On the following day, Zhu Pingan had people purchase 10,000 stones of grain and grass from the market, 10 ploughing oxen, 100 small piglets and 500 small chicken cubs, called on Liu Dazhou and the others, took Liu Dianli and more than 50 magistrates with him, pulled by a carriage, and rushed to the Wuxi mountainous region once again.
“County Duke, aren’t we a bit few with these people? Yesterday, Wuxi Miao didn’t know our reality, today I’m afraid that they have already reacted to come, in case Wuxi Miao flips out, how can we protect your honour with these manpower?”
Liu Dianliang reminded Zhu Pingan more than once on the road that he was always uneasy about the Wuxi Miao.
The hearts of those who are not of my race will be different, Liu Dianliang always had this worry.
“Dignitary Liu, put a hundred hearts into it. Yesterday they didn’t dare, today they naturally won’t dare either. What they are afraid of is not me, nor the 50,000 troops, but the imperial court behind us. Moreover, we gave them 30,000 stones of grain and grass yesterday, so the Wuxi Miao no longer has a reason to rebel.”Zhu Pingan explained to Dignitary Liu.
“Prefect, we already had 30,000 stones of grain and grass with them yesterday, why are we giving them 10,000 stones of grain and grass as well as so many piglets and chickens today? Isn’t granting grace a bit too much?”
Liu Dianlian asked in disbelief.
“Yesterday’s grain and grass with them was to quell the rebellion, today I want to map their entire clan and win a hundred years of peace. The Wuxi Miao clan resides in the Wuxi Mountains, and the whole clan has more than ten tribes of all sizes, with a population of about 70,000 to 80,000 people. With such a large population, if they can be incorporated into my Jingnan, the population of my Jingnan will be nearly doubled. The taxes collected each year would far exceed what is given today.”Zhu Pingan looked far into the distance and leisurely said.
“How do you figure their entire clan?”Liu Dianliang asked again.
“Yesterday, I exchanged ideas with the Wuxi Miao Tusi and learnt that they are quite envious of my Han Chinese farming life. Covered by the fact that they live in the deep mountains, hunting and gathering for a living, rely on the sky to eat, living in dire straits ……I Han people watch over the fields, men ploughing women weaving, life is rich, than their days do not know how many times better. Yesterday, I with them thousands of acres of barren land, is the grace, but also test. When they heard that I had given them thousands of acres of barren land, they were thrilled to say the least. Today, I am giving them grain and grass, ploughing oxen, piglets, and chickens to accelerate their move out of the Five Streams mountainous region.”
“More than that, I have also set aside a five-mile-square land for them beside the thousands of acres of barren land, ad hoc Wuxi Town, allowing them to settle, and the post of Wuxi Town Mayor allowing them to be elected by Wuxi Miao, and report it to the County Yamen for appointment.”
As Zhu Pingan walked along the road, he told Liu Dianliang about his intentions.
Zhu Pingan had a premonition that he would soon be going to the Commander of the Commander of the Zhejiang Tidings and Press Attorneys Division, so he explained the original circumstances of the matter with Liu Dianliang, and after the new magistrate took office, he would be relayed by Liu Dianliang to them.
“County Duke, will this make the Wuxi Miao sit up?”Liu Dianliang asked with some concern.
“Oh, the reason why the Wuxi Miao are difficult to deal with, the reason why they have become the five major pests in Jingnan is because they live in the deep mountains and occupy the geographical advantage, once they rebel, it is inconvenient for the government to recruit them, they will fight if they can beat them, but if they can’t beat them, they will burrow into the deep mountains. ……If they move out of the mountains and live in the towns, they will no longer have the advantage of the land, and even if they rebel, they will not be able to become a climate, you have seen which towns dare to rebel? Besides, the Wuxi Miao has only 50,000 people, while our Han people have tens of millions of people. If the Wuxi Miao move to Wuxi Town, they are bound to communicate with our Han people, and intermarriage will be inevitable, and in a few years’ time, the Wuxi Miao will be sinicised by the Han people, and from now on, the Wuxi Miao will have no more problems. Such a district of ten thousand stones of grain, ten plough oxen, one hundred piglets, five hundred chickens, you can get seventy thousand taxpaying people, hundreds of years of peace, Liu Dianliang do you still feel that the grace is too much?!”
Zhu Pingan smiled as he looked towards Dignitary Liu and asked meaningfully.
