Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

After dealing with the matter, return to the post house.Sure enough, the shop delivered the goods the next morning. Wang Pu asked someone to check them out, but found something wrong with the goods. It was said to be sheep fat, but it was actually lard, and some medicinal materials used to prepare cold-proof plasters were also of wrong quality, so he sent the person who came to Called to ask: "Why are your goods different from what we want? What's going on?"

"Guest officer, don't want to wrong people!" The person who came came called out: "Our family is a time-honored brand in Chengdu. It has been more than two hundred years. How can we wrong people!"

Wang Pu was furious when he heard the words, and scolded: "You are so brave, you have played tricks on your ancestors! Hurry up and change the goods, there is nothing wrong with it, first peel your skin, and then send someone to the yamen Go, let your shop be full of food and walk around!"

Since there are hundreds of miles of mountain roads from Chengdu to Songzhou, the terrain is rugged, and there are many Qianghu tribes on the way, who are uncertain about rebellion. In order to avoid revealing his whereabouts, various accidents occurred on the way to Songzhou. He didn't reveal his real identity, he just claimed to be a wealthy businessman from Luoyang.The person who came was not afraid, and said with a smile: "If you go to the yamen, you will go to the yamen. Who is afraid that you will fail! Our master's shop has been in Chengdu for so many years, and has never been intimidated by anyone! You have to pay the balance, or we Just take the goods back, but the deposit will be gone!"

Wang Pu didn't talk too much, he grabbed the visitor by the chest, stumbled under his feet, and threw the person into the mud. Seeing this, the people behind him cursed and wanted to come forward to help, Wang Pu Several Yaqiandu sergeants behind him wanted to step forward, but Wang Pu stopped him: "Don't move, I'll fight them alone, or I'll bully them!" After saying that, he jumped into the crowd , the right hand waved falsely, and the left hand punched right in front of the door, the bridge of the nose was broken, and blood and tears flew; before the man fell, he kicked his foot in the middle of the legs, and immediately fell to the ground, screaming I couldn't make a sound.

Seeing Wang Pu being so hot-handed, the others felt a little timid, kicked left and right, knocked down four or five people in a row, all rolling and moaning on the ground, unable to get up.After a while, except for those who were rolling on the ground, all those who were still standing had retreated to seven or eight meters away, pointing at Wang Pu and yelling: "Okay, you barbarian, what a hot hand! You don't want to go, I will tell you later." The officer is here to get you!"

"Just tell me, let's see who is afraid of whom in the end!" Wang Pu smiled. He had suffered a lot of sulking under Wang Ence these days, but he didn't dare to let it out. , I just feel indescribably happy.

"Wang Pu, why are you doing this!" Acton said in a low voice, "The superior is purposely staying in the post house, just not wanting to reveal his whereabouts. Isn't everyone aware of your troubles? Less leather whip!"

"I can't hold it anymore!" Wang Pu whispered: "You don't know how annoying that guy named Wang Ence is. I thought he was the Lord's younger brother, and he could please and benefit, but I don't think this kid really can't do anything, eat anything, I really don't know how the same mother and compatriots gave birth to two different people!"

"Hey, what can be done about this? Anyway, he is also the master's brother, what can you do if you don't follow along?" Acton whispered: "Clean up this place quickly, or let the master see it. Bad luck for us all!"

While talking, Igillian Bode came out from the inside and saw the mess lying on the ground, he frowned suddenly: "Wang Pu, Acton, what's going on?"

"Mr. Iggy!" Acton hurriedly replied, "That's what happened. There was something wrong with the goods I ordered yesterday, and I had some disputes with the delivery man, so I started fighting!"

"Do it?" Iggy Lianbode said with a smile: "How come the people lying on the ground are all from other people, and you guys haven't got much dirt on your body, so it's obvious that you beat them?"

"It's true that both sides did it together, but their side is too useless!" Acton said: "On our side, Wang Pu is the only one doing it. If it doesn't work, you can ask them!"

Seeing that Wang Pu won the fight, Yiji Lianbode couldn't help laughing: "If you beat someone, the opponent must report to the police. For the sake of your victory, I will understand it for you this time. Don't worry about this trouble, if there is another time, let's settle the accounts together!" After that, he asked people to remove the paper, took out the official seal from his waist bag, stamped it, and said to Wang Pu: "You send this to the shop, Understand this matter, remember it, don't hit people again, and don't make things worse!"

