In fact, putting himself in Chen Wen's shoes, Xu Chu could only do this, putting the burden of money, food, and soldiers on the two counties of Lujiang and Jiujiang. In order to reverse the decline, Chen Wen must also work military affairs to strengthen his strength.

Chen Wen did not do nothing, he expressed Lu Kang's son Lu Jun as the governor of Jiujiang, and Liu Miao, a native of the same county in Runan, as the Taishou of Jiujiang, in order to deepen the connection with the Lu clan of Wu County and strengthen his military strength in Jiujiang.

Therefore, before Xu Chu arrived in Yangzhou, Yangzhou could be roughly divided into three forces: the first one, the foreign forces of Runan led by Chen Wen, the assassin of Yangzhou, and Liu Miao, the Taishou of Jiujiang; the second, represented by Zhou Xin, He Qi, etc., are the natives of Benzhou who have a relatively large opinion of Chen Wen, and these people mostly rely on the Huijishi clan as the backing; The third and last is the local forces in Yangzhou represented by Zhu Hao, Zhu Fu, Lu Kang, Lu Jun and others, who have a relatively moderate attitude towards Chen Wen.

Now that Xu Chu is here, the situation has changed dramatically.

Speculated about Chen Wen's feelings after hearing that the imperial court worshiped Xu Chu as the Lujiang Taishou, probably first happy and then suspicious.

Where does the joy come from? From Xu Chu's birthplace. Xu Chu was originally a native of Peiguo County, Yuzhou, Peiguo borders Runan, even if Chen Wen had no intersection with him because Xu Chu was born as a hero, but the local concept of the people at the time was extremely heavy, needless to say that Xu Chu, who is also from Yuzhou, is naturally easy to get close to him Chen Wen. Moreover, Chen Wen is a native of Runan, and Yuan Shao, half of Xu Chu's backer, is also a native of Runan, Chen Wen and Yuan Shao have some correspondence, so Xu Chu, who is close to Yuan Shao, is also easier to be drawn into his camp by him.

The doubt lies in whether Xu Chu's 'martial artist' and Chen Wen', who is a 'scholar', can reach a united front, which is still between the two. With Xu Chu now just becoming a marquis and entering Yangzhou with strong troops, Chen Wen also had to prevent Xu Chu from becoming the fourth force in addition to the original three forces.

Xu Chu has exactly this kind of thought.

To put it vulgarly, I didn't even take refuge with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao at the beginning, how could I be willing to be driven by you Chen Wen, who are you?

If he obeys Chen Wen's orders, lets him peel off the cocoon in Lujiang, and levies manpower, money and food to the state capital, what will these righteous servants under Xu Chu do and what to eat. The use of a county guard, such as Wu County, Huiji and other places, is fine, there are not many doormen, and the county soldiers of Huiji also have the help of the state government to raise, but Xu Chu is different, he is thousands and half of a thousand people, and at the same time, the original county soldiers, so many large and small officials, henchmen and their families and children in the county, should be calculated, and the monthly expenditure is an extremely large astronomical amount.

Lujiang County is already an eventful place, according to the current understanding, the Jiangxia rebellion more than ten years ago has not completely dissipated to this day, and the state government continues to be so wanton and violent, not to mention the delay in spring planting, it is not impossible for the people in the county to initiate civil unrest.

Thinking of this, Xu Chu was even more determined to stop Chen Wen's exploitation of Lujiang County. When I thought about it, I told it to my advisers. Guo Jia, Xi Zhong, and Xu Shu were all opposed. The reason for the opposition is: when he first arrived in Lujiang, he worked against the assassin history, which was not conducive to future governance. Moreover, it was difficult for Xu Chu himself to quickly get in touch with the local scholars, and offending Chen Wen might directly lead to being isolated by the scholars in the entire state.

Xu Chu thought about it, and he was really anxious. So he proposed: "It is completely unwise to do it, and it should be feasible to ask Uncle Fang to reduce the county's money and grain collection a little, right?" ”

Guo Jia said: "A line is a line, the tone must be sincere, and the attitude must be humble." ”

As soon as the calculation was completed, there was nothing to do that night.

The next day, Zhang Yun and Xie Zhen were invited to move forward in the same car as usual, and there were many incidents of gathering people to make trouble in the townships and pavilions they passed by on the road.

Xu Chu looked at Zhang Yun and Xie Zhen in his eyes.

Zhang Yun smiled embarrassedly and said, "Duke Lu received the edict and went to Yuzhang in a light car, there are no elders in the county, and the officials sent by the state government to recruit soldiers and rations are a little more flamboyant in their work. Ming Mansion, according to the subordinates, let's send someone to take a look. ”

Xie Zhen bowed her head and said nothing.

Xu Chuxin said: It seems that these two people have different attitudes towards the state capital, and they need to pay attention.

