A Li person who can speak Mandarin and is quite knowledgeable about the customs of the Central Plains?
Helian Jue was somewhat curious.
He had a feeling that this agile girl might bring him a surprise!
"Let's go! To the Prince's Mansion!"
Helian Jue glanced at the crowd of people gathered not far away and muttered something in a low voice.
This is not the place to talk.
Judging from Li Baozhu's appearance, she must have come prepared and probably has a lot to say.
"good!"
Xie Yuan agreed and casually said to Li Baozhu, "Miss Li, please come with us."
Seeing Xie Yuan's polite attitude, Li Baozhu finally felt a little relieved.
God knows how much suffering she endured and how much pain she went through during that time before she finally escaped the mountains.
Following her memory, she found her way to Hexian County.
But as soon as she arrived outside the city gate, she was dumbfounded—
How come this place is completely different from what I remember?
Having experienced the drastic changes in her tribe and personally collecting her father's body, Li Baozhu has gone through too much.
She became somewhat paranoid.
Li Baozhu had not forgotten that Cui Boyong, the governor of Yuezhou, had close ties with the Wuyuan tribe.
When Queen Wuyuan was feeling triumphant, she once boasted, "I am business partners with Governor Cui."
"Also, those fairy flowers and fairy ointment were all ordered by Governor Cui to be obtained."
Li Baozhu suspected that Queen Wuyuan was a bully using the power of the government, but she could not completely deny that she was indeed colluding with the government.
Deep in the mountains, they were being pursued by the Wuyuan tribe.
There might be corrupt officials lying in wait in the county town at the foot of the mountain.
Therefore, when Li Baozhu saw the brand-new city, her first reaction was worry and fear.
However, she had no way out.
She wanted to reclaim her tribe, territory, and people, and she had to seek help from the imperial court.
Li Baozhu cautiously circled the city gate for a day, studying all the announcements on the bulletin board.
They would hide in a corner, watching or listening to the guards at the city gate, and processing the entry procedures for the people or merchants entering the city.
Li Baozhu is quite clever. The key is that she has lived in He County and knows the rules and laws of the Hakka people.
Gradually, she learned the reason why He County had changed so much—King Yue killed the corrupt official Cui Boyong and carried out urban renewal of He County!
"Great! Cui Boyong is dead! And it was the King of Yue who did it!"
Li Baozhu was so excited that she almost cried.
She knew she hadn't made the wrong gamble this time—she had found the King of Yue!
Originally, they were still considering Cui Boyong and the Yuezhou camp.
It now appears that Yuezhou had long since become the domain of the King of Yue.
As long as the King of Yue is willing to help, the Wuyuan tribe is nothing at all.
On her way to the Yue Prince's Palace, Li Baozhu had already sorted out her thoughts clearly.
Upon entering the main hall of the Prince's Mansion, Helian Jue and Xie Yuan sat down in the main seats.
Li Baozhu straightened up, placed one hand on her chest, bowed deeply, and performed a grand Li ethnic salute: "Li Baozhu is the daughter of the Li tribe chief and the current Li tribe chief."
"I am willing to accept the imperial decree and lead my people to become subjects of the Great Zhou Dynasty!"
Helian Jue raised an eyebrow. Oh wow, Li Baozhu's demands are quite grand.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have even said he wanted to submit to the imperial court.
For a long time, the Li and Liao peoples, mountain peoples in Lingnan, have been considered outsiders.
They disobeyed the imperial court's orders and disregarded its laws.
They refused to pay taxes, grain, or perform corvée labor.
Whenever the authorities pursued them, they would all hide in the mountains.
These mountain people have lived in the mountains for generations.
What the imperial court considered a miasma-filled swamp and a deadly wasteland, they saw as their home.
The imperial court had always wanted to civilize these barbarians, but it never knew where to begin.
The imperial court once considered bestowing titles upon the leaders of those indigenous people, allowing them to descend from the mountains and farm.
The beginning and the process were fine, but it just couldn't continue indefinitely.
As I said before, people are willing to go down the mountain and farm, but they are unwilling to accept the jurisdiction of the imperial court!
This is something the imperial court cannot tolerate.
However, if troops were to be sent to attack, the layered, miasma-ridden, and poisonous forests would make the imperial court very wary.
The key point is that Lingnan was somewhat of a double-edged sword for the imperial court.
After weighing the pros and cons, the imperial court was unwilling to go to great lengths to send a large army to suppress the rebellion.
The imperial court was unwilling, but Helian Jue was willing.
Because Lingnan was his territory, in his plan, after conquering those prefectures and counties, he would then target the native people in the mountains and forests.
Obey or die.
In Lingnan, everyone had to obey him, the King of Lingnan!
The timing is not yet right, yet Lai Po-chu has rashly appeared.
He even offered to accept the imperial decree.
"This is an opportunity!"
Helian Jue thought to himself.
Of course, he wouldn't naively believe that it was his domineering aura that intimidated Li Baozhu, causing her to submit willingly.
Helian Jue knew that Li Baozhu must have encountered a great difficulty and needed his help, which was why he—
"Tell me, what happened to your tribe?"
Helian Jue didn't beat around the bush; he went straight to the point.
Xie Yuan, who was sitting next to him, also turned his curious gaze toward Li Baozhu.
Xie Yuan is very clever; she has the same guess as Helian Jue.
"It's all the fault of that damned Wuyuan tribe, they have a terrible poison..."
Although Li Baozhu had studied in He County and was familiar with the court's etiquette and laws, she was still a student.
But deep down she is a Li person, and as a Li person, she likes to be straightforward.
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