Those years of engaging with the system for animal insurance

On the ceiling of the cave, sunlight is cut into dozens of strands of gold that move a little over time.

Through the reflection of the stone wall, the entire cave is mostly white stalactites, and the sight is much brighter immediately.

Li Cixin looked up, it was a huge hole, but because it was covered by a dense net made of weeds and vines, it happened to be night before.He never found an exit above his head.

But now the sky is bright, and the full sunlight pours down through the dense plants, forming such a spectacle.

After spotting the location, Li Cixin flapped his powerful wings and successfully broke through the obstacle and flew into the sky.

………………

"Gel Nine, Gel Nine, Wait, Grandpa!"

"Grandpa, hurry up!"

In the steep mountain forest, two people, one old and one young, are climbing the slope.

Li Cixin lay invisible on a boulder not far away, watching them quietly.

The clothes of the two people did not look like Han people, but ethnic minorities.But they are all cross-collared clothes on the right lapel, unlike the ethnic minority costumes seen by Li Cixin in later generations.It's just that the color of the clothes and the simple embroidery style show that they are definitely not Han.

Li Cixin switched out the language conversion ability by himself, only to find out that they are Miao people.

The grandparents and grandchildren each carry a bamboo-backed basket, just to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and herbs.

"Grandpa, there are bracken here!" the little boy said excitedly.

"I didn't expect that at this time, there are still bracken that have not been picked."

Came over for a while: "Grandpa, I discovered Gastrodia elata!"

"where?"

Sure enough, in the unremarkable grass, a Gastrodia elata shyly hid in it.

The grandfather and grandson dug a lot of wild vegetables and herbs, and when they planned to return from another road, they were on the cliff not far away.A figure caught the little boy's attention.

"Grandpa, look what that is?!"

The old man glanced and was shocked:

"Ganoderma lucidum! What a huge Ganoderma lucidum!"

"Grandpa, but the Ganoderma lucidum is on the cliff, how can I pick it?"

"Don't worry, Grandpa has a solution!"

As he spoke, the old man took out a long hemp rope from the basket and began to tie it around his waist.

The boy looked down the mountain, and the high drop made him shrink back suddenly in fright.He ran over, hugged the old man's thigh, and said tremblingly:

"Grandpa, let's not pick the ganoderma, we will die if we drop it!"

The action of the old man tying the rope paused for a moment, but he continued to buckle it.After the rope was tied, the old man stopped, stroked the top of the little boy's hair, and said:

"Son, as long as grandpa picks the Ganoderma lucidum and gives it to the government, it will offset a large half of the tax we have to pay in the village this year. Be good, be good."

The old man deftly threw the rope tied with stones up to a tree. After fixing it, he took a deep breath and began to climb up.

Below him was the cliff, and he walked across the rocks calmly, as if he had trained countless times with his dexterous movements.

Just one step away from the Ganoderma lucidum, the perennially damp cliff was covered with moss. As soon as the old man caught the Ganoderma lucidum, his foot slipped and he fell down.

Fortunately, the strong hemp rope hung him, holding the Ganoderma lucidum in one hand and reluctant to let go.But luck never comes in pairs, and misfortunes never come singly, the branch stuck on the rope, for some unknown reason, whimpered.

The branches were broken bit by bit, and the old man's hands and feet kept climbing on the slippery cliff, but there was no place to exert his strength!

Gradually in despair, the whole person quickly fell down.

"Grandpa!"

Just when both of them thought they were powerless to return to the sky, the old man who had been falling stayed in mid-air.

The top of the rope seemed to be pulled by a force, and the old man was lifted up little by little, and thrown to a safe place. Until this moment, the old man still held the Ganoderma lucidum tightly with his right hand.

Neither of them knew what happened, and suddenly a figure appeared in the air, like a dog or a fox.The whole body is snow-white, with a pair of white wings, three big furry tails hanging behind it, and a pair of pink eyes as if inlaid with gems.

