Pei Gai and Zu Ti entered Huaiyin City in a mighty way, and it was in early June of this year. Follow? Dream?. lā

The south of the mountain and the north of the water are yang, and the north of the mountain and the south of the water are yin, so Huaiyin City, as the name suggests, is a city located on the south bank of Huaishui. This county has been in ancient times, it is said that Zhao was built in the Warring States Period, Qin belonged to Surabaya County - Han Xin's Huaiyin Marquis, the fief is here - Han, Wei Shi was successively subordinate to the East China Sea, Xiapi, Linhuai and other counties, until the Jin Wu Emperor Taikang three years, only belonged to Guangling County, and the county governance was located here. There are eight counties in Guangling, in Huainan there are Yu County, Guangling, Hailing, Gaoyou, Sheyang, Yandu, and Linhuai, and there is also a Huaipu County in Huaibei - Pei and others do not plan to go to the north bank to govern for the time being.

It is not only the governance of Guangling County, but also close to Huaishui, the geographical location is very important, so Zu Ti once left Qu Gaole and others in Huaiyin City, contacted colleagues, and inquired about the surrounding news. The group entered the city smoothly, first repairing the government office and the treasury - but there are only county offices and county offices in the city, but there is no state office, Zu Li wanted to give the county government to Pei Gai, but Pei Gai politely refused, anyway, no one is worthy of the position of Huaiyin Order for the time being, then I am wronged and wronged, and the governor of a state will live in the county office.

Convene the rich households in the city and inquire about the situation in the county. This question is amazing, dare to love Huaiyin County, the household registration was originally the head of a county, but when the world is in turmoil, the chiefs all abandon and leave, it has completely become an extralegal abyss, the people are displaced, and thieves are everywhere. However, in the last year or so, it has barely been a little peaceful, because the landlords of the townships have built dock forts to defend them, and have almost wiped out the scattered bandits - of course, the large stocks cannot deal with it, so they can only barely defend themselves.

In a county, there are eleven dock forts, the big ones can produce one or two thousand, and the small ones can be five or six hundred. For several days, Pei Gai and Zu Ti were so busy that their feet did not touch the ground: Zu Shizhi mainly consolidated the city defense, arranged the camp, and began to personally train the newly recruited 2,000 militiamen; As for Pei Wenyue, he had two things to do, one was to write a letter to the township lords, asking them to come to the county seat to discuss defense affairs, and the other was to arrange for the families of those displaced people to go to the cantonment.

The place has already been chosen, just east of Hangou, at the junction with Sheyang County. The terrain is low-lying and prone to water accumulation, and to be honest, it is not a fertile land, but fortunately, there have always been few farmers, and the wasteland is contiguous and can be directly owned by the government - Pei Gai is a newcomer after all, and his strength and energy are very limited, and it is impossible to directly engage in fierce conflict with the landlords.

It doesn't matter if the water is stagnant, you can open a ditch to drain the water and build a ridge to prevent waterlogging, although most of the workers are old and weak, women and children, fortunately, they are not in a hurry - the autumn harvest is about to be, at most they can plant some vegetables that can mature in the short term, and if you want to grow food, you can only wait for next spring - as long as you can pick up the fields before the frost.

Of course, there is also a small amount of strong labor mixed in - there are more than a dozen homesteaders in this area, and Pei Gai is honest and unceremonious, and they are all arrested and demoted to military households.

This matter is mainly handed over to Fei Sheng to do, because among the three staff, their family is the richest in the industry, with hundreds of hectares of land in Wucheng County, and Fei Boqian is not the patriarch of the center, he has actually supervised farmers, collected rents, bullied men and women, and it stands to reason that there should be some management ability of agricultural engineering.

The county affairs were all handed over to Bian Yan, assisted by Wei Xun and Zhou Zhu, and I believe that with Bian Wangzhi's ability, a county should be able to settle down properly - he just happened to have actually managed a county. Pei should have taken a moment of leisure—just waiting for the lord of the dock castle to come to the city—and spread out his paper that night, and picked up his pen, for he still had several letters to write.

The first letter begins: "Aunt ...... the East China Sea Princess" Since he has settled down in Huaiyin, he naturally wants to write a letter to inform Pei of his safety. He originally wanted to add fuel and vinegar to the situation of the withering people's livelihood and thieves he saw along the way, and write three more points into the unbearable, so as to prevent the Du family from sending their daughter north in the future, but after thinking about it again, if the situation is really portrayed too difficult, won't the Pei family worry about himself? Forget it, let's put it simply, by the way, your brother-in-law Bian Yan has already arrived in my curtain.

The second letter was: "Your Excellency the Prince, Jun Jian......" addressed to Director Wang. He had to contact the Langya Wang family frequently, expressing his willingness to support his heart, and the Pei Wang family could work together in harmony. Of course, with the gradual stabilization of their own power, and even some expansion, Wang Dao and others will definitely be suspicious, and they will inevitably set up conspiracy and constraints, and they really can't hide from it...... However, it is best to postpone the date of the tearing face as much as possible to allow yourself enough time to prepare.

The third letter, "Your Excellency Xi Gong Jun Jian ......" is addressed by Xi Jian Xi Daohui.

