In the depths of the mountains in the south of the Three Gorges, it seems that on the skirt of the Wushan Mountain Range, there is a clear river, and people can clearly see the five-colored horse tooth stone at the bottom of the river ten zhang away.

"It is said that the enlightened clan of Shu passed through this place during the eastward expedition, and it was named Qingjiang, but our Ba people prefer to call it Yishui."

In late April, after a few days of fighting against Yidao, Ba Zhong and his retinue traveled upstream, surrounded by his loyal guard Danhu, who was inseparable from him, and a black-faced man dressed as a Ba warrior, wearing leather and cloth, and stepping on straw sandals.

However, when Ba Zhong whispered to him, he used Xia Yan!

In the past few days, Ba Zhong has traveled to almost every Ba tribe in Yidao, and as he expected, the various tribes of the Ba people have already started infighting. It turned out that in the attack on Yidao, the Ba people and the elders found that the resistance of the Qin people was so resolute that it was not at all as the envoy of Chu and Fan Yu said, after killing the county magistrate and the county lieutenant, they would be vulnerable.

As a result, many tribal rulers regretted it, and they took their men out of the battlefield and returned to the mountains and forests, and while watching carefully, they also began to worry about the retaliation that might come at any time from the Qin army.

Sure enough, after the reinforcements arrived, the Qin people of Yidao did begin to dispatch, and under the leadership of Heifu and Cheng Wuwu, they swept away some small tribes of Ba people living in the township and Li, and unified the Ba people who had participated in the killing of Qin officials and Qin soldiers!

When the tribes were not sure whether to continue to follow Fan Yu and go to the dark on the road of rebellion against Qin, or whether they should migrate and leave, the appearance of Ba Zhong gave them another choice.

"The county guard also knows that the monarch has no choice, so he only punishes the evil, regardless of the accomplice, and now it is too late to stop the rebellion!"

Ba Zhong is the son of the Ba clan, and has a noble status among the Ba people, and his family's horse team and ships often walk on both sides of the Yishui River, exchanging cloth, copper and iron from the outside world for locally produced rock salt and well salt, so he also has a high prestige in Yidao, even though he is the messenger of the Qin State, he can come and go freely, and his safety can be guaranteed, after all, no one wants to offend the wealthy widow Qing.

Ba Zhongxiaozhi moved with emotion and reason, and said that he moved several tribes, but everyone still had doubts, so he decided to reunite in Wuluo Zhongli Mountain according to tradition to discuss the matter together.

At that time, Fan Yu, as the leader of the local ministries, if he does not come, he will automatically give up the leadership of the ministries, and Ba Zhong can persuade the ministries to attack him together! If he comes, Wuluo Zhongli Mountain is an ancestral land, and he can't bring too many people into it, and Fan Yu will throw himself into the net......

At this point, the plan to unite the majority and strike at a handful was halfway through, and the meeting of Wuluo Zhongli Mountain would be the key to convincing the tribes to stop the rebellion.

Therefore, Heifu couldn't wait in Yidao, so he handed over the defense of Yidao to Cheng Wuwu, and he took two or three soldiers, dressed as Ba people, and mixed with Ba Zhong's personal entourage.

The long and narrow Yishui River Valley, in the summer, the hormones fly clear, the two banks are more than Motegi and empty, some people pass by, then a hundred birds fly and gather, and the wailing is harmonious.

Ba Zhong went on to say to Heifu that this beautiful river valley not only gave birth to the ancestors of the Ba people, but it itself is simply the history of the migration of the Ba people. From here, you have to go back up from here, first pass through Wuluo Zhongli Mountain, the earliest stronghold of the Ba people, and then Yanyang and Yicheng, where they founded. Until the source of Yishui, it is the vast world where the Ba people reproduce and scatter, and it is not far from Ba Zhong's home and Ba County and Ba County.

When Ba Zhong was a child, he traveled east from Tong County, crossed hundreds of miles of mountains and forests, and arrived at Wuluo Zhongli Mountain to worship his ancestors. But now, it is in the opposite direction, as the envoy of the Qin State, wearing summer clothes, he wants to persuade the Pakistani people not to make meaningless resistance.

At noon, everyone's destination arrived, but they saw that Wuluo Zhongli Mountain was located on the bank of Yishui, surrounded by water on all sides under the mountain, rippling blue waves, the five peaks on the island were scattered, and the strange rocks were lined up, and they had to be reached by boat.

However, what made Ba Zhong stunned was that when he and the princes of all the tribes boarded Wuluo Zhongli Mountain by boat, they saw that Fan Yu had taken a few warriors early and was waiting here!

And the person standing next to him was a Chu native wearing a high Chu crown and a wide-sleeved Chu suit!

The various ministries agreed that they did not allow vendettas to fight with weapons, and did not allow foreigners to enter, but suddenly the swords were tense.

