Dai Cai nodded solemnly: "It's the Ba people." ”

"The eight tribes of the Ba people, self-contained, entrenched in the rivers and rivers, Wuthering Mountains and forests, are they so easy to use for their own use?" Li Xinchen said hesitantly.

According to the records of the Eastern Jin Dynasty's "Huayang National Chronicles", the Ba tribes in the Bashu Mountains can be divided into eight parts: "Pu, Jia, Tho, ***, Badger, Yi, and Shu", the sources of these eight are different, some are the main constituent groups of the Ba country, and some are foreign groups, but in the evolution of hundreds of years, these ethnic groups that belong to the Ba people relative to the later Han people are naturally called the Ba people.

The eight major tribes of the Ba people were widely distributed in all corners of Bazhou in the traditional sense, and during the Three Kingdoms period, these Ba ethnic groups distributed in the vast mountainous area from the south to the south and the north to Hanzhong were once greatly supplemented into the Shu Han army.

Compared with the Han people, the Ba people are brave in battle, especially good at mountain warfare, among which the people of the Ba people, because they like to hold a shield and charge forward violently, so they are called "Ban Yu Man".

If he can take the Ba people for his own use, then Li Xinchen will not only have sufficient troops, but also occupy the entire Bashu more easily.

"Ba people······ Isn't it easier to deal with the Ba people than the Han people? Li Xinchen's face became more and more heavy.

It's not that Li Xinchen doesn't dare to try or has any prejudice against the Ba people - after all, for a typical later generation, the concept of 56 ethnic groups has been deeply rooted in his heart, and the Ba people can only be regarded as a semi-minority and half Han group at best, and Li Xinchen certainly can't discriminate against them - but Li Xinchen also knows in his heart that the living habits and customs of these barbarians are very different from those of the Han people, and it is impossible to deal with the Ba people in the same way as the Han people.

Dai Cai smiled slightly, in terms of understanding Bashu, he is more suitable than anyone in Li Xinchen's army, which is why he trusts Li Xinchen to give him a good future. After all, compared with the dispensable Yongan Lieutenant before, his current position is irreplaceable by others:

"The general didn't know that although the Ba people are different from the Han people in all aspects, but to put it mildly, the Ba people are actually more simple, and what they advocate is nothing more than simple force and victory, or in other words, they believe in 'the strong are respected'."

"Oh?" Li Xinchen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he seemed to be thinking about things a little complicated. The ancient barbarians are said to drink blood and kill by nature, but this is actually a forcible discredit by many people who believe in simple Confucianism for the sake of "Huayi's discrimination".

At least in Li Xinchen's impression, the Wuxi barbarian king Shamoke is a typical representative.

These barbarians believe in pure strength and warriors, and what they need is not to kill, but to survive.

"And the general is the 'strongest' for this Bashu." Dai Cai followed up and looked at Li Xinchen with a smile.

"So what's going to be?" Li Xinchen's hand tapped lightly on the table.

Dai Cai said confidently: "The last general has not had much contact with the Ba people, but he also knows that there are many Ba tribes in the mountains on the north side of the White Emperor City and the south bank of the Great River, so now the general only needs to wait." ”

"Wait?" Li Xinchen subconsciously looked at the map, in fact, in the Bashu area, the Han people live in the water, and they control the banks of the big river and the rest of the rivers, and in the vast mountains in the rest of the places, they are mainly Ba tribes.

"When the general takes control of the land of the three counties and the soldiers of the Ba County, these Ba people will naturally come to the door," Dai Cai said with a smile, "You must know that the hatred between these Ba people and the Zhou State is not a lot at all." ”

Li Xinchen was stunned for a moment, and a smile appeared on his face.

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, although the Ba people have been in rebellion many times, but the main reason is the oppression and taxation of the central dynasty and the local government, in most cases the Ba people are still very loyal to the government, which can be seen in the Shu Han period with the Ba people as soldiers.

In the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the situation changed greatly, and the Wuxi barbarians, who had eaten tea during the Three Kingdoms period, had gradually dissipated because of the years of suppression and exploitation of the Wu State, and the Nanzhong barbarians also retreated to the mountains due to Zhuge Liang's suppression.

After that, the Southern Dynasties had many blows to the Ba people, but in most cases the two sides were still peaceful, and the Ba people also maintained their superficial respect for the Southern Dynasty, but the hardest blow to the Ba people was actually the Northern Zhou after the occupation of Bashu.

In order to pacify this future rear, the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty that replaced it once sent a large army to sweep away the Han and Bashu barbarians, and it was the general Yang Zhong who swept the Han, and the one who swept the Yong'an area was Lu Teng, who had died in Jiangling.

According to records, at that time, Lu Teng killed all the way along the river, and the corpses of the Ba people were piled up like a mountain, and the blood stained the river, which was extremely tragic. And this is not the end, in order to make the Ba people still honest after retiring from the army, Lu Teng took the heads of the Ba people and piled up the Jingguan to praise their achievements, and the rest of the Ba people fled into the mountains one after another.

This is also why for so many years, the Northern Zhou basically did not have a strong garrison in Bashu, and it could still maintain the basic rule of the place.

However, this does not mean that these Ba people are really honest, this kind of hatred of killing people and exterminating the clan must be engraved in their bones, not to mention that no matter what era it is, it is a great shame to be piled up by their opponents, so these Ba people will definitely do it once they get the opportunity.

In the previous battle of Jiangling, Li Xinchen, as the first credit, also had inevitable responsibility and credit for Lu Teng's death, so the Ba people would definitely regard Li Xinchen as one of the benefactors who avenged them.

This is also why Dai Cai is very confident, as long as Li Xinchen can fight down a large enough territory around, control key points such as the three counties, and show his sufficient strength, then there is no need for Li Xinchen to take the initiative to contact, these Ba people will definitely come to take refuge.

"Zidong's words, Yu helped Dayan." The smile on Li Xinchen's face retracted and said solemnly.

If there was no Dai Cai, it would probably not be so simple for him to obtain this information, after all, Bashu and the Southern Dynasties had been separated for so many years, and the barbarians in the mountains had been suppressed many times by the Northern Zhou Dynasty, not to mention the wealthy families who relied on the towns.

These wealthy families either have inseparable interests with the Northern Zhou Dynasty, or they will not come to the door so quickly for the sake of prudence, at least it is difficult for Li Xinchen to take the initiative to come to Li Xinchen to provide enough help in the process of Li Xinchen's next step, and if Li Xinchen comes to the door, it is difficult to say whether these people are honest with each other or vain and wronged.

After all, after hundreds of years of accumulation, each wealthy family has to have its own scruples, and it is impossible to directly and unhesitatingly press the entire family here because of a victory.