Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 755

1794年8月22日，即乾隆59年八月21，湘西永顺府鸭堡寨。

In the darkness of night, all the men, women and children in Yabao Village fell asleep, but in front of the Wenwu Earth Temple on a high slope outside the village, there were blazing torches and drums and music.

Dozens of Miao men standing solemnly formed a circle, and in the center of the circle was a two-meter-high statue of Chiyou carved from a huge log.I saw animal teeth on his head, a copper ring on his nose, wearing a war robe, holding a giant axe in his left hand, and a shield with a beast face in his right. His eyes were protruding and his face was blue with fangs.

At the foot of the statue, there are three wooden spiritual tablets and incense candle tributes, and the words "Shimen Mashi" are written on the middle tablet.Four Miao wizards called "Badaiza" wore red robes, red handkerchiefs and cowhide crowns on their heads. They were walking around the statue, holding tokens and chanting words.

Not long after, three badejas blew their horns, and another threw a four-compartment bamboo knot used for divination to a stone slab at the foot of the statue.At this time, all the Miao people present stared at the past with wide-eyed eyes, and saw that the two halves of the bamboo that were divided into two were facing upwards, and they were all overjoyed.

"The appearance of the ancestor god is a sign from above!"

"Ancestor God Chi You is about to give birth!"

Among the crowd, an old man wearing a black cloth robe and a black turban with a pheasant feather stuck in it walked up to another old man in the same attire, and asked politely: "Uncle Long Deng, is Chi You the ancestor god?" It's about to appear and reincarnate. The matter of contacting the various villages was initiated by San Bao, so what do you think about recognizing him as king?"

The old man said: "August, I'm getting old, so let's do what you and the leaders of the villages want."

It is said that the plumes on the Miao men's headscarves represent status and status, and only those who are at the level of the head of a hundred households can wear them.The old man called "Uncle Longdeng" was named Wu Longdeng, and he was the head of the hundred households in Yabao Village; and the old man called "August" was Wu August, the head of Longzhai in Pingzhou, Ganzhou.

Seeing Wu Bayue nodding in satisfaction and leaving, returning to the previous position and standing still, a middle-aged man in his forties came up behind Wu Longdeng, covered his mouth with one hand, and whispered in his ear: "My lord father-in-law, since God You should be the king of Miao if you choose Chi You to be born into our family. The leaders of all the villages are the highest in your seniority, so when Chi You is born, you might as well take the lead, how can you deny it?"

"Presumptuous!" Wu Longdeng frowned, reprimanded: "You have no place to speak here!"

The face of the son-in-law behind him changed, and he retreated embarrassingly.

While the two were talking, the four badeza circled around the statue of Chiyou again, holding a magic weapon in one hand and making a formula with the other, chanting incantations in their mouths. Saluting, he said in a loud voice: "The Miao King descended from the sky, and Chi You entrusted him with his life, ordering the Miao people, please come down to earth!"

After he finished speaking, the other three badezas standing on three sides of the statue also shouted: "Command the Miao people, please come down to earth!"

At this time, Wu Bayue cupped her fists and bowed to the statue, and said loudly: "The ancestor god Chi You is about to manifest, light the lantern!"

As an oil lamp hung by a rope under the eaves of the Earth Temple was lit, all the people present knelt down, only to hear the leader, Badeiza, kowtow while saying: "Expell the guests and people, restore the homeland, take back the Miao land and enjoy peace." , I beg King Miao to come quickly! Come quickly!"

"I'm coming too!"

Before Badezha finished speaking, a strong man in his 50s with a full beard in the kneeling crowd suddenly yelled, and then his whole body trembled as if in a fit of madness.Seeing this, several people around quickly worked together to help him up.

I saw that this man was tall and burly, with eyes like copper bells, and a fleshy face covered with dense beards, like a clump of thatched grass, somewhat resembling the Chi You in front of him.He is the "three guarantees" that Wu August mentioned earlier - Shi Sanbao, the owner of Yongsui Cucumber Village.

Shi Sanbao, who was supported to get up, opened his eyes wide and continued to shake for a while before stopping. He took a handful of lit incense from the hand behind him, walked a few steps to the statue, knelt down, raised the incense and saluted loudly: "Chi You The gods of the ancestors learned that the guest people occupied my paddy fields and oppressed and exploited them. It has not been a day. Today, the ancestor god of Chiyou entrusted me with Shi Sanbao as the king. The little ones should invite the villagers in the three realms of Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan to drive out the guest people and restore their homeland! Please protect the ancestors !"

