Chapter 169: Dongzhi Builds a Port and Sets Sail for Yizhou!
After Zhoushan County was settled, a new fleet consisting mainly of fighting ships from Huiji was stationed in the city, and after the new county commander took office, the navy in Jiangdong seized the time and began to sail along the marginal waters of Huiji, all the way south, and had a clear understanding of some of the islands around Huiji.
All the way south, revealing Zhang'an, Yongning two counties, also set up temporary ports here, the huge fleet stopped and stopped, the fleet took about 20 days to reach Dongzhi.
Dongzhi County, the southeast coast of Huiji, in order to prevent the mountains from crossing, the county guard office has been stationed here for a long time more than 3,000 heavy troops, and the geographical location is in Fuzhou in the later generations, which is among the Huiji counties, and a county that has recently connected Yizhou.
In the past, Gaozu won the world, after the king of Yue, he was named the king of Minyue, and most of the south of Huiji and the east of Jiaozhou were the country of Minyue, and a royal capital was established here, which was named the city, also known as Dongzhi.
Dongzhi is the most southeastern county of Huiji, and it is also one of the most complicated counties in Shanyue.
When Sun Quan's fleet arrived at the coast, Dongzhi County Ling Shang Sheng, County Cheng Zhan Qiang, and County Lieutenant Zhang Ya, the three of them had already led the officials of the county government, as well as many members of the local Haoqiang family in Dongzhi, followed by a neat 3,000 county soldiers, waiting for a long time.
The county guard of Huiji sent an official letter to the counties near the sea along the way early in the morning, the eldest prince and the right prince, the two most popular heirs in Jiangdong, are at sea, and the counties must accept it unconditionally.
Naturally, they did not dare to slack off in the slightest.
"The subordinate Dongzhi County Ling Shang Sheng led the officials and county soldiers of Dongzhi to meet the Hou Ye, the eldest prince, and the metropolitan governor!"
The Tiger ship docked, and under the escort of the three thousand cars under the Hushi, Sun Ce, Sun Quan, and Zhou Yu all went ashore, Shang Sheng strode out, and then knelt on his knees and bowed respectfully.
Now the general's mansion is already stable for the rule of Huiji, and Sun Quan, Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu are all high-level leaders at the core of the general's mansion, especially Sun Quan and Sun Ce, who are the sons of the Sun family, and belong to the heirs of Jiangdong in the future.
"Subordinates, meet the Hou Ye, meet the eldest prince, and meet the Grand Duke!"
Under the leadership of Shang Sheng, all the officials of Dongzhi County knelt on the ground to greet each other, and the three thousand county soldiers also knelt on the ground and saluted respectfully.
In Dongzhi, Sun Quan is the marquis, he is the biggest, after all, the well-known reward given to Sun Quan by the imperial court is the Marquis of Dongzhi, although the back cover is clear, but basically, Dongzhi is his fief.
"Get up!"
Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and the others did not move, and Sun Quan, the Marquis of Dongzhi, strode up, stretched out his hand to help him, and said loudly.
"No!"
At this time, everyone stood up, the county commander was about forty years old, and he was a little emaciated, it was the Dongzhi county order from the time of Guo Yi, and he had been until now, Sun Quan squinted his eyes and looked at him, he must have extraordinary ability if he was not brushed down.
It's a pity that Sun Quan doesn't have such a person in his historical memory of the future, but it's right to think about it, in Dongzhi, a county town that is partial to one place, even if it is a county order, it is difficult to be famous.
Of course, what Sun Quan didn't know was that this Shang Sheng was a traitor in the Dongzhi area under the rule of the Sun family in history, and once led troops to resist the Sun family, which was a stepping stone for He Qi to become famous.
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At this time, the county commander Shang Sheng led a large number of squires, strode up, and said: "Master Hou, the subordinates in the city have prepared a banquet, and Lord Hou and the eldest prince can enter the city and rest for a while." â
"That's right, Master Hou, Dongzhi is your fief after all, and I respectfully invite you to enter the city!" Everyone respectfully asked, said.
"Shangxian Order, everyone, the right is just passing through Dongzhi, don't be so troublesome, our fleet will go to sea immediately, if the army rushes into the city, it will bring chaos to Dongzhi, we will camp here, and then build a port here, I hope you can send someone to assist."
