Ye Xiaotian found a chance to secretly visit the captive nobles of the Tixi Bureau. Just as Gedore said, they had not been mistreated. Although they lived in a livestock pen with cows, horses, and sheep accompanying them, the smell was a little unpleasant.
However, the stronghold had just been built, and there were no extra rooms. Even the big house that Ye Xiaotian was currently living in was vacated by his father-in-law. There was no reason for them to give preferential treatment to their enemies who had just been fighting to the death with them just a moment ago. How stupid would that be?
Since the nobles of the Tixi Bureau were not in danger, Ye Xiaotian was relieved. He sent someone down the mountain to go to the Tixi Bureau first to report to the families of the nobles and the local officials, telling them not to worry. Then he went to Tongren Province to report the cause and effect of the incident, as well as the current situation. He expressed that he would do his best to mediate and try to turn hostility into friendship.
Ye Xiaotian specially found the leader and Gedore to discuss the future of the village. The problem was that these two old men had no political aspirations and did not understand what they should do or what they should want.
For this father-in-law of Ye Xiaotian, if the Venerable son-in-law asked him to come out of the mountain, then he would come out. Whoever wanted to bully his troops, he would fight back! Other than that, he did not need to think about anything else. Gedore's life was that simple!
As for the leader, his request was also very simple: he just needed to be allowed to preach freely. Why could a group of mysterious bald donkeys and cow-noses travel around the world, while he, the dignified elder of the Gu God Sect, the servant of the great and omnipotent Gu God, was beaten back to the mountain by a village chief? That was too degrading.
Ye Xiaotian was really helpless against these two elders who had no ambition. He could only leave them aside and ponder on his own. In fact, Li Qiuchi was a very good advisor. However, Li Qiuchi was a little mysterious at the moment. Most of his suggestions were too unreliable. His plans were all for a beautiful future ten or twenty years from now. Ye Xiaotian really couldn't learn from them.
Ye Xiaotian had known his identity a long time ago, and from the beginning, he did not realize how great the effect of the power he possessed would be, so he had always been calm.
However, Li Qiuchi was different. Although he was a very famous lawyer, he had no choice but to do so after he failed the imperial examinations and was unable to embark on a career as an official. Because of this, he could not help but feel remorseful.
Now, he was like a beggar who had been begging his whole life. He was holding a broken bowl and begging on the street. Suddenly, the Emperor's mother came to him and claimed that she was his long-lost sister and that he was the current Imperial Uncle. His mentality was a bit unbalanced.
Li Qiuchi, who was suddenly smashed by happiness, was thinking about either getting a golden rice bowl and continuing to beg, or that he had money, a big house to live in, and the reserves in the granary were enough for him to eat for a hundred years. He did not know what he should do every day.
Ye Xiaotian made some plans for the future of the mountain village. Then, he summoned Gedore and the seducer again and told them of his plans. Just as he was about to ask for their opinion, a young girl wearing a batik pomegranate dress floated in happily. Like a swallow wearing a flowery dress, she chirped, "Brother-in-law, Brother-in-law, there's an old man with the surname Wen. He has sneaky eyes and is coming to our mountain village. He doesn't look like a good person and has been captured by our people. He said that he came with you to Tixi and wants to see you. "
This young girl was about sixteen or seventeen years old. Her name was Cai Ni. She looked sixty to seventy percent like Duo Ni and was Gedore's niece. Ever since Ye Xiaotian forbade the people in the tribe to call him Venerable One, using the excuse of not leaking information, Chyney had changed to calling him brother-in-law.
"The one with the surname Wen?" Ye Xiaotian came to a realization. "That's the advisor of the Yu Family. Bring him here!" After Ye Xiaotian finished speaking, he suddenly thought of something and hurriedly said, "You can't call him Brother-in-law for now. He still doesn't know about my relationship with the tribe. Remember to call me Lord Ye in front of him. "
"Got it!" Cai Ni playfully stuck out her tongue at him and flew out like a little swallow.
In a short while, Wen Ao was brought in by Cai Ni and a few warriors. The rope that tied him up was already untied. Wen Ao rubbed his wrist. When he saw that Ye Xiaotian was sitting peacefully, he shook his head and smiled bitterly. "Lord Ye, you're really capable. You're a guest of honor when you come up the mountain. I was tied up like a thief."
Cai Ni made a face at him and said, "Who asked you to look shifty-eyed like a bad person? You deserve it!"
The day before yesterday, when Ye Xiaotian brought Li Qiuchi and the rest to peep at the situation of the Tixi Bureau Chief, he said, "This shifty-eyed fellow is the Tixi Bureau Chief? You can't judge a person by his appearance! " When Cai Ni heard it, she felt that this idiom was especially vivid when describing a person's appearance, so she used it from time to time.
When Wen Ao heard what she said, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. To think that he used to be a handsome man with an elegant demeanor. Even though he was old now, he was still refined and refined. Why did it become shifty-eyed from this lass's mouth? This mountain girl's aesthetic sense was really problematic.
Ye Xiaotian smiled and went forward to welcome him. He said to Wen Ao, "Mister Wen has worked hard. Come come come, let me introduce you to each other. This is our chief, Gedore. This is the village's great shaman, the Seducer. Both of you, this is Wen Ao and Mister Wen. "
Wen Ao quickly restrained his joking expression and bowed to the two of them respectfully. "Chief Ge, Great Shaman Seducer. Student Wen Ao, nice to meet you."
Gedore and the Seducer saw that Ye Xiaotian was rather courteous to him, so they didn't throw a tantrum at him. They returned the greeting and said slowly, "Mister Wen, please take a seat!"
