Cross the Sea in the Red Chamber

All the tribes had arrived at Qingli Lake, and the Muzhe Conference had officially begun. Whether it was wrestling, horse riding or archery, these competitions had attracted countless masters from the tribes of the Northern Man Kingdom.All of them are doing their best for themselves and for the tribe they belong to, and strive for honor, just so that the tribe can get a better land of water and grass in the coming year, so that the cattle and sheep can multiply and grow, so as to raise the tribe they belong to.

Everyone watched the game in high spirits, only Xue Jin sat there with a livid face and didn't watch the game, but was so angry that his whole internal organs ached, and even his head was buzzing.

Ever since yesterday, his clansman who was a master wrestler was killed by that big man in Abernajiang, everything has been going wrong for him.He, who was full of confidence in the conference, suffered repeated setbacks from the very beginning of the conference.

The descendants of Jingren under him are extremely powerful, whether they are wrestling, horse riding or archery, but every time he sends his warriors to participate in a competition, they will happen to meet opponents stronger than them and suppress them just right. It is difficult for them to continue to advance.

It's a coincidence, well, if it's just once or twice, it's really a coincidence, but how can there be such a coincidence that sending out more than [-] warriors just happens to encounter more than [-] opponents stronger than them?Even if Xue Jin has never studied mathematics, he understands that such a probability cannot exist. If there is, it can only be a case.

He was calculated on purpose!

This was the only outcome he could come up with.Xue Jin paid attention to the twenty or so guys who beat other tribes just now, and found that they belonged to different tribes, but the same thing was that they all belonged to the tribe of the Northern Barbarians.The leaders of these tribes may not be friends with each other, and some even have enemies. Who can have such a powerful force that so many tribes with hatred can send their tribesmen to suppress Xue Jin at the same time?

Xue Jin glanced in the direction of Wang Zhang from the corner of his eye... Needless to say, there is only one possibility, that is the Great Khan of the Northern Barbarians whom he was willing to serve!

With Xue Jin's Jingren warriors, even if they can't get No.1 in each item, they should at least be able to break into the final eight-person competition. Generally speaking, as long as they get such results, the tribe can get a piece in next spring. A good pasture thrives, but it is so miserable. Every warrior under his banner will be kicked out in the first or second match. The results are simply horrible. If it is a coincidence, who can believe it?

The meaning of Beiman Khan has now been fully revealed. The supreme leader of the Beiman country has somehow learned Jingren's whitewashing of peace. The pastures he visited are getting worse every year, so the number of cattle and sheep are also getting less and less every year. How long can Xue Jin's tribe continue to last like this?

I'm afraid that within two or three years, the members of the tribe will starve to death due to the reduction of livestock. He seems not to force him, but in fact he will not give up until he has nothing left...

Xue Jin clenched his fists, cursing his unreliable ancestor fiercely in his heart.Is this the master they found for future generations, the strong man they chose to cling to?What did this Northern Man Khan think of their Xue family?Is it a doll that can be thrown around after use?

Xue Jin was very angry, but Abona Jiang sat on the sidelines and smiled complacently.

Hmph, he, Abonajiang, is the purest Northern barbarian, so what is that Xue Jin?It's just a good-for-nothing bastard from the south, why has he relied on his status as Dingling King to overwhelm him for so many years?Why is it that he has a noble lineage but is only a householder, but Xue Jin was born as King Dingling personally appointed by the Great Khan?

Just because of his status, he still has to be Xue Jin's deputy when he goes to Yasukuni?Why did Xue Jin, a descendant of the Jing people, rely on his status as an envoy to obtain salt for greater merit when he managed to bring back the tea trade with Yasukuni?Just because he has Jingren's blood, is he more valued by Yasukuni?

Abonajiang smiled maliciously, and now he is fine. Da Khan is no longer willing to trust those guys from the south. Xue Jin's tribe is being swallowed up by them, the northern barbarians, and the other descendants of the Jing people It's not much better, they want these dogs who abandoned their homeland and chose to lick the soles of their shoes to see who is the real owner of this prairie!

Abernajiang was happily drinking kumiss and imagining Xue Jin's miserable life in the future. Unexpectedly, suddenly a subordinate from his clan ran towards him, and when he got close, he didn't even have time to salute. Whispering something in his ear, Abonajiang slammed the gold cup in his hand when he heard what he said.

He grabbed the front of that subordinate, stared wide-eyed, and asked in disbelief: "What did you just say?!"

The subordinate looked around in embarrassment, and saw that no one noticed Abonajiang's actions, so he lowered his voice and said: "Boss, it's not good, you go and have a look, I can't explain here."

Abernajiang also understood that the match scene of the Muzhe Conference was not a place to get angry. There were too many outsiders here, and it was not suitable for talking about important matters.

