"Duer, why are you here? Get up quickly and let's talk to the hall!" Wang An immediately said with surprise when he saw his old friend who had been waiting in the mansion for a long time. However, seeing that Duer kneeled down and begged as soon as he saw him, it was estimated that their tribe must have encountered some difficulties again.

The person who came to find Wang An was named Duer, who was a grassland Hu. When Wang An was a madman in Taiyuan, only this grassland Hu was very respectful to Wang An because Wang An had once advised him to let their tribe escape several major disasters. So no matter how many people called Wang An a madman, in the eyes of Duer's father, Mr. Wang was one of the few wise men in the world.

Compared to the last time Duer brought hundreds of young tribes to Taiyuan to sell slaves, Duer's father only brought two or three people to Dengzhou, inquired about Wang An's residence everywhere, and then visited him. Mrs. Wang had also met Duer several times at the beginning, so she let them live in the mansion and entertained her for a good hospitality. It was not until Wang An came back today.

After Duer stood up and took Wang An back to the hall to sit down, hesitated for a moment and begged again: "Mr. Wang, our Luoyun tribe has more than 8,500 people. This time, Mr. Wang, you are asking you to save our clan's life!"

After hearing this, Wang An did not look too surprised, but looked at Duer and said, "Duer, when we met for the last time, I asked you to truly be attached to the Tang Dynasty and not have any repetitive thoughts. Now it seems that you did not do as I said?"

When Duer heard this, he also showed a look of shame on his face. Mr. Wang gave him two suggestions, one was to let the entire tribe truly possess the Tang Dynasty. If the leader was not allowed, Wang An asked Duer to flee to Taiyuan, then register a household registration, and truly become a Tang Dynasty person. Even if the tribe is in trouble, their family can be safeguarded. Unfortunately, Duer did not make these two suggestions.

"Mr. Wang. At that time, you asked our tribe to truly possess the inner support. Many people originally supported it. However, we had just destroyed the most powerful Izumo tribe, so the head and some young people were ambitious and did not want to be vassals of the Tang Dynasty. So in the end, this matter was delayed. As for me..." Duer said this, his face showed a reluctance.

Wang An saw the change of expression on Duer's face. He shook his head and continued, "Oh, I should have guessed that Duer is loyal and righteous, and is even more loyal to the tribe. He will never give up the tribe and escape alone. Now you will tell me the situation of your tribe in detail. If you can help me, I will not refuse."

"Yes~ Yes! Mr. Wang, you can definitely help us!" Duer said happily when he heard Wang Ankang help. Although he was a Hu man on the grassland, he had also heard of the name of King Qi of the Tang Dynasty. Now Mr. Wang is the teacher of King Qi. As long as he is willing to help his tribe, he will definitely help. Thinking of this, Duer explained the difficulties faced by his tribe to Wang An.

The grassland tribe where Duer is located is called Luoyun tribe. It is a tribe with medium strength on the northern grassland. Because it is not far from Taiyuan and there are no very powerful tribes around, the Luoyun tribe has always lived a very comfortable life. Relying on trade with Taiyuan, even in the famine years, their tribe rarely dies. Especially two years ago, under the guidance of Wang An, the Luoyun tribe joined forces with another tribe called Dongshan. After annexing the strongest Izumo tribe, and the old enemy of the Luoyun tribe, the strength of the Luoyun tribe has surged, and it became the most powerful tribe in the local area.

This was a good thing. After the Luoyun tribe was powerful, the surrounding tribes would no longer dare to provoke them. Moreover, there were merchants from the Tang Dynasty who took the initiative to trade with them, and life in the tribe became better and better. Unfortunately, the people in their tribe were blinded by this kind of power and refused to listen to Wang An's suggestion, and they truly became part of the Tang Dynasty. As a result, this kind of free life in the Luoyun tribe did not last long, and the Tang Dynasty finally showed its fangs to the grassland.

The fangs of the Tang Dynasty began with road construction. The invention of cement not only made the Tang Dynasty open everywhere, but also after the construction of several major arteries in China, Li Shiyi and his subordinates turned their attention to the grassland again. The northern grasslands have always been a confidant of the Central Plains dynasty. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the threat of the grassland to the Central Plains has never stopped. Fortunately, the Central Plains dynasty was not easy to mess with. In the past, the powerful Han attacked the Huns, and later the prosperous Tang Dynasty destroyed the Turks. After Li Shimin destroyed the Eastern Turks, there was no unified regime on the grassland that could compete with the Tang Dynasty.

However, Li Shimin was not relieved about this situation. After all, although the Turks were gone, there were still Tiel, Uighurs, Xueyantuo, etc. These nomadic peoples were like weeds on the grassland, and they were killed and slaughtered endlessly. No one could guarantee whether there would be another Turk in decades?

