Luo Yi set off, taking Huang Ling, who was not in good spirits, and Meng Lu, a recruit and veteran hunter for more than 20 years, left, and walked towards the location of the Liulangdong Iron Factory in his memory.

From the Song Dynasty to later generations, it is only a few hundred years, a thousand years, the change in the shape of the mountain range will not be too big, at most the difference between the primeval jungle and the low shrubs of later generations, others do not know, the compass is an ornament, it is used to deceive people.

If Huang Ling had been interested a day ago, he might have been interested in seeing Luo Yi's search for Jin Zhiqi, but yesterday, he even knew about the founding of the country, and now he was still in his head on those drafting documents, and he didn't have the heart to watch how Luo Yi fiddled with the seven-star compass.

White-faced Mountain, Yellow Crane used breakfast with red eyes, walked into the Commander's Mansion, an hour later, a team of people and horses were sent out from Whiteface Mountain, obviously this matter needs to be discussed by the high-level rulers of the Eighteen Villages.

Vimo Town, this is Li Peng's lair, Li Peng is also the official leader of the Vimo tribe in Dali, and he is also the leader of one of the Yi tribes of the Vimo tribe.

At this time, Li Peng was holding a banquet in his mansion to entertain Meng Yi, the leader of another Yi tribe, who arrived in Vimo a hundred years later than the Yi tribe led by Li Peng, Li Peng moved here during the Tang Dynasty, and Meng Yi, the Yi tribe, only moved here in the past 100 years.

Because Dali was dissatisfied with the tribute to the Great Song Dynasty, high amounts of silver, sent troops to attack the Great Song Dynasty Sichuan Shu, the result was naturally the defeat of the Dali army, the tribute was doubled, and the war between the two countries also caused the displacement of the people, and Meng Yi's ancestors led the clansmen all the way south to this during that period.

The burly and majestic bearded Li Peng smiled at Meng Yidao, who was also majestic and majestic, with eight-character eyebrows: "Brother Yi, I think you also know the purpose of inviting you here this time, now that the tribute of Dali is increasing year by year, we naturally have no strength to compete with Dali."

However, you and I have some savings now, and it should not be a problem to unify Vimo, when you and I are in charge of Vimo, you and I are born from the same root, even if Brother Yi becomes bigger, why not. ”

People who can be the leaders of the upper clan are not stupid, how could Meng Yi not know that what Li Peng said was just polite words, and hurriedly said: "Where does Brother Peng say, even if the unification of Vimo, it should be Brother Peng's greatest, and Yi Di is willing to be the pioneer for Brother Peng."

It's just that I don't know where Brother Peng wants to start first, the reason why Dali's tribute grows every year has a lot to do with Wang Lin, if it weren't for his Wang Lin privately increasing the tribute to the envoy every year, it wouldn't be like this. ”

Seeing that Meng Yi was not opposed to the alliance between the two ministries, Li Pengyou sighed: "That's true, damn Han people, they can farm, weave, and do business is not bad, Wang Lin's Bada Town is not, my Weimo Town and your Xingou Town can be compared."

In addition, Wang Lin's forces are the strongest and most populous in addition to you and me, so my brother thinks that you and I are united, as long as Wang Lin's forces are quickly defeated, they will definitely be able to dominate Vimo before the end of the year. ”

Meng Yi laughed and said, "Haha! Brother Yi's thoughts are the same as Brother Peng's, as long as Li Peng is taken, his Bunu, Jingman, and Manbarian clans are not to worry. ”

Li Peng also laughed and said: "Come to the virtuous brother, we will drink this cup full, and in three days, you and I will join the wild boar pond, and then we will be the brother and the virtuous brother, beating the drum and cheering." ”

"Drink Mori"

"Brother Peng, please"

Meng Yi left Vimo Town with his entourage, Li Peng returned to his mansion, the whole person changed, without the arrogance of Meng Yi, he looked at his patriarch calmly and respectfully and said: "The clan elder thinks that this time he and Meng Yi will jointly attack Wang Lin, is it okay?" ”

Li Kundao, Li Peng, the patriarch of the Yi tribe, is also Li Peng's think tank, Li Kundao has been smart since childhood, all families are knowledgeable, and the art of war is all knowledgeable.

When he was young, he was in the war between Dali and the Great Song Dynasty, and in order to resist the anger of the Great Song Dynasty, Dali withdrew the 37 armed forces, and the armed forces that the family had finally gathered were disabled by the Great Song Dynasty.

Because of Li Kundao's outstanding qualifications, in order to prevent the family power from being commanded indiscriminately by the Dali people, he went to give advice, but the war was cruel, and the Great Song Dynasty was full of talents, and Dali used the 37th as cannon fodder.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between genius prodigies and idiots, Dali was defeated, thirty-seven were killed and wounded, and although Li Kundao had his family members desperately sheltered, he was also seriously injured and returned.

