Grassland in northern Mo.

The horse's hooves were churning, blood and flesh were flying everywhere!

Xu Shao raised his sword and slashed the horse thief who was blocking him. Just as he was about to urge the horse to enter again, two wolf-toothed arrows shot into the air. With his experience of many battles, Xu Shao instinctively turned his body and avoided the vital points of his heart. The sharp cluster of arrows was nailed into his waist and ribs coldly.

A bone-eroding icy wave is coming, and the powerful force is rapidly disappearing.

Two more horse thieves rushed over howled. The bright sabers flashed with dazzling cold light under the setting sun. Xu Shao's expression was cold. It seemed that he could not escape death today.

Xu Shao is not afraid of death. As a veteran, he has been able to talk about life and death for a long time. The only thing he feels unwilling to accept is that no one can protect the safety of his wife and the young master after he dies. If the wife and the young master have an accident at his hands, it will be difficult to rest even if he dies!

"Woooooooooooooo~~"

Just when Xu Shao thought he was about to die, the long and long horn sounded suddenly on the vast snowfield. The horse thief who was howling and rushed forward like a tide immediately turned his head and fled to the distance. In less than a moment, he disappeared from Xu Shao's vision.

"call!"

Xu Shao breathed a long sigh of relief, and felt his whole body fall from the horse's back with a faint sound.

"General, reinforcements, our reinforcements are here!"

Two soldiers who had been fighting for the rest of their lives struggled to lean over, and shouted at Xu Shao to the vast snowfield in the north. Xu Shao looked in the direction of the soldier's fingers and saw a faint black line appearing from the snowfield. In less than a moment, the faint black line had turned into a large group of galloping cavalry.

"His grandma's!"

Xu Shao crossed the sabre and cut off the two wolf-toothed arrows inserted into his waist and ribs. The movement hurt so much that he frowned. He couldn't help but curse fiercely. Looking around, almost all the three hundred iron cavalry he brought had died in the battlefield. Now only Xu Shao and the two cavalry behind him were left!

However, the price paid by the horse thief was even heavier, at least a thousand riders were piled up!

"Xilulu~~"

Amid the neighing sounds of horses resounding through the sky, two strong horses rushed to the earth mountain like lightning. Two generals of Angzang on the horse's back shouted at Xu Shao: "The left part of the Great Han Mobei, the left side of the ten thousand households, and the right iron guard came to welcome the horse. Where are the eldest lady and the young master?"

Xu Shao reached out and pointed weakly at the carriage on the top of the dirt mountain behind him, and gasped, "Just~~ it's in the car."

The curtain of the carriage suddenly lifted open, and Liu Yan's figure appeared from the carriage. The young Ma Zheng was still following her. The left and right iron guards who came to protect the carriage quickly turned over and dismounted, knelt on the snow field, and said respectfully: "Keep to the lady, kowtow to the young master."

"Get up." Liu Yansu said, "Thank you for your hard work, the two generals."

"Madam Xie."

The left and right iron guard bowed again, stood up and stood on one side, and the left iron guard said, "I would like to invite the wife and the young master to go on the road. The general personally led the army to arrive soon."

"Wait first." Liu Yan waved her hand, walked to Xu Shao, and said, "General Xu Shao, let me see your arrow wound."

Xu Shao hurriedly struggled to get up, half-kneeled on the snow and replied, "Report to Madam, the injury of the last general is not hindered. Please ask Madam and the young master to get on the road earlier and rush to the Wanhu Old Camp in the left hand."

"It seems that the general's injury is not serious, but he still has to stop the bleeding first." Liu Yan said this and said to Ma Zheng, "Zheng'er, let's take the bleeding to stop for his mother."

Ma Zheng said oh, and hurried back to the carriage to get the medicine.

Xu Shao had no choice but to let Liu Yan apply medicine to bandage him, and then he respectfully invited Liu Yan and Ma Zheng to board the car and head towards the Wanhu Old Camp in the left side.

Less than ten miles northward, more than 10,000 cavalrymen led by Zhou Cang also rushed to the guards. While personally guarding Liu Yan and Ma Zheng returned to the old camp, Zhou Cang ordered the left and right iron guards to pursue the horse thieves along the horse hoof prints left on the snow field. However, the group of horse thieves were really cunning. After escaping east for dozens of miles, they turned into dozens of small groups and scattered. The left and right iron guards knew that there would be no result if they pursued them. In desperation, they had to lead their troops back to the old camp without mentioning it.

The left ten thousand households are old camp.

Liu Yan said to Zhou Cang: "General Zhou Cang, I sent Zheng'er to Jiluoshan Old Camp this time. I was ordered by my husband to taste the pain of ice and snow outside the border. The general must not care about Zheng'er's identity as a young master, take care of him everywhere and be polite to him, which would be contrary to his father's good intentions."

Zhou Cang Miannan bowed his hand and said solemnly: "Madam, don't worry, I will know what I know."

