The empire wants to take revenge and destroy its country.

The empire wants to take revenge on the barbarians, and it also has no intention of showing mercy to its subordinates.

These two things are on the bright side, and the empire is not afraid of the cave barbarians knowing that they will not be fortunate to follow the cross-to-toe thieves all the way to the dark - in the eyes of the Chinese army, whether it is a cross-toe thief or a cave barbarian thief, the combat effectiveness is only a little more difficult than a deer, but it is easier to clean up than a wild boar.

In short, there is nothing but a large number of people.

Feng Sanhu's record of 20,000 and 200,000 (propaganda) proves that the Chinese army is self-confident and not arrogant.

The piles of thieves' corpses and captured banners under the city of Yongzhou are the best proof of this.

The continuous flow of Chinese troops from the north also proved that the empire did indeed have plans to kill all the barbarians and Jiaozhi.

So, south of Kunlun Pass, all the cave barbarians were scared as honest as quails - yes, not all the cave barbarians participated in the military operations of the Jiaozhi thieves invasion last year, but who can guarantee that the Han people from the north can tell the difference between the cave barbarians?

The officials of the Han people like to cut it all the most, not to mention that this time the general of the army is still the god Feng Sanhu.

Legend has it that this man led his troops to conquer Fusang, a large country in the East China Sea, and killed tens of millions of people in one go, filling up the sea!

This rescue of Yongzhou was successful, and the 40,000 cave barbarians and Jiaozhi prisoners were killed by him, and he didn't even give him a chance to beg for mercy.

All the Dongman tribes, regardless of whether they have been invaded by Jiaozhi thieves or not, are all spreading by word of mouth at this time: Feng Sanhu, the killing god, will kill all the Dongman and Jiaozhi men this time, and distribute the women to the survivors of Yongzhou, Qinzhou and Lianzhou as slaves.

As a result, the barbarian cave masters couldn't sit still.

Those cave masters who did not rebel sent their cronies to Yongzhou to try to justify themselves.

Those cave masters who used to be rebellious are also begging grandpa to tell grandma everywhere to find a way to live.

However, it seems that it is a little late, and it is true that Feng Sanhu himself is a lieutenant general and the commander of the future Southern Expeditionary Army, but he himself still has to be under the control of the military department.

If foreign countries and tribes want to defect to the empire and become Waifan, they need to go through the door of the Ministry of Rites, and Feng Sanhu only has the right to accept the surrender of the enemy on the battlefield, but he does not have the ability to accept Waifan.

It is the work of the Imperial Criminal Department to distinguish whether the Dongman is rebellious or not, and the severity of the crime committed by the rebel, and until this is confirmed and the rebellious is adequately punished, the Ministry of Rites will not accept new foreign .......

This really makes the barbarians brilliant all day long, everyone is desperately looking for a way to survive, but few people think about whether they should go all the way to the dark with the Jiaozhi people.

The reason is simple: the Chinese army is too powerful, and everyone thinks that the Jiaozhi thief is dead. What's more, what happened during the Battle of Yongzhou proved that even if they threw themselves over, the Jiaozhi thieves would not regard Dongman as their own.

At this time, Su Mian, who was portrayed as a big hero of "Tiannan Pillar" by the Imperial Propaganda Department, seemed to have become the only breakthrough for the survival of the caves.

Because Su Mian has been an official in Yongzhou for several years, is familiar with Dongbarian things, and has been holding Yongzhou for 80 days, he can also tell who is rebellious and who did not participate in this invasion at all.

Moreover, Su Mian is a hero who resists the thieves, he will not excuse the thieves, if he shows that the cave barbarian tribe is not rebellious, the empire will definitely accept his statement.

As a result, all kinds of gift-giving representatives who came to the door to try to pull the relationship crowded the door of the Su Mansion, and even the threshold was broken.

Su Mian didn't have a good chance of coping with it, because the representatives of Dongman were all Han - if Dongman came in person, I was afraid that he would be cut down by the Chinese army before he entered the city.

Most of these representatives were traders who often went into the mountains to trade with the caves.

The so-called relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the Dongman, naturally there are people who eat the food of the Dongman, these merchants usually rely on carrying the goods of the Han land to the mountains where the Dongman is located in exchange for mountain goods, and then sell them in the city to make a living, and the relationship with the Dongman is relatively harmonious.

In fact, even when those rebellious cave barbarians came to kill and plunder, they didn't do anything to them, and now it was their turn to repay this friendship.

Su Mian is a governor, but in fact, he can refuse to meet these merchants, but he knows that the empire attaches great importance to the Han people regardless of occupation, and his contemptuous attitude towards merchants when he was an official in the Great Zhou Dynasty has been reduced a lot, so he can only patiently talk to the merchants who come to his door.

"Yes, this official knows that the cave master of your Sitong Prefecture did not participate in the retrograde, if there is a chance, this official will distinguish a few words for them."

"Get out! Don't you know if Shang Sizhou is attached to you as an official? Don't quibble! Otherwise, this official will order someone to fork you down! ”

Su Mian was indeed very clear about the affairs of the Barbarian Cave, who had followed the Jiaozhi thief and who had not participated at all, he knew it clearly, and he promised to say something good in front of Feng Sanhu.

But for the former, then there is only one way to repay grievances.

Of course, it is not that there is no indistinguishability, for example, a barbarian cave called Sienzhou north of the Youjiang River, Su Mian did not see them among the thieves during the siege, and it stands to reason that the possibility of them rebelling is very small (Jiaozhi thieves are used to taking barbarians with them to participate in the siege, and the things of scattered looting are basically handed over to their own people to do, so you can see most of the rebellious barbarian caves in Yongzhou).

However, it seems that in order to curry favor with Su Mian and the empire, the person who came to be a lobbyist for Si'en Prefecture said that they had rescued more than 100 Han people, and as long as Su Mu promised that this time the liquidation of Dongman would not involve Si'en Prefecture, they would be willing to return these Han people with both hands.

Su Mu didn't believe that they could save the Han people at the hands of the Jiaozhi thieves, and he felt that if it wasn't for Si'enzhou's rebellion that he didn't know, it was that although these cave barbarians did not follow the Jiaozhi thieves to do evil, they attacked the Han people who fled north—for the empire, it was still equivalent to rebellion.

However, the lobbyist of Si'en Zhou is not a businessman, but a showman, and this person is actually quite good in terms of eloquence, he quickly explained:

"Your Excellency. Sien Cave is indeed not rebellious, these Han people are all redeemed by the old cave master from other caves, and when we return the people, the adults can know when they ask. ”

This makes sense, if Si'enzhou is rebellious, the Han people will definitely have nothing good to say about them when they come back.

If the returning Han people are also grateful to them, then they are not only innocent, but even have some credit.

It's just that.......

"Why did Si'en Prefecture spend money and grain to buy Han people?"

Su Mian still felt that this matter was a little strange, the cave barbarians were as poor as monkeys, and they all looked at the wealth and population of the Han people under the mountain, and always wanted to catch some babies and go back to the mountains to farm and work for them, and they would spend a small amount of money and grain to redeem the lost Han people?

"My lord is Mingjian, because Xiaomin is also a Han person, this compatriot love, although the villain is humble, but he also understands."

"You are a Han Chinese, how can you influence the cave barbarians in Sien Prefecture?"

The reason is very simple, this Xiucai named Zhang Heli is desperately poor, although he won Xiucai, but the family did not even have overnight food, and finally had to go up the mountain to be the son-in-law of the old cave master of Si'en Prefecture.