The Dali Kingdom reverted and increased the tribute to the Great Song Kingdom, lost all 37 great families, and only got the verbal leadership of the Dali Kingdom, Li Kundao, who reluctantly returned from the Hades Palace, found that he had blood in his urine, and he only thought it was caused by excessive injuries at that time.

After becoming an adult, Li Kundao had countless wives and beautiful concubines, but after many years, he had no son, and he was disheartened, Li Kundao's personality changed greatly, and the family even transferred the inheritance power to his younger brother.

Li Kundao, who was in the prime of life and had a great change in personality, rebelled against the forces in the clan and killed all his younger brothers in one go.

There are no more outstanding people in the clan to use, until the discovery of the young Li Peng, Li Kundao carefully taught, almost taught what he had learned, but Li Peng's qualifications were limited, only learned the skin, although the power in the clan has grown a lot over the years, but Vimo has not been unified.

Gui is the leader of a clan, the leader of the largest force in the Vimo Tribe, Li Peng is a little afraid every time he sees Li Kundao, seeing that the clan elder is just drinking tea slowly, not answering himself, and not daring to urge, he can only sit quietly and wait.

Li Kundao, who was skinny and like a dried corpse, slowly raised his head, his somewhat sunken eyes burst into dazzling light, and he said in an ugly voice: "It's not the best policy, but it's not the best policy." ”

Li Peng was startled when he heard that it was not the best policy, but when he heard that it was not a good policy, he was relieved, he did not ask questions, he knew that the clan elder spoke very slowly, and there must be something that he had not said.

Retracting his gaze at Li Peng, Li Kun said leisurely: "Defeating Wang Linbu can indeed better unify Vimo, but Wang Linbu is not so easy to fight."

If Meng Yi is allowed to attack the Jing Barbarians adjacent to him, we will attack the adjacent Bunu and take down the Barbarians, which can be easily done with the strength of our clan and the Meng Yi Department. ”

Li Peng hurriedly said: "Clan Elder, I'll let people chase Meng Yi." ”

Li Kundao waved his hand and said: "No need, attacking Wang Lin, I said that it is not the best policy, nor the next policy, isn't Meng Yi going to be a pioneer?" Then let him do it, and give him two thousand five hundred of our men on the surface.

If we really defeat Wang Linbu, then everything will be as usual, if Meng Yi doesn't take it, and we lose our troops and generals, we will take advantage of the situation to take Meng Yi's department. ”

Li Peng was surprised: "Clan Elder, we are"

"What is it? It's exploitation, don't forget that Meng Yi is the biggest force besides us. ”

"Got it, clan elder"

"Go ahead! Go ahead! Now is the time to fully support Meng Yi and make a good deal of Dali. ”

"The disciple retires"

Bada Town, the Commander's Mansion, Wang Lin is also setting up a banquet to entertain guests, the guests are two, Lu Ge, the leader of the Bunu tribe, and Bao Yan, the leader of the Jing Barbarian Clan, the two also came to Bada Town only to find that the other party was also there.

Because of the Bunu tribe, Jing Man all belong to the descendants of Chiyou Jiuli, although there are many different customs, but the two tribes have never had a conflict, Bao Yan looked at Lu Ge with a smile and said: "Unexpectedly, Brother Wang also invited Brother Lu, Brother Lu has been good recently, I don't know if there has been a sale of scrap gold and iron recently, my clan has a lot of linen this year, and I want to exchange some scrap iron with Brother Lu." ”

Lu Ge looked at Wang Lin, and then looked at Bao Yan and said: "There are so many scrapped gold and iron, my clan's forging ability is really not good, it is scrapped twice a year, and it almost takes half of the harvest of the clan, although the linen cloth is good, but there is scrap iron to exchange with you." ”

Wang Lin looked at the two people who were on the other side, and said solemnly: "Two commanders, if there is a shortage of iron and cloth, tell me Wang Lin, I dare not say more, a thousand catties of iron, a hundred pieces of cloth Wang can still find the two."

But for now, I'm afraid these are not important! I now suspect that Li Peng will not wait until after the autumn harvest to start a war, as the various ministries think, right? According to my people's report, the crops in the area around Li Pengweimo Town have been harvested.

As we all know, the crops are not yet harvested, and the harvest at this time is reduced, and it cannot be used to grow grain for the next year, what do you mean by that? ”

The two of them were shocked at the same time, and Bao Yan said, "Why haven't we received such a return? ”

Wang Lin knew that this was not the time to fight at all, and he wanted the three families to unite, and if he did not tell the truth about the actual movements of Li Peng's department, all ethnic groups would insist on self-protection and would not want to unite.

