Chapter 1: Troubled Times

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In 223 A.D. (the third year of Shu Han Zhangwu), in the summer and April, Liu Bei, the king of Shu, died, and in May, Liu Chan was the emperor and changed to Yuan Jianxing.

Six months later, the Han people of Yizhou County were strong and strong, taking advantage of the chaos of Shu in Yiling to see the new defeat of Shu Han, Liu Bei's death from illness and the rebellion of Huang Yuan, instigated the rebellion of Zhu Bao, the Taishou of Qike County, Gao Ding, the king of Yuewang County, and Meng Shu, the leader of the ethnic minorities in Yizhou County, to kill the Taishou Zhengang of Yizhou County and oppose the Shu Han regime.

Shu Han was newly defeated, the loss of troops was huge, coupled with Liu Bei's illness, the domestic situation was turbulent, and Zhuge Liang, the minister of Shu and Han, had no hope of appeasing Nanzhong, and wanted to pacify Nanzhong.

Before the southern expedition began, Shu was mutated, with Cao Wei's troops pressing the border in the north, Sun Quan and Jingzhou in the east, and the rebellion of the three counties in the south.

Shu Chen Han Minister Zhuge Liang north to resist Cao Wei, Dong and Sun Quan" strategy, so that the new Shu from the flames of war.

In 224 A.D., the Shu State accumulated a campaign to the south, and Zhuge Liang, the minister of Shu and Han, led a large army to the south to pacify Nanzhong.

At that time, the four counties of Bashu passed through the southwest Yi Road, and the naan was turned into a naan, several years old, the road was not passable, and there were many people who died of hunger and dampness; Southwest Yi and several rebellions, sent troops to attack, Sufei to no avail, retreated to the four counties of Qiqi County, Zhuti County, Xinggu County, Jianghan County, and Fuling.

Zhuge Liang pacified the frustration of Nanzhong, wanted to lead the troops back, when he retreated, he happened to meet the Yi leader Jihuo, Jihuo helped Zhuge Liang grain and grass soldiers and horses, seven captured Meng, the battle was meritorious, and he was named the king of Luodian The king of the king of Luodian was given a long envoy, and he was given nine tin and ten crowns.

The descendants of Jihuo inherited the land, inherited for more than 1,400 years, the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and the descendants of the king and the marquis and the prince, etc., became one of the Tusi Wang tribes with a very long inheritance in Chinese history, and developed until the fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty.

In the fourth year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, marched into Shuixi and implemented the reform of the land and returned to the stream, and the history of the Shuixi family came to an end.

There were many singing and crying characters before, one is Ai Cui, the second is luxury, the third is luxury, the fourth is An Guirong, An Wanquan, etc., after their deaths, they will be buried with all the treasures of their lives, leaving an amazing fortune.

The paper mill is a golden nest, the double lion is at the foot of the rock, who can recognize it, gold and silver cattle and horses, the Hu family's ancestral silver trick, whether people can find this batch of treasures buried for thousands of years.

Guizhou Province is referred to as Guizhou, located in the four provinces of Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan and Yunnan, and the Guizhou warlords are also an important force among the warlords in the southwest, and the local warlord troops are generally called the Guizhou Army.

Guizhou under the control of the warlords, the situation is turbulent, the year of military disasters, wars are everywhere, the people are displaced, bandits are everywhere, landlords, bullies, warlords, politicians, spies, take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.

The warlords were in constant civil war, and the financial difficulties caused by huge military expenditures caused two common problems in society at that time: banditry and arresting strong men.

Banditry: bandits are very common, almost every township has a bandit, day for the people, night for the bandits, a group of bandits is generally five or six people, at most more than 10 people, they mainly rob for a living, the robbed households are farmers and landlords.

Arrest the strong man: The warlord conscripted no one to go, so he had to force the pull, 7 people joined the army, one volunteered, 6 people were pulled, 3 survived, affected by the war factor, rising prices, inflation, and the people had enough to eat.

Hu Haitian's grandfather was a big landlord, and his family was well-off, that is, he was called a big family by the people, and at that time, the wealth owned by people could be divided according to the division of class composition at the time of land reform: landlords, rich peasants, tenant rich peasants, rich middle peasants, middle peasants, lower middle peasants, poor peasants, tenant farmers, and hired peasants.

Hu Haitian (Lao Hu) When his grandfather's family was at its best, his family was armed, and his family was a special type of landlord: this kind of landlord was armed, with about 100 soldiers, funded by the government, and the task was to suppress bandits and maintain local law and order.

