"Hoo, ho ho!"
The savages spoke incomprehensible words and surrounded Zhuge Liang and walked towards the depths of the shore.
If Zhuge Liang hadn't determined the route again and again and knew that the place he came from must be the county where he was going to take office, he even thought that he had gone to a place where no one had ever been before.
Zhuge Liang and Asan came from the sea. The fisherman who saw them off said that there were many official ships searching for fishing boats on the seashore. He didn't want his fishing boat, which was vital to his life, to be raided, so he sold it to Zhuge Liang at a low price.
Of course Zhuge Liang was not stingy, he paid a high price, and the fisherman happily sent them over.
It's a pity that the fisherman abandoned the ship and let them come by themselves because he was so far away. Otherwise, they could have learned more about the situation from the fisherman.
"Hoo, ho ho!"
The echoes of the savages came from the distance, and another group of savages came out from there. They were also short in stature, but they were not exposed, but had animal skins covering more places. Obviously, these people were the family members of the previous savages. .
The savages were frightened by Cao Asan's force, and looked at Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Liang with respectful eyes. When they saw someone coming to greet them, they hurried over and communicated the situation with each other.
The male and female savages discussed together for a while, and finally a more delicate savage came out. He looked young and was a little boy.
He timidly walked up to Zhuge Liang and said, "Han people rushing from the sea, why are you here?"
Zhuge Liang was curious that this little boy could actually speak Chinese. Although his words were a little bumpy, he could generally understand what he wanted to express.
After finally finding someone with whom he could communicate, of course Zhuge Liang would not let him go. He said: "I am the new county magistrate here, and I took office here!"
Upon hearing the word "county magistrate", the little boy's eyes brightened obviously, but then darkened quickly, and he said with a sad face: "Many magistrates from the north and from the sea have come and gone..."
"went?"
Zhuge Liang frowned. After confirming that what the little boy wanted to express was not leaving but death, he realized that things here were not that simple.
After stumbling with the little boy's description, Zhuge Liang understood what was happening here.
It turns out that since Fubo General Ma Yuan recaptured Jiaozhou a hundred years ago, the people of Jiaozhou have lived a stable life for a period of time. These Miao savages, who are nice to call them Miao, are actually what the Han people call barbarians.
But the Han people were not bad to them. Although they couldn't speak a few words in Chinese, they only had to pay some furs and other items, and they were exempted from rent and taxes. They could also exchange items with the Han people, so their lives could go on.
But not long after the little boy was born, everything changed. County officials began to impose heavy taxes on them. The Miao people could bear it at first, but then they couldn't stand it anymore, so they gathered several tribes, rushed into the prefect's mansion, and killed them. Prefect.
As a result, since then, Jiuzhen County and the neighboring Rinan County have been in complete chaos. The Miao descendants are leaderless, working on their own, and sometimes fighting.
The little boy was still young, so it was very difficult for him to describe these things, but it could be seen that he had some education. While talking, he asked the savages some things, and then told Zhuge Liang while dancing happily.
He didn't speak quickly, but Zhuge Liang listened very carefully. When he talked about the Miao tribes fighting with each other, he couldn't help but feel a little discouraged.
He asked: "What happened to the county magistrate in Haihai later?"
"scholar……"
The little boy pronounced it several times before saying Shi Xie's name.
Zhuge Liang roughly understood what he wanted to express by guessing the situation.
According to Zhuge Liang's inference, after years of war in the north, the largest aristocratic family in Jiaozhi County took control of Jiaozhi, and through a series of operations, a family of four prefects took control of the four counties. Those four counties had slightly more Han people and were relatively easy to control. However, Rinan and Jiuzhen counties were close to the southern mountains and forests, where wild beasts and poisonous insects were rampant, and there were few places. Shi Xie had no intention of taking these two counties at first.
But later, when the governor of Jiuzhen was killed, Shi Xie changed his mind and sent a group of officials south.
There are also some practical people among these people who communicate with the Miao people, gather a small number of Han people, and let them send people from each ethnic group to learn Chinese.
These county magistrates are the so-called county magistrates from the north. They did it in an orderly manner at first, but the good times did not last long. Wu Ju also focused on this unclaimed land and sent a group of officials.
Wu Ju did not dare to openly compete with Shi Xie for the four counties, but he dared to intervene in Jiuzhen and Rinan, two very small counties. Here, the Shi family did not have much influence.
The two sides fought fiercely, and in the end all the county magistrates were killed, and those who survived were also killed by the Miao people. In the end, Jiuzhen and Nichinan counties finally became places without officials.
In the territory of the Han Dynasty, these two counties were still there, but the Han people had lost actual control over these two counties.
After listening to his description, Zhuge Liang felt heavy in his heart. The situation in Jiuzhen and Rinan counties exceeded his imagination. According to the little boy, there were more than ten large and small tribes in these two counties. Very small tribes like them There are more than a hundred, and it is very difficult to communicate, let alone unite.
