Yangzhou, Moling

Sun Ce stood on the top of the Taishou Mansion, looking at the ministers below, the civil officials on the left, headed by Gu Yong, Bu Qi, Zhuge Jin, etc., the military generals headed by Zhou Yu, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, etc.! Energetic for a while!

"Ladies and gentlemen! After a month of bloody fighting, we finally defeated Liu Miao and captured Moling! Finally have a foothold, the foundation of the great cause! ”

"Congratulations, congratulations!" Everyone below bowed in unison and said in unison.

"My grandson family is the descendant of Sun Wu, and he lives in Jiangdong! Father Sun Jian, known as the Jiangdong Tiger! Megatron Jiangdong, and I, Sun Ce, can't lose the face of the Sun family, this Moling is the first city to be laid, and it is also the first step for me to establish a hegemony! From now on, Moling will be renamed Jianye! ”

"The Lord has such ambitions! Congratulations! Zhou Yu praised.

"Gong Jin, you and I don't have to be so unfamiliar, we still call each other brothers!" Sun Ce walked up to Zhou Yu, patted him on the shoulder, and smiled.

"That's what my brother said!" Zhou Yu was never used to it, and Sun Ce took the initiative to propose it, so he did not object.

"The lord broke Liu Xuan's 50,000 elite soldiers with 10,000 horses, and now it can be said that he is famous in Jiangdong, and the heroes are looking at him sideways! There are also people who respectfully call the lord "Jiangdong Little Overlord". ”

Gu Yong came out of the ranks.

"Jiangdong Little Overlord!" Sun Ce repeated, and then laughed, "Okay, good, from today onwards, I will be the little overlord of Jiangdong!" ”

After a long laugh, Sun Ce sat down in the Taishou position.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Jianye is new, people's hearts are unstable, what should we do first?"

"Lord, Jianye City is the seat of Yangzhou, it is actually the largest city in Yangzhou, and it has never experienced war, and the population under its rule is 1.1 million! Now what we have to do is to appease the people, repair the city walls, and develop and strengthen our strength! Gu Yong was the first to speak.

Sun Ce nodded, the foundation of hegemony is the people! If there is no people's foundation, it is all nonsense to dominate Jiangdong!

"Brother! After our army defeated Liu Xuan, part of the army surrendered, and now the number of our army is close to 50,000, and it needs to be reorganized! Zhou Yu continued.

"Fifty thousand!" Sun Ce frowned, he didn't think it was too much, but he felt that it was too little, look at the other princes, which one is not hundreds of thousands of troops! Take Yuan Shu in Jiangbei as an example, there are 300,000 of the three armies under him! And 50,000 is relatively too little!

"I intend to recruit soldiers, if you want to pacify Jiangdong, you need at least 80,000 elite soldiers!" Sun Ce said calmly, although his tone was calm, his eyes were not calm! Eighty thousand, for a year, he never dared to think of this number, and now, he has this low spirit.

"Eighty thousand!" Zhou Yu was a little surprised, "Although it is not difficult to recruit soldiers, our army does not have enough food to feed 80,000 people!" "Zhou Yu is telling the truth, after capturing Jianye, he immediately asked people to seal the treasury of Taishou Mansion, and the money and food in it were pitiful, and they had been defeated by Liu Xuan!

"Jiangdong's tax revenue is basically in the hands of the family, and the government can't collect much grain tax at all!" Gu Yong added.

"Then ask for the family, if you don't give it, bring the soldiers to rob it!" Sun Ce said arrogantly, he went to Lujiang to borrow grain last year on the order of Yuan Shu, but Lu Kang did not agree, he directly attacked the city, and the food he grabbed was enough for 300,000 troops to eat for half a year! With this precedent, Sun Ce is even more keen to grab it!

"My lord! This is not good, if we want to gain a foothold in Koto, we must appease the various families, and doing so will only push them to our opposite! Gu Yong hesitated.

"The family! They are the biggest cancer in Jiangdong! Today I am the little overlord of Jiangdong, then Jiangdong has the final say, not those big families! "Sun Ce is still tough.

