Sun Quan has been a little annoyed lately.

The eldest brother Sun Ce was assassinated two years ago, and the foundation of Jiangdong was handed over to him, and he was frightened day and night, for fear that he would not be able to take over the shift and the whole clan would be ruined.

Fortunately, when the eldest brother was alive, he collected a group of loyal subordinates, first Zhou Yu helped him go around to fight and eliminate the forces harmful to the Sun family, and Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong, the two Zhang helped him get on the horse, and he went around in a circle, saying that he was the future lord of Jiangdong, so that all the family lords were honest and don't make trouble.

In this way, with the assistance of a bunch of civil servants and military generals, Sun Quan finally sat firmly in the position of the lord of Jiangdong.

However, in the past seven years, there seems to have been a lot of things done in Jiaozhou, and it is said that the newly appointed Jiaozhou pastor is vigorously developing Jiaozhou, and the policy of reassuring the people is even more shocking.

Any foreigner, as long as they settle in Jiaozhou, will divide the house and land, and also distribute seeds, teach you how to farm, and after the grain harvest, the government only collects 10% of the tax, and even if there are children over 5 years old in the family, they can also enter a place called 'school' for free, and those who have achieved good grades will also be arranged to work.

What's more, as long as you have enough ability and pass the assessment, no matter what your background is, you can be an official in Jiaozhou.

In addition, Jiaozhou also has a series of policies to benefit the people, which makes the people settled in Jiaozhou extremely happy.

With the passage of time, the development of Jiaozhou got better and better, and even many poor people from Jiangdong, Jingzhou and other places flowed into Jiaozhou, adding a large number of people to Jiaozhou, which also made the local warlords near Jiaozhou feel a strong threat.

This is especially true of Sun Quan.

Jiaozhou, just south of Jiangdong, used to be a sparsely populated barren land, but in the past decade, many major roads have been developed to connect various places, and the population has also shown explosive growth.

According to the investigation of the secret agents sent by Dongwu, the current development speed of Jiaozhou is incredible, especially the output of grain grown in Jiaozhou is unusually high, and the output of a state can supply almost the entire people of the Han world.

It's pretty scary.

Moreover, the grain grown by the people of Jiaozhou will not be sold to any businessman, because Jiaozhou Mu has set up an official Jiaozhou Agricultural Products Group, which will buy the surplus grain in the hands of the people at the market price.

Once it is discovered that the people of Jiaozhou have sold grain without permission, they will not only be deprived of their fields and household registration in Jiaozhou, but they will also be put in prison.

The people of Jiaozhou finally lived a life of food and clothing, and there were all kinds of welfare benefits, so they would not disobey the orders of the pastor of Jiaozhou, in addition to leaving enough rations for their own food every year, the remaining grain would be sold to agricultural product groups, and even under the policy of the household registration system, many foreign spies or businessmen would be closely monitored, once they were found to be here to make trouble, they would not want to leave Jiaozhou again.

In the following years, the official grain group of Jiaozhou attacked everywhere in Dahan, and exchanged a large amount of silver money and materials for selling grain, and then used these silver money materials to develop internal construction, forming a relatively healthy virtuous circle.

There are too many grains sold in Jiaozhou, and the price is also cheap, the most important thing is that the grains sold in Jiaozhou are very novel, unprecedented, and the taste is a must, which is more delicious than the grain grown anywhere in Dahan.

This had a huge impact on the families who had annexed large amounts of land.

The price of grain can't be dry, the output can't be dry, and even the taste can't be dry, in just a few years, these families have found that growing grain has become a loss-making business, and after a year of hard work, it is better to spend money to buy it from Jiaozhou.

As a result, the value of the land in the hands of the family has shrunk significantly, and the life of the children of the family has also become a little tighter, which makes Jiangdong, which is full of scholars, more and more unbearable, and in the past two years, there have been more and more documents proposing to send troops to the state, and Sun Quan doesn't know what to do?

It is certainly not reasonable to send troops for no reason, and even if it is reasonable, it is not so easy to fight.

Because of the siphon effect of Jiaozhou in recent years, coupled with the policy of creating villains after food and clothing, the population of Jiaozhou has skyrocketed to more than 7 million, accounting for almost a quarter of the population of the entire Han Dynasty.

And what about the whole of Koto?

Almost three million.

This Nima ......

Obviously, ten years ago, the population of Jiaozhou was less than one million, and even most of them were uncivilized barbarians, but in just ten years, this Jiaozhou has become a super state with a population of more than seven million, and there are more and more people who can read and write.

If this is not fought again, when the millions of people in Jiaozhou have become literate people, their scholars will still be mixed up.

Just when Sun Quan hesitated to call Jiaozhou, he didn't expect Jiaozhou to take the initiative to call.

It was also Sun Quan who put the main military force in the north to resist Cao Cao in the north, so when the Jiaozhou army attacked from the south, the defense force in the southeast of the Yangtze River had almost no resistance, and it was beaten by the Jiaozhou army, and in just one month, more than half of the territory of the entire Jiangdong was occupied by Jiaozhou.

At this time, Zhou Yu, who had just been transferred back from the northern front by Sun Quan, was taken aback.

What's that? It's only been a month, and more than half of Jiangdong's territory is gone? What do the defenders of those places eat?