But as the war between the warlords dragged on, by the time Haitian was in his thirties, his family was in decline, and it was not as good as before, Hu Haitian could only live in exile in order to avoid the fate of banditry and being arrested as a strong man, hiding during the day and digging coal at night in exchange for funds to support himself.

In the late autumn of 1920, the autumn wind was bleak, making people shiver all over the body, and now an unknown small media kiln in Hujiazhai, Miao and Yi Township, Ashi City, Gang Wenbin and Hu Haitian hid in the haystack, the two were wearing shabby linen clothes and short sleeves, and they were so cold that they were chatting in the haystack.

"Xiao Gang, if I can eat a full meal, how good it would be, I am hungry with my chest on my back, if I can't find anything to eat, I can only eat Guanyin soil, it's been three days in a row, this day is really not a human life" Hu Haitian (Lao Hu) was hungry next to him, and he was clamoring to eat meat.

They were very poor in those days, and many times they would be hungry, and some of them ate tree bark and grass roots, but when they didn't have anything to eat, they went to eat a kind of mud, which was called Guanyin soil, which showed that people at that time could eat anything in order not to starve.

Guanyin soil is a kind of mud with many minerals, and if people eat this mud, their stomachs will not be hungry, because if they eat Guanyin soil, their stomachs will feel bloated.

"You still eat Guanyin soil, you can't pull it out, if you eat it again, we will die, and if we continue like this, we will die" Yan Wenbin was also hungry and couldn't stand it, so he could only tighten his belt, he also heard that this can fight hunger.

"Lao Hu, hold on for a few hours, wait for the sun to set, we will go out, get a few hundred catties of coal, and dinner will be settled" Yan Wenbin couldn't say anything when he was hungry, and he was about to die.

Xiao Gang, I really regret it, if I told Guang Sanye my family's ancestral silver search recipe last night, I would have a few big yellow croaker, why not starve here, and have to go to the mine to dig hundreds of catties of coal to eat" Lao Hu said with great regret.

The big yellow croaker is gold, because of inflation at that time, 100 yuan of legal currency can only be exchanged for an egg, so gold as a hard currency, big yellow croaker is five taels of gold bars, small yellow croaker weighs two taels, one tael of gold can buy three hundred catties of rice, thirty catties, two pieces of cloth, equivalent to thirty Yuan Datou (ocean), one ocean in exchange for 10,000 legal currency.

Even if we dig up coal, now we are catching strong men everywhere, we are all hiding, who still exchanges food for coal, if I meet the group of bandits under the hands of Guang Sanye again, I really don't know what can happen, I still take a firearm to hunt at night, I am hungry and unsteady to walk, you still let me get a matchmaker, you want me to die faster" Yan Wenbin said reluctantly.

Guang Sanye, a well-known local bandit leader at that time, had thousands of bandit leaders under his hands, and the legend was that he commanded 300,000 bandits in Guizhou, and even the warlords with the army had to give three points.

"What do you say to find silver, you can really exchange a few big yellow croaker, if you have money, let's go to the city overnight to eat and drink, I haven't tasted what meat tastes like for half a year, hide here every day, I miss your braised pig's trotters, that taste is a beauty, since it can be exchanged for gold, what am I doing in this haystack" Yan Wenbin suddenly said with a spirit of twelve points.

"Alas, Xiao Gang, forget it, if you are caught by Guang Sanye and don't die, you have to take off a layer of skin, and you still count on the big yellow croaker if you don't even have your life, you still have to sober up, isn't your grandfather a famous old yin and yang? When my house was built, it was the feng shui that your grandfather saw, otherwise how would I know you", Lao Hu's eyes kept rolling, not knowing what bad idea he was thinking.

Don't say it, I don't know what's going on recently, there are fewer people who catch strong men, but there are more people who catch yin and yang, and there are more Taoist priests, if it weren't for this, my grandfather wouldn't let me go out to hide from the disaster, and now I don't dare to go back to my home, and my uncle is the same as me, and my aunt and my little cousin are left at home, I really don't know when I want to hide." Hu Haitian didn't say that it was okay, but when he said that Yan Wenbin was on fire, he didn't know who his family had provoked, and all the men in the family had to come out to hide from the disaster.

"Xiao Gang, hey, I'll still tell you, in fact, there is a treasure lot near here, my grandfather told me, if you don't eat Guanyin soil, you can't pull it out, I won't say it, but you swear not to tell outsiders, even your grandfather and uncle, otherwise you can't find a daughter-in-law in your life, and you don't have a butt to have a child" Hu Haitian asked Yan Wenbin to swear a poisonous oath before telling Yan Wenbin this secret.

