stubborn thief

Chapter 256
In the early morning two days later, the thunderstorm had just stopped, and the air in the castle was fine.

Liu Chengzong stood in the open space of the castle with his bow drawn, and looked at the red willow branch arrow target twenty steps away, with hatred in his eyes, as if there was another self on the target.

Biao let the arrow go, the shaft of the arrow flew over suddenly, and sank into the archery target made of red willow branches.

He put down his bow, frowned and looked at the target from a distance, let out a breath of depression, and said to Chen Shifo: "Don't be discouraged, everything is difficult at the beginning."

Liu Shizi looked at the blue sky connected with the snow-topped mountains in the distance, as if he saw countless Dharma kings and nobles in the sky, showing him sinister smiles.

Chen Shifu lowered his head at the side and sighed, he knew that the Generalissimo said this to cheer himself up.

He was never discouraged, because he never had faith in the progress the Generalissimo spoke of.

Even sometimes, Chen Shifo felt that working with Liu Chengzong was like serving the great monk in the temple when he was a child.

I don't understand what you're saying, what's on your mind, but I know it's good for me to do what you say.

He said the commander-in-chief, "Actually, I don't think it's good to ignore the slaves. It's good to let the slaves become new nobles. They only know this. We can't let them suddenly become enlightened and want to become a person they have never seen before. People who don't know."

Liu Chengzong put away his bow and arrow, with an expressionless face, pointed at the stone pier on the edge of the open space, "Go over there and talk."

Chen Shifo didn't understand, he had to fight against this system.

Not because of revolution, not because of liberation, not because of productivity, not because of power, but combat power.

The army led by him is composed of a group of exiled soldiers and frustrated officials who have mastered extreme force. They must become a regime and establish their own country.

If he had the option of turning a blind eye to this system in Juerwan and Qinghai Lake, they would naturally form a local government that was slightly more progressive than that of Ming Dynasty.

But after he advanced into the hinterland of Qinghai, this option disappeared.

The system here will corrupt him, it will corrupt his army, and it will turn them from a group of outlaws who ran four thousand miles into scattered slave owners.

The weak and deceitful nobles, the submissive slaves, and the power of life and death can evoke the darkest things in people's hearts.

Who wouldn't want to be a slave master?

The two sat next to each other, and Liu Chengzong asked, "You said they have never met or heard of someone, what do you mean?"

Chen Shifo was just talking casually, but Liu Chengzong was so serious that he became nervous, and after a little organizing his words, he said: "Marshal, I don't know if what I said is right..."

Liu Chengzong raised his hand and said, "Just say it."

"I was born in a chieftain's family. I have seen my father flatter Shangguan a lot since I was a child. I am very satisfied with being the second son of the chieftain's family. I know that the commander-in-chief doesn't like monks, but what I want most is to be a monk. I am leisurely, comfortable, and have someone to serve me. high."

Liu Chengzong didn't take this as small talk, he heard the implication of Chen Shifo's words, the slaves have never seen a free man, they have only seen nobles, what they want most is not a free man, but a master who can enslave others.

He asked, "Then why didn't you become a monk in the end?"

"I want to marry a wife."

I was very happy about it, but Chen Shifo had sadness in his eyes: "Don't be afraid of handsome jokes. When I was 16 years old, I liked a shepherdess in Haibei. I wanted to marry her back home, but my father didn't allow it. My family is a little chieftain, so I finally got some money. I will give it all to the temple, and the commander-in-chief also knows."

"I chanted scriptures for others, and I rented a house in the west of Xining City, and let her live there. My father always sent people to drive her back to Haibei. I felt very distressed, and gave her all the money for copying the scriptures. I shouldn't... "

Chen Shifu shook his head, crossed his fingers in front of him, and clenched it vigorously: "I gave her money for the last time, and she used that money to buy arsenic from the Han people."

Liu Chengzong patted him, no wonder there was a fake monk in Chen Shiwen's family who didn't graduate, and he found him here when he was looking for a job.

Master Chen heaved a long sigh: "I didn't go back to the monastery after that, I only went home after my father died..."

This guy took it easy, recovered quickly, and brought the topic back: "After that, I don't want to be a monk. I want to be an accountant. The accountant can live a leisurely life and earn more money."

"I have met monks, accountants, and chieftains, and I am not restricted by my origin, so I don't want to be a chieftain, but a monk and an accountant. The restrictions of slaves' origins prevent them from thinking of doing anything else. Birth restrictions, the last thing they want to be is a free farmer."

