Are you stupid?

It has been thirty or forty years since the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the imperial court's policy towards the Hu people has always been to absorb and divide, and to fight.

Taking advantage of the weakness of the laws of the Great Zhou, which the Hu people are not proficient in, they casually use a low title to bring people into the inland, and then break up the entire tribe of Hu people, mix them with the common people in batches, and be educated and returned to the fields by local officials , or simply drag the whole clan into the horse farms under the big camps in various places to raise war horses full-time.Let Hu women marry into the Han family, and Hu people marry Han women, and farm and herd together with the Han people. After only one or two generations, there will be no distinction between Hu and Han.

But most of the Hu people don’t know how to farm. Even if they don’t need to collect land tax for the first five years of reclamation according to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, most of them have extremely low harvests because of unfavorable farming. In the end, they have to repeatedly sell the cultivated land at low prices in order to survive. Get out and stay alive.If there is another illness, the whole family will have to sell themselves as slaves.

Feng Min's family happened to catch up with all the above situations.

His grandfather did not live early. Although his father was born of a concubine, the concubine's parents had passed away, and the tribe was in decline and unable to support them. In addition, Feng Min's father was young at that time, so he was not as powerful as his older brothers. After dividing some cattle, sheep and horses, they drove out of the tribe.

Feng Min's father is good at taking care of cattle and sheep, but he doesn't know how to manage his own territory. After a long time, he has become a regular target of being robbed by other tribes. There is no way to lead his tribe to live a prosperous life.

By chance, he learned that Dazhou had taken in Hu people, so seeing that he could not hold his territory, he simply took his clansmen to move south and voted for Dazhou.

But it was not a good time when the Hu people first came to seek refuge.The officials who received him, after submitting the playlist to Beijing, disappeared like a mud cow entering the sea.

The reception officials confirmed that the imperial court did not pay much attention to this group of people, and found that they had deceived the entire population into signing a contract of sale by virtue of their illiteracy, and sold the Renju clan to a passing horse dealer.

The horse dealers were powerful in the court, and after taking people to their own horse farms, they asked them to help raise horses. If the harvest was not satisfactory, they would severely beat and scold the coaxed barbarians.

Feng Min's father was in such a situation, and the fire in his heart disappeared early.

The horse dealer who initially colluded with the officials to sell Hunu also encountered an accident and sold the slaves under his hands as horses and additions to the horse farm to another horse dealer.The horse dealers in the past did not regard the barbarians as human beings, but the new horse dealers soon discovered that the horses taken care of by the Fengmin people were always stronger and more obedient than those taken care of by the servants, so the Fengmin people became easy to use in the eyes of the horse dealers The slaves who go to sell horses must take them with them.

Seeing that the life of Feng Min and his people was much better, the servants under the horse merchant's hands who were originally trusted were resentful, and designed to frame them, so that the people of Feng Min's family directly raised the best horse to death.

The horse merchant had already prepared to give the steed to the dignitaries in Beijing for the purpose of currying favor.Boasting that Haikou lost the god horse again, the horse merchant was furious, and dragged Feng Min's whole family out to beat them. So far, their life was even more miserable than before.

It's not that none of the clansmen tried to escape, but they had been trapped in the racecourse for too long, and they didn't even know the way back to beyond the Great Wall.To make matters worse, they had no guides. If they left the racecourse, they would be taken back as escaped slaves and subjected to even more cruel punishment once they encountered officers, soldiers and petty officials.

Feng Min had no choice but to lead his clansmen to silence, and on the surface he became more obedient, secretly planning and looking for a chance to escape from the horse dealer.

Today, this opportunity was presented to him by Changshengtian!

Ever since he came to the capital, Feng Min took the order of the horse merchant to train the best-qualified horses in this batch of horses to be sensitive to certain spices, and asked the horses to show intimacy to people when the smell of spices is weak. Attitude; wait until the smell becomes strong before becoming aggressive, regardless of death or injury.

Feng Min was terrified when he heard it, and knew there must be a conspiracy.

But he couldn't disobey the horse merchant's orders, so he could only follow them.

For more than three years, seeing the trained horses disappear one by one, Feng Min finally became terrified of fear.

He is not only afraid that too many people may be killed because of the horses he has trained, but he is even more worried about the horses that will definitely be slaughtered for hurting people because of this.

Feng Min deliberately found some poisonous weeds and mixed them into the forage, and made the best horse in charge of training show symptoms of plague for several days. Sure enough, after the horse dealer got enough horses, he only cursed a few words, see The sick horse gave it up after whipping it severely, and mixed it with the poor horses who were going to sell it at a reserve price.

Feng Min was in charge of sweeping the stables, cleaning the horses, and preparing feed every day, so he was very busy.Today was no exception, he was too tired to get up after finishing his work, curled up in the thatched pile of the stable and fell asleep.

Years of hard and painful life made him develop the habit of light sleep, so when two strange boys approached the stable, Feng Min immediately woke up.

He heard the conversation between Shenlong and Mu Huaiyuan clearly, so he deliberately didn't stop them from getting close to the rice-husk-colored horse, and only rushed out to save the scene when danger came.

Feng Min also didn't want to do such a disgusting thing that hurts people and then saves them in order to repay his kindness, but his clan is running out. If he can't seize this golden opportunity, he will never have such a good opportunity again. lucky.

Feng Min's bet was right.

When he walked behind a group of hulking and stalwart attendants to take away the clansmen one by one, Feng Min finally straightened his back that he hadn't lifted for so many years.

