MTL - Three Kingdoms-Chapter 2791 In the name of trade, the way is cleverly opened, and a visitor from Zhuya suddenly comes to vote

  Chapter 2791 Trading in the name of a coincidence, Zhuya has a guest suddenly come to vote

   While seeking their own way in Jiangdong, Liu Bei and others who were far away in Jiaozhi were also preparing for some matters.

   There are too many aborigines around Cochin.

  These aborigines are generally separated by natural boundaries, such as rivers or ridges. Maybe they have crossed a mountain or a river, and they are another tribe, a different ethnic group.

  Most of the natives of the Cham tribe live in buildings. Well, it is a two-story "building", with livestock and poultry living below and people living on the upper floor, so it is said that people who did not have buildings in the Han Dynasty can retreat, because basically even these tribes in the southeast, whether it is Minyue It is still Cochin, and houses basically have such a structure.

  In the early days of the Han Dynasty, Jiaozhi also had some administrative structures, but the system at that time was too rough. Well, not only at that time, but also in the later feudal dynasties. Generally speaking, the official titles recognized by the court are generally awarded to some powerful tribes and natives, and they are basically hereditary. These people are often referred to as "native officials" or "chieftains". In exchange for official positions, these native officials are to suppress the rest of the aborigines and maintain local security and social order; various allocations.

  There are official taxes here, as well as the so-called "auspicious money" privately owned by officials.

  Of course, among the money collected, the native officials’ own income is also indispensable. After all, no matter how big or small the local officials are, the government doesn't give them any salary, and they have to collect it all by themselves. In other words, as long as the local officials pay all kinds of public and private accounts and taxes on time every year, the native officials can do whatever they want in their own territory, and they are basically a local emperor.

  This political structure model is naturally time-saving, labor-saving and worry-free. For those gentry children who are unwilling to leave the Central Plains, they come to the frontier to serve as officials. Silver, the price goes up immediately, and if you go up, you will naturally have capital.

   But in this way, these frontier lands have never belonged to any Han family from the beginning to the end...

This is the reason why many small countries around China in later generations have obviously obtained a lot of cultural inheritance from China, but they do not recognize Chinese culture at all, because these small countries have been managed by native officials from the beginning, and these native officials passed down from generation to generation. Is it because they are so loyal to the central feudal dynasty as shown in various TV movies?

  These answers, don’t those high-ranking officials who are full of eyes except for the heart not have eyes, don’t know?

   Surely they all know that, but they must be doing things according to the famous saying of being bald and strong, so what is outside must be inside? If you don’t get down the people who are thinking about their backs first, how can they have the mind to engage in outside?

  Liu Bei took Guan Zhang and slowly walked into an indigenous village.

   Several natives who looked like warriors led Liu Guan and Zhang to a small square outside the village.

   Liu Bei looked at the indigenous village.

  This village is different from some Zhan villages in Nichinan that he has been to before. First of all, this village does not have a special wall, but seems to use a kind of thorns as a fence. There are also vines and bamboos in it, which makes the whole wall feel alive instead of dead.

  Of course it wasn't about spells like druids, but the walls of the village were made of plants.

  This kind of wall is an insurmountable moat for ordinary animals without any special tools.

  The wall made of plants must have taken a long time from laying to forming. It also shows from another angle that the village here has existed for a long time.

  Liu Bei is even sure that those thorns are probably poisonous...

  The only weakness is that it is not fireproof.

  Another point is that many of the houses in this village are made of stone structures. Unlike most of the local stilted houses, the houses with mudstone structures also show a certain strength. Without a certain amount of manpower and without tools, whether it is mining or moving stones, it is a huge project for the Zhan people in Nichinan.

   Not long after, the Zhanren warriors came back again and said that they would let Liu Bei and the other three enter the village.

   Regarding the matter of waiting outside the village, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were not angry.

