Since the establishment of the Jiaozhi Governor's Department during the Yuanfeng period, the imperial court has included this southern border area in the direct jurisdiction of the center. In the following three hundred years, various parts of Jiaozhou have continuously accepted immigrants, developed colonization, built passages, and promoted mulberry and hemp industries. The number of household registration in Jiaozhou has also continued to grow, reaching nearly two million at its highest.

But in fact, the jurisdiction of the imperial court has always been only on paper and rarely can be truly implemented.

Before, when the world was peaceful, officials responded to the superiors and were perfunctory to the subordinates. Relying on the Han immigrants who went south to support local officials, they also made a safe and sound attitude.

But when the Central Plains were in war, hundreds of thousands or even more people from Jingzhou and Yangzhou were rushing to take refuge in Jiaozhou in a short period of time, and the local officials of Jiaozhou immediately exposed the truth about losing control of the grassroots.

They could only sit and watch the large number of refugees migrate and could not take the initiative to resettle them. When refugees were in conflict with local Han and old tribes along the way for various reasons, they did not have the ability to suppress or mediate.

Therefore, for more than ten years, although there were no external enemies in Jiaozhou, it was in chaos. Fierce conflicts between the old tribe and refugees broke out in various counties and townships, and hundreds or thousands of people were killed or injured every day.

During this period, the entire Jiaozhou was like a huge wave surging in the sea. The conflict between refugees and localities destroyed the order, and the people who lost the order actively and passively turned into bloodthirsty beasts. The chaotic fights followed by the killings, and hatred caused new killings, which continued to circulate, so that the corpses accumulated like mountains and blood flowed into the wild. The bloody scene was exactly the same as the chaotic times in the Central Plains.

"At that time, the Ge clan came from the South China Sea to Hepu, and encountered the attack of the Gaoliang bandits on the road. Half of the troops were killed and injured, and the tribes were separated, leaving less than 3,000 people. At that time, he heard that Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, was killed by chaos in Cangwu, so we repeatedly discussed and thought that the only one who was able to resettle the refugees at that time was Jiaozhi. The prefect of Jiaozhi was Shi Xie Shi Weiyan."

Wang Dong sighed deeply: "So we continued walking, heading west along the sea, and finally entered Jiaozhi County."

"Shi Weiyan is a famous scholar in Jiaozhou. He is good at politicians. It is necessary to protect the people of a county without any problem?" Lei Yuan asked tentatively.

"We thought this was it!" Wang Dong suddenly raised his voice, then felt rude and quickly lowered his voice: "After arriving in Jiaozhou, he found that Shi Xie treated the scholars who came to surrender very favorably, but to ordinary Han people... the people are just his tools and his bargaining chips."

"How do you say this?"

"At that time, the governor of Jiaozhou died first, and then 2,000 stones in Hepu, South China Sea and other places died in chaos one after another. Shi Xie believed that this was a good opportunity to expand the clan power, so he sent people to various places in Jiaozhou to seize county governments and temples, and appointed himself as a local official. However, the power of the Shi family itself was limited after all. In order to expand its power, he agreed with the barbarians and townsmen from all over the country to allow them to plunder the land and population in Jiaozhou at will. He even gave tens of thousands of refugees gathered in Jiaozhi County as gifts to Kui, a local Dahao District, who had just captured Xianglin County, Rinan County. After Qu Kui received tens of thousands of Han people, his reputation was great, and he expanded the land and became king. "

"It's the Linyi Kingdom now." Lei Yuan said: "I heard that since the rise of this country, it has successively invaded the surrounding Daqi Realm, Xiaoqi Realm, Xu Lang, Qudu, Qianlu, Funan and other countries. There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the country, which are quite powerful."

In addition to Jiang Li's group, Lei Yuan sent other people to go to the south of Cangwu. A caravan met a maritime merchant who went north from Xuwen and recommended it to Lei Yuan. The situation in Linyi State was what the maritime merchant told Lei Yuan.

"That's right." Wang Dong said: "Now Linyi is a great country in the south of the world, which is not a small matter."

"It is a choice to build a country in a foreign land and continue the customs of the Han family?"

