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In autumn, the yellow and green mountains stretch out in the distance under the bright sun, and the occasional walk through the mountain path is refreshing. Compared with the barrenness of the northwest, the southwest is bright and colorful, but the whole traffic is more underdeveloped than the barren mountains in the northwest.

In the connection of mountains and rivers, there are occasionally villages in twos and threes, it seems that between the primitive dense forests, the rugged paths are hidden in the weeds, soil and stones, and there are post stations in a few developed places, and the horse teams responsible for transportation have stepped on these rugged roads year after year, passing through the mountains inhabited by ethnic minorities, and connecting the trade between the Central Plains and the southwest wasteland, which is the original ancient tea horse road.

This is the hometown where the Southwest Yi has lived for generations.

The so-called Southwest Yi, which calls itself the "Ni" people, is pronounced Yi in ancient Chinese, and later generations changed its name because of its derogatory meaning of barbarianism, which is the Yi nationality. Of course, at this time in the Wu Dynasty, for these people living in the southwestern mountains, they are generally still called Southwest Yi, they are tall, high nose and deep eyes, bronze complexion, strong personality, are the descendants of the ancient Qiang southward migration. One by one, the strict slave system was still implemented at this time, and fights often broke out between each other, and it was not uncommon for the big village to annex the small village.

During the two hundred years of the Wu Dynasty, the trade road was opened here, and the market with Dali was exchanged, and it has been competing for the belonging of the Yi people in the Liangshan area. The two hundred years of mutual market have allowed some Han Chinese and ethnic minorities to enter this area, and several small towns where Han Chinese live or live together, and some felons have been assigned to this dangerous mountain.

In the past three or four years of Jianshuo, there were three small county towns in Liangshan, Bly, Hedeng and Jishan, which were unilaterally announced by the county order, and then the army entered one after another, suppressing the resistance.

Most of these soldiers who had been withdrawn from the northwest were dusty and shabby, and they were emaciated by the thousands of miles of forced march. In the beginning, the nearby prefect still organized a certain army to try to exterminate it, and then ...... And then there will be no then.

More armies came one after another, and more problems naturally followed, friction with the surrounding Ni people, several major battles, and difficulties in maintaining trade routes and construction......

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The wind flickered, and she woke up from her sleep, there was a faint light outside the window, and the outlines of the leaves swayed slightly in the wind, and it was already early morning.

The crowing of chickens could be heard in the distance.

There were already people walking around the courtyard, and she sat up and put on her clothes, took a deep breath, and collected her confused thoughts. Recalling last night's dream, it is vaguely what has happened in the past few years.

Maybe it was because the news from outside these days shook the mountains, and she was also touched a little.

This year, a woman named Su Tan'er was thirty-four years old. Due to the lack of resources, the outside world's perception of women is that she is rich and beautiful, but her figure is obviously emaciated, and she may not be considered a beauty. In the five years in Hedeng County, Su Tan'er gave people a decisive and sharp impression. Melon seed face, frank and attentive eyes, used to wearing black dresses, even if it is windy and rainy, you can carry the skirt on the rugged mountain road, muddy running, after two years, the northwest war situation fell, Ning Yi's death came, she became an out-and-out black widow, for everything around her appeared indifferent, but resolute, the rules set will never change, during this period, even the most "orthodox" rebellious officials in the surrounding thinking, did not dare to send troops to Liangshan. The two sides maintain a secret confrontation, economic game and blockade, like a cold war.

She has maintained this image.

When I got up and dressed, the voices outside were getting louder, and it seemed that they were already busy, and it was a few older children who were urged to get up and exercise in the morning. There was also a voice of greeting, and Juan'er, who had only come back not long ago, came in with a basin of water. Su Tan'er smiled: "You don't have to do this. ”

"It's just a good deal." Juan'er said.

The three personal maids at the beginning were all trained to deal with the business at hand, and later they were all capable right-hand men. After Ning Yi took over the Secret Investigation Division, the scope of their involvement was too wide, Tan'er hoped that Xing'er and Juan'er could also be accepted by Ning Yi as concubines, although they were the wrists of big families to win people's hearts, but Xing'er and Juan'er were not completely ruthless to Ning Yi, but Ning Yi did not agree, and later there were too many things, so this matter was delayed.

During the three-year war of Xiaocanghe, Xing'er and a Black Flag Army officer gradually fell in love and finally came together. Juan'er has always been silent, and in the next two years, Ning Yi lived in seclusion, because Wanyan Xiyin did not give up the search for Ning Yi, within the Liangshan range, the Jin State spies and the Black Flag counter-espionage personnel had several confrontations, Tan'er and others, it was easy and inconvenient to go to Ning Yi's side to meet each other, during this period, it was Juan'er who accompanied Ning Yi, taking care of daily life and handling various contact details. Although they didn't mention much about personal matters, they probably took care of each other.

