No. 361 Xuzhou Insight 3
"How can it? My second son was born dark and thin when he was a child, except that he ran faster than the children in other families since he was a child, and his brain was not bright at all, in fact, he was a fool. When he came back this time, his whole body did not change much except that he became darker and thinner. What he said just now, the dead boy secretly told his daughter-in-law. No, when the old man was about to flee with his family, the daughter-in-law dared to tell the old man what the dead boy said before leaving.
It turned out that these words were the dead boy's boss Liu Sima who got guidance from Xiao Tianshi, and asked the brothers who came to Xuzhou with him to do business as much as possible to inform every family member of the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou who had defected to Xiao Tianshi. Old man Zhang thought about it, glanced back at his daughter-in-law, and told the reason one by one.
For these words, Ren Jue was not too surprised this time, since Jin Jue established his power, he has won many battles, which shows that he himself has some military ability and insight. Therefore, he can see that Donghai County in Xuzhou is the safest, which is normal.
The reason why the thieves of Mount Tai did not take action to stop the escape from their own jurisdiction to Xuzhou was not that they did not know the importance of ordinary people, but that they could not do anything about it.
This area is not a production area in the first place, and in the face of this locust plague, it is not easy for the generals of Taishan to be able to feed the soldiers and their families under their control under this kind of request. Therefore, after some discussion, Zang Ba and others chose to ignore this large-scale escape incident and remain silent.
Unexpectedly, it only took a long time before he was slapped in the face by this thief.
There is no way not to be silent, at the beginning, Liu Bei was so nonsense in the whole Xuzhou to defend against locust plagues, and the generals of Mount Tai, even Changba himself were not optimistic about Liu Bei's actions.
I saw that the grain income of the neighboring Donghai County did not suffer from the locust plague, but instead obtained a very rare harvest. During this period of time, as long as Changba saw the heavy ears of wheat swaying in the wind in the cultivated fields in Donghai County, he almost couldn't resist sending troops to Donghai County to loot grain a few times.
Fortunately, Mi Zhu is very good at being a man, and he took it upon himself to send his subordinates to send 50,000 stone of grain to Changba. Mi Zhu is worthy of being born in a merchant family, and he controls the amount of gifts very well, which not only makes Changba feel a little little, but also does not make him turn his face. After Liu Bei learned of this, he also praised Mi Zhu's measures.
Lu Su and Xu Shu both said that Changba is capricious, and at this time, they can't offend him, but they can't feed him all at once. Mi Zhu is the most appropriate way to deal with it.
Although there were a lot of refugees fleeing along the way, as soon as Zheng Xuan entered the area controlled by the Taishan thieves, Changba immediately sent someone to inform Liu Bei of the news as soon as possible.
Zheng Xuan did not disdain it, and asked Ren Yi to take Old Man Zhang's family to Tancheng with the refugees.
After that, in the eyes of the old Zhang Tou family, Zheng Xuan and his party went south again.
For how to deal with so many refugees, Liu Bei has long had instructions, as much as he wants, this is this year's bumper grain harvest in Donghai County and Xiapi County, which gave Liu Bei so much courage and ambition.
Xuzhou was originally an important grain producing area, plus a small part of the tuntian, even if sixty percent of the land in the two counties is still controlled by the Xuzhou family, Liu Bei still relies on nearly forty percent of the tuntian, and obtained more than one million grains within a year.
Liu Bei also made a special instruction that after the autumn harvest in September this year, the public land controlled by the whole county of Donghai County will be distributed again, and from this year, Mi Zhu will also begin to carry out large-scale tuntian in Donghai County.
For this reason, Wang Xiu, who had just finished purging the Xia Pi Kingdom, was sent to Donghai County, the purpose of which was to clean up the local wealthy families in the county who refused to obey Liu Bei and paid less or no grain or penny to Liu Bei.
Wang Xiu was originally a strong order, an upright person, and when governing the place, he suppressed the strong and strong, and the rewards and punishments were clear, and he was deeply loved by the people. Under the rule of Kong Rong, the mediocre Taishou of Beihai County, he dared to forcibly kill the Shalu brothers, who were from Jiaodong. What's more, now, Wang Xiu has Liu Bei's strong support behind him.
Mi Zhu and Mi Fang were originally natives of Donghai County, Xuzhou, and in order to prevent their brothers from being embarrassed and unable to do anything, Liu Bei was sent to Donghai County by Wang Xiu.
As for the murder, naturally Wang Xiu no longer needs to do it himself, before, when Xiapi purged the local lawless tycoons, it was Zhang Fei who acted as Wang Xiu's big hand, but this time, in Donghai County, it was Chen Dao.
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Not to mention how Donghai County resettled refugees and how to clean up the place, let's talk about assassinating Liu Bei.
started first, and heard that Zheng Xuan was about to enter Xuzhou with his family, Liu Bei was naturally overjoyed, and he really came to join him for Zheng Xuan. For this reason, when Zheng Xuan entered the territory of Xiapi State, Liu Bei took Sun Gan, Xu Shu and Lu Su out of the city for ten miles to personally greet Zheng Xuan and his party.
Beihai Sun Qian is not only Zheng Xuan's fellow countryman, but also one of Zheng Xuan's disciples, so Liu Bei only brought him alone except for two military advisors, and even his third brother, Zhang Fei, who has always been very fond of befriending scholars, wanted to come with him, but was blocked by Liu Bei.
Liu Bei was worried that Zhang Fei was reckless for a while, and he collided with Zheng Xuan and his party.
As a result, to Liu Bei's great disappointment, after Zheng Xuan drank a glass of water and wine, he not only generously stated the purpose of his trip in front of him, but also, in order to hurry, their group did not enter Xiapi City, but directly bypassed Xiapi City, turned southwest to the Huai River, and took a boat to the area controlled by Jinyun, from there to Nanyang.
Zhao Yun advertised to the public that he was Jin Jue's cousin, so Zheng Xuan's first stop was naturally to go to Runan first, and let 'Jin Yun' find a way to send his party to Jin Jue.
However, because of Jin Juejun's movements at this time, and the fact that Ma Tengjun and Jin Juejun completely fell out was blocked by someone with a heart, so now, whether it is Liu Bei, Zhao Yun, or Liu Ye, who occupies the southern region of Runan, still thinks that at this time, Jin Juejun must be attacking the remaining counties of Wudu County?
Liu Bei, who was entangled in every way, did not stop Zheng Xuan's trip in the end, he could only take his subordinates to accompany Zheng Xuan and his party to slowly move forward, and at the same time sent someone back to the city, informing Zhang Fei that he would immediately lead a thousand cavalry in person, and then rush over.
The group arrived at the long pavilion ten miles southwest of Xiapi City, Liu Bei was still unsatisfied, looking at his appearance, he seemed to have the intention of sending Zheng Xuan to continue his journey.
(End of chapter)