Secretly infiltrating Xichuan is just a temporary decision of Liu Yi, if it is not for Mrs. Yu to find him, Liu Yi is afraid that he does not plan to directly participate in the affairs of Yizhou, he only needs to wait for news in Dongting Lake Xinzhou, and then it is almost over, so he set off to Jiangdong, and together with Gan Ning, led a naval army to march to Nanyang.

However, according to Mrs. Yu, the current Yizhou is no longer the Yizhou of the previous year, and the situation has changed, and its changes are very likely to have a relatively large impact on the New Han Army's collection of the unification of Yizhou, and even make the New Han Army's plan to recover Yizhou in a short period of time aborted.

In this way, Liu Yi had to understand the current situation in Yizhou, even if he could not destroy or change the situation in Yizhou, he must also investigate it clearly, so as to avoid the loss of the New Han Army in the process of attacking Yizhou because it did not understand the enemy's situation.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles. Under the circumstance that his spies did not find out the situation in Yizhou, it was necessary for Liu Yi to go and inspect it himself.

In fact, the current New Han Dynasty and Yizhou are not just as simple as the two armies fighting, but also the two countries are directly at war. The military secrets of the high-level leaders of the two sides are absolutely not something that ordinary people can find out, and there must be certain methods and means to gain knowledge of some important secrets of the other side.

Liu Yi also didn't believe it, that mysterious person could be so secretive, and he hadn't even figured out his identity, so he didn't believe that the mysterious person could control Yizhou so unknowingly, and promoted the development of some situations that were not conducive to the New Han Army.

So, not why. Liu Yi also had to figure out the situation in Yizhou.

This should be done sooner rather than later. After Liu Yi discussed with Mrs. Yu, Yin Xiao, Yuan Qing and other women, he finally told Cao Yin and Wu Yi about his plan to enter Sichuan. Discuss with them the details of Irikawa.

At this time, when Jingzhou was recovered earlier, there was a Jingzhou celebrity who was captured by the New Han Army, and now he was subordinated to the New Han Dynasty. But for some reason, he was unwilling to enter the court as an official, and has been assisting Guan Yu, Yi and others in Xiangyang to govern Jingzhou. Recently, he asked to return to his hometown as an official. I happened to come to Dongting Lake Xinzhou.

He is Liu Ba.

Liu Ba met Liu Bei by fate, and in fact, he already planned to work for Liu Bei, and he also began to work for Liu Bei, but he gave up because of Liu Bei's death.

The New Han Dynasty seized Jingzhou and began to govern Jingzhou, and various governance policies and enlightened political strategies of the imperial court opened Liu Ba's eyes. Especially when he felt that under the governance of the New Han Dynasty, the life of the Han people was getting better and better day by day, and the people's hearts belonged, so he naturally and sincerely returned to the New Han Dynasty. The reason why he was reluctant to go to the court as an official. Instead, I want to put what I have learned and what I have learned into practice the methods and concepts that are more suitable for governing the people and revitalizing the Han Dynasty. I hope that I can directly govern the people. For this reason, he even asked to go to the local area to be a small county official.

Liu Ba's hometown is Lingling County. Lingling County is located in the southern part of Dongting Lake. It borders Wuling County to the west of Dongting Lake. Wuling and Lingling are also remote mountainous areas, and they are all places with poor mountains and bad waters. Liu Ba knew that the people in his hometown lived in poverty, so he wanted to go back to Lingling as an official, and do his best to bring the people of Lingling out of poverty, so that the people in his hometown could live a good life.

One Lingling, one Wuling, but Wuling has been under the governance of the New Han Dynasty for more than ten years, and the living standards of the people in Wuling have long been greatly improved, and they have already gotten rid of poverty. Now, in the area of Dongting Lake, there have always been some sayings, the saying of poor Lingling and rich Wuling. Liu Ba wanted to change the status quo, so he applied to return to Lingling as an official.

Guan Yu and Yi and other Jingzhou civil officials, after knowing Liu Ba's obsession, naturally did not stop it, and after explaining the reason to the imperial court, they officially appointed Liu Ba as the Taishou of Lingling County, and he rushed to Lingling to take office one day.

For these matters, the imperial court already has a perfect review mechanism for the appointment of officials in some places, so Liu Yi will not ask too much.

The reason why Liu Ba is mentioned is that Liu Ba coincided with his meeting, he wanted to pass through Dongting Lake to Lingling County, so he came to Xinzhou first, and wanted to meet Cao Yin, because there was a successful example of Cao Yin's governance of Wuling, and he wanted to learn from Cao Yin. In order to enable Lingling and Wuling to be more closely connected in the future, and strengthen the economic and trade exchanges between the two places.

