Hearing the shouts outside the village, Xia Erduo and his party hurriedly looked outside the village, it was okay not to look at it, this look immediately frightened the soul, more than a thousand officers and soldiers like wolves and tigers were rushing in from outside the village, looking at the posture, as if they were looking for someone desperately.

This can't be blamed on the three brothers of the Meng family, their hometown was occupied by thieves, and now it is a righteous battle, can you not fight hard to regain your hometown? More than 1,000 Sichuan soldiers all had hideous faces, and they looked like they were eager to take revenge after being killed by their father, and the momentum was really terrifying.

Xia Erduo is not a warrior, he has not even slashed people with a knife, when he was in Xi'an Mansion, he didn't dare to resist when he was bullied by the Ma family's second youth, and he belonged to the level of a good man. Now I saw more than a thousand fierce officers and soldiers rushing over, and their souls flew out of the clouds.

However, the pirates under his command who were responsible for teaching the people to grow corn were a little timid, these pirates fought with the pirate Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong, and they could be regarded as ruthless characters who licked blood with a knife, but Liu Xiang helped the Dutch to do things, which was unpopular, so these people did not sell their lives to Liu Xiang, and changed careers to become corn farmers in frustration. But that doesn't mean they can't work hard, a few pirates swiped their knives in their hands, protected Xia Erduo in the center, and said loudly: "Lord Xia, let's run quickly......"

Xia Erduo's legs were weak, where could he run, and he screamed: "My life is over." ”

Seeing Xia Erduo like this, the villagers of Mengjia Village who surrounded them became angry, these villagers had been starving and freezing for countless hard days before, but this year with the help of Xia Erduo, they planted corn and harvested a handful. Everyone was looking forward to a good life, and when they saw the officers and soldiers killed, they were a little angry.

A young man immediately shouted: "He is a turtle, Lao Tzu is finally looking forward to a good life, and the officers and soldiers of the dog days are cold (how) to come to the old man again?" ”

Another young man also responded: "Dou is, Lord Xia has helped us a lot this year, and even the seeds of corn are provided to us by Lord Xia for free, so how can it be a good thing to be tender in the imperial court?" ”

Everyone turned their eyes to look at the village chief of Mengjia Village, who was in his sixties this year, but he was not old and confused. Belong to the kind of old and spicy people. He glared and said, "Don't look down on me, we Sichuan people are simple, whoever is good to me, I am good to whom." Who treats me badly. Hit him a shit. Let's all go back and get weapons, and let's escort Lord Xia out of the encirclement. ”

Mengjia Village is not big, with more than 40 households. The men of all the families pulled out, and only a hundred people nodded, but these Sichuan people were really bold, and they were not afraid of the officers and soldiers, and dozens of families ran to their homes to prepare to copy the guys.

The three brothers of the Meng family in the distance saw this scene, but they didn't know what was happening, they could only guess, and the three brothers saw that the villagers ran back to the house, leaving Xia Erduo and his party in the village, and they were immediately overjoyed: "These dog thieves did not hold the villagers in our village hostage, and they are very good, so as not to hurt us by mistake." ”

Meng Changxing, the third child, said with a smile: "How dare they hold people hostage, the people in our village are all bloody men, if they dare to hold a person hostage, they will ensure that the whole village will jump out and bite them to death." ”

The boss Meng Changshui nodded: "Beans are!" ”

The three brothers of the Meng family know a lot about the people in their village, the Sichuan people are indeed bloody, and later when the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Sichuan, if anyone attacked a person in a village, the whole village had to fight to the death, and as a result, the situation of Tuchuan was formed in this way, I have to say that this bloody nature is worthy of admiration.

The officers and soldiers rushed violently, and finally entered the village, and the three brothers of the Meng family were about to order a three-sided encirclement to drive Xia Erduo and his party away, when they suddenly saw the villagers who had just dispersed back to their houses and rushed out again, each holding a hoe, sickle, firewood knife and other things in their hands.

The second Meng Changsheng said happily: "The folks have come to help us......

