The reply from Duke Zhen Guo arrived quickly.
Just as Yan Yan thought, Duke Zhen Guo did have some unusual connections with Luo Bishi, which goes back to the time when Duke Zhen Guo fought Nanman.
Luo Bishi was one of the local households at that time, while Duke Zhen Guo was the general who was ordered to crusade the southern barbarians.
At that time, the Nanman people and the Han people had a long history of grievances, almost to the point of incompatibility. Luo Bishi, as a local army stationed in the army, was in a difficult situation, and he must always be on guard against those with extreme ideology among these ordinary people, who would fan the flames and cause riots. The southern barbarians are martial and have the custom of wearing savage swords. Once a riot occurs, the consequences can hardly be imagined.
Luo Bishi encountered this situation several times. The most difficult one was when the leader of the Nanman rebels almost died on the spot. Fortunately, he was rescued by the Duke of Zhenguo who came with his troops.
After Duke Zhen Guo arrived there, he did not force his troops to force him like many military generals sent by the imperial court. Instead, he began to study in detail the contradictions between the southern barbarians and the Han Chinese, and why the docile southern barbarians would come one after another. The riots even attracted the imperial court to send troops to suppress them.
It is not wrong to say that the southern barbarians and the Han people have a long history of grievances.
As early as the time of the late emperor, Nanman was the territory of Daxi. At that time, there was a lot of praise in the imperial court, saying that the late emperor's literary and martial arts was a master of the world. The previous emperor was the grandfather of Emperor Xi, and Duke Zhen Guo's expedition against Nanman was when the previous emperor was on the throne.
The Nanman was defeated, but after the defeat, the court did not issue a proper plan for the coexistence of Han and barbarians. Instead, a group of Han people migrated over like swallowing dates, and settled on this piece of land belonging to the southern barbarians together with the southern barbarians.
The Nanman people were afraid of being beaten. When the Nanman was defeated, the bodies of the Nanman warriors could be piled up as high as a mountain. For the sake of racial inheritance, the southern barbarians still showed a docile attitude towards the Han people's pacification of them, even if they were resentful in their hearts.
In this way, two groups of completely different races have been living together here for decades, and the contradictions between the two races are also secretly increasing little by little.
The Han people dislike the Nanban people who cannot understand their speech, behave vulgarly, and do not understand etiquette. The Southern barbarians think that the Han people are insidious and cunning, and they will deceive the honest and honest Southern barbarians just to take a little advantage. Therefore, there is a clear distinction between the Han Chinese and the southern barbarians. They live in the same place, but they are like two completely different ethnic groups.
In particular, the Han people have a natural condescension to the southern barbarians, thinking that your family has been exterminated, and you barbarians can only rely on me and other Han people to survive. In addition, the laws exercised locally are also more or less biased towards the Han people. For example, the Han people beat the Nanman people and brought it to the government, and the punishment they received was extremely light. But if the southern barbarians beat up the Han people, the punishment would be too severe to imagine.
This further fueled the arrogance of the Han people, while the southern barbarians seemed humble and lowly, but there was a fire in their hearts all the time.
In addition, the Han people are widely taught by etiquette, and their cultural background and knowledge are very different from those of the southern barbarians who live in a corner. It has gradually formed that the Han people occupy most of the land of the southern barbarians, while the southern barbarians must act as enslaved people. labor.
But you can't say that there is anything wrong with the Han people. After all, they obtained all this by their own wisdom. There are black sheep, but although most Han people can't get rid of the contempt for the southern barbarians, they will not take the initiative to oppress them. But after all, the two tribes had a blood feud, and there were people with ulterior motives who secretly instigated the riots.
Seeing blood for the first time, the second and third times seem to come naturally. After that, the imperial court repeatedly sent troops to suppress it. Nanman lived in the mountains and forests. Once the imperial court sent troops, those rebels would flee to the mountains and forests. The people in the court were not familiar with the environment, and once they chased in, they would suffer a big loss. After several unsuccessful attempts, he finally sent Duke Zhen Guo.
Duke Zhen Guo stayed in Nanman for nearly five years, and has been relying on one person to bear the pressure from the court. He deeply studied the contradiction between Nanman and Daxi, and did not use repression as a means, but 'touching' as the main method. Settled the displaced people of Nanban, changed the local laws, ordered people to teach them farming skills, sent people to educate them, and restrained the local Han people, changed their attitude towards Nanban people, and told them that they were all Daxi’s children, The two should help each other.
This was an extremely arduous task, but fortunately, Duke Zhen Guo finally completed it.
The southern barbarians learned the art of farming, and the people's life gradually became stable and prosperous. With the help of the southern barbarians, the Han people were gradually able to deal with Ruosu in a savage environment. You must know that the southern barbarian climate is weird and there are many humid ants and insects. What makes the Han people living in the southern barbarian is not the environment here, but if they are accidentally bitten by a snake or insect, they will suffer unbearably and even threaten to die. Including why the imperial court did not dare to enter the mountains and forests to pursue the Nanman rebels, it was also because of this.
The Southern barbarians were born and raised, and have long mastered a set of tricks to live here. For snakes and worms, there are tricks that have been passed down from generation to generation.
