Bamudan was promoted to a general because of his repeated military exploits in the counterinsurgency five years ago.

This time, it was he who led the order of Gao Xiangguo to mobilize the Nanyue people and send troops against the Han army.

In Bamudan's view, this is hardly difficult.

Five years ago, it was he who raised his arms, led his clansmen, and put down the rebellion with Zhang Yiping.

Now this time it is estimated that it is almost the same, and it is easy to say that the people of the moving clan are moving.

After all, it was for the Heavenly Pillar God, so how could the clansmen refuse?

However, Bamudan has also made some preparations for this.

He deliberately delayed some more time in Jiuzhen County and purchased some materials needed for life.

After all, you can't let the clansmen work in vain, some salt, cloth or something can also make the clansmen more willing to serve the Tianzhu God.

As soon as Bamudan arrived near Changshan, he heard the news that the Han army was stationed at the foot of Changshan Mountain, and his heart was even more moved.

"Such a good opportunity, why don't you directly lead the troops to raid the Han army camp after the clansmen send troops?"

Thinking of this, Bamudan accelerated his pace.

When he arrived at the pass where the clan was located, he directly asked the chieftain Ba'acha.

"It's Bamudan, why are you back today?!"

As one of the few Jiaozhi natives who are big officials in the country of Jiaozhi, Bamudan's reputation is known to everyone in the clan.

The prestige is only below a few leaders, and even the warrior Barrow is slightly inferior.

"Ah, the court is resting, I'm just coming back to take a look."

"Nothing big in the clan, right?"

Bamudan did not rush to show his intention to return, but tried it first.

See if the Han army has any communication with the clan, if so, then see which point, if the cooperation is deep enough, just let the Han army relax its guard and turn against it.

Maybe without Zhang Yiping's support, the Han army can be defeated.

"Look at you, you're all sweating, you've been running for a long time, right?"

The chieftain Ba'acha himself poured a cup of hot tea:

"Drink some tea and rest for a while."

Bamudan went up the mountain in one breath, and he was indeed too tired.

He took the tea and drank it in a skilful sip.

After breathing a sigh of relief, he praised: "Good tea." ”

Suddenly, he was stunned, and his whole body froze for a few breaths.

Something is wrong, when did the clan have this kind of good tea?

Look at the taste, the price is not cheap.

Especially for the indigenous people of South Vietnam who live in the mountains and forests, it is extremely valuable.

And this teacup, too.

Such delicate porcelain, even if he bought it in the national capital, would have to spend a lot.

Bamudan glanced at the leader, and his eyes were extremely complicated.

The living standards of the clansmen are not so easy to improve.

Most of them were chieftains, who went to the county town to buy them privately.

He knew in his heart what the price of the merchants in the county town was to the natives of South Vietnam.

These items must cost a lot, and the chief's daily income is basically not the right amount.

Maybe it's the deerskin of the corrupt clan!

As one of the few Jiaozhi natives who are officials in the court, he feels that he has a good moral benchmark, so he naturally has to stop this phenomenon immediately:

"Chief, this kind of thing can't be done!!"

Ba'aca didn't care, and poured himself a cup of tea:

"What's not to do like this?"

"It's rare for you to come back, and you've worked hard along the way, so why worry about these things."

Ba'acha brought a few plates of side dishes, and a large bread, and sprinkled some salt on the tea, and ate it immediately.

"It smells so good."

Bamudan, who had just regained some strength, was even more distressed when he saw this.

The leader is so corrupt?

Not only the tea, but also the white flour cake and the exquisite porcelain plate with the white flour cake.

Even the salt was much finer than the salt he prepared in the city of Jiuzhen County and prepared to bring to share with the clansmen!

Which one doesn't cost a lot of money to buy??

He always thought that only the officials in the country were corrupt.

I didn't expect that even the people who have always been simple are like this.

It seems that this right can really corrode people's hearts!

"You're an official, just right."

Ba'acha swallowed the flatbread and continued:

"I have also recruited the leaders of several other tribes, and I will meet and talk about it later, and discuss this matter well."

Yes?

