On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 146 Return to Jixian

Author: He Tiantian from Lotus Picking

Chapter 146 Return to Jixian

The next day, when the morning light first appeared, Cui Che set off and left the small border town.

He led his cavalry and drove the Turkic women and livestock southward. Along the way, many people watched and applauded.

When the Northern Zhou Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty stood side by side, they competed to flatter the Turks. During the Sui Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, even if the Eighth Route Army counterattacked the Turks, Youzhou was also attacking Gao Baoning, Yingzhou.

In the past thirty years, Turks have frequently invaded Youzhou and committed numerous crimes.

Today, Cui Che led the army to destroy the evil neighbor of the Ground Patrol Department, which can be regarded as giving a bad breath to the people on the border.

Jingguan still stands outside Jicheng City, forming a pyramid-shaped mound covered with long-rotted heads.

Although this order was issued by Cui Che, it was the first time for him to see such a terrifying and horrifying sight.

"Since the fortification of Jingguan was built, thieves and thieves in Youzhou disappeared, and the people did not close their houses at night."

Shi Ligang, the head of the palace who came to greet him, introduced.

Cui Che secretly nodded, guessing that the thief was frightened by Jingguan and went elsewhere to make a living.

He was not in a hurry to enter the city, but summoned the thousands of Boling cavalry who had followed Fang Yanqian back to Jixian first, and asked them to select Turkic women as slaves together with the soldiers who went out to plunder, but they had to be ranked later.

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Concubinage was the privilege of the powerful class, and commoners could only abide by the monogamy system.

In fact, even the powerful class has corresponding hierarchical standards regarding the number of concubines, but not many can actually abide by them.

But if the law can't restrain the powerful, why can't it control the poor?

Cui Che gave Turkic women to the soldiers and took them home as slaves.

As for whether to do odd jobs or be a concubine in a practical sense, Cui Che left it to him. As long as he didn't take the title of concubine, he could say anything.

If he really meets true love and insists on marrying her, Cui Che will not stop him.

After the Turkic women were divided up, Cui Che distributed cattle and sheep to the soldiers.

The Sui Dynasty inherited the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Western Wei Dynasty, and the Northern Wei Dynasty. There was no military pay for soldiers. Soldiers supported their families. In addition to the land allocated by the court, they took the opportunity to plunder supplies during battles.

Things are getting better now, and they can be distributed uniformly after the war. In the early years, everyone robbed each other. Sometimes the officers and soldiers who suppressed the bandits robbed the people more ruthlessly than the thieves.

At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when Beifu soldiers put down Sun En's rebellion, they plundered Sanwu and almost everything was empty.

The cattle and sheep were divided among the people. As for the horses, Cui Che did not keep them all. In this battle, Cui Che destroyed the entire Diqinchao Department and obtained more than 11,000 horses.

Among them, he selected 6,000 good horses for Boling's cavalry, so that each of them had four horses and could bear the heavy responsibility of long-distance raids.

Five thousand horses were also given to the Youzhou cavalry to improve their mobility, and the remaining several hundred horses were planned to be reserved for the soon-to-be-formed personal guards.

Living on the border of Youzhou and being brave men selected from fifty military towns, how could these people not know how to ride a horse?

The Boling knights and the Youzhou knights used ropes to lead the livestock and women, and returned home with their loads, which attracted the envy of others, especially the infantry, who wished they could not follow Cui Che in the battle.

Cui Che decided to distribute the women and livestock himself, but he sent more than 3,000 Turkic prisoners captured in the Yuyang battle to Guanzhong and handed them over to the imperial court as rewards to officials as slaves.

These adults are much more sensitive than women and livestock, and Cui Che doesn't want to step on this.

Before leaving, Cui Che did not forget to cut off the thumbs of the prisoners. He did not want to encounter a group of Guanzhong slave soldiers who had a deep hatred against him in the future.

Brother Che is good at everything, but he is very loyal to the court.

After this battle, Cui Che successfully gained the support of the Youzhou cavalry. A commander who can lead them to victory and rob Turkic women and livestock is a good commander.

After entering the city, Cui Che ordered his people to notify the waiting scholars of each county that the assessment would begin tomorrow and select three tribute soldiers to be sent to Daxing to take the exam. He then summoned two hundred brave men selected from the fifty military towns.

The soldiers formally formed their own personal guard in Youzhou.

These two hundred soldiers only regretted that they arrived a step too late and did not catch up with the battle. Otherwise, they would have been among the people carving up Turkic women and livestock.

Cui Che also gave a meeting gift to the two hundred personal guards. Each of them was given two horses, which were the hundreds of horses left after Cui Che had previously allocated them to the Bo leader cavalry and Youzhou knights.

The two hundred personal guards had just been formed, and they received this great gift. They all knelt down and shouted that they were willing to die for the general manager.

I say this now, but if I really want them to be willing to die for me, I have to make them completely return to their hearts in the future.

Cui Che returned to the mansion wearing armor. The Bodhisattva slave looked at his father's majestic appearance and everyone was stunned.

"Grandpa!"

As soon as Yuwen Eying saw Cui Che, she wanted to throw herself into her father's arms like before, but she stopped thinking about her mother's previous words that she had grown up and should avoid suspicion.

Cui Che didn't think too much. He picked up the Bodhisattva slave who was looking at his armor in a daze, stroked Yuwen Eying's little head, and said with a smile:

"Do you listen to your mother at home?"

She is still a girl under twelve years old. She is still a primary school student at this age in later generations. Anyone with a normal mind would have evil thoughts. Cui Che's original idea of ​​marrying Yu Wen Eying was just because of the status of his mother Yang Lihua.

Yuwen Eying nodded obediently, but the Bodhisattva slave in Cui Che's arms pouted and said:

"Grandpa, ride a horse."

On that day, Zhang Wu led 3,000 cavalry to meet Cui Che in Anping County. The Bodhisattva slave witnessed the shocking scene of groups of cavalry galloping and became very interested in horseback riding.

After that, Cui Che also took the Bodhisattva slave who was under three years old to ride a horse several times in his spare time. But once he left, Yang Lihua could not trust the servants at home to put the Bodhisattva slave on the horseback.

"Okay, I will take you out of the city to race horses in two days."

Cui Che agreed, and then said to Yuwen Eying beside him:

"Go outside and see what gift my grandpa has brought for you."

Upon hearing this, Yuwen Eying hurriedly ran to the door of the mansion without looking like a lady at all.

"It's a horse! Grandpa gave this to me!"

Yuwen Eying looked at a little mare outside the house and shouted excitedly to Cui Che at the door.

"What! Don't you like it?"

Cui Che walked out with the Bodhisattva slave in his arms and said with a smile.

"I like it! Thank you, grandpa!"

Yuwen Eying cheered and said, she got close to the little red mare, wanting to touch it, but was afraid.

Cui Che encouraged:

"Feel free to pet it, it has a very docile personality."

Only then did Yuwen Eying put her hand on the horse's belly.

"Grandpa, what's its name?"

"It doesn't have a name yet. Since it's given to you, you naturally have to name it."

Yuwen Eying thought for a long time, and then she suppressed a little red. Cui Che also followed her. Anyway, this horse was a gift to her. She wanted to call her Xiaohong, Xiaobai, or Xiaohei, whichever one she wanted to name.

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(End of chapter)