The Book of Heaven

Chapter 430 Caliph Othman
While serving as the Patriarch of the Li family, Li Zong has also been the lord of Tianshui City for many years. He is in charge of a family and a city at the same time, which has fully tempered Li Zong's abilities in all aspects. Perhaps in terms of martial arts and literary talents, Li Zong is not even considered an individual , But if you want to talk about the ability to deal with various situations, Li Yan is definitely a master in this area.

It was precisely because of this ability that Li Yan was able to calmly escape from Tianshui City with his own people in times of crisis, and rushed all the way to the northwest according to the route he had arranged in the early years to reach the holy city of the Great Yuezhi.When he found that the Da Yuezhi was no longer enough for him to rely on, even the Emperor Da Yuezhi he had agreed to disappeared, and he continued to flee without saying a word.

As we continued to the northwest, the road became more desolate. In the area where the Han Empire and the Dashi Kingdom bordered, there were very few normal human settlements, because this area was not only unsightly from the natural environment. It is suitable for a large number of people to live together, and more importantly, because of the mutual hostility between the two big countries, this area has become a no-nonsense zone, breeding countless crimes.

Horse thieves, mountain thieves, robbers, and all kinds of villains have become the rulers of this area. They themselves do not have any fixed residences, and often follow the wandering tribes to wander freely.Some people may think that this kind of life is full of romance and full of quackery, but in fact, if a person lives in such a state for a long time, his personality will change.

A cruel living environment will inevitably lead to a cruel character. Without a cruel heart, it is impossible to survive in such a world. Compared with the towns under the rule of the Han Empire, this area is like hell.

Li Zong led the tribe through such an area, and he had to raise his spirits.The reason why it is said that Li Yan is a talent in management is that since he left Tianshui City with only 200 people in the team, the number of people in the team has not decreased, but has increased to 200 people.

Under normal circumstances, on the way to escape, there will be active or passive attrition due to various reasons, but it is the opposite here for Li Zong, because Li Zong's years of preparation work have allowed him to continuously expand his team, Moreover, almost all the newly added members are combat members. In other words, since he escaped from Tianshui City, the strength in Li Yan's hands has almost quadrupled.

What is even more surprising is that these 1000 or 600 people all had their own horses, and 600 of them rode war horses and wore cavalry armor. The [-]-man cavalry team is absolutely tyrannical in this area. Even if some small horse thief gangs discovered Li Yan's group, they had to retreat three feet away drooling because the opponent's lineup was at its peak.

Money is touching, and the key is to see if there is life to spend. Six hundred elite cavalry are enough to easily wipe out a tribe of thousands of people, and there are only three tribes with a population of more than 5000 in this area.

Whenever he passes such a tribe, Li Zong chooses to avoid it. He doesn't want to cause trouble for himself. As long as he can pass through this area safely and quickly to reach the Great Food Kingdom, Li Zong will be able to contact the royal court of the Great Food Kingdom. At that time, there will naturally be troops from the Great Food Kingdom to escort him to Damascus, the imperial city of the Great Food Kingdom.

The ruler of the Great Food Kingdom is called the caliphate. Li Zong had written letters with the current Caliph Osman of the Great Food Kingdom in the early years. Because of the Li family’s business dealings in the northwest, it can be said that Osman admired the Li family very much. , It was mentioned more than once in the letter that he wanted the Li family to belong to him. At that time, he could appoint Li Zong as the king of Persia, that is, let Li Zong inform most of Persia.

It's just that at that time Li Yan had no interest in it, because in his opinion, even Persia in its heyday was backward and weak compared to the Han Empire, especially considering that it was ruled by a group of weird-looking people. Persians, Li Yan felt completely unacceptable, as if he had become the king on Monkey Mountain and had nothing to be proud of.

But today is different from the past, Li Zhi has no place to stand in the Han Empire, and the Da Yue Clan does not live up to expectations and cannot provide a buffer for Li Zhi. Apart from Dashi, Li Yan does not know where else he can go, so He would take the initiative to contact Osman while hurrying on his way.

"There are still three days before we can enter the real Dashi Kingdom, and then the army of the Dashi Kingdom will come to protect us, and everyone will be safe."

In order to stabilize people's hearts, Li Zong has given countless public speeches along the way. Li Zong has done a good job in this regard. At least so far, the people who have followed him away from home have hardly complained. Of course, these people also Everyone knows that if he stays in the Great Han Empire, once he is captured by the court, it is absolutely impossible for him to survive.

They also had no choice but to follow Li Yan honestly.

Fortunately, although Li Yan was strict, he seldom fooled people. Basically, what he promised could be fulfilled, just like when he said that he still had three days to arrive in the Great Food Kingdom, no one would doubt it.Because this is a fact, after passing through most of the desert, the scenery on the road has become more and more different. Those things with Persian characteristics and the common people are proving to everyone that this place is quite far away from the shadow of the Han Empire. up.

And even in this kind of place, Li Yan was still able to recruit people from time to time.Most of the people gathered on the way belonged to the caravan of the Li family, and a small number of them were cronies sent by the Li family.A colossus like the Li family would not be able to establish a state in the Han Empire if it did not have a plethora of subordinates.

The size of a backward noble is already so huge, and the background of the old nobles like the five kings with different surnames and the Zhuge family is even more difficult to guess.

Just like Ma Daogong gritted his teeth in front of Liu Xu, in order to capture or kill Li Yan, and keep his position as Patriarch and Ma Family's status in the hearts of the royal family, he was even willing to use the right of each Patriarch only once.

This right is the right to go to the Ma family's ancestral house to worship the ancestors and ask for help, and to ask the Ma family ancestors to help solve problems.According to the ancestral family rules of the Ma family, the fault is not that the Ma family is in a life-or-death situation, otherwise each head of the family can only worship the ancestors once for help.It's just that the heads of the Ma family have hardly used this right for many years.

In the Han Empire, the Ma family has always been smooth sailing, and it seems that there is no need to use this right, so even some Ma family members have forgotten this matter.Besides, asking for help from ancestor worship sounds like a myth. If the Ma family's strength can't solve it, then ancestor worship can solve it?Could it be said that there are really immortals in this world, and the ancestors of the Ma family have already become immortals?
Because it was too unbelievable, most of the Ma family did not believe this, and later it became a joke in the hearts of the Ma family. Most people who knew this thought it was just a psychological comfort, or The ancestors hope that through this method, the entire Ma family can be closely united and all the power of the Ma family can be mobilized.

A huge horse family is like an iceberg floating on the sea, and what can be seen usually is only the tiny part of its huge body sticking out of the water.

Only Ma Daogong, the patriarch, knows that worshiping ancestors and asking for help is not a myth or psychological comfort, it is a power that must never be used in normal times.

(End of this chapter)