Chapter IX Reasons for Opposition
"You said slower, I can't remember."
"I can't remember it slowly." Han Ping'an waved his hand and drove away a buzzing mosquito, which was so annoying, and pulled out a straw that was unknown.
Yin Niang blinked and asked, "What does Qingtian mean? Is it a praising our father?"
Now this Tang Dynasty really has no such thing as "the master of the sky".
Even if there is, there will be no Master Qingtian in the Western Regions who speak with his fists. And she was born and raised in the Western Regions, so it is normal not to know.
Han Ping'an chewed the straw and smiled, "Of course I'm praising me, I praise my father as a good official."
"What else did Dad say in the letter?" Yin Niang picked up the knife and hugged it in front of her chest. She always felt uneasy when she didn't have a knife in her hand.
Since she is now a member of the Han family, there are some things that cannot be hidden from her.
Han Ping'an spit out the straw and smiled bitterly: "He said that if something happens to him, we should not go back to Yele City and find a way to get away from Guishu by himself. As long as we see the Jiedushi, the Jiedushi will naturally send someone to send us back to our hometown in Luozhou."
The military supervisor was telling the funeral. No wonder he looked solemn when he parted, he wanted to speak but stopped...
Yin Niang felt very uncomfortable and asked with tears in her eyes: "Didn't you say that with Chief Chen Yi is here, our father will be fine?"
"I don't say that, are you looking forward to something happening to our father?"
Han Ping'an asked back and said helplessly: "Chief Chen is very powerful, but now he has no clue. He relies on guessing and speculation to deal with it. But then again, he had to deal with it with his eyes and he had a dark look, so he could only deal with it like this."
"What if something happens to my father?"
"Of course I have to avenge him so I won't go to Luozhou. That's his hometown, not my hometown."
As he was talking, Suda Sushi ran over and handed over the grilled fish. He asked in surprise: "Crazy, your father is dead!"
"Crow's mouth, your father is dead." Han Ping'an took the grilled fish and turned to Yin Niang's mouth: "This is my sister, and from now on, it will be your sister."
"Why did she become your sister, madman? Are you drunk again?"
"No, I'm talking about the serious business."
Han Ping'an said it very seriously.
Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, Suda Sushi turned around and looked at Yin Niang. After hesitating, he handed over a skewer of grilled fish: "Sister, eat fish."
Yin Niang happened to be a little hungry and took it expressionlessly.
Han Ping'an was as particular as ever when he was eating. He took out a knife to shave the black part, tore off a small piece, pulled out a fish bone and said, "God bless me, don't have anything wrong with my father, otherwise not only will no one make money for me to spend, but I can't even get the money I hide in the yard."
When has it been, what he was thinking about was money...
Yin Niang really doubted whether he was the father of the military inspector, but her adopted daughter could not question it, so she simply ate grilled fish silently.
Suda Sushi was as heartless as him and asked curiously: "Madman, honestly tell me how much money did you save."
"It should be two or three thousand, it's all silver, not copper."
Han Ping'an said perfunctorily and looked back at Yin Niang: "Sister, you know my father. He doesn't have much money and can't be tough. He can only repay you with his adopted daughter.
I am different from him. Even if I don’t have money now, I can make money in the future. When you find the husband, I will make money by then. I will buy a generous dowry and marry you out of glory."
Fame and origin are much more valuable than money, and they can't even buy it for a lot of money.
Yin Niang is not a ungrateful person, nor is she heartless. But when she thinks that he has never been irrelevant and what he said is kind, she can't help but smile bitterly.
"There is a dowry... a madman, how much do you want to give her?" Suda Sushi immediately became interested and grinned.
"I, Han Ping'an, want to save face, and there is only such an older sister. If the old sister gets married, she has to buy a hundred cars of dowry, and the money can be reduced to less than five thousand."
"So many, sister, I will marry you, you can marry me!"
Before Yin Niang could react, Han Ping'an kicked him: "Get out, no one can marry you, a Hu person."
Suda Sushi was furious and jumped up and asked, "You dare to discriminate against me!"
Han Ping'an raised his head: "What's wrong with discriminating against you? I still despise you."
"Why do you despise me? Why do you, a coward who doesn't even dare to return home, despise me?"
"I despise your lifestyle. Tell me how old you are this year, how many women you have slept with. I guess half of the dozens of little kids you have added in the past six months are your species."
"A man is a real man, who doesn't have many wives?" Suda Sushi didn't think it was too embarrassing, and he was justified.
"That can't be like a stallion," Han Ping'an snorted coldly, his eyes full of disgust.
