"Where are you going? This way. ”

A man dressed almost as much as Liu Yifeng grabbed Liu Yifeng, pointed to an alley and said, "Here, here, hurry up, there will be no place if you go late, you shouldn't be afraid, right?" ”

Ha?

Before Liu Yifeng could react, the man immediately said again: "Cowardice, I'm afraid of hair, we'll be responsible for standing up, and it won't be our turn to fight if we really want to." ”

Liu Yifeng didn't know what he was talking about at all, and he didn't know him, but before he could explain anything, 4 or 5 more people rushed over, pushing him and the person who held him into the alley.

"No, you recognized the wrong person!"

"What is he talking about?"

"He said we had the wrong person."

"You know him?"

"I don't even know you."

"yes, we don't know each other."

What's going on? Liu Yifeng was completely stunned, and the person who grabbed him shouted to the others: "Do any of you know him?" ”

"I don't know."

"Hey, hurry up and go ahead, I'm done standing on the field, I still have to go back to move things, master!"

The person who grabbed Liu Yifeng could only pull Liu Yifeng and continue to walk towards the depths of the alley, and asked Liu Yifeng, who was helpless to be pulled in, as he walked: "You're not here to stand up?" ”

"No, I'll just pass by."

"Then it's all here, just help stand down, Boss Liu is very generous, as long as he wins, those of us who help stand will have money."

Liu Yifeng couldn't think about it, he looked back at the alley that could only accommodate 3 people in parallel, it was already crowded with people, everyone walked silently towards the depths of the alley, and some people he knew were still greeting each other.

With so many people, he couldn't retreat if he wanted to, so he could only continue to move forward.

But what's going on......

"Brother, what's the momentum?"

"What else can you stand, Inuit."

Inuit!?

Liu Yifeng was a little skeptical that he had heard it wrong.

The Inuit are the famous Eskimos, but the Eskimo is their enemy, and the Indians of North America gave them the name "people who eat raw meat".

They did not accept it, calling themselves Inuit, and "Inuit" means "man" in their language.

"Inuit? Is it meant to be an Inuit slave? ”

Liu Yifeng's words made everyone around him turn their heads to look at him in surprise, their eyes full of suspicion.

"Brother, where did you come to Dongshan Prefecture?"

Liu Yifeng hesitated for 2 seconds, thinking that it was better not to pretend, to be honest, after all, he was completely unclear about many conventional things in Dongshan Prefecture: "This year." ”

"No wonder."

Everyone who looked at Liu Yifeng like a monster before retracted their gazes. And the man who grabbed him was probably a familiar talker, and directly began to popularize Inuit science to Liu Yifeng.

"They are not slaves, they are the natives of Dongshan Prefecture, but their ancestors are also from our Huaxia clan. I've heard from the Maritime Administration that these Inuit are descendants of the Xianbei tribe that migrated eastward. Don't say it, they really look like the barbarians in Mobei. ”

Xianbei!?

Liu Yifeng was full of desire to complain, and there were more doubts in his mind. But before he could ask, the man continued:

"When we discovered Dongshan Prefecture, there were a lot of lost ships in the fleet, and they landed on the Qianfu Mountain, further north of the Jishan Mountain, where it was even more bitterly cold than here. Just when they were about to freeze to death and starve to death because of the ship's wreckage, they encountered the Inuit. ”

With this man's pretentious narration, Liu Yifeng gradually understood that in the northern part of Dongshan Prefecture, the actual status of the Inuit was higher than that of the people, and it was impossible to have such a thing as an Inuit slave.

The people on the Trek branch were rescued by the Inuit. Not only that, in the first year of reclamation, many people could not stand the harsh winter in the northern part of Dongshan State, and the Inuit provided a lot of furs and food for free to help them through the most difficult period.

This was later discovered by His Majesty and the Cabinet of the Native People, who asked the Maritime Administration to investigate the Inuit, as they really looked like northern nomads.

The result of the MSA's investigation was that they were supposed to be of Xianbei descent.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty already had a second-class national policy, mainly for ethnic minorities who were not Han Chinese but had contributed to the Ming Dynasty. Like the Mongols who defected to the Ming Dynasty in the Beiting Prefecture, the Jurchens who made great achievements, and the many ethnic groups in the south who fought in the jungle of the Annam Prefecture.

The first generation of them was a second-class citizen, but the second generation could become a Chinese scholar as long as they received it from an early age.

This policy has been implemented for more than 30 years, and it is the goal of many non-Han people who have been working hard all their lives, such as Kim Seung-woo and Aobai.

After listening to these men explain the story of Inuit and Dongshan Prefecture, Liu Yifeng had a strange feeling. He always felt that the Ming court's forcible explanation that the Inuit were descendants of Xianbei was creating an orthodox claim.

To put it simply, it is four words that later generations of Chinese people are very familiar with: since ancient times.

Xianbei has been integrated into the Chinese cultural system since the Han Dynasty, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties after the Jin Dynasty have entered the Central Plains.

The word "Xianbei" has only appeared in the mouths of history books and teahouse storytellers.

