After Jing Yi was beheaded, only seven or eight days later, Meng Xin returned to Qinzang and Qidong counties on the border of Jianning County and Yongchang County with more than 5,000 remnants of soldiers, as well as all the weapons that had been returned and the property that had been rewarded for helping in the war.

This area is the main sphere of influence of his brother Meng Wei, spanning two counties. Among them, Jiedong County, on the side of Yongchang County, is a basin plain in the mountains, and the population is relatively fertile, roughly equivalent to the range of the prefecture-level city of Chuxiong in later generations, and the core power of the Mengwan tribe is here.

Historically, after Yongchang County was divided into Yongchang/Yunnan counties during the Three Kingdoms period, Jidong County was also promoted to the county seat of Yunnan County, which shows that this place is still relatively important within a radius of one or two hundred miles.

Before Meng Xin came back with his troops, he had already informed Meng Wei of the situation through the fast horse messenger, so Meng Wei was mentally prepared to know Jing Yi's downfall and Li Su's thunderous wrist.

But when he greeted his younger brother's return outside the east gate of Qidong County and saw with his own eyes that half of the soldiers and horses he sent out, Meng Wei couldn't help but gasp:

"Why did you lose so many men and horses? Then Li Su and Guan Yu can't still kill and deduct prisoners? ”

Meng Xin hurriedly made a silent gesture: "Big brother, don't think about it, our army has already suffered losses in the battle, and when it fought with Guan Yu, it suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and then anyway, he helped Guan Yu attack Tonglao County and fight against Jing Yi, and lost more than 1,000 people."

After the war, there were still one or two thousand people who were absorbed by Guan Yu and Li Su because of their good combat performance, but there were only more than 5,000 people left. Over there, Eshun's fate is worse than ours, and it's good to be able to come back like this.

It's all to blame that we were deceived by Jing Yi's thieves. Alas, if we didn't accept Guan Yu's surrender at the beginning, when Liu Bei mastered the grain storage around Dianchi Lake and the rear army continued to come by waterway, we just wanted to lose both with Guan Yu and have no chance, and we would only be wiped out. ”

Meng Wei was a little angry: "Second brother! Why do you increase the morale of others, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, Jing Yi is confused, he is not as familiar with geography as the enemy army in Jianning, and he is surrounded by people in the valley, that is his incompetence. I don't think Li Su and Guan Yu are necessarily invincible. We all relented and admitted that we were wrong, he still needs so much? It's so deceitful. ”

Meng Xin was depressed when he heard this, and felt that he was simply not a human being, so he had to make his eldest brother recognize the situation: "Big brother! You haven't seen Li Su's divine soldiers descend from the sky with your own eyes! Lushui and Tushui crossed the river for 800 miles! If nothing else, can any of us southerners be able to cross Lu so far without being poisoned? Locals can't do it, Li Su is really helped! He who is against God will not die well! ”

Meng Wei was also said to believe four or five points, but he still couldn't accept it, and argued angrily: "Why do our gods in the south want to help an outsider in the land of Yan Zhao?" If you want me to see, the theory of ghosts and gods is not necessarily without bluff.

That Li Su may be extremely vicious, after sending tens of thousands of people to cross Luhuan, I don't know how many people were poisoned on the way, and in the end only six or seven thousand people survived to Dianchi Lake, he was a swollen face and a fat man! ”

It is also a shame that Meng Wei is half a zhangyu, and he is not very literate, and he can't say idioms such as "reckless and ruthless, careless of human life", so after holding back for a long time, he only held back a "poor and vicious" to describe Li Su.

It's a pity that his last brain-toning obscenity was also cruelly shattered by his brother's later words.

"It's impossible, Li Su definitely really has divine help - at first I thought he was just crossing Lu to attack and transport troops. However, after we surrendered and on the eve of our release, we were taken to Muma County and saw with our own eyes hundreds of cargo ships, all of which were more than three zhang long and one zhang wide, and could carry thousands of catties.

Hundreds of thousands of catties of trade goods were transported, including pepper, refined salt and Shu brocade ironware, and we were rewarded with tens of thousands of catties of pepper and salt and thousands of Shu brocade as compensation for the war. If Li Su had to pay heavy casualties to cross the Lushui, how could he have traveled thousands of miles to transport goods in Lushui for business?

