The fog faded.

As soon as I arrived, I felt that there must be a huge secret hidden in the village of madmen. Its mysterious disappearance must be directly related to the truth we are looking for. And since the old man is the only survivor here, it is likely that he has some amazing inside information.

After the dense fog cleared, Dagu Mountain returned to its former calm, looking down from the mountain, the clear lake water looked to the end, if you didn't see it with your own eyes, it was really hard to believe that everything that had just happened was real.

I asked the old man what the fog was, and he cleared his throat and replied, "The village has been deserted all these years, and there is not even a dog left except for me, a lonely man." ”

"Do you know Nanzhaoguo?"

As soon as I heard it, I thought it was funny, and immediately put my ear to it.

The Nanzhao Kingdom was an ancient kingdom located in the southwest of the Central Plains that arose in the eighth century, and its people were mainly composed of Wuman and Baiman, and was established by Pi Luoge, the leader of Mengshezhao.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were many tribes scattered in the Erhai area, which were not subordinate to each other, and there were many names, which were difficult to count. Among them are six larger tribes, known as the Six Edicts. They are: Mengshe Zhao, in the territory of Weishan County, because it is the southernmost place, it is also called Nanzhao; Mengwang Zhao, in the north of present-day Weishan County, is the northern neighbor of Mengshe Zhao; Yue analysis edict, in the present Binchuan, Fengyi two counties; Edict of the Emperor, in present-day Dengchuan County; Langqiong Zhao, in present-day Eryuan County; Shi Lang Zhao, in the northeast of the Zhao Zhao.

Before the rise of the Nanzhao Kingdom, the main inhabitants of the Xi'er River (Erhai) area were Baiman, and Wuman, who was in the north. In 648, Tang Taizong ordered the general Liang Jianfang to lead the Shu soldiers to defeat the barbarians outside Songwai, and the barbarians were seventy and a total of more than 100,000 households were attached successively. Meng is a barbarian surname, and these barbarians may be barbarians other than the surname Meng.

In 649, the leader of the Wuman Mengshezhao Xianu Luo established the Great Mongolian Kingdom and called it the King of Qijia (although it was called a country, it was still only a tribe). At that time, Nanzhao was the strongest and wanted to unify the six edicts, and the Tang Dynasty supported Nanzhao to annex various tribes in order to alleviate the border troubles bordering Tibet. In the twenty-sixth year of Kaiyuan, Pi Luoge annexed the Five Edicts with the support of the Tang Dynasty, entered the king of Yunnan, and established political power based on the Xi'er River region, with his family name as the country name, called Dameng or Meng. The following year, the capital was moved to Taihe City (now Dali).

Liang Jianfang sent strange soldiers from Weizhou (Xichang County, Sichuan) to the Xi'er River suddenly, the chief Yang Sheng was shocked, and ten leaders of various departments went to the military gate to ask for attachment. In that year, Yang Tongwai, the great leader of the Xi'er River, Yang Yong, the great leader of the East Erhe River, and Meng Yu, the leader of Songwai, all entered the court, and Tang Taizong was awarded official ranks.

"Tongjian" said that there are dozens of surnames such as Yang, Li, Zhao, and Dong in the Xi'er River area, each based on one state, 600 households in the large state, and 2 or 300 households in the small state. The language, life, and customs are roughly the same as those of the Han people, but they are different from the mainland in December. Claiming to be Chinese. This text of "Tongjian" is similar to that of Songwaiman in the "New Tang Book", which says that Songwaiman has a city script and knows the lunisolar calendar, and also says that the west of Dianchi Lake is the descendants of Zhuang, with December as the first year. Songwaiman and Heman are very far apart, Songwaiman's surname is Mengshi, and the "New Tang Dynasty Book" takes Zhao, Yang, Li, and Dong as the nobles of Songwaiman, which obviously mistakenly refers to Heman as Songwaiman. "New Tang Dynasty Book" records Song Waiman, there is no sentence "Ziyun is Chinese", "Tongjian" merges the descendants of Heman and Zhuang into one, according to the cultural situation, "Tongjian" says that it is better.

The Heman is a tribe of white barbarians other than the Western Plan. There are no more than five or six hundred households with one surname in Heman, and the surnames are scattered and not unified. Baiman has agriculture, Wuman lives in the valley north of the Xi'er River, and production is backward, so Baiman has to pay taxes, and Wuman only pays tribute to submit. During the first year of Tang Xuanzong, the leader of the river barbarians came to pay tribute. At that time, the rise of the Nanzhao Kingdom began to undergo great changes in the Xi'er River region.

