Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 2371 In the dark

   Cochin is good...

   Except for more poor people, more hills, more forests, more bugs, more fools, and hotter weather, it seems that everything else is pretty good.

There are spices, as long as someone collects them, ivory, as long as they can hunt, hawksbill shells, as long as they can go fishing in the sea, pearls, as long as they can catch big clams, well, there are basically mountains and seas, forests and animals, and the land is not Not bad, seems to be pretty good.

   What a fart!

  Master Zhang was a little annoyed.

   This is a village with a majority of indigenous people. It is about a hundred miles away from this village, which is the sea.

  When Mr. Zhang saw the sea for the first time, he was excited. Well, it was like Erha saw a puddle of mud, and flew into the sea. He couldn’t hold back, and rolled around, not to mention how happy he was.

  Second Lord?

  The big God soaked in sea water next to it is also.

   Liu Bei?

   Of course, it is always with a gentle smile, like a Samoyed who is always healing people's hearts.

   Sansha was very happy when he saw the sea for the first time, but when he was covered in salt and alkali, he gradually lost his happiness.

Most of the Cochin indigenous villages are mud-legged people who do not know a single word. Their ancestors have lived in Cochin for generations, and some have never even been out in the surrounding forests. It is impossible to imagine the so-called culture or the inheritance of knowledge. . When these natives saw Mr. Zhang, they had no intention of resisting at all. Without saying a word, they knelt on the ground cleanly on the spot...

  At first, Mr. Zhang was quite happy. After all, he felt that this was the mighty man Tianwei, and the aborigines surrendered. Later, he realized that these guys didn’t understand anything at all, it was just a conditioned reflex. Because the original lords of these aborigines, whether it was the Zheng family or the Ou family, all disciplined these local people in this way.

  At present, in this piece of land, as long as there are people who wear clothes and shoes, they are upper-class people.

  What Zhang Sanye saw was the low bamboo buildings, the environment where people and animals were not separated from feces and urine, the roads that were trampled to the ground were muddy and uneven, and the roads were not repaired, and these aborigines who were not clothed, and even men and women were naked.

When it comes to nudity, some friends who are hard every day may look bright, but in fact, in ancient times, those skinny bodies were full of flies and flies, their hair was sticky with fleas and lice coming in and out, their teeth were black and yellow, and their skin was black and yellow. Basically speaking, no matter how stubborn the later generations are, they will soften on the spot when they see the muddy naked body.

   Simply put, there are three words, dirty, messy, and poor.

   And it was extremely dirty, outrageously messy, and extremely poor.

Mr. Zhang felt that he was informal enough to endure these messes, but when he really realized the gap between the living culture of these guys in Ni Nan Jiuzhen and the big man, Mr. Zhang was still close to collapsed.

When Mr. Zhang roared, no one could stand firm. Almost everyone in the village knelt on the ground. The man put his head on the ground and shivered. In the arms, some of them forgot to leave a panting eye for the child, and when they saw the aboriginal kid, their eyes gradually turned white...

  『Third brother...』 Liu Bei looked at his mud-stained boots, feeling a little distressed and worried, took them off, shook the mud, and said, "Quiet the fire, they... they really don't understand..."

"roll! ’ Zhang Fei roared angrily.

   A group of natives fled with a single "swipe".

  In Dahan, if the boots are broken, you have to repair them or replace them with new ones, isn’t it very simple? But here, if it is broken, it is broken. If the artisans in the army are not around, Liu Bei has to repair it himself!

  Indigenous people don't know how to repair shoes at all. Some of these natives have never seen a pair of shoes in their entire lives! How could such a person know how to repair a boot?

  So Liu Bei is considering whether to take out his old business again...

   Zhang Fei was angry, and the boot was the one that lit the fire, but in fact, it was because of the accumulation of emotions during this period of time.

  The difficulties facing the three brothers are not limited to boots.

