Xiao Ti saw a circle of people around his yurt from afar. He couldn't help but feel sank. He didn't know what happened. He slapped his horse's thigh with his backhand and rushed over. Watermark Advertising Test    The watermark Advertising Test was riding on the horse. Seeing his wife standing helplessly at the door of the yurt and saying something, while his two children stood on both sides of the door, left and right, he felt much more heartless.

As a small tribe in the inner tribe, his life was not easy. There were no more than 300 warriors in the entire tribe, and there were less than 2,000 people in the entire tribe. As a large tribe that once had a glorious glory, it was really a pity that it fell to this point today.

This was the fifth year when he led his troops to surrender to the Liao army.

Originally, he had more than a thousand cavalry and tens of thousands of ethnic groups. When Zhang Zhongwu's main force entered the Northeast to fight with local tyrants, he was hired by the Liaodong clan to participate in the battle against Zhang Zhongwu, which was a decision that he regretted very much now.

For the sake of 100,000 kilograms of grain, he led thousands of ellangs to the battlefield.

After a whole year of struggle, they were the ones who were defeated. In the end, he and the powerful Liaodong forces had to surrender to Zhang Zhongwu.

By this time, he had lost half of the tribal warriors.

But this is not the end of unlucky luck. If you stand in the wrong team, you will be punished continuously. Because in the initial battle, Xiao Ti's troops caused considerable losses to the Liao army, so until now, he has been the object of hatred by some people and is tortured from time to time by wearing small shoes.

After the Liaodong tribes were decayed for a while, they stood up again and became Zhang Zhongwu's allies, and Zhang Zhongwu also needed these local tyrants to support his rule. Although the local tyrants could not defeat Zhang Zhongwu, there was no problem if they wanted to make the place messy.

This is not the ending that Zhang Zhongwu wanted.

Both sides finally compromised and each took the need.

But a thug like Xiao Ti is in terrible.

Although after surrendering to Zhang Zhongwu, he and his tribe also obtained the status of a free citizen, they were a third-class person. Although they were given a piece of grassland, they were the most barren place. In addition to hard work, the tribes had to bear heavy taxes and labor.

Their pastures were on the edge of the area ruled by the Liao King. In these places, the kingly law and order were no longer so important. All kinds of bandits, horse thieves, and elusive devils were driven away by the Liao army. Xiao Ti's troops were also responsible for the suppression of bandits in large areas. Over the years, nearly 200 remaining soldiers were lost.

Their lives were a bit miserable.

In the past few years, in addition to grazing, some of the tribesmen have also learned to farm. Everyone has worked hard all year round, but they can only fill their stomachs.

But now it is the time when the food is not in contact with the yellow and yellow. The food is already tight, but it is about to go to the battle again. People like them need to bring their own weapons and food and grass to go to the battle. The tribe has to take out some of the food, so they will inevitably go hungry.

I went out this time today, and I originally wanted to borrow some food and grass from the local clan Zheng family to overcome the crisis. Unfortunately, the Zheng family no longer saw him. Although he said it very beautifully, there was no grain of food when it was put into practice.

If it were earlier, if he had thousands of cavalry, would Zheng dare to be so rude to him?

Xiao Ti could only sigh and said that the tiger was not as good as a dog when going down the mountain, and the phoenix with hair felled was not as good as a chicken! Now, Zheng is a second-class person. The last time he went to a county meeting, he heard that Zheng is about to be promoted to the first-class person because he has made contributions to paying taxes to pacify the place in the past two years. No wonder his eyes have grown even more to his forehead.

The food was not borrowed, but the warriors in the tribe cannot be changed, and the warriors in the tribe cannot go on the battle hungry. No matter what, the last warriors are the future of the tribe. If they are gone, I am afraid that the tribe will really be destroyed.

Seeing Xiao Ti come back, a group of ethnic groups rushed up. Before they can speak, Xiao Ti waved his hand and said, "I already know everything and am trying to solve it. Don't panic. Go back first, so you won't let everyone go hungry."

After saying good things and finally sent everyone back, Xiao Ti felt exhausted all over and walked into the yurt, leaning onto the carpet, staring at the roof with big eyes and staring at the roof.

"Didn't you borrowed food?" his wife Uguli sat cross-legged beside him and asked in a low voice.

Xiao Ti sighed, sat up, and shook his head. "Deng is not shy."

"What should I do?" Wuguli looked worried, "If it really doesn't work, just sell some of the cattle and sheep in the clan!"

