Chapter 709 Captive
The Shanyue people at the foot of the mountain had no intention of retreating, and there were always strong Shanyue people acting as scouts to monitor the movements in the mine.
Liu Renyuan picked up a Shanyue scout he had just captured and threw it at Fang Jun's feet. Then he sat down on the mound next to Fang Jun and said angrily: "These Shanyue people are really crazy. They just robbed my daughter." Which city.”
Gushu City is an important town in southern Anhui, and it is also the seat of Xuanzhou Prefecture. It was actually looted and looted by these mountainous people. This was beyond Fang Jun's expectation. Originally, he thought that Gushu City could send troops. The horses come to attack the Shanyue people...
Something is not quite right.
There are more than a hundred people on our side, but the Shanyue people are helpless to defend the favorable terrain. Gushu City has high walls and thick walls, and at least thousands of soldiers. How can it be captured by these mountain people? Without internal response, this would never be the case.
The prisoners were covered in blood and had obviously been tortured by Liu Renyuan to extract confessions. He had been dealing with the fierce Turks for many years. Liu Renyuan had many ways to make these Shanyue people, who were brave but mentally retarded, speak.
"Where did your commander-in-chief go?" Fang Jun asked.
"Commander Zong led the troops to attack Gushu City, and they are now in the city."
The prisoner answered all questions. He had been tortured by Liu Renyuan just now and was frightened to death. What's more, he also had deep fear and awe when facing Fang Jun. The Shanyue people respected the strong, so Zong Commander Wu Duohai could be among the Shanyue people. It has unparalleled prestige, and the black-faced Han man in front of him can almost kill Wu Duohai with a knife...
Fang Jun frowned and thought for a while: "Why didn't you attack Gushu City immediately? The women didn't want the gold, silver, treasures and food in the city, but instead came to attack this small iron factory. I have a different understanding."< br>
The prisoner twisted twice on the ground and groaned a few times.
Fang Jun laughed dumbly. It seemed that the Shanyue people were not all fools. At least the prisoner in front of him was a slippery person and knew how to take advantage of the opportunity to ask for some treatment.
"Let go of his rope and find him some food." Fang Jun said casually. With so many crossbows around him, he couldn't run away. Even if he ran away, it wouldn't matter. He only had so many people here and there was no secret to hide. Live.
"You are spoiling him! If you dare not speak honestly, I will kill him with one knife!" Liu Renyuan said a few words in a harsh voice, which scared the prisoner so much that he almost put his head in his crotch. It was obvious that the fear Liu Renyuan had just brought to him was too great.
"Go quickly! They are just a group of extremely stupid mountain people who are deceived by others. They are not enemies of life and death. They all grew up on the land of the Tang Dynasty. Although there is some opposition now, in a few decades or hundreds of years, it is very likely that they will continue to fight together. They are all connected by blood, so how can there be hatred?”
Liu Renyuan had no choice but to get up and get the food. Sometimes the Marquis was ruthless, and sometimes he was kind-hearted. He didn’t know which one was his true face. He had to pay a lot of attention when communicating, and he must not touch the Marquis. Reverse scale. Oops, I feel so tired...
After a while, Liu Renyuan brought a bulging package, threw it in front of the prisoner, and said with a groan: "It means that the Marquis is merciful. If you follow a certain temperament, I have to chop off one of your hands and feet first. How can I allow you to do this?" Are cunning people playing tricks?”
The prisoner shivered with fright, but the faint smell of meat in the package made him forget all fear. He stretched out his hand to tear open the package, picked up a piece of cooked and fragrant meat and started chewing it. The fragrant meat flavor hits your taste buds, and the meat juices flow from the corners of your mouth. It's so fragrant. It's not bad to be so full after eating such a meal of meat!
Liu Renyuan kicked him on the shoulder and said angrily: "Don't just focus on eating. Have you forgotten what the Marquis asked you?"
"I said... I said... uh..." He swallowed hard and tried to speak, but he choked as expected.
Liu Renyuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to throw the water bag at his waist to him. He couldn't choke to death. This prisoner was very smart and obviously different from the ordinary Shanyue rebels. There might be something that he hadn't found out during the interrogation just now.
After drinking all the water in the water bag, the prisoner breathed a sigh of relief, then looked up at Fang Jun and said: "I don't know the specific reason. In fact, most people don't know what happened. It's just that before Some time ago, a Han man came to the village. He was a young man and looked like he had a lot of status. Like a nobleman, there are many guards around him. Zong Shuai whispers to him every day, but no one else is allowed to come near when discussing things. In fact, Zong Shuai wants to attack Gushu City first, but the Han insists. Attack here, Zong Shuai later agreed.”
