Entrepreneurship in the Late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 6 Good Man
When the Mo Dao in Zhao Huaian's hand was knocked away, his head buzzed and his scalp went numb.

But when the iron spear from the opposite side stabbed over, between life and death, Zhao Huaian suddenly accelerated.

He ducked down to pass through the iron spear, then grabbed the belt on the opposite side and wrapped it around his back.

The Tibetan warrior had rich combat experience and had already reacted when Zhao Huaian circled around his back.

He threw away the iron spear, reached out to grab Zhao Huaian's arm, and was about to pull him back into his arms. At the same time, he leaned forward to prevent himself from falling easily.

The Tibetan warriors performed this set of movements subconsciously and had rich practical experience.

But unfortunately, he didn't know that there was a set of techniques called Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, nor did he know that the Tang warrior didn't intend to throw him down at all.

When Zhao Huaian got the Tibetan warrior's back, he followed it with a series of small moves.

He hugged the other person's waist, lowered his center of gravity and fell backwards, and in order to prevent himself from being unable to carry him, Zhao Huaian also deliberately stepped on the other person's left knee.

Even though the Tibetan warrior was fat and wearing armor, he was still dragged to the ground by Zhao Huaian.

Just when the Tibetan warrior was confused and didn't know what Zhao Huaian was doing, the other party's arm hugged his neck, and then the other hand clasped it up, forming a classic naked choke.

……

At this time, Zhao Huaian put his feet on the opponent's waist, locked the Tibetan warrior from behind, and at the same time straightened his waist and sank down, constantly exerting force with both hands.

In just one second, the face of the person opposite him looked like a boiled shrimp.

The Tibetans already had red skin from the plateau, and after being strangled, they looked like big red shrimps from the deep sea.

But just when Zhao Huaian thought he had captured the Tibetan, he saw that the bastard's hand slowly reached towards his calf, where a cow bone dagger was stuck.

Zhao Huaian's eyes suddenly turned red, and he exerted all his strength in his hands.

But he obviously underestimated the endurance and lung capacity of this Tibetan warrior. Although slow, the man's hand firmly grabbed the dagger between his legs.

Just when Zhao Huaian was about to give up the naked choke, a man suddenly jumped out and pressed the Tibetan warrior's hands tightly on the meadow.

The person who came was Zhao Liu who was hiding behind the stone.

This time, the Tibetan warrior had no chance of survival. After holding on to the last two breaths, his face turned pale and his lips turned blue. He died under Zhao Huaian's naked stranglehold.

During the whole process, the remaining ten Tibetans in leather armor and cloth clothes just watched like this, and no one stepped forward.

……

When Zhao Liu cut the hemp rope, he pulled up the three Tang warriors.

On the other side, Zhao Huaian picked up the Mo Dao again and stood in front of those foreign soldiers.

Seeing these people hesitating, Zhao Huaian took the knife and shouted:

"Why, do you want to come together or one by one?"

The ten foreign soldiers looked at each other, and one of them, a white-haired veteran, came out and clasped his fists towards Zhao Huaian:
"Respected warrior, your bravery amazes us, and we are but slaves of the Tibetans. Now that the Tibetans are dead, we have no intention of becoming your enemy. We only wish to return to the mountains and to our people."

Seeing that these people were so aware of the current situation, Zhao Huaian didn't want to cause any more trouble.

But Zhao Huaian couldn't let them go like this, so he frowned and asked:

"How can I trust you? What will I do if you go back and find the Nanzhao and Tibetan people?"

But before the other party could answer, a weak voice came:

"They don't dare go to the Tibetans."

As he said this, the soldier with disheveled hair came over with the help of two companions. He bowed to Zhao Huaian:
"Good man, if you do not express your gratitude for such a great favor, I, Xian Yuyue, will surely repay you handsomely."

After saying that, the soldier named Xian Yu Yue began to explain to Zhao Huaian. Combined with the statements of the foreign soldiers over there, Zhao Huaian finally understood what was going on.

It turned out that these were all mixed barbarians between Qiong and Lai. It was hard to tell whether they were Qiang, Zao, Qiong or Liao people. Anyway, they were all mixed together.

Because this area was under the control of the Tibetans in the early years, there are still some Tibetans scattered here, and they generally enslave local foreigners as slaves.

This time when the Nanzhao people entered the country, they recruited a group of such Tibetan warriors, and the six Tibetans killed by Zhao Huaian before were one of them.

Xianyu Yue told Zhao Huaian that if these people dared to return to their original Tubo army once their master died, they would be sentenced to death.

Looking at those timid barbarians, Zhao Huaian had an idea. He asked the old soldier:
"Old man, what's your name?"

In fact, the old man was not the leader of the ten people. He was only elected because he could speak some Chinese.

When the Han warrior asked him a question, he hurriedly replied tremblingly:
"Warrior, call me Achimo."

Zhao Huaian took the initiative to step forward, patted Aqi Mo's shoulder, and said kindly:

"Old Mo, are you familiar with the roads around here?"

Zhao Huaian's initiative not only frightened Aqi Mo, but also the nine people behind him, and even a young man drew his sword.

There was no way. Zhao Huaian was too powerful. Although it was a sneak attack, he still killed six Tibetan warriors.

The one whose arm was cut off by Zhao Huaian was later killed by the Tang man who stuck out his tongue, because this man was the interpreter who had just beaten him.

If the Tang warrior had any evil intentions, these ten people would probably be in great danger.

