Zhu Youdong said curiously: "Is there anything else in this that can't be said?" Lin Asan said: "Of course there is, this Zhenzhou Division is not only Miao people. Zhu Youdong heard Lin Asan say that he really had an inside story, so he immediately got off the horse and sat down on the side of the road, and asked Lin Asan to talk carefully.

Lin Asan also dismounted to the side of the road together, and then said: "This Zhenzhou Division is not only Miao people, but also Han people, most of these Han people live in the city of Zhenzhou Division. There is also a young people, they also live in the mountains, they are the Gelao tribe. ”

Zhu Youdong frowned and said, "The Gelao clan? Why haven't I heard the name? Lin Asan said: "I don't know who their ancestors are, but their way of life is similar to that of the Miao people, but the only thing to note is that they worship big trees." ”

When Zhu Youdong heard this, he said strangely: "Worship the big tree? How can this be said? Lin Asan said: "They will choose the largest tree as a sacred tree to worship, and they also believe in the mountain god, the Bamboo King, once selected, the forbidden area will be circled." I see that the general will go with a large army, and he will inadvertently violate their taboos. Moreover, this Gelao people have a large number of scattered people in neighboring Xiangxi, Guizhou and other places, and the relationship with the Miao people is also very good, if there is any misunderstanding. The general's affairs are not easy to handle, so I have to explain,"

Zhu Youdong looked at Lin Asan and said, "How do you know that I am going to Zhenzhou Division, and I am coming to tell me this again?" Lin Asan said: "General, you went out of Nanchuan, not to Wulong Guandao, I guessed that you were going to Zhenzhou Division." In the past, when the Qing army was there. Although I am a county official, my two brothers were killed by the Qing army, and one sister was also killed by the Qing army. After the parents got the news, they fell ill in grief and indignation, and they both died not long after. I have a deep hatred for the Qing army, I originally thought that I would not be able to take revenge in this life, but now the general is fighting with the army of the Ming Dynasty, I don't help the Ming to help anyone. Lin Asan was so excited that he actually cried.

Seeing this, Zhu Youdong said: "Okay, we all have this blood feud with the Qing army, you can help us best." Since you know this about the Shinshu Division, come with us. Lin Asan was a little dumbfounded, so he came to report a letter, he originally wanted to make some more benefits, but he lost the location of the county, and he couldn't leave.

Zhu Youdong ignored Lin Asan who was stunned, glanced at a brocade guard behind him, and then pulled Lin Asan and rushed to the front army. The brocade guard took Lin Asan and the people who came back to Nanchuan. Lin Asan saw that he was about to be pulled into the army, and he didn't dare to struggle, and said: "General, this is not good, I am still the current magistrate of Nanchuan County, if I leave like this, what can Nanchuan County do?" ”

Zhu Youdong smiled: "It's okay, you go with me directly, and I'll give you a bigger future." Lin Asan had no choice but to let Zhu Youdong bring himself into the army, thinking that he had not been the magistrate of Nanchuan for a few days, and immediately regretted coming to pass on this letter.

Zhu Youdong didn't care about Lin Asan all the way with a bitter face, and led the army to set up camp at the mouth of the river ten miles away from the Zhenzhou Division, and then only took the dozen or so guards and Lin Asan and got up and went to the Zhenzhou Division. After Zhu Youdong and others came to the Zhenzhou Division, sure enough, these people were more or less hostile to Zhu Youdong and others. Zhu Youdong and others directly found the chief official of the Zhenzhou Division, this chief official is also a Miao person, these Miao people often deal with the Han people, and they have also changed their surnames to Han, and the chief official of the Zhenzhou Division is surnamed Gu, called Gu Duo. Daming appointed as the garrison of the Zhenzhou Division, when he saw Zhu Youdong and others, he couldn't believe it: "You are Daming's people? ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, Gu Qianhu understands the righteousness, anyway, why do we have to come to show it to Lord Gu." As he spoke, he asked someone to bring the gift for Gudo. Gu Duo looked at the gift given by Zhu Youdong, there was no gold, silver and jewelry, but a box of books.

Gu Duo didn't expect that his own letter of surrender would bring the people of Daming. Still carrying a large number of books, he was puzzled: "General, who are you?" You came with a great army, and you brought these books with you. Don't know what you want to do? Zhu Youdong saw that Gu Duo really knew that he was coming with a large army, and these Miao people living in the mountains had the ability to cross mountains and mountains.