"I know that although you are not yin and yang, but your grandfather will, he won't let you touch this thing, but you are at least more or less better than me, maybe there is really some hope to tell you."

"Lao Hu, don't hurt me, warlords are catching yin and yang everywhere, spies are catching yin and yang everywhere, bandits are also catching yin and yang, even street gangsters are also catching yin and yang, although my grandfather is a famous old yin and yang in the nearby ten miles and eight villages and even dozens of towns, but now I will definitely be arrested if I go out, if I tell you I don't know how to look at feng shui, do you believe it?

"I don't believe it, it is said that your grandfather has walked more bridges in feng shui than others have walked, and you are a single seedling, and now this year yin and yang are very popular in feng shui, how can your grandfather not teach you" Lao Hu shook his head vigorously, especially his meaty pie face, and the fat was trembling when he shook it.

"That is, if you don't believe it, will others believe it? The key is that I also have a Taoist uncle, hey, don't mention it, in short, in your eyes, if you catch me, you catch a big fish, I can do Yin and Yang and Taoist priests, killing two birds with one stone."

"Xiao Gang, what are they doing with Yin Yang and Taoist priests?" Lao Hu felt the hexagram and leaned over and asked.

Tomb robbery, otherwise there is nothing to do when you are full, on such a cold day, the bandits are not going around, they are full of food and have nothing to do, they are so cold that they will die and come out to stroll, when they are walking around the kiln."

"Tomb robbery, is it real? Xiao Gang, you say quickly, will you rob the tomb, I stole my grandfather's twenty big yellow croaker for a broken jar, the result was fake, it was not bad if I was not beaten to death by my grandfather, but he also heard that the broken jar was an antique dug up from the tomb, and Lao Hu took a risk.

Lao Hu now thinks that his twenty big yellow croakers were replaced by a broken jar and were beaten by his grandfather, and now he still has palpitations, his grandfather's rattan fried meat, but it can make the corners of Lao Hu's mouth twitch when he thinks about it, the taste is self-evident, and the places where he was beaten a month later are still hot.

"Xiao Gang, I'm hungry, how about exchanging your blood jade for a big yellow croaker, tonight we will eat and drink enough and then go to have fun", Lao Hu looked at the blood jade hanging around Yan Wenbin's neck, and really wanted to grab it, but he was afraid that Yan Wenbin would kill himself with a fire gun, so Lao Hu could only talk about it.

"If you want to die, you can take it, this piece of blood jade is going to die, if someone else takes it, the person who may take it will die, but I have no problem wearing it, this is what my grandfather told me, you can't hand over this piece of blood jade if you kill it" Yan Wenbin looked at Lao Hu viciously and said.

Blood jade is a kind of red jade in the snowy plateau of Tibet, called the song of Gongjuema, commonly known as the plateau blood jade, because of its red color and name,

Red is singing, the song of Gongjuema, that is, the meaning of the goddess of Jalan Yong, this jade is very expensive, and it is rare on the market.

There is a legend that blood jade refers to the jade that has penetrated the blood, not a natural jade, whether it is jadeite, Khotanese jade, or topaz and other categories, as long as it is really through the blood, it is blood jade.

In fact, blood jade is an inaccurate statement, in the jade shop and antique shop also rarely say the word "blood jade", in the ancient jade some jade will appear into the soil after the red color, so some people call this kind of red Qin blood.

The other kind of blood jade makes people feel terrifying,

The formation of blood jade is related to the corpse, when the person is buried, as the jade of the jade, is forcibly stuffed into the population, if the person has just died, the jade is stuffed into the mouth when swallowed in one breath, the jade will fall into the throat with the gas, into the throat with dense blood vessels, and it will be left for thousands of years, and the dead blood will penetrate the stains, and the blood will go directly to the heart of the jade, and it will form a gorgeous blood jade.

This kind of thing often falls on the throat of the skeleton, and is the most valuable of all the corpse jade stoppers, priced by quality, ranging from a few thousand to a million fiat dollars.

Pseudo-merchants also use a similar natural method to make blood jade, stuffing the jade into the dog's mouth, and then sealing its mouth, after the dog is choked to death, the bones are buried in the ground, and after decades of digging, you can get the blood jade.

Of course, whether it is human blood or dog blood, it is more psychic (human is better), and the dog blood jade has resentment in it, which is not good for the wearer.

Whether it is the mysterious blood red of the plateau, or the blood jade stained with human or animal blood, or the blood jade taken out of the coffin, there are very few people who have seen this kind of jade, because the blood jade has a more mysterious legend.

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