All the people present kowtowed in unison: "I pray for the blessing of the ancestor god!"

As soon as the voices of the people fell, Badezha said loudly: "King Miao is born!"

Dare to feel that this Miao king basically relies on robbing, whoever stands up first will be the one. Just kidding, in fact, Shi Sanbao was able to pretend to ask Chi You to reincarnate as the Miao king, because the village owners present today have reached a tacit agreement.

At the beginning of July, Shi Sanbao's nephew, Shi Youbao, and his family's Shi Laoshen, Shi Laoyan, Shi Laoyang and others went mad one after another, saying that the Miao people wanted to be officials and wanted to kill all the Hakkas to take their land back. At the same time, he also said that the Cucumber Village was going to produce a seedling king, and even named Shi Sanbao by name.Not long after that, people in several other villages also started to go crazy and said the same thing.

Ever since, the saying that Shi Sanbao was the birthplace of the Miao king spread in various Miao villages in western Hunan.However, despite his fame, there is still a ceremony hosted by a Miao wizard to confirm that he is the Miao king chosen by the ancestor god Chi You, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public.

The reason why it was chosen to be held at the Earth Temple in Yabaozhai is because Yabaozhai is recognized as the birthplace of Chi You's ancestor spirit in western Hunan, and the Miao King was born here before the land was reformed.

That's why Wu Longdeng's son-in-law said that Chi Youtuo was born in our family and wanted his father-in-law to take the throne of Miao Wang.The problem is that Wu Longdeng is in his 60s this year, and he can't run even when he leads troops to fight; Xiangxi is a place with many mountains and little flat land, and he almost relies on his feet to go out.Besides, Shi Sanbao took the children of his family to play "Invite God to the Upper Body", and everyone in the city knew that if he tried to fight at this time, he obviously lacked confidence.

Speaking of the grievances between the Miao people in Xiangxi and the Hakka people, we have to mention the reform of the Miao border in Xiangxi.The contradictions in the middle mainly focus on two points, one is the land, and the other is the way the Qing court governed the Miao area.

From the 42nd year of Kangxi to the 59th year of Qianlong, after 90 years of development, the population of western Hunan has grown rapidly, and the population of Miao people alone has doubled to more than 40. The relationship between man and land is becoming increasingly tense.

Slash-and-burn farming is the traditional farming method of the Miao people in western Hunan, and it is still "swimming farming"; a piece of land is reclaimed and planted for three or four years, then it will be abandoned, and then find another place to start again.Changes in the location of cultivated land led to changes in the residential area of ​​the Miao people, unlike the Han people who had fixed residential areas and farming areas.

In addition, the Miao people have the custom of valuing financial resources over life and death. The debts in the Miao village are all calculated on the basis of cattle;When internal debts were unable to be repaid, the Miao people would borrow usurious loans from the Han people and use their fields as collateral.Take the Yongsui Hall in western Hunan as an example. When the hall was built, the surrounding area was all Miao people’s land. After only 30 to [-] years, all the land became Han people’s.

On the one hand, the population of the Miao people increased, and the arable land became less and less enough; on the other hand, the Han people occupied the arable land of the Miao people through legal or illegal means, and the grievances between the two sides became more and more serious.

Let's talk about the Qing government's governance of Miaojiang.The frontier policies of the three generations of Kang, Yong, and Gan were similar regardless of the ethnic groups in the east, west, north, and south. The specific measures were to enrich them with acres of land, teach them courtesy and righteousness, enforce them with laws, demonstrate their military might, guard them tightly, and lure them with benefits.

Like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the Manchus, from the dignitaries of the imperial court to the ordinary people, all regarded the Miao people as alien barbarians and discriminated against them from the bottom of their hearts.In addition, local officials have no control over the Han people's use of illegal means to occupy the land of the Miao people. The Miao people have nowhere to complain, and they are increasingly hostile to the government.

When the conflicts accumulated to the peak, the Miao people believed that since the government didn't care about it, they should solve it themselves, so they came up with the slogan of "expelling the guests and restoring the homeland".The reason why the Miao people's riots in this time and space were several months earlier than the riots in another time and space is that the news of the Qing court's defeat in the north finally spread after the death of Qianlong and the succession of the new emperor. Arrived in Xiangxi.