  Guan Yu didn't get angry, maybe it's normal, but Zhang Fei was willing to let his elder brother wait outside, so he didn't get angry?

  I think back then when I was in the village of Zhuge...Of course there is no such scene as the village of Zhuge now, but there is an extra village of occupying people. Sometimes getting angry is not just to show your temper, but to let people see. Of course Zhuge Zhuge understands it, so Zhang Fei can let it go when he is angry, but it is not necessary to take advantage of others. The guns have spoken.

   Liu Bei came here to talk about things, not to play tricks.

Although it is said that Liu Bei has recruited some occupying people, but only a few, there is still a large area of ​​occupying people who are not close to Liu Bei. At the same time, Liu Bei wants to attack these occupying people, and the input-output ratio is quite different. It was too big, so Liu Bei came.

  Here comes "Peace"...

  There are many curious people in the village, looking at Liu Bei and others from afar or near.

  Zhan people hardly wear clothes.

   On the one hand, it is because of poverty, on the other hand, it is because of the climate.

  When the Han Dynasty was warm, people in the Central Plains could wear single clothes in winter and be shirtless in summer, let alone places like Nichinan? In the climate of the Han Dynasty, even Goguryeo Fuyu and other aborigines with a relatively northerly location are naked every day...

  Generally speaking, Zhanren's clothing is to wrap some big leaves around the waist, or simply go naked, both men and women are the same. If there is some linen or leather on the body, it is considered a high-class occupying person. For example, the warriors who lead the way for Liu Bei and others have animal skins they hunted on their bodies.

  If there is no Chinese culture, these surrounding tribes don't know how long it will take to be naked.

   Most of the people are naked, regardless of gender.

  Don't think that there are some "good things" in this way, in fact, many of them are better not to watch.

  Because the Zhan people, like other tribes around China, also like tattoos. Especially the further south the area is, the more tattoos there will be. Due to the limitation of pigments, most of these tattoos are mainly blue and black, and they like to tattoo on the face, and then spread to the hands and other parts of the body. As a result, if a person who does not know this custom, under the light and shadow dancing in the forest, suddenly meets this kind of occupying person, it may be frightened to death.

   This may be one of the reasons why Chinese mainstream culture doesn’t like tattoos, because since the Zhou Dynasty, only barbarians have tattoos, or they are criminals. This has been the case for thousands of years...

  In addition, these Zhanren usually don't have any skin care products, their skin is dark and rough, their hair is yellow and thin, and there are dirt, mites, fleas and lice on their bodies that have been raised for more than ten or decades.

   If you still feel that you can see it right now, then you can only say admiration.

  Of course, in turn, these accountants often look down on Liu Guanzhang.

  Because Liu Guanzhang has no tattoos, no exposed pectoral muscles, abdominal muscles and other parts that show masculinity, how can Zhan women feel that they have any powerful genes?

  For the Zhan people, what they value more is the weapons and equipment of Liu Guanzhang, especially the strong crossbow. That kind of thing is said to be able to shoot through even tree trunks, but almost everyone who was shot died. This is an important reason why Zhanren's leader is willing to meet and negotiate with Liu Guanzhang.

  Liu Guanzhang and his party were taken to the largest house in the village. This house is much larger than other houses in the village, and it is built on a stone-based platform. The walls of the house are also built of stones, and there are sliding windows made of bamboo, propped up with a wooden stick.

  However, even with such a sliding window, the light in the room is still very dark. The moment I enter the door, I feel that my eyes are dark, and it takes a few breaths to get used to it.

  In the middle of the house, there is a firepit, which makes the house not feel damp and cold. There is a trumpet-shaped smoke collector above the firepit, which is generally made of bamboo. It is connected with a thick bamboo pipe, so that the smoke from the firepit will not spread all over the room and will not choke people.

  This is regarded as Zhanren's "high technology", and it is obviously not something that ordinary Zhanren families can have.

  The leader of Zhanren is an old man with gray beard and hair, and many wrinkles on his face.

