Jiang Zhuzi secretly said that he hadn't done it for many years, and when he was careless, he heard a "bang", and the wolf and sheep stick smashed a foot away from his head, and when he opened his eyes, it was Zhuo Shan who attacked him. At this moment, Zhuo Shan had been pressed to the ground by Feng Tang with a shield, and the waist knife in his palm was pulled on his neck, and blood was splashed all over the place, and half of his head was hanging on his neck, and he was already dying.

Jiang Zhuzi looked at Feng Tang who got up from Zhuo Shan in a daze, and when he saw Feng Tang stretching out his hand, he subconsciously grabbed it, got up with his strength, and muttered: "...... Thank you very much......"

Feng Tang replied: "It's all robes, what do you say?"

At this moment, the battlefield has stopped, Bao Zhong and his people circled the prisoners caught everywhere, about thirty people, and there were more than twenty lying on the ground, but none of them were fatal serious injuries, most of them were slightly injured by trampling. The only one who died in the fight was Zhuo Shan, the small head of the Xiaohe Department.

On the side of the small street temple, only a few fireworkers had some blood, all of them were injured by someone in the chaos, one was slashed through the arm by a knife, one was poked in the stomach by a stick, and one was hit by an arrow in the leg, but it was not deep in the flesh, it was injured by a soft hunting bow.

Zhang Wu walked up to Feng Tang and said in a low voice: "Feng Tang, thank you for saving Jiang Zhuzi, what happened before...... There is a place to stay......"

Feng Tang interrupted him: "I forgot all the previous things. ”

The day after the First Battle of Xiaojiemiao, a team of fifty cavalry sent by the Hongyuan Imperial Palace arrived, led by Ning Deshou's personal soldier Xiaoqi Song Xiong.

On the third day, Guan Er rushed to the side street with more than 200 self-defense forces gathered around him.

On the fourth day, the three hundred foot soldiers sent by Ning Deshoujia also arrived in the small street, led by a deputy Qianhu surnamed Li.

At this point, the military strength gathered on the small street temple has reached 600.

When Yuan Hao, the prison officer, rushed to the Xiaojie Temple, took over the command of Lord Lu Fang, and put on a posture of preparing to attack the mountain, the unresponsive Tusi Meisi of the Xiaohe Department finally stopped being dull and sent two leaders as envoys to go down the mountain to ask to see Yuan Hao.

Looking at the two leaders of the Xiaohe tribe in front of him, Yuan Hao said angrily: "Deploy troops to attack the small street without authorization, this is your autonomy? Do you still have the face to mention autonomy? Isn't this the world of the Ming Dynasty?"

A leader protested: "It is precisely because the Xiaojie Temple interfered with the autonomy of my Xiaohe Department and hid the untouchable slaves who killed the head of the family that such a dispute was triggered. ”

Yuan Hao asked rhetorically: "Who is hiding, who killed whom?"

"Ah Peanut's two cheap dogs! The two brothers killed Zhuo Shan's brother!"

"First, what we are talking about now is the matter of your Xiaohe Department sending troops to attack the small streets, you should not talk nonsense and confuse the public! Second, whether anyone has killed anyone, we don't know for the time being, even if we kill someone, we must find out the ins and outs of the matter, and figure out why they killed people! Second, the Ah Hua family you are talking about is now the Ming people registered in the White Horse Courtyard, not a cheap dog, I would like to advise the two of you, if you call the people of the Ming Dynasty a cheap dog, it is disrespectful to the White Horse Courtyard and a provocation to the Ming Dynasty!"

"Yuan Jian Yuan, of course we will not be disrespectful to the White Horse Academy, let alone provoke the Ming Dynasty, but the White Horse Yuan should also respect the customs and habits of our people, and even more respect our power to dispose of our own slaves. ”

"Then how do you explain that your troops sent troops to attack the small street?"

"That's because the White Horse Courtyard is attracting fugitive slaves!"

"My White Horse Academy is doing normal naturalization affairs for displaced people, and I also draw the attention of your ministry to the fact that naturalization is the people of the Ming Dynasty!"

Naturally, such a quarrel could not reach an agreement, and the two leaders returned in a daze. But the Ming army in Xiaojiemiao is gradually increasing.

On October 30, eight days after the Battle of Xiaojie, the Ming army gathered here reached 1,000 people, and the Baojia Self-Defense Force expanded to 800 people.

Such a force is already a force to exterminate the clan for the Xiaohe tribe, which has a total population of only more than 8,000, and Mei Si could no longer sit still, so he sent a request to Yuan Hao to meet, and the two sides met in an open space between Haizi Mountain and Xiaojie.

After meeting, Meisi sighed: "Yuan Prison Yuan, Xiaohe Department and White Horse Courtyard were not like this in the past. When Abbot Zeng was there, how cordial the relationship was. ”

Yuan Hao said: "The past is the past, the present is the present, time has changed, and it is different." In the past few years, the practices of the three departments of the White Horse have embarrassed the whole of the White Horse Academy, and we have to re-examine whether the policies we have taken against you in the past will continue to be implemented in the future. ”

Mei Si was surprised: "Yuan Jian Yuan, how can you embarrass the White Horse Academy? Our White Horse Third Department has always been in the mountains, on our own land, and we have never crossed the Thunder Pond. ”

Yuan Hao said: "The credibility of the believers of the White Horse Courtyard has been at the bottom of the province for three consecutive years, the people's livelihood is poor, and all industries are withering, Abbot Zeng paid the price for this, was transferred away, and was exchanged for Abbot Zhao, doesn't this explain the problem?"

"What does this have to do with us?"

"Back then, the Daomen and the imperial court allowed you to govern themselves, and the precondition was to convert to the Three Qings, but what about you? What have you done over the years, do you need me to repeat it?"

"We have converted to Sanqing. ”

Yuan Hao was angry: "You have changed your hat, that is, you have converted to faith?

"One Qi turns into three clears, and the three clears are one, which is also a change made from respect for customs and habits, and the essence is no different. ”

"What is the belief in the Tao? Is it the statue of the god enshrined in the temple? We believe in the Tao, focusing on the words of the Tao, on the subtle words of the saints, and on the rules of heaven and earth, not on a puppet or a sculpture, not to mention that this puppet and sculpture are just a change of name! If this conversion of yours is useful, then why has our Daomen never received the faith of your three offerings? You can explain to me well!"

Messtrong laughed twice and explained, "This is the custom and habit of our tribe for more than a hundred years...... It is a custom and habit, and Hakubain should respect ......"

Yuan Hao said coldly: "Our abbot Zhao has long said that what you believe in has nothing to do with customs and habits, don't always use this sentence as a rhetoric, let alone mix it up." The White Horse Courtyard respects the customs and habits of the Xiaohe Division, but the Xiaohe Department must also respect the agreement reached with the Daomen and the Ming Dynasty! Mutual respect can truly become a family!"

Mei Si was silent for a long time, and then asked, "The prison army is gathered at the foot of the mountain, is it planning to destroy my Xiaohe Division?"

Yuan Hao said: "The reason for the deployment of troops here is that first, for the sake of your ministry's gathering of people to attack the small street temple, we must punish those in charge and find out who is behind the scenes! Second, the White Horse Yuan will send people to inspect the mountain to inspect the progress of the Xiaohe Ministry's conversion in the past few years, and to supervise and rectify the deficiencies! Third, if some people are willing to go down the mountain to the White Horse Yuan to become naturalized, your ministry must not stop them. ”

"The matter of fugitive slaves, the White Horse Courtyard is also in charge?"

"I only have a nationality and an equal rank, and there is no slave!"