In Zhuti County, Qianwei County, Meng Da led more than 7,000 soldiers and horses at this time, falsely claiming to be 30,000, and stationed in the camp around Zhuti Mountain.

Now Qianwei County is basically the battlefield of civil strife in Yizhou, one side is the Xichuan forces of the Marquis of Shu, and the other side is the Nanzhong tribe of Yizhou County in the south and Qiqi County, as well as the Nanzhong tribes of Yongchang County......

The so-called "Southern Barbarian Invasion", in fact, is not an invasion, but a civil strife, most of the sources of the "Southern Barbarians" are in the map of the Han Dynasty, that is, the south of Yizhou, but the influence has not spread to the past, when the war is in chaos and the dynasty is declining, it is not reflected that this is the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Yongchang County more than 100 years ago, has not entered the territory of the Han Dynasty, but the ancient Ailao people lived in the place, more than 130 years ago Ailao King attached to the Han, although there was a rebellion, but the Han family successfully quelled the rebellion.

The so-called Ailao Kingdom is also a real tribal alliance state.

More than 100 years ago, the king of Ailao brought more than 500,000 people to the Han Dynasty, and these more than 500,000 subjects had a total of 77 Yi kings, which was very much like the feeling of hundreds of kings in the early Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The so-called king of Yi, the actual number of people who rule, is not much more than the people to be coordinated under the rule of the pavilion chief.

Later, within a few years, the next generation of Ailao kings, probably felt that they did not get any benefits, as soon as they "took up the post" began to rebel vigorously, at that time the Eastern Han Dynasty was still relatively strong, and easily quelled the rebellion, and then the remnants of the Ailao people moved westward, becoming the current Shan State, the Shan State is the predecessor of the Tang Dynasty Nanzhao State, and the Southern Zhao State is the predecessor of the Song Dynasty Dali State......

There is a big city and a famous city in the north of Qianwei County, which is also where Zhang Ren's main force is now - Jiangyang.

Jiangyang is close to Lushui, so there is another name in later generations, Luzhou.

It is not the "Luzhou" of Hefei, but the "Luzhou" of Luzhou Laojiao, and the Zhuti County where Mengda is also located now is named after Zhuti Mountain, and there is a more mountain - Niulan Mountain hundreds of miles southwest of Zhuti Mountain.

If you follow the branch of the taste of alcohol, you can know the general trend of Nishikawa's response to the Nanban now.

Now the Nanban in the territory of the real Han Dynasty is basically in Moutai...... Ah no, it is the "expensive" part of Yungui, most of the "cloud" part was incorporated more than a hundred years ago, and there is still a part that has not yet been incorporated, that is, the current Shan country.

However, it is the same as the original mourning prison, just a tribal alliance.

In the face of this kind of "civil strife" invasion of the south, Xichuan's bottom line is Lushui, and the target is Qianwei County, as for Yizhou County, Yongchang County and Qiqi County...... That's it.

Therefore, Jiangyang is the base camp of Xichuan to suppress the rebellion, and like Meng Da, he has led troops to Niulan Mountain in the south of Lushui alone, which can be regarded as deep into the enemy's occupation.

In the history without the White Rabbit effect, when Zhuge Liang pacified the Southern Barbarians, he also used Lushui as the boundary......

And Zhuge Liang did it very thoroughly, or rather...... Let go thoroughly.

From crossing Lushui to the south to quell the rebellion, half a year later, he has returned from Lushui to the north, and the whole process is very fast and straightforward - it is not good to go to Suo, after all, the disaster of the Southern Barbarians in history happened when Liu Beigang died.

If it weren't for Zhuge Liang to quickly press down the Nanban, I am afraid that Shu Han would not be at peace in the future, not only other big clans around the country would see the "feat" of the Nanzhong clan, but once the days are long, it will also mean that Prime Minister Zhuge will not be able to convince the public!

However, Zhuge Liang's simplicity is not without hidden dangers......

Why did Baitu have the technology to crush and the productivity to be greatly driven as a bargaining chip, and it took seven or eight years to subdue Shanyue before he had today's "naturalization rate", while Zhuge Liang had nothing, took tens of thousands of Han troops to the south, and subdued Nanban in half a year?