"What stallion? I am the successor of the wolf. Have you seen the wolf king? Which wolf king has few female wolf!"
"If you want to go there, don't make any decisions against my sister. By the way, my sister will get married in the future. If you want to get a share, you must prepare a dowry!"
"Why?"
"Because we are half-brothers, my sister is your half-sister."
"Damn, this is OK!"
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They got together and drank until they were drunk, and they kept talking nonstop.
Yin Niang was furious and didn't want to listen to their quarrels. She asked without saying a word: "Sanlang, King Yele is fine in Baisha City. Why do he and his subordinates rebel?"
"They may not necessarily rebel, but if they really rebel, there will naturally be a reason for them."
"What's the reason?"
"He is a king, no matter how small the territory is, no matter how few the subordinates are, he is still a king. What kind of governor do you turn him into? Do you think he can be happy?"
"That's right." Yin Niang nodded in a vague way.
Han Ping'an sat down Suda Sushi and continued: "But the main reason is not this, but their original real interests will soon be unable to be preserved. So even if they don't rebel this time, they will rebel sooner or later."
"What interests?" Suda Sushi asked curiously.
"They have territory, soldiers, and slaves. The court did not care about their internal affairs, and even did not have their household registration and did not collect their taxes. But the border troops were stationed here to eat and farm."
"I know how to farm, but your border troops have not planted their fields."
"We didn't grow their fields, but many of the people who were farming were slaves who ran over from them."
"So what?"
"They don't treat people as human beings, we treat people as human beings! They plant them for the fields, and they don't know how to cultivate them. They even give them farm tools, seeds and even plow oxen, and help build canals to divert water."
Han Ping'an smiled and continued: "Although those people have to pay half of the harvest as land rent, and have to perform labor service and pay various miscellaneous taxes on weekdays, they can always fill their stomachs with their wives and children as long as they are not lazy or stupid, unlike being a slave, who has nothing or even a bad day."
Suda Sushi understood and murmured: "All the slaves under him want to run away, so they naturally won't agree."
"What if they don't agree? Do they dare to rebel? If they dare to rebel, they will be destroyed!"
"You Tangren are so bad."
"Why did we break up? Who told them not to treat people as human beings?"
"You buy slaves just like you."
"But there are very few people who buy slaves after all, and not everyone can afford them."
"I know why my father Khan would rather convert to his letter than be the Great Governor of the Tang Dynasty. It turns out that he knew that you wanted to dig our corners. In your words, what you said is...it's boiling in boiling water..."
"Boil the frog in warm water."
"Yes, it's just boiling the frogs in warm water!"
"You boy has learned a lot." Han Ping'an laughed in silence, but after thinking about it, he shook his head: "In fact, the reason why your father Khan bowed to the great food and food in black and even wanted to convert to their Allah was not because of this."
Suda Sushi asked in confusion: "What is that?"
"It's because your Xuemen is too far away from our Tang Dynasty and too close to Dashi, and Dashi is much crueler than our Tang Dynasty. As long as you don't provoke us, we won't conquer you, and let you take advantage of tribute and do business with you.
But if you don’t provoke them, they will still come to conquer you. If your father Khan dares not bow down to them, then what is waiting for you is cruel killing."
"You want to follow the toughest boss of Nature and Fist. This is what you said. Is my father Khan wrong?"
"Yes, but the fist of Dashi in black is not hard enough."
"Whose fist is hard?"
"Tubo's fist is the hardest." Han Ping'an finished eating the grilled fish, threw away the willow branches, and pointed to the southeast.
Suda Sushi laughed and said, "Crazy, are you drinking too high? Can those rustlers compete with Dashi?"
Han Ping'an smiled slightly and reminded: "I just said that you are too far from the Tang Dynasty and too close to the Dashi. If you include Tubo, then you are too far from the Dashi and too close to the ambitious Tubo."
Tubo warriors are all cruel characters, and they are really not afraid of death when fighting.
Tubo Zanpu conquered the plateau tribes more than ten years ago. In recent years, he was eyeing his neighbors and was ready to move.
Suda Sushi knew that Han's madman was not exaggerating, and said unconfidently: "If they really come to beat us, Baghdad would not ignore us."
"I think beautifully. By the way, you are considered a person who has seen the world. Don't you know what our area is in the eyes of the Caliphs of the Great Food and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty."
"What's that?"
"Brother, how many times have I told you that you should not take yourself too seriously. Don't look at our two families fighting inside and outside the Pamir Mountains, but in the eyes of the big figures in Chang'an and Baghdad, it's really just a small border conflict."
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Chapter completed!