Duoga stepped forward with an arrow and whipped it fiercely: "Shut up! If the Mantars dare to destroy our happy life now, all our slave babies who have turned over will fight with them to the end! ”

Seeing that the toast who used to ride on his head as a prestige and exploit himself was now beaten like a dog, and a blood mark appeared on his face, a more daring serf shouted: "Good fight!" ”

"All in line! Come one by one! Don't squeeze! Basang led several Tibetan soldiers to maintain order.

Watching the slave children move away the things that originally belonged to him one by one, Jian Shen felt so distressed that he felt that he was about to suffocate, but he still stiffened his mouth: "You despicable slave babies! Don't get complacent too soon! As long as there is one person in our Jianshen family who lives, we will definitely bring the officers and soldiers of the court to suppress you! ”

"Smack" Duoga whipped up again: "Anyway, you don't have a chance yourself!" Do you think you'll survive today? When all the evidence of your guilt is revealed, will the turned serf let you go? ”

"Found it!" Several Ming soldiers walked out carrying a small wooden box.

When I opened the wooden box, I saw that there were pieces of paper with Tibetan written on them. Although most Tibetans are illiterate, they recognize these things, these are title deeds, deeds of sale, and usury IOUs that will never be repaid!

"Burn them!" Doga yelled.

The Ming soldiers lit a bonfire on the ground, took out the title deeds, deeds of sale, and usury IOUs from the wooden boxes, and threw them into the raging fire. In the blink of an eye, these papers, which symbolized the wealth of the Tusi Jianshen family, were reduced to ashes in the flames, which also symbolized the confiscation of all the land of Tusi and the freedom of all slaves.

Basang opened his voice and said loudly: "Fellow villagers! Jian Shen Tusi was originally a magistrate canonized by our Ming Dynasty, but he surrendered to the Qing court, and his rule was illegal! He doesn't treat you as human beings, and brutally oppresses and exploits you. But as of today, none of this exists! From now on. The money and rent you owe him will be written off, and the land you rent from them will become your own, and his pasture will be yours! And each of you will be free again and become our people of the Ming Dynasty! No more slaves to anyone! ”

The slaves who had been freed watched the deed of sale turn to ashes in the fire, and they were still stunned for a moment before they understood what was going on.

I don't know who took the lead in shouting hello, and the crowd burst into thunderous cheers.

The freed maid and her parents hugged each other and wept; Lovers who have been separated alive are reunited, hugging their heads and crying; Having endured enough hardships in the Tusi family, the grandmother, who is now free, hugs her husband and children tightly. Crying loudly; The freed slave baby and the maidservant girl hugged each other......

"O Great Bodhisattva! These Han army are our savior bodhisattvas! "An elderly woman whose husband was buried alive burst into tears and wept silently.

Basang struck while the iron was hot again: "Fathers and fellow villagers, from now on, this is the royal land of the Ming Dynasty!" You are all free people! We will keep you safe! Whether it is your life or property, it will be guaranteed! Then Basang promulgated the Ming Law of Death for Murderers, Wounding and Stealing, publicizing that every former serf was a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and as long as anyone threatened their lives, it was a crime.

"I'm just like you. It's all from here! Maybe you think I can deceive people by talking about it, but the color of my face doesn't! I used to be like you, I was a slave baby, and it was the arrival of the Ming army. Saved us! In order not to lose this hard-won happiness, I chose to join the army! Basan shouted.

The crowd boiled again, and many young Tibetans asked to join the Ming army. A dark-skinned man shouted, "Ladies and gentlemen, there is no one else in my family. Both parents were killed by the hateful Toast Master! My sister was also snatched into the house by Master Toast, and she committed suicide a few days later! I'm the only one, I'm going to join the army! ”

More and more Tibetans are coming forward. said that he wanted to join the Ming army.

Basang said: "Brothers, don't worry! It's a good thing that everyone is enthusiastic to join the army, but if someone joins the army, someone has to be engaged in production, and we will only select the right people to join the army! Tomorrow, we will open a recruitment office here, so that everyone can sign up, as long as they are approved by us, they can join the army! ”

At this moment, a Tibetan Ming sergeant came out and shouted: "Evidence of the crime has been found!" ”

"Bring up the incriminating evidence!" Doga shouted.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty came out carrying all kinds of "magic weapons" of toast, only to see that there were stone hats specially used to gouge out eyes, special shackles with special lengths, as well as whole human skins that had been peeled off, and even shocking human skins of children, bowls supported by human skulls, drum hammers made of leg bones of young girls, and flutes made of leg bones of children......