It is precisely with this kind of vigilance that when the country is strong and the finances are sufficient, cement is also in hand. Therefore, the knowledgeable people in the court wrote to Li Shimin and asked to build roads and fortresses on the grasslands. Wherever the cement road is built, the fortresses will be built. With the fortress as the center, many Guanzhong nobles have divided the pastures. They opened livestock farms on the pastures, and beef and mutton were the second, mainly to harvest wool. After all, with the development of the wool-twisted industry, wool has become in short supply.

The construction of cement roads and fortresses made the Han people step by step on the grassland. In addition, behind them was the powerful Tang Empire. The nomadic people on the grassland did not dare to provoke them at all, and they could not afford to provoke them. If you are not careful, it might be a disaster for genocide. Faced with the aggressive Han people, many tribes began to truly stick to the grassland between the fortresses and truly became members of the Tang Dynasty. After all, in the grassland surrounded by fortresses, their every move was under the surveillance of the Tang Dynasty. It seemed to be free, but in fact, they had entered the cage created by the Tang Dynasty for them and could no longer become a climate.

The above is the current situation on the grassland, and more and more tribes began to live between the fortresses. Duer and his tribe were originally very close to Taiyuan, and several cement roads built from Taiyuan just blocked them. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty officials also contacted them and took the initiative to win over them, asking them to truly attach themselves and set an example for the surrounding tribes.

Unfortunately, many people in the Luoyun tribe were immersed in the illusion of "power". Before, they refused to listen to Wang An's words, so naturally they would not agree to the Tang Dynasty's encirclement. At the beginning, the Tang Dynasty sent people to contact them repeatedly, trying to convince the other party with this bloodless method. However, in the eyes of the Luoyun tribe, this was considered by the Tang Dynasty as a manifestation of the weakness. Not only did they speak very strongly, they even dared to provoke the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.

The various actions of the Luoyun tribe finally angered the Tang Dynasty and sent a large army to conquer the Luoyun tribe. As a result, this time the Luoyun tribe finally realized its strength. After a battle, it lost thousands of soldiers, and the total population also dropped from more than 10,000 to more than 8,000. It had to flee north, and it stopped until it reached the grassland border controlled by Xue Yantuo.

Originally, Luoyun tribe thought that the Tang Dynasty would not catch up again, but what they did not expect was that with the construction of cement roads and fortresses, the Tang Dynasty was advancing layer by layer and would soon reach the grassland where the Luoyun tribe was located. Faced with this situation, the Luoyun tribe was unable to advance or retreat. The relationship between Xue Yantuo and the Tang Dynasty was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Now it was in a good period. It would be good if there was no troops to destroy the Luoyun tribe, and they would not be allowed to enter their own territory at all. The Tang Dynasty had always been a policy of slaughtering tribes that dared to hostile, so Luoyun tribe was sandwiched among the two major forces of the Tang Dynasty and Xue Yantuo, and would be crushed into pieces by the Warring States Period that was promoted to the Tang Dynasty.

Faced with such a desperate situation, the people of Luoyun tribe finally regretted it, and thought of Wang An again, who helped them escape from difficulties and helped them become stronger. Therefore, the leader of the tribe went to ask Duer with shamelessness and begged him to find Mr. Wang again and asked him to show the tribe a way to survive. After all, in the transaction with Tang Shang, they had already learned that Mr. Wang had become the King of Qi of the Tang Dynasty. With his current status and power, if he was willing to plead with the Tang Dynasty for them, he would probably be forgiven by the Tang Dynasty, and they were willing to pay any price for it.

After listening to Duer's story, Wang An also frowned tightly. The situation facing Luoyun tribe is no longer a problem that can be solved by a strategy. The only way is to find a way to obtain the understanding of the Tang Dynasty, but this is not an easy task. Although he is the royal palace of the Qi Palace, his influence is limited to the interior of the palace and has little influence on the Tang Dynasty unless...

Wang An suddenly thought of his eyes lit up, and thought of a way to kill two birds with one stone. He turned his head and asked Duer: "Duer, there are more than 8,000 people in your tribe now. So I ask you, how many warriors can you dispatch at most?"

Duer was also stunned after hearing this. Unexpectedly, Mr. Wang asked himself such a question. However, he thought about it and immediately answered honestly: "Mr. Wang, our tribe fought with the Tang Dynasty last time, and lost thousands of soldiers. In addition, many people died after escaping all the way. However, most of the people who survived were young. If they were all organized, they would probably be able to dispatch nearly four thousand soldiers."

"Four thousand people? It's a little too small!" Wang An said to himself after hearing this. Although the Hu people in the grassland were strong, their combat power was not as good as the regular army of the Tang Dynasty. The strength of the four thousand people was really not worth mentioning.

Duer's ears were pointed, and when he heard Wang An felt that he was too little, his eyes lit up immediately: "Sir, it's very simple if you want more warriors. There are many tribes like us that were driven out of the Tang Dynasty. If Mr. can help us, then the combined number of warriors in our tribe and those tribes is probably not a small number!"
Chapter completed!