With Gongsun Du officially exiled to Jeju Island to eat bison, this also means that all Dong Zhuo's efforts to block Liu Bei's camp with the holy decree were finally dismantled and turned into nothing.

Mi Zhufei insisted on choosing Jeju Island as a place of exile, which was also deliberate: he had learned about Gongsun Du's temperament through Xu Rong before, and knew that Gongsun Du had done Jizhou Assassin History, and his style was iron-fisted, and he was a ruthless person with quite good political means.

If Gongsun Du is only exiled to the south of Obifang County, that is, the land of Sanhan on the south bank of the Han River, maybe this person really has the ability to become the hero of Sanhan in just a few years, and coerce tens of thousands of Dongyi Qingzhuang, and there may not be no chance to turn the tables at that time.

However, exiled to Jeju Island, firstly, the barbarian population of Jeju Island was less than 10,000, and it was impossible to grow quickly. Moreover, Mi Zhu did not leave any shipbuilders for Gongsun Du. Relying on the blind cunning of laymen, at most they can build some small wooden boats that can fish in the near sea.

To expect such a ship to cross a strait that is also one hundred and fifty miles wide at the narrowest point is no different from looking for death. Mi Zhu firmly controls the navy, and he can ensure that he will not be afraid of Gongsun Du making waves for at least ten years.

As long as there is a population, there are enough fierce and ruthless people, and the strong men can grow rapidly. The navy is a luxury for the rich to play, Mi Zhu was born in a wealthy businessman, and his own combat effectiveness is not good, of course he knows how to give full play to his naval advantages to beat poor warlords.

Of course, there are also disadvantages of doing this, that is, it is easy to have path dependence when you taste the sweetness, and you will pay more attention to money when you find that money can solve the problem, and finally the technology tree may also be crooked, and follow the development logic of the naval power of the British and Japanese in history.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, Mi Zhu is just a shepherd, and the main tone of the world in the future still depends on the center of the court. It is also a good thing that Mizhu can open up a new possibility for the development direction of China.

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After all the gossip was settled, Liaodong turned his attention back to Qianwei County in the southwest.

In early June 191, Li Su, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led their troops south to Qianwei.

Zhang Feitun and Guan Yutun Jiangyang began a two-month pre-war preparation and intensive training, striving to finally adapt to the environment of away combat before entering Nanzhong.

After Liu Bei entered Sichuan, he had been recuperating for almost a year, basically did not move troops, and when he fought with Liu Yan last year, the really fierce battle actually did not last long, so the civil power of the Chengdu Plain has almost returned to the level before the war with Liu Yan.

If Liu Bei needed it, he would also be able to levy 100,000 combat troops now. But the scale of mobilization for this year's battle in the South and China? However, it is still controlled within the scope of "only mobilizing more than 10,000 troops at the same time".

Mainly logistical difficulties in South China? Even if Guoyuan had been preparing for half a year in Zhuti's control of the waterway and the coastal rapids, it was still not enough to support too many large armies.

When Zhuge Liang crusaded against Meng Shu in later generations? In fact, the total number of troops is less than 20,000? There were still a few thousand people in it, who were originally placed in Yongchang County by Li Hui and supported the Han Court, and there were two or three thousand people from Ma Zhong's partial division to deal with Qiqi County.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang's main force in history definitely did not exceed 15,000 people. And Zhuge Liang only needs to go to Yongchang? You can eat the stored grain given by Li Hui, which is an advantage that Li Su and Guan Zhang don't have today? Yongchang is still in a state of not being able to bird Liu Bei at all.

This time? Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also plan to bring 5,000 combat troops each, and Li Su will bring another 2,000 personal escorts, with a total strength of 12,000 troops, so they will take advantage of this winter to at least take Jianning County and Yongchang County? For the network and the Yueqi that have little economic value, it is mainly a deterrent? It's too late to talk about next winter, Li Su really doesn't want to go deep into the 100,000 Mountains in person.

Guan Yu's 5,000 troops, with Gao Shun as his deputy, are mainly Han soldiers from Yizhou, and they are already as selected as many high-quality soldiers as possible. Before you go? Guan Yu also explained to them, how did he perform this time? Can be promoted into the newly expanded trap camp.

