August 22, 1794, that is, August 21, the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong's reign, Yabao Village, Yongshun Prefecture, western Hunan.
In the dark night, all the men, women, old and young in Yabao Village fell asleep, but in front of the Wenwu Earth Temple on a high slope outside the village, there were blazing torches and drums and music.
Dozens of Miao men standing solemnly formed a circle. In the center of the circle was a statue of Chi You, more than two meters high, carved from a huge log. I saw that he had animal fangs on his head, a copper ring on his nose, and was wearing a war robe. He held a giant mountain-climbing ax in his left hand and an animal-faced shield in his right hand. He had bulging eyes and a green face with fangs. He looked bold, rugged, and extremely evil.
At the foot of the statue, three wooden spiritual tablets and incense candles are enshrined, and the words "Shimen Ma" are written on the middle tablet. Four Miao wizards called "Badeza" were wearing red robes and robes, with red handkerchiefs and cowhide crowns on their heads. They walked with their feet, held tokens, and murmured words while performing rituals in circles around the statue.
Not long after, three badeza blew the horns, and another threw the four-frame bamboo joint used for divination at a stone slab at the foot of the statue. At this time, all the Miao people present looked over with wide eyes. They were all overjoyed to see that the two halves of the bamboo were both facing up.
"The ancestor gods appeared, this is a sign from the heavens!"
"The ancestor god Chi You is going to give birth!"
In the crowd, an old man wearing a black cloth robe and a black turban with a pheasant feather on his head walked up to another old man in the same attire and asked politely: "Uncle Long Deng, the ancestor of Chi You is here." The spirit is about to be resurrected. Sanbao was the first to initiate the contact with the various villages. What do you think of recognizing him as king?"
The old man said: "In August, I am old, so I will do what you and the leaders of each village want."
It is said that feathers are placed on the headscarves of Miao men, which represents their status. Only those with the level of heads of hundreds of villages can wear them. The old man known as "Uncle Longdeng" is named Wu Longdeng, who is the owner of one hundred households in Yabao Village; and the old man known as "August" is Wu August, the owner of Pinglong Village in Qianzhou.
Seeing Wu August nodded with satisfaction and left, returning to his previous position and standing, a middle-aged man in his forties came up behind Wu Longdeng, covered his mouth with one hand, and whispered in his ear: "Father-in-law, since God To choose the great god Chi You to entrust our family with a child, you should be the king of Miao. You are the most senior among the leaders of each village. When the time comes for the great god Chi You to entrust a child to our family, why not be the first to do so? Is there any reason to deny it?"
"Presumptuous!" Wu Longdeng frowned and scolded: "You have no right to speak here!"
The face of the son-in-law behind him changed, and he retreated sarcastically.
While the two were talking, the four badezas circled around the statue of Chi You again, holding a magic weapon in one hand and making incantations in the other, chanting incantations. After walking around for a few times, one of the badezas reached out to the statue. He saluted and said loudly: "The king of Miao descended from heaven, Chiyou entrusted his life, and ordered the Miao people to come down to earth!"
After he finished speaking, the other three badezas standing on three sides of the statue also shouted: "Command the Miao people to come down to earth!"
At this time, Wu August bowed to the statue with his fists clasped and said loudly: "The ancestor god Chi You is about to appear, light the pine lamp!"
As an oil lamp hung with a rope under the eaves of the Earth Temple was lit, everyone present knelt down. The leader, Badeza, kowtowed and said: "Drive out the guest people, restore the homeland, take back the Miao land and enjoy peace." , I beg the Miao King to come quickly! Come quickly!"
"I'm coming too!"
Before Badeza finished speaking, a strong man in his fifties with a full beard among the kneeling crowd suddenly roared, and then his whole body shook as if going crazy. Seeing this, several people around him quickly worked together to help him up.
I saw that this man was tall and burly, with eyes like copper bells, and a muscular face covered with dense beards, like a clump of messy thatch. He looked somewhat similar to the Chi You in front of him. He is none other than the "Sanbao" mentioned by Wu August - Shi Sanbao, the leader of Yongsui Huanggua Village.
Shi Sanbao's eyes widened as he was being helped up. His body continued to shake for a moment before he stopped. He took a handful of lit incense from someone behind him, walked a few steps to the statue, knelt down, held up the incense and saluted and said loudly: "Chi You." The ancestral gods have learned that the guest people have occupied our paddy fields and oppressed and exploited me for a long time. Today, the ancestral god of Chiyou has entrusted me, Shi Sanbao, to be the king. I will invite the villagers from the three realms of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan to drive out the guest people and return to their homeland! I ask the ancestral gods to bless me. !”
