The Qiang soldiers ran in and reported: "The three patriarchs, Li Yan and Li Gongzi, who came last time, asked to see him outside the camp again, saying that he was looking for us to do business. ”

Before Rimai Muxi could react, Tashi first shouted: "This guy is here again? Drive away, drive away! ”

Marcy was a little more steady, frowned and said, "Do business? Could it be the corn he talked about last time? This man...... Belch...... Let him in and hear what he has to say. "I have tasted the taste of corn, seen the yield of corn, and even got tens of thousands of catties of corn, but unfortunately I have gained and lost, which has made Marcy's attitude towards corn have quietly changed.

Rimai Muxi actually began to think about it, if it was before, the Qiang people were not interested in dealing with the Han people, not to mention that the other party was still a thief among the Han people, but after the last time the Meng brothers took them to the Zhu army's territory, they personally collected six or seven hundred catties of corn from the corn field, and saw the yield of this new crop. If he wasn't tempted, it would be weird.

The Qiang tribe is really poor...... They live in the mountains, where the land is barren, and the point is that in the highland climate, ordinary crops cannot grow, and they can only survive on barley. This has led to the fact that the entire Qiang people are very poor, and everyone's life is miserable.

Strictly speaking, Rimai Muxi may not be a good person, in the Qiang tribe, he is a big patriarch, and he has not done many things to bully men and women, and even Qiang girls have been ruined. But no matter how bad he is, he knows how to think about his tribe, if the whole tribe is rich. Of course, he, who is the patriarch, will also rise to the top. This principle is the same as the fact that no matter how faint the monarch is, he also wants his country to be rich and strong.

After thinking about it for a long time, Rimai Muxi waved his hand and said, "Please come in Li Yangongzi." ”

After a while, Li Yan walked in accompanied by the Qiang soldiers, he was still the same as last time, wearing a Confucian shirt, looking like a scholar who was powerless, but the three Qiang patriarchs all understood that this person was very powerful, these days. The Qiang people racked their brains and couldn't get the corn from under Li Yan's nose. There was even a time when Rimai Musi was almost captured.

Seeing Li Yan come in, with a smile on his face that resembled them, Tashi was not happy and roared angrily, "You Han Chinese. What does the expression on the face mean? ”

Li Yan laughed: "I have such a smile." You get the idea. Didn't I just want to ask you, did you succeed in grabbing corn? In fact, Li Yan is not such an arrogant personality, he is a gentle and good son. Usually he rarely speaks to people in such a tone, but this time it is different, he knows that ethnic minorities are not inferior to pride, you are soft with them, they will be hard with you, you have to be tough, do not take them seriously, they are willing to negotiate with you on an equal footing.

Li Yan's sentence immediately deflated Tashi, although the Qiang people are not very convinced of the king, and even a little barbaric, but they don't have many hearts, losing is losing, winning is winning, these days they can't grab a corn kernel even if they do everything, they have already vented their anger, and they are very uncomfortable by Li Yan's words, so they have to droop their heads and snort: "Count you ruthless!" ”

Li Yan laughed.

Rimai Muxi spoke: "Li Gongzi, are you here to take us down, or are you here to do business?" If you're here to get someone, you can go now. ”

Li Yan smiled slightly: "Of course, the late life is here to do business, as for the strange people, it is obvious that this Tashi patriarch is the first to stir up trouble, otherwise the later life will not confront him." ”

Rimaimousi glared at Tashi, who had no choice but to step aside in a huff. Rimai Muxi then asked, "Now you can talk about trading, right?" What exactly do you want to buy and sell with us? ”

Li Yan slapped his hand: "Wansheng knows that you Qiang people are straight and don't like twists and turns, so Wansheng made it clear that you will withdraw from here, and from now on, you will no longer care about the affairs between our Zhu army and the imperial court, and the two will not help each other, and Wansheng will provide you with 100,000 catties of corn as your travel fare back and forth, how about it?" ”

Sure enough, it's corn! The three patriarchs were happy in their hearts, and then quickly suppressed the joy, the most taboo thing in the negotiation is to show the joy, this truth, the three patriarchs still understand. They glanced at each other, passed a look, and finally gave the right to speak to Marcy, because Rimai Muxi was the great patriarch, and if he came out to make conditions, there would be no room for turning around later, so it was up to someone of the lower status to come out and speak, and it would be convenient to adjust it later.

