The so-called "Nanzhong" is not an informal administrative division, but only a geographical term, which roughly includes the whole province of Yunnan, most of Guizhou Province, and parts of Guangxi, Myanmar, and Laos. The climate of this place is humid and hot, the jungle is dense, the transportation is inconvenient, the household registration is scarce, and there are also Han and Yi mixed places, which is almost no different from the land outside Huawai.

The annexation of Nanzhongdi into China was basically a matter of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Han Dynasty placed it under the jurisdiction of Yizhou. The twelve counties of Yizhou (including the subject countries), the southern Yuewang County, the Yuewang subject country, the Qianwei subject country, the Qiqi County, the Yizhou County, and the Yongchang County all belong to the category of "Nanzhong" in a broad sense, and their territory accounts for almost half of Yizhou, but the household registration is less than one-fifth.

-- The so-called "subject country" is somewhat similar to the "ethnic autonomous region" of later generations. There are three subject states of Yizhou, of which Shu County is a subject country to settle the Qiang people, and the other two subject states are to settle various Yi people, collectively referred to as "Southwest Yi".

There are many types of "Southwest Yi" in the southern and central regions, and the number of people is more than half of them in terms of proportion, but most of the people who really hold great power in the local area are Han heroes and strong-that is, Emperor Wu only moved in after he passed through the southwest. For example, Yizhou County's Haoqiang Yonghong called himself after the Marquis Yongya of Shifang in the early Han Dynasty.

Liu Bei once used Qin Mi's strategy to send Guan Yu and Xu Shu to lead his troops to collect Nanzhong, but everywhere was overwhelming. The problem is that Guan Yunchang has always eaten soft and not hard, Yonghong and other Hao chieftains did not dare to resist it, they all expressed their submission, and paid a lot of tribute to grain and materials, the so-called "stretch out your hand and don't fight the smiling people", and the Shu army will let them continue to rule the place - at most, some officials will be airborne to guard the county governance. So the battle of Guan Yu in the south. It's almost like a patrol. There are less than a dozen of the big and small chiefs who refused to obey. Thousands of Han and Yi soldiers and civilians were killed and captive, and the political pattern in Nanzhong remained basically unchanged.

In fact, Guan Yu can't be harsh, in the original history, Zhuge Liang was replaced by the Southern Expedition, and he roughly did this, but there were not a few Hao chiefs who rebelled at that time, so there were more killings, and the situation was a little more stable afterwards. Zhuge Liang in order to collect materials from the southern and central regions on a large scale. In order to support his Northern Expedition, he cut down all the Han heroes such as Yonghong and Zhu Bao who dared to come forward to rebel, but for Yiren Meng Huo and others, they mainly focused on bondage. Although in exchange for the sentence "the southerners will not return", it is just empty words, even when Zhuge Liang was alive, the Hanyi riots in Nanzhong never stopped, and after his death, it was even more menacing.

However, the Yi people rioted and the Han rebelled. There are also essential differences. Most of the Yi people do not have a long-term vision, and only want to be able to control their own hometown. It's just that he is not oppressed by Han officials, and even if he fights outside, he basically can't run far. Hanhao is different, he is educated, knowledgeable, and often colludes with the outside world, if he does not make trouble, a disturbance will inevitably cause a big turmoil in one or even several counties.

In the original history, Yonghong once caused quite a lot of chaos, killed Yizhou County Taishou Zhengang, and directly tied up the successor Zhang Yi and escorted him to Dongwu. Later, he united with Zhu Bao, Gao Ding, Meng Huo, etc., basically except for Yongchang County, which was firmly guarded by Wang Yan and Lu Kai, most of Nanzhong turned their backs on Shu Han - in this case, Zhuge Liang would not succeed if he did not go south.

Of course, Shi Xun remembered this episode, and he still remembered that it was Jiaozhi County Shou Shixie who lured Yonghong to make a rebellion, and the reason for the rebellion was that Liu Bei led his division to the east, and as a result, he was defeated in Yiling and died in the White Emperor City. Yonghong took a look, the old man was dead, and there was no future for the Liu family, since his territory was relatively close to Jingzhou and Jiaozhou, which belonged to Eastern Wu, the Shu army was defeated by the Wu army...... Then I might as well listen to what Shifujun said and surrender to Wu!

