Huxian County is not far from Tongren, and the straight-line distance is only one day. It's just that the place is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the road is winding. Although Ye Xiaotian and his party are driving a carriage that is not slow, it will take two and a half days to get there.
Sure enough, Yang Sanshou chased Ye Xiaotian away, but Yang Sanshou had a lot of tenacity, and followed closely along the road to Tongren. At noon the next day, he finally found Ye Xiaotian and his party again. It's just that there are a lot of pedestrians on the road at this time, and Ye Xiaotian and a small caravan got close together, walking together, talking and laughing all the way, Yang Sanshou couldn't do anything, so he had to follow secretly.
Ye Xiaotian was driving a carriage, and they walked with their legs apart. If Ye Xiaotian tried his best to drive, they would not be able to catch up. Fortunately, Ye Xiaotian knew that it would take at least two days to drive. This horse is a bad horse, and it is not very long. They are not in a hurry, so they can barely keep up.
But on the morning of the third day, because Ye Xiaotian would be able to reach Tongren today, Ye Xiaotian sped up the speed, and Yang Sanshou and the others hurriedly rushed, but they were still far away.
In the afternoon, Ye Xiaotian, Xue Shuiwu and Leyao finally arrived in Tongren. As soon as Shuiwu and Leyao entered Tongren City, they opened the sedan chair curtain and looked around with great interest. A bamboo shoot is sleeping soundly, so it doesn't care where it goes, as long as there is something to eat.
Tongren originally belonged to Sinan Xuanweisi at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. As soon as you heard the name, you knew that it was under the management of the chieftain. The chieftain who ruled the place was the Tian family, one of the four great masters of Ansong, Tianyang and Yang.
The Tian family has been the ruler of the area since before the founding of the Sui Dynasty. For thousands of years, it has a deep foundation and great influence. There are hundreds of chieftains in Guizhou, and almost one-twentieth of them are surnamed Tian. , among the chieftains of the Tian family, there are two most powerful, and their foundations are in Sizhou and Sinan respectively.
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, Guizhou chieftains followed one after another, but these local emperors were masters who neither listened to the tune nor listened to the propaganda. They just gave Zhu Chongba some local products every now and then to show that I am your subject. That's fine too.
Zhu Yuanzhang dreamed of taking Guizhou down and putting it completely under his own rule, so he chose the Tian family for this breakthrough. At that time, Tian Renzhi and Tian Renhou were the most powerful chieftains of the Tian family. The two factions fought fiercely.
Tian Renhou had surrendered Chen Youliang before, and after Chen Youliang's defeat, he surrendered Zhu Yuanzhang, and also sought the appointment of a consolation envoy from Zhu Yuanzhang. What kind of person is the scheming Zhu Yuanzhang? His Jin Yiwei had reported the situation in Guizhou in detail, but he pretended not to know it, as if he had been fooled, and appointed Tian Renhou as the comfort envoy of Sizhou.
There cannot be two tigers on one mountain, and the chieftains of the Tian family in Sizhou and Sinan began to fight for the orthodox position. However, Lao Zhu's layout did not have time to close the net, so he returned home. His incompetent grandson Zhu Yunqi sits on the whole world, but within four years, he was beaten to death by Yan Wang Zhu Di, who only had a corner of Yanjing, and the world changed masters.
After Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, the two chieftains of the Tian family were fighting fiercely, and their brains were almost like a dog's brain. Yongle is the master of talent and strategy, so he naturally understands the real intention of his father in setting up this game. Even if he doesn't understand, seeing In such a situation, how could he let it go.
Emperor Yongle came forward with a smile to persuade him for a while, but Ertian refused to back down, and fought even harder. At this moment, Yongle turned his face, and taking advantage of Ertian's fighting spirit was seriously injured, he brazenly sent troops to depose the two big chieftains. The envoys divided Sizhou and Sinan into eight prefectures of Tongren, Sinan, Shiqian, Wuluo, Sizhou, Zhenyuan, Liping, and Xinhua, and set up the Chief Secretary of Guizhou under the general jurisdiction.
Two generations of father and son, after ten years of layout, finally inserted the hand of the court into the city of Guizhou surrounded by mountains, but the situation in Guizhou was actually more complicated than Zhu Yuanzhang and his son expected. Although Emperor Yongle inserted his hand in, he couldn't solve the problem for a while. It's a mess, and I can't hold this loose sand.
Immediately afterwards, Emperor Yongle was busy sweeping north, and moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, and the matter of Guizhou was put on hold for the time being. His descendants are not as powerful as him, so the imperial court's control of Guizhou has always been slow.
