In history, Zhuge Liang's southern expedition was to give Liu Chan a table in January, requesting troops, formally leading the army in March, killing Gaoding in April, crossing Lushui in May, pacifying Meng Shu in July, and completing the attack on other Nanzhong Yi kings in September, and then spent three months dividing the four counties of Nanzhong into six counties, installing Taishou candidates, teaching Yi people farming skills, appeasing the people of Nanzhong, and finally officially returning to the dynasty in December.

In other words, the so-called battle of Nanzhong, in fact, Zhuge Liang only fought for half a year, and the remaining half a year was the time to prepare and pacify the place.

Yes, Zhuge Liang in history pacified Nanzhong, it was so fast.

The quelling of the Nanzhong Rebellion was not a very difficult battle in history, so it was generally mentioned in the history books, if it wasn't for Zhuge Liang mentioned in the "Teacher's Table", this counterinsurgency may not be recorded in the history books.

In addition, the so-called "Seven Captures and Seven Verticals", in fact, the original text of the "Three Kingdoms" is not recorded, and the historical books of the same era are rarely mentioned, only the "Spring and Autumn Period of the Han and Jin Dynasties" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Xi Chisel Tooth, and the "Huayang National Chronicles" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty Chang Xuan are recorded, and were later cited by Pei Songzhi as the annotation of the "Three Kingdoms".

Although there is a juxtaposition of the two evidences, according to the tradition of historiography, most people agree with the statement of "seven captures and seven verticals".

But because Zhuge Liang's pacification of Nanzhong was too fast, especially from the first time he caught Meng Shu and released him, to pacify other Yi kings, there was only two months in between, Zhuge Liang wanted to "capture and seven verticals" Meng Shu as written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the geographical span involved was too large, and it was too late in terms of time, so this historical material was still questioned by many people.

It's just that Luo Guanzhong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it took a lot of space to describe this Nanzhong Campaign, and even the opponents and locations of the "Seven Captures and Seven Verticals" are quite clear, which leads many descendants to basically think that the "Seven Captures and Seven Verticals" written by Luo Guanzhong is a historical fact.

But now, Zhang Xi feels as if he has found another explanation of "seven captures and seven verticals".

"Seven Captures" must be fake, but "Seven Verticals" may be true If Zhuge Liang also thinks the same as himself, let Meng Huo be the leader of the party.

Zhang Xi discussed with Meng Huo before, one should lead the way with the party, and the other should make a show to clean up the barbarian king, although he has never "captured" Meng Huo, but he did "indulge" Meng Huo five times.

If you count the Mulu King of the White Horse Division, then there is really only one so-called Ugo King Vulture Bone left, and the "Seven Verticals" index will be completed immediately.

Of course, Zhang Xi also inquired with Meng Huo, and in the Nanzhong region, there is no Ugo country, no vulture bone king, and no vine armor soldiers.

Rattan armor is a kind of armor often used in the tribes of the wealthy clan in Nanzhong, but that is also because the skin-making methods of the Nanzhong people are rough, and they can't make leather armor at all, so they have to use local materials and use the toughness of rattan to act as a temporary battle armor.

It's just like the fact that most of the natives in Jiangdong and Shanyue use bamboo armor.

Since it is temporary, of course, it will not be soaked in oil, and the production process will not last for more than ten years, and there is no function that can carry people on water.

In the southern and central regions, there is oil, but it is basically tung oil, and the output is quite scarce, and it is not enough to make fuel for ignition, how can it be used to soak rattan armor.

Therefore, this Ugo country does not exist, Zhang Xi thinks that after defeating this Mulu King, he can suspend the army and enter the stage of governance in Nanzhong.

Therefore, Zhang Xi had to urge Meng Shu to take his wife and subordinates to the "Silver Pit Cave" to join King Mulu and continue to be such a glorious leading party.

But Meng Shu was not happy to go.

This time on Yang Feng's side, he has been tied up and sold by Yang Feng, which shows that Meng was the "disaster star" during this time, and even the Yi people have strengthened their vigilance against him.

It is not necessarily that he has seen through the identity of Meng Huo to lead the party, but wherever Meng Huo fled, the Han people chased him wherever he went, and it is also a fact that King Mulu is not a stupid person, how can he still welcome Meng Huo?!

And if it goes on like this, Meng Shu feels that he is also very dangerous.

This time, it was Yang Feng who gave face, and it was also to curry favor with Zhang Xi, so he captured Meng Huo and his wife alive and sent them to Zhang Xi's camp, but in case King Mulu felt that it was not interesting enough to do this, he directly cut off the heads of Meng Huo and his wife to ask Zhang Xi for credit, what should I do? !

It's too dangerous.

Therefore, Meng Shu felt that this kind of risky behavior of leading the way was probably done, and if he continued to do it, he would really be in danger.

Zhang Xi is not very easy to persecute Meng Huo, after all, Zhang Xi really wants to cooperate with Meng Huo, not to force Meng Huo to die, since he is not willing to go, then let's not go.

