Chapter 22: Rescue

In July of the first year of Jian'an, Yuzhang County, Jiangdong

Hua Xin, the word fish, for Yangzhou Yuzhang Taishou, in office to reduce labor, and the people's livelihood, Yuzhang people love it, Yangzhou Mu Liu Xuan was defeated by Sun Ce, led Tai Shi Ci and the remnants to garrison Dantu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Sun Ce captured Wu County, Huiji two counties, and now he asked for orders to go south to Yuzhang, Hua Xin guarded the city defense, but the counties of Yuzhang were small, and they were in disrepair, and now Sun Cejun has broken six counties in a row, pressing step by step, Hua Xin had to retreat to Chaisang.

Sun Ying outside Chaisang City, in the Chinese army tent, Sun Ce and the generals and strategists were discussing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Yuzhang has been more than half, Huaziyu is trapped in Chaisangzhong, and his people are deeply popular with him, I can't bear to make another mistake in Lujiang [Note 1], can you have a clever way to persuade Huaxin to dedicate the city and vote?" , Sun Ce sat in the hall and asked the strategist general on one side.

"In his early years, he traveled to Kyoto and had some friendship with Huaziyu, who was quite intelligent and aware of the situation. Zhang Hong got up and said.

"So there is Mr. Lao Zigang", Sun Ce thanked respectfully.

Zhang Hong's front foot left, Chen Bao led three horsemen through many counties to the barracks, dismounted to ask for a meeting, after entering the account, Chen Bao handed over the wooden box to Sun Ce.

Sun Ce opened the wooden box, there was a Jane, a silk, the bamboo slip was a family letter, after reading it, Sun Ce put it aside, took the silk and unfolded it, couldn't help but condense his eyebrows, and said to Lu Fan, Yu Xuan, Qin Song, and Chen Duan:

"Ziheng, Zhongxiang, Yuanbiao, Zizheng and come to have a look", the silk cloth was passed to the two.

"Yigong (Han Dang), Gongfu (Huang Gai), Ziyu also come to take a look", Sun Ce said to Han Dang, Huang Gai, and Xu Kun.

The crowd looked at what was written on the silk book and couldn't help but ponder.

Sun Ce saw that everyone had seen it, and said: "Yuan Shu wants to marry a woman and marry a woman, what do you think?" ”

The veteran Huang Gai was the first to speak: "This is a good thing, if Zhongmou obtains Yuan Shunu, the two families will be in-laws, and Zhongmou will be in no danger."

Lu Fan interrupted: "Yuan Shu has risen to a high platform, making dragon cars, within next year, it will be reformed and called the emperor, and the Han family will be killed. ”

Han Dang gestured with his hand, and said at the beginning: "Yuzhang is undecided, there are many mountains and crosses in the surrounding counties, uneven thieves, unstable cane planting, and then Zhongmou is in Huainan, what if you don't get married?" ”

Chen Duan said with a smile: "It's better to do a procrastination trick, and set the marriage date first, the second son is fifteen years old, and drag on for a year or two, everything in Jiangdong has been decided, you can send hundreds of dead soldiers to sneak into Huainan, and wait for a good opportunity to bring Zhongmou back to Jiangdong, where to go then, the free lord will decide."

Sun Ce smiled proudly when he heard this, and his heart suddenly became empty and said: "Zizheng is worthy of being my mastermind."

Lu Fan said: "Gongjin is now the head of the nest, not far from He County, Zhongmou can send a few hundred elite soldiers over first, contact Zhongmou, and wait for an opportunity to escape."

Xu Kun said loudly: "I haven't seen Zhongmou for a year, so it's better for me to lead my troops to cross the river and contact him." ”

Sun Ce said: "In this way, there is Brother Lao Kun." (Xu Kun is Sun Jian's nephew)

Qin Song stepped forward to take the silk cloth, pointed at the silk cloth and said, "What do you think of Yuan Shu cutting Chen?" ”

Lu Fan said loudly: "Chen Guobing is full of food, Chen Wang Liu Chong is brave, Minister Luo Jun's good governance is popular, and Chen Guo's back is Cao Cao, Yuan Shu is eager to obtain, and when Cao's army arrives, Yuan's army will retreat." ”

Qin Song shook his head and smiled: "What if Liu Pet and Luo Jun are assassinated and die?" ”

was so silent that Sun Ce finally spoke: "Liu Pet, if Luo Jun dies, Chen Guo can go down in an instant, the money and food and the people will all belong to Yuan Shu, and Cao Cao's rescue will be too late."

Qin Song walked to the screen, pointed to the map, and his eyes were slight: "Xuzhou Lu Bu and Cao Cao have the hatred of Yanzhou, the Han Dynasty has ordered him to attack Yuan, Lu Bu is a small soldier, I am afraid he will do nothing, not to mention that Lu Bu is greedy and unjust, Yuan Shu and share some money and food with him, Lu Bu is not a minion, nor does he cause trouble." The lord and the lord live in Jiangdong to sit and watch Cao Yuan fight, Chen Guo is destroyed, the money and food are abundant, and the armor is 100,000, Cao Cao can make Yuan Shuhu? ”

Everyone was silent when they heard this, and Sun Ce couldn't help but speak: "Yuan Biao, what can you do about it?" ”

Qin Song spread his hands and smiled helplessly: "I don't know."

The crowd couldn't help but laugh.

Yu flipped out the list and said: "Although the Han family is declining, the prestige is still there, although Yuan Shu is full of soldiers, but he also has dry bones in the grave, and I hope that the lord will make a clear decision."