Tang Lu's "Preface to the Chengdu Chronicle" recorded: "In the early days, the six departments of the Southern Barbarians did not submit to each other, and the Son of Heaven (Tang Dynasty) issued an edict for each of them for a reward, and called for six edicts. "The so-called edict means the big chief, the big chief. The six edicts are: Mengwang edict, the residence is in the north of the present-day Weishan to Yangbi, also known as the sample edict; Yue Shan Zhao, the residence is in present-day Binchuan, also known as some edicts, mainly to the ancestors of the Naxi people; Langqiong Zhao, the residence is in today's Eryuan; The edict of the Emperor is located in Dengchuan, Eryuan, today; Shi Langzhao, the residence is in the three camps of Eryuan today, and the river is the mainstay. The wave dome, the sloppy and the shilang are collectively called the three waves. Mengshe Zhao, the place of residence is in the present Weishan, also known as the Nanzhao. The forces of the six edicts are roughly equal and do not submit to each other, among which the two edicts of Mengwang and Yuexi are the largest, and the soldiers are the strongest, and the Mengshe edict is weaker than the two edicts listed above.

The royal family of Nanzhao is surnamed Meng, and the ancestor is named Shelong, and the enemy family moved to Mengshechuan from Ailao. However, the Five Edicts and the Heman tribes, threatened by Tibet, often abandoned Tang and joined Tibet. Nanzhao has always been attached to the Tang Dynasty, so it has the support of the Tang. In 713, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made Nanzhao Piluo Pavilion the king of Taideng County. In 737, Pi Luo Ge defeated the river barbarians and took Taihe City. In the following year, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty gave Pi Luo Pavilion the name of Meng Guiyi, and Jin Jue was the king of Yunnan. In 738, Pi Luo Ge sought to take advantage of the victory to merge the five edicts, and requested to merge the six edicts into one, which was allowed by Tang Xuanzong.

In order to reward Nanzhao Piluoge for his meritorious service in unifying the Erhai region, the Tang Dynasty canonized him as the "King of Nanzhao" in the 26th year of Kaiyuan. However, Nanzhao's ambitions did not end there. After the success of the unification of the Six Edicts, they wanted to rule a larger region, which contradicted the Tang Dynasty, which wanted the surrounding small states to balance each other. Soon after the Southern Zhao unified the Erhai region, it took advantage of the turmoil in eastern Yunnan to move east to merge the planing department, and a fierce conflict broke out with the Tang Dynasty. Nanzhao, with the support of Tubo, defeated the Tang army. The Tang Dynasty was forced to withdraw from Yunnan after its defeat in the Tianbao War. Nanzhao rapidly expanded its power and unified Yunnan. Since Nanzhao mainly relied on the support of Tubo to defeat the Tang Dynasty, Tubo's control over Nanzhao in political, military, and economic aspects was constantly strengthened. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, Han culture has taken deep roots in Yunnan, but after the Tianbao War, the influence of Han culture on Yunnan weakened due to the withdrawal of political and military forces from Yunnan by the Tang Dynasty.

Until Ge Luofeng rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, Xijiao land was owned by Nanzhao, and led the army to coerce Xijiao to migrate to Yongchang City in the southwest of Taihe City, where more than 200,000 households were migrated. Heman and Xifu are both Baiman, and they migrated to Yongchang, which could increase the strength of Nanzhao. Xifu conquered the Wuman, after the migration, the Wuman had to stand on his own, the king of Nanzhao married the Wuman, so that the Wuman migrated to the hometown of Xifu, and the Wuman naturally reconciled with Nanzhao and helped Nanzhao defend against the attack from Jiannan. The Wuman economy and culture are relatively backward, living around the Dianchi Lake, changing from animal husbandry to agricultural tribe, the cultural level is gradually improved, and the Baiman is close, which is also very beneficial to the Wuman. Nanzhao has the foundation of the white barbarians, and the black barbarians as the auxiliary, and has the conditions for development. The relocation of the east and west is indeed a major event in the Nanzhao Kingdom.

After that, Nanzhao waged a long struggle against the Tang Dynasty and Tibet. However, Tibet's control of Nanzhao was very short-lived. In less than half a century, Nanzhao still "abandoned Tibet and returned to the Tang Dynasty". The Tang Dynasty canonized Yi Mu Xun as the "King of Nanzhao" and gave him the "Nanzhao Seal"; The territory under the command of Nanzhao was set up as the "Yunnan pacification envoy", and the governor of the administrative region was the "Yunnan pacification envoy", which was concurrently served by the Jiannan Xichuan Jiedu envoy, and the Nanzhao was controlled by the Yunnan pacification envoy.

