After Jing Yi was awarded the title of the head, just seven or eight days later, Meng Xin was dejectedly carrying more than 5,000 remaining soldiers and all the weapons that were returned. Because of the rewarded property for helping with the war, he returned to Qinzang and Jiandong counties, the two counties of Jianning County and Yongchang County.

This area is the main sphere of influence of his brother Mengchang, spanning two counties. Among them, Jiandong County on the side of Yongchang County is a basin plain in a mountainous area. The population is relatively fertile, roughly equivalent to the scope of Chuxiong, a prefecture-level city in later generations. The core power of the Mengchang tribe is here.

After the Three Kingdoms period was divided into two counties in Yongchang and Yunnan, Jiandong County was also promoted to the county seat of Yunnan County. It can be seen that this place is still relatively important within a radius of one or two hundred miles.

Before Meng Xin brought his troops back, he had already notified Mengchang of the situation through the courier of the horse, so Mengchang was mentally prepared to know Jing Yi's destruction and Li Su's thunderous wrist.

But when he welcomed his younger brother back outside the east gate of Jiandong County and saw with his own eyes that the troops he sent were half of the number, Mengchang couldn't help but gasp:

"Why have so many people been lost? Then can Li Su and Guan Yu still kill the surrender and detain the prisoners?"

Meng Xin quickly made a gesture of silence: "Brother, don't think too much. Our army has suffered losses in combat. When fighting with Guan Yu, more than a thousand casualties were injured. Later, after all, he helped Guan Yu attack Tonglao County and fight with Jingyi, and more than a thousand were lost.

After the war, one or two thousand people were incorporated by Guan Yu and Li Su as agreed because of their good combat performance, but there were only more than 5,000 people left. On the Yueling side, E Shun's fate was even worse than ours, so it would be good to come back like this.

It’s all my fault that we were deceived by Jing Yi. Alas, if we didn’t accept Guan Yu’s surrender at the beginning, and when Liu Bei got the grain stored around Dianchi Lake, the rear army would come from water, we just wanted to lose both sides with Guan Yu and would have no chance, and we would have been wiped out."

Mengchang was a little furious: "Second brother! Why do you increase your ambitions in others? Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. Jing Yi is confused. He is not as familiar with the geography as the enemy in Jianning. He is surrounded by people in the valley. That is because he is incompetent. I think Li Su and Guan Yu may not be invincible. We have surrendered and admitted our mistakes. He still needs so many? It's really too much."

Meng Xin was depressed when he heard this, and felt that he was not human at both ends, so he had to let his elder brother understand the situation: "Brother! You haven't seen Li Su's magical weapon fall from the sky with your own eyes! Lushui, Tushui, crossing the river for 800 miles! Not to mention anything else, who can do that in our southerners can cross Lu so far without being poisoned to death? No locals can do it. Li Suzhen has the help of God! He can't die well if he is an enemy of God!"

Mengchang was also convinced by four or five points, but still couldn't accept it. He argued angrily: "Why should our gods in the south help an outsider in Yanzhao? If I think about it, the sayings of ghosts and gods may not be without bluff.

Then Li Su might be extremely vicious. He sent tens of thousands of people to cross Luyaohou. He didn't know how many people were poisoned on the way. In the end, only six or seven thousand people survived to Dianchi Lake. He just pretended to be fat!"

Fortunately, Mengchang was half a squadron, and he didn't know much about literacy, and could not speak idioms like "military and polite, and he was careless and careless", so after holding it in for a long time, he only wrote a "violent and vicious" to describe Li Su.

Unfortunately, his last fantasy was cruelly shattered by the words from his younger brother.

"Impossible, Li Su is definitely really helpful at first, I thought he was just a surprise attack on the Lu army. But after we surrendered and on the eve of being released, we were taken to Muma County and saw hundreds of cargo ships with our own eyes, all of which were more than three meters long and one meter wide, and could carry thousands of pounds.

Hundreds of thousands of kilograms of trade goods, including pepper, fine salt, and Shujin ironware, and rewarded us with tens of thousands of kilograms of pepper and salt and thousands of kilograms of Shujin as compensation for helping the war. If Li Sude had to pay a lot of casualties to cross Lu, how could he have gone to Lushui to transport goods for thousands of miles to do business?