"This is not possible!" Xiao Ti shook his head repeatedly: "Cows and sheep have not yet been put on weight, and they are so skinny that they can't sell for the price. Secondly, it's time to breed now. If you sell cattle and sheep, what should you do next year?"

"If Mrs. Deng refuses to borrow, then let's buy it from them, right? Even if it's the coarse grains they feed animals, as long as they can fill their stomachs, it's OK." Wuguli sighed.

"I said, the price they offered was too outrageous. And our lack of savings was to buy armor, bows, arrows, swords and guns for the soldiers. Just buying these, our money was not enough. This time, we went out, not to fight with the bandits, but to fight against the Tang army. That was the main force of the Liao King from Lu Long and others. I read the Tang newspaper. The equipment of the Tang army was too terrifying. I must prepare the best armor and weapons for the warriors, so that they can come back alive at that time."

"Can you not go?" Wuguli's tears flashed.

"Where can't go?" Xiao Ti said helplessly: "The last time I went to a county meeting, the nobleman from the top said that if we make contributions this time, maybe our tribe can be promoted to the first level. You also know that we are in the third level now. If we are promoted to the second level, we can pay less taxes and no need to bear many servile servants. This is a big thing about the future of the tribe."

"But this will be exchanged for the lives of the tribe warriors."

"What can I do? If we are not recruited, our entire tribe will flee and become those horse thieves." Xiao Ti said: "In the past few years, the rule of the Liao king has become more and more stable. Even if we become a horse thief, life will be harder. Now, we can still have a taste of it!"

After all, it was in a dilemma.

The couple was speechless. After a while, Wuguli stood up and said, "I'm going to milk."

Watching Wuguli walk out, Xiao Ti sighed silently again. Wuguli was once a noble lady, but now she has learned to do any kind of work.

I am really useless. I am watching my woman do the most humble work, and I am watching the tribe slide into the abyss step by step, but I can't do it.

Is there really no way to change the current dilemma? Xiao Ti did not think of any solution.

It was at this time that Fan Tong found Xiao Ti.

"Brother Fan, I have nothing to sell to you right now!" Xiao Ti spread his hands and said, putting a bowl of horse milk wine in front of Fan Tong.

The guy in front of him is from Weiwu Mountain and is an absolute bandit. But the problem is that when a bandit's power is so powerful that even the King of Liao can't do anything about it, he cannot be called a bandit. Xiao Ti was also recruited to fight with them, and later he smuggled things into Weiwu Mountain. Both sides could not fight or make a deal.

"This time I'm not here to collect things." Fan Tong said with a smile: "I heard that the difficulty of the Clan Chief Xiao?"

"You know everything." Xiao Ti sighed and took a sip of milk wine. "This time I really encountered a hurdle, and I don't know if I can get through it. When fighting with Tang Jun, to be honest, I really don't know if I can come back alive."

"Then don't go!" Tongdao Fan.

"You can't go if you say you can't go. If you take someone else's bowl, you will be under the control of others. If you really don't go, you will go up the mountain with you!" Xiao Ti said.

Fan Tong laughed: "Actually, this is also a good choice. To be honest, the people in your tribe live much worse than ours."

Xiao Ti rolled his eyes and said nothing. Because he knew that Fan Tong was right. He once went to Weihu Mountain for a batch of private salt.

Fan Tong took out a stack of things from his arms with a smile and pushed them to Xiao Ti: "This time the Liao King's army went on a war, for fear that our Weihu Mountain would come out to make trouble, so he left an army to stare at us. There are 3,000 people in this army that are the headquarters of the Liao army, and the others are recruiting tribal soldiers like you."

What Fan Tong pushed over was a thick stack of silver tags, which were opened by the Liao King's own money house. In Liao, the credibility was naturally strong.

"What does Brother Fan mean?"

"If you have trouble, please help me!" Fan Tong smiled and said, "Although you have already decided to go to another tribal soldier, you can use the money to push the mills. It is not difficult to exchange it with the money. For the rest, you can buy some food to deal with the crisis."

"Why do you need to help me?" Xiao Ti did not get the money, but looked at Fan Tong and asked vigilantly.

"Of course we hope that the people who are staring at us at the foot of the mountain are our friends." Fan Tong said with a smile. "Stop causing some unpleasantness."

"It's not just that?"

Fan Tong smiled and said, "Class Xiao is really smart. I have a letter here, you can take a look first."

A letter was taken out from his arms and handed it to Xiao Ti.

Xiao Ti looked at Fan Tong for some reason, tore open the envelope, pulled out the letter paper inside, first glanced at the signature, and his face changed.
Chapter completed!