Because it was spring ploughing, there was really no manpower in the village, and too many people could not be sent to escort Shen Fuxuan to buy books.

However, it is not possible to do without an escort.

Because the place where they went to buy books was not the Zazuo chief lawsuit under the mountain, but the city of Guizhou farther away!

Among the various levels of Tusi, the chief official is the lowest level of the unit, but it is at least equivalent to the lower state. To put it another way, you can barely understand it as a "county-level city" (certainly not accurate).

But the dignified Zazuo chief lawsuit, the rank is higher than that of a state, and there is not even a serious bookstore.

The reason for this is that the Song clan has its own channels for buying books, and the children of ordinary people do not participate in the imperial examination, so who do they open a bookstore to sell goods to?

Before the Jiajing Dynasty, there were two main kinds of people in Guizhou: one was the son of Tusi, and the other was the son of Weisuo.

Commoner children may be able to afford to read, but they can't afford to take exams-

Until the Zhengde period, Guizhou did not set up its own township test, nor did it have its own school promotion officer.

Guizhou Xiucai had to go to Yunnan to build a shed next to someone else's examination room to take the test, and the marking of the test papers was also done by Yunnan officials.

"The World Water and Land Route" records the journey from Guizhou to Yunnan as follows: "...... Ten miles to Qingping County, Qingping Station. Near, beware of barbarians...... Ten miles to the chicken shop...... All snakes...... Thirty miles to Guansuoling...... There is a dumb spring, and it is not drinkable...... Go up the mountain, Minshao slope has a poisonous spring, don't drink it by mistake......"

It is very difficult for the talents in Guizhou to rush for the exam, and the township test is all with their own travel expenses and dry food, and they have to beware of barbarians and thieves on the way. Moreover, the township test is still in the summer, there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants, miasma and poisonous springs are everywhere, and it is easy to die of disease without being hacked to death.

The children of Tusi are accompanied by bodyguards, and the children of the guard are also skilled in bows and knives, and they can cope with the road to the township test. As for the children of the common people, it depends on the luck of the sky, and they can walk to the examination room with all their arms and legs.

All these factors led to Wang Yuan wanting to buy textbooks and having to go to Guizhou City farther away.

It was Orion Yuan Gang who was the escort for them, and Yuan Zhi and Wang Meng were also considered force. In exchange, the other families must help the Yuan family and the Wang family farm the land, so as not to delay the critical spring ploughing day - strictly speaking, summer ploughing, it is already early summer.

The composition of the book-buying team is as follows: Wang Yuan, Wang Meng, Shen Fuxuan, Yuan Gang and Yuan Zhi.

In addition to Master Shen, everyone carries a knife and a bow to prevent accidents along the way.

There are many kinds of accidents, jackals, tigers and leopards suddenly appeared, barbarians suddenly appeared, robbers and thieves suddenly appeared, anyway, the death of the victims is varied.

Yuan Gang and Wang Meng each led a donkey, which belonged to the public property of the village. The donkey was loaded with mountain goods on its back, and it was usually traded in Zazosi, and this trip was transported to Guizhou City to sell, because the price was much higher than that of Zazosi.

Yuan Da is the most excited one, this kid is fifteen years old, and he has never been to Guizhou City.

Although the mountain roads are difficult to walk, fortunately they are all official roads.

The official road from Zazuoyi to Guizhou City belongs to the only way from Sichuan to Guizhou (middle line). As for history, the Longchangyi where Wang Yangming is located belongs to the important node of the western route of the Sichuan-Guizhou transportation line.

It took a few hours for everyone to go down the mountain, and after walking for three days, they finally came to the territory of the Guizhu Changguan - this is also the territory of the Song clan in Shuidong.

Wang Yuan, who had been building bridges and drilling holes in Guizhou for several years in his previous life, went to Guiyang more than once, and was shocked at this time.

Bamboo forest, bamboo forest, bamboo forest!

From the edge of Guizhusi, all the way to Guizhou City, the bamboo forest has not been broken along the way, and even the official road is built in the bamboo forest.

Guiyang in the Ming Dynasty was actually surrounded by a sea of bamboo that stretched for dozens of miles.

At this time, the official name of Guiyang was "Guizhou City", and the Yi language was called "Heiyangqing". "Black sheep" means beautiful, and "Qin" is a big bamboo forest in the mountains, which is connected to the "beautiful bamboo sea in the mountains".

