Wang Tianyun had his own abacus in his heart, and from Ye Chang's tone these days, he heard that Ye Chang had no intention of staying in Jiannan for a long time.

And the current Jiannan Festival makes Yang Zhao not stay in Jiannan for a long time. Then, Jiannan will have a lot of places vacated by then.

Hearing his request, Ye Chang just smiled: "Ge Luofeng has broken his courage, and what he has to do now is no longer to fight head-on." ”

Wang Tianyun was surprised, seeing that Ye Chang began to eat again, he didn't dare to say anything, and after Ye Chang finished eating, he rode his horse and took the generals out of the camp.

They didn't go far, Ye Chang pointed to the southwest direction through the horsewhip and said: "Look at this place, the fertile fields are thousands of miles, they are planting, cultivating, and reclaiming, and the grain of 100,000 people is also worry-free. ”

Others didn't understand what he meant, Li Bai was the most out-of-the-box, and suddenly thought of one thing, and was startled: "You want to build a city here?" ”

"Exactly, if I use the strategy of dividing the fields in Liaodong and immigrate from Shu to Shibian, do you think this city can be built?

This location is about where Kunming is located in another life. It's just that the predecessor of Kunming was the expansion of the eastern city built by Nanzhao, which was after Nanzhao's rule over this area stabilized. Since Ye Chang is here this time, if he wants to completely solve the problem of the southwest border, he will put the construction of Kunming on the agenda in advance.

"It's not an overnight thing to build a city......

"I know that now I have 30,000 soldiers in my hands, and then there will be a large army to help, one person and one stone, and this city has begun to take shape. As for the addition, leave it to future generations. ”

"What the ambassador said is absolutely true."

This Yunnan Nanze is Dianchi Lake, with abundant water and grass, and is surrounded by a rare small basin, so it is absolutely possible to build a Han city here.

"Brother Taibai, building a city, that is a merit that will leave a name in history, this kind of merit, in your hand, do you want it or not?"

Li Bai understands his situation very well, at his age, even if his career has been smooth sailing since then, it is unlikely that he will become the center, so becoming a prince of one side will go down in history has become his political goal. Hearing Ye Chang say this, he perked up: "What do you mean? ”

"The affairs of this city will be handed over to Taibai, how about it?"

Perhaps it was the influence of another life, Ye Chang always hoped to help Li Bai, even if he knew that he was not a person suitable for daily affairs, Ye Chang did not hesitate to invite him to Jiannan. Although Li Bai didn't really help along the way, he wrote a lot of poems, most of which Ye Chang had never heard of.

Even if it was just for Li Bai to leave so many magnificent poems, Ye Chang felt that it was worth bringing him.

"Really...... Really with me? ”

Li Bai is not stupid, Ye Chang's distrust of his actual ability, he knows it very well in his heart. Hearing Ye Chang say this at this moment, he couldn't help stuttering, pointed to the tip of his nose and said, "Is it really me?" ”

"Exactly, please Cai Zhihua help you," Ye Chang said.

"What about money and food, if there is enough money and food, I will build this city" Li Bai took a deep breath, and then said firmly.

"The money and food will be there soon."

"Coming soon?" Everyone looked at each other.

Cai Ming, who was next to him, couldn't help but interject: "Ambassador, this ...... The army's salaries cannot be misappropriated."

"How can you only rely on the salary in the army?" Ye Chang smiled: "Zhihua just rest assured, he will never embezzle the army's salary." ”

"That only relies on these soldiers to build a city?"

"No, the biggest role of the sergeant is to fight, I will divide the sergeant into three parts, one to continue to move westward, one to help build the city, and one to take turns off, rotating every two months." Ye Changdao.

"The manpower?"

"Naturally, the local people will bear the burden...... Zhihua, don't be in a hurry to advise, don't worry, I am not forcibly conscripting them to serve, but by virtue of their willingness, anyone who comes here can get money and food. ”

As soon as Cai Ming heard that he was going to use the local people to build the city, he immediately became anxious, near Yunnan Nanze, there were few Han people, and there were many barbarians, that is, some Han people, who also belonged to the Han people who had become monstralized. If they were really forcibly conscripted for hard labor, these people would inevitably collude with the barbarians, and even betray the edict of the Tang Dynasty.

But Ye Chang seemed to see that he wanted to advise, and preemptively said his method first.

Giving money and food cannot completely solve all problems, but it can ⊥ the problems less acute and intensified, but this also creates a new problem: where does the money and food come from?

"Do you really have enough money to come here?" Cai Ming asked.

"You just have to rest assured, if you say something else, there may be problems, it involves money and food, Ye Shiyi has nothing that he can't do," Li Bai next to him smiled.

His eyes sparkled, as if he had guessed something.

"It seems that Taibai has confidence in me."

"I know what you do." Li Bai stared at Ye Chang: "Eleven Lang, you have a strong grasp of people's hearts, you really ...... It's truly unparalleled. Especially for the hearts of merchants...... Really admire, admire"

When he said "businessman", Ye Chang knew that Li Bai really understood his plan.

