In the fifth year of the Chu calendar, the chaos overseas spread back to the Chu State, and there were also waves in the Chu State itself.

After some uproar, the court of Chu also unified their opinions and targeted the culprit - the Marquis of Shu!

The first division of Wancheng, which was originally preparing to withdraw from Yizhou, killed a horse gun again, and did not wait for the envoy of Shu to ask, the state of Chu had already sent an envoy first, and the visitor was not a bystander, it was Deng Zhi, who was outstanding in the first imperial examination, and was valued by the Ministry of Rites for his arguments.

However, from the level of the envoy, it can also be seen how much attention the Chu State attaches to - no matter how prominent Deng Zhi is, he is only a young man in his twenties now......

Although Liu Zhang was annoyed that Chu Guo broke the contract, he still received Deng Zhi "warmly" in the city.

This time, both Zhang Song, Zheng Du and other Xichuan virtuous ministers did not instigate Liu Zhang and put forward any contradictory opinions.

After all, the current situation in Shuhou Mansion, or Xichuan, is indeed a little bad......

In the south of Yizhou, the southern and central barbarians have gone north to make trouble, and even if there is no Chu State to make trouble at this time, the Marquis of Shu is already anxious.

As for Nanzhongman's sudden attack, it was not because of anything else, it was the "indoctrination" of Chen Gong and Gao Shun in the past two years, and the export of Chu to the Shu Marquis Mansion in the past two years, which had achieved results......

Chen Gong and Gao Shun, together with the great leader of Wuximan, who is now the commander of the Wuxi Independent Division, Sha Moke, traveled from the south of Jingzhou to the south of Yizhou to preach Chu learning.

The situation in the south of Yizhou is similar to that in the south of Jingzhou, where they are all Han and Yi people, and many Han people are also half-Yi and half-Han...... It is that the depth of the southern and central regions is greater, and the barbarian forces are more complex.

Because there is no unity, "big" does not mean "strong", just "complex".

However, just like Jingnan, every time the so-called Southern Barbarian Rebellion occurs, there is no simple ethnic conflict, and it is basically the big clans in the south of Yizhou who take the lead in doing things!

The situation of this large-scale Nanban Rebellion was somewhat different......

The reason for the chaos, in fact, is the indirect reason is that the actions of the Wuxi Independent Division of Chu State have squeezed the living space of some barbarians!

In the place where Chu Xue crossed to the west, simple cities were built - there were no tall city walls, but only demarcated settlements, places where traffic permitted, and even workshops had been opened......

However, it can't be said to be smooth!

Just a "traffic permit" is already a very demanding requirement in Nanzhong.

There are natural reasons why the southern and central regions have not been completely integrated with the Central Plains culture for thousands of years......

Judging from the census news sent back by Chen Gong, in the entire Nanzhong region, the mountainous terrain accounts for eighty and a half, and one percent is plateaus and hills, and there are proper "people in the depths of the mountains".

Not only can the fields be cultivated, but they are all very scattered, especially many of them are sloping fields, and it is difficult to develop animal farming and true qi cultivation......

And because of the complex terrain, it also leads to a complex and changeable climate, which can be called "a mountain divided into four seasons, ten miles of different days".

Drought deaths due to frequent droughts and waterlogging are lands with very low "qualifications" for the development of agriculture.

If you want to rely on shipping?

Even in later generations, the mountainous area is also a difficult area to build roads, not to mention that the white map only points out cement, and there is no oil for refining asphalt......

This also makes the urbanization of Nanzhong more difficult than imagined - after all, there is no way to rely on agriculture to be self-sufficient, or to be able to easily obtain food from abroad, and if you only rely on the "gift of nature", the scale of settlement cannot be too large!

The hard disk of Baitu is not a panacea, and in the face of this situation, the only thing that helps the hard disk is an article about the ranking and distribution of crops in the southern province of Caiyun.

When it was discovered in later generations, corn, potatoes, and rubber trees accounted for a large proportion of the crops planted in the south of Caiyun...... And these cannot be counted on for the time being.

The other is japonica rice and rape...... Or rather, brassicas.

Brassica was originally not popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty, known as "Hu Cai", generally in Youzhou, Bingzhou Hetao, and even Hexi and other places, these Qiang, Di, Xianbei people are planted in the area.

For the sake of the dietary nutrition of the Chu people, Baitu ordered the Ministry of Labor to study which areas are suitable for cultivating various vegetables, and then the Ministry of Civil Affairs was responsible for popularizing them, and now it has achieved a small effect, so there are many places in Chu State to plant brassica in the gap between the original fallow.

In addition, cash crops are more popular, such as sugarcane, tea, traditional Chinese medicine, mountain fungi, and tobacco, which is also not available now.

And in terms of minerals, Nanzhong is undoubtedly a very superior region in the Chinese civilization.

During the Three Kingdoms period in history, Nanzhong was rich in gold and silver......

In general, Nanzhong is not suitable for an agrarian civilization, especially a small-scale peasant economy - if you want to be self-sufficient, then the cost performance of cash crops will also be extremely low, and the self-sufficiency series of rice, wheat, mulberry and hemp ...... The planting efficiency in Nanzhong is very impressive.

Therefore, if you want to transform this place into a small-scale peasant economy, it is not something that Shennong essence can solve, which is why Nanzhong has long been influenced by Chinese culture, but it has never been completely merged.

If Chu wants to solve this problem, it has one more advantage than the previous Han Dynasty, that is, it has basically abandoned the small-scale peasant economy, as long as it builds a way out, and improves the cost performance of cash crops in Nanzhong, as well as superior mineral resources, it can completely rely on trading to "suck" the daily needs.

Compared with the industrialization of later generations, the biggest advantage of the Chu State is now...... Nature is the population!

The entire Chu State has a population of more than 10 million, and the Han Yi in the southern and central regions is only one million, so it is completely possible to concentrate the limited population in a few areas where the transportation is "more convenient" and the land is "more suitable" for farming, and there is no need to compete with the mountains that are too remote and too deep.

Otherwise, if it is ten or a hundred times the population, and then want to transform, it will be even more difficult!

However, even so, there are many people who don't buy "Chu Xue" accounts, even if Chen Gong, Gao Shun, and Shamoke's fists are big enough, there are also many tribes who uphold the attitude of "can't be provoked and can hide", and continue to migrate north.

This is also the reason for the "Nanban Rebellion" in Yizhou......

As for the main reason, many big clans in the south of Yizhou are taking the opportunity to fan the flames and even raise anti-flags.

Because of the continuous influx of "Chu goods" in the past two years, and the Hou of Shu as a "dealer", the Shu brocade and well salt industry, which is the foundation of the Yizhou clan, has been greatly bruised!

Even if Liu Zhang accepted Zhang Song's opinion and divided this part of the benefits, it was ......

These big families are not small storefronts - the skewers next door are cheap, and we go directly to the next door to buy them? What about the stringers?

A small store can dismiss the string workers, but under these big families, there are so many mouths to raise, but it is not pure "commercial interests" that can be made up for if they are big enough!

Therefore, even if Chu State does not move now, Liu Zhang is already anxious.

Since he can't be tough, he can only greet Deng Zhi well......