As noon approached, several princes were reviewing their homework in the palace school and wrote some rare words for those who just started to be a student.

Li Li, who came back from Sanchao, sat aside and practiced calligraphy with his sons.

Several princes have passed the enlightenment stage and have learned how to write common characters. The rare characters I learned today are also well written.

In Li Li's opinion, at least the handwriting is written in a straight manner, not in a zigzag manner.

Thinking of something that was discussed when he was in court today, Li Li thought of an unusual word and taught his sons to write it.

He picked up the pen and wrote the word "Cuan" on the paper. When the princes read it, they instantly felt that they were so angry: What kind of word is this!

Li Li explained: "According to the pronunciation method, it is pronounced as 'Cai Wu', which is homophonic with the word 'Ship'."

"The "Shuowen Jiezi" introduces the Fire Department: "Chuan" means "Chuan". The original meaning of the word "Chuan" is to cook. Its word appears during the Warring States Period, such as the kitchen is called "Chuan Room".

This character has many strokes and complex structures. Several princes have written it many times, but they always write it incorrectly.

So Li Li taught his sons the experience: to disassemble the words to facilitate memory.

Chinese characters are pictographic characters, and almost every character evolves from graphic characters to express the meaning. Therefore, when learning to write, if you can use the method of decomposing characters to help memorize, it will help improve learning efficiency.

The character "cun" can be disassembled from top to bottom to make four words: "Xing", "Lin", "Da" and "Fire".

You can remember to call it "Xinglin Fire", so that it will not be easy to write it incorrectly.

Of course, the first word "无" at the beginning, and the two points at the bottom are actually the two wings of "地官网", and the strokes of the word "天" should be separated.

After Li Li explained this, the princes quickly mastered the way to write the word "Cuan". They remembered that his father said that the word was also a surname, so they became curious:

"Is there really a person with a surname in the world?"

"Yes, and a lot." In order to increase the interest of their sons in recognizing characters, Li Li further explained the word "Cuan" as a surname.

Although the word "Cuan" is very rare for many people, in the Nanzhong region south of Shu (later Yunnan-Guizhou region), the Cuan family is a major surname and is the largest surname.

In other words, the Cuan family is the real ruler of the Nanzhong region today.

As he spoke, Li Li began to talk about history.

During the Later Han Dynasty, the world was divided into three parts. After Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han, pacified Nanzhong, and appointed the children of the Nanzhong clan as local officials to stabilize the hearts of the local people. Among them, there was Cuan Xi, who was born in the Cuan family.

Later, when Shu Han was destroyed and Jin unified the world, he was not very concerned about the distant Nanzhong region. The Cuan family gradually became bigger and surpassed the surnames, becoming the most powerful surname in Nanzhong.

The Central Plains were in chaos and their clothes were crossing south, so the Jiankang court could not actually control the Nanzhong region.

Although the Cuan family still praised the court, the Jiankang court only had nominal rule over Nanzhong. The governor of the state was more like a false position in Ningzhou, which was located in Nanzhong.

Gradually, the power of prefectures and counties was "taken for granted" by the Cuan family.

In the late Xiaoliang period and the late Datong period, court officials came to Ningzhou as governor.

Hou Jing caused chaos, and Xu Wensheng, the then governor of Ningzhou, led his troops to leave Ningzhou. The Cuan family also captured the nominal Ningzhou Daquan.

Later, Yizhou was taken away by the Wei State (Western Wei State), so the Cuan family praised the Wei State and the Southern Central was no longer owned by the Jiankang court.

Now the Jiankang court, whose country's name is "Chu", has recovered Yizhou. The Cuan clan in Nanzhong has been watching for a while and saw that the Chu army had stood firm in Yizhou. He immediately "repaired the sheep and sent an envoy to Kaifeng to apologize.

The envoy first went to Chengdu, Yizhou, and Liang Sen, who was in charge of Yizhou, then sent someone to escort the envoy to Kaifeng. The group arrived a few days ago.

That's why Li Li noticed the surname "Cuan".

I remembered that in this era, the Yunnan-Guizhou region was a "outside place" similar to the throne of states. Even if it was set up with prefectures, it was just a name but not real.