The mystery lies in Zhuge Liang's "service" but not "acceptance".

In fact, after Zhuge Liang led his troops back to the north, he did not succeed in his deeds, but completely transferred all the Han troops south of Jiangyang back.

On the one hand, the rebel army was subdued, and on the other hand, it was ...... It gave the Nanzhong clan a higher degree of autonomy.

That is, the tactical problems were solved at the tactical level, and the strategic problems were also "solved" by Zhuge Liang.

Not only was the rebel army subdued, but also because after Liu Bei knelt down, he felt that the Xichuan forces had no future, and he didn't want to die with him, and at the same time wanted to fight for greater interests, so the Nanzhong clans who were making trouble everywhere could be self-governing, as long as they handed over taxes and soldiers every year, they could be the "soil emperor" with peace of mind, even if the Xichuan regime died, they could also take refuge in the next owner, and naturally they would no longer do things.

In fact...... It's a bit similar to the bottom line that Shi Xie fought for at the beginning.

and Baitu's relocation down the mountain, building a city and becoming naturalized, is not the same road at all.

And now that Jiaozhou is also in the midst of large-scale development, Xichuan is still hesitating where to draw the bottom line in the face of Nanban.

What's more, this "Southern Barbarian Invasion" is completely different from that one in history!

Now at the tactical level, the "Southern Barbarians", as the main force of the rebel army, were driven north by the Chu State, and at the strategic level, the Nanzhong clans are now following the coaxing, mainly because the Chu goods, or middlemen, squeezed their Shu brocade, mainly Jing Yan's business.

Yizhou is not short of food, and with the "drive" of the Chu State, it does not learn from the transformation of the Chu State into people's health, that is, into meat, or to change part of the fields to vegetables and fruits...... Just blindly increasing grain production, many people in Yizhou began to break away from agricultural production, mainly concentrated in the Shu brocade and well salt industries.

Neither the tactical nor the strategic level is a problem that Nishikawa can solve.

Therefore, now Zhang Ren wants to quell the chaos, and the difficulty is much greater than that of Zhuge Liang in the original history, so he can only reluctantly suppress the influence south of Jiangyang.

After all, the so-called Yizhou Nanban is actually not the opponent of the Han army in terms of strength, but it is just a convenient location - the cost of marching and garrisoning in the "barren land" is amazingly high, not to mention miasma and plague.

The Wuxi Independent Division led by Chen Gong and Shamoke also brought a reorganized epidemic prevention military doctor, so they dared to go deeper......

However, if it really defended north of Lushui, on the well-supplied plain, the Han army still had an absolute advantage.

Zhang Ren, who is now in charge of Jiangyang, is naturally not satisfied with just "suppression", after all, he can't analyze the essence, for him, this is just a large-scale rebellion with the participation of hundreds of tribes.

That's why Zhang Ren sent some of the generals, including Meng Da, to the south of Jiangyang in batches...... At least he didn't want to give up the northern part of Yiju County.

However, the dilemma Zhang Ren is facing now is that he wants to completely quell the chaos, but there is no follow-up support, even if he wants to negotiate with the Nanzhong clan, no one in Xichuan is willing to stand up and bear this pot - after all, like Zhuge Liang, the decision to completely release is not something that anyone can do.

Let alone...... There are also people who don't want to give up the market in Nanzhong, and they want to continue to exchange low-priced salt for gold and silver in Nanzhong, and these people still have a great influence on the policies of Shuhou Mansion!

It's a pity that although Zhang Ren was very dissatisfied with some decisions and some important ministers of the Shu Marquis Mansion, he did not change his loyalty.

Counting it, Zhang Ren is still the senior brother of Zhang Xiu and Zhao Yun - all three of them are under the tutelage of the gun master Tong Yuan.

Although Zhang Ren had never met his junior brother Zhao Yun, he knew Zhang Xiu.

However, this situation did not have the effect of rebellion, and some members of the Enlightenment Department were in a hurry before, but they were recognized by Zhang Ren and beheaded to show the public......

At this time, Zhang Ren was in the handsome tent again, fiddling with the sand table in front of him, looking at his expression...... It's not in a good mood.

