Gwangnam-do, south of Ilnam-gun.

West of the Foggy Ridge, Sunset Country.

On the banks of the Zhangzi River, the royal capital of the city of sunset.

King Luo Yi was dressed in armor and rode on a war horse, followed by a team of fierce knights of the kingdom's army. Just after a big victory, and the destruction of a barbaric and disobedient stockade, Luo Yi and the knights were very happy.

In front of the gate of the small royal capital, all the people of the city ran out of the city to meet them.

Sunset City is relatively simple, and even a little bit of a little bit of a match with the royal city, just a small city with a circumference of only a few miles, and even the city wall is only made of earth and stone, neither covered with bricks, nor has a high-style city gate tower.

At this time, the total population of Wangcheng was less than 10,000, of which about 1,000 people from the Central Plains migrated from the Central Plains, who had national identity and accounted for about half of the relocated people. There were also about a few thousand slaves, most of whom were non-subservient tribes of the Luo Yi conquest.

Although the Central Plains Dynasty has been controlling the nine coastal counties such as Jiaozhi and Rinan, it is only limited to the coastal land, and there is a narrow mountain range in the west of the Changshan Mountains, high mountains, and dense jungles, all of which block the Han people from expanding westward.

Until Luo Yi left the town of Annam at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when Zhenla was in civil strife and various departments were fighting, Luo Yi took the opportunity to send troops, crossed an important mountain pass in the Changshan Mountains, and led his troops to sweep hundreds of miles of land in the Luolun River Basin, a tributary of the Mekong River, to subdue the tribes, and set up two counties of Sunset and Wenyang here.

However, this place is already the southernmost place in Ninan County, and it is lonely to the west of the mountains, although the land is vast, but it is still too remote.

Previously, the emperor suddenly fell ill and fell unconscious, and the prime ministers of the imperial court at that time were worried that the king of the clan would threaten the young prince by leading the military government in the local area, so they withdrew Luo Yi's official position and assigned him to the west of the Wushi Ridge to build the Sunset Kingdom.

This partition is not bad for Luo Yi, after all, this land was originally dug down by him personally, and he has also stayed in Annan for a few years, so he is somewhat familiar with this side.

At that time, the court was in a hurry, and Luo Yi hurriedly sealed it.

After arriving here, they were faced with only two simple small county towns and a population of thousands of households. It is said to be a small county town, but it is more like a trading point, where the soldiers and their families are stationed, the merchants who come here to buy ivory and other goods, and some exiles who are exiled to Tuntian.

The imperial court assigned this little population here to Luo Yi as a feudal household, and turned the local garrison into a pro-army stationed by the imperial court of the feudal country.

Coupled with the troops brought by Luo Yi himself, the army of the entire kingdom is less than a thousand, and the population is not more than 10,000.

Fortunately, Luo Yi was not picky, and after he became a vassal, he began to take out money, recruit people everywhere, train warriors, and strengthen two cities at the same time.

He also sent people to communicate with the aborigines of the various Zhenla tribes in the feudal country, so that the leaders of the various tribes came to visit, and for those who were willing to come to visit, he conferred on them the titles of pavilion chief, lizheng, village head, etc., and asked them to send their children to study in the newly built school in the royal capital, and selected their strong ones to serve as his personal guards.

At the same time, these people were also allowed to come to the royal city to trade.

And for those who refuse to obey orders, Luo Yi is not welcome.

Salute first, then soldier.

He led the kingdom's pro-army and his own guards, sweeping the past one by one, although the Zhenla tribesmen are also very fierce, but those savage-like tribesmen, barefoot, holding bone arrows, have neither armor nor sharp weapons, how can they be Luo Yi's opponents?

In the past six months, Luo Yi has swept away more than a dozen stockades and captured thousands of people.

These captives, Luo Yi was directly reduced to slaves, and then after their original village was renovated, they established Tunzhuang, and arranged for Han Chinese immigrants to live in Tuntian.

"This harvest is not small, it is still a tribe that can drive elephants, and more than a dozen elephants have been captured, and there are so many tusks."

Luo Yi stroked his beard, "The elephant looks huge, but it is actually timid, and it is very simple to deal with this kind of elephant soldier who has no protection at all and has no numerical advantage." ”

Elephant soldiers have to be in groups, and if hundreds or thousands of elephants rush over, they are still very fierce. Of course, there is no such strong tribe in the surrounding area.

The place where Sunset Country is located is a valley between two large mountain ranges, with three hundred miles from north to south and dozens of miles from east to west, and there are several rivers flowing from east to west in its territory, as well as the Zhangzi River, a large river flowing from north to south.

The local name of this river is translated as Luolun River, but Luo Yi changed it to Zhangzi River, because there are many roe deer here, and there are often roe deer drinking water by the river.

"It is said that the Zhangshui River flows all the way to the north, and the big river (Mekong River) that flows into it still flows from Qinghai through Jiannan and Yunnan?"

The person who spoke was Li Shimin, who refused to obey the dispatch of the imperial court, and was finally degraded again and again until he was expelled from the people, and finally was sent all the way to Tuntian, Guangnan.

Later, he followed Luo Yi to Sunset Country and served as a military officer.

As the king of the feudal state, Luo Yi did not have complete military and administrative power over the fief, on the contrary, the imperial court still sent officials to serve as magistrates in his fiefdom, and stationed generals to garrison the government soldiers, and the military and political affairs were all in charge of the officials sent by the imperial court.

However, correspondingly, the king still has a set of his own state officials, for example, as the king, Luo Yi has one Wang Shi, Wang Fu, Wang You, two literati, one Changshi, Sima, and one counselor to join the army, one Peng and one subordinate, one main book, one record, and one account, as well as one each of the six Cao military personnel, four military personnel, and six military personnel.

