Faced with such a secret document, Liu Yu fell into a long silence, he didn't expect that sending Su Yan to the south this time would actually hurt him.

All this seems to be his conspiracy.

Liu Yu felt a little sorry for Su Yan, and even when Liu Yu ousted Su Yan from power, he didn't have such a huge sense of indebtedness in his heart as today. Su Yan is like an uncompetitive child of his, although there are times when he is rebellious and sometimes he makes mistakes, but after all, he is just a child, and no father will send his child to death.

After being silent for a long time, Liu Yu took a long breath, cheered up, and immediately convened an emergency military meeting.

Liu Yu doesn't care about anything else now, he wants to see people alive and dead, and he has to investigate who has repeatedly been enemies of the imperial court. All of this requires manpower and material resources to investigate.

The military meeting was very calm, in fact, no one at the meeting, except for Liu Yu, had such deep feelings for Su Yan. For them, Su Yan is dead or something better, so that there is one less worry. In fact, some people will wonder if this was instigated by Liu Yu behind the scenes, but judging from Liu Yu's serious and angry expression, Liu Yu obviously didn't know about it beforehand.

Hua Ji'an said: "Chang'an City is far away from the mountains and rivers on the right side of the river, and I am afraid that the clues have already been cut off, and this matter should be handed over to the local government to investigate." ”

In Liu Yu's opinion, the land on the right side of the river is also the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the local garrisons are all the soldiers and horses of King Jing who have been beaten by him, and these people can't even know that a large number of bandits have entered their territory, and expecting them to investigate the matter is like clearly preparing to sink the truth into the sea.

"The stakes are high, and it's likely to be a precursor to the rebellion." Liu Yudao. "It's still Chang'an City that sends a trustworthy general. Seize local military power. It is best to investigate this matter by the way. ”

Hua Ji'an asked, "Then who is suitable?" ”

Liu Yu swept around from among the generals, and the most distracted fell on Huo Yuan, who was a little absent-minded and yawning: "It is more appropriate for Yonghou to go." ”

"Me?" Huo Yi shouted, "It's not suitable, it's not suitable, I've been very busy lately, I don't have time to go to the south, you better find someone else." ”

dared to openly contradict Liu Yu in front of the generals, or when Liu Yue was very cold and serious. There was no one else in attendance but Choir.

Hua Ji'an was a little embarrassed: "General, although Yonghou is brave, but he is deficient, this time he will go to investigate the chaos of the party first, and it is not appropriate to send Yonghou to be afraid." It is better for the subordinates to go to investigate, and hurry up in the starry night, and they can arrive in ten days. ”

Liu Yu glanced at Hua Ji'an, in fact, Liu Yu didn't really want to transfer Hua Ji'an out of Chang'an City, mainly because Hua Ji'an was a rebel general of the King of Huai, and this trip was to Jiangyou, which was close to Huaidi. If Hua Ji'an colluded with the Huai Wang Yu Party, it may be that the tiger has returned to the mountain.

Ultimately. Liu Yu didn't trust Hua Ji'an very much.

Liu Yu said: "This matter should be done by the chaotic party, and the chaotic party should be related to the Lingnan military faction, this trip is not only for investigation, but also to stabilize the local garrison to prevent the Lingnan faction from rebelling, so it may be more suitable for Yonghou to go." ”

Liu Yu said this, thought for a while and added, "But since Yun Yihou intends to go first, the two of them might as well set off separately, Yun Yihou will set off first as a special envoy of the imperial court, and Yonghou and others will mobilize some new troops to be transferred to the south to inspect the group for training, and then it is not too late to leave." If there is a rebellion in the place, you two can act cheaply. ”

Liu Yu said this, which is equivalent to sending two people, and the two do not interfere with each other, not from the relationship between superiors and subordinates. Although Hua Ji'an is a military general, he will go to the local area to investigate in the form of a civil official, while Huo Yi will go to the place in the name of inspecting the regiment training. One article and one martial arts, Liu Yu is also more assured.

Huo was reluctant, but he still reluctantly agreed, and went back to prepare for Jiangnan with Hua Ji'an.

At the end of the military meeting, Liu Yu's mood could not be calm. Perhaps Su Yan had already felt the danger before this trip, and he actually left Sun Xiaoyu in Chang'an City, so that even if something happened to him, Su Yan would have left his bones and blood. Liu Yu was thinking about whether to tell Sun Xiaoyu about this, and after thinking about it, he calculated that Sun Xiaoyu was about to give birth, and then telling her the bad news was undoubtedly a blow to her.

Although Liu Yu deliberately did not conceal Su Yan's encounter with the chaos and his whereabouts were unknown, there was no impermeable wall, and soon there were rumors in the court that King Nan had an accident on the way to the domain, and they were not clear what happened.

In the next few days, more news reached Liu Yu.

The time when Su Yan was attacked, on the third day of the second month of the leap month, that is, on the third day of Liu Liniang's letter, the incident was very coincidental, which made Liu Yu think that Liu Liniang might have known the news in advance, and it was inconvenient to write a letter, so he had to use a special method to remind Liu Yu, but because Liu Yue did not expect that it would be Su Yan's business in advance, and the letter itself was delayed, Liu Yu was caught off guard by the occurrence of this matter.