In fact, there is no way to do this. Even if Emperor Yongle put his energy on Guizhou, he might not be able to completely solve the problem in his lifetime. He conquered Mobei five times and beat the Tartars to flee, but he was only defeated and unable to occupy and rule effectively. It was really because the gains and losses were out of proportion. As a result, after a hundred years, nomads ruled there.
The situation in Guizhou is roughly similar. Until now, before Wanli, this place was still a big burden for the imperial court. The province's taxation was not as good as that of a small county in the southeast, and the imperial court had to allocate huge sums of money for governance every year. The cultural environment, geographical environment, economic conditions, and the ruling conditions of the local court at that time, doomed Emperor Yongle's vision to be an unfulfilled wish.
Take Tongren as an example, until today, five hundred years later, the Han people here accounted for less than 30% of the total local population, and at most it was only 15% at that time. Therefore, it is the locals who really have the right to speak.
Although the Tian family suffered a great loss, Tongren was also placed under the rule of the Chief Secretary, but the magistrate here is the local magistrate, that is, a hereditary official. . The local people call it Tixi Zhang's chief lawsuit, because the local magistrate who ruled the area was surnamed Zhang and has always been surnamed Zhang.
The Zhang family in Tongren does not have a long history like the four Ansongtian and Yang families. The history of this family ruling Tongren is only more than 300 years. In fact, the rule of more than 300 years is not too short. There are not many dynasties in Chinese history that have exceeded three hundred years, but for these chieftains, three hundred years is just a starting point.
The chieftain of the Zhang family originated from Zhang Huan, the son of Zhang Hui, the generalissimo of Shaoqing Qiannan Road in the early Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the official position has been inherited from generation to generation.
Although Huxian is small, it is located in an important post road. Merchants from the north and the south have promoted the local ideology, culture, and economy, but Tongren does not have such convenient conditions. Under the rule of the Zhang family for generations , here became a relatively closed independent kingdom.
Ye Xiaotian and his party drove the carriage into the city, and found that although it was much bigger and more prosperous than Huxian County, it always gave people a feeling of being older and wilder than Huxian County. Ye Xiaotian reined in the horse's reins, turned to Xue Shuiwu and said, "Here we are, where does your family live?"
"my home… "
Xue Shuiwu suddenly hesitated, Ye Xiaotian couldn't help but joked: "You don't even know the way home, do you? Could it be that you are too close to your hometown?"
Xue Shuiwu said timidly: "Brother Ye, I really don't know him."
Ye Xiaotian was stunned, Xue Shuiwu said: "Didn't I tell you? I was born in the capital, my hometown... I have never been here, I only heard about it from my parents."
Ye Xiaotian was stunned and said: "This Tongren City is not small, how can we find your house? Is there any news we can inquire about?"
Xue Shuiwu said: "I probably remember some, wait for me to get off the car and ask."
Xue Shuiwu stood on the street asking for a while, and walked back with a slumped face. Seeing this, Ye Xiaotian comforted him and said, "Don't be afraid, we have overcome all kinds of difficulties and dangers. Now that we have arrived, are we afraid that no one will be found? It’s not an option to stand on the street with a carriage, first find a shop to stay, and then slowly search.”
Xue Shuiwu, a little girl, has no choice but to follow Ye Xiaotian to find an inn to live in. Fortunately, the trip of the three of them not only returned all the property confiscated by the Huxian county government, but also gave Cheng Yi, a tycoon, as a gift. I also gave a sum of money as a gift, so I don't have to worry about food and expenses on the road, and I won't be in such a mess as when I fled from Jingzhou to Huxian.
There are not many floating population in Tongren, so this inn is not easy to find. Ye Xiaotian drove the carriage around Santiao Street, and finally found an inn. When Ye Xiaotian’s family of three checked into the inn, Yang Sanshou and the three of them dragged their exhausted bodies just arrived Tongren City.
Yue Ming frowned, as if his brows had never been relaxed: "There are so many people, where can I find them?"
Yang Sanshou sneered and said: "This guy likes to make trouble so much, he will be settled when he arrives in Tongren? I don't believe it, not to mention that they brought a panda bear with them. Is such an obvious target hard to find? They won't be able to escape." ,Hahaha… "
Poor Yang Sanshou, in order to achieve his goal, he suffered all the way, from a wealthy butler to a beggar boss, the idea of fulfilling his wife's order to kill Shui Wu and Le Yao has become an obsession in his heart , which made him almost bewildered.
"Look at this shabby shop of yours. You don't have anything to ask for. You dare say it's the best shop in Tongren. I should have known that I shouldn't have come here with the master. It's really shabby. Fortunately, our master will come back today, otherwise I would be a day." I can't stay any longer!"