So Sun Quan sent Yonghong as Yongchang Taishou.

Now it is Xun who copied the script, and suggested that Jiaozhou Assassin Shi Buqi contact Yonghong through Shixie, and promised him to turn his back on Shu Han with high-ranking officials and generous benefits. Now there are three points in the world, Wei has two, and Xishu is not enough for one point, no matter how remote Yizhou County is, Yonghong also understands this situation, and Cao Wei has to make friends and wide, and follow the river, it is easy to hit Nanzhong, so to lure it with profit, force it with momentum, and you are not afraid that Yonghong will not obey his fate.

Shi Xun patted his chest on the court and promised: "Yonghong is ambitious, disobedient to the Liu family, and has an old relationship with Shixie, so he will be able to say and move." "I have the history books I mastered in my previous life in my hand, and I am like looking at the text in my heart - even if history has been changed, I don't believe that there is a strong man in that small ravine, and he has not been involved in the overall situation of the world, he can suddenly have a flaw, and he is no longer the original Yonghong character.

Sure enough, Yonghong not only expressed his willingness to obey Cao Wei, but also secretly hooked up with Zhu Bao, the Taishou Zhu Bao, the Han Hao Xi of the same county, Liu Guan, the Han Hao of Yuewang, and Gao Ding, the king of Yue Wangyi, and Wolf Cen, etc., to play together to ask for the seal - as long as we agree to our conditions, then as soon as the Wei army moves in the north, we will immediately raise troops in the south to echo, and attack from both sides to defeat Shu Han.

Of course, the so-called "north and south echo, two ways to attack" Yunyun, no one really has expectations for this, you can really make chaos in the south, contain part of Shu Han's energy and troops, and consume part of Liu Bei's material supply, that is enough.

Bu Qi suggested that Yonghong could be appointed as the county guard of Yongchang, Xi as the county guard of Yizhou, Liu Zhou as the county guard of Yueshan, and the southern and central regions as Yizhou, with Zhu Bao as the assassin of Yizhou, and as for the chieftains of Gaoding and Wolf Cen, they were also awarded the auxiliary position of a county.

The court thought that it was impossible - there was no problem in dividing Nanzhong into Yizhou, but such a high-ranking official as the state assassin must be airborne from the central government, and it cannot fall into the hands of local heroes. The chiefs can also shadow a son and nephew to enter the court as a lang - to put it bluntly, they are asked to hand over hostages.

However, the conditions of the chieftains in the south are not only these, the most important one is that they hope to obtain a position, that is, they can inherit their official positions and land to their children and grandchildren. Originally, the Qin and Han dynasties did not have a worldly position, but at the end of the Han Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the assassins and county guards in various places often passed on their sons and nephews, and a common practice was formed - for example, Liu Yan died, and the Shuzhong bureaucrats "publicly recommended" their son Liu Zhang to succeed him as Yizhou Mu; Yuan Shao died, and Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang competed to be the pastor of Jizhou; Sun Ce was the Taishou of Huiji, and after his death, he passed on his position to his brother Sun Quan......

Therefore, the chiefs of Nanzhong also want to follow this precedent, and I will ask for an official first. Wait until you die. It can also be passed on to future generations.

The ministers all thought it was a trivial matter. Anyway, the place is remote and barbaric, and the scholars of the Central Plains are not happy to run to become officials, so they want to pass on their descendants, so they will agree for the time being. If you want to fix your heart first, you can use it as help, and whether your children will be unworthy and faithful is a matter of the future. It's not too late to talk about that.

However, the only one who stood up and firmly objected: "If you give the worldly position, how is it different from cutting the land to make the king? His descendants inherited, located in the county, and the foundation is getting stronger, I am afraid that in the future, I will not be an official of the court, but a vassal minister, or like a Guree chaos, I must not worry about it. ”

Wang Lang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, defended: "Taiwei is too thoughtful. Today, he is restrained, but he wants him to coerce Liu Bei'er. Not long-term also. "We can give them a job, but it doesn't mean that it's inevitable. When Yizhou is captured, the world will be decided, and it will not be possible to find any excuse to erase them at that time.

