For the people of Yizhou, after the big move of full favor, only the four counties of Nanzhong are intact.

But the four counties in the south and central are tantamount to chicken ribs for them.

In the four counties of Nanzhong, there are really only local tyrants, southern barbarians and Han people who live together.

There are only local tyrants, no reliable scholars, and their status has always been embarrassing, and they have never been treated well by the Han elites living in the Chengdu Plain.

Therefore, the status of the four counties in Yizhou is not as good as air.

That's literally inferior to air.

Because of the presence of miasma.

Poor transportation, serious underdevelopment, a large number of primeval forests and miasma are very dangerous things for northerners.

At the beginning, General Fubo's horse aid to fight in Nanzhong died of this terrible miasma.

But in fact, miasma is not a poisonous gas or anything like that, and it is not like the ancients said that there was a problem with the air in the south, and most of the actual pathogenic miasma was caused by mosquito swarms.

A large number of mosquitoes with Plasmodium falciparum gather to fly, because of their small size and large numbers, they look like a black and heavy gas from a distance.

This was easily considered a poisonous miasma by the ancients who did not understand the principle.

If you are touched by this kind of [miasma], you will inevitably be infected with a vicious disease because of mosquito bites, so the ancients felt that the southern jungle was full of poisonous gas, and they were afraid to approach.

But the Wei army's southward march used precisely the solution to this problem.

In the process of attacking Shanyue with fierce fire oil cans, the Wei army understood the method of using fire to destroy forests and open up wasteland, which could not only kill Shanyue thieves who were good at hiding themselves, but also open the way.

So the Wei army went all the way south and used this way of clearing wasteland all the way.

Burn all the way from the banks of the Yangtze River to the north of Lingnan, all the way through.

Burn first, then fight.

The fierce flames happened to be the biggest enemy of this [miasma], and the subsequent immigration and development were even more of the miasma's natural enemies.

Agricultural production needs to be drained and ploughed, which directly destroys the environment where those mosquitoes live.

Without the dreaded mosquitoes and poisonous and harmful plants, the miasma would naturally be gone.

Therefore, the Wei armies in Jingzhou and Yangzhou were not greatly threatened by the miasma in the process of moving south.

This policy was also used by Zhang He and Huang Zhong on the battlefield to consolidate the results of the battles in Yuewang County and Qiqi County.

The two used the tactics of arson and burning to deforestate a large area to open up wasteland, which not only frightened the barbarians in Nanzhong who were about to move, but also burned out a lot of living space.

Despite this, the vast majority of the four southern and central counties were still outside the control of the Wei army.

Yuewang County and Qiqi County, as well as Yongchang County and Yizhou County further south.

Yuewang County and Qiqi County were being deterred by Zhang He and Huang Zhong's garrisons respectively, which was also the few remaining achievements of Liu Zhang's forced expansion to the south, which was taken over by the Wei army.

In this way, the results of the battle in the north of Yizhou were successfully consolidated by the Wei army, and the Wei army sharpened its sword and headed south.

At this point, the forces of all parties in Nanzhong also smelled something strange, and began to become very nervous and a little overwhelmed.

They sent people to the north to inquire about the news, but they could not get any news except the news of the rectification of the Wei army.

The four counties in the south and central are located in the remote area, and they have never been valued by people in the north, but it doesn't matter, this does not prevent them from achieving a small circle and a small society, and enclosing their own sprouts.

Haoqiang is a special product of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, there are in the north, and there is naturally in the south, and it will not be because of the remote location.

If it was located in a remote area, Guo would not be troubled by the fact that there were many powerful clans in Youzhou, and even had to use the hands of the Gongsun clan to eradicate some of the powerful clans in Youzhou.

It can only be said that in remote places, there are few scholars, or even none.

There is a lot of political space, but there is not much economic space, but when it comes to dealing with it, it is obviously easier to deal with Haoqiang, as long as you kill it, unlike the scholars, you have to worry about public opinion.

The most famous Haoqiang family in the four counties of Nanzhong is surnamed Yong.

The history of this family is very long, and it can be traced back to the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, the countryman of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty.

The Yong family of this Yizhou County is the descendants of Yongya.

