Tribal autonomy, which was once the hubbub of Songfan, has returned to peace after several years of turmoil. The chieftain of Qionghe tribe, Meisi, told the people below that fortunately, when Ye Duyuan inspected Hongyuan, his family did not cause trouble.
, otherwise the consequences will be really unpredictable.
The heads of the Longbai tribe and the Chama tribe were suddenly at a loss and were collectively speechless. Danmu and Wanqiu were worried and sat together to discuss how to deal with the situation next.
Dan Mu said bitterly: "Ye Yunxuan promised things on my Zhebo Mountain that day, but now nothing has been done!"
Wanqiu asked: "What did he promise?"
Dan Mu said: "He promised not to interfere with the customs of our tribes and promised to be friends with us forever!"
Wanqiu said: "Are you talking about these two promises? Then I can tell you clearly that they have not broken their promises, or there is no promise at all!"
Danmu asked: "Why do you say that?"
Wanqiu said: "Last time we sent people to Baima Courtyard, Yuan Hao said that Baima Courtyard always respects our customs and our autonomy, more than Ye Yunxuan promised. As for friends, what are friends? I
The person sent to Xuanyuan Temple just came back, and he told me that Ye Yunxuan received him very warmly, and during the conversation, he repeatedly mentioned being good friends, eight times in total!"
"Then what?"
"Nothing more. Regarding my proposal of self-determination and tribal system, he never answered a single word directly!"
Danmu said angrily: "This is the friend he said? Then why did he come to Songfan? Didn't he make a fool of us all? Did he come here deliberately to tease people?"
Wanqiu spread his hands: "I don't know about this. But the problem we are facing now is, how to talk to Baimayuan?"
"Do you still want to go? There is no way to talk about it! The White Horse Court does not recognize our rights to the people... Well, what did Yuan Hao say? By the way, if we do not recognize our legal rights to the people, we cannot punish the untouchables who commit crimes.
, what kind of autonomy is this? If you listen to his words, what big autonomy, small autonomy, internal autonomy, external autonomy, this is simply depriving us of our autonomy power in the name of keeping the promise. Ming people are really too cunning, than
The Dangxiang people are much more cunning! The Dangxiang people can’t do it if they say no, but if they say it’s okay, at least we know how to deal with it. But as for Ming people, they say it’s okay, but in fact it’s not. Sometimes they say no, but they can’t.
But do it openly and honestly, the key is that you can’t find anything wrong with it!”
Danmu walked back and forth, waving his hands constantly, venting the anger in his heart.
"We should fight them with a knife, beat them painfully and severely, let them know how powerful our White Horse Trilogy is, and then they will sit down honestly and give back what belongs to us!
By the way, there is also that coward Meisi, who didn’t even have the will to resist, so he surrendered! How can he still look like a leader now? He only has a title and can’t control anything! He really tainted the Qionghe tribe
The reputation of our ancestors!”
Wanqiu put his hands on his chest and silently allowed Danmu to burst out his emotions. Waiting for him to finish, he thought to himself: "This anxious barbarian!"
Suddenly Danmu asked: "There is a saying recently, have you heard of it?"
Wanqiu was startled: "What?"
Dan Mu said: "Some people say that you are not of Chama tribe's blood, and that your father is a wandering orphan adopted by the old chieftain."
Wanqiu suddenly said: "Who said that? How dare you slander me like this!"
Danmu shook his head: "Some people say that it was my father who led the party members into Zhebo Mountain to slaughter the mountain. Haha... This kind of rumor has spread throughout Hongyuan now. I am afraid that you and I will be the last to know about it."
The two looked at each other, and they both saw the look of fear on each other's faces. After a long time, Danmu asked: "Should we fight?"
Wanqiu's cheeks twitched and he didn't dare to answer.
Danmu said again: "If we don't want to fight, let's go to Baimayuan to talk?"
Wanqiu thought for a moment and said, "Let's talk first."
The Longbai tribe and the Chama tribe each sent envoys to the Baima Courtyard to discuss with Abbot Zhao. However, throughout April, they had no chance to see Zhao Ran. Even Yuan Hao, who they could often see in the past, seemed
He was also extremely busy, and only took time to meet with the two envoys once, and only drank a cup of tea.
The person who received the two envoys throughout the whole process was Lu Zhicheng, the new acquaintance of Baimayuan, who was also the former Lu Fangzhu and Lu Miaozhu. After the completion of the Moon Temple, Jin Jiu rushed to Hongyuan from Guyang County to serve as the temple blessing of the Moon Temple. Li Li, who was preparing to build the Moon Temple,
Zhike was promoted to Baimayuan. Lu Zhicheng was promoted from Xiaojie Temple and served as Zhike. The first major thing he did was to be responsible for negotiations with Longbai and Chama.
According to Lu Zhike, it is spring plowing now, so Abbot Zhao and Yuan Jianyuan are very busy. Please be considerate of this. If you have anything, you can talk to him personally. He himself is also willing to talk to the envoys of the two ministries.
The friends sat down together to resolve the issue of tribal autonomy that had existed in Hongyuan for several years.
Lu Zhike upheld the will of the Baima Yuan. He told the envoys of the two ministries that the Baima Yuan had always abided by the agreement reached by the Longbai and Chama tribes and the Ming Dynasty and respected the autonomy of the two ministries. This was the main premise, and the Baima Yuan had not changed this.
premise idea.
However, the Longbai Department and the Chama Department are also requested to abide by the agreement of the year and complete the conversion of the people as soon as possible. At the same time, they must ensure that they abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty and respect the Ming Dynasty's policy of not implementing slavery.
The two sides conducted full exchanges on this issue, especially the core issue - the understanding of tribal autonomy.
But unfortunately, due to the huge differences, we still haven't reached an agreement after talking for a month.
The White Horse Court is slow and steady, but the Longbai and Chama tribes can't sit still. In February, the number of escaped slaves in the two tribes was 509, and in March there was a slight decrease, to 463.
By April, the number had returned to 532.
These fugitive slaves used various methods to escape wildly, some climbed over mountains and ridges, some lurked by the road at night, some fell off ropes from cliffs, and some floated along rivers...
The two big chieftains and the servants of the big and small chieftains took various measures to guard against it, but they still couldn't prevent it. In May, even the servants of some chieftains began to flee. How to prevent this? The chieftains can't do it themselves.
Should they attack in person with their bows and swords on their backs? What's more, even if they attack in person, how many roads can they hold?
If this number continues, 6,000 people will be lost in the first year. How many will be lost in the second year? What about the third year? The two departments add up to more than 50,000 people. In less than five years, Zhebo Mountain and Yanggong will be lost.
In the mountains, I'm afraid these big and small people can only farm and graze their own animals.
Baimayuan just dragged on, and Lu Zhike slowly negotiated with the two ministries. Danmu and Wanqiu couldn't stand it anymore. The blunt knife cut the flesh, but the flesh was really lost without seeing blood.
Danmu and Wanqiu sent people to find Meisi, hoping that Meisi would come forward and help meet Abbot Zhao, but Meisi declined. In the past six years since entering the Ming Dynasty, Meisi has never felt as relieved as at this moment, secretly
Praise yourself: "The Ming Dynasty said that those who understand current affairs are heroes. It seems that I can barely be considered a hero!"