Shi Xun shook his head and said: "Jingxing sees one and not the other." The princes may attack and reward their children and grandchildren for their merits; The office of the official cannot be attacked, and the place must be governed by the imperial court. It is true that it deserves its name, but it is true or a trace - if it is made to be a town for a long time, setting this precedent, the barbarians from all directions will follow suit, and it will be a disaster for future generations! ”

The point is that this precedent cannot be set. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the county officials were hereditary, only in fact, but without their names, and on the surface they still followed the practice of electing officials, and the next governor was elected by the previous governor or his subordinates, and then reported to the imperial court - just like Yuan Shikai later revised the law before becoming emperor, and the next president was nominated by the previous president, although it was for the succession of father and son, but he absolutely refused to say it explicitly.

Since it is not allowed to say it explicitly, it is not a system, it is just a common practice, and the authority of the imperial court can be used to break it at any time. But once it is given a hereditary position and allowed to be hereditary, it will become its system, and it will be effectively imitated in the future - the same as the great merit of the country, why can they inherit it from father to son, and I must move from one term to another? As soon as the bad example is opened, the car can't be stopped in the back.

The Tang dynasty began to implement the system of feudal states, which allowed ethnic minorities in remote areas to be autonomous, and their chiefs were hereditary from the tribal heads, and in the Yuan dynasty it developed into the Tusi system, which led to an increasingly divisive tendency in the southwest, which had been incorporated into China's territory during the Han dynasty. So why did the Tang Dynasty engage in that set? Duan by the Central Plains for many years of turmoil, the southwest region was originally in a semi-independent state, and then the rise of Tibet, in order to make the southwest of the Tang Dynasty and not from Tibet, was forced to do it - the result was a Nanzhao, and then out of Dali, independent of the Central Plains regime for hundreds of years, to the Ming Dynasty had no choice, had to continue to use the Tusi system.

The Tusi system was set up by the Central Plains Dynasty out of desperation, which caused a strong counter-attack on the unification of the dynasty, and the resulting large-scale rebellions also emerged in endlessly. And now there is no powerful country in the southwest that can threaten the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty - of course, after defeating Liu Bei - if you do this hundreds of years in advance, it will inevitably bring disaster to future generations! Perhaps in a thousand years, the Yunnan-Guizhou region will be completely independent of the Chinese regime – just like Vietnam in later generations.

Since the Qin Dynasty, China has been unified and centralized, but to be honest, even with the supreme authority of the first emperor and the genius and creativity, it is impossible to completely overthrow the feudal princely system that has been inherited for nearly a thousand years. In the Han Dynasty, for example, the county governors were close to princes in terms of their powers, and the vertical management system of the central government was very extensive. It's just that although the social structure has taken two steps forward and one step back, on the whole, it is still advancing towards perfect centralization, and it has finally reached its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Therefore, Shi Xun believes that the centralization of power in great unification is the trend of China's historical development, and if the feudal system continues like Western Europe, there will be no strong men, let alone a prosperous Tang Dynasty, and he must protect this trend. Local autonomy is something that has to be done in response to the backwardness of communications and transportation, not that it has to be so, and the reality must be recognized, but it must not be institutionalized, and once institutionalized, it will close the way forward.

To put it bluntly, I can acquiesce to your autonomy, but I can't explicitly allow you autonomy.

That's why he stood up and vetoed the request for the worldly office of the southwestern chieftain, saying: "If he wants to be rich and noble in the world, he can give him a knight, and as for the office, it must not be attacked!" "Officials in various localities serve a three-year term - of course, they can be re-elected - and the county magistrates in remote areas often serve many terms, even until death, and after their deaths, the imperial court may continue to appoint their sons and nephews to succeed them for the sake of stability, but this is a matter of power, not a clear system, and it is impossible to make promises to them in advance.

Most of the ministers felt that it was a bit of a problem for the Tai Lieutenant, and they stood up one by one to refute it, and none of them had the eloquence of Shi Xun, so they were defeated. Cao Cao felt that it was not a big deal, so what was the noise? Since Xun is so insistent, it is okay to sell him a face - and when it comes to institutional issues, it is true that Xun is more experienced and has ideas, and his words may be audible.

Therefore, he asked Shixun: "Then they are all named marquis?" "Then the marquis is too worthless, isn't it?

Shi Xun held up the wat version and said: "If Your Majesty thinks that you can't be a marquis, you can order a new lord." (To be continued......)