With some strange thoughts, Xiao Ding continued to lead his army forward and arrived in Chuxiong on the 26th day of the first lunar month.

It is obvious that they have come a little late all the way, because there are now seven or eight teams of Yingpan in and outside Chuxiong City, which are all forces in southern Yunnan who come here to worship the Spring God this year in accordance with the agreement a year ago. Among them are the existence of Duan Gao, the two surnames Duan Gao, who are actually local emperors, and the Sheng barbarian leader who does not take the Dayue government seriously.

Just because this annual spring festival is a grand gathering that all Han and barbarians in southern Yunnan attach great importance to, even though there are various conflicts between them, these forces holding military power are still gathering in this small city, and there is no friction in this regard.

With the arrival of Dingxi Army, the number of troops on Chuxiong increased by a lot, which also made the local leaders feel a headache. Originally, the Chuxiong Prefecture City had less than 40,000 people. Now all forces are coming in, and the number of people has doubled. Even if they all brought their own food rations, just by placing the place for them to rest and arrange some entertainment, the local food storage is too short.

However, these things were obviously not something Xiao Ding and the others would care about. After arriving at the capital, he asked his deputy generals to set up camp, and he brought some of his personal troops into the city. Li Ling and the others naturally followed him, which could be regarded as a further appreciation of the customs and cultures of this place.

But to be honest, Chuxiong is really unkind. Although it is a prefecture, it is not much better than the county towns in the Central Plains. The city walls are even more low than Kunzhou. So when I saw the troops approaching, the defenders on the front of the city were still on guard.

Until he saw the flag clearly and reported it to the city, all the people quickly came out. It was Mu Kun, the lord of Chuxiong City. This was a very hospitable person who looked very warm and hospitable. He immediately bowed and smiled from afar: "It turns out that Dingxi Hou has arrived. No wonder he has such a momentum, but it scared our Mu family man very much."

"Haha, the Muzhai Master is so serious. My Dingxi Army is not strong enough to make people invincible. Otherwise, southern Yunnan would not be like this now." Xiao Ding met with a haha, suppressing the other party in a momentum. Then while talking to the other party, the two sides quickly gathered together and headed into the city.

Shortly after they entered the city, another group of people came in front of them, but this time they came not one side, but the leaders of several Yunnan barbarian forces. The two first were Duan Siyu and Gao Wenyi, the clan leader of Duan Gao.

Under Xiao Chengzhi's introduction, Li Ling's eyes continued to look back and forth on these two barbarian leaders who are obviously the most powerful in southern Yunnan, especially the former, which he read more carefully. Because of the influence of later martial arts novels, the Duan family of Dali always gave people a very deep impression, such as the One Yang Finger, Six-Meridian Divine Sword, Duan Yu and Duan Zhixing, they are all top-notch existences in the martial arts world.

However, this time, Li Ling was a little disappointed when he looked at the descendants of the Duan family at close range, because Duan Siyu looked so far from the imagined master. Not only did he look, but his temperament. This was a short and fat guy with a messy beard, but he looked arrogant. However, Gao Wenyi next to him was a talented person and had a grand demeanor.

At this time, the few of them had already seen Xiao Ding's courtesy, which was different from Mu Kun's previous humble attitude. The two of them were completely on par with Dingxi Hou. They did not show any weakness in their words. After saying a few words, they wanted to suppress Xiao Ding's head.

Then when they continued to move inward, the two of them acted as usual, not only parallel to Xiao Ding, but also not just separated from each other, but took care of themselves.

Only from the details of this meeting, Li Ling could see how subtle the relationship between the two sides was. These barbarian leaders really didn't take Xiao Ding's identity as a son.

However, Xiao Ding was obviously not affected by this, and he was still smiling along the way. When he finally entered the Mu family's mansion and went into the hall to see the seats, he did not even compete with the two of them, and directly sat down at the lower head.

This made the two men who were originally interested in parting with him feel uncomfortable as if they had a punch to the cotton. In the end, they could only let Duan Siyu sit on the head in disappointment, Gao Wenyi sits on the second place, and then Xiao Ding.

"Father, they are so rude. We represent the court!" Xiao Chengzhi couldn't bear it anymore and muttered in a low voice. Even Li Ling nodded in agreement. Sometimes the fight was not about face, but about a momentum.

Xiao Ding smiled faintly while drinking tea: "What's the point of fighting for? Are they also my ministers of Dayue? And when it comes to true, their identities are still above me. The Duan family is the hereditary Duke of Shunyi, and the Gao family is the second-class Nangui Hou. I, the Marquis of Dingxi, cannot suppress them."

