Chastity Layman

"Xuance attacked Shihezhai, captured all the skins, asked Yue to analyze, the owl gave gifts, opened west to find a pass, Nantong Huyue, with meritorious service, he was named the founder of Tuonan County, 800 households were actually sealed, and he was awarded the Lishui Road Marching Chief. "..."

In Lishui City, Wang Xuance received the imperial edict, his face full of excitement.

Finally, the decree came.

Lishui City was originally the place where the Xunchuan Man was based, so the big river here was called Xunchuan Dachuan. After the Tang army marched west and south, the river was named Lishui, so Xunchuan Dachuan Village was renamed Lishui City.

The envoys who came to deliver the decree came all the way through a long journey, and it was really hard work over mountains and seas.

"It's been hard work."

The eunuch lost weight all over, and smiled wryly at the words, "Before we left Luoyang, our family really didn't know how vast the Tang Dynasty was. We thought it would be the south of the sky when we arrived in Jiaozhou. Our family started from Luoyang." , take a boat down the Grand Canal to Hangzhou, then go out from Hangzhou Bay to the south, supply supplies in Fuzhou and Guangzhou, and then enter Jiaozhou through Taiping Port.

From Luoyang to Jiaozhou, all the way is relatively fast, especially from Luoyang to Hangzhou, sailing in the Grand Canal by canal boat is very smooth and relatively comfortable. You can also go shopping by passing Yangsu Lake and Hangzhou, and take the opportunity to buy A lot of good stuff.

After changing to a large sailing ship in Hangzhou Bay, the eunuch who went out to sea for the first time felt that the sea was unusual. The sailor kept saying that the sea was calm, but he still felt that the sea was fluctuating. When passing through the Liuqiu Strait, he also encountered Although the storm took shelter in Penghu Bay in time, staying on the shore also felt lonely and lonely.

It was hard for him to imagine, if he was in the middle of the sea and failed to hide in a safe haven in time, what would happen to the boat and people in the tens of feet high waves and the howling wind.

After the typhoon, the captain continued to sail south without any ups and downs, but the eunuch couldn't sleep all the way. Afterwards, we stopped at several major ports for supplies, and finally arrived in Taiping. Finally, we didn't have to sail on the sea, and we barely recovered some spirits.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived in Jiaozhou, he knew that Lishui was not far from Jiaozhou, but in fact, the eunuch Xuanzhi had suffered a lot, and even made a big detour.

First go up from Jiaozhou along the Honghe River, sailing for more than a thousand miles, to Tonghai, then from Tonghai to Erhai Lake in the northwest, and then cross the Lancang River to Yongchangfu (Baoshan), and then cross the Nujiang River to soften Dudufu (Tengchong), along the big ship The river goes southwest, enters Lishui Governor's Mansion, passes through Zhenxi, Cangwang (Bamo), and Jinshui cities, and finally arrives at Lishui City.

On this road, after passing through Tonghai, there are high mountains and dangerous waters along the way, and the water and land alternate constantly. Many sections can only be taken by Yunnan horses and donkeys. After leaving Erhai Mansion and entering Yongchang Road, many sections are directly walking in the dense forest. Some places don't even feel like roads, and he even rode an elephant.

There are countless snakes, scorpions, insects and ants in the jungle. The leeches walked for a long time, no matter how tightly wrapped they were, they could be sucked by dozens of leeches, and the bites were covered in blood.

And the huge boa constrictor was really as thick as a thigh, and the mosquito was as big as a bird.

In the mountains and forests, even the rain fell as soon as it was said, and the envoys were dying along the way. Fortunately, they were accompanied by guides and doctors sent by the prefectural government and the garrison, so they could reach Lishui alive.

The tigers alone were encountered dozens of times along the way. Fortunately, they came with the supply army. The tigers did not hurt the envoy, but were killed more than a dozen along the way.

Those Wuman who lead the way are very good at hunting tigers, they have special tiger guns, and they even hunt tigers without hurting the tiger's skin.

In Yongchang Road, there are hundreds of barbarians here, which are often called Wuman in the Central Plains, because most of the ethnic groups are still black, and it is said that many of these Wuman are actually from Jiannan or even further away from Longyou Hanzhong and other places. Those who migrated to the south, their ancestors were actually Xiqiang or Di people.

Wu Man prefers black, and prefers tiger skin with red and black stripes all over his body. Tribal leaders wear full tiger skin clothing, which is called Boluo skin. Even the bravest warriors in the tribe are eligible to wear full tiger fur clothing, and the polo skin must be obtained by hunting with their own hands.

Those who have committed meritorious deeds twice can only wear a piece of tiger skin on the front chest and back;

Along the way, the Wuman who lead the way set up traps to hunt tigers by taking advantage of the Tang army's weapons. Although everyone hunted and killed them together, everyone was a tiger-slaying warrior, and the tiger skins were peeled off by them cherished .

Even for the emperor's envoy from Luoyang, a tiger fur coat was specially made for him as a show of respect. The ancestor of the Tang Dynasty was named Li Hu, and the Tang taboo was Tiger. The Central Plains changed the name of Hu to Da Chong. The envoy dared not wear this kind of big insect clothes, and he still had lingering fears about the might of those big insects. Even if many experienced and well-armed people hunted them, the bravery shown by the big insects was still very amazing.

That big worm was able to cull all the giant elephants they were riding on, and killed a Yunnan horse with one tiger paw, and killed a Guizhou donkey with one bite.

Even the bright light armor heart-guard worn by the sergeant could not block the attack of the tiger.

