Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 217
"The villain's name is Mrs. Wang. Although the villain is from Yongchang, he is Han. He has read and written poetry since he was a child. He is now a meritorious officer in Yongchang County. He also lived with barbarians for a long time, so he was entrusted by the barbarian king. , come to Yizhou as an envoy!" Wang Fu explained.Only then did Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang understand.Zhao Feng knew even more that this Mrs. Wang used to be the prefect of Yongchang in history, and it was he who led his troops to defend Yongchang County when Meng Huo rebelled.Now he is only a small meritorious service officer, but he has also acted as an envoy for the Nanman.

"Why do you come here?" Zhao Feng asked, and then Wang Fu talked about why he came to Chengdu this time.It turned out that since Meng Huo was killed in Jingnan two years ago, Gao Ding and Yang Feng moved to Jingnan, Yan Yan, the remaining tribe in South Central, was beaten to death while taking advantage of the danger, and many smaller tribes even became extinct.After Yan Yan withdrew, these tribes were still fighting each other because of Meng Huo's death.Meng You, the land of Meng Huo who succeeded Meng Huo as patriarch, and Meng Huo's widow Mrs. Zhu Rong were unable to invade Jingnan to settle accounts with Yang Feng and Gao Ding.As a result, the remaining ministries of Nanzhong were forced to unite to resist Meng You.This scuffle has come to the present, but Meng You can't take it anymore.Not to mention the stagnation of farming, fishing and hunting, more than half of the young and middle-aged people died in battle. In addition, this year's harvest is not good, and a large number of farmlands have no harvest. It is almost extinct.

At this time, Meng Jie, the eldest brother of Meng Huo, who had already been a director, was elected by his tribe to replace the belligerent Meng You as the patriarch.Meng Jie understood the thoughts of the clansmen very well, and was even more aware that his clan was in danger of being destroyed. As soon as he took over as the clan leader, he immediately contacted Yang Feng, expressing his willingness to give up the position of the leader of the Nanzhong Man, who had been succeeded by his clan for generations.At the same time, Meng Jie also lowered his stance to seek peace with other hostile tribes.At the same time, Meng You sent people to find Mrs. Wang, who had a certain prestige in Nanzhong, hoping that he could come to Chengdu as an envoy of the Nanzhong Barbarians to speak on his behalf, and asked Liu Zhang to give him food and rice to relieve Nanzhong's urgent needs.The news from Nanzhong was blocked, and when Wang and his wife came to Yizhou, they learned that Xichuan had changed and that Liu Zhang had stepped down.However, considering that the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people were at stake, Mrs. Wang still bit the bullet and came to see Zhao Feng.

"So that's it!" Zhao Feng looked at Meng Jie's handwritten letter, and then passed the letter to Zhuge Liang and Huang Quan. After passing it around, the three of them saw the same intention in each other's eyes: take this as a good opportunity to control Nanzhong in one fell swoop.

From what Mrs. Wang said, Zhao Feng figured out that Nanzhong is not all barbarians, there are also a small number of Han people living there, but there are more barbarians.But it's normal to think about it. If there are more Han people than barbarians, then over time, relying on the assimilation ability of the Han people, why would the barbarians be so troublesome?To understand this, Zhao Feng has a little more confidence in governing Nanzhong.

At present, under Zhuge Liang's suggestion, first of all, from the 20 construction corps of Hoarding, Zangzang and Zhudi, [-] people will be transferred south to Yongchang and Xinggu counties to develop military settlements, and then set up official schools to teach Han characters and teach southerners the knowledge of agriculture and mulberry surgery.At the same time, grain and grass were drawn from Jiaozhou and Yizhou to meet the urgent needs.In addition, a large-scale mutual market was carried out in the two counties of Xinggu and Wuling. The barbarians exchanged leather goods, copper and iron ore, tea, medicinal materials, gold, silver and jade for various civilian supplies including food and agricultural tools, and at the same time encouraged intermarriage between Han and barbarians.

