Basang is the "Gangcha" of the Huang Naihai tribe, that is, the serf family without livestock, among the twelve tribes in Huangnan, the number of Gangcha is the largest, and it can be said that it is the mainstream class group of Tibetans.

In fact, Basang's family was originally "Chawa", with cattle and sheep, but when he was a child, his father died tragically in a fight with Duowa, and since then the family has plummeted, and the cattle and sheep were occupied by the head of Duo Yuejie in the name of requisitioning military horses and livestock in the previous dynasty, and the beautiful and amorous mother was also called to his home by Duo Yuejie, and spent a humiliating year.

Twenty-three years old, Basang had grown into a stocky young man, and he worked every day for three people, hoping that one day he would be able to redeem the cattle and sheep from the chief.

But just five days ago, when his sister was serving the hostess, she accidentally broke the porcelain teacup that her master had exchanged from the Central Plains, and was immediately beaten and imprisoned in the dungeon.

The dungeon, everyone in the tribe knows, being locked in the dungeon, almost no one can come out alive, the terrifying and dark stone chamber, more terrible than hell, the torture instruments inside, cruel and unimaginable, I heard that the torture in the dungeon will make people feel that death is the best destination.

Basang didn't dare to resist the headman, but today, when he heard that the big officials of the Central Plains came to the earthen fort, and the whole village was driven to the grass mountain for the night, he couldn't bear it anymore, he felt that this was an opportunity, a chance to save his sister, if he didn't take advantage of today's rescue of his sister, he would never have the face to live under the blue sky where the eagle that his ancestors became soaring, and his heart was dripping blood every day.

So, despite his mother's persuasion, he still came to the earthen fort, disguised himself as a jade cang, who had come to deliver cakes (dried cow dung fuel), and prepared to blend into the earthen fort, and in order to be more realistic, he also persuaded his mother to come with him.

Who knows, the Central Plains guard wearing a red military uniform is so alert, without saying a word, he and his mother were pressed to the ground, Basang struggled hard, but the butt of a gun was smashed on the head, and the tinnitus was so painful that he almost fainted.

At this time, Ye Zhao and Afaf came back from pacing, and they saw Basang and his mother, who had been caught by Ouchi's guards.

Although it is the height of summer, the weather on the plateau is extremely cool at night, even slightly cold.

Basang roared unyieldingly like a beast, scratching the ground with both hands, and almost scratching his nails with blood.

The guards tied Basang's feet and hands like tying up wild boars, Basang seemed to be churning, after all, he was still tied firmly, if he inserted a flat pole between his hands and feet, it was really like a farmer in the Central Plains going to the market to sell pigs, and the wooden board kept pumping towards Basang's mouth, so that the corners of Basan's mouth were dripping with blood.

Ye Zhao didn't stop, and went straight into the earthen fort, Afaf hesitated for a moment, and followed in, although she couldn't get used to seeing the Han officials being high and treating foreign races as livestock, but she also knew that she couldn't change anything.

In the luxurious and spacious banquet room, sitting on a wooden chair, Afaf did not go upstairs, she was going to deal with it in the hall for a night, and then took out a black bun and took a bite, Ramadan, Bai said that he did not eat.

Ye Zhao took a sip of tea, looked at the hard stone-like steamed buns in Afafu's hands, and shook his head, although there was canned beef in the army, she wouldn't eat the food made by the emperor's [***] team.

After a while, Fanren ran in, nodded his head, and said with a smile: "My lord, I asked out, the pig's name is Basang, he said that his sister was locked up in the manor dungeon, and he came to save his sister, and he had no intention of assassinating the adult." ”

Ye Zhao put down the teacup and frowned, "Dungeon? Ask the girls to ask. ”

"Girls?" The interpreter was stunned, and then realized that he was talking about the most despicable talents.

Soon, several frightened and pale slave girls were brought up.

Seeing Ye Zhao and Yan Yuese talking to the slave girls, Afaf's eyes showed a slight look of surprise.

The dungeon was on the easternmost side of the first floor of the earth fort, and after walking through a long narrow passage, I saw an iron door in front of me, which was tightly locked, and the oil lamp flickered on and off.

The slave girl who led the way trembled with fear, as if the devil would be pounced on at any time, and she was more than ten steps away from the iron gate, and she did not dare to take a single step.

