Due to the urgency of the situation in Jiaozhi, Li Yuntian only stayed in Taiping City for one day, and set off for Xuanhua City early the next morning, and for the sake of safety, the Taiping Wei commander sent 500 soldiers to escort him along the way.

On the morning of the same day, several military attaches of the Xiaowu Army went to Jia Yunchuan to discuss the purchase of grain.

As Jia Yunchuan said before, both the refugees in Xuanhua Province and the army of the counterinsurgency in Jiaozhi need food, and it takes a lot of time and labor to transport food from the interior, so the food hoarded by the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce in Taiping Mansion has undoubtedly become the first choice of the Xiaowu army.

Those military attaches originally thought that Jia Yunchuan would take the opportunity to open his mouth and knock on Xiaowujun's bamboo pole, but to their surprise, Jia Yunchuan actually sold the grain to Xiaowujun at a cost price lower than the usual market price.

For this abnormal situation, the military attaches looked at each other for a while, feeling incredulous, and did not believe that this matter was true until they signed the sales documents with Jia Yunchuan.

However, several military attachés did not feel happy and happy, but led people to strictly check the grain in the granary, and when they found that all the grain was intact, they breathed a sigh of relief, and hosted a banquet for Jia Yunchuan in the name of Xiaowujun, and reported the matter to their superiors.

For this alone, Xiaowu Jun saved nearly 300,000 taels of silver.

It is worth mentioning that the annual cost of grain for a 100,000-strong army is greater than the cost of rations for 200,000 people: first, the quality of the army's rations is higher than that of the people, and second, the soldiers of the army are all men, and the common people have old and young women and children in their families, and the amount of food is not as good as that of the soldiers.

Therefore, the market price of the annual military rations of the 100,000 troops was nearly 500,000 taels of silver, while the market price of the annual rations of the 200,000 people was only more than 200,000 taels.

Due to the remoteness of Taiping Mansion, the cost price of Jia Yunchuan to transport this batch of grain is about more than 200,000 taels of silver, and if the current grain price of Taiping Mansion is used, it can be sold at least 500,000 taels.

In this way, Xiaowujun is equivalent to saving 300,000 taels of silver, and this move of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce is undoubtedly a relief for the great cause of counterinsurgency in Jiaozhi.

Two days later, Li Yuntian and his entourage arrived at a mountain pass at the junction of Taiping Mansion and Xuanhua Mansion, and unexpectedly found that the passage at the mountain pass was crowded with people, the sound was noisy, and it was chaotic.

It turned out that a checkpoint was set up at the mountain pass, and a large group of native soldiers wearing local ethnic minority costumes carried knives and guns to guard the border of Taiping Province in the east of the checkpoint.

What is particularly striking is that a dozen ragged and unkempt men hang from a large tree next to the native soldiers, who do not know whether they are dead or alive because their eyes are closed.

Under the big tree is a group of old and young women and children who are tied by ropes and have their upper bodies ****, shivering in the cold wind, and several children are scared and crying.

The road west of the checkpoint was full of people dressed in various costumes, who seemed to have escaped from Cochin and were preparing to flee the war in Taiping Mansion, dragging their children and daughters, perhaps frightened by the weapons in the hands of those hanging from the trees and the native soldiers, they did not dare to break through the checkpoint, and begged the native soldiers to let them go in front of the checkpoint.

However, the native soldiers were unmoved, and glared blankly at the refugees with their knives and guns.

The so-called Tubing refers to the soldiers under the jurisdiction of the local Tusi Yamen in Taiping Prefecture, and the people under the jurisdiction of the Tusi Yamen are called Tumin.

When it comes to the Tusi Yamen, we have to mention the Tusi system implemented in the southwest and northwest regions of the Ming Dynasty.

The Tusi system originated in the Yuan Dynasty, and it was a special official system in which the local ethnic minority leaders were divided into hereditary official positions to manage the ethnic minority areas.

It should be noted that although the position of Tusi can be hereditary, the raider needs to be approved by the imperial court.

