With Gongsun Du being officially exiled to Jeju Island to eat bison, this also means that Dong Zhuo's efforts to make things difficult for Liu Bei's camp were eventually dismantled one by one and turned into a bubble.

Mi Zhu insisted on choosing Jeju Island as the exile site, and it was also carefully considered: he had learned about the temperament of Gongsun Du through Xu Rong, knew that Gongsun Du had been the governor of Jizhou, and his style was iron-fisted, and he was a cruel person with quite political means.

If Gongsun Du was only exiled to the south of Dingfang County, which is the land of the Three Hans on the south bank of the Han River, perhaps this person was really capable of becoming the master of the Three Hans in just a few years, and would have attracted tens of thousands of young and strong Dongyi, and there might not be no chance of turning the tables.

However, exiled to Jeju Island, the barbarian population on Jeju Island was less than 10,000 and could not grow rapidly. Moreover, Mi Zhu did not leave any shipbuilding craftsmen for Gongsun Du. Relying on the unintentional calculator, he could only build some small wooden boats that could fish in the sea.

It is no different to expecting such a ship to cross the narrowest strait, which is 150 miles wide. Mi Zhu firmly controls the navy and can ensure that he is not afraid of Gongsun Du causing waves for at least ten years.

It is relatively fast to build an army by poor people. As long as there are populations and enough people to be strong, they can grow rapidly even if they catch strong men. The navy is a luxury for rich people. Mi Zhu was born in a wealthy businessman and his combat effectiveness is not good. Of course, he knows to use his naval advantages to beat the poor warlords.

Of course, there are also disadvantages of doing this, that is, when you taste the sweetness, you are prone to path dependence, and when you find that money can solve problems, you pay more attention to money. In the end, the technology tree may also become a bit wrong, and move into the historical development logic of a naval power like the British and Japanese.

But it doesn't matter. Anyway, Mi Zhu is just a patriarch, and the main tone of the world in the future depends on the center of the court. It is also a good thing that Mi Zhu can open up a new possibility for the development direction of China.

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Let’s stop talking and everything goes smoothly in Liaodong, and then turn your attention back to Jianwei County in the southwest.

In early June 191, Li Su, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led his troops south to Jianwei.

Zhang Feitun’s road and Guan Yu’s road in Jiangyang began a two-month pre-war preparation and training camp, striving to finally adapt to the away game environment before entering Nanzhong.

After Liu Bei entered Sichuan, he had been recuperating for almost a year and basically had no troops to move. When he fought with Liu Yan last year, the real fierce battle did not last long, so the civil power in the Chengdu Plain had almost returned to the level before the battle with Liu Yan.

If Liu Bei needs it, he would also be able to recruit 100,000 combat troops now. But the scale of mobilization in the Battle of Southern Central this year is still controlled within the scope of "only more than 10,000 troops at the same time".

Mainly because of the logistics difficulties of Nanzhong? Even though Guoyuan has prepared for military farming in Zhuti waterway and dangerous shoals along the coast for half a year, it is still not enough to support too many large troops.

When Zhuge Liang attacked Meng Huo in later generations, his total force was actually less than 20,000. There were still thousands of people in it, which were originally placed in Yongchang County and supported the Han court, and there were also two or three thousand partial troops from Ma Zhong to deal with the Xiang County.

Therefore, in history, Zhuge Liang's main force was definitely not more than 15,000. Moreover, as long as Zhuge Liang arrived in Yongchang, he could eat the food given by Li Hui. This advantage does not exist in Li Su and Guan Zhang today? Yongchang is still in a state of being in Liu Bei at all.

This time? Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also plan to lead 5,000 combat troops each, and Li Su will lead 2,000 people to follow the guards, with a total force of 12,000. We will take advantage of this winter to take at least Jianning County and Yongchang County. For Yueli and Jingwang, which have no economic value, it will mainly deterrent? If there is no time, let’s talk about it next winter. Li Su really doesn’t want to go deep into the 100,000 mountains in person.

