Five days later, the boat that Qin Le took passed through the steep Maoyan River and came to a gentle and open river beach, and the boat stopped. After getting off the boat and walking up dozens of steps along the river pier, you can see a bustling and bustling town. There are more than 100 families living in the town, and here is the famous Maogang Village in Dayong.
Qin Liang returned to Maogang with his family, and immediately moved into the long-standing court ya where the former chieftain chief Wu Tongzhi lived. The house of the chief court official has been abandoned for several years, and the yard is covered with thatch. Seeing the ruined scene in the Yanei, Qin Yan couldn't help but have mixed feelings in his heart.
At this point, the hardships his mother told him before he died came to his mind one by one.
It was a summer day more than fifty years ago. Mo Shi, a pregnant woman with a big belly, walked with a daughter to the edge of a forest in Maogang. Suddenly, a hanging tiger in the grass let out a loud roar and rushed forward. Mo's mother and daughter were terrified, seeing that the tiger's claws were about to fall from the air, "Bang!" A deafening gunshot rang out, and the tiger was hit in the head, and immediately fell to the ground and died. With the sound of the gunshot, a hunter stepped out to support the frightened Mo Shi and said, "Woman, are you all right?"
Mo Shi woke up from the horror, and immediately said gratefully: "Alas, scared to death. I am, thank you brother for saving my mother and daughter!"
"What's your surname? Why did you come to this deep mountain and forest?" The hunter asked curiously.
"My surname is Mo!" Mrs Mo said sadly: "Our mother and daughter were kicked out of the house, and now there is no way out."
"Who is so cruel to drive your mother and daughter out?" The experience of Si Ya."
"Why did he chase you?"
"You don't know, I am the second house he took." Mo Shi said sadly and indignantly: "I used to be Guangxi Yaomin.More than ten years ago, because of the war, I lived in Maogang and worked as a maid in Tan Tianyou's house. Soon, Tan Tianyou raped me and made me pregnant. Fearing that the matter would be exposed, Tan Tianyou took me into a second room. Later, when I gave birth to this daughter, Tan Tianyou didn't like it very much. Now, I am pregnant again. I am afraid that it will be a girl again, so I pretend to be crazy and want to have an abortion. When Tan Tianyou finds out, he beats and scolded me and forbids me to enter the house again, so I have to take this child wandering . "
" Hey, isn't Qin Tianyou a person? The hunter said indignantly: "How could he be so unconscionable!" How about I send you back, reason with him, and ask him to take in your mother and daughter? "
" No, I don't want to live with him anymore, and he won't want me either! "Mo Shi shook his head.
" What should we do then? It's too dangerous for you mother and daughter to wander in the mountains! "
" Brother, if you don't dislike it, let me go with you! "Mo Shi burst into tears.
"Well, if I have you, there will be you!" The hunter nodded.
The Mo family became the hunter's wife. The hunter's surname was Tan and his name was Tianxi. He lived in a thatched hut in the forest. There is also a birthmark of a dragon on his back. The midwife said that the child may be the birth of the Son of Heaven. Tan Tianxi and his wife were both happy and worried. During the excavation of the Zhou Dynasty, Tan Tianxi invited the Tu Laosi and named the child 'Tan Wenjin' , and took the nickname of Qin Ling. Because Qin Ling was born with a special birthmark, people were a little curious. Tan Tianxi and his wife were afraid that the government would find out and cause trouble, so they moved to a cave near Sandaoxi in Zhangjiajie, and they have been with each other since then. Isolated from the world, no one knew where the couple went.Seventeen years later, perhaps it was because of eating the grains and drinking the water in the mountains to grow, or because of the various tempering in the mountains since childhood, Qin Lei has grown into a tall, sturdy young man with strong brute force. He can lift two to three hundred jins of stone on top of his head and circle it several times without breathing.
Tan Lei grew up. Once, his adoptive father went to Cili City to sell animal skins. Several Mongolian soldiers robbed him of the animal skins and even framed him as a thief. Seeing that her husband never returned, Mrs Mo finally fell ill in the mountains. Before she died, Qin Liang learned of her unfortunate life experience from her mother's account. Qin Yan resented that his biological father had abandoned his fellow villagers, but he would never forget the kindness of his adoptive father. After his mother died, he consulted with his sister and buried her in the cave. Then I sent my sister to my grandmother's house in Huangshi Village , and started to go out to make a living by myself.