It is also a mountainous area, and Lingling will also have a lot of minerals, how to detect, how to mine, etc., Liu Ba has to learn from Cao Yin.

Liu Yi also knew that Liu Ba had great talents, so he proposed his intention to enter Yizhou with Cao Yin, Wu Yi and others, so he asked Liu Ba to discuss and see what his opinions were.

When Liu Ba heard this, he was actually quite interested, and he was also a little worried about the current situation in Yizhou. It turned out that he had an old relationship with Liu Yan and Liu Zhang's father and son, and had a certain friendship. Now that Liu Yan is gone, he can't help but worry about Liu Zhang when he suddenly hears that the situation in Yizhou is so bad.

You must know that Liu Baqi is a thrifty person, unwilling to interact with others, and only focuses on official affairs. Therefore, although he has great talents, he does not have many real friends, maybe Yizhou Liu Yan and Liu Zhang are one.

In history, although Liu Ba was finally subordinate to Liu Bei, he went through several mistakes and finally had to work for Liu Bei. Especially when he entered Sichuan after several trips, and when he met Liu Zhang, the first advice he gave Liu Zhang was not to accept Liu Bei into Sichuan. It's a pity that Liu Zhang didn't listen, and the result was naturally to lure the wolf into the house and let Liu Bei occupy Yizhou.

He provided Liu Yi with Jianyì, Jianyì Liu Yi, directly turned into the leader of a foreign tribe, and went to discuss the alliance with Liu Zhang, only by directly meeting Liu Zhang, or seeing the people who are now in control of Yizhou, it is possible to figure out the current situation in Yizhou. If you just sneak to Yizhou and knock on the side, I'm afraid it will be difficult to figure out the shape of Yizhou in a short time. Especially now, the military horses of Zhang Fei, Long Ge, Huang Zu and others are blocked in the Fushui area of Ba County, and it is difficult to really enter the middle of Yizhou for a while.

The area of Lingling and Wuling already belongs to the southwest region, and it is not too far from Jiaozhi. In fact, there are many foreign tribes active in these areas. Living in these areas. However, the alien people of these regions. Unlike the Nanban, it does not belong to the Nanban.

According to Liu Ba's familiarity, in the Lingling area, there is a foreign race called Li Yao, who belongs to a foreign race that is relatively pro-Han. But it is a tribe that maintains the traditional way of life of their people.

In fact, the Lingling area belongs to the northwest region of Hunan in later generations. Even in later generations, there are many ethnic minorities living in these areas. For example, the Tujia, Miao, Dong, Yao, Bai, Hui, Zhuang and other minority ethnic groups. This Li Yao ethnic group is estimated to be the predecessor of these small minority ethnic groups in later generations.

Liu Ba is quite familiar with this tribe of the Li Yao tribe, its customs and habits are clear, and he also has a friendship with the leader of the communist tribe, and this tribe is also a relatively large tribe, and the tribe has a population of tens of thousands. They all live in the mountainous area. Usually, there is a bit of conflict with the tribe of the Nanan barbarians. If Liu Yi can pretend to be the son of the tribal leader of the Li Yao tribe or something, it is estimated that he will soon be able to contact the people in power in Yizhou.

Being able to directly penetrate the enemy's interior to understand the situation is indeed much better than Liu Yi sneaking into Yizhou like a headless fly to investigate. Moreover. In this way, Liu Yi can also openly bring some military horses into Sichuan. This, even if you can't understand the situation in Yizhou. Liu Yi can also use the military horses he brought into Sichuan to receive Zhang Fei's military horses into Sichuan.

But as a result, Liu Yi could not enter the river from the banks of the Yangtze River. You have to go the other way into the river.

It is to take Lingling and Wuling into Sichuan in the direction of Guizhou in later generations.

In this direction, almost all of them are mountainous areas. Strictly speaking, in this day and age, it is doubtful whether there is a road to pass. Even in later generations, there were not many roads from the mountainous areas to the Sichuan Pandi.

In fact, there is no road now, and only some people from different tribes know how to pass through those mountainous areas and enter Yizhou.

This can be regarded as opening up another way of thinking for Liu Yi, you must know that the last thing the New Han Army is afraid of is the dangerous march. As long as there is a road to pass, then the New Han army will definitely be able to pass guò.

