Western Fujian and the surrounding areas of northern Guangdong, northern Guangxi, and southern Jiangxi are inhabited by various ethnic groups, and the surrounding Han people, also known as Hakka, often have disputes with ethnic minorities over land, minerals, and food. The reason why the Hakka people in western and southern Fujian built tulou on a large scale was mainly to guard against various ethnic minorities in the south.

After Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, overthrew the tyrannical rule, he implemented the concept of "China inside and Yidi outside", regarded ethnic minorities as "beasts", "dogs and sheep", and "jackals", and believed that "if it is not my race, its heart will be different".

According to the theory of "China inside and Yi Di outside", Ming Taizu believed that ethnic minorities could only accept the rule of the imperial court "with small things", "since ancient times, the emperor has ruled the world, China has lived inside to Yu Yidi, and Yi Di has lived outside to serve China". Otherwise, allowing ethnic minorities to enter the Central Plains will lead to a "disaster" of customs and etiquette. He said: "The disaster of Yidi in China has been around for a long time. It is deeply shameful to look at the previous generations who were denied and humiliated by them."

Since then, Ming Chengzu also held this view, saying, "Yidi is a disaster for China, and it has been around for a long time." "Book" cloud "Yi Di Qianxia", "Poem" said "Rong Di is Ying". The Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, as for the Song Dynasty, the disaster is very great. He admonished his descendants, and once picked the "Ancient Sage Jiayan" as the "Shengxue Heart Method", which included Lu Gong of the Han Dynasty "Rong Di, the strange qi of the Quartet, and no difference from birds and beasts", and Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty "The first king Zhao divided Kyushu, formulated five suits, and must be the inner princes and the outer four Yi" and other remarks, indicating that he fully agreed with and adhered to this Han nationalist national view.

In the early Ming Dynasty, in the governance of the surrounding ethnic minorities, the Ming court formed a custom of first north and then south, that is, the northern ethnic groups were mainly defended strictly, and the southern ethnic groups were mostly appeased, and the strategy of suppressing and appeasing was implemented, but after the Tianshun period, until the current Hongzhi period, the policy of the imperial court became a policy of suppression for the southern ethnic groups.

This is mainly due to the fact that after the restoration of Yingzong, he continued to favor the eunuchs, and the politics was relatively dark. At the same time, most of the officials are reluctant to take up official positions in the ethnic minority areas in the south. Those who were willing to go to the post had the intention of making a fortune and leaving, and concealed the tyranny of the imperial court, which led to the continuous intensification of the surrounding ******** and frequent resistance. Ethnic minorities in Huguang, Guizhou, Liangguang and other places continued to set off large-scale joint resistance wars, which overwhelmed the imperial court and had to frequently mobilize large armies to launch large-scale conscriptions against the rebel ranks of various ethnic groups.

In addition to crusading against rebellions, the imperial court also adopted a policy of armed suppression against those ethnic minorities who were small in size but did not listen to the appeasement. In the early years of Tianshun, Chenghua, Jingtai and even Hongzhi, there were many wars around western Fujian.

The recent war was that the rotten soil and seedlings in the Duyun area of Guizhou were dissatisfied with the rebellion launched by the imperial court, and the imperial court led the division to encircle and suppress it with the deputy capital Yushi Deng Tingzan and the general army town Marquis Gu Pu.

Where there is war, there will be wins and losses, and where there will be wins and losses, there will be spoils. Often, men who were defeated and captured by ethnic minorities would be sold as coolies to mines and other places. And its women, especially those who are young and beautiful, have special people to transport their teeth to sell everywhere in exchange for money for the imperial court.

But because these women are usually considered barbarians and have a language barrier, no matter how beautiful and rich they are, they don't dare to take them from their families. It's nothing to buy it back and run away. If there is any deception or murder, arson, or poisoning, it will be contrary to their original intention of buying it back.

After Su Tong's instigation, all the scholars were strong in blood and strength, and they all wanted to meet the Nanban women, so they made an appointment to go together.

Shen Yongzhuo hesitated, he was worried about the old lady's words, and he had to go home when he came out to see, and now he was going to see some Nanban woman, and he was not interested at all.

"Seventh brother, do you want to ...... I'll go back first, and you will go home after watching them? ”

Shen Yongzhuo was in a dilemma. Although Wang favored his son in front of outsiders, he was extremely strict with him behind his back, and he might be beaten with a stick if he went back late.

Shen Xi really had no choice but to nod in agreement. After asking Shen Yongzhuo whether he had the way back, he separated from him.

When Shen Yongzhuo left, Su Cheng came to joke: "Brother Shen, I see that your brother is a nerd, and the two of you are walking together." I think you're big brother. ”

Shen Xi laughed dumbly, although Su Tong was praising him by saying this, he belittled Shen Yongzhuo. smashed the bones and connected the tendons, outside, the Shen family is one after all, and he is not easy to talk to.

A group of scholars wandered to the mule and horse market in the south of the city, and saw a conspicuous place in the market, and a group of people were looking around.

