Chapter 124 Raise the wizard for a thousand days and use the face of the wizard (seeking the moon)
Chapter 124: Raise a great wizard for a thousand days, and look like a great wizard (please vote for me!)
Soon, Ma Su figured out the location of the grain based on the markings on the map.
But before borrowing food, you still need to plan carefully.
In fact, in the vast uncivilized land of the Southwest, there are many loosely organized barbarian tribes, large or small, and there is no agreed-upon alliance between the various tribes.
Among these tribes, there are five tribes with big surnames that are the most powerful, namely Yong, Lou, Cuan, Meng, and Mao. In the first year of Jianxing, Meng Huo rebelled against the Shu Han and became rampant for a while. He was the last leader of the Meng tribe.
These five large tribes occupied a large part of the resources in Nanzhong and had a large number of armed forces. In the third year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang led his army to conquer the south. After defeating Meng Huo, the other four tribes also expressed their surrender.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang selected a group of strong men from each of the five major tribes and incorporated them into the Shu army to form the Wudang Flying Army, which followed the Shu Han's northern expedition. At the same time, he also moved some barbarians out of the south and resettled them in Shu.
But there are more barbarians staying in the Nanzhong area.
The Shu Han did not completely control Nanzhong.
Due to the rugged roads and dense jungles in the southwest, each tribal leader only superficially rules his surrounding areas. The cave masters scattered in each cave are the actual rulers of the clan society. Therefore, the Nanman tribe is not a unified one.
Tribal Alliance.
This is also one of the three reasons why the Southern Barbarians stood idly by when the Shu Han was destroyed in the original time and space.
Even if they want to rescue, they must first unite other tribes before they can send troops together. But who will unite the tribes? No one!
Another reason is that the barbarians are only slightly attached to the Shu Han and are not part of the county system of the Shu Han government. The Shu Han only uses the strategy of "using barbarians to control barbarians" to govern Nanzhong. The barbarian people are not directly ruled by the Shu Han.
This resulted in their low recognition and loyalty to the Shu Han regime.
In addition, the Southern Barbarian tribes have no ambition to dominate the world. They just want to protect their own one-third of an acre. No matter whether the ruler is Shu Han or Cao Wei, for them, it is just a nominal boss. The time has come.
It doesn't matter how you live, it won't affect you at all.
The last reason is that it's too late.
Because they were directly taken away from home, the Shu Han Dynasty perished so quickly that no effective response could be made. The southern barbarian tribes, thousands of miles away, had just learned that hundreds of thousands of troops from Shu and Wei were locked in a stalemate at Jiange.
, and then received the news that the Kingdom of Shu was dead.
The big crystal exploded, who can do anything?
The most important thing is that even if the Southern Barbarians are willing to help the Shu Han, it will not have much effect. Because the Southern Barbarians' army is not very effective in all aspects of combat.
Since the Southern Barbarian tribes were still in a primitive society and a slave society, their productivity was low, their iron smelting technology was backward, and their equipment was outdated. When facing the well-equipped, large-scale, and organized Central Plains army, the barbarian warriors who did not follow military discipline and fought independently won the victory.
The probability is quite low.
This is also the main reason why Meng Huo was captured alive seven times.
Food is the original sin.
But Meng Huo was actually the most capable person in the Southern Barbarian tribe.
If Meng Huo is like this, one can imagine the fighting power of other tribes.
Therefore, when he learned that Deng Ai's troops were approaching Chengdu, Liu Chan's first reaction was to surrender instead of resisting or retreating south.
Even if we retreat to Nanzhong, the outcome will not be different.
It was based on this theory that Ma Su couldn't wait to build roads in the counties of Nanzhong. After the road was built, no matter recruiting troops, raising food, or developing Nanzhong, there would be no harm.
Even the speed of national integration can be greatly accelerated.
Not to mention that Nanzhong is rich in resources, rich in gold, silver, elixir, lacquer, as well as cattle, war horses and other materials. These things are too important for the poor Shu Han.
The poorer you are, the more you need to make up for it.
However, the most important thing right now is borrowing food.
After confirming that a large amount of grain was behind in Loudi, a hundred miles to the southwest, Ma Su called three major generals to discuss countermeasures.
Zhang Xiu was an upright person and immediately proposed to lead his troops to rob the enemy openly.