Shen Fuxuan was also stunned by such a magnificent scene, and couldn't help but say: "There are bamboo forests all over this place, presumably rich in beautiful paper, and the price of paper should be very cheap." ”

Yuan Gang vigilantly observed the bamboo forests on both sides of the official road, and said: "There is a village in the northeast of Guizhou City, and a family surnamed Peng has made paper for generations. I also heard that the Peng family had a good relationship with every political envoy in Guizhou, because Han officials needed to buy Peng paper for office. As for the price of the paper, I never asked. ”

"This Peng family must be a big local family." Master Shen speculated.

Yuan Gang said with a smile: "A big family is indeed a big family, and even toast is inconvenient to oppress." But Pengjiazhai is located at the junction of various ethnic groups, no one cares, everyone wants to fight, and there are tribal fights every year. The Nanjing Temple built by the Peng family was just burned down by thieves the year before last, and the gold leaf on the Buddha statue was scraped clean. ”

Master Shen couldn't help but sigh: "In this Guizhou territory, the life of a big family is also very difficult." ”

Yuan Gang gestured to the steel knife in his hand and said: "If you want to live in Guizhou, the knife and arrow in your hand is the fundamental, whoever has a hard fist, whoever speaks counts." Five years ago, Zazuo Tusi sent people up the mountain to increase the tax on the green village by two. At that time, none of us spoke, and everyone took out their weapons, and even Carpenter Liu copied a handful of planers. Whether it is the old, weak, women and children, more than 1,000 people wearing green clothes, that is, more than 1,000 soldiers, and the doll that has not been weaned can bite people. Tusi wants to raise taxes, yes, at least 5,000 soldiers must be brought up the mountain to be qualified to talk to us in green clothes! ”

Master Shen suddenly didn't know what to say, and thought: No wonder everyone in the village is rough and untamable, and they are all forced out by life circumstances.

Wang Yuan said helplessly: "The Turen have their own ethnic groups to rely on, the Han people have special care from the government, and the Tusi is even more single-handed. Only we wear green people, no one wants to see us, and we all struggle to survive on our own. I heard the owner of Fang Zhai say that as early as more than 40 years ago, when he was a little doll, there were 3,000 people in Qingzhai at that time. ”

"Why is there less now?" Master Shen couldn't help but ask.

Wang Yuan sighed: "I fought with Zazuo Tusi, in the words of the Han Dynasty, it was the officials who forced the people to rebel and expose the rods. For three months, the people in the village suffered countless casualties, and Zazosi mobilized all the soldiers and horses, but he was stunned that the village was not defeated. ”

Master Shen asked again, "How is the battle going?" ”

Yuan Gang answered: "The Guizhu Division and the Ganxi Division near Zazuo Division are both the territory of the Song clan in Shuidong. Zazosi couldn't beat the stockade, so he went to Guizhusi and Ganxi to move the rescuers. More than 20,000 Tusi soldiers went up the mountain, and we were outnumbered, and only about 900 people were left dead, so we had to surrender to them. However, surrender also has to talk about conditions, and you can only add 20% of the tax to wear Qingzhai, and if you want more, then continue to fight. Even if the people in the blue wear are dead, those toast soldiers will have to shed some more blood! ”

Yuan Da, who was half the eldest son, was not sad at all, but said in a proud tone: "My grandfather (grandfather), grandmother (grandmother), and several of their brothers were all killed in battle at that time. My grandfather is amazing, he shot dozens of toast soldiers! His fingers were all worn out by the bowstring, and he raised his knife to kill the Tusi soldiers in the broken village, and took more than a dozen young people in the village to drive hundreds of Tusi soldiers out of the village. ”

Wang Yuan continued: "The parents, uncles and aunts of the Fang village owner were also killed in the battle at that time, otherwise the Fang family alone would have a population of hundreds of people. ”

Master Shen secretly spoke, this is too miserable.

Only 900 of the 3,000 people in the village died, and the death rate was as high as 70%. Excluding the old people and young children in the village, I am afraid that there are only four or five hundred young men and women left, and they dare to negotiate terms with 20,000 Tusi soldiers?

In fact, fortunately, the patriarch of the Song clan at that time was Song Ang.

This person is dedicated to sinicization, poetry and etiquette, relatively open-minded and benevolent, and loyal to the imperial court, and he doesn't want to do too much in everything.

If it were replaced by Song Ran, the current patriarch of the Song family, the Qingzhai would have long ceased to exist, and it was likely that he would directly order the slaughter of the village, preferring not to collect taxes to save face.

