Li'er asked the little maid she brought with her to ask these people, she didn't know much about the local barbarian language, and the little maid didn't understand much, but this little maid was a barbarian girl invited by Huang Hua from Yongzhou, and she could barely communicate. After asking about the reason, Li'er fled from the new house like crazy.

This can't be done, a group of people chase after her.

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

When the little maid rescued her, her face was blue and she was no longer breathing.

It's a big deal.

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

After asking about the experience, Liu Kai was stunned and said: "How can there be such a custom?" ”

Duan Zhengming is also at a loss, Bai Man is also open, the girl before marriage and the widow who live in the widow have absolute social freedom, but after marriage, if the husband is alive, if he is not clear with outsiders, he will be cruelly punished, and it is the night of the cave room.

The main thing is that he is too young, he doesn't know much, and Dali has many races, each race has different customs, such as golden-toothed Baiyi men don't work, women work, even if the front gives birth to a child, the back has to go to the field to do farm work, such as the distribution of some ethnic groups in the Lijiang area, after years without bathing, men and women are free to socialize, ** no taboos, such as the naked people west of Tengchong, North Myanmar Kachin State, no clothes, covered with wooden veneer, but originated from the Han Jin Pu people migrated from the Phu Ziman, there are very strict rules for men and women, Even non-spouses are not allowed to hold hands.

In fact, there are two reasons, one is that some tribes are inconvenient due to their remote location. The population is sparsely populated. Subconsciously avoid inbreeding prolonged. The resulting sexual style is open in favor of causing non-consanguineous consanguinity.

For example, some clans, at least Wang Ju will not laugh at them.

The second is the bad customs formed by the backwardness of real civilization.

However, as civilization progressed, many bad habits disappeared from history.

Of course, there are still some shadows in later generations, such as the strange haunted cave house like Wuman, but they just use their hands and feet to make jokes. It's not like it's really nonsense now.

So Duan Zhengming really doesn't know.

But he read Han poetry and books, how much influenced by Confucian civilization, Wang Ju is not a military general, he is a civil minister, Huang Hua is also a son, the two also exchanged a lot of Confucian scriptures and meanings on the road, and talked very happily, as Huang Hua's daughter, then he must not accept this kind of vulgarity.

"What can I do?"

Liu Kai was also anxious and said, "Use cold water to splash the flavonol to wake up." ”

A guard brought a bucket of well water. Poured on the door of Huang Hua's head. Huang Hua was suddenly woken up, and then looked at everyone strangely. Then he saw Li'er's corpse again, and immediately asked madly, "What's wrong, what's wrong!" ”

The little maid wept again and told the story again.

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

"Brother alcohol, I don't know."

Huang Hua was furious, and at this time, Duan Zhengming was explaining the reason to Zhao Rabi and asking Zhao Rabi to make amends.

"Let's go," Huang Hua held back his anger and said to the guards, make amends! People can't be resurrected after death, but here, there are many powerful people, and the barbarians are also more ferocious, so it's not clear. Therefore, he did not send Dali, carried Li'er's body on horseback, and went back with his subordinates.

This incident was provoked by Liu Kai's joke, Huang Hua took his subordinates away, and Liu Kai was still standing in a daze.

Now the situation Wang Ju is like an enlarged version of the rogue American emperor, and Dali is a miniature version of the Celestial Empire, Duan Zhengming saw that things were going to be bad, and hurriedly walked over and said: "Shengzhi, how is this good?" ”

Zhao Rabi was still standing on the other side and thinking, "What did I do wrong......?

Liu Kai reproached: "Shizi, how can you Dali have such barbaric customs? ”

"I don't know."

"Shizi, I won't hide it from you, this time I came to make an envoy, Shao Bao explained his bottom line to us, as long as your Duan family is not evil to the Great Song Dynasty, he will not be evil to your Duan family, this one, I can swear to God!"

Liu Kai really didn't lie, even if Wang Juzhen used troops in Dali in the future and really destroyed Dali, he still wanted to keep Duan, and he wouldn't even send Li Yu to the capital like Cao Bin destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, and then die in vain. Why? Because the Duan family believes in Buddhism, in the end, all of them have become grass-eating animals, which is not very harmful. Then give some rights and benefits, and you can use the Duan family to stabilize people's hearts.

However, Liu Kai only said one side of this, which made Duan Zhengming misunderstand.