The farther east, the closer it is to the hinterland of the Lujiang River, and the closer it is to Jiujiang County, so it is more and more frequent to encounter villagers gathering to resist the government's recruitment of military rations. Xu Chu had the intention not to have an unpleasant incident with Chen Wen early, but judging this situation, it would be impossible not to take care of it. If he really led a large team of people to turn a blind eye to the contradictions between the people under his rule and the officials of the state government, it would not be a good thing, and it would make people look down on him, the authority of the Lujiang Taishou, thinking that he was afraid of Chen Wen.

Xu Chu summoned Le Jin and said to Le Jin: "Wen Qian, you take a few people over to have a look." Le Jin understood, so he took a few soldiers to the crowd.

"It stands to reason that I passed by with such a large group of men and horses, and there were cavalry and armor soldiers who acted as honor guards in front of the chariot, and the officials sent by the state government would not be unaware. Even if you really don't know who he is, these thousands of righteous followers, and the baggage vehicles behind them stretch for miles, but they are all real. There is no need to think much about this momentum, any normal person will understand that there are important 'important members' in the team. The strange thing is that these state officials not only did not retreat and be cautious like normal people, but deliberately made a show to me. ”

After Xu Chu came to the Eastern Han Dynasty, he could be regarded as having seen the wind and waves, and after thinking about it for a while, he saw that there might be a cat in it, and when Le Jin returned, Xu Chu personally asked carefully, and was furious: "Wen Qian, the matter is very important, can you understand?" ”

Le Jin said: "I have confirmed it several times, and it is a subordinate under the command of Wu County Taishou." ”

"Stop!" After Xu Chu finished speaking, the car had not stopped safely, and he had jumped down.

Xi Zhong, Guo Jia, Xu Shu, Dian Wei and other nearby henchmen were all curious, and Xu Shu asked, "Lord, what's wrong?" ”

Xu Chu's face was bruised, and he sneered: "You ask Wen Qian to go!" ”

Xu Shu and the others looked at Le Jin in surprise, and Guo Jia said, "Wen Qian, what's going on?" ”

Le Jin pointed to the crowd a hundred steps away, and said coldly: "The prince took me to find out, and I knew that the dozen or so officials who came to recruit soldiers and rations were not Fang Bomen's subordinates, but Wu County's subordinate officials of Cao Peng, a soldier under Shengxian's sect. ”

Hiss.

Everyone gasped. No wonder Xu Chufa is so hot, it turns out that the officials of Wu County came to Lujiang to fight the autumn wind!

Guo Jia followed Xu Chu earlier, and knew that Xu Chu was a 'murderous' person, and if someone really wanted to ride on his head, it would be as easy to move the knife as it was to move his mouth. Therefore, he gave Xu Chu a preventive shot first, and said: "Lord, go and call those people over, and ask them clearly in person before deciding what to do." ”

Xu Chu nodded, "Dian Wei listens to orders!" ”

Dian Wei replied loudly: "Dian Wei is here!" ”

"Go and call the dozen or so officials over, if you don't come, take it directly!"

"Whoa!"

After Dian Wei received the order, he ordered twenty tiger guards and pounced on the crowd like wolves. It didn't take long for more than a dozen people to be brought over.

is the first person, with a high crown and black clothes, and obviously his authority is not low.

When these people came to Xu Chu, they probably knew Xu Chu's identity a long time ago, but they were not very domineering, they bowed to Xu Chu with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, and the name of the leader was reported, but he was not very well-known.

Xu Chu held back his anger and asked, "You said that you are under the command of Duke Sheng of Wu County?" ”

The man replied, "Yes." ”

Xu Chu squinted his eyes and asked again: "Under the command of Sheng Taishou, what are you doing in this county?!" ”

Seeing Xu Chu's expression, the man replied in a low voice: "I was ordered by the state government to levy military rations." ”

Xu Chu laughed twice, invited Zhang Yun and Xie Zhen to his side, and asked: "Qing and the others have been in Yangzhou for a long time, have you ever heard of the story of the state capital and the county levying military rations but using officials from other counties?" ”

This time Zhang Yun didn't speak, Xie Zhen shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." ”

Xu Chu asked the person at the head of the group, "Give you another chance, who did you say you were ordered to do?" ”

Only then did the man reply: "I was ordered by Cao Peng, a soldier of the county of Contempt, and Zhou Jun was also ordered by the state capital. ”

Xu Chu's face was puzzled, and Xie Zhen said in his ear: "The name of Cao Peng, a soldier of Wu County, is Zhou Qiao, from the Zhou clan of the Huiji clan, and there are many virtuous names in the state. ”

On the side, Zhang Yun wanted to speak again when he saw this, but finally gave up.

Guo Jia gently pulled Xu Chu, Xu Chu turned his head to look, saw Guo Jia shaking his head at him, and signaled not to overdo it.

Xu Chu asked the leader again, "You said that you were ordered by the state capital, what about the documents?" I'll take a look. ”

The man hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "The subordinate is lowly and has no documents with him. ”

There was no paperwork, Xu Chu didn't want to talk nonsense with such a little official, so he said: "Take these people down first, and then deal with them when I ask the reason." ”

Dian Wei and Le Jin appointed sergeants to tie everyone up, and these people did not dare to resist, and were taken to the rear army to be strictly guarded by the sergeants.