Several elders stood up together and said, "My lord, please speak!" ”

Liu Xin waved his hand and said: "My conditions are very simple, from now on, there is no Shanyue nation, all Shanyue people must move out of the mountains and live with the Han people!" ”

"No way!" A few more elders stood up and said in unison, "We can't agree to this condition!" ”

Liu Xin also stood up and said coldly: "You don't have to answer me in such a hurry, I'll give you three days to think about it." ”

The elders looked at each other, but the expressions on their faces were very firm, and they all put on an uncompromising posture, and one of them sneered: "What if we don't agree to your conditions? ”

"In three days, I'll tell you what the consequences are!" Liu Xin flicked the sleeves of his robe and left the restaurant with Xu Chu and a group of guards.

The three-day period is as fast as it is fast, and it is as short as it is short. During these three days, the elders were not subjected to any difficulties, and they could even walk freely outside the inn. However, now is a critical moment related to the life and death of the Shanyue tribe, and all the elders have no intention of playing on the bustling streets of Xiangyang, in addition to eating and sleeping, they are gathered together to discuss countermeasures. Three days have passed, but everyone's opinions have not been unified.

Liu Xin came again, this time he came directly to the post house.

For three days, it seemed as if three years had passed for these elders, and they were all haggard and languishing.

Seeing this scene, Liu Xin smiled and said, "What's wrong with you?" Is it uncomfortable to sleep in the inn? If anyone dares to snub you, they can come to me directly. ”

To tell the truth, the conditions of the post house are better than their villages in the south of the Yangtze River, and for these elders who couldn't eat some time ago, not only can they fill their bellies now, but they also have wine and meat all of a sudden, which is already a fairy-like day. However, these elders were not defeated by the good food and wine, and they also kept their mission in mind. Someone had already taken the initiative to stand up and asked, "Your Excellency can answer us now, what will happen if we don't agree to your conditions?" ”

Liu Xin smiled and said, "Don't worry, let you see a few people first." ”

After speaking, Liu Xin walked to the backyard of the post house first. The Xiangyang Castle Post House is quite large, not only receiving officials and envoys from other places, but also opening it to ordinary people in their free time. However, because there are dozens of elders living here, the post house is temporarily closed, and there are many empty houses behind it.

As Liu Xin slapped his face lightly, many young women walked out of the room, who were the beauties of the clan brought by the elders from Jiangnan. The elders asked in surprise, "Didn't your lord marry them to your soldiers?" What does this mean? ”

Liu Xin nodded and said, "Yes, they have all been married to the Flying Tiger guards under Liu's command." You can ask them now, if any of them are willing to return to Jiangnan with you, Liu will definitely not stop them, and will agree to your tribe to stay in the mountains. ”

There was a commotion from the elders, and they moved forward impatiently. These women were personally selected from their tribe, so they all knew the people of their tribe. There were a total of 370 young women, representing 37 tribes, and the elders didn't believe that none of the women were willing to return to the Jiangnan village, and they wanted to convince Liu Xin.

As one woman after another was questioned one by one, the elders' faces became more and more ugly, and none of them were willing to return to Jiangnan with them.

Such a result has long been expected by Liu Xin. Among the Han people, men are already inferior to women, and this situation is even more serious among the Shanyue tribes, where women have almost no status in the family and are completely vassals of the family. And the Flying Tiger guards that Liu Xin selected to marry these women are not only tall and mighty, but also handsome, and more importantly, these Flying Tiger guards have all read books. Some of them were literate and hyphenated before they first entered the Flying Tiger guard, and some had the opportunity to learn culture after entering the guard. Liu Xin also has a requirement when selecting the guards, that is, all the short-tempered ones will be eliminated.

The selected guards are just young, and they have not yet started a family, and suddenly there is such a beautiful girl who is as beautiful as a flower, which is naturally cared for, and those rough men in the Shanyue tribe can not be the same.

As the most elite unit under Liu Xin's command, the Flying Tiger Guards are paid three times as much as other legionnaires, and they will receive three months of vacation each year in addition to six months of duty and three months of intensive training. After retiring from the Flying Tiger Guard, the soldiers can be transferred to other regiments to directly serve as middle and lower-level officers, or to serve as head catchers and squad leaders in the county yamen, and they all have a good future.

Liu Xin's care for the soldiers of the Flying Tiger is not limited to this, all soldiers who have served for two years can be assigned a house in Xiangyang City. Although the house is not big, the location is not good, and after retirement, this house will be returned to the government, but in Xiangyang City, where every inch of land is valuable, it is not easy to have a place to live.

