Confused country poison concubine

Chapter 559 Presumptuous (2)
Bai Lichu looked at him, and said coldly: "You don't need to be polite, the envoy Wang, let's tell the truth about the situation in southern Xinjiang."

"Yes!" Although the royal envoy had never been to the court, he was a little flustered when he saw so many high-ranking officials and the actual rulers of the empire. The situation is said again.

Southern Xinjiang is full of miasma, insects and snakes. It has always been the land of Miao, Zhuang, Dai and other ethnic minorities. It has never been rich, but they don't need much and can be self-sufficient. At the beginning, although it was submitted to the imperial court, it was actually a three-way zone, that is, the chieftain accepted the canonization of the previous dynasty, but was self-governing and paid very little tax.

Because there are many mountains and forests in southern Xinjiang, although the climate is good, there is not much arable land, so when the harvest is not good, people in southern Xinjiang will occasionally rob the Han people.

It's just that the court of the previous dynasty didn't care about it, and the former Xidi also occupied the vast sea area, busy trying to annex the former dynasty, preparing troops and horses, and couldn't pay attention to such a small and wild land.

Until Emperor Zhenwu sent troops from Xidi to break through the capital of the Celestial Dynasty and unified the Central Plains, and he also accepted Hehe as a vassal state. Take advantage of the fire from time to time.

At that time, the head of the Zhou family was a pair of twin sons with blood from the Western Regions. The eldest son was good at fighting, and the second son was good at making decisions. After the war, after the founding of the country, each was canonized as the Marquis of the Great Zhou and the Marquis of the Little Zhou.

Marquis Xiao Zhou and General Bai Qi led an army of 20 soldiers directly to the south to conquer southern Xinjiang. After more than three months of conquest, thirteen chieftains in southern Xinjiang died or surrendered. And together with the state roads in the nearby sea area, it was designated as the southern Xinjiang province.

Emperor Zhenwu established the Southern Border Protectorate, Zhou Yunsheng, the Marquis of the younger Zhou Dynasty, served as the first General of the Protectorate of Southern Border, and chieftains of all levels who were pro-imperial or who had Han blood served as the chiefs of the following prefectures.

Xiao Zhouhou has been working hard in southern Xinjiang for decades, even never married, and finally managed southern Xinjiang safely and smoothly, and the people are harmonious.

It's a pity that time flies, now that the imperial court is in decline, Du's family is big, and he has always held a laissez-faire attitude towards southern Xinjiang. Instead of being as enlightened as Xiao Zhouhou and knowing people and making good use of them, some of the later feudal officials stationed in southern Xinjiang are not as enlightened as Xiao Zhouhou. The exclusion of local ethnic chieftains from taking up official positions in the imperial court, increased exploitation of ethnic minorities, and discrimination against non-Han border residents have deepened the conflict between the two sides.

In particular, the Miao people have always been the toughest people, and at the same time they are relatively civilized and affluent. They also occupy the majority of the population in southern Xinjiang, and there are many people who know Gu, so they gradually become the leaders of various ethnic groups, and they only fight against the government. The officials drove out the state roads where they lived the most, and made the chieftains the heads of a state, a road, and a county.

The imperial court naturally refused, but the pacifiers sent earlier were useless and tyrannical, and they slaughtered innocent Miao people self-righteously. I don't know how many people were slaughtered, and the corpses were scattered all over the field.

If the eighth prince Baili Lingfeng, who was not as weak as the crown, personally led the Longwei army to guard Xiangjun, controlled the situation, and suppressed the riots, I am afraid that Nanjiang would have been separated from the imperial court.

Baili Lingfeng has been in southern Xinjiang for several years, and finally he has firmly controlled the situation. It is precisely because of his outstanding military achievements that the emperor ordered him to return to the court and be named the Great General.

But he didn't expect that in the past two years, Baili Lingfeng was involved in various quagmire and could not get out. The situation in the southern border was also up and down, but now...

"Rong Naiye, the chieftain of the Miao family, proclaimed himself the Great King of Han Dynasty, led the 17 coalition forces of various ethnic groups headed by the Miao people to attack the city and plunder the land. , Burn my city tower, now Qingcheng is broken, Yizhou is broken, Chengcheng is broken... Twelve cities are broken in a row, and after they are forced to Xiangjun, most of the Han people live in Xiangjun. General Qin Wei led a hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in the city to die They fought to the death for a month, isolated and helpless, Xiangjun was broken, Rong Naiye ordered people to massacre the city for ten days, none of the [-] soldiers and civilians were spared, blood flowed like a river..."

At the end of the speech, Colonel Wang burst into tears, trembling with grief and indignation.

But the people in the court were completely silent for a moment, and they could hardly believe their ears, and everyone's face was pale.

Massacre the city in ten days? !
How could 10 people have been slaughtered by a group of barbarians within their own borders? !

"Bang Dang!" A loud noise made everyone look up in fright, only to see that the hard gold case had shattered into several pieces under Bai Lichu's palm at some point.

His eyes were gloomy like a storm was coming from the sky, and the almost substantial black and cold aura almost made everyone tremble instantly, and they knelt down in unison: "Your Highness, calm down!"

However, there was no trace of anger on that man's face, and the corners of his lips curled up into a faint and seductive smile: "It's really promising. I was killed in the mansion and killed 10 people. I didn't reveal any rumors before, huh... ?”

When the Colonel Wang heard this, his face turned pale again, but he was not in a hurry to answer. Instead, he stretched out his hand to tidy up his clothes and hat, and kowtowed three times to Bailichu. Then he got up and said with a stern expression: "That's why the minister appeared here. General Qin sent several people to inform the states of the state early on, but he only got a response that told him to stick to it. From the beginning of the war with the Miao people, to Xiangjun The city was broken, and for two full months, General Qin sent out countless letters, but he didn't even see any reinforcements, and even..."

He paused for a moment, then turned his head suddenly, and stared at Li Mu who was nearby with a stern look: "General Qin even sent a letter to Longwei, where His Royal Highness retreated to the nearby province of Eastern Guangdong, and the people from Longwei replied to let Qin The general stood firm, but the end result was that General Qin missed the opportunity to lead the army and civilians in the city to transfer, so that he died in battle, Li Mu, Li Mu... General Qin entered the court at the same year as you, and had a friendship of life and death, how could you... ...How could he let him die so tragically!"

At the end of the conversation, the Colonel Wang's tone was no longer in the tone of a report, but full of resentment.

Li Mu was immersed in great grief, indignation and uneasiness, when he suddenly saw Colonel Wang looking at him like this, his heart skipped a beat, and he had a bad premonition, and when he heard his words again, his heart sank quickly .

Could it be another trap?
But seeing that the other party's eyes that wished to sleep on his flesh and blood did not seem to be fake, he couldn't help but said angrily: "Colonel Wang, Hugh is so bloody, I, Longwei, were evacuated to the eastern province of Guangdong under the order of the imperial court. Why have we deliberately avoided fighting? Our people have received a letter from General Qin, but it is only a letter telling us not to act rashly, and General Qin was originally..."

He paused, and abruptly swallowed back the words 'people of the eighth prince', but he didn't know what to say for a moment.

(End of this chapter)