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As early as the Three Kingdoms period, a Yi leader named Tu Azhe (called "Jihuo" in Chinese literature) was named the king of Luodian for helping Zhuge Liang conquer Nanzhong, and ruled over large areas of land including Bijie, Dafang, Qianxi, Zhijin, Nayong, Jinsha, etc., which was the Changguo of Mu's Goujun.

By the Yuan Dynasty, the power of the Muogou State had crossed the Yachi River in the upper reaches of the Wujiang River, and extended to the east to the Guiyang area, but the ruling center was in the west of the Yachi River, so the Muogou was also called Shuixi;

In accordance with the old practice of the previous dynasty, the Ming Dynasty gave the ruler of Shuixi as the Xuanwei Department of Guizhou. According to the Ming system, the consolation envoy from the three products, for the highest grade of toast, Zhu Yuanzhang also edicted "Guizhou consolation makes Aicui rank above the consolation", which shows the important position of Shuixi toast.

Since Aicui, Shuixi Tusi began to adopt the Han surname - An, so it is also called Shuixi An. The area under its rule accounts for about one-third of the entire area of Guizhou.

In fact, almost all of Guizhou in the early Ming Dynasty were under the rule of Tusi, and among a number of Tusi, Sizhou, Sinan Tian, Shuixian and Shuidong Song were the strongest, and they were called "Guizhou's Four Great Tusi" in the early Ming Dynasty.

Sizhou and Sinan two major Tusi ruled the eastern Qiandong region for hundreds of years, Ming Yongle eleven years to pacify Sizhou, Sinan two Xuanwei Division, really change the land and return to the stream, with its land Sizhou, Sinan, Tongren, Zhenyuan, Shiqian, Liping, Wuluo, Xinhua eight mansions. Heguizhou Xuanwei Division and Anshun, Zhenning, Yongning, Pu'an four prefectures.

In the Wanli period, the Tusi of the Song clan in Shuidong rebelled, and after the pacification, it was also removed, and its land was also reformed and returned.

That is to say, in the early Ming Dynasty, among the four major Tusi in Guizhou, only the Shuixian clan remained, and when the Shuidong Song clan and Banzhou Tusi rebelled during the Wanli period, the Shuixi clan sent troops to help the Ming court quell the rebellion, therefore. Not only was he not removed, but he got a lot of benefits, forming a dominant family.

The current Shuixi Tusi An Rupan is fifty-five years old, of medium build, with thin cheeks, wearing a black narrow sleeved right bias shirt and multi-pleated wide trousers, and a rub on the outside.

His hairstyle is "Heavenly Bodhisattva", that is, a lock of long hair is tied to the top of the head, wrapped in a black scarf, and wrapped into a sharp cone. Diagonally inserted in front of the forehead, called the "hero knot"; The left ear wears honey beads, silver ear rings and other ornaments, and a waist knife hangs from the waist.

At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged in Wei Qingwei's guard yamen, and sitting opposite him was Zeng Yi, the political envoy of Guizhou, with an angry face.

"Lord Zeng, I'll say it the last time. If you are willing to help me take Guiyang City, I am willing to appoint Lord Zeng as Prime Minister."

Zeng Yi didn't wait for him to finish. Immediately interrupted him and said, "An Rupan." Don't dream, this official world is favored by the emperor, how can he be in the same league with your rebellion. ”

"Rebellious, who is rebellious? Lord Zeng, wake up, Da Ming is dead. An Rupan frowned. He detained Zeng Yi and deliberately forced Zeng Yi to cooperate with him, so that the soldiers could take Guiyang City without blood. Then he persuaded him five times and three times, and said all the good things. Zeng Yi just refused to cooperate, and his patience was basically exhausted.

At this time, Mu Zexi Mu Kui An Rushan hurriedly walked in and said to An Rupan: "Changjun, it's not good, the Qin army broke through the Qianjiang Pass and hit Guiyang City. ”

Shuixi Tusi has jurisdiction over thirteen streams, also known as thirteen clansmen. They are the Mucrotch Creek, the Fire Creek, the Huajiao Creek, the Jiale Creek, the Wo Creek, the Xiongsuo Creek, the Yizhu Creek, the Duze Creek, the Duoni Creek, the Longcrotch Creek, the Anjia Creek, the Six Acts Creek, and the Yu Creek.

"Zexi" is a Yi language, which originally means "the place where the warehouse is located" and "village", which is similar to the "hole" of the Miao people. The leader of Zexi is called "Mu Kui", and Mu Kui is appointed by Tusi, the Xuanhui Envoy, to be in charge of the money, food and military affairs of each Zexi.

Liumuze Creek is located in the northwest of Weiqingwei and is the closest to Guiyang City among the Thirteen Creeks. Mu Kui'an Rushan is An Rupan's younger brother, and the news he brought back surprised An Rupan.

