After the King of Chu responded to the calls of the people in Jinling, the news gradually spread among the Chu Kingdom.
The originally fermented emotions finally calmed down, but the emotions in response to the recruitment were still high - on the one hand, they wanted to contribute to the Chu State, and on the other hand, they also wanted to improve the nutritional level of the civilians. After the Pan-Zhenqi Project was launched, civilians also emerged.
There are more and more grassroots warriors.
Of course, Chu State also carefully controlled the direction of folk propaganda.
While depicting the princes of Shu as powerful, tyrannical, and full of malice towards Chu, it also portrayed the poor life of the people of Yizhou and being oppressed. They even published articles about Yizhou caravans and immigrants from Yizhou in Di Bao, expressing their views on the princes of Shu.
The government's strong accusations and support for the Chu State.
Emphasizing that the interests of the Chu State and the people of Yizhou are consistent, the common enemy is the oppressor of Yizhou Prefecture who is cruel and extremely hostile to the people's yearning for a better life, and the anti-Chu forces behind it...
As for the "anti-Chu forces behind the scenes", how the people want to understand it, Bai Tu has nothing to do with it. If it must be said that it is a force supporting the Han, Bai Tu will not specifically correct it.
This time, Zhang Lu's title was rejected, and the Han Dynasty court vaguely showed its intention to target Hanzhong. This was not completely beyond Bai Tu's expectation, but it did make Bai Tu vigilant.
It is natural to take the opportunity to mobilize the public sentiment, make the Chu people realize who the enemy is, and reduce the impression and potential influence of the Han Dynasty.
At least since then, it will be difficult for anyone, whether among the people or scholars, to criticize Chu's policies based on "Han orthodoxy". Otherwise...Song Zhong will serve as a warning.
At the same time, Yizhou is not out of reach. It is still possible to train troops along the Three Gorges. In addition, more efforts should be made in the Nanzhong area!
The Chu State's "truce" was only aimed at other Han princes. Overseas expansion, as well as the development of Jingnan and Wuling, has never stopped. Similarly, the pace of opening up Nanzhong from the south of Wuling to the west has never stopped.
It's just that we don't just use war as a means of expansion. To be precise... war is the last resort in development.
Not to mention overseas expansion, most of the people encountered were stone civilizations. The area from Wuling to Nanzhong in the south, which was later known as Guizhou, and the area from Guangxi to Yunnan, although they belonged to Jingzhou and Yizhou, for the barbarians, there was no
A clear dividing line between Jing and Wei.
Although the Wuling Barbarians and Nanzhong Barbarians have different origins, they have long been mixed with each other and mixed with the blood and culture of the Central Plains people, that is, the Han people in a narrow sense.
Compared with Wuling Man and Shanyue Man, Wuling Man and Nanzhong Man are actually very close in culture...
Speaking of the Nanzhong barbarians, the most famous among them in later generations was undoubtedly Meng Huo, who was captured and manipulated seven times!
There is some controversy over the existence of Meng Huo in history, because this name does not appear in "Three Kingdoms", but it is recorded in "Han, Jin, Spring and Autumn" and "Huayang Kingdom".
Later scholars believe that it does not exist, and the main basis is "Three Kingdoms". The evidence is the name "Meng Huo" - a barbarian king who surrendered after being captured. He just happened to be named "Huo", which seems too deliberate.
Therefore, it is speculated that Meng Huo's deeds were probably pieced together by several Han Yi rebel generals, who later took the name "Huo" and took the surname "Meng" from Nanzhong.
After all, Chen Shou, the author of "Three Kingdoms", was from the Shu Kingdom, while "Han, Jin, Spring and Autumn" and "Huayang Kingdom" were both from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Regardless of the location or time, Chen Shou should be the one who knew better about the Nanman rebellion.
Of course, regardless of whether Meng Huo existed or not, the "seven captures and seven verticals" in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms have no place in the history books.
During the Southern Barbarian rebellion when Liu Bei died, Zhuge Liang sent troops in the spring, crossed the Lu River in May, and then returned to the court with his troops in the autumn - it can be seen that the formal fighting did not last long, and it was impossible to go deep into Nanzhong.
Otherwise, with the scattered locations of the legendary Seven Captures and Seven Strategies, there would not even be time to check in one by one...
Moreover, the Shu Han's strategy towards the Nanzhong region was completely different from the legend of "Seven Captures and Seven Columns". According to the legend of "Seven Captures and Seven Columns", Zhuge Liang almost penetrated Nanzhong and surrendered countless tribes along the way.
However, in fact, the Shu Kingdom did not retain either people or troops in Nanzhong. Instead, it took away Nanzhong's elite soldiers and bribed and recruited warriors from the barbarians. The remaining ordinary soldiers and generals were still returned to Nanzhong.
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Just wait for the people of Nanzhong to present gold, silver, lacquerware, cattle and horses, which means that they no longer actually rule Nanzhong. Compared with the two Han Dynasties, they have left Nanzhong alone, in exchange for a stable rear area.
The stability of the Nanzhong barbarians is not so much the result of seven captures and seven manipulations as it is the effect of Shu's change of strategy on Nanzhong.
In the annotations of the Southern Barbarian rebellion in the history books, Meng Huo is not the protagonist. Generally speaking, the protagonists of the rebellion should be Yong Kai, the leader of the Han people in Southern China, and Gaoding, the Yi king of Southern China.
There are only some discrepancies in the records of the rebellion process. One theory is that Yong Kai and Gao Ding joined forces to rebel, and were later put down. The other is that Yong Kai was killed by Gao Ding, and Gao Ding took over the rebellion, and was later put down...
The space where Meng Huo exists in the history books is that of "Yong Kai's subordinate". As a barbarian king with a long history of prestige among the barbarians, he took on the important task of colluding with various tribes in the south and central for Yong Kai.