Bamudan is even more distracted, and it is not just the leader?

Are there other chieftains of other clans?

What is this?

Collective embezzlement?

Huddle corruption??

But Bamudan is not easy to point out directly, after all, he doesn't live much in the clan, and it is these leaders who really have the right to speak in the clan.

So, he had no choice but to knock on the side and ask:

"Didn't Barrow dissuade you?"

Barrow is one of the few warriors in his clan and is straightforward.

Back then, he also invited Barrow to be an official in the court, and the two of them had a good relationship.

However, Barrow rejected the high-ranking officials of the imperial court on the grounds of building mountains and forests.

Such a righteous man will definitely not sit idly by.

"Barrow?"

Ba'aca licked the crumbs of cake at the corner of his mouth, took another sip of hot tea, and burped, so comfortable that he couldn't do it:

"It was Barrow who proposed it in the first place!"

After Bamudan heard this, his heart was even more like thunder.

It was as if he had offended the Heavenly Pillar God and was punished by the Heavenly Thunder.

Even Barrow has fallen!

"Chief, quickly take me to the place where the proceedings are held, this kind of thing can't go on any longer!"

"This is disrespect to the God of the Heavenly Pillar, have you abandoned the faith in your hearts?!"

Ba'aca was an easy-going person, and he didn't want to quarrel with Bamudan about it, so he had to say:

"It's not that serious."

"But I knew you were going to object."

"You came back in such a hurry, I guess you also heard the news, right?"

Bamudan shook his head, he really didn't know.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it

Baacha spread his hands:

"It doesn't matter, there's nothing to hide about it, you'll have to know sooner or later."

"Let's go, seeing that the time is about the same, you can come with me to meet the leaders of the other tribes."

"Well, I really have to let you do a good job of counseling."

Good staff?

Bamudan clenched his fists, could it be that if he is an official in the court, he will be a corrupt official?

Do you want him to share his experience of corruption?

He's not that kind of person!

The two came to the room where they were deliberating, and several leaders were sitting down, and there was a big tripod in the center, which was cooking and eating.

When Bamudan saw this scene, he was in a hurry again.

How much does this big ding have to embezzle??

He bought some materials for the clan this time, but he didn't dare to include Ding in the scope of procurement!

Look at the new clothes on these leaders, and even the silk clothes.

His feet were also beautifully woven straw sandals, and he couldn't sit still.

Bamudan immediately said angrily:

"Is it really good for you guys to do this?!"

The leaders were looking at the boiling ding, thinking about where to start eating.

Leng Buding was yelled at by Bamudan, frowned, and explained:

"It's not good, but it can improve your life!"

"Our ancestors have lived in the mountains and forests for generations, and the days in the mountains are so painful!"

"It's hard to improve a little, why isn't it good?"

Bamudan is even more heartbroken:

"What the hell is going on in the clan? Honest and honest, has it become an outlier?! ”

"The clansmen made you the leader, did they let you use it for personal gain?!"

Several leaders looked at each other.

Mutual market with the Han army, with a reasonable price, a reasonable purchase of something, how did it become the use of power for personal gain, and it also involves honesty and integrity?

"Bamudan, it's rare for you to go back to the clan, this matter is really not good from your standpoint."

"You are well-informed, you can give opinions, you can analyze the pros and cons for us, but the words are so heavy, it's not enough, right?"

Li Falcon was a rather burly man, and the tattoo on his face was not much less than that of Barrow, and after listening to Bamudan's words, he immediately glanced at him.

Why do you little comrade talk like that?

Ba'aca was also a little embarrassed.

He brought Bamudan here, just to want everyone to discuss and discuss, talk and talk about peace, but he didn't expect Bamudan's idea to be so direct.

He could only play a round and said:

"Bamudan, we exchange markets with the Han army, also to improve our lives."

"The things in the country of Jiaozhi are so expensive to sell, so they will catch us."

"We want to be cheaper, we want to have a better life, can't we only buy things from the Han Army?"

"I know that you are the general of the Cochin Kingdom, and you have won the trust of the king."

