But fortunately, Du Qi, Li Xun and others all know more or less about the etiquette of the Han family, of course, this kind of thing cannot happen to them, and for the rest of the Ba generals and leaders, Li Xinchen is like a god-like existence, for Li Xinchen, they have always been very smart to choose to stay away.

After all, gods are not to be offended.

But he also had to admit that it was more pleasant to really talk like this.

Du Qi smiled and said: "The prestige of the general has spread to Nanzhong, and the subordinates only mention the general's name, and many Nanzhong tribes have heard of it." ”

Li Xinchen was stunned for a moment, and then understood that this estimated that he still had to rely on the caravan of the Xiajiang Tang Clan. In recent years, the Xiajiang Tang clan has grown rapidly, and after all, the Xiajiang Tang clan is on the territory of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it is difficult to have too many direct business contacts with Nan Chen, so the Xiajiang Tang clan naturally aims at the north and south, which also makes many Xiajiang Tang clan's caravans go deep into the 100,000 mountains of Nanzhong to do business with those Nanzhong tribes.

In this way, the Nanzhong tribe naturally does not know anything about the outside world as Li Xinchen imagined, especially Li Xinchen's deeds in Bashu have spread to the ears of all departments in Nanzhong with the caravan.

Du Qi then said: "Now Nanzhong is still nominally under the jurisdiction of the Zhou people, and the Zhou people still have a few officials in Nanzhong, but these officials have been scattered after the general broke through Shu County, and the Han people and barbarians in Nanzhong are in their own affairs, and the Han people are mainly gathered in a few cities such as Jianning, and in fact, there are not many people left, after all, the barren land in Nanzhong, those who can go have already gone clean." ”

After a pause, Du Qi looked at Dong Shanping beside him, Dong Shanping bowed slightly: "And our southern tribes are mainly divided into two parts, the more than ten tribes in the north mainly live in the mountains around Jianning, and some tribes in the south have gradually retreated to the deep mountains in the south, and there is not much contact between us and us." ”

Li Xinchen raised his eyebrows, and he already roughly understood what Dong Shanping meant. In terms of the geography of later generations, the current southern and central tribes have formed a clear division, and the tribes of Dong Shanping are actually located in the mountainous area of Guizhou in later generations, where there are rich forest and mineral resources, so that they can trade with the caravans of the Tang clan in Xiajiang.

And some of them retreated into the 100,000 mountains, which were really hard to find.

Li Xinchen didn't expect to be able to easily control the entire Nanzhong in his hands, after all, Nanzhong is huge, the connection between these tribes is also very weak, and there is not so strong mutual trust, so it is definitely not an overnight thing for these tribes to finally naturalize under Li Xinchen.

But Li Xinchen doesn't mind planning ahead.

"Now the eleven tribes in the north are mainly concentrated on the side of Juti, and the entire Juti is actually under the control of the northern tribes." Du Qi said in a deep voice, "Even the Qiqi County on the east side of Zhuti and the Yueshan County on the west side have branches of the eleven tribes in the north. ”

The most thorough rule of Nanzhong should still be the Eastern Han Dynasty and Shu Han, the veteran Ma Yuan pacified Nanzhong, so that Nanzhong was included in the Central Plains territory for the first time, and then Zhuge Liang entered Nanzhong is to make the original because of the war and even fall apart The ruling framework became firm again, and took this opportunity Shu Han to complete the administrative division of Nanzhong.

It was also at this time that the governor of the capital appeared for the first time, and there were names that Zhu Ti, Zhu Ti, Yue Wei, Jianning and other descendants had an impression of, and even the word "Yunnan" was also the first time to appear on the historical stage in the way of "Yunnan County", but at this time Yunnan County mainly included Dali, Lijiang and other places in later generations, and Kunming was the territory of Jianning County.

It's a pity that after the war in the Central Plains and the southern crossing of the Jin Dynasty, the rule of Nanzhong, a barbaric land thousands of miles away, was naturally relaxed, and only a few states that existed in name only were established, and most of the cities and villages had been abandoned, and Nanzhong was once again abandoned from the granary and rear of Shu Han.

The world is reincarnated, and Nanzhong has become what it is now, and I don't know how it will feel when it is seen by those who have worked hard to develop and build it.

However, although the original administrative division of Nanzhong has been disrupted, in the mouth of the locals, it is naturally more appropriate and convenient to call it left over from Shu Han, which makes "Zhu Ti" and other place names that no longer exist administratively, but still survive in the mouths of Nanzhong people.

I can't talk about who abandoned Nanzhong and the Central Plains, but it can only be said that the changes of the times have made each have their own helplessness, but the times create heroes, and now is just a chance to give Li Xinchen a chance to clean up the mountains and rivers of Nanzhong.

Dong Shanping then said: "General, our eleven tribes are quite closely connected, and there is a lack of food in the mountains, so we still have to rely on the general's breath. This time, Patriarch Du Shao came and explained to us the general's intentions, and it was an honor for several of our tribes to be able to serve the general. ”

Li Xinchen's request to the various ministries in the south and central is actually very simple, he needs the manpower of the various departments in the south and the central government, and in turn he will give the departments in the south and the central part of the country the food they want. Li Xinchen now has enough land, but lacks manpower, and the southern and central ministries are in the mountains, with a large population, but they have not shown their performance, this is originally a complementary cooperation between the two sides, so it is reasonable for the southern and central ministries to agree.

"The manpower selected by Master Ouyang has almost been assembled," Li Xinchen said after consideration, "Luo Ya and Pei Zilie have already greeted each other, and they will select the corresponding officials and soldiers and horses to accompany the team into Nanzhong, the number of this team is around five hundred, which requires your support and protection." ”

Dong Shanping's expression also became solemn, although the various departments in the south and central were numerous, they were scattered in large and small mountains, and in fact there were very few collective activities of hundreds or thousands of people, and Li Xinchen suddenly sent 500 people to come, and once it was not handled well, it might cause a lot of disputes and contradictions.

You must know that not everyone in the various ministries supports such a comprehensive cooperation with Li Xinchen at this time, so no one knows what may happen at that time, after all, if they want to sabotage, it is easy for them to find a gap.

It was precisely because of this that Li Xinchen decided to send a certain number of soldiers and horses to escort him. And the main purpose of this team, in addition to carrying gifts to make friends with the various departments of Nanzhong, is mainly to explore the timber and mineral resources of Nanzhong, which are urgently needed in the workshop that Li Xinchen has set up now, otherwise it will not be dominated by craftsmen selected by Ouyang Mo.

Although Guizhou is mountainous and not conducive to farming, there are also many mineral resources, and Li Xinchen does not want to give up just like that.

This is also the most important purpose for him to intervene in Nanzhong.

As a latecomer, he knew very well how important metal mines were.