"The wild geese of Hengshan County have begun to fly south at this time, right?"

Lingnan is still hot in mid-July, standing on the Yulin Tulou, Zhao Tuo is looking up.

Zhao Tuo's hometown is in Zhending County, Hengshan County, which was originally the territory of Zhao State, according to the fact that his family is also surnamed Zhao, a few generations ago, eighty percent of them were still the Duke of Zhao State, but they have long been estranged, and the clan is not big or small, at least there is an ancestral tomb.

When he was young, Zhao still ruled Hengshan County, but at the age of fourteen, Zhao died.

His family is more knowledgeable about current affairs, in the year when Qin Shi Huang sent Wang Jian to destroy Yan, he gave Zhao Tuo Nasu early, got a knighthood, and let him enlist in the army, and then participated in the battle to destroy Chu......

Needless to say, Zhao Tuo is more than thirty years old this year, and in the blink of an eye, he has been in the south for more than ten years, right?

He really wanted to return to his hometown, but he suffered from the king's fate and had to stay on the front line for a long time.

But he thought to himself: "However, I heard that the Central Plains is not stable, there are more and more thieves, and the situation is obscure, so it is not a bad thing to stay in the south for the time being and hold the military power......

Even so, Zhao Tuo is still homesick from time to time, his parents have died, the graves of the second elder and Kundi are all in Zhending, and I don't know if the people of the clan are cleaned on time?

He had heard that the geese in Jizhou began to fly south in July and August, and when they flew to Hengshan County, it was already the spring of the second year, so they could only stay for a few days, and they had to turn around and fly to the north......

"This place, even the geese from my hometown will not patronize it."

Zhao Tuo looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see a goose, sighed, turned around and went down the tulou.

came down, but found that Lu Jia was already waiting for him, and when he saw Zhao Tuo, he hurriedly came over.

"General Zhao, the banquet has been prepared, and the prince asked his subordinates to invite you to the feast."

"How dare you let Mr. Lu greet me." Although he is not very interested in Confucianism, Zhao Tuo is still polite to Lu Jia, who made him a hot staff member around Changnanhou?

Zhao Tuo is a smart man, and he knows very well that the "brotherly" relationship with Changnanhou is his greatest political capital. If it weren't for the recommendation of the Marquis of Changnan, how could Zhao Tuo, who was only in his early thirties, defeat many competitors and become the general of the Western Route Army?

Therefore, this relationship must be kept close.

When he entered the first floor of the tulou, Zhao Tuo found that this so-called feast, in addition to the soldiers of the guards, was actually just him and Heifu......

"It's a pity that Wu Rui is not here, otherwise the three of us brothers would have a chance to get together."

Heifu was very enthusiastic and asked Zhao Tuo not to be formal, and to come and sit nearby.

Zhao Tuo and Heifu sat opposite each other, only three steps apart, and said with a smile: "Don't hide it from my brother, although the three of them are brothers, my brother and Wu Rui really can't get along, and they are still close to my brother." ”

"Don't say this kind of life, Wu Rui helped me level the Mei clan and Minyue, and you also made a great effort to attack Xiou, and you and others are my right-hand men."

Heifu raised his hand, and everyone close to him knew that he was left-handed, and he smiled and whispered: "Of course, you are the left hand, Wu Rui is the monarch of Ganyue after all, and there is still a layer between him and us." ”

Zhao Tuo said: "Thank you, brother!" ”

The dining room on the desk is a little simple, and Heifu said: "There is no ding, no beans here, you can only use banana leaves as a plate, and use wooden pottery as a bowl, don't dislike it." ”

"It's the same in Guilin, how can my brother dislike it."

"The food is also made locally, I don't know if you dare to eat it."

Heifu smiled mysteriously, clapped his hands, and the cook came up with the dishes, and Zhao Tuo saw that in addition to the common fish and shrimp, there were snake soup and yellow eels fried in hot oil after slicing.

As for the roasted food, it was a few skewers of grass sparrows with their heads and claws removed!

