Tang's Dining Table

Chapter 48: Means of Production Should Not Be Destroyed Casually

After all, when Liang Jianfang mobilized before the war, he would always say this sentence, who knows if it was said by Emperor Taizong.

Anyway, Emperor Taizong had been away from the Tang people for two years, and there was no way he could come back to hold the neck of Liang Jianfang and question him.

These Tang Dynasty soldiers responded, and many of the Huihe people, led by Khan Bisu, actually bowed and tapped their chests in response.

The soldiers had heard this sentence so many times that their ears were about to be callused. After hearing it so many times, they no longer had the excitement they had when they first heard it.

They said this when their team was robbing sheep.

His brigade commander said this when he led the team to strangle the bandits in the Western Regions.

Their lieutenants said this when they slaughtered small tribes.

Now, it’s nothing new for Liang Jianfang to say it again.

Anyway, in the end, the task of execution will always fall on them.

A lot of fire starters were poured on the huge Jingguan, and the strong smell of roasted rotten meat quickly spread after the Huihe servants lit it.

Yun Chu had to take out two balls of cotton to plug his nose and open his mouth to breathe, like a thirsty fish.

At this time, he had to admire the big guys on the stage. Surrounded by the stench, Liang Jianfang and Bisu Khan drank and talked happily, ate meat, and watched two strong men who were only stripped to the cloth around their waists wrestling.

Just when the grease in the Jingguan was completely ignited and the red flames reflected the sky red, Liang Jianfang's drinking reached its climax.

In order to add to the fun, Liang Jianfang once again ordered to throw more than 200 weak Huihe soldiers into the Jingguan where the flames were soaring!

The screams were very shrill, and the thick smoke enveloped Dongshan Yue who had just come out, but Liang Jianfang's laughter was even more hearty, and even the wild wolves who came to find food in the dark night tucked their tails and ran away.

When the Jingguan was completely engulfed in flames and its only end was to be reduced to ashes, the arrogant Liang Jianfang got up and left.

His central army camp was at Heihu Ridge, 20 miles away.

It was not called this name before. After Liang Jianfang came, it was called Black Tiger Ridge.

He was not drunk when he left. On the contrary, he looked back at Jingguan with endless regret.

From his behavior of hugging Bisu Khan's shoulders and leaving together, Yun Chu felt that Liang Jianfang must be very regretful at this time...

Bisu Khan was so docile that it became a delusion for him to find an excuse to slaughter this branch of Tiele Huihe.

Yun Chu always felt that in the hearts of people like Liang Jianfang, there was only one true monarch, and the only monarch in his heart must be the deceased Emperor Taizong, and it could never be the submissive ninth son of Taizong in front of him.

Before Taizong died, he was still thinking about how to stabilize the northern territory and how to prepare a backup land for the Tang Empire to draw blood and nourish the Central Plains anytime and anywhere.

In order to destroy the Tiele Xueyantuo Khanate, which was a great threat to him, he deliberately made friends with Xueyantuo from the third year of Zhenguan, and finally wiped out Xueyantuo after eleven bloody battles in the twentieth year of Zhenguan.

For this result, Emperor Taizong did not hesitate to marry two princesses to Xueyantuo.

He would rather be humiliated by Xueyantuo Zhenzhuyinan Khan in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan than make friends with Xueyantuo.

He would rather send all the elite cavalrymen who surrendered from the Eastern Turks to the mouths of the Xueyantuo and lose them completely, so as to make Xueyantuo lower their vigilance.

God will not let down those who work hard, and Emperor Taizong, who had great endurance, won the final victory.

Xueyantuo, which once stretched from the western end of the Greater Khingan Range in the east to the Altai Mountains in the west, bordered the Hetao in the south, and reached the Selenge River in the north, with a territory of 6,000 miles, and had millions of people from the Huihe, Pugu, Tongluo, Bayegu, and Adie tribes under its command, was finally killed to ashes by Emperor Taizong and his famous ministers and generals.

After the demise of Xueyantuo, a "Heavenly Khan Avenue" appeared in the north and south of Tianshan Mountain and east of the vast sea!

In that grand narrative, Liang Jianfang was nothing. He couldn't even enter Li Ji's central army tent, and he didn't even have the qualifications to be a vanguard.

Now, many Tang generals have fallen, and Liang Jianfang can finally stand out. He wants to dispel Emperor Taizong's last worry-"Xueyantuo is destroyed, and only the Huihe family is the dominant one among the nine Tiele clans!"

He wants to have a place in this grand narrative.

The purpose of killing the Chuyue tribe was to give Huihe Bisu Khan an opportunity to raid the Tang army, and the establishment of Jingguan was to force Bisu Khan to feel fear and let him do something he shouldn't do because of fear.

Let the 3rd Regiment of the 7th Zhechongfu of the Anxi Army force Bisu Khan to visit Jingguan, just to let Bisu Khan know that he didn't have many troops at hand, and hoped that Bisu Khan would be bolder.

Yun Chu could even imagine that Lu Dake, the Anxi Army Chief, who was beaten with thirty military sticks for directly accusing Liang Jianfang of brutality, might be leading his four and a half Zhechongfu Tang troops to ambush somewhere in this dark wasteland, waiting for the Uighur Bisu Khan to do something he shouldn't do...

Sometimes, being timid has its advantages, just like Bisu Khan, who was frightened by Liang Jianfang, was dedicated to serving the Tang army and did not do anything wrong, thus escaping a disaster that could have wiped out his clan!

