Chapter 19 Dock Lords
"Brother, children can't praise you! If you praise you, it's all the way!"
Having said that, the smile on Xu Muhe's face could not be concealed.
“If you do well, you should praise it.”
Xu Mujiang said seriously:
"Shi Yang won this time. All the villages in his family were not robbed by the Tartars this year. This is equivalent to Shi Yang helping us with all of them!"
Like most Han people in this era, Xu Mujiang and Xu Muhe were also afraid of the Tartars.
If it were in previous years, even if Xu Shiyang took the initiative to start a war with the Tartars, even if he won, he would have to "kill even if he wins", and devote his head and more tribute to the Tartars, so that they would not retaliate.
But the group of Tartars who came to Juzhou this year were a little different from before. Xu Shiyang learned through the captive that the leader Mouke was a newly appointed young man. He had just conspired with his Tartar father who was a man who was a man and had his own Mouke and was in a state of being particularly eager for wealth and merit to prove his bravery.
Therefore, Haihuli forcibly attacked the forts west of Shiwutun. The unlucky villages were also unaware of this. They felt that just like before, they could send some tributes and women to disperse the group of Tartars. As a result, they were careless and directly broke through the wall and ended up destroying the whole family.
In fact, after thinking about it, the Tartar Mouke, who was hung on the wall by Xu Shiyang and had not taken off yet, was actually very inexperienced.
Attacking the fort is a bit thankless for the team Tartars.
At first, they seemed to have gained a lot, but it didn't take long to get them into exhaustion and finally had to end the robbery earlier.
In fact, if they maintain their previous balance and take away tribute from every dock that passes by, the final income will not be less than attacking the docking.
Of course, Haihuli's style of beating whoever he sees, in a sense, also covers Xu Shiyang's behavior.
At least in the eyes of the senior executives of the Xu family, there was no sign that he would let 15tuns and other Xujiawu Forts that were further east (they did not know that Haihuli had planned to change his strategy and accept tribute).
Since he has been forced to resist, it is not the turn of Xu Shiyang, who took the initiative to attack the Tartars, to take responsibility for the crime of "taking the initiative to attack the Tartars.
On the contrary, Xu Mujiang, Xu Muhe and others have to thank him, a child, for defeating the Tartars and allowing the Xu family to escape.
Moreover, Xu Shiyang defeated the Tartars without the support of other Xu family forts and relied on the power of 15 troughs. The war horses he sent were not mentioned for now. The key is that even if the Tartars wanted to take revenge in the future, the Xu family could still give him one person and let Xu Shiyang bear the consequences themselves.
This kind of behavior of harming one's own children is very unpleasant to say, but it is indeed the only way to protect the entire Xu family.
For this reason, the three masters decided to promote this victory for Xu Shiyang and to put all the contributions and consequences of defeating the Tartars on him alone. Anyway, this was indeed done by him alone, so it would be best for everyone in the world to know that Xu Shiyang defeated the entire Muke Tartars with a fort.
The men of the Xu family believe that in this way, they will be able to separate themselves from Xu Shiyang next time the Tartars come.
Xu Shiyang didn't know that his father, uncle and uncle in this life were actually thinking of sacrificing himself.
He was just a little surprised that these old men who were afraid of the Tartars were not concerned about the subsequent revenge of the Tartars, but just put a high hat on their victory one by one.
Even the nickname "Juzhou Chicken Tiger" that makes people blush has emerged.
It’s so pitiful, Juzhou is just a county, right? Is it better to be a tiger or a little tiger in such a countryside? What’s the point of promoting?
"Okay, I'll talk about the praise later. Let our young tiger sit down first." Xu Mujiang, the elder brother and head of the family, set aside: "There are many things today, let's come one by one!"
Xu Shiyang quickly accused him and walked towards his position.
The Xu family has a total of 15 forts, and the three people from the Mu generation in the upper end are directly affiliated with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd towns respectively.
The remaining 12 docking fort owners, in numerical order, odd numbers sit on the left and even numbers sit on the right.
Xu Shiyang was the 15th trunk, so he naturally sat in the last one on the left. In front of him was Wang Yong, the 13th trunk. During the Great Zhou Dynasty, he was once a young gangster. Later, he defected to Xu Mujiang to do some dirty things that officials were not easy to come forward. A few years ago, he was released to take charge of a fort.
Xu Shibai, the lord of the 11th town, is the eldest son of the concubine and has a bad relationship with the "legitimate sons" such as Xu Shisong and Xu Shiyang.
Sun Li, the fortress in the 9th Cent, was once an official army of the Great Zhou. When Da Zhou was defeated outside the pass and was forced to cross the south, he left the army and defected to the Xu family. He worked as a gun and rod coach in the village of Xu Shiyang's father Xu Muhe. After the Xu family's power expanded, he also obtained a fort.
The fortress of the fifth trunk Zhang Jian and the fortress of the seventh trunk Zhang Qiang are brothers. Their sister married Xu Mujiang as her concubine (Xu Shibai's biological mother). The two guys have become more and they have become the owner of the fortress.
Opposite Xu Shiyang is Dong Chao, the owner of the Fortress of 14 Tun. He is Xu Muhe's brother-in-law and Xu Shiyang's second wife's brother.
Liang Jun, the fortress leader of 12tun, was Xu Shisong's enlightenment teacher, an old peddler.
Huineng, the 10tun Castle, is a monk Hua who refuses to return to secular life but never refuses to be a woman with wine and meat. He is Xu Muhai's man, and I don't know how the two of them met.
However, Xu Shiyang heard that his third uncle had a special love for nuns, and perhaps the relationship between the two was also related to this?
The 8-tun castle owner Luan Tingyu, Sun Li's senior brother, and his skills in guns, sticks, bows and horses were all very good. He was recruited by Sun Li and was also the strongest individual force in the Xu family.
The 6tun Fort Zhang Ye, Xu Muhai's brother-in-law, is different from other "brother-in-laws". His sister is his first wife and Xu Shiyang's serious aunt, but this aunt's family has no strength, so he can only make a living in the Xu family.
Others, whether it is Xu Shisong or Xu Shiyang, the mother's family of the two legitimate sons is not small, so they don't need to bow their heads under the roof of the Xu family.
Finally, there is Xu Shisong, the owner of the fourth treasury, the boss of the Shi generation.
After Xu Shiyang sat down, he looked around the lobby for a week. There was no doubt that everyone present had a relationship with the three masters of the Xu family, sons, brother-in-law, and bad friends. It was just like...
Alas, it's hard to describe.
Chapter completed!