The soldiers shouted again, wave after wave, the command flag on the general platform waved again, the soldiers retreated like a tide, and after a while, the school field became empty again,

Liu Xin turned his head and said to the barbarian leaders behind him: "Patriarchs, from now on in my Jingzhou, the Han barbarian family, as long as you obey the law, you will be protected by my Jingzhou soldiers, if anyone dares to violate the law, no matter how Han barbarian, even if he escapes to the ends of the earth, one day I will arrest him back." ”

After all, it is still the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the remnants of the Han Dynasty are still there, and the barbarian tribes have not been integrated together, and they are still in awe of the imperial court.

The mountain goods and furs produced by the barbarian tribes are still very popular among the Han people, but this trade has been monopolized by a small number of scholars for a long time, although the barbarians sell them at a very cheap price, but they are already very expensive in the hands of the final buyers of the Han people, so Liu Xin allows the barbarians to trade directly, benefiting not only the barbarian tribes, but also the Han people and most of the scholars, the only damage is only the interests of a small number of scholars with monopoly power. It's not that Liu Xin can influence, but to spread Han culture to all barbarian tribes, even if the barbarians don't have this need, Liu Xin will find a way to forcibly sell it, so the current situation can be said to be a great joy for everyone.

The implementation of these policies still needs to do a lot of work, and there is no hurry, so Liu Xin left all the leaders behind, on the one hand, let them feel the living atmosphere of the Han people in Wuling City, and on the other hand, it is also to invite them to drink, give some small gifts, and divide and win them over, so that Liu Xin has to stay in Wuling City.

Two days later, Feng Yuan suddenly asked to see Liu Xin and said: "Lord Hui, the grass people have just received a letter from the elders of the clan, and the patriarch of the barbarian clan of Qike County has invited the grass people to participate in the alliance of the three surnames of Zhu, Meng, and Feng, and has come to ask for resignation. ”

Liu Xin couldn't help but be very interested, and asked, "What is the Three Surnames Alliance?" ”

Feng Yuan saw Liu Xin asking, naturally there will be no concealment, it turns out that the Zhu family of Qike County, the Feng family of Wuling County, and the Meng family of Jianning County are the leading barbarian surnames in the Han and Barbarian mixed areas, and the three families meet to hold an alliance every three years, this year's meeting is presided over by the Zhu family, and the Zhu family is said to be the descendant of the fire god Zhu Rong, and it is very prestigious among the barbarians of the entire Bashu lineage.

The story of the seven captures of Meng Huo, Liu Xin knows, Meng Huo should be the person of the Meng family in Jianning, Liu Xin couldn't help but ponder, he will seize the world in the future, Xichuan is naturally going to take it, but the Shu road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, often a pass, you can block thousands of troops and horses, Yizhou Nanzhong area of the barbarian mixed together, if you can open up a road from here, you can bypass those passes, from the rear straight to Chengdu, thinking of this, Liu Xin couldn't sit still, said: "Patriarch Feng, when are you going to leave, such a grand event, Liu really wants to go and have a look with you. ”

Feng Yuan's face was happy, and he said: "If the adults can participate in person, it is really our honor, this trip to Qike, the road is not smooth, the grass people have estimated, it will take about twenty days, and the alliance is scheduled for the fifth day of the fourth month, so I plan to set off tomorrow." ”

Liu Xin couldn't help but groan, Qike County is under the jurisdiction of Yizhou Mu Liu Yan, since Liu Yan took office, Yizhou is also a frequent rebellion, now Hanzhong, Ba County are controlled by the rebels, the contact between the imperial court and Yizhou is almost completely interrupted, if you follow the source to go to Qike County, it is obviously impossible to go from the line of Ba County, and take the southern line, it is bound to pass through many barbarian areas, there should not be too much danger in Fengyuan, but it will take at least a month and a half to come and go, And no matter whether Liu Hong will return to heaven in the past month and a half, just leaving Jingzhou under his control for such a long time, no one can predict whether there will be any accidents on the road.

However, Liu Xin still likes to take risks in his bones, if he can get in touch with the barbarians of Bashu, when he captures Xichuan in the future, he can get twice the result with half the effort, thinking of this, Liu Xin has already secretly made up his mind and asked: "Patriarch Feng, I am a Han Chinese, is it a little inappropriate to participate in your three-surname alliance." ”

Feng Yuan said with a smile: "My lord doesn't know, the alliance of the three surnames is actually a big gathering, not only barbarians, but also many local Han people to participate, just like me, in addition to leading more than 1,000 young men and women in the clan to go together, there are also often Han businessmen accompanying them, such a big gathering is also a great opportunity for the Han barbarians to communicate with each other." ”

Liu Xin pondered for a moment and said, "Since you can bring a merchant to go, then I will go with you as a big Han merchant from Xiangyang to see and learn." ”

Feng Yuan was quite disappointed in his heart, he really hoped that Liu Xin would go to participate in the alliance as a Jingzhou pastor, and if he could invite such an important minister, the status of their Feng family would naturally rise among the three surnames, but Liu Xin decided like this, he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to make a promise,

