In August of the first year of the Longhan Dynasty, the osmanthus flowers in Qianxi were fragrant, and the rice was fragrant in the fields.

The crucian carp in the rice fields also eat the fat eaten by the rice flowers, and Amu Ayi of the Woze River in the west of the water is barefoot in the rice fields, and the wooden barrels on the edge of the ridges are already filled with half a bucket of fat and fresh crucian carp. At present, the fish is fat, the weather is good, this time to catch the fish from the rice field, take it back just to pickle the osmanthus fish, now is a good time to make pickled fish and bacon.

For the people of Southwest Yi, pickled fish and bacon is the best delicacy and the best means to preserve the physical object.

However, for Amu Ayi, who is catching fish, these delicious fish caught today do not belong to him, just like this rice field full of rice flowers, the rice ears are full of grain that is about to be harvested, and they do not belong to him.

The fat crucian carp and the heavy ears of rice belong to his master, and they have nothing to do with him, no matter how much fish he pickles every year, the master will not reward him with one.

Although they are both Yi people, there is also a clear hierarchy between Yi people. In Shuixi, the An family is Zimo. Zimo is also the person in power, and the Tusi Tuguan Tumu such as the Xuanwei Director and the Governor are all Zimo, and they are the people in the Yi nationality. Abu Ayi generally refers to those who have seals as Tuguan, and those who do not have seals as Tumu.

But whether it is a local official or a local eye, they are all great lords, great slave owners, and people on earth.

And Abu Ayi, just a Xiaxi, Yi language for Xiaxi Xialuo, meaning the master's siblings next to the pot village, the Han people call the pot village baby.

In fact, they were the lowest-status slaves, these Xiaxiduo came from the children of the Yi people and the slaves of the Han and other ethnic groups who were plundered and traded, and the bankrupt Qu Nuo who had lost the support of his family.

Abu Ayi is a Han Chinese who plundered and trafficked from the border of Sichuan and Guizhou.

As the lowest status, they are considered to be the private property of their masters, without any property, no houses, no fields, and even no personal freedom, and their life and death are in the hands of their masters. The master can even kill them at any time and buy and sell them. Gift.

In Shuixi, such as Abu Ayi, there are almost 10% of the people.

In order to prevent them from escaping, the master often let them work with iron chains, and they worked all day long under the supervision of the master's supervisor, and if they neglected the slightest, they would be beaten.

Many of them were tortured to death, and very few lived past the age of forty.

Among the Yi people in the entire Yunnan-Guichuan, each one has his own rank. There is no such thing as a person without a hierarchy.

Between Zimo and Xiaxi, there are three levels: Nuohe, Qunuo, and Aga.

The entire Yi nationality is a slave society, and the ruling class and the ruled class are insurmountable. And their hierarchy is based on blood.

Lineage is the foundation and pillar of the Yi people.

Nuohe, they think that their blood is noble, they are also called the Black Yi by the Han people, they only intermarry in the Black Yi, and never intermarry with other levels of Yi people. They do not intermarry with foreigners.

No matter how down-and-out a Hei Yi is, he is a nobleman and still enjoys privileges.

And Qu Nuo, who is called Bai Yi by the Han people, even if he is rich. No matter how rich he is than Heiyi, he still belongs to the slave class among the Yi people.

Zmo and Noh are the ruling layer, and the rest are the ruled.

It's just that Bai Yi belongs to the better treatment among them, among the Yi people. Nearly half of them belong to Bai Yi. They could own a small amount of land and other property, and even a small amount of Aga and Ngasi and become slave owners. There are many white Yi who even surpass the wealth of black Yi......

However, Bai Yi still belonged to Hei Yi and Zimo, and they had to serve a certain period of labor for their masters every year, and they had to give gifts to their masters during the New Year's holidays, and they had to bring their own weapons to go with the army when they were fighting.

Abu Ayi's greatest wish was to one day become a Quno, so that he could become a free man or even a slave owner.

Aga was also a slave, but his status was higher than that of Nasi. Ajia is the abbreviation of Ajia Atu in Yi language, which means people inside and outside the door of the main family, and is also known as Anjia Wazi in Chinese, and thirty percent of the people in the Yi nationality are Ajia.

These people are similar to the tenants in the Han Chinese, who own the land allocated by the slave masters, but have no personal freedom, live in huts next to the masters, and serve as servants at any time, and they have no rights, not even the right to marry and parental rights over their children, whose children can be drawn by the master at any time.

Their status is low, the master can betray the Aga, and the Heiyi master can even sell the entire Ajia family or the family members scattered.

However, what is better for them than Xia Xi is that if they meet a better master, pay a ransom fee, and marry Bai Yi, then they will have the opportunity to rise to Bai Yi, but there are very few who can be promoted from Aga to Bai Yi, and it is just a big cake drawn by the masters of Black Yi.

Both barrels have been filled, and the fish in this rice field have been caught.

Abu Ayi went up to the ridge, washed his feet, and then picked up two buckets of fish and walked back.

He walked barefoot on the road, not because he cherished his shoes, but because he had no shoes at all, and only in winter did he have a pair of straw sandals.

The two large barrels of fish were heavy, but he had long been accustomed to the weight on his shoulders.

A team of Bai Yi ran by the side of the road, these people were carrying bows and spears on their backs, with serious expressions.

Abu Ayi heard that the Han people had killed him, and the Han army had occupied Guiyang, and he also killed An's Tho Mu An. When he heard the news, his face was heavy, but in fact, he was very excited in his heart.

He was also a Han Chinese, but when he was still a teenager, he was plundered and sold to Shuixi, where he became a Xiaxi. He didn't want the Han army to come over and change his current fate.

When An's uncle An Bangyan rebelled, he thought he had a chance, but who knows, although that rebellion has been fought for many years, his fate has not changed at all.