"Smash it open." Ye Zhao made a gesture.

A guard found a hammer, picked it up and hit it a few times, "bang" the iron lock fell to the ground, the iron door was kicked open, and then a sour smell came to the face, and the iron door was a stone staircase winding down, and the black hole could not see the situation below.

"I'm not going down to watch." Ye Zhao suddenly sighed, and said to Afafu again: "White girl, don't look at it. He turned and walked out of the corridor.

Afaf prayed silently in his heart, and came to the Yongdao crossing, and in a short time, he saw Basang rushing into the Yongdao like a gust of wind, accompanied by the guards, and then, the heart-rending howl of a beast sounded, echoing throughout the earthen fort.

In the banquet hall, Ye Zhao's face sank like water, and he gave a series of orders to arrest the leader Duo Yuejie, and ordered the Shenji battalion to surround the Tibetans on the grass mountain behind the village, and no one was allowed to leave.

There is no way to do this, if they are arrested, how can the Tibetans know what happened, they are afraid that they will be frightened and flee immediately, and now they can only be imprisoned with the threat of force for the time being.

Originally, the Tibetan tribes, in any case, would not benefit from these nobles who had ruled for generations, and if the rumors were spread by false rumors, it would certainly cause panic among the Tibetan people.

But when I listened to the guards tell me about the tragic situation of the female slave in the dungeon, my fingers were chopped off, and there was almost no skin and flesh on my body that was bloody.

Be extremely tragic! Ye Zhao didn't want to wait any longer, and he made a decision almost instantly.

One after another, Ye Zhao ordered the guards to hurry to Baoan City to send a telegram back to Lanzhou and Jingshi, but in fact, the telegram had been prepared by him a long time ago, and he was going to send it again steadily, but now he wanted Beijing and Lanzhou to step up.

In the telegram, he asked Lanzhou to temporarily set up a propaganda group and at the same time send political cadres to form a training class to Huangnan to publicize the imperial policy in Huang Naihai, and at the same time, select qualified Tibetans to train the first batch of Tibetan cadres.

It will undoubtedly be a good start to carry out political structure reform in Huangnan as a pilot and at the same time train Tibetan cadres to enter Tibetan Province in the future, and have a large number of Tibetan cadres who can be used.

Of course, now we have to start with Huang Naihai, and the remaining eleven departments must be stable, otherwise it will inevitably cause panic in Huangnan.

And to deal with the crime of Duo Yuejie, it is only said that he colluded with the Fairness Party, wantonly provoked various tribes to fight, and created bloody cases.

Just as Ye Zhao was groaning, Duo Yuejie was tied up and pushed into the banquet hall, and from beginning to end, before the gunshots rang out, Duo Yuejie's armament was disarmed.

"My lord, what fault did I make?" Duo Yuejie raised his head and asked unyieldingly.

Ye Zhaoli didn't pay attention to him, just waved his hand and said, "Locked in the dungeon!" "What's the point of telling him that he killed slaves because of his cruel torture? The ideological gap is not at all compatible.

A few days later, the propaganda group and the training class for political work cadres from Lanzhou came to Huang Naihai's department, and their level may not be very high, but their superficial views on imperial policy are more easily understood by the Tibetans.

As one of the few Tibetan interpreters, Afaf naturally began to come into contact with various books on imperial thought, such as citizenship and people's livelihood rights, and Ye Zhao often saw her in the study intently reading the original theoretical books.

The weather is getting cooler, the midsummer season has passed, and in a blink of an eye, Ye Zhao lived in this Huang Naihai Manor for three months, during which the telegraph line was erected from the security city to Huang Naihai, and the people of the Huang Naihai Department gradually settled down, all except for the first hundred or so people who fled, to this day, the order of life has returned to normal.

Walking on the grassy slope, looking at the herdsmen driving cattle and sheep in the distance, Ye Zhao stood silently.

Ye Zhao was accompanied by Basang, who is now an active member of the Tibetan cadre training course.

In fact, in three months, how can it really change the thinking of these Tibetans, and now what is instilled with the Tibetans is only the idea of repaying debts and killing people, the contract system, and so on, a month ago, Ye Zhao announced that he would lease Duo Yuejie's confiscated land and pasture to all the clans, including Cai Yuhu, who had been a slave for generations, and also distributed fields or pastures, and signed a contract with them. Seeing that the labor and taxes that need to be borne have been greatly reduced, and that there will be a surplus of wealth in a year, the people silently accepted this change.

