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Chapter 809 Chapter [-] I used to go, Yangliu Yiyi; now I come to think, rain and snow

The southwest is mountainous.

In autumn, the yellow and green mountains extend one after another in the bright sunshine. Occasionally walking through the mountain road makes people feel relaxed and happy.Compared with the barrenness of the northwest, the southwest is bright and colorful, but the entire traffic is more underdeveloped than the barren mountains in the northwest.

Among the mountains and rivers, there are occasionally villages in twos and threes. It seems that among the primitive jungles, the rugged trails are hidden in the weeds and soils, and only a few developed places have post stations. The rugged road, passing through the mountains inhabited by ethnic minorities, and connecting the trade between the Central Plains and the southwestern wasteland, is the original ancient tea-horse road.

This is the hometown of the southwestern barbarians for generations.

The so-called southwestern barbarians call themselves "Ni", which is pronounced "Yi" in ancient Chinese. Later generations changed their name because of the derogatory meaning of barbarians, and they are the Yi nationality.Of course, at this time of the Wu Dynasty, these people who lived in the mountains of the southwest were generally called Southwest Yi. They were tall, with high noses and deep eyes, bronze complexion, and strong personalities. 's descendants.Between villages and villages, the strict slave system was still implemented at this time, and there were often fights between each other. It was not uncommon for Dazhai to annex Xiaozhai.

During the 200 years of the Wu Dynasty, the commercial roads were opened here, and Dali traded with Dali, and it has been competing for the ownership of the Yi people in Liangshan. The 200-year trade has allowed some Han people and ethnic minorities to enter this place, and opened up several small towns where Han people live or mixed together, and some felons were sent to the dangerous mountains.

When the Jinghan year passed, and during the Jianshuo period, several disputes broke out here, large and small, and a black flag quietly entered the place in the process. Three small county towns in Jishan declared uprisings—all unilaterally announced by county magistrates, and then the army entered one after another, suppressing the resistance.

Most of these soldiers who were evacuated from the northwest were dusty and shabby, and their stature was thin during the thousands of miles of forced marching.At the beginning, the nearby prefect still organized a certain army to try to destroy it, and then... there was no such thing.

More troops came one after another, and more problems naturally came one after another. Friction with the surrounding Nepalese, several wars, the difficulty of maintaining business and construction...

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The wind suddenly picked up, and she woke up from her sleep. There was a faint light outside the window, and the outline of the leaves swayed slightly in the wind. It was early morning.

The sound of roosters came from far away.

Someone was already walking in the yard, she sat up and put on her clothes, took a deep breath, and cleared her confused thoughts.Recalling the dream last night, it is vaguely what happened in the past few years.

Perhaps it was because the news that came from outside these days shocked the mountain, and it also touched her a little bit.

This year, a woman named Su Tan'er was 34 years old.Due to the lack of resources, the outside world regards women as beautiful when they are rich, but her figure is obviously thin, so she may not be considered a beauty.In the five years in Hedeng County, Su Tan'er gave people a decisive and sharp impression.She has a melon-seeded face, her eyes are frank and energetic, and she is used to wearing black dresses. Even in heavy winds and heavy rains, she can carry her skirts to run on rugged mountain roads and mud. In the next two years, the battle in the Northwest fell, and the news of Ning Yi's death came. She became an out-and-out black widow, indifferent to everything around her, but determined, and the set rules would never be changed. Send troops to Liangshan.The two sides maintain a secret confrontation, economic game and blockade, just like the Cold War.

She has always maintained that image.

When I got up and got dressed, the voices from outside were getting louder, and it seemed that they were already busy. It was the older children who were urged to get up for morning exercises.There were also voices saying hello. Juan'er, who had just returned not long ago, came in with a water basin.Su Tan'er smiled: "You don't have to do this."

"It's just easy." Juan'er said.

The three personal maids at the beginning were all trained to deal with the business at hand, and later they were all effective right-hand men.After Ning Yi took over the Secret Investigation Division, their involvement was too wide. Tan'er hoped that Xing'er and Juan'er could also be taken as concubines by Ning Yi. Yi was not completely ruthless, but Ning Yi did not agree with it. Later, there were too many things, and this matter was delayed.

During the three-year war of Xiaocanghe, Myolie and a black flag army officer gradually fell in love and finally came together.Juan'er remained silent. After two years, Ning Yi went into seclusion. Because Wanyan Xiyin did not give up her search for Ning Yi, within Liangshan, Jin Guo's spies had several confrontations with the Black Flag counterintelligence officers. Tan'er and others could not easily go to Ning Yi's side to meet each other. During this period, Juan'er was the one who stayed by Ning Yi's side, taking care of daily life and handling various contact details.Although they haven't mentioned much about personal matters, they've mostly taken care of each other.

