Cui Qian is twenty-eight years old this year, with broad shoulders and back, big hands and feet, a long face, two thick eyebrows, and a pair of slightly slender eyes.

The messenger standing in front of him didn't dare to look him in the eye, and subconsciously lowered his head.

"Whatever?" Cui Qian bared his teeth and slapped his hand on the rough wooden case: "You let him try it." Su can surrender with thick legs, Lao Tzu can also surrender, and when the time comes, shake his things in front of Sun Shao, I see that the other family is still not in Jiaozhou. ”

"General?" The messenger shuddered, and quickly explained: "It's not that my family doesn't want to help you, it's really that Sun Shao is so powerful, he left Shiwei and acted alone, we don't have a chance." However, my family said that if the general can fight, he will fight, and if he can't, he will avoid it, and Sun Shao will not be in Jiaozhou for a long time, and if it drags on for a while, my family will have a way to drive him away. ”

"Drag?" Cui Qian was furious, suddenly stood up, and rushed to the messenger, his slender eyes widened, and he looked like he was going to eat people, so frightened that the messenger couldn't help but take two steps back. "Lao Tzu's brother is also going to eat, he sits down with Xu Wen, where is Lao Tzu going to collect money? If you don't have money, what will Lao Tzu do to feed your brothers? Last year, I was made a trip by you, and Lao Tzu had no income for most of the year, and he lost a lot of money. This year has finally improved a little, and let Lao Tzu wait, wait for another half a year, and Lao Tzu will have to be pants. ”

After spraying the messenger's face with spittle, Cui Qian stood up and stood with his hands in his hands: "Go back and tell him that it's okay if you want me to drag it, he will prepare a few months of grain and grass for Sun Shao, and he will prepare a few months of grain and grass for me, otherwise, hum, I will make his family's reputation in Jiaozhou." Get lost! ”

Two barefoot men rushed up, and without saying a word, grabbed the messenger and dragged him out. The messenger's face turned pale, and he did not dare to say a word, and walked away.

"Big brother, what should I do?" Cui Qian's think tank Cui Wen walked over, with an anxious look on his face, "It's not good for us to provoke the Shi family at this time, do you really want to surrender to Sun Shao?" ”

"Surrender?" Cui Qian sneered: "I haven't surrendered much, I surrender him, no way." I've accumulated so many years of belongings, if I surrender him, will it still be mine? 10,000, what happened to 10,000? This is Zhuya, not the East China Sea, no matter how many tens of thousands of people come to him, I will let him come and go. ”

"Then why are you so cruel to the Shi family?" Cui Wen said with some complaints. He is Cui Qian's uncle, since Cui Qian's father was a pirate, he is a military advisor, Cui Qian can conquer such a large territory, he can also be regarded as a hero. In the entire Zhuya, he was one of the few people who dared to speak to Cui Qian like this.

"Those old things of the Shi family occupy the richest territory in Jiaozhou, but they are so stingy with me." Cui Qian paced slowly under the corridor, and Cui Wen followed suit, pricking up his ears to listen. "Sun Shao is sitting in Xu Wen, he will definitely escort the businessmen like last year, we have almost no business to do, although we have a bit of a foundation, but it is not a way to go on for a long time. What's even more infuriating is that I have suffered losses here, but the scholars have benefited from it. Believe it or not, Sun Shao asked them to raise grain and grass, they would definitely fill their pockets, and then stir up a popular uprising, and then put the responsibility on Sun Shao's head. ”

"That's for sure, that's what they've always done." Cui Wen was not surprised.

"Why did he take advantage of me and make me unlucky?" Cui Qian said in a vicious voice: "Sun Shao and I both lost the fight, and he came to pick up the cheap?" Sun Shao was squeezed away by him, and then I was cleaned up by him again? If you want to use me as a sword, you have to get some blood. ”

"That's just as well." Cui Wen nodded, followed Cui Qian silently, looked at the lush garden in the distance, and hesitated: "Do you want to fight Sun Shao?" ”

