Since the pirate turmoil in the summer of Shuzhong, Dali has not had a good time soon.

A force of tens of thousands of robbers broke into the Guizhou Plateau under the rule of Dali, specifically attacking and destroying Tusi and the large and small head families, and its behavior is described in the common language of modern justice: this criminal gang is extremely arrogant, the attitude is particularly bad, the circumstances are particularly serious, the harm to society is particularly huge, and the crime is extremely heinous.........

Unforgivable, much less unforgivable.

All of them are sentenced to death, and they must be pulled into the wilderness to shoot collectively...... It's all dead, it's dead.

But, in fact, yes,

In the first short period of time, the Guizhou officials did not feel that the appearance of this group of robbers was a big bad thing, let alone that the crime was extremely unforgivable, and they must all be quickly encircled and executed to punishment. Even when the incident reached Yunnan, the core area of Dali's rule, the Dali court was shocked and angrily condemned....... Behind the scenes, too many officials disagreed, and even secretly rejoiced, not because they hated this group of robbers for committing such a crime, but to a certain extent, they wished that the robbers would be more ferocious, faster, more arrogant, vicious and powerful.

In other words, the crime of the robbers is particularly serious, to a large extent, caused by Daliguo's own secret connivance and passive attitude and inaction, and by both officials and bandits.

The reason for this strange phenomenon is that the national conditions and social structure of Dali are very different from those of the Song Dynasty.

In Guizhou, Yunnan Province in this era, there were not many Han people who represented the advanced civilization at that time, and the whole was very barbaric and backward, with large and small toasts everywhere.

In the Song Dynasty, it was the landlords, the rich gentry, the townsmen, the powerful and the village tyrants who ruled the grassroots of the society, and the political power was not lower than the county, and it was the various powerful forces in the countryside who levied taxes and labor and dominated the daily management of the people on their behalf. The grassroots rule of Dali is mainly responsible for the hereditary large and small Tusi. And the toast often does not listen to the official decrees, the first thing to recognize is to follow the toast who is more powerful than their own, with their own interests as the core, many times they can do whatever they want, and they can do whatever they want.

Tusi, and even the little head of Tusi's subordinates killed a handful of people, whether it was a local division or a non-Tusi subordinate, it was not a matter at all.

It is very common to kill the whole family or bury the Manchus alive to vent their hatred at every turn, and the locals are also accustomed to it, which is a normal thing.

Count as a crime?

Murder pays for life, and it should be punished according to the law?

Where's that?

Nothing like that.

The local government can't control it, it doesn't dare to manage it, and its interests are colluded, so naturally they are always in collusion.

For the Tusi forces, the official law is not a fart. The fart still smells. The law is often a dead letter. What works is the local traditions.

Unless someone is killed, angering the Tusi forces, or the official attention and protection will be vigorously investigated.

Learn about the dark and brutal serfdom of Tibet before liberation...... If you don't treat people as human beings at all, you can imagine what the Dali Land Division system was like at this time.

As for the Dali regime, it is essentially a country where the Tusi co-exist, in other words, the regime is seriously controlled by the Tusi.

The fact that Duan Shi, the king of Dali, was able to become the king of the southwest was the result of his own power and the Tusi supporting or acquiescing, which to a large extent represented the fundamental interests of the Tusi and Tusi system.

But the country is the country, the imperial court is not the Tusi, and the vast majority of officials, large and small, are not the role of the leaders at all levels under the Tusi.

The Dali regime and the Tusi have too many common interests.

However, the main body of power in power is another Dali force that is not from the Tusi aristocracy, and there is a conflict of leadership with the Tusi, who restricts everything and even often directly and arbitrarily vetoes official decrees, and the state power and the Tusi also have fundamental interests in opposition.

The Dali regime was ostensibly more stable than the Song rule.

Some Tusi families may have existed in the pre-Qin period or even earlier, ruling the local area for thousands of years, and after such a long period of hard work from generation to generation, how could the ruling of the acting government over the local grassroots not be solid? A hundred years of dynasty, a thousand years of toast. But you can imagine how complicated and ineffective the operation of the Dali regime in its rule will be.

You are an official, this is true, but it doesn't matter if you say it.

This situation is a very common portrayal of Dali.

I'm Toast, and I'm in charge.

Of course, there were also many officials who were appointed by the imperial court as officials from the Tusi or Tusi family in order to strengthen the common rule of the people.

