The whole Jiaozhou has a vast area. It included northern and central Vietnam, Guangxi and Guangdong in China. However, the population is only 2 million people, which is typically a vast and sparsely populated area.

Gongsun Kang was going to attack Nanhai County. Nanhai County governs Panyu County, leading Panyu, Zhongsu, Boluo, Longchuan, Sihui and Jieyang six counties.

Gongsun Kang let the fleet enter the Pearl River and sailed straight to the territory of Panyu. At this time, Hong Kong was just a wasteland, and there was not even a single figure, so it was necessary to drive the population of Nanhai County to build a wharf. Of course, now Gongsun Kang found that his better choice was not to build Hong Kong, but to directly occupy Nanhai County and take over the whole province of Guangdong. The Pearl River is deep and wide enough, and the sea ships of this era can still accommodate it.

Jiaozhou takes Jiaozhi as the provincial capital, and Yulin County and Cangwu County as large counties, with a population of more than 500,000 at most, and the sum of the three counties has represented the total strength of Jiaozhou.

Cochin County, Zhilong (now Bac Ninh, Vietnam); The area of Cangwu County is roughly in the south of Changsha County and the north of Guilin County; Yulin County, Zhibu Mountain, in present-day Guigang City, Guangxi, has jurisdiction over most of present-day Guangxi.

In this way, the population of Guangdong Province in later generations was less than 200,000. Later, after Gongsun Kang occupied Nanhai County, Qi Min organized households and found that there were nearly 20,000 households in Nanhai County, with a population of nearly 100,000.

With such a small population, Gongsun Kang has the idea of emigrating again. As long as 200,000 immigrants from Wadao are immigrated, they can easily take over the entire territory of Guangdong. With the fanatical worship of the Japanese people, they can create an iron army to conquer the countries of Southeast Asia.

After everyone got off the ship, they did not set up a large camp and directly surrounded Panyu City.

Liaodong soldiers, after leaving 6,000 for Qiaorui, there are 26,000. The soldiers and residents in Panyu City did not exceed 20,000.

So Nanhai County Shou Shiwu was scared at that time.

Gongsun Kang asked the soldiers with loud voices to come to the bottom of the Panyu earth city wall and shouted: "The champion Hou is here to lead the troops, you surrender quickly!" After a moment or three, Panyu was attacked, and the chickens and dogs were not left! ”

Panyu has been peaceful for decades, and the city walls are made of earth, and the weathering is still very serious. It looks like a horse's hooves will fall down when they step on it. Whether there were 1,000 soldiers defending the city is still a question mark.

So it didn't take until a moment or three, Shiwu opened the city gate and came out to surrender.

Gongsun Kang ordered to camp outside the city, and soldiers were not allowed to enter the city to harass the people. The people of Panyu were secretly grateful, and from then on they accepted the rule of Gongsun Kang with peace of mind.

The next day, Gongsun Kang called Shiwu to the barracks, inquired about the overall situation of Jiaozhou, and then asked him to go back and continue to serve as the Taishou of Nanhai County, work with peace of mind, and do not have any ideological baggage.

Speaking of Jiaozhou, we have to talk about the soil emperor of Jiaozhou: the Shi family.

The Shi family was a powerful local force in the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, and Shi Xie and his three brothers led four counties, accounting for more than half of the territory of Lingnan.

In the fourth year of Zhongping (187), Shixie was appointed as the Taishou of Jiaozhi. At this time, the imperial court had experienced many years of chaos, and its influence on Jiaozhou was greatly weakened.

Shixie, who was nominally loyal to the Han Dynasty's Jiaozhi Taishou, had in fact become a warlord who had seized the counties of Lingnan. Shixie's relatives mostly held important positions in Jiaozhou, and Shixie's cousin asked him to appoint his younger brother Shiyi to serve as Hepu Taishou, his second brother Xu Wenxian County Lingshi Yi (pronounced yǐ, see "Zilin") to concurrently serve as Jiuzhen Taishou, and Shixie's younger brother Shiwu concurrently served as Nanhai Taishou.

士缮 (xiè) (Vietnamese: S? Nhi?p) word Weiyan. Cangwu Guangxin (now Wuzhou, Guangxi) people.