In the later journey, Qin Yan met three nobles who changed the fate of his life. One was the old monk of Tianmen Mountain Lingquan Temple , who asked Qin Yan to work as a water bearer in the temple for several years. While carrying water, Qin Ling learned a set of boxing and martial arts with Shi Huai, and under the enlightenment of Shi Huai, he also learned to recognize characters, and read the "Three Character Classic", "The Analects of Confucius" and other books. The second is that he met his current wife, Ermei Zhu, in Bajiaoxi Mountain Valley. The two sang folk songs to each other to form a marriage, and gave birth to two boys and two girls. The third is to get acquainted with Tian Gongzhu, a big businessman from Wukou Village in Cili, who hired Tan Lei as a bodyguard and martial arts master for more than ten years. In the Tian family, Qin Ying and Tian Da, the son of Tian Gongzhu, became best friends. Due to his experience as a bodyguard, Qin Ling traveled all over the borders of Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan, which greatly broadened his horizons and gained insight. Later, Tian Gongzhu recommended him to return to Maogangzhai, and took up the post of local experience of the chief court official.Not long after Tan Ling took up this post, he encountered a great drought. The hungry people robbed the toast grain depot and killed Wu Tongzhi and his son, the chief of the chieftain. Tan Ling was then embraced by everyone as the acting chief of Maogang. Soon, the "Red Turban Army" revolted, Chen Youliang occupied Changde, and appointed Qin Yan as Cili pacification envoy. After Qin Yan took office in Cili, Maogang Chieftain became his jurisdiction. Now, the Ming Dynasty changed Cili from a prefecture to a county, and revoked the appeasement department. Tan Yan was unwilling to accept Yang Jing's arrangement to work in Huguang Province, so he had to return to Maogang to live.
However, when he returned to Maogang, he realized that in his hometown he did not own any land or property. According to the stipulation in "Ping Wu Renyan" promulgated by Zhu Yuanzhang : "Where the army occupies, and Wangfeng is attached to various places, the old fields and houses are still returned to the original owners, so that everyone can live in peace. Soldiers remove them." The expectation of "counting the land by dictation" that he once told Yang Jing had all come to nothing, and the majority of the natives not only did not receive land, but were still discriminated against and oppressed by the imperial court. For this reason, he had great dissatisfaction with the Ming Dynasty. The appeasement division was revoked, and when he returned to his hometown, there was no land or property to divide. Only at this time did he really feel the new crisis of survival.
has only lived in Maogang for a few days, and all the former subordinates and villagers have come to see him and offer advice or fight against him.
His friend Tian Da persuaded him: "You can't lose the power of the chieftain, you can't give up your palm print! If you give up, you will have nothing." , in Maogang, you can make yourself a chief legal officer!"
The toasts in Shangdong, Zhongdong, Xiadong, Sanmao, etc. around Maogang also sent people to contact, encouraging Tan Yan not to submit to the pressure of the Ming court, and willing to cooperate with Maogang The chieftains raised their troops against the Ming, because these chieftains were afraid that they would be annexed or abolished by the Ming Dynasty like the Cili appeasement chief.
Qin Liang weighed it again and again, and decided to secretly gather strength, wait for an opportunity to rise up, and then openly oppose it. One day, he sent someone to Cili Suokou Village and asked Siyuan, the owner of the village, to discuss with him: "The Xia Kingdom of Shu once sent messenger Xiang Dakun to our place to contact and form an alliance, and expressed his willingness to make me the envoy of Lixi'an, At that time, I didn't agree to Xia Guo's appointment because I had just accepted Yang Jing's enfeoffment. Now the situation has changed, I would like to invite you to go to Shu, contact Brother Dakun, and say that I am willing to work with Xia Guo. To form an alliance, please Ming Yuzhen the emperor to issue another appointment, and we are justified in doing the right thing!"
Xiang Siyuan replied quickly: "Xiang Dakun and Xiang Daya are members of our Xiang clan. It's easy to handle, I'll go right away!"
The two negotiated properly, Xiang Siyuan went home and made arrangements, and then took two followers and walked together in the direction of Chongqing.
