In the summer in the south of the Yangtze River, there is always heavy rain, lightning and thunder in the sky, it is obviously daytime, but it is darker than night.

The dragoon battalion wore mighty armor, the heavily armed guards were in the Taishou Residence, Guo Yiduan sat in a high position, and in the hall sat a large number of people wearing gorgeous clothes and long beards, with the style of a famous family.

"Ladies and gentlemen. When I first arrived, I didn't know about accidents. Now if you want to pacify Yuzhang Baiyue, what do you think? ”

"Never. The Baiyue bandits are fierce, and there are no soldiers in the county to stop them. ”

"yes. Yuzhang was poor and did not have enough food. ”

"The thieves of Baiyue are just thieves in the mountains and wilderness, and they only need to be arrested diligently by the county officials."

"Adults don't know, Yuzhang is full of mountains, forests, rivers, inconvenient boats, difficult for cavalry to enter, if you want to pacify Baiyue, it is really impossible."

Listening to their gossip and quarrel, Guo Yi just looked calm. Fan Xin casually flipped through the dossier, although papermaking and printing have been popularized, but obviously this southern barbarian land has not yet been civilized, and it is still a bamboo slip record, which looks very laborious.

Yuzhang County, the geographical scope is probably modern Jiangxi Province. In places where development is difficult in modern times, it is naturally more difficult in ancient times, and the disadvantage in geography is naturally very influential. If you want to crusade against a group of bandits in such a complex area, I am afraid that only a modern army can do it.

Historically, there have been only two ways to make bandits and bandits disappear. First, we need to develop the economy. When civilians live a better life than bandits, bandits will naturally disappear. Second, armed crusades. It requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it may not be successful.

These two, with the current situation of Yuzhang County, do not account for any of them!

The Baiyue ethnic group was incorporated into China when the Qin Dynasty swept the world. With the 400 years of the Han Dynasty, the living space of Baiyue was compressed into the mountains, so it is also called "Shanyue". Just like "Indian", it's a code name.

It was not until the Tang Dynasty that Shanyue was completely conquered and assimilated by the Han people, becoming the "Han nationality" in the new concept. These aborigines in Yangzhou said that they migrated from the Xia Dynasty and the Central Plains, but they were separated from "Huaxia", and their culture and blood ties have long been lost.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three things of Sun Quan's group were eating, sleeping, and playing in the mountains. Almost every general of Eastern Wu will have a record of crusading against Shanyue, but he has never been able to solve it!

Several dynasties, the problem that cannot be solved in the past five hundred years, can Guo Yi solve it? No!

However, Guo Yi's first goal was not to crusade against Baiyue, but to take this opportunity to brush up on the famous families in Yangzhou. This crackdown on bandits has always been the heavy responsibility of officials in various localities. If you don't suppress bandits, where is the excuse to raise taxes? If we don't suppress bandits, how can we unite internally and unanimously externally?

When Guo Yi took office, the most direct management method for such a piece of land where the imperial court was helpless was to suppress bandits. Whoever does not listen to the dispatch will do it on the grounds of ineffective suppression of bandits, which is fair and justifiable.

Noisy and noisy, it seems to have gotten some special news. The atmosphere suddenly became cold, and they all kept silent, glancing fearfully at the heavily armed dragoon battalion.

Fan Xin smiled and said, "It seems that the Chaisang County Order has sent the news." ”

Guo Yi chuckled, still looking at them calmly. The air was quiet, and you could hear the sound of running water from the canal outside.

"Why don't you speak?" Guo Yi put down his wine glass and said with a sad face: "Back then, the emperor named me the assassin of Liangzhou. At that time, the Liangzhou rebels were known as millions of people. It took me only seven months to kill them. Guess how many people I kill a day, on average? ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but tremble, and they didn't dare to speak.

"You know, Liangzhou! That's a thousand times poorer than Yangzhou! However, I have never lacked food and grass, nor have I lacked officials, and I have had plenty of food and clothing along the way! ”

"We are willing to give our full support to the adults to suppress the bandits!"

Some people can't sit still, what Guo Yi did in Liangzhou is known to the world. The local famous families and gentry were all killed. This killing god is now at the door of his house, and it is serious to send him away for a few taels of silver, and it is not worth it to rob his family and destroy his clan for a few taels of silver.