Seeing the people on the opposite side so nervous, Zhao Huaian was a little puzzled. He stuck his Mo Dao into the meadow, raised his hands, and indicated that he had no weapons. Then he hugged Aqi Mo and walked over to the barbarians.

The first thing Zhao Huaian said when he came over was:
"Are there any of you from here who know how to get to Chengdu?"

……

While Zhao Huaian was having "friendly" exchanges with these foreigners, Zhao Liu had already started touching the corpses of the Tibetans.

Especially when he found a piece of turquoise on the body of the little Tibetan military leader, Lao Liu was very happy.

After stuffing the turquoise into his pocket, Lao Liu glanced at Zhao Huaian behind him. Seeing that he was acting like a brother to the barbarians, he cursed in his heart:
"He's just a piece of shit, he can't even figure out how to make money."

But thinking that Zhao Huaian was indeed a righteous man, Zhao Liu silently added in his heart:
"Alright, from now on, whenever Old Sixth eats, you, the coward, will have to eat too. Zhao Da, you're so lucky to have met Old Sixth."

Thinking of this, Zhao Liu glanced at the three friendly soldiers over there. Seeing that they were standing aside honestly, he curled his lips and let them go:
"Humph, you're a sensible person. If you dare to touch me, I'll have Zhao Da beat the shit out of you."

In this way, Zhao Liu, who was undisturbed, was like a hardworking little bee, and he completely wiped out the six Tibetan warriors.

……

With the help of Ren Tong and Song Yuan, Xian Yuyue found a piece of cloth to tie up his messy hair.

Ren Tong was the fiery man who didn't say a word after being beaten, while Song Yuan was the one crying, and the two of them were obviously centered around Xian Yu Yue.

The three did not help Zhao Liu to search for the corpses, but moved their dead companions together.

Everyone came out together, but they were separated by life and death on this small meadow. However, Xianyu Yue and Ren Tong were both soldiers and had seen too many such separations and deaths, so they only collected the bodies with grief and did not show much emotion.

But Song Yuan was a little more emotional. After helping a companion wrap up his broken belly, he started crying again.

Song Yuan's crying made Zhao Liufan, who had been busy, feel a little sad.

He also thought of the fellow villagers who died by the Dadu River. He felt a little depressed and felt that the copper coins in his hand were meaningless. You can't bring them with you when you are born, and you can't take them with you when you die...

But when Zhao Liu touched another piece of silver ingot, his pretentious thoughts immediately disappeared.

He grinned and carefully stuffed the silver ingot into his pocket. It felt heavy and gave him a sense of security.

……

When Song Yuan was crying, Xian Yuyue and Ren Tong were about to come to comfort him when they saw Zhao Huaian coming over, and then they hurriedly bowed to Zhao Huaian.

They were grateful to Zhao Huaian, their benefactor, for saving their lives. As for Zhao Liu, who was still touching the corpse, they just let it go.

Song Yuan, who had just been crying, hurriedly started to bow when he saw Xian Yuyue and Ren Tong bowing, without even having time to wipe away his tears.

Zhao Huaian did not dare to neglect them, and hurriedly imitated the three of them, bowed and took the initiative to introduce himself:

"I am Zhao Huaian from Shouzhou. I already know Brother Xianyu. I wonder what your names are."

Ren Tong and Song Yuan responded hurriedly:

"Ren Tong of Ba County."

"Huayang Songyuan."

"Meet my savior."

As he said this, he fell to the ground and kowtowed to Zhao Huaian.

Zhao Huaian couldn't stand the old ancestors being so polite, so he quickly pulled the two of them up, then smiled awkwardly at Xian Yuyue beside him:
"We are all brothers. It's too formal to talk about this."

Zhao Huaian was clear-headed. Although he had just been discussing something with the barbarians over there, he had actually figured out the situation on Xianyu Yue's side.

Xian Yu Yue should be the leader among them, and judging from his appearance and demeanor, you can tell that he has some status.

And the one called Ren Tong, who said he was from Ba County, should be from Chongqing.

Indeed, seeing how arrogant Ren Tong was even when he was dying, he had a bit of the Chongqing flavor.

But Zhao Huaian didn't dare to look at the remaining one named Song Yuan for too long, because when he was lying in wait to attack, he found that Song Yuan was crying and looking at Xian Yu Yue.

That look wasn't of a brother, it was clearly of a lover.

Gee!

Looking at Xian Yuyue's thick eyebrows and big eyes, I didn't expect him to play so extravagantly.

……

Xian Yuyue was of course unaware that his savior had already put so much drama into his heart. He once again respectfully replied to Zhao Huaian:
"Brother Zhao, the three of us are generals from Chengdu. This time, we were supposed to deliver a letter to Governor Huang of Lizhou, but we didn't expect the Nanzhao soldiers to have already breached the Qionglai Pass. We got separated from the generals and were eventually caught up by these Tibetan soldiers here. If it weren't for you, our benefactor, we three brothers would have been dead long ago."

Zhao Huaian had never heard of the Chengdu general, so he could only say some polite words.

He was also worried that he might say something wrong, so he quickly called those Yi Dings over and shouted to Zhao Liu, who had just finished his work:
"Come, Lao Liu, there's something good going on."

Zhao Liu was in a good mood here. In addition to the silver ingot he had obtained before, he also got two gold beans. When he heard Zhao Da shouting that he had good news, he ran over happily.

When Zhao Liu arrived, Zhao Huaian pointed at him and said to Aqi Mo and Yi Ding with a smile:
"Come on, remember him. You'll pay your guide fees to him later."

Zhao Liu was confused. What was going on?

(End of this chapter)