The state of Nanzhong is similar to that of Lingbiao area. The so-called rule of the Central Plains court in the local area is limited to a few cities.

After leaving the city, the locals did not recognize the court at all.

It is related to national affairs, so there is no need to talk to the children. Li Li watched his sons practice writing. As he watched, he was distracted and remembered the issue about the Cuan family in Nanzhong at today's court meeting.

The Cuan family's envoy may not have known that the capital of Zhou Chang'an had changed hands before going to Chengdu, but it should have known later.

As a result, when he came to Kaifeng, he apologized and did not forget to remind the court of "reminder" with the words: "Although the people in the South China live a hard life, they are not afraid of difficulties."

What does this mean?

It means: We know we are wrong, so we come to admit our mistakes to the court. We all admit our mistakes in how the court will punish us for the mistakes we made before.

However, our people in the South (the Cuan family in the South) are not easy to mess with. If the Wang army comes to the South to revive the army, they will probably be in a mess.

By then, it will be no longer good on both sides.

So, just follow the old rules, but it really doesn't work. The court sent someone to Ningzhou as the governor, and we offered him delicious food and drink. Is this okay?

Li Li thought about it and became a little annoyed: Are you here to admit your mistake? Is this the attitude of admitting your mistake?

At today's court meeting, there were discussions on this matter. The result of the discussion was to implement a "slow-down plan":

He sent someone to serve as the governor of Ningzhou, but he did not expect to take back the power from the Cuan family. The governor's actual responsibility was to understand the facts in Ningzhou and even Nanzhong, and also to give other major surnames in the Nanzhong region a hope.

Prepare for further future actions.

How long will it take for the “future”?

At least one generation, about twenty years.

The reason why we have to "retarget the troops" is that even if the world has been unified, the trauma caused to people's hearts by the confrontation between the north and the south for nearly three hundred years takes time to smooth it out. Therefore, people from all over the country need to cultivate and nourish themselves.

If the imperial court wants to teach the Cuan family in Nanzhong a lesson, it is OK, even if the journey is long and difficult, it will be effective if it enters Nanzhong with an elite army.

But what after?

If the court wants to actually control Ningzhou, further strengthen its influence in the Nanzhong region, and disintegrate the Cuan family's power, it will require a lot of manpower and material resources. Obviously, the court's finances cannot support it.

Therefore, even though the imperial court sent troops to teach the Cuan family a lesson, it was unable to station too many troops in Ningzhou. Later, Nanzhong was still the territory of the Cuan family.

Since the court is unable to manage Nanzhong in the short term, there is no need to stimulate the local snake of the Cuan family.

Since the other party knew each other and gave in, the court would do enough momentum to make everyone happy.

Li Li understood that this was the best strategy, so he was so angry that he just thought about sending troops.

Moreover, if the imperial court wants to manage Nanzhong, it must first manage the "foundation" of Shu, but what is the current situation in Shu?

In the past twenty years, Shu has experienced two major wars, with severe consumption of people's power and many cities are deserted, and they are indeed unable to play the role of "foundation", allowing the court to make achievements in the South Central.

Similarly, if you want to manage Jiaozhou well, you have to manage Lingbiao Guangzhou area well first, and it is not that easy to manage Guangzhou area well:

The actual existence of the Central Plains imperial court in Lingbiao was limited to a few big cities and important places. The historical Lingbiao and even the Fujian region in later generations, and the southern part of Jiangxi were truly developed. It was only after hundreds of years of efforts from the Tang and Song dynasties that it achieved results.

The complete inclusion and control of Yunnan and Guizhou areas underwent the transformation of land and return to the land in the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Such a huge project (completely digested Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and Guangxi) has lasted for thousands of years.

Looking at his son who was practicing writing seriously, Li Li felt that he should lay a foundation honestly and not be too happy to be successful and overdraw his national strength.

Otherwise, Li Chu would "dead in the second lifetime".

It is enough for his generation to complete unity and heal the trauma of the North and South split for hundreds of years.

After all, without the cultivation and resting of Emperor Gaozu of Han and the accumulation of national strength of Wen and Jing's rule, where did Emperor Wu of Han kill all directions?
Chapter completed!