Guan Yu's 5,000 troops were Gao Shun as the deputy, mainly Han soldiers from Yizhou, and they were already selected as high-quality soldiers as possible. Before leaving, Guan Yu also explained to them that this time, he performed well and could be promoted to the newly expanded camp.

Once you enter the camp, you can wear iron armor and use the Sword of the Horse. The survival rate can be greatly improved and the salary will be greatly improved. The current ordinary Han soldiers give 2 stones a month to edify, and subsidize the soldiers' families one stone, a hundred coins a month. After entering the camp, the food can be increased from three stones to five stones? There are 20 kilograms of meat per month, and the monthly salary is also increased to three hundred coins.

Guan Yu promised that among the five thousand people, the best performing 1,600 people would be officially organized into two camps with 800 people each after the war. During the subsequent battle, every time there were grain transport soldiers to replace them, the scale was about two thousand people, which would replace the injuries and diseases in the front-line troops that could not resist.

Then, from the two thousand new people, each time they looked at the combat performance, they selected 800 people, and were rotated until the 4,000 people needed for the camp after the expansion of the army were full, and they performed better and promoted first. Guan Yu had always been kind to the soldiers and knew what the soldiers wanted. The reward was reasonable and very attractive to the soldiers.

Because Zhang Fei was not very good at treating small soldiers and his military management methods were relatively simple and crude, the method of leading troops to "tempt soldiers to work hard by promotion" was not suitable for him. Therefore, this time Zhang Fei led all the Qing Qiang soldiers and Banyan barbarians, that is, the barbarian troops under Liu Bei's tent.

In addition, before departure, Liu Bei was worried that Zhang Fei would be too strict, which led to the barbarians being unable to stand up for whipping and causing trouble, so he discussed with Li Su that he wanted to promote a local general of Banyan Man who was interested in the Han Dynasty to serve as deputy to Zhang Fei. This person does not have to be very capable, but the key is that he has a noble bloodline among Banyan Man and can be able to keep the place.

Later, Li Su screened the He Bi tribe, the largest group in Banyan Man, Brazil, and chose the grandson of He, who was only sixteen or seventeen years old, named Wang Ping, who was promoted to Sima of another branch in an extraordinary way.

When Chief He heard about this appointment, he was extremely grateful. He privately gave Li Su a few thousand kilograms of fragrant wood as a thank-you gift and also gave several beauties a maid. Because he never expected that his grandson, who had not yet become an official, would be so valued by Li Su, and he would lead troops into the group to become a Sima of another department.

Wang Ping himself was also grateful and said that he would definitely help restrain his soldiers under General Zhang and learn the experience of leading troops to fight with General Zhang.

The troops of more than 10,000 people were pieced together to the Tao.

After arriving at the Dao of Jade, Chen Shi, the prefect of Jianwei, came to take the initiative to welcome Li Su, and Guoyuan, the military commander of the military field, also came.

Chen Shi was the person who was the weakest among the four sects of Shu Confucianism. Liu Bei and Liu Yan were both deposed and destroyed the top three of the four sects of Shu Confucianism. He always left a Chen Shi as a pronunciation board to show Liu Bei's kindness so that the locals would doubt Liu Bei's tendency to clean up.

In addition, Chen Shi directly surrendered to Zhao Yun in Jiangyang without blood, so he could work as the prefect of Jianwei for a few more years. Before the Northern Expedition was successful, Liu Bei would not touch him. Even if he wanted to move in the future, he would not be demoted or removed. At most, he would be transferred to the newly recovered county in Nanzhong to be the prefect.

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It was only after Li Su that he had time to analyze the newly discovered information this year and formulate specific plans for subsequent actions. It was also a big blame for the lack of information in Nanzhong. During the two years Liu Yan was appointed as the governor of Yizhou, he was in a state of stock. As long as the southerners did not clearly rebel, Liu Yan would not provoke them.

So when Liu Bei first came, he had no idea how many factions there were in the south, and he didn't even know who to beat and win over anyone.