A white horse tribe is just a tribe that is good at raising horses, Zhang Xi didn't think about how difficult it was, so he asked Li Hui if he was interested in leading troops to recruit this tribe.

After all, in the future, the transportation of copper mines can be pointed to this tribe to help raise horses, but it can't be sloppy, whoever can establish a good relationship with the leader of this tribe will be able to occupy the majority of the future transportation industry in Nanzhong.

It's also a money-making deal.

Li Hui's eyes suddenly lit up quite cooperatively, and he was about to agree on the spot, which would make Meng Yu anxious.

Does your Li family have connections to contact King Mulu?!

King Mulu is the third nephew of my wife's cousin, and to some extent, my Meng family is a cousin.

This matter must be done by me Meng Shi, and I don't need to use swords and soldiers.

Li Hui just smiled, and didn't think about competing with Meng Huo. Zhang Xi has already agreed, and the water transportation of copper ore will be handed over to the Li family.

And the most important thing is that Zhang Xi promised Li Hui that when Nanzhong was pacified, when he stepped down as the governor of Ku, he would recommend Li Hui to Liu Bei as the successor governor of Ku.

Li Hui is already very satisfied with these conditions.

Besides, there is really no connection between the Li clan and the White Horse Tribe, and if the Li clan wants to recover the White Horse Tribe, it will inevitably kill and injure some clansmen and soldiers, but these people will be an important manpower for the Li clan to control the family's copper mine in the future, and they can't be wasted so easily.

Therefore, Li Hui just helped Zhang Xi fight the ambush, and calculated that Meng Huo, a guy with brains, but his brain capacity is obviously not too high.

And Zhang Xi doesn't care whether he sends troops to conquer the White Horse Department, as long as the White Horse Department is willing to help him raise horses and provide stable Yunnan horses to help, whether to send troops to conquer or persuade with interests, Zhang Xi actually doesn't care.

It's been almost half a year since he used the soldiers, and Zhang Xi didn't want to hurt the soldiers anymore, so it was better to fight as little as possible.

Therefore, Meng Huo took his wife, in the name of visiting his cousin, to persuade the King of Mulu in the White Horse Department to establish a horse breeding base.

Before leaving, Zhang Xi remembered that Meng Huo's daughter was still in the army of "Guan Suo", and proposed to let Meng Huo take her daughter back.

But Meng Shu was not in a hurry at all, and said that this time he went to persuade the White Horse Department to surrender, the danger was unknown, so it was better to let his daughter stay where she was, and wait for them to come back smoothly.

Although Meng Huo does not have much great wisdom, his small abacus is a jingle sound.

Zhang Xi will leave Nanzhong sooner or later, and once Zhang Xi leaves Nanzhong, without Zhang Xi's suppression, then the Jianning Li clan will definitely soar into the sky, and the power pattern of the surnames in Nanzhong will change a lot at that time.

Especially the Meng family, after all, it was a rebellion, if Li Hui deliberately suppressed the Meng family, there would not be many people on the side of the Meng family in Nanzhong.

And there can't be too close ties between the Meng family and the Li family, at least Zhang Xi won't want to see this, and Liu Bei in Chengdu won't want to see it.

Meng Shu and Li Hui are well aware of this, there is no possibility of cooperation between the two, and they can only maintain a competitive relationship in order for their family to survive in Nanzhong.

But Li Hui has an official identity after all, and this time he is firmly on the side of Liu Bei's group, so if he wants to fight against Li Hui for a long time, Meng Shu must also find a backer for himself.

There was no way before, Meng Huo even thought about going to Chengdu to be an official, leaving Meng Yan to fight against Li Hui, but although Meng Yan was smart, he lacked some courage, and it was difficult to fight Li Hui.

Now it's okay, Meng Shu has found a good way to marry Zhang Xi.

Let his daughter marry Zhang Xi's disciple, and the two families will form an in-law relationship, so that they have a backer in Chengdu, and then stay to fight against Li Hui, which is not only in their own interests, but also in line with the ideas of Zhang Xi and the king of Hanzhong.

Therefore, Meng Shu was not in a hurry to let his daughter come back at all, and even asked Mrs. Zhurong to write a private letter to Hu'er, asking her to find a way to settle Zhang Xi's disciples, and it was best to get some "human life", and turn back to play on the topic.

Meng Shu is very confident in this.

With his daughter's appearance and charm, he has been in Zhang Xi's disciple camp for almost a month, and if he hasn't taken down the other party like this, it will be too useless.

Nanzhong woman is bold and amorous, do you think she is joking?!

It's just that Meng Shu made a mistake a little bit here.

Zhang Xi didn't tell Meng Huo about his disciple's name, just to comfort Meng Huo and tell Hua Huo that he was doing well in his disciple's camp now.

As for Meng Shu, he didn't know who Zhang Xi's disciple was, but Meng Huo thought that with Zhang Xi's identity and status, his disciple must be the main general in the camp.

So in fact, after receiving a private message from her mother, although she was very ashamed of her parents' crooked idea, she was not particularly resistant to the crooked idea itself.

After all, "Guan Suo" is really handsome.

(End of chapter)