The family was originally just a merchant in Jiangning. After getting married, they only wanted to live in peace and stability. Who knew that they would be involved in the war after that, and in retrospect, it has been ten years.In the first half of this decade, Su Tan'er watched Ning Yi do things and worried for him. In the second half, Su Tan'er sat in the town and climbed up, tremblingly watching the three county towns gradually stabilize and develop in the wind and rain.Occasionally, in the middle of the night, she would also think that if she hadn't rebelled and had not taken care of the world's affairs, she might be able to accompany her husband and live a year in the best years in peace— - She is also a woman, and she will miss her own man, and she will want to be able to hold his body to sleep at night...

But she never said it once.

Over the years, she has also seen the people who died and suffered in the war, facing the fear of the war, fleeing with their families and their families, and panic all day long... Those brave people bravely rushed forward in the face of the enemy, turned As a corpse that fell in a pool of blood... and when she first came here, the lack of materials, she just accompanies Hongti, watermelon and others to eat chaff... For these things, you can only keep watching...

Autumn is getting deeper, and the morning breeze brings a little coolness when we go out.Their family lived in the small courtyard. Hong raised the door, which was probably not far from the courtyard. Xiaochan was in the kitchen helping to make breakfast. Yuan Baoer was probably still sleeping in. Her daughter, five-year-old Ning Ke has already got up, and is now eagerly going in and out of the kitchen, helping hand over firewood and fetching things. Yunzhu follows her to prevent her from running and falling.

Seeing Tan'er coming out of the room, Xiao Ningke let out an "ah", then ran to find a basin, and started to scoop water with difficulty by the water tank in the kitchen, Yunzhu followed behind in distress: "What are you doing... "

"Auntie got up, wash her face."

"Wow" poured a ladle of water into the washbasin, Yunzhu squatted by the side, looked back at Tan'er in distress, and Tan'er hurried over: "Xiao Ke is really sensible, but Auntie has already washed her face..."

"Ah? Washed..." Ning Ke, who was standing there, held a ladle in both hands and blinked at her.

"Well, but Auntie wants a glass of warm water to brush her teeth."

"Oh!"

The little girl nodded hurriedly, and then Yunzhu and the others looked at her panic when she touched the pot of boiling water next to her.

There are several children in the family with different temperaments, but Jin'er's child is the most innocent and lovable, and the most peculiar.She is enthusiastic about everything, and has been restless for as long as she can remember.When someone is thirsty, she asks to help get water, when someone is hungry, she divides her rice in half. When a bird falls off its nest, she jumps up and down under the tree in a hurry. Even snails crawl forward. Can't stop wanting to help.Jin'er was so worried about this, saying that she would be the life of a maid in the future.Everyone joked, maybe Jin'er was like this when she was a child, but Jin'er would probably deny it with disgust after thinking about it for a while.

There was such a commotion for a while. After washing up, he left the yard. The sky was already emitting light, and the yellow ginkgo tree was shaking in the morning breeze.Not far away was Sister Hongti who was watching a group of children doing their morning exercises. There were dozens of children, big and small, running along the observation deck at the foot of the mountain in front. Their own Ning Xi, Ning Ji and others were among them. Little Ning He was doing a simple stretch beside him.

At the quiet morning light, Hedeng County, which is located in the mountains, has woken up. The cascading houses are scattered on the hillside, in the woods, and by the stream. Due to the participation of the soldiers, the scale of the morning exercise is huge on the side of the mountain. , from time to time there are generous singing.

Among the three county towns of Bly, Hedeng and Jishan, Hedeng is the administrative center.Along the foothills, several core components of the Black Flag—or Ning Yi’s forces—are gathered here, responsible for the strategic level of the General Staff, responsible for overall planning, evolved from Zhuji, and responsible for internal thinking The problem is the General Political Department. It is the General Intelligence Department that spies, infiltrates, and transmits all kinds of information. On the other side, there are the Commerce Department, the Engineering Department, and the Military Department, which is independent of Bligh. important six.

Of course, the alliance of the three counties of Bui, Hedeng, and Jishan is not the overall appearance of the current Black Banner army. Outside the three counties, the real place of the Black Banner troops is the Dayang Department at the junction of Tubo and Dali. , This tribe had an old relationship with the tyrant Liu Dabiao in the early years. The place where they lived guarded an iron ore and maintained fragmented trade with the outside world for many years.In recent years, the Dayang tribe has few people, and is often suppressed by other Tibetan tribes. The black flag goes south and absorbs a large number of veterans and elites. The elite soldiers who have undergone ideological reformation are hoarded here. On the one hand, they deter Dali. There have also been several frictions between the Tubo tribe and the remnants of the army of Guo Yaoshi, who took refuge in the Tubo vassal king.

The three counties of Bu, He, and Ji are located, on the one hand, to separate those troops who surrendered after the Xiaocanghe Battle, so that they would not have an impact on the Black Banner Army before they received enough ideological reform; on the other hand, Yanhe River The built Jishan County is located in the trading hub of Dali and Wu Dynasty.Bligh has a large number of troops, training, and board as a political center, and Jishan is a commercial hub.

Dali is a relatively docile and loyal country. It has been close to the Wu Dynasty all the year round.However, the black flag infiltrated into Dali, and the first to start was some of the noble class in Dali, or various partial forces, cottages, horse bandits, and the resources used for trading were iron cannons, firearms and other things.