According to the History of the Ming Dynasty? The Tusi Preface records that the inheritance of the Tusi "must be ordered by the court, although they are thousands of miles away, they all go to Que to accept their posts", so as to strengthen the management of the Tusi by the Ming court and make the Tusi submit to the imperial court.

Only after Tusi accepted the canonization and became an official of the imperial court did he officially obtain the legal right to rule over the people.

Moreover, whenever there was a change of dynasty, Tusi had to pay tribute to the new emperor to show his sincerity and submission, in exchange for the canonization of the new emperor and obtain a new seal.

The Tusi of the Yuan Dynasty had three military attache positions: Xuanfu Envoy, Xuanfu Envoy, and Pacification Envoy.

The Ming Dynasty followed the Tusi system of the Yuan Dynasty and established two official positions, civil and military, among the Turen.

Among them, the military positions from high to low are the consolation envoys, the propaganda envoys, the solicitation envoys, the pacification envoys, the chief envoys and the barbarian envoys, etc., which are subordinate to the military department of the military department and are under the jurisdiction of the local capital divisions.

The civil service from the high to the end is the Tuzhi Prefecture, Tuzhi Prefecture and Tuzhi County, etc., which are subordinate to the Ministry of Officials and the jurisdiction of each political envoy.

It is worth mentioning that only those who have attained military positions such as Xuanfu Envoy, Xuanfu Envoy and Pacification Envoy can be called Tusi.

The civil servants such as the Tuzhifu, Tuzhizhou, and Tuzhixian were not Tusi, but a hereditary official appointed by the imperial court and served by Turen.

In order to strengthen its rule and control, the Ming Dynasty also set up guards in important Tusi jurisdictions, stationed heavy troops, and adopted a military system that combined guards and Tusi.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Xuanfu Yamen, also known as the Tusi Yamen, set up a Xuanfu envoy from the three products; Comfort the same person, is four products; One deputy envoy of consolation, from the fourth grade; One person is comforting, and he is five products.

Xuanfu envoy Yamen also belongs to the Tusi Yamen, set up Xuanfu envoy one person, from the four products, Xuanfu Tongzhi one person, is five products; Xuanfu deputy envoy one, from the fifth grade; Xuanfu is one person, and he is six products.

Regardless of whether it is the Xuanfu Envoy Yamen or the Xuanfu Envoy Yamen, they are commonly known as the Tusi Yamen, of which only the Xuanfu Envoy and the Xuanfu Envoy are appointed by the imperial court, and the rest of the Tuguan are appointed by the Xuanfu Envoy or the Xuanfu Envoy themselves.

In addition to the Tusi Yamen's local officials, the Tusi also appointed local local officials within his jurisdiction, whose positions included prime minister, housekeeper, house chief, flag chief, personal general, chief master, cave chief and village chief.

Generally speaking, whether it is a local official in the Tusi Yamen or a local local official, it is generally a member of the Tusi family.

The Xuanfu envoy and the Xuanfu envoy paid regular tribute, paid a fixed amount of tax on an annual basis, called the dispatch of the war, and listened to the imperial court in wartime, and provided native soldiers to participate in the war in accordance with the requisition order issued by the imperial court.

Originally, the soldiers led by the Tusi only had the responsibility of defending the land, ploughing at the end of the day if there was nothing to do, and repairing spears to fight if there was something.

However, with the increasing perfection of the Tusi system and the close relationship with the imperial court, since the Ming Dynasty, the local soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Tusi have become an important source of soldiers for the imperial court.

Because most of the places where Tusi is located are closed and backward, the Tusi rule is hierarchical, and its social form is in the situation of a semi-slave society and a semi-feudal society, with strict hierarchies to determine power and status, and the distinction between respect and inferiority is clear.

For example, in areas where the Tusi system is implemented, land is distributed according to grades, and Tusi occupies fertile land, and the people can divide the flat land, and the local people can only open a "share of land" on the hillside.