The old man stared stupidly for a moment, and a young man's voice suddenly appeared in his mind:

"Are you a Hmong?"

"Lord Fox Immortal! Yes, Xiaomin is a Miao people."

"Do you know where there are rhinos?"

"Rhinoceros? Xiaomin knows, knows, in the forest thirty miles east of here, some people say they found a rhinoceros. But..."

"But what?"

"Xiaomin heard that the Thousand Households of the imperial court gathered not far away will organize soldiers to hunt rhinos during this time."

"it is good……"

As soon as the words fell, Li Cixin used his invisibility ability and disappeared out of thin air.

The old man and the child stayed where they were for a few minutes, and then stood up after confirming that the big white fox had disappeared.

The little boy asked curiously:

"Grandpa, why did you specifically mention the court hunting rhinos?"

"The fox fairy is on our Miaoren mountain, so it must be our fairy. Gejiu, remember what grandpa told you?"

"Remember, Grandpa said that the imperial court is all bad guys, and the Han people are all bad guys who robbed our land."

"Yes," the old man said with a sigh, "Grandpa lived at the junction of Huguang Province and Guizhou when he was young. There is a very beautiful Miao village there, and there are also playmates of Grandpa when he was young."

The tone of the old man’s memory changed, and he immediately gritted his teeth: “However, after those Han officials moved in, they took our land and stationed troops. They also moved in many Han people, and we were not allowed to buy salt privately. Those officials raised money for money. Salt price and agricultural tax.

We were so angry that it was our land and we rebelled.

Afterwards, the stockade where Grandpa lived since he was a child, as well as several nearby stockades, were attacked by the imperial army.None of the grown men survived.Young girls and girls were taken away and never heard from again.

Those playmates of Grandpa's childhood, who were only your age, were arrested and taken to the capital, and became eunuchs.Grandfather and your great-grandfather escaped by chance, and fled to Yunnan Province with the survivors.I haven't forgotten it all these years. "

"Grandpa, what is an eunuch?" the little boy asked curiously.

"A eunuch... is a boy without a penis."

"I don't want to, I want to keep my dick!" the little boy exclaimed.

"Okay, okay, if you don't obey, I will throw you to the court and cut off your penis."

"And what happened next, Grandpa?"

"Later..."

The voices of the old and the young are getting smaller and smaller, and the story is getting farther and farther.

Li Cixin reappeared at the place where the "fox fairy" disappeared. In fact, he didn't leave at all, and he listened to the conversation between his grandparents and grandchildren.

He vaguely remembered that in history, the Ming Dynasty combined the Weisuo system with the Tusi system that originally governed ethnic minorities in the Yuan Dynasty.

This is the first time that an ancient Chinese dynasty has effectively managed an area with few people.

However, the rule of man has many disadvantages after all. Originally, because of historical problems, the areas where the ethnic minorities in Huaxia Kingdom lived were some marginal and barren lands.

In the Tusi system, barbarians were ruled by barbarians, and the imperial court appointed ethnic minority leaders as administrators.This system went through the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and reached its peak in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.And until the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, it was completely replaced by reforming the land and returning to the stream.

The Weisuo system requires soldiers to cultivate the fields themselves to reduce the financial burden, but this makes the land conflicts more acute in the minority areas where there is little land.

During the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, ethnic minorities represented by Miao, Buyi, and Yi often rebelled.

During the Ming Dynasty, due to the coexistence of the two systems and the increase in the population of the Han people, the imperial court realized "catch up the seedlings and expand their careers" and moved the Han people to these places.It also makes ethnic minorities "a small rebellion in 30 years, and a big rebellion in 60 years."

After that, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still "catch up with seedlings and expand their careers", and was always on the way to suppress the rebellion.

The reform of the native land and returning to the natives began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, because the rulers of the Ming Dynasty at that time had realized that the previous system could not completely eradicate the rebellion, so the central government directly sent officials to replace the local chiefs.