"Look! These are bloody evidence of the mutilation of slaves! Now you can complain! Accuse the Jian Shen family of crimes! Doga shouted.

Dozhava, who had just lost his eyes, said: "Just because I took a second look when the old man Toast was walking down the street, the damned Toast had a stone hat put on my head and gouge out my eyes!" ”

Gesang, whose husband was buried alive, cried and hugged the child's human skin: "This is my son!" My husband was buried alive by them, and my son was skinned alive by them, and he was only seven years old! ”

Ciden cried and said, "Just because my father's loan shark can't be repaid, they have taken away all our family's things!" Eight of our eleven people starved to death! My two younger brothers went to the toast master theory and got their hamstrings pumped! ”

Zhuoma, who was a maid in the Tusi family, cried and said, "Just because the lama said that it is necessary to worship the Buddha and eat the Buddha, four heads are needed, and all four of my sisters have been killed!" Their skulls were made into ritual vessels......"

Listening to these accusations, some Ming soldiers who knew a little simple Tibetan clenched their fists angrily; The Ming soldiers, who did not understand Tibetan, asked their companions, and they all gritted their teeth with hatred, and their eyes erupted with anger.

Wang Jinzhong saw that the time was ripe, so he asked: "Fellow villagers, you said that for such a head rat at both ends, he first accepted our canonization, turned his head and went to seek refuge in the pseudo-Qing Tartars, and treated you cruelly. What are you going to do with those who kill your relatives and rob your wives and daughters? ”

"Kill him!"

"Peel him off!"

"Make his bones into magic weapons!"

"No, chop up his meat and feed it to the dogs!"

Wang Jinzhong smiled and nodded: "Okay!" Now I'll leave Jian Shen Tusi and his henchmen to you to deal with! ”

The Ming army spread out on both sides, and the angry Tibetans surrounded them, beating them with their fists, biting with their teeth, pinching them with their fingernails, tearing them with their hands, and kicking them with their feet. There were also people who picked up bricks from the ground and smashed them. In the blink of an eye, Jian Shen and several of his cronies were all torn to pieces by the angry Tibetans.

Sending a western expeditionary army to develop the local people on the spot and develop their own strength among the Tibetans was Wang Xinyu's way of imitating a certain great man. The cruel serfdom system in the Tibetan areas was maintained because the local Tusi relied on the high mountains and the emperor to be far away, and they had a strong army and brutally oppressed the people. Now as soon as the Ming army's mountain troops came, Tusi's rule collapsed. The Tibetans who were allocated the fields immediately fell to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Wang Jinzhong did not kill all the local Tusi Lamas indiscriminately everywhere he went, but treated them differently, and some people were indignant. The little Tusi and some respected lamas who had no blood debts in hand were not killed by the Ming army, but let them free the slaves, divide the fields, and disband the native soldiers. Remove the toast title. Forced by the strong force of the Ming army, these little toasts and lamas had to "abandon their martial arts", but the Ming army gave them a certain compensation: they became a shareholder of Nanyang Company. They can set up yak farms and meat processing factories in Tibet, dig up snow lotus and cordyceps, and process antelope horns and other medicines to get rich.

To be honest, not all Tibetan Tusi are bad, for example, the later famous Ngapoi. Although Ngawang Jigme was the child of a Tibetan nobleman, he grew up with the children of serfs. Later, when the liberation army entered Tibet, he promoted the peaceful liberation of Tibet and Fang. Later, Lama Dalai rebelled, and he fought against the rebels.

It is precisely because of the carrot in one hand and the stick in the other hand, and the differential treatment of Tusi, that the Western Expeditionary Army was able to gain a firm foothold in western Sichuan, establish the Ming regime here, complete self-sufficiency, and expand its troops, waiting for the opportunity to march into Chengdu.

The transportation in western Sichuan is inconvenient, if the Ming army transports supplies by itself, although Wu Sangui is willing to quietly open a channel for the Ming army, but Wang Xinyu cannot guarantee that his supplies can be delivered to the army, so he can only let the Western Expeditionary Army solve the supply problem on the spot.

Places such as the Arrow Furnace fell into the hands of the Western Expeditionary Army, and it became the base of the Western Expeditionary Army.

Although the land in western Sichuan is barren and the crop yield is small, and further west are the mountains and snow-capped mountains of western Sichuan, where the terrain is more treacherous, and then the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, it is not difficult to feed an army of 30,000 or 40,000 people.