"How can this be, doesn't it mean that the knapping is unbreakable? Why was it suddenly broken by the Qin army? ”

Not only An Rupan was shocked, but even Zeng Yi, who was present, couldn't help but murmur: "The Qianjiang Pass has been breached? After all, it was breached."

"Master Zeng, did you hear that? The pass is broken, Guiyang City can't support it for long, Lord Zeng, wake up, Guiyang can't be saved, if you are willing to cooperate with me, let's drive the Qin army out of Guizhou together, Lord Zeng is glorious and rich, and he will enjoy it for generations, what's wrong with this? ”

An Rupan was doing the most difficult efforts, originally, he was still cautious about Qin Jun, in line with the principle of not being attached to the Qin army, and trying not to tear his face, although he rejected Long Guangsheng's lobbying, but he did not embarrass Long Guangsheng;

Now that the Qin army has slaughtered Guiyang City, if it can't get Zeng Yi's assistance, it is almost impossible to capture Guiyang City under the nose of the Qin army, unless the Qin army is defeated first.

Zeng Yi smiled coldly and said: "An Rupan, as a consolation envoy of the Ming Dynasty, you should have served the Ming Dynasty, but now if you can send troops to repel the Qin army first, it will not be too late for this official to discuss cooperation with you." ”

"Lord Zeng, the enemy army is strong, only by relying on Guiyang City to hold on, drag until the enemy division veterans are tired, it is possible to repel the enemy in one fell swoop, Lord Zeng, this official will order all the soldiers and horses, and follow you into Guiyang City to hold on, is this good?"

Zeng Yi had already understood that Qin Jun was a tiger and An Rupan was a wolf, and it would be good if he could drive the wolf into the tiger, but he would never do anything to lure the wolf into the house. He turned his head away, too lazy to say another word.

An Rupan asked people to escort him down, and hurriedly summoned a few Mu Kui from the side stream under him to discuss, these Mu Kui were all An Rupan's clansmen, mostly cousins or nephews.

Arriving with these Mu Kui was a woman of twenty-eight flowers.

She has beautiful facial features, a small beauty mole on the lower left side of her lips, which makes her look more delicate and bright, wearing a headkerchief on her head, silver in both ears, and a silver collar on her neck.

Under the pleated long skirt, the skirt is divided into three sections, the upper section is the skirt waist, the middle section is cylindrical, and the lower section is more wrinkled. A triangular purse is worn around the waist, and the lower end is decorated with a five-colored streamer. In addition, wear a mouth string, a syringe and a decorated roe deer tooth on the chest to ward off evil spirits.

An Rupan has two sons and a daughter under his knees, the eldest son An Qian, the second son An Kun, and the daughter An Ruyi. The eldest son, An Qian, was weak and sickly and could not fight, but the second son An Kun was brave and had been sent to capture Wujiang Pass.

The girl who came in with Mu Kui was An Rupan's daughter. Before others had time to speak, she spoke first: "Daddy, I just found out another news, Guiyang City put down the hanging basket and hung Chen Guimin into the city, Chen Guimin must have entered the city to persuade him to surrender, since the defenders in the city put down the hanging basket, it means that they must have no intention of resisting, maybe Chen Guimin will go in and persuade him, and Guiyang will surrender to the Qin army."

"Is there such a thing? Did Chen Guimin really go to the city? An Rupan asked in a lost voice, the situation changed too quickly.

"Daddy, this matter is true, what should we do?"

"Quick, gather the people." An Rupan originally intended to let Mu Kui come to discuss countermeasures, but the news brought back by his daughter made him unable to sit still, and before An Rushan and the others could say a word, he immediately ordered to gather troops and horses and set off for Guiyang.

The thirteen sides of the river on the west side of the water are very powerful, with a total of 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses, which is extremely rare in the Tusi of the southwest provinces.

This time, An Rupan took 20,000 horses and horses, and killed Guiyang Mansion in a mighty way, and along the way, he looked for An Rushan, An Dali, An Che and other Mu Kui to discuss.

Anjia Zexi Mu Kui Anche said hesitantly: "Changjun, I heard that the Qin State has hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses and occupies a large piece of land, do we really want to go to war with the Qin army?" ”

An Rushan hurriedly said: "What's the use of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, our Guizhou mountains are high and dense, even if his hundreds of thousands of troops come over, they are not our opponents." ”

An Rupan has some knowledge, but he is not as arrogant as An Rushan, he said: "Let's go to Guiyang City first, if we can take Guiyang City first, we don't have to be afraid of the Qin army, if not, we will talk about it then." ”

An Ruyi said: "Daddy, according to me, let's first agree to join the Qin State and attack Guiyang City with them, and when Guiyang City is defeated, the Qin army will definitely relax its vigilance, and we will find an opportunity to suddenly attack and annihilate these thousands of Qin troops." In this way, Guiyang City is ours. ”

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(To be continued......)