Chapter 14 The Empire is with you

Basang is the "Gangcha" of the Huang Naihai tribe, which means a serf family without livestock. Among the twelve tribes in Huangnan, Gangcha has the largest number of people, and can be said to be the mainstream group of Tibetans.

In fact, the Basang family was originally "Chawa", with cattle and sheep, but when he was a child, his father died tragically in an armed battle with the Duwa tribe. Since then, the family has plummeted. The cattle and sheep were occupied by the head Duorijie in the name of requisitioning military horses and livestock. The beautiful and affectionate mother was also called to his home by Duorijie and spent a humiliating year.

Basang is twenty-three years old this year and has grown into a strong young man. He works for three people every day, and only wants to one day redeem cattle and sheep from the beginning.

But just five days ago, his sister accidentally broke the porcelain tea cup that the master had exchanged for from the people of Central Plains when serving the maid, and was immediately beaten and locked into the dungeon.

Everyone in the tribe knows that when locked in the dungeon, almost no one can come out alive. The terrifying and dark stone chamber is even more terrifying than hell. The torture tools inside are cruel and unimaginable. I heard that the torture suffered in the dungeon will make people feel that death is the best destination.

Basang dared not resist the head man, but today, he heard that the Central Plains officials came from the fort, and the whole village was driven to the grass mountain to spend the night. He could no longer help it and felt that this was an opportunity to save his sister. If he did not save his sister today, he would never have the shame to live under the blue sky where the eagle turned into the ancestors, and his heart would be bleeding every day.

Therefore, despite his mother's hard advice, he still came to the earthen castle, disguised himself as a Yuhucang that came to deliver cake stickers (dried cow dung fuel), and prepared to mix it into the earthen castle. In order to be more realistic, he persuaded his mother to come with him.

Who knew that the Central Plains guards in a handsome and red military uniform were so alert that they pressed him and his mother to the ground without saying a word. Basang struggled hard, but a gun was smashed into the stock on his head, causing severe pain and tinnitus, and almost fainted.

At this time, Ye Zhao and Afafu walked back and saw Basang and his mother who were caught by the Great Eunuch.

The plateau weather is very cool and even slightly cold at night.

Basang roared unyieldingly like a wild beast, scratching his hands, and almost all his nails were bleeding.

The guards tied Basang's feet and hands like they tied up wild boars. Basang was churning like shrimps, but they were still tied firmly. If they were inserted into a shoulder pole between his hands and feet, it would be like a farmer in the Central Plains to go to the market to sell pigs. The wooden board kept tugging towards Basang's mouth, causing blood to emerge from the corner of Basang's mouth.

Ye Zhao did not stop and went straight into the fort. Afafu hesitated for a moment and followed in. Although she couldn't stand the mentality of the Han officials who were arrogant and regarded foreigners as livestock, she also knew that she could not change anything.

In the luxurious and spacious banquet living room, sitting on a wooden chair, Afafu did not go upstairs. She was about to deal with it in the hall for a night, and took out another black bun and took a bite. She would not eat during Ramadan and daytime.

Ye Zhao tasted the tea, looked at the hard steamed buns on Afafu's hand, and shook her head. Although there were canned beef in the army, she would not eat the food made by the Emperor's team.

After a while, the Fanren Tongren ran in, nodded and bowed, and said with a smile: "Sir, I asked, the pig was called Basang. He said that his sister was locked in the manor dungeon. He came to save his sister and had no intention of assassinating him."

Ye Zhao put down the teacup, frowned and said, "Dungeon? Call those girls to ask."

"Girl?" Tong Yi was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that he was talking about the most humble talents.

Soon several female slaves who were so scared that their faces turned pale were brought up.

Seeing Ye Zhao and the beautiful words to talk to the female slaves, Afafu's eyes showed a look of surprise.

The dungeon is on the easternmost side of the first floor of the turret. Walking through a long narrow corridor, you will see an iron door ahead, locked tightly, and the oil lamp is flickering.

The female slave who led the way was so scared that her whole body trembled, as if the devil would be rushed out of the inside at any time. She would not dare to move forward a step a dozen steps away from the iron gate.

"Smash it open." Ye Zhao made a gesture.

A guard came to find an iron hammer and swung it hard. The iron lock fell to the ground. The iron door was kicked open, and then a sour smell came to his face. There were stone steps winding downwards in the iron door, and the black holes could not see the situation below.