A few days later, Chengdu, Yang Guozhong's house.

Since coming to Chengdu, Yang Guozhong's mood has been very bad, he wants to return to Chang'an every day, but he understands that as long as Li Linfu is in Chang'an for a day, he doesn't want to go back so easily.

Every few days, he had a letter sent to Chang'an, and these letters were not sent to the military department, but directly to Li Longji's case through the channels of the Yang sisters.

And Yang Yuhuan and the Yang family sisters also took every opportunity to recall him back to Chang'an.

Yang Zhao was driven out of Chang'an by Li Linfu, which dealt a big blow to the Yang sisters, and those powerful people who originally avoided them now have the courage to compete with them.

"What a fool's errand"

Yang Zhao, who was in an irritable mood, threw away the official document in his hand and scolded angrily twice.

The servants around him didn't dare to breathe, and the little official who presented the official document shrank his head even more, for fear of being angered by Yang Zhao.

"Why is the squire angry?"

At this time, the only one who can speak is Xian Yu Zhongtong.

The relationship between Xian Yu Zhongtong and Yang Zhao is extraordinary, although at this time, because Xian Yu Zhongtong suffered a defeat and affected Yang Zhao, but for the sake of the old days, Yang Zhao still stayed in the mansion, which can be regarded as a meritorious service.

"Look at it, it's really messy, go to Yunnan Nanze to build a city...... How much does he think about right and wrong? ”

Xian Yu Zhongtong picked up the official document, which was sent by Ye Chang, and the content was to ask the local natives, and learned that it was hundreds of miles away from Zewo in southern Yunnan, and it was advisable to build a city in Zedong, thinking that it was the cornerstone of the Tang Dynasty's control of Yunnan.

In Ye Chang's plan, two big cities will be built in Yunnan, one in the east of southern Yunnan and the other in the west of the Erhai Lake, the two cities will be horns of each other, move the Han people in the interior to live, and then with the help of the familiar barbarians who are close to the Tang Dynasty, they will plant sugarcane everywhere and boil cane sugar.

"Yunnan Zedong ...... That is Kunchuan, and Erhai West is ...... It's Taihe City. These two locations are indeed the most suitable places for farming and living in Yunnan, if you can really get these two cities, and then you can appease the mountain barbarians, then Yunnan will always be the county of Tang Prefecture. After reading it, Xian Yu Zhongtong said with a faint smile.

He served in Jiannan for several years, and once mobilized troops against Nanzhao, these places, you don't need to look at the map to know where the road is

Hearing him say this, Yang Zhao said dissatisfiedly: "Xian Yugong, do you really think so? ”

"It's a good plan, but it's a pity that it's just on paper." Xian Yu Zhongtong said with a little disdain: "Don't talk about Kunchuan, just talk about Taihe City, Piluo Pavilion takes it as the royal capital, backs Cangshan and relies on Erhai Lake, and has the dragon head and dragon tail Erxiongguan, which is the heart of Nanzhao, and it is not easy to take it."

"Do you think Ye Chang is not Ge Luofeng's opponent?"

"I supervised 60,000 elite soldiers, but I was still victimized by Nanzhao's treacherous schemes, and I suffered a defeat, Ye Chang only led 30,000 soldiers, what can I do?"

"You're not optimistic about his battle?"

"Naturally, I am not optimistic, I heard that he has done a lot of things in Liaodong, but this place is not Liaodong Liaodong is just a little cold, and winter comes earlier, but Yunnan is a land of miasma and poisonous insects. Although there are some mountains in Liaodong, they are not as high as the mountains in Yunnan and the roads are dangerous, and the Tang Dynasty soldiers in Liaodong can carry out operations, but Yunnan has no land, flat roads, and no feet, and no matter how many troops there are, it is useless. Barbarians grow in Si, and they are like apes over mountains and mountains......"

Xian Yu Zhongtong still has some truth in what he said, he analyzed the advantages of the barbarian army and the disadvantages of the Tang army very well. The more Yang Zhao, who was in an irritable mood, listened to it, the more he felt that what he said made sense, and this feeling made him even more irritable: If Ye Chang couldn't win, wouldn't it mean that he, the envoy of Jiannan Jiedu, would continue to be the envoy?

At this time, he suddenly remembered that Li Linfu did not stop him from pulling Ye Chang into the water, and even faintly pushed him.

Maybe at that time, Li Linfu thought of this, Ye Changsheng was Li Linfu's son-in-law's meritorious service, and Ye Chang's defeat was because he, the person who recommended Ye Chang, was the black pot. He recommended Ye Chang and Ye Chang was negative, if this is the case, Ye Chang's future will be bleak, and his good future for Yang Zhao will also be buried here?

"Don't talk about it."

"Squire, I don't say it's okay, it's just that you have to prepare early, I'm afraid that it won't be long before you clean up the mess" Xian Yu Zhongtong said again.

