Cao Hong's trip to Licheng was very smooth, and those heroes were frightened and surrendered one after another. It didn't take long for Wei Shuo to completely take several counties in the eastern part of the East China Sea Kingdom into his arms, and in order to digest the region, he immediately had people implement the Juntian Decree and the Slave Release Order.

In order to guard against the enemy in the west and north, Wei Shuo sent Zhang Erlang and Cao Hong to be stationed in Licheng and Ganyu, and he himself personally led a large army to sit in Zhuqi. Wei Shuo didn't feel that there was a shortage of talents before, but now with the expansion of his territory, he realized that there were too few talents under his command who could take charge of themselves.

Just when Wei Shuo was busy exterminating the local powerful forces, he suddenly received a letter from Zhu Wen of Laoshan, in which Zhu Wen advised him to take the time to go back to Laoshan.

After Wei Shuo received the letter, he specially asked Yang Heizi to ask one or two. Only then did he know that after the fall of Luoyang, all parts of Qingzhou had no heart to fight against Cao Wei, and this change accelerated the pace of Cao Wei's internal integration.

Up to now, Cao Wei has basically completed the rectification of the counties in the western part of Qingzhou, and his eyes have gradually been aimed at several separatist forces in the eastern part of Qingzhou. Although Laoshan is not the first to bear the brunt, it is also among Cao Wei's integration and incorporation.

"Brother Wei, I heard Mr. Zhu say that although Cao Tingshi did not remove Brother Wei's official position, he asked Big Brother to go to the Assassin's Mansion by name. Mr. Zhu said that this was a Hongmen banquet set up by Cao Tingshi for Brother Wei, and he was definitely not well-intentioned! ”

Hearing this, Wei Shuo secretly said: "It seems that I have to take the time to go back to Laoshan Mountain!" ”

Thinking of this, Wei Shuo immediately called Liang Qiu and told him his plan.

"What? Does the lord have to go back now? Now is the critical moment, if there is no lord in charge, the subordinates are afraid of accidents! Liang Qiu looked worried.

Wei Shuo waved his hand disapprovingly and said, "What accidents can there be?" Those powerful landlords have no troops and food, and they can't make any waves at all. Besides, we have nearly 10,000 troops stationed around us, which is enough to deal with all kinds of crises. After I'm gone, all you have to do is guard the city! Outsiders will never dare to offend us easily! ”

Liang Qiu agreed with the words: "This is also true, eradicating the local powerful forces is equivalent to nagging civil strife in the bud." There is no internal trouble, even if there is an invasion by foreign enemies, there is no need to worry! ”

This statement is very reasonable, and it is precisely because of wishing him that he seems to be in danger and stable that Wei dares to leave for a while. But Laoshan is different, and now Laoshan is about to usher in a test of life and death, and if you are not careful, you may bury all the foundations on Laoshan. ”

"Lord, is the situation in Laoshan so serious?"

Liang Qiu couldn't help but be shocked when he learned of the crisis in Laoshan, as Wei Shuo's henchman, of course he knew how important the Laoshan foundation was to the great cause of the lord. There is no green salt and roasted tea produced on Laoshan Mountain, where do you wish it the development funds?

"I'm afraid it's even more serious than I imagined, and I wish it that although it is an enemy in the west and north, there is still Zu Ti behind it as foreign aid. Laoshan is not good, there is only one sea route to communicate with the outside world, and the rest of the directions are blocked by the enemy. ”

After a secret conversation with Liang Qiu, Wei Shuo quietly boarded a sea ship to Laoshan on the second day, and before leaving, he specially instructed Liang Qiu and Yang Heizi to block the news of his absence, so as not to cause unnecessary turmoil.

Just when Wei Shuo stepped on the ship to Laoshan, a heroic man in Ye County, eastern Qingzhou, also wanted to go to Laoshan. This person is none other than Su Jun, the hero who put down the Wang Dun Rebellion in the future, and then rebelled.

Although Su Jun is not from a big family, he is also a family of eunuchs. Su Jun read a lot of books when he was young, learned a lot of skills, and was promoted to filial piety at the age of eighteen, and also served as the county chief bookkeeper, which is very famous in the area of Ye County, Changguang County.

During the Yongjia period, Cao Wei entered Kouqingzhou, causing a large number of displaced people from the western part of Qingzhou to flee to the eastern coastal area. A large part of them were accepted and absorbed by Laoshan, and the rest were placed by Su Jun in the area of Ye County. Since then, in order to protect himself, Su Jun has entangled thousands of homeless people and villagers to gather together to raise an incident.

However, Su Jun's uprising was not for the sake of Kouluo, he was to resist Cao Wei in order to protect himself. At that time, there were many heroes like Su Jun in the countryside of Ye County, and they each had gathered disciples, but Su Jun's strength was the strongest.