Wang Dong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "General, you don't know anything. Although Qu Kui is a Han native, he is based in Rinan County, relying on the power of the barbarians. Therefore, after he founded his country, he promoted the customs of the Barbarians, prompting the Han people to abandon their clothes and emulate the barbarians' things, and even sat down and watched the barbarian chiefs bully the Han people in the country and regard the Han people as lowly..."

Speaking of this, Wang Dong was ripped off his robe. He suddenly stood up, lifted off his robe, and exposed a terrifying mark that was more than two feet long from his right chest to his crotch.

"General Lei, this scar is a barbarian chief in Linyi Kingdom! He...they..." Wang Dong gasped and said after a while:

"Just because the Han people would not crawl on the ground and perform the ridiculously bullshit manners to them, they mobilized thousands of barbarian soldiers to attack the manor of the Ge clan overnight! The Ge clan served Qu Kui, and more than 300 people had died in the battlefields in the mountains and forests, and their bodies were gone. As a result, that night, the manor was first slaughtered by the barbarian soldiers and then burned by fire. The whole Ge clan, as well as my wife and tribe, from young and strong to old, weak, women and children, had only a dozen or twenty people escaped!"

Speaking of this, Wang Dong was trembling all over, and veins bulged on both hands and forehead.

"Didn't it mean that there were tens of thousands of Han people who were given to Qu Kui by Shi Xie. Is it driven by Qu Kui? If something like this happens, those tens of thousands of people can tolerate it?" Ma Zhong asked calmly.

"Those tens of thousands... tens of thousands!" Wang Dong laughed sadly.

After laughing for a while, he said, "The vast majority of the tens of thousands of people either surrendered to the official positions and wealth of Qu Kui, or feared the viciousness of the barbarians of Linyi. When I fled from Linyi, they successively followed the customs of the local barbarians and tied their heads to the left, and they were no longer Han people but became barbarians!"

"How could such a thing happen?" Ma Zhong was stunned for a moment.

He was from Langzhong, Baxi County, Yizhou. He witnessed with his own eyes that there were also a large number of barbarians living in Langzhong, called Bayi, Juren or Banyan barbarians. But no matter how fierce these barbarians were, they still admired the sinicization in their hearts and were willing to accept the Han Dynasty's clothing system.

Although they had their own beliefs in gods and ghosts, Zhang Lu's five dou of rice paths immediately made the leaders of Bayi flock to him; and once they had the opportunity to join the Han court, they were even more active. People such as Du Bian, Ren Yue, and Park Hu followed the Cao army and died heroically. Lei Yuan also gathered a leader of the monk as his subordinate, which was Wang Ping and Prince Jun.

However, in Jiaozhou, will this normal Chineseization process be reversed?

There will actually be tens of thousands of Han people who turn into barbarians?

For Ma Zhong, this is a bit of a breakthrough in the limit of his imagination.

But Lei Yuan could accept it.

In the history that Lei Yuan knew, hundreds of years later, some Han people were in a great way. And thousands of years later, some Han people were even more proud of being in foreign lands and clinging to foreign races. There was nothing more to be surprised. They thought that the Han family was in decline and that they could live a easier life if they changed their own family to foreign races.

Lei Yuan knocked on the table and signaled Ma Zhong to come back to his senses.

Ma Zhong shook his head: "Lai Renjin never talks about these things."

Lai Gong, the governor of Jiaozhou, has always been a decoration. He is just a graceful literati in the temple. It was not without reason that Wu Ju would be driven back to Jingzhou by him; but when he comes again this time, it seems that his role is still limited.

Lei Yuan was a little disappointed. He smiled and continued to ask Wang Dong: "As you said, Linyi Kingdom is thousands of miles away after all. Why did the people in his country come to Lipu?"

"The Jiaozhou governors of Zhu Fu, Zhang Jin, and even the prefects of Shi Xie, Wu Ju, all of them are just Jiaozhou on paper and in the books. Below the paper, there is another real Jiaozhou in the hands of countless villages and Yihaos, and is influenced by Linyi and other major powers outside the territory. Since Shi Xie died at the beginning of the year, the power of Shi's clan collapsed, so many people who were originally afraid of Shi's clan and many forces began to take action."

"As for why it is Lipu..." Wang Dong turned around and looked at Jiang Li: "I think the barbarian forces have become stronger and stronger over the years, but in the hearts of ordinary barbarians, I still remember the bravery and good fighting of the Zheng sisters back then, so..."
Chapter completed!