"Tinghou!" Ma Jian came to Liu Yi as soon as he came back, and he was ordered to go to Nanzhong this time to secretly investigate and contact the people who could be used in Nanzhong.

"The results don't look good." Liu Yi turned his head and looked at Ma Yan, his expression was a little more depressed in addition to the exhaustion of the wind and dust all the way.

"There is a lot of collusion between the county guards and the wealthy families, and those who can't be in cahoots, such as that Zhengang, are mostly overheaded, and they don't play much of a role." Ma Jian sighed, in fact, there are things about the collusion between local officials and wealthy businessmen and wealthy families, but such blatantly, and even let those local wealthy families become the actual masters of the local area, he is still the first time to see it, although there is a remote and barren Nanzhong, and the reason why the barbarians do not accept the king's transformation is in it, but it is really difficult to say who should bear the blame for such a result.

In the final analysis, the barbarians actually belong to the victims, and they are played by the local wealthy clan and the government, although there is no chance to check the accounts, but now, Ma Tan can basically guess that every time the barbarians rebel, not to mention anything else, the local accounts must be burned out, although it is just a guess, but Ma Tan can be sure.

"It seems that I want to go further, and there is a lot of resistance!" Although he had already guessed this result, when he really reached this point, Liu Yi still sighed a little, in the end, I am afraid that a war will not be avoided, in the land of Nanzhong, there are already few people, if there is another large-scale war, how many people will be left in the end?

Ma Yan was silent, there was a lot of resistance, only with the troops in Liu Yi's hands now, it was difficult to pacify Nanzhong, but it was difficult for Shuzhong to send too much aid for the time being.

At present, the safest thing is to defend this Zhu Ti, but with Ma Tan's understanding of Liu Yi, I am afraid that he may not be willing to be so willing to defend only Zhu Ti, don't look at Liu Yi on the battlefield is to defend as an attack, but this is only a matter of the concept of using soldiers, but in itself, Liu Yi is not a person who is willing to accept the status quo, this is Ma Jian in a careful understanding of Liu Yi's past to come to the conclusion, in terms of strategy, Liu Yi is the kind of person who is used to seizing the opportunity.

Whether it was the earliest battle of Jingnan, or after entering Shu later, he persuaded Liu Bei to take Hanzhong first, then seize Shu, and then when he dismantled the conspiracy of Jiangdong, he did not forget to let Guan Yu break through Xiangyang, it can be seen that Liu Yi actually likes to attack, but on the battlefield, it is another set, defend first and then attack, make himself invincible, and then talk about others.

"In that case, let's force them to rebel!" Liu Yi sighed and said.

"Tinghou already has a plan?" Ma Jian said curiously.

"Set up a few checkpoints first, and then force them back, and wait for them to attack." Liu Yi thought about it, further south, if you are not familiar with the place, it is easy to get on the road, it is better to choose the battlefield on your own side, and take advantage of the home advantage to fight the opponent, so that you can be more sure.

Really.

Ma Jian nodded, he could probably guess Liu Yi's thoughts, this style is like Liu Yi.

"I don't know how Tinghou forced the other party to rebel?" Ma Yan asked with a smile.

"What do you think?" Liu Yi groped his chin and thought about it, but did not answer, but asked rhetorically.

"Actually, there are already incentives." Ma Tan said with a smile: "This time, a large number of barbarians strangled the big families of Zhu Ti, and the Tinghou only needs to subdue these barbarians, and then take the money seized by those barbarians as his own and disclose the news, which can put everyone in danger in Nanzhong." ”

"Not bad." Liu Yi nodded with satisfaction and patted Ma Yan's shoulder: "This matter will be handed over to you." ”

"Whoa!" Ma Jian nodded, things are not difficult to do, Liu Yi has already laid the groundwork, now the more critical question is how to naturally disclose the news to Nanzhong, the other is to grasp the timing, at the moment Guan Ping's soldiers and horses have not yet arrived, and although the barbarians in Zhu Ti's area helped him eradicate the biggest obstacle in Zhu Ti's area according to Liu Yi's plan, but after obtaining huge benefits and killing a large number of wealthy families, whether they can still obey Liu Yi's orders, this is a question that no one can answer, at least for now, this opportunity has not yet arrived, Ma Yan's task now is relatively easy, all he has to do is to prepare, make the most perfect preparations, just wait for Liu Yi's preparations to be completed, and the time will come.

……

Guan Xing took a few more familiar barbarian warriors, these people were the most prestigious of the barbarians who were grateful for Liu Yi's help and stubbornly stuffed Liu Yi's soldiers and horses.

He didn't know why Liu Yi was so careful, the barbarians should be friends, but Liu Yi's order, he had to obey, so when he entered Mu Ke Cave, Guan Xing made a look of Su Mu on his face.

Mu Ke Cave is a relatively large cave in the Zhuti area, and it is also the object of Liu Yi's focus on wooing, there are as many as four or five thousand people in the upper and lower reaches of the entire village, it doesn't sound like that much, at least in the Han family city, even if it is a barren place, as long as it can be called a county, the population will definitely not be less than this, like the Central Plains, many towns and villages have tens of thousands of people.