These things, the people of the Central Plains will never eat them, Zhao Tuo looked at Heifu's head, because of Yangshanguan's hair, the hair that has not yet recovered, and quipped:

"Brother is dressed like this, and then he eats these foods, he looks like a Yue person."

"You, the 'Barbarian Great Elder' of the Nanyue Kingdom, are you embarrassed to talk about me?"

Heifu secretly complained, but his mouth was down: "I was not used to it when I first came, the local food, only lychee, longan suits my taste, you know, I love sweet." But in Panyu, the South Vietnamese people do not ask about birds, beasts, insects and snakes, all of them are eaten, and Yu Chu does not go down the throat, and can also eat a little recently...... What's the matter, are you really afraid of eating too much and dying with barbarism? ”

"That's not it, I'm in Guilin, and I don't eat less."

Zhao Tuo thought it was funny, the Hou family of Changnan was worthy of planting sugarcane, and when he came to Lingnan, he had just pacified Nanyue, so he sent people around to look for wild sugarcane, and when he met sweet, he sent it back to Nanjun, and Zhang Luo opened a plantation in Panyu.

"You can eat more of this flower."

Heifu enthusiastically asked the cook to give Zhao Tuo a skewer of roasted birds:

"Chen Wuyi said, this thing should have an aphrodisiac effect, I can't eat more, my wife is not around, you are different, after all, I just married an old daughter of the Ou people as a concubine, virtuous brother, you are taking Lingnan as your home......"

When Heifu said this, Zhao Tuo was shocked and immediately stopped chopsticks:

"I haven't told my brother about it yet."

"I don't have to explain, I understand."

Heifu smiled, his news was still very well-informed: "Brother Xian's considerations are the same as mine, the Qin army has been stationed in the local area for a long time, and if you want to gain a foothold, marriage is naturally indispensable, and you are a model for the lieutenants in the army." Thanks to your marriage with the Ouren tribe above the pond, this river is peaceful for more than 100 miles......"

It turned out that in the year when Heifu rectified the rear and attacked Minyue and South Vietnam, Zhao Tuo was not idle, he used Guilin as a base, and obtained the support of Changsha County through the transportation of Lingqu, so that the defeated Qin army restored its combat effectiveness.

Then, he sent two more troops, built a ship in Guilin, and reopened the water channel to Cangwu along the Lishui (Li River), and supported the Qin army, which was besieged by the Xi'ou and the South Vietnamese buffalo department, and then established contact with Panyu.

Speaking of which, when Heifu arrived in Cangwu half a month ago, he also found an old acquaintance, Chen Ying, a native of Dongyang County, Donghai County, who was forced to be his guide during the war to destroy Chu. Chen Ying was already old, but now even gray hair has been born, the whole person is a little gloomy, it is said that he has been like this since he was defeated in the rainforest, it has been two years, and he still has a shadow on the forest, hiding in the fortress, and he is reluctant to go out to patrol when he is killed.

Another offensive route of Zhao Tuo is to personally take thousands of people to go to Gushui, enter Tanshui, and successfully make the Ou people along the Tanshui surrender by marrying the daughter of the local elder, and establish a stronghold in the "Tanzhong" (Liuzhou).

It can be said that although it was Heifu's fortress tactics that defeated the Ou people, Zhao Tuo also won half of the Ou by himself.

But even so, Zhao Tuo still felt that his credit was not enough, not enough to serve as the head of a county after the war......

What he expects most is to be able to serve as a county guard when he sets up a county in Xiou! Like when Heifu was in Jiaodong, he was in charge of the military and political power!

But the current merits and titles, at most, as a county lieutenant, may be transferred out of Oudi......

With no soldiers in his hands, it was inevitable that he would be uneasy, so Zhao Tuo immediately asked Heifu for battle:

"My brother hasn't done enough, now my brother wants to kill Luo Yue, and Zhao Tuo is willing to lead my brother!"

From Yulin to the west, it is the upper reaches of Yushui, which can reach Nanning, the capital of Guangxi in later generations.

When they got there, it was almost the boundary between Xi'ou and Luo Yue, and the Ou people near Yulin fled and migrated to the west, treating Luo Yue as the last refuge like in the first war.

