Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2791 Trade is in the name of a coincidence, and a guest from Zhuya suddenly comes to vote

While Jiangdong was looking for his own path, Liu Bei and others who were far away in Jiaozhi were also preparing for something.

There are too many indigenous people around Cochin.

These aborigines are generally separated by natural boundaries, such as rivers or ridges. Maybe they have crossed a mountain or a river, and they are another tribe, a different clan.

Most of the natives of the Cham tribe live in buildings.Well, it is a two-story "building", with livestock and poultry living below and people living on the upper floor, so it is said that people who did not have buildings in the Han Dynasty can retreat, because basically even these tribes in the southeast, whether it is Minyue It is still Cochin, and houses basically have such a structure.

In the earliest days of the Han Dynasty, there were some administrative structures in Jiaozhi, but the system back then was too rough. Well, not only back then, but also in the later feudal dynasties, it was the same and only roughly managed the tribal and indigenous systems in the frontier.Generally speaking, the official titles recognized by the court are generally awarded to some powerful tribes and natives, and they are basically hereditary.These people are often referred to as "native officials" or "chieftains". In exchange for official positions, these native officials are to suppress the rest of the aborigines and maintain local security and social order; various allocations.

There are official taxes and private so-called "auspicious money" from officials.

Of course, among the money collected, the native officials' own income is also indispensable.After all, no matter how big or small the local officials are, the government doesn't give them any salary, and they have to collect it all by themselves.In other words, as long as the local officials pay all kinds of public and private accounts and taxes on time every year, the native officials can do whatever they want in their own territory, and they are basically a local emperor.

This political structure model is naturally time-saving, labor-saving and worry-free.For those gentry children who are unwilling to leave the Central Plains, they come to the frontier to serve as officials. Silver, the price goes up immediately, and if you go up, you will naturally have capital.

But in this way, these frontier lands have never belonged to any Han family from the beginning to the end...

This is the reason why many small countries around China in later generations have obviously obtained a lot of cultural inheritance from China, but they do not recognize Chinese culture at all, because these small countries have been managed by native officials from the beginning, and these native officials passed down from generation to generation. Is it because they are so loyal to the central feudal dynasty as shown in various TV movies?

These answers, don't those high-ranking officials in the court who are full of eyes except for the heart not have eyes, don't know?
They must be clear, but they must be doing things according to the famous saying of being bald and strong. So what is outside must be inside? If you don't get down those who are thinking about their backs first, how can they be interested in doing outside?
Liu Bei took Guan Zhang and slowly walked into an indigenous village.

Several natives who looked like warriors led Liu Guan and Zhang to a small square outside the village.

Liu Bei looked at the native village.

This village is different from some Zhanren villages in Rinan that he has been to before.First of all, this village does not have a special wall, but seems to use a kind of thorns as a fence.There are also vines and bamboos in it, which makes the whole wall feel alive instead of dead.

Of course, it's not about spells like druids, but this wall is made of plants.

This kind of wall is an insurmountable moat for ordinary animals without any special tools.

The wall made of plants must have taken a long time from laying to forming. It also shows from another angle that the village here has existed for a long time.

Liu Bei can even be sure that those thorns are probably poisonous...

The only weakness is that it is not fireproof.

Another point is that many of the houses in this village are of stone structure. Unlike most of the local stilted buildings, this kind of mudstone structure houses also show a certain strength.Without a certain amount of manpower and without tools, whether it is mining or moving stones, it is a huge project for the Zhan people in Nichinan.

Not long after, the Zhanren warriors came back again and said that they would let Liu Bei and the other three enter the village.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were not angry about waiting outside the village.

Guan Yu didn't get angry, maybe it's normal, but Zhang Fei was willing to let his elder brother wait outside, so he didn't get angry?
I think back then when I was in the village of Zhuge...Of course there is no such scene as the village of Zhuge now, but there is an extra village of occupying people.Sometimes getting angry is not just to show your temper, but to let people see. Of course Zhuge Zhuge understands it, so Zhang Fei can let it go when he is angry, but it is not necessary to take advantage of others. The guns have spoken.

Liu Bei came here to talk about things, not to play tricks.

Although it is said that Liu Bei has recruited some occupying people, but only a few, there is still a large area of ​​occupying people who are not close to Liu Bei. At the same time, Liu Bei wants to attack these occupying people, and the input-output ratio is quite different. It was too big, so Liu Bei came.

Come with "Peace"...

There are many curious Zhanren in the village, looking at Liu Bei and others from afar or near.

Zhan hardly ever wears clothes.

On the one hand, it is because of poverty, on the other hand, it is because of the climate.

When the Han Dynasty was warm, people in the Central Plains could wear unlined clothing in winter and be shirtless in summer, let alone in places like Nichinan?In the climate of the Han Dynasty, even Goguryeo Fuyu and other aborigines with a relatively northerly location are naked every day...

Generally speaking, Zhanren's clothing consists of wrapping some large leaves around the waist, or simply being naked, both men and women are the same.If there is some linen or leather on the body, it is considered a high-class occupying person. For example, the warriors who lead the way for Liu Bei and others have animal skins they hunted on their bodies.