Everyone present kowtowed in unison and said, "Ask the ancestors for blessings!"
After everyone finished speaking, Badeza shouted loudly: "The Miao King is born!"
I bet the Miao king is basically all about grabbing, whoever stands up first will be the one. Just kidding, in fact, Shi Sanbao was able to pretend that Chi You was reincarnated and become the Miao king because the village owners present today have reached a tacit understanding.
At the beginning of July, Shi Sanbao's nephew Shi Youbao, as well as his family members Shi Laoshen, Shi Laoyan, Shi Laoyang and others went crazy one after another, saying that if the Miao people wanted to be officials, they would kill all the Hakkas and take back the land. At the same time, he also said that there would be a Miao King in Huangguazhai, and even named Shi Sanbao. Not long after that, people in several other villages began to go crazy and said the same thing.
As a result, the saying that Shi Sanbao was the son of the Miao king spread throughout the Miao villages in western Hunan. However, although he has gained fame, he still needs a ceremony hosted by a Miao wizard to confirm that he is the Miao king chosen by Chi You's ancestor god, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public.
The reason why it was chosen to be held at the Earth Temple in Yabaozhai is because Yabaozhai is recognized as the rebirth place of Chiyou's ancestral spirit in western Hunan, and the Miao king before he was converted to earth and returned to his native land was born here.
This is why Wu Longdeng's son-in-law said that Chi Youtuo was born in our family and wanted his father-in-law to seize the throne of Miao King. The problem is that Wu Longdeng is already over 60 this year, and he can't run away while leading troops in a war; there are many mountains and little flat land in western Hunan, so he almost relies on his feet to get out. Besides, Shi Sanbao took his family members to play "asking for the gods", which made people from all over the country know about it. He obviously lacked the confidence to fight at this time.
Speaking of the grievances between the Miao and Hakka people in western Hunan, we have to mention the return of the Miao territory in western Hunan. The contradictions mainly focus on two points, one is land, and the other is the Qing government's way of governing Miao territory.
From the 42nd year of Kangxi to the 59th year of Qianlong, after ninety years of development, the population of Western Hunan increased rapidly. The population of Miao people alone doubled to more than 400,000. With the large number of Han immigrants, With the migration, the relationship between people and land in Miao territory has become increasingly tense.
Slash-and-burn farming is the traditional farming method of the Miao people in western Hunan, and it is also a "traveling farming"; a piece of land will be reclaimed and cultivated for three or four years before it is abandoned, and then another land is found to start again. Changes in the location of cultivated land have caused the Miao people's residential areas to change accordingly, unlike the Han people who have fixed residential areas and farming areas.
In addition, the Miao people have a custom of emphasizing financial resources over life and death. The interest on borrowing within the Miao village is based on cows; one fist grows every year, and the interest alone is equivalent to one cow when it reaches eight fists. When internal borrowings cannot be repaid, the Miao people will borrow usury from the Han people and use their fields as collateral. Take the Yongsui Hall in western Hunan as an example. When the hall was built, all the land outside the ring city was owned by the Miao people. After only 20 or 30 years, these lands became owned by the Han people.
On the one hand, the population of the Miao people increased, and the cultivated land became increasingly insufficient; on the other hand, the Han people occupied the Miao people's cultivated land through legal or illegal means, and the grievances between the two sides became increasingly serious.
Let’s talk about the Qing court’s governance of the Miao territory. The border policies of the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzong and Qianlong were similar regardless of the ethnic groups in the east, west, north, and south. The specific measures were to enrich them with acres of land, teach them etiquette and justice, enforce laws and regulations, show them military power, guard them tightly, and lure them with benefits.
Like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the Manchus, from the imperial court dignitaries to ordinary people, regarded the Miao people as alien barbarians and discriminated against them from the bottom of their hearts. In addition, local officials had no control over the Han people's use of illegal means to occupy Miao land. The Miao people had no way to complain and became increasingly hostile to the government.
When the conflicts reached their peak, the Miao people thought that since the government did not care, they should resolve them themselves, so they came up with the slogan "Drive out the guests and restore the homeland." The main reason why the Miao riots in this time and space were several months earlier than the riots in another time and space was that with the death of Qianlong and the succession of the new emperor, the news of the Qing court's defeat in the north finally spread. Arrive in Xiangxi.
