The golden morning glow illuminated the entire perimeter of the Wang family's house in a brilliant light.
Each straw stack is proof of this year’s harvest.
Wang Hanzhu felt the sunlight shining on his face through the window paper, rubbed his sleepy eyes, put on his clothes and stood up.
And his mother-in-law had already gotten up early to prepare breakfast.
Mrs. Wang Li squatted beside the stove, staring at the fire without blinking, adding firewood from time to time.
The warm fire dispels the chill of the morning!
Mrs. Wang Li looked back at her husband and said.
"Master, please sit down and wait for a while. Breakfast will be ready soon!"
Wang Hanzhu smiled and nodded, but instead of sitting down to wait for dinner, he wrapped himself tightly in his cotton clothes and carried the ax into the woodshed.
He carried several bundles of thick firewood from the woodshed and prepared to chop it.
Wang Hanzhu is not good-looking, but he is very strong and is an expert at farm work.
He kept swinging the ax, and the thick firewood was split open and turned into fine firewood that could be burned directly.
By the time he finished chopping firewood, the meal was ready and ready to be eaten.
The couple sat facing each other and then prepared to eat.
After eating, Wang Hanzhu packed up his things and prepared to go out.
Mrs. Wang Li dug around under her rice vat for a while, took out a cloth bag, took out a silver dollar from the bag, hesitated for a while, and took out another hundred large coins.
She carefully handed the money to her husband and warned her very seriously.
"This time you go to the city with your clan members to buy new year's goods. Remember to buy more salt. We are running out of salt at home!"
"I still need to pull out some pieces of cloth. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, so I can make new clothes for you and your parents."
"I'll also buy two strips of bacon, as well as candies, snacks, etc. You can buy them as you watch."
"If you want to drink, buy some too!"
"After all, it is the Chinese New Year. We have worked hard for a year, so we should eat something good."
Wang Hanzhu scratched his head with a silly smile on his face, and he didn't feel annoyed listening to his wife's nagging.
Just kept nodding.
Mrs. Wang Li looked at the silly smile on her husband's face and felt a little confused about whether to laugh or cry.
My husband is good at everything, he is strong, he treats himself well, he works hard, he is also a good hunter, but he is a bit more simple-minded.
It’s easy to suffer a loss outside!
Wang Hanzhu put the money in his arms, stepped forward and hugged his mother-in-law gently, then turned and left the house.
By the time he arrived at the entrance of the village, almost everyone in the village who was going to set up shop to buy new year goods had arrived.
After waiting for almost another two-quarters of an hour, after everyone had arrived, a group of people drove off towards Chengdu City, chatting and laughing.
As the imperial court moved a large number of people into Sichuan and Shu, although Sichuan and Shu were still not densely populated.
At the very least, some people around Chengdu, Chongqing and other important towns have recovered!
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However, although Sichuan and Shu are dilapidated, it is still relative!
Compared with Jiangnan and the Central Plains, Sichuan and Shu at this time were naturally in ruins.
But if compared to Qinghai and the snowy areas further west, Sichuan and Shu today can be said to be prosperous.
Bage, who has lived on the plateau since childhood, was dazzled by the prosperity in front of him after he got off the plateau and arrived in Sichuan.
On both sides of the road are acres and acres of neatly planned farmland!
You can see as far as you can see!
From time to time, people with smiles on their faces walked by on the road, and their happiness was visible to the naked eye.
There were no hungry people, beggars, or ragged refugees at all.
For Bage, who grew up on the plateau, this was an incredible thing.
The current plateau snow area is not the tourist destination it will be in later generations.
Rather, it is a living hell wrapped in the skin of a Buddhist kingdom on earth!
Even the Han people who lived under the rule of the Manchus and suffered exploitation and oppression had a much better life than the Tibetans on the plateau.
In fact, as long as you understand the current population structure of snow areas, you will find that this is a conservative statement.
There are no civilians in the snow area now!
Only monks and nobles, and their serfs.
This shows how miserable the ordinary people, or rather the serfs, in the snowy areas are living now.
Perhaps the life of the Han people under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was a paradise that was beyond their reach.
At the very least, no matter how much the Han people were exploited by the Manchus, the entire country would not be filled with serfs, not even ordinary people.
Although Bage was born into a noble family, he also understood the life of the lower-class serfs.