When you enter the trapped camp, you can wear iron armor and use a sword to cut horses? The survival rate can be greatly improved, and the treatment will also be greatly improved - the current ordinary Han soldiers? It is two stones of food per month, one stone of subsidy for the soldiers' families, and 100 yuan per month. After being trapped? Can you eat from three to five stones? There are also 20 catties of meat per month, and the monthly salary has also been raised to 300 yuan.

Guan Yu promised that among the 5,000 people, the best performing 1,600 people were officially organized into two trap camps of 800 people each after the war. During the follow-up operations, every time there were food carriers to replace them, the scale was about 2,000 people, and the wounded, sick and unbearable ones in the front-line troops would be replaced.

Then, from the 2,000 new arrivals, 800 people were selected each time to look at the combat performance, and they were rotated until the 4,000 people needed for the entrenched camp after the expansion were full. Guan Yu has always been sympathetic to the soldiers and knows what they want to be a soldier, this reward is reasonable and reasonable, and it is extremely attractive to the soldiers.

And because Zhang Fei treats the soldiers very well, and the method of governing the army is relatively simple and rude, the method of "luring soldiers to sell their lives with promotion" is not suitable for him, so this time Zhang Fei brought all the Qingqiang soldiers and Ban Yuman, that is, the barbarian troops under Liu Bei's account.

In addition, before leaving, Liu Bei was also worried that Zhang Fei's imperial subordinates would be too strict, which would cause the barbarians to be unbearable and cause trouble, so he discussed with Li Su and wanted to promote a local general who was loyal to the Han family to Zhang Fei as his deputy. This person doesn't have to be strong, the key is that the bloodline is still noble in the banyu barbarian, and he can control the field.

Later, Li Su screened again and again in the He Yu tribe, the largest sect in Brazil, and chose a grandson of the He patriarch who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, named Wang Ping, and was directly promoted to Sima of other departments.

When Patriarch He heard about this appointment, he was extremely grateful, and privately gave Li Su a few thousand catties of fragrant wood as a thank you gift, and also gave a few beautiful women as envoys. Because he didn't expect that his grandson, who had not yet been released, could be so valued by Li Su, and directly led the troops into the group to do Sima in other departments.

Wang Ping himself was also grateful, and said that he would definitely help restrain the soldiers under General Zhang's command and follow General Zhang to learn the experience of leading troops to fight.

More than 10,000 troops were pieced together in this way.

After arriving at the Yandao, Qianwei Taishou Chen Shi was the first to come and take the initiative to greet Li Su, and Tuntian Commander Guoyuan also came.

Chen Shi was the weakest of the four sects of Shu Confucianism. Liu Bei and Liu Yan cut down and destroyed the first three of the four sects of Shu Confucianism, and always left a Chen Shi as a kanban to show Liu Bei's benevolence, so as not to be suspected by the locals of Liu Bei's purge trend.

In addition, Chen Shi directly surrendered to Zhao Yun in Jiangyang without blood, so he could also work for a few more years to defend Qianwei. Before the success of the Northern Expedition, Liu Bei would not touch him. Even if it is to be moved in the future, it will not be a demotion or dismissal, at most, it will be transferred to the newly recovered county in Nanzhong as a guard.

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It was only after Li Su arrived in Yandao that he had time to analyze the newly discovered information this year and formulate specific plans for follow-up operations - it is also strange that the intelligence in Nanzhong is too scarce, Liu Yan served as Yizhou Mu for two years, and they were also free-range, as long as the southerners did not know how to pull the flag and rebel, Liu Yan would not provoke them.

So much so that when Liu Bei first came, he didn't know how many factions there were in the south, and he didn't even know who to fight and who to woo.

"Zini, I've worked hard in the past six months, let's talk about the strength of the factions in the four counties of Nanzhong that you have investigated, and what their attitudes are towards the imperial court." Li Su got straight to the point and asked Guoyuan, who knew the situation best.