Liu Chengzong nodded: "I know, it's the nobleman."

He smiled helplessly and said: "Let's do this first, let Master Basang lead his slave soldiers to fight around and wipe out the nobles of the Gama family. We will first defeat Bai Li in the east, and we can't drag the war until winter. "

Liu Chengzong has sent someone to send a message to Haibei, asking Chengyun to find Chen Shiwen, and he wants someone who is proficient in Chinese language to be a teacher for the left behind troops.

The left-behind troops must all learn the Spanish language.

Half of his soldiers came from peasant uprisings, and the other half were also people who had suffered. Even if they were not deliberately trained, they had a strong ability to instigate.

It's just that here, their provocative ability can't be used at all...the language barrier.

In the next two days, Liu Chengzong selected the general to guard Nangqian Fort, Huang Shengxiao, the commander of the artillery battalion, and ordered him to guard and renovate the fort here, transport four lion cannons up, and collect copper materials with the assistance of Ga Ma, Castle cannon.

The size of the garrison is [-], [-] soldiers and [-] Xifan artisans are stationed on the mountain, and [-] soldiers are stationed below the mountain.

Basang's army assembled in Nangqian, making Chen Shifo dizzy with his busy schedule.

At the foot of the mountain, at the gate of the slave barracks in Gama, Liu Chengzong saw Basang for the first time.

Seeing Chen Shifu approaching on horseback from a distance, a group of black people ran out from the camp, bent down low, and touched the ground with their foreheads.

Chen Shifu almost fell off his horse in fright, so he hurried over to wake them up.

He knew that Liu Shizi hated others kneeling and kowtowing the most.

He persuaded them twice, but no one listened. Finally, he gave them an order by slashing his whip in the air, and everyone got up obediently.

People called Chen Shifo, the master's master.

After getting up, Chen Shifo introduced to them that the person behind him was Generalissimo Liu Chengzong, but no one responded.

He said, "He's a lord's lord's lord."

Crash, the dark crowd knelt down again.

Chen Qindai was by Liu Chengzong's side, he rode his horse in front, turned his head and smiled wryly: "Marshal, what are you talking about...what are you doing?"

"What's the matter? I used to kneel when I saw the general, but you didn't kneel when you saw General Li?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head: "They only know this. Now that we are here, they will know more things, and it will be fine in the future."

Liu Shizi is not at all pessimistic about these worshipers, on the contrary, he is very optimistic.

These people are like blank sheets of paper. They have never really learned anything other than carrying out orders since birth. It's just that some things have been burned hard and become instincts.

He is not afraid.

Chen Shifu swung his horsewhip twice again, and brought Basang over. Liu Chengzong dismounted from his horse, and carefully looked at the young man in front of him.

Basang gave him the impression that he was a lucky guy.

This man was wearing a black and gray old sheepskin jacket, as if it had been oiled. The wool of the jacket was sticky and shiny with dirt. helmet.

Half of the helmet tassel was stained brown with blood.

If there is no comparison, he will feel that Basang is very pitiful.

But among the hundreds of slaves behind Basang, Liu Chengzong didn't see the second sheepskin jacket.

Most of them were wearing clothes sewn together from tattered coarse cloth, with thread ends exposed from the frayed corners, and there were even a few elderly people who were wearing tattered old cloth strips.

Compared with them, Basang's sheepskin jacket is simply elegant and luxurious.

Based on this, Liu Chengzong thought that choosing Basang as the new master might not be a good choice.

They should find someone who is barely clothed and hungry. Basang's old sheepskin jacket, which is as thick as it is dirty, is enough to keep him from freezing to death when he sleeps in the wild.

Liu Chengzong smiled and said: "Your former master was not bad to you."

Chen Shifu stared and asked: "Marshal, do I want to tell him this sentence?"

Liu Chengzong nodded, raised his hand and said, "Let him raise his head."

Basang raised his head cautiously and said, "Master and Master Dorji are very kind to me."

"You have bowed your head for too long, your neck needs exercise, raise your head, straighten your back, stop kneeling, you have to tell everyone."

After Chen Shifo finished speaking, Liu Chengzong said: "They have treated you very well, so do you still want to go back?"

Basang didn't answer. After thinking for a while, with unconcealable vigilance in his eyes, he shook his head slightly: "I don't want to go back."

Chen Shifu was very satisfied with Basang's answer, he breathed a sigh of relief: "Marshal, he said he didn't want to go back."