However, because the princes do not directly manage the power of feudal government, taxation and other powers, this state official system is actually equivalent to nominal power, and there is no real power.

The military participation granted by Li Shimin is also a visual grade, and there is no actual rank.

But in fact, the princes of the feudal king are far away in the wilderness of the frontier, and the situation is complicated, and Luo Yi is the first generation of feudal kings, and he is a person with high prestige, so here, the two county commanders of the southern country and the captains of the garrison are still more obedient to Luo Yi.

Several times he sent troops, Luo Yi was called to help, which was actually the command of the troops.

"I heard Your Majesty say once before, that this Zhangzi River originates from the Wushi Ridge and is 800 miles long when it joins the big river. And the big river is even more remarkable, originating from the plateau of Jiannanxi, flowing into Jiannan, passing through Yunnan, and then entering Zhenla, etc., all the way to the south, and finally into the sea, it is said that the total length is thousands of miles long, longer than the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in our Central Plains. ”

Li Shimin couldn't help but sigh, after coming to this wild place, he felt a lot more comfortable, the blind eye wore his black blindfold, and later in Lingnan and the broken hand he also took out the imitation wooden hand, but changed it to an iron hook, he felt that although the iron hook looked ugly, it was quite practical.

"Thousands of miles long, doesn't that mean that as long as we attack all the way up the river, we can hit Tuyuhun or even return to Longyou?"

"That's right, it's just thousands of miles away, and it's hard to get some dense forests and mountains over there."

The dense forests and mountains here are very scary, especially those giant pythons, poisonous mosquitoes and blood-sucking leeches, and what kind of ghost rainy season is here, when it comes to the rainy season, the rain does not stop, and there is water everywhere. In summer, the weather is hot, and if you are not careful, you can easily get sick.

Fortunately, after he came, he kept in mind the emperor's instructions, boiled and drank water, and the house where he lived was built on stilts as much as possible, and he brought a lot of anti-snake and insect poison medicine.

The biggest enemy of settling down in this place is not the barbaric and backward Zhenla people, but the dense jungle, the high peaks, and the countless snakes, insects, ants, etc., as well as this ghost weather.

"Congratulations, my lord."

The sunset county commander was dressed in a green robe and stepped forward to greet him with a smile.

"How are you at home?" Luo Yi dismounted.

"Okay, it's that there is another war in the north, the four counties of Ningyue, Hepu, Yulin, and Yongxi have rebelled, and the imperial court has ordered General Li Jing and others to send troops to quell the chaos, and now it is Dr. Qiu who is the governor of Guangnan Zuo and the Taishou of Jiaozhi."

"Rebellion again? Are Qiu and Ren too guarded?" Luo Yi nodded, Qiu He is his old subordinate, when he first took the town of Annan, Qiu He was his county in Jiaozhi, and after all these years, Qiu He has also become the leader of Annan.

"Since the fight has started, then we can't watch the excitement here, so I will write a letter to Qiu He, asking the Japanese to send troops north to help quell the chaos."

"Erlang, can you write this letter for me?"

Li Shimin seemed to be wandering.

Luo Yi said it again before he came back to his senses, "No problem." ”

Looking at Li Shimin's distant back, Luo Yi seemed to be pondering, "Dare to rebel, I really don't know whether to live or die!" ”

After entering the city, he didn't care about being tired all the way, Luo Yi immediately sent someone to invite the Sunset County Order and the battalion commander of the Sunset Mansion garrison.

In addition, the inspector sent by the imperial court also came over, and this imperial historian was sent to the fief by the imperial historian, responsible for supervising the princes, and also responsible for the justice of the criminal prison, and was also regarded as the real power of the fief.

Coupled with the county lieutenants, the meeting soon began.

"As soon as I came back, I got the news that the four counties of Lingnan were in rebellion, and I, as a prince of Great Qin, and a clan, had to work hard to quell the rebellion in the event of a rebellion. I hope that all of you here will support you! ”

The young county commander first took a look at the inspection of the imperial history, the county order is the seventh grade, but this imperial history is only the eighth grade, but the imperial history is a special dispatch of the central court of the imperial court.

The imperial historian in the green robe is no longer young, his beard is half white, and it is not easy to come to a border place like sunset as an official, but in order to be able to go further in his career, this imperial historian also took the initiative to ask for the frontier to be released, so as to add a stroke to his qualifications and reduce the time for grinding.

Hearing Luo Yi say that he was going to send troops, he couldn't help but groan.

Many of the Sunset King's usual behaviors in the fiefdom have actually crossed the line, but after all, this place is not as good as the mainland.

Now this is going to send troops to the north, and he is a little embarrassed at the moment, "Transferring troops out of bounds, this is a big deal, you must first ask the court, get the official document of the Privy Council and the military talisman of the military department, before you can send troops, otherwise you will be unauthorized to use troops and horses, and you will be regarded as complicity in rebellion." ”

"I don't know this, it's just that now there is a rebellion in Lingnan, or a rebellion in the four counties, this is not a trivial matter, the matter is urgent, we will play on our side, and at the same time send troops first."

The command of the government soldiers has always obeyed Luo Yi, after all, Luo Yi's prestige in the army is not generally comparable, or even if the commander does not listen, the leaders below are estimated to still obey Luo Yi.

"The government soldiers should not be lightly adjusted." The prefectural magistrate persuaded on the side, "But if it's a different way, maybe it's okay." ”

"What's the method?"

The young county magistrate's brain is more active, and he offers a plan at the moment.

After listening to this, Luo Yi couldn't help nodding, "It sounds good, and it doesn't violate the imperial court system." ”