In order to unite everyone, Su Jun sent the chief Shi Xu Wei to spread the text in various tun villages, preach Wang Hua, and clean up the ownerless dry bones for burial, people near and far were grateful for his kindness, so they elected Su Jun as the master.

Since then, Su Jun has led everyone to strengthen military training near Ye County, in order to deal with Cao Wei's attack in the future.

Originally, Cao Wei didn't have the energy to pay attention to small local separatist forces like Su Jun and Wei Shuo, and his main energy was to deal with various families. Who knew that since the great changes in Luoyang, the local family in Qingzhou has changed its ambiguous attitude in the past, and suddenly made a 180-degree turn and began to support Cao Wei clearly.

The reason why the family's attitude changed greatly was nothing more than seeing that after the fall of Luoyang, the Western Jin Dynasty had no hope of recovery, and they needed to find a new protector of interests. And Cao Wei, who has a heavy army in his hand and retains a good impression of the Jin family, has become the best choice for the Qingzhou family.

When Cao Wei straightened out his relationship with the family, his attention was attracted by the separatist forces in several places in eastern Qingzhou. Not to mention the benefits of the fishing salt produced in Laoshan every year, it is only said that a large number of displaced people gathered in the east are also the labor force that Cao Wei urgently needs.

At present, Cao Wei is planning to build a new Guanggu City, and urgently needs a large number of young and strong laborers, but after several turmoil in Qingzhou, the population has been extremely reduced, and now those displaced people in the east have become the most valuable human resources, so Cao Wei cannot be moved.

Now Cao Wei has more than 100,000 troops, and he is eyeing Ye County and Laoshan area. Before the war, in order to win over Su Jun, Cao Wei promised that as long as Su Jun disarmed and surrendered, he would appoint him as the county commander of Ye County.

After receiving the news from Cao Wei's faction, Su Jun immediately summoned his subordinates and his brother Su Yi to discuss.

Changshi Xu Wei persuaded him: "The lord is a county hero, how can he descend to bandits and Yidi?" I heard that the king of Langya in Jiangdong is the handsome man of the clan, who now leads the six counties of Jiangdong, and who will inherit the unification of the Jin family in the future, must be this person! Now Cao Wei is powerful and invincible, why don't the Lord retreat to Jiangdong to protect himself? ”

Su Jun was overjoyed when he heard this, but his younger brother Su Yi reminded: "Brother, Ye County is thousands of miles away from Jiangdong, and if you retreat by land, you will inevitably be pursued by Cao Wei. There are many old and weak women and children among us, if there is any injury on the way, won't it harm your neighbors? ”

"What does that brother think?"

"By sea, we can retreat by sea, and we have heard from people every day that the Laoshan people have a large number of ships coming and going to and from the Jiangdong sea, and we can ask them for help. If you retreat from the sea, you not only save time, but also avoid the threat of enemy forces. ”

"Laoshan? Is that Laoshan Mountain, which produces green salt? Su Jun moved when he heard this, and as the green salt was sold to various places, the name of Laoshan became louder and louder in Qingzhou.

"That's right, it's that Laoshan! I heard that the chief leader of Laoshan was originally a fugitive from Laoshan Mountain, and by chance he obtained the secret skill of salt making. Relying on this secret technique, Laoshan not only gathered tens of thousands of displaced people, but also built a port and operated a naval army, and I heard that their naval army already had dozens of ships of all sizes. ”

"Changshi, what do you think of Erlang's suggestion?"

Xu Wei frowned and thought for a while and replied: "It's best to get Laoshan's help, but what can we do with Laoshan?" After all, Laoshan is a separatist force established by the exiles, and I am afraid that it will not have a good impression of the imperial court. If the lord boldly goes, there is something inappropriate, so it is better to go down to investigate one or two first. ”

"The long history makes sense, and the retreat is not something that can be completed in a short time, and we have to think of ways to convince others to agree to the evacuation. It is easy to say that those homeless people have fled their hometowns so far, but the local villagers are not very easy to persuade. Next, Changshi was responsible for negotiating with Laoshan, while Erlang and I seized the time to lobby the powerful in various places. ”

"As for our Lord Thorn...... Just use illness as an excuse to temporarily perfunctory the past. ”

"No!"

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After most of the day's sailing, Wei Shuo finally arrived at Laoshan Mountain. At this time, the flags in Qingdao Port were flying, the gongs and drums were noisy, and the wharf was crowded with people who came to greet them, and it was Uncle Zhang, Second Uncle Yang, Zhu Wen, Zhang Dalang and others who started at the beginning. Looking at many familiar faces, Wei Shuo stood at the bow of the boat and couldn't help but burst into tears.