Chapter 40 Understanding Lingnan Affairs

When Dulonggang Sanzhuang was nervously discussing countermeasures, Li Nan was sitting at the table in the bedroom, comfortably studying the book "Flying Footwork" that he had harvested from Flying Yaksha Qiu Xiaoyi.

Since this kung fu is called Feitian, it is a little wonderful in jumping and lifting, otherwise normal people will never be able to jump one or two meters high.

After Li Nan was systematically strengthened, his speed and reaction ability surpassed ordinary people, and he also benefited a lot from reading the records in this book.

When he was looking at it, a fragrant wind hit behind him, Li Nan smelled the fragrance and knew the beauty, and hugged the slender waist of his little lady with his backhand.

Although Pang Qiuxia and Li Nan spend time at night, she is still a little shy whenever Li Nan makes intimate moves.

"Nasty, don't make a fuss, someone is coming to visit you."

Li Nan looked at her delicate face and smiled: "What kind of person?" ”

She said that she was Ximenqing's wife, called Wu...... Husband, let go of the slave family, and the slave family will serve you again at night, okay? ”

Li Nan naturally guessed Wu's intention, but at this time, the beautiful woman's face was shy, which made him a little reluctant to go out to meet guests.

"If you kiss me, I'll let you go."

Looking at the evil smile on Li Nan's face, Pang Qiuxia endured her shame and lowered her head to peck him lightly on the cheek.

"Lady, you're so insincere, this doesn't count!"

Faced with such a scoundrel appearance as her husband, the shy Pang Qiuxia could only muster up her courage and bow her head......

The well-dressed Wu sat in the living room, and was not restless and impatient because of the late arrival of the master, which made Li Nan nod his head, Ximen Qing was blessed but did not know how to cherish it, this eldest woman was obviously a hundred times stronger than his little concubines.

Seeing Li Nan appear, the Wu family hurriedly got up and saluted: "The slave family has seen Lord Dutou!" ”

"Hehehe, please get up."

Li Nanxu helped Wu up and said with a smile: "You're welcome, sit down." ”

Wu didn't sit down, but took a heavy burden from the old servant behind him, moved the lotus step to Li Nan, and put the things on the table.

"This is a little bit of the slave family's heart, please smile and accept it."

Li Nan didn't even need to look at it, just listening to the sound of the collision between the burden and the desktop, he knew that there must be silver inside, and it was estimated that there should be hundreds of taels.

Now Li Nan doesn't value these silver coins, but he definitely doesn't feel at ease if he doesn't accept Wu, so he accepts them after a few words.

After laughing and talking a few words, Li Nan asked: "Mrs. Ximen, I heard that most of your family's medicinal materials are purchased from the south, I wonder if there are people around you who are familiar with the southern terroir?" ”

"Absolutely." Wu Shi pointed to the old servant beside him and said, "Wu Boyuan was my father's personal soldier, and later followed me to Ximen's house, and he once followed the medicinal herb vendor to Yongzhou in Guangnan West Road several times to collect medicine. ”

Li Nan was now wondering about the situation in Jiaozhi and Dali, and at this time he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that someone from the Ximen family had been to Yongzhou (Nanning).

"Uncle Wu, could you please tell me about the southern form?"

The old servant hurriedly clenched his fists and said: "Don't call me Uncle Wu, doesn't that break the old decay, just call me Lao Wu, since you want to know about the affairs of the south, then I will tell you about it." ”

Because there are many jungles in the south, many raw medicinal materials have to be purchased from Yongzhou and the more difficult Dali or Jiaozhi, so Wu Bo, who has been there many times to collect medicine, knows the local things very well.

Guangnan West Province was the least populous province in the Great Song Dynasty, with a total population of 1.6 million at the time of the Yuan Dynasty.

Due to the small population, remote geographical location, and harsh natural environment, the most important reason is that the Song Dynasty court did not pay attention to the south and lacked military recruitment of soldiers, so there were only about 10,000 troops in the entire Guangnan West Province, and they were still scattered to the following counties.

And these are the things before the large-scale attack of Jiaozhi, in November of the eighth year of Xining of Song Shenzong, Li Changjie, the commander of Jiaozhi Fuguo, concentrated 80,000 horses and horses, and sent troops in three ways, one way to capture Qinzhou (now Lingshan, Guangxi) at the end of this year, and one way to capture Lianzhou (now Hepu) three days later, and the other road went straight to attack Yongzhou (now Nanning), after breaking through the Taiping, Yongping, Qianlu, and Guwan four villages in Yongzhou, and finally besieged Yongzhou City.

After the fall of the state cities of Qinlian Prefecture, more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians of the Northern Song Dynasty were killed.

Qinzhou City and Lianzhou City were both captured as soon as the Jiaozhi army arrived, but Yongzhou was different.

Su Xuan, the defender of Yongzhou, gathered all the 2,800 forbidden troops and Xiang troops in the state, and began to defend the city with a divine arm bow, killing and wounding more than 15,000 enemy soldiers before and after, and countless war elephants.

Although Su Mian led the army and civilians to defend desperately, there were too many enemies, and finally adopted the soil attack method, piling up the soil bags outside the city wall, and Yongzhou City was finally broken by the enemy after being besieged for forty-two days.

After the city was broken, Su Mian first ordered 36 of his family members to commit suicide, and then he himself set himself on fire. After the Jiaozhi people entered Yongzhou City, they killed more than 50,000 officials, Tuding, and residents, and they also demolished Yongzhou City to fill the Yongjiang River.

The massacre in Sanzhou finally alarmed the Song Dynasty court, Guo Kui, a famous general with the same name as Di Qing, was named the head of the Annan Dao camp and the Ma Bujun capital, the envoy of the Dao Jingluo, Zhao Gao as the deputy envoy, led an army of 100,000 to crusade against Jiaozhi, and then the famous Battle of Fuliangjiang took place in history.

However, Guo Kui, a famous military general of the Song Dynasty, did not end very well in this era when the emperor and civil officials were extremely suspicious and disdainful of military generals.

Although he attacked Jiaozhi, killed Li Hongzhen, the prince of Jiaozhi, captured the general Ruan Gen, and forced Li Qiande, the king of Jiaozhi, to sue for peace, he was still demoted and convicted.

After experiencing this, Guangnan West Road was even more sparsely populated, the major landlords were strong and strong to protect themselves, the Song Dynasty government was weak, and there were many thieves who rushed to the Song Dynasty to plunder the population and sell them to the country as slaves, and the Han people there lived a miserable life.

After listening to Uncle Wu's introduction, Li Nan found that the situation in the south was very favorable to him at this time, and if he bought an official position in Guangnan West Province, it seemed that the price was not very expensive, after all, the officials of the imperial court were all sent to Lingnan, which was not a good place to loot money.

When Wu was leaving, Li Nan instructed them to collect more specific information about the south.

Now that everything is ready, there is only a few silver money to buy officials, Li Nan can't help but look at the simple map of Dongping Mansion on the table, on which every mountain ridge entrenched in bandits is circled by him with a red pen, just waiting to train the armor soldiers borrowed from Sanzhuang, and then he can kill thieves and make money.