There is no way, the mountains in western Hunan are isolated these years, and the information is too blocked.In the first few years, in order to prevent changes in the Miao people's livelihood, Qianlong specifically asked the local government to strictly prohibit mentioning Beihai Town and Zhao Xin in the proclamation.

The Miao leaders who participated in the ceremony today are all owners of hundreds of households, and they have brown rice to eat every day, and the Qing court did not collect taxes from them, but compared with the Han landlords, their lives are really heaven and earth; The most important thing is that he has no money, and the clothes he wears are all made of homemade cloth.They have long been longing for the wealthy life of Han officials and gentry, and many people want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a good fortune.

After the people in front of the statue of Chiyou finished three kneelings and nine kowtows, the next step was to make an alliance with blood.At this time, someone brought a big black cat and handed it to Wu Bayue. The latter held the cat with both hands and gestured to the statue: "The sky has a way, and Chi You manifested his spirit! The stone king was born, and everyone is a minister! Life and death are destiny, The black cat is the proof! If you are a seller, all generations will perish!"

While everyone was chanting in unison, Wu Bayue took a dagger from someone else's hand, and wiped it down on the black cat's neck.With a whine, the red cat's blood fell into a jar full of rice wine like a trickle.

"Leaders from all walks of life, please drink the blood oath!" Wu Bayue took the blood wine from Badezha and signaled to everyone.

All the Miao people present were holding wine, standing behind Shi Sanbao, facing the god statue, and only heard Shi Sanbao say: "Cats have eyes, and heaven has spirit. We will live and die as brothers, and drink blood to form an alliance!" He was the first to drink the rice wine mixed with cat blood.

Well, according to the ancient legend of the Miao people, the earliest domestic cat was domesticated by the ancestors of the Miao people, the Sanmiao people, so the Miao people were named after the right half of the word "cat".Cats are very important to the life of Miao people. When they find a place with good geomantic omen, they will bury a dead cat first, and then bury people.Therefore, in this kind of blood alliance ceremony, it is necessary to drink cat blood to highlight the solemnity.

(Duofu: "What kind of bullshit rule is this!")
After drinking the blood wine, Shi Sanbao took the gold-plated Miao knife representing Miao King's status from Wu Bayue, and put on a yellow cloak.So far, he, the Miao King who leads the Miao village in the Siting of Xiangxi, is officially in place.

A few days later, Shi Sanbao invited Shi Liudeng, Shi Daiga, Shi Yemei, Wu August, Wu Bantian and others to discuss matters in his old lair, Cucumber Village. They agreed that the incident would be formally launched on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, and Wu August Write a post, and invite the Miao people from the villages at the junction of the three provinces of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan separately.

All of a sudden, the three provinces of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan were undercurrents, and hundreds of thousands of Miao people were gearing up, waiting for the day when they would raise their hands together.

Since the Qianjia Miao people's rebellion and the Sichuan-Shaanxi White Lotus Sect's rebellion in another time and space history were almost side by side, and they were wiped out by the Qing army in just over a year. Not at all.

Zhao Xin is so busy!As soon as the meeting in Fuldan City was over, he went to Khabarovsk with Zhao Liang.

Although he told Shen Xuan and A Miao that he was going to inspect the construction progress of the steel plant, but in the eyes of the two women, this smelly man was going to visit Tang Xiaohe and his daughter.

Tang Xiao claimed to be the vice-principal of Boli Iron and Steel Primary School, but in fact it was just a name, and he didn't even get a salary.Since she has Zhao Xin's flesh and blood, she has no intention of teaching.When the child was one year old, Tang Xiao didn't want to live in Fuerdan City for some reason, so Zhao Xin placed the mother and daughter in the area of ​​the steel factory.

Today, there are more than 7000 workers in Boli's steel plant and supporting factories, and there are nearly [-] workers with their families.In order to solve the living problems of these people—mainly to avoid private construction and random construction, the Civil Affairs Bureau circled an area of ​​over a thousand acres at the upper air outlet two kilometers northwest of the Gangtong Jiangdongan Iron and Steel Plant for the construction of family quarters.In line with the principle of "one thing does not bother two masters", the community of the steel mill crossing is also located here, but it is separated from the staff area by one kilometer and surrounded by forests.

