Wei Feng groaned slightly, and then ordered: "Zhang Ning, you send some brothers to Xiangyang immediately, use a fast boat into the Han River to trace the Danshui upstream, investigate the water situation from Danshui to Wuguan, and the time limit is half a year, and you must get the first-hand information back to Xiangyang within half a year!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Ning gave a salute, ran to the side quickly, and arranged the matter.

"Oops!" Wang Zhenwei couldn't help but pat his head: "The general really has a clever plan, the land route is not passable, and the water route can be taken, why didn't the general think of it?" ”

Wei Feng smiled slightly: "Mu Di Yonghe ten years (354 AD), Huan Wen Northern Expedition, the naval army from Xiangyang into Junkou, to Nanxiang, from Xichuan to conquer the pass, what I want to do is to continue to move forward in Xichuan Sudanshui, the naval army is the director of our army, as long as the troops can be transported to Wuguan City, Wuguan will be broken, okay, camp on the spot tonight, rest for the night, and go to Xiangyang tomorrow to wait." ”

With Wei Feng's order, the whole army took out rice food and cooked on the fire, and the next morning, they headed for Xiangyang.

About 1,500 miles from the location to Xiangyang, because of the abandonment of attacking by land, there was no longer a need to conceal the figure, so the swaggering march on the Wuguan Road, 15 days later, that is, on December 30, the day before the New Year, the whole army finally arrived in Xiangyang.

Xiangyang is located in the north of the Han River, the opposite bank is Fancheng, the two cities are only separated by a river, Fancheng belongs to Nanyang County, Yuzhou, Xiangyang is because of the Yongqin displaced people to avoid Xiangyang and other places, in order to settle the displaced people, Emperor Xiaowu in the 14th year of Taiyuan (389 AD) to Xiangyang as the center of the overseas Chinese in Yongzhou.

In other words, Xiangyang and Fancheng have nothing to do with Jingzhou. However, with the defeat and death of Yang Yan in the former Yongzhou assassin period, Xiangyang and Fancheng were also occupied by Huan Xuan, and until Huan Xuan was defeated and fled, Wei Feng naturally took over the two cities of Xiang and Fan.

However, Wei Feng did not have the idea of setting up Qiaoyongzhou again, but assigned Xiangyang and Fancheng to Jingzhou and set up another Xiangyang County.

The situation in Xiangyang is roughly similar to that of Jingkou, which is dominated by northern refugees, but the defeat of Yang Yan was too fast and did not develop the scale of the Beifu Army. There are such conditions. Just after the New Year, Wei Feng unceremoniously recruited troops and horses, and Chen Xi, who was sent in advance, was also dumbfounded, and at the same time asked Julia to build more boats. Because Danshui is a tributary of the Han River. No matter how wide the river is, it is limited. It is difficult for a large ship of tens of feet to sail into it.

Before you know it, four months have passed, and Xiangyang's troops have reached 100,000. Such a huge number of troops gathered in Xiangyang, it is impossible to hide it, the original twelve counties in the northwest of Henan have come to secretly contact, expressing that when the Jin army comes to attack, they are willing to respond to the will, they all think that the goal of Wei Feng is only twelve counties, including Qin and Wei also think so, Wei launched an offensive against Luoyang in Kaichun, the Qin army because of the need to take into account the direction of Nanyang, it seems powerless, for a while, Luoyang is quite difficult.

And not long after Wei Feng led the main force to leave Jiangling last year, Yizhou Thorn Shi Mao Xuan in the name of exterminating Huan Xuan's remnants, sent Anxi Mansion General Qian Zong and Hou Hui and others to lead the counties to march eastward, Hou Hui had already had a rebellious heart, taking advantage of the resentment of the Liangzhou people who were unwilling to go east, planning to attack General Pingxi and Yizhou Thorn Shi Mao Xuan, and colluding with the Brazilians to plan in Wucheng Shuikou to raise the alliance leader.