With such good conditions, not to mention these Shanyue women who have never seen the world, even the people of rich places like Jingxiang are willing to marry their daughters to the Flying Tiger guards.

The newlyweds of these Flying Tiger guards have received their own mansions and enjoyed a three-month paid vacation, and the affluent life is something that these Shanyue women could not have imagined in the past. Now if they want to give up their current happy life, return to the deep ravine where they are poor and white, marry a clansman with rough manners, not enough to eat, not to mention clothing, not to mention, and to suffer an old fist at every turn, who would want to?

Looking at the dejected Shanyue elders, Liu Xin's face sank, and he said: "Liu only asked people to provide your village with a month's food, if you refuse to agree to Liu's conditions, within twenty days, there will be a famine in your village." In three or five days, the valiant soldiers of our great Han will invade your villages. Liu thought about it, you people who are so hungry that you are yellow and thin should not be able to withstand it for a few hours. Hum! When the time comes, Liu will kill all the men of your clan, and the women will be given to the soldiers of the Han Dynasty. ”

These words completely shattered the last glimmer of hope left in the hearts of the elders. People are swordsmen, I am fish and meat, how can there be so many conditions to talk about, negotiations can only be achieved when the strength of the two sides is equal. The elders all knew in their hearts that if they really came to that point, the women of their tribe would definitely not resist, and would only obediently marry these fierce Han soldiers.

After a short silence, the elders reluctantly accepted the reality, and the thousands of countermeasures discussed for three days and three nights were useless in the face of absolute strength, so they had to bow their heads and say, "We have no objection to the conditions of the adults. ”

Liu Xin laughed and said, "That's right." You can relax and play in Xiangyang for two days, and then Liu will send someone to send you back. Liu dares to promise that by this time next year, everyone will have a good life. ”

In fact, with Liu Xin's strength, he can completely exterminate these Shanyue tribes. However, the south of the Yangtze River is vast and sparsely populated, and many people who fled from Xuzhou last year heard that the war in Xuzhou had gradually subsided, and they crossed the river to the north one after another. However, Shanyue is different, they originally lived in Jiangnan, as long as they are completely integrated into the Han people in Jiangnan, they can solve the big problem of insufficient population in Jiangnan.

The elders have nothing to say, since this is already the case, it is better to have a good time in Xiangyang City, you can't come to Xiangyang, and when you go back, others will ask and you won't know anything. There is everything in Xiangyang City, as long as you have money, you can live a life like a god-king. Liu Xin was also quite generous to these elders, and all expenses were borne by the government. It doesn't matter if you come here, the elders had a lot of fun in Xiangyang City, and they didn't even want to return to Jiangnan, and they were finally driven back by Liu Xin.

With the experience of arranging Xuzhou refugees, there was almost no obstacle to the resettlement of these Shanyue tribesmen. The land is ready-made, and some of the fields have been reclaimed by the refugees and then abandoned and can be cultivated with a little tidying. Not only did the elders receive more land than the ordinary people, but they were also more fertile, and they became a new generation of squires. In addition, they trumpeted what they had seen and heard in Xiangyang City among the tribes, depicting a bright future for the tribesmen, and some Shanyue people who originally had the intention of confronting the Han gradually wavered.

To tell the truth, most of the ordinary Shanyue people had no opinions, and they had absolute trust in the elders, so they moved out of the mountains one after another. In less than a month, the Shanyue crisis in the Jiangnan area was completely resolved.

Liu Xin received the letter from Jiangnan, nodded with satisfaction, and said to Fu Zhu and Tian Feng who were sitting opposite: "Liu intends to take this opportunity to collect Jiaozhou, I don't know what the two gentlemen think?" ”

Tian Feng arched his hand and said: "Now that the weather is getting cooler and the miasma in the south is gradually disappearing, it is time to use troops." The subordinate agrees to collect the state. ”

Fu Zhu also bowed his head and said: "My subordinates think that if they want to take Jiaozhou, they should salute first and then soldiers." The lord can send envoys to the counties of Jiaozhou, saying that the counties are too guarded to surrender. On the one hand, heavy troops were dispatched to gather at the border of Jiaozhou. Lord, please see. ”

Speaking of this, Fu Zhu pointed to the map of the territory of the Han Dynasty hanging behind Liu Xin, and said: "If the counties are too guarded and unwilling to surrender, the lord can divide the army into four routes. All the way out of Yizhou, take Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, Rinan three counties. All the way out of Lingling, take Yulin, Hepu two counties. All the way out of Guiyang, take Cangwu County. All the way out of the meeting, take Nanhai County. The four roads go hand in hand, and Jiaozhou can be flattened. ”