The turbulent river rushes through the mountains and gorges, and the mountains and rocks on both sides splash with bursts of water, and the silk floats down on the face, which is very cool.

However, looking at the two small figures in the bamboo cage immersed in the river water, it was a little boy and a little girl, Lu Ning frowned.

The little boy and the little girl were so frightened and helpless that they couldn't cry when they watched the water gradually reach their chests, but looked at the people on the shore helplessly.

A tall and black man on the side wearing a tall black cloth hat on his head saw that Lu Ning's face was unhappy, and he was busy muttering and explaining.

The strong man is the head of the Tierongdian tribe, Ah Ding, who has surrendered and was named Tierongnan.

In recent months, Lu Ning has visited more than a dozen tribes in eastern Yunnan.

Only Zhu Fanchen and five maidservants, who were the interpreters and consolation envoys, were left with him, and Lu Shengnian had already returned to Baozhou, and the various departments sent to Baozhou by the various ministries were brave and strong.

At the same time, it is also to prevent the Yang clan from attacking Baozhou.

At the same time, a battalion of heavy muskets from Sichuan and Shu also arrived in Baozhou.

This is a battalion of military horses that Lu Ning is preparing to mobilize after entering Yunnan, and it is also the only Qi army that Lu Ning intends to use to pacify Dali.

This heavy arquebus battalion is unmarried and young, and it was originally prepared to be stationed in Yang Tho Baa City as a deterrent force after pacifying Dali, and they will not go to exterminate the counterinsurgency and so on.

As far as defending the city, the power of the heavy musket battalion is self-evident.

And Lu Ning is now the "King of Zhennan", this heavy musket battalion has become a guard force directly under the palace, Lu Ning is also ready to let them marry local women, settle down in Yang Tho Baa City, and his descendants hereditary musket followers, whoever chooses to become a real professional soldier, daily training of physical combat skills Musket control is, of course, if the training is not qualified, they will also be expelled from the military in minutes, which is a kind of competitive military household, not an iron rice bowl completely supported by the imperial court, otherwise, it is easy to become a child of the Eight Banners.

Now this heavy musket battalion is holding Baozhou, so Lu Ning has no worries about subduing the various departments in eastern Yunnan, I believe that with the four departments of Jianchang, the Jiang Department, etc., and more and more departments bravely gather in Baozhou, it is the Yang family's big attack, which can also make its head break the blood.

And Lu Ning took Zhu Danchen and five servants through eastern Yunnan, often from one tribe to another, led by the leader of the tribe who returned to the brave and strong, and he must also have intersections with neighboring tribes, which can introduce Lu Ning's identity, as for the meaning of vigilance, many times it has been useless.

Lu Ning used muskets to subdue these tribes, or used swords and bows to deploy weapons, all of which packed up these tribes and obeyed them.

When he came to the Tierongdian Department, Lu Ning was escorted by the brave and strong Nalou Department who accepted it, and after Adin of the Tierongdian Department returned to Shun, the Nalou Department turned back bravely, and he would gather the clansmen to go to Baozhou.

Along the way, the five Vietnamese maidservants could also keep up, and it was Zhu Danchen who couldn't complain, and sometimes, Lu Ning would carry his belt on the road, which made him embarrassed and flattered, and even more ashamed.

Now, he knows completely what kind of character this "King of Zhennan" is, with the invincible magical firearms of Daqi, and he is also an invincible martial artist, a sharpshooter with a hundred shots, and an invincible martial artist.

Dan Jia and the other five Vietnamese maids have become even more humble in front of Lu Ning, I am afraid that Dan Jia does not know how long she has been afraid, if she really wants to murder Lu Ning, the five of her would have lost their lives long ago.

The head of the Tierongdian tribe who is now following Ah Ding, who was almost cut off by Lu Ning's sword, is now full of respect and admiration for Lu Ning.

The Qixi tribe away from the Tierongdian tribe is one of the tribes that cannot be understood with the Dali language, and their native language has something in common with the Tierongdian tribe, which is that it can be translated into a language that Zhu Danchen understands through Ading, and then relayed to Lu Ning.

At this time, Adin chattered and said, Zhu Danchen translated beside him, "Your Highness, he said that this is the custom of the Qixi tribe, and every ten years, a pair of the most handsome boys and girls in the clan must be selected to sacrifice Alima, that is, the river god, because the Qixi tribe is mainly fishing and hunting, and they believe that it is the river god who gives them their lives and all their needs. ”

Lu Ning waved his hand: "Rescue people." ”

Zhu Danchen was stunned, and then muttered to Ah Ding on the side.

Adin immediately shook his head again and again, arguing about something.

Lu Ning didn't need Zhu Danchen's translation to know what he was saying, and he said that he would annoy the people of the Qixi Tribe.

The Seven Creeks tribe live deep in the valley of the Rattan River, and have little contact with the outside world, and the community is relatively simple, but it is also terrifying, and if you violate their taboos, you will be subjected to cruel retaliation.

And rescuing them from the sacrifice they had given to the river god would obviously anger the entire race.

Zhu Danchen was about to translate Ah Ding's words with Lu Ning, Lu Ning waved his hand and said, "Go down and save people!" ”

Zhu Danchen looked at Adin in embarrassment.

Ah Ding obviously understood what Lu Ning meant, gritted his teeth, and shouted behind him, he was brave behind him, many of them were ** bodies, this time there were two men who were good at swimming in the water, and immediately jumped into the water and swam towards the bamboo cage.

