While looking for his own path in Jiangdong, Liu Bei and others who were far away in Jiaozhi were also preparing some things.
There are too many natives around Jiaozhi.
These indigenous peoples are generally separated by natural boundaries, such as rivers or ridges. Perhaps they cross a mountain and cross a river, which is another tribe and a different tribe.
Most of the natives of the tribes who occupy the people live in buildings. Well, they are two-story "buildings", with livestock and poultry living underneath, and people living on the upper floor, so people who did not have buildings in the Han Dynasty could retreat because basically even the tribes in the southeast, whether they are Minyue or Jiaozhi, have basically this structure.
In the earliest days of the Han Dynasty, there were some administrative structures in Jiaozhi, but the system was too rough. Well, not only in the past, but even in the later feudal dynasties, they were just roughly managing the tribes indigenous systems of the frontiers. Generally speaking, they generally issued official titles recognized by the court to natives of some tribes of greater strength, and they were basically hereditary. These people are often called "local officials" or "tusi". In exchange for official positions, these local officials suppressed the rest of the indigenous people and maintained local public order; the other was to complete various levies assigned by the government on time every year.
Here are taxes on the official side, and there are also so-called "auspicious money" for officials.
Of course, the money collected is also indispensable to the income of the local officials. After all, no matter how big or small the local officials are, the government will not give any salary, and they have to collect it themselves. In other words, as long as the local officials pay the various public and private accounts that they should pay on time every year, the local officials will do whatever they want in their territory, and they are basically a local emperor.
This political structure model naturally saves time, effort and worry. For those gentry children who are unwilling to leave the Central Plains, they come to the frontier to serve as officials, and for the gentry children, even if they have laid a foundation that cannot be more basic, they will survive for three or five years, with gold plated or silver plated, and they will suddenly get the shape up, and they will naturally have capital when they go up.
But in this way, these frontier areas have no Han family belonging to them from beginning to end...
This is why many small countries around China in later generations clearly received a lot of cultural heritage from China, but did not recognize Chinese culture at all. Because these small countries were managed by local officials from the beginning. Will these local officials who have been passed down from generation to generation be as loyal to the central feudal dynasty as indicated in various TV and movies?
Are these answers unclear to those senior officials and big bosses in the court who are not very careful in their hearts and are all in other places except for their hearts?
They must be clear, but they must be doing things according to the famous saying of Bald Qiang. So what is the outside and what is the inside? If you don’t first put down the person who is thinking about your lower back, how can you have the intention to do the outside?
Liu Bei led Guan and Zhang slowly walked into an indigenous village.
Several natives who looked like warriors led Liu, Guan and Zhang to a small square outside the village.
Liu Bei looked at the indigenous village.
This village is different from some of the Zhanren villages he has been to before. First of all, this village does not have a special village wall, but seems to use a kind of thorn as a fence. Vine and bamboo are also planted in it, making the entire village wall not seem dead, but feels alive.
Of course, it is not about spells like druids, but about the wall of this village made of plants.
This kind of village wall is an insurmountable natural barrier for ordinary beasts without any special tools.
The village wall made of plants must have been a long time from laying to forming, and from another perspective, it also shows that the villages here have existed for a long time.
Liu Bei was even sure that those thorns were 80% 90% toxic...
The only weakness is that it is not fireproof.
Another point is that many of the houses in this village have stone structures. Unlike most local stilt houses, this kind of mud and stone structure also shows certain strength. Without a certain number of manpower and without tools, whether it is mining or transporting stones, it is a huge project for the indigenous people in the south of the country.
Soon, the Zhanren Warrior came back and said that he would let Liu Bei and the other two enter the village.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were not angry about waiting outside the village.
It might be normal for Guan Yu to not get angry, but Zhang Fei was willing to let his elder brother wait outside, and he was not angry either?
I remember the Zhuge Villager back then... Of course, there is no such scene in Zhuge Villager now, but there is an extra villager who occupies people. Sometimes getting angry is not about tantrums, but people can watch it. Of course, Zhuge Villager can understand it, so Zhang Fei can let go of it, but it may not be possible to occupate people. If you really get angry, you can't say anything about swords and guns on the spot.
Liu Bei came to talk about things, not to be arrogant.
Although Liu Bei won some people to occupy the occupants, it was just some. There was still a large area of ​​occupants who were close and distant and did not get close to Liu Bei. At the same time, Liu Bei wanted to attack these occupants, and the input-output ratio was too different, so Liu Bei came.
Come with "peace"...
There were many curious people in the village, looking at Liu Bei and others from a distance or near.
Almost no one wears clothes.
On the one hand, it is because of poverty, and on the other hand, it is because of the climate.
When the Han Dynasty was warm, the Central Plains could wear single clothes in winter and bare shirtless in summer, not to mention in places like Sunan? The climate of the Han Dynasty, even the natives with relatively northerly geographical locations such as Goguryeo Fuyu were naked in daily life...
