Five leather paintings of the same style were placed in front of him, which also aroused Huang Jie's curiosity.

Immediately Huang Jie also got up to look, only to see that the painting was abstract, very similar to the ancient murals in the cave, the portrait on the whole piece of leather was roughly divided into several areas, the first area was painted with many abstract villains hunting a tiger; In the second area, the little people are running around, the tiger grabs and presses the little person, and the little man next to him seems to have a milk * room holding a big stick to drive away the tiger; As for the third area, I saw a group of little people being chased by the tigers behind them, and the little people running in front of them were holding an even smaller little man in their arms; In the fourth area, a little man kneeling on the ground in front of an adult with a halo on his head, holding the little man in his hand, held the little man in his hand high; In the fifth area, an adult with a halo looks like he is sewing a needle and thread to a lying figure.

And the last area, that is, the center of the whole picture, is painted with the halo on the head of the adult holding up a baby-like villain with both hands, and there are three very vivid stitching lines between the baby's chest and abdomen, which is exactly the same as the appearance of Huang Jie after the operation on Hongguo's son A Zhu yesterday.

Immediately, Huang Jie himself was also shocked, and his brain couldn't bend for a while, and he didn't know how long it took, he felt that someone was pulling his sleeves, and then he came back to his senses and found that it was Hua Rong, but he saw Hua Rong squeezing his eyebrows and signaling to him, so he turned his head to look at it again, but found that all the servants knelt down at him at some point, lowered their heads and raised their hands high, palms to the sky, and the scene was extremely solemn.

Huang Jie thought about it, and then hurriedly said to Elder Ermine: "Elder Ermine, please get up quickly!" Please hurry up, everyone! ”

Elder Ermine also got up, and ordered everyone to get up and continue to sit down after the local dialect was ordered. He also came to Huang Jie and said: "Lord Huang, the great witch of our clan was told by the ancestor Lingtuo Dream three years ago that there will be immortals who will come down to save my servant, and they will be the savior of our clan." It is widely spread that the portrait and my servants lived, and now the five families around my Hubao Ridge are here, and the eighteen families near Wushan and Kuizhou are also coming. Lord Wu is now in Yandao County, Rongzhou (now Yibin, Sichuan), and we have already asked people to go to the arraignment, and I believe that they will come soon. ”

For this kind of prophecy and prophecy, Huang Jie has already made his debut, how can he not believe it, so this witch who can draw a prophecy map three years in advance, Huang Jie is really interested in meeting him.

After that, Huang Jie also deliberately befriended Elder Ermine, and naturally heard a lot of first-hand information about the servant from him.

First of all, 僰 is actually the same as "white". Instead of being homophonic with "Ba", in the eyes of the servants they should actually be "white" and "white", not some servants or servants.

In fact, the source of the servant comes from the "Notes on the Book of Water" volume 33 "Jiang Shui I" quoted in the "Geography and Customs", which is said to be the servant: "The most benevolent in Yi, there is benevolence, so the word follows the people." ”

The so-called "benevolence" here refers to civilization and progress. That is, the level of economic and cultural development is relatively high.

"Huayang Guozhi" volume 3 "Shu Zhi" said, about the Warring States period (around 400 BC). Shu attacked Tsing Yi (now Lushan County, Sichuan to Ya'an City, according to legend, it is said to be the Tsing Yi Qiang residence), at that time, "the male chief, the servant", that is, the power of the bureaucrats and servants at that time was already very strong.

Volume 28 of the Book of Han, in the "Geographical Chronicles", Qianwei County Yanshi Gu Note quoted Ying Shao as saying: "The Ancient Marquis of the Country" (now Yibin City). Volume 33 of the "Notes on the Book of Water" "Jiang Shui I" also recorded: "Yandao County, this servant lives there. "Qin Ji" is said to be the rich of servants."

During the Three Kingdoms, there were many servants living in Pingyi, Zhaotong area in the southwest of Yandao County and northeast Yunnan, where there were Qianqing Pond and Dragon Pond, which were used by the servants to irrigate the fields and grow rice. By the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. A road was opened from the Yan Road to the south through the Yu ethnic settlement to Wei County, Yizhou County (now Qujing City, Yunnan). Wei County is the common residence of the governor of Shu Han and Jianning County, and there are many Yu people in its vicinity. In present-day Eshan, Shiping, Jianshui and other counties in Yunnan and Chuxiong Prefecture in western Yunnan, there are also servants.

Of course, the most concentrated residence of the servants is still in the flat area around Dianchi Lake.

In the first year of Wang Mang Tianfeng (14 A.D.), there was a great uprising against Mang in Yizhou County, which was mainly composed of the Yu people, Wang Mang mobilized a large army to suppress it, and renamed Shengxiu County as Shengyu County, indicating that the main ethnic group of the Dian State was the Yu people. Because the Yu people lived in the Bazi area, which was suitable for farming, they had the most contact with the Han people and gradually integrated, and later the Yu people became less and less common in historical records.

However, for the history of the servants, it is natural that the servants themselves remember it best.

In the mouth of Elder Ermine, Huang Jie also heard a lot of history that he had never seen in the history books, such as: Legend has it that the widow Qing of the Fuling people used the huge wealth obtained by refining cinnabar for the servants to help Qin Shi Huang complete the great cause of unification, and later Qin Shi Huang built the "Huaiqing Terrace" in order to commemorate her; The father-in-law of Sima Xiangru in the Western Han Dynasty was Zhuo Wangsun, who was a native of Linqiong, and relied on hiring young and middle-aged servants to boil salt and smelt iron, farm and make wine for him, so that "the family has a huge fortune and is rich and proud of the prince", and became the richest man in Shu for a while. As a testimony of the loyal love between Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun, the "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" wine was brewed by servants who worked in the Zhuo family. Zhang Qian, the envoy of the Western Han Dynasty, also saw the bamboo handicrafts produced by the servants and ate the wolf sauce made by the servants in India.

In order to strengthen the father flow with the southern countries, the servants built the "five-foot road" from Yibin to Yunnan Dianchi in Qin, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built six years (135 AD), under the auspices of Tang Meng, the Zhonglang general, and built the "Nanyi Road", the territory passed through is inhabited by the servants, commonly known as the Yan Road (starting from Qingshen County, Sichuan, through Yibin, Yunnan Zhaotong to Guizhou, up to more than 1,000 kilometers).

Thus connecting the Shu Road has become the famous "Southern Silk Road" in history.

"There is a Ba in the east, Mian from Baipu (僰)", "Zuo Mianba Zhong, Baipu (僰) is full", this is the sentence of Yang Xiong and Zuo Si of the Han and Jin dynasties in the "Shu Du Fu" created by the two of them. It can be seen that during the Han and Jin dynasties, the servants were still a large and powerful ethnic group, and the number of bronze drums they owned represented the amount of wealth and power.

"Sui Shu Geographical Chronicles" contains: "From more than 20 counties in Lingnan...... The bureaucrats used cast bronze as a big drum" or used to beat the drum to gather the crowd, or used to store treasures, and to compare power and strength. In today's terms, the bronze drum of the servant is equivalent to the jade seal of the country, a symbol of power and a symbol of wealth. Within the organizational system, those with few copper drums obey those with more copper drums, and those who do not have copper drums are civilians.

When it comes to the copper drum, Elder Ermine also introduced that now the copper drums in the entire Bashu region are all in the hands of the witch, and I am afraid that they will be brought to Huang Jie at that time. (To be continued.) )