Chapter 22 Explain!
"Duan Guoyi, there is the pasture of the Geluo people in front of him." Liu Qi and Duan Xiushi said.
"That's ahead?" Duan Xiushi asked.
"According to the people who served on the mission to the Geluo tribe at the beginning of this year, there are people from Geluo here to graze." Liu Qi replied.
"Yes." Duan Xiushi nodded and suddenly said: "This is not a ranch for the Gelulu people. As early as the second year of Xianqing, Emperor Gaozong set up the Jieshan Governor's Office here, and took the leader of the Tuqi Shi Alishi tribe who was here at that time as the governor, and ruled the Alishi tribe and other tribes."
"Although the Tuqi Shiren no longer obeyed the imperial orders, causing our Tang Dynasty to start a war with the Tuqi Shiren. After the Tuqi Shiren was defeated, he left the upper reaches of the Saiyeshui and gave the land to the Gelulu people, but the Jieshan Governor's Office was never revoked. The Gelulu people should be the people under the jurisdiction of the Jieshan Governor's Office. This land is the land of the Jieshan Governor's Office. How did he become the Gelu people?"
‘Well?’ When Liu Qi heard Duan Xiushi’s words, he was surprised. Jieshan Governor’s Office is located in the lower reaches of the Yili River and is close to the Boyihai area. When it was first established, it was the Governor’s Office. The Tang Dynasty had never actually controlled it, but it belonged to the Tang Dynasty in name only. What did he say to me and the guards righteously at this time?
He glanced at the guards again. Many people didn't care what Duan Xiushi said. A few who listened carefully, like Liu Qi, were confused about why Duan Xiushi said this to his own people.
Duan Xiushi himself noticed it, but he had no intention of explaining it at all. He just ordered everyone to dismount and rest, and did not say how long it took. Everyone started to rest with doubts.
After a while, a small tribe drove cattle and sheep from the northwest. The small tribe was a little nervous when he noticed someone, but after seeing the Tang Dynasty's flag, he felt relieved. If the Tang Dynasty came to fight Geluo, there would not be only such a few people; such a team must be a mission team, so there is no need to worry.
But at this moment, Duan Xiushi ordered everyone to get on the horse. When everyone sat firmly on the horse's back, Duan Xiushi pulled out the sword from his waist and shouted loudly: "Soldiers, break down these Gelu people!"
"What?" Liu Qi couldn't help but screamed. Aren't we the envoys on the mission? Why are we going to fight?
But the others did not react like Liu Qi. The thirty-five soldiers selected by Duan Xiushi were all veterans who fought countless times. In terms of physical strength, they were no longer as experienced as young people, but their experience was far better; the five people brought by Liu Qi were not new recruits. After hearing Duan Xiushi's order, they shouted in unison, and then rushed up with Duan Xiushi. Liu Qi came to his senses and hurriedly followed.
This small tribe was not prepared for this. They were still sitting on the horse's back and slowly driving the cattle and sheep. Suddenly, they felt the earth start to shake. Looking east, they saw the Tang army rushing towards them with great momentum!
The Geluo people suddenly became panicked, and left many cattle and sheep and fled in all directions. Duan Xiushi ordered ten people to collect cattle and sheep, and the rest were divided into two parts, one followed him and the other followed Liu Qi, chasing the Geluo people. Although Liu Qi was full of doubt, he was not vague in his hands and followed him with about ten people.
He chased after more than ten miles and killed more than twenty Geluo people who were behind him. When he saw the sky turned dark, he turned around and returned to his departure place before dark. At this time, Duan Xiushi also came back. After communicating with each other's results, he ordered the soldiers who had previously collected cattle and sheep to slaughter cattle and sheep, and the rest of the soldiers camped.
‘It was so weird that when you set out from Yuluzhou, you said you didn’t have to bring too much dry food. When you arrived at Gelulu, you had your own food. But you could buy it for money, and there was no need to kill people and rob goods.’ Liu Qi solved a doubt, but the bigger doubt was still not solved. He thought about it while eating lamb legs. After thinking for a while, he couldn’t figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
The next morning, he killed two more sheep for breakfast. Duan Xiushi ordered all the other sheep to be released, and only a few cows continued to go to the tribe where Ye Hu, the Geluo people, was. On the evening of the day, they met the Geluo people again. Duan Xiushi ordered the killing and robbing the goods again, but because it was a little late, he did not order to pursue them, and chopped off several Geluo people who could not escape.
A few days after that, shed sheep and kept the cattle every morning and drove the cattle to the road. If you didn’t meet the Geluo people on this day, you would slaughter the remaining cattle; if you met, you would wait for an opportunity to kill them and snatch the cattle and sheep.
At the same time, he also accelerated his marching speed, and his speed was getting faster and faster. Later, he almost rushed to march. Fortunately, they also snatched some horses these days and gave each person a pair of horses, and they could hold on when riding alternately.