However, as soon as it encounters strong external interference, especially direct military force, it will intensify the difficulty of exercising power, and it will be difficult to coordinate the interests of all parties, each with its own selfish motives and calculations, and it will be unable to quickly form a common force in the face of foreign enemies, and it will be slow and powerless to respond. If the foreign enemy is strong and quickly defeats the Dali army, it will be even worse.

It was precisely these irreconcilable fundamental contradictions within the Dali regime that gave Chen Xizhen, a group of bandits, an opportunity.

The Dali court is still very deterrent to Tusi, because it has the most effective court of its own hundreds of thousands of regular troops, which is not comparable to the Tusi indigenous militia. Moreover, Duan Yu, the king of Dali in this generation, is also an eloquent and strategic hero, who has enough deterrence for Tusi and the ability to coordinate the interests of all parties.

But local officials, especially those on the Guizhou Plateau in the non-core ruling area, were struggling.

In front of the magistrate, he is in charge of the affairs of one party, but no matter how powerful the official is, he can't be prestigious, and he is restrained and suppressed by the Tusi, and he has no face and his interests are limited and damaged.

Whatever benefits have to be toasted first.

If you dare to offend the toast, you don't have to offend the big head, you only offend the small toast, and you can't offend it, you can't eat and walk around, let alone take the initiative to provoke. The little toast is the subordinate of the big toast, and someone covers it. For the sake of his own interests, the big toast has to maintain and even win over the little toast who follows him to be loyal to himself.

There are various conflicts of interest between toasts, and the competition is extremely dangerous.

In general, the land in Yunnan and Guizhou was scarce and barren, and armed conflicts often broke out between the Tusi on the land that was only for cultivation. Even if it is a powerful big toast, in order to resist the invasion of the same level of toast or the alliance of toasts who are jointly making trouble, it is necessary to appease and win over the small toasts to strengthen their resistance, and the conspiracy is ...... All kinds of battles of wits and courage are not inferior to the struggles in the officialdom of the Great Song Dynasty with conceited political wisdom.

As an official, the power is not good, it doesn't matter, it is not the most honorable boss, no matter where this kind of thing is, it is intolerable no matter what.

The same is true for the local government in Guizhou.

If you want to enjoy the real taste of being an official, it is normal to fight with the local toast, but it is not the root of the problem. It is best to weaken or even eliminate the toast.

It's just that Dali itself is powerless, and it can't eradicate the Tusi by itself, and if the Tusi system is moved, it is equivalent to hurting the imperial regime itself.

Suddenly, a group of robbers came, not killing the people of Guizhou, not robbing the property of ordinary people, not endangering the government, and not doing anything else, coming to clean up the toast?

How would you feel about this matter if you are an official who is not interested in the local Tusi?

Surprised, why did such a thief force suddenly appear? Nervousness, fear of threatening yourself, followed by excitement....... Isn't it secretly looking forward to it......

That's about it.

However, Chen Xizhen, Ma Ling, Wang Nianjing, etc. are all people who are deeply influenced by Zhao Yue's thoughts and remarks.

Zhao Yue once said: "Chinese are often a person is a dragon, but a group of people become worms." There will be conflicts between the two of them, and there will be secret hatred and framing. Together, the three of them had a gang and began to fight openly. It is scattered, there is no cohesion, and there is no unity and combat effectiveness to the outside world. This is the result of a long period of foolish people's stubborn rule. I don't know how to open up living space externally, and I don't have the courage and ability. can only nest together, in order to compete for limited resources, in order to get ahead, kill each other......"

All of Zhao Yue's political and military actions are trying to change China's ridiculous and pathetic sense of national survival and state.

When he said this, his tone was as flat as before, but the anger and determination to turn it around were clearly felt and touched.

A Taoist priest like Chen Xizhen, who has a strong ability to associate and can see society more clearly from the perspective of a bystander, thinks more from Zhao Yue's words.

Trapped in one place and waiting for death, the eyes can only see the familiar and accustomed to the barren land in front of them, the little interests, I don't know how to go out, I don't know how to lead the people to move to the outside to find living space, there are armed forces, but I don't have the courage and will to occupy a better space in the distance, I don't dare to grab a new territory in the distance that is many times better than the land where my ancestors have lived for generations, I will only nest together and do everything possible to kill each other, each with its own interests and calculations, and the surface is harmonious and one, but in fact they are all looking forward to the bad luck of others...... Isn't this the state of affairs in Dali?

The Tusi system was like the warlord division of the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Dali Kingdom was actually less united than the Song Dynasty, and it lacked the ability to resist external risks........