The speed of the Beiman BMW was very fast, and it didn't take long to arrive at a sheepfold surrounded by the tribe of Abernajiang. Abonajiang who hurriedly got off his horse to see it was already stunned. He should have had fun in the sheepfold The sheep that were grazing and bleating all fell to the ground now!The flies were flying in the sheepfold, as if they were delighted that there was so much more food...

"What the hell is going on here?" Abonajiang whipped his horsewhip hard on the clansman who had been waiting there to watch the sheep. "How did it happen? How did you watch the sheep?!"

Although there are not all the livestock in this sheepfold in his tribe, there are still thousands of sheep. Now these sheep are all on the ground, and they look like they are all dead. What is the tribe who watched the sheep doing? What, why didn't the situation be discovered in advance? !

The tribesman watching the sheep was so frightened that he knelt on the ground. He stammered and pointed to the dead sheep and said, "Boss, it should be sheep plague! When I found out this morning, these sheep were not dead. Alright, before I could find someone to treat me, it became like this."

"Sheep plague?" The northern barbarians who grew up on the prairie have dealt with livestock since childhood, even the nobles were no exception. Of course they knew what sheep plague was.

Sheep plague is a terrible disease. Even if only one sheep gets sick, it will make all the sheep around it sick.However, although there are many types of sheep plague, it takes a process to get sick. No matter how severe the sheep plague is, it is impossible for thousands of sheep in the sheepfold to get sick and die overnight. There must be a gradual diffusion process, how could it be so fast?Even in his decades, he had never heard of such severe sheep plague!

The family member who watched the sheep also knew that the sheep plague was too strange. He had never heard of sheep plague that could kill thousands of sheep in a day.If it was sheep plague that he bit to death, then the leader would very likely charge him with negligent precautions and failing to discover the disease in time.You will feel that there were signs a few days ago, and it developed like this because he didn't pay attention to it.Now that the sheep in the entire sheepfold are dead, the angry leader will definitely not let him go. Even if he wanted to make up a story in a hurry, he couldn't make up a possible reason.

Before the clansman could make up a suitable reason, another clansman rushed over, jumped off the horse, knelt down on the ground and pleaded guilty to Abonajiang, and what he said made Abonajiang's head viciously buzz. "My lord, it's not good, the sheep in the tribal sheepfold fell ill within a day!"

A relatively large tribe like Abernajiang has a population of nearly 2, and the slaves under his command have not been counted. Over the years, because of the rich pastures, they have raised hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep.For fear of poor management and grazing, a sheep pen or cattle pen will only house a few thousand livestock at most.

Abona Jiang originally thought that only one sheep pen had an accident, and although the loss was huge, it was acceptable. Unexpectedly, sheep plague also appeared in other sheep pens.There are tens of thousands of sheep in these two sheepfolds. How long is it enough for their tribe? !

As soon as the tribesman who had just arrived looked up, he saw the sheepfold that had been put up here, and when he saw the sheep lying on the ground, the tribesman was stunned, and said repeatedly: "Yes, the sheep in my sheepfold died in the same way. of!"

I don't know if his words have opened some terrible spells, and people keep riding to Abernajiang to report bad news.Either all the sheep in the sheep pen fell ill, or all the cattle in the cattle pen died. In just half an hour, the tribe of the Aberna River has fallen 10,000+ cattle and sheep. It's sick but barely dead!He lost more than half of his livestock that day!

If it is said that the cattle and sheep in a pen suffer from plague, it can be blamed on the poor management and negligence of the guards, but more than half of the cattle and sheep have accidents at the same time, even if it is a coincidence, no one will believe it.Although sheep plague and rinderpest can quickly spread to nearby cattle and sheep, there is no such strange example of causing all cattle and sheep to die of the disease. Abonajiang frowned and thought to himself, could someone deliberately give him The cattle and sheep poisoned?

As soon as he thought about it, he pointed at the clansmen kneeling on the ground pleading guilty with a whip, "Have any of you seen suspicious people approaching the cattle and sheep pens of the clan in the past two days?!"

At first, the sheepman who was whipped swallowed. He knew that if he didn’t want to come up with a suitable reason, it would not be enough for him to sacrifice his life to make amends just because he saw so many sheep dead. Then he was killed, so he racked his brains and began to recall who had approached the sheep, "Yes... yes, Sir, someone approached the sheepfold yesterday, it was... those Jing people!"

"Jingren?" A descendant of Jingren's rebel general?Abonajiang frowned, and asked, "Is it Dingling King Xue Jin or his people?"

The clansman vaguely remembered that Xue Jin was also in the crowd, and quickly said: "That's right. But it's not just him, there are other leaders of the Jingren. Several of them passed by the sheepfold and still look at it here." The sheep for a long time, pointing and laughing at the sheep in the pen, stayed for a long time before leaving. Because of their noble status, the subordinates did not dare to take care of them, so they could only stand there."

