The "Sichuan-Burma Road" in Lu Ren's mouth is actually the "Yunnan-Burma Highway" in later generations. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but Lu Ren extended a little in the direction of central Sichuan when he opened up this road, the original intention was to strengthen trade with central Sichuan, and in addition, he could also use this to pull some labor from central Sichuan to help build the road, so "Yunnan and Burma" became "Sichuan and Burma", after all, in terms of the situation at that time, the Shu brocade and native products produced in central Sichuan were more popular after being sent to Yangon Port through this road.

There is also "Yangon" is the name of Lu Ren who directly used the name of later generations after building up the port, because he didn't bother to think about it. After Yangon Port was established a few years ago, it also became a large trade distribution center in the Bay of Bengal, attracting a large number of merchants such as Rome, Persian Gulf, Anxi, and Kushan to stay in Yangon and buy and sell goods. Compared with Malacca and Yizhou, the main advantage of Yangon Port is that it is more in the specialties of Shuzhong, so it is not unreasonable for the "Yunnan-Burma Road" to become the "Sichuan-Burma Road".

But in any case, the actual starting point of this access road is still in Nanzhong, which is later the Yunnan region. At that time, in order to open up this path, Lu Ren still spent a lot of thought.

The historical Yunnan-Burma Highway took more than a year and mobilized more than 200,000 manpower. Judging from the surface alone, it seems that Lu Ren can't reach this scale, and he can't do it so quickly. But in fact, when the Yunnan-Burma Highway was built in history, almost all of the more than 200,000 laborers were old people, women, and children, and almost all of them were built using very primitive methods.

In other words, if Lu Renzhen wants to build this access road, the actual construction conditions that can be achieved will not necessarily be worse than the historical Yunnan-Burma Highway, or even better.

The real situation is that this passage has been repaired for more than three years, and although the labor force used is only about 70,000, Lu Ren has called all the young and strong laborers recruited from Nanzhong, and the labor capacity is much stronger than the 200,000 old and young women in history, and Lu Ren can use a lot of construction methods......

Well, these are not, anyway, after the Sichuan-Burma road was opened, Liu Bei, who had already occupied Shuzhong at that time, certainly picked up a lot of cheap by exporting Shuzhong specialties, but the large and small tribes in the Nanzhong region also reaped a lot of tangible benefits. And Lu Ren has always been to Nanzhong is the strategy of "peace and quiet, make money together", and the small life of the large and small tribes in Nanzhong is getting richer and richer, so the large and small tribes in Nanzhong are very respectful and subservient to Lu Ren. Under normal circumstances, Lu Ren has some needs for Nanzhong, and the large and small tribes in Nanzhong are happy to complete it.

But Lu Ren knew very well that the general needs were fine, but if he wanted to mobilize troops from the Southern Central Clan, it was a different matter. It's like saying that if you have a little thing, it's okay to ask a friend or colleague to do a favor, but if you want to take a friend or colleague to your home as a long-term worker...... Hehe, you're just waiting to be beaten up. And between Lu Ren and Nanzhong, in fact, it is such an equal and mutually beneficial relationship.

However, Lu Ren's current strength on hand is really a bit insufficient to deal with the next battle. First of all, no matter what, Lu Ren has to leave about half of the troops to ensure the base camp of Yizhou, in addition, after the war in the north is fully launched, Lu Ren also has to take into account Liaozhou and many other aspects, so the actual foreign conquest troops that can be used are less than 30,000, and the combined naval and land armies are less than 30,000.

Of course, with Lu Ren's current army strength, with these 30,000 troops all the way down, there is nothing that can stop the east and east of these 30,000 troops, but the problem is that Lu Ren's purpose is to last, not to fight a few battles and it is OK, and the opponents Lu Ren has to face are still the two big empires in the central region at that time.

Don't talk about anything here, Spain only relied on a few thousand men to settle the Maya or Europe sent only a few strong ships and cannons to blast open the Qing Dynasty, here you have to see the follow-up forces following the army. After Spain opened the door to America, a large number of immigrants from Europe followed; And after the gate of the Qing Dynasty was blasted open, it was the Qing court itself that did not fight and did not fight, otherwise it would have effectively gathered strength...... Forget it, let's not talk about this, a national shame!

And Lu Ren didn't have the above two items. Stabilizing the newly occupied areas requires corresponding permanent troops, but Lu Ren does not have enough troops without help; As for the nobles who counted on rest or Kushan, they would be as uncompetitive as the last Qing court...... The current rest has just been in the middle of the rise of the fighting spirit, and Guishan is already in its prime, and the fighting spirit is not much worse, so don't expect anything about this. In other words, if you fight, it will be a tough battle.

