On the official map of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the 800-mile Qinling Mountains are divided into three parts: eastern, central and western.

In terms of area alone, the western part of the Qinling Mountains and the central part of the Qinling Mountains are roughly the same, and they are much larger than the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains.

By June of the third year of Shengxi, the management body renamed Qinling Gongzhong had taken the main villages in the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains under control, and all the smart people in the vicinity of Nanshan Fort were trying to find a way to fully control the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains.

Not long after, Li Yifu personally visited the Kidnapping Pass, indicating that the forces that emerged from the southeastern foot of the Qinling Mountains were no longer satisfied with occupying several key positions in the central Qinling Mountains.

The proprietor spent a few days at the Kidnapping Pass, carefully inspecting the terrain around this bridgehead. He walked more than a dozen miles south along the tributaries of the Han River, and also walked dozens of miles along the small river to the east of the north.

The next step was to set off northwest along another small river to investigate the valley mountain road in the middle of the Qinling Mountains.

Before leaving, Li Yifu had already agreed with Xiong Chengwen and others on a preliminary plan, which was to take full control of the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains and to strike a relatively peaceful blow to the resistance of the natives and natives in the central part of the Qinling Mountains.

Qinling mountain people refer to some people who obey the control of the public and are included in the household registration.

The Qinling natives refer to the Qinling aborigines who do not obey the control of the Gongzhong, but do not resist openly, and maintain a commercial exchange with the Qinling Gongzhong.

Strictly speaking, the Qinling aborigines are a contemptuous term, referring to the Qinling aborigines who resolutely do not have contact with the outside world, lack grain, rice, salt and sauce, and would rather rob than do business. The indigenous groups of the Qinling Mountains often entered the mountains for more than 100 years, and some of their ancestors even entered the mountains in the late Tang Dynasty.

Focusing on a series of issues such as people's livelihood, public security, division and disintegration, and tax collection, Li Yifu let the accompanying public middle school staff speak freely.

Deng Yushun spoke first.

He felt that it was necessary to emulate the rapidly growing core villages at the southeastern foot of the Qinling Mountains, and to separate the management of human rights, affairs, finance, military affairs, military affairs, and counsel when establishing a management body, so that those in power were responsible for a certain department of the public government. This can play a good role in decentralization, which is conducive to the actual control of Nanshan Fort over the subordinate villages.

Then there is Xiong Chengwen.

Xiong Chengwen's intention is obviously higher than Deng Yushun. He emphasized that Gongzhong should build a hierarchical system to summarize various affairs, otherwise how many people in Nanshan Fort would be exhausted, and the reaction speed was also terrible.

Xiong Chengwen proposed a scheme called "Fort - Village - Fortress", which was ranked according to scale. Among them, forts and fortresses have a certain military role, and most of them are built on communication arteries and passes. The settlements at the foot of the mountain and the river are called villages, and the settlements in the valleys and valleys are called villages.

The proprietor once again shocked everyone's eyes and proposed the so-called "threading the needle" plan.

The name is very bluffing, but in fact, Li Yifu's plan is to develop the economy along the Han River. Although the navigable conditions of the Han River are very poor, the area controlled by Namsan Fort is just north of the lower reaches of the Han River, and it is still possible to take a small boat to Mingwolji.

Li Yifu plans to build a business inn along the Han River, and the business house is the eye of the needle. The caravans, traveling merchants, and foot merchants who set out from these barns pierced the Qinling Mountains to the north, and they were needles one by one. Going down the river from the merchant inn on the side of the Han River, and participating in the exchange of goods in Mingyueji with a wide variety of specialties from the Qinling Mountains, this is the "line" that connects everything!

Hu Jixiang first touted the master's clever strategy, and he couldn't match it, so he put forward a seemingly absurd and pedantic plan:

Shop the Mengxue in Nanshan Fort to a village that Gongzhong can fully control, and use the future of children to attract resistance forces to vote!

Others didn't care, and most of them thought that Hu Jixiang had a problem with his brain. Only Li Yifu and Xiong Chengwen were shocked, and they thought of some kind of connection in combination with the thousand-year-old education of the Yanhuang Land, and nodded at each other.

Decentralization, system building, economic development, and promotion of Mongolian learning, these four plans, together with Zhang Wanli's shameful plan of "bringing in more poor women with food and clothing from the outside, and marrying Qinling men", were called the "Qinling Five Strategies" that laid the foundation of Qinling many years later.

Of course, Xiong Chengwen and others knew who was secretly acquiescing, encouraging, and even instructing a large number of traffickers to provide a large number of women to Nanshan Fort. But there is no way, who let Zhang Wanli rank first in the public middle school, who does not carry the black pot of the proprietor!

