Yuan Jianzhi couldn't stand it a little, he looked at the ground, counted ants on the ground covered with green bricks, and said: "In this case, can you open your mouth to Lord Meng and the Privy Council, and ask the Jinghu envoy to transfer some soldiers and horses?" The soldiers and horses over there are strong, if you can do it......"

"Nope." Before he finished speaking, Chen Longzhi shook his hand and shook his head: "Xiangyang Jiangling is much heavier than the pressure it is facing here. Although the Mongols retreated after the chieftain Kuo fell ill and died, Xiangyang was newly attached and was in ruins. Lord Meng wants to build Xiangyang into a nail, firmly suppress the Mongols' attempt to go south in the future, is expanding the army, and building a new 12 armies in a row, and there is still a lack of talented generals, so it is impossible to draw military horses for us. ”

"Relying only on ourselves, I'm afraid it will ......" Yuan Jianzhi was hesitant, and his words were unknown.

"It's up to us." Chen Longzhi sighed again, but then he probably remembered some good news, and was a little more excited: "But Master Meng also said a clever plan, which benefited me a lot. ”

"Oh?" Yuan Jianzhi also raised his head, his eyes showing joy: "Hurry up, my lord." ”

"If you want to defend Sichuan, you must be from Laichuan." Chen Longzhi said: "Since ancient times, there have been many heroes in Sichuan, not without talents, but because the court does not know talents. ”

"Oh, what do you mean ......" Yuan Jianzhi asked tentatively, not knowing why.

"In my Great Song Dynasty, everyone is an official and a citizen, not a barbarian Han people." Chen Longzhi straightened his back a little and said, "The Han people are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and so are the barbarians. Although there are many Han people, there are also many barbarians. ”

"Barbarians?" Yuan Jianzhi understood a little, and his eyes lit up: "My lord is saying that the barbarians in the south?" ”

"Exactly!" Chen Longzhi said with a smile: "The barbarians live in the mountains and wilderness, climb mountains and mountains every day, have a strong physique and fierce temperament, everyone is martial and has a tradition of respecting strength, and if you enter the people, you will be a soldier, and if you pick up a hoe, a farmer will pick up a knife is a qualified strong soldier, why can't such a person be used?" It's just because we look down on people and think that the barbarians are all wild people outside the square and disdain to use them. ”

"This ...... Lord Chen, we have already called the barbarians. Yuan Jianzhi smiled bitterly: "The barbarians of Sizhou and Banzhou have already listened to the call for troops and fought with the Mongols. To tell the truth, although the barbarians are a little reluctant to listen to commands, but they are indeed not afraid of death, and they are united in the same breath when they fight, and the whole team is angry when one person dies, and they are very effective in the mountains. ”

He added: "But the disadvantage of the barbarians is that there are few people, and after a few battles, more than half of the battle will be lost." When Zhao Yanna was still here as a control envoy, he had already squeezed them to the ground, and if the adults wanted to transfer their people again, I am afraid that they would not be able to draw much, and it would not be of much use. ”

Chen Longzhi's smile became more and more cheerful, and he asked, "Zhao Yanna just called the soldiers of Sizhou and Banzhou?" ”

"Huh? And also...... Rongzhou, Lizhou, Qianzhou, and the Xishan Yechuan Department have also used it, but all the larger tribes that can listen to the dispatch of the Great Song Dynasty have also used it. Yuan Jianzhi thought about it and counted it silently with his fingers.

"What else?" Chen Longzhi asked.

"And ...... I couldn't think about it all for a while. Yuan Jianzhi wrenched his fingers back and forth in thought.

Chen Longzhi breathed a sigh of relief, took a sip of the tea bowl, and then took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Yuan Jianzhi.

"Lord Yuan, take a look."

Yuan Jianzhi took it with both hands, first looked at Chen Longzhi suspiciously, and saw that he was looking at himself with great interest, so he withdrew his gaze and looked at the paper seriously.

This is an ordinary post newspaper, the Southern Song Dynasty set up post stations on various roads, used for the purpose of official transmission of news, that is, the will of the central government can be sent to the state capitals without delay in the first time, and the report information from all over the country can be quickly sent to the center, which is equivalent to the telegraph telephone in this era.

In order to grasp the news of the foreign domain, the envoys in various places bordering the foreign domains will also add some more functions to the post stations, such as the Sichuan Establishment Envoys, which will require the post stations set up on the border to send in the major events that happened in Dali, Thang Long and other places as soon as possible, so as to grasp and deal with them.

What this post newspaper says is the news of Dali.

The post report is not long, concise and to the point, and Yuan Jianzhi read it quickly. He raised his head and was slightly surprised: "I didn't expect that such a major event as Dali actually changed hands, during this time we stared at the Mongols, but ignored the changes in this vassal country." ”

"It's not who becomes the Emperor of Dali that matters." Chen Longzhi reminded him: "The focus should be on who pulled the original Xiangguo and the emperor off the horse." ”

"Huh?" Yuan Jianzhi's face turned red, and he immediately looked at it, and then was surprised: "Shimen Fan? ”

"Are you familiar with this place?" Chen Longzhi asked.

"Not very familiar." Yuan Jianzhi tried hard to search for all the impressions about Shimenfan in his memory, but after thinking for a while, he still gave up: "That place is in the mountains, full of miasma, and the barbarians who live there are very xenophobic, and few people have ever entered it. ”

"In other words, in fact, the Envoy Department did not focus on controlling that side?" Chen Longyi asked one after another, and chased after him: "Then you must have not called the people and horses there?" ”

"No, that's for sure." Yuan Jianzhi replied, and the answer was very refreshing: "The road there is rugged, and it takes a lot of effort to go in. So they and the Great Song Dynasty have always been inseparable, nominally in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, but in fact it is similar to the zone of the two sides, Dali doesn't care, and the Great Song Dynasty doesn't care, which is equivalent to a buffer between us and Dali. As long as they don't rebel and openly raise the flag of rebellion, no one will pay attention to them. ”

Chen Longzhi took the piece of paper, raised it in his hand, and said: "It says that Sun Hong, the chief ghost king of Shimenfan, was originally a criminal of my Great Song Dynasty many years ago. ”

"I know this, but Zhao Yanna was anxious at the time, and probably didn't think about it deeply, but a Lang official from the Privy Council came and said that this was the meaning of the above, and the envoy took the medicine according to the prescription and sent someone to do it." Yuan Jianzhi said: "But he actually became the king of Dali, but he didn't expect it." ”

"It's not a bad thing for a small defense deputy envoy of the Great Song Dynasty to be the king of Dali. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Xuance Tianzhu was crowned king, and during the Warring States period, Wei Manchu, a native of Yan State, was called the emperor, all of whom were outstanding people in the first time, and this eldest grandson Hong could win Dali by relying on the small Shimenfan, but he was a rare talent. Chen Longzhi put away the piece of paper in admiration: "No matter what, he is still a member of our Great Song Dynasty, which is a good thing, I plan to send someone over, move him with affection and reason, and ask him to send troops to help me." ”

The smile he finally showed bloomed on his wrinkled face, as rare as the blossoming of an iron tree: "And the ghost pawn who is so much said in the post newspaper, I really want to see it!" ”

(End of chapter)