Chapter 89 Chapter 89 Accepting the Hu people

Because of the butterfly Lin Si, the original plot has undergone some minor changes.

For example, when Lin Si thought the current situation had stabilized, the Hu people started to make trouble.

The heavy snow at the beginning of the year not only froze the crops in the Central Plains to death, but also turned the grasslands on which the Hu people depended for survival into ice chips.

Without grazing, the Hu people would not be able to survive.

But the weather was too cold, and the Hu people's tribe was very backward. They couldn't make a fire in the cold weather, so they couldn't think of a solution.

Therefore, it was not that they did not want to cause trouble when Dachen was in the most chaos, but that the cold took the lives of most of the Hu people, and most of them died while looking for new pastures and on the way south to harass Dachen.

As the weather got hotter, someone among the remaining Hu people finally realized it.

Nomadic civilizations are extremely unstable and barbaric. They need to be assimilated into the Han culture, need farming, and need everything from the Central Plains.

So the nobleman led the charge and harassed the border of Dachen.

If you ask them why they don't harass the borders of Nanzhao and Xiping, isn't it because they don't want to? Nanzhao and Xiping are most wary of this group of Hu people.

They also claimed that they were of royal bloodline and were members of the imperial family. This was because a princess had married into their tribe, so they could speak Chinese and even write some simple Chinese characters.

He was willing to submit to Dachen and hoped that the emperor of Dachen would give him a fiefdom so that the Hu people could have a stable life. It would be best if someone could be sent to teach them farming. Otherwise, they would just have to rob.

Lin You was so exhausted by these things that he even lost a lot of hair.

Lin You didn't understand why he encountered such a thing as soon as he became regent.

Lin You didn't think he was a smart child, but as the eldest son, he had always taken care of his younger siblings and studied diligently, fearing that he would make a mistake and be deposed from his position as crown prince.

Only he himself knows the hardships along the way.

The current situation is so complicated that his brain is almost exhausted every day. He really feels that being a prince is extremely tiring.

In the court, the opinions of the ministers were naturally different.

Some people say that now that summer has just passed and the grain harvest has been good, it would be better to teach these Hu people a lesson. They are Hu people who dare to claim to be of royal blood. This is really rebellious.

Some people argue that if we fight the Hu people now, then we won’t have to worry about the rebels next year?

Some people also said that if they didn't fight, they would really be given land. Now, including Xihe Road, they have lost three and a half roads. How could there be any land to give them?

Lin You rubbed his swollen and painful temples and closed his eyes in frustration.

Just then, a brilliant idea suddenly came to him, and he had never felt so smart.

Wouldn't it be better to let these Hu people go to Xihe Road?

Anyway, Lin Si doesn't take him seriously now. No matter how good his temper is, he can't help but want to play tricks on Lin Si.

The combination of her and Liang Nian is simply dancing in Dachen's minefield.

Aren’t the people under your rule living and working in peace and contentment? Now that the disobedient and stupid Hu people have come to your territory, can you still manage them so well?

Since Yan Shengguang returned from Xihe Road, he has attended court every day. Even his father and grandfather at home praised him for his changed personality.

Only Yan Shengguang knew that attending court was fake and the intelligence transfer station was real.

After the court session that day, he first went back home and wrote down the content of today's court affairs on paper. Then he went out as usual and came to an inconspicuous shop in a small alley in Anjing.

This small shop is located in an alley and does very average business. It sells some strange and bizarre wood carvings.

When Yan Shengguang came for the first time, he also checked some very confusing slogans as usual, such as the price of shirts.

He had no idea what a shirt was or what nine pounds fifteen meant, but he did it anyway.

Yan Shengguang handed the note to the shop owner, then paid the money and took back a wooden sculpture.

After Lin Si received the news from Yan Shengguang, he immediately called Liang Nian over.

Lin Si supported his head with one hand, he was deliberately trying to annoy me."

Liang Nian asked, "Does the county lady have any plans?"

Lin Si suddenly smiled cunningly, "I won't let him have his way. If there are any disobedient people among these barbarians, I will kill them. The remaining obedient ones will be raised as horses and sheep for me. How perfect! We haven't even built a horse farm yet."

The two hit it off immediately and then called Xu Chuo.

