In June of the ninth year of Jian'an, Liu Biao sent people to Wuling to find many leaders of Wuxi Man, give them money, silk, grain and grass, and make friends with them.

Wuxi Man actually does not refer to a kind of barbarian, but refers to the barbarians living on the edge of the five rivers, which are roughly divided into five tribes, namely Xiongxi Man, Zhangxi Man, Chenxi Man, Youxi Man, and Wuxi Man.

The place where they lived in later generations was Xiangxi Prefecture in Hunan Province and Enshi Prefecture in Hubei Province. It is the ancestor of the local Miao, Tujia, Yao, Dong and Gelao peoples.

At that time, the leader of the Wuxi Barbarians was not Shamoko, and Shamoke was only one of the most powerful barbarian leaders, because the Wuxi Barbarians also continued the tribal system, and each tribe had a leader, so it needed to deal with a lot.

Fortunately, the barbarians are relatively short of materials, and they can communicate well with them with salt, food, and cloth, and are even willing to send troops to serve you, so Liu Biao has already laid a solid foundation at this time.

After Liu Bei arrived in Xiangyang, he met Liu Biao and asked him for supplies. On the pretext of purchasing grain and grass and preparing blades and weapons, the army was stationed in the area of Liqiu and stayed for a while.

By July, Shen Chen had already led three thousand Huangmen troops, took Zhao Yun and Tai Shici, went south to Xiangyang, bid farewell to Liu Biao, and then went through the direction of Yicheng, Bianxian, Dangyang, Jiangling, and Xiaoling, walked for seven or eight days, and arrived at Lingyang County.

Lingyang County is Cili County of Zhangjiajie City, Hunan Province in later generations, which is still the boundary of the Han people, but along the water to the north, it is full of lofty mountains and mountains, and the reckless deep mountains seem to be submerged by an endless forest sea, which makes people unable to distinguish the southeast.

The waves are vast, and the banks are very steep, only on the left bank of the river there is an extremely narrow path that can barely walk. Led by local guides, they made their way through the mountains and arrived in the area of Lizhong Township.

This place is already deep in the mountains and old forests, Shen Chen stood on a boulder on the left side of the road and watched, and saw that on the right side was a towering mountain, with continuous cliffs, as if as far as the eye could see, and the edge could not be seen.

The forest in front of the left finally opens up, and along the high mountain all the way down, countless terraced fields have been cultivated, among which there are many houses, and it seems that people can still be seen in the distance.

"Woooooooo

The guide took out the horn, and there was a sudden reverberation in the mountains and forests.

After a while, a procession of hundreds of people came down the road, wearing black round-necked shirts and black leggings, completely different from the wide robes of the Han Chinese.

This is because the climate in the south is sweltering, so the upper body clothes are relatively loose.

The lower body should prevent leeches in the rice fields, so when farming, they do not wear the kind of shorts that the Han people cultivate, but long leggings, and tie the trouser legs tightly to prevent leeches from burrowing into the pants and sucking blood.

It is generally similar to the clothing styles of the Miao and Tujia people in Xiangxi in later generations, but there are not so many silver ornaments on the head.

Their hair is also different from that of the Han Chinese, some of them will be cut off, and they have short hair. Some are coiled up, tied with ropes, do not wear a crown, at most wear a few round winter melon ring hats, not to mention fancy clothes, but there is still a big difference from the Han people.

"Those are the barbarians?"

Tai Shi Ci watched curiously, the barbarian he imagined was the image of a broken head and red eyes and fangs.

As a result, a group of quite normal people came out, the only difference was in the dress and clothing, and the others seemed to be no different from the Han people, all with one head and two shoulders, and their skin was also yellow.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "Barbarians are essentially human beings like us, but they live in the deep mountains and have little contact with the Han people, so they have their own customs. ”

"Oh."

Tai Shi Ci felt that he had learned something new.

After a while, those barbarians came over, the leader was about forty years old, with a strong physique, and the guide introduced: "General, this is the master of the middle of the water, Lord Qin Renmeng!" ”

"Lord Qin."

Shen Chen bowed to the leader.

Jingfu means leader in Wuximan, for example, the later Shamoke should not be called the leader of Wuximan, but should be called Wuximan Jingfu.

As for adults, it was the title of the Han people for the leaders of ethnic minorities at that time, and it appeared in many historical books.

Therefore, Shamoke is called Wuxi Man Jingfu in Wuxi Man, but in the mouth of the Han people, he has become Wuxi Man again.

That Qin Renmeng is a branch of Youxi Man, who is a Chinese man, knows Chinese, and knows Han etiquette, so he arched his hand and responded: "Qin Renmeng has seen the general. ”

Shen Chen smiled: "I remember that more than a hundred years ago, there was a Qin Erjian, who seemed to be from your clan?" ”

Qin Renmeng was slightly embarrassed and said, "That's my ancestor. ”

"Oh."