Before he could say this, he saw more than a hundred villagers with various weapons uniting around Xia Erduo, forming a circular formation, and a strong man was the first to play with the three brothers of the Meng family, a buddy named Meng Tiedan. When the three brothers of the Meng family went out of the village to join the army, Meng Tiedan also wanted to go with him, but his father did not allow it, so he left him in the village, and he had grown into a real iron man for several years, and he could be heard roaring angrily from afar: "Turtle son's officers and soldiers, Lao Tzu danced to death with a hoe......

The three brothers of the Meng family immediately froze: "No, why doesn't Tie Dan look like he wants to kill a thief, but like he wants to kill us?" ”

The three brothers looked at it, and it was really like this, more than a hundred villagers from Mengjia Village, all of them had their backs to Xia Erduo and his party, and the weapons in their hands were obviously pointed at the officers and soldiers...... What the hell is going on?

The boss Meng Changshui hurriedly beckoned his soldiers: "Don't rush up, surround it, figure it out before you start." ”

The officers and soldiers were separated by five or six zhang away, and surrounded the villagers of Mengjia Village and Xia Erduo and his party in the middle in a big circle. Actually protecting the thief? ”

He thought that Tie Dan would definitely be able to recognize him when he appeared, but he didn't expect that Tie Dan didn't recognize him at all. You must know that when a wanderer returns to his hometown, it is easy to recognize his former companions, but it is often difficult for his former companions to recognize the wanderers who have returned home, why? Because when the homecoming wanderer returns to his hometown, he has been recalling the past in his heart, and when he sees any face, he will try to recall how this face was back then, so it is extremely easy to recognize. But the people in the village don't take the face of an outsider seriously, so naturally it is not so easy to recognize. In addition, Meng Changshui was wearing a Wenshan armor and a helmet on his head, which was really hard to recognize.

When Tie Dan saw Meng Changshui walking towards him, he immediately yelled: "You officials are thieves!" The hoe in his hand smashed towards Meng Changshui, so frightened that Meng Changshui jumped backwards and almost fell to the ground.

"Hey, Iron Egg, don't you have a whole tender?" Meng Changshui shouted urgently: "Sorry for the brothers, if you kill Lao Tzu, your father will have to beat you to death to accompany Lao Tzu." ”

Meng Tiedan said angrily: "You fart, Lao Tzu killed a dog official." My dad doesn't praise me to the sky? Hey...... Wait, do you know my name is Tiedan? ”

Meng Changshui said angrily: "You are a turtle, and the brothers don't recognize it?" ”

Meng Tiedan also said angrily: "Fart, when did Lao Tzu and the dog official become brothers?" Although he scolded like this in his mouth, his eyes couldn't help but look carefully at the person in front of him, a few glances left and right, and suddenly he screamed: "You turtle is Brother Da Shui?" ”

Meng Changshui was overjoyed: "Turtle's, finally recognized Lao Tzu as old." Look at the two behind me, this is your second brother. Brother Sanxing. ”

Originally. In this small mountain village, Meng Changshui is known as Brother Da Shui, Meng Changsheng is called Brother Ersheng, and Meng Changxing is Brother Sanxing. The seniors are all bigger than the iron eggs. Tie Dan stared at the bull's eye for a long time. At last they all recognized, and with a cry, he threw the hoe in his hand aside.

The villagers in the back also began to throw down their weapons. All of them came up and said: "It's the three brothers of the Meng family, and they all want to get it, and they all become officials." ”

The three brothers of the Meng family also kept greeting: "Third Uncle, Seventh Uncle, Seventh Uncle...... The villagers of Mengjia Village have inherited the long-term tradition of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the names are numbers, such as Meng Laosan, Meng Chuqi, Meng Eight and Eight, etc., so it is convenient to greet them, either the second uncle or the third brother, or the seventh master, or the sixth uncle, all of them are numbers, change an outsider, and be sure to be dizzy by their one, two, three, four, and five names.

Xia Erduo is very dizzy now, he sees that the villagers who were still protecting him just now have all become the one-two-three-four-five-six-seven uncles of the officers and soldiers, what can I do? He didn't have much courage, and thought to himself: It's over, my life is really over now.

