Wu Huaiyu looked at the head with a solemn expression.
"Someone quietly left a wooden box at the dock just now, with a letter on it. Someone opened it and found a head inside, and reported it to the patrol..."
"Prime Minister, the Huangdong Man rebelled. They issued a declaration of war, and the leader confirmed that it was the envoy we sent to appease them before, a military officer from the Yongzhou Governor's Office."
Ning Chun said to Wu Huaiyu with a heavy heart.
"What's his name?"
"Zhou An, a native of Jingyang, Chang'an, came from the south last year. He is twenty-six years old this year. He is married and has three children. He was also a father-son soldier of the Forbidden Army in Yuan Dynasty..."
Zhou An's background is somewhat similar to Wu Huaiyu's.
Even his hometown is from Bingzhou, Hedong, but he is from Qi County. His father also followed Li Yuan in his early years to go to Guanzhong. Later, he stayed in Guanzhong and divided the fields in Weibei. When he was old, his son Zhou An took his place in the Forbidden Army.
However, in comparison, Zhou An and his wife have always been more ordinary.
Zhou An was also a member of the imperial army who was late in martial arts, but now that it had been six years since Zhenguan, he was still only a ninth-grade military officer in the governor's office.
"I heard that Zhou An is a relatively progressive man. He came all the way to Lingnan because he wanted to make progress in his official career. This time, the Governor's Office wanted to send a group of people to the big hills of left and right streams to appease the chiefs. He also took the initiative to invite them.
, who would have thought that Huang Dongman would actually kill him."
Wu Huaiyu looked at the dead head, holding back a fire in his heart.
He knew that the war was actually started deliberately by Hou Junji.
He wanted peace to be the most important thing and wanted to have a good talk with Zhu Dongman. But now it seems that what he had expected before was right. Things would not calm down so easily. But he also did not expect that Huang Dongman would be the first to jump out.
, and dared to kill the Tang envoy.
When the two countries fought, they did not kill the envoys.
Huang Dong is quite brave.
"Keep Zhou An's head well. I will definitely redeem his body and send it back to his hometown of Jingyang for burial."
Huaiyu planned to personally deal with Zhou An's aftermath, and if the pension was full, he would make up an additional amount.
But the most urgent priority is to redeem Zhou An's body.
"Tell Huang Dongman that I am willing to redeem it for any amount of money."
Wu Huaiyu is not the kind of person who is particularly easy to talk to, and it is impossible for him to do anything in his face.
"Tell me about this Huangdong Man."
Ning Chun is no stranger to Huangdong Barbarians. According to him, Huangdong Barbarians are also called Wuhu Yi. They first lived in the southern Hunan area in the north of Ling Dynasty. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, a large number of people moved south to Lingnan.
Nowadays, they are widely distributed in Yonggui and Guangxi.
The Huangdong barbarians who killed the Tang envoy were only one of the stronger ones. They lived more than 400 miles upstream of Yongzhou. There was a Huangdong barbarian there who was very powerful.
The Huangdong barbarian leader's surname was Huang, so he was also called Huang Jiadong.
The Huangdong Barbarians also belong to a branch of the Xiyuan Barbarians. There are several other major families in the Xiyuan Barbarians, such as the Wei family, the Nong family, and the Zhou family.
They control the Qianli River Basin of left and right rivers,
In the past, under the Jisi control of the imperial court, more than ten Jisi prefectures were established in the Youjiang River, and Huang Weinong and other leaders were granted the title of governor.
Huang Dong, who killed the Tang envoy, was located in Daxin County in later generations, in the middle of the Youjiang River. This was still the territory of Yongzhou, but it was actually the place where the barbarians of the Western Plains were able to govern themselves.
In the past, water from wells did not interfere with water from rivers.
However, there are many conflicts between the Han people and the Han people. The most important conflict is the Yi market. Although they are autonomous, the buying and selling of the Yi people is serious here in Zuoxi. There is not only buying and selling, but also abduction and robbery. Because the place is remote and the economy is backward. ,
Human trafficking has become one of the few relatively profitable industries.
Naturally, most of the buyers are Han Chinese.
However, most of the sellers were barbarians, and various tribes attacked each other, robbed and trafficked people, and the conflicts were extremely deep. Coupled with the local backward handicraft manufacturing industry, this forced Han merchants to transport handmade goods through waterways for sale, carrying out predatory trade. Trade makes the people even more dissatisfied.
