After the king of Chu was in Jinling and responded to the calls of the people, the news gradually spread among the Chu state.

The originally fermented emotions finally calmed down, but the mood in response to the recruitment was still high - on the one hand, they wanted to contribute to the Chu State, and on the other hand, after the improvement of the nutritional level of the civilians and the opening of the Pan True Qi Plan, more and more grassroots generals also emerged among the civilians.

Of course, the state of Chu is also careful to control the direction of folk propaganda.

While portraying the Marquis of Shu as powerful, tyrannical, and full of malice towards the Chu State, it also portrayed the difficult life and oppression of the people of Yizhou, and even published the Yizhou caravan and Yizhou immigrants in the Di newspaper, a strong complaint against the Shu Marquis Mansion, and support for the Chu State.

Emphasizing that the interests of the people of Chu and Yizhou are the same, and the common enemy of everyone is the oppressor of Yizhou Prefecture, who is cruel and hostile to the people's yearning for a better life, and the anti-Chu forces behind it......

As for the "anti-Chu forces behind it", how the people want to understand it, Bai Tu can't control it, if it has to be said to be the auxiliary Han forces, Bai Tu will not specifically correct it.

This time, Zhang Lu's feudal marquis was rejected, and the Han court faintly showed the intention of pointing at Hanzhong, which was not completely unexpected by Bai Tu, but it did make Bai Tu vigilant.

First take the opportunity to mobilize the people's emotions, let Chu Min realize who the enemy is, and reduce the impression and potential influence of the Han family, which is naturally a convenient thing.

At least since then, it is difficult for anyone to criticize the policies of Chu with "Han orthodoxy" as the main body, whether it is the people or Shilin, otherwise...... Song Zhong is a lesson from the past.

At the same time, Yizhou is not untouchable, it is still possible to train troops along the Three Gorges, and there is also a need to increase efforts in the southern and central areas!

The "armistice" of the state of Chu was only aimed at other Han princes, and the overseas expansion, as well as the development of Jingnan and Wuling, have not stopped, and the footsteps of opening up Nanzhong from the south of Wuling to the west have not subsided.

It's just that it's not just a blind use of the means of war, to be precise...... War is the next step in the exploration.

Not to mention overseas expansion, most of the encounters are stone civilizations, and the area from Wuling to Nanzhong in the south, that is, the area from Guizhou and Guangxi to Yunnan in later generations, although they belong to Jingzhou and Yizhou, but for the barbarians, there is no clear dividing line.

Although Wulingman and Nanzhongman have different origins, they have long been mixed with each other, and they have mixed with the blood and culture of the Central Plains people, that is, the Han people in a narrow sense.

Compared with Wulingman and Shanyue, Wulingman and Nanzhongman are actually very close to each other......

Speaking of Nanzhongman, the most famous in later generations is Meng Shu, who was captured by seven and seven verticals!

There is a certain controversy about the existence of Meng Shu in history, because this name does not appear in the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", but it is recorded in the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Han Dynasty" and "Huayang Guozhi".

It is believed that it does not exist in later scholars, mainly based on the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", which corroborates the name "Meng Huo" - a barbarian king who surrendered after being captured, just in the name of "Won", which seems too deliberate.

Therefore, it is speculated that Meng Shu's deeds are likely to be pieced together by several Han Yi rebel generals, and then he took the name "Won", and named the surname "Meng" as the surname of Nanzhong University

After all, Chen Shou, the author of "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", is a native of Shu, and "Spring and Autumn of the Han Jin Dynasty" and "Huayang Guozhi" are all from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Of course, regardless of whether Meng Huo exists or not, the "Seven Captures and Seven Verticals" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms are nothing in the history books.

In the Nanban rebellion when Liu Bei died, Zhuge Liang sent troops in the spring, crossed Lushui in May, and then returned to the court in the autumn - it can be seen that the formal battle was not long, and it was impossible to go deep into Nanzhong.

Otherwise, with the scattered locations of the legendary Seven Captures and Seven Verticals, there is no time to even punch in one by one......

And in fact, Shu Han's strategy for the Nanzhong region is also completely different from the legend of "Seven Captures and Seven Verticals", according to the saying of Seven Captures and Seven Verticals, Zhuge Liang is about to penetrate Nanzhong all the way and subjugate countless tribes.

However, in fact, the Shu State did not leave any people or soldiers in Nanzhong, but took away the elite soldiers in Nanzhong, and bought and recruited warriors among the barbarians, and the rest of the ordinary soldiers were still returned to Nanzhong with the surname of the tribe......

Just wait for the people of Nanzhong to offer gold and silver, lacquerware, cattle and horses, that is, they will no longer actually rule Nanzhong, and compared with the two Han Dynasty, they have already left Nanzhong alone, in exchange for a stable rear.

The stability of Nanzhong is not so much the credit of the seven captures and seven verticals, but the effect of Shu's change of strategy in Nanzhong.

In the annotations of the historical books on the Nanban rebellion, Meng Shu is not the protagonist, and in general, the protagonists of the rebellion should be Yonghong, the leader of the Han clan in Nanzhong, and Gao Ding, the king of Nanzhongyi.

It's just that there are discrepancies in the record of the process of rebellion, one says that Yonghong and Gaoding joined forces to rebel and were then flattened, and the other is that Yonghong was killed by Gaoding, and Gaoding relayed the rebellion, and then was pacified......

And the space that Meng Huo exists in the history books is "Yonghong's subordinate", as a prestigious barbarian king among the barbarians, he took on the important task of satisfying Yonghong's collusion with various departments in the south and central.