I believe that the lives of ordinary soldiers are not as valuable as the positions of city officials, but I absolutely do not believe that human lives are not as valuable as the profits from the resale of goods, and that it is worth the risk of being poisoned to do business. ”

It turned out that before Meng Xin was released, Li Su specially showed him his muscles: because the war ended earlier than expected, he was put back to the supply fleet of Zhuti to transport grain for the second time, and Li Su directly ordered them to transport some trade goods, so as to show the barbarians that "the Han army has completely controlled the shipping of Lushui, and it can easily and low-cost reinforcements in the Dianchi Basin of Jianning County in the future", so that the barbarians will not have two hearts.

"Li Su can use the Lushui Waterway to do business and go directly to Muma County near Dianchi Lake", the lethality of this news really shocked Meng Wei more than the fall of Jing Yi.

You must know that in previous years, the price of refined salt and other goods in Shu had to increase by seven or eight times when they were transported to Jianning in Nanzhong, and when they were transported to the most remote area of Gaoligong Mountain in Yongchang, the price could increase by more than ten times compared with Chengdu. It is because since ancient times, it has been carried on foot on the mountain roads of Wei County, and the freight is too expensive.

The price increase multiples of Shu brocade are less, but mainly because the value density of Shu brocade is originally high - a full load of refined salt may only be worth 1,000 yuan in Yandao, and it is only 5 or 6,000 yuan to reach Dianchi Lake seven times. And Shu Jin may be worth tens of thousands of dollars, plus the freight to Dianchi has just doubled. It's just that the sales volume of Shu brocade is low, and it is impossible to pick more, otherwise it will not be sold.

Confirming this information also means that the benefits of cooperating with Li Su will be much greater in the future. After all, the Nanban did not currently have the technology to build merchant ships that could sail long distances in the Jinsha River, nor did they have enough sailors to be familiar with the relevant waterways-

The waterways were all built by Guo Yuan in the fields between the Yan Road and Tanglang, and the dangerous shoals were repaired, and only the people under Guo Yuan knew best where the dangerous shoals were and how to drive the boats. It's not that these tacit knowledge can't be explored slowly, but the barbarians can't do it if they want to bypass the Han people and find out by themselves, without capsizing a hundred or ten boats and drowning a thousand and eight hundred sailors.

With the efficiency of information dissemination at the end of the Han Dynasty and Li Su's sense of secrecy, it is absolutely possible for the government to monopolize the interests of shipping on the upper road of Nanzhong for five years, and Li Su can form an absolute competitiveness as long as the freight is reduced by two or three percent compared with the land freight transport.

Meng Wei was completely stunned.

How can this resist Li Su?

Meng Wei finally decided: "Okay...... This time, we listened to Jing Yi blindly, and we lost and were taken away with a total of 5,000 children, and our vitality was greatly damaged, so we also admit it. Li Su's follow-up has other conditions, and it is not impossible to discuss. But it's too much of a loss for our family to be so soft.

There is more than one tribe on the border of Jianning and Yongchang, if other tribes don't use 'five households to draw one elite' to serve as soldiers for the Han army, it won't take a few years for this to happen, our young warriors are pumped away, and other tribes are not drawn, how can we gain a firm foothold in Nanzhong? It's better to delay as much as possible to see what the situation is on the side of the Yuewang people, and also to see how those Baiyi tribes in Yongchang react. ”

Meng Wei estimated that the Yuewang people would not surrender too quickly, because Li Su's Lushui trade route interests could not benefit the Yuewang people. (The Jinsha River is unnavigable in the part above Laojun Beach until the Republic of China)

Therefore, even if Eshun is detained, Gao Yi will definitely continue to be the emperor of the soil, and for him, it is nothing more than a complete loss of the 10,000 people who reinforced Jing Yi. Even if Li Su made great efforts to pacify Yuewang, there were no special treasures in that place, at most there was a bit of Qiongzhu, and it couldn't be drawn at all.

Meng Xin listened to his brother's procrastinating attitude, lest his brother further annoy Li Su, and further showdown: "Big brother, we have no future in playing tricks with the Han people...... I'll tell you the truth, before Li Su let me come back, I expected that you might find an excuse to delay.

