August 22, 1794, that is, August 21, the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong's reign, Yabao Village, Yongshun Prefecture, western Hunan.
In the dark night, all the men, women, old and young in the village fell asleep, but in front of the Wenwu Earth Temple on a high slope two miles to the west of the village, there were blazing torches and drums and music.
Dozens of Miao men standing solemnly formed a circle. In the center of the crowd was a statue of Chi You, more than two meters high, carved from a huge log. It has animal fangs on its head, a copper ring on its nose, and a
In the battle robe, he holds a giant mountain-climbing ax in his left hand and an animal-faced shield in his right hand. He has bulging eyes and a green face with fangs. He looks bold, rough, and extremely evil.
At the foot of the statue, three wooden spiritual tablets and incense candles are enshrined as tributes. The words "Shimen Ma" are written on the middle tablet. Four Miao wizards called "Badeza" wear red robes.
, wearing a red handkerchief and a cowhide crown on his head, stepping on steel steps, holding a token, muttering something in his mouth, and performing exercises in circles around the statue.
Not long after, three badeza blew the horns, and another threw the four-frame bamboo joint used for divination at a stone slab at the foot of the statue. At this time, all the Miao people present looked over with wide eyes.
The two halves of bamboo, one facing down and the other facing up, are all very happy.
"The ancestor gods appear, this is a sign from the heavens!"
"The ancestor god Chi You is about to give birth!"
At this time, an old man in the crowd wearing a black cloth robe and a black turban with a pheasant feather on his head walked up to another old man in the same attire and asked politely: "Uncle Long Deng, the ancestor of Chi You"
The spirit is about to appear and be reborn. It was Sanbao who first initiated the contact with the various villages. What do you think about recognizing him as the king?"
The old man said: "In August, I am old, so I will do what you and the leaders of each village want."
It is said that feathers are placed on the headscarves of Miao men, which represents their status. Only those with the level of the village head of a hundred households can wear it. The old man known as "Uncle Longdeng" is named Wu Longdeng, who is the head of a hundred households in the Yabao Village.
; and the old man called "August" is Wu August, the leader of Pinglong Village in Qianzhou.
Seeing Wu August nodded with satisfaction and left, returning to his previous position and standing, a middle-aged man in his forties came up behind Wu Longdeng, covered his mouth with one hand, and whispered in his ear: "Father-in-law, since God
Choosing the Great God Chi You to entrust our family with a child, you should be the Miao King. You are the senior leader among the leaders of each village. When the time comes for the birth of the Ancestral God Chi You, why not be the first to do so? Is there any reason not to recognize him?"
"Presumptuous!" Wu Longdeng frowned and scolded: "You have no right to speak here!"
The face of the son-in-law behind him changed, and he retreated sarcastically.
While the two were talking, the four badezas circled around the statue of Chi You again, holding a magic weapon in one hand and making incantations in the other, chanting incantations. After walking around for a few times, one of the badezas raised his hand to the statue.
He saluted and said in a loud voice: "The king of Miao descended from heaven, Chiyou entrusted his life, and ordered the Miao people to come down to earth!"
After he finished speaking, the three other badezas standing on three sides of the statue also shouted: "Command the Miao people to come down to earth!"
At this time, Wu August bowed to the statue with his fists clasped and said loudly: "The ancestor god Chi You is about to appear and light the pine lamp!"
As an oil lamp hung with a rope under the eaves of the Earth Temple was lit, everyone present knelt down. The leader, Badeza, kowtowed and said: "Drive out the guest people, restore the homeland, take back the Miao land and enjoy peace."
, I beg the Miao King to come quickly! Come quickly!”
"I'm coming too!"
Before Badeza finished speaking, an old man in his fifties with a full beard among the kneeling crowd suddenly roared, and then his whole body shook as if going crazy. Seeing this, several people around him quickly worked together to kill him.
Help him up.
I saw that this man was tall and burly, with eyes like copper bells, and a muscular face covered with dense beards, like a clump of messy thatch. He was somewhat similar to the Chi You in front of him. He was
It is the "Three Baos" mentioned by Wu August before - Shi Sanbao, the leader of Yongsui Huanggua Village.
Shi Sanbao, who was helped up, had his eyes wide open, and his body continued to shake for a moment before he stopped. He took a handful of lit incense from the hands of someone behind him, walked a few steps to the statue, knelt down, held up the incense and saluted, and said loudly: "Chi You."