Compare the life of the serfs in the snowy area with the life of the Han people in Sichuan and Sichuan. The contrast is quite obvious.
"Barige, Chengdu is ahead. Go and ask the Living Buddha for instructions. Should we enter the city for repairs, or should we continue eastward?"
The guard captain said to Bage.
Bage has a special status in the mission. Although he is just an ordinary guard, due to his noble background, he is a close confidant of the Living Buddha.
Even the guard captain of this delegation was polite to him.
Hearing this, Bage cupped his fists and said.
"Captain, wait a moment, I'm going to ask the Living Buddha for instructions!"
Not long after, Bage came to Zunbuhu.
Sitting cross-legged on the steps is a tantric monk with a solemn appearance, who is the contemporary living Buddha in the snow area.
Today's living Buddha is over fifty years old, which is not considered young in this era.
But as he was getting old, he was surrounded by several young girls waiting on him.
"Reporting to the living Buddha, we are approaching Chengdu. Should we enter the city for repairs or continue eastward?"
Bage asked outside Buchu.
The Living Buddha opened his eyelids, glanced at Bage with turbid eyes, and recited scriptures.
After a moment, he spoke.
"Enter the city to repair!"
He is old. He has hardly repaired his car all the way from the plateau to Chengdu, and he can no longer bear the fatigue of traveling and traveling.
He needs to rest now!
After hearing this, Bage said nothing and left with fists in his hands.
Conveyed the wishes of the living Buddha to the guard captain.
They left the plateau and came to Han Dynasty on this trip to go to Nanjing to pay homage to the emperor.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although the control of the plateau in the Ming and Qing dynasties was only in name.
But when there is a change of emperor in the Central Plains, people from the plateau still need to send people to Han to express their position.
At the very least, you must show your surrender to avoid drawing swords.
Of course, the reason why the nobles on the plateau were so anxious to send people to Nanjing to pay homage to the emperor is also related to the Ming Dynasty recruiting Tibetan soldiers on the plateau.
At the junction of Sichuan and Tibet in the Ming Dynasty, Tibetans on the plateau were recruited to join the army, and the Tibetans who joined the army were transferred to the plateau and settled in the hinterland of Sichuan and Sichuan, where they lived together with Han people.
In a sense, it greatly violated the interests of the monks and nobles on the plateau!
After the Ming Dynasty recruited soldiers and the news that soldiers' family records could be resettled in the Han Dynasty spread to the plateau, a large number of serfs fled from their masters' control with their families and came to the Ming Dynasty to join the army.
Of course, the masters behind these serfs would not sit back and watch their slaves escape.
After all, these serfs are their private property!
If you just run away, who can bear it?
However, when these noble slave owners sent people to the Ming army's recruitment director to ask for people, they did not receive a satisfactory answer.
If these serfs were captured on the way to escape, Ming Dynasty would definitely say nothing.
After all, at that time, serfs were just serfs of noble families, and Ming had no reason to interfere.
However, all the people have joined the army and are already part of the Ming army, and you come to ask for them?
What's going on?
But go to hell!
The junior officers would not pay any attention to these nobles who came to ask for help, and the high-level generals could not see these nobles.
As can be imagined, almost everyone who came to ask for help from the Ming army, regardless of their identity, returned disappointed.
Not only that, there were also serfs who escaped alone and went to the recruitment office of the Ming Dynasty to be recruited as soldiers.
At this time, their family papers were still in the hands of the noble slave owners!
Under such circumstances, as long as these soldiers stood up and asked the Ming Dynasty to come forward and request the court to ask the slave owners to return their family documents, the Ming Dynasty would not refuse.
If the family records of these soldiers were killed during this process, the Ming court would even hold the murderers accountable.
There was even an officer with a bad temper who was killed because of the family records of his brothers. The Ming government sent people to arrest the murderer but was driven away and humiliated by the noble slave owner.
After the officer applied to the superiors, he led his men to pull two field artillery pieces, ran to the plateau and shot the murderer to death.
How dare you resist the king's law? Who do you think you are?
Do you think that the current plateau is still the same Tubo that could compete with the Central Plains dynasty?
Daming’s attitude here is quite tough!
Facing such a tough Ming Dynasty, many nobles were furious, but there was nothing they could do against Ming Dynasty.
They also want to be tough, but they really don’t have the confidence!