After listening to Liu Xin's decision, Kuai Liang and Zhang Fei were not dissuaded, and even Dian Wei, who was fighting with Feng Yingying, also stopped him, and no one was willing to let him take this risk, but Liu Xin had made up his mind, and no one could listen to his persuasion, so he ordered to select two hundred warriors who were good at jungle warfare from Zhang Fei's army, led by Wang Wei, and went to Qi Ke with him, plus three hundred flying tiger guards led by Dian Wei, and a team of five hundred people went out of Wuling City to meet the clansmen of Fengyuan,

Liu Xin originally wanted to let the sisters Ling'er and Xiu'er go back to Xiangyang directly, and report to their wives by the way, so as not to worry about them, but the two sisters knew the taste of the marrow, and it was when they were like glue with Liu Xin, where were they willing to leave, not to mention that they all knew that when they returned to Xiangyang in the future, not to mention eating meat, I am afraid that they would not even be able to drink the soup, and it would be good to have a bone to gnaw on when the time came, and they were even more unwilling to give up the opportunity in front of them, Liu Xin couldn't resist them, and it was indeed inconvenient to go to Ke for a month and a half, and there was no one waiting around. So he promised them to go with him,

From Wuling to Guiyang, all the way is a flat and empty avenue, walking is naturally very smooth, the people of Fengyuan also brought a lot of mountain goods, furs, most of them rely on walking, there are also a small number of ox carts, Liu Xin and his party also prepared a lot of goods, loaded dozens of carts, with him only two hundred flying tiger guards, everyone pretended to be a porter coachman, outsiders could not see it for a while, Ling'er sisters as Liu Xin's family, sitting in the carriage with them, and the rest of the soldiers were led by Wang Wei, far behind,

Ma Yun received a letter from Wuling a few days ago, knowing that things were handled very smoothly, and estimated that Liu Xin should return to Xiangyang in a few days, who knew that Kuai Liang suddenly sent an urgent report, Liu Xin pretended to be a merchant and went to Qike County, Ma Yun couldn't help but be shocked when he received the report, Qike County is in the hinterland of central and southern Yizhou, where it is a barbarian inhabited area, the legend says that the barbarians are good at using drugs, he is in danger with himself, very unwise, and hurriedly summoned Frustration and Tian Feng to discuss,

Liu Yan is a relative of the Han family, Liu Xin is also a member of the Han family, and the two were appointed by Liu Hong as the state pastor at the same time, and the situation is basically the same, so Ping Yuli still pays more attention to the news of Yizhou, but it didn't take long for Liu Yan to arrive in Chengdu, Hanzhong and Ba County rebelled one after another, and the road was blocked, and from the south they had to pass through a large barbarian settlement, so the phantom was never able to penetrate into Yizhou smoothly, and it was not until recently that some scattered news came back.

When he heard that Liu Xin had gone to the south of Yizhou, he was also secretly surprised, and said: "Madam, some news came back from Yizhou during this time, and Fu asked people to sort it out, only to know that the situation is not so simple, in the past, I always thought that there was a rebellion in Ba County and Hanzhong, blocking the road, resulting in no communication between Yizhou and the imperial court, and the latest discovery is that the so-called rebellion in Ba County, the mastermind is actually Liu Yan's confidant Zhang Ren, Ba County is actually still under the control of Liu Yan, and Hanzhong is occupied by Zhang Lu, the Heavenly Master of the Five Dou Mi Sect, It is rumored that Zhang Lu's mother is quite beautiful and often goes in and out of Liu Yan's house. ”

Tian Feng was surprised: "In this way, Liu Yan's so-called rebellion in Bajun and Hanzhong to block the road is a cover-up, so it seems that Liu Yan has already rebelled." ”

Ma Yun originally had the impression that Liu Yan didn't do much in Yizhou, and he died relatively early, but now it seems that he had already had a plan for asking Liu Hong to reset the state pastor again, and couldn't help but say: "If Liu Yan has already rebelled, wouldn't it be very dangerous for the master to go to Qike County." ”

Fu Zhu and Tian Feng got up together, arched their hands and said: "Don't worry, madam, the lord has his own blessing, and he will definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune." ”

Ma Yun knew that because Liu Xin often used the golden armor god to say things, the two of them must believe it, but she knew in her heart that those were all made up by Liu Xin, and seeing that Fu Zhu and Tian Feng were not panicked at all, she also forced herself to calm down, thought about it and said: "Everything is foreseen, and if it is not prepared, it will be wasted, and we must also make preparations in all aspects, and pass on the order, Zhang Fei led his troops to enter Guiyang, and Huang Zhong's troops to stationed in Nanjun, and sent scouts to listen to the news of the alliance of the three surnames at night." ”

Frustrated and Tian Feng didn't expect that Ma Yun and a woman could handle things so decisively, and the two of them became more stable, so they retired and acted separately.

For more than ten days in a row, Ma Yun spent more than ten days in anxiety, but she still had to pretend to be calm on the surface, only in this way could she calm people's hearts, and in a blink of an eye, it was April, and she hurriedly walked in, her face couldn't suppress her excitement, and said, "Madam, the capital has sent urgent documents." ”