The storm-like fists and feet were poured on the bearded man. Zheng Xiaolou was crazy and regarded the beard as a sandbag. There were only thumps in the camp, and there were screams like a pig-killing screams.

Li Su and Jiang Quan quietly watched Zheng Xiaolou commit violence. Every time his fists fell on the bearded man, Li Su's cheeks twitched violently, and everyone's rhythm was very tacit.

Zheng Xiaolou's expression was very ferocious, more executioner than an executioner. This kind of ruthlessness and cruelty were probably similar to the boss of an investment company who ran away with money, and his hatred was overwhelming.

I wanted to persuade Zheng Xiaolou, but it was not sympathy, but I was worried that the bearded man would not be repaired properly. Li Su was still waiting for the bearded man to answer the question, but then I thought about the sudden attack on the camp by people. That time I was careless and left Xu Mingzhu alone in the camp, which almost hurt her. Thinking of this, Li Su suddenly felt that the scene of Zheng Xiaolou beating people was so pleasing to the eye...

Zheng Xiaolou concentrates on committing violence, Li Su concentrates on watching the fun, and Jiang Quan is anxious.

I have to worry. He captured this guy with his own hands, and it was very hard to capture. If he was really beaten to death by this guy who was in a violent state, then what is the point of his hard work to capture this beard?

"Okay, Li Biejia, stop almost..."

Before Jiang Quan finished speaking, he heard the bearded man screaming in a very stiff Guanzhong language: "Stop! If you beat him again, you will die! You Han people are too bullying! Bah! Despicable!"

The three people in the camp were stunned, and even Zheng Xiaolou stopped in fear. After the three of them looked at each other, Li Su said in surprise: "You can speak human language?"

"Can speak!" The bearded man tried hard to open his eyes that were beaten to the point of being beaten with only a slit, and glared at Li Su and said, "Why is Guanzhong dialect the human language? Suddenly the narration is not human language?"

"Because our Tang Dynasty has a kind of racial discrimination..." Li Su looked at him with a look of course.

Bang!

Zheng Xiaolou slapped the back of the bearded man's head with his back hand and said angrily: "You can speak humanly, don't you say it earlier! You have to be beaten up, you're so naughty!"

The bearded man raised his head unconvincedly and glared at Li Su's gaze with a ray of hatred. If he hadn't been afraid of being beaten again, he would probably have scolded Li Su again.

Li Su was in a state of interest and squatted down and told the bearded man with a serious expression.

"Look. Do you have historical heritage? How many years have your writing and language appeared? Do you have a culture of being able to show off? Do you have a variety of schools of thought? Do you have a famous high-rise buildings in the world? Do you have the politeness of the world? Do you have the politeness of etiquette? Apart from herding sheep and cattle, you can send troops to steal others when you are poor? I'll ask you. Do you have these good things in our Tang Dynasty? "

The bearded man was hit by Li Su and his confidence fell rapidly. He opened his mouth several times, but he could not refute it. So he hummed in disappointment and accepted the cruel reality that Guanzhong is what people say.

Li Suyi chased the remaining bravery and stared at the bearded man very seriously. He gave a final summary statement: "So, no one outside the Tang Dynasty can be considered a human being, but a sacred man."

The bearded man suddenly became so angry that he felt short of breath. He snorted again, turning his head and too lazy to pay attention to him.

Li Su was so happy that she smiled. Although she knew that race was not right to discriminate against others,... it felt really good to discriminate against others.

Waving behind him, Jiang Quan looked for a clean small cushion from the tent. Li Su knelt on the cushion, his eyes wide open and closed, and said leisurely: "Since you can speak human language, we must be very happy to chat. Now, we can go straight to the topic..."

The bearded man's face suddenly became a little gray, and he lowered his head and didn't reply.

Li Su frowned and said patiently, "Brother Wu, I think we should have a happy chat. What I ask, what you answer, you will say everything, let's work together to continue this chat until I have nothing to ask. If you still have this unwilling attitude to cooperate, we can only continue to draw you until you are willing to chat. Since you will be able to get it sooner or later, you don't have to be humble. As for me, I will also take less trouble and keep each other happy. Brother Wu, what do you think?"

The bearded man was a little unhappy just by hearing the name. The tragedy of the Tang Dynasty in front of him actually called him "money". Is it tolerable... or tolerate it.

So the bearded man nodded unwillingly.

Li Su smiled: "Look, from now on, we have a good chat beginning, which is a good omen, so our chat begins... First of all, what's your name? Which tribe is from Tujue?"