"Brother, since we now have Jianye, then we should quickly send troops to capture Wu County and Chaisang, as for Huiji, a few days ago, the spies came to report that there was a warrior named Xiang Xi, who could not bear Wang Lang's harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and led the people to break through the government and set himself up as the Taishou of Huiji." Zhou Yu changed the topic and said again.

"Chaisang is too nameless, timid and afraid, and doesn't know about military affairs, send a general and lead 10,000 troops to attack! As for Wu County, he was born as a bandit, and since he forcibly occupied Wu County, he has been expropriating and expropriating, and the people have suffered for a long time! I will be able to break it if I lead the troops forward, but who can do this? ”

"This Xi was originally a rural villager, for some reason, a few months ago, his temperament changed greatly, he was brave, and he was good at making friends with heroes and heroes, so he attracted a large number of strongmen in a few months. Last month, Wang Lang sent people to collect taxes, he killed the officers and soldiers in a fit of rage, and when everyone rebelled, the corresponding ones were only three hundred at first, but then won several successive victories against the officers and soldiers of Wang Lang's expedition, and the army surged to 10,000! And then storm the meeting! It is even more self-defeating to blast open the city gates! Wang Lang fled, and his subordinate Xu Gong was killed! Yu Flip Surrender! Now he has 30,000 troops, dominating the Huiji! Zhou Yu told Xiang Xi's information.

Sun Ce pondered for a moment after listening, and sighed: "This person's courage is amazing, he can even break through the city gate, I might as well too!" ”

"Brother, don't worry! Huiji has been invaded by Shanyue aliens for many years, and the population under his rule is not large, and it is estimated that 30,000 troops is already the limit! As long as we capture Wu County, Chaisang! In recruiting talents, at that time, it was easy to get the meeting! Zhou Yu took over and analyzed.

"Our army is indeed lacking in talent!" Sun Ce agreed, and now the generals below him are all his father's old subordinates, Wenchen, but Gu Yong and Zhuge Jin are holding up the scene!

"Brother, I think of a person, this person can be called a great talent!" Zhou Yu spoke suddenly.

"Oh, what's this man's name?" Sun Ce said happily.

"His surname is Lu Mingsu Zijing, a native of Lujiang! The foolish brother once sat down with him and talked with him, and admired his intelligence very much! ”

Sun Ce made a quick decision. "Gu Yong, you start to deal with the affairs of governance! Cheng Pu, you are in charge of military affairs, make full preparations, ten days later, our army will attack Wu County! Then he turned to Zhou Yu and said: "You will accompany me to Lujiang, and you will meet this Lu Zijing for a while!" ”

"No!" Zhou Yu replied with a smile.

Three days later, on the outskirts of Lujiang City.

"Gong Jin, are you sure it's this way? Make no mistake! Sun Ce complained to Zhou Yu in front. On this day, the two wandered for a long time and turned around a few times, only to find out later that they had taken the wrong path.

"Brother, don't be surprised, I've only walked this road once, and it was two years ago, so I really don't remember! But this one, it should be right! Zhou Yu sneered and said, the dignified general, Jun Ran is a road idiot!

Sun Ce was speechless when he heard this. "Well, let's go to the front and ask the family!"

The two continued to walk forward for half an hour, passing by a bamboo forest, and the sound of the piano faintly came from the depths of the bamboo forest! The two became interested and walked into the depths.

The deeper you go, the clearer the sound becomes. The two listened for a moment, and Sun Ce asked, "Gong Jin, you have been proficient in music since you were a child, in your opinion, how is this song?" ”

Zhou Yu closed his eyes and said with an aftertaste: "This song is graceful and expressive, like listening to fairy music, which is intoxicating!" It's a pity that one of the wrong notes was played! ”

Sun Ce laughed and said: "No wonder Jiangdong children all say: The song is wrong, Zhou Langgu!" Just a note, Gong Jin can hear it, and he admires it! He turned his head to look in the direction from which the sound of the harp came, and said, "Let's go and see the man who plays the harp, and ask the master for directions!" ”

"That brother, what are you hesitating about, let's go!" Zhou Yu said with great interest.

As he spoke, the two rode their horses and walked towards the depths of the bamboo forest.