The present time is the end of October in the year 265 AD. It has been 20 months since Guan Yi became the Great Sima.

According to Guan Yi's plan, a new Northern Expedition was launched within five years {60 months}. So, now a third of the time has passed.

The industrial distribution has already begun to be adjusted, and various policies for resuming production, developing the economy, and increasing the population and land have also been rolled out. All that remains is to ensure the effective implementation of various policies.

Ma Yi and Wang Ji's Yongchang development plan. Ma Yi's jade production is estimated to be able to start producing before his Northern Expedition. However, if jadeite wants to replace Hetian jade and be widely recognized, the time it takes will be over. As for Wang Ji's plan to introduce rice seeds and sugarcane, if it is not three or five years, it will not have much effect.

Then why did Guan Yi send two powerful generals to be trapped there for a long time?

People have no long-term concerns, but they must have near-term worries. The development of Yongchang County, on the one hand, is to give the natives of Nanzhong a way to develop. This person, in general, except for those who have a cruelty factor in their genes. If ordinary people can eat and drink enough or even have enough food and clothing through labor, who is willing to rebel for the sake of some careerist or the provocation of the enemy country {Soochow}?

Speaking of which, since Zhuge Liang pacified Nanzhong forty years ago, this place has become the rear of Shu Han. In the past 40 years, Shu Han has been drawing blood from here, and all kinds of mineral resources, grain, young and strong, livestock, Nanzhong has continuously supplied Bashu. But this brings a problem: Nanzhong is not rich in this place, and you have been pumping blood for 40 years in a row, and Nanzhong can't stand it anymore!

Not to mention anything else, after Zhang Wei was killed, the Wudang Flying Army broke off the inheritance. This is the proof - the Nanzhong people sacrificed too many young men for the Northern Expedition of Shu Han, and they were unwilling to send their good sons to the north to die in battle. Nanzhong was already getting poorer and poorer, and dissatisfaction with the Shu Han government was getting higher and higher, and Shu Han's exploitation of Nanzhong had to slow down somewhat......

Therefore, Guan Yi's recent goal for Nanzhong is: I will build copper mines and jade mines for you, so as to develop trade routes and promote people's livelihood...... All these things, I beg you not to mess around. My Northern Expedition also needs a stable South and Central.

This is the short-term goal, but what about the long-term goal? Of course, a few years later, the improvement of rice seeds and the success of the Northern Expedition, the potatoes after Yongliang was incorporated into the territory were fully promoted and planted - which completely alleviated the problem of food shortage - which is the best way to cope with the upcoming Xiaoice period. Of course, this is a very distant thing - if you don't take Yongliang, improve rice seeds on a large scale and promote the cultivation of potatoes, then you are purely looking for your own death.

Therefore, it is still necessary to succeed in the Northern Expedition and take Yongliang. Shu Han can get rid of the existential crisis.

On November 3, Guan Yi returned north from Yongchang County to Wei County in Jianning County. This is the residence of Huo Yi, the governor of Nanzhong.

"Hehehe, Shao Xiangong, I haven't seen you for more than a year, and I am very happy to see you in good health."

"Hehe, thanks to the blessing of Da Sima, Nanzhong's taxes were reduced for one year, and the tax rate was reduced by half. The entire people of Nanzhong breathed a sigh of relief, and as a result, the fixed programs during the autumn harvest every year, such as tax resistance, donation resistance, riots, and so on, were gone. Soochow's instigation also lost its effect. So for more than a year, the old man's life has been very comfortable. It's Da Sima, who has been working hard for more than a year of state affairs, and he has begun to grow gray hair! ”

Yes, all the people of the Revival Society are working hard. Their group of young people is now in their thirties, Sun Gang is in the lead, and almost all of them have more or less gray hair.

"There's no way, the country is in a difficult situation. Now both the Jin Kingdom and the Eastern Wu Kingdom are beginning to cheer up, and the foundations of these two countries are much stronger than ours. If we do not accelerate development, the final result can only be that the national strength is stretched more and more by the other side. The kid is still thinking about the Northern Expedition again in three years, if the gap in national strength is bigger than when he faced the puppet Wei before, what can he do? ”

"Hehe, Zifeng, when you say these things, don't you want to assign things to the old man again?"

Speaking of which, Huo Yi's feelings for Guan Yi are very complicated.

This stinky boy is really capable, and militarily, he has played a great victory that has never been seen since the founding of Shu Han. For more than a year, the Shu Han Dynasty, which had been in charge of the country, has been recovering its vitality at a speed visible to the naked eye. Huo Yi was deeply pleased with this.

However, this kid is also a powerful minister. And it's the kind of powerful minister with an extremely strong personality. Moreover, he also set a precedent that has never been seen in the more than 40 years since the founding of Shu Han: reuse Yizhou people! This is what makes Huo Yi, who is Liu Chan's fa Xiao'er and the only remaining military boss of the Jingzhou faction, feel very uncomfortable.

Hey, let's see if this stinky boy can take Yongliang in the next Northern Expedition as he said, and completely solve the problem of dissatisfaction with the Yizhou faction. If you can't, you can't say it, desperately don't want the shares of the Fuxing Society, and I will also connect with the allies of the Jingzhou faction to force this stinky boy to change his strategic direction and stab Jingzhou in Eastern Wu.

"Well, so that Shao Xiangong knows that Yi issued an order on Gu Chang's side some time ago to accept the former Longxi surrender army and local natives, and join the army in line with the principle of volunteering."

