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"What's your name?" asked Liu Chan to the young man.

"Childe, the youngest surname is Bai, and my father hopes that I can live to be ninety-nine years old, so give me a single birthday. Bai Shou smiled at Liu Chan.

"Bai Shou, it's still a good name. Liu Chan said to him.

The young man rightly said, "Of course."

"Why didn't you see me as restrained as him?"

Bai Shou glanced at the man next to him: "Childe, I am good at observation, and I can look at people, Childe is not like the person who is not close to people, and the shelf is higher than that goddess peak, on the contrary, he is a peaceful and approachable person, so I dare to be so debauched in front of Childe." If it were anyone else, it would definitely not be like this.

"You're being honest, too. Liu Chan said.

There is Bai Shou all the way, but he is not lonely, walking on the ancient road, constantly introducing Liu Chan to the scenery he saw along the way.

Walking through a mountain pass, a clearing appeared in front of me, and there were probably dozens of soldiers building houses in a clearing.

asked Bai Shou, and Bai Shou didn't know why.

Chen Zhi said to Liu Chan in front: "Young master, let's just rest here." The

group of soldiers saw that it was Bai Yubing, and their eyes showed envy, and one of the leading officers trotted over, and when they saw that Chen Dao, they seemed to be acquaintances, and they just hurriedly saluted and respectfully shouted General Chen.

Liu Chan jumped off his horse, and the officer hurriedly saluted again.

"Young master, this is a military camp for soldiers, and the lord sets up a military camp every hundred miles, which is also equivalent to having the effect of a post station. In order to prevent thieves, protect business travelers, and also to deliver messages more quickly. The officer explained to Liu Chan.

"Are there many thieves all the way into Shu?" Liu Chan asked the officer.

The officer replied: "Young master, there are many bandits on this road, and the barbarians often plunder, and the caravans entering and leaving Shu dare to take this road with escorts.

Liu Chan nodded and said: "It is necessary to set up an army to protect these merchants, and it will be safer to enter and exit Shu in the future." "

The goods transported from Shu are some precious items, such as Shu brocade, salt, iron, Shu brocade is a special product of Shu, and salt is well salt, iron is also prolific in Shu, and there are some other commodities, but the profit is not as good as Shu brocade, salt, iron these three things, these things are often sold in Jingzhou The price can be several times.

The luxury goods in Jingzhou are very rare, most of them are transshipped from Jiaozhou, and then enter Yizhou from Jingzhou, and merchants transport pearls, corals and other precious items from Jiaozhou, and they can also make a lot of money in Yizhou.

Yizhou is rich in products, and the name of the country of abundance is not blown out.

After resting for half an hour, I continued to move forward.

Walk through the riverside cliffs, turn into the bluestone path between the mountains and mountains, go up the bluestone steps, walk up the mountainside, look back and look back, see the mountains are connected, stretching endlessly, and there are mountains looming between the clouds and mist.

"Are there immortals in the mountains?" Liu Chan couldn't help but think of this scene, and then laughed again, people who believe in ghosts and gods will definitely feel that there are immortals living in the mountains when they see such a misty scene.

"There is a barbarian settlement ahead, and because it is a mixed Chinese barbarian, it is not a tribe, and they have cultivated fields in the mountains, where we can rest tonight. Bai Shou went to the front to explore the way, jumped all the way down the steps skillfully and quickly, and came to Liu Chan's side and said.

Liu Chan asked, "Is it at

the top of the mountain?" "At the top of the mountain, there is a large clear spring on the top of the mountain, and many barbarians and Han people settled around this clear spring, and slowly formed a large settlement. Bai Shou introduced.

"Will the villagers be resistant to outsiders?"

"How can it, these villages and tribes that live on the side of this road to Shu all rely on people who come and go to Shu Road to live, and it is too late for them to welcome them, how can there be resistance." It's just that they will be scared of the army. Bai Shou said.

"That's fine. You go and consult with the person in charge of that village, and ask him to provide the food needed for more than a hundred men and horses, and I will give him enough money. Liu Chan said.

Bai Shou took his order and ran all the way up the mountain.

This kid's physical strength is really good.

There are about four or five hundred people living in villages from the top of the mountain, around the peak.

The houses are all common wooden stilted buildings, with people living on the second floor, and most of the first floor is for raising livestock or placing sundries.

The roads around the village are paved with bluestone slabs, and there is nothing muddy on the damp hilltops.

Liu Chan and others were warmly welcomed by the people in the village, Liu Chan glanced at the people standing at the entrance of the village, some were dressed as barbarians, some were dressed as Han people, Liu Chan also saw young people dressed differently, hooking their shoulders and backs, looking at the white soldiers who walked into the village with envious eyes.

I also saw a family of four, the man was holding his little daughter in barbarian costumes, and next to the man was a woman who was also wearing Han costumes but had a barbarian appearance, holding a little girl in Han costumes, and the family of four snuggled together, looking at this strange army full of iron armor and white feathers.

