Li Qie was Qian Yunshu's confidant, and he was familiar with the affairs of the Qiang and Eastern Barbarian tribes, and had close contact with the Qiang people. Of course, Zhu Zhi treated Li Qie as a coolie. They rested at Yezhuping and asked Li.
Let's take two followers and rush to Jiuli Town to report the news.
At noon, Zhufengtang's spies who were lurking in Jiuli Town under the pretense of purchasing mountain goods came from a remote trail to meet them and reported: "Two days ago, Qian Yunshu sent people to Jiuli Town ahead of you. I don't know what to say.
What is it, but there is no movement in Jiuli Town for the time being..."
After taking a quick look at the face of the visitor, Zhu Tong came forward happily and said, "Su Qiucheng said you were also in Qionglai Mountain, but I didn't expect it to be you personally lurking in Jiuli Town!"
Xu Huai married Wang Xuan, and Wang Fan served as a counselor in the court, and assisted each other with Jing and Xiang. The Wang family not only spent hundreds of thousands of money and grain to support the construction of the fortress when they settled in Nancai, but also moved the entire family there
Nancai and other places have spread their branches and actively participated in local governance, naturally becoming a very important force in Beijing and Xiangzhou.
Wang Xingyuan's grandfather Wang Wenchong was the head of the Wang clan, and his father Wang Mingqi had just been promoted to Duzhi to join the army. However, within Jingxiang, Xu Huai did not intend to be too partial to the children of the three surnames.
Anyone who wants to be reused must rely on their true merits and achievements, even direct descendants of the third surname like Wang Xingyuan are no exception.
Of course, it is an indisputable fact that the children surnamed Wang have more opportunities to perform than ordinary generals.
Wang Xingyuan was one of the few people in the Wang family who was good at wielding sticks and guns. He spent the first two years training in a samurai house. He preferred the method of scouting and reconnaissance. After that, he joined the Military Intelligence Department and went on several dangerous missions. He was promoted
For the capital
Will.
Wang Xingyuan greeted Zhu Zhi and Zhu Tong, and gave a detailed report on the situation in Jiuli Town in recent days.
Su Qiucheng asked:
"Is there any new news from Zhang Canjun?"
"Here is Zhang Canjun's letter." Wang Xingyuan took out the secret letter from his sleeve and handed it to Su Qiucheng. He had read the secret letter in advance and said, "What Zhang Canjun meant in the letter is that we should continue to secretly spread the Red Husbands' plunders."
News from the Central Plains to see how things are changing..."
Su Qiucheng nodded, took the secret letter, read it carefully, and handed it to Zhu Zhi. Zhu Tong browsed it and said after a while: "The Qingqiang tribes have been assimilated to the Central Plains to some extent, and some of them share the same hatred and hatred as our generation."
People - When we marched westward, the envoy also told us to try our best to get as many people to stand in the same trench to resist foreign aggression. In addition to secretly spreading the news, the eldest son should also preach more to Qiao Guanyuan and others after arriving in Jiuli.
The great duty of resisting insults is to wait until the right time to reveal the Chihu people's southward march to the Tubo Highlands..."
More than 400 years ago, when the Tubo tribes had just merged, they had experienced several wars and wars with the Central Plains. In the past 200 years, the Tubo dynasty fell apart. Except for a small number of people in Minshan and other places, they still maintained normal contact and exchanges with the Central Plains.
, the vast majority of the Tubo tribe's impression of the Central Plains is still about three or four hundred years ago, how much identification can they expect with Dai Viet?
The remnants of the Khitan moved south this time, which touched upon the most fundamental survival interests of the Tubo tribes. Therefore, Xu Huai never thought of wooing the Tibetan tribes to jointly resist the Red Husbands, and even believed that Tubo was divided and weak.
The tribes will soon fall to the Red Husbands.
However, the southwestern tribes and southwestern tribes descended from Qin and Han Dynasties
, the exchanges and contacts with the Central Plains have never been interrupted. Xu Huai not only hopes that they can stand up and participate in the front to resist the Red Hu people, but in the longer term, he even hopes to completely integrate the Southwest Hu people under the rule of the Central Plains dynasty instead of
Do simple things.
Previously, Jingxiang did not have a legitimate name to intervene in Qionglai Mountain, and many things could not be made public and could only be carried out secretly. At this time, Zhu Zhi represented the imperial court as Lizhou Sihu and joined the army. Of course, he could openly test and observe the tendencies of Qiao Guanyuan and other tribal leaders.
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However, many things are always easier said than done.
Take the gentry of the Manchu Dynasty as an example. Almost all of them did not know the principle of jointly resisting foreign aggression. However, Jingxiang hoped that they would exploit the people at the bottom less and bear more tax obligations, so that the generals who fought bloody battles on the battlefield could obtain their due status.
and respect, but how many people regard Jingxiang as enemies?
But it was the scholars and scholars in the fallen areas such as Hehuai who were actually trampled by the iron hooves of the Red Guards. They deeply felt that their fate before the disaster was as low as grass and mustard, and was no nobler than the mud-legged people at the bottom. Only then can they have a deeper understanding of Beijing.
It is urgent and necessary to implement many new policies.
Zhu Zhi was a little worried that today's Qionglai Mountains would be like the Jianye City that had not been affected by the war for the time being and was even becoming more prosperous. Under the iron hooves of the Chihu people, the swords stepped on their bodies and were placed on their necks.
Before the pain of being mercilessly trampled and slaughtered penetrates deep into their bones, the tribal leaders may be more worried that the imperial court's tightened control over Lizhou will infringe on their interests.
Everyone took a brief rest and set off again in the afternoon. Along the way, Wang Xingyuan described in more detail the activities that secretly spread the Red Husband these days.
The news of the people ravaging the Central Plains caused repercussions in Jiuli Town and other places.