Sun Quan shook his head, and then looked around at the shore entrance, which is northeast of Dongzhi County, and there is a bay, which is very suitable for a big port to go to sea.
"No!"
Shang Sheng saw that Sun Quan and the others were reluctant to enter the city, but he breathed a sigh of relief, Sun Quan came, he had been worried, afraid that it would not be good to serve, but now Sun Quan was so resolute that he was a little relieved.
Although the squires were a little confused, they didn't dare to ask out loud in the face of tens of thousands of sailors obviously eyeing the sea.
"Master Hou, how is this port going to be built?" Shang Sheng pondered for a moment, still thinking that he had to do a good job in the task assigned by Sun Quan, so he was a little puzzled and asked.
"Shang County Order, you just need to prepare manpower and materials for me, I will plan it, and then I will personally supervise the project some time ago." Sun Quan knew that these people didn't have any concept of a port, so he said lightly.
"Xia Guan understands."
Shang Sheng nodded hurriedly, and then said loudly to the county lieutenant and county Cheng beside him: "County Lieutenant Zhang, if you immediately take your soldiers and assist the eldest prince to dock the warship, let the soldiers go ashore, and camp on the spot, Zhan County Cheng, you immediately enter the county seat, and with the order of the county government, 20,000 people will be requisitioned in the city for the use of the Hou Ye." â
"No." The two hurriedly nodded and walked down.
Sun Quan's eyes moved, and he suddenly said in a deep voice: "Shang County Order, if a certain family is not mistaken, there seems to be a shipbuilding workshop in Dongzhi, right?" â
Dongzhi is Fuzhou, a famous shipbuilding place in later generations, it is very suitable for shipbuilding, and when it was in Minyue, it was already a shipbuilding workshop at this time.
"Back to the Hou Ye, there is indeed one, but ......"
Shang Sheng nodded, but after a moment of silence, he was a little embarrassed, and said: "Master Hou, the scale of this workshop was not small before, but over the years, no one has managed it, the finances are not supported, and it has been abandoned for many years. â
In Toji, under normal circumstances, they basically live on rice and fishing, and there are many fishing boats, although they do not actually go to sea, but they also circle around the sea.
"Is there a master craftsman who ships here in Toji?" Sun Quan narrowed his eyes and asked.
In the future, together with Yizhou, Dongzhi is the most important place, so it is necessary to set up a shipbuilding workshop here, replenish the warships and repair the warships, all needed.
"There is this, in Dongzhi, in fact, many people have a first-hand shipbuilding job." Shang Sheng thought about it before he said.
"Very good, Shang County Order, give you three days, and you will immediately recruit a group of shipbuilding craftsmen for me!" Sun Quan said.
"No!"
Shang Sheng nodded.
This matter is just a trivial matter for him to be a dignified Dongzhi county order, and Sun Quan is here, and his county government uses Sun Quan's prestige, and those big families in the city dare not cooperate with him.
"There is another big thing, which needs to be ordered by Shang County, is there food in the city? The fleet had to be replenished with adequate food. Sun Quan's eyes were clear, and he asked loudly.
When going to sea, you must be prepared for the greatest extent, one of which is food and fresh water, after all, even if you have a compass, in the vast sea, facing the wind and waves, you may not know where to drift.
With Jiangdong's current warship technology, it is not wrong to be cautious and prepare more food when it comes out of the sea area.
"Master Hou, this ...... Xiaguan is a little sorry, in recent years, it has not been peaceful, or Jiangdong occupied by Wu Hou, Shanyue is considered to be a safe point, although Dongzhi is also a big city, with a population of nearly 20,000 households, but there are hidden dangers in the mountains for many years, and the official road of Shanyin is also different, there have always been few resources, so the food in the city is barely enough for our own use at most, and we can't move much. â
Shang Sheng lowered his head and said in a low voice.
At this time, with the assistance of the soldiers of Dongzhi County, the warships on the coast began to find a place to anchor, under the auspices of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, tens of thousands of sailors, as well as many civil and legal craftsmen on the warships went ashore, and these folk craftsmen were all prepared by Sun Quan for Yizhou, so naturally they would not stay in Zhoushan.