The bearded man hummed in disappointment and said in a humiliating voice: "My name is Bater, I am a warrior from the Tubaye Gu tribe..."

Li Su touched his chin and pondered: "The Bayegu tribe...I remember that in the first year of Zhenguan, the Bayegu, Huihe, Tongluo and other Tuju tribes were dissatisfied with Jie Li Khan's heavy use of the Han Dynasty Zhao Deyan, and favored the Hu people in the Western Regions and alienated the Tuju tribes, so the Bayegu tribes and other tribes rebelled against the Tujue... "

Bater snorted heavily and said, "Jie Li is not a wise ruler. In order to defeat the Tang Kingdom, he has been recruiting soldiers from various tribes for many years. He is cruel and bloodthirsty by nature and is often beheaded by the subordinates. If I do not rebel, the entire tribe will be killed by him sooner or later!"

Li Su smiled and said, "These are not the key points. They are a bad debt within your Tujue. I am not interested in knowing it. I just ask you, from the ninth year of Zhenguan to the present, Xizhou has been attacked by foreign enemies for a total of five times. Every time at a critical moment, you are a thousand Tujue cavalry to rescue him. Why do you want to help Xizhou? Or, if you are a Tujue man, why do you want to help me defend the territory of the Tang Dynasty to fight against the enemy?"

Bartel twitched his cheek, lowered his head and stopped talking, and a struggle and hesitation appeared on his face.

Li Su sighed, "Here's here again, I said, brother, can you not be pretentious? You have fallen into my hands now, and after you just sucked you, it turns out that you are not a hero who is ready to die. Since that's the case, why not just be a bachelor? Whatever I ask, you answer what you ask. After asking, I will let you and the warriors under your command go back, and from now on, the well water will not break the river..."

Bartel suddenly looked up and stared at Li Su and said, "If I said that, would you really let us go back? Let us go without any harm?"

Li Su smiled and said, "I will definitely let you go, but I can't make any promises without any harm. At least your virtue is absolutely not 'unharmed'."

Bater hesitated for a moment and gritted his teeth: "Okay, you are a refreshing person, I believe you once, in fact, there is no reason for us to help Xizhou defend the city. Since the first year of Zhenguan, after the Bayegu tribe rebelled against Jie Li Khan, we couldn't stay any longer, so we had to move westward. Over the past decade, the tribe has been constantly looking for a place with beautiful water and grass to live and rest. Unfortunately, every good place has been occupied by other tribes. We moved westward, and the tribe warriors became fewer and fewer due to illness and disaster, and even harder to rob others. The tribes were hungry and extremely poor, and too many people died along the way. So we could only walk into the desert of the Western Regions sadly, temporarily finding a green state as a habitat, and making a living on weekdays... and relying on past merchants who plundered the Silk Road..."

Li Su hummed and glanced at him with a bad look. He said, "You are not convinced that you are money. Will the country with good knowledge and politeness rob others?"

Bartel: “………”

"So, I found a green state to live in. Then what? You can't just rely on the Silk Road to loot, right? Merchants passing by the Silk Road may not be able to meet once every ten days and half a month. It's too unrealistic for the entire tribe to make a living by relying on this."

Bartel sighed: "We really can't make a living by plundering the Silk Road. Our tribe moved into the desert from the three years of Zhenguan and robbed until the nine years of Zhenguan. In the past six years, fewer and fewer tribes were inhabited, and the old and younger people could not survive. The young warriors also died of poverty and hunger. There were only a few hundred people left, barely supporting them to survive. Baye Gu tribe... It was on the verge of extermination until July of the ninth year of Zhenguan. A man found the Luzhou where we live and negotiated a deal with me..."

"What kind of business?" Li Su suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked slowly. He knew very well that he was about to talk about the show.

"That was a Guanzhong person, dressed by a serious Guanzhong person, and it seemed to be a scholar. He said he was willing to support the entire Baye Gu tribe and find us a larger green state to live in. He even promised that in ten years, he would help us return to the grasslands in the north, draw a fertile pasture for us, and let our Baye Gu tribe live and reproduce..."

"The conditions are so good, it's not easy for him to ask?" Li Su blinked and said, "Is it possible that his request was to help you defend Xizhou City? When Xizhou is in trouble, you will dispatch your tribe warriors to resolve the disaster in Xizhou?"