The ancestral gods have learned that the guest people have occupied our paddy fields and oppressed and exploited me for a long time. Now the ancestral god of Chiyou has entrusted me, Shi Sanbao, to be the king. I will invite the villagers from the three realms of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan to drive out the guest people and return to their homeland! I ask the ancestral gods to bless me.
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Everyone present kowtowed in unison and said, "Ask the ancestors for blessings!"
After everyone finished speaking, Badeza shouted loudly: "The Miao King is born!"
I bet this Miao king is basically all about grabbing, whoever stands up first will be... Just kidding, in fact, Shi Sanbao was able to pretend that Chi You was reincarnated and become the Miao king because the village leaders present today have reached a tacit understanding.
In early July, Shi Sanbao's nephew Shi Youbao, as well as his family members Shi Laoshen, Shi Laoyan, Shi Laoyang and others went crazy one after another, saying that if the Miao people wanted to be officials, they would kill all the Hakkas and take back the land.
At the same time, he also said that a Miao King would emerge from Huangguazhai, and even named Shi Sanbao. Not long after that, people in several other villages began to go crazy and said the same thing.
As a result, the saying that Shi Sanbao was the son of the Miao king spread throughout the Miao villages in western Hunan. However, although he had gained fame, there was still a ceremony to be conducted by a Miao wizard to confirm that he was the Miao king chosen by the ancestor god Chiyou.
, otherwise it will be difficult to convince the public.
The reason why it was chosen to be held at the Earth Temple in Yabaozhai is because Yabaozhai is recognized as the rebirth place of Chiyou’s ancestral spirit in western Hunan, and the Miao king before he was converted to earth and returned to his native land was born here.
This is also why Wu Longdeng's son-in-law said, "Chiyou was born in our family" and wanted to encourage his father-in-law to seize the throne of Miao King. The problem is that Wu Longdeng is over sixty this year, and he can't lead troops to fight; there are many mountains in western Hunan.
There was little flat land, and one could only go out by foot. Besides, Shi Sanbao took his family members to play "invite the gods", which made people from all over the country know about it. If he wanted to fight at this time, he obviously lacked the confidence.
Speaking of the grievances between the Miao and Hakka people in western Hunan, we have to mention the conversion of the Miao territory in western Hunan. The contradictions in this process mainly focus on two points, one is the land, and the other is the Qing court's way of governing the Miao territory.
From the 42nd year of Kangxi to the 59th year of Qianlong, after ninety years of development, the population of Western Hunan increased rapidly. The Miao population alone doubled to more than 400,000. With the large number of Han immigrants,
With the migration, the relationship between people and land in Miao territory has become increasingly tense.
Slash-and-burn farming is the traditional farming method of the Miao people in western Hunan, and it is also a "nomad farming"; a piece of land will be abandoned after being cultivated for three or four years, and then another land will be found to start over. The change in the location of the farmland has caused the Miao people's residential areas to change.
Following changes, unlike the Han people who have fixed residential and farming areas.
In addition, the Miao people have a custom of attaching importance to financial resources over life and death. The interest on the internal borrowings of the Miao village is calculated on the basis of cattle; one fist grows every year, and the interest alone is one cow when it grows to eight fists. When the internal borrowings cannot be repaid, the Miao people will
They borrowed usurious loans from the Han people and used their fields as collateral. Take Yongsui Hall in western Hunan as an example. When the hall was built, there was Miao land outside the city. After only 20 or 30 years, all these lands became Han people's.
On the one hand, the population of the Miao people increased, and the cultivated land became increasingly insufficient; on the other hand, the Han people occupied the Miao people's cultivated land through legal or illegal means, and the grievances between the two sides became increasingly serious.
Let’s talk about the Qing government’s governance of the Miao territory. The border policies of the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong were similar regardless of the ethnic groups in the east, west, north, and south. The specific measures were to enrich them with acres of land, teach them etiquette and justice, enforce laws and regulations, show them military power, and prevent them.
Be strict and lure them with benefits.
Like the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the Manchus, from the imperial court dignitaries to ordinary people, regarded the Miao people as alien barbarians and discriminated from the bottom of their hearts. In addition, local officials did not show any concern about the Han people using illegal means to occupy the Miao people's land.
Without control, the Miao people had no way to complain and became increasingly hostile to the government.
When the conflicts reached their peak, the Miao people believed that since the government did not care about them, they should solve them themselves, so they came up with the slogan of "driving out the guest people and restoring the homeland." With the death of Qianlong and the succession of the new emperor, the Qing government expanded its power in the north.
