Li'er asked the maid she brought with her to ask these people. She didn't understand the local barbarians, and the maid didn't understand them very much, but this maid was the barbarian girl Huang Hua invited from Yongzhou, and could barely communicate. After asking the whole story clearly, Li'er escaped from the new house like crazy.

This doesn't work, a group of people followed her to chase after her.

Li'er came to Huang Hua's temporary residence. Huang Hua was drunk and Li'er couldn't wake up, and people outside came after him. In a hurry, she took a rope and hanged herself.

When the maid rescued her, her face turned blue and she no longer breathed.

It's a big deal.

Duan Zhengming came over, and Liu Kai also came over.

After asking clearly, Liu Kai said in surprise: "How can there be such a custom?"

Duan Zhengming was also confused, Baiman was also open. The girl before marriage and the widow had absolute social freedom. However, after getting married, if her husband was alive and if he was not clear about it with outsiders, he would be punished cruelly, and it was a bridal night.

The main reason is that he is too young and has little knowledge. Dali has many races, and each race has different customs. For example, the golden-toothed Baiyi men do not work, women work, even if they give birth to children in the front, they have to go to the ground to do farm work later. For example, some ethnic groups distributed in Lijiang area do not take a bath for many years, and they are taboos for men and women to socialize, such as the naked-shaped people in the northern Myanmar Kachin region west of Tengchong, without clothes and covered with wooden veneer. However, it originated from the Puziman who moved from the Han and Jin Pu people, and they have extremely strict rules for men and women's interactions, and even non-spouses are not allowed to hold hands.

There are two reasons in fact. One is that some tribes are located in a remote area, inconvenient transportation and sparse population. They subconsciously avoid inbreeding and prolonging sexual style. Their sexual style is open to help cause non-in-kind blood ties.

For example, at least Wang Ju won’t laugh at them.

The second is the evil customs formed by the backwardness of truly civilization.

However, as civilization advances, many bad habits disappear into the long river of history.

Of course, you can still see some shadows in later generations, such as Wuman's strange bridal chamber, but you just move your hands and make jokes. It's not like you are really doing it now.

So Duan Zhengming really doesn't know.

However, he was well-read in Chinese poetry and books and was somewhat influenced by Confucian civilization. Wang Ju was not a military general, but a civil servant, and Huang Hua was also a disciple. The two also exchanged many Confucian classics on the way and had a great conversation. As Huang Hua's daughter, he would definitely not be able to accept this kind of vulgarity.

"What should I do?"

Liu Kai was also anxious and said, "Wait for cold water to wake up the yellow mellow."

A guard brought a bucket of well water and poured it on Huang Hua's forehead. Huang Hua was suddenly awakened, and then looked at everyone strangely. Then he saw Li'er's body and immediately asked madly: "What's wrong, what's wrong!"

The maid cried and told the story again.

"Liu Shengzhi, why don't you say it?" Huang Hua grabbed Liu Kai's clothes and asked angrily.

"Brother Chun, I don't know either."

Huang Hua was furious. At this time, Duan Zhengming was explaining the reason to Zhao Luopi and asking Zhao Luopi to apologize.

"Let's go," Huang Hua said to the guards, "Apologize for a ghost! People can no longer be resurrected after death, but here, there are many people, and Wu Man is also more fierce and cannot explain clearly. Therefore, he did not go to Dali to carry Li'er's body on the back and took his men back.

This was caused by Liu Kai’s joke. Huang Hua and his men left, and Liu Kai was still standing in a daze in this village without a village or a city without a city.

Now the situation is like a huge version of the rogue American emperor, while Dali is a miniature version of the Celestial Empire. When Duan Zhengming saw that things were going to be bad, he hurried over and said, "Shengzhi, what should I do?"

Zhao Luopi was still standing on the other side and thinking, what did I do wrong...?

Liu Kai blamed: "Criminal, how can you Dali have such a barbaric custom?"

"I really don't know."

"Criminal, I'm going to say that this time I came to serve as an envoy, and the Shaobao explained his bottom line to us. As long as your Duan family is not evil to the Song Dynasty, he will not evil to your Duan family. I can swear to the heavens in this article!"

Liu Kai really didn't lie. Even if Wang Ju really used troops to Dali in the future and really destroyed Dali, Duan's family still wanted to save him, and would not even send Li Yu to the capital like Cao Bin destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then died inexplicably. Why? Because the Duan family believed in Buddhism, and in the end, they all became grass-eating animals, which was not very harmful. Then, giving some rights and benefits, the Duan family could use it to stabilize people's hearts.

However, Liu Kai's words only said one-sidedly, which made Duan Zhengming misunderstand.

He stared at Liu Kai blankly and asked, "Then why is your young security guard like this?"