The famous Confucian master Wang Yangming enlightened himself in Longchang, Guizhou after he was demoted.Let go of ethnic prejudices, teach children of local ethnic groups to read and write, cultivate a group of literati, and win the support of the local people.

Some people even disrespected Wang Yangming and were beaten violently by the locals.

Wang Yangming's success shows that ethnic barriers can be reduced.

After the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by Li Zicheng's peasant uprising army, Wu Sangui opened Shanhaiguan.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the 20 Qing army plus the [-] borrowed Mongolian army, and the reorganized Han army, probably less than [-] people, finally won the world.

Some people in later generations believed that the Little Ice Age led to the complete subversion of the Ming Dynasty.However, the Qing Dynasty was further north, with a smaller population, and would only be more affected by the climate.

In the final analysis, it is still the drawbacks of the centralized monarchy that are at work.A declining nation meets a rising nation.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a beggar, distributed the land to the poor after conquering the country, and especially hated the corruption and extravagance of officials.So many rules were formulated, hoping to create a Qingshui Yamen.

It can be said: "Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver." How can people's desire not grow because of this?

Those who are the first to obtain resources will firmly grasp their own power and money, and then pass it on to their children and grandchildren.However, this kind of resources tends to snowball more and more, and it is not uncommon to use power for personal gain.

Even university student cadres have priority in obtaining some places for joining the party and scholarships, not to mention ancient officials.

From another point of view, when the real Datong society is not realized, human nature is driven by profit.If there are not enough benefits, how many of those talented people will do it with you?No one will do a job for no wages, which is essentially an unsolvable problem.

There are four words called "land merger".

It refers to some gentry and landlords in the ancient central imperial society.Often in disaster years, farmers' land is bought at low prices. If farmers don't sell their land, they will starve to death, so they have to sell it.

In this way, generation after generation, the land was concentrated in the hands of these big landowners and big country gentry.The so-called peasants, peasants, businessmen, and peasants refer to these landlords and gentry, not those poor peasants who have no land.

They are the targets of the rulers.

And those peasants who lost their land could only sell themselves as slaves and become farm laborers and tenant farmers.Generation after generation to repay high interest.

This is why, at the end of each dynasty, class contradictions even replace all other contradictions.

The class contradictions within the Ming Dynasty had reached a critical point.

Many royalists don't realize that the Zhu family's royal family, which has no production and has clans all over the world, is the biggest landlord.

There is another very important reason, long-term class solidification will lead to the people at the bottom becoming more ignorant and more "resigned to their fate".

When the people of an empire generally feel that money and power are paramount, they no longer believe that hard work can change their destiny.It proves that class solidification has reached a high level without knowing it.

There is a very interesting phenomenon, that is, most of the rich people who own the vast majority of social resources actually have the least position.Because for them, there are too many things to lose.

On the contrary, people in the middle and lower classes love their own nation and homeland more. This may come from a kind of identity recognition, and people are really strange.

Li Cixin asked:

"Xiaobao, can I intervene in such ethnic conflicts?"

"No, Huaxia is an important country in the early days of earth civilization. If you interfere too much in its history, it will easily lead to the collapse of time and space. If you want to intervene, you must not affect the general trend."

"Okay, I understand." Li Cixin stopped the idea of ​​meddling in the dynasty change, and nodded.

Flying stealthily for thirty miles, there are many villages built among steep mountains.

A few minutes later, Li Cixin finally saw the rhinoceros, but the condition was not very good.

"Quick, quick! You guys, go to the right and put a noose on it!"

On the ground, a group of soldiers was besieging a rhinoceros. The rhinoceros looked like a sub-adult body, and there were already many wounds on some thin-skinned places on its body.

"Forget it, get out of the way, I'll hit this beast with a firecracker, and I'll hold it back!"

In the air, Li Cixin saw that officer took out his firecracker and aimed at the rhino's head, and he swooped down immediately!