Wang Pu was overjoyed, and hurriedly sang a fat song, took the printing paper from Yiji Lianbode's hand, and said with a smile: "It's Mr. Yiji who will take care of our servants!"

"Get out of here and go to work. If you want to make trouble in the Yamen, no one can save you. The governor will whip you more than a dozen times!"

Wang Pu hurriedly called Acton, and quickly ran to yesterday's shop. Someone had recognized him, and with a whistle, a dozen people surrounded the two with sticks, trying to give them a good look.

"Is there someone in charge in the store, come out and talk!" Wang Pu shouted.

"Let's go together, break this boy's legs first, and avenge Fangcai's revenge!" The face of the shouting person was bruised and purple, obviously Fangcai had suffered a lot at Wang Pu's hands.

Acton didn't speak, just drew out his dagger, arched his body slightly, and looked around with cold eyes. The idle shop assistants holding sticks felt a chill in their hearts. Although they shouted loudly, their feet unconsciously moved Take half a step back.

"This is my master's stamped letter. Someone in charge of the store should come out and speak!" Wang Pu took out the stamped paper from his pocket, and raised his voice: "Don't make mistakes!"

"Why are you so noisy!" A middle-aged man in his early forties came out of the store, dressed in black straight lace and green shawl, with a majestic expression.

"These two boys beat someone up and came to make trouble!" A guy pointed at Wang Pu and Acton and said.

"Right and wrong, just look at this and you'll know!" Wang Pu shook the printing paper in his hand, and the middle-aged man looked at Wang Pu and said, "Bring it here!"

A clerk took the paper from Wang Pu's hand and gave it to the middle-aged man. He opened the folded paper, and his face suddenly changed: "This, this, is it true?"

"You can come to the posthouse to ask if it's true or not. My master doesn't want to make it public. Also, the defective goods must be replaced!"

"Yes, yes!" The middle-aged man responded twice, and shouted to the shop assistant: "Put down the stick quickly and make way!"

The guys who didn't know why moved out of the way, and when Wang Pu and Acton left, a guy boss came over and said, "Shopkeeper, what is written on this paper? You just let these two boys go?"

Snapped!
The middle-aged man slapped his face with a backhand: "The eyeless thing almost killed you!"

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post house.

Wang Wenzuo was flipping through the relevant information on Songpan Road (that is, the road from Dujiangyan to the ancient city of Songzhou), when he suddenly heard movement outside, he put down the book in his hand, walked to the window, and saw a few men dressed as merchants outside. He bowed down to Igilian Bode, he frowned, and walked out the door, just in time to hear one of the merchants say: "The clerk in the store doesn't have eyes, but he offended the king's governor, Hu Wei, and it is a capital crime. Thanks to your magnanimity, Some small things, let’s talk about your feelings, please keep them!”

"what's going on?"

Yiji Lianbode turned his head and saw Wang Wenzuo: "Every little thing has been settled!" Then he said to the merchants: "This is the king's governor, why don't you be polite?"

The few merchants hurriedly bowed their knees and bowed down. Wang Wenzuo frowned. He lived in the post house and didn't want to reveal his identity.

The few merchants stood up and stood with their hands down, looking trembling.Wang Wenzuo summoned Yiji Lianbode, asked the reason in a low voice, and snorted coldly after listening: "Both Ence and Wang Pu are useless, and they can't do this well!"

"It can't be all the fault of them!" Igillian Bode said with a smile: "You don't let them reveal their identities, they both have foreign accents, and they are not very old, so they are not big fat sheep in the eyes of these local big merchants? It would be strange if he didn't kill him!"

"In that case, I'm still to blame!" Wang Wenzuo sneered.

"Then how could it be?" Yiji Lianbode said with a smile: "But the matter has come to this point, it can be considered passable if it can be resolved. I asked just now, these people are doing a lot of business, and some of them have reached the Ailao Kingdom, Longshang is waiting, do you want to invite them in and have some tea?"

Wang Wenzuo snorted coldly, turned and entered the door.Yiji Lianbode understood what he meant, and said to the merchants: "The king's governor has already agreed, you go in?"

