The people of Jingyi Erzhou were filled with righteous indignation, and they asked the Sichuan army to conquer Nanzhong and put down the rebellion in Nanzhong.

For a while, the people were conscripted, the merchants donated money and grain, and Liu Zhang had not yet given the order, including the people in the four counties of southern Xinjiang who were looking forward to a better life after breaking away from the control of the wealthy clan, and the entire Jingyi was mobilized.

Liu Zhang's ascension to the palace was discussed, and hundreds of civil and military officials arrived, and the generals were all murderous, and the civil officials exchanged heads.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now Meng Yao, the barbarian king of Nanzhong, has raised 100,000 troops to invade my Han land, you can talk about it, how to deal with it."

"What else can I do, fight." Gao Pei said loudly.

"That's right, hit."

"This group of barbarians, if you don't teach them a lesson, we really don't dare to touch him."

Huang Zhong said: "I have heard that there are many strange people in Nanzhong, and the powerful general is one of them, and it really deserves its name. ”

"Little barbarian, still use the old general to go out, the last will be the vanguard, if you don't win, the old general will go out again."

"The old man is over fifty years old, and General Yang is less than thirty, so why fight with the old man."

"The old general is strong and healthy, and it is not a problem to live for two hundred years, if Yang Mou lets it, he will not be able to let it go for the rest of his life."

"What are you robbing, you are looking at your ears, you are from Nanzhong, you are familiar with the geography of Nanzhong, and you are willing to be a pioneer."

"Have you forgotten my Gao Pei?"

"We'll wait for the force to win." Huang Zhong shouted.

The generals were arguing, Liu Zhang pressed it down, and said to the civil officials: "Do you think this fight is still peace, fighting, how to fight." And. How and? ”

Liu Zhang's eyes swept over the civil official. Qin Mi, who has always been taciturn and only works in a down-to-earth manner, stepped forward and bowed: "The barbarians invaded the territory, and it is a sensitive period when the four counties in southern Xinjiang have just been pacified. The subordinates don't know. ”

Xu Jing said: "The barbarians of southern Xinjiang have never been accustomed to kinghood, and the four counties of southern Xinjiang have also been morally lax, and the barbarians should have been taught a lesson, and they did not dare to set foot in southern Xinjiang from now on, so that the people of the four counties of southern Xinjiang would not be affected by their evil customs and bathe in the etiquette of the Han Dynasty again." ”

Liu Zhang asked the general, "Do you have the confidence to win this battle?" ”

"Yes." The generals answered in unison.

Liu Zhang turned to the civilian officials again, "Do we have the strength to win this battle?" ”

All the civil officials said yes, although they had just experienced the Battle of Xiqiang. But that war was short-lived, and no troops were transferred from the hinterland of Jingyi. only used the army stationed in Hanzhong, but it did not hurt the muscles and bones, and it also snatched a lot back from Tianshui.

What's more, just after spring, the spring rice and spring wheat are ripe, and there is already some grain in stock, and these civil officials know it.

Originally, I thought that after going to the Shi clan, the grain production would be greatly reduced, but it was only the season when the Shi clan was pacified, because the rice fields were not managed to reduce the yield, and later there was no Shi clan to exploit and conceal the report, and the people directly paid rent and taxes, but the grain production increased.

In addition, a large number of barbarian population and refugees from Guanzhong have poured in, new farm tools have been put into production, cattle have become popular, grain subsidies and political clarity have increased the peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain, and grain has greatly increased.

"Huang Quan, why don't you speak?"

Liu Zhang saw that all the civil officials had spoken, but Huang Quan and Wang Fu did not speak, which was a little strange.

Huang Quan came out and bowed: "My lord, the major event of the conquest of the Southern Barbarian State, now the soldiers of our Sichuan army are high-spirited, the civil and military work together, plus the lord is wise, the soldiers use their lives, although the food is not much, it is still possible to support it for a period of time." Little barbarians, when a snap of a finger can be destroyed, just. ”

Huang Quan hesitated and said: "Although I will ensure morale and logistical support, the lord should know that we are opening the Southwest Silk Road, and the Southwest Silk Road has just built the outline of the four counties, and it is about to go out of the Southwest Yi, where most of the barbarian areas are, if we defeat the barbarians this time, the barbarians are resentful, even if they can't get up for a few years, it is still okay to destroy the road." ”

Huang Quan paused and said, "If the lord decides to conquer the barbarians, please immediately abolish the opening of the Silk Road." ”

"What?"

After Huang Quan finished speaking, all the civil and military forces changed color, including Cai Wei, it was incredible, the Southwest Silk Road has been implemented for nearly a year, and countless manpower and material resources have been invested, how many people's hearts are concerned about this road?