Qin Liang also sent a number of messengers, and successively got in touch with the surrounding chieftains of Shibadong. All the chiefs agreed to form an alliance and act together to fight the Ming Dynasty's conquests.
Xiang Siyuan and his party rode horses and traveled for seven days to Chongqing. Through constant inquiries, several people quickly found Xiang Dakun at the Wangjiang Academy barracks. Since jing'an returned to Chongqing, Xiang Dakun reported to the third brother and Ming Yuzhen about the envoys of the chieftains. Ming Yuzhen asked him to keep an eye on the actions of the chieftains in Hunan and Hubei. inform.
Now, seeing the arrival of the people from his hometown, Xiang Dakun said happily: "Dear or not, people from the hometown, you have come from a long way, you must have a great mission?"
Xiang Siyuan said: "I am sent by the envoy of peace Messenger, he specially asked me to represent him to say hello to your brothers and Emperor Ming Yuzhen." After speaking, he gave a detailed account of Qin Ying's current situation and the purpose of his visit.
Xiang Dakun heard what he wanted, and immediately agreed to tell the third brother, the tycoon, to help him report to meet the emperor.
Early the next day, under the arrangement of the tycoon of , , Xiang Siyuan was received in the palace by Ming Yuzhen, the king of Xia.
Xiang Siyuan briefly explained the reason why Qin Yan sent him as an ambassador. After listening, Ming Yuzhen nodded and said, "The appeasement envoy Tan is willing to form an alliance with the Xia country, which is very good! The Xia country has long wanted to do this. Not long ago, we sent the lieutenant general to a few Tusi villages on the edge of Hunan and Hubei, expressing our willingness to join forces with the country. All the chieftains on the Hunan and Hubei sides are established. Now, our common enemy is Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Dynasty. You tell Tan to appease the envoy and let him just act boldly, and Xia Guo will do his best to support it." Qin appeases the envoy, and Xia Guo will send 400,000 troops down the Three Gorges to attack Wuchang, Jingzhou!"
Xiang Siyuan said: "If Xia Guo can send troops, then people will have more confidence in rebelling!"
Ming Yuzhen said: "We will definitely send troops! You can rest assured."
Xiang Siyuan said: "Okay, we will cooperate with each other well. However, Qin appeasing envoy hopes to get the official appointment of Xia Guo."
Ming Yuzhen said: "What's so difficult, you bring the appointment certificate back immediately, and I'll give it to you now!" After that, he ordered the waiter to bring pen and ink and other items, and wrote an edict in person, appointing Qin Yan as the Great Xia Kingdom 's Lixi military and civilian envoy, and then handed the appointment letter to Xiang Siyuan. After the meeting with
, Xiang Siyuan left the palace and hurried back with his entourage.
After more than ten days, Xiang Siyuan came to Maogang smoothly, reported to Qin in detail the process of envoy and Sichuan , and handed the appointment letter written by Ming Yuzhen to Qin.Qin Yu said with satisfaction: "Okay, with this letter of appointment, we can justifiably contact the chieftains to form an alliance!" , Shizhou , Dongxiang, Sanmao, Wenshui, Waja, Jindong, Tangya, Maodong, Jing'an, Rongmei, Sangzhi and other "Eighteen Caves" representatives were all invited to Mao post. After discussing in detail with the representatives of these chieftains, it was decided that Maogang and the chieftains should concentrate their forces of 30,000 and rush to meet near Cili, and then under the unified command of Qin, they prepared to cooperate with Ming Yuzhen's army going out of Sichuan to counterattack Wuchang. After the plan of raising justice was negotiated, the representatives came to the Tusi Yatang. Qin Li ordered a bull to be brought to the lobby , and several strong men knocked the bull down, cut off the bull's head, and poured a plate of ox blood into the wine barrel on the desk. Everyone scooped up a bowl of ox blood wine and held it in their hands. Qin Yao took the lead and vowed word by word: "Today we form an alliance, and we will fight against each other. The original drink of blood wine is a sign of sincerity. Betrayal, the knife and arrow pierce the heart."
After everyone swore their vows, Qin Lei went to the altar and announced that he would start the preparations for righteousness from now on. (Originally published by Li Kangxue's "Legend Zhangjiajie" National Publishing House )
