Zhu Zhuozi wrote back to ask for Yang Yan's opinion and asked how to deal with this matter. At present, the handling of this matter in Banzhou is divided into two factions, and the main battle faction believes that Luo Ru's daily life and death of the people and arbitrary oppression are unforgivable. If it is not punished, it will inevitably lead to the imitation of other tribes, which will lead to the collapse of the trade order of Miaojiang, and it must be made to compensate for the losses, and if it does not comply, the army will be overwhelmed. The Lord and the faction believed that the Dong tribe was powerful and the roads were difficult, and it was a futile matter to send a large army. It is not a problem for Luo Ru to stick to the village for a year and a half. Once the food and grass are insufficient, the crusading army will have to return in vain. It is better to turn a blind eye to this matter, cut off all contacts with the Dong tribe, and adopt an economic blockade against them.

Yang Yan is a smart person in Bingxue, and she knows that Zhu Xuanzi's letter is actually Banzhou asking for Ouyang Xuan's opinion. There are two advantages to dealing with this matter by private letter instead of an official letter, one is that it is afraid that the time of the letter will be exchanged has already been decided, and if it disagrees with the official opinion of the Perak Army, it will not be a shame on the joint meeting. Second, Banshu decided to return the favor to others in the name of Nanyang Company and retaliate with economic sanctions. Luo Ru did not say that the robbery was committed by the mountain people, so it was natural for Nanyang Company to repay the blood debt. "A tooth for a tooth" is in line with the customs of Miaojiang and will not arouse the disgust of the rest of the tribes.

Ouyang Xuan thought about it while reading the letter, and Zhu Zhuozi also attached the information of the Dong tribe at the end of the letter. This Dong tribe has a radius of 100 miles, and there are more than 200 large and small cottages, with a total of more than 50,000 people. There are more than 2,000 people in the Luo Cottage where Luo Ru lives, which is the largest village in the tribe, and it is about 300 miles away from Banzhou City. Although this Luo clan cottage is not as steep as Hailongtun, it is also easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is easy to defend with the more than 200 barbarian soldiers under Luo Ru. Zhu also mentioned that Luo Ru's robbery of the caravan did not receive popular support, and even his steward Luo Chau opposed his actions. Luo Su was an upright and prestigious person, and he repeatedly admonished Luo Ru for his illegal acts, which made him quite unhappy. Luo Ru's exhortation completely annoyed Luo Ru, and he whipped him and expelled him from the stockade.

Reading this, a familiar name suddenly popped out of Ouyang Xuan's mind: Luo Min! After thinking for a moment, he remembered who Luo Min was. In the Battle of the Three Crossings, a Miao Jiang soldier who followed him was very eye-catching, especially agile in climbing the city wall, and throwing grenades very accurately. In between the battles, Ouyang Xuan had chatted with him for a few words, and learned from the half-baked Chinese that his name was Luo Min, and his father was the butler of a tribal leader in the Luodian Ghost Country, called Luo Suo. Hearing this name at that time, Ouyang Xuan was still secretly laughing at the strange name, so he was a little more impressed. At that moment, he ordered someone to go to the staff headquarters to check Luo Min's files.

Ouyang Xuan attaches great importance to fine management, both in production management and in military management. Unlike other Song soldiers who only had a simple roster, the Perak Army created a file for each soldier, detailing everything from height and appearance to place of origin and resume, and direct blood relatives such as parents naturally also recorded. After a while, the feedback from the archives came back, and Luo Min, a soldier in the second battalion, was indeed the son of Luo Suo, a Dong tribe. At that moment, Ouyang Xuan sent a fast horse to cross the water three times, and quickly brought Luo Min to Chongqing Mansion City.

