Time has come to March in the blink of an eye, and it is the time of peach and willow green. During this time, Ouyang Xuan has been in a good mood, all because everything is going well inside and outside. From an external point of view, after the Mongolian army suffered in Sandushui, they turned their plundering and harassment operations to the direction of Jiading, while Cao Zhizhou, although he still made small moves, he had already restrained and low-keyed a lot. From an internal point of view, Perak has prospered in various industries of military industry, agriculture, commerce and trade, especially the production capacity of military factories has been greatly improved, and the large-scale military training after the expansion of the army has also been vigorously carried out, and the research institute has also made progress in new gunpowder, penicillin, gun machine tools, microscopes, and primitive steam engines.

On this day, Ouyang Xuan and the staff of the research institute were busy with a chemical experiment, stretched a long lazy waist, and turned their heads to look out the window, only to see the river sparkling in the sun, and the peach trees on the river embankment outside Fucheng were full of flowers, and suddenly had the idea of going to Rootless Mountain with Yang Yan. There is a testing ground for hazardous chemical explosions in Wugen Mountain, and Ouyang Xuan often goes there to conduct tests. He knew that the sunny Rootless Mountain was a good place to go out. At that moment, he went from Hexin Island to the headquarters of the Nanyang Company in Fucheng, preparing to find Yang Yan to ride a horse together. After arriving, Ouyang Xuan walked directly into Yang Yan's room without waiting for a report, but saw her with a sad face. Seeing Ouyang Xuan coming, Yang Yan threw herself into his arms regardless of the people around her and said, "Brother Xuan came just in time, I just wanted to go home and talk to you about something."

According to the agreement, Nanyang will be owned 50% by Perak Army and Banzhou Yang. After Ouyang Xuan and Yang Yan got married, Yang Wen was worried that his baby daughter would have a hard life, so he took half of Yang's shares as Yang Yan's dowry, and entrusted the other half of the shares to be operated on his behalf. Although Yang Yan only holds 25 percent of the shares in Nanyang Company, she holds control of half of the shares, and in addition to her status as Ouyang Xuan's wife, she shares the interests of the Perak Army, so the military-government joint meeting authorized her to be responsible for the specific operation of Nanyang Company.

Ouyang Xuan also hesitated in his heart about Yang Yan being in charge of Nanyang Company, but in the end he did not object, because Yang Yan was the best candidate regardless of whether it was public or private. In Ouyang Xuan's vision for the future, Liuqiu will be responsible for the development of North and South America, which the Thunderbolt Army officially calls the Bison Continent and the Alpaca Continent, while Nanyang will be responsible for the development of the vast area between Southeast Asia and Australia. Australia is officially known as the Kangaroo Continent by the Thunderbolts. Nanyang is in its infancy, and its current operations are limited to Banju and the surrounding Miaojiang. Yang Yan as the person in charge obviously has great benefits to Nanyang's business development.

Although Ouyang Xuan and Yang Yan are affectionate, because things on both sides are extremely complicated, they don't spend much time together on weekdays, and sometimes they can only meet once in two or three days, so that Yang Bangxian joked that his brother-in-law and sister regarded their home as a guest house. Because there are fewer gatherings and more separations, Ouyang Xuan and Yang Yan rarely talk about official affairs when they are together, but more to exchange feelings, or to discuss the continuation of the next generation. In other words, Ouyang Xuan has no intention of having a child at present, this is mainly because there are too many things, and he is afraid that having a child will make the anti-Mongolian cause stumbling. Yang Yan doesn't have much opinion on this, because she is often too busy to keep her feet on the ground.

