After finishing the matter, return to the post house. Sure enough, the store delivered the goods the next morning. When Wang Pu asked someone to check the goods, he found that the goods were wrong. They said they were sheep oil, but in fact they were lard. The quality of some medicinal materials for cold-proof plasters was also wrong, so he took the goods to the store. We were called to ask: "Why are your goods different from what we want? What's going on?"
"My lord, please don't accuse me of injustice!" The visitor cried out: "This is a time-honored brand in Chengdu. It has been around for more than two hundred years. How can we accuse someone of injustice?"
Wang Pu was furious when he heard this and cursed: "What a courageous dog, you are playing tricks on your ancestors! Why don't you change the goods quickly? If there is any mistake, I will skin you first and then send someone to the Yamen." Go and make your shop walk around without food!"
Since there are hundreds of miles of mountain roads from Chengdu to Songzhou, the terrain is rugged, and there are many Qiang and Hu tribes on the way, who are unstable in rebellion. In order to avoid revealing his whereabouts, Wang Wenzuo encountered various changes on the way to Songzhou. His true identity was not revealed, he just claimed to be a wealthy businessman from Luoyang. The person who came was not afraid and said with a smile: "If you go to the Yamen, go to the Yamen. Who should be afraid of you! Our owner's shop has been in Chengdu for so many years and has never been intimidated by anyone! You can either pay the balance or we can I’ll take the goods back, but the deposit will be gone!”
Wang Pu didn't say much. He grabbed the person's chest, tripped him up, and threw the person to the ground. Seeing this, the people behind him cursed and wanted to come forward to help. Wang Pu Several Yaqiandu sergeants behind him also wanted to step forward, but were stopped by Wang Pu: "Don't move, I will fight them alone, otherwise I will bully them!" After that, he jumped into the crowd. , with a feint of his right hand, he punched the door with his left hand, breaking the bridge of his nose and causing blood and tears to fly everywhere. Before the man could fall, he hit his vaginal foot, hitting the middle between his legs. He immediately fell to the ground, screaming. I couldn't even scream.
Others were frightened when they saw Wang Pu's cruelty. He kicked him left and hit him, knocking down four or five people in a row. They all rolled and moaned on the ground and couldn't get up. After a while, except for the ones rolling on the ground, the others who were still standing had retreated seven or eight meters away, pointing at Wang Pu and yelling: "You are such a barbarian, you have such hot hands! Don't leave until I can sue you." The officer is here to get you!"
"Go straight to the authorities and see who is afraid of who in the end!" Wang Pu said with a smile. He had suffered a lot of sulking under Wang Ence these days, but he didn't dare to break out. No wonder he was so depressed that he took this opportunity to vent it out. , I just feel unspeakably happy.
"Wang Pu, why are you doing this!" Acton whispered: "The boss deliberately stayed in the post house, just because he didn't want to reveal his whereabouts. If you made such a big fuss, wouldn't everyone know about it? I'm afraid you won't be able to eat. Less whip!"
"I can't hold it in anymore!" Wang Pu whispered: "You don't know how annoying that guy named Wang Ence is. I thought he was the Lord's younger brother and could please him and get some benefits, but he didn't I don’t know how this kid really can’t do anything and eats nothing. I really don’t know how the same mother can give birth to two completely different people!”
"Hey, what can we do about this? After all, we are also the brothers of the Lord. What else can you do if you don't obey?" Acton whispered: "Take care of this place quickly, otherwise the Lord will see it. We are all in trouble!"
While he was talking, Yijilianbode came out and saw the ground lying in a mess. His brows suddenly wrinkled: "Wang Pu, Acton, what's going on?"
"Mr. Iggy!" Acton responded quickly: "That's what happened. There was something wrong with the batch of goods I ordered yesterday. I had some disputes with the delivery person, so we took action!"
"Do it?" Ijilianbode said with a smile: "Why are the people lying on the ground all from other families? You guys are not very dirty. You are obviously beating them, right?"
"It's true that both sides did it together, but they were so useless!" Aktun said, "On our side, Wang Pu is the only one to do it. If it doesn't work, you can ask them!"
Seeing that Wang Pu's side had won the battle, Yijirenbode couldn't help but laugh: "If you hit someone, the person on the other side will definitely report it to the official. Anyway, for the sake of your victory, I will understand for you this time. If this trouble happens again next time, let’s settle the accounts together!” After saying that, he asked someone to get the paper, took out the official seal from the leather bag on his waist, stamped it, and said to Wang Pu: “Send this to that shop.
