Chapter 31: All Hands

As soon as Don Juan's messenger left on a large ship, the port of Nanyang Wei ushered in a cruel wonder.

Sichuan Duzhangman was completely pacified, since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu issued an edict to the southwest to return, that is, to grant the original official position, but all Zhangman is still martial and aggressive, and sat in the Southern Song Dynasty for the Southern Song Dynasty to resist the Yuan built Lingxiao City, easy to defend and difficult to attack, often have four strategic moves.

By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the land annexation of Sichuan intensified, and more Han people who had lost their land joined them, these people were escaped military criminals, early homeless people, thieves in Shu and outlaws who committed serious crimes.

The land where the barbarians gathered, in the throat of the three provinces of Yun, Guizhou and Sichuan, every time there was a riot, the three provinces were shaken, and they were regarded as a big trouble by the imperial court, and they gathered 100,000 soldiers to fight for them, as many as 12 times since the Ming Dynasty.

This time, Liu Xian broke his ninety-three bronze drums and completely pacified them.

From Sichuan to Guangdong, the army and soldiers along the way sent prisoners to Nanyang Weigang in batches, and the number of people was as high as 1,100 for the first time alone.

"Shuai Ye wants to send them to Minduluo for mining?"

Lou Qimai looked at the Duzhang barbarian captives defeated by the Banzhou army he led, and didn't think that it was a good thing for these captives to be sent to Chen Mu, he pouted and said with a gritted tooth expression: "The barbarians are the most hateful, the ancestors have not been gentle, and they still have to fight in the end." ”

"Have you ever seen me let Han craftsmen work as mine supervisors in Minduluo, have you ever seen me let Han people work as miners?"

Chen Mu shook his head slightly, he said: "In the past, the world was only as big as the Great Wall in the north and the sea in the south, and the division of Huayi was inevitable, but it was only in the era of Ru Mao drinking blood, their ancestors were defeated in the battle with our ancestors, and were driven into the uninhabited barren mountains and Daze. ”

"I can't blame the ancestors, it was a helpless move to continue the race, but time has passed, and people today have a better choice, not necessarily the dead race can survive, change the land and return to the stream, and no longer need one war after another as a deterrent."

"Compared with the huge land overseas, the Ming Dynasty is too small, and the people who have lived here for generations should not consume each other, all the Chinese belong to China, and when the conflict is inevitable, any race in this circle is the same, and they will not choose war."

"But only a few people know that there are more vicious barbarians in this world, who use war to get everything they want."

Chen Mu swore to heaven that he was not talking about himself, but when he turned his head to the intriguing expression on Lou Qimai's ugly face, it was obvious that General Daming, who was called the commander of the army by Father Libera, was puzzled by his own handsome man scolding him like this.

"It's not me, it's people like me who are more vicious than them, who came into being." Chen Mu laughed out loud and said, "The wicked have their own wicked grinding, have you ever seen a peasant helpless in the face of thieves to lift weapons?" Like during the rebellion in the southeast, I was the helpless farmer. ”

"There is no one to treat them, and their descendants will sooner or later ride on the heads of my children and grandchildren to poop and urine, so it is better to strike first." Seeing that the Duzhang barbarian captives were gathered, Chen Mu turned his head and asked, "Can they understand me?" ”

After receiving an affirmative answer, Chen Mu jumped off the high platform, walked to the front of the captive and arched his hand: "From Sichuan to Guangdong, an order has been sent to you to walk thousands of miles, it is Chen who does not live with you, I am Chen Mu, the minister of Nanyang." ”

"The imperial court originally wanted to kill all of you rebel captives in Sichuan to make an example, but now you are all still alive, so you owe me for this life, everyone."

"All the people are martial, the custom is headhunting, it has been a thousand years since entering Shu, and the truth that revenge will be avenged, you must know it, right? Destroy your grudges, find Liu Xian to report, owe me my life, now is the right time to pay it back, I want you to help me do something. ”

"Don't be in a hurry to roar, the bronze drum made by Zhuge Liang for your ancestors was escorted to Beijing as a war profit, and he said that if the drum is lost, it will be ruined."

Chen Mu did his homework to collect these Du Zhangman, and introduced in detail in Liu Xian's letter, they made hanging coffins on the cliff after their death, and the clan had the habit of headhunting, revered the frog god, and had hundreds of war drums that had been inherited for thousands of years.

Their ancestors were the first of the Qiang people, who participated in the battle of Muye under the defeat of King Wu and made great achievements, and were named the marquis.

According to legend, the war drum was made by Zhuge Liang when he entered Shu Town, and left a prophecy, and the drum was lost.

In the tribes of the barbarians, a loud war drum can be exchanged for a thousand oxen, even if it is a little time, it can be exchanged for seven or eight hundred cattle, and if you get two or three war drums, you can claim the title of king, and when the drum sounds in the mountains, all the barbarians will gather under the drum.

Liu Xian's battle broke his drum on ninety-three sides, which can be said to have killed all his luck in one battle.

At the mention of this, those brave warriors who overcame obstacles and fought bravely wept like people who went to the country.

"Zhuge Wuhou can be a war drum, but now the drum is lost, and the brute luck can end. Then the drum, Mu can also do! ”

Boom!

As soon as Chen Mu's voice fell, several flag soldiers on the high platform painted a large bronze drum with a barbaric pattern, and the powerful man hammered the drum, and the drum sound vibrated and stretched.

"All the drums have been savaged, and the court has taken them all; Chen will make a hundred drums for you again, but as Wuhou said, the barbarian luck has ended, this is the drum of the Ming Dynasty. ”

On the high platform behind Chen Mu, the banner army pulled down the rope, and the huge picture scroll that was gathered fell down.

Chen Mu didn't look back, raised his arm and pointed to the east, and said: "To the east of the sea, there is a land name of America, there is a war, inherit my great tomorrow Longen, and the people in charge are willing to serve under Chen and obey the dispatch, and fight for the Nanyang Military Government. ”

Then, he raised his arms to the south and said: "There is Lu Ming Xinming in the south of the sea, there is no war, there is land to be cultivated and pasture, and I inherit my great tomorrow's son Longen, all of whom are in charge of women, children, old and weak, are willing to reclaim fields under Chen's command, livestock, fishing and hunting, and those who collect taxes for the Nanyang military government can form their own departments, and promote their own leaders, leaders, and give drums." ”

When Chen Mu compared himself to Zhuge Wuhou, when he said that he wanted to recreate the war drums for the Duzhang people, everything else he said was not important to the Duzhang people.

It doesn't matter if you go to sea, fight, or cultivate land.

It doesn't even matter if they are all in charge and all are in charge.

From this moment on, the needles dropped in the place where thousands of people gathered in the capital, and the eyes they looked at Chen Mu were different.

Chen Mu re-ascended the high platform, tapped the drum with his backhand with the bone joints, looked at the people under the high platform and pressed the drum and said: "This drum is not easy to take, all the drums taken by me are the people under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and they cannot attack each other from generation to generation, and they will plunder the land together, I want you to make an oath to the frog god, and those who violate it will not die well if they are invaded!" ”

When the bronze war drums sounded again, and the people who stepped forward were divided into two parts and bowed down together, Chen Mu smiled with satisfaction.

Fifty-seven nationalities, fifty-seven flowers!