He stared blankly at Liu Kai and asked, "Then why is your family's Shaobao like this?" ”

"Actually, Shaobao's intention is very simple, to force you Dali to be a vassal to China, of course, not to let your Duan family go to the capital, but just a courtier, just like Zhancheng, 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 various practices after using troops to occupy the city, but Duan Zhengming was a little unconvinced, and asked: "Why?" ”

"Distinguish priorities, at least you Dali will not dare to support the surrounding barbarians of our dynasty, and they will not dare to run rampant, so we can concentrate on the north."

This one is talking about the barbarians of the five regions.

The first is Ziqi and Temo Dao, since the barbarian Song Dynasty southern officials have a headache, but it is just a headache, and there is nothing to invade with soldiers, but to use troops in Dali, embezzling several counties in Dali. The main reason is that the Southern Song Dynasty is their food and clothing, and without the Southern Song Dynasty to buy horses, they will stop eating vegetables from nothing. Now Ziqi Barbarian and Temo Dao have not hindered the Song Dynasty.

The second is the barbarians in the southwest, which are actually the barbarians in Guizhou. When the Song Dynasty was strong, they fell to the Song Dynasty, and when Dali was strong, they fell to Dali. By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, Duan Yu could no longer control Dali, and the Song Dynasty was also in a corner of peace, and many powerful tribes claimed to be kings. But in general, this part of the barbarians did not pose a danger to the Song Dynasty, because in front of them were the real Kuixia Barbarians (the Kuixia Road of the Song Dynasty included the southwestern barbarians, but there was no control at all, and the area slightly controlled was the barbarians in the southern area of the Three Gorges in Chongqing, which is the real Kuixia Barbarians), Beijiang Man, Nanjiang Man, and Meishan Man. Therefore, this part of the barbarians has little to do with what Liu Kai said.

The third group is related to a thick history book. Horse ...... of the Song Dynasty Ancient Tea Horse Road!

The source of horses in the Northern Song Dynasty was more extensive than that in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is divided into four parts.

One is the Khitan horse, which is mostly smuggled from Hedong Road.

The second is the Xixia horse, the Xixia horse is divided into two parts, one is the official market horse, when the relationship is good, the two countries open mutual markets, the Xixia sells a number of horses to the Song Dynasty every year, but most of these horses are not Xixia horses. It was the Khitan horse transported from the Jiashan area of Duozhubu and Liao, that is, the Mongolian horse that was later crossed by the invincible army achieved by Genghis Khan.

Mongolian horses were able to endure hardships and endure long journeys, so the Yuan and Mongolia used them to conquer half of Europe.

However, the conflict between Song, Xia, Song and Liao is not very long, so the requirement for horses is not to be able to travel long distances, but to have strong explosive power at short distances and a tall physique, so that they can exert the power of war horses on the battlefield, so they stand on the position of the Song Dynasty. Khitan horses are not good horses.

Why did Western Xia do this? They themselves kept the good horses and put them on the battlefield. The Liao State imposed a ban on the Song Dynasty's horse administration, and the horses were relatively cheap, and the Western Xia did not lose the number of good horses in the country, and the other could earn the difference from it.

The second is private horses, most of these horses are real Xixia horses, among which they are not known as the first good horses of the Great Song Dynasty.

The third part is the Tubo horses obtained from Qinzhou, in the Tang Dynasty, with the Sun Moon Mountain as the boundary, the two sides of Qinghai Lake in Shanxi are good horses, and Shandong is mostly short Sichuan horses. With the transition of nomadism, the banks of Qinghai Lake were no longer suitable for human habitation, so all the Tibetan ethnic groups migrated to Shandong, that is, the Hehuang region. These good horses were also brought over and crossed with each other, becoming the prototype of the famous Three Hippos in later generations. This kind of horse is not bad either.

In addition, before the Western Xia received the Hexi Corridor, the Song Dynasty also obtained many Uighur horses through various means, including purchases or tribute. However, after the Western Xia occupied the Hexi Corridor, the Southern Silk Road roads were rugged and difficult, and most of them were saline-alkali Gobi deserts, so the number of Uighur horses 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 region from Maozhou to Lizhou, they raised mostly the really short Sichuan horse, and later Kangxi destroyed Wu Sangui with this kind of horse, although it is short and explosive, but it can bear hardships and stand hard work, especially can gallop on the mountain road, of course, in the northern battlefield, this horse is useless.

However, the Song Dynasty needed too many horses, and the number of horses bred in this area alone was far from enough.

Therefore, many Lizhou barbarians who had traveled far away bought war horses from Dali and trafficked them to the Song Dynasty to earn the difference.

However, the horses of Dali are also short Yunnan horses, and the price is not high, so the ancient tea horse road was vaguely produced from the Northern Song Dynasty, starting from the northwest of Dali, extending along the southern part of Qinghai, reaching the inner belly of Tibet in the south, and even extending to India.