At this time, the other clansmen in charge of the pen also realized that it didn't matter whether it was Xue Jin and the others who killed the clan's livestock, as long as there was such a useful scapegoat, it would be better for Xue Jin to take the blame than for the leader to kill them all. It's fine.

So everyone said in unison, regardless of whether they saw Xue Jin and his party yesterday, just in one sentence, Xue Jin once led the leaders of the descendants of the Jing people past the cattle and sheep pens they were guarding, and stayed for a long time, acting suspiciously !

If only one or two people said that, Abonajiang might still hesitate, but now that all the clansmen say that, even if it is false, it will become true.

Abernajiang carefully recalled the scene yesterday. In the tent at that time, Xue Jin was indeed excluded by the leaders of the northern barbarians, so he left with many leaders of the descendants of the Jing people and went out to relax.No one saw them all afternoon, and they hurried back to the king's tent until the Khan's dinner began in the evening.

Could it be that Abernajang judged others by himself, because he once prevented him from stepping down in front of the Great Khan, which made him lose the trust of the Great Khan, so he brought other excluded Jingren to his cattle and sheep? Poisoning livestock, intending to harm your tribe?

If Xue Jin had no enmity with him, he probably would not have thought of this possibility, but it was because of his slander that the descendants of Xue Jin were coldly suppressed by the profuse sweat. Xue Jin definitely has a reason to do this!

At this time, Abonajiang had already fallen into a misunderstanding because of his anger, and he didn't think about why Xue Jin, as the leader of the tribe, would personally prescribe the medicine?Even if he asked him this way, he would probably think that Xue Jin just wanted to take revenge with his own hands.He had already fallen into the mode of suspicious neighbors and stealing axes, and it was useless to say anything, he only had a firm belief that Xue Jin killed the livestock in his clan!

No, these many cattle and sheep are the lifeblood of their tribe, there is no reason to let Xue Jin and the others kill them like this!How would his tribe survive the winter without cattle and sheep? Wouldn't it be that they would starve to death?

In a fit of rage, Abonajiang rode his horse towards the direction of the king's tent. He wanted to go to Da Khan and sue Xue Jin again. He wanted Xue Jin and those bastards from the south to pay for his cattle and sheep!He wants to let those inferior people know how powerful the northern barbarians are!

Abonajiang whipped the horses hard and rushed all the way to the king's tent, but found that there were other people in the tent who did not go to the game of the animal husbandry conference but came to discuss matters with the Great Khan.

Abernajiang still knew the rules, and he retreated to the side of the curtain to listen to the movement inside, only to hear a leader of the northern barbarians crying loudly: "Khan, you must make the decision for your subordinates. Then It's not a small number, a total of 10,000+ cattle and sheep, but within a day or two, they all died of illness, even if it is rinderpest and sheep plague, how can it be so severe that it will kill you all at once!"

The Beiman Khan inside did not know what to say, and asked the leader to step aside and stand there. Immediately, a guard came out of the tent to greet Abona Jiang to enter the king's tent to see the Khan.Abernajiang followed the guards into the king's tent, and was startled when he glanced left and right. There were more than a dozen leaders of the northern barbarian tribes standing in the whole king's tent, and they all had bitter faces and ugly faces. It's going to kill me.

Although Abonajiang was surprised, he didn't care about anything else at this time. After saluting the sweat, he reported the strange death of his tribe's cattle and sheep. The leaders of Jingren's descendants passed by his cattle and sheep pen, and did all kinds of suspicious behaviors.

At this time, some tribal leaders who were standing by the side also stood up and said, they also heard from the clansmen that they had seen Xue Jin and they passed by the cattle and sheep pens yesterday, and in the end, everyone unanimously said that it was Xue Jin and those Jing people The descendants have poisoned their cattle and sheep!

Abonajiang looked at the leaders in the king's tent, all of them were of the most authentic northern barbarian blood, and they were all the confidantes that the Khan had won over the past few years, even the left and right kings were included .The tribes of these people all occupy the best water and grass land on the banks of the Guna River. Now some of these tribes have lost 10,000+ cattle and sheep, and most of the cattle and sheep of the whole tribe have failed to survive. Of course, all of them I am so angry that I am anxious to find the culprit!

Abonajiang actually didn't know the real situation. Are these people really suspicious of Xue Jin as firmly as he is?Not at all!

What should you do when you have a big loss?

If you already have the culprit in your heart, of course you want to settle the score with him, but what if you don't have a clear target?Do you think you are so unlucky?of course not.In these people's minds, they have to make up a scapegoat even if they make it up. Otherwise, where will their losses come from? Do they have to fight it out?

It is true that about half of the leaders here have heard reports from their subordinates that they have seen Xue Jin approaching the cattle and sheep pens, but more people do not know why the cattle and sheep in the clan fell ill.

