Qiang soldiers ran in and reported: "The three patriarchs, the three clan leaders, the young master Li Yan and Mr. Li who came last time, asked for a meeting outside the camp, saying that they were going to do business with us."

Before Rimai Muxi could react, Taxi called out first: "This guy is here again? Drive it away, drive it away!"

But Maxi was a little more steady and frowned and said, "Doing a business? Is it the corn he mentioned last time? This man...uh... would better let him come in and listen to what he has to say." After tasting the taste of corn, he saw the yield of corn, and even got tens of thousands of kilograms of corn. Unfortunately, he lost it again, which made Maxi's attitude towards corn quietly change.

Rimai Mouxi actually began to think about it. If the Qiang people were not interested in dealing with the Han people in the past, let alone the other party was a bandit among the Han people. However, after the Meng brothers took them to Zhu Jun's territory last time, they personally collected six or seven hundred kilograms of corn from the cornfield and witnessed the yield of this new crop. If he was not moved, it would be really strange.

The Qiang tribe is actually very poor... They live on high mountains, and the land there is no need to say much. The key is that in the plateau climate, ordinary crops cannot grow and can only survive on barley. This leads to the entire Qiang tribe being very poor and everyone lives a hard life.

Strictly speaking, Rimai Mouxi may not be considered a good person. In the Qiang tribe, he is a great clan leader. He has done a lot of bullying men and women, and even a few Qiang girls have ruined them. But no matter how bad he is, he knows how to consider his tribe. If the entire tribe is rich, he, as a clan leader, will certainly rise. This principle is just like the same principle that even the foolish monarch hopes that his country will be prosperous and strong.

After thinking for a long time, Rimai Mouxi waved his hand and said, "Please come in with Mr. Li Yan."

After a while, Li Yan walked in with the Qiang soldiers. He was still the same look last time, wearing a Confucian shirt, looking like a scholar without any power. However, the three Qiang tribe leaders all understood that this person was very powerful. In recent days, the Qiang people racked their brains and couldn't touch Li Yan's nose and grabbed corn. One time, Rimai Mouxi was almost captured.

When Taxi was unhappy when he saw Li Yan coming in, he had a smile on his face that looked like Qiluo and others, and roared angrily: "What does the expression on your face mean?"

Li Yan smiled: "I'm so smiling. You understand. I just want to ask you if you have successfully grabbed corn?" In fact, Li Yan was not of this arrogant personality. He was a gentle young man. He rarely talked to people in such a tone, but this time it was different. He knew that ethnic minorities were not arrogant. If you were soft and they were hard with you, you must be hard and not take them seriously, so that they would be willing to negotiate with you on an equal basis.

Li Yan's sentence immediately made Taxi feel depressed. Although the Qiang people are not very obedient to Wang Hua and are even a little savage, they are not very sensible. If they lose, they lose, and win. In recent days, they can't grab a corn kernel in their mechanisms. They have already been exhausted. They are very uncomfortable with Li Yan's words, so they have to lower their heads and groan: "You are ruthless!"

Li Yan laughed.

Rimai Mouxi said, "Mr. Li, are you here to come to us or do business? If you come to us for a special trip, you can leave now."

Li Yan smiled slightly: "Of course Wansheng is here to do business. As for the people in the simplicity, it is clearly the leader of the Thaxi tribe who is asking for trouble first, otherwise Wansheng would not have faced him in a tit-for-tat way."

Rimai Muxi glared at Tashi, and the latter had to retreat aside angrily. Rimai Muxi then asked, "You can discuss business now, right? What do you want to buy and sell with us?"

Li Yan slapped his hand: "Wansheng knew that you Qiang people were straightforward and didn't like to bend around, so Wansheng said clearly that you retreated from here and never cared about the affairs between our Zhu army and the court again. If you don't help each other, Wansheng will provide you with 100,000 kilograms of corn as your way back and forth, how about it?"