Immediately smiled: "Lord Gu said that I laughed, I didn't lead the army for this Zhenzhou Division, I just wanted to borrow a road from the Zhenzhou Division." Of course, Master Gu can give some convenience and help, and I, Zhu Youdong, are also grateful. Gu Duo said: "Your army is stationed outside and you say it's not for the Zhenzhou Division, who do you say you are?" Are you really the Ming Marquis who laid down Chongqing? Gu Duo said a little before he suddenly remembered that Zhu Youdong was in a hurry to attack the Ming Marquis of Chongqing, and suddenly pointed at Zhu Youdong in surprise and asked.

Zhu Youdong saw that Guda didn't care about what he said, so he asked about his identity. immediately said: "Yes, I am Zhu Youdong, is there anything wrong with this?" Gu Duo said: "You can beat away the Qing soldiers, you are very remarkable, where are you going to borrow the road from the Zhenzhou Division?" There's no big road to go here. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "We don't want to take the big road, we hope you can take us to Duyun Mansion in Guizhou by mountain road." Gu Duo exclaimed, "What? You have to take the mountain road to Duyun Mansion, no, no, no, it's too far, and there is no food on this road, and there are many poisonous insects and beasts in the mountain, so you can't get through at all. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "That's why we need your help, and only with your help can we get by." Gu Duo didn't know why Zhu Youdong had to go this way, and said, "Master Hou, I didn't say you, why do you have to go?" You have now laid down Sichuan, which is too rich compared to Guizhou. Besides, it's not worth it if you go on the adventure yourself. ”

Zhu Youdong said: "We have to go, because the court and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty are trapped in Yunnan, and we can only go to Duyun Mansion in Guizhou and cut off the supply and grain route of the Qing soldiers, so that they can slow down the pace of their attack, so that we can have time to rescue the emperor and the court." ”

After listening to Zhu Youdong's words, Gu Duo hesitated: "This is a matter for you Han and Manchurians, and we Miao people don't want to participate." If we help you now, the Qing court will find us troubled by then. Zhu Youdong said: "Won't you be troubled by the Qing court if you don't help us?" The Manchurians entered the Central Plains, and everywhere they went, they were slaughtered, would they let the Miao people alone? ”

Gu Duodao: "As long as we Miao people don't go out of the mountains, the Manchurians can't do anything about us." Zhu Youdong said: "Is there really no way?" You look at the Qing soldiers after entering Guizhou, they are burning, killing and looting everywhere, Guizhou is not a large Han province in the Central Plains, most of them are Miao and Yi people, Wu Sangui after attacking Shuixi, how many Shuixi people did Shuixi kill? ”

Gu Duodao: "That's because the people of Shuixi helped the court of the Han people, we didn't, and of course the Manchurians won't attack us." Zhu Youdong said: "What about the Miao people in Xiangxi?" They didn't help the Ming Dynasty, how could they be slaughtered by the Qing soldiers? ”

Gu Duo said: "Whether you Han people or Manchurians, you will not have good intentions towards us Miao people, so we will not help anyone." Zhu Youdong said: "What you said is not right, isn't my Ming good enough for you Miao people and people of other ethnic groups?" At the beginning of the founding of the country, Taizu rewarded the leaders of other ethnic groups in various places, and we Han people had to pay taxes and serve labor, but you didn't have to bear anything, which is why the leaders of all parts of the southwest were attached. ”

Gu Duo said: "These things are too far away, and later you Han people killed us Miao people like the same people." Zhu Youdong said: "Today I am not here to go over these old accounts with Lord Gu, but what I want to tell Lord Gu is that as long as the young people in the north invade the Central Plains, it is not good for the people of all ethnic groups in the south, when the Khitans killed how many Han people in the north, even if there are no Miao people, but there are people of other ethnic groups, and we Han people have been resisting them." ”

Gu Duo said: "That's because you Han people have been killed a lot." Zhu Youdong said: "Yes, but it is also because our Han people blocked them, you Miao and Yi people can be fine in the south, and later the Jurchens entered the Central Plains, and it was not only the Han people who suffered." Not to mention the Mongols, the Qiang, Miao, Yi, Tujia and servants, which were not slaughtered by the Mongols? Today's Manchurians are also people from the north, but my Ming has always been very tolerant of people of all ethnic groups. ”

Gudo was also a little worried about whether the Manchurians in the north would be like the Mongols, who crossed the border like locusts. Zhu Youdong said: "Now the Manchurians are connected with the Mongols, and they claim to be the Manchu and Mongolian families. Moreover, the emperors of the Manchurians could only marry Mongol women as empresses, which shows that they were the same as the Mongols. ”

