Chapter Seventy-Four: Defecting to Tao Qian

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When the change of ownership incident in Jizhou reached Qingzhou, more than 20 days had passed, and Han Lie could only silently wish Han Fu good luck for his cheap uncle Han Fu's choice.

At this time, he promised Kong Rong that the January period had arrived, and during this time, he had already sent Wang Bao, the mayor of Yecheng, to Xuzhou to visit Xuzhou Mu Taoqian with his own handwritten letter, indicating his intention to take refuge.

And just yesterday, Wang Bao returned from Xuzhou and brought back Tao Qian's reply, Tao Qian expressed a warm welcome to Han Lie's defection to Xuzhou to serve.

In the letter, Tao Qian made it clear that he had expressed Han Lie's intention to serve the imperial court, and recommended Han Lie to serve as the lieutenant of Donghai County under the rule of Xuzhou, and also to take the post of Licheng Order, hoping that he could come to Xuzhou as soon as possible to take up his post.

Seeing Tao Qian's sincere letter, Han Lie was overjoyed, and he summoned the generals on the same day to announce the good news.

"Lord, I didn't expect that Tao Envoy Jun to be so virtuous, so what are you waiting for, let's immediately wave our army south." Dian Wei shouted excitedly.

"What the old man said is that this Qingzhou is not our territory after all, and it is really boring to stay." Xu Huang also echoed with a happy face.

Han Lie saw that everyone expressed their support, and he was in a good mood, but now Qingzhou has been sunny for a month, and it has not rained in most areas, and even the other party like Donglai County, which is close to the sea, has dried up, and the soil in the fields has cracked, and the wheat seedlings that should have grown vigorously have also withered in patches, and seeing that the harvest of the year is about to be lost, the people everywhere are crying for it.

"Yanyun, how much surplus grain is there in the Yecheng Mansion Treasury?" Han Lie looked at Wang Lingdao.

"More than 97,500 stones, enough for us to eat for several years." Wang Ling replied with a relaxed face.

"Renjing, you go and post a notice, the people who are willing to go to Xuzhou with me, before the new grain is produced, we will keep them full, each of them will be given one acre of land, and one land house, we can't care if you don't want to." Although he learned that he still had nearly 100,000 stone of grain in his hand, Han Lie was ready to transport all this grain to his own territory and use it to settle the displaced people, so he would not give the grain to people who were unwilling to leave like Zai Zhending for free.

After all, he is not a saint, it is impossible for him to go to Pudu sentient beings with rain and dew, 100,000 stone grain seems to be a lot, but if he recruits troops, he will soon consume a large amount of food, so for Han Lie, every penny and grain is precious at the moment.

"Whoa!" Wang Bao has now decided to follow Han Lie to Xuzhou, so he is full of enthusiasm.

"Brother Dian, you take your subordinates to walk around the homes of those powerful people in the city, and inform them that if they are willing to go with us, they will not take a penny, and if they are not willing to go, each family will contribute 200,000 yuan and 10,000 stone of grain, and if there is no reply at noon tomorrow, they will be punished according to the Yellow Turban Party." Han Lie has already found out that the last time he went to Beihai to be attacked, it was the news sent to Beihai by several wealthy clans in the city, as for him not to kill him, it was also because he had already planned to leave Beihai, otherwise those wealthy clans would have been confiscated by him.

"Whoa!" Dian Wei came out of the queue to answer.

"Set off early in the morning of the day after tomorrow, Zilong, your department is the forward, responsible for opening the way, and Gongming, you are responsible for the rear of the palace." Han Lie then commanded again, and Zhao Yun and Xu Huang gladly accepted the order.

After the official matter was agreed, Han Lie looked at Li Yang and said, "Is there any news of Tai Shici?" ”

"No, the sergeant we went to Donglai the day before yesterday just came back, and Tai Shici still hasn't returned home." Li Yang shook his head and said.

"Forget it, let's talk about it in the East China Sea." Han Lie nodded with some regret.

As soon as Wang Bao led the county officials to post the notice, nearly 10,000 people in the city learned that Han Lie was about to lead the army south, and even when Wang Bao, the mayor of the city, and a group of officials were ready to leave, the people in the city lost their ideas for a while.

At this moment, a pavilion chief came out of the crowd: "Folks, there is a great drought in the sky, there is no harvest, if we stay, sooner or later we will starve to death, it is better to follow Lord Wang to Xuzhou, maybe there is a way to survive." ”

"Lord Wang, let's go to Xuzhou, can we really keep our stomachs full?" Seeing someone rising, someone in the panicked crowd asked boldly.

"To tell you the truth, this notice was written by General Han himself, it is absolutely credible, and the county can use a head guarantee." Wang Bao stood up the steps and shouted.

"Go, let's go to Xuzhou."

"Yes, go ......"