It's a pity that almost all of the new Han army in Dongting Lake Xinzhou has been drawn out, and for a while, there is no army to recruit, otherwise, Liu Yi would like to lead a military horse from the mountains into Yizhou. Or Guan Yu's Jingzhou army can be transferred, but I am afraid that the Jingzhou army will be difficult to meet Liu Yi's expectations, at least not for the time being. Also, in the important land of Jingzhou, there is no Guan Yu and the army guarding the town, in case Cao Cao is allowed to sneak attack, it will also affect the entire overall situation. So, Lewy didn't think about this.

Liu Yi adopted Liu Ba's Jianyì, and asked Wu Yi to transfer 5,000 elite soldiers of the New Han Army from the New Han Army who came to Dongting Lake with Liu Yi, and he led it and entered Sichuan with Liu Yi.

Wu Yi can also be regarded as Liu Yi's brother-in-law, this time Liu Yi came to Dongting Lake and brought Wu Amaranth to see him. Therefore, Liu Yi handed over the army to Wu Yi under the command, and he was more relieved.

In this way, Liu Yi and Liu Ba, Wu Yi, Yuan Qing, Yin Xiao, and Huang Wudie led 5,000 elite Xinhan troops to take a boat from Xinzhou, first directly into Dongting Lake, and then to the west, into the Wuling Yuanshui River, directly to Wuling.

Advance west along the river until the upper reaches of the Yuanshui River, when the warships can no longer move, abandon the boats and walk.

Starting from Dongting Lake Xinzhou and rushing to Wuling, it is actually more than 200 miles, and if you take the waterway, you can arrive in one day.

Liu Yi naturally did not stop in Wuling, but went directly to the upper reaches of the Yuanshui River, and then let the military horses camp first, mainly waiting for Liu Ba to find the tribesmen of the Li Yao tribe.

Lingling borders on the boundary of Wuling, and the northwest areas of the two places are actually areas of life and activity belonging to those minority tribes. Although these minority ethnic groups are blocked by some dangerous mountains, it is difficult for them to communicate lightly, but they still have a connection in the end. As long as you find some small number of tribesmen, you can find people from the Li Yao tribe.

Liu Yi waited for two days, and Liu Ba finally attracted a team of aliens, these aliens, all dressed in strange clothes, complete with weapons, but the styles were dazzling.

The leader of the Li Yao clan, that is, the patriarch, came to meet Liu Yi in person.

It turned out that whether it was Wuling or Lingling, the foreign ethnic groups in these areas all benefited from some policies of the New Han Dynasty, and in normal times, their mountain goods would also be used to trade with the Han people in Wuling. Especially in the Wuling area, when these aliens came to trade with the Han people, the Han people were quite fair, and they would not deceive and bully them because they were aliens.

Even, sometimes, after some disputes and entanglements between these aliens and the Han people, they alarmed the Han government, and when the Han officers and soldiers were dispatched, these Han officers and soldiers would not be like those Han officers and soldiers in the past, ignoring the 3721 first, and arresting them first. But the current Han officers and soldiers will only be reasonable, and will deal with their disputes and entanglements with the Han people on the spot, if they are strangers, the Han officers and soldiers will give them justice, punish and deal with those Han people, and will give them a certain amount of compensation or something. This is something that they aliens dare not resemble.

In this way, after nearly ten years of Han exchanges, these aliens have completely become one with the Han people, and they are no longer as for tat with the Han people as before, but slowly merge together. What benefited these aliens the most was that the Han people could also enroll in the schools and so on, and the government yamen set up in their mountainous areas did provide them with a lot of valuable advice on production and construction. Now, in fact, there are many people of different races who are officials in the government of the New Han Dynasty. These, one qiē and one qiē, are all things they didn't dare to resemble before.

Therefore, many of those alien tribes who still maintain their independence have recognized the New Han Dynasty emotionally and practically, and slowly, they themselves regard themselves as the subjects of the New Han Dynasty.

Now, when Liu Yi came to their place, the leaders of these foreign tribes naturally wanted to come and meet him, get to know this prince of the dynasty, and express to Liu Yi their thoughts or loyalty to the New Han Dynasty.

In this way, Liu Yi also did not refuse to come, and met with the leaders of many foreign tribes, and told them some things about the New Han Dynasty, especially how to treat them in the future, so that they could return to the New Han Dynasty with peace of mind.

In the end, they were not allowed to provide some props from these alien tribes, and made Liu Yi's five thousand men and horses look like soldiers of these alien tribes. At the same time, despite the demands of the leaders of the minority ethnic groups led by the Li Yao tribe, two or three thousand people were selected from among them to be the vanguard of the passage from the mountains into Xichuan this time. Among them, there were two or three small tribes, and their leaders personally led people to follow Liu Yi into Sichuan. (To be continued......)