Yizhou Island, once a barbarian land, the outer island where the Tuyi gathered, as one of the two major mining towns after the death of Liang Gong, after hundreds of years of operation and development, is also a different look.

In addition to the Tuban clan that survived in the deep mountains and valleys of the island in the tide of slave hunting from the other side, along the several large streams and rivers that traverse the island, it is already full of cities and villages, densely populated and smelling of chickens and dogs.

Under the rule of Yizhou, there are now five prefectures and sixteen prefectures, but in essence, in addition to the five prefectures directly managed by the national dynasty, and the state city and suburbs, most of the rest of the plains and hills are scattered in the hands of dozens of large and small feudal families, so it is also called Yizhou Domain, with the Chenghai Gong lineage, the lineage acts as the responsibility of the leader.

Under the office, among them, the geographical shape of the five mansions, each represented by the Xue family, one of the eight leaves, is the head of the five major ministers, and there are almost no changes since the founding of the country.

Until the abolition of Chenghai Gong three generations ago, the rebellion of peace was set off, almost wanting to draw the southeast half of the wall and stand on its own, alias Dongliang, and wanted to reconcile with the Northern Dynasty and communicate with each other.

It was easy to be suppressed and pacified by the army that hurriedly returned to the division, but during the Zhiping period, taking advantage of the civil strife in the north, the Northern Expedition that had reached the edge of the Huai River fell short. Even the victory of guarding Huaiwangjiang failed to keep it in the end.

Then one by one to clear the retreat of the rebels in Fujian, and then to the coast of central Fujian as a springboard, transport the army to attack Yizhou, one after another for more than three years, before capturing the waste Chenghai Gong and the pro-party in the mountains, the head of the Taimiao.

During this period, hundreds of thousands of people died on the island, and the losses of the people were innumerable. The dynasty spent hundreds of millions, and the subsequent financial deficit took a generation of hard work to make up for it.

Therefore, in order to prevent the troubles forever, the shogunate at that time began to gradually marginalize this feudal territory from the center of the government, and on the other hand, it vigorously promoted the countyization of the feudal territory, which was far from the center of the government.

More than 30 feudal lords under the Duke of Chenghai were also widely implicated, burned to the ground or looted, and more than 20 were abolished and abolished, and from the reserve of the only remaining feudal family, five to ten families were forcibly divided, and since then it has declined and collapsed.

So much so that the Yuwen clan, which was originally in the middle of the national domain, and lived in the eastern corner of the island, in the land of Lanxi, relied on the timely delivery of troops to help the army, and worked together to pacify the island rebellion, and took advantage of the situation to rise and become one of the few major forces in Yizhou.

However, in the eyes of most of the nobles, the Yuwen family, who started with mining and metallurgy and achieved speculation, is still far inferior to the so-called "five veins and eight leaves" veteran nobles in terms of family background, and is regarded as the nouveau riche who suddenly rose and whirled.

Although there are advantages to the place, in the center of the court, there is room for development and a spokesperson of sufficient weight, and there are no representatives in the Imperial Domain, which is also the situation that the heads of the Yuwen clan have worked hard to change.

But on the other hand, the Yuwen family has a significant advantage, that is, the heads of the Yuwen family in the past dynasties not only have many wives and concubines, but also are very capable of giving birth to daughters, especially beautiful daughters.

It was through intermarriage and marriage through generations that the Yuwen family quickly formed one or another kinship and bond with various feudal clans and clans on the island, known as the "relatives of the island and the half".

And through the influence and support of the Guò family, many small and medium-sized feudal families eventually became vassals and subordinates of the Yuwen clan, and they had the first influence in Yizhou.

In the eyes of many adult children of the contemporary head of the family, their father is obviously too fond of that sister, and the doting is already dim.

Although he did not explicitly let her inherit the family business, he not only carved out a large area of North Point with a large area of mountains and forests and a port, and let her do whatever he wanted, but also secretly assigned her to go to Guangfu to attack the lord and take over the local property by the way.

This also finally evolved into some kind of fierce and turbulent backlash after the news that the younger sister chose her husband on the spot and brought the family business upside down.

As a result, as an important figure in the Yuwen family's offshore ship group, Yuwen Batu and Zibao Village are also facing a dilemma.

Whether to abandon the past and other things on the island and continue to be loyal to Yuwen Shiniang, who is far away in Guangfu, or to accept the reality and lose sincerity to the current Yuwen family authorities.

After all, he is a member of the surname Yuwen, although he is a side branch with a very distant bloodline, but he is also inevitably involved in the background of the family team. Some people even approached him to coerce and induce, demanding that he cooperate with the people who came to take over at home and hand over the joint ship group and its rights and interests.

This result made him a little indignant and uneasy, so he took the boat out to sea, never went ashore, and secretly exiled and drove away those who were inclined to those in power at home, which can be regarded as a disguised expression of specific positions and attitudes.

He thought he would be on a rupture path, but now, he can finally return to the family's territory in the name of justice.

As the so-called unpredictable situation in the sky, after the ups and downs of the great reversal a few days ago, now these people in the clan who were originally a little arrogant are a little panicked and can't get up all day long.

After all, they did a lot of things against the eleventh lady who was far away in Guangfu. even crossed the seriously ill head of the family, and privately used the seal letter to issue a marriage certificate, okay Eleven Niang allowed to go out.

In their opinion, a prince of Chenghai who took the initiative to send someone to contact is undoubtedly an object of attachment to the position, even if the head of the family knows afterwards and wants to repent, it is not so easy to be hindered by the distinction between monarchs and ministers.