"Fan Bird!"

One of the tribal kings was furious and rebuked: "You dare to bring outsiders into the ancestral land! ”

Fan Yu wore an exaggerated crown of feathers, a leopard skin, and a knife around his waist, and in the face of everyone's accusations, he pointed at Ba Zhong and the others and sneered: "Didn't you also bring a Qin man?" ”

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Everyone's eyes looked over, but the black-faced man beside Ba Zhong remained silent, because Fan Yu's finger was not at him, but at Ba Zhong in summer clothes......

Ba Zhong was startled at first, and then laughed and said: "Fan Junchang is really easy to forget, I am not a Qin person, but Ba Zhong of Tong County, after Di Jun, the son of Ba Shi, I only met it a few days ago." ”

"That's natural, it's you, Xia Zi, who told the Qin people about our reality and reality, so that it is not good to attack the Dao! You should have been caught by the unscrupulous descendants who turned their backs on your ancestors and regarded themselves as Qin people, and locked them in the red cave to reflect and reflect! Fan Yu began to preemptively accuse Ba Zhong.

"As long as you care about the prince and the interests of the Ba people, you will still be a Ba people! I asked myself if I had never done anything to the Bibas! Ba Chung defended himself.

"On the contrary, it was Fan Junchang who accepted gifts from the Chu people and coerced the Yidao tribes to rebel against Qin, which was originally a matter of self-defeat, and now hundreds of people have been killed and injured under Yidao City, so why don't you continue to take more lives before you stop?"

At this time, the Chu man beside Fan Yu appealed in the language of the Ba people: "Otherwise, although Yidao has not been breached, but now that the Chu army has surrounded the Lingling, it will be conquered in a few days. Don't be deceived by this summer! ”

Ba Zhong was not to be outdone: "How did I hear that the county guard and county lieutenant of the southern county of Qin State have personally transferred a large army to support Xiaoling?" The Chu army has not been able to break through the tomb so far, I am afraid that it will be defeated in the end, and then the army of the Qin State will arrive and retaliate, this ancestral land along the Yishui is probably not owned by the Ba people! ”

He began to cry out loudly: "Ask yourselves, all the ministries pay a rent of two thousand hundred and sixteen yuan a year, and a mouth tax of one thousand and eight hundred yuan every three years. And each household in the clan pays an annual levy of 56 yuan, cloth eight feet and two feet, and 30 clusters of chicken feathers. Compared with more than a hundred years ago, the levy of the Chu State when he led Yidao is not heavy, and it is relatively light compared to the Qin people who organized households on the edge of Yidao City. The Qin State government has not forced us to abandon the way of our ancestors, if we return to the Chu State, what can change? Since it is unprofitable, why rebel against Qin! ”

"Qin official treacherously killed my own brother! How can this revenge not be avenged? Fan Yu's hand had already touched the blade on his waist, seeing that a fire was about to happen, he brought a lot of people from Wuluo Zhongli Mountain, and occupied a high place, if they fought like this, Ba Zhong and they would not have an advantage.

At this moment, a burst of ear trumpets sounded suddenly, and the Ba people who stayed behind to worship the local priest came out while blowing the buffalo horns.

"Who dares to kill each other in Wuluo Zhongli Mountain, in the Red and Black Second Cave, in front of Emperor Di?"

A witch in a feather robe came from the mountain, her face was painted with thick colored lines, and she couldn't see her age clearly, but from the old tone and the crumpled back of her hand, she knew that she was not young.

In ancient times, the Ba people "did not have a king, but all ghosts and gods", and it is still the case today, and the status of ghosts, gods and wizards is very high. And often women are witches, undertaking all kinds of sacrifices, divination and other things. All women who participated in the sacrifice were considered to be special people who could communicate with their ancestors and spirits, and were given special respect.

Seeing that inside the witch, the people who were still squabbling stopped and fell to the ground, Heifu hesitated for a moment, and also bowed down, but he did not shout slogans that he didn't understand with everyone.

The witch looked at the monarchs in front of her, and said loudly in a hoarse voice: "It is a matter of the survival of all the tribes, how can you listen to the agitation of outsiders? According to the ancestral law, if something cannot be decided, the rulers of all the departments will throw their swords in the stone cave, and those who can make it can command everyone! The princes will follow me into the cave, and the rest will wait outside! ”

"Ba Zhong, you are also the patriarch of Ba people, and you will also enter together!"

After that, the witch walked away, and all the kings of the Ba people looked at each other, Fan Yu was not afraid, and walked in the front, while Ba Zhong followed behind, and before leaving, he looked back at his cronies Danhu, and Heifu, who was dressed as a Ba warrior, and nodded slightly......

Heifu was surprised, and his eyes were intentionally or unintentionally staring at the envoy of the Chu people who was under the protection of Fan Yu's cronies!