The merchants hurriedly thanked Yiji Lianbode, entered the house, knelt down, held their breath, and after about half a cup of tea, they heard Wang Wenzuo say: "Get up, everyone! Tea is served! "

"Thank you, Commander!" The few merchants stood up as if they were pardoned, sat down on the brocade mat, drank a sip of tea, and heard Wang Wenzuo say: "I heard that you are doing a lot of business, and some of you It’s over to the Ailao country, I don’t know if it’s true or not?”

"It's a small business, I don't dare to be the governor to ask!" One of the oldest merchants laughed and said: "Actually, the Ailao Kingdom has long since disappeared. This is what we merchants are used to saying!"

Hearing the other party talk about what he was interested in, Wang Wenzuo's attitude immediately became respectful: "Oh? Please teach the old man!"

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it!" The old merchant hurriedly waved his hand: "This Ailao country was originally a country built by the Shan people. It was defeated by the Han army in the Later Han Dynasty. Its lord migrated to the southwest, and its citizens were called Ailao Yi, whose homeland is also called Ailao!"

"During the Later Han Dynasty? Isn't that four or five hundred years ago? Why is there such a name there?" Wang Wenzuo asked.

"The king's governor does not know that these southwest barbarians are different from our central land. Our central land is settled and relocated. If the ancestral temple of the country does not survive, the country will perish. And the southwestern barbarians like Ailaoyi, even if they build cities and open up fields, they can do it as long as they can. Seeing that the enemy is strong and we are weak, the whole country will migrate and find another place to rebuild the city and settle down. This place will be named after the person. Even if it is not the enemy's army, it is drought or flood disaster, the land is not fertile, or even the sacrifice is unfavorable. "

"Could it be that the history books say that the Later Han Dynasty sent troops to destroy the Ailao Kingdom, but in fact the Ailao people saw that their strength was not enough, so they changed the place to rebuild the country? So the Ailao Kingdom is actually still there!" Wang Wenzuo suddenly realized.

"That's right, but in the later Han Dynasty, Ailao was very powerful, and many vassal states paid tribute to it. After he migrated, his strength must have been greatly weakened. Naturally, those vassal states that paid tribute to him would not continue to pay tribute, and their territory was also smaller. many!"

Hearing this, Wang Wenzuo gradually understood.As a modern person, when reading history, I usually instinctively look at the world from the perspective of the author of the history book, but forget a very simple truth-generally speaking, the history book is based on the position of a certain country , and in the long history of mankind, a considerable number of people do not belong to any country. In other words, if you do not belong to any country, then the description of you in the history books will be very vague, full of mistakes, and even Just ignore it.

If calculated by area alone, the country-free space on the earth should be Antarctica, the Arctic Circle, and the Sahara Desert, but if it is measured by population or influence, the largest country-free space in human history is located in the mountains of southeastern Asia. Anthropologists call this area Zomia. The shape of this area resembles a palm. The palm is located in China's Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan and other provinces. Each finger is inserted along the mountains to Vietnam In the central part, northern Thailand, central and northern Myanmar, and the northeastern states of India, almost every Southeast Asian country has a large area of ​​territory belonging to Zomia, and Laos is almost entirely in it. In other words, Laos is a finger extended by Zomia .

The only common feature of this vast area is that there are many mountains, and the cultural feature is the concentration of hundreds of different mountain ethnic groups, the language belongs to each language family, and the cultural customs and religious beliefs are very different. Any empire can establish a stable rule here, and the power of the country is concentrated on the valleys and plains. Once the altitude starts to rise sharply, no matter whether it is the imperial decree of the emperor, the decree of the khan, or the order of the king, it will quickly become invalid.

The residents here will only show nominal surrender to the surrounding powers, but in fact they act on their own.These mountainous areas are natural peach blossom gardens for the plain residents who suffer from excessive expropriation by officials, labor, famine, and war.

In a sense, it is an accidental phenomenon that this area belongs to a certain country, while countless tribes, territories, and acting on their own are the norm in history.If you use the words in the history books as a portrayal of this countryless land, it will only become a laughing stock in many cases.

For example, in history, many chieftains on the southwestern border of our country professed their vassals to the Central Plains Empire and a Burmese empire at the same time. This seems to the Chinese people to be two-sided, but to the locals, this is commonplace. In fact, They don't obey any empire, they just use it as a reward or a tool for trade.

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