Soon after, someone came to report that a scout returned, and it was a scout released by Zhang Ren more than two months ago!

When Zhang Ren heard this, he immediately replied: "Spread quickly!" ”

I saw a dusty general, stumbling into the tent, and after seeing Zhang Ren, he said excitedly: "General! The last general was fortunate not to be dishonored and found the position of the Chu army! Pity...... The two brothers who went with the last general ......"

Seeing this, Zhang Ren went up and patted the scout general's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, their family, I will definitely take good care of it!" ”

In contrast, Zhang Ren's appearance is closer to Zhao Yun, and even ...... Looking at the appearance, he is younger than the rugged Zhang Xiu.

"General Xie, the last general will go deep into ......"

"Say it before coming to the sand table." Zhang Ren interrupted, and led the scout to the sand table that he had been fiddling with.

This sand table is very sketchy, because the scale is too large, and it encompasses the entire southern part of Yizhou in a broad sense, and it is impossible to carry out [www.bequge.xyz] detailed tactical simulations.

The scout stepped forward and made some changes first, moving some landmarks - after all, the sand table was actually handed down from the Chu State, and the principle was very simple, and the technology was ...... There is no technology, it mainly depends on the mastery of information!

In the past, whether it was the Han government or the Yizhou government, the survey of many terrains in Nanzhong was actually not accurate......

After first correcting one or two, the scout was far closer to Zhang Ren's expectations, pointing out the scope of the influence of the Chu State!

Many of the tribes south of the Leaky River, including the Dianchi Ze area, have begun to accept the arrangements of the Chu State.

Moreover, the leaky river is in the south of Qiqi County, and Dianchi Ze is almost the north of Yizhou County!

The area around Dianchi Ze is less than 2,000 miles away from Jiangyang and less than 1,000 miles away from Zhuti Mountain......

"What about west? How is Yeongchang-gun? Seeing this, Zhang Ren asked with a more solemn face.

"Almost all the tribes in the eastern part of Yongchang County can see the Chu people, even more so than the two counties of Qiqi and Yizhou, and the last general did not dare to go deeper." The scout general explained with some weakness.

That is, the situation in the west is even more serious, and even ...... The main force of the Chu army attacking the Southern Barbarians is going westward!

In fact, in terms of the topography of the two counties of Qiqi and Yizhou, the distance of one or two thousand miles is quite far away.

This is not the concept of "driving for half a day or one day" in later generations, but the concept of "marching for two or three months, and various accidents may occur along the way".

However, you must know that what Zhang Ren is worried about now is not the direct attack of the Chu army, but only the part of the Nanban that was "driven out" by the Chu army.

The distance of only one or two thousand miles means that beyond this distance, the southwestern departments are afraid that most of them are convinced, and some are not convinced...... They have all been driven within the range of two thousand miles.

Zhang Ren was also puzzled in his heart, how many people did the Chu army dispatch? actually stirred up this southern Xinjiang to make the barbarians go north one after another?

With so many people in southern Xinjiang, how much supply is needed? That kind of place...... How much does transportation consume?

"No wonder there are so many barbarians this time...... Thank you for your hard work, so rest well. After Zhang Renqiang calmed down, he comforted the scout, and then asked him to rest.

From the sand table, it can be intuitively seen that the original settlement of the hundreds of ethnic groups in Nanzhong has basically been swept away!

The southernmost and western Yongchang County range, that is, the place with the lowest degree of sinicization and the lowest influence of the Han family, even the scouts can no longer go deep.

Among them, the part that resisted the rule of the Chu State, after being defeated, went north one after another, and was compressed within the range of two thousand miles deep from Xichuan, colluding with the Nanzhong clans who had recently been dissatisfied with the Marquis of Shu......

Of course, if Chen Gong heard about Zhang Ren's speculation, he would definitely avenge and correct it now.

It's not that the State of Chu drove them away, the State of Chu is just developing normally, respecting the will of the tribes themselves, it's just ...... Someone takes the initiative to attack the Chu army, and it's always okay to fight back, right?

The tribes attached to the Chu State and asked the Chu army for help, they can't ignore it, right?

