Chapter Fifty-Nine: Drawing Salary from the Bottom of the Cauldron

"Father, what's the matter?" Seeing his father's expression like this, Sun Yu knew that there must be a reason for it, so he hurriedly asked.

"Leader Ruan said that the Shi family's Shiwu ran to them and wanted to conspire with him to retake Jiaozhou, and now he has taken it." Sun Jing said with some surprise, no one expected that at this time, Shiwu, the only remaining "old immortal" of the Shi family, would run out again.

"Didn't Shiwu take refuge in Liu Bei, why did he come to Jiaozhou again?" Sun Yu was also extremely surprised by this. Sun Jing pondered for a long time, and finally said uncertainly: "It seems that Liu Bei wanted him to come to Jiaozhou to stir up trouble here, but fortunately he was taken down by Ruan Fugui, otherwise the connections of the Yishi family in the past might really be able to make him do something." Speaking of this, Sun Jing was also secretly glad, fortunately, Shiwu went to find Ruan Fugui, who was accustomed to seeing the wind and steering the rudder, otherwise if it was someone else, maybe he would have been plotting how to attack Bushan County by now.

"Hmph, it's really self-defeating. He didn't want to think about it, our Sun clan had occupied Jiaozhou for six years, and even Shi Xie had turned into a headless ghost, where would it be his turn to be arrogant. Sun Yu said with some disdain. Although Sun Jing agreed with her son's words, she still asked people surnamed Ruan to inform him to take Shiwu to Bushan County, where the Yulin County Administration Office was located, before making plans.

The seven counties of Jiaozhou, namely Nanhai, Cangwu, Gaoliang, Zhuya, Yulin, Guanzhu and Jiaozhi. Its territory was probably the present-day Liangguang region and Hainan Island, as well as some places in eastern and northern Vietnam. Jiaozhou has fertile land and abundant products, rice can be harvested three times a year, and there are many fishing grounds near the sea. However, due to the sparse population, it has not been fully developed.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Jiaozhou was mainly inhabited by Han and Cham people, and specifically, the Cham people were mainly distributed in the two counties of Jiaozhi and Yulin, which later became Vietnam and Guangxi. Compared with the Han people, the Cham people are undoubtedly more backward, and the whole tribe is still composed of large and small tribes. However, the Zhan people are very ambitious and have always wanted to expel the Han people from Jiaozhou, so that their family can dominate, so the two ethnic groups have been constantly attacking and killing. When Shi Xie was in Jiaozhou, although he could be regarded as a local snake, he was powerless to completely calm the dispute between the Han and the Zhan, so he had to live his own life in his own territory. As for Zhang Jin, the assassin of Jiaozhou sent by the imperial court, the surname Suo was killed by the Zhan people. Since then, for a long time, the post of Jiaozhou Assassin has been vacant. It wasn't until the Sun clan occupied the area that the situation improved. Sun Ce first replaced the Shi family to occupy Jiaozhou, and Sun Quan followed Zhao Feng's method of dealing with Shanyue to pacify several large Cham tribes and mix the people of the two ethnic groups, which slightly alleviated the contradiction.

The Ruan leader that Sun Jing and Sun Yu mentioned was Ruan Fugui, the leader of a large tribe of the Cham tribe in the past, and after Sun Quan pacified several tribes, he saw that his tribe could not match it, so he led his troops to surrender. As for Shiwu, he was the last male of the Shi family. Although when he was in Jiaozhou, the Shi family and Ruan Fugui still had a little friendship, but at this time, now the Sun family occupies Jiaozhou, Ruan Fugui faced the Shiwu who came to lobby him to unite against Sun Jing, and actually tied him up and sent him to Sun Jing.