"I won't go down to see it." Ye Zhao suddenly sighed and said to Afafu again: "Miss Bai, don't look at it." He turned around and walked out of the corridor.

Afafu prayed silently in his heart and arrived at the entrance of the corridor. Soon, he saw Basang rushing into the corridor accompanied by guards, and then a heart-wrenching howl like a beast echoed throughout the earthen castle.

In the banquet hall, Ye Zhao's face was as heavy as water, and he issued a series of orders to capture the captain Duo Rijie, and ordered Shenjiying to surround Tibetans on the backcaoshan Mountain in the village, and no one was allowed to leave.

This is also impossible. If they arrested their chief, how could the Tibetans know the truth? They were afraid they would be frightened and fled immediately. Now they can only temporarily use force to imprison them.

Originally, Tibetan tribes, no matter what, now have no benefit to these nobles ruled for generations. If they are spread by rumors, they will definitely cause panic among Tibetans.

But when the guards told the miserable situation of the female slave in the dungeon, their fingers were chopped off, and they were bleeding and almost no piece of flesh on their body was good. Seeing that they were dying, they were afraid they could not survive today.

It's tragic! Ye Zhao didn't want to wait any longer, and he made a decision almost instantly.

After a series of imperial edicts were issued, Ye Zhao ordered the guards to hurry to Baoancheng to send telegrams back to Lanzhou and the capital. In fact, the telegram was prepared long ago, and he was planning to release them again steadily, but now he is asking the capital and Lanzhou to step up their work.

In the telegram, Lanzhou was asked to temporarily form a propaganda team and select political cadres to form a training class to Huangnan to promote imperial policies in Huang Naihai's ministry. At the same time, qualified Tibetans were selected to train the first batch of Tibetan cadres.

As a pilot project, Huangnan will carry out political structure reform and train Tibetan cadres to enter the *** environment in the future. It will undoubtedly be a good start.

Of course, now we have to start with the Huang Naihai tribe, and the other eleven tribes must be stable, otherwise it will inevitably cause panic in Huangnan.

The crime of being punished by many days is only said that he colluded with the Frank Party, provoked fighting among various tribes and created a bloody crime.

Just as Ye Zhao pondered, Duo Rijie was tied up and pushed into the banquet hall. From beginning to end, the gunshots were not sounded, and Duo Rijie's arms were dismissed.

"Sir, what mistake did I make?" Duo Rijie asked unyieldingly, tilting his head.

Ye Zhaoli ignored him, just waved his hand and said, "Hold into the dungeon!" and told him what the meaning is to kill slaves because of his cruel torture? The gap in thought is not at all.

In the next few days, the temporary propaganda team and political cadres training class in Lanzhou came to Huang Naihai's tribe. Their level may not be very high, but their superficial views on imperial policies are more likely to be understood by Tibetans.

As the only Tibetan translator, Afafu naturally began to come into contact with various imperial thought books such as public *** and people's livelihood rights. Ye Zhao often saw her concentrate on reading the original theoretical books in her study.

The weather is getting colder and the midsummer season has passed. In a blink of an eye, Ye Zhao lived in the Huang Naihai Manor for three months. During this period, the telegram line was built from Baoancheng to Huang Naihai, and the people of the Huang Naihai tribe gradually settled down. Except for the more than a hundred people who escaped at the earliest, the living order has returned to normal now.

The stream was winding, walking on the grass slope, looking at the herdsmen driving cattle and sheep in the distance, Ye Zhao stood with his hands behind his back, silent.

Following Ye Zhao is Basang, who is now an activist in the training class of Tibetan cadres.

In fact, in three months, how could it be possible to truly change the thoughts of these Tibetans? What they have instilled with Tibetans now is just owing debts and paying their lives, contract system, etc. A month ago, Ye Zhao announced that he would rent the confiscated land and grassland to all tribes, including Cai Yuhu, who has been slaves for generations, to be divided into fields or pastures, and then sign contracts with them. Seeing that the labor that needs to be undertaken has greatly reduced taxes, and in a year, he will definitely have surplus wealth. The people of the ministry silently accepted this change.