In order to allow more than 100 steel mill workers to eat well, live well, and work with peace of mind, Zhao Xin asked the civil affairs engineering team to build more than 20 double-entry courtyard houses. The brick and tile house is decorated with carved beams and painted buildings, and various facilities including bathrooms, generators, and earth heating are installed inside.In addition, the average temperature in Khabarovsk is less than 25 degrees during the hottest summer, and only a dozen degrees at night, so there is no need to install air conditioners.

In order to ensure safety, there is a platoon of Beihai Navy patrolling around the perimeter of the community day and night, the kind that carry guns and lead big wolf dogs, and cooperate with surveillance cameras with no blind spots, outsiders can't get in at all.

At night two years ago, two spies from the Manchu Qing Dynasty came here to investigate. They thought the place was heavily guarded and there must be some important secrets hidden here.Unexpectedly, he was discovered by the patrol team less than a minute after entering, and he was chased like a rabbit.In the end, the two were blocked by four horse dogs. When the patrolling Beihai Navy arrived, the scene was quite tragic.

The reason why Zhao Xin was with Tang Xiao was not entirely because the latter got taller and more beautiful, but mainly because the girl was really cruel to be with him, which moved him.

Tang Xiao started binding his feet when he was four years old, and he was already in shape when he was 13 years old. Simply putting his feet on is completely useless, and surgery is necessary.The problem is that Hong Tao is not in plastic surgery, he even has a half-knowledge in orthopedics, how dare he do this!In the first few years, the treatment of fractures in Beihai Town relied on a traumatologist surnamed Zhang among the prisoners of the Qing army.

The Eight Banners soldiers are good at riding and shooting, fractures and joint dislocations are common when falling from horses, and the institution responsible for treating injured soldiers is the Chuoban Department of the Shangsi Hospital. "Chuoban" is a Manchu language, meaning bone setting.The problem is that bone-setting these days is just touch and touch, and there has never been a surgery.When the doctor Zhang heard that he wanted to give the little-footed woman a rest, he refused to say anything.Don't say that women's feet can't be touched these days, even if he can touch them, he can't do it, not at all.

However, Tang Xiao is stubborn, and he can't get back on what he sees right.In order to let Zhao Xin accept herself, she simply ran to Hong Tao's house and knelt down to the couple, begging with blood.In her opinion, Hong Tao and his wife are "miracle doctors", and as long as she wants it, she will definitely agree.Director Liu couldn't bear this, she was moved to tears, she participated in the process of these girls being rescued from beginning to end.

In desperation, Hong Tao had no choice but to agree to find a solution, but he had to wait for a while.In order to complete the first woman's foot surgery in Beihai Town, Hong Tao asked Zhao Xin to take him back to another time and space, collected a lot of information, and took Tang Xiao's X-ray to consult a plastic surgery university classmate.His classmate was startled after seeing the film, thinking that there are still girls with feet bound in this day and age, are the parents crazy?Almost called the police.

After busying for a long time, Hong Tao finally realized that the deformity caused by women's foot binding is all manifested in the metatarsophalangeal joints and interphalangeal joints.Therefore, in order to release the curled toes, the head of the first section of the second phalanx and the bases of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th phalanges need to be amputated during the operation to form a false joint.

The reason is clear, but surgery is still not possible. It is necessary to practice the hand feeling and establish a solid conditioned reflex in the brain.Especially Tang Xiao's script was small at first, and if everything was scrapped, he might have to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

So Hong Tao asked Liu Zheng to buy more than a dozen macaques from the island country, and he took the orthopedic doctor surnamed Zhang to practice repeatedly. He even practiced with a Raksha prisoner of war whose feet had been amputated due to frostbite, almost driving Dr. Zhang crazy.

It took almost half a year before Hong Tao finally dared to operate on Tang Xiao. After that, he sat in a wheelchair and gritted his teeth for rehabilitation. It was discovered that this girl had actually done such an earth-shattering thing in order to satisfy herself.If you don't agree to this, is he still a man?
But the promise is the promise, but it is impossible to disclose the identity.As a ruler with a population of one million and a land of tens of millions of square kilometers, if he doesn't speak easily, he will be responsible, let alone a decree proposed and signed by himself?
So to this day, Zhao Xin and Tang Xiao's daughters are almost three years old, and the little girl still doesn't know what her own father does that she only sees once in a few weeks or even a few months.

　Note: Wenwu Earth Temple refers to not only enshrining land, but also Emperor Wenchang and Guan Gong.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)