Han people?
noble?
It's interesting that there are Han nobles and Shanyue people mixed together.
Fang Jun touched his bare chin, lost in thought, and suddenly asked: "I heard your Chinese is very good, you are different from ordinary Shanyue people."
The prisoner fell silent suddenly, shook the meat in his hand, then silently opened his mouth and ate the meat.
Liu Renyuan glared and was about to get angry, but Fang Jun stopped him and winked. Liu Ren stood up and left reluctantly, but he was not worried about Fang Jun's safety. The prisoner had broken so many bones that he couldn't even make a splash in front of Fang Jun.
The prisoner chewed the meat silently, Fang Jun did not rush him, and the atmosphere became strangely quiet.
Putting the last piece of meat into his mouth and sucking the juice from the dark and dirty fingers, the prisoner sighed with satisfaction. After chewing the meat and swallowing it, he slowly said: "Actually... I am Han Chinese."
This time it was Fang Jun's turn to be surprised.
The prisoner didn't seem to notice Fang Jun's surprised look, and said slowly: "My father is from the Sui Dynasty, and he was the navy who followed your Majesty to station in Jiangdu."
The "Your Majesty" he mentioned should be Emperor Sui Yang.
"At that time, General Yuwen conspired and killed His Majesty. Jiangdu City was in chaos, and many soldiers took refuge with General Yuwen. My father was timid and did not dare to follow the rebels, so he secretly returned home. As a result, he was Report, my father carried me and ran away, and the whole family was killed. My father had no choice but to go into the mountains and mingle with the Shanyue people. Later, my father died, and I had no choice but to stay here.”
A tragic song of troubled times, a tragedy of fleeing to the end of the world...
Fang Jun was a little confused: "The Shanyue people don't restrain you, why don't you escape and return to Jiangdu? The Sui Dynasty has forgotten it for decades, and the emperors have changed several times. You must not know it, right?" br>
The prisoner shook his head and smiled bitterly, then pulled open his clothes, revealing a long series of eye-catching scars on his shoulders.
"This is the mark of the Shanyue people. Every Shanyue slave has it. Shanyue people also have levels. People like me carry such a mark. No Han people will take them in. If they are caught by the government, they will be sent to the mines to work. Work until you die of exhaustion and starvation. If you stay in the mountains, you still have something to eat, but if you fall into the hands of the Han people, you will only die... Damn, I am also a Han!"
The prisoner burst into tears. Who can understand the grievance, sorrow and anger in his heart?
A Han is forced by the Han to join the Shanyue people. He can still have a bite to eat by following the Shanyue people, but when he returns to the world of the Han people, he can only be treated as a pig-like coolie and starve to death...
What an irony!
"But there is no law in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that Shanyue people are born to be slaves, right? Most of the owners of those mines are Jiangnan nobles, and they are not too capable of taking care of miners, right?" Fang Jun didn't believe it. .
He knew that this was an evil old society, but he had to act according to the rules, right?
You can do whatever you want with the slaves you bought, but you can't catch a Shanyue man and throw him into a mine and work him to death, right?
The prisoner said angrily: "Gentlemen? Such bastards who give birth to children without sex, cloaked in the cloak of benevolence and morality, are more vicious than those mountain bandits and water bandits! The laws of the Tang Dynasty? No one mentioned that stuff! This is the world of the Gentlemen, Whatever they say is what they say, nothing happens without the emperor!”
I knew that the Jiangnan nobles were very arrogant, but I didn’t know that they were so arrogant! No wonder His Majesty Li Er gritted his teeth every time he mentioned the Jiangnan nobles, wishing to drink their blood and eat their flesh. This was simply to separate Jiangnan from the territory of the Tang Dynasty!
Sighing, Fang Jun waved his hand: "Okay, eat and drink enough, let's go quickly."
The prisoner was stunned: "You...won't kill me?"
Fang Jun shook his head and said: "Even the Shanyue people will not massacre for no reason, let alone you are a Han Chinese? Leave quickly and stay far away, otherwise I will not remember who you are the next time we fight. ”
The prisoner saw that he didn't seem to be a hypocrite. There was no need for such a big shot to play tricks on himself, right?
He took a few tentative steps out, but his bones all over his body ached terribly. Looking back, he saw that Fang Jun had already stood up and walked towards the mine, and he allowed himself to leave.
The prisoner hesitated for a moment, then stood still and shouted to Fang Jun: "You are a good man! So what... I just forgot to remind you of something..."
The second update is here.
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