With this understanding, Chen Xizhen, who was ordered to destroy the toast, clearly knew what to do, and it had been verified to be effective when he was in Sichuan.

He led a patchwork of fierce bandits over the mountains and mountains to quietly break into Guizhou, and the first thing to do was to divide the troops everywhere and pick up the small toast with a small force...... It seems that it is a robber rogue sneak attack, specializing in robbing small toasts and stealing money, and the power is not large.

Under the conditions of primitive means of communication and extremely inconvenient transportation in mountainous areas and plateaus, there were news of the suffering of small toasts in many places at the same time, and they could not be connected for a while.

Sure enough, the weakness that Zhao Yue said came true.

The local government was surprised, but there was no real reaction, and the army was not mobilized to track down and pursue, and let the toast deal with it himself, but in fact, he was looking forward to the destruction of some more toast.

And the related big toast didn't do anything,

Just look, understand, be horrified, condolence. For a moment, support a puppet who is more beneficial to himself to take over as Toast, investigate what forces did it, and worry that it was other big toasts who are playing tricks and playing ghosts, and be vigilant, but they don't really make efforts to chase and suppress. In my heart, I also wish that the Tusi family was destroyed from a young age, and there was no heir and no power, so they completely annexed the ministry and strengthened themselves. Even if this unlucky little toast has in-laws with them, they are close relatives.

The little toast who is not strong is really afraid,

Suspicious, suspicious, all kinds of speculation, all kinds of tentative analysis of all parties, seeking the protection of the big toast, in fact, can only be vigilant and strive for self-preservation.

Taking advantage of this time difference, Chen Xizhen dispatched and commanded all departments to quickly sweep the small toasts in various places......

There are many toasts destroyed, the robbers' combat effectiveness is terrible, things are too strange, the government and the major toasts in Guizhou are really shocked and worried, and all parties cooperate to find out what forces are so powerful and arrogant?

Could it be the disguised army sent by the Song State? Is it the Shu army?

Impossible.

The Song Kingdom and Shuzhong have just suffered from the scourge of piracy, and they have no power, and it is impossible to have the mind to suddenly target the Dali Kingdom at this time. When the Song State was strong, it didn't deal with Dali, how could it be at this time, right?

Could it be that the arrogant and greedy pirates are robbing and playing tricks?

...... It doesn't feel like it's like it.

Those bandits spoke with a Shuzhong or even Dali accent, and they were obviously indigenous robbers from the southwest.......

All sorts of suspicions.

In the end, it was judged that the suffering Shuzhong people took advantage of the chaos to form a group of robbers, and Shuzhong was so poor that they crossed the border to harm Dali, so they robbed the rich and small toast.

However, in terms of concrete actions, the government and the Tusi are fundamentally two-minded.

Toast and toast, especially between the big toast still take care of each other, first of all, strictly guard against the old opponent, still wish the robbers were more powerful and dare to do more, it is best to kill the big toast opponent...... I'm afraid that those robbers don't have the strength and courage to shake the big toast.

The psychology of the parties is wonderful, but it is very natural and normal.

The pursuit of the robbers was scattered, and it was slow and weak, mostly for show. It only focuses on strengthening its own protection, and does not work joint pursuit.

And the rogues also seemed to hear their inner call, and then suddenly launched an attack on the big toast, and the first to bear the brunt of the largest toast in Guizhou.

The robber's weapon, the demon law, is too powerful, too terrifying.

With the largest Tusi with tens of thousands of troops, the weapons and equipment are also excellent, not much worse than the regular army of the Dali court, and familiar and have geographical advantages, and are also good at mountain warfare, but it is so stubborn to stick to the nest, but under the sudden attack of the robbers, it fell in a blink of an eye, the solid and dangerous stone wall cliff, condescending, etc., all useless.

In the blink of an eye, the Datusi family, which may not be the oldest, but the most powerful in Guizhou, which can be called the de facto king of Guizhou, was destroyed......

Even the King of Dali, a strong lord like Duan Yu, who had to respect him very much in the past, has disappeared like this, and it will never be able to reappear, let alone be brilliant.

It was shocking.

Guizhou was shocked. The Dali court was also shocked.

It turned out that there were tens of thousands of robbers and thieves in Guizhou, all of whom were fierce and abnormal, and their fighting ability was extraordinary.

It turned out that these multiple bandits were able to negotiate a consensus to fight against the big toast, and even basically they were a gang, and they were all tricks played by the thief leader who was too cunning before.