Sun Ce hesitated and said: "My father Jing Chao Dong, I also have the heart to help the Han family, but the soldiers are weak, and Zhongmou is still in Huainan, if you agree on a one-year marriage period, then everything will be calmed down, take back Zhongmou, Yuan Shuhua Chen and Cao Cao will fight the army, and I will raise troops to take Lujiang and Danyang two counties in the north." ”

Lv Fan heard this and persuaded on the side: "Yu Zhang was initially decided, planting grain and cane, it is better to plant sugar sooner rather than later, next year the grain and sugar will be prosperous, and the profit will be huge, if the army is handed over to Lujiang and Huainan, the trade route will be cut off, and the snow sugar will be difficult to sell, it is better to sit in the east of the river to watch the changes in the world, Yuan Shu is unscrupulous, he will peep into Jingzhou in the west, attack Yanzhou in the north, and attack Lujiang Danyang when it is weak, and then the new trade route will be opened, and there will be no worries about blockage."

The snow sugar policy has been more than two months, the Jiangdong clan Gu family and the Lu family and in order to share the benefits of the snow sugar, there have been people under Sun Ce's account, Gu Yong Gu Yuan sighs that he is now the Hui Ji Gong Cao, and the Lu family Lu Yi (Lu Xun) has raised filial piety as a subordinate official. With Sun Ce's capture of the Zhang family (Zhang Zhao), the Zhu family (Zhu Zhi) and the official generals under the account all benefited greatly from the snow sugar. And the sugar mill is also a matter of discussion. Now Yuzhang is about to be pacified, in addition to the fertile land to grow grain, the field of the middle difference can be planted with sugarcane, all of you present naturally represent the division of the sugarcane area, to obtain a larger share of snow sugar, do not want a year after the business is cut off, the production of a large amount of snow sugar can not be sold.

Chen Duan, Qin Song, Huang Gai, Han Dang, and Xu Kun seconded the proposal.

Sun Ce had no choice but to give up, and used Lu Fan's strategy to send Xu Kun to lead 500 elite soldiers to cross the river to find Zhou Yu, waiting for the opportunity to bring Sun Quan back.

Note 1 There seems to be a mention of the passage of Lujiang, that is, Sun Ce took grain for Yuan Shu to break through the Lujiang River, and Lujiang was too guarded by Lu Kang, so he died of illness a month later. And the Lu family is a big family in Jiangdong, so Sun Ce also attracted the disgust of the Jiangdong scholars, but later after Sun Ce took the second county of Wu County and Huiji, he also courteously treated the families, and in this situation, the Jiangdong scholars gradually served Sun Ce.

Talking about the family, of course, it is only my understanding, the concept of the family does not clearly refer to people in a certain industry, if you have to designate one, that is, intellectuals, can be called scholars. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the overall level of education was low, because convenient paper and printing technology did not appear, and the products made by Cai Lun had no actual substitution at all, brittle and easy to crack. Scholars are cultural people, they are a monopoly of the education system, and then even after the Jiupin Zhongzheng system monopolized the bureaucratic system, resulting in a sentence "the upper grade has no poor family, and the lower grade has no scholars", the cold door refers to the small landlords, merchants, and yeoman farmers, who are produced by studying abroad after making a fortune, and the scholar clan is using the monopoly of education to monopolize most of the talents (in general, well-educated people have greater development, but some grassroots outliers cannot be excluded, such as Zhu Yuanzhang). And through the creation of talents, even if they are frustrated, they can still rise again, because the ruler needs talents (intellectuals) to manage the development of production, so the scholars of that era are very arrogant, like the rulers behind the scenes, because the rulers cannot do without them, and they can also obtain land, commerce, craftsmen through the talents they make, and the scholars are a circle, and people outside the circle want to enter It is also necessary to prove, there are not several generations of officials, and they can't take the initiative to integrate into this circle at all. Such powerful people should be called local heroes, they have land, talents, and private soldiers, but they can only be ridiculed by the scholars as a poor family, but they are still eager to enter that circle. The scholars will also take the initiative to absorb talents, but most of these talents are just part-time workers, the fourth generation and the third duke, and the ministers and officials all over the world, of course, they will not all be scholars, most of them are these part-time workers.

The above personal opinion.

Let's talk about the problem of business routes, here was originally set to go to the land of Lujiang and Jingxiang, go to Huainan, and go north to Guangling and Qingxu in the north.

Huainan and Tongyu Prefecture (Chen State is a county-level vassal state, the Han Dynasty adopted the county + feudal system, after the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms weakened the power of the vassal states, so there are only counties, counties) Tongsi Prefecture Guanzhong land, and Yuzhou Huainan is relatively rich and the trade routes are developed, and the two places are dilapidated after the defeat of Yuan Shu in the original history (one oppression, the other war). And the ancient trade road is not so easy to find, first of all, you don't care about the land or water, you have to face the checkpoints, and the local Haoqiang along the way, you can't bring thousands of soldiers all the way to the caravan, the supply is a big consumption, and dealing with the local government and Haoqiang is a big errand. Second, the problem of paths, ancient times are not so developed in modern times, a navigation you can directly drive from the capital to Shanghai Pudong New Area, a complex and bad road to open up a new trade road, is a huge experiment. Therefore, this setting opens up a new route a year, which is actually from Yuzhang to Jingzhou in the north and Bashu in the west.

In the end, I want to complain that Qin Song and Chen Duan are short-lived ghosts, and they don't even record what they did in the Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms, they only said that they were Sun Ce's masterminds, and there are still words, the generals, strategists, and sons in my Dashu father's 100,000 army don't even have a word, Chen Shou.