In fact, most of the people do not believe in the propaganda of the Central Plains, how can there be such a good thing? Many people think that they don't know what kind of soup the Central Plains people are pouring, you must know that in the past, even if you say the wrong thing, you will be fined by the head, if it is a family with four walls, it will definitely be a beating. Now, what? Officials are not allowed to beat and curse people at will? And everyone has the land and pasture to lease and protect the private property earned by labor? Is this heaven? It must be a conspiracy of the Central Plains. But under the incomparably powerful divine cannon, he could only meekly obey the arrangements of the Central Plains.

Of course, there are also a small number of people who believe that Lord Lushuai is the reincarnation of the Great Mighty King Kong to save them from the sea of suffering.

Basang is one of the minority factions that believe in the Central Plains, especially ten days ago, Duo Yuejie was hanged for "colluding with the party" and "killing the citizens of the empire", and the balance of Basang's psychology finally completely fell to the Central Plains.

Even if the Central Plains people have an ulterior conspiracy, he doesn't care, he never thought that when he saw Duo Yuejie struggling to breathe, his mood would be so comfortable, and he wanted Duo Yuejie to die, he had never dreamed of this kind of thought before.

Duo Yuejie was hanged, as if it also liberated the imprisoned feelings of the Tibetans, and the shock to the hearts of the Tibetans was even beyond Ye Zhao's imagination.

Three days ago, the third battalion of Shenji arrested the head of the Yalang tribe who incited the Tibetans of the tribe to flee from Huangnan, and at the same time, each of the remaining ten tribes was sent to a sentry foot, and the activists of the Huang Naihai tribe were sent to speak and publicize the changes in Huang Naihai with the Tibetans.

Ye Zhao is already preparing to let Lanzhou take over Huangnan affairs, after all, this is not an overnight effort, it is impossible for him to stay here all the time, the tone is set, and next, it is a matter of time.

Huangnan naturally wants to build a county, and the twelve tribes are twelve townships, in fact, in Huang Naihai, the township chief and the security team have been built, and the township chief is Basang. It's just that the township chief and the security team are all ignorant, and they are temporarily in the learning stage, and they can't manage Huang Naihai's government affairs in a short period of time. The senator of the township office was a clerk from Lanzhou and became Basang's teacher.

"Basang, whether everyone in your clan can have food or not will depend on you in the future." Ye Zhao looked at Qingshan Tianyuan and gently patted Basang's shoulder.

Standing beside the pacification envoy, Basang noticed for the first time that the grassland was so vast and so vast that it was as if it was the pacification envoy who made him open his eyes and see a scenery that he had never seen before.

When night fell, a siren suddenly sounded in Huang Naihai Village, and then the gunshots rang out, it was the Yushu cavalry of the Fair Party, hundreds of horse lancers, screaming, shouting, whistling from the field.

Immediately, the two cannons erected at the entrance of the village shot fiercely like bursting beans, the fierce horses screamed, in the faint firelight, the horse bandits were planted one by one, behind the barbed wire, the Shenji battalion lined up like a rain of guns, almost no horse could rush to the village entrance a hundred steps ago, when the horse bandits were defeated, the loud horn sounded in the village, the lancers of the cavalry battalion flew out, like a thunderbolt, rolled towards the fleeing horse bandits, the sound of shooting, screams, the bandits fell off their horses one after another, in the grass, I don't know how many new souls were added.

Afif saw the immense power of the Imperial War Machine for the first time, and her pretty face changed color slightly, it was obvious that her remnants would have no room for resistance in the face of this force, not even compared to the mantis arm of the pawn.

When the gunshots rang out, Ha Aki, Iori Reed, and Hanahime were preparing to grill lamb skewers on the balcony of their bedroom.

The gunshots rang out, Ye Zhao didn't go out to see, he still brushed the mutton skewers with the two women, prepared the seasoning, and when the meat skewers were set on fire and roasted, the guards came to report that the horse bandits were defeated, most of them were annihilated, and the small ones were captured, and only a dozen people escaped.