The place where Su Yan was attacked was on the official road from Jiangyou to Lingzhou, and when the local garrison arrived afterwards, all the people in Su Yan's accompanying convoy were mended with knives to prevent them from being alive, and the methods used by the rebels were also extremely cruel. Subsequently, the magistrate and the local garrison launched an investigation, but nothing was found, and the rebels disappeared from the world with Su Yan after attacking Su Yan's convoy.

Liu Yu unfolded the map and looked at it, and the place of the incident was very close to Meiguan Mansion, which was responsible for guarding Meiling Canyon Road and Chuanqi Road in the south.

Because Lingnan has always been regarded as a "barbarian land", and the ethnic minorities in Lingnan are also known as Nanban, the imperial courts of all dynasties have strictly guarded Lingnan. From Hunan to the south of Jiangyou to the southwest of Fujian, the land of Wuling, the imperial court set many passes to prevent the rebellion of the ethnic minorities in the south, and the local guards supported their own troops, and many of them had formed local emperors. The imperial court basically did not need to pay taxes to the localities, and the local guards could pay taxes and manage the localities on their own, and even the administrative power was basically grasped by them.

Originally, the imperial court also had a laissez-faire attitude towards Lingnan, which belonged to the territory of the three irrespective areas, and as long as there was no major rebellion in the locality, the local guards would generally approve the things that the local guards asked the court to play. This also formed a unique local military administrative system - Guoguo.

Today, there are five or six military factions in Lingnan, each of which is a country.

These small countries are divided into "fu" by local military factions, these "fu" are very small, generally only one big city plus passes and towns, the population is only tens of thousands, just like a fortress, the local Han people need to be protected by these military factions, and they also need to pay taxes to maintain the operation of the military factions, men are soldiers in wartime, farmers are farmers if they do not fight, and local conscription and grain are the responsibility of the supreme head of the "government".

The Shun Dynasty was only in Lingnan where the government military system was implemented.

Liu Yu remembered that when Liu Liniang helped Liu Yu arrest the party, the exchange condition proposed was that the imperial court would execute the leaders of the five major military factions in Jiangnan and the main generals under their jurisdiction, and Liu Yu felt that Liu Liniang was not from the Central Plains, but from the Lingnan ethnic minority. Liu Yu even guessed that the reason why Liu Liniang's master and apprentice would help King Huai to work was to use King Huai's strength to develop his own body, so that the ethnic minorities in Lingnan would no longer be oppressed by the Han Dynasty.

Liu Yu can understand the hatred of these ethnic minorities for the Han dynasty.

The fertile and flat land of Lingnan was occupied by the "prefectures" in the south, and the ethnic minorities had to either join the "prefectures" for a living, pay heavy taxes, and serve hard labor, or they had to migrate south to the mountains to be isolated from the outside world. In the territory of the "Fu", the population is divided into several classes, the Han is the highest, with privileges, and the Han soldiers are also the most comfortable, just like the Praetorian Guards in the Fu, which is behind when they charge into battle, and the soldiers of the ethnic minorities act as slave soldiers like death squads. And when they go into battle, in fact, their enemies are also their own people, and their compatriots kill each other, which is also a very cruel thing.

In the "prefectures" of Lingnan, there is no prevention of slave storage, so many ethnic minority people can not survive will sell themselves to the house as slaves and maids, oppressed by the Han people, although the southern ethnic minorities have resisted continuously in the past 100 years, but because of the scarcity of iron resources in the south and the difficulty of mining, and the lack of advanced iron-smelting technology in the Central Plains, the weapons of the ethnic minorities are backward, and the soldiers of the provinces have been at a disadvantage for a long time.

Although the ethnic minorities in the south were nominally the subjects of the Dashun Dynasty, in fact they had formed their own political power, and the ethnic minorities were also incompatible with the Han people.

Liu Yu guessed that the attack on Su Yan's convoy this time was either local government soldiers or ethnic minorities in Lingnan. However, if it is necessary to carry out this terrorist attack through the jurisdiction of the Lingnan ambush and some passes, even if it is committed by the ethnic minorities in Lingnan, it has nothing to do with the "government." Because Su Yan himself went to hold the power of various provinces hostage and became the "king of the south".

"Or I'm in too much of a hurry."

Liu Yu looked at the map and sighed to himself, if he waited for Lingnan to be completely pacified before sending Su Yan, he would not be sent to a dead end. Liu Yu also because the imperial court did not have the resources to fight this battle, and there was no rebellion in the local area, Liu Yue wanted to solve the Lingnan problem in a few years, but now it seems that the Lingnan problem has been put on the table. But now the problem is still - the imperial court has no silver.

Liu Yu couldn't figure out how to fight this battle.

In fact, all the provinces in Lingnan were under the rule of the imperial court, and the reason why Lingnan's unique military administrative system was formed was also the result of the imperial court's laissez-faire for many years. The heads of the Lingnan provinces also did not do anything else to be enemies of the imperial court, and if the imperial court wanted to suppress them, it would mean that they would make them enemies, which would be tantamount to asking for trouble. And if the imperial court sent troops to assist the government soldiers to level the ethnic minorities in Lingnan, it was also unknown, and Liu Yu didn't want to push the various ethnic groups in Lingnan out of the country and make them hate the Han people even more.

It is not easy to resolve the national contradictions that have been handed down over thousands of years. (To be continued......)