Merchants pursue profit and do everything they can. In fact, the three counties of Dayang, Buheji and Ji are in a shortage of resources. The group of merchants taught by Ning Yi are crazy and sell everything.At this time, the regime in Dali was weak, and the reigning Duan family was actually no match for the Gao family, who held real power. The black flag found the weak relatives of the Duan family, or the scum of the Gao family, and signed various paper contracts first. .When the trade started, the royal family found out and became angry, the messengers of the black flag no longer paid attention to the imperial power.

"We only recognize contracts."

"Either come as promised or die together."

Naturally, the Dali side would not accept the threat, but the black flag at this time was also struggling on the blade.The Hundred Battles elite who had just withdrawn from the front line of Xiaocanghe broke into the territory of Dali. At the same time, the action troops that infiltrated the city of Dali launched an attack. Unpredictable, they took down seven relatives of Duan and Gao's family, and lobbying in all aspects has already begun. .

The stake in the business is second, but the black flag resisting the Jurchen has just retreated from the north, refusing to recognize the contract, if the black flag is going to die, then the jade will burn.

This agreement was finally negotiated with difficulty. Black Flag released the hostages and retreated intact, paid compensation for every casualty in Dali, made an apology, and at the same time, no longer pursued its own personnel losses.In exchange for this, Dali turned a blind eye to Jishan Border Trade, and at the same time acquiesced to the rules of only recognizing contracts.

With the first gap, the next, although still difficult, always has a way out.Although Dali has no intention to provoke these lunatics from the north, he can block the people in the country. In principle, they are not allowed to continue to do business with the black flag. However, how can a country that can be controlled by foreign relatives have a strong power over the local area. binding force.

For 200 years, although Dali and the Wu Dynasty have always had border trade, the initiative of these trades has always been firmly controlled by the Wu Dynasty. Even the Dali Kingdom submitted a letter to the Wu Dynasty, requesting the title of "King of Dali". It was rejected several times.Under such circumstances, there are too many monks and too little porridge, and border trade cannot satisfy everyone's interests, but who doesn't want to live a good life?Under the lobbying of the black flag, many people were actually moved.

While interacting with Dali, the infiltration of the Wu Dynasty side is also going on all the time.The people of the Wu Dynasty might rather starve to death than do business with the black flag, but in the face of the powerful enemy Jurchen, who would not have a sense of urgency?
The fall of the Central Plains has made a part of the army benefit from a huge crisis. These armies are of mixed quality, so that the firearms produced by the Prince’s Mansion can only be provided to the Beiwei Army, Han Shizhong and other direct troops. The firearms of the Black Flag Army, who had worked in Xiaocanghe for three years, were the most tempting things for them.

Since then, under the principle of blocking the black flag, a large number of smuggling horse teams have appeared. These teams brought the items designated by Jishan as agreed, in exchange for several iron cannons and ammunition. After trekking all the way back to the location of the army, in principle, the army only buys iron cannons and does not ask where they came from. In fact, how can they not secretly protect their own interests?

This two-way trade was extremely difficult at the beginning. Many black flag elites were sacrificed in it. Just like those who died in the Dali operation, the black flag could not take revenge. before, bow down and worship.In the past five years, Jishan has gradually established the reputation of "contract above everything else". In the past two years, it has really gained a firm foothold and radiated its influence, becoming the leader of Da Yang and Chen Fan, who sit with Qin Shaoqian. Lan Huan Dong is far away to the core stronghold of the echo.

In the five years, Su Tan'er has been in charge of and ascended, and she has experienced more than business problems. Although Ning Yi has solved many macro problems by remote control, the detailed operations are enough to exhaust a person's energy.People get along, the operation of the new department, the exchanges with the local people, the negotiation with the Nepalese, and various construction plans.In five years, Tan'er and many people around her have not stopped, and she has not seen her husband for more than three years.

The story of Tianhu in Beidi came back a few days ago, and it caused waves in Bligh, Hedeng, Jishan and other places. Since Ning Yi's "suspected" death, the black flag has been silent for two years, although the ideological construction in the army has always been In progress, but there are always a lot of people who are muttering in their hearts, or holding a sullen breath.This time, the black flag's shot, easily overturned Tianhu, everyone is honored, and some people understand that the news of Mr. Ning's death is true or false, maybe it is on the verge of revealing...

Tan Er naturally knew more.

She stood on the mountain and looked down, with a smile on the corner of her mouth. It was a small city full of vitality. The leaves of various trees were flying golden, and the birds were singing in the sky.

When they met, she thought she was mature and her heart was old, and she treated him with a polite attitude. She never thought that so many things would happen later.

In the five years she worked hard with Dengchen, she never complained, but when she thought about it, she would sigh slightly.

You're coming back, but I don't look good.

Missed the good times...

　I thought I could change it the day before yesterday, but it's not easy to grasp my emotions, so I revised it several times...

　
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