Chapter 45: Cultivation
It was an unusually simple room, with broken lattices, but extremely clean, and the few pieces of wooden furniture in the room were extremely simple, isolated and haphazard, and the walls were yellow, interspersed with a few tiny cracks and spots of mildew. An old man with gray sideburns sat by the rotten wooden door www.biquge.info holding a pu fan, gently fanning the fire in front of him. A clay pot sits on the stove, and a wisp of white smoke rises from the mouth of the jar, and the unique smell of Chinese medicine fills the room.
"Ugh." Jiang Yun let out a low groan, woke up slowly, opened his eyes and glanced around, and found that the wound had been re-bandaged, and it was no longer as painful as before, but there was a gentle warmth under the bandage, which was quite comfortable. Looking down, the clothes on his body have been changed into a set of coarse cloth shirts, calf nose pants, but they are a little too big and do not fit, this should be the young man's home, and he wants to come to this shirt.
Jiang Yun tried to stretch his hands and feet, and found that although his body was weak, it was not difficult to move slightly, so he supported the bed with his elbows, and sat up gently with his waist and abdomen.
The old man heard the slight "creaking" sound of the bed behind him, turned his head, and saw Jiang Yun's eyes wide, pulling his neck, his two bare feet swinging from side to side, trying to hook the boots on the ground, looking a little funny.
The old man was startled, put the pu fan in his hand on the ground, stood up and walked towards Jiang Yun, and said as he walked: "Hurry up and lie down, you young man, you are also messing around." The injury is so bad, you can't move! ”
"It's not in the way, if you don't move for a long time, your body will rust." Jiang Yun smiled gratefully at the old man and said, "How do you call the old man?" ”
The old man glanced Jiang Yun up and down, and saw that his complexion was indeed much better, so he nodded, sat down on the edge of the bed and said, "Old man Zhao Yuanhong, you call me Daddy Zhao, what about you, young man?" ”
Daddy Zhao? Looking for Daddy? You're funny.
"Huh." Jiang Yun laughed dryly and said, "My husband calls me Little Jiang, don't call me a young man, it's obvious." By the way, who is the big brother who rescued me? ”
"It's the old man's unsuccessful son, Zhao Junren."
"Is Brother Zhao here? I have to thank him in person. ”
"Xiaojun went fishing, and will be back later." Father Zhao stood up as he spoke, walked to the door, poured the Chinese medicine in the crockpot into the bowl, and handed it to Jiang Yundao: "It's bitter, bear with it, drink it, it can be better." ”
"Well, thank you, uncle." Jiang Yun took the big bowl, raised his head and drank it all, smashed his mouth, as if he was unaware of the smell of medicine, turned his eyes to look out the window, and said quite unexpectedly: "It's almost night, right?" Can you still fish at this time? Brother Zhao is really hard enough. ”
"This kid is the eye of death." Father Zhao sighed secretly in a pun and said, "Xiao Jiang, you sleep for a while, and when Xiao Jun comes back, we will have dinner." ”
"Just get up, don't be busy sleeping, boss, let's continue to talk." Jiang Yun thought for a while and said: "A few days ago, I met a Japanese Kou at sea, the ship was sunk, and it took me a few days to come here. Is it still in the territory of the Great Zhou? ”
"Probably not." Father Zhao muttered: "This place is located in the southeast of the Great Zhou, it is an island, although we migrated from the Great Zhou and are considered to be the people of the Great Zhou, but this place is not under the jurisdiction of the Great Zhou, and is completely ruled by the three major families. Here, it's called Yizhou. ”
Yizhou? Such a familiar name. Jiang Yun lowered his head and pondered for a long time, and suddenly remembered! I couldn't help but exclaim: "Taiwan! I went, I actually floated to Taiwan? ”
I vaguely remember that when I played the Three Kingdoms game, wasn't the Taiwan in it called Yizhou? Moreover, located in the southeast of the mainland, there is such a huge area of islands, and there is only one Taiwan.