In the area close to South Vietnam, the influence of the Han people, or in other words, the Han civilization can still be seen to some extent, but the further south, the more outrageous, slash-and-burn farming is still very popular, and there are even almost primitive tribes that focus on matriarchy .

  Of course, if Liu Bei had read more books, he wouldn’t be surprised by this matter. When Jiuzhen Nichinan rebelled, the two sisters were the leaders...

Although the cause of the incident may be that the father and husband of the two sisters were bullied and framed by the officials of the Han Dynasty at that time, coupled with the long-standing anti-Han sentiment of the local aborigines, the two sisters gathered together and conquered Jiaozhi Prefecture in one fell swoop. And killed the prefect Su Ding and other Han officials. Subsequently, the aborigines in Jiuzhen, Nichinan, Hepu and other counties also rebelled one after another, and attached themselves to the Zheng sisters, and more than 60 local cities all fell for a while.

Afterwards, one of the two sisters proclaimed themselves king, and the other was a general, and there was no objection from anyone, which shows that in the Nichinan Jiuzhen area at that time, not only did they have no objection to women leading troops to fight, but they didn't even have much dislike for women in power. , coupled with some surviving walking marriages in later generations, it proves that the Jiuzhen Rinan area still had a certain matrilineal tribal habit in the Han Dynasty.

This also means that after Liu Bei's trio arrives at Cochin, the situation they have to face is very complicated. There are not only civilized, semi-civilized, but also completely uncivilized, some male-dominated, and some female-dominated. Mainly, there are tribal villages like barbarians, and there are also towns and villages that are more similar to Hanjiang.

It is not difficult to regain these places, and there is not even the expected battle. In many cases, the natives on the other side will surrender without saying a word when they see the equipment and number of Liu Bei's trio. There is no use for the master's strength, and he has no place to play wild, so he can only demolish the house.

Liu Bei now somewhat understands why Shi Xie is only willing to stay in the South Vietnam area for a long time, and does not have many generals, or soldiers, to advance to Jiuzhen, the most fundamental reason in the area of ​​​​Ninan, perhaps it is too difficult . South Vietnam is more or less civilized, and the people in this area are like savages who have just walked out of the mountains and forests. They can't communicate with each other. If they want to do something, they are simply...

What? conscription? Pull to be a young man?

Don't be kidding, even in later generations, farmers in Africa will have a headache to die, not to mention that in the big man, these indigenous people have no concept of self-motivation, and they don't have any high material needs. They have some food every day If you do a little work, you will lie on the ground and pretend to be dead. If you don’t pay attention, you will do your work crookedly. Either the building will collapse or the ditch will be tilted. You can’t even chop wood well.

And look at those soldiers of Shixie before, those Shishi's battle formations with only one move of "pig sudden" from beginning to end, you can see how thankless it is to recruit these aborigines as soldiers. No matter how to distinguish between left and right, Mr. Zhang can completely collapse and let out a thunderous roar, let alone read the banner, listen to the golden drum, and know how to advance and retreat.

It's like someone who hasn't even completed the nine-year compulsory education and doesn't even have the qualifications to work in a factory. Don't you want to kill a bunch of people?

  These natives can only do some crude work at best.

   And what Liu Bei and others need is not just rough work.

   This is very contradictory.

  It doesn’t matter whether it is a regime or a foundation, it doesn’t matter how much agriculture and mulberry are needed, but how can we guarantee a stable agriculture and mulberry with slash-and-burn farming? Water conservancy is also necessary, but it is difficult to dig a formed canal, let alone a water wheel. Anyway, I don’t have anything I want, and it’s hard to do anything.

  The population is not too small, but the tax is basically zero.

   There are also some big gentry families, but the education system is basically zero.

  It's worse than in Xinye...

  『Mmm…』 Liu Bei pondered.

  『Brother! Zhang Fei shook his beard like steel needles, "I said... that damned Hussar General, did he really know that this is the way here, and then let us come here pretending to be generous?" 』

  Guan Yu squinted his eyes aside, as if he was taking a nap, and kept silent.

