"Hanyang Chronicles" has a saying: The cloud is in the north of the river, and the dream is in the south of the river, and the combination of the two is Yunmeng Daze.

However, with the passage of time and the drastic changes of the sea, Yunmengze, located north of the river, gradually degenerated into a swampy sandbar wetland, and finally formed a land. As for the fields south of the river, they are still preserved, and they are no longer called Yunmeng, but Dongting Lake.

Not long after Li Qianzhe's group crossed the river, there was a change in the south, and the situation in Tianmen County, which had already been asked to surrender, was repeated.

At the same time, Wang Lin's subordinate Hou Ping also led a group of men and horses into the territory of Wuling, annexing weak and wanton rampage, probably to accumulate strength and prepare to advance north.

Li Qianzhe and his entourage have not yet penetrated deep into the territory, and the situation has undergone such a change, which cannot help but make people a little worried. Before deciding on the next military action, Li Qianzhe still had a serious discussion with Xu Shipu and other generals.

"Tianmen County is located between the peaks and peaks of the mountains, only the Lishui is connected with the outside, and its territory is distributed with many barbarian cave villages, and the cave dwellings are difficult to control. Even in the old Liang period, this place is not known for governance. Although the people of Wuxi are different from the Chinese species, if they can be integrated, they can be good pawns......

Tianmen County is the location of Zhangjiajie in later generations, although it is a beautiful tourist resort in later generations, but it is by no means a good place at present, with mountains and mountains, rugged mountain roads, and many barbarian tribes in its land, and the channels of communication with the outside world are very limited.

The land passage is mostly a winding mountain path, which is difficult to accommodate a large group of people and horses, and it is a relatively convenient road to enter and exit only through the Lishui waterway, but even if it is a waterway, it is difficult to accommodate large warships to enter and exit, and it often requires light boats and speedboats. In some places, the Gulf Stream is so strong that it even requires a rock climbing detour, and boats can't move unimpeded on winter days like these.

After the explanation of Xu Shipu and others, Li Qianzhe also realized the difficulty of the task of this trip. He was originally born in Shannan Hao, so he naturally knew in his heart what the situation was in these untransformed places. The barbarians here are often risky and mercenary, and it is very difficult to suppress them by force alone, and it is not of much value.

But if left unchecked, then these barbarians will be more presumptuous, and they will gradually form some relatively large tribes within themselves, as their power grows stronger and the population increases, and when they can no longer achieve greater power development by merging with each other, they will seek external expansion, and go out of the mountains to burn, kill and plunder.

Tianmen County is located in the middle and upper reaches of the Lishui River, which flows directly into Dongting Lake, especially in the middle of the watershed that flows out of the mountainous area. If Tianmen County cannot be controlled steadily, then the entire western shore of Dongting Lake will be threatened, and places such as Wuling in the south will also become unstable.

After some thought and weighing, Li Qianzhe first led the army to camp on the waterfront, and then sent scouts to the west in a light boat, announcing along the way that the army was going to attack the barbarian rebels entrenched in the city of Tianmen County, and warned the barbarian tribes along the way that if they did not close the gate of the chaotic people and did not go out, they could avoid disaster.

Although the terrain of Tianmen County is relatively isolated, it does not mean that the barbarians do not have the need to communicate with the outside world, so there are also many barbarian tribes along the Lishui River.

After Li Qianzhe successively dispatched several scouts and continued to publicize his orders along the Lishui waterway, these barbarian tribes in the vicinity gradually learned about the relevant situation, but the reaction of the masses was relatively cold.

Although this sound was both endeavouring, the barbarians were not very interested in it, and the Liang soldiers often entered Xuanwei back then, but soon after they went, this mountain was still the original order. Now the arrival of the Xiqiang captives, it is said that they must travel on horseback, once they set foot on the ground, their legs and feet will be rotten, but looking at the mountains and wilderness, where can they gallop on horseback?

In the midst of these barbaric discussions, a few days later, Li Qianzhe led the rebel team to board the ship and march westward. Because large ships were difficult to navigate, they had to take light boats, which made the procession stretch in this channel for an extremely long time, with a distance of more than ten miles from end to end, and the armor on board was mighty, which is not often the case

The barbarians who were strong and powerful were also a big shock, and they gradually put away the banter in their hearts.

In winter, the water was dry, the valleys were winding, and the troops were swimming against the current, so the speed of the march was not very fast. Because of the propaganda sent by Li Qianzhe before, many barbarian people stood on the mountains on the left and right to watch the march of the army, but very few dared to approach and make contact, and they stayed away from these outsiders.