Meng Huo was not killed like Yong Kai and Gaoding, but because he had a certain prestige among the Han barbarians in southern China, he was surrendered by Zhuge Liang, leaving behind the promise of "no more rebellion".
In the world of Castle Princess, the situation in the Nanzhong region is consistent with "various historical materials", but also completely different.
The entire southern part of Yizhou, from west to east, is Yongchang County, Yuexun (xi) County, Zhuti County, and Zang (zang) County. Historically, after Zhuge Liang put down the Nanman rebellion, Jianning County and Yunnan County were established.
Xinggu County is collectively known as the Seven Counties of Nanzhong!
In total, Nanzhong in Yizhou accounts for a much larger proportion than Shanyue in Yangzhou and Wuling in Jingzhou. The population of Nanzhong is not even larger than that of Bajun, Shujun, Guanghanjun, and Qianweijun.
There are only four counties in Bashu and including Hanzhong County, only the northern part of Yizhou has the absolute advantage in population resources.
The reason why the Kingdom of Shu is derogatoryly called the Kingdom of Shu, rather than the Kingdom of Benefit, is because the core of its power has always been in Bashu, and its request for the seven counties in the south was only money and troops.
"Lai" is completely opposite to Soochow who insists on grinding away all the mountains and rivers little by little.
In addition to the external reason that the Shu Han "set its target in the north", it is also because of the complexity of the internal situation in Nanzhong!
Compared with Shanyue in Yangzhou and Wuling County in Jingzhou, Nanzhong is not only larger, but also has less conflicts between Han and Yi, and is more united internally...
Although the so-called Nanzhong surnames, that is, the wealthy families in Nanzhong, have the inheritance of Han culture, no one can say whether they are Yi people who learned Sinology or Han people who intermarried with Yi people after moving to Nanzhong.
Be clear.
These "Nanzhong surnames" have the characteristics of both the Han powerful clans and the Nanman tribes. The only difference is that the leaders who call themselves "Han" from the Nanzhong surname are called "barbarian kings", while the leaders who come from the Nanzhong tribes call themselves "Han people".
The leader is called the "Yi King".
Regardless of whether they are barbarian kings or barbarian kings, the standard is "Han and barbarians share common submission". Although from south to north, there is also a situation that the farther south you go, the greater the proportion of barbarian tribes and the smaller the proportion of Han culture. After all, they belong to Cheng Ji and
Barbarian Ji, but there is not much difference in interests between the Han and Yi people in South China.
When facing the Han people in northern Yizhou, the southerners in Nanzhong felt that the Nanzhong barbarians were more like their own people - even more so than the wealthy people in Jingnan.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that it becomes more difficult for the Wuling Army led by Shamoko to advance westward...
This plan of helping the Nanzhong barbarians build mountain cities and assisting in development can only win over some marginal tribes. When it comes to the Nanzhong barbarians, all of them are very stubborn.
According to Chu State's previous strategic layout, the development focus of the south in the next five years is also to build cities and cultivate land in the southern mountainous area of Jingyang, and build settlement cities one after another relying on mining, gradually eroding the influence of the "tribes".
As for Nanzhong, they just let nature take its course and are not the focus of the strategy. Unless they are actively attacked, they will not use force lightly.
However, starting from the third year of Chu Li, Bai Tu specially brought Gao Shun and Chen Gong over. The familiar formula and the familiar taste...
And this time we have Samoko’s wholehearted assistance!
At the same time, Yiling has also begun to gather troops and horses, one of which is the Nanyang Army's military exploits.
If it were someone else, other generals might still be competing, but Huang Zhong... Look at how old he is, and he is a transcendent general, and now he is still holding the shabby title of general, who would have the nerve to compete?
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That’s right!
This is respecting the old and caring for the young, and it is definitely not for the future artillery company...
As for Zhao Yun... there is no way to refute it!
Since they are gathering in Yiling, the Jingzhou Army is naturally the main force. There is no problem that the Jingnan Army is led by Huang Zhong, while the Jingbei Army is naturally the Nanyang Army. After all, the original elite of Jingzhou Prefecture in Nanjun have been dispersed and reorganized.
Zhao Yun is also a divine general, a general who conquers the north, and Zhang Xiu's junior brother. He has been stationed in Nanyang for a long time...
It is necessary to mobilize troops and horses from Nanyang, and the generals must be able to control the north and south of Jingzhou. Among the other generals, including Huang Zhong, naturally Zhao Yun is the most suitable. Even Zhang Xiu is inferior in comparison.
Wenpin also served as the deputy commander of the Nanyang Army this time - Bai Tu personally invited him to go south, with Zhao Yun as the commander, and the other one was the Jingnan Army heading west, with Huang Zhong as the commander and Wei Yan as the vanguard - anyway, the artillery
We have to recruit slowly, and Huang Zhong is idle even if he is idle. More importantly, he just takes this opportunity to give Huang Zhong a brush, and Wenpin finally takes up the post.
What is not obvious to outsiders is that Bai Tu’s choice of Zhao Yun also has some metaphysical implications. After all, when Zhuge Liang entered Sichuan in history, his main generals were Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei...
However, at that time, Liu Bei was at Jiameng Pass in the north, attacking Shu County all the way, and attacking from both sides with Zhuge Liang in Jingzhou. Otherwise, it would be difficult to achieve anything by relying on his army alone, which had to cross the Three Gorges.
The reason why Bai Tu sent troops this time was mainly to take the opportunity to eliminate the remaining influence of the Han Dynasty in the hearts of the Chu people. It was also because the Privy Council had repeatedly stated that the armies everywhere were "lazy" and simply moved, but there was no hope of success.