The news of the defeat finally reached Xiangxi, allowing some people to see an opportunity.
There was no way around it. In those days, the mountains in western Hunan were blocking the information. In the first few years, in order to prevent the Miao people's livelihood from changing, Qianlong specifically requested the local government to strictly prohibit mentioning Beihai Town and Zhao Xin in their announcements.
Even though the Miao leaders attending the ceremony today are all owners of hundreds of villages, and they eat brown rice every meal, and the Qing government does not collect taxes from them, their lives are as good as those of the Han landlords;
The most important thing is that they have no money, and the clothes they wear are all made of homespun cloth. They have long been yearning for the wealthy life of Han officials and gentry, and many people want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune.
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After everyone in front of the statue of Chiyou finished kneeling three times and kowtowing nine times, the next step was to make a blood alliance. At this time, someone brought a big black cat and handed it to Wu August. The latter grabbed the cat with both hands and gestured to the statue: "
There is a way in the sky, and Chiyou appears! The Stone King is born, and everyone is his minister! Life and death are determined by destiny, and the black cat is the proof! If you are a betrayer, all generations will perish!"
While everyone was chanting in unison, Wu August took a dagger from someone else's hand, wiped it on the black cat's neck. With a cry, the red cat's blood fell into a mouthful of blood like a trickle.
A jar full of rice wine.
"Chiefs from all walks of life, please drink the blood oath!" Wu August took the blood wine from Badeza and signaled to everyone.
All the Miao people present were holding wine, standing behind Shi Sanbao, facing the statue, and heard Shi Sanbao say: "Cats have eyes, and the sky has spirits. We brothers share life and death, and we drink blood to form an alliance!" After that, they
He was the first to drink the rice wine mixed with cat blood.
Well, according to the ancient legend of the Miao people, the earliest domestic cats were domesticated by the San Miao people, the ancestors of the Miao people, so the Miao people were named after the right half of the word "cat". Cats are very important to the lives of the Miao people. Find out
In Feng Shui treasure places, a dead cat will be buried first, and then the person will be buried. Therefore, in a blood-based alliance ceremony like this, one must drink the cat's blood to highlight the solemnity.
(Duofu: “What kind of bullshit rule is this!”)
After drinking the blood wine, Shi Sanbao took the gold-plated Miao knife from Wu August, which represented the identity of the Miao king, and put on a yellow cloak. At this point, he, the Miao king who commanded the Siting Miao village in western Hunan, was officially in place.
A few days later, Shi Sanbao invited Shi Liudeng, Shi Daiga, Shi Yemei, Wu August, Wu Bantian and others to discuss matters in his hometown of Huangguazhai. Everyone agreed that the uprising would be officially launched on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, and Wu August would
Write a message and invite Miao people from various villages at the junction of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.
For a time, there was an undercurrent in the three provinces of Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and hundreds of thousands of Miao people were gearing up, waiting for the day of the incident.
Since the Qianjia Miao riots and the Sichuan-Shaanxi White Lotus Rebellion happened almost immediately in another time and space, and they were extinguished by the Qing army in just over a year, so for Zhao Xin, who was far away in Beihai Town to guide the country,
Didn't take it seriously at all.
Zhao Xin was so busy! As soon as the meeting in Fuldan City ended, he and Zhao Liang went to Khabarovsk together.
Although he told Shen Xuan and A Miao that he was going to inspect the construction progress of the steel plant, in the eyes of the two women, this stinky man was going to see Tang Xiao and his daughter.
Tang Xiao claimed to be the vice principal of Boli Iron and Steel Primary School, but in fact it was just a name and she didn't even get a salary. Ever since she had Zhao Xin's flesh and blood, she had no intention of teaching. When the child was one year old, Tang Xiao
Due to some reasons, the child no longer wanted to live in Fuldan City, so Zhao Xin placed the mother and daughter in the family area of the steel factory.
Today, there are more than 7,000 workers in the steel plant in Khabarovsk plus supporting factories, and nearly 2,000 people with their families. In order to solve the housing problem of these people - mainly to avoid private buildings and random construction, the Civil Affairs Bureau has established a steel plant on the east bank of the Hundong River.
Two kilometers northwest of the upwind position, an area of more than a thousand acres has been circled for the construction of family areas. In line with the principle of "one thing does not bother two people", the steel plant passes through many residential areas and is also located here, but with the employees
The area is one kilometer apart and surrounded by woods.