Generally speaking, the clothing of a person who occupies a person is wrapped around his waist or is simply naked, both men and women. If he can have some linen or leather on his body, it is already considered a top-notch occupation. For example, the warriors who led the way for Liu Bei and others had animal skins they had hunted.
If there is no Chinese culture, these surrounding tribes will not know how long it will take to be naked.
Most of the people are naked, regardless of gender.
Don’t think that there are some "good" things like this. In fact, it’s better not to read many of them.
Because Zhanren likes tattoos, like other tribes around China, they also like tattoos. Especially the southward direction of the region, the more tattoos there are. Because of the limitations of pigments, most of these tattoos are mainly blue-black, and they also like to tattoo on the face, and then spread to the hands and other parts of the body, hands, etc. So if a person who is not clear about this custom suddenly meets this Zhanren under the light and shadow in the forest, he may be scared to death.
This may be one of the reasons why mainstream Chinese culture does not like tattoos, because since the Zhou Dynasty, people have only tattooed by barbarians, or criminals, which has been like this for thousands of years...
In addition, these people don’t have any skin care products, their skin is dark and rough, their hair is dry and yellow, and there are dirt that has been raised for more than ten or decades, mites, fleas and lice on the body, etc.
If you still feel that you can be so fond of your words, then you can only say that you admire it.
Of course, on the other hand, these occupying people often look down on Liu, Guan and Zhang.
Because Liu Guanzhang has no tattoo, does not reveal his chest muscles and abdominal muscles and other parts that show his mightyness, how can women who occupy people feel that they have any powerful genes?
For Zhanren, they valued more the weapons and equipment of Liu Guanzhang, especially the powerful crossbow. It is said that even the trunks can be shot through, but almost everyone shot is dead. This is an important reason why Zhanren's leader is willing to meet with Liu Guanzhang for negotiations.
Liu Guanzhang and his party were taken to the largest house in the village. This house is much larger than other houses in the village. It was built on a stone platform. The walls of the house were also built with stones, and there were also push windows made of bamboo and supported by a wooden stick.
However, even with such a window, the light in the house was still very dark. The moment I entered the door, I felt dark before my eyes, and I could only get used to it after a few breaths.
In the middle of the house, there is a fire pit, so that the house will not feel much damp and cold. There is a trumpet-shaped cigarette holder above the fire pit, which is basically a cigarette holder made of bamboo, connected to a thick bamboo tube, so that the smoke from the fire pit will not spread all over the house and will not be choking.
This is considered a "high technology" for occupants, and it is obviously not something that ordinary occupants can have.
The head man who occupied the man was an old man with his hair and beard and his skin was wrinkled.
Because people generally do not pay much attention to hygiene, there are often some small insects crawling around in these skin folds. There are too many insects in the tropical forests. Therefore, the Chinese in the Central Plains say that ethnic minorities in the southwest are raising Gu through their bodies, which is actually mostly because of this situation.
Liu Bei brought gifts to the leader of Zhanren.
There is no crossbow, although people want it very much.
A jar of rose apple wine.
A packet of fine sugar.
A hundred-smoking knife.
For the current productivity that occupies people, these three gifts are all dimensional reduction blows.
There are also wines, but they are usually rice wine and glutinous rice fermented wine. Because the winemaking technology is still very rough and there is no special industrial chain, the rice wines that Zhanren are not only of unstable quality, but also are not easy to preserve. Generally speaking, they are crudely fermented wines within a few months, and the content of ethyl acetate is very low.
Therefore, the rose wine with high sweetness, high fruit aroma, and bright red color was amazed by people almost as soon as it appeared.
In addition to wine, sugar and steel knives also made the leader of the occupying people praise it.
Liu Bei's smile was very gentle, just like he could not see the little bugs around him occupying the heads and bodies.
With gifts as lubricant, the friction between the two parties becomes much more natural, and it makes it easier to talk about things.
Liu Bei brought the translator, which was the first batch of people gathered by Liu Bei before, but because the environment around South Rio was really bad, the main reason was that there was no decent infrastructure in these places, and even the roads were stepped on by humans and beasts, and it was difficult to pass through vehicles, let alone leading troops.
Therefore, Liu Bei strengthened trade in particular.
Liu Bei found out that this was an important tribe for the zombie. However, for the zombie leader who did not have much culture, he could not even calculate it himself. He just said that more than ten copycats were under his jurisdiction, but the specific number of people may range from hundreds to thousands.
Anyway, the surrounding mountains and rivers belong to him.
In short, it is very complicated to occupy people. Even because of the different regions of occupying people, there are different habits and primitive worship. They are hostile or friendly, intermarriage or non-intermarriage, and almost no one can figure out the relationship.
Zhan Ren’s attitude towards the Han people is actually very ordinary.
Originally, when Shi Xie was in Jiaozhi, his main energy was on the Cangwu area of ​​Guilin, Jiaozhi. For example, Jiuzhen County in the south had basically no involvement, let alone Rinan County in the south. It probably just as long as it doesn’t cause trouble, it is considered non-existent.
