On August 22, 1794, on August 21, the 59th year of Qianlong, Yabao Village, Yongshun Prefecture, western Hunan.

In the dark night, the men, women, young and old in the village fell asleep. In front of the Wenwu Land Temple on a high slope two miles away on the west side of the village, there were torches and drums and music.

Dozens of solemn Miao men formed a circle. In the middle of the crowd, there was a statue of Chiyou who was more than two meters high and carved with huge logs. He saw his head hanged in beast teeth, his nose was covered with copper rings, his body was wearing a battle robe, his left hand was holding a giant mountain axe in his left hand, and his right hand was holding an animal-faced shield, his eyes were bulging, and his green face was fangs, which looked bold and rough, extremely evil.

At the feet of the statue, there are three-sided wooden spirit cards and incense candle tributes, and the words "Shimen Mashi" are written on the tablet in the middle. Four Miao wizards, called "Badyza", were wearing red robes, red robes and cowhide crowns on their heads, pedals on the feet, holding tokens, muttering words in their mouths, and were circled around the statue.

Not long after, three Badaiza blew the horns of the bull, and the other threw the four bamboo joints used for divination at a stone slab under the feet of the statue. At this time, all the Miao people present stared at the top of the two bamboo joints, one in two, facing down and the other upward, were all very happy.

"The appearance of the ancestor god is a sign of the best!"

"The Ancestor God Chiyou is going to be born!"

At this time, an old man in the crowd, wearing a black cloth robe, wrapped in a black turban, and a pheasant feather was inserted on it, and asked politely: "Uncle Longdeng, the ancestor god Chiyou is about to appear and be reborn. The matter of contacting each village was first proposed by Sanbao. I recognized him as the king. What do you think?"

The old man said, "In August, I am old, so I will do as you and the leaders of each village."

Speaking of the fact that the male Miao men's headscarf is inserted into their feathers, which represent status and can only be worn by those who are at the level of the hundred-household village owners. The old man called "Uncle Longdeng" is named Wu Longdeng, who is the Baihuo Village owner of Yabao Village; and the old man called "August" is Wu Bayue, the leader of Pinglongzhai in Qianzhou.

Seeing Wu Bayue nodded with satisfaction, and returned to her previous position to stand. A middle-aged man in his forties approached Wu Longdeng, blocked his mouth with one hand, and whispered in his ear: "My father-in-law, since God has chosen the great god Chiyou to be born in our family, you should be the King of Miao. The leaders of each village are of the highest generation. It is better to take the lead when the god Chiyou to be born. How can you not recognize it?"

"Rareless!" Wu Longdeng frowned and scolded: "You don't have the say here!"

The son-in-law behind her changed his face and he stepped back awkwardly.

While the two of them were talking, four Badaiza gathered around the Chiyou statue again, holding magic weapons in one hand, pinching gestures in the other hand, chanting spells in the mouth. After turning a few times, one of Badaiza bowed and saluted to the statue and said loudly: "The Miao King came from the sky, Chiyou asked to be born, and ordered the Miao people to come to earth!"

After he finished speaking, the three other Badhazas standing on three sides of the statue also shouted: "I order the Miao people to come down to earth!"

At this time, Wu Bayue bowed to the statue of the god and said loudly: "The ancestor god Chiyou is about to appear and light the pine lamp!"

As an oil lamp hanging under the eaves of the Land Temple was lit up, everyone present knelt down, and only heard Badaiza, who was in charge, kowtowed and said: "Tele the guests, restore the hometown, take back the seedlings and enjoy peace, and ask the Miao King to come quickly! Come quickly!"

"I'm here!"

Before Badaiza finished speaking, an old man in his fifties and bearded in the kneeling crowd suddenly roared, and then his whole body trembled as if he was epilepsy. Seeing this, several people around him quickly helped him up.

I saw that this man was tall and burly, with his eyes as a bronze bell, with a face full of flesh, covered with dense beards, like a bunch of messy thatched grass, which looked a bit similar to Chi You in front of him. He was exactly the "Three Guards" mentioned by Wu Bayue before - Shi Sanbao, the leader of Yongsui Cucumber Village.