Yongya was also a hero of Liu Bang's establishment of the Han Dynasty in a sense, but he once betrayed Liu Bang, and Liu Bang hated him very much.

It's just that this person is really lucky.

Liu Bang once made his subordinates panic because of the untimely reward of meritorious heroes, and some people even plotted to rebel again, Liu Bang was very panicked and asked Zhang Liang for advice.

Zhang Liang suggested to Liu Bang, he said to take the lead in rewarding a person you don't like very much, so that when others see that you can reward even someone you hate so much, they will definitely be able to get a reward, so that the group of people will not worry.

Liu Bang thought about it, yes, that's the truth.

Then he sealed the very hated Yongya who had betrayed him.

In this way, Yongya became a lucky potted plant, and received the wonderful treatment of the gold medal for avoiding death—he himself was the gold medal for everyone to be rewarded by Liu Bang.

Of course, the damned still have to die, but the damned Yongya got a good death.

In fact, Guo still suspects that this is a group comedy.

Later, although the Yong family lost the title, the family was passed down and shrunk at the edge of the empire, and the central bigwigs were out of sight and out of mind, so they survived.

For Yong, this may also be a good thing.

How many once powerful political families have been wiped out in hundreds of years, and they have lost their children and grandchildren, but the Yong family has been able to preserve itself and has continued to this day.

Hundreds of years later, the Yong clan has become a local entrenched tyrant, a local tyrant, who shares the ruling power with the local barbarians, and can even occupy a dominant position.

After pacifying the centrifugal and local forces in the Sichuan Basin, Man Chong and Lejin needed to face the four counties of Nanzhong that were still unruly and had rough roads.

From the Sichuan Basin to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is really not an easy task.

Zhang He and Huang Zhong garrisoned in Yuewang County and Qiqi County respectively, but the place where the two garrisoned was also the place where Liu Zhang's generals had carved out, in the north of Yuewang County and Qiqi County.

Further south, most of the area is still a paradise for local tyrants and aboriginal barbarians.

Previously, because they wanted to stabilize the situation in Yizhou, Zhang He and Huang Zhong could only maintain a defensive position and could not launch an offensive.

They reclaimed land, tuntian, roads, and military facilities in Yuewang County and Qiqi County, consolidating the strategic achievements of Liu Zhang's army.

After Lejin and others finally finished rectifying the Sichuan Basin and stabilizing the core of Yizhou, they began to really attack the four counties in Nanzhong.

If it had been in the past, the battle between the four counties of Nanzhong would not have been able to start at all.

Directly pass on the plan, you continue to live yours, I continue to live mine, our well water does not interfere with river water, the four counties of Nanzhong are your paradise, and the Sichuan Basin is a piece of meat of Wei, so it's good.

Moreover, the four counties of Nanzhong are located on the border of the empire, a large number of primeval jungles are undeveloped, all kinds of fierce beasts, poisonous insects and fierce barbarians are everywhere, how difficult it is to fight and develop.

There were also voices within the Wei court opposing the attack on the four southern and central counties, believing that the gains outweighed the losses.

Although the Shu Han regime under Zhuge Liang's rule went deep into Nanzhong to eliminate local separatist forces, and defeated Meng Shu, the leader of the barbarians in Nanzhong, Zhuge Liang's control of Nanzhong was actually inseparable from the scope of bondage, and it was still not a substantive mastery.

The difficulties of road traffic, the difficulty of the barbarians not being educated, the difficulties of land development, the pressure of the Wei State in the north, and so on.

The existence of these objective factors made it impossible for Zhuge Liang to invest resources in the four counties of Nanzhong with peace of mind, seriously develop the four counties of Nanzhong, and obtain the war potential that Shu Han urgently needed from the four counties of Nanzhong.

Despite this, Zhuge Liang did quite well, the existence of the Wudang Fei Army and the existence of the garrison in Nanzhong meant that the Shu Han regime still had basic control over Nanzhong.

But this kind of basic control is unacceptable to Guo.

What Guo asked for was the establishment of counties and the collection of taxes.

It is not difficult to set up counties and counties, and counties can be set up in places like Jiaozhou, but what about the south of Yizhou?

But collecting taxes is a technical job.