Hou Junji served as the governor of Yongzhou for more than a year, and he attacked the barbarians without hesitation and looted them wantonly, which made the barbarians even more dissatisfied.
"Huang Gan, the chief of Huangdong, has claimed to be the king of China and Vietnam. He has received the response and support of more than a hundred barbarians from the Western Plains. The entire left and right rivers have been in chaos, sweeping thousands of miles away."
"Wei Xun calls himself the King of Nanyue, and Nong Dian calls himself the King of Guinan."
"There are four other big lords who also pretend to be kings. Some are called Zhennan King, some are called Tuonan King, and some are called Hainan King and Baiyue King..."
Seven barbarian kings suddenly appeared.
From Zuoyoujiang to Shiwandashan and then to Dunijiang River, Hou Junji can be said to have completely defeated the barbarians. But now that this guy was escorted back to Chang'an by Huaiyu, it was Huaiyu who had to clean up this mess.
Fortunately, he has surpassed the seven kings,
Now only Huang Gan of Huang Jiadong has killed the Tang envoy.
"let's hit."
The matter has come to this, and it is useless to talk more now. We must fight first, and we must severely suppress their arrogance before we can negotiate for recruitment.
The only way left is to exterminate first and then appease.
If they don't show some real skills, they will only try to push the envelope and won't talk to the court at all.
In fact, Wu Huaiyu is not afraid of fighting with barbarians.
Ning Chun is not afraid, and Xi Junmai is even less afraid.
But this battle is not so easy to fight. After all, we cannot sit back and defend the city, we have to take the initiative to attack. The left and right rivers have thousands of miles of watersheds, and the mountains are high and dangerous, especially due to miasma.
This is what the Central Plains people are most afraid of.
The so-called Lingnan and western Guangdong is a wild land with dense virgin forests, hot and humid weather, and miasma. What is this miasma?
According to the summary of the ancients, it is said that the mountains and rivers outside the mountains are sluggish and difficult to escape, so there is a lot of mist causing miasma, which makes people sick and makes the abdomen swell into a cup.
According to this view, it is probably that the high temperature and humid environment in the primeval forest is a hotbed for bacterial reproduction, and the mist with high bacterial concentration in the primeval forest, especially in some valleys, is not easy to disperse, and it accumulates thicker and thicker, causing Very harmful.
For example, there is a lake of death at the bottom of the sea. The salt brine content is so high that underwater creatures will be poisoned and die if they accidentally enter.
On the other hand, the so-called running water does not rot the door hinges and does not cause beetles. In some low-lying swamps and wetlands, miasma and miasma can easily form.
In addition to these, many southern miasmas mentioned by the ancients actually classified malaria, athlete's foot, jaundice, hemorrhagic fever, poisoning, etc. as miasmas.
All diseases in the South are called miasma.
The water and soil of the two rivers in Yongzhou are particularly bad. Miasma occurs all year round. In spring, it is called green grass miasma, in summer, it is called yellow plum miasma, in July, it is called new miasma, and in August and September, it is called yellow grass miasma. The native people regard yellow grass miasma as a particularly poisonous disease.
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It is difficult for outsiders to adapt to the southern weather and they are easily acclimatized.
Secondly, many different living and eating habits make it easy to get sick. If you don't understand it, it is called miasma.
It is by no means easy to carry out a campaign that goes thousands of miles deep.
"To capture the thief, capture the king first, and capture Huang Jiadong first."
Huangjiadong is nearly five hundred miles away from Yongzhou City. It is in the upper reaches of the Heishui River, a tributary of the Zuojiang River. It is already the edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.
There are many mountains and dense forests.
The Huangjiadong area is a plain basin between mountains.
The Zuoyoujiang area is located in the subtropical zone, with high temperatures and rain, and a scourge, with many mountains and little land. There are only some scattered small plains and basins, which are occupied by barbarians.
These villages are roughly the same, surrounded by mountains on all sides, forming an isolated and small plain area. Because the plain is small, each village is relatively scattered, and the population of each village is small.
But it also makes these barbarians easy to defend and difficult to attack.
But for Wu Huaiyu, the war has begun, and the battle must be fought no matter how difficult it is.
"Everywhere the sun and moon shine, and wherever the rivers reach, are all the concubines of the Han family. If the Huang family dares to kill my Tang envoy and pretend to be the king of China and Vietnam, I must personally take his head and present it to Chang'an Palace!"