“Prefectural Governor is far-sighted, my humble servant is ashamed to be inferior.”Dignitary Liu said with heartfelt conviction and admiration.
Zhu Pingan and his entourage quickly arrived at the Wuxi Mountainous Region.
“Greetings, my lord.”
Lady Yilan heard of Zhu Pingan’s arrival and led a group of large and small heads of the Wuxi Miao to come from afar to greet him.
“Tusi, all the headmen, please rise quickly.”Zhu Pingan stepped forward, smiled and said with a false support.
“Many thanks, my lord.”Lady Yilan and the others rose.
“My lord, this is ……”Lady Yi Lan and the others were curious when they saw the carts of grain and grass behind Zhu Pingan as well as ten robust ploughing oxen and countless piglets and chickens.
It can’t be a gift for us, can it?
Lady Yi Lan and the other big and small heads took a deep breath in disbelief and excitement.
“Yesterday with you thousands of acres of wasteland, go back and think of you do not have ploughing oxen, how to plough, this is not, today it will be even out from the county ten ploughing oxen, sent to you, convenient for you to reclaim the wasteland, do not miss the farming time. These 10,000 stones of grain and grass are sent to you as seed. As for these one hundred piglets and five hundred chickens, they are sent to you to breed in captivity.”
Zhu Pingan smiled and said.
“Your Excellency is so sympathetic to my Wuxi Miao clan, I, Wuxi Miao, am unable to repay you, and will remember the great kindness of your Excellency for generations, and will go through fire and water for your Excellency without hesitation. ……”Although Lady Yilan and the others had already guessed it, but hearing it from Zhu Pingan in person, they still couldn’t help but be grateful and pay their respects.
“Please get up, quickly get up.”Zhu Pingan stepped forward to support them in vain.
Lady Yilan and the others warmly invited Zhu Pingan and the others into the camp, receiving them with the highest specifications of the Wuxi Miao.
“I have taken into consideration the fact that you have lived in the mountains for ages, in difficult conditions, and are far away from the fields allocated to you, making it inconvenient for you to cultivate them. Therefore, I plan to set aside a five-mile-square land next to the fields allocated to you and set up a Wuxi Town, allowing you to live there for generations, and the mayor of the Wuxi Town will be selected by you Wuxi Miao and reported to the county government office, which will formally appoint you, and the mayor of the Wuxi Town will be so selected for generations to come.”
Zhu Pingan proposed to Lady Yilan at the banquet.
“Indeed?!”Lady Yilan, as well as the big and small headmen at the banquet, were thrilled at the words.
No one would like to live inside the deep mountains and old forests, with difficult mountain roads and inconvenient transport; hunting and gathering and difficult life; snakes and rats and fierce beasts, mosquitoes and insect bites ……Such days, who wants to live.
They have wanted to live on the plains for generations, and how many generations have rebelled, and there are reasons for this.
According to their ancestral saying, they Wuxi Miao originated from the plains, where the land is fertile, where there is the sea and the river and the rice fields, where they don’t worry about food and drink, and where there is no threat of fierce beasts …….It was only during the warring years that they were defeated and driven into the Wuxi Mountains ……
They had dreamed of living on the plains.
Now after hearing Zhu Pingan’s words, each one of them had tears of excitement coming out of their eyes.
Butterfly, this girl has deep preconceptions about Zhu Pingan, but at this moment, after hearing Zhu Pingan’s words, she didn’t need to be instructed by Lady Yilan to take the initiative to come over to Zhu Pingan to pour the wine and lay out the food.
The groom was in love and the concubine was interested, so naturally they hit it off right away!Smooth, unbelievably smooth!
Zhu Pingan’s trip was smooth and couldn’t be smoother, not only completely solved the hidden danger of Wuxi Miao, but also successfully negotiated with Wuxi Miao on the cooperation of Secret Knife Creation Pill, in fact, Mrs Yilan, they didn’t value the Secret Knife Creation Pill at all, and felt that this Secret Knife Creation Pill was just a clay method of treating wounds, which was worthless, and when they heard Zhu Pingan mentioning about the Secret Knife Creation Pill, they took the initiative to offer the formula and the method of making the medicine. However, Zhu Pingan was well aware of the preciousness of the Secret Method Knife Creation Medicine, and did not take advantage of them by keeping the secret formula for himself, but instead, he talked to them about co-operation, where a win-win situation was the best option.