Wang Lin said: "Since Li Peng and the Ministry of Education and Cooperation traded a large amount of gold and iron, a total martial law has been imposed within 10 miles of Vimo Town, and merchants cannot enter, and they can only trade in Luhu Village, which is 10 miles away.

Even though there are my people in Vimo Town, Li Peng, whom I only learned about two days ago, has already finished harvesting the crops around Vimo Town, and his purpose in doing so is self-evident, but I don't know who he will attack first. ”

Lu Ge also felt that this matter was not simple, but the power of the Bunu tribe was directly adjacent to Li Peng's power, so he hurriedly said: "Brother Wang, what do you think about this matter?" Vimo has been quiet for six years, and only the Luo Xiong Shuai clan overthrew the rule of the servants, and there is no turmoil in the other books.

Now Li Peng wants to unify Vimo, and it is menacing, and Li Peng's forces are not comparable to the 18 villages of Luoxiong, and I think that no matter which of us, we will not be able to resist it. ”

Bao Yan also felt that this time Li Peng, if he didn't send it, he would definitely be extremely fierce, thinking of the other Yi clan adjacent to him, he said: "Since Brother Wang invited me and Brother Lu, Luo Xiong will forget it, there are only those people in the Eighteen Villages, but why don't you see Meng Yi?" ”

Wang Lin took a sip of wine and sighed: "Invited, but the person who came back said that he didn't see Meng Yi, and the patriarch of the Meng Yi clan said that Meng Yi was occasionally sensitive to typhoid fever and it was not easy to go out to meet guests, and it was no problem to unite, just let us discuss."

What I'm worried about now is whether Meng Yi will form an alliance with Li Peng, and with Meng Yi's bear-like body, he will have typhoid fever to the point that he can't meet guests, do you think it's possible?

You both know why I'm in such a hurry now! The Mengyi tribe is also a Yi tribe, and I thought from the beginning that they would have the possibility of forming an alliance, and after the next person returned, it was almost certain.

Bao Yan and Lu Ge, after listening to Wang Lin's words, they were already calm just now, and Lu Ge said: "If they really unite together, what should we do." ”

Wang Lin knew that the two of them were also in turmoil, and they couldn't give too many blows, otherwise they might lose even the courage to resist, so he said calmly: "So the three of us must be in alliance, what you lack, I can give, but I hope to trust each other more."

My forces are connected to Brother Bao and Brother Lu, and when Li Peng and Meng Yi join forces, no matter who they attack, the other two can help, and the two of them can agree with Wang's intentions. ”

Bao Yan said: "I agree, but I think the three of us have made a blood oath here, if any of us dare to break the oath at that time, after this war, there will be only two clans left, and the broken clan will not die." ”

"Good"

"Bring the wine"

Lu Ge and Wang Lin said almost at the same time, the three clans are in an alliance, agree on everything, deal with the measures, protect the two, Wang Lin, and arrange them in their respective Hui clans, Wang Lin also felt that although there were some changes, everything was still in his control, and no force could afford Luo Xiong's eighteen villages from beginning to end.

Lu Ge also suggested that he should destroy Luo Xiong first, his power just happened to border it, but Wang Lin did not allow it, now it was an eventful time, a little fire was enough to ignite a monstrous fire, Lu Ge could only give up.

Baini Town, the residence of the envoy of Dali, Baini Town is the Ministry of Vimo, the most prosperous town, the streets are full of goods, the pedestrians are endless, most of the people who live here are exiled from Dali, Dali sinners, but they belong to the superior class in Vimo.

It is true that they are sinners of Dali, but they are Dali people, and they are fundamentally different from the people of other forces of the Vimo Ministry, Dali does not regard the Seventy-two Ministries as their real people, they are just Dali slaves.

Baini Town also gathers a large number of Dali merchants, Shuzhong merchants are almost none, most of the merchants in Shu gather in Wang Lin's Bada Town, Wang Lin's annual offensive growth is actually the result of the competition between Shuzhong merchants and Dali merchants.

Of course, it's not that Shuzhong businessmen are not as good as Dali businessmen, but Shuzhong businessmen are much stronger than Dali businessmen.

Gao Xinlun has been stationed in the Vimo Department for eight years, and there has been a war in the three or five years of Vimo's forces, and he has long been familiar with it, and even expects that no matter how Vimo fights, he should pay tribute to Dali, and he has never been less, and his share is naturally not less.

However, what really makes Gao Xinlun look forward is that every time there is a war and provokes a war, he will first pay tribute to his own tribe, and it will be much more than in previous years, and then Gao Xinlun will take his own people and attack one force and one force.

If the unlucky force is destroyed before he comes to the door, then the tribe that destroys this force will also take out the tribute and pay it, and when the war is settled, the next year's attack will be according to this year's handover, and the attack of Dali has not grown so fast, of course, all of which are to make Lord Yu's own private wealth.