Ye Zhao knew that this was the bandit in the Guoluo area who was defeated under the blow of the conscription corps, and he could only survive by looting everywhere. However, the Fairness Party in the Yushu area is extremely popular with all tribes and is good at dispersing guerrilla warfare, so it is really not an easy task to clear the entire territory of Qinghai.

After receiving a call from Zhao Sanbao, Zhang Jiaguoshi had entered Tibet under the escort of the army division, and it was not far to get up and enter Beijing, and it was time for him to return to Beijing.

During this time, I even heard rumors that there were rumors of their own deaths in the south and north of the Yangtze River, but it was good, the big waves washed the sand, and I just happened to see where the unstable factors were.

The negotiations with the British on the status of Sikkim were not smooth, but at present, they could only let it go, and it was already difficult to support the war in the northwest with the current finances of the empire, and there was no time to take care of the southwest.

Thinking of these, Ye Zhao sighed, I don't know when I can really eat a meal easily, it seems to be fine clothes and food, but in fact, where is the happiness of the small people?

Having said that, those in high positions, in addition to the heartless emperors of several dynasties, how many people are as pleasant as they imagined?

"Sir, don't think about national affairs, I'm going to call the white girl to come and eat barbecue, right?" The pink kimono of Reedzuki Iori is beautiful and unique.

Ye Zhao smiled: "You and Hua Ji have a big face, go shout." "To say that Afaf and Wei Yue Iori, Hua Ji get along very well, this time, Ye Zhao often writes something in the study, almost never really sleeps in the bedroom, often squints during the day, and Afafu and the two daughters spend more time together, and also take the second daughter to Longwu Temple to worship the Buddha, Xiaogong Mountain to view, but also thanks to her accompanying the two daughters.

Reeds, Iori and Hanahime really brought Afaf over, but when they saw Ye Zhao, Afaf was slightly stunned, obviously thinking that Ye Zhao was not there.

"Today it's all mutton, and Hexian, knowing that you are here, Mr. deliberately didn't call his favorite pork belly." Wei Yue Yiori's words were natural, but Ye Zhao couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, knowing that she didn't mean anything, just said the facts, how could she feel weird?

"Do you want me to avoid it?" Ye Zhao knew that Muslim unmarried girls avoided many taboos, and he didn't know that eating barbecue with men was not a taboo.

"No need." As he spoke, he gently removed the white veil, revealing a beautiful face.

Ye Zhao nodded, and said in his heart that the strange world of his situation is rare, is it the great unity of the nation today? The Yi people, the Hui people, the Yamato people, and the three beautiful girls with different beliefs and styles eat barbecue together, which feels very novel.

The balcony is extremely wide, and the night tonight is extremely beautiful, and the round jade plate seems to be within reach.

"Sir, will we go back to Yanjing in two days?" Iori Reedsuki handed the grilled meat skewers to Ye Zhao, Hanahime, and Afaf in turn.

Ye Zhao had long been accustomed to stretching out his hands to open his mouth, so he took it as a matter of course, nodded, reached out and pinched Hua Ji's beautiful little face, and said, "Yes, you have suffered in the past few months." Hua Ji's wife, are you tired? ”

Hearing Ye Zhao call her wife, Hua Ji thought carefully and sweetly, shook her head, and said, "I'm not tired." "In his hand, help Ye Zhao peel the shrimp skin.

Ye Zhao said with a smile: "When the train is connected in the future, I will bring you here, at that time, it will be very interesting to revisit the old place." ”

Both women nodded.

Afaf was curious, but he didn't speak. In fact, she got along with Iori and Hanahime, and she heard them talk about foreign countries, overseas, trains, electric lights, everything was unheard of, she didn't believe it, but she knew that Iori and Hanahime were not liars.

At this time, Ye Zhao remembered and said to Afaf: "Ah, you want a tap fire, right?" I'll tell them to send you a pack, twenty boxes, that's enough, right? ”

When Afaf saw matches for the first time in the Central Plains female guards, she was startled, and then secretly told Hua Ji that she wanted a box of matches, but whether it was Reedstake Iori or Hua Ji, they would ask Ye Zhao for everything, and they also told Ye Zhao.

Listening to Ye Zhao's words, Afaf was slightly unnatural, after all, Ye Zhao was a Han military attaché, and it stands to reason that he was her sworn enemy.