As soon as Ye Xiaotian followed the waiter into the lobby, he saw a beautiful woman with a handsome appearance and a graceful figure, but with high corners of her eyes, slanted brows, and a somewhat domineering expression standing in the lobby with an unhappy expression, gesticulating Talking about something, a person who looked like a shopkeeper accompanied him with a smile and dealt with it.
Ye Xiaotian saw that the little woman was full of jewels and she looked like a nouveau riche, so she couldn't help frowning, and said to the waiter: "Is this person a guest of yours?"
The little girl said with a wry smile: "No, it's a concubine just taken in by a businessman. She was newly married and was reluctant to part with her, so she came out to do business with the man. She was going to go to Hu County. I heard that there was an accident in Hu County. The road was blocked, so her man left her here and went alone with the goods. This journey lasted for half a month. Nothing but her."
At this time, the woman turned around resentfully, and saw Le Yao walking in with Fu Wa'er, she screamed "Ah", pointed at Fu Wa'er and said, "What the hell is this? You don't only live in this store." , still live in the beast, drive it out quickly!"
Yaoyao said unconvinced: "Why throw it away, it is my good friend."
The woman turned to the shopkeeper and said loudly: "What's going on in your store? You put a thing like this in. I don't know if it smells bad, if it doesn't shed hair, or if it grows fleas. You put such a thing in. , and let others stay here."
The shopkeeper said with a bitter face: "Mrs. Shao, she only stays for one day. Besides, I think this thing is very docile and clean. It's not easy to find a place to live in since he came from afar. For business, because of your noise, several groups of customers have left."
The woman said stubbornly: "It's because your store is not good, so don't you blame me! Well, if you don't drive them away, let them live a little far away from me. Also, don't they live for a day, I live The money in the store will be deducted for one day.”
The shopkeeper was extremely disgusted in his heart, but he didn't want to speak harshly to the guests. Thinking that the husband of this unruly woman will come back today, maybe he will leave tomorrow, and he couldn't bear it for so long before arguing with her at this time, so he had to Nodding should be.
The woman gave up when she saw that he was willing to reduce the shop's money. She walked over with a face full of displeasure, and seeing Yaoyao still standing at the door, she pushed it away in disgust, and shouted: "Get out of here!"
"Ouch!"
Yaoyao sat down on the ground with a buttock, tears rolled in his eyes immediately, Fu Wa'er stood aside blankly, with drooping dark circles, some don't understand that since these people are all of the same kind, why the big ones bully the little ones of.
Seeing this, Ye Xiaotian was so angry that he was about to rush forward to argue, but was held back by Shui Wu, who shook his head and said, "Brother Ye, forget it, good men don't fight with women." He helped Yaoyao up, patted the dust off her buttocks, and said softly, "Are you all right?"
Yao Yao sensiblely shook his head.
The woman proposed not to allow Ye Xiaotian's family to be next to her, but she was blatantly annoying all day long. The guests who stayed in the hotel either left, and those who didn't leave asked for a room change. She was next door, so the shopkeeper arranged for Ye Xiaotian to live next door to the woman, and Shui Wu and Le Yao took Fuwa to live next door to Ye Xiaotian, separated from the woman.
It was almost dusk when the three of Ye Xiaotian stayed in the hotel, they called for hot water to take a shower and change their clothes, after washing away the dust all the way, they went to the store to eat something, and when they returned to the residence to rest, it was already dark, Ye Xiaotian took off his coat just now Lying on the couch, I heard a high-decibel scream from the next door: "Ah! Master, you are back!"
The woman's voice was extremely ear-piercing, and she didn't think about the guests at all. Ye Xiaotian frowned, turned over and continued to sleep, but the noise next door was so loud, the woman was really a bluff, and she said that the master was black She lost weight, and after a while, she pleasantly praised the jewelry that the master brought back to her. Her voice seemed to be afraid that others would not hear it. It really had the effect of a magic voice penetrating the brain.
Finally, when the next door stopped, Ye Xiaotian breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to sleep soundly, he heard the "babbling" sound from the next door. Earth-shattering, ghosts cry and gods howl.
Ye Xiaotian couldn't bear it anymore, he jumped up furiously, raised his fist and smashed the wall with a "thump", and shouted loudly: "You two dogs and men, you have been tossing around like this every night for half a month, and you are still screaming!" Asleep, huh?"
The next door was quiet for about a cup of tea, and the sound of calling for bed turned into yelling, crying, and the sound of beating things, like a thunderstorm and thunder. Ye Xiaotian likes to fall asleep in the sound of wind and rain the most, so he rests on his pillow and falls asleep sweetly...