Because Zhan people generally don't pay much attention to hygiene, there are often some small insects crawling around in these skin folds. There are too many insects in the tropical forest, so the Huaxia people in the Central Plains say that the ethnic minorities in the southwest Body nourishing Gu, in fact, is mostly because of this situation.

  Liu Bei brought gifts to the leader of the Zhan people.

   No crossbows, although Clan would love to.

  A jar of rose peach wine.

  A packet of fine white sugar.

  A hundred refining knife.

  For the current productivity of Zhanren, these three gifts are dimensionality reduction blows.

  Wine is something that Zhan Ren also has, but it is usually rice wine, glutinous rice fermented wine. Because the wine-making technology is still very rough, and there is no special industrial chain, Zhanren's rice wine is not only unstable in quality, but also not easy to preserve. Generally speaking, it is crudely fermented wine within a few months. The ester content is very low.

   Therefore, rose fruit wine with high sweetness, high fruit aroma, and bright red color has attracted people's amazement almost as soon as it appeared on the stage.

  In addition to wine, sugar and steel knives were also praised by the leader of Zhan.

   Liu Bei's smile was very gentle, as if he couldn't see the little bugs around people's heads and bodies.

  With the gift as a lubricant, the friction between the two parties becomes much more natural, and talking about things becomes smoother.

Liu Bei brought a translator, that is, the first batch of occupiers that Liu Bei gathered before, but because the environment around Nichinan is really bad, the main reason is that there is no decent infrastructure in these places, even the roads are People and beasts stepped out, and it was difficult to even pass vehicles, let alone lead troops into the army.

  So, Liu Bei specially strengthened trade.

Liu Bei found out that this is an important tribe of Zhanren, but the specific number of people in this tribe is not clear to the leader of Zhanren who does not have much culture. He just said that there are more than ten cottages. It belongs to his rule, but the specific number of people, it may be from hundreds to thousands, it is possible.

  Anyway, the range of the surrounding hills and rivers belong to him.

All in all, Zhanren’s interior is also very complicated. Even because of the different regions of Zhanren, there are also different habits and primitive worship, whether they are hostile or friendly, intermarried or not, and almost no one can figure out the relationship. .

  The Zhan people's attitude towards the Han people is actually very general.

Originally, when Shi Xie was in Jiaozhi, he focused his energy on the Cangwu area of ​​Guilin, Guilin, Jiaozhi. For example, Jiuzhen County in the south basically didn’t set foot in it, let alone Rinan County in the south. If you don't make trouble, just treat it as if it doesn't exist.

  The occupying people welcomed Liu Bei's proposed business. They want all kinds of things, the most important being salt and iron, and for wine and sugar they like it, but most of them can't afford it.

  The head of Zhanren said that if Liu Bei could bring salt and iron, they would be willing to exchange animal skins, livestock, wood, bamboo and rattan utensils, as long as they had anything, except population.

   Kuma Nichinan is close to the sea, but not everyone knows how to get salt from sea water.

   Especially those Zhan people who live in the mountains and forests, some have never even seen the sea in their entire lives, but no matter whether these Zhan people have seen the sea or not, they all need salt, and at the same time they need iron tools very much.

  These requests were all within Liu Bei's expectation.

  Although it is said that Liu Bei brought three gifts, in fact, none of these three gifts can be provided by Liu Bei independently, and the only thing he can take out is salt.

  Because Liu Bei has salt, it is not a gift, it is currency, and it is a general equivalent.

  In areas where the commodity economy is backward, there is indeed no equivalent exchange product more suitable than table salt.

  The Zhan people also have farming customs, but the farming method is very rough. In other words, they basically belong to the type of throwing away the seeds and leaving them alone.

  Of course, Zhan people have more things, that is, wood, bamboo, and rattan.

