Stone Town, the camp of the Jiangdong Army.

Sun Ce's injuries were well recovered and he was able to walk on the ground with the support of the waiter.

On this morning, Sun Ce went around the barracks with Jia Hua's support, and as soon as he returned to the big tent, he saw that Zhou Yu was already sitting inside.

"Gongjun?" Sun Ce was surprised, "Aren't you back to Shu County?" ”

Shu County is Zhou Yu's hometown, this time Zhou Yu returned to Shu County is also a public and private penny, Yu private is considered to return to the hometown, but Yu Gong went to persuade the Zhou family in Shu County to buy land, because the first batch of 500 hectares of paddy fields has been built, in order to raise grain, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu discussed, and decided to give priority to the sale of these 500 hectares of paddy fields to the scholars of Shu County.

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "After the matter is done, it is naturally time to come back and report to you Bo Fu." ”

Sun Cexi said: "The matter has been done? All these 500 hectares of paddy fields have been sold? ”

"It's all sold, and the price is only slightly lower than the market price." Zhou Yu said with a smile, "Moreover, you can't guess Bo Fu in any case, in addition to the Zhou family of Shu County, even the Fan family who lives in the nest has also bought land from us." ”

Sun Ce was surprised: "The Fan family who lives in the nest also bought land from us?" ”

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "Bo Fu, don't you know, as soon as the various branches of the Zhou clan in Shu County heard that you had been enshrined by the imperial court as a rebellious general, they all rushed to buy land and land. ”

Sun Ce was hesitant, but he was inevitably a little proud in his heart.

The Sun family was originally not a family in Jiangdong, and it was barely a small clan.

The real rise of the Sun family was still after Sun Jian served as the Taishou of Changsha, especially when the princes of the Eighteen Towns begged for Dong, Sun Jian was the first to enter Luoyang City, and his prestige was unmatched for a while! Since then, Sun Jian has fought in the east and west, and in the south and north, and has accumulated a lot of prestige, and the Sun family has become the leading family in Jiangdong.

Three years ago, Sun Ce took the more than 1,000 old troops left by Sun Jian as the team to conquer Jiangdong, and the reason why he was able to break through Liu Xuan, Yan Baihu, Wang Lang and other Jiangdong heroes was the main reason why Sun Ce himself was brave and good at fighting, but another factor that could not be ignored was the great help of the Jiangdong Shi clan.

Especially after Sun Ce broke through the Niuzhu camp, the Jiangdong Shi clan was even more eager to vote, including Gu Yong, Buzhi, Zhang Hong, etc., and Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Chen Wu, Dong Xi, Ling Cao, Song Qian, Jia Hua, etc., with the help of these civil and military forces, Sun Ce was able to pacify the four counties of Jiangdong in a very short period of time.

Now, Sun's influence has expanded to Lujiang County.

This is undoubtedly a good thing, with the help of the Lujiang clan, it will be easy to collect Lujiang in the future, and it will not hurt the vitality of Lujiang in the process of collecting Lujiang.

"Bo Fu, this time I went to Shu County and found out a news." Zhou Yu said again, "Yuan Wei Xiao'er has arrived in Lujiang and was settled in Juchao Town by Liu Xun. ”

"Yuan Xiao'er has already arrived in Lujiang?" Sun Ce Huoran stood up and said sharply, "Gongjin, you will gather a large army now, and tomorrow you will kill and capture Yuan Nuo'er, and you don't want to wait for a day!" ”

Zhou Yu waved his hand and said, "Bo Fu, this matter is in a hurry. ”

Sun Ce frowned, sat back on the seat, and asked, "Why is this?" ”

If it was someone else, Sun Ce was afraid that he wouldn't listen at all, but Zhou Yu persuaded him, but Sun Ce would still listen, because he knew that Zhou Yu's insight was far above him.

Zhou Yu said: "If the war starts at this time, Liu Xun and Yuan Wei will inevitably fight against our army together." ”

Sun Ce said: "That's just right, even Liu Xun cleaned it up, but he didn't have to use the sword again." ”

Zhou Yu smiled bitterly: "Bo Fu, at this time, the time, the place, and the people are not in me, but on the other side, if you force a war, it will be against the way of heaven. ”

Sun Ce said: "The time, the place, the people? What does this mean? ”

Zhou Yu said: "May and June are the seasons of hurricanes and rains, which is not conducive to sending troops, and the time is not the same; Our Jiangdong soldiers have been out for many days and have long been exhausted, but the Lujiang army is waiting for work at ease, and the location is not enough; Although you were appointed as a rebellious general, the Lujiang clan still has a heart for Liu Xun, and it is the old man who has not arrived. ”

Sun Ce hey, the time, place, and people are not enough, and this battle is really difficult to fight.

Let's not talk about whether we can win the war, even if we win in the end, I am afraid that it will kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 ourselves, and the entire Lujiang County will also become dilapidated, but this result is not what Sun Ce wants.

What Sun Ce wanted was an intact Lujiang County.

Because in the future, when the Northern Expedition was made, Sun Ce would also take Lujiang County and Huainan County as base camps.