A few days later, they approached the grazing place of the tribe where Ye Hu, a man from Gelu, was located. The water and grass were abundant and there were many people. Duan Xiushi changed his practice a few days ago, no longer killed people and robbed goods, and slowed down his speed of progress. However, he publicly showed his identity as an envoy of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, and asked the tribes he encountered to provide cattle and sheep for the envoy team. He beat and scolded him if he didn't obey. Once, he ordered a small leader to catch him and strip him naked and beat him up.
Of course, the Gelu tribes were extremely angry, but they did not dare to treat the envoys of the Tang Dynasty privately. They could only send people to report Ye Hu while swallowing their anger and supplying what Duan Xiushi wanted, and also restricting ordinary tribes from not being detrimental to the envoys of the Tang Dynasty without authorization.
Liu Qi couldn't understand Duan Xiushi's operation even more. 'Before arriving at the Jieshan Governor's Office, I talked to Duan Xiushi and found that he was a very kind person and never abused his subordinates. Why did he become so tyrannical when he arrived at the Jieshan Governor's Office? Could it be that his relatives were killed by the Gelulu people? But if this were the case, Gao Jiedushi would not regard him as the official envoy to serve as the envoy to Gelulu.'
But whether Liu Qi understood the reason why Duan Xiushi did this, time was passing by rapidly. Soon, they arrived at the tribe where Ye Hu was.
The time to arrive at Yehu's tribe was that night. Dunpiga, who was the Geluo man, sent his brother-in-law to welcome the envoys of the Tang Dynasty, prepared a very luxurious tent for them, and arranged delicious delicacies and dance female musicians. The brother-in-law Inale also said: "The envoys of the upper country have given orders and will follow everything."
"Well, do everything?" Hearing this sentence, Duan Xiushi glanced at him and asked, "Is it really do everything?"
"Yes, the envoy of the upper country gave orders and obeyed everything." My brother-in-law felt a bad feeling, but he still said with a tough bullet.
"Okay." Duan Xiushi smiled and said, "I see that the team of heroes who greet me behind you are good. Why not hand it over to me and I will give it to the governor after I go back."
"Ah, this," Inale said with a sweat on his forehead, "Report to the envoys of the country, these heroes are my personal guards of Geluoyehu, and I cannot make the decision."
"You didn't say that, but you gave me instructions to do everything? Why did you change your mind again at this time?"
"I don't follow me, it's just that I can't decide."
"How can I say this? I have to follow everything if I have commands? Since that's the case, I won't make things difficult for you. Leave this group of people in the tent, and I personally ask Ye Hu for it tomorrow!" Duan Xiushi said.
"This..." Inal still did not dare to be such a master, but Ye Hudunpiga told him not to disobey the Tang envoy's words. He was in a dilemma and thought for a long time and finally agreed. But after Duan Xiushi asked him to leave like a fly, he hurried to see Dunpiga report.
If Liu Qi saw this scene, he would definitely not be able to help asking Duan Xiushi why he did this again. But Liu Qi seemed to have suffered from a stomachache during the day and went to the toilet several times. After arriving here, he immediately went into the tent to recuperate. He did not see this scene.
Early the next morning, Duan Xiushi and Liu Qi were dressed neatly and went to visit Dunpiga. They came to Dunpiga's tent and sat down after the ceremony.
After sitting down, Liu Qi glanced at the big tent. Dunpiga lived in the upper seat. He and Duan Xiushi sat on the left hand of Dunpiga. There were several strong men of Geluo sitting opposite him, probably the generals or the leader of the tribe under Dunpiga. At this time, these people were staring at him and Duan Xiushi with resentment. Some even had murderous intents, and these murderous intents and resentment almost condensed into a knife to cut them into flesh mud. Liu Qi couldn't help but avoid their eyes.
'It seems that the 'deeds' of killing people and robbing goods after entering Jieshan Governor's Office have been spread here, otherwise there would be no other hatred in the near future, and they would not look at us like this.' Liu Qi thought.
Duan Xiushi was still talking and laughing, and he smiled and said, "My Protectorate of Anxi Prefecture and Anxi Jiedu Gong, I ordered the two of us to convey our greetings to Ye Hu first."
"Thank you. Please convey my greetings to Gao Gong." Dunpiga's expression was as usual. He smiled slightly when he heard Duan Xiushi's words.
The expressions of several strong men sitting on the right hand became disdainful. Someone muttered: "I want to kill many men and rob me of many cattle and sheep with these few words? I made the wrong idea."
Dunpijia and Duan Xiushi both heard this, but their expressions did not change and they continued to greet each other. Liu Qi was puzzled, but at this time he could not speak to Duan Xiushi privately, but his doubts in his heart aggravated another layer.
Duan Xiushi and Dunpijia had been greeting for a long time, and kept talking, and their expressions were not at all impatient. But the strong men on the right became impatient, and one of them couldn't help but say, "Why don't you talk about serious matters? It's just a waste of time. I might as well go back to sleep." Although I was whispering softly, everyone knew that he was already very impatient when they looked at the expression of this person.
Dunpiga paused for a moment, his expression changed slightly, and he said to Duan Xiushi: "I don't know what else is there to do if Gao Gong sent Duan and Liu's envoy came?"
Chapter completed!