"I already know about it. Zifeng, the land of Nanzhong, the people are fierce. There are indeed a small number of restless people who want to go to the battlefield to gain fame. But there are definitely not many of them. Just recruiting like this, you can't recruit much. ”

"I know that. So I also want to talk to Shao Xiangong. Since the martyrdom of General Dangkou eleven years ago, the Wudang Flying Army has broken off its inheritance. And the year before last, when Baishui Pass was attacked, if it weren't for the Nanzhong soldiers crossing the mountains and mountains to block the enemy's retreat, Shao Xiangong and I would have been out of this world a long time ago. Therefore, this Wudang Flying Army must be reorganized! ”

"Of course the old man knows the value of not being a flying army. However, in the past 40 years, more than 30,000 people have served in the king's affairs since the prime minister pacified Nanzhong. Thirty thousand! Zifeng, you must know that now in the seven counties of Nanzhong, the population on the civil register, even if you add the more than 10,000 Longxi prisoners, there are only 120,000 in total! More than 70,000 of them are Hermes-Epitek! If you want to recruit troops in Nanzhong again, it will not help if you levy less, and if you levy more, I am afraid that Nanzhong will be unstable again! ”

"Of course I do. But Shao Xiangong should know that the actual population of the seven counties in Nanzhong is about nearly 700,000! Most of them belong to the heads of various tribes, and are not on the list of people. ”

"So what? The old man knows that you have money, and a few years ago, he also asked Meng Xiuming {Meng Yan} to buy tens of thousands of people. But those people were all snatched by him from other stockades, and those people had no fighting power. The real combat effectiveness is still the private soldiers of the various Hao chiefs. But how could they be willing to give you their private soldiers? Nanzhong, where our Han people live in a concentrated manner, is fine. In the mountains and dense forests, in fact, it is still like a troubled time: there are few young people in a village, and what awaits them is destruction. ”

"Well, Shao Xiangong has a point. In fact, the current situation in Nanzhong is very similar to when the kid faced Wuxi Man in Fuling County before. In this way, please take some time and accompany me to meet Meng Xiuming. ”

Many people who don't know much about the three southwestern provinces often subconsciously think that the Yi nationality is mainly found in Liangshan Prefecture in Sichuan. Of course, this is a big misunderstanding, in fact, there are not many Yi people in Yunnan, and they also have their own autonomous prefectures {Chuxiong, Honghe}.

In this era in which Guan Yi lived, Meng Shu and Meng Yan were both Yi people {Yi people}.

As Meng Yan, who followed Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition in the Zhuge Liang era, he was also an old man in his sixties at this time. His tribe is the most powerful in the south. There were no less than 3,000 private soldiers.

However, Meng Yan is also very clear in his heart: as the main carrier of communication between the Shu Han government and the indigenous people of Nanzhong. The Meng family can't be too weak, otherwise there will be no weight in speaking among the natives of Nanzhong. But it must not be too strong, otherwise the Shu Han government will not be able to sleep. So over the years, Meng Yan has always carefully controlled the size of his tribe: the total population is about 10,000, and the number of strong people is 3,000 - of course, since it is strong, then all of them are Meng Yan's private soldiers.

"Xiu Minggong, you and my third uncle are old acquaintances, so it's okay to be a nephew and get straight to the point?"

"Hmph, that Hua Guansuo owes a lot of romantic debts in our Nanzhong. What kind of autumn wind do you want to come to fight with me, little? ”

"What does my third uncle's debt have to do with me? Hugh Minggong, the kid will go on a northern expedition in three years. Prepare to rebuild a 10,000-strong Wudang Flying Army. ”

"Wow! Stinky boy has a big breath. Say, what do you want to do? ”

"The imperial court wants to recruit troops in Nanzhong, and this conscription will implement the principle of voluntariness. Never ask for two out of one, four out of two, or anything. Just two words: voluntary. Of course, I don't accept all crooked melons and cracked dates, but I still have to review them. But as long as he is hired, his family, or someone he appoints, can get ten thousand dollars and a hundred stone of grain. ”

"Stinky boy, I know you're rich. Your price will definitely be able to attract a lot of Nanzhong people to respond. But do you think that finding a random Nanzhong person is a flying army? ”

"Of course I don't think so. So Xiu Minggong, your Meng family. Give me a thousand elites as instructors! ”

"Huh~~ Why?"

"Two. First, you choose a decent son or grandson and enter my Great Sima Mansion. At the end of the year, the shares of our Fuxing Society will be redistributed, and I will let him join the Fuxing Society as a shareholder at that time. The minimum shareholding is not less than 1%. Second, if you give me enough private soldiers, I will allow you to annex the tribes of the Yongjia and Zhu families in Qiqi County. Well, your clan limit can be expanded to 30,000. ”

"Is that true?"

"Really, otherwise why should I pull Shao Xiangong up? Isn't it, Shao Xiangong? ”

"Hey, Meng Xiuming, you and I are not worried, after all, it is someone who has been with the prime minister. But your children and grandchildren ......"

Meng Yan's children and grandchildren? So what's there to worry about? What did I bother to put the copper and jade mines in here for? Why do I still plan and improve rice varieties a few years in advance? Isn't it just to increase the productivity here and change the relations of production here? At most, twenty years later, the tribal system that prevailed in South and Central China would collapse. At that time, the yeoman peasant economy will become the main economy here like Bashu. Which head wants to rebel at that time? He could have given it a try!

"Hehehe, Shao Xiangong rest assured. This Nanzhong will be different soon! ”