However, Sun Ce was a little unwilling after all, and said with annoyance: "Then forget it?" ”

"Of course you can't just leave it at that." Zhou Yu said, "Bo Fu, since you have been ordered to be a rebellious general, you should naturally do your best to exterminate the remnants of the Yuan clan for the imperial court, but this matter is not urgent, only after a while, Liu Xun and Yuan Fu will be filthy, and even fight each other. ”

Sun Ce asked, "Gongjin, are you sure that Liu Xun will have a dirty relationship with Yuan Xiao'er?" ”

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "Don't worry, Bo Fu, in less than two months, Liu Xun and Yuan Wei will be filthy, even if the two of them will not tear their faces in person, but there will definitely be no less intrigue behind their backs." ”

(Dividing Line)

Zhou Yu was not wrong, in fact, the intrigue between the Yuan and Liu families has now begun.

As soon as Yuan Wei returned to the nest from Anhui City, Ji Ling, who arrived at the nest first, complained.

"Childe, Liu Wei is too unkind, what kind of fortified city is this nest? It's clearly a broken city! Ji Ling pointed to the enemy tower that was about to collapse at the west gate of the nest, and said angrily, "Childe, look, even the city tower is about to collapse." ”

Yuan Wei was silent, the height of the nest city is no more than two zhang, and there is no moat, that's it, what's even more annoying is that most of the surrounding city walls have collapsed, such a city, not much stronger than the camp, I really plan to stay for a long time, but I am afraid that I have to spend a lot of effort to repair the city defense, at least the collapsed city wall must be repaired.

But now Yuan Wei really doesn't have the heart to repair the city wall, and the top priority is to raise food!

Right now, the remnants of the Yuan clan have only three days of food left, and if they don't raise food, the whole army will have to go hungry.

Although before leaving, Liu Xun personally said that the money, food, and ordnance of the remnants of the Yuan family would be supplied by Anhui City, but Yuan Xun did not take Liu Xun's words seriously, because, if Liu Xun really intended to do this, then before Yuan Xun came to live in the nest, Liu Xun should have advanced the money and food for the next three months to Yuan Xun, but Liu Xun did not do this.

Lord Bo Yanxiang was also worried about the military rations, and as soon as Yuan came back, he came to the door.

"Childe, there is not much food left in the army." Yan Xiang said, "If you don't raise food, you can only kill yourself and fill the stomachs of the soldiers with these hundred and ten catties." ”

Yuan Fu laughed and said: "Brother Ziyin, you should keep the hundred and ten catties for yourself, as for the military rations, a certain has already gone to borrow it with Yuan Xiugong, and there will be news back later." ”

Yuan Fu's voice fell, and Jin Shang walked into Yuan No's line out of breath.

As soon as he saw Jin Shang's face, Yuan Wei knew that Jin Shang's trip must have gained something.

Sure enough, before he could see Yuan Wei, Jin Shang said: "Childe, the old minister is fortunate not to be dishonored, the Qiao family in Wancheng has promised to donate 3,000 stone of military rations, Gongzi, this grain is given by the Qiao family, don't pay it back, hehe." ”

"Oh, really?" Yuan Wei was overjoyed when he heard this, and the Qiao family in Wancheng really gave face.

Yan Xiang said: "Childe, Yuan Xiugong, there is a sentence in the next but I have to say, although there is a lot of 3,000 stone military rations, but it can't last too long, if our army has no stable source of money and food, if we blindly sit and eat the mountains and empty mountains, these 3,000 stone military rations will soon be exhausted, at that time, how can it be good?" Is it difficult to ask for it again? ”

Yuan Wei nodded and said: "I was about to discuss this matter with Brother Ziyin and Yuan Xiugong, Liu Xun said that he wanted to supply money and grain, but we really want to get money, food and ordnance from Anhui City, but I am afraid that it will be very difficult, so we have to Tuntian!" ”

"Tuntian? That's a good idea. Yan Xiang said, "One thing Liu Wei did not lie to us, there are indeed thousands of miles of fertile fields outside the nest city, and there are many lakes and convenient irrigation, once it is cultivated, it is a high-yield paddy field, but the tuntian needs a lot of manpower and material resources, and it also needs farm tools, ploughing cattle and seeds, where do these come from?" ”

Yan Xiang asked Yuan Wei in a word.

The number of displaced people who fled into the Lujiang River from Huainan County was hundreds of thousands, as far as Yuan Wei could see, there were no less than 50,000 displaced people gathered outside the city of Anhui alone, and although the number of displaced people outside the city of Chao was relatively small, there were more than 10,000 people.

But the homeless people won't work for you in vain, you have to at least give them food.

Then the question arises, where does the rations for the displaced people come from? With the 3,000 stone grain donated by Qiao's family, it is not enough to supply the remnants of the Yuan family, how can there be any surplus grain to feed the displaced people?

Also, after the new fields are reclaimed, they need to be cultivated, which requires cattle, farm tools and seeds, which can be recruited by the homeless, but they need to buy cattle, farm tools and seeds, and they need money to buy, but where does the money come from?

Jin Shang thought for a while, and said helplessly: "Son, why don't you let the old minister come forward and borrow from Qiao's again?" ”

Yuan Wei shook his head and said: "The Qiao clan just donated three thousand stone grain, and we immediately went to borrow money and grain, but it was unreasonable, if this matter spread, the Lujiang clan would scold us for being insatiable." ”

After a pause, Yuan Fu said again: "Even if you want to borrow, you can only borrow from someone else." ”

Jin Shang said: "The Fan family, a local scholar in the nest, is quite rich and grainy, why don't you go to the old minister to find the Fan family?" ”

Yuan Wei waved his hand and said, "This time, I will borrow it in person." ”