Meng Shu was not killed like Yonghong and Gao Ding, but because he had a certain prestige in the Hanyi in Nanzhong, he was surrendered by Zhuge Liang, leaving a promise of "not going back".

In the world of Chenghime, the situation in the Nanzhong region is in line with the "various historical materials", and there are also completely different places.

The whole southern part of Yizhou, from west to east is Yongchang County, Yueshan (xi) County, Zhuti County, Zang (Zang) County, in history after Zhuge Liang pacified the Nanban rebellion, and placed Jianning County, Yunnan County, Xinggu County, collectively known as the seven counties of Nanzhong!

Counting Yizhou's Nanzhong, than Yangzhou's Shanyue, Jingzhou's Wuling, the proportion is much larger, the population of Nanzhong is not even less than Ba County, Shu County, Guanghan County, Qianwei County, the four counties of Bashu, counting Hanzhong County, the north of Yizhou has an absolute advantage in population resources.

The reason why Shu is contemptuously called Shu instead of Yiguo is also because the core of its power has always been in Bashu, and the requirements for the seven counties in Nanzhong are only to offer money and soldiers at that time, which is diametrically opposed to the Eastern Wu who "died and begged for nothing" and had to grind off all the mountains and Yueyue little by little.

In addition to the external reason that Shu Han "set the target in the north", it is also because of the complexity of the internal situation in the south and the middle!

Compared with Shanyue in Yangzhou and Wuling County in Jingzhou, Nanzhong is not only larger, but also has a smaller Han-Yi conflict and is more united internally......

The so-called Nanzhong surname, that is, the wealthy family of Nanzhong, although there is a Han cultural heritage, but whether it is the Yi people who have learned Sinology, or the Han people who intermarried with the Yi people after moving to Nanzhong, there is no one who can say clearly.

The only difference is that the leader of the Nanzhong surname, who calls himself "Han", is called the "Barbarian King", and the leader of the Nanban tribe is called the "Yi King".

Whether it is a barbarian king or a Yi king, the standard is "Han Yi co-service", although from south to north, there is also a situation that the more southern, the larger the proportion of Yi tribes, and the smaller the proportion of Han culture, and after all, they belong to the city and the barbarian respectively, but there is little difference in the interests of the Han Yi in the south.

When facing the Han people in the north of Yizhou, the Nanzhong people felt that Nanzhong was more like their own people - this was even more important than the Jingnan Hao clan.

It is precisely because of this characteristic that the Wuling Army led by Shamoke is more difficult to advance westward......

The set of helping Nanzhongban build mountain cities and assist in development can only win over some marginal tribes, and it really involves those Nanban tribes and Nanzhong surnames, all of whom are very stubborn.

According to the previous strategic layout of the Chu State, the focus of development in the south in the next five years was also to build cities and reclaim land in the southern mountainous areas of Jingyang, relying on mining to establish cities one after another, and gradually wear out the influence of the "tribes".

As for Nanzhong, it is just a natural attitude, and it is not the focus of the strategy, unless it is actively attacked, it will not use force lightly.

However, since the beginning of the third year of Chu Li, Bai Tu specially adjusted Gao Shun and Chen Gong in the past, familiar recipes and familiar flavors......

And this time, there is also the wholehearted assistance of Shamoko!

At the same time, Yiling has also begun to gather soldiers and horses, one of which is the Nanyang Army's military exploits.

If it were someone else, the other generals might have to fight, but Huang Zhong ...... Look at how old people are, and they are detached generals, and now they are still shabby with the rank of miscellaneous general, who is embarrassed to fight?

That's right!

This is respect for the old and love for the young, and it is definitely not for the future artillery company......

As for Zhao Yun...... There's not much to refute!

Since it was assembled in Yiling, it was naturally dominated by the Jingzhou army, and there was no problem with the Jingnan army being led by Huang Zhong, while Jingbei was naturally dominated by the Nanyang army, after all, the original Jingzhou Mansion elite in Nanjun had been broken up and reorganized.

Zhao Yun is also a god general, and he is also a general of Zhengbei, and he is Zhang Xiu's younger brother, and he has been stationed in Nanyang for a long time......

If you want to mobilize troops and horses from Nanyang, and the generals must be able to govern the north and south of Jingzhou, including Huang Zhong, the rest of the generals, then naturally Zhao Yun is the most suitable, even if it is Zhang Xiu, it is a little worse in comparison.

Wen Ping also served as the deputy commander of the Nanyang Army this time - before Bai Tu personally went to ask Xiang Nan to go south, with Zhao Yun as the main commander, and the other was the Jingnan Army to the west, with Huang Zhong as the main commander and Wei Yan as the vanguard - anyway, the artillery has to be recruited slowly, and Huang Zhong is idle, and more importantly, he just used this opportunity to brush Huang Zhong with a brush, and Wen Ping finally went out of the mountain to serve.

In addition, it is not enough for outsiders that Bai Tu's choice of Zhao Yun also has some metaphysical implications, after all, when Zhuge Liang entered Sichuan in history, the main generals were Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei......

However, at that time, Liu Bei was himself in the north of Jiameng Pass, all the way to attack Shu County, and Zhuge Liang in Jingzhou attacked on both sides, otherwise it would be difficult to achieve anything by relying only on this army that needs to cross the Three Gorges.

The reason why Bai Tu sent troops this time was mainly to take the opportunity to clear the residual influence of the Han family in the hearts of the Chu people, and also because the Privy Council had repeatedly expressed that the troops in various places were about to be "lazy", so they simply moved, but they didn't expect to be able to directly enter Shu County......