In order to provide more than 100 steel factory workers with good food, housing, and peace of mind to work, Zhao Xin asked the civil affairs engineering team to build more than 20 two-apart courtyard houses, where six people can live in one apartment, with two rooms and one water supply for each person.
The large blue-tiled house with carved beams and paintings is equipped with various facilities including bathrooms, generators, and earth heaters. In addition, the average temperature in Khabarovsk during the hottest summer is less than 25 degrees, and it is only ten degrees at night.
A few degrees, so there is no need to install air conditioning at all.
In order to ensure safety, there is a platoon of Beihai navy patrolling the perimeter of the community day and night, the kind that carry guns and lead big wolfdogs. Coupled with surveillance cameras that have no blind spots, outsiders cannot enter at all.
Two years ago at night, two Manchu spies came here to investigate. They thought that this place was heavily guarded and must contain some important secrets. Unexpectedly, they were discovered by the patrol less than a minute after entering, and they were chased away.
Like rabbits. In the end, these two guys were blocked by four horses and dogs. When the patrolling Northern Navy arrived, the scene was quite tragic.
The reason why Zhao Xin got together with Tang Xiao was not entirely because the latter became more and more beautiful as he grew taller, but mainly because this girl was so cruel to be with him, which moved him.
Tang Xiao started to bind his feet when he was a little over four years old. By the age of thirteen, they had already formed. Simply placing the feet was completely useless and required surgery. The problem is that Hong Tao is not a plastic surgeon. He even knows little about orthopedics.
How dare you do this! In the first few years, fracture treatment in Beihai Town relied on a traumatologist named Zhang who was a prisoner of the Qing army.
The Eight Banners soldiers were good at riding and shooting. Fractures and joint dislocations were common after falling from horses. The institution responsible for treating injured soldiers was the Chuoban Office of Shangsiyuan. "Chuoban" is a Manchu word, which means bone setting. The problem is
In this era, bone setting was done by touching and connecting, and there was never any talk of surgery. When Dr. Zhang heard that he wanted to give a woman with small feet some relief, he refused to agree to anything. Not to mention that women's feet in this era could not be touched, even if they were touched
He couldn't do it, not at all.
However, Tang Xiao was a stubborn person, and she couldn't get back what she was determined to do. In order to make Zhao Xin accept her, she simply went to Hong Tao's house and knelt down in front of the couple, weeping and begging. In her opinion, the Hong Tao couple were
"Miracle doctor", as long as he has his heart, he will definitely agree. How could Director Liu bear this? He was so moved that he burst into tears. She was involved in the process of rescuing these girls from beginning to end.
In desperation, Hong Tao had to agree to find a way, but he had to wait for a while. In order to complete Beihai Town's first female foot surgery, Hong Tao specifically asked Zhao Xin to take him back to another time and space, collect and consult a large amount of information, and also took
Tang Xiao asked a college classmate who was a plastic surgeon to take X-rays. His classmate was shocked after seeing the X-rays. He thought to himself that there are still girls with bound feet in these days. Are their parents crazy? They almost called the police.
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After busying for a long time, Hong Tao finally understood that in fact, the deformities caused by women's foot binding were all manifested in the metatarsophalangeal joints and interphalangeal joints. Therefore, in order to release the curled toes, the second phalanx bone needed to be amputated during the operation.
The head of one joint and the bases of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th phalanges form a false joint.
The reason is clear, but surgery is still not possible. You must practice your hand skills and establish a strong conditioned reflex in your brain. Especially Tang Xiao's script is small. If everything goes wrong, he may have to sit in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
So Hong Tao asked Liu Zheng to buy a dozen macaques from the island country, and practiced repeatedly with the orthopedic doctor named Zhang. He even practiced with a Rakshasa prisoner of war who had his foot amputated due to frostbite, which almost drove Dr. Zhang crazy.
It took almost half a year before Hong Tao finally dared to operate on Tang Xiao. After that, she was in a wheelchair and gritted her teeth for rehabilitation. When she appeared in front of Zhao Xin again, Zhao Xin, who had been running around for more than half a year, finally
I found out that this girl actually did such an earth-shattering thing to satisfy myself. If I don’t agree to this, can I still be considered a man?
But if you agree, you can't make your identity public. As a ruler with a population of millions and a land of tens of millions of square kilometers, if you don't speak easily, you will be held responsible if you speak, let alone a decree that you proposed and signed personally?
So until today, Zhao Xin and Tang Xiao's daughter is almost three years old, and the little girl still doesn't know what her biological father does who only sees her once every few weeks or even months.