Sun Ce's face was particularly ugly.

Five days after escaping into the mountains, Zhou Yu finally discovered him, but the garrisons of Jiangling and Xiakou became tighter again, and they had to temporarily give up attacking Jingzhou.

However, it didn't take long for them to get the news that Xun Gang's fleet had returned from going to sea, and now it was in the Yangtze River Delta, that is, it was about to enter the territory of Eastern Wu. Although Sun Ce wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, he couldn't help but soften when he thought of the artillery on Xun Gang's ship.

In this attack on Jingzhou, he and Liu Bei both ended in defeat and retreat, and what is even more outrageous is that Jingzhou's army did not use Xun Gang's artillery to beat them to the ground, if they move out one or two more, what else can they do?

Sun Ce understood that although Xun Gang's territory was not big, he was obviously not something he could afford to provoke.

Maybe this kind of thing was doomed from the beginning, after all, his father, Sun Jian, the tiger of Jiangdong, was the one who chased Dong Zhuo and beat him at the beginning, but he lost to two people - Liu Biao and Xun Gang. Liu Biao made the intrigue worthless, and Xun Gang was defeated by their men when he was in their hands.

Now Xun Gang is older, but I am afraid that he is far more powerful than the Yuzhou Mu back then!

Sun Ce muttered, his face was relatively calm, and he summoned Zhou Yu to discuss the matter of attacking Shouchun. Xun Gang can't afford to provoke himself, can't he attack Shouchun? That place is now an isolated city, and Wenhui in Xuzhou and Cao Zhi in Yanzhou will ignore it if they are afraid, and it is an excellent springboard for their own attack on the Central Plains.

However, the soldiers and horses lost in Jiangling could not be replenished overnight, and Sun Ce had to hoard for a while, at least after a year or two after all the soldiers and horses had enough food and grass, and then talk about attacking Shouchun.

However, Xun Gang's face is still not good-looking, and he rescued nearly 6,000 people in Handan, so that the grain and grass he originally expected were eaten cleaner faster; Now there are only two days of food left at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and there is still a continuous distance from Xiangyang, if Sun Ce's obstruction is added, it will be at least twenty days before it can be reached.

The water of the Yangtze River is clearer than the Yellow River, and the blood water of the Hutuo River is cleaner, and it is said that Cao Cao also poured wine on it at the beginning, and wanted to drink the Yangtze River water with the soldiers, and there may be a faint aroma of wine.

It's just that there is no food, do you want to learn from Handan to kill people and cook food? They're not down that far!

Zhang Shiping knew Xun Gang's difficulties, and had already sent people to Donglai to call his fleet and ask them to buy more food; It's an unprofitable business, but he's willing to do it. It's not that Xun Gang infected him, but that he knows that helping Xun Gang now will definitely pay off in the future.

Businessmen don't do things that benefit others or themselves, everything they do is a transaction.

However, Xun Gang didn't seem to agree with his idea, although there was an anchor to keep the ship from being carried away by the current, but was it really good to park the army next to Sun Ce's city? What if someone thinks you're planning something wrong and there's a misunderstanding?

However, this is not difficult for Zhang Shiping, when he was in the East China Sea before, he calculated the speed of the ship and the maximum speed of the carriage, and calculated through arithmetic the method that Xun Gang's army was advancing at a uniform speed, and where the carriage could just catch up, so as to replenish the army's food.

This suffocating operation made Xun Gang unguardable, he never thought that such a simple trigonometric problem in the future would show his skills at this moment!

However, according to Zhang Shiping's calculations, the two groups of people and horses met at the border of the Lujiang River, and Xun Gang had to be hungry for at least another three or five days; Xun Gang is not afraid of being starved, he is afraid of soldier riots, civilian riots, if there is no food chaos, this vast river is his burial place.

Refugees have always been the most difficult creature in the world to solve, and people in their own countries still understand their own laws; But if it's refugees from other countries, that's a different story, what do you think of the Syrian refugees in Germany now?

If the national conditions are different, then you look at the Jurchen tribe that the refugees received by the Ming Dynasty settled in Jianzhou, which directly led to the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Although it is now in the same country, the policies of Jingzhou and Hebei are very different, and if they can't keep them, these refugees will suddenly be in trouble; Xun Gang was still very afraid of this, after all, he went to save them but suppressed them and killed them, which felt completely unreasonable.

But what surprised him was that there was not much turmoil in the people of Handan who learned that they would be hungry for a few days, and it seemed that they could not expect anything to survive.

This made Xun Gang feel that he had sent thousands of miles of troops, and he still didn't lose anything; This move must have won him the hearts of the people in the world! What is Liu Bei? It's so weak compared to myself!

"Lord, there is an army blocking the way ahead!"

