The sky is out of the gate, and the clouds are in the sky, and the fog is rolling and the clouds are spreading thousands of miles away.

He personally received the tiger talisman and sweared to be the hero of the dragon sword.

The remaining frost dares to hang high on the sun, and the autumn leaves strive to ban the large section of wind.

In order to report the Southern Barbarians, they were different from the achievements of the Shu general Wuhou.

"A Prompt to Answer the Southern Barbarians" Tang Dynasty: Hu Zeng

——I am the dividing line—

A private tea party is being held in the greenhouse garden that has just been put into production.

"What? Qianzhou Observation made Gao Tai no longer want to do it. He wanted to seek a kindness to retire and return home after surrendering? What's the situation?"

Zhou Huaian, who received the news, couldn't help but say:

Now Qianzhou (now Pengshui County, Sichuan Province) includes Qianzhong Road (which governs south of Enshi, Hubei Province, west of Yuanling, Hunan Province, Zunyi, and Tongren, Guizhou Province.) and several states in the northern region, in addition to the name of the Tang Dynasty government, most of the affairs, including garrisons, civil affairs and financial accounting, have been transferred to the hands of the people sent by the Taiping Army.

The reason is also very simple, because Qianzhong Dao, as the least sense of existence among the various Datang Dao, lost the assistance from Hunan, Sanchuan and other places assigned by the imperial court, relying solely on the local military and civilians and the naturalized land barbarians who were several times more likely to be able to support them.

On the one hand, there were envoys from Xichuan who were prosecuted and offered tribute and sacrifices. On the other hand, those who were guarding the border were not well-dressed and the soldiers of the Long March were all home. However, the local territories were not vegetarian, and there were also many remote people in the mountains. Except for some large quantities that could not be eaten or worn, they could only rely on selling local specialties that could only make profits from other places, they could not squeeze out much money.

Therefore, although Gao Tai, as an observer, had another way of appeasement and politicians and maintaining local situations, he was a hard-working approach in military management. After cutting off the transport channels from the inland, he was even more clever and could not resist the resentment of the military, civilians and generals under his command.

However, for a moment, the local area could not find a leader who could be as proud as him and barely maintain the situation; and there were still many unnaturalized land barbarians in the country, and the mountain and wild men were threatening. This was why there was no such thing as other places in the inland, expelling or killing them.

With such internal and external pressure, they were so anxious that they could only find a force nearby to surrender. After the Taiping Army sent people to reopen the Southwest Trade Road, they were beaten up by the other party and were overjoyed. They pretended not to know each other and cooperated to reopen the southwest tea and horse road.

So, what happened later naturally became natural. Since we had to walk through the ancient Tea-Horse Road and cross a large area of ​​barbarians, we naturally had to have corresponding guards to protect all the goods and goods, and we had to set up transit camps and warehouses specially set up for horse gangs and escort forces along the way, and even established long-term camps at some key nodes.

Then, due to the renewed commercial activities and the influx of a large number of foreign biological resources, various supporting facilities and services were followed up in the local area; and even various wild markets that spontaneously formed local products and mountain goods trading outside the base. After reaching a certain scale, municipal officials naturally provided limited management and tax collection for them.

Therefore, after the difficulties in Qianzhongdao prefectures were alleviated, most of the local economic lifelines were also in disguisely controlled by the Taiping Army under the infiltration of foreign trade behaviors. Gao Tai, the Qianzhou Observer, was also a wonderful person, so he summoned the leaders of the merchant group and caravan, and rewarded them according to their range of activities and distances.

Therefore, the Taiping Army sent people to the past to obtain a more legitimate activity status in the local area; coupled with the well-armed and well-trained guards they had; even in the face of the fierce folk robbery and conflicts of Shanyi and Tu barbarians, they could still defeat them with few enemies without losing their disadvantages, and even repeatedly defeat them. These horse-drawn caravans have gradually become strong support for the local government with empty strength, and even gradually replaced them to maintain the functions of control and tax collection.

Later, the Tuman tribes, who were unwilling to suffer losses or had deep resentment, gathered a group of people known as 30,000 at the junction of Yizhou (now Suiyang, Guizhou), Bozhou (now Zunyi, Guizhou) and Zhenzhou (now Yelang, Guizhou), and launched a large-scale attack on Feizhou (now Sinan, Guizhou), an important town in the hinterland of Qianzhong Road, surrounded Fuchuan City, where only more than 500 old and weak garrison soldiers were stationed.

After hearing the police through the beacon tower, the Qianzhou Observatory Office did not have enough troops to go to rescue, or even the re-summoned Ding Zhuang and the Zibo grain that was set off, so it could only send an envoy to secretly ask Jiangling for help; while publicly calling on and begging these Yimin caravans who were communicating in Qianzhong Road could provide cooperation and help nearby.

In the end, the Yu Taiping Army had close ties, and Wang Poxian, a big merchant who was selling tea locally, and others made a quick decision to use the mortgage of goods as military funds. In Sizhou, which was the first to bear the brunt of the brunt, he gathered 3,000 guards and armed forces on the spot. He had to come to help with the 5,000 people who were interested in it. Finally, he took the initiative to raid these local barbarian coalition forces under the city of Fuchuan.