"I don't blame the defenders, it's because I didn't guard against Jiaozhou, so I was exploited, but I have the world's first-class advisers and generals in Jiangdong, and it is only a matter of time before I recapture the occupied territory."

Sun Quan's words showed the posture of a hero, which made the full hall of civil and military appreciation and excitement.

Huang Gai bowed down: "The lord gave the veteran 30,000 soldiers and horses, and he will definitely kill a piece of armor in Jiaozhou." ”

Cheng Pu also stood up: "The veteran is willing to be a pioneer!" ”

Huang Gai and Cheng Pu are the three generations of old ministers of the Sun family, who first followed Sun Quan's father Sun Jian to fight the world, and later followed Sun Quan's eldest brother Sun Ce to fight the world. After Sun Ce's death, Sun Quan ascended to the throne and reused young generals such as Zhou Yu, gradually relegating veteran generals such as Huang Gai and Cheng Pu to the second line.

The first is to give them a decent old age, and the second is to let them give way to young generals and strengthen Sun Quan's control over the army.

Although the Sun family regime is more like a brother company that fights the world with righteousness, but there are many brothers in the brotherhood, and they will also be separated from distant relatives. In the face of three generations of old ministers like Huang Gai and Cheng Pu, Sun Quan is too young and lacks prestige, so he can't command at all, and he will even be instructed by them in turn, which is a big taboo for any person in power.

Although Sun Quan's ability in all aspects is relatively mediocre, his political talent is surprisingly high, and as soon as he took office, he pulled down those veterans who followed his father to fight the world one after another, and replaced them with young generals who were easier to master.

That's exactly what a good person should do.

Now that these two old men stood up again and fought for meritorious service, Sun Quan hesitated for a moment and turned his gaze to Zhou Yu.

Zhou Yu smiled slightly: "The hearts of the two old generals are really models for my generation, but after all, the old generals are old and should not move lightly, so it is better to stay by the lord's side and protect the lord's safety." The matter of conquest of the thieves in Jiaozhou will be handed over to the young generals! ”

"This ......"

"That's it!" Sun Quan said: "Killing chickens with cattle slaughtering knives, the two old generals have been fighting horses for half their lives, and their military exploits are impressive. The two veteran generals also want to give the young generals some opportunities to exercise, right? ”

Sun Quan and Zhou Yu beat each other together, leaving the two veterans speechless and retreating.

After that, Sun Quan appointed Zhou Yu as the governor of the capital, fully commanded the war with Jiaozhou, and ordered all the civil and military forces to fully cooperate with Zhou Yu, and must win this counterattack, otherwise Jiangdong will fall, and everyone will stop playing.

After all, Jiaozhou is not the Cao Cao of the north, and Jiangdong Wenchen's understanding of Jiaozhou is still insufficient, so he has no fear and the idea of surrender, and they have expressed their full support and attack the Jiaozhou army.

Seeing that the military heart was available, Sun Quan gave an order, and the entire Jiangdong civil and military group was running at full speed, preparing grain and grass, and waving the army south.

At the same time, the 3,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry led by Zhao Yun alone on the right have already captured Dongyang, and the soldiers are on the verge of Ji; Huang Shang personally led the Chinese army, with Luo Ping'an as the vanguard, and 5,000 cavalry and 50,000 foot soldiers fought to Poyang.

In addition, there is a navy on the left, led by Gan Ning, all the way to Luling, Jianchang and Chaisang, and is currently attacking Jiujiang, but it encountered some trouble when fighting Jiujiang, because the navy of Jiujiang seems to be a little strong, especially the two naval generals Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai are quite powerful, which makes Gan Ning have a little headache.

Speaking of Gan Ning, a famous general who would have defected to Soochow in history, he had been doing some businessless business on the river in the early years, and was called a Jinfan thief, and later Gan Ning felt that it was boring to be a thief, so he taught himself a little bit of the hundred schools of thought, the art of war, and later came to Jingzhou, and worked as an errand under Huang Zu, but because of his background, he has not been reused.

Later, when he heard that Jiaozhou had introduced a policy to attract talents in an eclectic manner, Gan Ning gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, quit his job on the same day, and took his brothers who were willing to go with him all the way south to Jiaozhou. Then in the Zhaoxian Pavilion, Luo Ping'an, who was responsible for reviewing the strength of the generals, was beaten up, fell into Huang Shang's eyes, and was appointed as a naval captain to train the naval army for Jiaozhou.

After several years of training, coupled with Huang Shang's investment in shipbuilding, the number of naval troops expanded to 30,000, and Gan Ning trembled suddenly.

This time, Jiaozhou divided into three routes of army to attack Jiangdong, Huang Shang and Zhao Yun led the army troops, only he Gan Ning led the navy north along the river, and laid down the large and small towns along the way, and hit Jiujiang very smoothly.

A few days ago, Gan Ning laughed at the fact that there was no one in Jiangdong, but he didn't expect to meet two fierce generals in Jiujiang. If it weren't for the fact that he had a large number of ships and a natural advantage, perhaps under the same magnitude of battle, he might not have been able to defeat the naval army led by these two people.

But......

Gan Ning fought with Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai on the river for three days, and seeing that he didn't take advantage, he simply didn't play technical work, and directly gave an order, and more than 500 warships directly crushed the opposite bank.

Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai scolded their mothers angrily, leaving a sentence: "Gan Xingba!" Warzhnima! ”

was swallowed up.