At that time, he warned me, saying that if you delay, please send your children and grandchildren to study in Jiangzhou, Ba County, and learn to read and write with the Han people. Teenage children and nephews can be released after studying in Jiangzhou for six years, and Mengtong children under the age of ten can only be released after studying with Han people for ten years. Otherwise, he would be regarded as still with Jing Yi and Gao Yi.

Moreover, Li Su also said that in the future, such a tribal chief must choose an heir among the children who have read Chinese books and know Chinese characters, and cannot pass on the throne to people who have not read Chinese books. If anyone refuses, he will raise an army against him and reassign him to a rogue officer. ”

Meng Wei was shocked in his heart, and he was a little more in awe of the Han people's enemy plane, it turned out that he wanted to delay time, and he had already been expected by the enemy...... I don't know a few big characters, and it really dragged on a little bit to play scheming with the Han people......

Li Su now has all the grain stocks in the Dianchi Plain, and there is no need to transport grain from Shu for a military attack, and it is absolutely no problem to continue to maintain the offensive for three months, and it is not good to hit the knife edge.

But Meng Wei was afraid of being replaced by others, so after thinking about it, he should have given birth to one less son.

He said to Meng Xin: "Then let Jie'er go to Li Su to learn Han books, let's just say that Hou'er is still young, and she is not even the age of Fameng, so she can't go to study." In the future, when Li Su puts my eldest son back, I will let my second son go to school. ”

To ensure that there is always a son by his side, and he will not be cut off from his children and grandchildren, Meng Wei feels that this backhand is enough, and the person who has become a big thing has really reached a critical moment, and it doesn't matter if he dies a son.

Moreover, if other tribes don't give it to their sons, then Li Su will kill other tribes, anyway, in the territory of Yongchang and Jianning, he can't lose the strength of other tribes.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the southwest Yi of Jianning and Yongchang can be roughly divided into Kunming Yi and Ailao Yi from the ethnic point of view.

For these ethnic divisions are not familiar with the officials, you can simplify and summarize - Kunming Yi is to the Kunming Basin as the core of the settlement, as far as the later generations of Chuxiong, closer to the Han people, the degree of sinicization is also higher, that is, the later Nanzhao, Dali era of the "Heiyi",

Ailaoyi is mainly in the area of Baoshan and Dali in later generations, that is, in the western part of Yunnan, and it was renamed "Baiyi" in the Nanzhao/Dali era, and the degree of sinicization is even lower.

Ailao Baiyi was divided into two parts, one part stayed in Yongchang to submit to the Han court, and the other part rebelled during the time of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, and was beaten to the other side of Gaoligong Mountain by Kunming Yi, who obeyed the Han court, and established itself as a Shan country, which became later Burma.

The tribe of Meng Wei and his son Meng Shu is Kunming Heiyi, and the tribe of Mrs. Zhurong, who will be enveloped by Meng Huo's marriage in the future, is even more west, that is, Ailao Baiyi.

The common name of Heibaiyi is mainly because it is easier for Heiyi to trade with the Han people to buy simple dyes and wear dyed black cloth, while Baiyi is more difficult to obtain dyes and dyed fabrics through trade. Officials who have watched "Dragon Babu" or played "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" are easy to understand the difference between black and white.

It is estimated that when Jin Yong wrote "Tianlong Babu", he asked Duan Zhengchun's staff and courtiers to be Heiyi, and Dao Baifeng was Baiyi, and this setting was also copied from Meng Zhurong.

Of course, Meng Huodu is still a child under the age of ten, and Zhu Rong is estimated to be liquid. Therefore, there is still a big contradiction between Kunming Heiyi and Ailao Baiyi, and there is no marriage.

What Meng Wei is most afraid of is that Kunming Heiyi will be drawn by Li Su, and the mourning Bai Yi can not return to the king without being drawn blood, and in time, they Heiyi will not be able to beat Bai Yi.

If after handing over his son, Li Suneng also strictly enforces the law against Bai Yi, and even allows him to help the Meng family enforce the law in the court, then the Meng family's bowing and submission will still be valuable.

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PS: It's later today...... After watching the big data of chasing more in the first two days, I guess everyone thinks that they have not been able to watch the barbarians for too long, and the NPCs don't know each other, so I quickly remedied and modified it, so that Jing Yi was decisively killed and shortened the war scene.

Because some of the overnight manuscripts were scrapped, and the farming and differentiation behind the temporary map were rewritten, the writing was slow. The rest of the week is a two-shift shift.