Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 550 Gu Po

Liu Manqiang said in a gloomy tone: "This is why the head of my Liu family dares not set foot in Lingnan Road."

"Tell me more about it." Jiang Shangxian tilted his head high, not wanting to look at the insect, but also afraid that it would suddenly fly away, so he had to look at it with his nose down and his peripheral vision.

Queen Mother, why does she suddenly have to pee?

If the deep mountains of Lingnan Road were full of insects like this, she felt that she could consider remarrying now!

"Yier should have told you that an ancestor of my Liu family married Zhao Yingqi." Liu Manqiang said this in affirmation.

Judging from my grandson's personality, I'm afraid he has already told his wife everything.

Jiang Shangxian nodded: "Yes, I heard that the ancestor of the Liu family gave birth to a son named Zhao Lu'an."

"When Zhao Yingqi asked to marry my ancestor, he went through three matchmakers and six betrothal gifts, following Han Chinese customs. He didn't miss any of the formalities, and promised her the position of principal wife."

Some things are difficult to explain to men, but much easier to explain to women. Liu Manqiang was emphasizing that although Zhao Yingqi later married another woman in the Central Plains, her ancestor Liu was still the legal wife of the Nanyue royal family.

Unfortunately, any etiquette is vulnerable in the face of power.

Jiang Shangxian took over the conversation, "Being able to marry into the Nanyue royal family, I think that although the Liu family may not be as powerful as the Central Plains clans, they are still quite famous among the Baiyue people."

This is quite pertinent. Lingnan has been a wild land since ancient times. Even the local big families cannot be compared with the clans in the Central Plains. The Nanyue royal family married Baiyue women in order to consolidate their regime and strengthen their control over the Baiyue tribes.

You can tell with your ass that he would not marry a commoner woman. It would be helpful if he married a woman from a powerful family in the local area.

Liu Manqiang raised her chin slightly. When mentioning ancestors, especially promising ones, as a descendant, she always felt a sense of pride: "When our ancestor Zhao Tuo was in power, he also married a woman from the Liu family."

A woman who is taken in as a concubine is considered a wife, and a woman who is married as a talent is considered a wife.

When Zhao Tuo established Nanyue, he had already married and might even have a son, so it was naturally impossible for him to divorce his wife and remarry.

"This...relative?" Xiao Jiang was dull-witted. He didn't know how much blood this insect had eaten. The bloody smell was extremely strong.

Whenever this happens, Jiang Shangxian always has some strange thoughts. For example, right now, she wants to have a Crazy Thursday combo...

Liu Manqiang shook her head. "The Baiyue are different from the Central Plains. The Central Plains clans are based on blood ties, sharing the same blood and branches. The Baiyue are based on clans. The Xiou clan was born and raised in the mountains. As the clan expanded, some of them gradually left the mountains to take root in the world and lay down their foundation..."

Life in the mountains is naturally not as convenient as at the foot of the mountain. At the beginning, they only went down the mountain to buy salt, sugar and other daily necessities. As time went by, some young people were fascinated by the prosperous world at the foot of the mountain.

Even though the clan expressed dissatisfaction with this behavior and wanted to stop it, they were still unable to completely stop those who had experienced the extravagant life.

The clan leader at that time was so angry that he said he would expel these people from the clan forever.

Jiang Shangxian was a little confused. Who doesn’t want to live a good life?

She has enjoyed modern conveniences and is extremely uncomfortable with ancient infrastructure. Even in Chang'an City, Xiao Jiang is now considered to be rich by hooking up with a wealthy man.

People go to higher places and water flows to the ground. Even if those people want to live a relatively convenient and comfortable life, they will not be expelled from the tribe, right?

"It's just a rant. With so many people, how can we really exterminate them all at once?"

Liu Manqiang, who had never lived in the mountains before, could understand her doubts: "They are just teenagers in their teens. Their parents and elders are all in the clan. How could they really expel them from the clan?"

That would not only mean extermination of the clan, but would also force people to stop kissing each other.

It is not easy to raise a child in the mountains. If he or she can survive to the age of ten, he or she is already considered an adult in the mountains. Both emotionally and financially, he or she is the apple of every family's eye. Who can be willing to give him or her up?

Maybe this group of people will just follow us into the secular world, and then there won't be many people left in the tribe.

Liu Manqiang offered the final solution: "Those people would regularly return to the mountains to help bring back some things from the outside world for their relatives and friends. Over time, the clan leader turned a blind eye to this matter..."

The Xiou clan's roots are deep in the mountains, so this can only be considered a rough balance.

Jiang Shangxian couldn't help but sigh that the fifty-six ethnic groups are one family, and the Chinese are smart and good at doing business. Isn't this an early form of purchasing agent?

"It would be fine if it always stayed like this, but unfortunately, nothing in this world remains unchanged."

After the King of Qin unified the six kingdoms, he turned his attention to Lingnan. In order to save their lives, the tribesmen who were outside had to return to the mountains. It was not until Zhao Tuo proclaimed himself king and the outside world became stable that these tribesmen who had become accustomed to secular life returned to the mountains again.

Since Zhao Tuo wanted to unify the Baiyue people, he naturally had to strengthen intermarriage between the Han and Yue peoples, and he himself took the lead.

At the beginning, he married women from the Baiyue tribe who were from various ethnic groups and had settled down there. But soon he realized something was wrong.

Although the Baiyue people who are traveling outside have already taken root there, they still have a strong sense of belonging to their ethnic group in the mountains.

Afterwards, he married a girl from the deep mountains of the Xiou tribe. Liu Manqiang didn't know what was involved and how he did it. She only knew that the girl's identity was unusual in the tribe.

She is the next Gu Po of the clan.

The identity of Gu Po is not hereditary, but is selected from the tribe under the guidance of the Gu God. In addition to using Gu to protect the tribe, Gu Po also has many ways to cure diseases and save lives. Generally speaking, if someone in the tribe is sick, it is the Gu Po who treats them.

At that time, Zhao Tuo married the next Gu Po from Xiou, which brought a lot of trouble to the clan.

Jiang Shangxian expressed his understanding of this. Isn't this equivalent to there being only one barefoot doctor in every ten miles of the village? Regardless of the barefoot doctor's skills, he can always respond to emergencies at critical moments, right?

As a result, he married her outside the mountain. When someone in the family gets sick, there is no one to help take care of her. How can it not be troublesome?

This old Zhao is really wicked, damn it, he actually married the next chief physician of the general practice...

No, Xiao Jiang remembered, that Zhao Yingqi also married a Xiou woman, right?

Could this person also be...

Her expression was too obvious, and Liu Manqiang didn't even bother to roll her eyes: "In every generation of the clan, there will be at least two women with a talent for learning Gu."

It is to prevent any natural disasters or man-made disasters, so that the clan's Gu Po family will not be extinct.

but....

"My Liu family's ancestor was a Gu servant."