In fact, most of the ministry did not believe in the propaganda of the Central Plains, so how could such good things happen? Many people think that they don’t know what kind of mischief people in the Central Plains were pouring. You should know that in the past, even if they say the wrong thing, they would be fined by the head. If they were barely left behind, they would definitely be beaten. Now, what? Officials are not allowed to beat and scold people at will? Everyone has land and grassland to rent private property from labor? Is this paradise? It must be the conspiracy of the Central Plains people. But under the intimidating divine cannon, they could only obey the arrangements of the Central Plains people.

Of course, there are also a small number of people who believe that the Lord Lu Zheng was reincarnated by the Great Wei De King Kong to save them from the sea of ​​suffering. The Emperor of the Central Plains was even more said by the people of the Central Plains to show the Great Sun Tathagata, otherwise why would he be so sympathetic to his sufferings?

Basang is one of the minority believers in the Central Plains, especially ten days ago, Duorijie was hanged for "collusion with rebels" and "killing imperial citizens". Basang's psychological balance finally completely turned to the Central Plains.

Even if the people of the Central Plains had an ulterior motive, he didn't care. He never thought that when he saw Duo Rijie struggling to die, his mood would be so comfortable that he would die. He had never had such an idea in his dream before.

Duo Rijie was hanged, which seemed to liberate the Tibetans' imprisoned feelings. Ye Zhao would not even imagine the shock that they caused to the Tibetans' hearts.

The death of Duo Rijie also frightened the heads of the twelve tribes of Regong. Three days ago, the Third Battalion of Shenji arrested the Yalang tribe who incited Tibetans from Huangnan. At the same time, each of the other ten divisions was sent to each of the divisions of the twelfth tribe, and then sent out activists from the Huang Naihai tribe to speak out and publicize the changes of Huang Naihai to the Tibetans.

Ye Zhao is already preparing to let Lanzhou take over Huangnan affairs. After all, this is not a overnight achievement. He cannot stay here forever. The tone has been set, and the next question is time.

Huangnan naturally wanted to build a county, and the twelve tribes were twelve townships. In fact, in Huang Naihai, the township chief and the security team were built, and the township chief was Basang. However, whether it was the township chief or the security team, they were all confused and were temporarily in the learning stage. In a short period of time, they could not manage Huang Naihai's government affairs. The township office senator was an official from Lanzhou and became Basang's teacher.

"Basan, whether everyone of your tribe can have food to eat will depend on you in the future." Ye Zhao looked at Aoyama Tahara and gently patted Basan's shoulder.

Basang stood beside the comforter and discovered for the first time that the pasture was vast and so wide, just as if the comforter had opened his eyes and saw the scenery he had never seen before.

As night fell, a police roar suddenly sounded in Huang Naihai's village, and then gunshots sounded. The Yushu cavalry of the Frank Party and hundreds of lancers were screaming and shouting, roaring from the fields.

Then, two consecutive cannons set up at the entrance of the village fired violently like beans. The horses cried out in the faint flames. The horse bandits fell one by one. Behind the barbed wire, the Shenji Camp's guns were like rain. Almost no horse could rush to the entrance of the village. When the horse bandits were defeated, the loud trumpets in the village sounded, and the cavalrymen of the Knight Camp attacked like flying, like thunder, rolled towards the fleeing horse bandits. The sound of gunfire and screams, and the bandits were caught one after another. There were countless new souls added to the grass.

Afafu saw the great power of the Imperial War Machine for the first time, and her pretty face changed slightly. Obviously, her remnants would have no room for resistance in front of this force, and would not even be as good as the mantis arm that was fooled by a car.

When the gunshots sounded, Ye Shogo Aizuki and Hanaki were about to grill lamb skewers on the balcony of the dormitory.

When the gunshots sounded, Ye Zhao did not go out to see it. He still brushed oil on the mutton skewers with the two women and prepared seasonings. When the skewers were set on fire and grilled, the guards came to report that the horse bandits were defeated, most of them were wiped out, and a small group was captured, and only more than ten people escaped.

Ye Zhao knew that this was a defeated bandit soldier in the Guluo area under the attack of the Qing Dynasty Corps, and he could only live by robbing everywhere. However, the Fair Party in Yushu area was extremely popular with the hearts of the tribes and was good at dispersed guerrilla warfare. It was not easy to clear the entire Qinghai area.

After receiving a call from Zhao Sanbao, the National Master Zhangjia was already escorted to Tibet under the escort of the Army. I think it's not far from my life to get up and go to Beijing. It's time for me to return to Beijing.