After many repetitions, the most stubborn forced Chen Zong to get in the car and drive back to the division, and attacked Mao Xuan's younger brother Xiyi Lieutenant Mao Jin in Fucheng, Fucheng fell, Mao Jin died in battle, and Qian Zong claimed to be the assassin of Liang and Qin.

Mao Xuan learned of this, sent the army Wang Qiong to lead 3,000 people to conquest of the Zong, and sent Wang Qiong's brother Wang Ying to lead 4,000 troops for Wang Qiong's rear team, and the Emperor Qiong broke Wang Qiong with an ambush, and Li Teng, the camp of Yizhou, surrendered the city, and then razed Mao Xuan's whole family, claiming to be the king of Chengdu, and ordered his cousin Chen Hong to be the Yizhou Assassin History, and his brother Chen Mingzi was the general of Zhendong and the Bazhou Assassin History, and led the disciples of 5,000 to stay in the White Emperor City!

Wei Feng got the news on April 10, and Tao Qian was also there, Tao Qian said angrily: "The old man has heard of this person, strong in martial arts, resourceful, cautious and righteous, willing to help the poor and help the needy, quite praised by the scholars, but unexpectedly did this misdeeds, it is really a profit and wisdom, not to mention that although he was repeatedly persecuted by Hou Hui, at first glance it seemed that he had to do it, but as soon as he entered Chengdu, he killed Yizhou Thorn Shi Mao Xuan Manmen, and established himself as the king of Chengdu. What a hypocrite and cunning man! ”

Wei Feng glanced at Tao Qian strangely, Tao Qian immediately came to his senses, and hurriedly said with a smile: "The old man didn't say that the general you, even if the general you come to replace Zen, it will be a matter of course, and Chen Zong is just taking advantage of the chaos in the world, thinking that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, but in fact, as long as the general returns to the division and sends a partial general to cut down Shu, the indulgence will be broken!" ”

"Oh?" Wei Feng said meaningfully: "It seems that Tao Gong has a lot of words about Zheng Zong!" ”

"Humph!" Tao Qian snorted coldly: "Rebels and thieves are not!" Hypocrisy and cunning are punished by all! ”

Wei Feng asked noncommittally: "According to Tao Gong, who should be sent to Shu?" ”

"This" Tao Qian showed a look of wanting to say something, as if he wanted to say something, but he was embarrassed to speak.

Wei Feng shook his head and proposed, "If I let you lead the army into Shu, are you willing?" After the suppression of the indulgence, you will show the court that you are the assassin of Yizhou, and you have made outstanding contributions to the Tao family. ”

"What?" In an instant, Tao Qian showed a look of ecstasy, really speaking, Tao Qian is also from the family of eunuchs, but he is not a scholar, his great-grandfather Tao Kan, like Wei Feng, is self-made, the highest official to the service, Taiwei, Governor, Guang, Ning and other seven states of the military, plus Yu Bao advocated, given the title of Changsha County Duke, 3,000 households, grandfather Tao Mao, father Tao Yi were all officials to Taishou, the only pity is that Tao Kan was extremely noble and failed to enter the Shi, which has to be said to be a pity.

After Tao Kan's death, the scholar is even more far away, so that the generation is not as good as the generation, to Tao Qian, the clan has clearly shown the appearance of decay, none of his five sons came out, and because Tao Qian's personality is extreme, it is difficult to get along with people, forcing him to break the jar and fall, simply go further and further on the radical road.

Tao Qian's poems are divided into two categories, one is to express the willingness to retreat, and the other is to criticize the court, reflecting the dissatisfaction with reality, but he will not miss the opportunity to be alone, he can realize his ambitions and build the peach blossom source in his mind, not to mention that entering the Shi is Tao's tireless pursuit for a hundred years!

The reason why Tao Qian retired in his later years was that he was forced to do nothing, he was incompatible with the mainstream of society at that time, and he could still have a good reputation when he returned to seclusion!

