Chapter 234 Robber
The sky had just turned white. Standing on the east wall of Bijie, watching the stream of people carrying poles and bamboo baskets on their shoulders and walking towards the mountains to the east, She Chongming and his son felt as if their hearts were blocked by a huge boulder.
She Chongming looked down at the endless stream of people supporting the elderly and young at his feet, and then turned to look at the bamboo buildings that gradually appeared in the hazy morning light in the city. He had a lot of thoughts: The period when he was just forced to rebel could be said to be smooth sailing, and he occupied Chongqing. , break Luzhou, Keneijiang, fall into Ziyang, and go to Jianzhou. The long sword is as powerful as breaking bamboo. One hundred thousand soldiers are majestic, and the towering Chengdu Mansion is about to be at your fingertips! Then, he bumped into Sun Jie... From that day on, he lost consecutive battles without even a small victory - this evil star seemed to be specially created by God to deal with his father and son!
"Abba, why do you think those Han people have to push us to this point? We can't produce a lot of food here. We will give them whatever horses and wood they want. They want to fight with others thousands of miles away. We also sent tens of thousands of troops... What are they trying to do by forcing each other like this?" She Yin's question dragged She Chongming's thoughts back to reality.
"Alas!" She Chongming was silent for a moment and sighed heavily, "They are like that. A long time ago, a so-called sage of the Han people said, 'Is the whole world not the land of the king, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers' '. Then, all of them felt that this sentence was the law of heaven. All the mountains and rivers should belong to their great emperor. As long as there is an inch of land that has not been occupied, they will not be able to eat well or sleep well."
"Bah! What a sage, but a child looks like a bastard! Why do you think a nonsense bastard statement is the law of heaven? I can also say that the whole world belongs to our Miao family! Take our place as an example, there are so many mountains, Who created it? Who can take over them all, and they haven't all stood there for tens of thousands of years? Our ancestors have been making a living in the mountains for generations. Every piece of land and rock has been soaked with the blood and sweat of our ancestors. Why should it be taken from us? Grab it! Humph, if you want to take over the whole world, aren't you afraid of pushing yourself to death?" She Yin spat heavily and said angrily.
"Yes. Our ancestors have lived in this mountain for thousands of years. Why did the mountain, this river, this land, and this forest all become theirs as soon as they appeared? I can't figure this out. Besides, , we have also bowed to the Han court, they are still bent on taking away everything our ancestors have made with their blood and sweat, except that they are born bandits, I can't think of any other answer."
"Watch it, robber, the bandit will die a good death sooner or later!" She Yin scolded.
"Yes, look at those dog officials, and even the Great Emperor, who aggressively pushed us to death today. In the blink of an eye, tomorrow they will be killed by their former accomplices. How many of them will die well? If no one wants to ride Why do they live their lives in peace and contentment even if they look after others? But mice cannot give birth to peacocks, and the descendants of robbers are robbers in every generation. They all never forget our land... By the way, Yin'er, you Do you know why Longchang Jiuyi is also called Shexiang Jiuyi?" She Chongming suddenly asked, changing the topic.
"My child knows. Because it was built by our ancestor, Mrs. Shexiang. Our ancestors built Longchang Post, Liuguang Post, Guli Post, Shuixi Post, Xixi Post, Jinji Post, Geya Post, Guihua Post, and Bijie. There are nine post stations, and they also organized tribesmen to dig dangerous mountains and build roads to connect these stations." She Chongming's question was somewhat confusing to She Yin. This was a simple question that even the Miao children knew the answer to.
"Then, do you know why Ancestor Shexiang built a post station and a mountain road?" She Chongming continued to ask.
"This... I don't know. I just know that if Jiuyi and roads are built, it will be easier for the Han people to come and attack us! Otherwise, we Miao people can cross mountains and ridges at any time with a hatchet. If there are no roads and strongholds, the Han people will Dog soldiers cannot enter the mountains! Look, my child, Ancestor Shexiang is really wrong about this."
"You are wrong! You can understand the truth, doesn't the ancestor know? She was forced." She Chongming said slowly.
"Ah? Who forced her?" This was the first time She Yin heard this story.
"Han people, who else could there be?" She Chongming said eloquently, "That happened when their Taizu was the emperor. During the Hongwu period, the Ming Dynasty's Taizu wiped out the world, and even the powerful Meng Yuan was defeated by them. Now, when the army comes here, we have no way to compete and can only express our submission. Emperor Hongwu also said that as long as we submit, the leader himself will manage this mountain."
"Isn't that great? Did the ancestor build Jiuyi?" She Yin interjected.
"Abba just said that our ancestors were forced. What are you in a hurry? Listen to Abba and explain slowly. The Ming Emperor did not have good intentions. He himself said later that we Miao people are all barbarians. Even father and son won't be able to save each other when a war breaks out, so we have to 'take it slow', that is, slowly find ways to deal with us..."
"That's all bullshit! Not to mention father and son, our Miao family is connected by blood, and any one of us will fight for each other, just like Brother Long..." Thinking of Fan Long who died to save his father and son in Longquanyi, She Yin said angrily Can't go down anymore.
"But this is how the Han people see us. They say that we drink blood like hair and drink blood, and that we don't understand etiquette. In short, in their eyes, we are just talking monkeys." She Chongming ignored and spat again, and She Yin continued, " The emperor of the Ming Dynasty actually knew that if he insisted on occupying all our land, he would have to kill all of us - in this southwest, besides us, there are also Zhanyi, Wusa, Wumeng, and Mang. Ministry... In that case, even if he won in the end, many soldiers would die, and more importantly, the money spent would be piled up even higher than the mountains. So, he thought of a way. He sent a horseman. Ye's Han officials came over. According to legend, Ma Ye is the nephew of his Queen Ma Bigfoot. I don't know whether it is true or not. Anyway, the man surnamed Ma has been looking for trouble all day long since he came here, and he is bent on forcing the ancestor to rebel. "
"Abba, wait a minute, didn't you just say that the great emperor was reluctant to spend money to kill us all?" The impatient She Yin interrupted again.