However, the Northern Song Dynasty had a wide range of horse sources, and the number of horse roads was not very demanding, and until the Southern Song Dynasty, almost all of them relied on this horse road. At that time, the Ancient Tea Horse Road officially flourished until the Ming Dynasty, but by that time the Ancient Tea Horse Road was not only a way to sell horses, but a really important commercial road.

Here is the real Tibetan horse, which is relatively tall, and the Song people also like it.

Because of this horse road, it involves the third barbarian tribe at the junction of the two countries, or the Tibetan department, the Lizhou barbarian, in fact, this barbarian is very friendly to the Song Dynasty, although they are the ancestors of the Sichuan Tibetans, but among the various barbarian tribes around the southern part of the Song Dynasty, they are the most trouble-free group.

However, Dali controlled their horse source, and had no choice but to pay tribute to Dali's ministers.

This is the third kind of barbarism or fan, or it has nothing to do with what Liu Kai said.

However, there are two kinds of barbarians, one is the barbarians of Xuzhou, the barbarians of the southern area of Yibin, and the other is the barbarians of Luzhou, the barbarians of the southern part of the Yangtze River in Luzhou. The two barbarians, Xuzhou Barbarians did not like production and farming, mostly animal husbandry, and Luzhou Barbarians began to have a high degree of agricultural civilization. The similarity is that they also raise horses, and then sell them to the Song Dynasty, and the other is to transport the products of the Song Dynasty to the Wuman, and then transport the products of the Wuman to the Song Dynasty to seek the difference. At the same time, both are very dishonest and often plunder the people of the Song Realm. After Kumamoto used troops, the situation in Luzhou changed slightly, but the problem of Xuzhou was still not solved.

It is not necessarily entirely due to Dali's support, but Dali must bear some responsibility, at least some responsibility.

Liu Kai was referring to these two barbarians.

If Dali becomes a real vassal state of the Song Dynasty. One south and one north exert pressure. Although it does not completely change the appearance of the region. But it's definitely going to change a lot.

If it is just to force Dali to become a minister, this reason is sufficient.

And for the Duan family, the Xuzhou barbarians and the Luzhou barbarians take care of their, at least in this way, first, to prevent Wang Ju's possible invasion of the army, and second, maybe they can really eradicate the Gao family for the Duan family and prevent the Duan family from being the puppet king of Dali.

Therefore, Duan Zhengming regretted Mo Die.

"Shizi, do you understand the reason why I am trying so hard to make this family business so hard this time? Because the thirty-seven barbarians are relatively speaking. It's in support of your Duan clan. And Huang Alcohol is the first servant under Wang Shaobao, even if Huang Alcohol is this daughter, Shao Bao usually treats her as a daughter like a sister. Marry Minister Bi Shao in her identity, and Minister Bi Shao will not give in at all! Then you Duan will also believe in Shaobao's intentions. Similarly, it was also for the sake of the plan to protect the youth, so Huang Alcohol reluctantly cut his love and agreed to marry his beloved daughter to Minister Bi Shao. But I didn't expect it......"

"Shengzhi, this is my negligence, but the rules of Dali are indeed different from those of the Central Plains, and each ethnic group has its own rules. Although I am in Dali, I can't know everything clearly. Otherwise, at least Minister Bi will be allowed to handle the Han family's wedding, and I hope Shengzhi will explain it to us in front of Shaobao. Although the tragedy happened, we have a lot of respect for Shaobao, including the Zhao Rabi tribe, he didn't want to deliberately humiliate the Han family, but across the Ziqi tribe, the Ziqi tribe and the Wuman customs are different, so the people of the Yetho tribe don't know what the Han family thinks, so this is ......"

"Shizi, I'm afraid it's very difficult, Shaobao's mother remarried when he was a child, his father died early, and he was lonely, but Shaobao was born with extraordinary talents and worked hard, which became the legend of our Great Song Dynasty. But because of this experience, he attaches great importance to family affection. If the little lady Huang is not dead, then it is okay to say. But dead, Minister Vi, prepare for war. ”

"Ahh

"Really, Minister Bi, you and I know each other quite well, and I have a heartfelt word to prepare for war. Shaobao will not let you Ye Tho provoke his majesty. ”

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

"yes, you can't fight." Zhao Rabi said.

The Yetho tribe is not the other barbarian tribe, it is far away, it is on the edge of the self-qi tribe. Although they don't have much contact with each other because of different customs (one doesn't love cleanliness and one loves cleanliness super much), Wang Ju twice used thunderous means to suppress Qicheng Hao, and he really didn't hear anything about it?