Except for their faces, Xu Chuo's entire family was no different from the Han people.

Therefore, Xu Chuo was indeed a little surprised when he heard that a group of Hu people were coming to Xihe Road.

He had almost forgotten the hard life on the grassland.

Lin Si gave the order directly, "Instead of letting those barbarians come to us on their own, why don't you go and meet them? We'll leave the communication to you. There will always be disobedient people in times of trouble, and bloodshed is inevitable."

"Yes." Xu Chuo's heart was not at all shaken. Not to mention that he had already considered himself a native of Li County. This was the stable life he had worked so hard to obtain. He would not think there was anything wrong with killing his compatriots.

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The Hu people experienced that severe cold wave, and some died, and many were injured. In addition, the Hu people's medical skills were almost equivalent to shamanism, so anyone who was sick basically could not survive.

Under such harsh living conditions, the remaining Hu people have lost their will to resist.

They only have one goal, to survive.

The nobleman Murong Bobo is the youngest son in the Murong territory. He has experienced the loss of his mother, father, sister and brother.

He was not dead, but he was thinking of taking the civilians in the territory to find new pastures.

Only then did he realize that he was too naive. Where was there any new pasture? Looking around, the entire grassland was frozen.

Murong Bobo did not give up. He went south and gathered a group of surviving Hu people on the way.

Only then did Murong Bobo realize that if he wanted to survive, he had to be like the Han people.

The nomadic life of the Hu people, moving from place to place, was too unstable. They had to assimilate into the Han culture and adopt agriculture. They had to remain in the Central Plains.

Murong Bobo thought about how he had learned Chinese since he was a child and could even write a few Chinese characters.

His father told him that the three Chinese characters "Lin Yifeng" refer to the princess that their Murong family's ancestors had married as a foreign princess. At that time, when Dachen was just established, a foreign princess marriage was needed to stabilize the situation.

All children born to a princess must be able to speak a little Chinese and write their names.

Murong Bobo is from this lineage.

This is also the last resort that Murong Bobo can think of. If Dachen refuses and is unwilling to accept his surrender, then he can only lead the Hu people to fight to the death.

The county magistrate was frightened by the large number of Hu people gathered, and quickly conveyed Murong Bobo's intention to Anjing.

Now, Murong Bobo could only follow the palace soldiers leading the way, and eat some boiled clear soup, porridge and fruits along the way.

All the Hu people had a look of confusion on their faces.

When Yin Sheng and Xu Chuo arrived, the leading imperial guards were stunned. In this day and age, were there still soldiers who were so tall and strong, with rosy complexions, and who walked without even a breath? And their weapons were made of fine iron.

Compared with them, my appearance and equipment are really shabby.

Yin Sheng was responsible for negotiating details with the head of the palace soldiers and signing documents.

Xu Chuo walked quickly to the crowd and spoke in the grassland language, which he had not spoken for a long time.

"Fellow countrymen, please follow us back to Anping County. She will provide you with a place to live and food to eat, but you must work hard to earn it."

When he heard the familiar grassland language, the Hu man raised his head and saw a tall and strong Hu man. However, this Hu man no longer looked like a Hu man. He had no beard and was wearing typical Han Chinese clothing.

It only took Xu Chuo a second to find the leader Murong Bobo.

He chose to communicate with Murong Bobo alone.

Murong Bobo came up without asking anything else, but said, "You are from the grassland. Will the so-called Anping County Lord really accept us? I hope you don't lie to me."

Xu Chuo nodded. "I have no reason to lie to you. You see, I know that the prerequisite for acceptance is that you all have to work for the county lady. Even if you were once a noble. There are no nobles there. You will have to live like a commoner. Do you accept that?"

Xu Chuo kept his hand on the knife at his waist. As long as Murong Bobo said a word of dissatisfaction, he would kill him immediately.

Murong Bobo smiled bitterly and said, "I've been living like a pig or a dog these days, so how can I still dream of becoming a noble?"

Xu Chuo let go and led the way with Yin Sheng and other subordinates while doing the registration work.

Murong Bobo also helped with the questioning.

These people all had experience in raising horses, sheep and cattle. Xu Chuo asked them more questions and divided them into different categories.