"Childe, wait, the meals are still being arranged. In addition, I also arranged a house for Childe to live in, and Childe can go there if he doesn't dislike it. Bai Shou squeezed through the crowd and came to Liu Chan's side.

Liu Chan said: "It's hard work, lead the way." In addition, let's arrange a place for my brothers to live.

Bai Shou patted his chest and said: "No problem, I am familiar with the village chief in this village, don't say a hundred people, even if it is a thousand people, I will arrange it." "

The residence is next to a clear spring on the top of the mountain, a small bamboo building.

The village chief is a Han Chinese, in his fifties, and has been in this village for 30 years. This bamboo building is the village chief's house.

After eating, Liu Chan stood by the crystal clear spring the size of a basketball court, which should be a waterhole to be precise.

There are several canals that lead water down the hill, and on the east side of the hill are terraced rice fields, which are very large, and it seems that the village does not have to worry about food.

Several other canals provide water to villagers' homes.

Even though the water is constantly being diverted out, the water in the waterhole has always remained the same.

"Even in a very dry weather, this waterhole has maintained this amount of water. Never seen the bottom. A few decades ago, some outsiders were curious, so they released all the water in the pool and dug three feet, but the water in the pool was still restored to its original state on the second day. The group of outsiders also suffered divine punishment, and encountered a flash flood on the way to Shu, and hundreds of people were all gone. The village chief stood beside Liu Chan, looked at the sunset in the distance and said to Liu Chan.

Liu Chan smiled: "I really had the idea of cleaning up the waterhole just now, but if you say this, I don't have this idea." The

village chief squatted down, picked up the pool of water with his hand, took a sip, stood up and said to Liu Chan: "Gongzi is the son of General Zuo, right?"

"Yes, it seems that the village chief is very well-informed. The

old village chief wiped the water droplets hanging on his beard, and said to Liu Chan: "There are many business trips and well-informed, and some time ago, I witnessed the demeanor of General Zuo leading the army from here, which will never be forgotten." Liu

Chan didn't talk, he knew Liu Bei, and Liu Chan had never seen it in Liu Bei.

"Is the terraced rice fields over there enough for the villagers to eat in a year?" asked Liu Chan.

The old village chief said: "It's enough, it's all good land, don't worry about no water to irrigate, the spring in the mountains comes a little later, and the people in the village will be busy with spring plowing in a few days."

"The barbarians also have fields, are they also good at farming?"

"It's just that the clothes still retain their so-called ancestral traditions, leaving them a little thought, and the others are no different from the Han people, and even many of them have forgotten to speak the words of the original tribe." The old village chief said.

Liu Chan couldn't help but say, "Is this your old credit?"

the old village chief smiled and said nothing.

After a moment of silence: "The integration of barbarians is very good, unlike Jingnan, where barbarians are not willing to go down the mountain at all, and they make chaos almost every year, which is really hateful." The

old village chief said to Liu Chan: "It's just that the means are different, the barbarians admit death, they are born with the idea that the Han people are bad people, and they can be unmoved in the face of the Han people's solicitation or profit temptation, and they would rather plunder than accept the gifts of the Han people, and it is difficult to let them go down the mountain like the Han people."

Liu Chan asked the old village chief: "I don't know how the village chief makes hundreds of people in the village live in harmony with each other." "

Treat everyone equally, no distinction between barbarians, only villagers. The biggest factor though, is there. The old village chief pointed to another place in the pool, where there is a stone statue, in front of the stone statue there are incense candles, cold pig's heads and other sacrificial items, see that in the incense burner, the incense ashes have overflowed, this stone statue incense is still very prosperous.

The old village chief said: "The group of people dug up this stone statue under this waterhole, and the stone statue can be vaguely seen to be a woman, and I said to dozens of Han people living here that this is a goddess, and it should be enshrined by the waterhole, otherwise the waterhole will be dried up." Later, the group was hit by a flash flood, and everyone thought that the group had angered the goddess and that they had suffered the disaster. The news of the stone statue of the goddess dug up by the waterhole spread, so slowly the barbarians in the mountains came to pay respects, and then the barbarians slowly settled here. Since the Han people surpassed the barbarians in all aspects of their dietary life, these barbarians admired us Han people when they learned about the life of our Han people, and I was already the village chief at that time, and I did not reject them, but taught them how to live like the Han people.

"I don't want to talk about what happened later, the barbarians and Han people who came out of the mountains are very harmonious here.

Liu Chan looked at the stone statue of the goddess and grinned: "It turns out that it is still faith, and ignorant people believe in gods, so they have faith." The estrangement between the two ethnic groups is completely assimilated by faith, so that the two ethnic groups are as if they were brothers.

After the flash of inspiration, Liu Chan looked deeply at the old village chief: "Today's words can solve the gap between the barbarians in Jingzhou, Jiaozhou, and Yizhou, and make the barbarians submit, which is a great merit." "

The village chief doesn't know, so how can he make the barbarians in Sanzhou submit to him with his own words?