On July 9, Li Yifu, dressed in heavy armor, came to Nankuanping Village with his personal guards.

The village of Nankuanping is located on an east-west section of open land blocked by two mountain passes. The distance between the two narrow passes is about ten miles in a straight line, and the clearing in the middle is distributed in a meandering and twisting pattern along the small river.

"There are precious flatlands and mountains, and it's easier to build small dams. To the north is the valley and the river, and to the south is the overlapping mountains, which is really a good place to build a fort and garrison! ”

The proprietor's evaluation of this place in Nankuanping Village is also very apt.

In the middle of the night, the fog is thick and dewy. Nankuanping Village is located in the depths of the Qinling Mountains, but the surrounding mountains are surprisingly quiet.

Under the guidance of a guide who was very familiar with the trails of the ravine, more than 2,000 natives and natives armed with broken knives, rotten guns, sharpened wooden sticks, and iron forks quietly surrounded the small camp that had not yet been built. The best thing in the hands of these people should be the homemade bows and arrows they carry on their backs.

"It's finally here......"

Li Yifu listened to the noise outside and muttered to himself. He immediately turned over and got out of bed, put on a multi-layer steel armor with a total weight of more than 60 catties, and walked on the wall built of baked wood.

The inferior torches emitted an unpleasant smell and thick smoke, and the fog near the village of Nankuanping was steamed out of several large holes.

ran from the eastern Qinling Mountains to the central Qinling Mountains and insisted on opposing Li Yifu's appearance. He is eight feet tall, with rough skin and thick meat, big feet and thick neck, and is famous for most of the Qinling Mountains for his righteousness.

Kuroko, who had suffered a big loss from the rain of arrows, was firmly protected by more than a dozen wooden shields. He and the close brothers around him approached within fifty meters, and shouted loudly: "The Sprinkle family is the black man, and I also invite Li Tianwang to show up and speak!" ”

On the wooden wall on the right, the ironclad guards parted a gap to the left and right, and Li Yifu, who was wearing heavy armor and a steel helmet on his head, appeared, causing a commotion.

I only heard Li Yifu say loudly:

"Kuaizi, you ran from the eastern part of the Qinling Mountains to the central part of the Qinling Mountains, where do you want to go? If you don't surrender quickly, this proprietor guarantees with his personal credibility and spares you from dying! ”

Speaking through the mask, Li Yifu's voice was particularly low, containing the majesty of a superior person.

With more than 2,000 people, Li Yifu's team of less than 300 people surrounded Li Yifu's team, and it stands to reason that it is nine out of ten.

But when Kuroko looked at the calm and sarcastic armor-clad inner ding and iron-clad guards on the camp wall, he suddenly felt a sudden break in his heart and began to doubt whether he could achieve the intended goal. He clenched his fists fiercely and said loudly: "Li Tianwang's family has a great cause, why bother with us poor and uneducated mountain people." ”

"As long as Li Tianwang signs the contract and promises not to advance westward, he will never be embarrassed in the next place, and immediately lead people to retreat!"

It's still useful to flaunt your credit for a long time. An example of this is the black man, who firmly believes that as long as Li Yifu signs the seal, the central part of the Qinling Mountains can be calm for a long time.

Li Yifu raised his eyebrows. Sure enough, as the intelligence says, this black man is full of brains, and if he continues to make trouble, it is likely to become a problem in his heart!

The chaotic group of people brought by Kuroko actually began to fight among themselves. Several leaders did not agree to sign the contract and withdrew, insisting on taking Li Yifu's head, and then looting the vicinity of Nanshan Fort.

After the ironclad guards and the armor-clad inner ding saw it, the only hesitation and tension in their hearts suddenly dissipated. I've seen it more than once in Jiangnan, but if the people on the other side are not united, how many people are useless!

Li Yifu clapped his palms, laughed a few times, pointed to the black spot and said:

"Next to the couch, how can you wait for a sound sleep! If the natives and natives do not obey the rules, how much food, mountain warriors and staff will be spent in Bendong to ensure that the mountain people of Qinling can live a stable life? ! ”

"As long as you follow the proprietor, you will have a bite to eat. You are poor, Lao Tzu will bring you money. You don't know, Lao Tzu let your dolls go to school. If you don't want to go with Lao Tzu, it's okay, as long as you retreat to the south of the Han River, the proprietor will never be embarrassed! ”

"You Heizi is actually whimsical and wants Lao Tzu to sign a contract to be soft? In that case, what kind of face do the proprietors and Qinling Gongzhong have! Since you don't dare to fight, then the proprietor will do it, beat the drums! ”

The rudimentary stuff cart was pulled open and the heavy solid wood gate was opened. Armored Neiding carried out the wooden bridge from the inside of the camp and built a trench, Xiong Chengwu and Cheng Jianghu led the ironclad guards to rush out.