Wang Yuan suddenly smiled and said: "That battle also showed the majesty of wearing Qingzhai. Whether it is Shuidong Tusi or the surrounding barbarian tribes, they don't dare to provoke us easily. ”

Yuan Gang also curled the corners of his mouth: "Just last month, the Miao chief Ajia of the Good West Division also came to visit our village and wanted to pull us to rebel together. Sir, look at it, within two or three years, there will definitely be a big rebellion in the Miao Department of the Obedient West, and the Shuidong Song clan will have to shed its skin if it does not die. ”

Wang Yuan added: "Miao Chief Ajia, although he is only the leader of the Miao Division, his prestige even I have heard of. The other Miao tribes of Ganxi, Zazuo, and Hongbian all admired him, and he was almost the king of Miao here. Once he rebels, he can at least gather tens of thousands of troops, and it is possible to break the ancestral house of the Song family! ”

Master Shen's scalp was numb when he heard this, and he slandered: "Killing officials and rebelling is such a big thing, can you not talk about it so easily, it's like talking about what to eat at night."

It's so barbaric!

Several people chatted all the way, and they were already close to the Guizhou Station outside Guizhou City.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves started, and more than a dozen people and horses rushed out of the post.

The one who took the lead was a little girl of twelve or thirteen years old. She was dressed in the clothes of the Zhong family, wrapped in a colorful scarf on her head, riding a low horse, with a short bow hanging from her waist, and leaning on the back of the horse and whipping wildly.

Even if there were four people from Wang Yuan coming towards them on the official road, this little girl from the Zhong family did not have the slightest intention of slowing down.

There were more than a dozen people in the back, all riding horses and carrying knives, who seemed to be the little girl's guards. While chasing after them, they shouted at Wang Yuan and the others: "Crooked slap material, crooked beat material (get out of the way)!" ”

Yuan Gang and Wang Meng suddenly changed color, and each pulled a donkey full of mountain goods to avoid it. The incident happened suddenly, Master Shen was scared stupid, Wang Yuan hurriedly pulled him away from the official road, and the rest of Yuan Zhi also jumped away.

Fortunately, at this time, it was close to Guizhou Station, and the official road was relatively spacious. If it is changed to a mountainous area, the official road is narrow and unavoidable, and it is absolutely necessary to hit it squarely - even that little girl will have a car accident with people and horses and donkeys.

The guards shouted again, and the little girl did not raise her head, but lay down on her horse's back and scolded a few words, and then continued to speed forward with her whip.

"Phew!"

Yuan Zhi, this kid, spit out a mouthful of dusty spit, wiped his mouth and vented: "If I catch it one day, I will have to smash her ass!" ”

Master Shen was also dazzled by the dust brought up by the horse's hooves, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Whose woman is this, she is so arrogant." If we hadn't dodged quickly, we would have been killed by her. ”

Wang Yuan pursed his lips and sneered, "Who else could it be?" Wearing the clothes of the Zhong family and carrying a horse guard, this evil woman must be surnamed Song! ”

Yuan Gang added: "It's the daughter of Zazuo Tusi, and there is no such a big battle. can follow more than a dozen horseback riders, and her father is either An Guirong or Song Ran. An Guirong is from Yi, Song Ran is the son of the Zhong family, she is wearing Zhong family clothes, she can only be Song Ran's daughter. ”

An Guirong and Song Ran, one is the patriarch of the Shuixi clan and the other is the patriarch of the Shuidong Song clan, both of whom are Guizhou propaganda envoys, and their governing offices are in Guizhou City.

History records that Song Ran has no children, and this little girl is likely to be the only daughter of Guizhou's consolation envoy.

Master Shen asked again, "What did she say on horseback just now?" ”

Yuan Gang translated: "That's the Zhongjia language. She told her entourage to run faster, don't let the bamboo bear run away, and be sure to catch it today. ”

"What is a bamboo bear?" Master Shen hadn't heard of it before.

Wang Yuan smacked his lips and said, "Iron Eating Beast." ”

This dead girl actually took someone to catch the panda, and after a few hundred years, she was locked in prison!

(PS1: After being reminded by a member of the study committee, Lao Wang finally recalled his knowledge of chemistry at the beginning.) Calcium hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide in the air to turn into calcium carbonate, which is one of the raw materials used to make modern chalk. Therefore, Wang Yuan does not use hydrated lime, which is very close to modern chalk. ）

(PS2: The second heroine has been launched, and it has also been added to the character column.) ）