After Meng Xin persuaded his brother to send the proton, he returned to Dianchi County non-stop and made an errand with Li Su.

To be precise, it was to go to the northern suburbs of Dianchi County and the lakeside of Dianchi Lake, which had just been built for a month.

Who told Li Su to live in the miasma of Nanzhong, so he refused to live in the city, and he must cut down vegetation on the shore of a wild lake to create a beach villa. As for the defense of the wilderness, it would be nice to have a few hundred soldiers camped for a long time to protect him, and maybe a resort town would be developed in the future.

When Meng Xin saw Li Su, he pointed to the twelve or thirteen-year-old boy in front of him and sincerely introduced:

"Governor, this is the nephew of the last general, Meng Jie, my brother did not intend to delay the return to the imperial court and share the benefits of trade, but he was really worried that the other barbarian tribes around him did not know the general Tianwei of Zhengxi, and he transferred the elite of the department to the king's division, and the enemy could not resist the invasion of those strong neighbors who did not return to the king, but missed the governor's major affairs."

Li Su was drinking juice at the time, and Dian Wei was standing next to him with guarded eyes. Hearing this, Li Su almost couldn't help laughing, secretly wondering that these Nanban really wouldn't lie:

Even the unintentional whitewashing of "not deliberately delaying the surrender" here can be said. If you let him tell this lie, just say the second half of the sentence? The first half of the sentence "I didn't do anything" is just too much!

However, he is willing to give hostages to read, and in general his attitude is not bad, and lying is more amateurish, which is easier to control.

Li Su took care of Meng Jie first: "Go to Jiangzhou to study for a few years, and you will be under the disciple of Gu Yuansi, the proud protégé of the great Confucian Cai Gong of the world. ”

"Thank you for the compliment." Meng Jie thanked him very politely, and then he became a schoolboy who wanted to study with Mi Wei and other peers (Zhuge Liang had dropped out of school from Gu Yong, and Gu Yong's little scripture Zhuge Liang had no more to understand, so Meng Jie didn't catch up with Zhuge Liang).

Li Su's idea of governing the country is actually very simple, he knows that it is impossible to "change the land and return to the stream" at the end of the Han Dynasty, and the liuguan cannot replace the barbarian king. But in a compromise step, the high-level Han officials can say which of the several sons of the barbarian king will succeed to the throne, which is also a great progress in the affairs of the barbarians, and the acceptance of the barbarian kings will be higher, and they will not resist too directly. If anyone resists, it is also an individual phenomenon, and it can be destroyed.

It is required that the children of the barbarian king must read Chinese books, read Chinese characters, and speak Chinese in order to inherit, and it will not take a few generations to successfully sinicize them.

So in this life, Meng Shu definitely can't be the overlord of one side, how can he have to be his brother Meng Jie, who was originally going to become a "Wan'an Hermit" and send "shallots and rue".

Moreover, after all, the Southwest Yi is also the Chinese nation of later generations, and they are all farming people rather than nomads, so they are not afraid that after their sinicization, the "hooligans have culture" will become stronger and harmful, and sooner or later they will completely integrate with the Han people.

Meng Wei did not have knowledgeable traitor strategists at the level of "Bank of China Theory" around him, and he could not expose the "long-term harm" of Li Su's method, so these barbarian kings Li Su were decided.

Li Su instructed the servants around him to take Meng Jie away and settle down first, and then turned around and rewarded Meng Xindao: "Since the imperial court is willing to recognize your rule, it is natural that you will directly make your identity an official position, and don't set up your own name in the future."

The day before yesterday, I just sent a letter to General Zhengxi, promising to set up the county towns of Kunming Yi and Ailao Yi Shiguan on the basis of the existing counties of Jianning and Yongchang. The current plan is to dismantle Guchang County and merge it into Dianchi County, and set up 'Kunming County' on the north bank of Dianchi Lake west of Guchang County.

Meng Xin, thinking of your initiative to surrender and persuade Brother Ling, I will order you to be the commander of Kunming County. If you don't want to do it in the future, you can also 'propose' a few people and nephews, and report them to the Taishou and the governor step by step, and the court will choose its sage to inherit this position. ”

The county order is only available in large counties with more than 5,000 households, which is equivalent to a county at the same level as the county Zhiwei County. And this county order can still be "passed on from father to son", although it can be passed to the specific son of the government, but it is also very good.

Meng Xin originally did not have the right to inherit the position of the clan, everything belonged to his brother's branch, and only his nephew's share in the future. At this moment, he was hit by the joy of this mixed sand, and he hurriedly knelt down to Li Su to thank him.

It doesn't matter if there is a big county, aren't there only a few counties for those so-called "barbarian kings"? The largest is only one county, which is worth it.

Meng Xin threw himself on the ground to help Li Su come up with an idea: "Dudu, in fact, the last general thinks that you might as well send troops as soon as possible to completely exterminate Gao Yi's guy who doesn't know what to do." The reason why my eldest brother is afraid that Ai Shun Yi will take advantage, and the reason why Ai Lao Yi is not afraid of your surrender warning, is because after E Shun surrendered to you, Gao Yi refused to listen to E Shun's advice to surrender, and you did not send E Shun as a pioneer to destroy Gao Yi.