Where is the opponent of this Song army in Yetho?

"Minister Bi, after I go back this time, I will also be punished by Shaobao, after all, I don't even know such rules. So this is the last time I'll be a guest with you, and the prince has a lot of respect for me. All I can say is, prepare for war. Shaobao's personality is too strong. One of your forces is definitely insufficient, so it is best to concentrate the thirty-seven barbarian forces and see if they can achieve a stalemate, so as to keep your clan. ”

Liu Kai arched his hand and said, "Shizi, farewell." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to leave, let's think of a way tomorrow," Zhao Rabi glanced at his subordinates, meaning that he wanted to forcibly leave Liu Kai here.

Liu Kai was a little angry and said, "Minister Bi, what do you mean." ”

"Wronged Brother Liu," Zhao Luo Bi said, and after speaking, he pulled Duan Zhengming and said: "Now the plan, don't do anything, send someone to catch up with Huang Hua's party, and then kill them." ”

"No."

"Shizi, you can put the blame on others." Zhao Luobi said, anyway, in Dali, where will Wang Ju find out the truth?

Duan Zhengming was still hesitating, and Zhao Luo Pi began to give an order, so that the clan sent many Ding Zhuang to chase after him on horseback.

But this is the Yetho Department, in front of which is the Ziqi Department, Ding Zhuang sent by Zhao Luo Pi rode a horse to chase, Huang Hua They also came on horseback, chased until Tianming, and arrived in Ziqizhou, they were found by the patrolling Song soldiers, and they did not catch up with Huang Hua and his party, and hundreds of soldiers in the clan had to ride back.

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

I don't mean to start a war for a girl. It's war! Instead of the tribes fighting, it can only be called fighting.

"Minister Bi, Shaobao is very emotional, and this time Huang Xiaoniang came to Dali, and Shaobao agreed, otherwise Huang Yuzhi would not agree to her coming to Dali. One is feelings, the other is self-blame, Shaobao will start a war. ”

"The second is that you may not know the rules of China, during the Qingli period, the Song and Xia wars, and Renzong hurriedly responded to the war, which led to several years of war, the heavy burden of the people, and it coincided with the great drought, and the thieves in Shandong and Shaanxi were everywhere. The Liao State seized the opportunity to blackmail and demanded that our dynasty return the ten counties in Guannan, Hebei, but our dynasty did not agree. The Liao State changed two conditions, one is to marry Her Royal Highness the princess, and the other is to increase the annual coin. As a result, I would rather add 200,000 coins a year than marry a princess. Why, everyone is unwilling to let a woman carry the weight of a country. When the news spreads, Shaobao will inevitably make people laugh. And you are married like this...... So Shaobao can only use the army to gag everyone's mouths. ”

"Katsuyuki, then why are you helping us?" Duan Zhengming asked puzzled.

"Shao Bao is a jinshi, a scholar, I am a lifter, and I am also a scholar. However, the experience is different, Shaobao grew up in the border and has a strong personality. Not with me. Shaobao used soldiers to occupy the city, and many soldiers died, not to mention the death of the homeless. But Shao Bao pointed his troops at your Dali, so I and several other servants persuaded Shao Bao to value peace, including the goal of this line. But Shaobao still wants to use force to solve the problem. Once Shaobao destroys your Yetho tribe, the next step will inevitably be the thirty-seven barbarians, the next step will be your Dali, and the next step may be to the Bagan country. This is endless, and when it finally comes, it is not what we want. In this way, the prince understands. But I'm really going back, is it possible that Minister Bi wants to take revenge? ”

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

"Don't worry, the children of the Barbarian tribes are fierce and brave, although Shaobao has trained many large armies, but many troops are held back by Jiaozhi and Zhancheng, and there are not many troops that can really be used. If your ministries are united, you will be able to get through this. But remember, your Dali is not the Western Xia, to put it mildly, the combined strength of your two Dali is not the opponent of the Western Xia. Therefore, when the time comes, it is necessary to send an envoy to lobby, admit a mistake, and let Shaobao have a step down, and Shaobao's use of troops will automatically stop, and the matter will be over. After Liu Kai finished speaking, he found his mount, turned over on his horse, and arched his hand at Duan Zhengming and Zhao Luobi and said: "Please believe my words, at least I won't harm you, if you want to harm you, Shaobao's strength to deal with you is not good, why let your thirty-seven departments join forces, please think twice." ”

That's where the most confusing part...... (To be continued......)