The three brothers of the Meng family and the villagers recognized each other for a long time, and finally got down to business, Meng Changshui pointed at Xia Erduo and the others, and said: "These dog thieves from Shaanxi robbed you of your grain, I brought people to kill them all this time, and then I took the people in the village to escape to the mountains." ”

"Grab food? You turtle mistake old! Meng Tiedan hurriedly explained to him: "Don't Lord Xia is a good person, he has made every household in our village collect a few hundred catties of extra grain, you turtle don't want to wronged a good person." ”

As soon as he said this, the three brothers of the Meng family were stunned for a moment, so the people on both sides got together and began to exchange information. The three brothers of the Meng family grew up in this village since they were children, and they are very familiar with the people in the village, of course they know that they will not lie, and they followed Tie Dan home to look at the corn cobs harvested by Tie Dan's family, and there is no doubt about it now.

The three brothers looked at each other, and they all felt a sense of confusion.

After a long while, the boss Meng Changshui said, "Do it cold?" (What to do)"

The second Meng Changsheng said: "You are the eldest brother, if you say it will be cold, you will do it coldly." ”

The boss hesitated for a while, and gritted his teeth: "Vote for Zhu Jun, damn, our hometown belongs to Zhu Jun, if we don't vote for Zhu Jun, can't we help the court fight our hometown?" ”

"Gotta get it!" The second child seconded.

The third Meng Changxing hesitated for a while and said: "The stinky girl who cut Lao Tzu is Zhu Jun's, Lao Tzu still wants to take revenge...... If you throw yourself in, how can you get revenge? ”

The boss Meng Changshui said: "Your turtle is not dead, the bean is a little injured, and there is nothing to ......."

When the three brothers said this, they had no opinions, so they came to Xia Erduo and saluted together: "Lord Xia, please introduce us to General Zhenxi, our three brothers decided to join General Zhenxi." ”

Xia Erduo's careful liver is jumping vigorously, I don't know what to do with Mengjia Village and the villagers and the officers and soldiers after they join forces, and now when I suddenly heard the three brothers of the Meng family say such words, a big stone in my heart finally fell to the ground, and I secretly screamed in my heart: Oh, my mother, scared to death.

But he said: "That's natural, the three generals just come with me, if you are willing to defect to our general, the general will be very happy." ”――

Xia Erduo returned to Guangyuan with the three brothers of the Meng family and more than a thousand Sichuan soldiers, and hurried to see Zhu Yuanzhang.

Hearing that the three brothers of the Meng family came to vote, Zhu Yuanzhang was very pleased, these three people came to vote for two major benefits, one is that they brought more than 1,000 native Sichuan soldiers, which is amazing. In the battle in Sichuan, these more than 1,000 Sichuan soldiers can be compared to 2,000 more ordinary Zhu soldiers, and if one of them is given a black gun and they are given a little more intensive training in discipline, they can become a very elite unit.

The second benefit is the publicity effect brought by the three brothers of the Meng family. You must know that the Sichuan people are very xenophobic, and it is difficult for them to believe that an outsider can really be good to them, so it is not easy to subdue the Sichuan people, Zhu Jun spent half a year to occupy only a Guangyuan and a Bazhou in northern Sichuan, on the one hand, because Yang Sichang is still eyeing the south with a large army, on the other hand, the Sichuan soil is untamable, Zhu Yuanzhang did not dare to take too big a step, for fear of flashing his waist. Now that the three brothers of the Meng family have defected to him, it is equivalent to giving other Sichuan people and Sichuan soldiers a wake-up call. Tell them invisibly. Zhu Jun has already won the approval of the Sichuan people and is an object to rely on.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, and met the three brothers in Guangyuan's yamen and entertained them with a meal.

Naturally, all the leaders of the Zhu army came to meet with the three brothers. The red lady and Meng Changxing talked a few words. Resolve the grievances that injured Meng Changxing last time.

Three rounds of drinking. As a staff member, Li Yan actually opened his mouth and asked the three brothers of the Meng family: "Three generals, the late life has been thinking hard about some strategic issues in the capture of Sichuan recently. I also want to ask the three of you for a lesson or two. ”

The three brothers of the Meng family saw that it was Li Yan who spoke to them, but they had a little respect, after all, Li Yan was a legitimate court leader, and this kind of literati had a very high status in the hearts of the old and coarse, and when they heard him have something to ask, the three of them put down their wine glasses to listen carefully.