There was a scream of exclamation in front of the barracks. The flanks of the two thousand people of Kuroko also immediately rioted, and it turned out that Jing Xinyi rushed into the crowd with a new type of force that emphasized close combat cooperation!

The natives and natives who had gathered to attack were too rudimentary to inflict effective damage on the iron-clad guards, and the battle under the walls was one-sided.

Because Jing Xinyi has been rolling in the Qinling Mountains, he was able to lead the "Killer Team", a new special team.

In units of three, the sword and shield men protect their teammates, the spearmen rush forward to kill the enemy, and the remaining one is armed with heavy weapons such as axes, flails, bones, chain hammers, and maces in hand-to-hand combat. The combination of defense, offense, and hand-to-hand combat, which can advance and retreat freely between mountains, is the power of the three-person version of the "killer team".

The rare thing is that the killer team is not only easy to learn, but also reduces the force and experience requirements of individual soldiers, and can also replenish new recruits at any time. After bearing casualties, it can be adjusted at any time, and no matter what, you can make up and put out a formation.

In less than half an hour, the invading enemy, who had not killed many people, completely collapsed, and ran away and surrendered with a crying father and mother. Although there were not many deaths, the casualty ratio was too terrible, and the natives and natives quickly lost the courage to resist in the face of the exchange of lives of more than 20 to 1.

Wanting to change his clothes and escape, and continue to oppose Li Yifu in the future, Kuroko was betrayed by his subordinates, was seriously injured in the resistance, and was soon carried to Li Yifu's side. He asked to whisper a few words to Li Yifu, and Li Yifu agreed when he saw that he had no power to resist.

I only heard Kushiko say weakly: "If you want to be a big and powerful man like Jingdong Road, I'll not go against you at all." ”

"But you can open mines, train soldiers, run schools, build forts, and customize ...... in the Qinling Mountains I don't know what you want to do, I can't even think about it! It has been one hundred and fifty years since Lao Tzu's ancestors came to Qinling, Lao Tzu doesn't want to see you kill everyone, and the people of Qinling Mountain should live! ”

"I can't watch you bury the lives of hundreds of thousands of Qinling mountain people for your own ambitions!"

Qin Zhong and Yang Jianchuan were cleaning up the battlefield and following in pursuit. Da Niu is cooperating with Cheng Jianghai and Zhao Bo to arrest people and arrest several Xinshan people in Nankuanping Village who betrayed Li Yifu's information. Xiong Chengwen and Deng Yushun were busy appeasing the natives and natives who laid down their weapons, squatted down and surrendered, and were tied up by leather strips, and these two did not add up to Hu Jixiang's casual words.

Li Yifu retracted his gaze and bowed slightly:

"I have a reason why I have to. What you said is not bad, no one deserves to die, I will let the Qinling mountain people who follow me live as much as possible. ”

"Heal him well!"

The heart-shaking Kuroko was carried down. Li Yifu walked up to the arrested families and said helplessly:

"Whether you want to keep your own position, or if you don't want to be squeezed and exploited by Qinling Gongzhong, in short, you have committed a big mistake. The proprietor took 300 people and took the risk to defeat the black man for all the natives and natives in the middle of the Qinling Mountains. ”

"Throwing your whole family into the mines to work as coolies is also for everyone to see. Hold on! ”

The families who were gagged by the cork blocks and who were still struggling with themselves were brought down, and they would have lived in the mines for a long time, if their bodies had lasted that long and had not been killed or injured in the mining disaster. Deng Yushun and other public middle school staff only discovered at this time that after the proprietor returned from Jiangnan, he became more and more of a superior person's means and temperament.

Then Li Yifu called over to Cheng Jianghai and Zhao Bo, and greatly praised their rapid progress in dozens of days.

Uncle Zhao and Na Shusen no longer do everything themselves, but gritted their teeth and divided power and promoted young people to work. Coupled with the full cooperation of Cheng Jianghai, the three of them quickly subdued several of Kuroko's subordinates and asked them to instigate Kuroko to attack, so that they had a beautiful battle situation of killing chickens and showing monkeys today.

After the reputation of one as ten, the presence of Qinling Gongzhong in the central Qinling Mountains was greatly strengthened.

One more point worth mentioning. Li Yifu actually didn't take the risk, Liu Sheng and Yang Yingdong took 500 armor insiders to hide in the ravine in the north, and rushed out to slash and kill Li Yifu when he was in danger.