During this period, I even heard rumors that they had their own death in the south and north of the Yangtze River. It was good that the waves were washing away the sand, and I just happened to see where the unstable factors were.

The negotiations with the British about Sikkim status were not going well, but now, we can only let go. With the current finances of the empire, it is already difficult to support the war in the northwest, and we have no time to take care of the southwest.

When Ye Zhao thought of these, he sighed. I wonder when he could really eat a meal easily. It seems to be a luxury, but in fact, how can he be happy to be promoted to the common people?

Having said that, in addition to the heartless emperors of several dynasties, how many people are as happy as they imagined?

"Sir, don't think about national affairs anymore. I'll call Miss Bai to eat barbecue?" Aiyue Yiori's pink kimono was unparalleled.

Ye Zhao laughed: "You and Hua Ji are very good at face, go and shout." If you want to say that Afafu and Ashitsuki Yiori, Hua Ji gets along well. During these days, Ye Zhao often writes something in the study and almost never really sleeps in the dormitory. He often takes a short sleep during the day. Instead, Afafu spends more time with the two girls, and even takes the two girls to Longwu Temple to worship Buddha and watch the scenery on Komiya Mountain. Thanks to her accompanying the two girls.

Aiyue Yiori and Hanaki indeed brought Afafu, but when he saw Ye Zhao, Afafu was slightly stunned, as if he thought Ye Zhao was not here.

"Today it's all mutton and river food. I know you're here, but the gentleman didn't order my favorite pork belly." Weiyue Yiruo said naturally, but Ye Zhao couldn't help but smile bitterly. He knew that she had no intention of being on the other side, but just talking about the facts, but why did it feel strange?

"Do you want me to avoid it?" Ye Zhao knew that there were many taboos for unmarried Muslims girls, and he didn't know whether to avoid eating barbecue with men.

"No need." Afafu said, then gently took off the white veil, revealing her beautiful and beautiful face.

Ye Zhao nodded, thinking that his situation is rare in the world. Is it a great national unity today? The Yi, Hui, Yamato, and three beautiful girls with different beliefs and styles eat barbecue together. This feels very novel.

The balcony is extremely wide, and the night is beautiful tonight, and the round jade plate seems to be within reach.

"Sir, will we go back to Beijing in two days?" Aiyue Yiori handed the grilled skewers to Ye Zhao, Hua Ji and Afafu in turn.

Ye Zhao had long been used to the days when he was wearing clothes and food to open his mouth. He took it for granted, nodded, reached out to pinch Hua Ji's beautiful little face, and said, "Yes, you have suffered in the past few months. Hua Ji's wife, are you exhausted, right?"

When Ye Zhao called her wife, Hua Ji Xiao was worried and worried, she shook her head and said, "I'm not tired." She helped Ye Zhao peel the shrimp skin on her hands.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "When the train is connected in the future, I will bring you here again. At that time, it will definitely be very interesting to visit the old place again."

Both women nodded.

Although Afafu was curious, she didn't say anything. In fact, she was with Aizuki Iori and Hanaki. It was unprecedented that they talked about foreign countries, overseas, trains, electric lights, and everything. She didn't believe it, but she knew that Aizuki Iori and Hanaki were not lying.

At this time, Ye Zhao remembered and said to Afafu: "Ah, you want to make fire by yourself, right? I'll ask them to give you a pack, twenty boxes, enough?"

When Afafu first saw a female guard in the Central Plains use matches, he was shocked. Later, he secretly told Hua Ji that he wanted a box of matches, but whether it was Wei Yue Yiori or Hua Ji, he would ask Ye Zhao for instructions on everything, and he also told Ye Zhao.

Listening to Ye Zhao's words, Afafu was a little unnatural. After all, Ye Zhao was a Han military officer, so she was her mortal enemy.

"The night is beautiful tonight." Ye Zhao bit the skewers, but poured a glass of red wine for each of Aiyue Yiori and Hanaki.

The Muslim woman has a very low status, so when she saw Aiyue Yiori and Hanaki obey Ye Zhao, Afafu didn't feel anything, but seeing Ye Zhao pour wine for the two girls, she was slightly stunned.

"Miss Bai, thank you for your help during this period." Ye Zhao raised his wine glass and signaled to Alfafu slightly.

Afafu shook his head and said, "I am repaying your kindness for saving my grandfather."
To be continued...