As a warlord on one side, he is not a martial artist. Liu Tao, a teacher and scholar when Shixie was young, is the author of "Shixie Collection", "Spring and Autumn Scripture Notes", "Ram Notes", and "Gu Liang Notes". It's okay to say that he was a Confucian scholar.

Shi Xie has a generous personality and a modest corporal, and the number of scholars in the Central Plains who went to take refuge in the Central Plains was hundreds, such as Yuan Hui, Xu Jing, Liu Ba, Cheng Bing, and Xue Zong. Shi Xie was intoxicated with "Spring and Autumn" again, and annotated it.

After Shiwu returned to the city, Gongsun Kang summoned the military generals of Wenchen to discuss countermeasures.

Tai Shici said: "Jiaozhou has been peaceful for 20 years, and their army has never fought a war. Let's just take all the Jiaozhou. ”

Gongsun Kang nodded and smiled, agreeing with his opinion.

Xi Zhicai said: "The Tu Emperor and the scholars in Jiaozhou are all so cowardly, as long as we send Shiwu to persuade us to surrender, we can easily get Jiaozhou, and there is no need to use force at all." ”

Gongsun Kang is still smiling, and the Shi family is majestic in Jiaozhou. When they go in and out, they ring bells and chimes, prepare dignified instruments, preach with flutes, ride all over the road, and often have dozens of sand gates sandwiched in the crowd of chariots and horses to burn incense. Their wives and concubines rode in chariots with drapes, and their sons were followed by soldiers on horseback, showing their nobility and prestige, and impressing the ethnic minorities.

But in history, when Sun Quan sent Buqi to take over Jiaozhou, Shixie actively cooperated and did not dare to resist at all. It can be seen that the truth of their paper tigers.

These small local warlords, as soon as they encounter the big warlords, immediately admit it. Take whatever you want, and don't even dare to let a fart go.

Gongsun Kang said: "I estimate that as long as Shiwu is sent, Shixie will surrender immediately and pay tribute." But these have little practical meaning for us. The Shi family is relying on the road to divide one side far away, and he is still the emperor of the soil when we go, and he is the king and hegemon here. ”

Gongsun Kang didn't want the nominal surrender of the Shi family, he wanted to get actual benefits.

Xun You shook his feather fan and began to analyze: "Jiaozhou has always been a barren land, and only Baiyue people regard it as a paradise. With a population of two million, if you want to develop such a large piece of territory, any prince is more than willing to do it. ”

Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

Xun You continued: "After we occupy Jiaozhou, we can capture Guiyang County and Lingling County in Jingzhou to the north; To the west, Yizhou can be captured; If you go abroad, you can attack the body poison and the frost. Therefore, the strategic location of Jiaozhou is very important. With Jiaozhou, we don't have to develop Zhuya Prefecture anymore. ”

Gongsun Kang laughed and said, "Haha! There is basically no mistake in what you say! If it is another prince, getting Jiaozhou is just a piece of chicken ribs, and it is a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless. But we can start from here to conquer the body poison and the frost. So it's a very important base. ”

Xun You continued to shake his feather fan, unhurried, very complacent.

Xi Zhicai couldn't see his kind of pride, so he hit him and said: "Gongda is roughly right, but Zhuya Prefecture still needs to be developed." The lord told us on the ship: Zhuya Prefecture (Hainan) has a relatively complete range of mineral resources, and the resource reserves are relatively rich. Shiroku Iron Mine is the largest iron-rich mine in Asia; In addition, gold and silver deposits are also relatively concentrated, and they are easy to develop. ”

Xun You's face turned red, and he glared at Xi Zhicai, meaning: Can't you let me be proud for a while?

Gongsun Kang looked funny, Xi Zhicai and Xun You were good friends, and Gongsun Kang was not worried at all that they would turn against each other. So he coughed and relieved Xun You's embarrassment. He said: "We can already determine the strategic position of Jiaozhou, so we must operate it well." Wen Ze. He looked at Yu Ban.

Yu Ban hurriedly stood up, clenched his fists and replied: "The end will be!" ”

Gongsun Kang ordered: "I appoint you as the governor of Jiaozhou, the military governor of Jiaozhou, and make preliminary preparations for our future expedition to poison and Guishan." ”

"The Last General's Order!" Yu Ban knelt on one knee and accepted the appointment.

(End of chapter)