After walking for a while, Yin Sheng and others began to cook potatoes and sweet potatoes and distribute them to the group of Hu people.

The Hu people had not eaten anything decent for a long time. Even if each person could only get one, it would be enough to make them cry.

The one who cried the most was Murong Bobo.

Xu Chuo walked beside him, eating sweet potatoes, and said, "I cried like this before, but now I'm living well. As long as you listen to the Anping County Master, you will live better than on the grassland."

At night, Yin Sheng and Xu Chuo deliberately opened a slit in the bag of potatoes and sweet potatoes and left it in an unattended place while pretending to be asleep.

Sure enough, three or five groups of people climbed up stealthily and began to plot in grassland dialect.

"That barbarian said there would be no nobles in the future. Only that idiot Murong Bobo would agree to that. How could nobles work like commoners? I used to be a noble."

"I think if we steal that bag of food and find a place to eat, we can live comfortably just by robbing the Han people."

"Let's do it. We can't beat them, but stealing is always a good idea. That bag will last us for a long time."

Xu Chuo sneered in his heart while listening to their grassland dialect.

He gave them a chance.

Because of these dozens of people, all the people on the grassland were woken up. It was rare for them to have decent food, and with the presence of their fellow villager Xu Chuo, they relaxed and had a good sleep. Unfortunately, they were woken up in the middle of their sleep.

Xu Chuo and Yin Sheng killed these dozens of people as an example to the nearly one thousand grassland people.

Before killing him, Xu Chuo specifically explained the reason in grassland dialect.

At this point, this group of grassland people have become completely honest.

After walking and stopping along the way, we finally arrived at Lin Si's territory.

Lin Si and Liang Nian had already prepared for this. Since the weather was not cold now, this group of people would first live in the straw hut for half a month, and then go into the city after they were clean.

As for the communication during this period, it was handled by the twenty or so Hu people who originally came to Li County.

Xu Chuo and Xu Yan were busy with their work, but their parents were specially approved by the factory and mining area to come and help.

The people on the grassland had straw huts and dry grass under their bodies. They felt that such days were very happy.

The people of Li County donated their unwanted linen clothes. Who would wear linen clothes now? It would be better to donate them to the government office and use them for good deeds.

The people of Li County were of high quality. When they learned that the clothes were to be given to the Hu people, they did not donate them just because they were dirty. Instead, every household washed them clean and dried them in the sun before donating them.

Xu Bei was holding a stack of clothes, her stack was for girls and children.

She explained in grassland dialect, "These clothes were given to you by the people under the county lord's jurisdiction. They are very clean, so everyone should line up to fetch water for bathing. Only after washing thoroughly can you wear clean clothes."

The Hu people were divided into men and women, and they lined up in the simple bathroom to fetch water and take a bath with small pieces of soap.

Because they were required to wash the clothes thoroughly, almost everyone would rub their skin red before receiving the clothes.

Xu Bei was distributing clothes when a mother and daughter asked her very embarrassedly if she could handle it, and if not they could help.

The little girl even asked in grassland dialect, "Can you teach me Chinese? I want to learn it. How can I speak it as fluently as you?"

Seeing the child's eagerness to speak Chinese, Xu Bei touched her head and replied gently, "As long as you live here, you will learn it quickly."

Murong Bobo also washed himself and changed into linen clothes. The clothes were divided according to approximate size, and his set was a little big, but he didn't care at all.

Hu men not only had to take a bath, but also had to shave their beards, just like Xu Chuo.

After shaving his beard, Murong Bobo took the initiative to help distribute clothes. The person in charge of distributing clothes also chatted with Murong Bobo.

Murong Bobo then realized that the Princess of Anping wanted the Hu people to raise horses for her, and she didn't even have a single cavalryman under her command.

It took the Hu people almost two days to get clean.

Therefore, when we returned to the hut to sleep, everyone found it incredible.

There is a feeling that life seems to have hope in an instant.

The little girl curled up in her mother's arms, muttering something in very unstandard Chinese.

"Shore....Taste....Salt...Boiled."

Then he asked in grassland dialect, "Mother, is this how it is pronounced?"

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The author has something to say: Lin Si: Thank you for the little expert you sent me.