Now that the Jingyi market is saturated, the sales in Jiangdong and the north are basically solidified, and the Yumen Pass is difficult to pass, the merchants of Sichuan and Shu can only count on this southwest Silk Road, otherwise their workshops and merchants cannot be expanded, and their family wealth cannot be increased, which will cut off their development prospects.

How many businessmen are looking forward to it?

And the officials in Shuzhong, even if they are not from merchant families, also expect that the jurisdiction and the yamen under their jurisdiction can have more money, so that they can do more things, just like a grain subsidy, Qin Mi is in charge, if the money collected is reduced, how can this policy continue?

Not to mention subsidizing the merchants who buy grain from the northeast of the Yangtze River.

It can be said that now Jingyi's yamen is also being reborn, they are gradually adapting to the business model, and they are used to using money to do some things...... So what else can you do?

Many officials predict that the future achievements will be under the condition of normal commercial development, and must not be stagnant, that is, the important measures to prosper commerce and the opening of the Southwest Silk Road cannot be stopped.

"Lord Huang, is it as serious as you say?" General Yang Huai came out and said: "I see that the lord conquered Xiqiang and destroyed the entire Xianling Qiang, isn't Xiqiang also good now?" When the time comes, won't we just support another force in Nanban? ”

"yes." The civil official Xu Jing came out and said: "I'm afraid Lord Huang is too worried, Xiqiang can see the favor we gave them, and immediately bow his head to his ears, Nanban can't do it?" The Southern Barbarians live poorer than the Xiqiang people, so I don't believe those mud-legged people are not moved. ”

"That's right, first deter by force, then support Wen Liang, give benefits, and southern Xinjiang will be safe."

All the civil and military forces agreed.

Huang Quan listened carefully to everyone's discussions, and then bowed to Liu Zhang: "My lord, I have heard the meaning of my colleagues clearly. But the lord. Nanzhong is different from Xiqiang. No matter how barbarian the Xiqiang people are, they have accepted more Han culture than the barbarians, and many people understand Chinese.

But the barbarians are different, the barbarian area is deep in the mountains and old forests, and the roads are completely impassable. The mountains and rivers are dangerous, the barbarians will not even say a word of Chinese, the strategy of Xiqiang is in the Nanban, there are several insurmountable difficulties, the first can not be as in the Xiqiang to deter the Nanban, only the Nanban sent troops, we can gather and annihilate, if you go in, it is really more auspicious.

The second barbarians have a grudge, and we beat them once. If you kill their people, they will always hate us. They are different from Xiqiang, which is relatively open and has a relatively single ethnic group, and Nanban is composed of many different races and is very conservative.

I have heard that a nation in the Southern Barbarians, as long as they kill their people, they will engrave the name of the enemy on the statue of the god, and they will not forget it for a hundred years, a thousand years.

Even if we preach kindness, someone must come to listen, and the roads in the Nanban area are impassable and widely distributed, who will help us preach kindness?

In short, it is easy to defeat the southern barbarians, but it is difficult to destroy, and they retreat to the mountains and forests, which is our eternal enemy, and at that time the chaos in southern Xinjiang will never stop, and the Silk Road will never be opened. ”

"According to Lord Huang, the Southern Barbarians invaded, and we should stare at it?" Gao Pei said loudly.

"Of course not." Huang Quan replied: "We can send a large army to intimidate, and after outnumbering the barbarians a few times, we can ask them to hand over the people of the Zhu family, the Yong family and the Wang family, and make peace with the army, so that the Silk Road can be continued." ”

"It's ridiculous to ask for peace if you win." Gao Pei pouted.

Liu Zhang looked at the civil and military forces and said to Huang Quan: "I understand what Lord Huang meant, the conquest of the Southern Barbarians, it is easy for us to defeat them in the Southern Xinjiang, but the barbarian road is difficult and dangerous, it is difficult to go deep, and it is impossible to hurt them."

If we kill their people, they will always be jealous of us, and the Silk Road will be completely cut off, right? ”

Huang Quan nodded: "Lord Mingjian." ”

"So teach them a lesson, let them hand over the sinners, and then both sides call off? Well, if the barbarians know the power of our Sichuan army, they can indeed achieve the goal of peace, and they can continue to open the Silk Road.

But Lord Huang has not thought about it, this will cause two bad effects, first, even if we make peace with the barbarians, after this incident, the barbarians will form an estrangement with us, plus Cao Cao named Meng Yao a southern barbarian king, our two sides must be more hostile than friendly.

Second, if we sue for peace this time, the barbarians will definitely think that we are easy to bully, and in the future, not only will they harass the four counties of southern Xinjiang even harder, but what will happen to them when we fight against Cao Cao and Sun Quan? ”

All the civil and military forces were shocked, and then they thought that Jing Yi was not the only enemy of the Southern Barbarians, Cao Cao didn't make a move, just because he was still competing with the remnants of the Yuan clan in the north, and when he made his move, it must be a big battle that would decide life and death.

