"Twenty-five million taels of silver?" Gongsun Wuwu gasped, "When was Xuanyuan Tai so rich?" He was originally born in Xuanyuan Terrace, and he also knew a little about Xuanyuan Terrace.

Li Fengyun also explained in detail how Wild Fox Zen and Drunken Daoist blackmailed Yeluming, Xiao Qirui, Lu Jinghong and others through the gold-inlaid jade seal, and Gongsun Wuwu only then understood.

After thinking about it, Gongsun said without worry: "My master, I slammed the door tightly, and trying to get something out of his mouth is like pulling teeth out of a tiger's mouth." ”

Li Fengyun nodded with deep feeling.

"But it's not completely impossible!" Gongsun Wuwu said again, "Ben Gongzi fight for it, don't make too much hope, see if you can let my master make up a whole number, and simply give us one million taels of silver!"

"Poof" Li Fengyun sat on the ground.

I thought that it would be good for Gongsun Wuwu to be able to pull out more than 100,000 taels of silver, but who knew that Gongsun Wuwu actually opened his mouth and directly wanted to get 1 million taels of silver. Since Gongsun Wuwu dares to say this, he must have a certain certainty. Poor man, I have never seen such a white amount of silver, shame!

But for the sake of this million taels of silver, it is worth the shame.

Li Fengyun jumped up, patted the ashes of his buttocks, and said solemnly: "It's not about fighting, it's about having to do it!" Worry-free boy, you have to take this issue seriously, this million taels of silver is very important to our Fengyunwei's future development, and we can't be sloppy at all!"

After thinking about it, Li Fengyun said again: "After I go to Miaojiang, all the affairs here will be handed over to you! I am afraid that I will not be able to catch up with the sneak attack on the Liao army's stronghold this time, so you will personally command it! Don't mess up, otherwise, Lao Tzu will not be able to spare you!"

Gongsun Wuwu was moved in his heart, although Li Fengyun didn't say it, but he knew very well in his heart that the reason why Li Fengyun asked him to personally command this sneak attack was to accumulate military merits for him. Feng Yunwei has the most important military merits, and without an outstanding record, it is difficult to hold his head up in the army, even if he is a first-class master. It's hard to subdue the arrogant generals in the Fengyun Guard.

Those arrogant soldiers will say at every turn: "How many battles have you fou......ght?

The two discussed the details of the battle again, and it was not until the moon was in the middle of the sky that Gongsun Wuwu said goodbye and left.

Two days later, after arranging all matters in Dingzhou, Li Fengyun, Su Yunong, and Yelu Hongyan took four personal soldiers south to Miaojiang.

After a month of traveling day and night, everyone finally entered Miaojiang.

Miao Jiang is mostly mountains and forests, in the 100,000 mountains, the land is vast and sparsely populated, there are countless snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants, the poisonous miasma and plague gas are everywhere, and all kinds of strange beasts are countless, and the environment is extremely bad. When you enter the mountains and forests, you can't see the sky when you look up, and the road that you have finally cut down will find that it has completely disappeared when you turn around.

The people of Miaojiang, also known as Jiuli, are also a branch of China, with Chiyou as their common ancestor, believe in witchcraft, worship ghosts and gods, and compile a criminal code to punish lawlessness. Since ancient times, the Central Plains has ruled Miaojiang mainly in Huairou and Tatar, and the people of Miaojiang have been managed through the Tusi of various places.

Legend has it that in ancient times, there were nine tribes in Jiuli, and each tribe had nine clans, with Chi You as the head, Chi You had a total of 81 brothers, who were the leaders of these 81 tribes, and Chi You was the big chief.

Later, the Chiyou clan and the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clan competed for the world, and the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clan formed an alliance with the Yan Emperor Shennong clan, and fought with the Chiyou clan in Zhuolu (Note 1), the Chiyou clan was defeated, and the clansmen retreated to the 100,000 mountains in southern Xinjiang, gradually forming today's Miao Jiang. At the time of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang captured Meng Shu seven times, and it was the story of Miao Jiang.

"The front is the territory of Miaojiang!" The guide Lao Chen pointed to the lush mountains and said, "The Miao people in Miaojiang are divided into black seedlings, white seedlings, flower seedlings, and Qing seedlings, all of which are different.