If there is no Chinese culture, these surrounding tribes don't know how long it will take to be naked.

Most of the people are naked, regardless of gender.

Don't think that there are some "good things" in this way. In fact, many of them are better not to watch.

Because Zhan people, like other tribes around China, also like tattoos.Especially the further south the area is, the more tattoos there will be.Due to the limitation of pigments, most of these tattoos are mainly blue and black, and they like to tattoo on the face, and then spread to the hands and other parts of the body.As a result, if a person who does not know this custom, under the light and shadow dancing in the forest, suddenly meets this kind of occupying person, it may be frightened to death.

This may be one of the reasons why Chinese mainstream culture doesn't like tattoos, because since the Zhou Dynasty, only barbarians have tattoos, or criminals, and this has been the case for thousands of years...

In addition, these Zhan people usually don't have any skin care products, their skin is dark and rough, their hair is yellow and thin, and there are dirt, mites, fleas and lice that have been raised on their bodies for more than ten or decades.

If you can still feel that you can see it right now, then you can only say admiration.

Of course, in turn, these accountants often look down on Liu Guanzhang.

Because Liu Guanzhang has no tattoos, no exposed pectoral muscles and abdominal muscles, and other parts that show off his masculinity, how can Zhan women feel that they have strong genes?
For Zhan people, what they value more is Liu Guanzhang's weapons and equipment, especially the strong crossbow.That kind of thing is said to be able to shoot through even tree trunks, but almost everyone who was shot died. This is an important reason why Zhanren's leader is willing to meet and negotiate with Liu Guanzhang.

Liu Guanzhang and his party were taken to the largest house in the village.This house is much larger than other houses in the village, and it is built on a stone-based platform.The walls of the house are also built of stones, and there are sliding windows made of bamboo, propped up with a wooden stick.

But even with such a sliding window, the light in the room is still very dark. The moment you enter the door, you feel that your eyes are dark, and it takes a few breaths to get used to it.

In the middle of the house, there is a firepit, which makes the house not feel damp and cold.There is a trumpet-shaped smoke collector above the firepit, which is generally made of bamboo. It is connected with a thick bamboo pipe, so that the smoke from the firepit will not spread all over the room and will not choke people.

This is regarded as Zhanren's "high technology", and it is obviously not something that ordinary Zhanren families can have.

The leader of Zhanren is an old man, his beard and hair are already grey, and his face is wrinkled.

Because Zhan people generally don't pay much attention to hygiene, there are often some small insects crawling around in these skin folds. There are too many insects in the tropical forest, so the Huaxia people in the Central Plains say that the ethnic minorities in the southwest Body nourishing Gu, in fact, is mostly because of this situation.

Liu Bei brought gifts to the leader of the Zhan people.

No crossbow, although Cham wanted it.

A jar of rose peach wine.

A packet of fine sugar.

A hundred refining knife.

For the productivity of the current accountant, these three gifts are dimensionality reduction blows.

Wine is something that Zhanren also has, but it is usually rice wine, glutinous rice fermented wine.Because the wine-making technology is still very rough, and there is no special industrial chain, Zhanren's rice wine is not only unstable in quality, but also not easy to preserve. Generally speaking, it is crudely fermented wine within a few months. The ester content is very low.

Therefore, the rose peach wine with high sweetness, high fruit aroma and bright red color has attracted people's amazement almost as soon as it appeared on the stage.

In addition to drinks, sugar and steel knives were also praised by the leader.

Liu Bei's smile was very gentle, as if he couldn't see the little bugs around people's heads and bodies.

With the gift as a lubricant, the friction between the two parties became much more natural, and things became smoother when talking about things.

Liu Bei brought a translator, that is, the first batch of occupiers that Liu Bei gathered before, but because the environment around Nichinan is really bad, the main reason is that there is no decent infrastructure in these places, even the roads are People and beasts stepped out, and it was difficult to even pass vehicles, let alone lead troops into the army.

Therefore, Liu Bei specially strengthened trade.

Liu Bei found out that this is an important tribe of Zhanren, but the specific number of people in this tribe is not clear to the leader of Zhanren who does not have much culture. He just said that there are more than ten cottages. It belongs to his rule, but the specific number of people, it may be from hundreds to thousands, it is possible.

Anyway, the range of the surrounding hills and rivers belonged to him.

All in all, Zhanren’s interior is also very complicated. Even because of the different regions of Zhanren, there are also different habits and primitive worship, whether they are hostile or friendly, intermarried or not, and almost no one can figure out the relationship. .

The Zhan people's attitude towards the Han people is actually very general.

Originally, when Shi Xie was in Jiaozhi, he focused his energy on the Cangwu area of ​​Guilin, Guilin, Jiaozhi. For example, Jiuzhen County in the south basically didn’t set foot in it, let alone Rinan County in the south. If you don't make trouble, just treat it as if it doesn't exist.