The army began to camp in place, and the whole port was in full swing.
"Is the mountain here very strict?" Sun Quan beckoned and asked Zhou Yu to entertain those Dongzhi squires, after all, Dongzhi will be an important city in the future, and the navy must have a good relationship with these squires. He found a big stone, sat up cross-legged, squinted at the county magistrate Shangsheng, and asked.
If the mountain is too strict, then the Dongzhi area cannot be peaceful. Dongji is not peaceful, and if he wants to build the port here, it is not safe enough.
"Master Hou, our Dongzhi here is too remote, in the past ten years, the imperial court does not say that it will send troops, it basically doesn't matter, Shanyue's army is stronger than our Dongzhi, and in Dongzhi's generation, it has reached the point of occupying the city."
Shang Sheng was originally a native of Dongzhi, and he had been based in Dongzhi for decades, and he was more familiar with the Dongzhi generation than anyone else, and he did not hide it, after all, if it was the Huiji led by Guo Yi before, he still had some different intentions, but now Sun Jian rules the six counties of Jiangdong, the soldiers are fine and the food is wide, and the prestige spreads to the world of Jiangdong, he does not dare to have any dissent.
He sighed, reported truthfully, and said: "From Dongzhi to Taimo, with Wuyi Mountain as the camp, the Shanyue people have built a lot of cities, in the past, Wu Hou soldiers came to Huiji, Cheng Pu Taishou led the troops south, but ruthlessly extinguished their flames, they were defeated, and naturally shrank back to the Wuyi Mountain generation, but recently after the troops of Huiji were withdrawn, they came out again!" â
"Not far from Dongzhi, there is a new city, called Jian'an, which was established by Shanyue people, these Shanyue people, all grew up in the mountains, basically all the people are soldiers, and our Dongzhi County soldiers are not opponents at all." Shang Sheng said with a wry smile.
The difference between the Shanyue people and them is not big, especially the Dongzhi people, they are originally the same kind of people, basically they are all people from the Minyue tribe who fled to this generation after the Yue State was destroyed by the Chu State.
However, the reason why Shanyue is Shanyue is that they have escaped into the mountains for hundreds of years, survived in the harsh environment, and appear to be stronger than ordinary people, and the people are fierce, and the most important thing is that they have formed a free and unrestrained character in the mountains, which will cause Shanyue to continue to rebel.
"Jian'an City? How many people do they have, how many troops do they have? "Sun Quan's sudden interest, these Shanyue people dare to go down the mountain, it may not be a good thing.
It is difficult to deal with in the mountains, but out of the mountains, if they want to deal with the Jiangdong army, they are a little overwhelmed.
"Master Hou, in Jian'an City, there are more than 30,000 people in Jian'an City, plus the old, weak, women and children, as for the troops, it is difficult to say, once they move, they can all go into battle." Shang Sheng Road.
"Will they attack Toji?" Sun Quan continued to ask.
"Yes, when there is no food, they will attack and rob us of food, a few years ago, the people of Jian'an also united fifty or sixty thousand Shanyue, and broke through Dongzhi once, but after the Jiangdong army settled in Huiji, they were more peaceful, and they did not dare to attack the city justifiably."
"In this way, in the midst of Jiangdong's deterrence, they are still safe."
Sun Quan thought for a while, his eyes were puzzled, and then he said: "Since they can still settle down, I want them to jump a few times, and wait for us to completely take Yizhou, and then go back to clean them up." â
Now he has more than 13,000 Jiangdong troops, plus Dongzhi's troops, to deal with these Shanyue, if he fights fiercely, he can take the new city of Jian'an, but he doesn't want to waste his troops here now.
After all, Jian'an, Wuyi Mountain, there are still a lot of Shanyue people, the symptoms are not the root cause, and they can't be taken all at once, and they have no effect.
"Shang County Order, you first prepare a part of the grain for me from Dongzhi County, I want as much as I want, you can rest assured, it will not affect Dao Dongzhi, and then someone from the General's Mansion will transfer a batch of grain from Wu County, and you will make up for Dongzhi's granary." Sun Quan had already asked Sun Jian to deliver grain to Zhoushan and Dongzhi.