All of a sudden, the ringers gathered, and when Han Lie led the army to set off, there were more than 7,000 people in Yecheng, and they followed Han Lie with their families and embarked on the road to Xuzhou.

Seven thousand people, plus four thousand troops, and more than 100,000 stone grains, dragged this team of tens of thousands of people for several miles, but fortunately, Han Lie had already prepared and built a large number of wheelbarrows for the people to haul the rituals and grain and grass materials.

But even if detailed planning was made, the speed of the march of more than 10,000 people was still very slow, and it was not a day, only 30 miles, and from Yecheng to the East China Sea, it was at least a thousand miles away, and it would obviously take more than a month to reach the East China Sea in this way.

But Han Lie thought about it, but there was no good way, so he could only send sergeants all the way, try to urge the team to speed up the pace, and let the sergeants of the army try to help the people as much as possible.

And Han Lie personally ordered Cai Yan as the captain of this women's army, Zhao Yun's wife Zhen Dao as the deputy captain, and at the same time selected a hundred young women among the people, after Han Lie's simple exercises for several nights, this women's army wearing samurai uniforms, holding daggers, pipa, yaoqin, drums and trumpets and other musical instruments, began to ride in a caravan when the team was marching, and staged an exciting breaking dance.

Not to mention that Han Lie's move did play a certain encouraging role, especially some of the slogans arranged by Han Lie, when he was marching, these people who had left their homes undoubtedly added a lot of expectations for their future lives.

Out of Donglai County, it is Langya County, Langya County is connected to the East China Sea, and it is also a county under the rule of Xuzhou, Xiao Jianxiang, the minister of Langya State, has come from one, and Tao Qian has no affiliation, and it is precisely for this reason that Tao Qian will take refuge in the past Taishan Kou Zangba and others, arranged in the periphery of Xuzhou and Langya around, the purpose is also to prevent and hinder Xiao Jian.

For this reason, Xiao Jian was also dissatisfied with Tao Qian, but Xiao Jian asked himself that his strength was not enough to compete with Tao Qian, so he was usually quite low-key, but he was bored to develop the people's livelihood under his rule, so that Langya County was also rich in the people and strong in the past two years.

However, Tao Qian has been reaping the consequences of his own evil this year, and the Taishan group led by Zang Ba has been no longer obeying his dispatch since the troops are outside, and even plundered the surrounding counties many times, and he received Kong Rong's accusation against him the previous time, saying that he wantonly set troops to plunder, contrary to the righteousness of being a courtier.

And Xiao Jian, the minister of Langya, has also impeached Tao Qian several times for appointing thieves and thieves, disrupting the order of the state and county, for this issue, Tao Qian also received inquiries from the imperial court, for this, he also has bitterness to say, when he used Zang Ba and others, it was also when he first came to Xuzhou, in order to win over Zang Ba and others to fight against the Yellow Turban rebels in Xuzhou, who knew that it later became a big trend.

This time, he accepted Han Lie to Xuzhou and sent Han Lie's troops in Licheng, naturally because Han Lie defeated Sun Guan under Beihai City and killed Yin Li, one of the leaders of the Taishan group, and had already made a feud with the Taishan thieves, so he could rest assured that he could boldly use Han Lie to deal with the Taishan group.

There is no need to worry that they will form a group, and secondly, if Han Lie has troops stationed in Licheng, the northern defense problem that he had been worried about will naturally be solved, which is also the reason why Tao Qian showed great enthusiasm when he learned that Han Lie intended to defect to him.

Although he has a good impression of Han Lie, if Han Lie really has no usable value at this time, he will definitely not be so wooed by a junior, after all, he is a dignified Xuzhou pastor, can he use it to give a junior a good face?

When Han Lie's team entered Langya County, the population base had exceeded 30,000, and the reason was naturally that the great drought that swept through Qingzhou forced the people everywhere to be unable to survive, so when they learned that Han Lie's team distributed food, the victims who were originally preparing to flee the famine were not like locusts, and they hugged Han Lie's thighs tightly.

Since Xiao Jian, the prime minister of Langya, had already received Han Lie's documents and Tao Qian's documents, in addition to being vigilant against Han Lie's huge team, he was also allowed to pass all the way, without the slightest difficulty along the way.

Xiao Jian looked at Tao Qian's face and did not leave Han Lie and his party in trouble, but it does not mean that no one will leave Han Lie in trouble.

Because Junan, under the rule of Langya County, now has a team of soldiers and horses, which is one of the leaders of the Taishan group. If Tao Qian invited someone else to come to Xuzhou, Chang Feng might give a face and let it go, but Han Lie was obviously not among them, the reason was naturally that Han Lie killed his sworn brother Yin Li under Beihai City, this Qiu Chang Feng has not forgotten, and even kept it in his heart.

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