Chapter 189: Miao Ren
Miao people have always been a mysterious existence in this world. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoEven in previous lives, there are many unknown aspects of this nation.
When it came to the Miao people and Gu poison, Wang Yan immediately thought of a strange thing he had just heard about recently.
"I heard that the Miao people have newly developed a Gu poison, and the poisoned person will be transformed into what they want, and then obey the command to do things. Those people are completely unconscious, and they are considered dead. From the date of poisoning, they can only move for seven days, and after seven days they are exactly the same as those who have died of poisoning. Wang Yan said.
This is also what he heard from people in a teahouse before. At that time, he still laughed at the nonsense of those people. Who would have thought that Meng Ge and others would really encounter such a coincidence.
"Where did you hear that? Why didn't you say it until now? Wang Chengshuai grabbed Wang Yan, who was sitting beside him, and asked.
This incident was full of weirdness and coincidence, and he was a little suspicious that those people had deliberately told him about it, but he didn't take it seriously.
Wang Yan was grabbed by his father's arm, and almost burst into tears, so he said aggrievedly: "That's the old yellow calendar of which year." At that time, we didn't have a match with Qin Yi. At the time, I was just talking nonsense. ”
He can't be blamed for this, after all, if Wang Chengshuai himself was present at that time, maybe he would have laughed at those people for their ignorance in his heart.
But now they don't even dare to laugh. That's ignorance, people are telling the truth.
"Tell me, what do the Miao people want to do? The Miao people in those villages are all combined, and there are no 20,000 people. Do they want to pull out the barren mountains in southern Xinjiang and establish themselves as a country? Wang Ran didn't understand.
Although there are few Miao people, they are also the people of the Great Song Dynasty. Even if the mountainous area where they are located is so barren and backward, it does not prevent them from relying on the mountains to eat the mountains.
There are many miasma in the mountains, and poisons are overflowing, which just provides them with a lot of conditions for Gu control, which is very convenient.
However, even the unique and convenient conditions cannot provide enough grain, salt and oil for the Miao people.
In order to survive, the Miao people had to climb the mountain road for several days, even ten days and a half months, and took the medicinal materials and mountain goods from the mountains in exchange for food, salt and other things.
Of course, there are also many people who come to buy Gu.
Although the Miao people like to make Gu, they don't sell those things much. Because it was all cultivated by the Miao people using unknown witchcraft.
If they are not careful in the process of using it, they will have to reach out and suffer from it, and even their lives will be in danger.
Since Gu poison can't be their livelihood, why do the Miao people have to hold on to those mountains.
Wang Ran couldn't figure out why such a few mountains could make the Miao people stick to it so much, even if they lived so hard in the deep mountains and old forests.
He had seen the Hmong. They did have a very hard time. I heard that a pound of salt can last more than half a year.
Although the people in the stockade also go hunting, they can't sell it, because the people in the vicinity will hunt their own things.
However, even those prey, they were reluctant to eat, so they all took them to the border and exchanged rice and grain with the people of Dali.
Often, thousands of catties of air-dried prey are exchanged for less than 100 catties of grain.
Could it be that there is something terrible in those mountains that makes them crazy, even if they can't eat, they have to keep it?
Mongo actually knows something. The place where the Miao people are located should be Guizhou and Sichuan in the previous life.
Although the living conditions there are a little harder, there are a lot of metal minerals, even scarce precious metal mines.
In addition to the inconvenient transportation, in fact, the deep mountains in that area are very good.
Not to mention, the scenery is beautiful and like a fairyland.
As far as Meng Ge knew, the gold deposits in that part of Guizhou were surprisingly large and of high purity.
"Could it be that they have found something good that will last them for the rest of their lives, so they are in a hurry to divide it so that they can use those resources in their stomachs. For example, gold, silver, copper, iron ore or something. Meng Ge reminded on the side.
After Meng Ge's reminder, everyone's eyes lit up, and the things that they couldn't figure out how to think about it suddenly became clear for a while.
It's just that they still can't figure it out.
"They are just such a small number of people, and they can't protect themselves, why do they think they can keep such an important thing themselves?" Zhao Lei asked puzzled.
Such a large area, even more deep in the mountains and old forests, is the most difficult to defend and protect.
However, there is also a convenience. That is, when they encounter a strong enemy invasion, they hide in the deep mountains and old forests, and the enemy is helpless.
Yu Yang didn't feel strange at all, and said: "I can't protect it, I won't dig it secretly, and I won't let people know." If I had such a good thing, I would have to hide it so that no one else would know about it. ”
Well, this is a reminder to Mongo. It's just that Yu Yang still thinks simpler.
No, they already suspected the motives of the Miao people, could it be that everyone else was stupid?
Obviously, after Yu Yang finished saying this, he realized that he was taking it for granted.
However, he still has some stubborn defense: "Just make a little bit of other fools, wouldn't it be done." Anyway, the real good stuff is made if it is not exposed. ”
This is quite reasonable. As a result, everyone was a little silent.
Being able to lure Yun Jun to join forces with them, maybe the Miao people really gave a lot of benefits, which was enough to cover up the things they really wanted to keep.
But......
"Yu Fei, how did you know that there were mineral deposits in the territory of the Miao people?" Somehow, Wang Ran suddenly asked.
The reason why he saved Meng Ge on the road was because he received news that he had found something like a mineral deposit in the south and in the territory of the Miao people.
At that time, he first went to the area of Guinan, where there was a place called Dachang, and found a suspected silver mine.
After that, he just wanted to make a detour to Miao Village in southern Xinjiang, but he was intercepted and killed halfway through.
At that time, they were a group of seventeen people, and only three people were left who returned to Fubei Prefecture alive.
Thinking of this, he had to doubt Menggo.
Of course, it is not that he suspects that Meng Ge has anything to do with the Miao people, but that he suspects that Meng Ge heard something when he rescued him.
Meng Ge calmly spread his hands and said, "I'm just guessing." At this time, there is nothing else that can really be exchanged for food. There's nothing more valuable and insane than weapons and gold and silver. ”
Meng Ge's words resonated with Wang Yan's father and son.