, understand this matter, remember it, you can’t hit people again, and you can’t make the matter bigger! "
Wang Pu was overjoyed and hurriedly sang a fat song, took the printing paper from Iji Lianbode's hand, and said with a smile: "Mr. Iji is thinking of our servants!"
"Go away and do your work. If you make trouble in the Yamen, no one can save you. The governor will give you more than ten whips!"
Wang Pu hurriedly called Acton and ran quickly to yesterday's shop. Someone had already recognized him. With a whistle, more than a dozen people with sticks surrounded the two people and wanted to give them a good look.
"Is there anyone in charge of the store? Come out and speak!" Wang Pu shouted.
"Let's go together and break this kid's legs first to avenge him just now!" The man who shouted had bruises on his face. It was obvious that he had suffered a lot at Wang Pu's hands just now.
Acton didn't say anything. He just pulled out his short sword, bowed his body slightly, and looked around with cold eyes. The idle shop assistants holding sticks only felt a chill in their hearts. Although they shouted loudly, their feet unconsciously moved toward them. He took half a step back.
"This is my master's seal. Anyone in charge of the store can come out and speak!" Wang Pu took out the seal paper from his arms and raised his voice: "Don't make any mistakes!"
"Why is it so noisy!" A middle-aged man in his early forties walked out of the store, wearing a black straight suit and a green gauze mantou, with a majestic expression.
"These two guys beat up people and even come to make trouble!" a guy pointed at Wang Pu and Aktun.
"You will know the right and wrong just by looking at this!" Wang Pu shook the stamp paper in his hand. The middle-aged man looked at Wang Pu and said, "Bring it here!"
A clerk took the paper from Wang Pu's hand and gave it to the middle-aged man. He opened the folded paper and his expression suddenly changed: "Is this, is this true?"
"You can come to the inn to ask if it's true or not. My master doesn't want to make it public. Also, any defective goods must be replaced!"
"Yes, yes!" The middle-aged man responded twice and shouted to the store clerk: "Quickly put down the stick and make way!"
The uninformed guys got out of the way. After Wang Pu and Acton left, a gang leader came over and said, "Shopkeeper, what is written on this paper? You just let these two guys go?"
Snapped!
The middle-aged man slapped you hard with his backhand: "You blind thing, I almost killed you!"
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Posthouse.
Wang Wenzuo was reading relevant information about Songpan Road (the road from Dujiangyan to Songzhou Ancient City) when he suddenly heard movement outside. He put down the book in his hand and walked to the window. He saw a few men dressed as businessmen outside. After bowing and saluting Igillenbod, he frowned and walked out the door. He happened to hear one of the merchants say: "The clerk in the store is not very discerning and actually offended the king's governor Huwei. It is a capital crime. Thanks to your magnanimity. A few small things to show your appreciation, please keep them!"
"what's going on?"
Ijilianbode turned around and saw Wang Wenzuo: "This little matter has been settled!" Then he said to the merchants: "This is the Governor Wang, why don't you be polite?"
The merchants hurriedly bowed down and bowed. Wang Wenzuo frowned. He lived in the post house just because he didn't want to reveal his identity. But in this case, there was no other way. He had to nod his head: "Get up!"
The merchants stood up and stood with their hands down, looking trembling. Wang Wenzuo summoned Ijilenbode and asked in a low voice the reason for the matter. After hearing this, he snorted coldly: "Both Ence and Wang Pu are useless, they can't do this well!"
"It's not entirely the fault of them!" Ijilianbode said with a smile: "You don't let them identify themselves. They have foreign accents and are young. Are they not big fat sheep in the eyes of these big local businessmen? It would be weird not to kill him with one knife!"
"So you still have to blame me!" Wang Wenzuo sneered.
"How is that possible?" Ijilianbod smiled and said: "But the matter has reached this point, and it can be settled. I just asked, these people do a lot of business, some of them have reached Ailao Kingdom, Longshang is waiting for you. Do you want to invite them in to sit down and have some drinks?
Tea? "
Wang Wenzuo snorted coldly, turned around and entered the door. Yijilianbode understood what he meant and said to the merchants: "The King has agreed, can you go in?"
