Chapter 87: The Omen of the Great Sun
As far as the entire Tibetan region is concerned, there are 42 large and small tribes, and the largest number is the Luosa tribe, with 200,000 people and more than 1 million cattle and sheep. The smallest tribe has only 35,000 people, 20,000 cattle and 30,000 sheep, and only lives in the weakest places where water and grass are weakest.
Tibet is a slave society, following the law of the jungle, the strong tribe can swallow the weak tribe, in order to protect themselves, the small tribe can only respect the big tribe as the head, in peacetime will be daily sacrifice of cattle and sheep, women, jewelry, gold. In times of war, he has to act as a pawn of the big tribe.
For example, Tobaro gathered an army of 50,000 to confront the Song army, and in front of the cavalry were small tribe slaves, who belonged to cannon fodder, and it was not a pity to die.
The Gesar Department is medium, with 50,000 people and 200,000 cattle and sheep, and the force is enough to protect itself, but it cannot reach the scale of chasing deer and Tubo.
The current patriarch of the Gesar tribe is called Gesa Rilun, and the previous patriarch is called Gesar Deji, Deji studied in the Central Plains when he was a child, saw the civilization and strength of the Central Plains, understood the ignorance and inadequacy of the Tibetan tribe, and was determined to learn from the Central Plains. Therefore, the Gesa tribe belongs to the semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic people, they have a fixed cultivated field, and the livestock also eat alfalfa and soybeans, and the living customs of the tribe are close to those of the Central Plains.
For example, there are houses with civil structures, water-powered mills, foundries, complex looms, and dye workshops. The cloth and iron tools of the Gesar tribe were supplied to the whole of Tibet. There have been many times when the Basar tribe wanted to annex Gesa, and the craftsmen of Gesa forced each other to death, so that the Basar tribe would dispel the idea.
From this point of view, Gesadeji's mode of governance is very popular.
In addition, Deji also wanted to reform some of the bad habits of Tibet, such as the maiden stationed in the wild white tent.
The main purpose of the white tent is to avoid the inbreeding union to produce bad offspring, so the girl's tent is set up on the side of the road where the caravan passes to receive foreign merchants. The offspring born in this way have foreign ancestry and are relatively good and healthy. And the young men of their own tribe, no matter how beautiful the girl is, will not enter her tent.
As far as the Gesa tribe is concerned, the total population of men and women is 50,000, and most of the nobles are related by blood.
In fact, the number of fools with dementia accounts for a very large proportion of the Qiang tribe, once higher than ten points, and one in ten people must be mentally handicapped and brain-dead. But in the Song Dynasty, it was usually only a fool out of three or five hundred people in a village - the union of close relatives was also popular in the Song Dynasty.
However, the Tibetan tribes are in a hostile state, and often attack each other in order to compete for water and grass resources, and it is impossible to make peace with each other in several villages like the Song Dynasty.
This creates a very embarrassing situation, the girl set up a white tent, it is likely that there are people from the hostile tribe in the people, and the child will also be the offspring of the hostile tribe, and when the child grows up, he will have to fight with the hostile tribe, and the father and son will be killed.
Ge Sadeji thought about this question, why can't the Tibetan tribes be as harmonious as the Song Dynasty, and why do they always have to fight?
On the defeated side, all adult men were killed, and women were reduced to reproductive machines, and history got worse and worse in the destruction of such conflicts. In the era of Princess Wencheng of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo Empire was so civilized and powerful, but now it is in decline.
After more than 10 years of research, Ge Sadeji came to the conclusion that if Tibet wants to be truly strong, it is necessary to defeat and conquer all tribes by force like the Qin Emperor.
Only peaceful development can allow the Tibetan Empire to rise.
Gesardeji prayed to Da Ri Nyorai, made a wish, and gave him the method of strong seeds.
There was no response.
But when Deji dreamed, he saw a picture scroll of gods from the Central Plains, wearing golden armor and holding a big sword, rushing to kill in the midst of thousands of troops, invulnerable, invincible. This god-man came to the Gesar tribe and taught their people to smelt steel, make strangely shaped weapons, and even have an army flying in the air, with the Brada Palace as the center, radiating to the whole world.
Gesadegi also saw that the world was round.
This dream is very rare, he clearly remembers the appearance of the god, and also remembers the various divine weapons he created, the three-zhang high city wall of Tokyo in the Song Dynasty, which became vulnerable, and the steel monster with black smoke rumbling and rushing into the capital.
In the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, the gods ascended the throne of God, all races sent messengers to congratulate, the warriors of the Qiang tribe stood at the forefront, everyone was covered with gold, and received a grand reward, women, slaves, cattle and sheep of all races......
Gesadji believes that this is the revelation given to him by Da Ri Rulai, as long as this person is found, the Qiang people can rise again and become the best race in the world.
Unfortunately, Deji didn't wait for this god-man to appear, and he died. Before he died, he told this story to his son Gesar Rilun, hoping that Rilun would find a man of God.
Gesari Wheel inherited his father's will and worked hard to make the tribe stronger, and he spent a lot of money to hire craftsmen from the Song Dynasty to help him make steel and produce cloth, as long as he was willing to come, the cattle and sheep houses and women were free. In addition, he tried to recruit all kinds of people except black slaves, and if they were not skilled, let him train their offspring, and if they were skilled, he would give them houses, land, and women.
In this way, there are more and more intelligent people in the Gesa tribe, and the upper nobles are also more and more characterized by ethnic integration. Until yesterday, he received a report that all the Gesang families in the easternmost part had been killed, and Bayatou led 300 cavalry to arrest the murderer, but the other party only had five people, but he killed more than 60 of Baya's subordinates, and he was unscathed.
Gesa Rilun felt strange and was about to check it out for himself, when he received a report that the only surviving woman in the Gesang family had returned.
Only then did Gesar Rilun know that it was the god man who appeared in his father's dream, and he was going to greet him in person.
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Wang Han was welcomed to Stone Town by the Gesa tribe and received the warmest welcome, which made Wang Han uncomfortable and even a little frightened.
Before he entered the city, the woman who had absconded from the camp last night was pressed to the side of the road, naked, and the executioner was holding a large knife and looking at him with burning eyes.
"This woman lied, she wanted me to lead someone to attack you, and I'm going to make her pay now." ”
As soon as the leader finished speaking, the executioner raised his sword, and Wang Han immediately stopped drinking and asked Batu to translate, "She is not to blame for this, she also wants to avenge her family, and she did not cause me harm." ”
It's not Wang Han's heart, but he just thinks that such a killing is meaningless—Wang Han doesn't think that ants can bite an elephant to death.
Wang Han forgave the woman, and the Qiang people around cheered, and the leader shook Wang Han's hand excitedly, "The omen is right, you are really a benevolent person." ”
I am afraid that the word benevolence is too early to be applied to him.