Liu Hou only asked about Xu Jing's situation briefly, but in fact, he didn't care much about Xu Jing's life and death. Although he has shown signs of reform in the past year or so, and has shown a very good ability to govern the local area, and has done a lot of good and practical things, compared to the losses and disasters he brought to Shu, his contributions are far from enough.

If he really wants to make a mistake, Liu Hou thinks that he will have to contribute a hundred years like this to be worthy of his mistake in revealing the secret of firearms. But he only made a contribution for more than a year before he hung up, so his little credit was far from his fault. In Liu Hou's mind, Xu Jing is still innocent, such a person will die if he dies, and he will definitely not care.

What Liu Hou really cared about was the situation of the Southern Expeditionary Army, since Xu Jing contracted dengue fever, he could foresee that the life of the Southern Expeditionary Force would definitely not be easy. His thoughts were immediately confirmed, and after Guo Youzhi finished talking about Xu Jing, he began to tell about the situation of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

At that time, Liu Hou left Fei Yi, his right-hand man, to pass through Lingnan, and he was in charge of civil affairs and diplomacy with the southern Zhuyi, and his main work was to develop production, provide military rations for the troops, and send envoys to recruit local forces.

Gao Ding, as his assistant, is responsible for military affairs, specifically, whoever disobeys will be beaten. After he cleaned up the uncontrolled local forces in Liangguang, he led his army into the Annam region, or Jiaozhou, where he continued to expand his territory southward.

That is to say, Guo Youzhi was the governor of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Annam (if Annan was also regarded as a province), while Gao Ding was the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region.

Before, Gao Ding led the troops to continue to attack to the south, and the Tu Emperor Shixie of Jiaozhou resisted at first, and later saw that the city wall was as fragile as paper paste in front of the Shu army's explosives ~ medicine, and he repeated the old trick and played the trick of surrender.

Gao Ding is a martial artist, eager to fight, eager to win more military exploits, and from his position, he does not want to accept Shixie's surrender. So he continued to attack with his army, but he had to speed up the attack while sending someone to send Shi Xie's request for surrender to Fei Yi, after all, Fei Yi is the governor, the one who can have the final say in Lingnan, whether to accept surrender or not, Fei Yi must make the decision, not him Gaoding.

Fei Yi was a humble gentleman, and he preferred to surrender without a fight, so he was particularly fond of the enemy's surrender, so he immediately sent someone to stop Gao Ding's offensive and gladly accepted Shixie's surrender.

The reason why Shi Xie was willing to surrender was because he thought that after Shu accepted his surrender, he would appoint him as the local magistrate like Wu State. Then he can continue to be the soil emperor of Jiaozhou.

After all, their family's power in Jiaozhou is very large, and it is difficult for the Central Plains Dynasty to effectively rule in Jiaozhou without the help of their family's strength.

However, because the attacks of Gaoding's army had not stopped, he had no time to negotiate the conditions with Fei Yi, so he could only hurriedly go out of the city and surrender unconditionally. He originally thought that after surrendering, he could continue to negotiate terms with Fei Yi, if Fei Yi was a smart person, he would definitely accept his conditions, after all, the reality was there.

If Fei Yi refuses to agree to his conditions, he only needs to let the people below casually agitate, and he can cause a large-scale riot~ in Jiaozhou. In this way, Fei Yi will definitely not be able to eat and walk around, after all, the crime of provoking a civil uprising is not light.

But he forgot what period it was, and he didn't know how much power and freedom Liu Hou gave Fei Yi, and of course it was impossible to know what kind of attitude Liu Hou had towards those Southern Barbarians.

This is the period of the Three Kingdoms, it is a troubled era, there are wars everywhere, fighting is the norm, who cares about the so-called popular uprising? If there is a war, it will be fought, and if there is a riot~ it will be suppressed, and the generals like to do this kind of thing the most.

Liu Hou gave Fei Yi full responsibility for the affairs of Lingnan and Jiaozhou, giving him absolute trust and the right to deal with various incidents. Not to mention that this small so-called popular upheaval would not necessarily reach his ears, and even if he knew, he would not care too much, because he had expected this a long time ago.

His attitude towards the Southern Barbarians is that if you can surrender, you will surrender, and if you can't, you will simply kill them all. This can't be blamed for his ruthlessness, but he knows that the people there are unruly and unruly, and they never lack the spirit of resistance.

In the long history, this place of Annam has always been divided and merged with the Central Plains Dynasty, and when the Central Plains Dynasty was strong, they were afraid of being beaten and killed, so they temporarily hibernated and submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty. However, as long as the Central Plains Dynasty is a little weakened and unable to take care of them, they will jump out and rebel, and they will become independent.

There have been many so-called "national heroes" in the history of Annan, except for the modern history of rebellion against Westerners and Japanese, in the long history, their "national heroes" fought against the Central Plains Dynasty.

Such things and characters appear repeatedly in history, which gives Liu Hou, who has read history, an impression that these people simply cannot surrender, they have never recognized the Central Plains Dynasty, let alone consider themselves Han Chinese.

If it's not my race, its heart will be different, for these people who can't be sinicized, you can imagine what attitude Liu Hou will have towards them. Liu Hou's attitude towards these natives was the same as the attitude of Westerners towards Indians when they first arrived on the American continent.

I want the land here, and you won't give it up, so what should I do? I can only rob it, and you stop me from robbing it, so what should I do? Then I can only kill, kill all the people, and naturally no one will stop me from occupying everything here.

This kind of bandit logic of Chiguoguo is the most common logic of the colonizers, and this brutal practice is also the most direct means of the colonizers. Liu Hou had already taught Fei Yi face-to-face and informed him of his intentions. So, don't look at Fei Yi as a humble gentleman on the surface, but he doesn't know what to think in his bones.

Fei Yi didn't negotiate any conditions with Shi Xie at all, and directly deprived him of all his powers, not only him, but even all the positions held by all the children in his family were removed. This is tantamount to uprooting the entire Shi family's power in Jiaozhou and completely cleaning up the overlord of Jiaozhou.

Then, Fei Yi ordered Gao Ding to "escort" all Shixie's family members to Panyu County under house arrest, and also called Shixie a good place to "honor". Of course, Shixie was not willing to sit idly by, and immediately incited the local people to riot~ through the huge family power.

Who knows, Gao Ding has long been ready for battle, and the army has been dispatched to kill. Unarmed and untrained civilians face a well-equipped and well-trained army, and there is no suspense at all, let alone an army with a certain number of firearms.

The Gaoding army quickly suppressed the riot~ people, killing and wounding too many people to count, only knowing that a nearby river had turned red. The people of the Shi family were almost wiped out, and this time the power of the Shi family was truly uprooted.

Of course, the Shixie family was well protected in Panyu and had nothing to do, but without the rest of the huge family, there were only a few dozen people left in their family, what else could they do?