The clear river is named Maoming Water, which is 500 miles long and flows into the sea in the south. The source is the destination of Liu Rengui and his friends during this trip, Huaide County, Yongxi County.

Liu Rengui visited about 200 people, including more than 30 Yulin, and one hundred soldiers who were sent to him by Li Jing, and dozens of Lingnan natives like Afa.

The northward, the narrower the river surface and the shallower the water.

On both sides of the river, the mountains are not high, but there are many. The undulating hills seem to be many running monsters on the plain.

"There is a legend that is indeed the case. It is said that a nine-day goddess drove many giant beasts to the beach to drink water. As a result, many crop villages were destroyed when passing by, so a god descended from his great powers and turned all these giant beasts into stone and earthen mountains."

Liu Rengui smiled.

At this moment, a horn sounded between the mountains and fields.

"Buffalo Horn." Afa said immediately.

Liu Rengui's hands subconsciously pressed the horizontal knife on his waist, and Ah Fa laughed, "Don't panic, it must be Luo Douman who discovered us."

Sure enough, the sound of the horns sounded, and it was even heard that they were conveying each other.

Soon, the drums sounded again.

The war drum corresponds to the horn, and the soldiers of Huaide Camp on the river boat have already raised their shields and picked up their bows and crossbows.

"Listen to the sound, this is not a warning, nor is it a war, it should be a welcome."

Liu Rengui was half-believing and half-doubted, "Can you still hear this?"

"Of course, don't worry, commander. Luo Douman had already gone to Li Shuai to surrender. There was no reason to make trouble again now. The Great Qin Tianjun was mighty, so they dare not."

The ship slowed down.

"There is Huaide County ahead."

Huaidecheng County is on the banks of the Maoming River. Although Huaide has been established for more than a hundred years, it has been just a restraint before, to control the barbarians of Luo Dou Baidong. The county magistrates and other county magistrates are still the chief commanders of Liliao.

Later, during the Sui Dynasty, Chen Longshu and his son opened the border and established a county government in Da'andong, named Huaide, and sent Chen clan members to serve as county magistrates.

However, the Lijia in the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance was neither naturalized nor paid taxes. However, the Chen family began to establish a stronghold here with the county government as the center, stationed private soldiers and set up markets, and gradually attracted the Lijia to trade, collect the market tax, and send people to reclaim the land. It was at that time that Ah Fajia came to Huaide. These natives with Han status fell in this area since then.

Later, the Chen family and his son were driven out of this place for participating in the rebellion. The chief of the Li people, Tan Dian, became the leader of the tribal alliance in this area. Later, when the Qin army came, Tan Dian was transferred to Yulin, and Feng Xuan came to serve as the prefect.

Last time Feng Xuan rebelled, Cangwu prefect Chen Longshu came back and joined forces with many liars to seize Yongxi County. However, the Qin army soon quelled the rebellion and transferred Chen Longshu to Guilin as the commander-in-chief.

"In fact, no matter how the prefects above change, this place has always been the territory of the Liliao people. The largest force in the nearby counties is the Luodou Alliance, which is composed of more than a hundred caves."

According to Afa, although Liliao is the largest ethnic group in Lingnan, in fact, Liliao people are not a whole. Not to mention that there are differences between Liliao people, even the tribes of both Liao people have formed one tribal alliance after another according to the region. The alliance has more or less Xidong, and those alliances often go to war with each other. Therefore, it is precisely the civil strife of these Baiyue people that allowed the Han people who went south to gradually gain a foothold in Lingnan and became increasingly powerful.

Nowadays, most of the liars retreat to the mountainous areas, and the plains have become the territory of native Han people like Afa and others.

After Feng Xuan's death, Chen Longshu was transferred and his private soldiers were evacuated. Therefore, the current Huaide County is actually empty, with no officials or soldiers, and is managed by the Luo Doudong Alliance.

The ship has not landed yet.

There are already many people standing there at the riverside wharf beside the county town.

The buffalo horn and the bronze drum are still beating.

As the sound spread far and wide, many Luo Douliu was coming.

"There are bronze drums in every village. Once they are ringed, they are unusual. The Liao people can use bronze drums to indicate alarms, gatherings, etc. After hearing this, they can distinguish the drum commands. Now this is the gathering drum command, so the Liao people are coming."

The boat is close to the shore.

More than a dozen bare-armed, short-haired and tattooed with various patterns on their bodies jumped off the river and came to the boat. Liu Rengui was always on high alert, but these people arrived at the edge of the boat, but just pushed the boat to the dock.

"This is their welcome, indicating that you are their honorable guest."

Liu Rengui was a little relieved.

Ah Fa was the first to jump off the boat and go ashore.

As soon as he got ashore, he loudly announced Liu Rengui's identity in vernacular.

"Liu Gong, the commander of Huaide Camp of the Yongxi County Guard of the Great Qinling Road, Guangdong Road, South China, came to visit him!"

Dozens of people with tattoos with broken hair and tattoos were actually similar to Ah Fa. Some of them were wearing silk, but barefoot, some were wearing hats, but were shirtless, and all kinds of animals were tattooed on them. Some were lightning, some were spiders, spiders, snakes, etc., which made people uncomfortable.

The leader was about fifty years old, very short but very strong, with a turtle crown on his head and a green robe.

He introduced himself, named Bazhao, and was the county magistrate of Huaideday.

He spoke in vernacular language, and Ah Fa translated it for him.