"The monarch is also the god of the Heavenly Pillar, and it is indeed where our belief lies."

"But we are just buying and selling things freely, and we haven't betrayed the Heavenly Pillar God!"

And the tattooed Li Falcon, who is extremely burly, even made up a sentence:

"The Heavenly Pillar God didn't allow you to come to trap us, right?"

Yes?

Mutual market? Buying and selling? Merchant?

Listening to this meaning, it seems that it is not collective corruption, but mutual market with the Han army?

Seeing Bamudan's expression, Ba Acha also realized that this guy seemed to have misunderstood something, and hurriedly signaled his eyes to let him sit down first.

Bamudan had no choice but to cover his face and sit down, with an embarrassed expression on his face, and apologized repeatedly:

"A few leaders."

In exchange, there were a few cold snorts.

Something bad.

Bamudan only felt that such a misunderstanding made the leaders' favorability towards the country of Jiaozhi drop even more.

It wasn't that he didn't know that the profiteers deliberately raised prices for the natives of South Vietnam.

For this reason, he also wrote to the monarch many times, demanding strict control.

But the current monarch is a man.

It can only be said that the monarch is not good, but as the mascot of the Tianzhu God Tuoshi, he is still quite qualified.

After all, according to myths and legends, the ancestors of the Nanyue people and the Baiyue ethnic group were all bred by the Tianzhu God.

But at the same time, Bamudan was also a little happy in his heart.

The Han army actually did this to the clansmen, if he hadn't come back on purpose, I was afraid that the clansmen would have been moved by the Han army.

For a while, the scene was extremely ugly.

In the end, as a warrior in the clan, Barrow, who was present, said peacefully:

"It's rare for Bamudan to come back, so don't worry about that."

"Over the years, Bamudan has also fought a lot for us."

"Those clansmen who have moved into the county can have land, and Bamudan is also maneuvering from it, and he is also for the good of the clan."

Li Falcon glanced at him and whispered:

"If you really want land, how can you join the Han army because you have been allocated land?"

Barrow ignored him and continued:

"This discussion is mainly because the emperor of the Han Dynasty invited the leaders to the banquet."

"I want to discuss one or two things at the banquet, so as to completely set up the market at the foot of Changshan Mountain."

"Soon the Han army will leave, and then it will be handed over to the merchant management, so before that, these things must be discussed."

The crowd was silent for a moment.

"Could it be a Hongmen feast?"

I have to say that the indoctrination of the country of Cochin is still of a high level, and the natives all know the allusions.

Bamudan also added fuel to the fire:

"Maybe, that's what it means."

He didn't have to think too much about it now, just stop the clansmen from cooperating with the Han army.

As long as the leaders did not fall to the Han army, he would be able to rally enough people to fight for the glory of the Tianzhu God.

"I can't say yes."

In the silence, Li Falcon, who had been scolding Bamudan, suddenly spoke, and stood on the side of Jiaozhi.

"It's okay to make a few deals."

"But in the long run, isn't it equivalent to really being a citizen of the Han Dynasty?"

"When the Han army sends troops again, attacks Jiaozhi, and even persecutes the king, what should we do?"

"Isn't this a betrayal of the Heavenly Pillar God?"

The crowd also echoed for a while:

"I think what Li Falcon said is right."

"Well, it would be nice if the Han Dynasty didn't make enemies of the Tianzhu God."

Seeing that everyone was like this, Barrow analyzed it rationally:

"But what is the situation in Cochin now?"

"Let's make it clear, Rinan County has fallen, although Zhang Yiping is a general and commands tens of thousands of troops, he doesn't dare to fight the Han army at all."

"How long will it take for the Han army to take Jiuzhen County?"

"We gave up the market set up by the imperial court in vain, do we want to drive the market to the county seat to be slaughtered in the future?"

"The Heavenly Pillar God is in our hearts, we have to be pragmatic."

"Doesn't the Heavenly Pillar God want our lives to be better?"

Hearing this, everyone present bowed their heads......

Like, it makes sense.

The god of the Heavenly Pillar can't look at his people and live a hard life, right?