As a result, this obviously hasty sergeant adventure was successful, because the opponents were even more messy and unorganized. Therefore, the front-line soldiers who were used to fighting against the western barbarians of the southern Lingxi and the western barbarians of Annan were the first to fight, and after they entered the city of Fuchuan, they quickly found out the flaws and weaknesses of the barbarians who fought each other and were not in charge, and killed them to lose. In the end, eight or nine thousand people became prisoners under the city of Fuchuan.

Then, Wang Poxian and others simply did not stop and continued to entrust the leader of the school, Deng Chuna, to lead his troops to pursue the victory. Then, with the assistance of the mature barbarian soldiers who were close to the government, they broke through and plundered Zhenzhou, and captured many large and small settlements in Bozhou, and captured tens of thousands of cattle, horses, and men and women. They fought until they met with the local garrison soldiers at Zunyi City, besieged and burned to plunder the last large barbarian camp on Furong Mountain before they stopped the troops.

Then, in response, Lingxi sent troops again. Lu Fang, who was in Guizhou's defense zone, personally led 5,000 troops to the southern part of Qianzhong Road along the Rongjiang River system. The siege troops took the lead in breaking dozens of camps and capturing tens of thousands of Dingkou. In this way, hundreds of profitable so-called Nanping Road were opened up; and the Juzhou (now Guiyang City, Guizhou Province) surrounded by barbarians, as well as more than 10,000 Tang soldiers and civilians who were still freely defending and struggling to maintain them.

Since then, the north and south of Qianzhong Road have become more and more unobstructed, and the horse gangs and merchants have been connected to the west of Hunan Ridge and Qianzhong into a line through the ancient tea and horse roads of all sizes. Of course, as the aftermath, the Qianzhong Observation Office has now been unable to maintain the fig leaf as a fig leaf that appears to be deaf and dumb.

Therefore, after receiving and resettling some of the Long March athletes and officials who had been withdrawn from Guizhou for many years and who had been on duty in Hunan, the remaining Guizhou Central Observation Office, led by Gao Tai, simply regarded himself as subordinate to the Taiping Army, and always took the priority of asking for instructions from Jiangling in everything. Even when the Taiping Army rushed to the gates, a symbolic team of soldiers composed of local children was sent.

However, after this war, Wang Poxian and other merchants who were traveling to Guizhou also discovered a new business opportunity and local property, which is the local population trade. Unlike the Xiyuan Man or Nanzhao Man, which have relatively higher social culturalization and organization, the local local man is still between the primitive clans and slave tribes that are quite backward, so it is a normal state to sell excess population.

Therefore, they just followed the example of Annan's border defense policy and used some iron and salt input as a price to easily drive those familiar barbarians who were close to the government to attack and plunder those "unsubmissive to the king" of barbarians. On the one hand, they created a steady stream of "commodities" and on the other hand, they also created rifts and divisions in the local area, making them unable to work together to fight against the existing regime.

Of course, the Taiping Army has no more effort to invest in this direction for the time being, and is not able to do anything about the "humanitarian disasters" that have occurred in these unification places. Therefore, it is still the main thing to maintain the status quo, and even let Gaotai continue to retain the title and banner of Qianzhou Observation Envoy, and continue to maintain a certain status of exchanges with Xichuan on the surface. However, in this letter from Gaotai, in addition to his humble and concise greetings, he also complained a lot.

The main reason is to admit that he has been in office for fourteen years, as the saying goes, "young children and old people in the world." The family members he brought to office were almost the same as those who escaped. Although he survived by chance, he also had a lot of illness. Therefore, he was withered and lonely around him and wanted to return to his hometown to take good care of him for a while.

Of course, Zhou Huaian even more suspected that he was actually scared by Gao Pian's experience, for fear that he would also follow in the footsteps. After all, he was also a junior who Gao Pian had helped him when he was in charge of Annan. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but reply:

"Just say it's what I mean, let him persist for another two or three years, and you can give him a decent retirement treatment. By the way, I'll send him a health care doctor to do it!"

"However, lord, Qianzhou also needs to arrange someone to take over..."

Yang Shigu, the military consultant present, took the initiative to advise:

"Well, do you think there is any suitable person?"

Zhou Huaian also nodded slightly and said:

"If you are familiar with the affairs of the Southern Barbarians, you should be the general Qu Lang taking the lead."

Yang Shigu thought for a while and said:

"Qu Chengyu I have other uses that I can't get out of the way for a while, but gradually pursuing the affairs of Guizhou requires enough patience and meticulous skills to wear terrazzo."

Zhou Huaian shook his head and said:

"What about the Long March garrison soldiers from Bianguiguan and Huguan from many places."

Yang Shigu said again:

"Min Xu can be the deputy assistant and military executive, but the choice of the chief requires being able to govern and safeguard the people, and also having the means to adapt to the situation."

Zhou Huaian nodded again and said:

"Then I recommend one person, what about General Gao Lang of the 10th Army? It is said that it was also a past in the early years of business travel and barbarians."

Luo Yin suddenly spoke:

"Gao Jichang? That's him..."

Zhou Huaian suddenly remembered this name, thought for a while and nodded: After all, he is a small strong figure who has occupied a place in the Five Dynasties regime on another historical line, and his countermeasures should be good.

"In addition, the people from the Nanshan Association have arrived in Dali City in Nanzhao and have sent back the first batch of news..."
Chapter completed!