"In this way, in 20 or 50 years, the southerners will be assimilated. If there is no tyranny, it will not be a disaster!" Zhao Feng said with emotion after reading these policies.We can't force these barbarians to become exactly like the Han people, but don't make troubles and make enemies of the Han people. It is enough to be able to pay taxes in peace.

"Although I'm a bit eager for quick success, I'm still thinking that the Northern Expedition is imminent, and if the southerners' defense is unstable, what should I do?" Zhuge Liang waved his feather fan lightly, frowning slightly.

"Kong Ming, what method do you have to deal with this?" Zhao Feng knew that Zhuge Liang would not be aimless, so he should already have a corresponding countermeasure.

"It's nothing more than imitating the general's old method, so how about immediately recruiting barbarians from Yuejia County to join the army?" Zhuge Liang suggested after thinking about it.

"This plan is very good. The southerners rebelled because of lack of food and clothing. After all, ambitious people like Meng Huo are in the minority. If they can be recruited into the army, firstly, Nanzhong can be pacified, and secondly, these barbarians are brave and good at fighting. If you can serve in the army, it will be quite extraordinary!" Huang Quan thought about it and was very much in favor.Zhao Feng also understood that since ancient times, there have been troublesome people in the poor mountains and rivers, and most of the mountain people are brave and good at fighting.The famous Danyang elite soldiers in history and the Ganziying came from the mountainous areas. These fishing and hunting peoples are obviously better than the farming peoples in terms of physical fitness and martial arts spirit.

"That's fine, but Kong Ming, we don't have much food left." Zhao Feng said with some concern.Although Yizhou is rich, there is not much food and grass left after the war.As for Hanzhong, it is barely enough to be self-sufficient.

"For the first time this year, we don't need too many people, just a few thousand people. It's just a precedent. If there is a need in the future, we can recruit again!" Zhuge Liang thought for a while.Zhao Feng felt that there was nothing he could do, and ordered Yan Yan and Zhang Ren to discuss it. The two also felt that this method was very good, and they both expressed their willingness to lead such a team.

"I only recruited thousands of people, so why bother you two?" Zhao Feng laughed.After thinking about it, Zhao Feng decided that Wang Ping would still be the commander of this new army. Historically, he and Zhang Ni had been the commanders of the Wudang Flying Army successively.

"Since that's the case, what designation should this army have?" Seeing that the formation of the barbarian army was a foregone conclusion, Huang Quan asked hastily.Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang thought for a while, and finally Zhuge Liang said: "There was Wudang Flying Army before, it was composed of Wuling barbarians; this army, let's call it Wuqian Flying Army!"

"Flying Army without Front, good!" Zhao Feng also felt that the name was good, so he immediately ordered Li Hui, the prefect of Yuejia, to arrange the matter.In addition, Wang Fu was appointed as the prefect of Yongchang, Meng Jie was appointed as the prefect of Yunnan, and Zhu Bao, a local Han tycoon, was appointed as the prefect of Xinggu, temporarily guarding the three counties of Nanzhong.

What Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang didn't expect was that the Nanzhong Barbarian Department responded extremely enthusiastically to the recruitment.Since ancient times, the conflict between the southerners and the barbarians has been deep, and there has never been any recruitment of barbarians into the army.Now that Zhuge Liang and Zhao Feng set the precedent, there were some people who waited and watched for a while, but most of them were active participants.After all, because the farming skills of the southerners are far inferior to those of the Han people, their lives are very poor.Once enlisted in the army now, the military pay is very generous, and he is immediately moved by it.At first, I only thought that I could recruit three or four thousand people, but when the recruitment ended at the end of autumn, it turned out that more than 8000 people were recruited.Zhao Feng ordered the 8000 people to form a division independently, and Wang Ping, the general and Zitong prefect, organized and trained them into an army for drills.