On the third day of the procession, it was still in a state of no one's attention, and there was no picture of eating pot pulp to welcome the king. However, in the early afternoon, due to the impact of the Gulf Current, one of the boats in the team washed up on the river beach and ran aground, and the hull of the ship was horizontal, which greatly affected the navigation of the fleet behind it, and soon caused congestion on the route.

The guards on board had no choice but to disembark quickly, and then used rope tugs to try to pull the stranded ship back into the channel, but the ship was too heavy to move for a while.

At this moment, dozens of barbarian strong men who were watching the excitement on the nearby hillside came up to help, and after some efforts, finally let the stranded ship slide back into the channel.

"Don't let them go!"

Seeing this scene, Li Qianzhe, who was on the warship in the rear, hurriedly shouted loudly, and at the same time, the crew put down the light boat and speedboat, bypassed the other ships, and personally stepped forward to deal with the matter.

When the soldiers in front heard the order, they hurriedly drew their bows and knives to surround these barbarians, and did not allow them to leave here, these barbarians did not expect that their momentary kindness would be treated like this, and they were all furious for a while, some were so angry that they screamed, and some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. As for the barbarians watching in the surrounding mountains and forests, they also shouted loudly and vented their dissatisfaction.

After Li Qianzhe arrived at the scene, he did not order the punishment of these barbarians, but ordered the soldiers to take some silk rice supplies from the ship and give each of these helpers a horse of silk and five buckets of rice.

"That's too much, it's too much!"

There are also many barbarians who make a living by being a slender man pulling a boat near the Lishui Channel, and those barbarians who jumped down to help just now did not have such thoughts, and when they saw that Li Qianzhe actually gave such a rich reward, they waved their hands again and again with joy and surprise.

"The king entered, and this township has been a new rule since then. You should be rewarded for your righteous help."

Li Qianzhe first said with a smile, and then pointed to a barbarian who came down first to help and said, "You are the leader of the group, and from now on, the twenty-mile voyage will be in your hands!"

When the middle-aged barbarian heard this, he became even more cramped, and he couldn't even say anything by waving his hand, but a barbarian next to him said, "The prince is wrong, this is a cave slave, where can he be the cave master!"

After Li Qianzhe heard this, he laughed twice, and said with a smile to the middle-aged barbarian: "Since he was made the righteous head by Wang Shi, he will no longer be a slave from now on! Who is your cave owner? I will redeem you with things, and if he refuses to allow it, then you will make him a new cave master."

The middle-aged barbarian didn't quite understand the meaning of Li Qianzhe's words, and when someone next to him came up and whispered an explanation, his eyes suddenly widened in disbelief, and after a while, he hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him under the guidance of the person next to him: "Thank you, thank you!"

Li Qianzhe knew that his first contact with the natives was the most important, and when he seized this opportunity and ordered the team to stop here, he dug the mountain and laid rocks and excavated the earth and set up a fence at a suitable place on the left slope, and the next day, a large cave cottage appeared.

The middle-aged barbarian was appointed as the cave master, and formed a new clan with the dozens of barbarians who helped tug the boat. Some of these barbarians were cave slaves of other tribes, and some were also poor, and some of their families were ransomed here, and those who were not yet married were selected from the left and near barbarians to marry.

Although there was no strict social organization within these Wuximans, there was also a hierarchy, especially the proximity to the waterways, which meant that the opportunity to contact the outside world required very powerful tribes.

The territory assigned by Li Qianzhe to this new tribe is naturally ownery, and it belongs to the tribe of thousands of members of the two tribes on the left. When Li Qianzhe sent people to contact these two tribes, their respective chiefs were also clever and did not dare to show their refusal, and each repeatedly stated that he had no objection to this.

But Li Qian

Zhe still asked the two chiefs to be invited to the boat, and said with a smile to the trembling two, "The king came to preach and educate, but it is not to harm you and others to enrich others! If you two have any requests, you might as well say them together, and as long as the demands are reasonable, I will also meet you."

One of the chiefs still waved his hand again and again, and the other couldn't help but say, "My father was killed by the Lord of the Great Cave of Kushuiling, and that tribe is thousands strong, and I can't defeat it, if the prince can avenge it, I am willing to give another piece of territory!"

After turning the corner, when the chief who made the request saw the enemy's head lying on the deck with blood, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and repeatedly kowtowed to Li Qianzhe to thank him.

When this scene fell in the eyes of the surrounding spectators, there were many sighs in their hearts. And the other chief, who had not dared to make a request yesterday, shouted loudly in his heart: "I have something to tell the prince, I want to tell the prince! I have a woman of my own who I want to offer to the prince, and if the prince is willing to accept it, I will also offer the land!"

When Li Qianzhe heard this strange request, his face suddenly darkened, and he resisted the urge to raise his foot and kick the chief off the boat, and after a while he said, "Then I will thank the cave master for the gift!"