"The actual intention of Shaobao is very simple. You are forcing you to pay tribute to China. Of course, it is not to ask your Duan family to go to the capital, but to just be a minister. Just like Champa, Dali is still governed by your Duan family."

As soon as Duan Zhengming arrived in Yongzhou City, Wang Ju told him why he used troops to occupy the city and how he did what he did after using troops to occupy the city. However, Duan Zhengming was a little unbelievable and asked again: "Why?"

"Distinguish the main and secondary. At least you Dali will not dare to support the barbarians around us, nor will they dare to be rampant. Our dynasty can concentrate on the north."

This is about the barbarians from five regions.

The first one is Ziqi and Temodao. Since Qiman, it has caused headaches for officials in the southern Song Dynasty, but it is just a headache. There is no invasion of troops. Instead, it has used troops to Dali and embezzled several county prefectures. The main reason for the Southern Song Dynasty was that their parents had no food and clothing. They bought horses in the Southern Song Dynasty and had food. Now Ziqiman and Temodao have no hindering the Song Dynasty.

The second one is the barbarians in the southwest, which are actually the barbarians in the Guizhou area. When the Song Dynasty was strong, they turned to the Song Dynasty, and when Dali was strong, they turned to Dali. By the Southern Song Dynasty, Duan Yu could no longer control Dali, and the Song Dynasty was in a corner, and many powerful tribes called themselves kings. But in general, this part of the barbarians did not cause any harm to the Song Dynasty, because in front of them were the real Kuixia barbarians (the Kuixia Road in the Song Dynasty included the southwest barbarians, but there was no control at all. The area slightly controlled was the barbarians in the southern part of Chongqing Sanxia, ​​which was the real Kuixia barbarian), the Beijiang barbarians, the Nanjiang barbarians, and the Meishan barbarians. Therefore, these barbarians had little to do with what Liu Kai said.

The third group is related to a profound historical book. Horses in the Song Dynasty...Ancient Tea-horse Road!

Mayuan in the Northern Song Dynasty was wider than in the Southern Song Dynasty and was divided into four parts.

One is Khitan horses, mostly smuggled from Hedong Road.

The second is the Western Xia horse, which is divided into two parts. One is the official market horse. When the relationship is harmonious, the two countries trade with each other. The Western Xia sells several horses to the Song Dynasty every year, but most of these horses are not the Western Xia horses. Instead, they mostly block the Khitan horses transported from the Jiashan area of ​​Bu and Liao Kingdom, which is the Mongolian horse that later formed the invincible army of Genghis Khan.

Mongolian horses were able to endure hardships and traveled long distances, so Yuan Meng conquered half of Europe with them.

However, the conflicts between Song, Xia, Song and Liao are not very long, so the requirement for horses is not to be able to travel long distances, but to be strong short-distance explosive and tall, so that they can exert the power of war horses on the battlefield. Therefore, from the standpoint of the Song Dynasty, Khitan horses are not good horses.

Why did Xixia do this? They kept the good horses themselves and put them on the battlefield. The Liao Dynasty imposed a ban on the horse politics of the Song Dynasty. Horses were relatively cheap. Xixia could only lose the number of good horses in China, but also earn the difference.

The second is private horses. Most of these horses are real Western Xia horses. Among them, Xixia Hetao horses, which are not widely known as the best horses of the Song Dynasty.

The third part is the Tubo horses obtained from Qinzhou. During the Tang Dynasty, Sun and Moon Mountain were bounded by the Sun and Moon Mountain, and there were good horses on both sides of Qinghai Lake in Shanxi, and mostly short Sichuan horses in Shandong. With the transition from nomadic to the transition, both sides of Qinghai Lake were no longer suitable for human habitation, so all Tubo ethnic groups moved to Shandong, which is the Hehuang area. These good horses were also brought over and crossed each other, becoming the prototype of the famous three hippos in later generations. This kind of horse is also good.

In addition, there are Uighur horses. Before the Western Xia received the Hexi Corridor, the Song Dynasty also obtained many Uighur horse breeds through various methods, including purchasing or tribute and reward. However, after the Western Xia occupied the Hexi Corridor, the southern Silk Road was rugged and difficult to travel, mostly in the Gobi Desert, so the number of Uighur horses obtained gradually decreased.

The fourth part is the Sichuan horse, not the horse raised by the Han people in Sichuan under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty, but the western Sichuan area from Maozhou to Lizhou. Most of the ones they raised were really short Sichuan horses. Later, the horses used by Kangxi to destroy Wu Sangui were short and not strong in explosive power, but they could endure hardships, especially if they could gallop on mountain roads. Of course, if placed on the northern battlefield, the horse would be useless.

However, the Song Dynasty needed too much horses. The number of horses raised in this area alone was far from enough.