In contrast, it is more practical to try to recruit some troops from the South and Central tribes. And now Lu Ren's headache is how to recruit troops from the Nanzhong region. If this problem is not dealt with properly, the final result is likely to be that not only will he fail to get troops from Nanzhong, but he will even make the friendly relations accumulated in the past ten years worse, which is not something Lu Ren wants to see.

Of course, headaches are headaches, and there are some things that Lu Ren has actually started to do......

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Nanzhong, Jianning County.

After Lu Ren completed Nanzhong, he majored in Jianning County, and took Jianning City as the seat of Nanzhong. In addition, Nanzhong in the Eastern Han Dynasty should have been under the jurisdiction of Shu County, but after Lu Ren took over some things, he managed to attach the Nanzhong region to the name of Jiaozhou.

Jianning City is stuck in the middle of Nanzhong and Shuzhong. In addition to maintaining stable trade with Shuzhong through the trading site of Jianning, the significance of military defense is needless to say. Previously, Lu Ren forced Liu Bei not to dare to march to Chang'an through military deterrence, and he gathered a large number of troops here in Jianning...... It's just the kind of force that scares people. At that time, things happened too suddenly, and Lu Ren didn't have time to prepare for the real war, so he could only mobilize the Southern Central Clan to send people to Jianning here to fill the scene. Anyway, everyone knows a lot of things in their hearts, and Lu Ren was going to express his attitude to Liu Bei at that time. In case of a real fight, Lu Ren would be prepared to send another soldier and horse, and there was no need to use the forces of the Southern Central Clan.

No more talking, just say that on this day, a woman in her twenties rushed to the Jianning Mansion, and Xun You, who had been arranged by Lu Ren to sit in Jianning, also greeted her and happily welcomed the woman into the mansion.

This woman in her twenties is Meng Shu and Zhu Rong's sister Shui Ling, who became acquainted with Deng Ai when Lu Ren first reached out to Nanzhong, and then went to Yizhou as a student, and later married Deng Ai after graduation, and also assisted Deng Ai in governing the Nanzhong region for a period of time. Later, Deng Ai was transferred to Liaozhou by Lu Ren, and Shui Ling lived in Yizhou, and handled some affairs between Yizhou and Nanzhong according to Lu Ren's arrangement. This time, Lu Ren wanted to use Nanzhong's power, and Shui Ling was sent by Lu Ren to Nanzhong to carry out persuasion work.

Speaking of which, Shui Ling has been away from Nanzhong for a long time, and now that she has come back, the appearance of the Nanzhong clan she saw along the way has changed greatly, but it is definitely better than when she left Nanzhong with Deng Ai. And after asking about the mentality of some tribes on the way, Shui Ling already had a bottom in his heart about this mission, so when he saw Xun You, Shui Ling always had a knowing smile on his face.

After some politeness, Xun You asked Shui Ling: "Shui Ling girl, what happened to Lu Zhengnan this time?" ”

Shui Ling said: "Don't worry, there should be no problem." Lu Zhengnan always takes care of our Nanzhong tribe so much, and he is a little too worried about many things. Gongda Gong, although our southern and central tribes are always called Nanban by the Central Plains scholars, we are not people who do not know about Entu. For many years, Lu Zhengnan has regarded all ethnic groups in Nanzhong as friends and treated us with kindness, and taught us the method of intensive cultivation and prosperity, so that all ethnic groups in Nanzhong have become richer and richer. ”

Xun You said: "Actually, when I received Yihao's message, I also felt that Yihao was too worried. However, Yoshihiro has always been known for his steadiness, and it is reasonable that he would be worried that the recruitment of troops would arouse the resentment of your various clans in the south and central. ”

Shui Ling smiled again: "Gongda Gong don't worry!" Now you can send messengers to inform the chiefs of the tribes, and I'll take care of the rest. According to the results of my inquiries along the way, I dare not say that there should be no problem with 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses in Nanzhong. It's just that according to the treatment given by Lu Zhengnan, I'm afraid that Lu Zhengnan will spend a lot of money. ”

Xun You also smiled: "The Son of Heaven is not a hungry soldier, Yihao has always been very capable of making money, when it is time to spend money, how have you ever seen him stingy?" ”

Shui Ling smiled: "Then I'll try to help Lu Zhengnan save a little." ”