  『It must be so! ”Zhang Fei slapped his thigh, um, he slapped his right thigh, “This cunning guy! He must know something, but didn't tell us! 』

  Liu Bei smiled and didn't answer, he was as gentle as a Samoyed, but his white teeth seemed to prove something.

If you really want to manage the place of Jiaozhi, you will definitely not see any special effects within 20 or 30 years, or three or four generations. This is also the official dispatched to South Vietnam in the Han Dynasty. Almost every one of them only thinks about Fish for cash, then find some way to jump back in.

Perhaps those prefects of the Han Dynasty were not all born corrupt and only wanted to scrape the ground. Perhaps when they came to intercourse, they also had some ambitions, but they had to be defeated in the face of the cold reality. Come, was beaten to the ground and finally raised his hands to surrender.

  In the back, the so-called going to the frontier of the Han Dynasty has become an attitude, and it has also become a kind of gilding, shouting loudly, but it is not really that I want to dedicate my life to this kind of area, and then die in another country. So in the later period, basically, every prefect of the Han Dynasty who came to Jiaozhi and areas like Nanyue tried to collect as much land as possible, and sent personnel to collect local specialties regardless of life and death, and then contributed to the central government, using Jiaozhi as their own. A pedal, as for the future of this place after stepping on it, these people don't care or care.

  For more than a hundred years, the situation on the frontier of the Han Dynasty has been like this.

  Northern Desert Liaodong, Longyou Western Regions, South Vietnam Jiaozhi, are all the same.

  If Shi Xie hadn’t encountered turmoil in the Central Plains and frequent wars, he might have been like other Han prefects, confiscating land, and then looking for opportunities to escape.

  Now, a very real problem is placed in front of the three brothers Liu Bei.

  Although Liu Bei already had some plans in mind when he went south, but when he really arrived at Jiaozhi, left Nanyue, and arrived at Jiuzhen and Ninan, he realized that his thinking was too easy.

   I really want to stick to it, but I find it very difficult, very difficult.

  How to choose?

   This is a very difficult choice.

  『My whole life...』 Liu Bei said slowly, 『Until now, all my efforts have been in vain, like the moon in the water, the flowers in the mirror, it seems very beautiful, but it is false...』

  『Brother! 』

  『Brother…』

Liu Bei waved his hand, "It's not that I feel sorry for myself... It's true... I attached myself to Lord Lu at the beginning, because Lord Lu was famous in the world at that time, following him, no matter what, I could make friends with people... Then I really made friends Brother Bogui...afterwards, I met you...」

  Liu Bei smiled, "Under the Taoyuan, I said that I want to calm down the big man and help the country... Hehe, now that I think about it, I was a little drunk and talked big..."

  Zhang Fei leaned forward slightly, "Brother! 』

  『Brother! 』Guan Yu frowned slightly, his eyes congealed.

  『But this is also my lifelong wish! ’Liu Bei didn’t go to see Guan Yu, but just patted himself on the chest, ‘I’ve been living and dying, and this wish has always been here…’

  『Brother! ”Zhang Fei smiled naively, scratching the back of his head, “Me too! 』

  『Hahaha...』 Liu Bei patted Zhang Fei's arm, then smiled, and tugged Guan Yu's arm again.

  Guan Yu stroked his long beard, nodded and smiled.

"I have traveled from Liaodong to Jiaozhi on the territory of the Han Dynasty...haha, I never thought I would run so far..." Liu Bei laughed, "I went to study at the age of fifteen, and now I am more than forty years old... At that time , you know, my face is full of light, others say my face is like beautiful jade, moist and lustrous, now you look at this skin, these wrinkles...』

  『Brother is not old! ’ Zhang Fei said bluntly.

  Guan Yu kicked Zhang Fei.