"It's going to be hit." Cui Qian snorted, very annoyed, he now hated Sun Shao's name with hatred. He used to mix well in the South China Sea, and now he doesn't have to rob it himself, as long as he sends someone to send a bamboo stick, someone will send the money to the door, which is no different from the soil emperor. But as soon as Sun Shao came, things changed, first pirates of all sizes came to the door to ask for explanations, saying that his subordinates did not follow the rules and messed around, and they ate big fish themselves, and they also cut off the livelihood of other brothers, and harmed dozens of pirates of all sizes along the way. Although he is a pirate, he has always been conceited to follow the rules, and the pirates of all sizes in the South China Sea say that he does not follow the rules, which makes him too annoyed. He began to think that it was a subordinate whose heart was too black and wanted to eat black, but after checking and checking, none of his subordinates admitted it, and later learned that it was Sun Shao who was doing evil in his name. Just when he was trying to find a way to deal with Sun Shao, Sun Shao ran away, threw down a lack of morality, and asked the sailor to escort the merchant ships, which is worse than doing evil in his name, this is simply cutting off the pirates' way of life, can't rob the merchant ships, do you want pirates to farm and fish?

The terrible thing is still to come, he has a lot of money, and he can survive without business for a while, but the other pirates can't hold on, people are hungry, and they dare to do anything, and all of a sudden, there are those who surrender to the Jiaozhou Sailors, and there are those who take the risk of attacking the Jiaozhou Sailors, and what's more, someone actually hit him on the head, and several squads he sent out to collect taxes disappeared inexplicably.

Is this South China Sea or not his South China Sea? Cui Qian was furious, sent someone to investigate thoroughly, and sent those bold pirates to the end in advance, and finally suppressed this evil fire. But as the boss of the pirates in the South China Sea, he also wanted to show the pirates a way to live, so he sent a letter to Shi Yi and said, if you don't abolish this rule for me, I will go to Bu Qi tomorrow to tell you. As a result, Shiwei stabbed Buqi in the back, completely scrapped the ambitious Buqi, and the rules for sailors to escort merchant ships were also canceled, and the South China Sea was considered to be restored to calm.

However, Cui Qian knew that although the South China Sea had returned to calm, for more than a year, Bu Qi and him, as well as pirates of all sizes, had suffered losses, and only the scholars had taken advantage. Not only did they use his hand to exhaust the power that Buqi had easily accumulated, but they also secretly made cameo appearances as pirates, and I don't know how many merchant ships fell into their hands again. Speaking of which, they are Sun Shao who does not hang his Cui Qian pirate flag, Sun Shao is bright, they are dark.

Cui Qian originally wanted to find trouble with the Shi family, but now that Sun Shao is here, the Shi family actually let him face Sun Shao's army of more than 10,000 alone, and he hid aside to watch the play. This made Cui Qian very annoyed, and he was unwilling not to bite the Shi family hard.

Of course, he can't let Sun Shao go, all the troubles are caused by this kid. If he hadn't come to the South China Sea, how could things have turned out like this?

"Sun Shao's men and horses are twice as large as ours, and there are more and stronger warships than us, so if you want to fight this battle, I'm afraid it won't be so easy. If you don't get it right, you will lose both in the end, but you will fall into the trap of the Shi family, and Sun Shao will be gone at that time, and we may not be able to live. ”

"What are you afraid of, it's useful if there are more people? There are also a lot of people in Buqi, aren't they still beaten by us? ”

"Bu Qi is a scholar, this Sun Shaoke is a cunning person, he doesn't do things according to common sense." Cui Wennai persuaded with his surname: "You can see that he recruited Su Thick Leg in one fell swoop, and you know that this shaft has some means." ”

"Sue's thick legs?" Cui Qian muttered, "This thing is so strange for him, why did he suddenly get up and suddenly come down again?" ”

"That's why I think it's weird." Cui Wen reminded: "We know too little about him, and we may not be able to figure out his routines when we fight." ”

Cui Qian thought for a long time, waved his hand and said, "Send some more brothers to Xu Wen to inquire about what kind of god this Sun Shao is?" ”

…… Shi Yi received the report, thought about it for a long time, felt that it was very tricky, and ordered someone to rush to Jiaolu to ask for a plan. At the same time, Jiuzhen Taishou Shiyou and Nan Taishou Li Jing also sent people, and they all received orders from Bu Qi to collect grain and grass, whether to levy or not, how much to levy, these are all issues, and they need to be decided by Shixie. After careful weighing, Shixie ordered everyone to levy, not only to levy, but also to levy, and to levy the share that Cui Qian wanted. At this time, you can't force Cui Qian to be anxious, and you have to keep him useful. At the same time, he gave orders to Li Jing and Shiyou, to levy more, it is best to provoke those barbarian mutinies, and then Sun Shao will go to quell the rebellion, which will make him anxious, see how he deals with it.