Guo Yuan came prepared, took out several scrolls, and explained them one by one against the map: "Governor, now the Taishou of the four counties in Nanzhong, there are two old people who were canonized during the Zhongping period, namely Jianning Taishou Jingyi and Qi Taishou Liu Chong.

In the other two counties, even the Taishou was already supported by the local barbarians. In the early years of Zhongping, the imperial court sent Pan Changbao to guard Taishou, and later because of the Baiyi rebellion, Pan Taishou died in the war, which was a matter of five years in Zhongping. Later, the local barbarians of Yue Wan elected Gao Yi, who annexed the chaotic department, as the county guard.

In the first year after Liu Yan entered Shu, he posthumously recognized Gao Yi's self-reliance, and Gao Yi also pushed the boat down the river to pay tribute to Liu Yan hundreds of buckets of fragrant wood and spices. However, because Gao Yi is nearly fifty years old and has a son in his later years, I heard that he only has one young son Gao Ding who is still in the age of Chong, Liu Yan considered that the miasma in Nanzhong was raging, and the barbarians generally lived shorter than the Han people, and also thought about waiting for Gao Yi to provoke his clan to fight for power after the death of Gao Yi to regain control of Yue Wang, but Liu Yan himself died first, and it was over.

The last county guard of Yongchang County, the imperial court in the Guanghe period sealed Li Hao, but Li Hao asked to retire in the last years of Xiping because of his advanced age. Then the imperial court appointed Zhang Hua to succeed Yongchang Taishou, but due to the looting of too many treasures from the Southern Barbarians, Zhongping provoked a barbarian rebellion in the early years of Zhongping and killed him. So much so that now Yongchang is only in the hands of the Meng clan and other barbarian tribes, resisting the imperial court.

However, Zhang Hua's predecessor Li Hao, although he was over sixty years old and retired during the Xiping period, and now he is over seventy years old, he is still alive, but he doesn't ask about the world. I heard that this Li Hao was originally a person from Dianjiang in Ba County, and when he was in Ba County, he was well versed in the method of appeasing the barbarians, and his descendants also had a good relationship with the barbarians.

Although the Li family has no power, if there is a dispute between the barbarian tribes that cannot be mediated, the barbarian kings of the various tribes will still publicly recommend the Li family to send someone to arbitrate. If we can choose the one with the higher prestige among Li Hao's descendants to cooperate, it should be of great benefit to control Yongchang County, which has the most populous population. ”

Li Su has been listening patiently, just now when he heard Guoyuan say that "Gao Yi, the king of Yuewang, has a young son, Gao Ding", he kept a heart and secretly wondered: Could it be that the hereditary power in the land of the Southern Barbarians is so serious? Now those barbarian kings and Taishou are the fathers and grandfathers of those barbarian kings and Taishou when Zhuge Liang went south thirty years later?

However, this is actually normal, because it was not until the Ming Dynasty that the Southwest Yi region began to realize the transformation from hereditary Tusi to the imperial court sending liuguan until the Ming Dynasty "changed the land and returned to the stream". The hereditary nature of the late Han Dynasty was certainly more serious than that of the Tang and Song dynasties.

Therefore, when he heard the Meng family and the Li family again, Li Su asked: "Then Yongchang guarded Li Hao too much, who are the descendants?" Is there a list? What is the name of the Meng Barbarian Patriarch? What are the heirs of the clan called? ”

During the period of Guoyuan Tuntian, the intelligence work was quite sufficient, and after rummaging for a while, he quickly found what Li Su wanted.

Li Su looked at the list, and sure enough, Li Hao's eldest grandson was named Li Hui, and he was not yet twenty years old.

And the barbarian king of the Meng clan is called Meng Wei, and he has two sons, Meng Jie, Meng Shu.

Why is there no Meng You? Li Su thought about it, it should be that Meng You is too young and has not been born yet.

In addition to these Taishou and Barbarian Kings at the top, there is also a long list of dozens of Southern Barbarian forces behind Guoyuan's intelligence list, the large ones are tens of thousands of households, and the small ones are thousands.

He already had some ideas in his heart about who to win over and who to hit.