"It's indeed a rare elite!" Looking at the unprecedented flying army that has been training for a month in front of him, its combat effectiveness is more than a little better than that of the Sichuan army.Although most of Wang Ping's military training methods were learned from Zhao Feng and Zhuge Liang, this team is much stronger than the Sichuan army who has been training for many years due to their superior physical fitness.This is like the same coach teaching Africans and yellow races to sprint. No matter how much they teach and how much they practice, the latter will not be able to develop that black flesh.

"This kind of elite soldiers will be comparable to the Shanyue Army and Wudang Flying Army in just a little more time. I am afraid that even the Danyang elite soldiers will be inferior." Ma Di, who came to watch together, also sighed.

"There are many mountains in central Sichuan, and this team is good at walking on mountain roads. If they can suddenly jump over mountains and ridges and attack Guanzhong by surprise during fierce battles, they may achieve unexpected results!" Zhuge Liang also said confidently.In history, the Shu Han went out to Qishan more than a dozen times in the Northern Expedition without success, but now most of Cao Cao’s attention is being restrained in the Central Plains and Jingzhou. Although the defense in Guanzhong is tight, it is still worse than that in the Central Plains. .

"By the way, Kong Ming, when will your wife enter Sichuan?" Zhao Feng suddenly remembered something after watching the drill of the Unprecedented Flying Army, and asked Zhuge Liang quickly.

"My wife will enter Sichuan next month. Is there anything the general can do?" Zhuge Liang asked.

"I was thinking, last time in Hanshou, the crossbow your wife showed me, if we can equip our pawns with this, wouldn't it be even more powerful?" Zhao Feng said leisurely.In history, the Shu Han was able to fight with Cao Wei's men and horses for more than 40 years when there was a serious shortage of cavalry, and they also made northern expeditions to the Central Plains again and again, relying on this Liannu.

"Indeed, the Sichuan Army and the Hanzhong Army still have a full 15 troops since the general's downsizing. However, of the 15 Sichuan Army, there are only less than [-] cavalry. There are still [-] of them, which were just trained by General Zilong. Iron cavalry from Xiliang. But Xiahou Yuan in Guanzhong has at least [-] cavalry under his command. It would be too difficult to compete with infantry!" Zhuge Liang also sighed.

"So I'm going to gather craftsmen to build this crossbow. Of course, the manufacturing method of this crossbow must be kept strictly confidential." Zhao Feng thought for a while.As for how to keep it secret, it is natural to carry out assembly line production, and we must not let this thing fall into the hands of Cao Jun.

"It should be so!" Zhuge nodded, and then wrote a letter to urge his wife to come as soon as possible without mentioning it.Zhao Feng looked at Zhuge Liang who was writing the letter, but remembered that his wife was still in Hanshou, and he hadn't seen him for almost two years.I don't know if my son has learned to speak now, what will happen when he sees him, and will he admit his birth?At last Liu Bei showed some sympathy for himself, instead of keeping all his wives and children as hostages, he agreed to let Zhen Mi and Diao Chan come to Xichuan to accompany him.But she can't enter Sichuan until the Zhen family's affairs are finished.Thinking about how I have been with my wife for so many years, it is really uncomfortable.

Thinking of this, Zhao Feng also sighed lightly.After finishing his official duties with Zhuge Liang, Zhao Feng told A Liang to take care of his body, and he returned home in Chengdu.This house is the one built by Liu Yan in the past, and its magnificence is far better than that of Hanning Hou Mansion in Nanzheng and Zhanglu.After he entered Xichuan, the house was rightfully inherited by Zhao Yun, the current prefect of Hanzhong.And just now Zhao Yun sent a letter to inform him that he will formally marry Ma Yunlu next month.

"You lolicon!" Zhao Feng casually walked into Xiao Qiao's room while despising Zhao Yun's character.As soon as he entered the door, he heard a faint sigh from inside, which belonged to Xiao Qiao.

(End of this chapter)