   Liu Bei laughed again, "I used to think that the place I saw was the big man, the world, and this world!" Hehe, the result is not... I went to Guanzhong to read the book, the map, and the sand table in the Hussar Hall... Then I realized what I thought was the world, but in fact... it was just a corner of the other people's sand table...』

  『Just now... To be honest, I also wanted to back down for a while, and felt regretful...』 Liu Bei smiled openly and naturally, "Isn't it good to enjoy life? I'm at this age... Sit down, lie down, tired, don't work hard, do whatever you want, as long as you can live, eat and drink, find a few wives, have a bunch of children, and when the time comes, keep your eyes peeled Shut up, don't care what happens behind him...But I suddenly thought...』

  『Where did my youth go? 』

  『Where is my courage? 』

  『My dream, my glory, the oath we made to heaven and earth in Taoyuan, where are they? 』

  『Where did they all go? Liu Bei slowly covered his chest with his hands, "I searched for a long time... and then found it, and it was still here... still reminding me, so that I have never forgotten... my heart is still beating, my blood has not yet cold…"

  『There are some things that you don’t think about or do until you like them, but they are right and correct, so they are worth trying! It's worth doing! Liu Bei sighed, "Everything in this world, how can everything be as you wish, and you can be happy in everything?" Among the right things, there are things you like, so you are naturally happy, but if you don’t like things that are not as good as you want, if they are correct and right, even if it is difficult, you have to do it! Is it possible to do wrong things if you want to do what you want, to ignore right and wrong, and to destroy your conscience? 』

  『It’s hard to show your true colors! Real gold can only be refined by fire! 』

"We are Han people, our big men, our big men were once so brilliant...fearless, open, tolerant of the world, eclectic..." Liu Bei raised his head, looked at the sky, and said slowly, "Three or four hundred years ago, the road It is even more difficult to walk than now. The Han people have already been here, established Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan, and also went to the Western Regions, and arrived in Haixi... I just thought, did anyone say this way to the Han people at that time? It's too far, too difficult, too tiring, too dangerous...so I can't walk, I can't do it, there is no hope at all, why don't I go? Don't need to do it? 』

  Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't help thinking.

"...our ancestors, no one set an example for them, no one gave them a path, no one gave them a direction, no one told them what should be done and what should not be done, but they just did it and walked away , just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that, just like that! 』

  『Because the prefects of Cochin were so greedy, lazy, treacherous, and cruel before, so can we be as greedy, lazy, treacherous, and cruel as those guys? 』

"No! 』

  『There is great etiquette, so it is called Xia! It has the beauty of service, which is called Hua! 』

  『We come with the glory of China, and we come with the majesty of a big man! We want to tell these Nanyue Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen Rinan people, the Great Han Kingdom, although there are greedy, lazy, treacherous and cruel people, but they are also polite, honest and shameful, loyal, filial and faithful! There are the etiquette of China and the beauty of a big man! 』

  『Let’s tell them what is the real Huaxia and what is the real big man』!

  『How majestic is Huaxia, how brilliant is the big man! 』

"Even if...the soul cannot return to the homeland in this life..." Liu Bei stood up, took two steps forward and pointed to the banner of the Han family not far ahead, "But as long as this big Han banner is there, under the banner, it will be Dahan's hometown! 』

  Guan Yu and Zhang Fei couldn't help getting up together, and stood beside Liu Bei.

"Here in Jiaozhi, there are almost no soldiers, farmers, businessmen, farmers, mulberry and water conservancy, and soldiers and equipment are unsustainable. All these are difficulties..." Liu Bei looked at Guan Yu, then at Zhang Fei, and held the hands of the two "But it's okay... because, I still have two brothers here!" 』

   Guan Yu cupped his hands and bowed his head, and bowed solemnly, "Guan follows his brother!" If you work together with one heart, you will never die! 』

  『Me too! 』Zhang Fei opened his round eyes.

  Liu Bei looked up to the sky and smiled, "Hahaha, come here!" Bring the wine! 』

   Beauvignon, slightly sour.

  Like an idealist who refuses to bow his head.

  『Respect the big man! 』

  『Respect to the big Han people who are struggling to move forward in this world! 』

  (end of this chapter)