Ba County, mostly the territory of Ba in the pre-Qin period, at that time the land of Ba was vast, rich in fish and salt, in the heyday of the land east to Yufu, west to Yandao, north to Hanzhong, south and Qianfu. During the reign of King Wen of Zhou, Ba was one of the nine western countries, and before and after King Wu destroyed Shang, Ba was incorporated into the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty relied on its "nine grains and six animals and other financial matters".

Since the Five Emperors, the Yellow Emperor and the branch of Gaoyang, from generation to generation according to the country of Ba as the marquis, starting from King Wu of Zhou, awarded the king of Ba the viscount. The ancients, although the distant country is big, the lord is not a son, so Wu Chu and Ba are all called sons. Before the Warring States Period, although Ba did not participate in the Central Plains hegemony, but Ba Guo far exceeded Chu State, and attacked Chu State many times and won a big victory, until after the Warring States Period because of civil strife and decline, and was finally destroyed by Qin State, set up Ba County, and exiled the monarchs and ministers of Ba State to Xianyang, and adopted a policy of restraint on it, retaining the status of Ba State monarch and prince.

Xu Huang and Yi Gu took more than a dozen soldiers to make up woodcutters, and spent more than ten days from Guanghan County to Langzhong, which is known as "Langyuan Wonderland" and "Bashu Rush", and then walked all the way to the southeast until the vicinity of Jiangzhou, the seat of Ba County.

On the road, the group also encountered the wandering barbarians several times, but everyone was already prepared, and was bluffed by Xu Huang and others, handed over the money, and let them leave. Although these barbarians also doubted that Xu Huang and the others' accents were a little different from the Shu accents they saw, they didn't think much about it under the temptation of Xu Huang and the others' money, on the contrary, they were very enthusiastic about gossiping with Xu Huang and the others, which made Xu Huang and the others get an unexpected piece of information.

In fact, in addition to the living habits and customs and clothing, the barbarians are no different from the Han people, and this rebellion is also exploited by local officials to resist en masse, even if they break through the county, they are not overly oppressed by the ordinary people, and they are just robbing some money and food. Of course, there are also cases of robbing women and the like, but after all, there are fewer such things, but then again, the rebels burned, killed and looted, and the rebellions of any dynasty were not like this?

Once the war began, it was only the people who were most traumatized and nothing else.

Xing, the people suffer; Death, the people suffer......

After exploring several counties one after another, and also roughly mastering the military strength of the Banyu barbarians, Xu Huang and the others went straight back to Luo County, but Xu Huang and Yi Gu did not see Fuquan in the official office of the Yizhou Assassin History Department. After a little inquiry, I learned that Fuquan had a few times in the past few days, and the rest of the time they were training in the school field outside the city, so the two hurriedly went to the school field.

In early autumn, the sun rose, and the warm climate in winter and hot summer in Shu made Fuquan and others quite unadaptable. But at this time, it is much better than summer, at least you can train the army, otherwise Fuquan really doesn't dare to train in this weather that can heat people to death.

In the spacious school field, smoke and dust are billowing and the sound of shouting and killing resounding in the sky and endlessly. Fu Quan sat on the top, watching his team of about 4,000 people practice eight formations, and couldn't help nodding, only to see that with the sound of drums and horns, the troops on the field practiced with it, and they loved Huang Zhong and Guan Yu even more in their hearts.

"Such a strong army is really extraordinary, in just more than ten days, there is such a weather, thanks to the merits of the Yulin monarchs." Fu Quan nodded and laughed left and right.

On the school platform, Huang Zhong, Guan Yu and others beside Fuquan hurriedly praised, "Don't dare." After that, Huang Zhong, the eldest, stepped forward and said in a respectful tone: "Hui Zhonglang, this is not our work, thanks to the vassal country of Guanghan County." ”

A vassal state of Guanghan County?

Fu Quan was stunned when he heard this, what does this training have to do with it? After some careful inquiry, he was relieved that more than half of the soldiers in his 4,000-strong troops were selected from the troops of Guanghan County.

As for why this is so, it is just because most of the soldiers of Guanghan County's vassal states are naturalized Qiangyi and barbarians, and the quality of the soldiers is much better than that of other counties. The subject state is the administrative division set up by the two Han Dynasty for the resettlement of the Xiongnu, Qiang, Yi and other minority ethnic groups, and is an administrative system set up by the border counties in the Han Dynasty according to the border ethnic groups.

Because the subject country of Guanghan County is located on the edge of the intersection of Yizhou and the Qiang people, before the Qiang rebellion was decided, it was often harassed by the Qiang people, and the two sides also experienced several battles, so they naturally had some combat power. Huang Zhong, Guan Yu and others selected so many soldiers from the subject countries of Guanghan County, plus more than 100 Yulin, who were originally the elite of the Han Dynasty, were broken up by them and scattered into the army commanders, and it is unreasonable for the army to be formed without a single appearance.

When Fu Quan was still lamenting that he had completed his training of soldiers and horses, Xu Huang rushed over, and Fu Quan was overjoyed, and immediately introduced him to a secluded place in the school field, and listened carefully to what he had seen and heard along the way and the situation of the war.

Xu Huang got the order, and immediately summarized what he had seen and heard along the way and explained it to Fuquan one by one. The reason for the rebellion is very simple, that is, because the local officials are too oppressive, they pay taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and do everything they can, since the early Han Dynasty was annexed, they have not encountered such a situation, and they themselves are living very hard, so they have always insisted that I should not pay what I should not pay, and I resolutely do not pay what should not be me, but it is obvious that even if they insist, they still pay too much tax, and hatred is slowly taking root.

So the contradiction came, the two sides first had a verbal conflict, and then used knives to fight, the situation escalated step by step, and the anger spread step by step, and when the county reacted, the barbarian rebellion was no longer something they could resist, and the leader of the seven barbarians could not suppress the exploited tribe. At this time, the officials of Ba County hurriedly reported, and then requisitioned the army to quell the rebellion, but it was too late, and the result of quelling the chaos was obvious.

After hearing this, Fu Quan nodded again and again, and there was a way to solve the cause of the rebellion. The root of governing the country lies in the governance of officials, and this has been the case in all dynasties. He had also consulted the files of the recent rebellions in Yizhou in advance, and looked at the rebellions in the prefectures and counties in the past ten years, basically the local officials were too harsh, whether it was Han people or barbarians, they were forced to rebel because they couldn't survive, it was really pitiful, otherwise who would want to do that business with their heads and their lives?

On the second day, Fuquan summoned the three county governors and the governors of one country, and bluntly said that "the next day should send troops to quell the chaos", and asked the governors of the four counties to gather soldiers and horses to stand by, and at the same time ordered each county to recruit people to escort grain and grass, and the war ensued......

Subject country, sub-county away from the county, if the county is small, put the name of the county. Excerpt from "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty, Records of Career Officials, and Hundred Officials Five"