Chapter 348
During the Nanzhao period before Dali (the Central Plains was the Tang Dynasty), the large amount of gold and silver plundered by slave owners was mainly used to make vessels. In 829 AD, Du Yuanying, the governor of Jiannan, did not understand military affairs, his military preparations were abolished, and he treated his soldiers harshly, which led to the soldiers attracting Nanzhao to invade, breaking the outer city of Chengdu, and looting tens of thousands of people. This included a large number of Sichuan craftsmen, and Nanzhao's craftsmanship of smelting gold and silver made rapid progress.
During the Nanzhao period, most areas of the country were still uncivilized barbarians. These tribes of all sizes still lived a life of slash-and-burn farming. They were almost no different from primitive people. The thirty-seven Wuman tribes that helped Duan Siping (the founding emperor of Dali) later established the Dali Kingdom were the most famous. Meng Huo, who was captured by Zhuge Liang seven times, was from Wuman. Later, Meng Huo and Meng Yan led more than 10,000 Wuman soldiers to move to Chengdu, and organized five tribes, fought bravely and were unpredictable, and were called the "Flying Army". In the war between Zhuge Liang's northern expedition to the Central Plains, the Wuman Flying Army made many extraordinary achievements.
The arrival of these Sichuan craftsmen undoubtedly made the most profits by those nobles. For example, after this, noble women used gold as jewelry, and the officials wore "Jin Qizhu" (i.e., gold belt). The guys who usually eat even changed into gold lumps. Yi Mouxun (Mengshi, the grandson of Geluofeng, the son of Feng Jiayi, and the sixth generation king of Nanzhao), and even wore gold armor clothes. When the envoys of Nanzhao went to Xichuan and Lingnan, they used "golden boxes" to pack tokens. The envoys of the Tang Dynasty went to Nanzhao and Nanzhao gave them "gold gui (a vessel made of gold)
, Silver Water Bottle’. In addition, they also used a large amount of gold and silver to cast Buddha statues. They once used three thousand taels of gold to cast three Buddha statues and five thousand taels of silver to cast a Buddha hall. Over the years, they have been continuously investing gold and silver into major temples. The most magnificent here is of course the Chongsheng Temple guarded by the Duan emperors. According to rumors, the reason why the Duan emperors liked to go to the temple to be monks was that in addition to some unknown reasons, the most reliable statement that they agreed to protect the wealth hidden in Chongsheng Temple.
Although the golden Buddha statues are placed in the temple, emitting dazzling light, and are worshipped by all kinds of men, women, young, old and noble, and young ladies, who can understand the story of blood and tears behind the golden Buddha? These golden Buddhas are almost accumulated from little bits of golden sand, and there are countless human and material resources invested in them. Among them, the gold rushing field in Lishui Village is the most miserable.
There is a saying among the people in Dali that "gold comes out of Lishui, and sand is eliminated and taken away. The sand is abolished (with property to atone for sins). Dali law, men and women commit crimes, and more Lishui is sent to the gold.' The highest time once directly threw prisoners of 32,000 people from the Mino Kingdom.
Shitou was discovered at Bai Daniu that the top of Lishui produced gold. Gao Taiyuan took it for himself and built Lishui Village and arrived here half a year later. The same group of people as him and the group of people who arrived in front had already entered the "popular pit". The reason why he survived until now was only because he was a hostage sent to Gao's family in the Wuman tribe. Gao Taiyuan did not want to turn against Wuman's thirty-seven tribes, which made him survive until now.
Before the Yellow River in Lishui Village, Huangsha came here, he almost used manpower to open mountains, move stones, and dig gold. Gao did not treat these prisoners as human beings. He did the hardest and most tiring work, but ate the worst food. It was almost no different from the concentration camps of later Germans and Japanese people. People died almost every day, and the bodies of those people were thrown into the water and became their funeral.
Shi Tou would sigh for a while at first. After seeing too many separations of life and death, he was glad that he lived in the Yellow River and the arrival of yellow sand, because after they came here, they were almost no longer dead, and even had good food.
Lishui Village is now crowded with more than 4,000 people. The Yellow River and the Yellow Sand are hidden here, and they don’t even need to put on makeup. It is almost impossible for tall people to tell them from these people. They have unified banyan heads, black faces, tattered clothes, and a stench all over their bodies. Each person takes out a broken bowl and sticks a broken bamboo. He is definitely a standard beggar.
Lishui Village mainly serves as the foreman in charge of these prisoners, and each foreman has almost 200-300 people under him. Due to the addition of Huangsha, the output of the foreman Lao Huang is far ahead of other foremen these days. The prisoners in his hands are twice as high as a terrifying 500 people. Moreover, these people have a large meat banquet at the end of the month that the people under the other foreman envied them.
A huge water truck was erected on the territory under the jurisdiction of Foreman Huang. The water that originally needed manpower was solved by the "squeaking" of these water trucks. They now spend half a day at most smashing stones, and the rest of the time was to sit next to the water truck and brag.
"Do you know? Foreman Xian asked me to bring a message to Foreman Huang today, saying that a few of his subordinates wanted to transfer to us to see if they could be compatible."
"The person surnamed Xian probably received a lot of benefits from those people. His grandmother, I used to steal the money in my crotch to get here. Is this kind of person who eats people and doesn't spit bones? Did Huangtou agree?"
"Huangtou agreed, but he also found a benefit for everyone."
"Is it?" Everyone's faces were almost golden, and they watched the white women trying to find gold. They liked to go to Foreman Xian's team, where the women there almost didn't want to come back after they asked them to go.
"Yellow head said that you can transfer to someone here, three to one."
"airplane?"
"Three miserable men brought a woman to us to enjoy her happiness. None of the women here do not treat them like Bodhisattvas. Everyone is now much cleaner than before. After the clothes are filled with holes with unique patches, they look pretty good. This is all thanks to the blessings of these women. Compared to the darkness of standing in the water to dig gold, they are not too happy to do these things. Moreover, although these people are a little stinky, they don't really feel sorry for these women. They are all miserable people, and they are not easy. We can't do things that harm people."
"Who said no? A girl who came here a few days ago, with a pale face and skinny skin like a ghost. She has only been a few days since she smiles like a flower, and she is happy from the bottom of her heart."
"Did the Xian agree?"
"He was too happy. The sand handed over by every foreman is calculated based on the head. They heard that they had not had any sand for many days, so they were worried. However, they heard that the women were more or less sick."
"Don't forget what we yellow-headed people do. Gynecologists are not just blown away."
"Hahaha" the cheerful laughter of everyone rang again.
"Have you heard that? The monkey boy was really lucky today. He actually caught a piece of gold as big as a dog's head in the river, and it was red gold, grandma's, which was enough for him to marry a wife."
"What a pity, what a pity."
"Let's go and carry those women with problems back."
Chapter completed!