As for whether the monarch of the Jiaozhi Kingdom is the Tianzhu God Trustee, in fact, to the point where he can become the leader, except for a few people who are extremely pious, they basically know it.

But we also have to admit that the country of Jiaozhi has done a good job of propaganda in this regard.

It has been deeply ingrained for hundreds of years, and there are indeed many clansmen in the clan, and I really believe in this.

And what happened five years ago, everyone knows.

The monarch didn't show up, and even just ascended to the throne, just using the name of the Tianzhu God to support the world, as soon as he raised his arms, some clansmen were willing to go to the battlefield to die for the glory of the Tianzhu God.

If you start trading with the Great Han, there will be no problems for the time being.

But wait until the king of Jiaozhi once again called on the South Vietnamese to fight in the name of the god of Tianzhu to resist the Han army.

When the time comes, I am afraid that the clan will be divided.

Ba'acha had some wisdom, and after thinking about some things, he looked at Bamudan:

"We don't want to turn our backs on the Heavenly Pillar God, but we all want to live a better life."

"Of course we can refuse the Han army, then can you let the monarch open a market at the foot of Changshan Mountain?"

"This"

Bamudan hesitated.

He actually proposed this matter to the imperial court.

But it's such a simple thing, the monarch doesn't care much about it at all, instead of taking care of these miscellaneous things, it is better to have a few more sons.

Gao Xiangguo had considered it, but the control of merchants in the country was not enough.

Even if a bazaar is set up at the foot of the Truong Son Mountain, the merchants dare to be at the doorstep of the indigenous people of South Vietnam.

In fact, the same is true for the Hao people's encroachment on the fields of the indigenous people of South Vietnam.

Bamudan had thought of a way for his clansmen, and even took the risk of taking troops to persuade those wealthy clans.

But the local wealthy clan is amazingly powerful, and he really can't be offended, so he can only stop in the end.

When Barrow saw Bamudan, he stood up, and then he spoke again and agitated:

"The Jiaozhi court doesn't care about our life or death, but we can't be irresponsible to our clansmen."

Everyone nodded again.

The exchange of markets with the Han army is a clear and tangible benefit.

And Na Li Falcon raised his hand and patted it on the cushion, and said solemnly:

"What Barrow said is right, but we started a long-term cooperation with the Han army, and that is the betrayal of the Tianzhu God."

There was another silence, and this Falcon seemed to be a fanatical believer in the Heavenly Pillar God.

"Let's take a look at it first."

In the middle of the night, Ba'aca spoke first.

"We can first temporarily promise the Han Emperor to discuss a day for the banquet."

"But this time can be postponed."

As soon as Ba'acha said this, the people understood.

First of all, the benefits brought by the Han Army Market will be fully enjoyed.

I bought what I should have bought, and the things that were difficult to buy were also transported from Rinan County, and there was no need in the clan for the time being, even if it was not traded with the Han army, it was enjoyed in a short time.

And make a gesture of going to the banquet, and you can still wait for the price to sell.

The Jiaozhi Imperial Court saw that they had the intention of cooperating with the Han army, so they couldn't sit idly by and ignore it anymore, right?

Even if it is not like the Han army, to ensure the supply of materials and fair trading, at least something has to be done.

Even in the minds of most of the indigenous people of South Vietnam who believe in the god of Tianzhu, as long as the Jiaozhi side behaves, they have enough reason to go to war with the Han army for the glory of the god of Tianzhu.

Barrow understood everyone's minds, but he had done his best, and he couldn't do more.

"Then let's settle it first, and then everyone will go to the banquet together."

"If there's anything, I'll talk about it at the banquet."

Everyone still thinks that Mei Zizi will eat Han Jun again.

This is the banquet of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, how can I say that it has to be of a super high standard, right?

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At night, Barrow couldn't sleep, and his heart was not steady.

He went out overnight and found the chieftain, Baacha.

"Chief, I think the current Jiaozhi country can't stop the big Han at all."

"This Cochin country is a broken ship, even if there is a Tianzhu God sitting, it can't make up for the loopholes."

