Xiangyang, Beigong Imperial Garden!

"My lord, the imperial robe has been made according to the requirements!" Tian Feng, who was full of white hair, slowly followed behind Wang Xu, his face was full of joy that could not be concealed, and he walked side by side with him, although he did not speak, but his spirit seemed very uplifted.

Wang Xu smiled faintly, and slowly strolled through the goose stone path in the imperial garden, looking calm.

"Have you chosen a date?"

"The ministers discussed and thought that the sixth day of the first month of next year would be the best opportunity, but I don't know what the lord thinks?" Frustrated replied.

"You just decide, whether it's stargazing or divination, you are an expert, and all affairs will be arranged by the two of you!"

"No!" The two of them should have looked at each other for a moment, and then Tian Feng stepped forward and said: "These days, there have been two waves of foreign envoys coming to the Chu State to congratulate, and the ministers have already roughly contacted them, I don't know if the lord intends to meet them in person!" ”

"Gentiles? At this time? Which envoys of the two countries? Wang Xu raised his eyebrows strangely.

"Andula and the Shan country!" He replied with a smile.

"Shan?" Wang Xu was dazed and a little stunned.

Over the years, he has paid very little attention to external affairs, and has left them to Tian Feng, Fu Zhu and other important ministers, and he still knows a little about those major big countries, but he really has no concept of small countries, and no one talks about him on weekdays.

"Does the lord know the country of mourning?" Frustrated seemed to know that he didn't understand, and immediately took it.

"I know this!" Wang Xu smiled awkwardly. "I remember reading the annals of history when I was a child, and it was recorded that Emperor Wu seemed to have sent people to open up the southwest, hoping to open the road to the poison. In the second year of Yuanfeng, he sent troops to cross the Lancang River. Attack the Prison of Mourning. The two counties of Tang and Buwei were dealt a heavy blow, which caused the rapid decline of the country of Ailao. ”

"Emperor Guangwu established the twenty-seventh year, Ailao Wang Xianli sent an envoy to pay tribute to the ministers, Ming Emperor Yongping 12 years, Liu Maung inherited the throne of Ailao, sent his son to dedicate the country to the Han Dynasty, and then merged the land of Ailao to establish Yongchang County. With the king of Ailao as the head of the tribe, and the officials as the taishou, the management has continued to this day! I don't know if it's right? ”

"What the lord said is very true!" He smiled and nodded.

"Could it be that this Shan country has nothing to do with the country of mourning?" Wang Xu asked curiously.

"One source!" Frustrated and said with a smile: "When the mourning prison returned to the Han, some of the people in power refused, and then fled to the west, the Han Dynasty was to see its backwardness and decay and accommodate the return to the Han, since it was unwilling, of course, there was no reluctance, let it do." And still treat it as a subject state. Since then, they have flourished again. Become a relatively large country in the southern fanbang! ”

"I see!" Wang Xu was stunned, and then asked, "Then why did they meet this time?" ”

"Help!"

"Help? In the name of the subject state? ”

"Exactly!"

Wang Xu took a deep breath and really cared about this matter.

"I want to know the general situation of the southern countries first!"

Fu Zhi was silent for a while, and then quickly replied: "Back to the lord, there are large areas of wild land to the west of Jiuzhen and Rinan counties in Jiaozhou, and most of them are not very civilized tribes, but further west in this area, that is, this large and vast land stretching to the coast in the south of Yongchang County in Nanzhong, there are actually many large and small countries. According to the Han Book written by Ban Gu, at the height of the Han Dynasty, many ships traveled along the southern coast to the west for trade. ”

"I've heard of this, but what's the situation now?" Wang Xu listened attentively and involuntarily stopped.

He replied: "In the past two or three hundred years, there have been countless large and small countries in that region, and it is difficult for the minister to remember them all, but there are detailed records in the books, but what the minister remembers very clearly are the three more powerful Fan countries, one is the southernmost Yi Lu Fu, the second is the Chenli country in the middle, and the third is Ganfu Dulu in the north, the north of this country is the Shan country, and the northeast is the Yongchang County in the south. To the east of the Three Kingdoms, through a large area of wild land, are the two counties of Rinan and Jiuzhen in Jiaozhou. ”

"Hmmm! I kind of get it! Wang Xu nodded. What about the western Shan country? I remember that after many years of splitting the body, it seems that a branch of the Otsutsuki clan conquered a large area in the northwest of the body poison and established the Kushan Empire, which was extremely powerful, and even claimed to be on a par with Rome in the far west, Persia in the west, and our Han Dynasty. ”

"Rome? Persia? Frustrated and Tian Feng were stunned.

"Oh! Rome is Great Qin, and Persia is rest! That Great Qin is the same as the previous dynasty, so I transliterated the new name at will, don't care! Wang Xu explained briefly.

The two of them suddenly knew a lot about Wang Xu's habit of choosing names at will, and they were not too surprised, and Fu Zhu quickly continued according to his style: "It is said that the Kushan Empire is indeed powerful, but it does not border with the Shan State, and there are two countries formed after the division of the Shan State to the west of the Shan State, according to the name of those merchants, it is called Karinga and Magadha, and the west of Magadha is the Kushan Empire. ”

"What about Magadha and south of Kalinga?"

"To the south of the two countries is Andura, which is also a big country, even Magadha and Kalinga are also its vassal states, and they are at war with the Kushan Empire all the year round, but this Andura seems to be gradually declining in recent years, and there are signs of division, if it is not for the Kushan Empire to face threats to the north and west such as rest, I am afraid that it has already been occupied!"

After learning a rough idea from the frustrated mouth, Wang Xu frowned and thought for a long time.