Shi Yi and others understood, immediately issued an order, within a short period of time, Hepu, Jiaolu four counties of the people resentment, Sun Shao's army has not yet arrived in Hepu, said that the officers and soldiers are more greedy than pirates The rumor is noisy, and then, Jiuzhen and Yuenan counties sent an urgent report, because the task of conquest is too heavy, the barbarians can not bear it, rebellions rise one after another, only a limited number of county soldiers can not be pacified, please assassin Shi and General Fubo send troops to assist. What's even more excessive is that the southern Taishou Li Jing reported, because of the civil turmoil, Lin Yiguo took the opportunity to invade the southern part of the southern part of the country, the situation is extremely urgent, please send reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise the southern part of the country may fall.

Buqi received an urgent report, didn't say anything, and directly sent someone to Sun Shao, with only one sentence on it, asking General Fubo to lead his troops to quell the rebellion. The reason is very simple, the people and horses that can be used in Jiaozhou are either in the hands of the Shi family or in the hands of General Fubo, this matter is obviously a ghost of the Shi family, who else can go to quell the rebellion, except for General Fubo?

When Sun Shao received the urgent report, he had just arrived in Xu Wen. He glanced at it, shook his head and smiled, and handed it to Yu Tuo: "Sir, the time has come to test us." ”

Yu flipped over and glanced at it, disdainfully: "Xiao'er's trick." ”

Sun Shao laughed.

Hepu Taishou Shiyi, Xu Wenling Shihong, and Hepu County Wei Huanwei led the Hepu gentry to the dock to greet them. Shi Yi's father and son were smiling, but the gentry behind them smiled a little reluctantly - no matter who was robbed of their property, it was impossible to smile naturally.

"General, I'm looking forward to you." As soon as Shi Yi saw Sun Shao, he hurriedly greeted him and greeted him warmly.

Sun Shao arched his hand with a smile: "Fujun, I haven't seen you for a few months, have you always been good?" ”

Shi Yi's face was bitter, and he glanced at the smiling gentry: "General, why do you bother to ask, just look at their faces and know if I've been doing well lately." ”

Sun Shao glanced at it, and then asked in surprise, "Why is this?" The Fujun brothers have governed Jiaozhou for 30 years, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the people are rich, and now it is the happy land of the entire Han Kingdom, why do they show uncertainties? Could it be that he is dissatisfied with the king. ”

Shi Yi let Sun Shao in, and nodded in embarrassment: "It's okay for the general to say so." However, the reason why I offended them was for the sake of the general. ”

Sun Shao was even more surprised: "Where did you start with this?" I came to Xu Wen thousands of miles away to ask for Cui Qian, a giant thief, and to return the South China Sea to peace, which is good for them, why don't they like it? Do they like pirates? Or is it ...... They all colluded with pirates? ”

Shi Yi's face changed, and then he laughed a few times, and his voice became louder, just so that the people next to him could hear it: "The general said that he laughed, all of you here are famous families in Hepu, and they are all people who have been in peace, how can they collude with pirates." It's not that they don't welcome the general, it's just that for the grain and grass that the general needs, they have almost hollowed out the bottom, and they are still worried about how to live before the autumn harvest, so it is inevitable that they are a little worried, and they don't have any opinions about the general, and they ask the general not to misunderstand. ”

"Is it that serious?" Sun Shao stopped and looked at Shi Yi with some suspicion in his eyes. Shi Yi has been prepared for a long time, there are too many such pretentious things in the officialdom, and it would not seem too imbecile not to show mercy to the people at this time. Although Sun Shao is young, he has an old oilman like Yu Fu by his side, and he will remind him to some extent. He nodded hurriedly and said with emotion: "Exactly, the general might as well ask them." ”

Without waiting for Sun Shao to ask, the gentry next to him expressed their agreement in concealment, true or false, this time Sun Shao's army was stationed in Xu Wen, Shi Yi took the opportunity to slash at them, everyone was a little bloody, there was no place to drain this grievance in their hearts, and there was Shi Yi's signal, how not to take this opportunity to vent.