Shen Chen nodded and said, "Lord Qin, the envoy of the King of Chu must have already told you about the matter last time, and now I came to gather all the elite leaders to discuss the issue of sending troops together, what do you think?" ”

Qin Renmeng replied: "This is natural, please also ask the general to come with me, we will continue to walk up the river, we can reach Yanghe Longtan, which is the residence of the Xiang people, and let their Jingfu gather the leaders of other clansmen in the surrounding countryside to discuss this matter together." ”

"Okay, thank you, Lord Qin."

Shen Chen arched his hand, the north of Xiangxi is mainly the residence of Youximan, and the object of Liu Biao's wooing is mainly Youximan, these people are scattered in Lingyang, Chongxian, Shaqu, that is, Cili, Sangzhi, Enshi and other areas in the later generations.

Moreover, the size of the tribe and the area of residence are not uniform. Like Qin Renmeng's tribe in Weizhong, the total number of tribes is only seven or eight thousand, and the available strength is only about a thousand people, but it is already a big tribe.

There are countless other small tribes, and even if you can have a little more than a thousand troops, you can count it as a large tribe, so it is still very troublesome to gather all the people.

However, it is naturally not a troublesome thing to allow for profit.

Qin Renmeng took Shen Chen all the way to the north, and continued to go north along the water, in fact, it was only more than 20 kilometers away, but everyone went over the mountains and mountains, walked for a whole day and a night, and arrived at Longtan on the second day.

When the leader of the Xiang clan heard that Shen Chen was coming, he also greeted him warmly, and according to Liu Biao's order, he immediately went to various places to gather the rest of the barbarian leaders.

It's just that the Jingzhou area in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River is in the rainy season in June and July, and it rains heavily on the second day of Longtan, which makes it difficult to walk on the mountain roads and delays a lot of time.

It took seven or eight days for the heavy rain to stop, and it was only in the middle of the next month that the weather cleared up a little.

The location of Longtan is probably in the area of Zouma Town, Hefeng County, Enshi Prefecture in the later generations, which is a small plain area in the valley, the geographical environment is OK, and there is a river called Yang River in the lower terrain, so the heavy rain will not be flooded.

After the rain, the water level of the small river in the town of Yanghe soared, because the soil erosion was not serious at that time, the river water was not muddy yellow and earthy, but blue with a little turbidity, and the environment was very good.

During this time, Shen Chen studied the terrain with Xiang Qituo, the leader of the Xiang clan, and Qin Renmeng, the leader of the Qin clan, as well as the possibility of going north from the direction of Shaqu to Zigui in Wu County.

At that time, the south of Wuling was connected from this area to the Jishou area of Huaihua in later generations, and the other barbarians of Wuxi were in the south.

But it is not easy to go north, the north is the Three Gorges, both sides of the strait are full of mountains, even later when Liu Bei was in the battle of Yiling, it was also a mountain to open the road, meet the water to build a bridge, it took a long time to go to Wuling to recruit Shamoke.

Now, it is equivalent to doing Liu Bei's opening of the mountain again, and it really needs to be studied carefully.

After waiting for the rain, two more days passed, and the leaders of various places finally arrived one after another.

These leaders are basically Youxi barbarians with more than a few hundred troops, and they can add up to four or five thousand people. After all, the total population of Wuxi Man is less than 100,000, and a single Youxi Man is not very strong.

They are strong at being familiar with the terrain.

After the leaders arrived, Shen Chen once again gave them the gifts he had brought, and invited them to attack Liu Zhang's army together.

In the tile house of the Xiang clan, many leaders agreed with smiles.

Among the many leaders sitting cross-legged, there was a middle-aged leader who was sitting behind a sturdy young man in his twenties, looking up and down at Shen Chen, who was like a river.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

Shen Chen looked at everyone and said, "The King of Chu is now rich in Jingzhou, and he is about to conquer Bashu in the west and crusade against Liu Zhang. If you are willing to serve, the king of Chu will not be stingy with rewards, and such a good opportunity cannot be missed. ”

"We are willing to follow the general."

"Yes, as long as the king of Chu can reward us with gold, silver, cloth, grain, and salt, we are willing to fight with the king of Chu."

"Our Sand Clan should go."

"Father."

At this moment, the sturdy young man suddenly said: "I heard that the King of Chu doesn't practice martial arts, can he really enter Bashu?" I've also gone north to Yufu before, and it's definitely not something that can be conquered by tens of thousands of horses. ”

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

The middle-aged leader glanced at his son dissatisfied, and in the tribe, the stronger and stronger the person is, the more likely he is to be respected.

His eldest son, who was in a strong body and already second only to him in prestige among the tribe, dared to question his decision now.

The sturdy young man looked at Shen Chen again and said, "And I see that this person is younger than me, and not as strong as me, can he really lead us to defeat Liu Zhang's army?" Fighting a war is not a child's play, once the command is chaotic, the clansmen lose their lives. ”

Shen Chen glanced at this young man in surprise, the barbarian leaders generally only value practical interests, Liu Biao promised to give them money, cloth, grain, and salt, and they would help him fight, which is the case with any ethnic minority in the Han Dynasty.

For example, the Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Qiang people, but the Han court was a little unvirtuous, and often recruited them to fight and owed their wages, which led to repeated rebellions among ethnic minorities on the northern border.