Both of these were important ports, and it was necessary to maintain enough food in order for the fleet to be replenished.
"No!"
Since Sun Quan said so, Shang Sheng had nothing to say, so he could only go down to prepare grain and use the stored emergency food.
If it were someone else, he could still object to it, but Sun Quan was nominally the Marquis of Dongzhi, and Dongzhi was Sun Quan's private property, so he had to give everything he wanted, and Sun Quan also said that he would pay it back.
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With the support of Dongzhi County and the construction of tens of thousands of people, this large-scale port is in full swing under the planning of Sun Quan.
After the fleet replenished food, Sun Quan, Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu gathered together and began to discuss the affairs of Yizhou.
"If you start from Dongzhi, Yizhou is due east of us, or southeast direction, as long as you grasp the direction well, it shouldn't be wrong, the distance, I think, if you go along the lĂŹ, ten days will be!"
In the temporary military camp next to the port, in the middle of the Chinese army camp, Sun Quan pointed to a rough map of this sea area that he had drawn with his own hands, and said.
"Zhongmou, are you really sure about this position, if not, we may not know how long we will be lost at sea." Zhou Yu's handsome face, with a cautious look, said: "Going to sea is not an ordinary thing, we are only sliding around the seaside at most during this period of time, but there have been a lot of storms and waves in it, and the four ships have been destroyed, so we still have to be careful about everything." â
"The location shouldn't be wrong, but I'm afraid of strong winds and waves at sea, if only we could have a humanoid observatory." Sun Quan sighed and said, as far as he knows, although the people of this era will be astronomical myths, there are indeed many people who can use the naked eye to understand some phenomena and see the upcoming climate.
Most of these people are gods of this era, but unfortunately Sun Quan can't find him in a hurry, otherwise he must have taken him out to sea and used it as a humanoid observatory.
"Zhongmou, or, we want to send someone to explore the way first, right?" Sun Ce squinted his eyes and said.
"What does the eldest brother mean is that we use the lives of our soldiers to find a channel? It's too lacking in morality! â
Sun Quan's voice was a little cold, although he had changed a lot in this era, he had never been able to have the sense of superiority over others, and it was also difficult to ignore the dedication of human life.
His thinking has always been stuck in the modern era, where everyone is equal.
Although this kind of thinking is an incomprehensible thought in this era, Sun Quan's thinking has already been fixed in his twenties, and it will not be possible to fundamentally change it for at least ten years.
He shouldn't be able to change the world, but it will take a little time for the world to change him.
"This?"
Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were slightly stunned, there was something strange Sun Quan's reaction, it was too intense!
They were all born in Haoqiang or a family, and naturally they have some unruly bearing, although they did not express it, but for the soldiers below, they still have some noble hearts, and it is naturally difficult to understand Sun Quan's excitement in their hearts.
After all, for them, it is a very understandable thing to use the soldiers below to explore, and even for the soldiers under their command, it is an honor.
Naturally, the two of them would not understand Sun Quan's thoughts from modern people.
"We have prepared what we should prepare, we have also understood what we should know, at sea, sometimes it depends on luck, whether it is the first time to go to sea, there are many experiences in going to sea, if you are not lucky, you will still have the possibility of destruction if you encounter strong winds and waves!"
Sun Quan's face hardened, his amber crystal eyes were a little sharp, and he said categorically: "I believe that my Sun Quan's luck must be the best!" Therefore, whether you go or not, three days later, a certain person set sail for Yizhou. â
"Zhongmou, since you dare to fight, you have nothing to say for your brother, so I will naturally accompany you on the above trip." Sun Ce sighed, what he couldn't stand the most was that he couldn't compare to Sun Quan. made Sun Quan agitated, and naturally he couldn't sit still.
"You two are crazy, and you both regret it a little." Zhou Yu smiled slightly bitterly, but his gaze was firm.
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Three days later, the Koto Navy, together with the men and craftsmen, as well as some fishermen and shipbuilders who were often at sea recruited in Toji, set out for nearly 18,000 people.
The army set sail as scheduled and crossed to Yizhou in the east.
(Today's one shift, there are many things in the past two days, and some are too late, but from tomorrow, pick one must be restored to three watches!) ďź