  These luxuriant plants in the mountains and forests are too rich. Although it is said that Zhanren’s primitive farming has destroyed some vegetation, it is actually like a pedicure for these forests. If Zhanren does not pay attention, these cleared areas will be encroached by various shrubs and weeds again .

   Liu Bei wants to build a ship, he needs a lot of wood, gum, and related bamboo rollers, etc., and even some wild fruits, such as wild plantains, longan, and jackfruit, etc., can be used as food supplements.

   In addition, there is wild ramie. Zhan people are not very good at using these wild ramie, so Liu Bei intends to let these Zhan people grow ramie, and then buy raw materials to make cloth and sell them to these Zhan people. At least let these Zhan people wear skirts, otherwise it is really Obscure...

Zhan people also raise pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, etc., but basically they are free-range, without corrals or artificial feeding, so most of them are very thin, and their cattle farming skills are poor, even in a village. A pair of knives and plows for ox plowing.

  Liu Bei is very good at studying.

  He was originally born as a wanderer in the countryside, but he is like a sponge, absorbing various skills all the time. For example, Liu Bei's tactic of setting fire was learned from the Battle of Changsha.

  Therefore, Liu Bei also learned from Fei Qian how to deal with Zhanren’s trade at the moment...

   With the force of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, there is basically no problem in slaughtering Zhanren's village, but what about after they are killed? Is it possible to let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei cut wood and cultivate livestock by themselves?

In the initial occupation process, Liu Bei's initial military conquest did indeed gain a lot of territory and some slaves, but in the follow-up process, not all the occupying people were willing to surrender, even those slaves In the process of working, there will often be a phenomenon of escape, suddenly going into the ravines and forests, catching it, consuming manpower and material resources, not catching it, running more and more.

  In the end, Liu Bei finally stopped his conquest by force, turned to think carefully, and finally adopted the method of trade.

  Liu Bei smiled very gently, he did not want to sell at a high price for huge profits.

  Occupying the leader is naturally very satisfying.

  Liu Bei proposed to establish a trade market point in the middle of the two sides, and then carry out regular trade at the market point, and both parties can send goods to the market point for exchange...

  The leader of the occupation has no objection, he thinks this proposal is fair.

  『Brother! ’ On the way back, Zhang Fei, who had been silent all this time, couldn’t bear it, and said, ‘Brother, you are too polite to them! 』

  Liu Bei still smiled gently, but did not answer. He knew that Zhang Fei always felt that he was a relative of the great Han emperor and should not be wronged in the slightest, but he also knew that no one in this world should not be wronged by birth.

  Think about the young emperor Liu Bian, and you can know that even the throne is not born to someone else, let alone the so-called grievances?

  『Third brother, do you think it’s a good way to go? Guan Yu said, squinting his eyes.

  『What kind of broken road is this! Zhang Fei yelled, "I can't ride a horse, and I can't walk a cart!" Fortunately, there is no rain in autumn and winter. If it rains in spring and summer, there is no need to leave! 』

  Guan Yu nodded, "Third brother, believe it or not, when we come again next time, this road will be easier..."

"Um. Liu Bei nodded and said with a smile, "Second brother is right. 』

   Guan Yu nodded slightly.

  Zhang Fei scratched his head, and after a while he slapped his hands, "Oh, so that's the case, I understand!" Brother is amazing! 』

  Liu Bei smiled, "Hey, I learned this from hussars..."

  Guan Yu narrowed his eyes, "The Spring and Autumn Period of the Ancients already existed!" 』

   Liu Bei also nodded, "Indeed. However, in the past four hundred years of the Han Dynasty, only the hussars have been used the best... There is no one who learns first, and a good man can be a teacher...Since the hussars can use this method to pacify the Xiongnu Xiqiang, then the current occupying people..."

  『Of course it’s also the big brother! ’ Zhang Fei laughed loudly.

  Liu Bei still smiled, "Now is just the beginning, there are still many things to pay attention to..."

  (end of this chapter)