The merchants hurriedly thanked Igilenbod, entered the room, knelt down, and held their breath. After about half a cup of tea, they heard Wang Wenzuo say: "Everyone, get up! Please sit down and serve tea!" "
"Thank you very much, Governor!" The merchants stood up as if they had been granted amnesty, sat down on the brocade mat, and took a sip of tea. Then they heard Wang Wenzuo say: "I heard that you guys are doing quite a lot of business, and some of them are... We’ve arrived at Ailao Country, I wonder if it’s true or not?”
"It's a small business, and you don't dare to ask questions like a governor!" A merchant with the longest seniority said with a smile: "Actually, the Ailao Kingdom has been gone for a long time. That's why we merchants are used to calling it that!"
When he heard the other party talk about what he was interested in, Wang Wenzuo's attitude immediately became respectful: "Oh? Please give me some advice from the old gentleman!"
"Don't dare to take it, don't take it!" The old merchant waved his hand quickly: "This Ailao country was originally built by the Shan people. It was defeated by the Han army in the Later Han Dynasty. Its leader moved to the southwest, and its citizens were called Ailao Yi, his hometown is also called Ailao!"
"During the Later Han Dynasty? Wasn't that four to five hundred years ago? Why is there still such a name there?" Wang Wenzuo asked.
"The King Governor does not know that these southwestern barbarians are different from our country. In our country, if the Sheji ancestral temple does not exist, the country will be destroyed. Even if the southwestern barbarians like the Ailao Yi build cities and open up fields, they can only Seeing that the enemy is strong and we are weak, the whole country will migrate and find another place to rebuild the city and settle down. This place will be named after a person. Even if the enemy forces are approaching, there will be drought or floods, the land is not fertile, or even the sacrifices are not good, there may be migration. "
"Could it be that the history books say that the Later Han Dynasty sent troops to destroy the Ailao Kingdom, but in fact it was just that the Ailao people found that they were not as strong as they were, so they rebuilt the country in another place? So the Ailao Kingdom is actually still there!" Wang Wenzuo suddenly realized.
"Yes, but in the Later Han Dynasty, Ailao State was very powerful and had many vassal states paying tribute to it. After its migration, its strength must have been greatly weakened. Those vassal states that paid tribute to it will naturally not continue to pay tribute, and its territory will also be smaller. many!"
After hearing this, Wang Wenzuo gradually understood. As a modern person, when reading history, we usually instinctively look at the world from the perspective of the author of the history book, but we forget a very simple truth - generally speaking, history books are based on the perspective of a certain country. , and in the long history of mankind, a considerable number of people do not belong to any country. In other words, if you do not belong to any country, then the description of you in the history books will be very vague, full of errors, and even Just ignore it.
If measured in terms of area alone, the stateless spaces on earth should be Antarctica, the Arctic Circle, and the Sahara Desert. But in terms of population or influence, the largest stateless space in human history is located in the mountains of southeastern Asia. Anthropologists call this area Zoa. The shape of this area resembles a palm. The palm is located in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan and other provinces of China. Each finger is inserted along the mountains towards Vietnam. Central China, northern Thailand, north-central Myanmar, and the northeastern states of India, almost every Southeast Asian country has a large area of territory that belongs to Zamiya, and Laos is almost entirely among them. In other words, Laos is a finger extended by Zamiya. .
The only common feature of this vast area is that there are many mountains, and the cultural feature is that hundreds of different mountain ethnic groups are concentrated. The languages belong to various language families, and the cultural customs and religious beliefs are very different. The only thing they have in common is that they have no Any empire can establish a stable rule here, and the country's power is concentrated in the valleys and plains. Once the altitude begins to rise sharply, whether it is the imperial edict of the emperor, the decree of the khan, or the king's order, it will quickly become invalid.
The residents here will only nominally submit to the surrounding powers, but in fact they act on their own. For the plains residents who suffered from excessive taxation, labor, famine, and war by officials, these mountainous areas were a natural paradise.
In a sense, it is an accident that this area belongs to a certain country, and it is the norm in history that countless tribes and territories go their own way. If we take the words in the history books and regard them as this countryless land,
The portrayal of the family’s land often becomes a laughing stock.
For example, in history, there were many chieftains in the southwestern territory of our country who professed vassalage to the Central Plains Empire and to an empire in Burma at the same time. This seems to the Chinese to be two ends of the spectrum, but to the locals, this is normal. In fact, They do not obey any empire, they just use this as a tool for reward or trade.