Someone took the lead, and the rest of the people expressed their willingness to donate money to support Guo Yi's suppression of bandits. Guo Yi also readily promised to return the money to them if it was seized.

Fan Xin checked the finances of Yuzhang County clearly, and it was much poorer than the northern states and counties. Moreover, the number of household registrations has decreased so much that many people have gone to the mountains to become bandits in Shanyue to avoid forced labor and taxes.

"I'm afraid these mountains can't be destroyed. We killed a group of people, and then went up the mountains again, and in the end we only made the farmland barren and there was no one in the wilderness. ”

Of course Guo Yi understands these truths, but he can't just leave Shanyue alone because of this, right? It can only be a military crusade while developing the economy and allowing the people to live and work in peace and contentment.

Spreading out the map, Wang Mastiff explained which areas were more seriously harmed. In the vicinity of Nanchang, the three large counties of Yuhan, Jiancheng, and Linru were all harassed by Shanyue, making it difficult for the people to cultivate normally, resulting in a reduction in taxes.

These counties are located in the Panyang Lake Plain, which is an area suitable for farming. But they are also close to waterways and mountainous areas, and these places are naturally chosen by the mountain-crossing for food.

Guo Yi frowned, these mountainous areas are no better than the plains in the north. A mountain forest, tens of thousands of troops thrown into it without a sound. These mountains are in groups of three or five, and the number of a single unit is no more than a hundred, and it is too difficult to encircle and suppress them.

"How many villagers can be recruited in the county?"

Wang Mastiff thought for a moment and said, "It's only about seven thousand. Although Yuzhang did not lack people, there was a lack of food and grass in the county, making it difficult to organize an army. ”

"Yuzhang is full of mountains and forests, and the rivers are crisscrossed, it must be rich in products, how can it not be able to raise an army of 10,000 people?"

Wang Mastiff was puzzled: "Adults don't know. These mountains and rivers have nothing but wild things, how can they raise grain and grass? ”

This is also a problem. It stands to reason that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water, but this natural environment can't afford to eat. All rivers and lakes have schistosomiasis and other hazards. Once injured in hunting, it is highly susceptible to infection and there is no cure. Although fishing is good, it lacks oil, salt, and seasoning, and it is uncomfortable to eat.

Guo Yi looked at the map and secretly worried, "I have to find a way to revitalize the economy." ”

"Good news, lord!" Long Yi ran in ecstatically, with two warriors from the dragoon battalion behind him. "Lord, these two brothers have already drawn the map of Yuzhang and Huiji counties!"

"Oh?" Guo Yi suddenly felt that the clouds were clear, and hurriedly pulled the two soldiers to his side to ask about the situation.

When he left Liangzhou that day, Guo Yi sent 50 people to all parts of the country to draw maps. Now, more than half a year later, some of them have completed their tasks.

The two of them took out hundreds of drawings from their backpacks. Due to the lack of measuring tools, they all drew as they went, and the drawings were all the hard work of their efforts.

"Brothers have worked hard!" Guo Yi couldn't say it excitedly, so he hurriedly greeted Fan Xin and rewarded him for his meritorious deeds.

"My lord, the other brothers are almost done. Do you want to inform them to come to Yangzhou to meet? ”

"Yes. Whoever completes the task will go to Liyang to meet. We need to put these maps together and make a cohesive map. Guo Yi looked at the incomparably detailed map in front of him, his hands were trembling, and he instructed Fan Xin, "Hurry up and get out the reward list, this matter is our top priority." ”

Fan Xin nodded, "No." ”

"Long Yi, you take the brothers down to rest first, and I will personally entertain you later."

"Yes!"

Guo Yi spread out the map of Yuzhang County, each contour line was repeatedly calibrated, and each border line was compared several times, and it was a miracle that such a detailed map could be drawn by manpower.

"Fan Xin, look." Guo Yi pointed to the surrounding geographical environment of Yu Khan and other county towns on the map, and said happily: "With these drawings, we can find a shortcut to suppress bandits." ”

Fan Xin looked at the location of the cross on the map, indicating that there were outlaws in the area. With this kind of map, combined with the combat effectiveness of the dragoon battalion, the bandits should be captured.