War is inevitable, attacking Luo Yue is the last chance for mixed military merit, and it is also the best opportunity for Zhao Tuo to benefit himself!

Unlike the last war, with Heifu's steady and steady fight, Zhao Tuo was full of confidence in defeating Luo Yue and winning the war.

But Heifu didn't plan to let Zhao Tuo go to Luo Yue, if this guy was promoted again, it would be difficult to control......

"Luo Yue, that is the place where General Tu died, how can you let the virtuous brother be in danger again?"

He said to Zhao Tuo earnestly: "You have to guard Guilin, besides, there is something for you to do for your brother......

"Dare to ask my brother, what's the matter?"

Heifu didn't answer, and suddenly changed his words and pointed to the sauce on the table: "How does this sauce taste?" ”

Zhao Tuo was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly dipped his index finger in a little to taste, slightly sweet, very fresh: "It's not bad......"

"Do you know what kind of sauce this is?"

"Brother doesn't know."

Heifu revealed the mystery: "It's wolf sauce, the wolf sauce from Shudi!" ”

He got up and said, "The wolf tree is like a mulberry, and its tree is two or three inches long, and it tastes sorrel." Take it in fact thought that sauce, beautiful. The Shu people thought it was precious, and this thing also sold well in Nanjun, but when it came to Changsha, it was very rare. ”

"But this jar of wolfberry sauce was found in Panyu, South Vietnam!"

Zhao Tuo frowned: "Shuzhong is far in the southwest, and there are thousands of mountains and rivers in South Vietnam, how did you transport it?" ”

Heifu said: "I also think this matter is suspicious, so I sent someone along the Yushui all the way to ask, the sheep department said that it was sold by the buffalo department, and the buffalo department said that it was obtained from Xiou, and Xiou said that it came from the upper reaches of the warm water, and there were Yelang people trafficking in the Qiqi River......

"Yoro?"

Zhao Tuo was a little surprised, but he hadn't paid attention to it.

Heifu said: "However, it is one of the twelve departments of Baiyue Zhubu, the Daoqi River migrated into the northwest mountains, and now has established the Yelang country, in the southwest Yili, only Yunnan and Yelang are the largest, Shu County is through Yelang, and Yelang is through Nanyue, relying on the Kejiang River." ”

"Brother Xian, what I want you to do is to send a team of people to march along the Qiqi River to explore the road to Yelang while garrisoning Guilin and pacifying the local Yiyue."

Exploring the path is much less credit than participating in the final battle, Zhao Tuo secretly complained and asked, "Brother wants to attack Yelang?" ”

Heifu shook his head: "Of course not, now that Luo Yue is not destroyed, how dare he make enemies again?" ”

"It's just that we are in a remote and foreign land, and there is nothing wrong with having one more way to connect with the Central Plains. By the way, send someone to hold the head of Ou Jun and recruit the Yue people above the cool water, and say that the first evil has been punished, as long as they surrender to the Qin Dynasty, the territory, the people, and even their sacrifices, gods, can be kept for generations, and Qin Junqiu has not committed any crimes! ”

Walking to Zhao Tuo's side and holding his shoulders, Heifu smiled: "I want to concentrate on dealing with Luo Yue, and I will finish my work in one battle, and there must be no Ou people from elsewhere to disturb me!" Virtuous brother, protect my right wing, this matter, I will leave it to you as a brother! ”

……

"The geese from Hengshan County generally stop at Hengshan and Changsha, and they will not easily cross the Lingnan mountains, and once they come, it is not easy to go back."

The next day, standing on the earthen building and seeing Zhao Tuo return to Guilin, Heifu suddenly said such a sentence.

Although he is commensurate with Zhao Tuo as a brother, Heifu does not plan to let him make great achievements and take charge of the army independently, and send him to explore for a period of time with the matter of Yelang......

What's more, who to send to fight this battle, Heifu already has a plan!

At this time, Lu Jia came over and waved at Heifu.

"Junhou, the beautiful text you want, the subordinates have written it!"

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PS: In the tomb of the king of Nanyue, there are indeed more than 200 decapitated flowers.