"Zi Ni, thank you for the past six months. Let me first talk about the strength of the factions in the four counties in the Nanzhong County that you found and their respective attitudes towards the court." Li Su straightforwardly asked Guoyuan, who knew the situation best.

Guoyuan came prepared and took out several scrolls and explained them one by one according to the map: "Governor, the prefects of the four counties in Nanzhong are two of them who were enthroned during the Zhongping period, namely Jianning prefect Jing Yi and Liu Chong.

The other two counties, even the prefect was supported by the local barbarians. In the early years of Zhongping, the imperial court sent the prefect Pan Changbao. Later, due to the rebellion of Baiyi, the prefect Pan died in the war, which happened in the fifth year of Zhongping. Later, the local barbarians of Yueli elected Gao Yi, who had annexed the rebellion of the rebellion, as the county magistrate.

In the first year after Liu Yan entered Shu, he recognized Gao Yi's independence. Gao Yi also followed the flow and paid tribute to Liu Yan's hundreds of douches of fragrant wood and spices. However, because Gao Yi was nearly fifty years old and had a son in his later years, he heard that he had only one youngest son Gao Ding, who was still in his prime. Liu Yan considered that the malaria and barbarians generally lived a shorter lifespan than the Han people, and he also thought that after Gao Yi died, his clans fought for power and regained control of Yueli, but Liu Yan died first, and it was left alone.

The last county magistrate of Yongchang County was named Li Yong during the Guanghe period, but Li Yong requested retirement in the late Xiping because he was old. Then the court appointed Zhang Hua as the prefect of Yongchang, but because he was too precious to plunder the Southern Barbarians, he aroused the barbarian rebellion in the early years of Zhongping and killed him. So much so that Yongchang is now only in the hands of the Meng family and other barbarians, and resists the court.

However, Zhang Hua's predecessor Li Yong, although he retired in the 60s during the Xiping period and is now over 70s, he is still alive and does not care about the world. I heard that Li Yong was originally from Dianjiang, Ba County. When he was in Ba County, he was well aware of the method of chasing Banyan barbarians, and his descendants also had a good relationship with the barbarians.

Although the Li family has no power, if there is a dispute between the Barbarians and the Barbarians cannot be mediated, the Barbarians of each department will still publicly recommend that the Li family send people to arbitration. If we can choose the higher-than-desired person among the descendants of Li Yong, it will be of great benefit to control the largest population of Yongchang County."

Li Su listened patiently. When he heard Guo Yuan say "The King of Yueli, Gao Yi, has a young son, Gao Ding", he kept a heart and thought to himself: Could it be that the power of the southern barbarians is so serious? Nowadays, those barbarian kings and prefects are the fathers and grandfathers of those barbarian kings and prefects when Zhuge Liang fought in the southern expedition thirty years later?

However, this is actually normal, because the southwestern Yi region began to transform from hereditary chieftains to the court until the Ming Dynasty "changed the territory and returned to the flow". The hereditary in the late Han Dynasty was definitely more serious than that in the Tang and Song dynasties.

So, when I heard the Meng family again, Li Su asked: "Who are the descendants of the former Yongchang prefect Li Yong? Is there a list? What are the names of the heads of the Meng family's barbarian tribe? What are the names of the heirs in the clan?"

During the Guoyuan military farming period, the intelligence work was quite done. After picking it up for a while, I quickly found what Li Su wanted.

When Li Su looked at the list, he found that Li Yong had the eldest grandson named Li Hui, and he was less than 20 years old.

The man king of the Meng family's barbarian tribe was named Mengchang, and he had two sons, Meng Jie and Meng Huo.

Why is there no Meng You? Li Su thought that Meng You must be too young and hasn't been born yet.

In addition to these prefects and barbarian kings located on the top floor, there is a long list of dozens of southern barbarian forces behind Guoyuan’s intelligence list, including tens of thousands of households and thousands of households. Li Su didn’t even take a closer look at it, and just browsed it.
Chapter completed!