Shi Sanbao, who was supported, opened his eyes wide open, his body continued to shake for a moment before stopping. He took a handful of lit incense from behind him, walked a few steps to the statue and knelt down, held the incense and bowed loudly and said, "It has not been a day since the ancestor of Chiyou, the guests occupied my paddy fields and bullied and exploited me. Now the ancestor of Meng Chiyou asked me Shi Sanbao to be the king. I should invite the villagers of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan, to expel the guests, and to restore my hometown! Please bless the ancestor of the ancestor!"

Everyone present kowtowed in unison and said, "Please bless the ancestor god!"

As everyone finished speaking, Badaiza whispered loudly: "King Miao was born!"

It turns out that the Miao King basically relies on robbing, and whoever stands up first will be regarded as... Joke, in fact, Shi Sanbao can pretend to be Chiyou's reincarnation and become Miao King. The leaders of the villages who arrived today have reached a tacit understanding.

In early July, Shi Sanbao's nephew Shi Youbao, as well as Shi Laoshen, Shi Laoyan, Shi Laoyang and others from the family, one after another, saying that the Miao people wanted to be officials and killed all the Hakkas to take back the land. At the same time, they also said that the Miao king would emerge from the Cucumber Village, and even named Shi Sanbao. Not long after, some people began to get mad at the other villages and said the same thing.

Therefore, the claim that Shi Sanbao was the Miao King Tuosheng spread in various Miao villages in western Hunan. However, although he had a reputation, he was still short of a ceremony hosted by the Miao wizard to confirm that he was the Miao King selected by the ancestor god Chiyou, otherwise it would be difficult to convince the public.

The reason why we chose the Land Temple in Yabao Village was because Yabao Village was recognized as the birthplace of Chiyou's ancestor spirit in western Hunan, and the Miao King left here before the land was changed to the land and returned to the flow.

This is why Wu Longdeng's son-in-law said, "Chiyou was born in our family" and wanted to instigate his father-in-law to grab the position of Miao King. The problem is that Wu Longdeng is over 60 years old this year and cannot run even if he leads troops to fight. There are many mountains and few plains in western Hunan, and it is almost entirely up to his feet when going out. Besides, Shi Sanbao took his children to play "please ask the gods to go" and everyone in the village knew that he would fight again at this time, and obviously lack confidence.

When talking about the grudges between the Miao people in western Hunan and Hakka people, we have to mention the transformation of Miao people in western Hunan and Miao people in western Hunan. The contradictions between them are mainly concentrated in two points: one is land, and the other is the way the Qing court governs Miao Xinjiang.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! From the 42nd year of Kangxi to the 59th year of Qianlong, after ninety years of development, the population of Xiangxi region grew rapidly, and the population of Miao people alone doubled to more than 400,000. With the migration of a large number of Han immigrants, the relationship between people and land in Miao and Xinjiang became increasingly tense.

Slash-and-burn farming is the traditional farming method of the Miao people in western Hunan, and it is also "swimming"; one piece of land will be abandoned after three or four years of cultivation, and then another land will be found to start over. The changes in the location of the arable land have led to the Miao people's residential areas also changing, unlike the Han people who have fixed residential areas and farming areas.

In addition, the Miao people have the custom of paying attention to financial resources and over life and death. The debts inside the Miao village are calculated based on the interest rate; if one punch a year grows, the interest rate is just a cow. When the internal debt cannot be repaid, the Miao people will borrow usury from the Han people and use the land as collateral. Take the Yongsui Hall in western Hunan as an example. When the hall was built, there were Miao people's land outside the city. After only twenty or thirty years, all of these lands became Han people.

On the one hand, the population of Miao people increased, and the arable land was less and less than enough; on the other hand, the Han people occupied Miao people's arable land through legal or illegal means, and thus the grudges between the two sides became increasingly serious.

Let’s talk about the Qing government’s governance of Miaojiang. The border policies of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Gansu three dynasties were similar, no matter which ethnic group was east, west, south and north. The specific measures were to enrich them with land, teach them with etiquette and morality, bring them with laws and regulations, show them with military power, guard them with strictness, and lure them with interests.

Like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the Qing Dynasty, from the court to the ordinary people, all regarded the Miao people as foreign barbarians and discriminated from the bottom of their hearts. In addition, local officials had no control over the issue of the Han people using illegal means to encroach on the land of the Miao people. The Miao people had no way to complain and became increasingly hostile to the government.