At this moment, Ouyang Xuan already had a strategy to deal with Luo Ru's robbery of the caravan, so he told Yang Yan. His idea was for the Banzhou Army to send elite and special companies of the Perak Army to send people to disguise themselves as caravan guards and arrive at the border of the Dong tribe. Here, the caravan turned back the way it came, and the soldiers of the Banzhou elite and special companies broke up and went to Luo's cottage to bring Luo Ru to justice in a surprise attack. As for the guide and inner response who led the way, it was Luo Chau and Luo Min father and son. In view of the popularity of Luo Chau in the tribe, Ouyang Xuan also suggested that he should be appointed as the new leader along with the Banzhou side.

Yang Yan nodded while listening, and from time to time reached out to scratch Ouyang Xuan's nose, which made him inexplicable. Yang Yan looked at him looking around left and right, and laughed even more. It turned out that she was laughing at Ouyang Xuan, who usually looked like a loyal man and a gentleman, but unexpectedly, she was full of tricks and knew how to tempt people with interests. If the action is successful, Luo Ru will naturally no longer be able to be the leader of the tribe, and the vacated position will definitely make Luo Su and Luo Min's father and son excited, and they will naturally help each other. Naturally, the leader of the Raiders will get closer to Banju and the Thunderbolts, which will not only provide a more stable environment for the caravans, but will also make it easier for the Thunderbolts to obtain the mineral resources of Dali.

Dali is extremely rich in mineral resources. Ouyang Xuan's impression was that there were not only iron ore in Panzhihua, copper ore in Dongchuan, but also an old tin mine in this land. More than 100 miles southwest of the Dong tribe is the boundary of the Dongchuan Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Dali. The amount of copper ore contained under this piece of land that made Ouyang Xuan's mind was extremely large, and if it was in his pocket, it would greatly promote the industrial production of the Thunderbolt Army, especially the problem of lack of copper in guns and ammunition would be solved. Due to technical limitations, Dali has only mined superficial copper ore at present, the output is not high, and the price is extremely expensive. What's even worse is that after the Mongolian army occupied Dali, it was forbidden to export copper, and the Thunderbolt army couldn't buy it if they wanted to.

After Luo Min arrived at Chongqing Mansion, Ouyang Xuan personally summoned him, accompanied by Huang Dagen and Yang Bangxian, one of these two represented the official of the Perak Army, and the other represented the Banzhou side. In fact, what Ouyang Xuan said himself, Luo Min would definitely believe it, but after all, this is not a private matter between Ouyang Xuan and Yang Yan, nor is it only a business matter of Nanyang Company, but a major matter related to the strategy of Banzhou and the Thunderbolt Army. Allowing Huang Dagen and Yang Bangxian to participate in the meeting is only to ensure the seriousness of this matter, but also to let Luo Min understand that the Perak Army and Banzhou will be his strong backing.

Ouyang Xuan told Luo Min that after punishing the culprits and accomplices in the robbery of the caravan, the Perak Army and Banju would assist him in stabilizing the situation and train a standing army of 300 men, whose weapons and equipment would be provided by the Perak Army. At the same time, it will also increase its support for its tribe and support the development of its economy, and its ranking will be second only to Banshu. In addition to providing military support, the Thunderbolts will also send a technical management team of industrial and mining, agricultural technology and commerce to guide the mining and iron-making and manufacturing of agricultural tools and cold weapons. If conditions permit, the Perak Army will set up the first Confucius Institute in Miao Jiang in Luo's Cottage, making it an educational, scientific, cultural and health center for the surrounding tribes.

For Ouyang Xuan's promise, Luo Min was naturally grateful. Although he has been in Chongqing Mansion for less than half a year, he has been deeply touched. He knew in his heart that the main reason why the Thunderbolt Army was so strong was not because of the abundance of natural resources in this land, nor because the soldiers were strong, but because of the sharp firearms and advanced technology. And all this has to come down to education and scientific culture. He believed that with the help of the Perak Army, his people would be able to eat well, wear warm clothes, and no longer be bullied and harassed by the Barbarian tribe.

On the second day after the conversation, Luo Min returned to Banzhou on the caravan's speedboat, accompanied by Yang Yan's guards, who had now been transferred to the caravan's guards.