Wen Ao thanked him and sat down. Ye Xiaotian continued, "I arrived two days earlier than Mister Wen. I've already asked Chief Gedore and the Great Shaman Seducer in detail about the conflict between them and the Tixi Division. Even though the Tixi Division Officer and the nobles were captured and brought up the mountain, they weren't mistreated. "
Wen Ao said happily, "That's good, that's good! Peace is precious, peace is precious. This way, there's something to talk about. "
Ye Xiaotian said, "Chief Gedore, Great Shaman Seducer. This Mister Wen is Tong Ren's advisor to County Supervisor Yu. He's highly regarded. As I have said before, Magistrate Zhang intends to send troops to suppress them in order to display his prestige, but Supervisor Yu believes that peace is the most important.
This time, it was County Supervisor Yu who resisted Magistrate Zhang's proposal to send troops. That's why he sent Mister Wen along with me. He hopes that we can turn weapons of war into gifts of jade and silk, and use negotiation to resolve the dispute between the two sides. This way, we can avoid a senseless war that will cause great casualties on both sides. "
When Gedore and the Seducer heard this, they treated Wen Ao even more kindly. Wen Ao took the opportunity to say, "Before I left, County Supervisor Daren repeatedly told me to communicate well with your village. Because the Yu family of Tong Ren has a branch in Tixi, which is very close to your village, and the Chieftain of this branch is still a minor, orphan and widowed mother. It's inevitable that they will be uneasy in the face of war, so I went to the Yu family village first to appease them, and I'll return to the mountain tomorrow. "
After listening to him, Gedore blinked his eyes and said in a rough voice, according to what Ye Xiaotian had just told him, "It's true that we originally lived in the mountain, but we didn't promise anyone that we would never leave the mountain, did we? Now the great Gu God has sent an oracle, ordering us to leave the mountain, so we came out!
But the Zhang family in Tixi is too arrogant, and repeatedly provoked us. Do they really think that we're afraid of them? To tell you the truth, there are at least twenty thousand warriors in my village now, and we can easily kill our way to Tongren Province! "
Gedore sneered and said, "I'd like to see, if I really want to lead the army to the north, who can stop me! But, I, Gedore, am not an unreasonable person. Our request is very simple: we want to leave the mountain. Now that we have taken root here, no one can drive us away.
"Also, I see that many of the people at the foot of the mountain don't hunt for a living. Farming and weaving are quite easy, so I want to arrange for some of the families in the stockade who don't have strong laborers to farm. But we don't have any land, and we can't just rely on opening up wastelands to farm. If you want to settle the dispute, that's the best. Ask the magistrate to give us a piece of land, this is our condition. "
Wen Ao secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and thought, "As I expected, they really made such a request. But since they are willing to negotiate for the division of land, it shows that Ye Xiaotian is not an arrogant and ignorant person, so we can cooperate and make use of him. "
Wen Ao had secretly observed when he went up the mountain, and he estimated that there were about twenty thousand warriors in the village. It seemed that Gedore was very sincere and not faking anything at all. If it was any other place, twenty thousand soldiers could be said to be one hundred thousand, and one hundred thousand would be said to be six hundred thousand. How could he be willing to tell the truth?
Because of this, Wen Ao believed in the sincerity of Gedore's conditions. Previously, when he was discussing with the Palm Seal Madam, he had said that since Gedore's village had won the battle, it was inevitable that they wanted something. What could these people want? Right now, what they needed the most was land.
To the Yu Clan, the largest territory of the Tixi Division belonged to the Zhang family, and even the Yu Clan had to give up a part of their territory. Compared to the Zhang family, the Tixi Division didn't have to pay much. Because of this, the Tixi Division would have a powerful force that could restrain the Zhang family and prevent the Yu Clan from being eaten away by the Zhang family.
The Palm Seal Madam had already agreed to his suggestion, so Wen Ao said, "Since ancient times, as long as there were foreign tribes that submitted to us, the Imperial Court would welcome them and arrange a suitable place for them to live. Compared to foreign tribes, the tribes in the mountains are much closer. You are originally people of the Great Ming Dynasty, it's just that you live in the mountains.
Because of this, I believe that since you have come out of the mountains and agreed to register and be under the jurisdiction of the government, the government should fulfill its responsibility as a parent and arrange a suitable place for you to live. This is also the intention of our County Supervisor Yu. This time, when I went to the Tixi Yu Clan, the Palm Seal Madam and the Chieftain of the Tixi Yu Clan were very supportive.
Therefore, our Yu Clan is willing to establish a good neighborly relationship with your village and support your request. If you have the support of the Yu Clan, I believe that the prefectural magistrate will not easily refuse your request. Why don't Stockade Master Ge and the Chieftain of the Tixi Yu Clan meet? It's a win-win situation. "
Ye Xiaotian thought to himself, "In order to deal with the Zhang family, the Yu Clan has really spared no effort!"
How could Gedore have any ideas? As soon as he heard what he said, he immediately turned to look at his son-in-law. Ye Xiaotian hurriedly looked away, lowered his head and coughed. Seeing that he 'nodded', Gedore said to Wen Ao, "Fine! But … he's still a child, what's there to discuss with a child? "
Wen Ao pretended not to see his request to Ye Xiaotian and replied with a smile, "Although Chieftain Yu is young, he still has the Palm Seal Madam to make decisions for him. Moreover, no matter what, there are some important matters that require Chieftain Yu's presence to be effective!"
Gedore scratched his head and said reluctantly, "If that's the case, then that's fine! Ask that little fellow to come see me! "
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