Marcy coughed lightly and said, "100,000 catties is too little, right?" This bit of food is distributed among tens of thousands of Qiang people, and it will be eaten in a few days, so you have to add more! ”

Li Yan laughed: "If you want to add that, you can't do it, you don't want to think about it, I gave you these benefits, but I just asked you to withdraw from the army, and the two didn't help each other, and I didn't ask you to help us fight, and I didn't ask you to call our army a vassal, and there will be tens of thousands of catties of grain for a soldier to retreat, where is such a good thing?" If my Zhu army presses the army to the border line of your Qiang people, and asks you for 100,000 catties of grain to retreat, are you willing? ”

The three patriarchs thought about it, it seems that this is the case, if the Zhu army's army presses next to the territory of the Qiang tribe and asks for 100,000 taels of grain to retreat, what is the difference between it and banditry? The Qiang people would rather die than give food. In this way, it seems that they have earned 100,000 catties of grain.

But the three of them felt something strange, there seemed to be something logical wrong, and after thinking about it for a long time, they figured out that Zhu Jun was different from their Qiang people, the Qiang people were recognized by the imperial court, and they were guarded by the soldiers and judges, and they were also part of the Ming Dynasty.

They pressed to the border of the Zhu army, which was a contribution to the country and a just war. But if the Zhu army pressed next to their Qiang territory to extort food, the nature would be completely different.

After a long time, it was the thieves who wanted to buy us with food! When the three patriarchs finally woke up, Tashi immediately said angrily, "You are trying to trap our Qiang people in injustice!" After you are suppressed by the imperial court, our Qiang people will also be investigated by the imperial court for the crime of a thief. ”

Li Yan saw that these three were not as cunning as the Han people. But his brain is not all stupid, he can't help but feel funny, he smiled: "In fact, the key issue here is whether the imperial court can beat our Zhu army...... he said freely: "If the imperial court destroys our army, you will naturally be charged with collaborating with the enemy, but if the imperial court is overthrown by our army, and the world changes its master, what will happen to you?" When the time comes, as my friends with Zhu Jun, you will be able to avoid the scourge of extermination. ”

When he said this, the three patriarchs couldn't help but be moved. Li Yan is right. The key question here is who wins the fight.

Marcy rolled her eyes and said, "More than ten years ago, the great chief of the Yi tribe, Hao Chongming, rebelled. Tangled up 100,000 Yi soldiers. As a result, it was also extinguished by the imperial court. How can we believe that your Zhu army can win the imperial court? Do you have an army of 100,000? ”

Li Yan laughed: "Luxury Chongming doesn't have an army of 100,000 at all, he added all the men, women and children of the Yi nationality together, and there are only 100,000 people." But what about our Zhu Jun...... You should know that our army has already controlled the entire territory of Shaanxi, and if we add all men, women, and children together, there are millions of people, and the Yi people can compare with us? ”

After a pause, he said: "The 100,000 people of the Yi nationality are so poor that they jingle loudly, but the millions of people in my Zhu army, all of them grow corn with a yield of six or seven hundred catties per mu, and potatoes and sweet potatoes with a yield of more than 1,000 catties per mu. ”

When these words came out, Marcy didn't have the strength to refute it, as Li Yan said, the Yi people's luxury Chongming back then was not a little worse than the current Baishui Zhu Balai, and the foundation was not at the same level at all.