Qionglai Mountain is not very isolated, and the news of the Chihu people's southward invasion has long spread in the mountains, but the Qingqiang tribes still subconsciously regard Qionglai Mountain as a paradise, and do not think that the war in the Central Plains will affect them.
Wang Xingyuan and his people pretended to be merchants who came to Jiuli Town from the Central Plains area. In addition to telling the locals about the cruelty of the Chihu people, they also focused on promoting the Chihu people's wanton plunder of the invaded areas and their determination to eliminate all threats.
It focuses on describing to the local people how the Chihu people, after breaking through the defense line in the West Qinling Mountains and advancing into Hanzhong, Chengdu and other places, will go south along the Qingyi River to Jiazhou, and the war will spread to the Qionglai Mountains.
Wangshan ran to kill the cow, climbed over Daxiangling Yezhuping, and clearly saw Jiuli Town right at the nose and nose, but it was almost late in the day before the group crossed the river from Jinkou on the left bank of Songlin River and entered Jiuli Town.
Not wanting to cause unnecessary resentment, Wang Xingyuan left by another side road before that. Wang Xingyuan also planned to lead his men disguised as merchants to leave Jiuli Town in the short term, cross the Dadu River to Wulinchang on the south bank, and meet the people there in Shiju.
Contact with the Qingqiangling clan.
After Li Qie reported the news in advance, Qiao Guanyuan, the leader of the Qiao clan of Qingqiang and the hereditary governor of Lizhou who was conferred by the imperial court, personally led a group of tribesmen to wait in front of the dock on the right bank of Songlin River.
Qiao Guan, who is in his fifties, is wearing a traditional black narrow-sleeved and floral right-cardigan blouse of the Qingqiang ethnic group, pleated wide-leg trousers, a blue square handkerchief on his head, and a short knife with a silver ivory handle on his waist. He is tall and tall.
They have dark skin and no beards on their chins. The Qingqiang people do not have the habit of growing beards.
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The seven or eight people around Qiao Guanyuan were dressed similarly to him, and they should be the stewards of the Qiao family. However, the sixty or seventy people behind him were all majestic, wearing thick rhinoceros leather armor, carrying scimitars at their waists, and carved bows on their backs.
Holding a war spear, they are the elite soldiers of the Qiao clan.
The Qingqiang and Eastern Barbarian tribes are generally docile in the Qionglai Mountains and have no disrespect for the imperial court. Most of the tributes can be paid as scheduled. Even if there are delays, they are mostly caused by unexpected factors such as heavy rains, but this does not mean that there is no internal peace among the tribes.
There were no disputes, and they were even quite frequent.
The imperial court also implemented the policy of using barbarians to control barbarians in the Jizhou Prefectures in the southwest. In addition to Qiao Guanyuan, the imperial court also conferred twenty or thirty fictitious titles such as governor, just to make them dislike each other and start a fight from time to time.
As for threatening the security of the hinterland.
The clan soldiers beside Qiao Guanyuan are quite fierce.
But it was the elite soldiers from Jingxiang who were pretending to be soldiers of the Zhu family who boarded the pier. A dozen people guarded Zhu Zhi, Zhu Tong and Su Qiucheng, while the others walked straight to the desolate slope to the north of the pier.
This place is located outside the main village of Jiuli Town, next to the mouth of Songlin River. More than a hundred elites from Beijing and Xiangzhou who pretended to be soldiers entered the mountain this time. Each of them was carrying a large amount of supplies. The journey was slow due to the long journey through mountains and rivers, less than three hundred miles.
It took nine days to walk on the mountain road.
At this time, everyone unpacked the baggage they had carried with them into the mountain, took out their axes and felled trees, and quickly made several simple wooden horses with sharp spears to block several gaps that were relatively easy to enter and exit the barren slopes.
More people took out shovels and other tools and started clearing weeds and shrubs on the waste slopes and clearing the campsites.
There were also several people who collected dry firewood and used the firewood they brought with them to make firewood.
They set fire to charcoal and lit several bonfires on the barren slope before dark.
Zhu Zhi only sent Li Qie to Jiuli Town an hour or two in advance to formally notify him of his appointment. Qiao was not necessarily ready to respond, and logically had no obligation to prepare food for so many soldiers, children, and servants accompanying Zhu Zhi.
Accommodation——
After Li Qie introduced the identities of Qiao Guanyuan and others, seeing the astonishment on Qiao Guanyuan and others' faces as they watched the many actions of the family soldiers, Zhu Zhi calmly held up his hands and said:
"Since the Hulu invaded the south, my father was driven by the late emperor to communicate in various war zones. These soldiers followed my father from north to south and experienced many dangers. I don't know how many times they fought fiercely with enemy soldiers along the way. They cleared the way through the mountains.
It is instinct to build bridges when encountering water. As long as there are one or two hundred mountain bandits and Lin Kou, they are really not enough to look down on. When I went to Lizhou this time, my mother was worried about the deep ravines in the Qionglai Mountains and the wild beasts that would bite people, so she insisted on sending a family soldier.
Protect the left and right, and make the king of the state laugh..."
Although Qiao Guanyuan's title of governor of Lizhou is a false title and worthless, and there are thirty or forty others with the same title in Lizhou, it is not wrong for Zhu Zhi to be regarded as the king of the state.
Qiao Guanyuan looked at these soldiers. After eight or nine days of long journey, they were still vigorously cleaning the campsite without any signs of fatigue. He did not dare to let go until he fully understood Zhu Zhi's purpose.
The tiger and wolf soldiers all walked into the main stronghold, and immediately invited Zhu Zhi and others to have a banquet with a serious look on their faces. He would arrange for someone else to carry the drinks and dishes out of the stronghold to reward these soldiers.