There is no way. In these days, the mountains in western Hunan are blocking the way, and information is too limited. In the first few years, in order to prevent the Miao people's livelihood from changing, Qianlong specifically requested the local government to strictly prohibit mentioning Beihai Town and Zhao Xin in their announcements.
Even though the Miao leaders attending the ceremony today are all owners of hundreds of villages, and they have brown rice for every meal, and the Qing government does not collect taxes from them, their lives are as good as those of the Han landlords; The most important thing is that I have no money and the clothes I wear are all made of homespun cloth. They have long been yearning for the wealthy life of Han officials and gentry, and many people want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.
After everyone in front of the statue of Chiyou finished kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times, the next step was to make a blood alliance. At this time, someone brought a big black cat and handed it to Wu August. The latter held the cat with both hands and gestured to the statue: "The sky has a way, Chiyou has appeared! The Stone King is born, and everyone is his minister! Life and death are determined by destiny. The black cat is the proof! If you become a traitor, you will be ruined for all generations!"
While everyone was chanting in unison, Wu August took a dagger from someone else's hand and wiped it on the black cat's neck. With a cry, red cat blood fell into a jar filled with rice wine like a trickle.
"Chiefs from all walks of life, please drink the blood oath!" Wu August took the blood wine from Badeza and signaled to everyone.
All the Miao people present were holding wine, standing behind Shi Sanbao, facing the statue, and heard Shi Sanbao say: "Cats have eyes, and the sky has spirits. We, brothers, share the same fate of life and death, and we drink blood to form an alliance!" After that, he He was the first to drink the rice wine mixed with cat blood.
Well, according to the ancient legend of the Miao people, the earliest domestic cats were domesticated by the San Miao people, the ancestors of the Miao people, so the Miao people were named after the right half of the word "cat". Cats are very important to the lives of the Miao people. When they find a Feng Shui treasure, they will bury a dead cat first and then bury people. Therefore, in a blood-based alliance ceremony like this, one must drink cat blood to highlight the solemnity.
(Duofu: "What kind of bullshit rule is this!")
After drinking the blood wine, Shi Sanbao took the gold-plated Miao knife that represented the identity of the Miao king from Wu August, and put on a yellow cloak. At this point, he, the Miao king who commanded the Siting Miao village in western Hunan, was officially in place.
A few days later, Shi Sanbao invited Shi Liudeng, Shi Daiga, Shi Yemei, Wu August, Wu Bantian and others to discuss matters in his hometown of Huangguazhai. Everyone agreed that the uprising would be officially launched on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, and Wu August would Write a message and invite Miao people from various villages at the junction of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.
For a time, there was an undercurrent in the three provinces of Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, and hundreds of thousands of Miao people were gearing up, waiting for the day to come together to hold an uprising.
Since the Qianjia Miao riots and the Sichuan-Shaanxi White Lotus Rebellion happened almost immediately in another time and space, and they were extinguished by the Qing army in just over a year, so for Zhao Xin, who was far away in Beihai Town to guide the country, Didn't take it seriously at all.
Zhao Xin is so busy! As soon as the meeting in Fuldan City ended, he went to Khabarovsk with Zhao Liang.
Although he told Shen Xuan and A Miao that he was going to inspect the construction progress of the steel plant, in the eyes of the two women, this stinky man was going to see Tang Xiao and his daughter.
Tang Xiao claims to be the vice principal of Khabarovsk Steel Primary School, but in fact he is just a name and does not even receive a salary. Ever since she had Zhao Xin's flesh and blood, she had no intention of teaching. When the child was one year old, Tang Xiao no longer wanted to live in Fuldan City for some reasons, so Zhao Xin placed the mother and daughter in the family area of the steel factory.
Today, Khabarovsk’s steel plant plus supporting factories have more than 7,000 workers, and nearly 2,000 people with their families. In order to solve the housing problem of these people - mainly to prevent private buildings from being built indiscriminately, the Civil Affairs Bureau has circled an area of more than a thousand acres two kilometers northwest of the steel plant on the east bank of the Hundong River for the construction of family areas. In line with the principle of "one thing does not bother two people", the steel plant's residential complex is also located here, but it is separated from the employee area by one kilometer and is surrounded by woods.