Therefore, many Lizhou man who had advanced far away bought war horses from Dali and sold them to the Song Dynasty to earn the difference.

However, the horses in Dali are also short Dian horses, and the price is not high. Therefore, the ancient Tea-Horse Road was vaguely produced since the Northern Song Dynasty. It started from the northwest of Dali and stretched to the southern part of Qinghai. It reached the inner abdomen of Tibet in the south, and even to India. A huge business road with horses as the main body gradually emerged.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty has a wide range of horse sources and there is little requirement for the number of horse roads. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that it almost all relied on this horse road. At that time, the ancient tea-horse road officially flourished until the Ming Dynasty. However, at that time, the ancient tea-horse road was no longer a way to sell horses, but a truly important commercial road.

The ones who came here were real Tibetan horses, which were taller and more popular among the Song people.

Because this horse road involves the third barbarian tribe at the junction of the two countries, or the Fan tribe and Lizhou barbarians. In fact, this barbarian tribe is very friendly to the Song Dynasty. Although they are the ancestors of Tibetans in Sichuan, they are the most troublesome group among the various barbarian tribes around the southern part of the Song Dynasty.

However, Dali controlled their Ma Yuan and had no choice but to pay tribute to Dali.

This is the third type of barbarian or fan, but it has nothing to do with what Liu Kai said.

However, there are two kinds of barbarians, one is the Xuzhou barbarians, the barbarians in the southern part of Yibin, the second is the Luzhou barbarians, and the barbarians in the southern part of the Yangtze River in Luzhou. The two barbarians, Xuzhou barbarians, mostly livestock farming. The Luzhou barbarians began to have a high degree of farming civilization. The same thing is that they also raise horses and then sell horses to the Song Dynasty. The other is that they transport the Song Dynasty's properties to the Wuman, and then transport the Wuman's properties to the Song Dynasty to obtain the difference. At the same time, both were very dishonest and often plundered the people of the Song Dynasty. After Kumamoto used troops, the situation of the Luzhou barbarians improved slightly, but the problem of the Xuzhou barbarians was still not solved.

It may not be entirely because of Dali's support, but Dali must bear part of the responsibility, at least Wuman must bear some responsibility.

Liu Kai refers to these two barbarians.

If Dali became a true vassal state of the Song Dynasty and put pressure on one south and one north, although it would not completely change the area, it would definitely change a lot.

If it is just forcing Dali to surrender, this reason is sufficient.

Moreover, for the Duan family, Xuzhou Man and Luzhou Man care about their nothing. At least in this way, it will prevent Wang Ju from invading a possible army, and the other is that they may really eradicate the Gao family for the Duan family and prevent Duan from becoming the puppet king in Dali.

Therefore, Duan Zhengming regretted it.

"Criminal, do you understand why I tried so hard to form this marriage? Because the thirty-seven Wumans are relatively supportive of your Duan family. Huang Chunzhi is the first guest under Wang Shaobao. Even Huang Chunzhi's daughter, Shaobao usually regards her as a daughter as a sister. In her identity, she will marry Minister Vi, and Minister Vi is not at all! Then you Duan family will believe in Shaobao's intentions. Similarly, it is also for Shaobao's plan. Huang Chunzhi endured the pain of giving up her love and agreed to marry her beloved daughter to Minister Vi. But I didn't expect..."

"Shengzhi, this is my negligence, but the rules of Dali are indeed different from those of the Central Plains, and each ethnic group has rules of each ethnic group. Although I am in Dali, I cannot be clear one by one. Otherwise, at least Minister Vi would be asked to be the Han wedding, and I hope Shengzhi would explain it to us in front of Shaobao. Although a tragedy happened, we respect Shaobao very much, including Zhao Luobi tribe. He did not intend to insult the Han family intent, but he was separated from the Ziqi tribe. The Ziqi tribe and Wuman customs were different. Therefore, the Yezhu tribe did not know the Han family's thoughts, so..."

"The prince is probably very difficult. Shaobao's mother remarried when he was young, and his father died early, and he was lonely. However, Shaobao was born with a unique and striving for strength, which became a legend in our Song Dynasty. But because of this experience, he attached great importance to family affection. If Mrs. Huang was not dead, it would be fine. But he died, Minister Via, prepare for the war."

"ah."

"Really, Minister Vi, you and I know each other well, I am quite destined to know each other. Let me tell you all, prepare for war. The Young Guard will not let your Yezhu tribe provoke his majesty."

"You can't fight..." Duan Zhengming said.

"Yes, you can't fight." Zhao Luobi said.

The Yezhu tribe is not the other Wuman tribes. It is far apart, and it is right next to the Ziqi tribe. Although due to different customs (one doesn’t like cleanliness, the other loves cleanliness), they don’t interact much with each other, but Wang Ju used thunder twice to suppress 70% of the powerful men of the Ziqi tribe. He really didn’t hear anything about it?