Brother can row without pulp, brother can sail without wind direction, because brother in this life, all rely on the waves! No, the waves from the mainland to Taiwan came in minutes.
Father Zhao looked at Jiang Yun, shook his head and sighed: "Little Jiang, when you come here, don't think about going back." The three major families set the rules, here you are allowed to enter and not to leave, unless you can get the entry and exit permission issued by the family, otherwise... Once someone finds out that they are trying to secretly go to sea, they will be killed. ”
"What is this?" Jiang Yun looked dazed. "Closed off the country? Don't bring it like that! Isn't this a cage? ”
"Cage can't be talked about." Father Zhao smiled: "To be exact, this should be a place outside the world, and it is a blessed place where everyone can live and work in peace and contentment." The three major families have this rule, which is also for the sake of the local people. ”
"What do you mean by that?" Closing the country has become like this, and it is still called thinking about the people? I don't read much, don't lie to me!
"Here's the thing...
After some narration, Jiang Yun finally had a general understanding of the Taiwan of this world.
This has to start from 2,000 years ago, when Emperor Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty launched an army to overthrow the Shang Tang Dynasty. At that time, there were many wars and disasters across the country, and the people were struggling to make a living. In the case that most of the Jiangnan families took refuge in Ji Fa, there was a clan surnamed Lu, and the family went to sea and came to Yizhou, a barren place at that time.
Since the distance from the mainland is not very far, there are many people who emigrate from the mainland almost every year. Hundreds of years later, the number of mainlanders who settled in Yizhou has reached hundreds of thousands, and the demand for resources has led to irreconcilable contradictions between them and the local indigenous Shanyue people.
With the passage of time, the population continued to multiply, and the contradictions continued to accumulate, until one day, the contradictions finally reached the critical point of the outbreak and the war came.
This is a race battle for the right to live. In the early stage of the war, Shanyue's strong combat capability made the mainlanders suffer a lot, and they were even almost driven out of Yizhou for a time. This unfavorable situation of the war did not gradually begin to reverse until the emergence of gunpowder in the territory of the Great Zhou.
Gunpowder was quickly introduced to Yizhou. The use of gunpowder by colleagues gave rise to the emergence of firearms, even if it was only some crude artillery, in the Yibei region, which is generally plain, it can pose a great threat to the Shanyue people.
This war, which consisted of small-scale local strife, lasted for decades and ended in a draw.
The Yibei area was completely occupied by the mainlanders, and Shanyue was forced to retreat into the Yinan Mountains, and the terrain of the mountains greatly limited the ability of firearms. In desperation, the two sides gradually stabilized, forming a situation of confrontation between the north and the south.
In the following hundreds of years, two other families gradually emerged in the Yibei area, with the Mushui River as the boundary, namely the Shuidong Yang family, the Shuixi Li family, and the Shuibei Lu family.
During their respective development periods, the three major families will inevitably have some contradictions, but when the entire Yinan region is still controlled by Shanyue, they also have to help each other. Because of this, although there have been skirmishes between the three families, there has never been a large-scale war for hundreds of years.
The confrontation between the three major families, the confrontation between the mainlanders and the Shanyue people, has kept the entire Yizhou in a delicate balance for a long time. What could be more important to the people than peace in the world?
If you want to be peaceful, in addition to unifying Yizhou, you can only maintain this balance. Neither side has enough strength to complete the unification, so it is important to maintain balance.
For this reason, no one wants any more forces to intervene in Yizhou, and closing the country has become the only option to maintain balance. However, after all, Yizhou is small and thin, and many things must depend on the mainland of the Zhou Dynasty, and after negotiation, only the three major families have the right to issue entry and exit permits, and their own caravans go to the Great Zhou to trade in order to bring back some necessities of life.
Knowing this, Jiang Yun began to hurt again... Obviously, this so-called "entry and exit permit" is linked to the fundamental interests of the three major families, so they will never easily issue it to people outside the family, but they themselves are too outsiders to be outsiders.
How do you get it? Jiang Yun was entangled.