Li Sheng shook his head and retorted: "General, I think it is inappropriate to do this. Using force to seize food not only seems to be bullying the weak, but will also leave a bad impression on the barbarians. It is better to send someone to investigate first."
Let’s discuss the details of Lou Di!”
Huang Xi took over the conversation and said: "The general will have a plan at the end, maybe it can be done without any bloodshed, let Brother Lou Di obediently deliver the food!"
"What's the plan? Let me tell you!" Ma Su was surprised.
Huang Xi said confidently: "The general can send an envoy to the Loudi tribe and tell them that the imperial court is building roads so that the barbarians can live a good life. They are short of food today and temporarily borrow 20,000 shi from the tribe. If he borrows
It's just food; if he refuses to borrow it, it means that he has evil intentions and has two intentions towards the court, and it won't be too late to use the excuse to send troops to attack him!"
When Ma Su heard this, he immediately felt that this plan was very clever, so he followed Huang Xi's suggestion and appointed Zhang Xiu to ride a fast horse and take only a few thousand soldiers with him to quickly go to Loudi to borrow food.
When they heard that the Han envoys were coming, Loudi and his tribe set up lanterns and streamers outside the tribe, poured water on the road, and waited on both sides of the road early to await the arrival of the Han envoys.
After a while, Zhang Xiu, surrounded by more than a thousand soldiers, galloped from the east.
As soon as they met, he politely said to the leader Lou Di: "I am Zhang Xiu, a senior general under the command of the Prime Minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, the governor of Yongzhou, and the general of Zhenbei, Ma Di."
Having said this, Zhang Xiu paused deliberately and carefully observed Lou Di's reaction.
Lou Di was about forty years old, short in stature, with a long beard, and the big loose braids unique to the Southern Barbarians. When he heard such a long name prefix, he immediately stood in awe, bowed his hands in salute, and hurriedly welcomed Zhang Xiu in.
Tribe, good wine and good food to entertain.
The local wine has passed three rounds, and the wild vegetables have passed the five flavors.
Zhang Xiu stopped his chopsticks and said solemnly: "The imperial court is currently building roads and bridges for the tribes in Nanzhong. We are short of food. I will temporarily lend you 20,000 dan of food from your tribe. When the road is completed in the future, I will return the original amount!"
As soon as he heard this, Lou Di's face turned bitter, his eyes were straight, his arms seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't even lift chopsticks. He thought to himself: "Is it the imperial court's business to build roads? I, Lou Di, have nothing to do with it.
Why should I lend the food I have saved so hard to the imperial court? But if I don’t lend it, I will offend Mr. Ma behind the general. What should I do?"
After much discussion, in order not to offend Zhang Xiu, Lou Di said: "General, it is not difficult to borrow food. As long as the general can convince my third brother, I will lend you the food. If you refuse, I cannot lend you the food."
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Zhang Xiu was eager to borrow food and was overjoyed when he heard this: "I wonder where Chief Lou's third brother is now?"
Lou Di smoothed his beard with his hand and said slowly: "Fifty miles to the west from here is the tribe of my third brother Lou Ban. His tribe has much more food than my tribe. The general can go there and give it a try. As long as
My third brother is willing to borrow it, so I will too!"
Zhang Xiu smiled when he heard this: "What's so difficult about this? Just watch it, Chief Lou!"
After that, he said goodbye to Loudi, led the soldiers all the way to the west, and arrived at Louban's tribe in the afternoon.
Lou Ban received him warmly. After asking about his purpose, he smiled and said: "It's easy to borrow food. As long as the general can convince my second brother to borrow food, I will lend it to you."
Zhang Xiu was startled when he heard this: "But I wonder where the second brother of leader Lou Ban is?"
Lou Ban raised his hand and pointed to the northwest: "My second brother Lou Ding is eighty miles away in the northwest. His tribe is much richer than mine. General, you might as well try it. As long as my second brother is willing to borrow, I will not break my promise."
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Zhang Xiu had no choice but to continue on the road with his troops and horses. On the morning of the third day, he arrived at the tribe in Louding. When they met, he spoke straight to the point.
After hearing this, Lou Ding laughed: "My eldest brother Lou Fang and I advance and retreat together. If he is willing, I will. The general might as well go to my eldest brother and ask. No matter how much food the general wants, as long as my eldest brother is willing to lend it, as long as I have it
, Lou will definitely offer it with both hands."