Li Yan waved his hand and said: "I know what you are worried about, if you don't fight with our army, you are worried that after the court has pacified our Zhu army, you will settle accounts after the autumn and find trouble with the Qiang people, but in fact, you don't have to worry, you should know better than me the attitude of the court towards you, as long as you don't openly stand on the side of our army and help our army fight, the court will definitely be in line with the principle that more is better than less, and it is absolutely impossible to come to you for trouble." What's more, the imperial court may not be the opponent of our army! ”

Li Yan is not talking nonsense, in fact, the imperial court's policy towards ethnic minorities is very free and open, almost giving them complete autonomy, and as long as they are subordinate to the central government, they will not be ruthless. Take the Shizhu Tujia family as an example, they organized white pole soldiers to resist the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and then in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, the Tujia family finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty did not do anything to them, and the result was still to give them official titles and let them be autonomous, just like they had never fought before.

The Ming Dynasty's policy towards ethnic minorities may have been a little tougher than that of the Qing Dynasty, but it was not much tougher, and as long as the Qiang people did not publicly counter-judge, the imperial court would never settle accounts with them.

Of course, Rimai Muxi and the others knew this truth, they just said that they were worried about the imperial court's reckoning, and it was just an excuse to negotiate and strive for better conditions, but they were exposed by Li Yan's words, so they had to keep silent.

Seeing that Marcy failed to win more benefits, Rimai Muxi had no choice but to speak, he nodded and said, "I didn't expect that Li Gongzi was so familiar with the imperial court's policy of young people, and it was really powerful." My brother doesn't know much about this, and he didn't say it well, so please forgive me......"

As soon as he stepped forward, he erased the fact that Marcy had said the wrong thing. Then he said: "The conditions proposed by Li Gongzi are indeed good, but Marcy also said just now that 100,000 catties is only enough for tens of thousands of Qiang people to eat for a few days, which is actually not interesting...... You Han people have a good saying, it is better to give them fish, it is better to give them fish, I want to ask Li Yan to change the conditions, I don't want 100,000 taels of silver food, I want 100 acres of seeds, plus a farmer who knows how to plant corn, go back with us, teach us to plant corn, what do you think? ”

Now it is finally about the play meat, Rimai Muxi is the final condition, he also calculated well in his heart, first get the seeds of a hundred acres of land back, and get a farmer who can farm, let him teach the Qiang people to plant corn, and when the Qiang people learn, they can rely on the corn planted on the 100 acres of land, and then cultivate and plant, and then it is not difficult to plant all the tribes of the Qiang people in western Sichuan with corn......

Li Yan was happy in his heart, he could hear that Rimai Muxi was very sincere, since this was the case, he might as well bargain all over the sky and repay the money on the spot. Li Yan said with a smile: "This is not good, we Han people still have a good saying, taught the apprentice, starved to death the master." I handed over the corn planting method to you, and what should I do if you bring someone to call me again? I'm not a fool. It's not that easy to deceive. ”

It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach a man to fish, and he taught his apprentice to starve to death of his master, why are these two sentences so conflicting? Rimai Muxi Khan, thinking: The knowledge of the Han people is really strange, contradictory to self-contradiction, he smiled bitterly: "Then what do you say?" ”

Li Yan smiled: "It's very simple...... Do it! I set aside 100 acres of land in Guangyuan as the land for your Qiang people to grow corn, and you sent dozens of Qiang families down the mountain to live in Guangyuan to take care of the corn, and my people will teach them how to grow corn. And keep them safe. After the corn is planted, it can be transported back to your Qiang territory, and these dozens of families can also return to the Qiang with the corn, and we will not detain them. ”

Rimai Muxi Daqi: "What does this mean?" ”

Li Yan said: "If you do this. One hundred acres of corn are under the control of our Zhu Army. We will not be afraid that you will repent. And we, Zhu Jun, naturally will not regret it. Otherwise, you can kill them again from the bottom of the mountain at any time. ”

Rimai Muxi thought about it, it seemed that this was really the case, as for sending dozens of Qiang families down the mountain to learn to grow corn. He didn't think there was anything wrong with it, even if Zhu Jun was making trouble and wanted to take these dozens of families hostage, but the Qiang people were not afraid of the Han people taking them hostage at all, it was a big deal to sacrifice these dozens of families, and the lives of people in troubled times were as cheap as dogs, and anyone who took dozens of peasants as hostages would be stupid. If this deal can be completed, the corn fruits of 100 acres of land will return to the mountains with dozens of Qiang families who have learned how to grow corn, and the Qiang people will be rich at that time.