The Zhan people welcomed Liu Bei's business proposal very much.They want all kinds of things, the most important being salt and iron, and for wine and sugar they like it, but most of them can't afford it.

Leader Zhan said that if Liu Bei could bring salt and iron, they would be willing to exchange animal skins, livestock, wood, bamboo and rattan utensils, as long as they had anything, except population.

Jiuzhen Nichinan is close to the sea, but not everyone knows how to get salt from seawater.

Especially those Zhan people who live in the mountains and forests, some have never even seen the sea in their entire lives, but no matter whether these Zhan people have seen the sea or not, they all need salt, and at the same time they need iron tools very much.

These requests were all expected by Liu Bei.

Although it is said that Liu Bei brought three gifts, in fact, none of these three gifts can be provided by Liu Bei independently, and the only thing that can be offered is salt.

Because Liu Bei has salt, it is not a gift, it is currency, and it is a general equivalent.

In areas where the commodity economy is backward, there is indeed no equivalent exchange product more suitable than table salt.

The Zhan people also have the custom of farming, but the farming method is very rough. In other words, they basically belong to the type of throwing away the seeds and leaving them alone.

Of course, Zhan people have more things, that is, wood, bamboo, and rattan.

These luxuriant plants in the mountains and forests are really too rich.Although it is said that Zhanren’s primitive farming has destroyed some vegetation, it is actually like a pedicure for these forests. If Zhanren does not pay attention, these cleared areas will be encroached by various shrubs and weeds again .

Liu Bei wants to build a boat, he needs a lot of wood, gum, and related bamboo rollers, etc., and even some wild fruits, such as wild plantains, longan, and jackfruit, etc., can be used as food supplements.

In addition, there is wild ramie.Zhan people are not very good at using these wild ramie, so Liu Bei intends to let these Zhan people grow ramie, and then buy raw materials to make cloth and sell them to these Zhan people. At least let these Zhan people wear skirts, otherwise it is really Obscure...

Zhan people also raise pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, etc., but basically they are free-range, without corrals or artificial feeding, so most of them are very thin, and their cattle farming skills are poor, even in a village. A pair of knives and plows for ox plowing.

Liu Bei is very good at learning.

He was originally born as a country wanderer, but he is like a sponge, absorbing various skills all the time.For example, Liu Bei's tactic of setting fire was learned from the Battle of Changsha.

Therefore, Liu Bei also learned from Fei Qian about the trade of occupying people...

With the force of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, there is basically no problem in slaughtering Zhanren's village, but what about after they are killed?Is it possible to let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei cut wood and cultivate livestock by themselves?

In the initial occupation process, Liu Bei's initial military conquest did indeed gain a lot of territory and some slaves, but in the follow-up process, not all the occupying people were willing to surrender, even those slaves In the process of working, there will often be a phenomenon of escape, suddenly going into the ravines and forests, catching it, consuming manpower and material resources, not catching it, running more and more.

In the end, Liu Bei finally stopped his conquest by force, turned to think carefully, and finally adopted the method of trade.

Liu Bei smiled very gently. He didn't want to sell it at a high price to make huge profits.

Taking the lead is naturally very satisfying.

Liu Bei proposed to establish a trade market point in the middle of the two sides, and then carry out regular trade at the market point, and both sides can send goods to the market point for exchange...

The leader of the accounts has no objection, he thinks this proposal is very fair.

"Brother! ’ On the way back, Zhang Fei, who had been silent all this time, couldn’t bear it, and said, ‘Brother, you are too polite to them! 』

Liu Bei still smiled gently and did not answer.He knew that Zhang Fei always felt that he was a relative of the Han Dynasty and should not be wronged in the slightest, but he also knew that no one in this world should not be wronged by birth.

Thinking about the young emperor Liu Bian, you can know that even the throne is not someone's birth, let alone the so-called grievances?
"Third brother, do you think it's a good way to go?" Guan Yu said, squinting his eyes.

"What a broken way! Zhang Fei yelled, "I can't ride a horse, and I can't walk a cart!"Fortunately, there is no rain in autumn and winter. If it rains in spring and summer, there is no need to leave! 』

Guan Yu nodded, "Third brother, believe it or not, when we come back next time, this road will be easier..."

"Um. Liu Bei nodded and said with a smile, "Second brother is right. 』

Guan Yu nodded slightly.

Zhang Fei scratched his head, and after a while he slapped his hands, "Oh, so that's the case, I understand!"Brother is amazing! 』

Liu Bei smiled, "Hey, I learned this from Huqi..."

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, "Ancient Spring and Autumn has already existed!" 』

Liu Bei also nodded, "Indeed.However, in the past 400 years of the Han Dynasty, only hussars have been used the best... There is no one who learns first, and a good man can be a teacher...Since hussars can use this method to pacify the Xiongnu Xiqiang, then the current occupying people...』

"Of course it's the big brother's target!" ’ Zhang Fei laughed loudly.

Liu Bei was still smiling, "Now is just the beginning, there are still many things to pay attention to..."

(End of this chapter)