"Sure enough, it's Shiwu!" In the Jiaozhou Pastoral Mansion, seeing that Shiwu was tied up like a zongzi and escorted into the hall by two big men, Sun Jing also sighed slightly. However, Sun Yu, who is not too rich in life experience, is not in the mood to sigh, or rather, just sighing is not enough to make him feel good, at that moment Sun Yu stepped forward and kicked Shiwu, and then said proudly: "Shiwu, there is a way in heaven for you not to go, and there is no way for hell to break in." If you don't do it with a good Jingzhou general, you have to go to Jiaozhou to die, you are really asking for your own death, and you can't complain about others! ”

Shiwu was kicked and staggered, but he quickly stabilized his body, and stared at Sun Yu viciously and said, "The Sun family is a dog thief, all thirty-four members of my Shi family died in the hands of you. But let me have a breath of air, and I will also take revenge for this! ”

"Hmph, I wish you could be so arrogant when you die!" Sun Yu said disdainfully. At this time, Ruan Fugui stepped forward and bowed to Sun Jing and said, "Lord Sun, this person came to our tribe and asked us to join forces to help him retake Jiaozhou. I don't dare to deal with it privately, so I'll arrest it and give it to the adults to decide. ”

"Leader Ruan has worked hard!" Sun Jing nodded. At this time, Ruan Fugui said again: "Now that the New Year is approaching, we have also brought this year's New Year's tribute, please check it." ”

"Very good!" Seeing that Ruan Fugui was so knowledgeable, Sun Jing also gave a few words of encouragement, and then ordered a banquet to entertain Ruan Fugui, celebrating the capture of Shiwu by the way, and at the same time Feige passed a message to Sun Quan, who was in Wu County.

"Master Sun, Master Sun, please!" Ruan Fugui toasted humbly, Sun Jing and Sun Yu didn't drink as much as him, and it was already a bit too much after a few drinks. However, this Ruan Fugui is a good hand at seeing the wind and steering the rudder, and he surrendered immediately when he saw that he was defeated, and this kind of person is often very good at the wine table. Under his diligent persuasion, Sun Jing and Sun Yu, who were the masters, drank a lot.

"Master Sun, I don't know when Sun Zhoumu will go back to Jiangdong?" Ruan Fugui drank another glass of wine and suddenly asked.

"The lord has returned to Jiangdong, and he should not come back in the future. If Leader Ruan has something to do, he can go to Jiangdong by himself. Sun Jing said lightly. As soon as the words fell, I heard a rough voice outside the door say, "Let's ask Lord Sun to go to Jiangdong first!" ”

"Huh?" Sun Jing was a little surprised when she heard this, and looked up, but saw that it was the two big men who were holding Shiwu in Shicai, but this was not the key issue, the key thing was that they were followed by a person, and it was Shiwu. Of course, there was no rope tied to the body.

"Who are you?" Sun Jing's half-conscious head suddenly sobered up, and he was drinking to ask, but he saw a group of warriors coming from the black pressure outside the door, all of them were copying guys in their hands.

"I am Zhang Nan, the captain of the Zhichong school under the command of Uncle Liu Huang, the Duke of Qi, and this is Feng Xi, the captain of the broken school!" The first one laughed. Sun Jing's surprise was really extraordinary, and she hurriedly got up and asked sharply, "Ruan Fugui, what's going on?" ”

Ruan Fugui had already hid behind Zhang Nan, and when he heard Sun Jing's question, he poked his head out and replied with a smile: "Lord Sun, these two generals asked me to help them bring Shiwu to meet you, I don't know much about other things, you better tell them directly!" ”

"You villain!" Sun Jing said angrily, turned his head and shouted outside: "Guards, come here, take them down for me!" At this time, Sun Yu, who was already not very sober, was also awakened by his own Lao Tzu's lion roar, and rubbed his eyes but didn't quite understand what was happening.

"Don't bother you, Lord Sun. We have packed up your guards, and we have more than 500 brethren, all of whom have come with the tribute procession led by the Nguyen chief. There are thousands of brothers outside the city, and we have opened the gates and let them in. In short, now Bushan County, no, Yulin County no longer belongs to you! Shiwu also stepped forward and smiled at this time, but the murderous aura in his words was still obvious.