Sun Shao was still very skeptical: "Fujun, no one will use the excuse of raising military rations to fill their own pockets, right?" ”

"No, no, in order to raise military rations for the general, my officials in Hepu squeezed out almost every grain of food, so they barely made up enough, where do they dare to fill their own pockets. General, your words make us a little sad. Shi Yi put on a look of grievance, and several officials behind him hurriedly echoed, assuring in unison that there was no such thing as greed for ink. Although those gentry know that there must be greed for ink, no one will be stupid enough to expose Shi Yi at this time, who doesn't know that Sun Shao is putting on a show, and he can't take it seriously. Besides, if you want to expose it, you have to have evidence.

Listening to the gossip of confession, Sun Shao was silent for a moment: "Fujun, how much military ration has been collected so far?" ”

Shi Yi was stunned for a moment, a little surprised, Sun Shao did too much to show this show, at this time asked the specific number? But Sun Shao asked, and he couldn't help answering: "The specific number is still being calculated, and the current collection should be about 200,000 stones." ”

"Two hundred thousand stones? How many accounts does Hepu have? ”

Shi Yi frowned, thought for a moment before saying, "Twenty-three thousand five hundred and thirteen households, ninety-seven thousand six hundred and twenty-one households." ”

Sun Shao nodded appreciatively: "The prince of the mansion is really diligent in political affairs, and the number will come as soon as he opens his mouth." ”

Shi Yi said modestly: "It should be so." ”

"If there are more than 20,000 households, and each household collects an average of 10 stone of grain, will the people's hearts be stirred?" Sun Shao sneered, turned his face and glanced at those inexplicable gentry and heroes: "You are all characters with heads and faces, can't you take out ten stones of grain at home?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and said in their hearts, this kid will really bite back, Shi Yi said that he levied 200,000 stones, but how could he only levy 200,000 stones? Not to mention the layers of exploitation, just the one you received is not only 200,000 stones, how can Shi Yi give you a little benefit, more than 350,000 stones, it is normal, and those who handle it, which one should not rub the oil? 200,000 stones? The total is at least a million!

But these words can only be held in the stomach, and no one can bring them to the table. They looked at each other and said nothing.

Sun Shao's face was unhappy, and he turned his head to look at Shi Yi: "Brother Fujun governs the county with loyalty and filial piety, is this the result?" Or is there someone who fills his own pockets from it, but puts the blame on my Sun Shao's head? Ladies and gentlemen, although my Sun Shao is young, I dare to put a word here, my Sun Shao is not bad for money, and I don't need that little bit of people's fat and people's ointment. 200,000 stone grain, enough for my army to support half a year, the rest of the time does not need to be levied, if the time comes, I will reach out to the king. He glanced at everyone and said with disdain: "Lest anyone come to the Supreme and say that I have borrowed the opportunity of the army and am greedy for ill-gotten gains." Fu Jun, has all the 200,000 stone grains been put into the warehouse now? ”

Shi Yi was so confused by Sun Shao's sudden attack that he didn't react for a while, and hurriedly nodded: "The general is really sympathetic to the people's feelings, please rest assured that the grain has all been put into the warehouse." ”

"Okay, I'll go to the warehouse with you now to check, if there are really 200,000 stone grains, then from now on, I will close the granary and never enter a stone of grain again, all the gentlemen can testify, if anyone sees a cart of grain into the warehouse, only I Sun Shao is asking." Saying that, he didn't say a word, turned around and left, Shi Yi was caught off guard, and hurriedly followed, and said urgently: "General, it's not too late to eat first and then go." ”

"No." Sun Shao couldn't say anything, and his face was unhappy: "If you don't feel happy, how can I eat at ease?" When this matter is settled, it will not be too late for me to have a drink with you. Fujun, please call Cang Cao Peng, I will hand over the accounts to him now. ”

Shi Yi's sweat came down immediately. My mother-in-law, alas, there are now at most 100,000 stone of grain in the granary, where did I get 200,000 stones? The other part was given to Cui Qian by him, and part was privately swallowed by him and his cronies, and he was still waiting for Jiuzhen and Yuenan's grain to fill the remaining vacancy. Sun Shao did this, for a while, he just wanted to spit out the grain, and it was too late to move.