After listening to Yang Yan's words, Ouyang Xuan knew that he couldn't go to the rootless mountain. It turned out that what made Yang Yan sad was the troubles of Nanyang Company. According to Zhu Zhuozi's letter, a caravan of the company was robbed by a group of bandits of unknown origin at the junction of Miaojiang and Dali, and in addition to a large amount of salt, porcelain, and farm tools, more than 10 people were killed and wounded. According to the tripartite agreement, the Miao tribe had an obligation to protect the caravan in the territory, but the leader of the Dong tribe in the place where it occurred did not care about the matter, but claimed that the caravan was treacherous and cunning, which caused the anger of the deceived mountain people to seek justice. Zhu Zhuozi, who received such a response, was angry but helpless, so he had to consult with the head of Banzhou Tian and sent someone to investigate secretly.

This investigation is not tight, it turns out that the robbers are not Dong mountain people but brute soldiers of the tribe, and the mastermind behind the scenes is its leader Luo Ru. The general Miaojiang tribe does not have a standing army due to the poor land and poor people, but integrates farming and warfare, and works as soldiers in weekdays and wars. It's just that this Dong tribe borders Dali, and the barbarian tribes of Dali often clash because of the competition for mountains, forests and grasslands, and there are tens of thousands of people in this tribe, so they can barely afford to raise more than 200 barbarian soldiers. Luo Ru relied on his brute soldiers to suppress the opponents of the tribe, and over time he became the local emperor of the tribe, and these barbarians also became his personal soldiers.

Although he relied on these minions to say nothing in the tribe, it also brought trouble to Luo Ru - where did the money come from? Although there are tens of thousands of Dong tribes, because they are in the stage of slash-and-burn cultivation, there are so many fields and mountains and forests every year, and it is really difficult to feed these more than 200 people with good food and drink. To add insult to injury, Luo Ru married another wife this year, and the previous five wives had already given birth to more than a dozen children for him, and this year he added a son and a daughter. Naturally, the new family members can't be treated badly, and the barbarians under their command can't go unfed, and it's impossible to squeeze the cottages - last year, the two cottages were armed to confront each other because of taxes. He thought about it and came up with the idea of robbing the caravan of the Nanyang Company. It's just that this thought is like a small flame in the wind, drifting and flickering in his heart.

There are risks associated with robbery, especially the robbery of the Thunderbolts and the Banshu Army, none of whom are easy to mess with. Not to mention the ferocity of the Banzhou army, the firearms of the Thunderbolt army are even more powerful, and Luo Ru was terrified when he thought of what Hailongtun saw. In the end, it was two people who made Luo Ru settle down. The first person was the envoy of Dali, who came to appease him on the order of Wuliang Hetai stationed in Dali. After Yang Wen took advantage of Ouyang Xuan and Yang Yan's wedding to join the alliance with the various tribes in Miaojiang, the Mongolian army did not sit idly by, but frequently sent people to appease the tribes in an attempt to disintegrate the achievements of the Banzhou Alliance. It's just that all the tribes knew about the wolf ambitions of the Mongol army and didn't pay attention to the Mongols' wooing.

Unlike the Thunderbolt Army, which "taught people to fish, it is better to teach them to fish", focusing on long-term interests and benefiting ordinary people, the conditions of the Mongols were much simpler and more rude - directly giving gold and silver to the chieftain, which made Luo Ru very excited. With the money given by the Mongols, he was able to marry more wives and have more sons. It's just that the money of the Mongols is not taken in vain, and the premise is that there is a petition for the name - to attack and kill the Banju army or the Perak army. If he really went to attack the two armies, he wouldn't dare to borrow a hundred dares from Luo Ru, but Luo Ru still felt that it was feasible to secretly use the caravan to open the knife.

The second is a tribal wizard. In Miaojiang, the role of a sorcerer is to communicate with the heavens and ghosts, and to exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases, and he is the second person in the tribe after the chief. This wizard also participated in the Banzhou Alliance with Luo Ru, and what frightened him the most was not firearms, but the scientific and technological knowledge of the Thunderbolt Army. He understands that as long as the contents of the tripartite agreement on education, science, culture, and health are implemented, and once the people's wisdom is opened, the people will no longer be ignorant, and the trick of fooling people will inevitably not be able to continue. When the time comes, if you don't believe what you say, no one will be willing to worship you.