He himself lost for a while, so he naturally didn't want to see Ye Chang win easily, and he felt a little cursed in his heart

"Prepare ......"

Before Yang Zhao's words fell, there were hurried footsteps and shouts outside, and then a person walked in quickly.

"Cui Sima, what's the matter?"

The person who came was Zuo Sima Cui Yuan, the governor of Shu County, who was originally a henchman of Xiao Jiong under Li Linfu, but after seeing that Yang Zhao had the potential to replace Li Linfu, he switched to Yang Zhao's disciples, and won Yang Zhao's trust. This time, Yang Zhao came to Shu and brought not many servants, and he was one of them.

"Good news, good news" Cui Yuan rushed in with interest and handed over a feather letter in his hand: "Ambassador Ye defeated the barbarians in Kunchuan twice, beheaded 3,000, captured 5,000, and the traitor Luo Feng has retreated from Yining."

"What?" Yang Zhao and Xian Yu Zhongtong lost their voices together.

Just now, Xian Yu Zhongtong was still saying that Ye Chang would be defeated, but before a cup of tea, Cui Yuan presented Ye Chang's good news, and this sudden turn of events seemed to be specially for the sake of hitting Xian Yu Zhongtong's face.

"Impossible, unreasonable...... A big win? Xian Yu Zhongtong muttered, and then stretched out his hand to Cui Yuan: "Take it with me." ”

Cui Yuan didn't give it to him, but looked at Yang Zhao, and with Yang Zhao's permission, he handed over the good news to Xian Yu Zhongtong.

The good news is very simple, it is nothing more than when and where to fight with the barbarians, how many beheadings and how many captures, and other things, without mentioning a word, is Ye Chang's consistent style. After Xian Yu Zhongtong read it, he sneered: "I see, I see"

Yang Zhao took the battle report and began to read it, and Cui Yuan was a little curious over there: "Xian Yugong doesn't know what to say?" ”

"I can also concoct eight copies of ten copies of this good news in Chengdu." Xian Yu Zhongtong pursed his lips: "How can barbarians be so easy to defeat, it's just a lie."

"Ye Chang won't lie about such things."

Yang Zhao also read the good news quickly, and when he heard Zhongtong say this, he said a little unhappily.

Xian Yu Zhongtong's face turned purple, and without waiting for him to say anything, Yang Zhao said again: "I have been with Ye Chang for many years, although he has a fantastical move, but when it comes to numbers, he strives to be detailed. If someone else is a good deal, they will never be accurate enough to say that he wins, then he must win...... Good, good, good win"

The words made Xian Yu Zhongtong's face turn red, white and purple, and Cui Yuan wanted to laugh when he saw it, but he didn't laugh after all.

"Okay, okay, since Nanzhao has withdrawn from Yunnan Nanze, then at least the matter of building a city in Yunnan Nanze can be started...... Ha Lu, Ye Chang really deserves to be Ye Chang, I pulled him here, it's really right" Yang Zhao read the good news again, and then Da Lu laughed.

He is Jiannan Jiedu, although he has made an appointment before, but how can he not share the profit of this great achievement, maybe just with this good news, Li Longji Dayue, directly promoted Ye Chang to Jiannan Jiedu envoy, he can take the opportunity to get out of Shu

"You can start preparing to build a city in southern Yunnan, Cui Sima, you have both military and political strategies, and you can arrange everything you need to build a city."

"Wait, squire, I'm afraid this matter will not be easy." Xian Yu Zhongtong said again at this time.

"Why did Gong say this?"

"Yunnan Nanze, a wild land, the people will not be willing to move here. Moreover, Ye Chang just said that as soon as the materials should be prepared, his own businessmen will prepare them for him...... Merchants are all profit-seekers, how could they take a risk and go to Yunnan to help him prepare for this? ”

When Yang Zhao heard this, he nodded slightly.

Ye Chang has no choice, unless he is willing to post all the profits of the Anton Chamber of Commerce, how can he attract those businessmen to run for him? But if all the profits of the Anton Chamber of Commerce are posted, those Chang'an magnates who are counting on the dividends of the Chamber of Commerce are afraid that they will immediately turn from his allies to his enemies, and even think of taking away his control over the Anton Chamber of Commerce

"And they built a city thousands of miles away...... Labor and money, I am afraid that the city has not yet risen, and the people have changed, Yang Shilang, it is better to prepare for the situation, if Ye Chang insists on going his own way, I am afraid of the disaster of Shudi, not limited to Nanzhao

"Qiyu Shilang, there are sixteen merchant shopkeepers outside who ask to see him, saying that they want to help the officers and soldiers collect the land of Yunnan, and at the request of Ambassador Ye, he specially came here to serve."

Xian Yu Zhongtong's voice fell, and there was such a voice outside, Xian Yu Zhongtong's mouth was wide open, and Yang Zhao and Cui Yuan all looked at him with a strange gaze.

"Impossible," Xian Yu Zhongtong shouted.