It was indeed corn! The three patriarchs were happy and then quickly suppressed the joy. The most taboo thing in negotiations was to show joy. The three patriarchs still understood this principle. They looked at each other, passed on their winks, and finally handed over the right to speak to Maxi, because Rimai Muxi was the chief clan. If he had come out to make the conditions, there would be no room for improvement in the future. Therefore, people with the next level of identity came out to speak, so it would be easier to adjust later.

Maxi coughed lightly and said, "One hundred thousand pounds is too little, right? This little grain is shared by tens of thousands of Qiang people, and it will be eaten in just a few days. You have to add some!"

Li Yan laughed: "It's not possible to add that, and you don't think about it. I give you these benefits, but I just ask you to withdraw your troops. I don't help you, and I don't ask you to help us fight, nor do you ask you to pay tribute to our army. If you retreat a soldier, you will have tens of thousands of kilograms of grain. How can such a good thing come about? If my Zhu army pressed the army to the border of your Qiang tribe and asked you for 100,000 kilograms of grain and retreated, would you please?"

The three tribe leaders thought about it and it seemed like this. If the Zhu army pressed against the Qiang territory and asked for 100,000 taels of grain and then retreated, what's the difference between it and the act of robbers? The Qiang people would rather die than give food. In this way, it seemed that they had earned 100,000 kilograms of grain.

But the three of them felt something strange, and it seemed that there was something wrong with some logical matter. After thinking for a long time, they realized that the Zhu army was different from the Qiang people. The Qiang people were recognized by the imperial court. They had a military officer to guard the army and were also considered part of the Ming Dynasty. It was natural for them to send troops to resist the enemy. It was completely different from the fact that robbers went out to grab grain and could not be confused.

They pressed the border of the Zhu army, which was a war of justice. But if the Zhu army pressed the Qiang territory and extorted food, the nature would be completely different.

After a long time, the thief wanted to use food to buy us! The three clan leaders finally woke up, and Tashi immediately said angrily: "You are trying to trap our Qiang tribe for being unjust! After you are suppressed by the court tomorrow, our Qiang tribe will also be held accountable by the court for a thief."

Seeing that these three were not as cunning as the Han people, Li Yan couldn't help but feel funny when he saw that although these three were not as cunning as Han people, he couldn't help but feel funny. He smiled and said, "Actually, the key issue here is whether the court can beat our Zhu army..." He said freely: "If the court destroys our army, you will naturally be charged with collusion with the enemy. But if the court is killed by our army and the world changes its master, what will happen to you? As friends of my Zhu army, you can avoid the disaster of extermination."

The three patriarchs were moved when he said this. Li Yan was right. The key question here is who can beat whoever wins.

Maxi's eyes rolled and said, "After ten years ago, the Yi chief She Chongming rebelled. He struggled with 100,000 Yi soldiers. As a result, he was also destroyed by the court. How can we believe that your Zhu army can defeat the court? Do you have a 100,000 army?"

Li Yan laughed: "She Chongming has no 100,000 troops at all. He added all the Yi men, women, young and old together, and only 100,000 people. But our Zhu army... You should know that our army has controlled the entire Shaanxi territory. If we add all the men, women, young and old together, there will be millions of people. Can the Yi people compare with us?"

He paused and said, "The 100,000 Yi people are so poor that they are so poor, but the millions of our Zhu army, all grow corn with a yield of 600 to 700 kilograms per mu, potatoes and sweet potatoes with a yield of more than 1,000 kilograms per mu. They all eat and drink enough, and they have the strength to fight. What does the Yi people compare with us?"

After saying this, Maxi had no strength to refute it. As Li Yan said, the Yi people's She Chongming back then was not a little worse than the current Baishui Zhu Balai, and his foundation was not at the same level at all.