"Oh, Zheng'er's child is good, but he is a little scheming. He should be more hard-working and more experience." Liu Yan smiled bitterly, "and this child likes to dig into the bottom of everything, and he will have to worry about the general in the future. I will thank you for your husband and Zheng'er first."

"Why do you need this, madam?" Zhou Cang stood up and bowed quickly, "It is the last thing to serve the lord and his wife."

"Wuhan." Liu Yan turned around and said to the middle-aged woman behind her, "Go and call Zheng'er."

The middle-aged woman responded, and after leaving the tent, she came back again, with a slightly flustered look on her face and said, "Madam, the young master is gone."

"Ah?" Liu Yanfang looked gloomy, "Aren't you still playing outside the tent just now?"

"Yes." The wet nurse felt even more panicked when she saw Liu Yan's face changed, and she said in a hurry, "I was just building a snowman, but she ran away in the blink of an eye."

"This is this~~" Liu Yan said anxiously, "You go and look for it."

"Madam, don't panic." Zhou Cang said, "This is the old camp in Jiluoshan. Horse thieves dare not come to cause trouble. What's more, there are cavalry patrols around the old camp. If the young master wants to run out of the camp, he will definitely be discovered by these patrol cavalrymen. No one is coming to report the news now, which means that the young master is still in the old camp, so he will just send someone to find him."

Liu Yan said: "I'm working hard for the general."

There is a piece of shabby felt bag on the right side of Jiluoshan Old Camp, which is even more broken and older than the felt bags in other areas. In addition to being able to block the rain and snow, these shabby felt bags cannot resist the whistling cold wind. Most of the people living in the felt bags are slaves with a dish-like face and a dull look.

Most of these slaves were wearing heavy shackles and shackles, and were strung together like grasshoppers with heavy iron chains. If no one untie the iron chains for them, they would not think of acting alone, so there was no need for anyone to guard them. These slaves could not escape even if they wanted to.

Most of these slaves were Xianbei, Xiongnu, and a small number of Han people (who were caught when horse thieves were captured).

At the beginning, the three tribes and ten thousand households captured the Xianbei and the Hun men were all beheaded. However, after the rise of commerce in Hetao, Guanzhong and Mobei, the three tribes and ten thousand households changed their practice and instead sold the captured foreign men to Guanzhong as slaves. Hetao was exchanged for a large amount of food, cloth, iron tools, armor, etc.

An extremely inhumane business behavior has begun to sprout!

That is - the slave trade!

In ancient Chinese history, slave trade did not exist, but the Chinese civilization, which paid attention to etiquette, has always been extremely resistant to this anti-human trade behavior. However, the pyramid system implemented by the horse butcher on the grasslands in the northern desert completely changed this situation!

Ma Butcher, the initiator of the pyramid system, and Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao and others who strongly supported this system did not know that their bloody plunder of the grassland people was nurturing a slave trade that lasted for thousands of years! With the prosperity of industry and commerce in Guanzhong, the rise of industry and commerce in the Hetao area, and the rise of a large number of pastures and farms, the demand for slaves increased rapidly.

The increase in slave demand further stimulated the population plunder of the Xianbei in the west, Dingling in the north, and Fuyu in the east, so that in the late period of the rule of the horse butcher, the strong demand for slaves became the biggest inducement of the Han people's external expansion! Thousands of official or civilian armed forces crossed the vast Gobi Desert and the desert, and began to extend their hands to the hinterland of West Asia, even Africa, Europe...

But these are all later stories, and it is impossible for Zhou Cang to know now.

Although the horse butcher was a future man and was influenced by modern civilization, he had essentially integrated into the times and had become a complete barbarian! The horse butcher who fought from the sea of ​​corpses and blood never thought that it was wrong to deprive men of the defeated nations or sell them as slaves.

Psychology, butcher Ma wants to sympathize with those defeated nations, but who will sympathize with the Han people? This is a world where the strong prey on the weak! A person's power is limited after all. Even if Ma butcher Ma wants to travel through time, he cannot change the law of survival in this world at all!

Amid the sound of tiny footsteps, Xiao Ma Zheng's figure suddenly appeared outside the slave camp.

The young Ma Zheng was obviously curious about this different felt bag, and was even more curious about the person with a dull look inside the felt bag and heavy shackles on his body. Just as he was about to take a few steps forward to see what happened, Ma Zheng suddenly tripped up by something under his feet, and then fell heavily on the snow.

Ma Zheng got up and suddenly found a cluster of black hair not far away, which seemed to be human hair. Ma Zheng was influenced by Guan Ning and was extremely kind by nature. He hurriedly pulled away the snow with his hands. Sure enough, he found a human body that was almost frozen. This person just tripped him up.

The man was wearing only a ragged cloth robes, his entire right chest was exposed in the air, and there were terrifying arrow sores on it, and black bloodshots kept oozing out of the unclogged sores. The young man's face and lips were already frozen to purple, but he still could not hide the heroic spirit that was revealed between his eyebrows. It can be imagined that when he was healthy, this young man must be handsome and had a good appearance.

