Struggle in the early Tang Dynasty

After Kang Bao left, Guo Ye signaled Cheng Erniu to enter the courtyard for further discussion, and entered the backyard with Wang Bodang.

Sitting around the bluestone table under the same old white poplar, he listened to Cheng Erniu talking vividly about the battle of Wumapo.

This kid's eloquence has been improving recently. When he talked about the killing of Tubo people in Wumapo today, his tone was cadenced and his expression was beaming, which made people feel like he was actually there.

Even Wang Bodang, he was already fascinated by what he heard, especially when he heard the scene where the four groups of his brothers and the Longxi Army joined hands to kill the Tubo horse bandits, his brows were faintly proud, as if a strong general had no weak soldiers .

He completely forgot that in the morning Guo Ye talked about other things, going around him into the ditch to whet his appetite.

Although his expression and behavior were revealed inadvertently, they were still keenly captured by Guo Ye.

Seeing this, Guo Ye felt complacent, seeing if my brother can drag you to death, if I don't waste you in Tuva City for three days and two nights, and if I don't create some opportunities for my brother to gather thousands of horse thieves like you, I don't believe it evil.

It turned out that since Guo Ye learned of Wang Bodang's true identity at Yelang Peak, he had been thinking about it.

He didn't want to really recruit Wang Bodang, nor did he want to include Wang Bodang's nearly 3000 horse thieves into the Longxi Army.

On the contrary, he hopes that Wang Bodang and his nearly 3000 men will continue to be bandits and thieves, continue to wander outside the Longxi Army, and maintain the title of horse thief.

But this horse thief is not that horse thief.

The difference is that these horse thieves, including Wang Bodang himself, are under the control of Guo Ye.

To put it more bluntly, what he was doing was raising a thief to respect himself.

Raising thieves for self-respect, as the name suggests, is to raise horse thieves by yourself, and establish a hostile force for yourself, so that the world will know that your territory is not peaceful.Known as his opponent, Di Kou, he is actually his secret helper.

This kind of thing was done by the Jiedu envoys of the separatist feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and all the great figures in charge of the soldiers and horses in the past dynasties have done this.

What Guo Ye still remembers is that Zeng Guofan, the No. 1 most capable official in history, has done this.

Zeng Guofan has always had a habit of suppressing thieves and exterminating bandits. He collected half of them, took control of the collected half, and then continued to release them.

Zeng Guofan has only one purpose in doing this, which is to let the court know that the bandits have not been wiped out yet, so you can't kill donkeys.And it is also to let the court know that this place cannot be without me, Zeng Guofan, otherwise no one will be able to play.

Guo Ye made this wishful thinking.

Although the imperial court's imperial decree for rewarding him has not yet come down, but he knows that it is a matter of time.

But his temperament is a person who takes one step and sees three steps. He knows that in three or two years, the Tuva City and Alitu City area will definitely become a prosperous area in his own hands, and it will become a strategically important area. The place.

In addition, as soon as the two countries' big bazaars, which are making money every day, opened, the money was rolling in.

At that time, there will definitely be more people staring at this place, all kinds of gods and demons, and the sea will be deeper.

If you don't make a plan to raise your own self-esteem as soon as possible, it will be too late when others come to pick the peaches and snatch the fruits of victory.

Time, he needs time to get in touch with Wang Bodang, get acquainted, and even have a heart-to-heart.

This is also his real intention of dragging Wang Bodang to stay in Tuva city again and again.

It is easy to say to raise a thief to be self-respecting, but it is extremely difficult to do.

The first thing he did was to break through Wang Bodang's defenses, so that he could have trust in himself, unreserved trust.

time,

It's still a matter of time.

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Guo Ye was thinking, Wang Bodang was listening, and Cheng Erniu continued to gleefully, living in utter nonsense for a while:

"Brother, you didn't see the situation at that time, do you know how many heads of Tubo people we beheaded this time?"

"Hey, there are a total of 1000 people. The broken place in Wumapo is now full of headless corpses everywhere. The dry land is full of blood from the Tubo people, staining the ground red and dark purple. Dark purple."

"According to your order, we chopped off the heads of these Tubo people, then took advantage of the situation and rushed to the border, and directly threw more than a thousand good heads into the territory of Samba."

"Ha, haha, happy, it's really enjoyable!"

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After a while, Cheng Erniu finally finished talking about what he knew, what he saw, what he could say, and he smacked his mouth twice as if he still had more to say, yelling for enjoyment.

As Er Niu finished his wonderful retelling, Wang Bodang also slowly walked out of the state of rapt attention, and asked with a slightly shocked face: "You mean, none of the more than a thousand Tubo people in Wumapo survived?" , and you were decapitated, and all of them were thrown across the border?"

Cheng Erniu nodded noncommittally.

"Happy, a certain family also feels extremely happy!"

Suddenly, Uncle Wang slapped the knot with both hands, gloated and said with a gleeful smile: "I want to see this bastard, Samba, with his expression now, hahahaha..."

The sound is like dragon chant, and the shape is like madness.

Looking at Wang Bodang's appearance, Guo Ye can understand it when he thinks about it. Samba and him have been neighbors for more than ten years, and they have been at odds for more than ten years, and they both hate each other to the bone.

Especially this time, Samba's secret mischief caused Yelangfeng and half of the horse thieves to be destroyed by him, and Wang Bodang, who cherished his reputation like a wing, was besieged by himself in the bamboo building, and his reputation was greatly damaged.

Concerning all of the above, Guo Ye has reason to believe that if Samba was in front of him, Uncle Wang would tear up the Tibetan animal with his hands.

If Uncle Wang didn't hate Samba, there was only one reason, the two of them had an adulterous affair.

Of course, the last sentence is Guo Ye's own joke bullshit.

Seeing that Wang Bodang's emotions were almost exaggerated, and the hatred was successfully transferred, Guo Ye felt that it was time to have a deep talk with him.

Then he winked at Cheng Erniu, signaling him to leave the yard first.

After Cheng Erniu came out of the yard, Guo Ye said softly: "Senior Wang, it seems that you and I need to have a deep talk. Let go of your prejudices and have a good talk with an open heart."

When Uncle Wang was really happy in his heart, he naturally agreed, raised his hand and said: "Speak, I'll listen..."

Guo Ye grunted, and said: "Today I have to talk to Senior Wang about something like this. Look, you have four groups of brothers with a total of more than [-] people under your command, and what about my Longxi Army? ..."

In the entire courtyard, there were only two people. No one knew what they were talking about, and they hadn't stepped out of the backyard until dinner time.Judging by the weather, there was a tendency to talk at night while holding candles, but the host and guest had a good time, and the atmosphere was harmonious.

but,

On the opposite side of the border with Tuva City, just a few miles away, in the territory of the Samba head of Tubo, it is another scene.

Scattered all over the ground, there are countless heads, how can there be a mess of words.

It happened that a sheep-herding herdsman passed by and saw this hideous and terrifying scene that pierced the bone marrow.

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