At the same time that Guan Yu persuaded the remnants of Wei County to surrender, Xu Rong also led the army to begin to march towards Jianning County.

Almost all the troops are on the front line, 20,000 troops are already the limit that Jianning County can bear, with the complete destruction of the soldiers and horses who followed Yongqi to attack Zhuti, it is difficult for the cities of Jianning County to organize an effective attack, even if Xu Rong only brought 5,000 soldiers and horses, it still swept Jianning County with a sweeping momentum, and almost all the cities were surrendered, but there were also a few resistances and were easily suppressed by Xu Rong, in short, in the nearly month-long cleanup, the three major clans of Jianning were razed to the ground by Xu Rong.

After January, Ye Zhao led the army to arrive at Dianchi, it was December of the second year of Xingping, not only the weather became cold, there was snowfall in many places, the South Middle Road was already difficult to travel, a few snowfalls, Mo said that the Shu army who was not familiar with the road conditions and terrain here, even if it was a local barbarian, it was difficult to do anything in this situation.

Therefore, after Ye Zhao arrived in Dianchi, in addition to breaking up the surrendered army and dividing it into the Shu army, taking advantage of this relatively peaceful time, he was separated from the training of special training generals, which was to sort out the governance of Jianning and the people's livelihood.

Whether it is training troops or sorting out people's livelihood, Shuzhong already has a relatively mature program, there are generals who are specifically responsible for training soldiers on weekdays, these people are mostly selected from the veterans, familiar with Ye Zhao's training methods, and occasionally the special operations battalion will also make cameos, and now after several years of cultivation in Shuzhong, military training and leading soldiers have been basically separated, and the generals only need to train personal guards, and the regular soldiers are uniformly trained by Ye Zhao, and there is no need for the generals to train.

This also allows the military to maintain a certain degree of loyalty.

The officials of the army were continuously sent to the counties of Jianning by Ye Zhao, and the three major clans of Jianning were wiped out by Xu Rong in this battle, and a lot of cultivated land was vacated to be leased to the people as official land, but because of the mountainous terrain on this side of Jianning, the people's income is more dependent on some special products than fields, and certain changes need to be made in the details to adapt to the local area, and it is not advisable to copy them rigidly.

"This Dan rhino, the entire Jianning County can only find these, and if there are more, you will have to go to the Yi people or the Ba Na Cave." In a pasture carved out outside Dianchi City, a Zhurong general pointed to more than a dozen rhinoceros and said to Ye Zhao.

After breaking through Jianning this time, Ye Zhao ordered someone to recruit some animal tamers of the Zhurong clan to collect the Dan rhinos in Jianning County.

"It's not difficult for these Dan rhinos to be domesticated, but it's a little difficult for the lord to let them fight in Shu." Zhu Rong tribe's animal tamer said.

The Shu road is difficult, these Dan rhinos are not light, many places that must cross the plank road, but can not carry a large number of Dan rhinos to cross, so these things can only play majestic in this Shu.

"When something is available, the problem can always be solved." Ye Zhao nodded, and didn't say much, he didn't have any plans to leave Shu now, and he didn't think about these problems now, so he turned his head to look at the beast tamer and said, "Is there a way to reproduce?" ”

"It's not difficult, the Dan rhino is very active for a few months every year, and there is a herb in this mountain that can promote the reproduction of the Dan rhino." The trainer laughed.

"I wonder if this herb is hard to find?" Ye Zhao's eyes lit up, this is a good thing, if it can be planted in large quantities, it is a divine object for the breeding industry.

"It's not difficult to find, there are a lot of places where the danxi haunts, and the old people in the clan say that this grass can be fed with the feces of the danxi." The trainer smiled.

"Good stuff!" Ye Zhao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he turned his head to look at Dian Wei and said, "Look, how is it." ”

"It tastes good!" Dian Wei replied subconsciously.

"......" Ye Zhao looked at Dian Wei, and there was a low pressure around him, which made Dian Wei shudder, and looked at Ye Zhao in disbelief, not knowing what he said wrong?

"I'm making you a mount!" Ye Zhao gritted his teeth and said.

Belch......

Dian Wei heard this, looked at this Dan rhino, if it is a mount, it seems to be good, although this thing is slow, but it is better than steady, when a horse is riding, maybe you can step on that spacious back to fight, much stronger than a war horse.

"I plan to build a heavy armor, use this beast as a mount, and immediately wear iron armor on the whole body, with broadswords and spears as weapons, you are the main general, how?" Ye Zhao looked at Dian Wei, he always felt that it was a pity that Dian Wei was such a fierce general, and it was a pity to only be his own guard, the appearance of this Dan rhino made Ye Zhao find that Dian Wei might also be able to lead an army alone.

"Lord, I can't lead soldiers." Dian Wei shook his head.

"If you are not leading the troops, the number of this army is not much, limited to three to five hundred, and you are responsible for wearing strong and persistent in each battle and breaking the enemy's formation!" Ye Zhao shook his head and said.

In this era, there is no real sense of heavy armor iron cavalry, in the past, Xiliang heavy armor, but the knight wore thick armor, not a real heavy armor iron cavalry, if there can be such a heavy armor iron cavalry, not too much, three or five hundred people, on the battlefield that is the ancient version of the tank, especially in the case of infantry combat on the plains, even if the other party lines up the cavalry to resist the horse formation, can be crushed all the way.

