. We are the people of the Six Garrisons, not the Rouran people. The primary task of the Garrison Commander is to guard the borders. If we open the warehouses to release grain, with our prestige in Wuchuan and the grain in hand, we will be more threatening than the robbing Rouran people."
After listening to the analysis of their youngest brother, the three Yuwen brothers finally felt that his statement was impeccable. The eldest brother Yuwen Hao was the most loyal, but he had no way to refute Yuwen Tai's point of view, so he could only say:
"Black Otter! Stop saying such outrageous things!"
Yuwen Tai calmly bowed to his brother and said yes. He sat aside and said no more, but there was a gleam in his eyes.
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Su Ze arrived in Pingcheng with Li Chong's army. All the officials who stayed in Taiwan from Pingcheng were waiting outside the city to welcome him. This time the reception was not at all neglectful. Li Chong led his army into Pingcheng with satisfaction.
The soldiers were also very happy. Since leaving Yanmen Pass, the army had been marching at a high intensity. After arriving in Pingcheng, they could finally have a good rest in Pingcheng.
Pingcheng was the old capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Emperor Daowu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Gui, built a new capital in the first year of Tianxing (398 AD). In the eighteenth year of Taihe (494 AD), Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang. The capital was built here for a total of 97 years.
In Pingcheng, there were palaces, government offices, and military camps. The soldiers finally no longer had to sleep in the open air, and even Su Ze was assigned a clean, vacant government office.
Just when Su Ze had just settled down and was thinking about how to draw metaphysical cards near Princess Shouyang, he didn't expect that Princess Shouyang would come to him herself.
A carriage stopped in front of the government office, and Princess Shouyang, dressed in plain clothes, got off the carriage with the help of her maid.
Su Ze was also a little surprised. Although the morals were open during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, relationships between men and women, especially among the upper class, still required respectability. Even someone as bold as Princess Chenliu had to use the name of "Lü Zhu" to interact with him.
Princess Shouyang was a princess who was married to a foreign country. Her husband, the Rouran King Anagui, was also in the army. She just came directly to Su Zemen. Wasn't she too inconsiderate of others?
Su Ze saw that the maids around Princess Shouyan all looked troubled. Only Princess Shouyang showed an innocent smile when she saw Su Ze. She held the silk book in her hand and said, "Captain Su, these are the questions I have accumulated from reading Buddhist scriptures these days. Can you please help me solve them?"
Even the maids around Princess Shouyang looked embarrassed. Su Ze finally understood why Princess Shouyang could come to him so calmly to discuss Buddhism, because this girl was really innocent.
Even Su Ze felt a little guilty for deceiving an ignorant girl. He took the silk book written by Princess Shouyang and said politely, "I will help your Highness solve your doubts and write down my humble opinion and send it to your residence."
The maids around Princess Shouyang were obviously relieved. Su Ze was so polite and knew how to keep a distance from the princess, which saved them a lot of trouble.
Unexpectedly, Princess Shouyang suddenly stepped forward, approached Su Ze and said, "Captain Su, can you accompany me to visit Pingcheng?"
"what?"
This time, not only the maids around Princess Shouyang, but even Su Ze were surprised.
Princess Shouyang pointed at the maid behind her and said, "I have wanted to visit the old capital for a long time, but they said Pingcheng is not safe. My sister said Captain Su is very brave. With your protection, I can visit Pingcheng safely, right?"
The maids around Princess Shouyang all regretted their lives. These stinky men are the most unsafe place in Pingcheng!
The maids glared at Su Ze, and Su Ze said, "Your Highness wants to visit the old capital, I will ask General Li to send someone to escort you."
When Princess Shouyang heard this, tears welled up in her eyes. She looked at Su Ze and said, "Captain Su, when I go to the grasslands, I will never have the chance to set foot in the old capital of Wei again, right?"
Seeing Princess Shouyang's pitiful appearance, Su Ze was defeated. He could only say, "Then I will escort Your Highness to visit Pingcheng."
Princess Shouyang immediately showed her joy, then got on the carriage and said, "Then I will wait for Captain Su in the carriage."
Su Ze couldn't tell for a moment whether Princess Shouyang was ignorant of the ways of the world or was too scheming, or was it that the legendary natural people were all black-bellied?
However, Princess Shouyang's beautiful appearance and her pitiful expression made Su Ze understand the thoughts of those foolish monarchs. It was true what the ancients said: beautiful women are the root of disaster!
Forget it. Seeing that the system is about to be refreshed, Su Ze will act as a guard and accompany Princess Shouyang to visit the old capital of Pingcheng.
After walking around, Su Ze discovered a new attribute of Princess Shouyang - a curious baby.
Whether it was an old palace or a famous place in Pingcheng, Princess Shouyang would carefully ask about the ins and outs of it, and she would listen carefully to the famous events in Pingcheng. The tour lasted from morning to afternoon, and except for Princess Shouyang who was still full of energy, the rest of the accompanying people were exhausted.
Standing on the city wall of Pingcheng, Princess Shouyang asked a new question:
"How did our ancestors seize half of the world with the foundation of Pingcheng? The foundation of Pingcheng is far inferior to that of Luoyang."
Princess Shouyang looked at Su Ze with pleading eyes. Su Ze looked at the store that was about to be refreshed, and had to bite the bullet and give his answer.
(End of this chapter)