Xianbei has completely belonged to China, and the Inuit are descendants of Xianbei, so Dongshan Prefecture, where the Inuit have lived for generations, can be included in the system of "since ancient times".

It only takes two or three generations to operate, and Dongshan Prefecture is the same as the Western Regions, even if it is lost again, it will be regarded as their own territory by default by the Han people, and they will naturally try their best to get it back.

However, Liu Yifeng did not say the conjecture of the true idea of the Ming court to promote the status of the Inuit, and it is estimated that these men who know the big characters at a glance and don't know a single one can't understand it.

He followed the crowd out of the alley and into an open field. There were already a lot of people standing here, more than 100 by sight, divided into two groups of people dressed as several merchants.

There was a gap of about 20 meters between the two groups of people, and there was a table of eight immortals, and a group of people were sitting on each side of the table of eight immortals. These people knew at first glance that they were merchants, after all, the gorgeous furs on their bodies were precious things in any way.

Liu Yifeng is a little curious about the end of summer, almost 15 degrees Celsius, wearing such thick fur, isn't it hot?

In fact, it was still a little hot, as evidenced by the beads of sweat on the foreheads of these merchants, but they preferred to be hot rather than take off their furs, because it was the most expensive clothing they could wear.

Merchants in the Ming Dynasty were not allowed to wear silk and satin, but could only wear cloth clothes. No matter how expensive the cloth is, the visual effect is not as good as that of silk and satin.

Although with the opening of the Ming Dynasty and the establishment of the Maritime Safety Bureau, the status and wealth of private merchants are rising, but the Ming Law still prohibits merchants from wearing silk.

These merchants were very distressed, in addition to sending their sons to the imperial examination or sending them to join the army, and marrying their daughters to the gentry and bureaucratic class to achieve the next generation's class leap, they also racked their brains to show off their wealth.

It just so happens that it has been getting colder and colder in the past 20 years, not to mention the Qinling Mountains and Huaihai in the Central Plains, and even the Lingnan area often snows in winter, and the status of fur has been improved. High-quality fur not only has an excellent warmth effect, but also brings a sense of grace and luxury visually no worse than satin, and has become the most popular clothing in the Ming Dynasty in the last few decades.

Especially during the period of His Majesty's personal Northern Expedition, His Majesty, who stayed in Monan, wore gorgeous fur to protect himself from the cold every day, and fur fever became popular throughout the Ming Dynasty. The local ladies or deep ladies of the Ming Dynasty like to put a layer of exquisite fur robes on top of the horse-faced skirt, which looks graceful and luxurious.

There was no restriction on merchants not to wear fur, so they began to show off their wealth on fur in different ways.

Liu Yifeng looked at the two businessmen sitting on both sides of the Eight Immortals table, and always felt that they were two bears......

"What a bear, you dirt bun."

The gentleman who pulled Liu Yifeng over looked at Liu Yifeng with disdain, completely forgetting that he had also been complained about like this 3 years ago.

"That's the skin of the giant bear!"

"The Giant Bear of the Mountain?"

"Yes, that bear is several times bigger than the black blind man in the Northeast!"

The Northeast black blind is also the East Asian subspecies of the black bear, and its body length is generally no more than 1.4 meters.

"What is several times, don't talk nonsense if you haven't seen it."

A voice sounded from behind the two, and the talkative man pushed Liu Yifeng away with some disbelief, but his face was full of flattery after seeing the person who spoke: "Yo, Brother Zhao, you are here too." ”

Liu Yifeng looked back, this man surnamed Zhao was only a little shorter than himself, and he was about 177 by sight, which was definitely very tall in this era.

The man surnamed Zhao is estimated to be somewhat famous among the crowd, and more than half of the people around him are greeting him. But he didn't pay attention to them, just looked at Liu Yifeng silently, and his eyes showed a little vigilance.

It was the first time he had seen someone taller than himself, and not only that, but Liu Yifeng's muscles also made him feel pressure.

During the time on the ship, Liu Yifeng has been exercising, and from time to time he will find Feng Shuo, Li Hongji and others to practice wrestling and fighting skills.

There is the best protein every day: fish and meat to eat, and I have developed a pair of muscles that can be put in the future to cover my face and make a certain sound, which is estimated to make many young ladies red-faced and red-eared, and make many crazy to call their brothers' muscles. However, after revealing the face of the passerby, it is estimated that there are not a few red-faced young ladies left, and the called brother will also have to leave more than halfway.

The talkative man deserves to be a talker, and directly began to introduce Liu Yifeng to the man surnamed Zhao as a man who just arrived this year.

Hearing that it was a folk man who had just arrived this year, the man surnamed Zhao was inexplicably less vigilant.

Perhaps with the intention of showing off in front of Liu Yifeng, the man surnamed Zhao said: "The giant bear in Jishan is ten times bigger than the blind bear in the northeast!" ”

Suddenly, everyone around them began to inhale cool air in unison.

Liu Yifeng didn't speak, and some guessed that the so-called Jishan giant bear should be the world's largest bear subspecies: the Alaskan brown bear.