Ye Zhao had such an idea before, but unfortunately the conditions are not enough, first, there is no good horse source, the heavy cavalry does not require explosive power, but staying power and load-bearing, whether it is a Wuhuan horse or a Xianbei horse, it is a light riding route, it is not easy to find a suitable war horse, Dawan horse is suitable, but it has to be a good horse of Dawan, ordinary Dawan horse still can't meet Ye Zhao's requirements, but even with the wealth of Shu, it is difficult for Ye Zhao to find three or five hundred Dawan horses to form a heavy horse.

Moreover, in the battle of Shuzhong, the cavalry was limited, and there was no need for a lot of preparation, so Ye Zhao put the matter on hold for the time being, and it was also when he saw someone riding the Dan rhino to go on the expedition, Ye Zhao had a whim, if the Dan rhino was used as a mount, the power of the heavy cavalry would be much higher, but the cost would be reduced a lot.

"Pick one as a mount, and the rest will be sent to Shuzhong later for breeding and domestication, and I will let the Shengong Battalion build a special saddle and stirrup for you." Ye Zhao pointed to the seventeen Dan rhinos in front of him, and what made him complain a little was that there were only three female rhinos, and the rest were all males.

"Whoa!" Dian Wei listened to Ye Zhao's words before, so he was eager to try, entered the Dan rhino group, patted this, touched that, and finally selected the strongest Dan rhino and said: "Lord, this is it!" ”

Ye Zhao nodded, and turned his head to look at the beast tamer of the Zhurong clan.

"No problem, it only takes one month, and General Dian can be able to ride." The trainer nodded.

"Learn it yourself." patted Dian Wei on the shoulder and left directly, he has been busy lately and has a lot to do.

Back in the Taishou Mansion, Huang Quan was busy walking out with a book, and when he saw Ye Zhaoxi, he said: "The lord came just in time, and the data that the lord wants has been counted." ”

"Go in and say." Ye Zhao pointed to the main hall, went straight back with Huang Quan, and sat on the main seat before signaling Huang Quan to report.

"Jianning is different from Shuzhong, nine become mountains, not suitable for farming, but there are many different species in the mountains that are not in the Central Plains can be planted in the mountains, in addition to some mineral veins, can be sold in my Shu, among which there are jade, silver ore is worth a lot, but unfortunately, more in the hands of the barbarians, such as the silver smelting cave master, it is rich in silver ore, because of the pressure of the four county officials, the barbarians think it is cheap, and it is not mined more, in addition to many rare trees, can be brought to Shu in exchange for rich rewards."

"In addition, the total number of Han people in Jianning County is only 170,000, according to investigation, the total number of Han people in the four counties of Nanzhong is only 400,000, and the total population of the two counties of Yuewang and Qiqi is only 100,000!" Huang Quan said: "These two counties are mainly barbarian people, but even if you add the people of Barbarian Yue, the population of the four counties in Nanzhong plus the 36 barbarians in southern Xinjiang is probably not more than 700,000. ”

"There are a lot of speculations about this number, and there may be some discrepancies, but they are not too big."

The Nanban lives among the mountains and forests, and the population is difficult to count.

Ye Zhao nodded, a little sighed, no wonder Zhuge Liang was reluctant to work hard here in history, it sounds like the land of the four counties is not small, but if you count the population, it may not be comparable to the population of a county in the Central Plains, and the terrain is complicated, once occupied, it will be time-consuming and troublesome to govern, with the conditions of Shu at that time, even if it is won, it will be a chicken rib, Zhuge Liang's strategy really can't be wrong.

At that time, the national strength and population of the subject country were not as good as that of Wei, if he farmed behind closed doors like Ye Zhao now, he would only be pulled bigger and bigger by Wei, as for Jiaozhou, which was farther away, not to mention Zhuge Liang, Ye Zhao was not ready to do anything over there before pacifying the world.

"This place is probably the main gathering place of the Han family in Jianning." Ye Zhao pondered: "But listening to what Gong Heng said, this land in the south is rich in products, and if it can be managed well, it will also be quite beneficial to my Shuzhong." ”

"But this Nanban people, I'm afraid it will be difficult to collect them all!" Huang Quan nodded, he knew very well what the purpose of Ye Zhao's trip was, but even he was not optimistic.

"Eli drives it!" Ye Zhao shook his head, he didn't agree, these cities in Nanzhong are well managed, and the barbarians in Nanzhong can be gradually included, but the premise is that this campaign can make these barbarians afraid, and then show favor and lure them to benefit, and gradually naturalize all the tribes in Nanjiang.

The land of the four counties, although the land is small, must be taken into the hands.

This is the premise, the Han people in the land of the four counties have dealings with the barbarians, and even many places are barbarians living together, with these people, Ye Zhao's many policies to benefit the people can be accepted by the Nanban people at the fastest speed, and there are benefits, and then they will be gradually migrated out by the trend of interests, just like the previous Ba Na Dong and Zhurong people, the Zhurong people can almost be said to be naturalized now, but not just because their patriarch has become a Han woman, if there is no actual benefit, Why did those Zhurong people, whose ancestors had lived in the mountains and forests for generations, migrate, Guan Ping and Mrs. Zhurong were just an inducement.