When the conflicts accumulated to the peak, the Miao people thought that since the government did not care, they would solve it themselves, so they had the slogan of "exporting the people and restoring the hometown". With the death of Qianlong and the new king ascended the throne, the news of the Qing court's great defeat in the north finally spread to Xiangxi, allowing some people to take advantage of the opportunity.

There is no way, the mountains in western Hunan were blocked by this year, and the information was too blocked. In the first few years, in order to prevent the changes in the people's livelihood, Qianlong specifically asked the local government to strictly prohibit mentioning the matters of Beihai Town and Zhao Xin in the notice.

Although the Miao leaders who attended the ceremony today were all the 100-household village owners, they had brown rice every meal, and the Qing court did not collect taxes from them, but their lives were really in heaven and earth compared to Han landlords. The most important thing was that they had no money in their hands and were made of local cloth. They had long yearned for the wealthy life of Han officials and gentry, which was not short of money, and many people wanted to take this opportunity to make a good fortune.

After the people in front of the statue of Chiyou finished kneeling three times and nine times, the next step was to slap blood as an alliance. At this time, someone brought a big black cat and handed it to Wu Bayue. The latter grabbed the cat with both hands and signaled to the statue: "The sky has its own way, Chiyou appears! The stone king is born, everyone is a minister! Life and death are destined, and the black cat is a proof! If you are a seller, you will sink for generations!"

While everyone was reciting in unison, Wu Bayue took a short sword from someone else's hand, wiped it down on the black cat's neck. With a whine, the red cat's blood fell into a jar filled with rice wine like a trickle.

"Chiefs from all walks of life, please drink blood and swear!" Wu Bayue took the blood wine handed over by Badezha and signaled to everyone.

The Miao people present held the wine and stood behind Shi Sanbao. Facing the statue, Shi Sanbao said: "The cat has eyes, and the sky has spirits. We are the brothers who share life and death, and drink blood as an alliance!" After that, he took the lead in drinking 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 Sanmiao people, the ancestor of the Miao people, so the Miao people named the right half of the character "cat". Cats are very important to the life of the Miao people. If you find a Feng Shui treasure land, you will first bury a dead cat and then bury people. Therefore, in a ceremony like this, you must drink cat blood to highlight the solemnity.

(Dofu: "What a bullshit rule!")

After drinking blood wine, Shi Sanbao took the gilded Miao knife representing the identity of Miao King from Wu Bayue and put on a yellow cloak. At this point, the Miao King, who commanded the Miao Village in Siguanxi, was officially in his position.

A few days later, Shi Sanbao invited Shi Liudeng, Shi Daiga, Shi Yemei, Wu Bayue, Wu Bantian and others to discuss matters in their old nest Huanggua Village. Everyone agreed that the official rebellion was officially launched on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, and Wu Bayue wrote a post to invite the Miao people from all villages at the junction of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.

For a time, undercurrents in Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces were surging, and hundreds of thousands of Miao people were ready to wait for the day of the matter to come.

Since the Qianlong and Jiaqing Miao people riots and the Sichuan-Shaanxi White Lotus Sect in history were almost next to each other, and it took only more than a year to destroy them by the Qing army, Zhao Xin, who was far away in Beihai Town, did not take it seriously at all.

Zhao Xin is so busy! As soon as the meeting in Fuldan City ended, he went to Boli 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 Xiaohe's daughter.

Tang Xiao is known as the vice principal of Boli Steel Primary School. In fact, she just has a name and doesn’t even get a salary. Since she has Zhao Xin’s flesh and blood, she has no intention of teaching. When the child is one year old, Tang Xiao didn’t want to live in Furdan City for some reason, so Zhao Xin placed the mother and daughter in the steel factory’s family area.

Now Boli’s steel factory and supporting factories have more than 7,000 workers, and nearly 2,000 people with their families. In order to solve the living problems of these people, mainly to avoid private construction, the Civil Affairs Bureau has encircled thousands of acres of area at the upper air outlet two kilometers northwest of the Iron and Steel Factory on the east bank of the Huntongjiang River to build a family area. Based on the principle of “not bothering the two masters”, the community where the steel factory travels through is also located here, but it is one kilometer away from the employee area, and there are forests around it.