But the barbarian is a nation of all soldiers, even women, have strong combat effectiveness, they are also ready to face the attack of fierce beasts at any time, such a harsh environment, honed the strong combat effectiveness and survival consciousness of this nation, they have a beast-like keenness, can detect the other party's hostility or goodwill.

The leader of Mu Kedong is an old man about forty years old, yes, an old man, in this southern land, people who are still alive after fifty years old are not treated well by the clan, and forty years old is already considered an old man.

He is burly, and his body is full of grave muscles, but if it is about strength, Guan Xing asks himself if he does not lose such a muscular man, purely from the perspective of martial arts, such muscles are actually useless, and the strength achieved by sacrificing speed will be very uncoordinated, at least in Guan Xing's eyes, it is not too difficult for him to kill the cave master in front of him.

Such a thought flashed in Guan Xing's mind, but the smile on his face remained the same, and he bowed slightly to the cave master of Mu Ke Cave: "I have seen the cave master." ”

"It's Brother Guan." The lord of Mu Ke Cave showed a bold smile on his face, he was very satisfied with this new walled city, and Liu Yi also promised him that in the future, the tax burden paid by all the villages in Nanzhong would be two percent of the previous one, which was undoubtedly natural for the barbarians who had been oppressed by the wealthy clan in Nanzhong for a long time, of course, the premise was that Liu Yi could eradicate those damn corrupt officials.

Guan Xing nodded, the Han people spoke more reservedly, he was not too accustomed to this kind of bold enthusiasm.

"I came here because I was dragged by the Pavilion Marquis, and I hope that the cave owner can return the seized coins." Guan Xing was not polite, straight to the point, Liu Yi told him that when talking to these barbarians, you don't need to be too tactful, you prefer them directly, Guan Xing has a deep understanding of this, he is the one who deals with the barbarians the most.

"Just those coins?" The Cave Master looked at Guan Xing to determine if this was true.

"Yes, as for the rest of the goods, it can be regarded as the royal court to make up for the debts owed to you over the years." Guan Xing nodded.

"Lift it up!" Mu Ke Cave Lord nodded, and more than a dozen barbarian warriors came out carrying boxes one by one, which were full of copper coins: "These things are not of much use to us, Tinghou and us have great favors, since Tinghou needs these things, we will naturally not say no." ”

"Thank you!" Guan Xing breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, he didn't know why Liu Yi said that before, but at this moment, looking at the boxes of coins, he understood a little, and it was only then that people's hearts were shaken, and at that moment, he clearly felt an inexplicable pressure, not from the master of Mu Ke Cave, but from the people around him, including the Han soldiers who accompanied him.

That invisible sense of oppression even made Guan Xing subconsciously want to touch the knife.

"Brother Guan Xing." The cave master looked at Guan Xing with some curiosity and said, "I heard that your father is the most powerful military general in the Central Plains?" ”

"It's not necessarily the strongest, but my father has fought all his life and rarely loses!" Speaking of his father, Guan Xing couldn't help but straighten his waist, his father was his pride, and he was always the goal of Guan Xing's chasing.

"What about you?" Mu Ke Cave Lord asked: "We were born in this kind of place, the most important warriors, I don't know if the Guan Xing brothers are willing to compete with the warriors of our clan, so that I can see how powerful the warriors of the Central Plains are." ”

Guan Xing raised his eyebrows, looked at the master of Mu Ke Cave, frowned and said nothing, this is not only about the friendship between the two sides, but also about the face of the Han family, and the degree of this must be grasped.

"It's not as good as my father, and this art industry is not as good as my father's skin." Guan Xing didn't refuse, that would be a sign of weakness, but he had to make it clear in advance that he was not the strongest.

Mu Ke Cave Master stood up with a smile, which made Guan Xing a little surprised: "The cave master does it himself? ”

"The people on our side respect martial arts, whoever is strong, is the patriarch!" The Lord of Mu Ke Cave nodded and said, "If Brother Guan Xing can win me, I, Mu Ke Cave, am willing to send another five hundred people to support the Pavilion Hou!" The day before yesterday, the Yi people sent someone over to invite us, but we ignored it, but the other side was already preparing, and there was going to be a war here, right? ”

Yi?

Guan Xing's eyes lit up, this is important news, and the five hundred barbarian soldiers, Guan Xing is indeed greedy, he no longer hesitates at the moment, stretches out his hand and pulls out the saber on his waist, thinks about it and puts it back.

"Brother Guan, what do you mean?" Mu Ke Cave Lord frowned.

"This knife is too sharp, if you win with a weapon, you can't be considered a real skill." Guan Xing said indifferently, his equipment was all built by Liu Yi himself, and the power can break the gold and jade!

"Oh?" The Cave Master obviously didn't believe it, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, my knife is not so easy to break. ”

Looking at the master of Mu Kedong, who was leaving the field with a knife, obviously he didn't mean to let him change the knife, Guan Xing could only pull out the saber again and nodded.

"Drink~"

The huge blade slashed down with a burst of wind, colliding with Guan Xing's knife.

"Ding~"

In the midst of the flying sparks, the heavy sword was easily cut open......