If the lives of ordinary soldiers are not as valuable as those of city officials, I believe it, but if the lives of people are not as valuable as those of goods reselling, it is worthwhile to risk being poisoned to do business, I absolutely do not believe it."

It turned out that before Meng Xin was released, Li Su specially showed him his muscles: because the war ended earlier than expected, he was released to Zhuti's supply fleet for grain transport for the second time. Li Su directly ordered them to transport some trade goods to show the barbarians that "the Han army has completely controlled the shipping of Lushui, and can easily and at low cost in the future to reinforce the Dianchi Basin in Jianning County," so that the barbarians would not have a sense of intention.

"Li Su can use the Lushui Channel to do business and go directly to Muma County near Dianchi Lake." The lethality of this news really shocked Mengchang even more than Jing Yi's destruction.

You should know that in previous years, the price of goods such as salt from Shu in Jianning, Nanzhong would increase by seven or eight times. When transported to the most remote Gaoligong Mountain in Yongchang, it would increase by more than ten times compared to Chengdu. It is because since ancient times, it has been hiking and carrying goods/carrying loads on the mountain road in Weixian County, and the freight is too expensive.

The price increase of Shu Jin is smaller, but mainly because the value density of Shu Jin is already high and full of salt. On the road, the goods may only be worth one thousand yuan, and the shipping fee may be only five or six thousand yuan when you reach Dianchi Lake seven times. And a Shu Jin shoulder pole may be worth tens of thousands of yuan, and the shipping fee has just doubled when you arrive in Dianchi Lake. However, Shu Jin sales are low and it is impossible to pick more, otherwise it will not be sold.

Confirming this information means that the benefits of cooperation with Li Su will be much greater in the future. After all, the Southern Barbarians currently do not master the technology of building merchant ships that can sail long distances in the Jinsha River, nor are there enough sailors familiar with the relevant waterways being updated the fastest. Mobile::

The waterways were built by Guoyuan between Wudao and Tanglang, and repairing dangerous shoals. Only Guoyuan's men knew best how to drive a ship to a dangerous shoal. These hidden knowledge cannot be explored slowly, but the barbarians had to bypass the Han people and find out by themselves. They could not do it without overturning a hundred boat and drowning a thousand or eight hundred sailors.

With the efficiency of information dissemination in the late Han Dynasty and Li Su's confidentiality awareness, the official monopoly on the shipping interests of Nanzhong Shanglu for five years is absolutely possible. As long as Li Su reduces the freight by 20% by 30% compared to carrying cargo by land, he can form absolute competitiveness.

Mengchang was completely cowardly.

How can you resist Li Su?

Mengchang finally decided: "Well... this time we were blind and listened to Jing Yi, and was defeated. He was conscripted and had a total of 5,000 children. His vitality was severely damaged. We also accepted it. Li Su had other conditions in the future, and it was not impossible to discuss. But it was a loss for our family to give in so much.

Jianning, there are more than our family in Yongchang's territory. If other tribes do not need to "draw one strong family" to serve as soldiers for the Han army, it will take less than a few years for our young and strong warriors to be drawn away, and other tribes are not drawn. How can we gain a foothold in Nanzhong? Why do we try to delay and see how the situation in Yuezhi people, and also see how the Baiyi tribes in Yongchang react." The fastest update is computer::/

Mengchang estimated that the Yueli people would not surrender too quickly, because Li Su's interests in the Lushui Commercial Road could not benefit the Yueli people. (The part above the Jinsha River was unavailable to navigate until the Republic of China)

So even if E Shun was detained, Gao Yi would definitely continue to be the local emperor. For him, it would be nothing more than completely destroying the ten thousand people who reinforced Jing Yi. Even if Li Su spent a lot of effort to calm Yueli, there were no special products and treasures in that place. At most, there were some Qiongzhu, which was not worth it at all.

Meng Xin heard his brother's procrastination attitude, for fear that his brother would annoy Li Su further, so he further showed up and said, "Brother, we have no future to be scheming with the Han people... Let me tell you the truth. Before Li Su let me come back, I expected that you might find excuses to delay.