In the housing, the Tusi "spins pillars and carved beams, bricks and tiles are built on scales"; The head of the house has "allowed to erect beams and pillars, and the walls are surrounded by boards", and the local people are "forked wooden frame houses, woven bamboo as walls, are not allowed to cover tiles, if there are tiles, that is, 'cure to sneak over' to punish the crime".

Therefore, the outside world ridiculed this: only housekeepers are allowed to ride horses, and people are not allowed to build tiles. Housekeeping refers to a type of high-ranking official appointed by the Tusi.

When the Tusi went out on patrol, the guard was majestic and grand, and the people of the country saw that they were all in the way, otherwise they would be condemned and killed.

This means that the Tusi has supreme authority in their jurisdiction, and is the emperor of the soil who holds the life and death of the emperor, and they usually call themselves Benjue, and the natives call him Jue Ye or Du Ye.

Because the society in which Tusi lived was a semi-slave and semi-feudal society, in the words of the scholars, it was barbaric and uncivilized, so Tusi usually carried out an important means of barbaric and cruel rule over the people under its jurisdiction, and its criminal laws included beheading, palace punishment, finger amputation, ear cutting, eye gouging and cane punishment.

In fact, under the Tusi system, the natives in the Tusi area were no different from serfs, they did not have any land, and the land they planted belonged to the Tusi.

In addition to providing heavy unpaid labor and serving as a native soldier for the Tusi, the Tusi also had to pay or pay tribute in kind to the Tusi, and this feudal serf system was the economic basis of the Tusi system.

The imperial court did not have a clear restriction on the inheritance system of Tusi, which was basically passed down from generation to generation according to the death of the father and the death of the son, and the death of the son and the grandson. If the toast has a son, the eldest son can attack, and if there is no child, the younger brother or son-in-law, wife and nephew can attack.

The age of the Tusi inheritance was also specified in each dynasty, with the Ming Dynasty setting it at eighteen years old, while the Qing Dynasty changed it to fifteen years old.

The toast that cannot be inherited by the young must be cared for by the native house or mother of the clan, who can take care of the orphans.

In the fourteenth year of the reign of Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Xiaozong also stipulated that the children of the Tusi officials who wanted to inherit the soil office must be enrolled. Those who do not enroll in the school are not allowed to inherit.

Since then, each Tusi has set up schools and museums, invited Confucian teachers to teach, and sent children to study in other places.

Because there were too many people fleeing on the opposite side of the checkpoint, Li Yuntian and the others couldn't help but stop, and an official from Taiping City immediately called the flag commander of those local soldiers over for questioning.

Li Yuntian's identity at this time was General Dingnan's bodyguard, and he quietly mixed in with the guards, and when the flag commander told General Dingnan what had happened, Li Yuntian knew what had happened.

It turned out that there was a Taiping Xuanfu Si Yamen under the jurisdiction of Taiping Mansion in Taiping Mansion, that is, Tusi Yamen.

A few days ago, the Taiping Tusi Yamen received an order from the prefect of Taiping Province to prevent refugees from coming from Jiaozhi from entering the territory of Taiping Province.

Since the defeat of Liu Sheng, many refugees who fled have poured into Taiping Mansion, which is not only difficult to resettle, but also caused a lot of public security problems, so the only way to let the Taiping Tusi Yamen block them on the border of the palace.

After receiving the order of the Taiping prefect, the Taiping Tusi Yamen sent the flag commander to lead the native soldiers to set up a checkpoint in the mountain pass to prevent the refugees from entering, and took force against those disobedient refugees to set an example.

Li Yuntian's brows furrowed slightly, he knew very well that blocking the refugees here was only an expedient measure, as the number of refugees increased, the feelings of the refugees became more and more excited, if someone took advantage of the chaos to stir up trouble with those refugees, a violent conflict would be inevitable.

Therefore, after Li Yuntian groaned for a while, he quietly whispered a few words to a lieutenant standing beside him.

The lieutenant nodded, and after a moment walked over to the supposed general, leaned over and whispered in his ear.

After finishing speaking, it is assumed that General Nan bowed his head slightly and waved his hand to the lieutenant, and the lieutenant walked to the checkpoint with Li Yuntian and the others.!^!