Li Yan waved his hand and said, "I know what you are worried about. If you don't fight with our army, you are worried that the court will settle accounts after the court settles our Zhu army in the autumn and find trouble for the Qiang people. But in fact, you don't have to worry. You should know more about the court's attitude towards you than me. As long as you do not stand on our army's side and help our army fight, the court will definitely follow the principle that it is better to have less than more things, and it is absolutely impossible to cause trouble for you. Moreover, the court may not be the opponent of our army!"

Li Yan is not nonsense. In fact, the court's policies to treat ethnic minorities are very free and open, almost allowing them to be completely autonomous, and as long as they surrender to the central government, they will not be ruthless against them. Take the Shizhu Tujia for example. They organized the Baigang soldiers and resisted the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years. Later, in the 16th year of Shunzhi, the Tujia finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty did not do anything to them. As a result, they still gave them official positions and allowed them to be autonomous, which was the same preferential treatment as they had never fought before.

The Ming Dynasty's policy on ethnic minorities may be a little tougher than the Qing Dynasty, but it is not much tougher. As long as the Qiang people do not publicly refute the judgment, the court will never settle accounts with them in the future.

Of course, Rimai Mouxi and others knew this truth. They just said that they were worried that the court would settle accounts, but they were just an excuse to negotiate and fight for better conditions. Li Yan exposes it and has to keep silent.

Seeing that Maxi was unable to gain more benefits, Rimai Muxi had to speak. He nodded and said, "I didn't expect that Mr. Li is so familiar with the court's young people's policy. It's really amazing. My brother is not very clear about these things. He said it badly, please forgive me..."

As soon as he stood up, he wiped out the wrong thing Maxi said directly. Then he said: "The conditions proposed by Mr. Li are indeed good, but Maxi just said that 100,000 pounds are only enough for tens of thousands of Qiang people to eat for a few days. This is actually meaningless... You Han people have a saying that it is better to teach them fish than to teach them fish. I want to ask Li Yan to change the conditions. I don't want 100,000 taels of silver food, but only to ask for seeds of 100 acres of land, plus a farmer who knows how to grow corn, go back and teach us how to grow corn. What do you think?"

Now it was finally talked about the play meat. Even if the final conditions were given in Rimai Mouxi, he had a good idea. He first got the seeds of 100 acres of land and got a farmer who could farm, so he could teach the Qiang people to grow corn. When the Qiang people learned it, they could rely on the corn planted from the 100 acres of land and then cultivate it. At that time, it would not be difficult to plant all the Qiang tribes in western Sichuan...

Li Yan was happy. He could hear that Rimai Mouxi was very sincere. Since that was the case, he might as well bid all the prices and repay the money on the spot. Li Yan smiled and said, "This is not possible. We Han people have another saying, "We taught our disciples and starved to death. I gave you the method of planting corn, and what should you do if you bring someone to call me? I'm not a fool. It's not that easy to cheat."

It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. He taught his disciples to starve to death. Why do these two sentences conflict so much? Rimai Muxi Khan thought to himself: The knowledge of the Han people is indeed strange, contradictory and contradictory. He smiled bitterly and said, "What do you think you should do?"

Li Yan smiled and said, "It's very simple... Do this! I'll draw 100 acres of land in Guangyuan. As the land where you Qiang tribe grow corn, you send dozens of Qiang people down the mountain to live in Guangyuan to take care of these corn. My people will teach them how to grow corn and protect their safety. After these corns are planted, they can be transported back to your Qiang tribe's territory. These dozens of families can also go back to the Qiang tribe with the corn. We will not detain them."

Rimai Muxi Daqi: "What does this mean?"

Li Yan said: "If you do this, a hundred acres of corn are under the control of our Zhu Jun. We are not afraid that you will regret it. Naturally, our Zhu Jun will not regret it either. Otherwise, you can kill from the bottom of the mountain at any time."

