Cao Cao promoted the imperial court, and when he gave Bai Tu the title of marquis and the award of Jiuxi, he also did not have a good idea.

The title is still "Marquis of Chu" - Chu, although Yangzhou also has some areas, which used to be the territory of Chu in the pre-Qin period, especially after the destruction of Wu, most of Yangzhou did belong to Chu State, but ...... The core part of the Chu State is still present-day Jingzhou, especially the area around Jingbei.

Yangzhou is in everyone's impression, that is, "Wu Land", and Jingzhou is "Chu Land"!

Although Bai Tu has not yet accepted Jiuxi, he has been knighted by the Marquis of Chu, and it also represents the Baicao Alliance, which has been initially established, and Yuan Shao has gathered troops after spring ploughing and is preparing to go south to the Central Plains.

Cao Cao is "fiddling" with the relationship with Liu Bei - attacking Liu Bei at this time will undoubtedly fall into Yuan Shao's arms, and now that Liu Bei has been in charge of Xuzhou for five or six years, it is impossible for Cao Cao to take it down in a short time.

However, Cao Cao was not very at ease, so he invited Liu Bei to enter the court, and hoped that Xuzhou would also send troops to resist Yuan Shao's pressure.

Bai Tu was a single-minded westward march to attack Jingzhou......

At this time, the two routes that had been finalized to enter the Jing army were to attack Jiangxia along the Yangtze River and Nanyang along the Huai River, that is, one south and one north, one water and one land to bypass Dabie Mountain.

Chen Gong proposed that in fact, there was still an army available - south of the Yangtze River, between Jingzhou and Yangzhou, separated by Mufu Mountain, Jiuling Mountain, and Luoxiao Mountain......

The mountains are steep, and it is impossible to use soldiers, and the terrain needs to make up for the "death stranding" in the brain.

However, continue to go south, that is, the land of Wuling or Nanling, the early Qin and Han dynasties called the mountainous areas in the south of Chu Land "Nanling", but now it refers to the land of Wuling.

Although the five high ridges were stretched, it was only the inconvenience of the army's transportation, and it was difficult for the cavalry to march, and it was not completely impossible to send troops.

To the south of Wuling is the "Lingnan" area, which is now Jiaozhou.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo was divided in Lingnan, subdued the local Yue people, established the country of Nanyue, and only regained it when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up the Jiaozhi Department - there was no state pastor at that time, "Ministry" refers to the Department of Thorn History, and the Thorn History only has the right to picket, and the administrative level of Cochin is lower than that of the state, but there is also a "Thorn History Department", until a few years ago, the nine counties of Lingnan were divided into "Jiaozhou".

Now the Shi clan has won the hearts of the people of Han and Yue in Jiaozhou, although the resources and population are limited, and it is not enough to forge ahead, but both Bai Tu and Liu Biao are not interested in this meatless hard bone.

Chen Gong's Third Route Army did not go to Jiaozhou, but wanted to go to Wuling - if you draw a map at this time, Wuling is considered to be between Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou, but ...... In addition to coloring, the three have no control over the depths of the Five Mountains, where there is not even a county seat, and the barbarians are mainly entrenched.

It is better to call it Shanyue or Wulingman, in short, if you march normally, you have to pass through many ancient Yue and Wulingmanian tribes, and it is almost across the core area of the barbarians.

Forcibly use troops, and before you see the enemy, you have to fight with the barbarians first......

Among the Shanyue people captured by Zhang Ling before, there were already real barbarians - that is, barbarians who "turned into barbarians" through Yue Ji.

Although they are not the barbarians of the ancient Yue tribes in the depths of the Nanling Mountains, at least they are really related to the Shanyue people, not ordinary mountain people!

For the Nanling barbarians, Jingzhou is called "Wuling Man", because Nanling belongs to the south of Wuling County in Jingzhou, and it is called Shanyue in Yangzhou.

In dealing with the southern barbarians, the Han Dynasty has always implemented the monarchy system - recognizing their internal chieftains, and then governing these barbarian tribes by subduing and tendering their chiefs.

The Daqu Shuai on Shanyue's side is called "Zong Shuai", and the Daqu Shuai of Wulingman is called "Jingfu", which is much the same.

In fact, there are agricultural activities in people's livelihood, but because they live in the mountains, fishing, hunting and gathering are also important supplementary means while farming.

Structurally similar to the slavery system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the chieftain had supreme power internally, with the difference being that he embraced violence, and many tribes had the custom of supporting individual courage to seize the chieftaincy.

Compared with the Han people who are purely agricultural and civilized, they are more brave and ruthless, and the most important thing is that they are familiar with the environment of the mountains and forests, and they are adapted to the mountains and forests as their main field...... Not only was the Han army unable to form a formation when it entered, but it was just a miasma of mosquitoes, so it went to half of its combat strength first!

Therefore, everyone before had assumed that this piece was "blacked out" - it was impossible to march and there was no need to think about it.

However, from Zhangling County before, Shanyue went out from time to time, repeating the rebellion, being captured, and taking care of food...... After the operation, Chen Gong thought of a "good idea".

Isn't Shanyue short of food?

It would have been possible to clear and drive them away, hire them with food, and at the same time build up an army of prisoners of war, and drive them westward with both soft and hard measures.

To put it simply, it's a tiger and a wolf......

This is the Third Route Army!

However, in the end, Chen Gong's suggestion was not adopted by Bai Tu, on the grounds that whether it was food employment or violent expulsion, there was no guarantee that the destructiveness of the Shanyue march would not get out of control.

However, Chen Gong obviously did not give up, and brought Bai Tu up the matter again.