The army had been hungry for two days, and although they wanted to complain about it, they couldn't say it; Xun Gang suddenly heard that an army was blocking the road, and his heart must have been that Sun Ce wanted to make trouble, so he ordered the army to temporarily stop marching and see what he said.

The person who came to block the road was a young general, Lu Xun was more familiar, it was Zhu Ran, who joined forces with him in the Battle of Chibi that year; At the beginning, he kept up with Ma Chao's team without saying goodbye and did not say anything to Zhu Ran, presumably Zhu Ran was also blamed by Sun Ce, and Lu Xun was still guilty.

"Dare to ask, but the Xunhou army?"

The master stood in front of the ship, without the childishness of a young general, and even a little more sophisticated; This may be the result of being in contact with his adoptive father Zhu Zhi for a long time, after all, he is an old man.

Xun Gang walked out of the building boat and looked down at Zhu Ran proudly, Zhu Ran was stunned, he had heard of Xun Gang's prestige a long time ago, but when he saw it today, he felt that he could not breathe - why is this? Is this man so terrifying?

Xun Gang naturally wouldn't compensate a young player like Zhu Ran with a smiling face, after all, if he smiled, he might make Zhu Ran kick his nose in the face. He glared at Zhu Ran and asked, "Who is coming?" ”

In Zhu Ran's opinion, you are still so arrogant when you wander around my family's territory, and you want to be angry, but looking at Xun Gang's eyes, you cringe in fear, and after calming down, you said: "Xiaguan Jiangdong is still so arrogant, Captain Zhu Ran......"

"Why are you here?"

"This ...... Marquis Wu has an order that if the Marquis of Xun's army passes by from here, the ships must be inspected to see if any Hu people have infiltrated the ......"

Xun Gang couldn't stop laughing when he heard this, this Sun Ce just found an excuse to search his fleet, and he came up with such a clumsy excuse! In this world, anyone can hide those Hu people who kill people without blinking, but they are absolutely impossible!

The laughter was endless, and Zhu Ran's heart also raised his throat and eyes; After a while, Xun Gang said: "Zhu Ran, Sun Ce is just nothing, are you also stupid?" Everyone knows what I am doing in Handan this time, but Sun Ce doesn't know if it? Hu people infiltrated? The Hu people were beaten by me, and they couldn't even tell the difference between the east and the west, the north and the south, so what else could they sneak into? ”

"Release!"

Xun Gang said loudly, sonorously and powerfully, so that people did not dare to disobey, even Zhu Ran, who was subordinate to Sun Ce, was afraid of three points, as if he was afraid of annoying Xun Gang; But Sun Ce ordered to see what the mysterious weapon in Xun Gang's fleet was.

"Xun Hou, I can't ...... under you"

"Release! I don't want to say it a third time! Do you want our two armies to go to war? ”

"This ......"

Zhu Ran never expected Xun Gang to be so unreasonable, obviously in their territory, but it was like traveling at home; But what Xun Gang said, he was also afraid that if the two armies really went to war, the culprit could not be Xun Gang, only himself, an unknown young general......

It is impossible for a person in a position of power to take the blame for seeing things. When you look at the First World War, the Second World War, and the July Seven Incident, which time was it because of the fault of the high-ranking people? Yes, they are at fault, but history only records that a nobody caused the war. This is a certainty, and they are not destined to let a person of high power take the blame.

Zhu Ran doesn't want to be a person who has been stinking for thousands of years, although Sun Ce's order is very important, but his own reputation is also very important! He could only grit his teeth and let Xun Gang drive the boat over the obstacles.

After receiving supplies from Zhang Shiping in Lujiang, Xun Gang immediately issued an order that if Zhang Shiping came to Jingzhou to do business, all taxes would be exempted, and taxes from other countries would be borne by the Jingzhou government. You must know that the merchants give the most taxes, they earn a lot but cannot wear luxurious clothes, but they give dozens of times more taxes than civilians. Xun Gang's regulation undoubtedly made Zhang Shiping make a fortune casually.

This is not over, Zhang Shiping has a unique vision, and was recognized by Xun Gang as the only businessman who can ride a carriage, wear fancy clothes, and build a mansion; You must know that only a scholar like Mi Zhu can have such treatment, and Zhang Shiping picked up a big bargain this time, which is enough to make all the businessmen in Jingzhou envious.

Xun Gang naturally did not want to reward Zhang Shiping alone, so that more businessmen could be encouraged to come to Jingzhou to do business and attach themselves to him, Xun Gang wanted not the submission of one person, but the submission of the world! Even a businessman must be willing to work for him.

The people of Jingzhou only know Xun Gang, but not Cao Chong, just like the people in the world knew Cao Cao but did not know the Son of Heaven.

A dog has his day.

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