Chen Gong dared to say that what he did could withstand the review of the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Punishment, and there was no problem!

At the same time, even the successful experience of Chen Gong and Shamoke in southern Xinjiang is now being promoted as an advanced example to the mountainous areas of Bozhou and Yizhou, as well as Baiyue in southern Yangzhou.

In the past few years, Chen Gong has explored a set of procedures for exercising "Chuhua" in this kind of area with complex terrain and many tribes, which is difficult to be controlled by unified forces.

In addition to the independent division, Chen Gong also successively "wanted" a lot of wasteland troops from the Chu State, compared with overseas pioneers, in fact, when they came to southern Xinjiang, the wasteland army was more at ease.

Everywhere they arrived, a part of the army was stationed in situ first, and then the army of the wasteland was surveyed and developed in the process of resource development - relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to draught, digging if there was a mine, and reclaiming the land if there was a little leveling......

At the same time, the independent division continued to send scouts out, exploring piece by piece of land, trying not to conflict with tribes, and marking and replying in time.

Then, where there are tribes, they will be contacted by the professionals of the Wasteland Army, and where there are no tribe activities, they will go directly to the surveyors......

In short, it is necessary to strive for a hundred miles of vertical and horizontal units, no matter how barren and bad the land is, we must find out the "profit", even if the poisonous spring is bad, we must also analyze the composition of the poisonous spring!

For the state of Chu, although the "poisonous spring" is poisonous, it is ...... Some of them just can't be drunk, but they're all treasures.

It is really impossible to delineate the "no man's land" when no matter how the resources are calculated, and the existing conditions cannot live people, and at the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the "no man's land" must be surrounded by "development zones".

The "development zone" is developed to its heart's content, and in order to get resources in and out, it is natural to build roads as much as possible - it doesn't matter if you lose money, there are subsidies from the Chu State.

Chen Gong's thinking is very clear, one is to use the productivity advantage of the Chu State, so that the same land can "raise" more Chu troops, and even turn losses into profits.

Even if it is the same fishing, hunting, and farming, the tool advantages and theoretical advantages of Chu are obvious, and there are also advantages of group operations in the stage of land reclamation.

And there are also many resources, which are treasures for the Chu State, but useless and even a drag for the tribes in Nanzhong.

As for the tribes encountered, after initial contact, they were roughly divided into two categories - one was willing to cooperate with the Chu State to develop southern Xinjiang together, and the other was unwilling to cooperate, but was willing to coexist and trade......

In the face of the former, the pioneer army naturally cooperates sincerely, and when facing the latter, it is also very welcome, and will take the initiative to demarcate the "boundary" that does not bully people.

Tribes that are unwilling to coexist, violate borders, and vainly try to use the interests of the hundreds of tribes in the south as a stepping stone to their ambitions?

Either they were wiped out in situ, or they were forced to move north, north, and again......

As for those who are not willing to be too deeply involved with the Chu State, but are still willing or can only accept coexistence, it often takes not long to find that the surrounding area, the originally familiar "neighbors", has begun to gain far more than themselves in all aspects, and more importantly, with the same manpower, the harvest is far more than their own, and they are also open to trading......

This part of the tribe, often over time, is either transformed into cooperation or ...... Moving north, moving north, moving north......

It is true that the state of Chu has paid high subsidies, and there are few really profitable development zones, but the roads have been repaired, the prototype of the city has been built, and the people are ...... Gathered.

Some uninhabited areas that are not yet used are also ensured to be surrounded by development zones, which naturally means that there is no "peach blossom spring", and everything is gradually under control!

And if you look at it as a long-term investment, when it is narrow and rugged due to geographical conditions, at least the path that can take unicycles and carts can be repaired to the public, Nanzhong will be able to turn losses into profits.

It is much easier to develop Nanzhong now than in later generations, and even in the Tang and Song dynasties - there are fewer people, and the need for living resources is also not high.

To a certain extent, when the army is allowed to open up the wasteland, the military investment has actually been reduced under the condition that fishing and hunting are the basis for survival......

Now this set of combination boxing that Chen Gong has explored is gradually being promoted in Baiyue in the south of Yangzhou and even overseas.