Rimai Muxi was afraid that Li Yan would regret it, so he hurriedly clapped his hand and said: "Okay, it's decided!" I don't have to pick farmers, just pick a hundred Qiang soldiers in the army who know how to farm, and just go with you. ”

The two armies made a decision, and Li Yan returned to Guangyuan with a hundred Qiang soldiers who were good at farming. And Rimai Muxi and the others began to pack up the camp and prepare to return to the mountain, planning to help each other, and let the court and Zhu Jun bite it by themselves-

However, it was said that Li Yan brought the Qiang soldiers back, built a small village outside Guangyuan City, circled 100 acres of wasteland, opened it up, arranged for these 100 Qiang soldiers to live in the village, and then asked Xia Erduo to bring people to teach them to plant corn, and this matter soon spread throughout Guangyuan. At this time, the Han people and the ethnic minorities still belonged to the two camps of Jing Wei, and the people of Guangyuan were very puzzled, why did Zhu Jun get the Qiang people to the place where the Han people lived to get a village, wouldn't it be easy to cause problems?

This problem is not only for the common people, but even many leaders in the Zhu army are confused.

In fact, even Li Yan, who handled this matter, was a little confused, although he was a person who made a plan, but it was Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to get the Qiang people to live with the Han people, and he was a little unclear about the meaning of Zhu Yuanzhang's action.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang would not tell them that the best way to influence an ethnic minority is to let them be assimilated by the culture of the Han people. He simply instructed his subordinates not to harass the Qiang people, but to manage and treat them as if they were Han Chinese. Send them more Han Chinese goods, such as persuading them to stop baking barley cakes and use Han Chinese pots to cook corn instead. He also persuaded them not to wear the fur hats often worn by the Qiang people, but to replace them with white scarves that the Sichuan people like to wrap around their heads, and tell them the commentaries of the Han people......

This kind of behavior is called cultural aggression, and it only takes time for these Qiang people to feel that the moon of the Han people is rounder than that of the Qiang people, and when they return to the Qiang tribe to teach corn planting technology, their views will be brought back to the hearts of the Qiang people, and slowly take root, and eventually form cultural invasion and infiltration.

In later generations, there was a race called Westerners, who used this trick on our Celestial Empire, and as a result, Westerners did it very successfully, and many Celestial Empire people in later generations had a fundamental change in aesthetics, and they no longer liked to wear long shirts and coats, but changed to wear suits and leather shoes. They also gave themselves an English name, and they muttered all day long that the moon in a foreign country is rounder than in China, and that the novels of foreigners are better than those of Chinese......

Even, many people don't even like traditional Oriental beauties, and instead think that Europeans are in better shape than Orientals!

This is assimilated at all, in fact, it is not that the figure of the Oriental beauty is not as good as the figure of the Western beauty, but that they have made the figure of the Westerner into a standard, and the standards have changed, can it be measured well?

To put aside the aesthetics of the Chinese during the Tang Dynasty, Western women are all ugly to death, and only the fat girl like Yang Guifei is a beauty! The reason is that the people of the Tang Dynasty took fat girls as their aesthetic standard. Different standards will lead to different results, and standards are formulated by the superiors who have the right to disseminate culture.

That's the power of cultural aggression!

Zhu Yuanzhang intends to spread culture and soak culture to the ethnic minorities of Sichuan, and to do this, of course, it needs strong economic strength as a backing, mixing various ideas into commodities, and importing them into these ethnic minorities can open this gap. This approach has been proven feasible by later generations, and Zhu Yuanzhang only needs to copy it. (To be continued.) )