Where is the Yezhu tribe the rival of this Song army?

"Minister Via, after I go back this time, I will be punished by Shaobao. After all, I don't even know such rules. Therefore, this is the last time I have been a guest here, and the prince respects me very much. I can only say one thing, prepare for war. Shaobao is too strong. Your family is definitely not strong enough, so it is best to concentrate the thirty-seven Wuman forces to see if we can be stalemate, so we can protect your tribe."

Liu Kai then bowed Duan Zhengming and said, "Criminal, say goodbye."

"Don't hurry to leave, let's think of another way tomorrow," Zhao Luopichong's subordinate gave a wink, meaning that he wanted to force Liu Kai to stay here.

Liu Kai said a little angrily: "Minister Via, what do you mean?"

"I'm sorry Brother Liu," Zhao Luopi said, and after saying that, he pulled Duan Zhengming and said, "Now the plan is to do it, and send someone to catch up with Huang Hua's party and then kill them."

"inappropriate."

"Crown Prince, you can put the blame on others." Zhao Luopi said. Anyway, Wang Ju would find out the truth in Dali territory?

Duan Zhengming was still hesitating, and Zhao Luobi began to give orders, asking many Ding Zhuang from the clan to chase him on horseback.

But this is Yezhu tribe, and in front is Ziqi tribe. Ding Zhuang sent by Zhao Luopi rode a horse and Huang Hua and the others also rode on horseback. They chased him until dawn. When they arrived in Qizhou, the patrolled Song soldiers found out that they were hesitant, but they did not catch up with Huang Hua and his party. Hundreds of soldiers in the clan had to come back on horseback.

Duan Zhengming and Zhao Luopi had no choice but to find Liu Kai again, Zhao Luopi said, "Shengzhi, she is just a woman."

It means that there is no need to start a war for a girl. This is a war! Instead of fighting among the tribes, it can only be called a battle.

"Minister Via, Shaobao values ​​feelings very much. This time, Xiaobao agreed to come to Dali. Otherwise, Huang Chunzhi would not agree to her coming to Dali. One is feelings, the other is self-blame. Shaobao will definitely start a war."

"The second is that you may not know the rules of China. During the Qingli period, Song Xia started the war, and Renzong hurriedly responded to the war, which led to a heavy burden on the people after several years of war. It coincided with a severe drought, and thieves in Shandong and Shaanxi were everywhere. The Liao Kingdom took the opportunity to blackmail and demanded that our dynasty return to the ten counties in Guannan, Hebei, but our dynasty did not agree. The Liao Kingdom changed two more conditions, one was to marry His Highness the Princess, and the other was to increase the annual monies. As a result, our dynasty would rather add 200,000 yuan a year than marrying the princess. Why, everyone was unwilling to give a woman the weight of a country to bear it. Things spread, and Shaobao would definitely make people laugh. Besides, your marriage like this... So Shaobao could only use a large army to block everyone's mouth."

"Shengzhi, why did you help us?" Duan Zhengming asked in confusion.

"The Shaobao is a Jinshi, a scholar, and I am a scholar. However, their experiences are different. Shaobao grew up in the border and has a strong personality. I am not the case. Shaobao used troops to Champa City, and many soldiers died, let alone the death of refugees. But Shaobao pointed the front of the army at your Dali, so I and several other guests persuaded Shaobao to take harmony as the most important thing, including the goal of this industry. But Shaobao still wanted to use force to solve it. Once Shaobao destroyed your Yezhu tribe, the next step will be the thirty-seven Wuman tribes, and the next step is your Dali, and the next step may be to the Bagan Kingdom. This will never end, and finally when will it be what I wish. In this way, the prince understands. But I really want to go back. Could it be that Minister Via wants to repay his kindness with grace?"

"No, no, I'm just worried."

"Don't worry, the children of the Wuman tribes are strong and brave. Although Shaobao trained many large armies, many of the troops were restrained by Jiaozhi and Chameng, and there were not many troops that could be used. If your troops unite, they would be able to survive this level. But remember that your Dali is not Xixia. To put it bluntly, the power of your two Dali is not the enemy of Xixia. Therefore, at that time, you must send an envoy to lobby, admit one wrong, and let Shaobao have a step down. Shaobao's troops will automatically stop, and the matter will be over." After Liu Kai finished speaking, he found his mount, turned on the horse, and bowed Duan Zhengming and Zhao Luopi and said, "Please believe me, at least I will not harm you. If you want to harm you, Shaobao will not be able to deal with your one unit, why bother to let your thirty-seven units join forces? Please think twice."

This is the most confusing thing... (To be continued...)

Chapter 675 The Ancient Tea-Horse Road:
Chapter completed!