An ordinary tea-horse caravan would probably be wiped out if it encountered this big bug.

After entering Lishui City, I can finally feel a little familiar atmosphere of Datang.

There are military cities, fortresses, and beacon towers with the flavor of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang frontier soldiers in armor and holding guns and bows, and even some family members accompanying the army, prisoners who were exiled into the army, and some new immigrants. Of course, some migrating party members, Turks, Khitans, etc. were also indispensable.

The few cities under Lishui Mansion are not big. Even Lishui City can only be said to be a small city, and it is separated from the army and the people. The merchants and people usually live in wooden villages, which are slightly larger. smaller and stronger.

As the governor's mansion of Lishui Mansion, Lishui City is not as good as a small county in the Central Plains, but this is a mansion city after all, so there are still many businessmen coming along the newly built post road to trade with the barbarians.

The nearby barbarians would come to sell local products and buy Tang products, and even built many simple huts outside Lishui City. Businessmen do something to make money.

Some acted as guides, some sold their strength, and some even practiced in the village bravery regiment, or were mercenaries.

In short, there are more barbarians here than Tang people, much more.

Barbarians are basically barefoot regardless of gender, and men seldom wear textile clothing. They mainly wear animal skin clothing, such as tiger skin clothing for warriors. Generally, there are cowhide, sheepskin, dog skin, even fish skin and snake skin. In grass skirts.

They also like tattoos regardless of gender.

Different tribes have different tattoos. Some embroider the face, some embroider the feet, some embroider the body, some embroider the arms, and even embroider the face, embroider the feet, embroider the hands and so on.

They also like to use animal teeth and bones for decoration, such as hunting wild boars, and then inserting wild boar tusks in their hair, and making wild boar skins into belts.

There are also helmets made of bamboo cages or rattan hats.

Wang Xuance introduced to the envoy the governors and county magistrates of Mizhou under Lishui Dudu's Mansion. Looking at these Wumans in tiger and leopard leather clothes, they looked like a group of savages.

It's even hard to tell the difference, they're all the same black, they're even short, but they're all fierce, with tattoos, gold and silver earrings, nose rings, and animal tooth necklaces, and they never leave their weapons wherever they go.

These barbarians don't even spare their teeth. Some leaders have gold teeth, some have silver teeth, and some have black teeth. According to Wang Xuance's introduction, this is the leader of the Golden Teeth Department. Their tribe produces gold, and they are used to wearing gold teeth. , If the tooth falls out, it will be inlaid with gold.

And some leaders even sharpened their good teeth, and then covered them with gold teeth, making their mouths full of gold. The people of the silver-toothed tribe, on the other hand, produced silver from the tribe, so they used silver to decorate their teeth.

As for those with black teeth, neither gold nor silver are produced, but they blacken their teeth with a varnish produced by the tribe.

The original tribe in Lishui City, Xunchuanman, had many villages and was quite powerful. They drove elephants to fight, fought with bamboo spears, bows and arrows, and wore rattan armor and bamboo helmets. But facing Wang Xuance, who led the army westward, The mighty Xunchuan tribe was also beaten and retreated, beheaded countless times, and finally knelt down and begged for surrender.

Xunchuan Dachuan has a lot of gold, so Xunchuanman's strength in the past was also related to gold production, and it could trade what it needs with surrounding tribes. Their own production level is very backward, and it is completely traditional slash-and-burn farming.

Burn a mountain, take a bamboo gun and pierce holes in the burned hillside, and then the woman directly shoots the mountain rice seeds in behind, and waits for the rain in the rainy season to moisten the rice seeds and wait for them to mature. Usually hunting and fishing, mining gold in the river, life was not bad before.

Although from the perspective of the Central Plains, this place is full of miasma poisons, Qin Lang has long concluded that the so-called miasma poisons in the south of the Five Ridges are just some diseases and malaria. Dissatisfaction, heat, mosquitoes, snakes and ants are easy to harm people, especially when the northern army goes south, it is more likely to cause epidemics and other situations.

But as long as you take precautions in advance, prepare the hospital, and don't drink unboiled water, the situation will be much better.

Don't the Nanman people live happily and freely.

It’s like Xunchuanman. In the past, there were many mountains and fields here, and there were more women than men, and five wives or ten wives raised one husband. The men were responsible for training and hunting, and the women could also carry bows and shoot. Wild vegetables in the fields, fish in the river Shrimp, insects and ants in the mountains and forests can be taken home and cooked.

On the contrary, the mountain rice is not a staple food.

At the beginning, Wang Xuance killed the Lancang River and the Nu River all the way, and conquered more than a hundred tribes of various barbarians and thousands of villages. The Tang army he led was not temporarily recruited from the Central Plains, but soldiers from these places in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangzhou. The climate is very adaptable, and there are even a large number of barbarian soldiers.

These barbarian soldiers basically belonged to the second generation of barbarians, that is, the descendants of barbarians born after the Tang army conquered those barbarian tribes. These people were forced to implement Sinicization education when they were young, went to school since childhood, and boarded with Han families.

After primary school, at the age of twelve or thirteen, they often stayed in Zhucheng, or entered a shop as a clerk or apprentice, and then when they were a little older, they were drafted at the age of sixteen, and those who were able-bodied were selected to serve in the army.

These second-generation barbarians are basically completely Sinicized. They are even unfamiliar to their parents and tribes, and they don’t have much affection. They speak Chinese, think and behave like Han people, and some even Can't say too much barbaric language.