The current plateau is basically in a scattered state, nominally accepting the leadership of the living Buddha (those two words are sensitive words and cannot be typed), but the localities basically run their own affairs.
No one dares to provoke the Ming army, which is now at its peak, militarily!
As time passed, these nobles whose interests had been harmed could no longer bear it.
They requested the Living Buddha to go to Nanjing to pay homage to the Emperor. On the one hand, they wanted to express their submission to the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, they also wanted to protest against the Ming Dynasty.
Ask the Emperor of Heaven to take charge of the local Ming army garrison in Sichuan and Shu!
The pilgrim team that came down from the plateau headed all the way to the city of Chengdu.
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Wang Hanzhu and his party were queuing up to enter the city. When they turned around, they saw a group of people wearing leather robes and riding tall horses, with obvious plateau red on their cheeks.
When this team reached the outside of Chengdu, it ignored the queues outside Chengdu and prepared to enter the city. It was so arrogant that it wanted to jump in line and enter the city.
"What are you doing! What are you doing!"
"Who are you? Line up!"
"Who asked you to jump in line? Damn it, you are a plague. You are so incompetent!"
"..."
People who were queuing up were pushed away, and some people with bad tempers started to curse.
Bage came on horseback. When he saw someone dared to scold the living Buddha, he whipped him directly.
With a snap, a man from the Wang family was whipped on the face, and a red mark instantly appeared.
There is a trace of blood oozing out from the red mark!
In this way, we have stirred up a hornet's nest.
Several men from the Wang family surrounded him in an instant, and dragged Bage off his horse with all their might.
We all belong to the same village, the same clan, and have the same ancestors. When they see their brothers being bullied, others must not just stand there.
"Fuck you, you bastard for bullying our people!"
"Brothers, do what the copycat does!"
"Damn it, I'll beat you to death! Avenge the stone!"
"..."
Because Bage was used to being arrogant on the plateau, he whipped the serfs, but the serfs did not dare to resist at all.
Not only did she not dare to resist, she would even kneel down and beg for mercy, begging for his forgiveness!
Therefore, he thought that the people of Ming Dynasty were also serfs on the plateau and did not dare to resist.
Unexpectedly, the people of Ming Dynasty actually fought back!
And a group of people surrounded him!
Without warning, Bage was dragged off his horse, followed by a flurry of punches and kicks.
The guards behind Barige also did not expect that these Han people would dare to resist after being whipped by the nobles.
By the time they reacted, Bage had been dragged off his horse and beaten and kicked for quite some time.
"Hurry and save people!"
"You are so bold and unruly, who gave you the courage to attack the noble master!"
"..."
While he was talking, several guards came on horseback, trying to break up the crowd and rescue Barge.
Some even pulled out knives as a deterrent.
Relying on their status as an envoy, they acted without any scruples.
Because they felt that since they were envoys, even if they killed people, Ming Dynasty would not do anything to them out of consideration for face.
In the next moment, the war horses collided with human bodies, and the men around the Wang family were knocked away. Their bones and tendons were broken at every turn, and they vomited blood.
One of the guards of the Plateau Mission even brandished a knife at a Han man who was pressing Bage to the ground and beating him!
The next moment, the sharp blade cut through the flesh and blood spurted out!
The man who belonged to the Wang family covered his bleeding wound and lay on the ground screaming hysterically.
Seeing this, Bage took the opportunity to break away from the restraints, covered his bruised and swollen face, and got up from the ground.
However, this sword-wielding guard was just about to step forward to show his courtesy to Bage.
Just hear a loud bang!
Wang Hanzhu held a shotgun in his hand, aimed at the guard who had just brandished the sword, and pulled the trigger.
"Damn it, you're so stupid to kill my brother, I will destroy you!"
Smoke filled the air, and a large stream of iron sand spurted out from the muzzle of the gun, hitting the guard who was wielding the sword.
The guard's chest was punched with bloody holes.
Blood seeped out, staining the leather robe on his body red.
"ah……"
The guard let out a scream and fell off his horse.
However, it can be judged from the guard's angry scream that his injuries were not too serious.
The leather robe he wore blocked most of the iron sand and saved his life.
Following the gunshot, chaos broke out outside Chengdu.
The crowd that was queuing up quickly dispersed, leaving only a group of people around the Wang family and the guards from the plateau mission standing in the open space.