The family was originally just a merchant in Jiangning, and after getting married, they just wanted to live in peace and stability, but who knew that they were involved in the war after that, and in retrospect, it had been ten years. In the first half of the decade, Su Tan'er watched Ning Yi do things and worried about him, and in the second half of the year, Su Tan'er sat in Hedeng, trembling and watching the three county towns gradually stand firm and develop in the wind and rain. Occasionally dreaming back at midnight, she would also think that if she hadn't rebelled and didn't care about the affairs of the world, she might be able to accompany her husband and live a year after year in peace in the best years - she is also a woman, and she will also think about her own man, and she will want to be able to sleep with his body in her arms at night......

But she never said it once.

Over the years, she has also seen people who died and suffered in the war, and in the face of the fear of war, they fled with their families and families in fear...... Those valiant men, bravely rushed forward in the face of the enemy and turned into corpses lying in pools of blood...... And when she first came here, there was a shortage of materials, and she only accompanied red grapes, watermelons and others to eat bran vegetables...... If you are alone, you may be able to live in fear for a lifetime, but you can only keep watching these things......

Autumn is getting deeper, and the morning breeze is a little cool when you go out. The small yard, where their family lives, Hong's door, probably not far from the courtyard, Xiaochan is helping to make breakfast in the kitchen, Yuan Bao'er is probably still sleeping, her daughter, five-year-old Ning Ke has gotten up, and is now enthusiastically going in and out of the kitchen, helping to hand firewood and take things, Yunzhu follows her, beware of her running and wrestling.

Seeing Tan'er coming out of the room, Xiao Ningke let out an "ah", then ran to find a basin, went to the kitchen water tank and began to scoop water hard, Yunzhu followed in distress: "What are you doing......

"The eldest mother got up and washed her face."

A scoop of water was poured into the basin, Yunzhu squatted beside him, looking back at Tan'er with some distress, and Tan'er hurriedly passed: "Xiaoke is really sensible, but the eldest lady has already washed her face......"

"Huh? Washed ......" Ning Ke, who was standing there, held the scoop in both hands and looked at her with blinking.

"Well, but the eldest lady wants a glass of warm water to brush her teeth."

"Oh!"

The little girl nodded hurriedly, and then Yunzhu and the others looked at her panickedly when they went to touch the pot of boiling water next to her.

Several children in the family have different temperaments, but Jin'er's child is the most innocent and likable, and the most peculiar. She was enthusiastic about everything and had been idle for as long as she could remember. When someone is thirsty and wants to help get water, when someone is hungry and wants to divide his rice in half, when a bird falls off its nest, she will jump around under the tree in a hurry, and even if a snail crawls forward, she can't help but want to help. Jin'er was so worried about this matter that she said that she would be a maid in the future. Everyone joked, maybe Jin'er looked like this when she was a child, but Jin'er would probably deny it with disgust after thinking about it for a while.

After a while, I washed up and left the yard, and the sky was already spitting light, and the yellow ginkgo trees were shaking in the morning breeze. Not far away is Sister Hongti, who is watching a group of children exercising in the morning, dozens of children, large and small, running along the lookout platform at the foot of the mountain in front of them, Ning Xi, Ning Ji and others from their own family are also among them, and the younger Ning He is bouncing around to do a simple stretch.

In the quiet morning light, Hedeng County, located in the mountains, has awakened, and the layers of houses are uneven on the hillside, among the trees, and by the stream, because of the participation of the soldiers, the scale of the morning exercise on the side of the foothill seems to be huge, and from time to time there are generous singing.

Among the three county towns of Bligh, Hedeng and Jishan, Hedeng is the administrative center. Along the foothills, several core components of the Black Flag - or Ning Yi forces - are gathered here, responsible for the strategic level of the General Staff, responsible for the overall situation, evolved from the bamboo record, responsible for ideological issues internally is the General Political Department, external espionage, infiltration, and transmission of various information, is the General Intelligence Department, on the other side, there are the Ministry of Commerce, the Engineering Department, plus the military department independent of Bligh, which is currently the six most important departments that make up the Black Flag.

Of course, the union of the three counties of Bulai, Hedeng and Jishan is not the overall appearance of the Black Flag Army at present, outside the three counties, the real place of the Black Flag is the Dayang Department at the junction of Tubo and Dali, this tribe has an old relationship with Liu Dabiao in the early years, and the place where they live guards an iron mine and maintains fragmented trade with the outside world for many years. In recent years, the Dayang tribe was scarce, often suppressed by the rest of the Tubo tribes, and the black flag went south, absorbing a large number of veterans and elites together, and the elite soldiers who had undergone ideological transformation were hoarded here, on the one hand, to deter Dali, on the other hand, with the Tubo tribes, and the remnants of Guo Yaoshi, who had taken refuge in the Tubo domain, there were also several frictions.

On the one hand, the three counties of Bu, He, and Ji were located to separate the troops that surrendered after the Battle of Xiaocanghe, so that they would not have an impact on the Black Flag Army until they received sufficient ideological transformation, and on the other hand, Jishan County, which was built along the river, was located at the trading hub of Dali and the Wu Dynasty. Bligh garrisoned a large number of troops, trained, and ascended to the political center, and Jishan was the commercial hub.