"Who appointed this county magistrate?" Liu Rengui asked.

Afa had a conversation with Bazha, "It was appointed by Chen Longshu after he captured Yongxi. The former county magistrate was a member of the Feng clan appointed by Feng Xuan, and was killed by Bazha."

"So does this person have a letter of appointment from Li Shuai?"

"No."

Liu Rengui nodded, "Since there is no letter of appointment of the Lingnan General Xuanfu Envoy, from now on, he will no longer act as the magistrate of Huaide County. From now on, until the arrival of the new county magistrate of the Jingliu Office, Huaide County and the county magistrate will be temporarily taken over by my Huaide Camp. According to the court system, Liu Rengui, commander of Huaide Camp, acted as the county magistrate at the time of the time."

Afa Translation.

Bazhao looked a little unfavorable, and even said a big call to Afa excitedly, as if he was swearing.

"What did he say?" Liu Rengui asked with a serious expression.

Afa hurriedly said, "Bazhu said that he respected the imperial system and obeyed the orders of the new county magistrate Liu Gong."

"Isn't that the original words?"

Afa smiled, "He was a little unhappy, but he still obeyed Mr. Liu."

"That's fine."

The team entered the city.

Liu Rengui was disappointed to discover that the so-called Huaide County was actually a big village, with neither city wall nor city gate, and only a simple circle of wooden fences, but only one person was more than a height.

It seems that there are only a few hundred families in the county town.

After experiencing the last rebellion and seizing the city, there were not many people in the county.

"School Liu, Bazhao said that the city had just experienced war and was very broken, and there were not even many people. He invited Mr. Liu to come to their house first, and he wanted to welcome Mr. Liu to the banquet."

Liu Rengui doesn't want to go.

Afa reminded him that in Huaide County, the chief general of Luo Doudong, who is the real tyrant who is a local tyrant and cannot be offended. Moreover, if you want to build the Huaide military camp, you have to borrow the tyrants of the tyrants.

"Okay, let's go and see what their village looks like."

After hearing Ah Fa say that School Liu is willing to give face, Bazhao finally looks a little better.

He made someone blow the buffalo horn again and beat the bronze drum again.

The women in Liao actually danced and sang in unison, while the men in Liao also sang along with various swords, axes, bows and arrows.

The singing sounded shocked the sky.

Looking at this scene, Liu Rengui finally understood that he had entered the wilderness world.

"Eat betel nut!"

Eight claws handed over something and said it in Central Plains Chinese dialect.

Liu Rengui was unexpected.

"Mr. Liu, this is betel nut. People in Lingnan love to eat betel nut and treat guests. They use green leaves and lime to pick them up, put them in their mouths and chew them, which is very refreshing." Ah Fa explained on the side.

Liu Rengui took it with half belief and half doubt. Looking at the betel nut wrapped in green leaves and white juice dipped in white juice, he tried to put it in his mouth and chewed it a few times. He felt a strange and unspeakable smell hit his forehead and almost fainted. He almost thought it was his servant who poisoned him.

But seeing that Ah Fa also took one and put it into his mouth, chewing it with a good taste, and even immediately refreshed, Liu Rengui endured it and chewed it a few more times.

"Good things, good things, betel nuts." The eight-claw seemed to know only very simple Chinese language and smiled and gestured.

Liu Rengui thought to himself that if this was a good thing, he would have seen a ghost, but he still forced a smile to avoid being faced.

As I walked into the mountain, I soon came to a hillside where there was a large village.

"This is a dry stave. Lingnan has heavy humidity and many insects and snakes, so locals build this kind of dry stave to live in."

This kind of dry railing is actually a bamboo or wooden building with pillars built up below, but the bottom is hanging down, and people live on the upper floor, and pigs are raised.

The dark pig and the pig with patterns hang around freely in the village.

There were many children and elderly people in the village. Liu Rengui found that most of the old women had faces tattooed on their faces. Afa introduced that this was embroidered faces, and married women would embroidered faces.

Men have tattoos when they are adults and will have some kind of beast tattoos on their bodies.

They are used to cutting their hair short, wearing shirtless or barefoot, while others have feathers on their heads.

As the alliance chief of more than 100 Liaodong, Bazhao's house is also a stanch, and even compared with other people's stanchions, it is only a little larger.

He raises pigs under the tram, as dirty as he is.

However, this village is very large, with about a thousand tramways, which means that this village must have at least three or four thousand people.

Compared to the county town that destroyed the village like I just saw, it seems that it should be Huaide County Town.

The Qianjin bronze drum in the village lifted the drum clothes and then rang.

A group of men blew the gourd slew, and the women began to sing and dance again.

"These people are so free and easy, very happy." Liu Rengui couldn't help but sigh.

Feathers were inserted into their heads, barefoots, holding hands, singing and dancing, it was really free.

"School Liu, don't think that these people are really enthusiastic and good guests. Many tribes of the people still retain the custom of eating people. They will hunt enemies and then cook for guests. Some tribes even kill the first son they gave birth to entertain relatives and friends."

Liu Rengui was stunned. What kind of person actually killed his eldest son to entertain relatives and friends?

When his eyes returned to the singing and dancing Liaoren, he was no longer as relaxed as before, and he even felt like goosebumps all over his body.

"Don't worry, Luo Douman has no habit of cannibalism. They are very capable of mining and smelting copper and iron, especially the bronze drums they make, which are famous in Lingnan and are very exquisite."
Chapter completed!