"That's right. Don't forget that in addition to our She family in Linzhou (now Gulin, Sichuan, the birthplace of the She family), there are also so many tribes in Bozhou, Zhanyi, and Wumeng... They slaughtered a clan without any excuse. Doesn’t everyone in other places have to fight with him? How can he kill so many tribes? Everyone turned against him at once, and he couldn’t even sit on the dragon chair! However, if we are forced to turn against him, , doesn’t the Ming Dynasty have an excuse to suppress it? Then today our family, tomorrow his family, after a few generations, won’t all the land everywhere fall into their Zhu family!” She Chongming paused and continued. , "Then Ma Ye did such a bad job, he even found an excuse to ask the soldiers to strip off the ancestor's shirt and whip his bare back in public!" Then he added, "That year, the ancestor was thirty-eight years old. "
"Ah!" She Yin shouted, "Then you can't fight with this pig or dog!"
"The leaders of the Forty-Eight Village thought so too. Everyone gathered together and wanted to fight the Han dogs, but the ancestor stopped them with tears in his eyes. The ancestor said, if that is the case, we will fall into their plan, and they will If you want us to do this, you must have prepared an army to suppress us. Everyone in our She family, including the nursing baby, will lose their lives."
"What should we do?" She Yin asked anxiously.
"In order to protect ourselves, our ancestors have been deliberately making friends with Han people. She has a good friend named Liu Shuzhen, who was the wife of Song Qin, the deputy envoy of Xuanwei in Guizhou at the time. Through Song Qin's relationship, our ancestors decided to go to Beijing to find Ming in person. The emperor appealed for justice. Unexpectedly, the shameless Emperor Hongwu actually asked, "I know your grievances. Ma Ye did go too far. But if I punish him, how are you going to repay me?" The ancestor replied, "We will never rebel. We will obey the orders of the great emperor from generation to generation." Unexpectedly, the Ming Emperor's face turned serious, "Isn't that what you should do?" The ancestor had to say, "I will establish the Nine We will set up a post station and repair the road, and respond to the emperor's call at any time in the future.' Emperor Hongwu really couldn't find any excuses anymore. After thinking about it, he could send troops in at any time since the road was built in the mountains, so he let us go for the time being. In this way, the emperor named the ancestor "Mrs. Shunde" and asked her to send a child to study in the Imperial College. When the child grew up, he was given the surname "An" by the emperor. That is the ancestor of your uncle An and his family. . So, we have two luxurious houses, but we are actually one family!"
She Yin asked again: "Where is that bastard Ma Ye? Was he killed by the Ming Emperor?"
"Of course not. Think about it, why did he provoke and who ordered him? How could he be killed? The emperor just called him back, cursed him a few times, fined him two years' salary, and then sent He went to be an official elsewhere." She Chongming said lightly.
"The ancestor is so wronged! He built a post station and built a road, and the Han dogs came when they wanted. It was peaceful for a while, but he left many disasters to future generations!" She Yin said angrily.
"Bullshit!" She Chongming was a little angry, "Think about it! If our ancestor hadn't been like this, all the members of our She family, including the young and old, would have totaled only 70,000 to 80,000 people, and they would have been slaughtered! What now? After two hundred years of development, one She family has turned into two She'an families, with dozens of people and nearly a million people. They have been married to Shuixi, Mangbu, Wumeng, Bozhou... for generations, and all the people are of the same blood. If there are hundreds of millions of people in total, can today’s great emperor still be able to kill them all?”
"Ancestor did the right thing, but the child was wrong." She Yin suddenly realized it and happily admitted his mistake.
"Sigh. The Han people always bully people like this. You and I were forced to rebel. Abba originally wanted to take over Chengdu. With the King of Shu in his hands, he could bargain with the Han court. At least he could help you like this. Let’s fight for decades to be clean. This empire is too big, and we can’t resist it no matter what. But that Han general Sun Jie is too powerful. At this point, we will probably be defeated by him sooner or later. Abba is thinking, If you can survive, then my father will die."
She Yin said anxiously: "Abba, my child will always guard you and protect Abba!"
"Hahaha, silly boy, it is right for a father to risk his life for his son! You should also fight for your son, and your son should fight for his son. Later generations will continue to build on the foundation established by the predecessors. In the past, generations continued to live on... This is the way of heaven. We are not hypocritical Han people. Their so-called filial piety, well, in addition to creating fools, it also makes people become devils. Wang Xiang lies on the ice and begs for a carp - The story of lying down on his belly to melt the ice to catch fish for his mother is just to fool a fool. Look at Guo Juxue burying his son again - in order to save food for his mother, he buried his infant son alive... This Are you still human? Being so wicked and cruel will be punished by the thunder of heaven!" She Chongming said a little excited, and a cold morning breeze blew to calm him down. She turned around and looked at Sheyin, who looked a little immature, but exuded a vigorous youthful atmosphere, and then turned her gaze to the rolling mountains, "However, even if our father and son were killed by them, even if everyone who followed us was killed, Even if they kill you, it will be the same with your Uncle An... The bloodline of our She family and our Miao family will still continue, and our descendants will guard this mountain forever!"
As he said the last sentence, a red sun burst through the clouds on the top of the mountain in the east, spreading warmth to the crowds heading east, and shining a stunning light on She Chongming's resolute and cold face.