Xun You shook his head: "It's better not to save it." Don't be your kindness, but the tribes in Nanzhong think that he is stingy. ”

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A few days later, Lu Ren received a telegram from Xun You, saying that Shui Ling had preliminarily persuaded some tribes in the Nanzhong region, and the current preliminary statistics were more than 30,000, and there should be a lot of them in the future. Seeing this message, Lu Ren was also relieved, and then turned his head to Xun Yu and smiled: "It's basically done!" ”

Xun Yu asked knowingly: "Yihao, what means did you use?" ”

Lu Ren smiled dryly: "Money can make ghosts grind!" In addition, in addition to recruiting the fighting forces of Nanzhong on the basis of employment, I also promised to give the tribes participating in the war a three-year preferential tax rate. ”

Xun Yu said: "You are really willing! How much does this have to be? ”

Lu Ren said: "When it's time to spend, you have to spend!" If you can't even give up money and food, then you still have a chrysanthemum battle! As for the three-year commodity tax, it's actually not much, after all, the majority of our business is not in Nanzhong. To be precise, Nanzhong is the raw material supply point for many of our things, and I just think that I have spent a little more money to buy raw materials. ”

Xun Yu said: "Then when are you going to send troops to Guishuang?" ”

Lu Ren said: "Not so fast. Aren't Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang still floating on the sea? At least we'll have to wait until they come back to talk about it. Besides, it's not a trivial matter to open the liver with Guishan, if you don't prepare to do enough, send troops there to die? ”

Xun Yu nodded, didn't say anything more, just packed up the documents handed over by Lu Ren and went to work. Lu Ren watched Xun Yu leave, but his eyes gradually dimmed, and he secretly said in his heart: "Wan'er, I really didn't expect that I would have such a day when I would 'fight chess' with you, but I don't know what level of your chess strength is...... what did 'he' do to you?" You're already starting a large-scale war, and I really don't want you to be that kind of hateful woman. Xun You also smiled: "The Son of Heaven is not a hungry soldier, Yihao has always been very capable of making money, when it is time to spend money, how have you ever seen him stingy?" ”

Shui Ling smiled: "Then I'll try to help Lu Zhengnan save a little." ”

Xun You shook his head: "It's better not to save it." Don't be your kindness, but the tribes in Nanzhong think that he is stingy. ”

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A few days later, Lu Ren received a telegram from Xun You, saying that Shui Ling had preliminarily persuaded some tribes in the Nanzhong region, and the current preliminary statistics were more than 30,000, and there should be a lot of them in the future. Seeing this message, Lu Ren was also relieved, and then turned his head to Xun Yu and smiled: "It's basically done!" ”

Xun Yu asked knowingly: "Yihao, what means did you use?" ”

Lu Ren smiled dryly: "Money can make ghosts grind!" In addition, in addition to recruiting the fighting forces of Nanzhong on the basis of employment, I also promised to give the tribes participating in the war a three-year preferential tax rate. ”

Xun Yu said: "You are really willing! How much does this have to be? ”

Lu Ren said: "When it's time to spend, you have to spend!" If you can't even give up money and food, then you still have a chrysanthemum battle! As for the three-year commodity tax, it's actually not much, after all, the majority of our business is not in Nanzhong. To be precise, Nanzhong is the raw material supply point for many of our things, and I just think that I have spent a little more money to buy raw materials. ”

Xun Yu said: "Then when are you going to send troops to Guishuang?" ”

Lu Ren said: "Not so fast. Aren't Zhou Yu and Sun Shangxiang still floating on the sea? At least we'll have to wait until they come back to talk about it. Besides, it's not a trivial matter to open the liver with Guishan, if you don't prepare to do enough, send troops there to die? ”

Xun Yu nodded, didn't say anything more, just packed up the documents handed over by Lu Ren and went to work. Lu Ren watched Xun Yu leave, but his eyes gradually dimmed, and he secretly said in his heart: "Wan'er, I really didn't expect that I would have such a day when I would 'fight chess' with you, but I don't know what level of your chess strength is...... what did 'he' do to you?" You're already starting a large-scale war, and I really don't want you to be that kind of hateful woman. Xun Yu nodded, didn't say anything more, just packed up the documents handed over by Lu Ren and went to work. Lu Ren watched Xun Yu leave, but his eyes gradually dimmed, and he secretly said in his heart: "Wan'er, I really didn't expect that I would have such a day when I would 'fight chess' with you, but I don't know what level of your chess strength is...... what did 'he' do to you?" You're already starting a large-scale war, and I really don't want you to be that kind of hateful woman. ”