"It's a beautiful night tonight." Ye Zhao bit the meat skewer, but poured a glass of red wine for each of Reedyue Iori and Hanahime.

The status of Muslim women is very low, because when she saw Wei Yue Iori and Hua Ji being obedient to Ye Zhao, Afaf didn't feel anything, but seeing Ye Zhao pour wine for the second daughter made her slightly stunned.

"White girl, thank you for your help." Ye Zhao raised his wine glass and gestured slightly to Afaf.

Afaf shook his head and said, "I'm here to repay you for saving my grandfather." ”

Ye Zhao smiled: "Thank you anyway." ”

Afaf hesitated for a moment and asked, "The book you brought, the Great Emperor of the Central Plains will implement the laws mentioned above?" "If it is said that bringing Ye Zhao into Huangnan can still be said to be a repayment, but for more than three months, she has tried her best to interpret and appease the Tibetans in Huangnan, but it can't just be said to be a repayment.

Ye Zhao said: "Of course, if you can go to the coast and take it away, you will know the changes that have taken place in this country, Afafu, I hope that one day you will be proud to be a citizen of the empire." ”

Afaf shook his head: "That's your empire. ”

Ye Zhao stared at her and said solemnly: "As long as you want, you are also a member of the empire, the emperor has granted amnesty to the world, and all the people who participated in the vendetta in Shaanxi and Gansu will not be held accountable for the past, whether they are Hui Han, they are all citizens of the empire, and those who kill each other in the past will be investigated and punished by the laws of the empire." "This matter must be revealed, and it must not become a thorn in the thorn of entanglement.

Afif was silent.

Ye Zhao said again: "Your one hundred and seven subordinates have been forgiven and let go lightly, and now they have been incorporated into the baggage team that went to Xinjiang Province, so you don't have to worry about them." ”

Afaf was stunned for a moment and said, "How do you know a hundred and ......, ah! Then he knew that his subordinates had fallen into the hands of the officers and soldiers.

Ye Zhao said: "You said several times that you would go back to Lanzhou to see your grandfather, but the date was not right, I knew that you were not at ease with your subordinates." Although you are alert and can't be tracked, there will always be clues, half a month ago, they have been caught in a net, you can rest assured, there is no injury. What you did in Huangnan may not be important to you, but in fact, the influence and contribution you made to this dynasty could have been worth your sin long ago. ”

Afafu has gradually felt that the Han military attache in front of him is extremely powerful in Gansu, and he never speaks falsely.

In his heart, he didn't know whether it was anger or lightness, although he used himself to wipe out his subordinates, it stands to reason that he should be angry, but faintly, as if the boulder pressing on his heart fell to the ground, it was, the surnames of more than 100 uncles and brothers, what will happen in the future, perhaps, she has always been very confused.

Ye Zhao raised his glass again: "In a few years, I believe that you will like the current empire." Afarf, I call you Afarf, that is, when you are friends, I don't want to have to sentence you to death one day in the future. This glass of wine is my blessing to you, and I hope that you will put aside your prejudices and become a citizen of the Empire. No matter where you are, the Empire is with you! ”

Afaf's heart jumped when he heard this, and when he saw Ye Zhao's face full of solemnity and solemnity, he remembered the strength of the Emperor's [***] team, obviously, this was a promise, a solemn promise to the citizens of the empire! In the chapter on citizens of the Imperial Code, there is a sentence with the same meaning, "Citizens of the Empire are protected by the laws of the Empire; Citizens traveling overseas, in case of legal disputes, the interpretation of the laws of the empire is different from that of overseas laws, and they are all mediated by diplomacy, and the empire and the citizens are together! ”

Afaf is almost a little envious of the people of the Central Plains, with such a strong backing, how proud is it to be one of them? But will this empire really become an empire that shelters Muslims?

Ye Zhao tasted the wine, he knew that there was a hegemonic tendency to write such words and phrases in the imperial legal code, but in today's world, the so-called civilized powers have all done this, because the world is chaotic, and the degree of development of civilization is even more different, why do Western countries want consular jurisdiction, it is the same reason.

And the values that the empire began to gradually promote, even Britain and the United States, are inferior in comparison, not to mention the dynasties, slaves, and even primitive societies that are still quite common in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Ye Zhao would never watch citizens being brutally punished overseas.

(To be continued)