In order to allow more than 100 steel mills to travel through the city to eat, live and work with peace of mind, Zhao Xin asked the Civil Affairs Engineering Team to build more than 20 two-entre courtyards, six people live in one set, two rooms for each person, one-shui large blue brick tiled house, carved beams and painted buildings, and various facilities including bathrooms, generators, earth heating, etc. In addition, when the hottest summer in Boli is less than 25 degrees, and at night it is only more than ten degrees, so there is no need to install air conditioning at all.

In order to ensure safety, there is a platoon of North Navy patrolling day and night outside the community, carrying guns and leading big wolf dogs, and with the surveillance camera without blind spots, outsiders cannot get in at all.

Two years ago, two Qing spies came here to investigate. They thought that the guards here were tightly guarded and must have hidden some important secrets. Unexpectedly, they were discovered by the patrol team less than a minute after they came in. They were chased like rabbits. Later, the two guys were blocked by four hunting dogs. When the patrol North Navy arrived, the scene was quite tragic.

The reason why Zhao Xin was with Tang Xiao was not entirely because the latter grew older and more beautiful. The main reason was that this girl was really cruel to be with him, which moved him.

Tang started to bind his feet a little over four years old, but he was already in shape at the age of thirteen. Simply putting his feet was useless and he had to undergo surgery. The problem is that Hong Tao is not a plastic surgery department, and he even had a slight understanding of orthopedics. How dare he do this! In the first few years, the fracture treatment in Beihai Town was relied on a trauma doctor named Zhang among the Qing army prisoners.

The Eight Banners soldiers are good at riding and shooting. They are common. Fractures of fallen horses and dislocated joints are common. The institution responsible for treating injured soldiers is Chuoban in Shangsiyuan. "Choban" is a Manchu language, meaning bone correction. The problem is that bone correction in this year is to touch and connect, and there is never a saying of surgery. When Dr. Zhang heard that he wanted to put foot on a woman with a small foot, he refused to agree to anything. Not to mention that women's feet cannot touch them, even if they can't touch them, they can't do it at all.

However, Tang Xiao is a stubborn person and cannot take what he has decided. In order to make Zhao Xin accept her, she simply ran to Hong Tao's house to kneel down and beg for the couple. In her opinion, Hong Tao and his wife are "miracle doctors". As long as they have their hearts, they will definitely agree. Director Liu could not bear this, and she was so moved that she burst into tears. She participated in the process of the rescue of these girls from beginning to end.

In desperation, Hong Tao had to agree to find a way, but had to wait for a while. In order to complete the first female foot release 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 took Tang Xiao's X-ray to specifically ask a college classmate who was doing plastic surgery. His classmate was shocked when he saw the film, thinking that there were still girls who had foot binding these days, so the parents were crazy? He almost called the police.

After busy for a long time, Hong Tao realized that the deformities caused by women's foot binding are actually manifested in the metatarsophalal joints and interphalangeal joints. Therefore, in order to release the curled toes, the head of the first section of the second phalange bone and the base of the 3, 4, and 5 phalange bones need to be removed during the operation to form a pseudo-joint joint.

The reason is that I understand, but the operation still cannot be done. I have to practice the feel and establish a solid conditioned reflex in my brain. Especially Tang Xiao’s script is small, and if everything is useless, I will probably have to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.

So Hong Tao asked Liu Zheng to buy more than a dozen macaques from the island country, and took the orthopedic doctor named Zhang to practice repeatedly, and even practiced with the Rakshasa prisoner who had amputated his feet due to frostbite, which almost drove Dr. Zhang crazy.

After almost half a year, Hong Tao finally dared to perform surgery on Tang Xiao, and then he gritted his teeth and recovered in a wheelchair. When she appeared in front of Zhao Xin again, Zhao Xin, who had been running around for more than half a year, realized that this girl had done such a shocking thing in order to satisfy her. If she didn't agree to her, would she still be a man?

However, if you agree, you cannot make your identity public. As the ruler of a million people and a million square kilometers of land, you will be responsible if you don’t speak easily, let alone the decree you propose and sign in person?
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