Tao Qian does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and personally cultivates the land, but the land is the land of Liu Song, Boyi and Shu Qiyi do not eat Zhou Su, and live in seclusion in Shouyang Mountain to pick Wei for food, and then someone told him, Wei is also owned by the Zhou room, so he abandoned it, and made a song before starving to death: Dengbixi Mountain, picking its Wei, with violence and violence, I don't know what is wrong, Shennong Yu Xia is suddenly not Xi, I am comfortable to return? Yu Zuxi, the decline of life!

Bo Yi and Shu Qi finally starved to death, this is the true temperament! Wei Feng didn't think that Tao Qian hadn't heard of the allusions of Boyi and Shuqi, but in his later years, he still used seclusion to fight for fame, and it may be too much to say that he was hypocritical, but Tao Qian's utilitarian heart is not fake!

Of course, the current Tao Kan is not extreme enough to return to seclusion, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to join Weifeng after being taught a lesson.

Wei Feng frowned, and thought: "The tribes in Yizhou live together, and adopting rigid means will not only help, but may also stimulate contradictions, I am not worried about Tao Gong taking down Yizhou, what I am worried about is that Tao Gong is too upright, or it will backfire."

Tao should be clear that since Li Te's father and son entered Shu, Bashu has never had a day of Qingning, even if Huan Wen was destroyed to become a country, but it is still a dispute, Qiang, the family of the people are pouring in day by day, the bureaucrats, the southern barbarian migrants amounted to millions of people, decades down, the accent of the local people in Bashu has become the pronunciation of the bureaucrats, and there are more powerful clans based on the fort to stand on their own, this is the big clan in Shu, otherwise why easily kill the history of the Yizhou assassin?

My consistent actions, Tao Gong should understand one or two, that is, on the one hand, we must try our best to promote the peaceful coexistence and common prosperity of people of all ethnic groups, on the other hand, it is to clean up the local heroes, which will inevitably be inhumane or hurt innocent things, so, for Tao Gong to assassinate Yizhou, I have no worries in terms of conduct, but hey~~"

Wei Feng's brows were tightly wrung up, with a look of embarrassment, Tao Qian did not start speaking immediately, but his face changed gloomy, and after a long time, he gritted his teeth and said: "As the general said, the assets of the powerful clan are not taken properly, and it is okay to take them again, the old man will regard it as appropriate, if there is no one who does not surrender, he will not be soft, and please rest assured that the general will also restrain himself, if the general is bad, what kind of face does he have to live in the world?" ”

Wei Feng nodded and said: "Please don't blame Tao Gong for being a villain first and then a gentleman, the so-called rivers and mountains are easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, and the so-called empty vernacular, there is no evidence, Bashu has a vast territory, millions of Dingkou, and the customs and customs of all ethnic groups are different, so you can't be careless!"

Otherwise, count the days, the brothers who went to Danshui to investigate the water situation should also come back, I will attack Wuguan in the near future, you temporarily guard Xiangyang on my behalf, if there is no major problem during the period, you can lead the army into Shu next year! ”

Tao Qian solemnly arched his hand: "If even a small Xiangyang can't be controlled well, how can you assassinate a state?" The old man didn't dare to boast about Haikou, but he would do his best, and everything would be said when the general came back! ”

"Good! There is Lao Tao Gong bothering! Wei Feng praised: "Okay, today I will entrust you to control Xiangyang, so as not to have a short time and no time to make results!" ”

"Subordinates take orders!" Tao Qian bowed deeply.

Although Wei Feng has not yet gone on the expedition, he has already lost Xiangyang to Tao Qian, Tao Qian is conscientious and does not dare to make any mistakes, because he knows that there is only one opportunity, and if he misses it, he can only serve as an auxiliary position such as joining the army and Zhu Cao under Wei Feng, and there will never be a chance to go out of the town, so it is not an exaggeration to call him a life, and Wei Feng does not pay attention to it, as long as the general direction is not wrong, he is happy to be a shopkeeper. (To be continued......)