Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 306 300. Borrowing the Road
Although Meng Huo looked like this, he had actually already started thinking about the candidate in his mind.

"Yang Feng, the leader of Yinzhi Cave, has been critical of me before, and last year he was even more vehemently opposed to my raising an army. Now is the perfect time to let him go."

Meng Huo thought of Yang Feng, the master of Yinzhi Cave, the 21st cave in Nanzhong. He had been having trouble dealing with this man since he took over, and Yinzhi Cave was also ambivalent about him. Now there was such a great opportunity to let the Shanyue people consume the strength of Yinzhi Cave. Without his troops, Yang Feng would naturally not dare to disobey him again.

As for Yang Feng being bribed by the Han people? Meng Huo didn't quite believe it. Meng Huo wasn't stupid either. Although he admitted his mistake last year, both the Han army and himself knew that Nanzhong would not remain silent on its own. They were just maintaining peace for the sake of appearance.

The most powerful evidence is that there are still more than 10,000 Han soldiers stationed in Yongchang County to guard Nanzhong.

In this case, the Han army was very kind to Yang Feng for giving him normal treatment, and not tearing him to pieces was the greatest mercy. After all, Meng Huo thought, how could the Han army know the details of the political struggles in Nanzhong?

Meng Huo even hoped that the Han army would turn against him after Yang Feng arrived. This would not only help him get rid of a great threat, but also give him enough excuses to continue his rebellion.

"Well, since the Grand Commander thinks highly of me, Meng Huo, I naturally cannot let him down. I will ask you to go back and tell the Grand Commander that I will immediately mobilize 10,000 elite soldiers from the south to go to Jingzhou to assist the Grand Commander in suppressing the Shanyue Rebellion."

Meng Huo patted his chest and spoke in a powerful voice. When the Han envoy saw that Meng Huo was so confident and that his mission was accomplished, he simply stopped bothering him and left.

"My husband, these Han people are full of tricks. We in Nanzhong have already torn our relationship with them. Why would they come to us again?"

Zhu Rong naturally listened to the conversation between Meng Huo and the Han envoy again. In her opinion, the two sides were now at loggerheads. Did the Han army have a brain problem? They actually dared to come to Nanzhong to borrow troops.

"Hey, the Han Chinese always like to show their generosity, so who knows. And no matter what tricks they are trying to use, it won't affect us."

Meng Huo thought of some things, but not much. He thought that at most the Han army was trying to lure the snake out of its hole, deliberately using this unreliable reason as an excuse to trick their brothers from Nanzhong out to kill. But Meng Huo was deceived at most this time, and the one who died was still Yang Feng, who was at odds with him. In any case, he did not lose out.

Zhu Rong also thought Meng Huo's analysis made sense after listening to it, so he simply stopped talking. Meng Huo quickly brought a piece of animal skin over, ready to order Yang Feng to go to Jingzhou in the name of the King of the Southern Barbarians.

"..."

Two days later, in Yinzhi Cave, Yang Feng was holding the animal skin written by Meng Huo, with an ugly look on his face. As the cave master, Yang Feng also knew the grievances between the southern barbarians and the Han people. Now, Meng Huo was clearly pushing himself into the fire pit.

"Father, this Meng Huo is really despicable. He knows that father and he don't get along, so he wants to kill someone with a borrowed knife. Why don't we rebel against him, Meng Huo!"

Yang Feng's eldest son saw it all clearly and knew that his father often quarreled with Meng Huo because of his extreme behavior. Now Meng Huo blatantly wanted to kill Yang Feng. How could he tolerate this?

"No. No one will respond if we raise an army now. You five brothers stay in Yinzhi Cave and take good care of your mother and brothers and sisters in the cave. I will lead 10,000 people to the Han people."

Yang Feng knew that Meng Huo still had great prestige at this time, and the conflict between him and him was a personal grudge. Even if he started a rebellion, it would be suppressed in no time. Rather than letting his whole family die because of the rebellion, it would be better to exchange his life for the safety of others in the cave. "Father..."

Yang Feng's other four sons also cried bitterly like the eldest son. Yinzhi Cave itself had 30,000 elite soldiers. Now Meng Huo specifically asked Yang Feng to send 10,000 soldiers. Yang Feng had no choice but to obey and called up his own 10,000 soldiers and horses to prepare to go to Jiangdong via Jiaozhou.

Feng Xi had the envoy explain this route in advance. After all, the central part of Sichuan was heavily guarded, and both sides were afraid of any accidents. Jiaozhi County itself was mostly inhabited by the Cham people, and neither Li Hui nor Feng Xi minded seeing what happened between the Cham and the Nanman.

Yang Feng set off very quickly, and after the Han envoy returned, he visited Nanzhong again after more than ten days, but this time he gave Meng Huo some tangible benefits.

Corals, pearls, tortoise shells, gemstones... these rare things dazzled Meng Huo so much that he couldn't open his eyes. At the same time, he trusted Ji Han's so-called borrowing of troops even more. Even if they were fake, it didn't matter. These good things were real.

In fact, as a pragmatist, Feng Xi looked down on these useless "treasures" the most. Gold and silver are hard currencies and are still very valuable. But what are pearls and gems?
Just like diamonds in later generations, they were hyped up to a level that did not correspond to their original value, and were eventually perfectly imitated artificially. The so-called “diamonds are forever” has become a joke.

Feng Xi was too lazy to even look at these things. In his eyes, these things were not as valuable as a gun or a cannon. He didn't mind giving some of them to Meng Huo.

As expected, Meng Huo was very fond of this shiny and rare treasure, which was only found in wealthy Han families, and he immediately presented it to his wife Zhurong.

At the same time, Yang Feng's more than 10,000 Southern Central Army also passed through Jiaozhou, and many conflicts occurred with the Cham people on the way.

The Cham people are the most xenophobic. They even target the Han people, let alone these stinky outsiders from the south. Yang Feng's journey can be said to be as unpleasant as it can be.

However, when they passed Jiaozhi County and arrived at Hepu County, they found that the situation had improved a little. The local Cham people were actually divided into several factions, some were close to the Han people, some were hostile to the Han people, and some were hostile to each other. No one knew what happened between them to make them like this.

After entering Hepu, Jiaozhou also sent thousands of people to "assist" Yang Feng to continue moving eastward, preparing to enter Jiangdong from Kuaiji County.

At first, Yang Feng was a little nervous when he saw so many Han soldiers, but fortunately, the other side seemed to be only a little alert and had no intention of attacking him, so Yang Feng simply made the best of it.

With the guidance and assistance of the Han army, Yang Feng entered the territory of Kuaiji County in a month or so, and then headed north, preparing to meet up with the Han army at the junction of Danyang, Kuaiji and Wu County.

"Grand Commander, Lord Li from Jiaozhou sent someone to deliver a letter saying that the barbarian army from the south has arrived."

The messenger reported the news to Feng Xi, who nodded without saying anything.

(End of this chapter)