"Bastard!" Sun Jing was furious, kicked over the table, and then pulled out his waist knife and prepared to resist. Zhang Nan and Feng Xi both flanked, both of them outperformed him in martial arts, plus Sun Jing was a little dizzy after drinking, and was kicked to the ground by Zhang Nan in the lower abdomen after a while, and then several steel knives were put on his neck, and he had to be restrained. Zhang Nan ordered Sun Jing's father and son to be escorted down, and at the same time ordered someone to take the seal of the state pastor, and wrote several urgent documents, all saying that Yulin was being attacked by the Jingzhou army, and asked the defenders of the other three counties to come to the rescue quickly. At the same time, Gan Ning was notified, but when the defenders of the three counties went out, they immediately took advantage of the situation to take the three counties.

"If it weren't for Mr. Shi Guangyuan's clever plan, I'm afraid it would take some time to pacify Jiaozhou." Zhang Nan sighed as he wrote a letter. Feng Xi heard what he said, and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten that when you were in Jingnan, even General Zhao admired Mr. Shi's talent. What is this strategy? ”

"That's right!" Zhang Nan smiled, and then asked: "You see that General Zhao should have pacified Jiangdong now, right?" ”

"I think too, those rats in Jiangdong are not enough for our army to conquer." Feng Xi nodded, he never expected that his old boss was now Jiaozhou Mu. While speaking, Zhang Nan's three forged documents have also been written, stamped with genuine Jiaozhou Mu seals, and sent to the three counties of Jiaozhi, Gaoliang and Guanzhu respectively. As soon as the defenders are dispatched, Gan Ning will lead people to take the city immediately, and the defenders will become homeless and lonely ghosts, with neither a place to live nor supplies to supplement them.

Naturally, all this was not known to Sun Quan and Zhao Feng, who were in Jiangdong, and the former had not received Sun Jing's flying pigeon transmission at this time, and even if he did, he could only get an outdated error message. As for the latter, he is leading the army to slowly advance towards Poyang City.

"The defenders of Poyang are only 4,000, and most of them are county soldiers, so it is not difficult to take Poyang City, and the only person to worry about is Sun Jiaoshui in Poyang Lake, in case he takes advantage of our siege to come to raid the rear army, it will inevitably be a little embarrassing." In the advancing army, Zhao Feng said to Pang.

"Yes, I didn't expect Sun Quan to actually get a sailor in Jiaozhou, we really underestimated him." Pang Tong sighed, but soon he comforted Zhao Feng and said: "Sun Quanshui is only more than 10,000 people, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation. The general only needs to send a military horse to guard against him when he is besieging the city. The defenders of Poyang City are insufficient, so they can be drummed down. When Poyang City is captured, Sun Jiao's sailors have no logistical supplies, and if they don't go ashore, they can only cultivate immortals on Poyang Lake! ”

"That's good! It's November now, and we've been waiting for the army to fight for nearly two months, and I originally wanted to solve Sun Quan's problem and let the soldiers celebrate the New Year with peace of mind, but now it seems that it is difficult to achieve. Zhao Feng sighed and said.

"It's best to be able to let Sun Quan be completely defeated once and for all. I knew that I shouldn't have kept him in the first place. Pang Tong said angrily.

"Who would have thought that this guy would be able to make a fuss when he arrived in Jiaozhou? In this way, this trouble is completely eliminated, and with the capital of the five southern states, we can have a good competition with Cao Ying! Zhao Feng diverted the topic. Once Jiaozhou was pacified, and Cao Ying occupied the north, the two sides were almost evenly matched in terms of population. However, the grain yield in the south is far higher than that in the north, and this advantage is incomparable to Cao Ying. Zhao Feng firmly believes that if it is said that if it is a protracted war, then Cao Ying will definitely not be able to hold it first.

"General, Poyang City is less than forty miles away from the front, and the defenders in the city have not moved." Just when Zhao Feng was thinking about the big problem, the scouts sent out before came back to report.

"Send the order down, set up camp twenty miles away from the city, and send more people to investigate the movements of the defenders." Zhao Feng came back to his senses and ordered. At present, the army is stationed and is ready to attack the city.

(To be continued)