At that time, all the hundreds of thousands of Jing Yi's infantry troops were afraid that they would all be dispatched, and when the rear was empty, there was another barbarian who was "more hostile than friendly" in the rear, which was indeed a big trouble.

"If we really bring benefits from the Silk Road, will the barbarians covet it? Will they threaten us with the road? What will we do then? Continue to compromise? ”

"What does the lord mean, must fight?" Huang Quan was speechless to Liu Zhang's question, but he still couldn't accept a hard encounter with Nanban in his heart.

"That's right."

"What about the Silk Road? The lord, forgive the ignorance of his subordinates, the subordinates feel that the current situation, the Silk Road and the heavy damage to the barbarians, fish and bear paws can not have both, can only give up one of them, if the conquest of the Southern Barbarians, the subordinates dare to love the Lord immediately stop the construction of the Silk Road, and wait until the military conquest, the Southern Barbarians imperceptibly, and then discuss. ”

"Huh?"

All the civil and military forces were embarrassed, especially the civil officials, and they were unwilling to stop the construction of the Silk Road, but Huang Quan also made sense, if he really beat the barbarians, and the barbarians hated Shangyizhou, the Silk Road would not be opened.

"The subordinates feel that Lord Huang's plan is feasible, temporarily suspend the sword soldiers, and fight Cao Cao in the future, and leave a group of troops to guard the southern Xinjiang." A civil servant came out of the ranks.

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"The minister seconded the proposal."

"Seconded the fart." Gao Pei said loudly: "Do you know what a decisive battle is? There is still a soldier and horse left in southern Xinjiang, and the 100,000 army of the southern barbarians, how much must be left to ensure that the rear is not chaotic? Leaving so many soldiers and horses in the rear, and fighting a decisive battle, it is not you who dare to fight, standing and talking without backache. ”

Gao Pei rolled his eyes.

Liu Zhang smiled and said: "You can't have both fish and bear's paws, let Ben Hou think about it, if Ben Hou wants to have both bear paws and fish, he must overcome several difficulties, one is to severely damage the barbarian army, and the other is not to arouse the jealousy of the barbarians, and like Xiqiang, he will attach to us, right?" ”

"Don't you think that the two are contradictory in themselves?" Huang Quandao.

Liu Zhang said: "Actually, although the barbarians have a complex ethnic group, they are also people, and they are also taken by majesty and kindness, but the problem now is that with the erection of majesty, we can't enter the barbarians' high mountains and dangerous places."

Ende, we can't even enter the hinterland of the barbarians, what kind of charity do we talk about, if we really get in, and kill too much, the barbarians who hold grudges will not be grateful for our kindness.

Isn't that clear now? Ben Hou's strategy is to enter the hinterland of the barbarians and let the barbarians know how powerful we are, but we can't kill too many barbarians, win over the barbarians, and rule the barbarians with barbarians, which of you has a good way? ”

The civil officials lowered their heads, and the generals were silent, wanting to enter the hinterland of the barbarians, let the barbarians know that they were powerful, and they couldn't kill too many people, how could this be possible.

"What do you do with so much, let's talk about it." Gao Pei said sullenly, he didn't expect a battle to be so complicated, and he was so aggrieved.

"Militaristic affairs, how can it be child's play." Wang Fu said.

"Okay, you guys go back and think about it, let's disperse first." Liu Zhang waved his hand.

After the civil and military forces dispersed, Liu Zhang did not leave, wiped his face with his palm, and fell into hard thought, Cai Wei prostrate beside him, leaned his head on Liu Zhang's leg, and said softly: "Is there really no way for the husband?" ”

Liu Zhang gently stroked Cai Wei's soft hair and sighed, "There is a way, but it is difficult to achieve." ”

"What's the solution?"

"Seven captures and seven verticals."

Liu Zhang, as a modern person, how could he not know how Zhuge Liang pacified southern Xinjiang, although the barbarians are not civilized, they are also human beings, and after Enwei, they will inevitably be tamed.

But how difficult it is, Zhuge Liang entered Nanban with the map, and also experienced the poison of Lushui, the weak water of the Xi'er River, the city of three rivers, the five poisonous springs, the peach blossom water, and the middle several times it was a coincidence to get out of the big disaster, and even the mountain god appeared, and he didn't dare to guarantee that luck.

The mountain god is fake, but the poor mountains and bad waters, poisonous springs, and poisonous rivers in the southern barbarians are all real in modern Yunnan and Guizhou, no matter whether Zhuge Liang has encountered it in history or not, he is likely to encounter it when he goes in anyway.

The most important thing is that Liu Zhang does not have the legendary "Pingman Finger Map" at all.

Lu Kai had already surrendered to the Sichuan army, but Liu Zhang sent someone to ask, people didn't know what "Pingman's Palm Map" was, Lu Kai was only in his twenties, and he hadn't reached the age to draw a map. (To be continued.) )

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