Bater nodded: "Yes, in recent years, Xizhou has encountered five foreign enemies attacking the city. With the earthen wall of Xizhou and the soldiers of the two Zhechong Prefectures, it is impossible to defend Xizhou. Every time the foreign enemy is about to break the city, we will kill from the north and attack the Xizhou defenders inside and outside at the most critical moment. Five times defeated the invading enemy. Our Baye Gu tribe also received a lot of money and food, and even the silk and porcelain of your Tang Kingdom. The Green State where we live has grown stronger and stronger now, and we will never have to worry about food and clothing. The tribe members have given birth to raise many children in the past three years. These are the hopes for our Baye Gu tribe to grow stronger in the future..."

Li Su was originally kneeling lazily on the cushion, but now she unconsciously straightened her body and said in a calm tone: "Now, the question is here again... Who is the Guanzhong person who talks to you about this deal? Is he an official in Xizhou?"

Bartel opened his eyes in surprise: "How do you know?"

Li Su smiled happily, blinked at him, and said, "Cao Yu, right?"

Bartel looked shocked, then he nodded and shook his head: "It's not Cao Yu who came to talk about the deal, but Sima from the governor of Xizhou. The Sima surnamed Feng is a round fat man. Although he never said who is behind him, it takes more than ten thousand yuan to support our tribe every year to defend Xizhou City. If the governor of Xizhou does not nod, how can Feng Sima have the confidence to talk to me about this deal?"

Li Su's expression remained unchanged, but she let out a long breath.

Well, the truth in Xizhou has finally been solved.

From the beginning of entering this city, I always felt that the atmosphere was strange and mysterious. The longer I took office, the bigger the doubts in Li Su's heart. Therefore, this time when he defended the city, Li Su was revengeful and ordered the capture of this Turkish cavalry, with the purpose of understanding the thick fog that enveloped Xizhou City.

The fog finally completely dispersed until now, and Li Su instantly felt a sense of refreshing the clouds and seeing the sun.

A faint regret appeared in my heart. I didn't expect that Feng Sima still had so many secrets hidden. If he had been careful at that time and asked Zheng Xiaolou to beat him a few more times, the doubts in Xizhou would not have been lingering in his heart for months. In order to establish his authority, he cut Feng Sima with a knife. He tried to be so refreshed and neat, but he still took a detour.

Looking up at the dome of the camp, Li Su murmured: "Cao Yu, Cao Yu... colluded with a different clan and privately hired foreign troops to use it. Your courage is so great that you are desperate. No wonder you want to drive me out of Xizhou. No wonder someone shot cold arrows on the city tower a few days ago. If this matter is reported to Chang'an, it is not just a crime of beheading, and it is not an exaggeration to be executed by the nine clans..."

Zheng Xiaolou and Jiang Quan next to him kept silent and silent, but every word of Bartel fell into his ears. Zheng Xiaolou looked calm and he had no interest in military and national affairs, but Jiang Quan's expression became more and more serious.

As the General of the Right Martial Guard, Jiang Quan was naturally aware of the interests of this matter.

The governor of a state colluded with a foreign race and spent a lot of money to support an army privately, and acquiesced to their act of looting merchants on the Silk Road. No matter what the purpose of supporting this army was, just looking at this matter, it was already a big taboo. When Li Jing, the war god of the Tang Dynasty, was only written by the court officials, Li Shimin felt uneasy and gradually undermined Li Jing's military power. What is Cao Yu's current behavior?

Besides, if this matter is not investigated, if you continue to dig deeper, where does the money to support this alien army come from? It is impossible for Cao Yu to be the pitiful salary every year? Is it also a lot of heavy taxes in Xizhou City over the years, and the taxes were not paid to the court. Cao Yu's family was poor as if they had suffered disasters. In this way, the only possibility is that Cao Yu, the heavy taxes collected from Xizhou over the years, were all used to support this Turkish cavalry.

This move may be more serious than raising private soldiers. With the hard-earned money from exploiting the people of the Tang Dynasty, and without the emperor or the court, privately supporting foreign troops, it is almost a tribute to pay protection fees. As expected, the officials in the entire Xizhou officialdom might have been involved in this matter to a greater or lesser extent. So much money was used to support foreign troops, without the acquiescence of the officials in the entire Xizhou officialdom, this matter would not be able to cover the lid anyway. No wonder when Li Su first came to Xizhou, the officials in Xizhou were so hostile to him...

This crime is too great and amazing. For His Majesty, who is particularly sensitive to imperial power and military power, even if he is open-minded, he will probably grit his teeth and cut Cao Yu into pieces. Moreover, each piece is as thin as a cicada's wing, and you can eat it by shaving it directly in hot pot...

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