Black seedlings, also known as black barbarians, advocate black. The man of the black seedling wraps his head with black or blue cloth and pierces a protruding slender conical horn in the right front, called the 'hero knot'. The women of the black seedlings generally wear colored or black headscarves, with trimmed or embroidered tops and right sides, and long pleated skirts at the bottoms. When going out, both men and women prefer to wear black capes woven from wool. (Note 2)

Bai Miao, also known as Bai Man, is white in the mountains. The men of the white seedlings like to wrap their heads with white cloth or blue cloth and wear white clothes and pants. Bai Miao's women like to wear white tops, blue wide coats, short waistbands with embroidered streamers, and like to wear 'phoenix hats', so Bai Miao has a saying, 'To be pretty, a body of filial piety'.

The phoenix hat is easy to tell, just pay attention to the four anecdotes:

Xiaguan Feng refers to the long white spike hanging down from the left shoulder; Shangguan Hua refers to a circle of red azalendrons inlaid on the brim of the hat; Cangshan Snow, a circle of white spikes protrudes from the brim of the hat last week; and Erhaiyue refers to the shape of the hat in front of the bangs. (Note 3)

Everyone's attention, when you enter Miaojiang, you need to be careful everywhere, Bai Man is closer to us Han people, has more contacts, is also reasonable, fair, if you don't offend them, you will generally not embarrass us Han people. The barbarians are different, they have less contact with our Han people, and they are more barbaric, and if they don't agree with each other, they will fight with their lives, so don't provoke if you can. ”

Lao Chen often goes in and out of Miaojiang and is very familiar with the affairs of Miaojiang.

When Li Fengyun heard this, he laughed and whispered to Su Yunong: "Yunong, I don't know if you belong to Bai Miao or Hei Miao." ”

Su Yunong glanced at him, his eyes were full of anticipation, and he suddenly became flattering, and Yingying whispered, "What do you say?"

Li Fengyun was stunned for a while, opened his mouth in a daze, and muttered: "It must be Bai Miao, and only the gentleness of Bai Miao women will have such a Zhong Lingshui show!"

"It's drooling out, it's disgusting!" Yelu Hongyan came to Li Fengyun's side at some point, glanced at Li Fengyun with slanted eyes, and his face was full of contempt, "The blue wolf on the grassland, the eagle in the sky, will not be confused by women!"

Li Fengyun immediately closed his mouth, took out a handkerchief and wiped it, ah, it was really saliva, it was really embarrassing, and he didn't feel that his face turned red, but fortunately, the four pro-soldiers were far behind, and they must not have noticed.

Su Yunong wrapped his arms around Li Fengyun, his little face was lightly attached to Li Fengyun's arm, he looked like a little bird, his eyes were blurred, and he said angrily: "Brother Fengyun doesn't do anything like a blue wolf on the grassland, an eagle in the sky, and a Luo! Brother Fengyun is a hero of the Central Plains, a good husband with affection and righteousness!"

Not again!

Li Fengyun knew that Su Yunong was doing something to him, and he was deliberately angry with Yelu Hongyan. I don't know how many times I've used this trick along the way, and I'm happy to do it. And Li Fengyun could only let Su Yunong fiddle like a puppet, and he didn't dare to say a word, at this time he said that everything was wrong, either offending Su Yunong or offending Yelu Hongyan. He finally understood why the four soldiers were hiding far away.

But Yelu Hongyan fell for the trick every time, and Su Yunong was so angry that his face turned red, and he hurried to the side of the guide Lao Chen in two steps, and asked, "Miao territory women, do they all like to seduce men?"

Lao Chen smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer, so he had to talk about it left and right.

Su Yunong proudly straightened his chest and hugged Li Fengyun's arms tighter, like a little hen protecting food.

Note 1: Zhuolu, present-day Zhuolu County, Hebei Province. For the ancient Yandi, Huangdi, and Chiyou, Shenlong agrees with the saying that they are three different big tribes, and the three cultures continue to blend, and then gradually mix together to form Huaxia.

Note 2: In ancient times, there was no clear concept of nationality in Huaxia, and it should be the same for the ethnic minorities in Miao Xinjiang.

Note 3: The description of Bai Miao costumes here is taken from the traditional costumes of the Bai people.