The ethnic minorities in the south are different, they are not interested in the territory of the Han people, and the Han people do not want to deal with them in the deep mountains and old forests, so except for the situation that Sun Quan and Zhuge Liang need to stabilize the rear and expand the population in order to plan the northern expedition, they will not do anything to the southern barbarians at other times.

Now this young man still has quite an idea, and he is considering whether Shen Chen can lead them to win the battle because of his young age.

Shen Chen said with a smile: "I didn't take you to fight this battle, but the uncle of the Great Han Emperor, General Liu Bei." I don't know if you have heard of General Liu's prestige, he has been fighting for many years, but he is a veteran, how can he command indiscriminately? What's more, now it's not to enter Ba County, it's just to eliminate the army sent by Liu Zhang, or to sneak attack around the rear, can't this be done? ”

"Amount"

The young man lowered his head and thought about it, but he was still a little unconvinced: "Since you are fighting with General Zuo, it is naturally different." But I heard that you are also a Zhonglang general, and you are obviously younger than me, why are you a big official? ”

"Are you not convinced?"

Shen Chen asked.

"Not convinced."

The boy replied with a thick neck.

"What's your name?"

"Sand Clan's Shamoko!"

"Amazing, amazing."

Shen Chen nodded, pointed to Zhao Yun and Tai Shi Ci beside him, and said: "This is my left and right generals, choose any one, if you can win, I will write to the King of Chu and make you a general." ”

"Really?"

Shamoko suddenly became excited.

"Of course."

Shen Chen smiled: "There is no joke. ”

"Okay, that's a deal."

Shamoke looked at Zhao Yun and Tai Shici.

The two of them are actually quite strong, and their arms are extremely long, which seems to be very powerful.

But Shamoko thought that his strength was infinite, no worse than the two, so he excitedly agreed, and his eyes were full of eagerness.

And Zhao Yun and Tai Shici glanced at each other and smiled at each other, Zhao Yun asked, "Ziyi goes?" ”

"Zilong, go, this south is wet, too hot and dry to move."

"I don't want to move."

"There you go."

Tai Shici rolled her eyes.

"Okay, I'll go."

Zhao Yun sighed and got up, living in such a humid place really made a northerner like him uncomfortable, and he didn't want to move.

And Shamoke, who was on the side, saw that the two of them despised him so much, he was furious, stood up and said: "An dare to underestimate me, I will definitely make you look good, come outside!" ”

With that, he walked outside in a huff, and his weapon, the Tribulus Terrestris, also brought it and placed it outside the door.

Zhao Yun glanced at Shen Chen and Tai Shici, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'll come when I go." ”

"I'll pour you a cup of tea."

Shen Chen poured a cup of hot tea for Zhao Yun with a bowl, and the tea came from the south, and there was a large amount of wild mountain tea in the Wuling Mountain area, which the locals used to boil water to drink.

Zhao Yun touched the cup, it was a little hot, and said, "I'll come back and drink it later." ”

As he spoke, he walked out.

Many leaders were about to go out to have a look, but Shen Chen stopped them and said with a smile: "You don't have to go out, they will come back in a moment, let's continue to talk about sending troops." ”

After chatting for less than a minute, Zhao Yun came back, and when he touched the tea bowl, it was still hot, so he blew it and drank two sips.

Seeing that Shamoke had not returned, the leader of the Sand Clan hurriedly said, "What about my son? ”

"Lying on the ground."

Zhao Yun smiled: "But don't worry, leader, I didn't hurt him." ”

Many of the barbarian leaders were stunned for a moment.

Shamoko was the strongest barbarian in the young area, and it was terrible that he had been beaten down after fighting with the general's retinue for less than a cup of tea.

For a while, everyone was even more convinced, no wonder the King of Chu would send a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy as a general, it seems that people do have a true self.

I didn t expect someone to post a book review on high blood pressure, saying that Liu Bei relied on conspiracy and trickery to seize Jingzhou, and asked Liu Biao for things, but in turn, he wanted to take away other people's foundations. Have you read a book with your brain? Liu Biao himself wants to be the emperor, but Liu Bei and the protagonist persuaded him?

He doesn't call the emperor, Liu Bei won't oppose him, he claims the emperor, he loses his morality, why don't he rebel? It's just because the protagonists have seen through the fact that Liu Biao will be the emperor, and some people say that Liu Xie is Dong Zhuoli's, isn't this funny? Liu Xie is the son of the real emperor, is Liu Biao? You first figure out what righteousness is, Liu Bei reluctantly lost righteousness when he seized Yizhou, if Liu Biao was called emperor and Liu Bei seized Jingzhou, Liu Bei would be the one who occupied the righteousness.

Sometimes I really have blood pressure when I see you post such ignorant book reviews, of course, you can also say that since you know that Liu Biao wants to be the emperor, why doesn't the protagonist oppose him? I would like to ask, is it useful to oppose when a person's ambition is inflated? Didn't anyone object when Yuan Shu was called emperor? Does he listen? So when you are questioning, please take the trouble to see if the logic written in my book is correct, don't use your modern three views and God's perspective to look at the three views of the Han Dynasty, is it okay?

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