Zhanren was very welcome to the trade proposed by Liu Bei. They wanted all kinds of things, and the important ones were salt and iron. They liked wine and sugar very much, but most of them could not afford it.
The leader of the Zhanren said that if Liu Bei could transport salt and iron, they would be willing to exchange them with animal skins, livestock, wood, bamboo and rattan utensils, etc., as long as they had anything, except the population.
Jiuzhen Sunan is close to the sea, but not everyone knows how to get salt from the sea water.
Especially for those who live in the mountains and forests, some of them have never even seen the sea in their lives, but whether these people have seen the sea or not, they all need salt and iron.
These requirements were expected by Liu Bei.
Although Liu Bei brought three gifts, in fact, none of these three gifts could be provided independently by Liu Bei, and the only one who could take them out was salt.
Because Liu Bei has salt, it is not a gift, it is a currency, and it is a general equivalent.
In areas with backward commodity economy, there is indeed no equivalent exchange product that is more suitable than salt.
People who occupy the world also have farming customs, but the farming method is very rough. In other words, it basically belongs to the type of people who throw away the seeds and ignore them.
Of course, the more things that people have, are wood, bamboo, and rattan.
These plants that are not as lush as they look like in the forests are so rich. Although the primitive farming of the zodiac people destroyed some vegetation, it is actually like having toenails for these forests. If the zodiac people are not careful, the cleared areas will be encroached on by various shrubs and weeds again.
If Liu Bei wants to build a ship, he needs a lot of wood, gum, and related bamboo rollers, etc., and even some wild fruits, such as wild bananas, longans, and jackfruit, which can be used as a supplement to food.
In addition, there is also wild ramie. Zhanren is not very good at using these wild ramie, so Liu Bei plans to let these Zhanren grow ramie, then purchase raw materials to make them into cloth and sell them to them. At least they should let them wear skirts, otherwise it would be really hindering...
People also raise pigs, cows, chickens and ducks, but they are basically free-range, without corrals or manual feeding, so most of them are very thin and have poor ox plowing skills. There is even no pair of ox plowing knives in a village.
Liu Bei is very good at learning.
He was originally a rural slut, but he was like a sponge, absorbing various skills at all times. For example, Liu Bei's tactic of setting fire was learned from the Battle of Changshe.
Therefore, the current trade for occupying people was also learned by Liu Bei from Fei's Qian...
With the force of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, there was basically no problem in slaughtering the occupied villages, but what if they were killed? Could it be that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei themselves would cut down wood and farm livestock?
During the initial occupation process, Liu Bei did gain a lot of territory and some slaves in the initial military conquest. However, in the subsequent process, not all the occupying people were willing to surrender. Even those slaves often escaped during their labor. They suddenly slept into the mountains and forests, consuming manpower and material resources. If they don’t catch them, they will run more and more.
In the end, Liu Bei finally stopped fighting with force, turned to think carefully, and finally adopted the trade method.
Liu Bei had a gentle smile. He did not ask for a high price to sell it, making huge profits.
The leader of the occupying people is naturally very satisfied.
Liu Bei proposed to establish a trade market point in the middle of both sides, and then conduct regular trade at the market point, and both sides can deliver all the goods to the market point for exchange...
The leader of the Zhanren had no objection, and he thought the proposal was fair.
"Brother!" On the way back, Zhang Fei, who had been holding back his words, couldn't help it, "Brother, you're too polite to them!"
Liu Bei still smiled gently without answering. He knew that Zhang Fei always felt that he was a royal relative of the Han Dynasty and should not suffer any grievances, but he also knew that no one in the world should be born without grievances.
Thinking about the young emperor Liu Bian, you can know who even the throne is born, let alone the so-called grievance?
"Third brother, do you think this road is easy to walk?" Guan Yu said, squinting his eyes.
"What a broken road!" Zhang Fei screamed, "I can't ride a horse or a car can't walk! Fortunately, it doesn't rain in autumn and winter, and if it rains in spring and summer, I don't think about leaving at all!"
Guan Yu nodded, "Stern brother, do you believe it or not? When we come again next time, this road will be easier..."
"Yes." Liu Bei nodded and said with a smile, "Second brother is right."
Guan Yu nodded slightly.
Zhang Fei scratched his head, and after a moment he slapped his face, "Oh, so that's it, I understand! Brother is so awesome!"
Liu Bei smiled, "Oh, this is all learned from the cavalry..."
Guan Yu squinted his eyes, "The ancient spring and autumn have already happened!"
Liu Bei also nodded, "It's true. However, in the past four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, only the cavalry used the best... There is no order of learning, and the good ones can be the teacher... Since the cavalry used this method to pacify the Xiongnu and the Western Qiang, then the current occupying people..."
"Of course, it's also the big brother!" Zhang Fei laughed.
Chapter completed!