Li Yan said: "As the saying goes, the world has been chaotic, the world has been peaceful, and the world has been ruled but not cured. (Note, this sentence first appeared in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty Ouyang Zhigong's "Shu Police Record", it stands to reason that Li Yan should not have heard of it, this book is borrowed and used casually, please do not take it seriously.) ）

Li Yan said: "I want to know why this is going on? If you don't know the key to this, if our Zhu army wants to occupy Shu and govern Shu well, which problem is the most important thing to solve? As a person, he has a lot of knowledge, but his understanding of Sichuan is limited, so he really doesn't know why Xishu has been in such a situation, so he humbly asked the three brothers of the Meng family for advice.

It's a pity that the three brothers are all big and coarse, how can they understand these big truths, and they are at a loss after hearing it.

Seeing that the three of them were asked, Zhu Yuanzhang took over with a smile and said, "What's this...... I know a thing or two. ”

Li Yan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly asked, "General, please advise the late students." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Since ancient times, Shuzhong is easy to mess and difficult to govern, the main reason is that there are too many ethnic minorities here, and the population composition is extremely complex. In order to properly govern the Shu region, the most crucial issue is to properly handle the relationship between the various ethnic minorities and the self-army. ”

"Huh? Why? Li Yanqi said.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Shu is different from the Central Plains and other places, there are relatively few Han people here, all kinds of ethnic minorities live together, and the customs and habits are very different. ”

"Huh? So exaggerated? Li Yan was a little unconvinced.

At this time, the three brothers of the Meng family also came back to their senses, and said in unison: "What the general said is that the biggest trouble in Sichuan is that there are too many ethnic minorities here, and they are independent, and most of them are not subject to the dispatch of the imperial court. Therefore, Shu is very prone to chaos...... Previous years...... The patriarch of the Yi nationality was extravagant and rebelled, and together with An Bangyan, he entangled an army of 100,000 people, first breaking through Chongqing, and then attacking Chengdu...... almost made Sichuan change masters...... This was before the Whitewater Uprising...... Therefore, it is not a lie to say that the world is not chaotic before Shu is chaotic. ”

The rebellion between Luxury Chongming and An Bangyan was very widely implicated, known as the Luxury Rebellion, most of the Shu people knew about it, but because of the complex terrain of Western Shu, the news was not easy to spread, so Li Yan, who was in Henan, had never heard of it, and he couldn't help but wonder: "There is such a thing?" It turns out that Sichuan was already in chaos before Brother Zhu's uprising? I thought that before the 36th Battalion entered Shu, Sichuan had been very peaceful, but I didn't expect that there would be such a demon moth...... Sure enough, the world is not in chaos before Shu is in chaos, so what happened to this extravagant Chongming? Why didn't I see Li Zicheng when I entered Sichuan? ”

The three brothers of the Meng family smiled bitterly: "It's fun to say, the Yi people rebelled, and our Han soldiers were helpless, but the Tujia soldiers ran out and fought a fierce battle with the Lu Chongming in Chengdu, and finally defeated the Yi people, forcing the Yi people to retreat to Yungui...... Later, Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hu, entangled the soldiers and horses of various ethnic groups and invaded the nest of the Yi people, and finally put down the rebellion of Lu'an. ”

When Li Yan heard it, it was interesting! The Yi rebellion, the result was that the Tujia people went to defeat him, and then organized multi-ethnic troops to suppress it, this Sichuan form is really, this is simply nothing to do with the Han people.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded beside him and said, "That's right, it's true...... The imperial court has a great headache for these ethnic minorities, and if they want to fight, these ethnic minorities will retreat into the mountains and take advantage of the terrain to hold on, and the imperial court will not be able to take them for a while and a half, wasting a lot of money and food in vain. Therefore, the imperial court generally does not make a move against these ethnic minorities, but appoints a Tusi to act as an agent for their own clan, and these Tusi have all become Tu Emperors, who do not obey the king, divide the mountains, and make the form of Shu very complicated. Only a very small number of Tusi can understand the righteousness and become the help of the imperial court. ”

When Li Yan heard this, he suddenly realized: "That...... The famous general Qin Liangyu is such a toast? (To be continued.) )