Without giving Shi Yi any chance to react, Sun Shao led people straight to the granary in the barracks, which was the granary of Xu Wen County. Xuwen County has a large city, a large population, and the border with Zhuya, there are often troops stationed, so a county-level granary was built. The size and facilities of the granary in the Han Dynasty have fixed standards, the county-level granary is a hoard of ten thousand stones, called one accumulation, and the Xu Wencang is twenty accumulations, if it is full, it can be used for 10,000 troops and auxiliary personnel for half a year. Of course, it's usually not full. Because Hepu's annual rental income is only about 200,000 stones, of course, it is impossible to put it all in Xu Wen, and it is usually 350,000 stones that can be placed here.

Therefore, as soon as Sun Shao led people into the granary, he saw it clearly, there were only 80,000 stones in the warehouse, and only one of the other twelve warehouses had some grain in it, and the others were all empty, and there was not a single grain.

"Fujun, are you sure that you are not mistaken, and you have indeed levied 200,000 stone grains?" Sun Shao's face became ugly, and he looked at Shi Yi aggressively. Although Shi Yi, who is in his sixties, has been on the battlefield for a long time, but it is the first time that such a situation has been here today, not to mention the other people present, just say that Buqi is coming, and it is impossible not to say hello at all, and directly drag him to the granary to check the grain. Now being exposed in front of so many people is the first time in his life that his feet are wet.

"This ......"

"Get the books, and I'll check the numbers now." Sun Shao didn't give Shi Yi a chance to react, with a wave of his hand, two guards stepped forward and escorted the sweaty Cang Cao Peng to the official office, Xu Wen Ling Shihong just wanted to move, Sun Shao raised his hand and pointed at him: "Don't move, otherwise I will kill you now on the charge of greedy for military food." ”

Shi Hong's feet were weak and he almost fell to the ground, he and Shi Yi glanced at each other, Shi Yi saw the panic in his eyes, and he saw ominous in Shi Yi's eyes. Sun Shao did this, probably because he had a plan, and they still wanted to set Sun Shao up, but they didn't expect Sun Shao to strike first, and at the beginning of the boat, he gave them a thunderous blow, and he didn't give them time to react at all.

Soon, a few Cangcao officials came with a few account books, Sun Shao nodded, and Lu Shan, who was standing beside Lu Ji, took the account books, quickly flipped through them from beginning to end, and then pouted, looking at the panicked Cang Cao Peng: "The old official, even the accounts have been miscalculated, I really don't know what you have done all these years." Then he turned to Sun Shao: "General, the total in the account book is 214,872 stones, and the actual number should be 213,882 stones. ”

The onlookers couldn't help but gasp, what kind of person is this handsome young man with a white face and beard, who is so amazing in mental arithmetic, not only calculated the accounts in such a short time, but also didn't let go of the clerical error?

Yu glanced at Lu Ji with a smug face and smiled. He also discovered Lu Shan's super computing ability when he was discussing knowledge with Lu Ji recently, Sun Shao said a set of square arithmetic when they used the Pythagorean method to calculate the distance, which was extremely complicated, and even Zhao Shuang felt a little scratching his head, but he didn't expect this little woman to come as soon as she opened her mouth, and the multiplication and division of four or five digits can be calculated by just curling her fingers, which is much faster than they use to calculate the abacus, even with the abacus that Ge Heng just made.

"What's the difference?" Sun Shao looked at Shi Yi with a cold face.

"There are now eight full hoards in the warehouse, and there are about 3,000 stones in the ninth hoard, and the total is 83,000 stones, and the difference is 130,882 stones."

"Fujun, where is the 130,000 stone grain?" Sun Shao sneered, touched the knife ring in his hand, his face was murderous, and he gritted his teeth and said: "A cang, Cao Peng, presumably there is no such a big granary at home, so, who is it, with such a big appetite, who swallowed 130,000 stone of military food in one bite?" ”

(To be continued)