He was even a little discouraged and numb.

For those Bai Yi who passed by, he didn't see it, and continued to walk back with two buckets of fish.

Zewoze Creek belongs to one of the thirteen streams of Shuixian Xi'an, in the northwest of the Yachi River and north of Shuixiyi. To the south is the Ze River, and between the two streams is the Longchang Jiuyi Road.

Xi and Tong are a common word in Southwest Yi, which generally refers to the location of the soil order.

Zexi, the meaning of Gai Zongqin, is similar to the state of the Tang Dynasty and the army of the Song Dynasty. Shuixi An's clan, the first Lulu tribe from Xichuan, occupied the Shuixi region. In order to ensure the long-term rule of the An family in Shuixi, the land was divided according to the patriarchal relationship, and each clan occupied a piece of land to form a fief, which was Zexi, according to the meaning of the Yi people, Zexi was the meaning of the warehouse.

Because the Shui Xi'an clan and the twelve clan relatives each received a piece of land, the central point of each area was stationed with soldiers to store grain, and warehouses were set up to collect money and grain, forming a large warehouse. Taxes were levied in this area, and it gradually became an administrative district similar to that of Ming Township.

Shuixian clan, under the thirteen streams, there are forty-eight meshes. And under it, there are one hundred and twenty scolding clothes, and one thousand two hundred nights, just like the hometown of Ming, Li, and Jia.

The thirteen streams of the Shuixi clan, the Shuidong Song clan once had twelve horse heads in Hongbian, and the Pu'an Tusi had twelve battalions. Yunnan Wuding soil ligament belt 27 horses, Yunnan Dongli Xuanfu envoy Banna, etc., all have the same meaning.

Shui'an's family did not have the surname An, they originally had no surname. In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty gave the surname An, so it was the surname An.

Shuixi is the world of the An family, and the An family has ruled Shuixi for generations. The main thing is to rely on the blood relationship of the family branch and clan to maintain, and rely on the patriarchal system to implement the division of the territory, and finally form the thirteen streams. and the nine-bull and nine-vertical local official system.

The thirteen streams in the west of the water are: Mu Crotch, Fire, Huajiao, Jia Le, Anjia, Zewo, Yizhu, Xiongsuo, Du, Duo Ni, Longcrotch, Liumu, and Yu Di.

Each Zexi has a soil in charge of money and grain and a soldier and horse.

Zewoze Creek is the larger of the thirteen Zexi, with four long lawsuits and a population of tens of thousands of households.

The fort is built against the hill, with stone walls, and there are official forts and street dwellings inside.

The official fort is divided into a front hall, three floors, a backyard and two side wings, and a wall.

After entering the fort with his burden, Abu Ayi walked through the stone street to the side gate of the official fort, and from there he went directly to the kitchen.

In front of the kitchen, several Yaxi are busy, some chopping wood, others scrubbing wooden barrels in preparation for pickling fish. If you want to marinate the fish, you have to use a good wooden barrel, generally a new barrel must be made every year to marinate a barrel of fish, so that the barrel can be sealed, and the fish taste good.

"Pick it here." A young woman said that she was less than twenty years old, and she was average-looking, but she had the best relationship with Abu Ayi, and her name was Sha Ayi.

It's a pity that he is just a Xiaxi and doesn't even have the right to marry.

According to the customs of the Yi people, when the girl reaches the age of sixteen, her parents will build a small grass house for her and let her spend the night alone, and the man who has reached the age of 20 can climb the grass house of the beloved girl at night to talk about love, once the love is mature, both men and women can get married as long as they have the consent of their parents.

It's just a pity that they don't have this qualification.

Looking at Sha Ayi wrapped in a bun cloth, Abu Ayi suddenly felt angry for no reason, he didn't want to be Abu Ayi anymore, he still remembered his Chinese name, remembered his real name Yang Hu, and remembered that his hometown was in Chongqing.

He placed the bucket next to Shayi, and whispered while everyone was not paying attention, "Come here, I have something to tell you." With that, he put down the bucket and walked to the side.

After waiting at the back of the kitchen for a while, Sha Yi came quietly.

"What's the matter, hurry up, we can't meet and talk in private, otherwise the steward will be whipped when he sees it, and the last time you were beaten, I'm afraid the wound hasn't healed yet."

"I don't care about those, I have important news to tell you, a new imperial court was built in the Central Plains, called the Han Empire, the Ming Dynasty is gone, and now it is the Han Dynasty." Abu Ayi said excitedly to Sha Ayi.

Sha Ayi blinked his big eyes, "So what, the Central Plains is 108,000 miles away from us, and this is the world of Anjia." ”

"No, it won't be in the future, you don't know yet, Shuixian Clan's Tho Mu Anwei has been killed by the Han army, he occupied Guiyang before, but the Han Dynasty army came, but he didn't open the city gate, the Han army captured Guiyang in a rage, and then killed him."

"Which one did you listen to, it wouldn't be true, the An family is so powerful?"

"A powerful fart, that is, an earth overlord, compared to the Central Plains, is nothing." Today's Abu Ayi's heart is always surging with restlessness.

"Sha Ayi, let's get out of here, come with me, let's go to join the Han army, I am Han, they will protect us, then I can return to my hometown Chongqing, we men plough and weave, husbands sing and husbands follow, no longer be oppressed by the Yi people, no longer slaves!"

As he spoke, Abu Ayi stretched out his hand to hold Sha Ayi's hands, which had become very rough and full of calluses due to years of labor, but holding these hands made Abu Ayi's heart full of pride, and he felt that his courage was even stronger.

"I listen to you." Shaayi finally mustered up the courage and nodded to her eldest brother, Abu, who usually helped her take care of her and loved her. (To be continued.) )

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