After all, according to the provisions of the "Da Ming Law, Criminal Law, and Thieves": "Luo Ren" is sold as slaves and maids, regardless of the first offender and the accomplice, and is sentenced to 100 rods and 3,000 li; and any of them shall be punished with a hundred rods and three years' imprisonment for any of his wife or concubine. This also means that, compared with the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming Dynasty's laws were far less severe in punishing human trafficking, and only those who hurt people for plundering and selling would be hanged and those who killed would be beheaded.

However, due to widespread poverty and social polarization, the phenomenon of human trafficking in the Ming generation is extremely common, and the provisions of the law are in vain.

But this is not the case with the sale of ethnic minority populations, these women are all "war trophies" collected by the imperial court, and since they are "war spoils" to be displayed, it is understandable, so they are dragged to the mule and horse market as cattle by human teeth and sold in general.

Buying and selling human beings in the public is still a very new thing, even if ordinary people have no money to buy, they will come to join in the fun when they hear the news, one is to open their eyes, and the other is very monotonous and boring entertainment now, and there is also something to talk about when you have knowledge, which can be used as a sight to show off.

A large group of people surrounded the three floors inside and three floors outside, and the scene was noisy.

"Get out of the way, let me wait and see." Before the Sutong people arrived, they shouted first.

Seeing that there was a group of young people with square scarves on their heads, soap boots on their feet, and wearing various colors of straight shirts, which looked very eye-catching in the mule and horse market, where could ordinary people afford to provoke this group of scholars who were either rich or expensive at first glance, and immediately let go of the place with shame.

Shen Xi followed behind Su Tong, drove straight inside, and finally saw what the situation was.

In sight were three good-looking women, one of whom was about twenty-five or sixteen, and the other was about seventeen or eighteen years old, both of whom were chained in their hands, and the older woman was holding a little girl carved in pink, who was supposed to be her daughter.

The three women wore short white dresses with narrow sleeves, large collars, and plackets, and knee-length pleated skirts with headbands wrapped around their heads. With Shen Xi's great understanding of various ethnic groups, he knew at a glance that it was a Miao person, and it was a white Miao.

The three women were neatly dressed, and the two adults were dirty, and their exposed skin was covered with dust, but this did not hide their graceful figures and beautiful faces. The little girl was only six or seven years old, her eyes were as black as ink, her face was white and smooth, like ivory white jade, her appearance was beautiful, and she was holding a beautiful billet. But she didn't seem to understand why she followed her mother to this strange place, and in addition to tears, there were fear, incomprehension, and confusion in her big eyes.

“…… Everyone came to see, this is the woman who came from the south...... Look, this big woman even has a daughter, she must be easy to give birth to, if anyone can't marry a daughter-in-law, buy it back, and when the cub grows up, she can leave it to her son as an adopted daughter-in-law. ”

The two soldiers watched from a distance, not with the intention of selling, but speaking as a sloppy man with a drunken body and unkempt face like a groom, who had a horsewhip in his hand, and threw a whip at the wall as he spoke, and the two older women instinctively shrank their bodies, apparently they had been beaten a lot along the way.

He was captured by officers and soldiers, and sold like cattle by this alcoholic man's teeth, and his life was so miserable.

Shen Xi sighed in his heart, this world eats people.

is not enough for others, but there is no such compassion as Shen Xi, and someone immediately laughed: "I bought it back and gave birth to a son, and her daughter ...... Haha, isn't that corrupt? ”

The sloppy man laughed loudly: "What are you afraid of? Anyway, it's a barbarian woman, whether he is corrupt or not, you just don't want to be corrupt yourself. Hey, do you really expect the barbarian woman to live honestly with you? ”

The crowd laughed again.

Shen Xi really couldn't stand it, couldn't help but turn his head, and suddenly saw a person in the crowd with a grim expression and no smile, which was very different from the people watching the excitement.

The man was not tall, but he was very strong, and he wore a hat on his head, as if he was trying to hide something.

Shen Xi was short, pretending to squat down unintentionally to straighten the hem of his clothes, and vaguely saw that the man had tattoos on his face, indicating that the other party was a criminal, but from the perspective of temperament, he was most likely a prisoner of war. The man's fists were clenched tightly, as if he was about to rob someone at any moment, and his waist was bulging like a blade.

Shen Xi looked at the two unsuspecting officers and soldiers in the distance, and thought that he would really go up and rob people, and come to a big killing, then it would be a whimper.

The three women didn't notice the abnormality in the crowd, the two older women lowered their heads, although they were Miao, but the basic shame was still there, the little girl was very scared, but she still couldn't help but turn her little head, curiously looked at the indifferent crowd around her, her small mouth pursed, showing the child's unique innocence.

"Hey, you don't buy it, it's very cheap, even if you go back to help with the work, you can buy two rice balls a day for a penny, and you can feed three people. How cost-effective? ”

Someone laughed and said: "This is a living person, two big and one small, and they only eat two rice balls in a day, isn't that less than the food of livestock?" ”

The crowd burst into laughter again.

Shen Xi shook his head, he could see that these people were all coming to see the excitement, even if they said it was cheap, no one was willing to bid to buy them back.

After all, with the current tense relationship between the imperial court and ethnic minorities, who would dare to bring such an alien woman home casually?

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