"Son, we're saved!" Feng Min's mother burst into tears, and the turbid tears flowed down the threshold from the deep wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. Feng Min's heart was pierced like a knife.

His mother is not yet 35 years old, but she has been tortured like a 60-year-old woman by hardship and hard work.

Feng Min looked at the clansmen who were kneeling on the ground and crying for the gift of the Changshengtian, and suddenly became angry, and raised his arms and shouted to the sky: "Don't thank the Changshengtian, we survived by relying on our own tenacity, and we earned our own lives." He came back! If He had a heart, how could he watch his clansmen suffer hardships, be separated and die one by one! Get up for me, and don’t kneel to Him!"

Sitting in the car, Shenlong suddenly laughed when he heard an angry roar not far away, "He is a man with pride in his heart. I thought I just rescued a person who might be related to a conspiracy. It's also quite interesting."

"Forbearance has a bottom line, and there is a great ambition in his chest." Mu Huaiyuan said suddenly, "Junior brother plans to use him?"

Shenlong put his hands on his knees and said casually: "Anyway, I have no one around, so it would be nice to have him outside to run errands for me."

Mu Huaiyuan nodded, "If Junior Brother uses him, he will continue to treat this person kindly. He rushed out from the thatch pile in the stable, so it can be seen that this person has been eavesdropping on the conversation between you and me. After confirming our identities, he deliberately extended favor Asking for retribution is a scheming person; but what this person is asking for is not for his own wealth and glory, which shows that his character is not too bad. He will remember the kindness of his junior brother for knowing him."

Shenlong smiled slightly, "You were obviously nervous about me before, but now I want to accept a group of people with unknown backgrounds, why don't you persuade me to check them out."

Mu Huaiyuan stared at Shenlong for a long while with the helpless and indulgent eyes of a spoiled but doted child at home, until his face turned red with shame, and then he said in a low voice: "This question, I should leave it to His Majesty after returning to the palace. Bar."

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No matter how you listen to it, the meaning of this sentence is "we smart people don't need to discuss such stupid issues, only fools like His Majesty will care whether they are calculated by such an obvious problem and care about it."

However, it is really true.

Thinking of Emperor Taixing's indecisive and suspicious temperament in state affairs, Shenlong silently accepted Mu Huaiyuan's ridicule.

He sat lazily in front of the table, and said casually: "Then you can help me think about it, when my father asks me after returning to the palace, how should I answer my father?"

"You really know how to avoid laziness." Mu Huaiyuan pinched Shenlong's chubby earlobes, and said suddenly, "Have you ever had your ears pierced? Why have you never seen you wearing earrings?"

"The three of us brothers have pierced ears, but I am strong and strong, and my mother doesn't care if I don't wear earrings. Unlike Xingye, I have accumulated more than a dozen boxes of earrings since I was a child. I can wear them every day for half a year. There is not much difference in the clothing of men and women, and a towel hat needs to be put on the small crown, and a bunch of flowers are used to the side of the towel hat." Shenlong pointed to his delicate face with a little aggrieved and said, "I didn't miss it when I was young. She was treated as a little girl dressed as a man. A few cousins ​​of my mother’s family made jokes, and they will be ‘Shangzhu’ to me in the future.”

Mu Huaiyuan stretched his fingers in front of Shenlong, held up his cheek, and looked at it carefully. Suddenly, a dazzling smile that could compete with the sun and the moon bloomed on his face that was always too indifferent and cold, and said deliberately: "If there is a princess Born like a younger brother, His Majesty is now worried about which one he should choose as his son-in-law."

Shenlong immediately rolled his eyes and threw it at Mu Huaiyuan, "A man with ambition, no one will be so blinded that he wants to be the Lord. Those who are willing to be the Lord are mostly worthless. Let you 'Shanglord' Neither do you."

Mu Huaiyuan lowered his eyelashes to cover the flashing light in his eyes, and asked softly, "How do you know that I don't want to."

"Of course it was when we talked about my half-sisters." Shenlong's expression changed, and he said in surprise, "—oh, when I find that you don't want to deal with it, you really like to change the subject."

While speaking, Shenlong suddenly found that the content of the conversation between the two had gone a thousand miles away, so he glared at Mu Huaiyuan with a puffy face, and expressed his dissatisfaction with a stronger tone.

Mu Huaiyuan let go of the hand holding Shenlong's cheek, and turned his gaze out of the carriage.

He looked at Feng Min who was crying with his clansmen, and narrowed his eyes, "Da Zhou's policy of accepting Hu people was discussed by my father and teacher. At that time, Da Zhou had been established for nearly five years, and my father had been in office for six years. That is to say, if Feng Min's clan was really going to be coaxed into signing a contract of sale by officials, it could only have happened three or five years before the late emperor's death. Standing in line is serious, and there is room for manipulation in everything."

Shenlong had a bitter face, "You can't tell father this kind of thing."

As long as the matter is related to King Lu, as long as you say it, you will have to order the fried point of Emperor Taixing.

"You just need to tell me, Feng Min's weather-beaten face looks older than his age, and there are old and new welts on his face, hands, and neck. You can tell at a glance that they were not made temporarily to fool people."

Mu Huaiyuan said casually, but Shenlong looked at Mu Huaiyuan with admiration.

——Able to see the small things, but also to see the big picture, Mu Huaiyuan is indeed a dragon and a phoenix among the people.

Shenlong thought about the reason in his heart that "such an obvious method of sending people here is too stupid, so it must not be fake", and found that he was compared to a scumbag.