Dali is a relatively gentle and loyal country, close to the Wu Dynasty all the year round, and is extremely disgusted by the rebellion of the Black Flag, and they are unwilling to trade with the Black Flag. However, the black flag infiltrated Dali, and the first to attack was some of the aristocratic class in Dali, or various partial forces, cottages, horse bandits, and the resources used for trading were iron cannons, firearms and other things.

Merchants pursue profits and do everything they can, but in fact, the three counties of Dayang, Bu and Ji are all in a lack of resources, and these merchants who were taught by Ning Yi are crazy and sell everything. At this time, Dali's regime was weak, and the reigning Duan family was actually no match for the Gao family, a relative who held real power. By the time trade began, the royal family found out and was furious, and the envoys of the Black Flag no longer paid attention to the imperial power.

"We only recognize contracts."

"Either come as promised, or die together."

Dali's side naturally will not accept the threat, but the black flag at this time is also struggling on the blade. The elite of the hundred battles who had just withdrawn from the front line of the Xiaocang River broke into the territory of Dali, and at the same time, the action troops that infiltrated the city of Dali launched an attack, and when they were caught off guard, they took down seven Duan and Gao Jiazong's sons and daughters, and lobbying in all aspects had already begun.

The stakes of the business are still secondary, but the black flag resists the Jurchens, and has just retreated from the north, and does not recognize the contract, and the black flag will die, then the jade will be burned.

This agreement was finally negotiated with difficulty, and Black Flag released the hostages intact, withdrew the troops, paid compensation for every casualty in Dali, apologized, and at the same time, did not pursue its own losses. In exchange for this, Dali turned a blind eye to the Jishan border trade, and at the same time acquiesced to the rule of only recognizing the contract.

With the first gap, the next is still difficult, but there is always a way out. Although Dali has no intention of provoking these crazy people from the north, it can block the people in the country, and in principle, they are not allowed to continue to do business with the Black Flag, but how can a country that can be controlled by foreign relatives have a strong binding force on the local government.

For two hundred years, although Dali and the Wu Dynasty have always had border trade, but the initiative of these trades has always been firmly in the hands of the Wu Dynasty, and even the Dali State sent a letter to the Wu Dynasty to request the canonization of the title of "King of Dali", which has been rejected by the Wu Dynasty several times. In such a situation, there are more monks and less porridge, and it is impossible for border trade to meet the interests of everyone, but who doesn't want to live a good life? Under the lobbying of the Black Flag, many people were actually moved.

At the same time as dealing with Dali, the infiltration of the Wu Dynasty was also going on all the time. The people of the Wu Dynasty may rather starve to death than trade with the Black Flag, but in the face of the powerful enemy Jurchen, who will not have a sense of distress?

The fall of the Central Plains has made a part of the army have benefited from the huge crisis, and these armies are uneven, so that the firearms produced by the Prince's Mansion can only be supplied to the direct troops such as Beiwei Army and Han Shizhong in the first place.

Since then, under the principle of blockade of the black flag, a large number of smuggling horse teams have appeared, which have brought the things designated by Jishan according to the agreement, exchanged them for several iron cannons and ammunition, and trekked all the way back to the location of the army.

This two-way trade, at the beginning, was extremely difficult, many Black Flag elites died in it, as if they died in the Dali operation, the Black Flag could not take revenge, even Su Tan'er, could only go to the spirit of the deceased and bow down. In the past five years, Jishan has gradually established the credibility of "contract above all else", and in the past two years, it has really gained a firm foothold, radiated its influence, and become the core stronghold of Dayang and Chen Fan's Lan Huandong with Qin Shaoqian in charge.

In the past five years, Su Tan'er has been in Hedeng, and has experienced more than just the problems of business, although Ning Yi has solved many macro problems by remote control, but the detailed planning is enough to exhaust a person's mental strength. The relationship between people, the operation of new departments, the interaction with the locals, the negotiation with the Nins, and the planning of various constructions. In the past five years, Tan'er and many people around her have not stopped, and she has not seen her husband for more than three years.

Since Ning Yi's "suspected" death, the black flag has been silent for two years, although the ideological construction in the army has been going on, but there are always many people who muttered in their hearts or held their breath. This time, Black Flag's shot easily overturned Tian Hu, everyone was honored, and some people understood that Mr. Ning's death was true or false, and perhaps it was on the verge of being revealed......

Tan'er naturally knows better.

She stood on the hill and looked down, a smile on her lips, a small city full of life, with the golden leaves of all kinds of trees and birds chirping in the sky.

When they met, she was eighteen years old, thinking that she was mature and old at heart, and treated him with a polite attitude, never thinking that so many things would happen later.

In the five years that he was exhausted, she never complained about anything, but she remembered it in her heart, and she would sigh slightly.

You're coming back, but I'm not good-looking.

Lived up to the good times...... (To be continued.) )