According to Wang Xinyu's request, after Wang Jinzhong gained a firm foothold in western Sichuan, he began to go east little by little, sending spies into the Chengdu Plain and Jianchang, Lizhou, Yazhou and other places south of Chengdu to spy on the intelligence of the Qing army.

The Chengdu area was originally Liu Wenxiu's territory, but because of internal strife, Liu Wenxiu was imprisoned by Li Dingguo after assisting Li Dingguo to quell Sun Kewang's rebellion, and as a result, there was an emptiness in the Chengdu area, which was broken by the Qing army. However, at present, Li Guoying's troops near Chengdu are also insufficient, and the main force of the Qing army is mainly gathered near Chongqing to prevent Li Laiheng, Hao Shaoqi, Liu Tichun and other Kuidong anti-Qing troops with the strongest anti-Qing strength.

Wang Jinzhong sent Guo Feng, Chen Shuigen and others to change into the military uniforms of the Qing army, rode short Yunnan horses, and galloped on the official road of the Chengdu Plain.

"Is this the legendary land of abundance? How can it be so desolate? Guo Feng was very surprised.

Along the way, the road is sparsely populated, large areas of fertile land are overgrown with weeds, and occasionally a few figures can be seen, but they are just beacon towers and small barracks set up by the Qing army.

On the contrary, when they just left the mountains, the people in the mountains were still relatively large. After coming out of the archery furnace, you can see terraced fields on the hillside everywhere on the way, and the houses are built on the top of the mountain, which is quite a little lively. But when I arrived at the Chengdu Plain, I was greeted by such a desolate scene.

Li Laoqi said: "You don't know anything! Originally, the Chengdu Plain was known as the country of abundance, but after many years of war, starting from Zhang Xianzhong, the officers and soldiers of Xiying and Daming were killed and killed, and the common people who did not run were forcibly conscripted, most of them died in battle, and their families also starved to death. Later, the Tartars entered the river and killed many people. Whoever refuses to be a soldier shall be killed; Whoever does not hand over the grain, kill! How can the remaining orphans and widows survive? Many of those who survived by luck ran away. ”

This Li Laoqi joined the Ming army in the Jianchang area, and he was a local.

"Run? There aren't many people in this mountain, right? Chen Shuigen asked.

Li Laoqi pointed to the mountains in the west: "Run all the way to the west!" Some of them have gone over the snowy mountains to that side! It is said that on the plateau, the children born by the Han will not survive! Some men married local Tibetans, and some women married local Tibetans, and after living there for a long time, they also became Tibetans. ”

At that time, some Han Chinese fled to the Tibetans, but because they did not adapt, very few were able to survive, and those who survived by luck became Tibetans.

Soon after, the Night Failure Team saw the city of Chengdu not far away.

Chengdu is a big city, but I didn't expect it to be so desolate, there are a few green flags of the Qing army on the head of the city, and they are far away to see a Qing soldier standing at the head of the city.

"There are no more people in this city, and the people of Chengdu are fleeing to death. After the Tartars came, the few remaining people were forcibly requisitioned by them to become the people. However, now Li Guoying has insufficient troops at hand, and there are not many Tartars stationed in Chengdu, maybe only seven or eight thousand. Li Laoqi told Guo Feng about them.

"A city of this size can accommodate 70,000 or 80,000 people! Now it's only seven or eight thousand? Chen Shuigen was taken aback.

Li Laoqi said: "Seventy or eighty thousand people? Too little! It used to be said that there were two or three hundred thousand people here! What now? The Tartar soldiers plus their families are less than fifteen or sixteen! ”

"For such a big city, the Tartars are only guarded by a few thousand people, and they can't even watch a few city gates! If our western expeditionary army attacks the city, we will be able to conquer it in one fell swoop! Guo Feng pointed to the head of the city.

"We have captured such a big city, and we don't have enough manpower to defend it, right?" Li Laoqi sneered.

"If you take it, why do you have to defend it? If the Tartars divide their forces to attack, we will abandon Chengdu; When the Tartars are stationed in a garrison, we will come back and eat this Tartar again! Look at how many troops Li Guoying's old thief has to consume! Guo Feng laughed.

"That's a good plan!" Li Laoqi suddenly realized.

"Let's go, let's go back and report to the general! Let's just say that the Tartars are empty near Chengdu. Chen Shuigen said. (To be continued.) )