Hearing this, Zhang Xiu was dumbfounded.
I had no choice but to ask, "I wonder where your brother Lou Fang is now."
"Eighty miles due north!"
Zhang Xiu had no choice but to lead his soldiers on the road again. On the morning of the fourth day, they arrived at Lou Fang's tribe.
Lou Fang did not shirk the blame, but nodded happily and said that all his grains were stored in the tribe of Lou Shan, his fifth brother, and he could just ask Zhang Xiu to take people to pick them up directly.
Zhang Xiu was overjoyed and immediately asked where the Loushan tribe was.
Lou Fang smiled slightly and pointed to the east: "There is a big river a hundred miles away. My fifth brother Lou Shan's tribe is in the sun of the river."
Although Zhang Xiu felt that something was wrong, he could only continue on his way without stopping and arrived at the Heyang tribe on the fifth day.
After hearing the purpose of his visit, the leader Lou Shan waved his hands and said: "General, you are late. My eldest brother's food was indeed left here before, but it was borrowed by my fourth brother Lou Di yesterday."
I hurriedly walked around in a big circle, but couldn't borrow a single grain of food. Zhang Xiu was so angry that he almost spontaneously combusted on the spot.
By now, he had almost come to his senses, and thought to himself: 'Made, these guys obviously don't want to lend me food, and they will wait until I go back to report them to the general!'
Zhang Xiu said goodbye to Lou Mountain and returned to the road construction place full of resentment. He reported to Ma Su: "The general is incompetent and failed to borrow food. The five brothers of the Lou family each relied on their two thousand troops who were good at mountain warfare."
Everyone, they kept playing tricks on me. If I didn’t have few soldiers, I would have made them look good on the spot!"
After hearing this, Ma Su waved his hand to signal Zhang Xiu to step back and start thinking.
After pondering for a long time and having no idea what to do, he decided to use "my life" to deal with the five Lou brothers.
When I opened the system, I was dumbfounded.
None of the five Lou brothers can be named.
Not only the five Lou brothers, but also the leaders of the five major surnames in Nanzhong cannot be named.
Needless to say, these people must all be of Han descent.
Unable to name it, the Qiang women's "forced driving" naturally has no effect.
Things suddenly became difficult to handle.
Seeing that food is decreasing day by day, it is impossible to borrow or rob food. The enthusiasm of the migrant workers building roads is also becoming less and less day by day. The progress of road construction is getting slower and slower, like a turtle crawling.
Ma Su was so anxious that he wrung his hands and walked back and forth in the tent, sighing.
Five days passed in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Ma Su stared at the Qiang girl for a long time, then suddenly patted her thigh and hatched a plan.
Raising a girlfriend for a thousand days is the perfect time to use it!
The next morning, Loudi was bustling with people and dust was flying. The bells of the mule and horse teams could be heard in the distance, and the coachman whipped his horse whip.
Ma Su led the grain transport convoy, filed in from east to west, and entered the tribe.
Loudi hurriedly came up with his followers and asked Ma Su what he was doing.
Want food?
There must be not a single grain!
But he saw Ma Su sitting on the bullock cart, and he laughed: "I have got a strange woman now. I saw that her country is beautiful and fragrant, and her appearance is unparalleled in the world. I came here to give it to Chief Lou. Chief Lou, please take a look!"
As he spoke, Ma Su slowly pulled off the Qiang girl's face covering, and then asked with a smile: "I want to borrow some grain from Chief Lou for military use. I wonder what Chief Lou wants?"
Lou Di looked intently at the fair and jade-like face of the Qiang girl, and said, "Borrow, borrow! It's my duty to support the imperial court in building roads. The granary is over there. General, just go get it! Just go get it!"
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Ma Su laughed, put on the Qiang girl's face towel, and then waved her hand.
One thousand soldiers and five thousand migrant workers rushed into the granary like wolves and tigers, frantically carrying food out...
Soon, all the empty cars were filled, and the convoy left with the full load at the command of the coachman.
Seeing that most of the food in the tribe's granary was taken away, all the tribesmen looked at Loudi in confusion, with a huge question mark popping up in their minds.
It's okay to support the imperial court in building roads, but you have to do it within your ability.
Leader, you are too cruel. You generously gave away 90% of the food that our tribe had finally accumulated!