Ba'aca didn't sleep at night, and Barrow's arrival was even as he expected:

"I also know, but many people in the clan believe in the Heavenly Pillar God, and believe that the Heavenly Pillar God can repair the hole."

"Your wife, and that boy of Banihan, have always believed in the god of the Heavenly Pillar."

Thinking of this, Barrow also frowned and said:

"Yes, Banihan has to worship the god of the Heavenly Pillar every three or five days."

"Don't look at him in the market of the Han army, he is elated to buy, but if then the monarch really asks us to resist the Han army in the name of the Tianzhu God."

"I'm afraid that kid will immediately take the spear he bought from the Han army and stab the Han army."

Ba'a Cha took out a white flour cake out of nowhere, and while eating, he said:

"But the country of Jiaozhi is not just a broken ship, but a ship is gone, and the sailors were completely wiped out by the Han army."

"And the big man is happy to take us to the ship."

Ba'acha's words were subtle, but Barrow understood.

It shows that Jiaozhi is unreliable and can be defeated at any time, while the Han army is willing to treat them well and shows full sincerity.

After all, these Jiaozhi natives can't be asked to have the same strategic vision as Zhang Yiping, taking retreat as advance.

Therefore, in their eyes, the country of Jiaozhi has been completely defeated, and there is no possibility of a reversal.

It's not that everyone doesn't believe Zhang Yiping, but the fact on the surface is that the Han army has taken Rinan County bloodlessly and further occupies the entire territory of Jiaozhi, and it is not difficult.

Barrow Road:

"Chief, both for ourselves and for the sake of our people."

"I think we should all jump off this sinking ship as soon as possible!"

"But how do you jump?"

It's not that Ba'acha doesn't want to jump, if he can talk to the other leaders, he will already jump today.

There are white flour cakes to eat, clothes to wear, fields to plough, and what else do you need to be a pillar of heaven?

But he also knew that these things were brought by his clansmen.

If the clansmen don't listen to him, they are willing to follow the Tianzhu God, and his white bread may not be much.

Barrow knows that's the hard part.

"Let's take one step at a time"

"Go to the banquet first, and see what the emperor means at the banquet."

There was a look of ruthlessness in Baacha's eyes:

"If you really can't do it, you won't do anything, and while the banquet is coming, you will take action and tie up the leaders of other tribes."

"Without the leaders, even if the monarch can make the clansmen resist in the name of the Tianzhu God, it will be difficult to gather too many clansmen in a short period of time."

"When the time comes, we will take the clansmen who don't know what is going on, and drill into the mountains and forests, and no one will find them."

"Waiting for this broken ship to sink, and then coming out and getting on the ship, it will not betray the Tianzhu God, but also make the life of the clansmen better."

Barrow nodded, for now, it may be the best way to not help each other.

At that moment, there was a sudden clicking sound outside the house, as if something had been tripped.

Shocked, the two of them were in a mess, almost like the old king who had been caught, they picked up the antler spears one after another, and jumped to the window.

But the two of them searched out the window, but they didn't find anyone.

When Ba'acha saw this, he was also tired, and he put down his antler spear and said:

"No matter, you can go back and rest."

"Just spend the past few days, don't be too unusual, so as not to be noticed."

"Anyway, in this mountain forest, we can come and go."

Barrow also left the antler spear on the ground, tired from the day:

"Well, that's it for the time being, you can only take one step at a time."

And then he was reluctant to leave:

"Chief, it's so late, just let me stay with you for the night?"

Ba'aca smiled with the sympathy of a Chinese man:

"Okay, you're here to keep me safe."

"Hey"

In fact, even if he avoided a night's hard work, Barrow didn't feel much easier, but sighed.

Why did the Han army use a market to improve the lives of its people?

Because their previous life in the mountains and forests was really rotten!

If the Heavenly Pillar God had been a little nicer to them and had brought those unfair phenomena under control, they would not have come to this point today.

I'm afraid that as soon as the Han army came to Changshan, they copied the antler spear and took the initiative to attack, instead of being in a dilemma here.

(End of chapter)