Since he unexpectedly encountered and took over Bian Yan, Pei Gai realized that it was difficult for him to find available talents to help him in Jiangdong, but he could go to Jiangbei to find it. Because of the chaos in the Central Plains, the soldiers avoided the army and crossed to the south, and the "Yongjia Rebellion" after the destruction of Luoyang City produced the largest batch - not the first batch, Sima Rui and Wang Dao took the lead - but it was not the only one, and there were many more in the future. This is because there are still many remnants of the Jin Dynasty in the north - for example, Sima Ye in Guanzhong, Liu Kun in Jinyang, Wang Jun in Youzhou, Xun brothers in Xingyang, etc. - and many families that are not subordinate to these forces are still holding on to the hope of recovery, and do not plan to smash the altars and jars, abandon the tombs of their ancestors and run to the south of the Yangtze River for the time being. It was not until these forces were gradually extinguished, and the north and south of the river were basically dominated by the Hou Zhao family, and the last large-scale southward crossing tide was stopped - those who wanted to run had already run, and those who didn't want to run had already been connected with Shi Zhao and other regimes.

So after carefully searching his memory, Pei Gai found that many of the characters who later called for wind and rain in the political arena of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had not crossed south in these years, and were still struggling to support themselves in Jiangbei - for example, the famous Xi Daohui. In Pei Gai's memory, Xi Jian should still be in Yishan in Ludi, gathering tens of thousands of clans and displaced people, and it was not until a few years later that he was appointed by Sima Rui as the assassin of Yanzhou, and he had to wait for the establishment of the Eastern Jin Dynasty before he could not survive in Jiangbei and was forced to go south.

Xi Jian, whether loyal or talented, is remarkable, the former may not be as good as Bian Yan, and the latter must be as good as him. According to later generations, he was the first minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to control the armed forces of the Jiangbei refugees for his own use, and he was also the only loyal minister who had military power in his hands but did not have the slightest attempt to rebel. If you can contact Xi Jian in advance and recruit him to your command, it will definitely have the effect of adding wings to the tiger.

Of course, there are pros and cons to this move. Most capable people must be ambitious-although they are not enough to support the army and even plot rebellion-Xi Daohui can serve Sima Rui, because there is a clan vassal king on his head, and then there is the aura of the son of tabula rasa, what should Pei compare with him? Xi Jian is different from Bian Yan, his name is high, and his family is also prominent-Gaoping Xi's family is also a wealthy family-plus he doesn't have a deep relationship with the Pei family, he really called him, can he listen to himself? Even if you don't occupy the magpie's nest, if everything is restricted, what should you do?

It's just that what Pei Gai lacks now is people, not only coveting Xi Jian's own ability, but also coveting the tens of thousands of clans and displaced people around him, so after repeated thinking and weighing, he still plans to take a risk and contact him first to see if he has the intention of leading his troops to Guangling to help.

The title of the fourth letter is: "Shao Sizu is ...... under his feet" addressed to Shao Xu. The ability of this polemical array should be far above Xi Jian, perhaps second only to Zu Qi Zu Shizhi in the world, in Pei Gai's impression, Shao Xu once garrisoned the army, although in Hebei, the longitude is not much different from his own Guangling City. If you can win over Shao Xu, you will not be afraid of incompetent generals under your command - Zu Ti is an ally after all, not his own subordinates - Shao Xu is capable, but more importantly, his family background is not high and his reputation is not obvious, so it should be easier to win over and control.

Question: Shao Xu seems to have surrendered to Wang Jun for a time, and was forced to fight independently until Wang Jun was destroyed, is he now under Wang Jun's command? This Wang Peng Zu is famous and powerful, and his corner is not easy to dig...... Besides, when Shao Xu was tired of the garrison, I really can't remember clearly......

Anyway, try to get in touch first. Even if you can't be a subordinate, pulling him as an ally is a more reliable help.

In addition, there is a Jin general who can fight in the world, and there is also Li Ju Li Shihui - the same name as Li Ju and Li Maoyue, the lieutenant of the East China Sea King, but this person should still be under the command of Xun Fan and Xun Zu, I don't know if he has been pulled out to do it alone. The distance was too far to make contact, so Pei Gai motioned to Zu Ti to write a letter to him - you will go west to Yanyu in the future, and this person can help you.

Li Ju was once appointed as a general by Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea (recorded in the history books as Ruyin Taishou, probably confused with Li Maoyue), and can be regarded as a member of Sima Yue and Sima Rui's group, but Zu Shizhi is not familiar with him - first, his family is relatively low, and second, his talent has not yet been revealed - and asked Pei Gai: "Does Wen Yue know this person?" What are the capabilities? Pei Gai said that I had just heard of it, and casually made it up again: "Uncle Dao (Pei Shao) Zeng Yun, if he has to put it in his pocket, Li Shihui will be able to stand out, and he will not be good at it, only the word loyalty and bravery." ”

Zu Ti nodded again and again, saying that since Pei Shao had praised him, he thought he was a character. Well, I'll write to him and get in touch.

As for Pei Gai, his last letter was addressed to-"Cheng Sima is ......"

Because of the poor traffic level in those years, as well as the current situation of thieves all over the land, he copied one more of the three letters from the north, and handed them over to the parts that Zhen Sui had received, and asked them to go their separate ways to pass them.

Immediately, news came that Situ Fu Ji, who had established a platform in Cangyuan with Gou Xi, hung up. At that time, Liu Cong sent his son Liu Cang to lead the army to attack the Mengjin garrisoned by Fu Yi, and at the moment before the city was broken, Fu Situ, who was nearly seventy years old, died suddenly, and his grandson Fu Chun, Fu Cui and more than 20,000 households in the city were all moved to Pingyang by Liu Can...... The remnants of the Jin dynasty in the Central Plains were wiped out.