Mourning Bai Yi looked at Gao Yi's disobedience and you are still alive and well, they are far away from you, and they are even less afraid of you, at this time you have to kill chickens and monkeys! If you are afraid that Gao Yi will lose too many soldiers, my eldest brother will send me the 5,000 people, and I can also borrow them again, and take E Shun as the vanguard, Gao Yi has taken 10,000 soldiers and horses, and I can't resist our attack. ”

Just a hereditary county order has already made Meng Xin want to take the initiative to help Li Su fight other tribes, although it must also be selfish, such as hoping to cut off other strong enemies and reduce competition.

However, Li Su, who has his own plans, of course can't let this kind of horse boy guess his thoughts: "You think I came here to kill people?" How many times have I said that I am here to benefit the people of Nanzhong and sincerely convince the Han together. I fight wars for the benefit of the people! I disdain to disrupt the people and harm the people.

Gao Yi was so rude, he naturally wanted to kill him, but he was not in a hurry. Before I set off, I thought that this year's tasks were Jianning and Yongchang, and Yuewang could talk about it after the autumn harvest next year! To send troops, it is mainly from Yongchang, not from Qianwei. However, if I dare to resist my order because I didn't kill Gao Yi, then I will first destroy the Wailaoyi Bird Sacrifice Flag! ”

The purpose of Li Su's southern expedition was very clear, that is, to open up trade with the relatively rich lands of Nanzhong. Yongchang County has a total population of more than 1.5 million Han barbarians, while Yuewang has only 400,000 people and only 200,000 people. More importantly, if you take Yongchang, you can try to develop a maritime trade route to the poison country and find some species of this era to exchange dividends.

If an expedition can discover Indian long-staple cotton or the "Champa rice" in the Indochina Peninsula in the future, so that the rice cultivation area in southern China can enter the level of "planting double-cropping rice in one year" in the Northern Song Dynasty in advance, then the hanging can be expanded.

Under the circumstance that rice can only be cultivated once a year, the carrying limit of the Han population is 50 or 60 million, and the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty all fell into the Yellow Turban and Anshi Rebellion after reaching this extreme value. And after the Song Dynasty had double cropping rice, it soared directly to 100 million people.

On the other hand, the north of Yuewang County borders Shu County and Qianwei County across the Dadu River, and if Li Suzhen directly attacks Yuewang from the northern front, not only will it be difficult to cross the turbulent Dadu River, but even if it passes, he will face a terrifying march over the mountain in Daliang Mountain.

The core area of Yuewang County, the two counties before and after, Qiongdu County and Huiwu County, are actually located along the Yalong River, Qiongdu is the Xichang of the later generations, and Huiwu is about the Huili, Panzhihua and other places of the later generations. Therefore, if you really want to attack the hinterland of Yuewang in the future, the best route is to cross Lushui from the north of Yongchang County near Huili, and then attack along Lushui.

(Note: Between Panzhihua and Yibin (Yandao), Lushui refers to the Jinsha River, but above Panzhihua, the ancients regarded the Yalong River as "Lushui".) The main reason is that the ancients made the mistake of "not knowing the two tributaries of a river, which is the main source" here. They believe that this tributary of the Yalong River is the source of the Jinsha River, so they inherited the name of "Lushui", and instead called the real source of the Yangtze River-Jinsha River "flooding")

In this way, even if Li Su wants to destroy Yuewang Gaoyi, he must first accumulate military rations in Tuntian, Yongchang County, accumulate military rations in Jiedong County, and set out from Jiedong after the autumn harvest next year, enter Lushui along the Qingling River, and then go up the Lushui River to attack Huiwu and Qiongdu.

Of course, this is a military secret in Li Su's heart, which must not be leaked, and he will not tell Meng Xin in advance, anyway, the destruction of Yue Wang Gaoyi is only the last incidental matter, and it will not affect Li Su's construction and farming in Yongchang. Purely for the sake of a lightning strike, Flegg who shows that "he wants to run away after offending the abbot" must not be unfulfilled!

And as long as Li Su doesn't leak it, Gao Yi would never have imagined that Li Su would attack him from the southern front - any warlord in southern Sichuan, hearing that the imperial court forces in northern Sichuan were going to destroy him, would be wary of the Dadu River on the northern line, who would have thought that the imperial court would go around in a big circle and smuggle Panzhihua from the Yunnan side to smash chrysanthemums?

Because Li Su was tight-lipped about the details of the future destruction of Yue Wang, Meng Xin could only think of it and couldn't figure it out, so he could only ask: "In this way, the governor has to Ping Yongchang first, and ignore Yue Wang, just because Ping Yongchang is more beneficial in trade?"

