Southern Yunnan, Dali, Tongya City.

This place has been an important city under the control of the Duan family for hundreds of years, whether it was when Dali was founded, or later destroyed and submitted to the Dayue court, Tongya City has never left the control of the Duan family, which is their real foundation.

Even today, the power of the Duan family has declined, and even in southern Yunnan, it has been completely suppressed by the rising Mu clan, and the people here are also subject to it, and they are not subject to the control of any force except for the order of the Duan family.

Therefore, Duan Xi, the current head of the Duan family, is very relieved to leave these lobbyists from the Central Plains in the city, not afraid that they will do anything unfavorable under his nose.

As for the statement they put forward on behalf of the imperial court that the Duan family should send 30,000 troops to the Central Plains together to show their loyalty, he was even more disdainful.

Just kidding, after so many years of decline, his Duan clan has long since lost the strength of the past glory, and with 30,000 elite soldiers, he can almost empty all the defensive soldiers and horses of several state cities in his control. If it is really done according to the will of the imperial court, how can he gain a foothold in southern Yunnan, I am afraid that the Gao family Mu family will be able to lead the army to fight immediately.

Although that guy kept claiming that the two Takagi families would also agree to the orders of the imperial court and send a considerable number of troops, Duan Xi still didn't believe a word.

It is not a problem to ask the Duan clan to take out some property to befriend the so-called Dayue Imperial Court, which has developed in Sichuan and Shu. But to let him hand over all his family wealth is wishful thinking.

As for his subordinates' fears that the imperial court would use this as an excuse to send troops to fight against the Duan clan, he was even more dissatisfied.

Duan's territory is already in the westernmost part of southern Yunnan, it is really the far away of the Tiangao Emperor, thousands of miles away from Sichuan and Shu, there is also a Qianzhou in the middle, and the territory of the two families of Gaomu, he really doesn't believe that the imperial army can pass through so many obstacles to kill his own family.

So for this matter, it is nothing more than a drag, until the court envoy loses patience and turns away, and everything will return to its original appearance.

Anyway, he Duan Xi has neither ambition nor ambition, he just wants to guard his own one-third of an acre of land so that he can live his own life.

How is the court, how is the world, and what does it have to do with his Duan family?

When it comes to the unification of the Central Plains in the end, the big deal is to obediently call the minister, anyway, in a word, the Duan family only seeks self-protection, and will never get involved in all kinds of incidents outside.

Thinking of this, Duan Xi, who was leaning on the recliner and letting the two concubines beat his legs, unconsciously showed a leisurely smile, it was only right to live his own life.

But someone didn't want him to be too leisurely, and at this time, a steward strode over, and whispered when he got closer: "Master, then Guo Chong is here again, and there are two brothers, Duan Siguo and Duan Sizhou, saying that they want to see you again." ”

"Heh, I'm really not giving up, do you think that if you move these two soldiers, you can make me change my mind?" Duan Xi smiled disdainfully, "That's to let them in, so that he will be completely dead." ”

Soon after the steward received the order, the three of them walked calmly, and the first person was Guo Chong, who had not appeared in Sichuan and Shu for a long time.

As one of Sun Ning's most valued helpers, Guo Chong's original duty was to select and train a group of spies who could blend in with the barbarians from all over the world to spy on intelligence or assassinate the leaders of the barbarians who were enemies of the imperial court.

It's just that the plan failed to catch up with the changes after all, and those carefully selected capable people have not really grown up, and the previously designed secret battles have become wars with open swords and guns, and as the forces of the cities are either wiped out or surrendered by the official army, the original means of counter-assassination and assassination will naturally be useless.

After all, even the main cities of the Long clan and the Mu clan such as Kuizhou and Huayang were attacked and taken by the army, so where would he have time for Guo Chong to arrange any secret spies to spend a few months and half a year calmly arranging them?

Seeing that Sichuan and Shu had no room for their own means, Guo Chong simply proposed to Sun Ning to change his strategy and go to Qianzhou and southern Yunnan to help the imperial court open up the situation in these two places.

In this regard, Sun Ning naturally agreed, and allocated him a lot of money and manpower, so that he could clear the obstacles for the imperial court to unify the southwest.

When the imperial army continued to advance into northern Sichuan, Guo Chong led his men straight into Qianzhou, and the original plan was to meet with the most powerful people in the local area, the Long family, and then look for an opportunity to convince them.

But as a result, just after the contact, the battle report of Kuizhou came over, and the Long family over there was actually uprooted by the imperial court......

This frightened Guo Chong and the others, and they immediately fled the local area quickly before the Qianzhou Long family could react.

If this was really taken down, maybe two or three hundred of them would die under the knife of the angry Long family.

Guo Chong had already inquired and understood, unlike the Huayang Mu family and the Yunnan Mu family who drew a clear line earlier, the Kuizhou Long family and the Qianzhou Long family had a close relationship and shared the same spirit. Now that the Kuizhou Long family has suffered such a drastic change, it is naturally impossible for the Qianzhou Long family to cooperate with the imperial court anymore.

Guo Chong, who fled in a hurry, didn't want to complain about Sun Ning's side, because he knew very well that all this was for the sake of the overall situation, and compared with the battle situation in the entire Sichuan and Shu, the life and death of his hundreds of people could only be put back.

What's more, I'm afraid that the emperor and the front-line soldiers don't know that they are waiting for the Long family's territory.

Since Qianzhou was no longer good at doing anything, Guo Chong led people to continue south, straight into southern Yunnan.

Unlike Qianzhou, where the Long clan held almost all the power, the situation in southern Yunnan was more complicated, and the three families of Muduan Gao checked and balanced each other.

This was naturally good news for Guo Chong, so he spent two months traveling from east to west, visiting all three families, using various rhetoric to impress the heads of these three families and make them submit to the imperial court.

Among them, the Mu family, in fact, didn't need him to say much, he had already learned that the situation had changed from the battle report from the front, and soon agreed to return to the imperial court, and as for the other two, he put more thought into it.

Especially after the imperial court sent further requests from Sichuan and Shu a few days ago, Guo Chong only felt that things were getting more and more tricky.

Because what the imperial court wants is not only verbal submission, but even not just financial tribute, but also wants all families in southern Yunnan to send troops to Qin Wang and kill the Central Plains together, which obviously touches the bottom line of these Tusi families.

In this land where strength is honored, no one knows the importance of the soldiers and horses in their hands better than these great clan leaders.

So for many days, the Gao family was vague, and the Duan family refused several times.

However, there are some things that are not really done by one person, Guo Chong came back today, that is, he already has a new plan, no matter what, he must let the Duan family change his mind!