As for the achievements of Eleven Niang's business in Yizhou over the years, they can't run away, if it weren't for the fact that Taoshan Grain Station was classified by the imperial court under the name of the Northern Expedition, I am afraid that they have already instructed the feudal soldiers to forcibly take it back, despite this, in private, for the Jilong Mountain and North Point Bay generation operated under the name of Eleven Niang, there is still no less action.

It's just that the idea of picking up a ready-made cheap one has the upper hand, and the other people's minds are not very aligned, and they don't want to cheapen others, so they have been dragging it down, but I didn't expect things to change when they dragged it on.

As the backer of Shi Niang, that Luo clan not only retreated, but also was able to open a town, and had great power and influence in the country, even their former clans, Chenghai princes had to retreat and accept punishment, not to mention their distant clans.

In fact, they have been angered by the Chenghai Gong, not only the position of the peripheral patriarch in the clan court has failed, but also under the pretext of "bewitching the prince to do unrighteous things", they have robbed the women and princes of several related people, and ordered to introspect and treat the crime.

The rest of the people couldn't wait to invite the head of the Yuwen family, who was already seriously ill, out again, as a means of easing their cheeks and remedy, promising some benefits and rights, and strengthening the guards around them on the grounds of thinking about it behind closed doors.

is worried about Eleven Niang's retaliation and countermeasures,. But as the saying goes, there are some things that are not artificially willed, and you can escape if you want to.

For example, this time with the return of Yuwen Badu, but secretly disembarked in the near shore halfway.

As the commander who broke through the siege was abandoned in Xuzhou City, tens of thousands of auxiliary soldiers from all over the country and a small number of Yizhou people among the people's wealth, after only some training and selection, they also got the latest task, that is, to follow Pingjiangmen back to Yizhou, and rebuild a larger sea berth and grain station.

And there are other people who have the extra task of solving some uncertain factors and hidden dangers from the local area.

A few days ago, the liquidation and recourse from the Luo Mansion even spread to the distant East Borneo, and the local feudal families who played a certain role in the Borneo Guild Hall paid a very painful price and benefit to keep the remaining right to speak and the guarantee that they would not continue to be pursued.

Most of the wall grasses can be temporarily let go for their own use value, but the main messenger behind the scenes must be targeted to make an example.

Now, it is finally Yizhou's turn......

Yunzhou,

And it wasn't until our army entered Yuncheng that I discovered that the enthusiasm of the local soldiers and civilians was actually a little bit left over more than half a year ago, and it was still playing a role.

Because, during the period of retreat passing through Yunzhou to recuperate, not only rescued the besieged Juye City, but also survived the Yuncheng where Huma was entrenched, and finally, before setting off for Xuzhou, some of the eliminated weapons and materials that could not be taken away were distributed to the people in Juye, Yuncheng and other places.

And with the surplus materials and armaments left by Ben, they actually survived this winter, and under the repeated invasions of Hu Mazi throughout the spring and summer, they held the city and continued to hold on. Become the best group of people in the nearby states.

Coupled with the Yunzhou soldiers who revisited the old place in this formation, therefore, this is also one of the areas where there is a sense of belonging and cohesion to the army.

Therefore, I once again replenished a group of soldiers on the spot, and arranged special manpower, together with their relatives and family members, to escort the rear area under the control of the army. After the second Left-behind Grain Station set up in Juye City

This time, we received the support of local transport capacity, and the ships that had been left in Onozawa were refurbished and activated, loaded with some large baggage and wounded, and continued to march west along the old canal with our army.

Therefore, it was relatively easy to get out of Lize County, and enter the territory of Puzhou in the west, and then turn to the north, all the way to take Linpu, Fan County, Puyang Zhucheng, this area can be said to be the city wall is broken and the defense is empty, and the armed personnel inside are also thin and weak with yellow muscles, and they almost fled without a fight.

Along the way, they encountered several Hu Ma tribes that were constantly in the road, but the specific combat effectiveness was much weaker, and the capture was not old and weak, according to the torture, they were already the third or fourth batch, and they went south into the Central Plains of the Saiwai Domain, many of them heard that the south was empty and undefended, and migrated from the Saiwai Ju clan, so it was mixed with a large number of old and weak women and children.

And Huma, the more elite vassal army that arrived in advance, obviously went to invade and plagiarize the more prosperous and warm southern region. As a result, only these old and weak people who are grazing and living are left behind.

They also apparently failed to realize that we had come all the way to fight straight ahead, but regarded us as the remnants of the northern army who had come out to grab grain and cattle and horses, so they took the initiative to attack along the road, and after the main battle force was destroyed, they were caught off guard and most of them were taken prisoner along with the grazing cattle.

It can be seen from this that even after settling down, these Hu Mazi, who were entrenched in the Central Plains, still fought on their own, and lacked the sense of communication and coordination, which was undoubtedly a good thing for the troops I touched.

But it is really unpleasant to see that most of the fields in the Central Plains, which were originally densely populated and rich in land, have actually become these Huma tents and good horse grazing land. It's a pity that my troops are insufficient at the moment, and the area I can control is also limited, and I have not yet gained a firm foothold in Qingzhou, which is really beyond the reach of the whip.

I can only sit and watch the great rivers and mountains along the way, and sigh in chaos and emptiness, and I can't continue to forge ahead.

At this moment, unprecedented expectations arose that Jiangning's northern expedition was coming again.

In the current chaotic and scattered situation, with our troops in the northern expedition to contain it, as long as there are 100,000 armored tigers in the south, cross the Huaishui again and come to the Central Plains, it is also a matter of idleness.