Rimai Mouxi thought about it and it seemed that this was true. As for sending dozens of Qiang people down the mountain to learn to grow corn, he felt that nothing was wrong. Even if Zhu Jun was making trouble and wanted to take these dozens of people as hostages, the Qiang people were not afraid of the Han people taking them hostages at all. At most, they could just sacrifice these dozens of people. People in troubled times were as cheap as dogs. Anyone who took dozens of farmers as hostages would be foolish. If this transaction could be successful, then one hundred acres of corn fruit would go back to the mountain with dozens of Qiang people who knew how to grow corn, and then the Qiang people would be very prosperous.

Rimai Mouxi was afraid that Li Yan would regret it, so he quickly made a decision: "Okay, that's it! I don't have to pick farmers anymore. I just pick a hundred Qiang soldiers who know how to farm in the army, just go with you."

The two armies made up the decision. Li Yan brought a hundred Qiang soldiers who were good at farming and returned to Guangyuan. Rimai Mouxi and others began to pack up the camp and prepare to return to the mountain, intending to help each other and let the court and Zhu Jun bit it away themselves.

However, Li Yan brought the Qiang soldiers back and built a small village outside Guangyuan City, enclosed a hundred acres of wasteland, cleared it out, arranged these hundred Qiang soldiers to live in the village, and then asked Xia Erduo to bring people to teach them how to grow corn. This matter soon spread throughout Guangyuan. At this time, Han people and ethnic minorities still belonged to two clearly divided camps. The people of Guangyuan were very puzzled. Why did Zhu Jun bring Qiang people to the place where the Han people lived to build a village? Wouldn't this easily cause problems?

This problem is not only the people, but also many leaders in the Zhu army are confused.

In fact, even Li Yan, who was in charge of this matter, was a little confused. Although he was a planner, it was Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to bring the Qiang people to live with the Han people. He was a little confused about what Zhu Yuanzhang's action meant.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang would not tell them that the best way to influence a minority is to let them be assimilated by the Han culture. If this is said, no one will understand. He just told his subordinates not to harass the Qiang people, and to treat them like Han people. He gave them more items from Han people, such as advised them not to roast barley cakes, and to use Han people's pots to cook corn. He also advised them not to wear the leather hats that Qiang people often wear, and to replace them with the white towels that Sichuan people like to wrap around their heads, and to tell them about the storytelling of Han people...

This kind of action is called cultural invasion. Just a matter of time, these Qiang people will feel that the moon of the Han people is rounder than that of the Qiang people. When they return to the Qiang tribe to teach corn cultivation techniques, their view will be brought back to the hearts of the Qiang people, and slowly take root and sprout, and eventually form cultural invasion and infiltration.

There was a race called Westerners in later generations who used this trick on our Celestial Kingdom. As a result, the Westerners did it very successfully. Many Celestial people in later generations had fundamental changes in their aesthetic views. They no longer like to wear long gowns, but instead wear suits and leather shoes. They also gave themselves an English name, saying all day long that the foreign moon is rounder than China, and foreign novels are better than Chinese novels...

Many people even dislike traditional Eastern beauties, but instead think that Europeans have better figures than orientals!

This is simply assimilated. In fact, it is not that Eastern beauties are not as good as Western beauties, but that they have used Western beauties to make Western bodies into standards. The standards have changed. Can they be measured well?

To put it in the aesthetic view of Chinese people during the Tang Dynasty, Western women were all ugly, and only fat girls like Yang Guifei were beautiful! The reason is that the Tang Dynasty used fat girls as the aesthetic standard. Different standards would lead to different results, and the standards were formulated by the superiors who had the right to cultural communication. I let you think fat girls are beautiful, and you will be infected to think fat girls are beautiful!

This is the power of cultural invasion!

Zhu Yuanzhang planned to spread culture and immerse culture to the ethnic minorities in Sichuan. To achieve this, of course, strong economic strength is needed to support it, mix various ideas into commodities and input them into these ethnic minorities, so that this gap can be opened. This practice has been proven to be feasible by later generations, and Zhu Yuanzhang only needs to copy it.
Chapter completed!