As the old saying goes, the world is not chaotic before Shu is chaotic, and the world has been decided. The meaning of this sentence is that when there are signs of chaos in the world, it is often the first chaos in Shu, and when the world is stable, it is probably the last in Shu to settle down.

The reason is that the peaks around Shu are the most difficult to overcome, once the terrain is occupied, it will be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the situation of Shu is also the same for expanding to Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou.

Whenever the Central Plains regime declines, the southwest will definitely be in chaos! At the end of the previous dynasty, the Taiping Kingdom rose up, and Hunan was almost completely submerged in the Taiping army.

However, the Taiping army and the rebellious people were not completely wiped out, but with the rebellious army hiding into Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou, they became bandits and bandits, and there were even rebels who formed a party and started an uprising.

The whole territory of Hunan Province was once occupied by the Taiping State, and it was the most important object of care for the regimental training camp, and when the regimental training camp in Xiangxi was prepared, it began to invest troops to suppress bandits and eliminate the chaotic people, but in a few years, the folk customs of Hunan changed greatly.

These bandits, who were much smarter than the government, were not completely exterminated, but continued to flee to the southwest border area, or fled directly into the 100,000 mountains, or stayed on the border between the two provinces, and ran wherever the control was relaxed, so that the officials and soldiers were exhausted, and they lost interest in suppressing bandits.

Huayuan County, Songhua County, Xiu'an County belong to the Sichuan, Hunan and Guizhou borders, these areas are surrounded by mountains and rivers, there are many people in the village, the people are fierce, and it is also the most rampant area of bandits.

The political courts of the three provinces all understand that if you want to suppress the bandits, you have to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, you only have to pay your own territory, maybe all the bandits will run over to take refuge, and when they relax, they will come back to make trouble, disturbing the people and consuming energy and not pleasing them, so no one wants to take over the hot potato.

From the end of the previous dynasty to this time, but in the past 20 years, the Sichuan-Hunan-Guizhou border area has been the ancient road has not existed, the people's hearts have been drowned, and there are as many as 100,000 bandits in several nearby counties.

"Hundreds of thousands, isn't there a bandit in every family?" Ordinary county seats, with a population of up to 50,000, and even fewer people in border counties, if all the bandits are over 100,000, then it can almost be said that every family has become bandits.

"Sister, you're right, the situation here is very similar to Han County, a boy who reaches adulthood sees that people take the ocean to rob the village and go home, but he only takes a few hundred copper plates after a year of hard work, and he knows how to choose, whether it is for the future or not want to be poor, being a bandit is already a good way out."

"They are not ashamed to be bandits!" After Ren Peacock finished speaking, he paused, and carefully introduced the geography of the three counties: "Tudong Town is located at the junction of Taohua, Xiu'an, and Huayuan counties, and is divided into three by the Qingshui River in the middle, with Jiangxin Island as the midpoint, and the nearby crotch fox mountain, crested mountain, Funiu Mountain, and Laolongkou are distributed nearby. ”

"In the past, there were bandits to steal and steal miscellaneous, and then the three provinces wanted to let the bandits fight inward, these bandits were afraid that the three counties sent troops from here to crusade also had rules, only robbed the three counties outside the three counties, not within the three counties, including Tudong Town, but settled down, and spent many years of peace in the border where bandits were rampant." After speaking, Ren Peacock took out the earthen map: "If we want to go, in order to avoid bandits, we can't go by land, turn from Dongting Lake to the Yuan River and Youjiang River, and then cross the Huayuan River and Qingshui River in Huayuan, you can go directly to Tudong by water, although the process is a little slower, but it is relatively safe." Song Siyuan looked at the ancient map, which was brown and yellowish, tens of thousands of peaks were marked with names, and there were countless water veins starting from Dongting Lake, like a fine water net woven into the green mountains, and the route they were going to take had been marked with red ink, and they could go directly along the waterway to the Tudong, and they didn't even need to get off the boat halfway.

"So, when are we leaving?"

"Wait for some more!" Ren Peacock paused, and his tone became mysterious: "Out of Yueyang City, you will reach the bandit realm, you wear this clothes into the mountains, not to mention taking the waterway or flying into the sky, those bandits who kill a thousand knives also have to be beaten down, at least change the clothes into the regular clothes of the common people, and then dress up as a pedestrian into the mountain, the more unnoticeable the safer." ”

"What I'm waiting for is those corpse chasers in Hanzhong!" Ren Peacock's words, Yue Guanchao was a little weak-hearted, thinking of a few corpse chasers he met in Yangquanyi, but he didn't expect to meet again.

"What are they waiting for?" Yue Guanchao was clearly weak-hearted, and let the peacock see through it without saying anything, and explained: "There are a lot of people in Xiangxi who go outside the province, and once they die in a foreign country, they will return the corpse to their hometown, and the corpse chaser does this line, Xiangxi people are very respectful to the corpse chaser, and they are willing to give face, and walking with them can be regarded as a care, and then we can disguise ourselves as salt merchants and merchants, so it is convenient to act." ”