Liu Chengzong shook his head and said, "Ask him again why he doesn't want to go back."

Sometimes it is beneficial to not understand people's words, allowing him to focus all his attention on the subtle expressions and expressions of the other party.

Basang's demeanor showed that he didn't want to, not because he was good here, he was a master here, and he was a slave when he went back.

Sure enough, without knowing what Basang said, Chen Shifo jumped up in anxiety, muttered a few words, his teeth were itchy with anger, and then he said to Liu Chengzong: "Marshal, he said he didn't want to go back because we let us If he brings troops back, he will harm his master and young master."

Liu Chengzong was not as angry as Chen Shifo, but just sighed in his heart.

His mentality is very complicated, loyalty is precious, even if the person in front of him is a slave, it is a rare character not to forget the old master.

It's just that he didn't know how this slave grew up, and he looked smarter than Master Chen.

"Your heart is very delicate."

Liu Chengzong asked Chen Shifo to call all the slave soldiers outside the camp back to the camp, and entered the camp with the two to find a place to sit.

He looked at the battalion of ragged soldiers, turned to Basang who was sitting on a tree stump, and said, "In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Li Yide who was born as a slave and ran away from his master."

"Later, following the coup of Emperor Xuanzong, the official worshiped General Wuwei. The former owner met him on the road and hid elsewhere. He was invited into the mansion by him and served food and wine for the old owner himself."

"He left the old master at home for a few days, and told the emperor that the official position and salary he had received from the state's grace were too high. His old master was humble and had no official position, so he asked the emperor to give him half of the official salary. Its old master hopes that Emperor Xuanzong will satisfy his stupid demands."

"You should be able to understand the story."

After Chen Shifo finished translating, Basang thought for a while, and looked at Liu Chengzong with a blank expression on his face.

"In your case, slaves fight for their masters. No matter how brave they are, they can only wear wolf and tiger skins. When they go back, they are still slaves, and their official positions are nobles."

Liu Chengzong pointed to himself: "But there are no nobles here. A person who can fight bravely for the monarch can get an official position that only nobles can do... This is something new, right?"

"Slavery is not enough to tap all the talents of people. I want to do something bigger than the coup of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, so I have to let people learn and exercise, and mobilize all the wisdom and strength of everyone. The nobles have too many things. The 15-year generation, they must be finished."

"No one can stop me, your master is the same, your old master, the difference from other nobles is that you."

Liu Chengzong pointed to Basang: "Not used to sitting? You will get used to it. If you don't serve me wholeheartedly, they may not die, or they may die. Swords and guns have no eyes, who can say for sure?"

After Chen Shifo translated his words, Basang understood some words, but Basang did not understand some words.

But Basang understood the story about Li Yide during Emperor Xuanzong's reign.

He said: "I will serve you wholeheartedly. In the future, I will be an official position that can only be held by nobles. Can I share half of the official position and salary with Master Duoji?"

"Ha ha!"

Liu Chengzong shook his head: "I'm not Tang Xuanzong, and I won't allow such a stupid request, but if you say you want them to live, I can let them live. There are dozens of acres of land, and two people are hired, so there is no need to die or die. Sleep under the ladder."

When Basang was thinking, Liu Chengzong frowned and looked at this simple camp.

There are not only men in the camp, but also women, and even women holding unweaned babies.

Some people set up archery targets to practice archery, but more people just sat on the ground meaninglessly, women opened their arms to take care of their babies, and men found a corner to defecate anywhere.

He turned his head and said to Chen Shifo: "In the afternoon, go and say that you need the help of a few shepherds who understand the Western language, and let the women in the camp set up a small camp next to you. A set of military laws will be read out in the camp."

"Military law? I don't know how to do it, Commander."

"Let you write, the first one, set up camp at the four corners and fifty steps outside the camp, dig four toilet pits, and bury them on the spot when you leave the camp, otherwise you will get sick."

Liu Chengzong shook his head, he still didn't think about it, slaves alone can't form an army, everyone has no military education, and the chaos in the camp is worse than that of bandits and robbers.

In the future, more and more slave soldiers will be recruited, and this will not work.

He asked Basang: "Have you made up your mind, are you going to take these slaves back to show your noble lord, and then I will destroy them together, or will you work for me in a down-to-earth manner, and can save your lord in the future?" Order... sit down and don't kneel!"

Just as Basang's butt left the tree stump, he went back heavily. Liu Chengzong never expected that this guy could actually sit and kowtow, saying: "I will serve the master's master!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)