It is absolutely not easy to make people willing to hand over the wealth they have obtained to the government, and it is quite a test of a government's grassroots governance ability and military deterrence, both of which are indispensable.

If there is a slight lack of one, the tax revenue will not be sustainable, and if it cannot have enough tax revenue, the government will not be able to strengthen its rule, and it will not be able to provide public services, and it will fall into a vicious circle.

Therefore, in order to maintain the tax system of the Wei Empire as much as possible, Guo only expanded the number of officials under the Ministry of Finance on a large scale, and also arranged a large number of tax officials of the Ministry of Finance throughout the country, so that no corner of the country could evade paying taxes.

The number of officials in the Ministry of Finance is currently the largest in the entire central system of the Wei Empire, much more than in the Inner Court.

Guo, who has such an obsession and enforcement of tax collection, will not allow his military deterrence to cover the scope of his own tax collection and the places where he cannot collect taxes.

Not to mention that there are rich mineral resources in the land of Nanzhong, and conquering this place and occupying this place can also open up another road to Jiaozhou.

Therefore, Guo Peng severely reprimanded the group of officials who advocated the implementation of the policy of restraint against the four counties of Nanzhong, and reprimanded them for being short-sighted and unable to see the long-term benefits of mastering the four counties of Nanzhong.

After being reprimanded, the officials were panicked and no longer dared to oppose the emperor's opinion, so they could only admit their mistakes and agree with Guo Peng's idea of insisting on marching into the four counties of Nanzhong.

The emperor's desire for power was rare in ancient and modern times, and he could not tolerate any land that was not subservient, and the officials felt that this was both a good thing and a bad thing.

Of course, it is good for the country, but for them, it is not necessarily.

The emperor with such a strong desire for power will not tolerate anyone under him who still holds power that he cannot control, and he will inevitably strike mercilessly at the so-called [powerful ministers].

Whoever wants to be a powerful minister must weigh his own weight to see if he can get benefits under the hands of this emperor.

Both Cheng Yu and Tian Feng tried, but it was clear that the results were not good.

When Man Pet sent the table to the entire Yizhou for territorial transformation, he also sent a letter from Yong Hong, the leader of the local tyrants in Nanzhong, to Man Pet.

In the letter, Yonghong's words were quite arrogant, and he was very dissatisfied with the Yongchang Taishou who was given to him by Guo in order to appease him, and asked the central Wei government to make him the governor of Nanzhong, and the governor of the military administration of the four counties of Nanzhong.

In addition, he also questioned the series of actions taken by Zhang He and Huang Zhong of the Wei army in Yuewang County and Qiqi County, believing that this was a provocation and clearly expressing his dissatisfaction.

Guo was very angry after seeing Yonghong's letter, thinking that this person would not cry when he saw the coffin, and in a fit of anger, he almost immediately ordered Le Jin to march south, cut off Yonghong's head, and exterminate his three clans.

But after thinking about it carefully, Guo realized that Yonghong dared to be so disrespectful to him, the emperor of Wei, and it was obviously very dependent.

On the one hand, the news is closed, and I don't know much about the strength of the Wei Empire.

On the other hand, the four counties of Nanzhong are located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the terrain is higher than that of the Sichuan Basin, and the transportation is inconvenient.

In such a state, it was difficult for the superior cavalry of the Wei army to play an effective role, it was not easy for the infantry army to attack, it was even more difficult to transport grain, and it was naturally even more difficult to transport and use large ordnance.

Many of the advantages of the Wei army are difficult to exert under such geographical conditions.

Wu Yi and Wu Ban under Liu Zhang were also asked by Guo Peng to talk about their battle in Nanzhong.

They said above that they had suffered many losses in logistics, and they also suffered losses under the repeated sneak attack tactics of the barbarians in southern China, and the war was very difficult, and the logistics could not keep up, and it was difficult to advance.

The logistics of the army starting from Chengdu to attack the four counties of Nanzhong were very difficult, and this must be the greatest confidence for Yonghong to dare to face him in his letters.

Yonghong was speculating about his psychology, thinking that Guo Peng would not make a big deal for Nanzhong, a wild place in the eyes of the Central Plains.

He's gambling.