Gu Duodao: "Is that really the case? So what do we do? Do you promise you'll be able to beat them? Zhu Youdong said: "I can't guarantee that I can beat them." But now is an opportunity. Gudo asked, "What chance?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Now the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing court are in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, as long as we go to Duyun and cut off their back road, they will definitely be short of food." As long as we wipe out the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing court in Yungui, the power of the Qing court will be much weaker, and we will be sure that we will be able to defeat the Qing court. ”

Gudo muttered, "You people alone are not enough. Zhu Youdong said: "Since the Manchurians and the Mongols are one family, why can't we Han and you Miao people be one family?" Besides, our ancestors are all the same, they are originally a family. Gu Duo said: "Your ancestors are the emperor and Shennong, and our ancestors are the great god of Chiyou, how can it be the same?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "What you said is not right, where is Shennong?" In today's Huguang area, you Miao people are distributed there, aren't they also mostly in the Huguang area? Besides, we Han and Miao people have lived together for generations, but the Manchurians did not, they came from the northern grasslands and the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong. ”

Gu Duodao: "Even if you live together, you Han people are not the same as crowding out our Miao people." Zhu Youdong said: "That's why I brought books this time, as long as the Han and Miao people join forces, I can let the Miao people be as literate as the Han people, and then become an official in the imperial examination." ”

Gu Duo was stunned by Zhu Youdong's words, and said with a wide range of eyes: "What you said is true?" How is this possible. Zhu Youdong said: "You must know Qin Liangyu of Shizhu, isn't she also a Tujia family?" Their family is all officials, and they are not local officials like you, they are officially established officials in the Ming court. ”

Gu Duo didn't care about the official position, but what Zhu Youdong said just now was that the Miao people were also literate and literate, and he was very surprised to be an official in the imperial examination. Said: "Is it true that you said that you let Miao people study?" Han Chinese don't bully Miao people? ”

Zhu Youdong said: "I don't dare to guarantee the rest, as long as I am where Zhu Youdong is, I will definitely guarantee that the Miao people will not be bullied, but there is one thing, since the Miao people demand fairness, then the Miao people can no longer think of the same as before, relying on the large number of clansmen to ignore the national law, and they have to be the same in front of the national law." When Gu Duo heard this, he was a little embarrassed: "I'm afraid this is a little difficult, the Miao people are all clan-oriented, and it is difficult to want them to be subject to the same Han law as the Han people." ”

Zhu Youdong said: "Lord Gu, you are an official appointed by the imperial court, you should know that the Han people have a saying that 'the people do not suffer from widowhood, but suffer from inequality.'" If we can no longer be equal before the national law, then how can we let the Han people treat the Miao people equally? "Actually, it's not that Gu Duo doesn't understand, but in this way, the Miao people have gone to believe in the Han government, and the leader of the Miao people has no capital to argue with the court. But Gu Duo couldn't tell Zhu Youdongming, because he was also the head, otherwise how could he be named a garrison of a thousand households.

Zhu Youdong said: "As long as the Miao people can accept this, I can let them get good fields outside the mountains, and let the government teach them to farm." Wouldn't that be better for the Miao people? "Of course, Gu Duo knew that this was good for the Miao people, but it completely harmed the interests of the head man, the leader. Gu Duo said: "It's good to be like this, but I'm afraid those leaders and leaders don't agree." ”

Zhu Youdongqi said: "How can you disagree with this? That's a good thing. At this time, Lin Asan next to him said: "Master Hou, this is a good thing for ordinary Miao people, but it is not a good thing for these leaders and leaders, they have lost control over the Miao people, so the court may not be treating them well." ”

Zhu Youdong then understood, thought for a while, and said: "I can exchange the field with the head, as long as they are willing to go out of the mountain, I will give him hundreds of acres of good land, and let their children study for free. If they don't want to join the army, I will give them knighthoods, which can be passed on for three generations. But once out of the mountains, there can no longer be a distinction between Miao and Han. The unification is all the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Gu Duo's eyes lit up when he heard this, no one can make his wealth last for a long time, the head of the Miao people, the leader seems to be stable, but he is constantly being overthrown and replaced. Now Zhu Youdong's method can make the current head and leader rich for at least a hundred years. Gu Duo was very moved, and said: "It doesn't matter if I say this, I have to discuss it." ”