This is something that the last general really can't understand. In other words, since the governor is to open up trade routes, then the governor needs to focus on the barbarian kings and liuguan in Yongchang County to submit to the general of Zhengxi first? In other words, where is the ultimate goal of your trade route? ”

Li Suyi waved his hand and asked the bodyguard Dian Wei to bring a map of the four counties in Nanzhong, and then Li Su pointed to the map with a familiar car: "I want to open up the trade route from Kunming County to Yongchang County to Zhibuwei County, because on the map, there is a big river in the east and west of Buwei County, Zhoushui (Nu River) and Cangshui (Lancang River).

In the future, it can be in the Guang Shipyard in Buwei County, not very large, only 200 or 400 stone ships, and it will not capsize in the sea. I brought the merchant shipbuilding patterns of the first maritime merchant of the Han Dynasty, and I will teach it to the local craftsmen, so that in the future, you can get rid of the poison, and the benefits will be more than a hundred times! ”

Meng Xin looked confused: "Zhou Shui and Cangshui, can they actually flow to the poison country?" ”

Li Su: "I know the geography of the world, don't you believe it?" These rivers will not flow directly to the poison, but after entering the sea, sail thousands of miles to the west and close to the shore, and you can reach the poison country. ”

In fact, from the later generations of Myanmar's port city of Mawlamyine, located at the mouth of the Nu River, to open a sea ship to India, it must be more than 1,000 miles. But in the initial development stage, Li Su had to make it simple to prevent scaring the locals, so that they had the confidence to start in the first place.

For example, if Columbus hadn't miscalculated the distance to India and made the difficulty five or six times easier, he would never have had the courage to sail into the vast depths of the Atlantic Ocean to the west. If there was no American continent to go to India, Columbus would definitely die of hunger and thirst at sea.

Meng Xin bit his lip, looked at the map repeatedly with a slightly blue face, and said in fear: "In this way, the governors of all the counties along the way to Buwei County are going to be personally controlled?" Wouldn't anyone who didn't return to the king be allowed to block the way on this trade route? ”

Li Su proudly struck: "That's natural, but Brother Ling has already surrendered and handed over the hostages, so Brother Ling can continue to send someone to serve as the commander of Jiedong County." In addition to Yidong, there are also Yuyu, Bonan, and Buwei, all of which are directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court. ”

As he spoke, he drew a line directly on the map, which was the line through which a trade route would pass.

As mentioned above, Ji Dong is the later Chu Xiong, Qi Yu is the later Dali, and the last Buwei is the Baoshan of the later generations. After Baoshan, you can enter Southeast Asia from the Nu River and the Lancang River to do business.

Meng Xin reminded with complicated feelings: "Qiyu County is the old nest of Ailao Baiyi, when the Ailao country was attached to the country and became the people of the Han Dynasty, the capital of Ailao was there.

Later, after the rebellion was repulsed by the Kunming Yi who were loyal to our imperial court, the governance of Yongchang County was changed to not Wei, and those who were stubborn and did not surrender to the west crossed the Daxue Mountain to build the Shan country, and the Ailao Baiyi who stayed in Yongchang was still rooted in the elm.

Now that the governor did not kill Gao Yi to guard against Bai Yi, I am afraid that the governor will send troops to accept the opening of trade routes by Yu, and will encounter armed resistance. ”

Li Su smiled contemptuously: "Your brother's opportunity to show has come, as long as there is another story of Kunming Yi for the imperial court to drive mourning and prison in the time of Emperor Zhang, the reward of General Zhengxi to your brother will definitely be much higher than the reward of Emperor Zhang." ”

Meng Xin was shocked: "Do you want to do it now?" We've just lost thousands of elite ......."

Li Su: "Last night before February next year, I will do it - rest assured, I Li Su has always given enough benefits when I use people." During the two or three months of preparation, in order to show our sincerity, I can first teach you a few wonderful ways to enrich the people and strengthen the army—I will send someone to teach you how to cultivate terraced fields, so that your people's cultivated land can be doubled in the long run.

It will also let the Han agricultural experts teach you to grow your own pepper trees and tea trees, so that you will no longer be subject to the thin yields of wild collection. Two months later, if you think that these long-term strategies for enriching the people are really useful, and you are willing to be grateful, help me attack the Ailao Baiyi in Qiyu County, and kill its chieftain and replace it with someone who is willing to cooperate with the imperial court, then we can continue to benefit each other and win-win for a long time.

When the time comes, we will publicly nominate one of the heirs of Li Hao, the former Yongchang Taishou, to serve as the Yongchang Taishou and mediate the affairs between your Kunming Heiyi and Ailao Baiyi for a long time. The rest is left to you to decide for yourself. ”

Meng Xin's eyes rolled, and he also felt that he was selling his clan to seek glory and help Li Su fight the war now, and the eldest brother was a little unreasonable, so it was better to see what the effect of the advanced productive forces promised by Li Su would be after they were promoted, so as to convince the clansmen.

If Li Su really gave too many benefits, and the eldest brother was still stubborn, then for the long-term interests of the whole clan, he could only reluctantly help the eldest brother become the chieftain.