Since the Southern Zhao was once again attached to the Tang Dynasty, the Southern Zhao got rid of the suppression and oppression of Tibet, and made great progress in the social economy. The Erhai area became the capital of Nanzhao. In the Shizhi area, the former Kunming Man, Yunnan Man, Ailao Man, Xi'er Heman, Yu, Han surname, etc. lived together in the same area, in the long-term economic, political, and cultural exchanges, mutual exchanges, mutual integration, the original differences between the barbarian tribes gradually disappeared, forming a common economic life, a common political system, a common language and a common culture, and fused into a new community of people. The original barbarian names such as Ailao, Kunming, Yunnan, Nongdong, Frog, and Heman also disappeared, and the boundaries of "Wuman" and "Baiman" in the early Tang Dynasty also ceased to exist, and a common special name appeared. More than 100 years after the founding of the Nanzhao People's Republic, the barbarians have been brutalized, and the name of the Bai nationality may come from here.

"You know that the Hengduan Mountains, with their dense forests and changeable terrain, are not suitable for training cavalry. Legend has it that there was a barbarian leader who loved hunting, and his subordinates specially transported a batch of mastiffs from Tibet in order to please their masters. Speaking of this, the old man turned his head in the direction of Yu'er and took a deep breath, "I believe you also know that it is thanks to this barbarian leader that a giant dog like Yu'er will be produced. ”

I said in my heart that the logic of this old man's words is very ridiculous, everyone knows that this madman village is the core of the forbidden land of Heiyun Village, and this Heiyun Village is all Han people, and what kind of barbarians can't be beaten, this old man's words are inevitably a little reluctant.

The old man said that don't look at the name of the madman village is called "village", in fact, it is a mountain, and there is no difference between the madman village and the big lonely mountain in terms of geography. Seeing that he was getting farther and farther away, I hurriedly turned the topic back and said, "That...... Recalling the eventful years of the past, let's talk about the affairs of Nanzhao later, let's talk about the actual ones first. ”

"Young man, don't be long-winded with me, you can't only listen to half of this story." Helpless, I had to let his train of thought continue.

"This barbarian leader, he loved hunting before his death, and he still has a love for Dagu Mountain after his death, thinking that this is a treasure land of feng shui, so it is rumored that he was not buried in the royal tomb after his death, but was buried in Dagu Mountain. His beloved mastiff was also buried. The strange sound you just heard is that his ghost is hunting underground with a mastiff. ”

"Even if the legend is true, we have no way of verifying it, can't we decide to die to see if this barbarian leader is below?" I took a deep breath and wondered how I was going to ask the old man about the Crazy Village.

"I've been talking about it for so long, old man, I haven't asked you for your name."

"There are many people in Heiyun Village who have the same surname, surnamed Yun, Yun Dingxiang." The old man didn't twist, and directly said his name.

"Yun Dingxiang? The Yun Ding'e you said last time is ...... with you."

"Hehe, Yun Ding'e is my younger brother."

"The last time you said he was a fool, what the hell was going on?"

To tell the truth, I originally guessed that there might be a big secret between this old man and Yun Ding'e, but now this speculation may be overturned, because no matter how bad the dislike between the brothers is, it is just an internal conflict in the family, which is not enough to support the secret of the legend of the madman village.

Yun Dingxiang sighed, hummed again, and paced back and forth. I got dizzy, and I still couldn't hit a stuffy fart. I watched him walk around without saying a word, for fear that the old man would be sick again, so I hurriedly asked him if he was unwell.

Unexpectedly, Yun Dingxiang suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed three times, and finally said with a happy face: "Providence is providence, hahaha!" ”

I saw that the more he talked, the more excited he became, and hurriedly poured a glass of water, but Yun Dingxiang said: "I don't drink or drink, it's okay, it's okay, I'm just happy, old man." ”

However, he laughed for a while, then turned to sobbing, and finally took my hand and said, "Son, this is a history of blood and tears, do you really want to hear it?" ”

"Listen up!"

Yun Dingxiang saw that I had made up his mind, so he simply sat on the ground and said, "Okay, it's too dangerous to go up the mountain now, I'll take you up in a while." This matter has been in my heart for decades, and if I don't talk to two people about it, I'm afraid that I will have no shame to face Jiangdong's father when I return to Huangquan in the future. ”

"Really?"

"I'll tell you the story of the madman's village." Yun Dingxiang's expression changed suddenly, and his whole body exuded an irresistible majesty.