Luo Dou worshipped the god of thunder and liked to decorate their bronze vessels with cloud and thunder patterns.

Liu Renliang was very surprised to find that these wingmen seemed to be really good at mining and smelting, not only there were thousands of catties of copper drums in the drum tower in the wall, but also all kinds of bronze artifacts existed in all aspects of the bureaucrats' lives.

Brass earrings for women, brass armbands for men.

Copper wine cups, copper bowls, copper basins.

In the Central Plains, copper is almost money, and these barefoot and shirtless wingmen actually have so many bronze tools.

Their bronze, pottery, and wood are covered with clouds and thunder patterns everywhere, and they can't wait to call themselves thunderclans.

With Ah Fa as the translator in the middle, Liu Renliang can also communicate with the slang men like the Eight Claws. Chatting and chatting, Liu Renliang was shocked to hear that the eight claws actually said that they were the emperor's relatives.

At first, he thought that these bold bureaucrats dared to pretend to be relatives of the emperor, but later he realized that they were talking about the Yellow Emperor, the ancestor of China.

"Why do you say that?" Liu Renliang asked Ah Fa.

"The Yellow Emperor lives in Xuanyuan's Yue, and marries the daughter of Xiling for his ancestors. The ancestor is the daughter of the Xiling Fanglei family, the surname of the Yellow Emperor's twelve surnames, which is the queen of the ancestor. ”

Speaking of their ancestors, it was a witch in the village who spoke in place of Octopus.

He said that a long, long, long time ago, when the Yellow Emperor lived in Xuanyuan, he married the daughter of the Xiling Fanglei clan as a concubine and gave birth to two sons, one named Xuanqi and the other Changyi. Later, Changyi was born and was one of the five emperors. When Zhuan was the emperor, he ruled the south and Jiaozhi, and later the descendants of Zhuan Xuan, one of the five emperors, Shun inspected the world, Nanfu Jiaozhi, died of illness in Cangwu, the mausoleum was nine ridges, and the virtue was Nantian. At that time, their Lingnan slang bureaucrats were also illuminated by the sun and the moon, and their voices and teachings were already understood.

According to the white-bearded old wizard, it is recorded that they were also known as the Lei people, and they were also a branch of the Qiang people, and they were relatives of the Yellow Emperor clan, and later they migrated from west to east to the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and were later conquest by the Shang Dynasty, so some of the clansmen gradually moved to the south of the Yangtze River and mixed with the Baiyue clan.

"Aren't you slang after the Xiou and Luo Yue people in the hundred Yue?"

As a result, the old wizard rolled his eyes and said very seriously, how can we be the queen of Baiyue?

"We are the emperor's relatives, a branch of the ancient Qiang people, and the Han people are also a branch of the ancient Qiang people, so we are originally of the same origin. As for the Baiyue people, they had long since moved further southwest. ”

Liu Renliang looked at Ah Fa, Ah Fa told him before that the slang people were the descendants of Luo Yue and Xiou, and they were one of the hundred Yue.

Ah Fa leaned into Liu Renliang's ear, "Liu Xiao doesn't have to care, in fact, about the ancestors of the slang people, the slang tribes in various places have different opinions, and they themselves can't figure it out." ”

In any case, Eight Claws was still very polite to Liu Renliang and other court officials, asking people to kill pigs and chickens, and cook rice for guests.

During the banquet, Eight Claws asked people to bring a newly cast 300-pound bronze drum with cloud and thunder patterns, saying that it was given to the officials and soldiers.

"If Liu Xiao has a call, he only needs to let people beat this copper drum, and it can be heard within ten miles. When I hear the sound of the drums, I will come. ”

Liu Renliang was a little surprised, and he didn't prepare any gifts, so he immediately untied the horizontal knife and gave it to the leader of the eight claws.

The atmosphere at the table was lively.

After a full meal, Octopus began to talk about business.

He carefully asked what the imperial court would do in the future if it wanted to garrison a military camp here.

The last thing the slang people wanted was to organize the household and land of the imperial court and collect taxes. Therefore, since the dynasties, as long as the imperial court can allow them not to be naturalized or taxed, then everything else is easy to say. Once the naturalization and household registration are to be carried out, the land is cleared, and the rebellion and war will definitely break out.

"A certain is stationed in Huaide's government soldiers, the position of government soldiers, farming in his spare time, cultivating wasteland, being a soldier in wartime, guarding the border and defending the country. As for these things, it is not the responsibility of our soldiers, so I don't know. ”

After getting such a reply, Octopus and the others were still not very at ease.

But they couldn't ask anything, so they had to ask another question they were concerned about, that is, will the market in Huaide County still be open in the future?

Slang people like to take advantage of the ruins, and taking advantage of the ruins is the meaning of rushing to the market to trade.

They went to the market, traded goods with each other, and most importantly exchanged salt. Especially for the wingmen in the mountains, although most of them are good at hunting and smelting, they do not know how to make salt, so they need to exchange.

In the past, the Han people opened up new counties in the mountainous areas, set up markets, and brought salt and other commodities they needed, which is also the reason why they were willing to let the Han people open up counties and counties, which can bring convenience.

Now because of the last rebellion in Huaide County, most of the merchants have fled, and it is naturally difficult for the bazaar to open on the bazaar.

"The bazaar will reopen, and the salt will continue to be sold." Liu Renliang told them that this time he led his troops to come and brought a lot of salt.

These salts were actually the funds that Li Jing gave to Liu Renliang to establish the Huaide camp, directly pulled out the salt to him, and then let him transport it to Huaide with the army, and traded with the slang bureaucrats in exchange for the needs of the camp.

As soon as Octopus heard that there was salt, he was immediately happy.

They even wanted to trade directly with Liu Renliang, they were willing to trade with slaves, gold, silver, bronze, furs, etc., and many of the slaves were the Han people in Huaide County before.

Liu Renliang's face was ugly when he heard this, isn't it too bold to betray the people under the rule of the court in front of the court officers?

However, they obviously didn't care about this, they usually even arrested and sold the wingmen of other tribal alliances, who would care about the Han people who were not of the same race, in their eyes, the imperial court should be just a big tribe from the north.

"I have a lot of salt, but I don't want you to exchange the people of Huaide County as slaves, they are the people of Daqin, and if you do this, it will be difficult for me, a commander who has the responsibility of guarding the border and the people, to do it."

"I am now temporarily acting as the county magistrate of Huaide, you have taken all my people as slaves, so how can I, the county magistrate, still pay to Your Majesty, I am very grateful for your hospitality today, and I hope we can live in harmony in the future, so I ask you here, hand over these people to me to take back to the county, and let them go home." In the future, you will have as much salt as you want, not only salt, but even other commodities you need, you can buy them in the county market, how about it?"

Eight Claws and the others were not very happy, how could this new commander be so unreasonable.

They muttered to each other.

However, it is obvious that Eight Claws still has some knowledge, Chen Longshu, Tan Dian, Feng Xuan, these Han slang marshals in this area in the past few decades, Feng Xuan is said to have been killed by the young man in front of him, and Tan Dian and Chen Longshu are also attached to the imperial court.

This shows that the imperial court is indeed very strong, much stronger than when Feng Chen and others were in charge before.

For the sake of so many hundreds of slaves, it didn't seem worth offending the young man in front of him.

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