Cao Chang kept asking about the situation in Shanxing, Hanoi and Wen County during the march. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The news I got was that the situation in Hanoi and Wen County now has only one word, that is, chaos.

Mengjin Port is only more than 100 miles away from Wen County, at the confluence of several tributaries of the Yellow River, a tributary can pass through merchant ships to Mengjin Port, so Wen County is a place with developed water transportation, and the superior geographical location also makes Wen County one of the richest counties in Hanoi.

According to Shanxing, before the Sima family was evacuated, all the goods distribution centers in Mengjin Port were in Wen County, not in Meng County, which was the closest to Mengjin Port, and although Meng County was close to Mengjin Port, the county commanders, county soldiers, and county squires were unable to resist the thieves in the river, so they could not protect the goods from Meng County to Mengjin, even if the two places were only 30 miles away.

However, the goods transported from Wen County to Mengjin Port, whether by water or land, as long as they are branded with the banner of the Sima family, no thieves dare to rob them, unless they are Black Mountain thieves under Zhang Yan, but the Black Mountain thieves have been suppressed by Yuan Shao and Sima Jia, and have been hidden in the Black Mountain and Dahao Mountain Mountains on the border of Hanoi County and Bingzhou, so the transportation route between Mengjin Port and Wen County is very safe.

As long as the Sima family draws layers from merchants who intend to cross the river to do business, it is enough to eat a lot of brains, and the thieves who secretly support them do not forget to bully the Pingtou people and small landlords, so that they have no harvest, coupled with natural disasters, forcing them to uncover the pot, and then borrow grain from large households, and then make profits, and when they can't afford to pay back, they use land to pay off debts, forming a large number of land annexations.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the family, there were also small landlords, and there were ordinary people under the small landlords, and the common people were also called homesteaders, and the land of self-farmers was very limited, only a few acres, so when they encountered a natural disaster, they made no harvest, and they could not open the pot, so they could only find someone to borrow grain, and after borrowing grain, because the interest rate was too high, they could not afford to pay it back, so not only the land was annexed by creditors, but even people became tenants, serving creditors for life.

But in those years, there were really many yeoman farmers who were willing to be called tenants, at least that way they still had something to eat, because their own cultivated land not only had to face natural disasters, but also faced man-made disasters, the so-called man-made disasters, that is, like the Sima family, secretly supported the thieves of large families, smashing and robbing, forcing you to become tenants, not to mention self-farming, even small landlords with less arable land will have the possibility of becoming tenants.

The Sima family was dominant on the Hanoi side, secretly supporting the thieves, superficially connecting Yuan Shao, and intimidating the squires from all over the country, and their power and arrogance can be seen, which is no wonder that they rebelled to find a way out after hearing about Cao Zhang's theory of the three clans, because it touched their most fundamental interests.

In fact, there are not no families who are dissatisfied with the Sima family in Hanoi, such as the mountain family in Heyang, in order to resist the Sima family, the mountain family also recruited a person called Zhang Wang, this Zhang Wang is not an idle character, he was originally a ruffian in Wen County, and later became a small official in Wen County with the Sima family.

Originally, he had a good life, but later because of a coincidence, he saved Zhang Yan when his cousin Zhang Yan was in trouble, Zhang Yan was not called Zhang Yan at that time, but called Chu Yan, this Chu Yan was a ranger since he was a teenager, transferred to Hebei, and later merged with a thief called Zhang Niujiao, but Zhang Niujiao died in a battle, and Zhang Yan was also scattered with his subordinates in this battle, and was wanted by officers and soldiers everywhere.

And at this time, Chu Yan met his cousin Zhang Wang, although this Zhang Wang became a petty official, but there was still a little righteousness in the rivers and lakes, so he secretly sent Zhang Yan away, let him meet his subordinates, and then Chu Yan escaped, gathered his subordinates, and integrated Zhang Niujiao's old age, and then he changed his surname to Zhang, I don't know if he missed his old boss Zhang Niujiao, or thanked Zhang Wang for saving his life, but since then, Zhang Wang, who was an official in Wen County, has also disappeared.