At that time, he warned me that if you delay, you would ask your descendants to study in Jiangzhou, Bajun, and learn to learn literacy with the Han Confucian scholars. The teenage son and nephew who were over 10 years old could be released after studying in Jiangzhou for six years, and the children under ten years old could be released after studying with Han people for ten years. Otherwise, he would still be regarded as one of the same thoughts as Jing Yi and Gao Yi.

Li Su also said that in the future, such tribal chiefs must choose heirs among the children who have read the Han Shu and learn Chinese characters, and cannot pass the throne to those who have not read the Han Shu. If anyone refuses, he will raise an army to attack him and change the rank of officials."

Mengchang was shocked and felt a little more awe at the Han people's enemy's planes. It turned out that he wanted to delay time, but the enemy had long expected it... He couldn't read a lot of words, and he really made it a little bit more scheming with the Han people...

Li Su now has all the food stored in the Dianchi Plain, so there is no need to transport food from Shu for military offense. It is absolutely fine to continue to maintain the offensive for three months. It would be bad if he hit the knife.

But Mengchang was afraid of being replaced by others, so after thinking about it, she would just think that she had given birth to a son.

He said to Meng Xin: "Then let Jie'er go to Li Su's place to learn Chinese books. He said that Huo'er is still young and is not even old enough to study. When will Li Su release my eldest son back in the future, I will let the second son study again."

Make sure that there is always a son around you and will not be cut off. Mengchang feels that this is enough to keep this backhand. If you achieve great things, it is not important to die a son.

Moreover, giving his son to him is considered a statement. If other tribes don’t give him to his son, he will kill other tribes by Li Su. Anyway, in the territory of Yongchang and Jianning, the strength of Mengchang and other tribe chiefs cannot be lost.

In the late Han Dynasty, the southwestern Yi in Jianning and Yongchang can be roughly divided into Kunming Yi and Ailao Yi.

Those who are not familiar with these ethnic divisions can simplify the summary of Kunming Yi, which is located in the core of Kunming Basin. As far as the later generations, Chuxiong was closer to the Han people and had a higher degree of sinicization, that is, the "black Yi" in the later generations of Nanzhao and Dali era.

Ailaoyi was mainly in the later years of Baoshan, Dali, that is, western Yunnan. In the Nanzhao/Dali era, it was changed to "Baiyi" and the degree of sinicization was even lower.

Ailao Baiyi was divided into two parts. One of them stayed in Yongchang and surrendered to the Han court. The other part launched a rebellion during the reign of Emperor Zhang of Han. He was driven to the other side of Gaoligong Mountain by Kunmingyi who obeyed the Han court, and established the Shan Kingdom alone, becoming the later Myanmar.

The tribe of Mengchang and his son Meng Huo was the Heiyi of Kunming. In the future, the wife of Zhurong, who was won over by Meng Huo's marriage, was even more relocated to the west, which was Ailao Baiyi.

The commonly known name of Black and White Wild is mainly because Black and White Wild is easier to trade with the Han people to buy simple dyes and wear dyed black cloths, while White Wild Wild is more difficult to obtain dyes and dyed fabrics through trade. Readers who have watched "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" or played "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", it is easy to understand the difference between Black and White Wild Wild.

It is estimated that when Jin Yong wrote "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the staff and ministers around Duan Zhengchun were all black and white, and the sword Baifeng was white. This setting was also copied from Meng Huo and Zhurong.

Of course, Meng Huodu is still a child under ten years old, and Zhu Rong is probably still liquid. So now there is still a big conflict between the Heiyi of Kunming and the Baiyi of Ailao, and there is no marriage formed.

What Mengchang was most afraid of was that the Kunming black idiot was drawn by Li Su, and the Ailao Baiyi could not return to Wang Hua without being drawn by blood. As a result, their black idiot could not defeat Baiyi in the future.

If Li Suneng strictly enforces the law on Ailao Baiyi after he surrenders to his son, and even allows his Meng family to help the court enforce the law, then the Meng family will still be valuable if they bow their heads and give in.

PS: It's even later today... After watching the bigger data from the previous two days, I guess everyone thinks that fighting with the barbarians has not been able to watch for too long, and they don't know the NPC, so I quickly remediate and modify it, so that Jing Yi was decisively killed and a short war scene.
Chapter completed!