"The problem that Bai Gong is worried about is indeed a negligence before...... However, it can be changed slightly, and Shanyue advances westward to Wuling, with Wuxi as the boundary, as long as Shanyue and Wuling are barbaric...... Communication. Chen Gong said.

That is, to instigate and coerce Shanyue and Wuling Barbarians to kill each other, and our army followed behind and attacked the four counties of Jingnan - with the technical support of the medical school, without worrying about the barbarian attack, our army should be able to cross the Nanling and enter Jingzhou.

However, Bai Tu also shook his head: "Whether it is Shanyue or Wulingman, although it is very different from our culture, if you take the initiative to make trouble, you will be killed and captured, naturally you don't need to be soft, but ...... In order to fight with Liu Biao's princes, instigating barbarians to slaughter each other is not even more barbaric than barbarians. ”

"It is also the way of the benevolent to attack the weak and to take the chaos and insult the dead!" At this time, there were no outsiders, and Chen Gong did not back down.

Chen Gong is talking about the content of the "Book of Shang"—that the behavior of "the strong merging the weak, the civilized attacking the ignorant, and the annexation of the chaotic and dying countries" is just.

Etiquette and civilization are to be faced, and war must be famous, and the role of this article is to put it bluntly...... It is to provide an excuse that can be used as a reason when there is really no reason to find it.

"Attacking the weak is not about bringing destruction and pain to the weak." Bai Tu still shook his head.

"But it can reduce the casualties of our soldiers." Chen Gong said solemnly.

When Bai Tu heard this, his eyes moved slightly......

"A certain person is willing to set up a military order to send an envoy to the Guyue tribe in Wuling, and try his best to persuade them to surrender to Wulingman."

Bai Tu was silent.

"If there is disharmony, you can lead the army to supervise the battle with Wenyuan and Zhongda."

Bai Tu was silent.

"The barbarians in the mountains are also Han people, and the generals borrowed the road, so they should cooperate, which is reasonable."

White Chart ...... After hesitating, he said: "Remember your words, the reason why you have a position for them to give way and get out of the way is because they are also Hermes-Epitek, and since they are Hermes-Epitek...... is also in the list of military regulations, and I will not give Nanling this road army any leniency in military regulations. ”

When Chen Gong heard this, he said with a smile: "Don't worry, Bai Gong, Gong remember." ”

"Also...... Tell them that not only the conditions for going down the mountain before remain unchanged, but also for Yue Ji, he also promised to build a city and worship him, as long as he abides by the law and respects the law, and does not force Yue Ji to be sinicized. Baitu added.

"What do you mean by the so-called building of the city?" Hearing this, Chen Gong asked with some doubts.

In fact, in the world of Chengji, the main contradiction between Yixia and Xia is here......

Those so-called Yue Ji and Hu Ji exist as "tribal Ji" and do not enter the system of "Cheng Ji" of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, even if the tribes that return to the Han Dynasty, their tribes are responsible for the dispatch of manpower and material resources, and when they are most "well-behaved", they are also those who are marshals and masters, who pay an annual sacrifice for the Han family, and these people will not enter the origin of the city concubine.

At the same time, one of the things they resisted the most was to merge the tribal Ji into the Han family, obviously ordinary tribal members were tantamount to the slaves of the chieftain, and the oppression of the people was much greater than that of the Han family's officials and local tyrants, but they all felt that without the protection of their own tribal Ji and clan marshal, the Han people would kill them and feed the whole family to the dogs......

"For specific matters, we have to discuss with the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and in recent days, we have come up with a general charter, in short...... When you are on an envoy, you should first pay attention to your own safety, and secondly...... Remember, whether it is the Yue people or the Wuling Man, they are also Han people......"

Chen Gong was a little impatient—didn't you just say that? Again? However, when he heard Bai Tu remind him of safety first, his heart was still a little warm.

However, seeing Bai Tu's expression, he changed slightly, stepped forward a little, and whispered: "In other words, they are also protected by the Han Law, if someone treats ordinary Han people as cattle and horses, how can we abandon them?" They need to be made aware of the benefits of obeying the law. ”

"Bai Gong means ......" Chen Gong seemed to think of something.

"Pay attention to the scale, those people are difficult to reason, sometimes it is harder to gain trust than to destroy their bodies, but I hope you can solve the problem in a more difficult way." Bai Tu said.

That's right, for ordinary barbarians, Bai Tu doesn't believe it, and they are so violent that they would rather be slaves in the mountains than ordinary Han people who are well fed and clothed...... Figure what? Just because of temperament?

Bai Tu doesn't believe that this is called "unruly and untamable", it is nothing more than two reasons, a small part of the reason is the mutual exclusivity of the two sides, and most of the reasons are ...... Or on the "monarchy system".

The reality is that Shanyue and the barbarians trust their chieftains more, and what these chiefs care more about is whether they can continue to be free and occasionally rob.

Sometimes it's not Bai Tu who tells Yamagoe in the empty words that your life will be better when you come down, and people will believe it.

At the time of the Civil War, the Southern army was still full of serfs and cannon fodder, and only the officers were white......

It's so easy to explain the reason clearly, then you don't have to fight, let's fight together, okay?

The Han family understood that this truth did not make sense, so they simply used a simple method - directly recognized their "monarchy system", and the so-called "grace" and "reward" were also directly given to the chief.

Chen Gong understood Bai Tu's meaning, although he didn't say it explicitly, and he couldn't say it now, but in fact, he wanted to write about the monarchy system, and his mood suddenly became complicated - convincing Bai Tu and pulling up the Third Route Army was a happy thing for him, but it was just ...... Bai Tu, this is a problem!

However, on the surface, Chen Gong was still full of confidence and made a military order, and then he would take Zhang Liao to support Gao Shun.