Since I don't know the reason, and I don't want to bear the loss by myself, of course I can only find a scapegoat recognized by everyone to compensate.Since everyone said it was caused by Xue Jin and the descendants of Jingren, then let it be their fault, as long as Da Khan believes it, it is better than resisting himself!

The Great Khan didn't say much. He held the gold cup inlaid with gemstones in one hand, and tapped the handle of the gold-cast seat with the other, waiting for the reports from the clansmen sent out to investigate.

Not long after, several northern barbarians he sent out entered the king's tent. They were all members of the tribe led by the Great Khan. The tribe that had assisted the Great Khan for generations was the person he trusted the most. What they said Of course it is the most reliable.

Several people pushed one of them to report back, and after saluting to all the leaders in the tent, the man said: "Khan, my subordinates have sent people to check the cattle and sheep pens of all the tribes by the Qingli Lake. The rinderpest and sheep plague that the leaders and lords are talking about appeared."

"According to what we have seen, most of the cattle and sheep of the northern barbarian tribes have suffered from this disease, and the losses have been very heavy. Some have lost about half of their cattle and sheep, and some have lost all their cattle and sheep... "

Who has Khan valued the most in recent years?As the confidants of the Great Khan, would they still not know?The Great Khan is worried about outsiders, he only pays attention to the northern barbarians now!Therefore, no matter how these northern barbarian tribes performed at the animal husbandry conference in the past few years, the tribes that can occupy the most fertile pasture next year must be the tribes of the northern barbarians, and the tribes that enjoy the most cattle and sheep will still be the tribes of the northern barbarians. The Great Khan trusts them of the same nationality!

"Then what about the livestock of foreign tribes?" Khan had put down the golden cup in his hand at this time, and asked with a gloomy expression.

The man quickly replied: "Although other foreign races have scattered and sick cattle and sheep, none of them has such a severe group of cattle and sheep plague. Among them..." The man paused, and then said: "Those The cattle and sheep raised by the tribe composed of descendants of the Jing people have no problems at all, although they are relatively thin, they hardly suffer from the diseases of cattle and sheep."

How can this be? !

This peculiar plague appeared in the cattle and sheep of the northern barbarian tribe, and some cattle and sheep diseases also appeared in other nomadic peoples attached to the northern barbarian tribe. Only the cattle and sheep raised by the descendants of the Jingren rebel general had no problems at all. Will this livestock disease still select the lineage of the owner of the cattle and sheep?How can there be such a reason?As soon as you hear it, you know it's impossible!

If there were people who were not sure whether it was the tricks of these Jing people's descendants before, everyone present now firmly believed that they, Jing people, did it.Otherwise, why did everyone else suffer heavy losses, while Jingren's tribe remained unscathed?

In Qingli Lake, everyone’s cattle and sheep eat the same aquatic plants and drink the same lake water. It is impossible that some are sick and some are fine. If there is nothing wrong, they must have done something wrong!

In the eyes of the northern barbarians, these Jing people have been ostracized and expelled to small and bad pastures. As a result, many cattle and sheep died of starvation, and people from other tribes also fled to other tribes. The tribe must be gnashing their teeth with hatred.So no matter how you think about it, these Jing people must have poisoned the cattle and sheep of all the tribes in a fit of anger, and wanted them to suffer heavy losses as well!

As for why these northern barbarian tribes lost more than other tribes of other tribes, it was definitely because the descendants of the Jingren hated them for being more valued by the Great Khan, so they could get better water and grass, so they hated them more than other tribes. They, absolutely!

Hmph, because I can't get it, I don't want others to get it, because the water and plants I get are not good, so I simply let them, the northern barbarian tribes, have water and plants, but they can't get back the dead cattle and sheep!These vicious villains!

Although no one said it clearly, all the leaders here knew clearly that the result of the Muzhe Conference was definitely that the northern barbarian tribe won the final victory. What Khan left to their tribes of the same race, it is useless for the tribes descended from the Jing people to perform well.

Wasn't it like this a few years ago?So what if Xue Jin's tribe has achieved good results, isn't it driven to a remote place in a poor mountain to graze?This is what happened to their descendants of Jingren who dared to collude with Yasukuni!

I didn't expect that the dogs raised by these northern barbarians would not know how to reflect on themselves, and would dare to kill their noble masters. It is simply unforgivable!These northern barbarians who have been spoiled by the Great Khan don't pay attention to other ethnic groups at all. In their hearts, only the northern barbarians in the northern barbarian country are superior people, and the others are just animals that walk on two legs!

"Khan, please order, we must not let those damned Jing people go! We must make them pay the price they deserve!" All the northern barbarian leaders in the king's tent knelt on the ground, and their eyes seemed to be full of fear. It was burning like a flame, and it was full of the light of revenge!