"Hey, brother, are you okay?"

Ma Zheng stretched out his hand and pushed the young man gently, and the young man actually moaned softly.

"What? What did you say?"

The young man's lips stumbled slightly again, and Ma Zheng put his ears to the young man's mouth, listened intently for a while, suddenly stood up with joy, and then ran away. In less than a moment, he returned with a large can of steaming beef soup.

Influenced and taught by Guan Ning, Ma Zheng seemed very enthusiastic about saving people. He took a spoon and patiently fed the hot beef soup into the young man's mouth one spoonful. The young man's vitality was indeed strong. He was injured by such a serious arrow and was frozen to death. He could even drink the beef soup in big mouthfuls.

After a while, half a can of beef soup was drunk by the young man. After the hot soup, the young man's complexion improved slightly. He miraculously opened his eyes, nodded slightly to Ma Zheng, and said thank you in an invisible voice. Ma Zheng was very happy. Just as he was about to get something to eat, Zhou Cang had already found the place with Liu Yan.

"Zheng'er, you're so naughty." Liu Yan grabbed Ma Zheng and hugged Ma Zheng, angrily, "Why didn't you tell your mother and run around?"

"Mom." Ma Zheng pointed to the young man and said to Liu Yan, "The child saved someone."

Liu Yan looked in the direction of Ma Zheng's finger and saw the dying young man, especially the arrow sore on the right chest of the young man, which attracted Liu Yan's attention. Liu Yan is the sore of the miracle doctor Hua Tuo and one of the best surgeons in the world. At first glance, you can see that the arrow sores suffered by the young man were fatal, and it was an old injury at least two years ago!

But it is a miracle that young people can live to this day!

Meeting Liu Yan's gaze, the young man nodded gently.

Zhou Cang, behind Liu Yan, took two steps forward and shouted without saying a word: "Come on, take this sick ghost down!"

"Abide by the order!"

Two personal soldiers came forward and were about to lift the young man up, but Ma Zheng flashed and blocked him, "Uncle Zhou Cang, even if this big brother is a prisoner, it is still a life. As the saying goes, saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. How can we not save him when we die?"

"Mom." Ma Zheng said to Liu Yan again, "You have excellent medical skills and will definitely save this big brother, right?"

Liu Yan turned her eyes to Zhou Cang and asked, "General Zhou Cang, what's going on?"

Zhou Cang explained: "Last autumn, the last year, the generals and Lao Pei jointly pursued a group of horse thieves, and went deep into Dai County for 300 miles. Finally, they surrounded the group of horse thieves in the mountains. In the end, even the bandits in the mountains were taken away. At that time, the young man was imprisoned in the dungeon by the bandits."

"Mo Jiang saw that he was young and looked pretty good. Although he was very ill, he brought him back to the old camp. Unexpectedly, after returning to the old camp, this guy's condition became worse and worse day by day, and he only breathed a sigh of relief. The doctor in the old camp did not recover from all kinds of treatment. Mo Jiang had no choice but to throw him here and let him die."

"It's good as long as it's not the Xianbei people or the Xiongnu people." Liu Yan sighed and said to Zhou Cang, "Please carry this person back to the tent. I want to see his injuries."

Zhou Cang hesitated and said, "Madam, you are tired from Mobei. I'll just see if you want to forget it."

"No." Liu Yan smiled faintly and said, "My teacher often tells me that the doctor's duty is to cure diseases and save people, so how can he not save him when he dies?"

"Okay." Zhou Cang had no choice but to say to the personal soldiers behind him, "Take this sick ghost back to the big tent."

Yecheng, dungeon.

The old man in Laomai brought a pot of wine and a few side dishes to the depths of the dungeon, put the sprinkled vegetables in front of Tian Feng, sighed and said, "Military advisor, today is New Year's Eve (New Year's Eve of 195). The villain can't help with anything else, so he can only prepare these wine and dishes, which is to celebrate the New Year for you."

Tian Feng said happily: "I'm working hard."

"Eat, eat quickly."

The prison head said with a sad expression, but thought in his heart that this might be your last salute.

Tian Feng took a sip of hot wine and felt a lot more relaxed in his stomach. He asked the prison head: "Master, do you think this military advisor has been alive for a while, right?"

"well."

The prisoner sighed and said silently.

Tian Feng smiled and shook his head and said, "Don't worry, this military advisor should not be decisive, and he should be released from prison in a few days."

"Military advisor, you made the general very angry this time." The prison head said, "A military advisor as wise as you cannot be unclear about the general's character. The general likes to listen to some compliments, such as Feng Ji and Shen Pei. Didn't he gain the trust of the general by relying on the favor of the general? Military advisor, you shouldn't say something the general doesn't like to hear to make him angry."
To be continued...