"So who is the threat that the Shan countries are facing when they come to ask for help now?"

"Gamftulu!" Fu Zhu frowned, and said cautiously: "To be precise, it is a husper!" ”

"Hussar?" Wang Xu was puzzled.

"Yes! The countries of Ganfudulu, Yilu, Chenli and their vassals are actually one ethnic group, and the people of Nanzhong and Jiaozhou all call them the Bi people or the Biyue people. In recent decades, the Huren have developed very rapidly, and there is a tendency to merge and unify, because of the complex power system there, we are used to calling it the Pi State, but we have not recognized this title in writing. ”

"That means that the Huren are strong and want to destroy the Shan country, so the Shan country sent people to ask us for help!"

"Just as the lord said!"

Fu Zhu nodded and said: "The war between the Shan and the Shan people has been going on for a long time, and they have always been at a disadvantage, when the Han Dynasty was strong. The Shan State is a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. There is the support of Dahan. They are also invincible. But in the past hundred years since the end of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court has been declining day by day, and they are unable to manage the affairs of Fanbang, so they can only rely on Andoro instead. Naandula itself faced the threat of the Kushan Empire, and of course did not want another powerful ethnic group to appear in the east, so he always supported the Shan State against the Hus, but with the rapid decline of Andula in recent years, the support for the Shan State became inadequate. ”

"In recent years. The two countries learned from the border people and merchants that our Chu State was strong, so they begged to become a subject country again and get shelter! They also brought with them a large number of ivory, precious stones, and other treasures and curiosities as gifts for their visit, which were invaluable, but they were heard that these things, although valuable, were very common on their side. ”

Wang Xu was not very interested in those possessions, but he was very interested in Shan.

"How many troops are there in the Shan country?"

"According to them, it's 100,000!" Frustrated replied.

Tian Feng, who had been silent for a long time on the side, suddenly shook his head when he heard this: "There can't be 100,000, how many people are there in the Shan country?" It is impossible for those small countries to have such a strong military. When the minister inspected Nanzhong last year, he personally inquired about the situation of the small neighboring countries. The total military strength of the Shan State is at most 50,000 or 60,000 people, and the weapons and equipment are extremely poor! ”

This time, Wang Xu was silent for a long time, his eyes were full of hesitation, and after almost a full quarter of an hour, he suddenly took a step forward and said categorically: "I want more detailed information about the Shan country and the Shan people, especially their economic and cultural conditions, the more detailed the better, you select capable people to go over, and be sure to get the information back as soon as possible." As for the envoys of Andula and the Shan Kingdom, I disappeared for the time being, and told them that I had been busy with the war lately and had no energy to receive them, but that I was willing to help the Shan Kingdom. ”

"In addition, you will give the Shan State 2,000 sets of sophisticated weapons and armor, and 5,000 sets of obsolete past equipment, tell them that this is just a small favor from the Chu State, and send people who can speak well to visit them back, to talk about the richness and strength of the Chu State, don't be afraid of exaggeration, let them be full of yearning for the Chu State, and the people of Yongchang County are also of the same origin as the Shan people, so you can think of more ways on this."

Having said that, Tian Feng and Fu Zhu still didn't understand what his decision was, and looked at each other and smiled.

Tian Feng replied: "Don't worry, the lord will leave this matter to the ministers to deal with!" ”

"Hmm!" Wang Xu nodded, and his voice changed. "But you don't have to be too anxious, the top priority now is to quell the chaos and retreat from the enemy after all, these can be done step by step!"

"Wait for you to understand!"

Subsequently, Wang Xu talked with the two of them for a while about the situation of the rebellion in various places, and then asked them to go back to Nangong first, and he himself returned to the Qinzheng Palace to review the chapter.

A few days later, Andaro and the envoys of the Shan Kingdom set out on their way home, and although they did not meet the king of Chu, they were happy to receive 7,000 sets of weapons and equipment. Although most of these equipment have been eliminated by the Chu State, they are extremely superior to them, and they can greatly strengthen the strength of the army, not to mention that they have also received a clear reply, which can be regarded as an easy completion of the task.

It's just that they didn't come at the right time after all, and the court of Chu didn't pay too much attention to this matter, and after they left, almost no more people paid attention to it.

The war continued, and the cities and villages in the counties of Nanyang Border Pass were all decayed, and almost all the people had withdrawn to the hinterland, and a very small number of those who refused to withdraw also died.

Wei and Wu tried their best, causing heavy casualties and losses on both sides, but they were never able to break through the defense line of Chu, while various rebellions within Chu were gradually quelled.

On the seventh day of the fourth month, Li Yan, the general of Zhenxi, led some elite soldiers of the Western Army to break through the main force of the rebels in Yizhou, destroying more than 3,000 enemies, collecting more than 2,000 surrenders, killing more than 20 families that led the rebellion, raiding more than 300 households, and releasing the rebels or providing help to the rebels.

Since then, the rebels in Yizhou have been wiped out, and the entire Yizhou has begun a large-scale search and thorough investigation, striving to carry out a carpet purge and suppression of the rebels.

In the following three months, the rest of the places also completed the pacification of the rebellion one after another, and the Chu State minimized all losses because of the preparations made earlier, but even so, tens of thousands of people still became victims in this battle, and the number of people affected was even more uncountable, and it can be said that the blood was flowing like a river.

At the same time, the heavy price was also exchanged for another internal reorganization of the Chu State, the remnants of the stubborn old forces and resistors were almost completely eradicated, and the last internal obstacles to the establishment of the new empire were also dissipated in countless blood and corpses......

ps: When I wrote this chapter, I was very emotional, and I felt that the Han Dynasty was really good, and it was really brilliant in that era! (To be continued......)