And the rest of the Tierongdian tribe bravely pulled out the sharp weapons on their waists, as if facing a great enemy, Ah Ding and his subordinates knew that this move was almost equivalent to declaring war on the Qixi Ministry, but seeing that Lu Ning insisted on doing so, Adin ordered his subordinates to prepare to fight with the Qixi Ministry.

Lu Ning looked into the distance, in a jungle, the branches of the trees were shaking, and it was obvious that someone was running away.

When sacrificing to the river god, according to the tradition of the Seven Creek Tribe, everyone avoids it, but they will leave a person similar to the stalker, and the monitoring sacrifice is swallowed by the river, and now the one who runs back to report the news should be the so-called stalker.

Pointing to an open space on the bank of the river, Lu Ning said, "Let's go over there." ”

This is the territory of the Seven Creeks, they know the terrain well, and if a conflict breaks out near the jungle, it will be unfavorable to their side, and the open land will have less influence on the terrain factor.

The main reason is that he insists on going his own way, trying not to cause casualties in Tierong Yongzhuang.

At the river beach, there are a lot of pebbles, Lu Ning and more than 100 other people are scattered here, the boy and the girl are carried in front of Lu Ning, both of them are extremely frightened, and they don't know what these people want to do to the two of them, but at least they don't have to be drowned by the river or swallowed by the river god, and the two are faintly grateful to these people.

Lu Ning rubbed his nose, in fact, in the early Ming Dynasty, there was still the phenomenon of official live sacrifices, of course, the Ming Dynasty for Chinese civilization, to some extent, regressed in many aspects, but no matter what, now it is difficult to ask these barbarian tribes to stop living sacrifices, but if you see it, you can't let these two little children be drowned alive in front of your eyes for extremely ignorant reasons.

I didn't say anything to the two children, the language of the Qixi Department is not compatible, after I finished speaking, I asked Zhu Danchen to translate to Ah Ding, and then Ah Ding communicated with them, and the communication between the two sides was just that the pronunciation of the unified language system was slightly close, and it was also necessary to compare and draw, and it was not too direct phonetic communication, so I was afraid that my original meaning had changed, and it was too difficult to say this in a simple sentence.

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About half an hour later, frightened birds flew into the jungle in the distance.

The brave men of Tierong immediately raised the sharp blades in their hands, and those with bows and crossbows were wound.

In the jungle, hundreds of wild people poured out of the black, their heads were decorated with artemisia grass, and their bodies were also covered with leaves and animal skins, although most of them were not tall, but their muscles were knotted, and their skin was dark and shiny, as if they had been smeared with oil.

Lu Ning was about to walk out of the crowd to meet him, but he didn't want to, the little girl who was sitting on the river beach jumped up and pulled the boy to hide behind him, she looked at the people from the Qixi Department, her eyes were full of fear, and she muttered something.

Ah Ding was stunned when he saw this scene, and then he muttered to Zhu Danchen.

Zhu Danchen said to Lu Ning: "Your Highness, this little girl is talking about her brother and the like, and there should be her brother among the Qixi savages." Speaking of this, Zhu Danchen sighed softly.

Looking at the appearance of this girl, it is obvious that in the process of tying her up and putting her in a bamboo cage and sending her to drown in the river, her brother, who she originally trusted, suddenly became an accomplice, which hurt her little heart, and now when she saw her former clansmen and relatives, she became more and more frightened.

Lu Ning glanced back at her, and sighed in his heart, now is a very barbaric world for future generations, and for ordinary people, there are many places that are a hundred times worse than her.

Of course, the core area of the Central Plains is gradually becoming peaceful, and even if the lives of the people are not rich, they can live peacefully, even if they are occasionally oppressed by the official eunuchs and landlords, but compared with the turbulent period a few decades ago, it is like heaven.

It's a pity that I don't have any fast-forward buttons, and I'm afraid that in my lifetime, I won't be able to see what the qualitative change in people's livelihood will be.

Thinking about it, Lu Ning slowly walked out of the crowd, and Ah Ding followed beside him.

Zhu Danchen also followed behind with the courage to follow.

Lu Ning smiled back at him: "They don't need you to translate, they will understand what I mean." ”

Zhu Danchen didn't know what Lu Ning meant by this, but he suddenly felt a flower in front of him, and Ah Ding also felt that a black shadow suddenly passed by him.

The next moment, the Qixi barbarians a hundred steps away were already in a mess.

When Ah Ding reacted, he almost couldn't believe his eyes, but he saw that Lu Ning's green shirt was fluttering, and he was already in the Qixi Man, with a cold forest long sword in his hand, which was on the neck of the leader of the Qixi Man.

There was another loud bang, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, there was a scream, someone turned over and fell, and Lu Ning was so frightened by the crowd that he was full of urine.

But it was Lu Ning who held a firearm in his left hand and came at a barbarian who secretly raised a blowpipe and wanted to sneak attack him.

The brute immediately screamed and fell, his chest was blurred with blood, and he was killed on the spot, and his death was extremely terrifying.

Even the leader of the Seven Creeks, who was still extremely arrogant when the long sword was across his neck, also changed his face at this time, full of fear.

And the figure of Lu Ning, who looked at Qiximan from a distance and completely shocked Qiximan, this is really a mysterious figure like heaven and man descending into the world, and now their lord of support, Ah Ding and his subordinates have a kind of fanatical worship in their eyes.

Zhu Danchen was numb, and even faintly felt that His Royal Highness the King of Zhennan was the emperor in Dali, as if he would follow him.

Tan Jia and other five Vietnamese maidservants looked at each other, all with their own deep meanings.