Yun Chu was a bystander of this dark conspiracy from beginning to end. With the help of rich historical materials in later generations, he could put his eyes above the clouds to judge the world.

The fire in Jingguan was still burning, and the skulls at the top had been burned red by the fire. The eye sockets, mouths, and noses of each head were spewing fire, making the beautiful Grasshopper Lake as terrifying as the eighteen levels of hell.

Other companions went to grab wine and food, only Yun Chu, after making sure that the corpse water did not pollute the river, stripped himself naked, took out the prepared pampas grass and crushed it, and cleaned his body carefully without caring about the cold.

After being smoked by the corpse stench for a day and a night, the air seemed to be filled with black ash from the burning corpse oil. These black ash fell on the body and were greasy and unbearable. At this time, it was urgent to clean the body carefully with the alkaline pampas grass.

The source of the corpse stench had been destroyed by the fire, and the remaining smell was quickly blown away by the strong evening breeze of Tianshan Mountain. There was still a little burnt smell left by Laoshan Mountain. I believe that it will slowly disappear after a few days when the fire is extinguished.

Yun Chu felt that there should be no scary things like Jingguan in Chang'an, and he should not let himself be shrouded in corpse stench all day, and he would not feel weak if he did not take a knife for a while.

Yun Chu never liked war, and even hated it. He firmly believed that as long as people are human, they should have their due role and add wealth to this society, or in other words, human existence itself is wealth. As long as people play their role well, their ability to create is amazing.

This is the meaning of human existence.

It takes at least thirteen years for a person to be self-reliant from birth. During these thirteen years, his existence consumes a lot of social wealth.

Waiting until this person finally becomes an adult and then chopping off his head is really a wasteful act that disrespects social wealth.

Today's Tang Dynasty has vast land and sparse population, and people are always the primary productive force.

Therefore, Yun Chu does not approve of killing. This kind of double loss inside and outside should be strictly prohibited. They should all be transformed into social wealth to contribute to a glorious era.

When he met Fang Zheng again, Yun Chu's mood became very, very good. He brought some heavy and dirty marching pots, some exquisitely crafted large-wheeled ox cart bottom plates, and a variety of war horse accessories.

Yun Chu roughly estimated that these things weighed more than 800 kilograms. These things were mixed in a team of thousands of people and were not conspicuous at all.

"This is all the hard work of the brothers. We must not make any mistakes."

Yun Chu looked at Fang Zheng's increasingly bloated body and sighed: "You look more and more haggard."

Fang Zheng said sadly: "Who said it wasn't? He Yuanshan and the others died and handed all the aftermath matters to our brothers. It's easy to die, but it's hard to deal with the aftermath.

It's a long way to Chang'an, you have to be careful."

Yun Chu looked at the fat man in front of him and felt that he was really good. He stepped forward and hugged him and said: "Who should I give your marching pot to?"

Fang Zheng was silent for a while and said: "There is a wine shop called "Ping An" in Fengyifang near Yanping Gate. The owner of the wine shop is a woman named Zhixia. Give her all my money."

Yun Chu repeated the address and name mentioned by Fang Zheng in his mouth and agreed to Fang Zheng's request.

"She was a good woman with a fiery temperament, but she had a bad fate." Fang Zheng saw Yun Chu's thirst for knowledge in his eyes, but he just said it casually and changed the subject.

Seeing that the camp of Shangzhou Zhechongfu was in a mess, he bowed and said goodbye, and he seemed to be in a bad mood.

After Lao Yangpi's sheepskin was lost to Naha, he never wore a sheepskin cloak again. Of course, this was also closely related to the hot weather.

He wandered around the camp all day and even dealt with those bad people several times.

Once, Yun Chu heard the bad people asking Lao Houzi, a Hu merchant with a wide range of friends, about Lao Yangpi.

Lao Houzi naturally knew everything about Lao Yangpi, and he told everything he knew, which made those bad people very happy.

Yun Chu just passed by Naha and heard Lao Houzi tell the bad people the whereabouts of Qinglang without hiding anything.

Seeing that the troops of Zhechongfu were ready, Selaima did not come.

Seeing that Ding Dayou had already sent out scouts, Selaima still didn't come.

Even when Yunchu's ox cart started moving and the camels stood up from the ground, Selaima still didn't come.

Even Dafei was nowhere to be seen.

"Mom doesn't want me anymore, right?" Naha stared with big eyes but didn't cry.

"That's right, she doesn't want you anymore, and asked me to raise you." Yunchu didn't whitewash Selaima's behavior.

"Is it because I eat too much? I can actually eat less."

"No, it's because she's going to have another baby, and the two of us seem redundant and useless."

"How can it be useless? The marmot cooked by my brother is so delicious!"

"From now on, my brother will only make delicious food for you."

"Well, I only give my brother the good things I get from the old monkey."

"That's right, we two brothers and sisters have to work hard. The old monkey has too many good things, and we two don't have much time."

"Don't worry, the old monkey is stupid, leave it to me."

"What was the old monkey doing when you came?"

"Copying scriptures, copying scriptures with his blood, do you think he is stupid, making his fingers bloody."

It has to be said that the child's language talent is very strong. After spending more than a month with the old monkey, Yun Chu can hardly hear the Western accent when Naha speaks the Tang language.

At present, except that the child still doesn't like to take a bath, everything else is good.

“The old monkey also said that if I follow him in playing with a stick, he will give me six sapphires, he said, sapphires as blue as the sea.

I want to learn to play with a stick from him.”

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