After a long journey of more than a month, Li Nan led the convoy to finally come to the vicinity of Guizhou City.

The 5,000 Liumin Army had arrived more than ten days ago, but because Li Nan had not officially taken office, so many soldiers could not explain their origins, so they had to be quietly stationed in the woods temporarily.

After Li Nan met Li Tian and Zhang Hao who greeted him, he had a general understanding of the situation here.

The first thing to do when he came to Guizhou this time was to take over the position of Zhizhou, and to escort the current Zhizhou Wang Zudao, who had lied about expanding his territory, back to Tokyo City for trial.

Wang Zudao, the word Ruohui, is a native of Min County, Fujian. In the Northern Song Dynasty, he was appointed as the captain of Hancheng for three years, and knew the two counties of Songyang and Baima. Appointed as Si Nongcheng. In the fourth year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty, he moved to supervise the imperial history of the company, because of the current politics, the rhetoric was fierce, which annoyed the people of several parties, and was changed to the secretary of the department to seal the foreign lang, and degraded Zhitingzhou, moved to Quanzhou, and later knew Guizhou.

The officials who were demoted to the southern states were all poor people who were ostracized by the bureaucratic system, and they were basically in a state of exile, but everyone had ambitions, let alone these guys who had studied hard since childhood and wanted to gain fame and fortune?

Although Wang Zudao is over sixty years old and has no more years to live, he still desperately wants to return to the center of power in Tokyo City, so he made this decision.

As the saying goes, the civil and military officials of the border army near the Western Xia and the Liao State often use the trick of killing the good and risking the merits, and the officials in the south who are close to the state of Jian often exterminate some ethnic minorities to ask for merit, but like Wang Zudao, there are very few who dare to lie about expanding the territory.

Originally, Li Nan wanted to directly take his personal guards to the Guizhou Mansion and capture Wang Zudao and escort him back to Tokyo City, but after listening to the specific information that Li Tian and Zhang Hao heard, he felt that he had to plan carefully.

When Jiaozhi invaded the Great Song Dynasty a few decades ago, there were not many soldiers and generals in the southern state capitals combined, but after so many years, things changed, and Wang Zudao re-established a Dinghai army of 3,000 sword players.

Wang Zudao's crimes are huge, and it is estimated that it will be a dead end to go back, so what Li Nan is most worried about now is that this old guy jumps off the wall in a hurry, and after thinking about it, Li Nan asked: "What is the strength of these three thousand Ding Navy?" ”

Zhang Hao, who had secretly entered the city to investigate, frowned and said: "These Dinghai forces composed of locals are very strong in combat, if we fight hard, it is estimated that the damage will be great!" ”

It is no problem for 5,000 trained exile troops to defeat this Ding Navy, but if you kill 3,000 enemies, you will also have to lose 800 yourself, not to mention that Li Nan, who has just arrived, still wants to get this relatively elite army in his hands, which is a bit troublesome.

Li Nan thought about it and felt that the decapitation tactic was the best, so he asked, "Is Wang Zudao prepared?" ”

Li Tian introduced: "I don't know this, but the security in the southern states is not good, there are often ethnic minorities making trouble, Wang Zudao lives in a simple place and rarely goes out of the city, and hides in the city of Guizhou where the 3,000 navy is stationed all day long, so it is difficult to clean him up outside the city." ”

When everyone was talking, everyone else also came over to listen, and when they saw that Li Nan was in trouble, everyone began to think about it and wanted to do their part.

"Official, otherwise send the slave family and Sister Sun into the government and take him down directly!" Pang Xiuxia suddenly proposed.

Instantly understood the thoughts of his little wife, Li Nan shook his head and said: "Wang Zudao is sixty and two this year, although the two of you are beautiful, but the beauty plan will not work." ”

Li Tian said with some embarrassment: "Uh... Master, in fact, although Wang Zudao is old, he is lustful, and there are many girls in the house who are snatched from local ethnic minorities. ”

When Pang Qiuxia heard this, her eyes lit up, and she said excitedly: "Official, since this is the case, then let's go." ”

"No, I can't let my own women take risks!" Although Li Nan knew that this method had a high success rate, he still immediately rejected it.

As soon as Li Nan's words came out, Pang Qiuxia and Sun Erniang immediately felt sweet in their hearts, and the others also smiled.

Lu Zhishen patted Li Nan's shoulder and laughed: "Hahaha, you are worthy of being the brother of the Sprinkle family, we can't let women kill the enemy." ”

Although Li Tian felt that his master Li Nan was a little pedantic, when he thought of his younger brothers and sisters, he still felt that people like him were more reliable.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Nan asked, "Which nationality do these 3,000 Ding Navy come from?" ”

"The people of the Great Song Dynasty here call them the Servants." Li Tian replied.

Li Nan said to himself: "The Servants, this is Guizhou again, could it be the Zhuang Clan?" ”

After some careful inquiry, it turned out that this Gu clan was indeed the Zhuang clan of later generations, this nation was brave and good at fighting, in the period of Song Renzong, the leader of the Zhuang tribe Nong Zhigao once established the Southern Heavenly Kingdom in Ande Prefecture, and once conquered the nine state capitals of the Great Song Dynasty, and later it was the general Di Qing who went out to exterminate them.

Since Wang Zudao was using the Servants, Li Nan was like making a fuss from the source, so he ordered someone to prepare gifts and plan to meet the owners of the Servant tribe in Guizhou.

The Gu people grow rice and eat rice on weekdays, and the Gu people living in Guizhou are used to building the village by the river, looking at the two-story building built by hundreds of bamboo and wood in front of them, Li Nan took more than a dozen guards with gifts in their hands, and slowly stepped forward.

There are six Tusi tribes of Huang, Qin, Wei, Nong, Mo, and Cen, and this time Li Nan wants to see the Huang family, which is the largest in Guizhou.

The servants are a hospitable people, and the guests who come to any house in the village are considered to be the guests of the whole village, and often several families take turns to invite them to eat, sometimes five or six families eat one meal. Usually, there is a habit of visiting each other, for example, if a family kills a pig, one person from each family in the village must be invited to have a meal together. Wine must be prepared on the table to entertain guests.

Li Nan wanted to meet the owner of the village this time, so he specially investigated their customs, so he not only brought some live pigs, but also six beautifully made copper drums.

Pork is a favorite food of the Gu people, and the copper drum is not only a musical instrument among the Gu people, but also a ritual instrument and a heavy weapon representing wealth and power.

Therefore, although the relationship between the Han and the servants was tense at this time, Li Nan and the others had just come to the door of the house, and there were still many servants who came out.

The clothes of the Gu people are still blue and black, the men's clothes are on the placket, the women's clothes are on the right side, the collar, cuffs, and placket of the women's shirts are embroidered with colorful lace, the pants are black and fat, and they wear turbans with floral patterns.

The leader was an old man, who came to Li Nan and said: "I am Huang Anping, the owner of this village, may I ask the name of the distinguished guest?" ”

Li Nan bowed his hand and said: "I am Li Nan, the champion general of the Great Song Dynasty, the current governor of Guizhou, and the pacification envoy of Guangnan West Road. ”

"What?" The lord of Huangzhai was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Isn't this Guizhou Zhizhou Wang Zudao?" ”

"Hehe, the lord of Huangzhai doesn't know that Wang Zudao has committed a serious crime, so the court issued an order and ordered me to come to Guizhou to take over his position. I hope that all the owners of the village will assist me in this matter. ”

"Then the things that he Wang Zudao promised to our villages don't count?" The lord of Huangzhai said angrily.