The Han people and the Nanman people got along more and more harmoniously, and the Nanman rebels, who had been hiding in the mountains and dared not to show their faces, were gradually unable to sit still. In fact, they were all raised by their parents in life. No one jumped out of the cracks in the stone. Some rebels were for their own selfishness, but they were the remnants of the former Southern Barbarian king who were left behind when they defeated the Southern Barbarians. It's more of being deceived and instigated by others, plus it's really hard to survive, and then you will rise up.
Parents and family are living in the place, and things are getting better and better. These rebels are among the crowd, and they have also returned home a few times. Seeing that the high officials who came this time are indeed different from the past, the parents' expectations of persuading their wives and children have gradually shaken these men. The only scruple is that the rioting rebels are caught, and it is estimated that the end will not be very good.
It is estimated that the heat is almost here, and the Duke of Zhenguo issued a decree that all those who have reformed and are not the first offenders will be pardoned.
First of all, given the cunning of the Han people, no one dared to believe this decree.
Until there was a Nanman man whose old mother was seriously ill, but there was no one to take care of him at home. After some verification of the household registration, the government let him go home, excluding the suspicion that he was not one of those who were conspiring against the rebels.
During this period, it only took a short day, and the government did not embarrass him, but just routinely inquired.
Seeing that one had returned safely, gradually many people could not sit still. In groups of three or two, they went to the government and surrendered. The person who surrendered himself was not embarrassed by the government, and was divided into land like other southern barbarians, and began to work hard in order to live and work in peace and contentment.
In fact, for most people, they don't care who leads them, all they can get is a place to live, meals and food, and the whole family to be together.
Duke Zhen Guo suppressed the Nanman rebellion without a single soldier.
More and more people in Nanman knew the name of Duke Zhenguo, and even Nanban people who were not fluent in Chinese knew that they gave a thumbs up, saying that he was a good official.
In this regard, Luo Bishi admired the five-body cast to the ground.
At that time, he was also an ambitious young man, and he had imagined countless times how to solve such a difficult problem if he brought troops to suppress this place. In the final analysis, the common people are not wrong, it's just the difference in concept and language between the two ethnic groups, coupled with the environment.
Luo Bishi thought about it and thought it was difficult.
If they don't suppress it, the court will explain that the already chaotic Nanman will be even more chaotic. If it is suppressed, it will be so bitter that these southern barbarians who have grown up in bitter waters, and the extremes will only force the mermaid to die and the net will be broken. He did not expect that Duke Zhen Guo, who has always been known for his iron hands, would actually use such a gentle and drizzle method. By 'fu' on behalf of the town, many local parents and officials have not done things done.
Luo Bishi was still young at that time, and his blood was boiling.
It's just that how could Duke Zhen Guo accept a court-appointed official as his personal guard? That would put the imperial court and the sages on the ground. Although the education of the southern barbarians has achieved initial results, Duke Zhen Guo cannot stay here forever. One more person here who has a benevolent heart to the next one will add strength to the Sinicization of Nanman.
This is the former friendship between Luo Bishi and Zhen Guogong. It is too much to say that the life-saving grace is too much. After all, the reason why Zhen Guogong saved Luo Bishi is because of the current situation.
The two have only seen each other once.
For Luo Bishi, what Duke Zhenguo did will always be in his heart, and it will affect his future policy of dealing with others. After that, when Duke Zhen Guo left Nanman, he didn't really remember Luo Bishi very much. It was only in the future when he gradually showed his edge that he remembered the passionate young soldier a few years ago.
Later, seeing him come step by step down-to-earth, although there is no connection between the two, Duke Zhen Guo is also full of relief.
In the letter from Duke Zhen Guo, only the previous connection between the two was pointed out, and nothing else was said. The rest were all evolved by Luo Huaiyuan based on what happened that year and some clues that followed.
Let him describe the cause and effect of this incident, that is, the old man of Zhen Guogong accidentally gained a fan in his early years, and this little fan has admired him for many years, and now he can be upgraded to a brain-dead fan.
Of course, all of this is just Luo Huaiyuan's own speculation, and what is right and what is wrong has to be verified.
After several exchanges, Luo Huaiyuan almost figured out Luo Bishi's routine. He pointed out that it was impossible for him to support him, but in view of the influence of Duke Zhenguo and his old man, he would not embarrass Luo Huaiyuan.
That is to say, you can do whatever you want, as long as it's not out of line, Luo Bishi can turn a blind eye.
That's all Luo Huaiyuan asked for. He didn't expect to be able to get Luo Bishi's troops over here, and with these few 40,000 men, he would be able to hit the center from the local area.
You must know that in such a place, it is not as easy as you imagined to be in that position. You must not only have military and financial resources, but also occupy the right time, place, and people. Both are indispensable, and you must also have righteousness and orthodoxy. If not, the spit stars of those literati are enough to drown you. As for those who sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, naturally they will not save the effort of 'Qingjun's side', and they will take turns to practice with you.
The reason why King Jin was able to ascend to the throne back then was only because of a good mother. Luo Huaiyuan didn't have a good mother, so he could only squat honestly, poking at the movement secretly.
Fortunately, it's still early before the real thing happens.