It didn't take long for Zhang Wang to become the son-in-law of the Heyang Mountain family, and at that time, the Black Mountain thieves were also active, beating the thieves supported by the Sima family in Hanoi to the point that they couldn't hold their heads up, and the officials of the state at that time were also unable to restrain the two forces, and the Sima family had no choice but to unite Yuan Shao, who had just been plotting to seize Jizhou.

For a time, the Black Mountain thieves and Yuan Shao's Sima family coalition fought a lot, although the Black Mountain thieves suffered heavy casualties, but Yuan Shao could not help the group of thieves hiding in Montenegro, and Gongsun Zan was still strong in the north at that time, so Yuan Shao adopted a strategy of suppression rather than eradication.

In fact, the supporters of the Montenegrin thieves are the Shanjia and all the exploited squires in Hanoi, but in the end this battle was won by Yuan Shao, and the Sima family also knew that behind the Montenegrin thieves was this group of squires, so the suppression and exploitation of these squires was even more powerful later, but in the huge Hanoi, the squires were everywhere, and the Sima family could not kill them all, and the Montenegrin thieves were still eyeing them, Yuan Shao was busy pacifying the north, and then confronted Cao Cao Guandu, and he had no time to help the Sima family with all his might.

Therefore, the situation in Hanoi is that the Sima family is dominant, and the squires from all over the country are surviving, but all this has changed because of the silent migration of the Sima family.

The Sima family disappeared overnight, and the thieves who were supported by the Sima family immediately captured Wen County after knowing the news, hijacked the Wen County clan attached to the Sima family, plundered their property, and took Wen County as their own, at the same time, the squires in Hanoi also had their own actions when they got the news, some counties were jointly governed by several gentry, and some recommended a family to govern, such as Heyang elected the Shan family, and some immediately crossed the river to Luoyang to contact Cao Jun, expressing their sincerity, but no matter what they did, A few days after the Sima family lost control of Mengjin Port, the Hanoi squires were already doing a lot of business with Luoyang, which is why there were many Hanoi squires in Luoyang.

The Sima family is gone, but there are still 10,000 thieves they secretly support, these people are well-armed, brave and good at fighting, compared to the Black Mountain thieves who are also equipped with wooden sticks with sharpened tops as weapons, so these thieves who occupy Wen County are still like a knife hanging above the head of the Hanoi squire, and they will cut off on the head of one of them at some point.

This is also the reason why Cao Zhang said that he was going to Wen County to clear the remnants of the Sima family, and the mountain was overjoyed to lead the way, the thieves were well-armed but compared to the Black Mountain thieves, compared to the armor halberd issued by the arsenal, those thieves were not enough.

As for the brave and warlike thieves and the degree of advance and retreat, the long-trained soldiers are not a grade, the mountain can be sure that as long as the Cao army kills under the city of Wen, those thieves will run at least half, and the other half will be easily defeated, as long as the thieves in Wenxian die, the squires in Hanoi will inevitably surrender to the Cao army, because for the squires everywhere, the squires in peace is the most practical thing.

After understanding these situations, Cao Zhang's army also arrived at a place thirty miles away from Wen County, Cao Zhang did not rush to attack Wen County, but let the people camp, store grain, and rest, although the mountain line did not understand why Cao Zhang did not immediately wave the army to attack the city, but he did not dare to ask, because in his opinion, this world-famous young official is really a bit unfathomable, and it is not easy to provoke, let alone fool, so he obediently went to rest under the leadership of Cao Zhang's guards.

At this time, there were Chen Dao, Xiahou Heng, and Wang Ling in Cao Zhang's tent, and they were sitting on one side and were discussing with Cao Zhang about attacking Wen County.

However, Cao Zhang only asked Wang Ling to set up camp and guard the military rations, and at the same time asked Xiahou Heng to take a thousand soldiers to Xiangliting Town, near Wen County, to restrain the displaced people, and then asked Chen Zhi to gather the displaced people on a vacant land, but never mentioned the siege of the city.

This made the three of them puzzled, but Cao Zhang, firstly, was the commander of the three armies, and secondly, he had the magic stroke of burning the black nest, so naturally they would not ask more, but just acted according to the order.

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