In order to provide more than 100 steel factory workers with good food, housing and peace of mind to work, Zhao Xin asked the civil affairs engineering team to build more than 20 two-entry courtyard houses, where six people can live in one apartment, with two rooms and one water supply per person. The large blue brick house with carved beams and painted roofs is equipped with various facilities including bathrooms, generators, and earth heaters. In addition, the average temperature in Khabarovsk during the hottest summer is less than 25 degrees, and it is only more than ten degrees at night, so there is no need to install air conditioning.
In order to ensure safety, there is a platoon of Beihai navy patrolling the perimeter of the community day and night. They carry guns and lead big wolfdogs. Coupled with surveillance cameras that have no blind spots, outsiders cannot enter at all.
Two years ago at night, two Manchu spies came here to investigate. They thought it was heavily guarded and must contain some important secrets. Unexpectedly, he was discovered by the patrol less than a minute after entering and was chased away like a rabbit. In the end, the two goods were blocked by four horses and dogs. When the patrolling Beihai Navy arrived, the scene was quite tragic.
The reason why Zhao Xin was with Tang Xiao was not entirely because the latter became more and more beautiful as he grew older, but mainly because this girl was so cruel to be with him, which moved him.
Tang Xiao started to bind his feet when he was a little over four years old. By the time he was thirteen years old, they had already formed. Simply placing his feet was completely useless and required surgery. The problem is that Hong Tao is not a plastic surgeon. He even knows a little about orthopedics. How can he dare to do this! In the first few years, fracture treatment in Beihai Town relied on a traumatologist named Zhang who was a prisoner of the Qing army.
The Eight Banners soldiers were good at riding and shooting. Fractures and joint dislocations were common after falling from horses. The institution responsible for treating injured soldiers was the Shangsiyuan Chuoban Office. "Chuoban" is a Manchu language, which means bone setting. The problem is that bone setting in these days is just touch and touch, there is no such thing as surgery. When Dr. Zhang heard that he wanted to give the woman with small feet some relief, he refused to agree to anything. Not to mention that women's feet cannot be touched these days. Even if he could touch them, he wouldn't be able to do it, not at all.
However, Tang Xiao is a stubborn person, and he will never be able to get back from something he has set his sights on. In order to make Zhao Xin accept her, she simply went to Hong Tao's house and knelt down in front of the couple, crying and begging. In her opinion, Hong Tao and his wife are "miracle doctors". As long as she has her heart set on it, she will definitely agree. Director Liu Da couldn't stand this and was so moved that he shed tears. She was involved in the process of rescuing these girls from beginning to end.
In desperation, Hong Tao had to agree to find a way, but he had to wait for a while. In order to complete the first female foot surgery in Beihai Town, Hong Tao specially asked Zhao Xin to take him back to another time and space, collected and consulted a large amount of information, and even consulted a university plastic surgeon with Tang Xiao's X-rays. classmate. His classmates were shocked when they saw the film. They thought to themselves that in this day and age, girls still have their feet bound. Are their parents crazy? I almost called the police.
After busying for a long time, Hong Tao finally realized that the deformities caused by women's foot binding were all manifested in the metatarsophalangeal joints and interphalangeal joints. Therefore, in order to release the curled toes, the head of the first segment of the second phalanx and the bases of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th phalanges need to be amputated during surgery to form a false joint.
The reason is clear, but surgery is still not possible. You must practice your hand skills and establish a strong conditioned reflex in the brain. Especially Tang Xiao's script is small from birth. If everything goes wrong, he may have to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
So Hong Tao asked Liu Zheng to buy a dozen macaques from the island country, and practiced repeatedly with the orthopedic doctor named Zhang. He even practiced with a Rakshasa prisoner of war who had his foot amputated due to frostbite, which almost drove Dr. Zhang crazy.
After almost half a year, Hong Tao finally dared to operate on Tang Xiao. After that, she was in a wheelchair and gritted her teeth for rehabilitation. When she appeared in front of Zhao Xin again, Zhao Xin, who had been running around for more than half a year, finally I found out that this girl actually did such an earth-shattering thing to satisfy herself. If you don't agree to this, can you still be considered a man?
But if you agree, you can't make your identity public. As a ruler with a population of millions and a land of tens of millions of square kilometers, if you don't speak easily, you will be held responsible if you speak, let alone a decree that you proposed and signed personally?
So until today, Zhao Xin and Tang Xiao's daughter is almost three years old, and the little girl still doesn't know what her biological father does who only sees her once every few weeks or even months.
Note: The Wenwu Earth Temple means that in addition to enshrining the land, there are also Wenchang Emperor and Guan Gong.
(End of chapter)