Through the little boy's translation, the people in the tribe knew that Zhuge Liang was a new official, and they did not dare to neglect them anymore. They not only allowed them to eat, but also arranged a place to live.
These Miao barbarians live in tree houses. Zhuge Liang and Ah San have never seen them before, and even Ah San showed a curious expression.
Zhuge Liang arrived at his wooden house, and Ah San was in another wooden house, ready to rescue him at any time.
Zhuge Liang stayed up all night. He stayed up until his eyes were bloodshot, and he spent the whole night thinking about how to break the situation.
He thought that if he was given a year or two, with his ability and the continuous support from Cao Wu in Cangwu County, he would definitely be able to unify the forces of the two counties.
But now Jiangdong Army has entered the four counties of Shixie, and the situation is unclear. Maybe Jiangdong Army will be able to capture the four counties within a few days, or maybe it will not be able to capture the four counties in a year or two.
As a counselor, Zhuge Liang must prepare for the worst, and plan based on the premise that Jiangdong Army can quickly control the four counties.
Then there is too little time left for him.
How could he get the Miao people from both counties to listen to him in a short period of time?
When he got up in the morning, the handsome Zhuge Liang had a vicissitudes of life on his face, but he saw Cao Asan already standing not far from his gate.
Ah San stood there quietly, like a sculpture, apparently on guard against a sneak attack by the savages.
"Beifu is really a magical place. The maidservant also obeys the master's words, which is touching."
Of course Zhuge Liang knew that Ah San was not so dedicated for his own sake, but because it was his lord Cao Wu's order to protect him. I am afraid that Ah San would protect him even if he risked his life.
In this case, of course he would not let Ah San be in such a dangerous situation.
Zhuge Liang clenched his fists and then unclenched them. He had to complete what his lord wanted to do.
Now that the lord wants to get Jiaozhou, as the future chief minister and first minister of Beifu, he should do everything he can to get Jiaozhou.
He rolled down from the wooden house and happened to bump into the little boy from yesterday. The boy yawned and looked like he hadn't woken up.
Zhuge Liang wondered: "What are you doing so early?"
The little boy yawned again and replied: "We are not like you Han people. We all get up at night."
Zhuge Liang exclaimed, thinking that this might be for hunting at night, so he changed his schedule.
He followed the little boy forward, and Ah San fell behind him as if nothing.
When the little boy arrived in front of a wooden house, he suddenly bowed down devoutly, performed several different forms of salutes, and muttered words in barbarian language.
Zhuge Liang didn't interrupt him and waited patiently for him to finish all this before asking, "What is this for?"
"Pray for God's protection! The elders said, pray every day, Poseidon will protect us!"
Zhuge Liang nodded. Zhuge Liang had heard his friends mention this primitive belief of primitive tribes.
He didn't take it to heart at first and was about to leave, but at this moment, a gust of wind blew open the door of the tree house where the little boy worshiped.
A solemn statue of a woman was revealed, which was obviously the deity that the little boy worshiped.
Zhuge Liang glanced at it, turned around, glanced again, and suddenly grabbed the little boy's hand and asked: "This sea god, how many tribes in your two counties worship him?"
The little boy was startled. Zhuge Liang quickly apologized and gave the little boy a golden bean.
There is no shortage of money in Beifu. Zhuge Liang came here and brought a lot of valuable things that he could carry. He originally planned to use money to open a road, but he encountered the current situation. Fortunately, the Miao people also recognized that this was a good thing.
Most of the tribes used barter. If Zhuge Liang came over with coins, he might not react at all, but the golden beans were different. Primitive tribes also liked shiny things like gold, silver, and jewelry. The little boy was sent out to study by his clan, and he was overjoyed when he found out that the golden beans given by Zhuge Liang were something that his elders rarely had.
Zhuge Liang asked again: "How many tribes is this sea god?"
Ah San glanced here, and she felt that the expression of the first scribe of the General's Mansion, who had always been very calm, was very fluctuating. This was a rare thing, and she didn't know what he was thinking.
"The God of the Sea is naturally worshiped by tribes like ours, but some tribes also have gods of mountains and fire."
"Are all Poseidons like this statue?"
Zhuge Liang looked at the wood carvings in the wooden house and said, he did not dare to point at the wood carvings, lest the little boy misunderstand the blasphemy.
"Yes, isn't that what your Chinese Poseidon looks like?"
The little boy is strange.
Zhuge Liang smiled, his waist straightened, and he finally thought of a way.
What he had not thought about all night, the answer was suddenly revealed, which made him feel refreshed and said with a smile: "Please help me ask your elders. If I ask your tribe to take me to meet the larger tribes, How many of these golden beans are needed!”
When he heard that there were golden beans again, the little boy jumped up and left with joy.
Ah San glanced at Zhuge Liang again and felt that the military advisor was a little strange today, always looking at him.
At this time, she didn't know that Jiuzhen and Rinan, the two southernmost counties of the Han Dynasty, were about to usher in new masters.