Only then did Li Ling realize that yes, although they were barbarians, they were actually enthroned by the court. If you really want to be serious, Xiao Ding really lowers them, so it would be better not to fight for this tone.

Xiao Ding's subsequent performance made Li Ling even more amazed.

After a greeting, he suddenly turned to a topic that everyone cared about: "Duke Shunyi, Marquis of Nangui, there are now rebellions in southern Yunnan. I wonder if you two are concerned about it?"

After both of them were stunned for a moment, they realized that they were called themselves. After all, their titles were both empty, and they had never been called such a person in their respective proxies.

At this moment, Gao Wenyi smiled and nodded: "I naturally paid attention to this matter, but there has never been such a rebellion in my Shanshan Prefecture. The court just needs to worry."

"The same is true in my Anning area." Duan Siyu said.

Others expressed more or less that they could not stop such rebellion out of helplessness, but not many people really took the statements of these small forces to heart.

Xiao Dingze immediately looked at the two and said, "Two, you are both my noble ministers of Dayue and this important member of southern Yunnan. How can you keep watching such rebellions continue to take place? This time, this time, I decided to use more than half of my Dingxi Army's troops to fight the rebellion, but I wonder if your two families can send troops together?"

It turned out that the purpose of only calling the two people was here, so that they could also put some effort to suppress the rebellion. This made Duan Gao and his two faces look puzzled. The current chaos in southern Yunnan was exactly what they wanted to see. It would be best if they kept reducing the strength of the Dingxi Army. How could they help at this moment?

However, after being in front of so many people, the two of them were not willing to refuse tactfully, so they could only stammer: "What Dingxi Hou said is reasonable, but this sending troops to quell the rebellion is not a trivial matter. Our two families are really limited in strength, especially in logistics support, and they are even more difficult to send troops. Of course, it is not a problem, but you need Dingxi Hou to help us, such as giving us some military rations and weapons assistance."

"It's not bad. My Duan family has also been in short supply of food recently. If Dingxi Hou can allocate tens of thousands of stones of military ration for my use, we will not be able to send thousands of people to help quell the rebellion."

At the beginning of the two, the others followed, and they all opened their mouths to ask Xiao Ding for money and food. They really said that one was more miserable than the other, just as if this time when Dingxi Hou did not give them money and food support, these tribal forces in southern Yunnan would be completely destroyed.

In fact, Xiao Ding has encountered this situation many times before, so although he was a little unhappy, he was able to deal with it: "It seems that everyone has difficulties. It is said that this is related to the shortcomings of southern Yunnan itself. After all, there is no too much fertile land here, and food is in short supply every year, and each family can only live half-hungry. Since this is the case, I think it is time to solve this problem from the root, that is, to ask the court for help, such as opening up the road to the east so that the court can transport more food in!"

This is naturally a cliché. Although everyone did not object directly, they all vaguely. If it really happened as he said, southern Yunnan would probably fall completely under the control of the court. How could these tribal leaders make the decision?

So after a conversation, I still had no idea. Then, everyone shifted the topic to the spring festival the day after tomorrow. This time it was more enthusiastic than before. All the families said bluntly that this "striving for spring" ceremony would inevitably be the first of their own warriors, and everyone's tone would definitely be ineffective.

However, Xiao Ding was not interested in such a debate, so he could only listen and echo a few words casually. It was not until everyone had finished speaking that they parted.

With so many people coming to Chuxiong City, housing has become a problem. However, there are still the best arrangements for big people like them. Xiao Ding's side has more than 20 people moved into a pretty decent house.

It was not until he entered the door that the smile on Xiao Ding's face disappeared and he snorted coldly: "As a result, many of these rebels were assigned by the heads of several villages present. On the surface, they were chaotic, but in fact, there were many familiar men mixed in the middle. Do you really think I can't see it, can't you hear it?"

Although Li Ling did not hear this profound meaning from this party, he also knew how troublesome this conclusion was: "Then is the Marquis still going to use force to quell the rebellion this time?"

"Of course, my troops have been arranged, so how can I give up halfway? But before that, I have to let the people outside the city do something. Since they have all arrived in Chuxiong, it just happened to cut off the connection between these leaders and their own troops." Xiao Ding said with a cold light flashing in his eyes.

"Will this... be too risky?" Li Ling said with some concern.

Xiao Ding glanced at him: "Why, haven't you been trying to persuade me to be more active before?"
Chapter completed!