Chapter 153: Between Advance and Retreat

The fighting in the county town soon ended, and the Yellow Turban Army was almost in a state of madness when the city was broken, and the more than 1,000 county soldiers guarding the city wall, as well as the nearly 1,000 people who were supported by the county lieutenant, only a handful of them could escape with their lives, all of them were chased and killed by the fanatical Yellow Turban Army, and were cut to pieces.

Without these regular troops to take the lead, there were very few remaining resistance forces in the city, and they could not stop the high-spirited Yellow Turban Army at all.

Under Zhao Kong's suggestion, the Yellow Turban Army divided into a group of 400 people and confiscated the wealthy families in the city, collecting money, grain and slaves.

Although Zhao Kong wants the support of the family's talents, it is impossible with his current status.

The two ends of the first rat will only be unflattering to both sides, at least when the Yellow Turban Army swept the world, he must have the appearance of a Yellow Turban Qu handsome.

Wuhu County is located along the river, is a rare rich place in the south, although Zhao Kong is not short of gold and silver, but for grain, grass, population is very concerned.

When the 2,000 Yellow Turban troops who stayed in the camp entered the city to take over the defense, the servants copied from the wealthy family alone actually reached more than 10,000 people!

You must know that the population of Wuhu County is only more than 60,000 people, although these servants will basically be concealed by the major families, but this number is indeed a little amazing.

However, among the more than 10,000 people, there are only about 3,000 real young people, and the rest are old and weak women and children, which makes Zhao Kong have a headache How to deal with it.

If it was an ordinary Yellow Turban Army, it would naturally be all taken away.

But Zhao Kong knew that there was no future at all in this way, but it was impossible for him to give up the population in his hands.

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"Why don't you go to Taiwan Island to develop first, the Condor World has been there for more than eight years, and all the resources and environment are very familiar."

Zhao Kong sat in the county government and thought about it, and felt that it was better to find a place to farm first.

"It's easy to carry people, a large sand boat without extraordinary strength, you can buy one for a thousand points."

"Squeezing can carry thousands of people and their living supplies, but now that there is no foundation of the Whale Gang, it is really not easy to find a large number of qualified sailors."

Thinking of this, Zhao Kong couldn't help but be a little worried, patted the table lightly, and asked the guards on duty to bring in the Wuhu County Commander who had just been caught.

This Zhang County Commander is about forty years old, tall and elegant, and belongs to the typical official appearance of this era.

However, at this time, this Baili Hou was a little unbearable, I saw that his face was pale, his legs trembled, and when he was pushed in front of Zhao Kong by the Yellow Turban Army behind him, he didn't even say a word, he knelt down with a plop and kowtowed again and again.

In fact, this Zhang County Commander can't be blamed entirely, with the erosion of the northern states, the notoriety of the Yellow Turban Army has become louder and louder.

Today, the county guard was cooked and killed in Dingzhong, and tomorrow the captain was robbed of his heart and eaten meat, anyway, how to scare people and how to pass it on.

Moreover, this Zhang County Order itself is not an orthodox scholar, but because of his relationship with Zhang Rang, the tenth permanent servant, he can get the fat difference of Wuhu County Order.

However, this person is not incompetent, he has been working in Wuhu County for more than three years, mingling with the local family, and has not been excluded at all because of his eunuch status.

If the Yellow Turban Rebellion hadn't broken out, with his ability and Zhang Rang's help, it would not be impossible to mix with a county Taishou in the future.

"Get up, Ben Qushuai has something to ask you, as long as you answer honestly, I will naturally not kill you." Zhao Kong said to Zhang Xianling with a straight face.

"As long as the subordinate knows something, he must know everything and say everything!" Zhang Xianling nodded again and again like a chicken pecking rice.

"Well, Wuhu County is located near the big river, so there should be a lot of people in the county who can steer the ship, right?" Zhao Kong went straight to the point and asked about the sailor.

Although the ships of this era are not the same as the giant sand ships that Zhao Kong wants to buy.

But when he was in the Condor World, Zhao learned almost all the positions on the sea ship in his spare time.

Coupled with his intimate knowledge of China's offshore climate, it was not difficult to teach sailors who had been eating on the water all year round to operate a new ship.

"Yes, there are quite a lot of fishermen in our county, at least one or two thousand, plus some people who run boats to transport goods, it is estimated that there can be about three thousand."

Zhang Xianling nodded again and again, and reported to Zhao Kong in a panic.

Hearing that there were so many skilled hands, Zhao Kong immediately breathed a sigh of relief, the sand boat was one of the easiest types of ships to control in the ancient sea ships, and most of the positions could actually be played by newcomers.

There are about 3,000 skilled hands on the water, and with 4,500 newcomers who don't get seasick, they can completely control twenty or thirty large sand boats.

In this season, from the Yangtze River to the north of Taiwan Island, you can run back and forth in ten days at most, and you can transport more than 20,000 people each time, and you can transfer all the people in Wuhu County in a month.

No matter what the reason, Zhao Kong can't quickly unify the world.

And once it becomes a protracted war of attrition, population becomes the key to victory or defeat.

So even if these people are unwilling to move, Zhao Kong is driving them away with a knife, and he has to force these people to go to his base.

"Well, you can take my soldiers and soldiers to gather all the fishermen and boat runners in the county."

"Each person will be given a settling-in allowance of ten taels of silver, and I want them to go on a long trip with me, whether they agree or not, they have to run!" Zhao Kong casually instructed Zhang Xianling.

This time, he copied a lot of silver from the hands of the county government and the family, Zhao Kong has always been generous, and directly sent half of the captured to the Yellow Turban Army participating in the war, so that the whole army has more and more respect for him as a commander.

He didn't plan to keep too much of the remaining silver, and at this moment, in order to win the trust of those fishermen and let them work seriously, Zhao Kong naturally chose the easiest way - throwing money.

The average fisherman may not be able to earn ten taels of silver in three years, and even less can save.

Now Zhao Kong not only paid ten taels of silver for settling-in in advance, but also promised that there would be additional rewards afterwards.

Such extravagant means make these fishermen, who have been exploited by the government all year round, even have golden light in their eyes.

As for the identity of the Yellow Turban Army's anti-thieves, these fishermen and sailors don't care too much.

With the continuous outbreak of natural and man-made disasters, the government has become more and more ruthless against them, and they are all forced to become water bandits, who cares about helping the Yellow Turban Army?

Therefore, the more than 3,000 sailors who were called up almost all agreed at the first time.

handed over the settling-in allowance to the relatives who came with him, and according to Zhao Kong's arrangement, they all went to the banks of the river to prepare to receive new ships.

In addition to these fishermen, Zhao Kong also transferred 3,000 soldiers from the Yellow Turban Army under his command to assist these fishermen in taking charge of the boat.

Danyang County is located in the south of the Yangtze River, the water network is dense, Chen Defeat is here to cause trouble, and there are naturally not many landlubbers in the army.

Coupled with the more than 2,000 people who were half-forced and half-recruited, in just five days, Zhao Kong had enough sailors for thirty sand boats.

At this time, the river bandits were not as rampant as they were later, and at most there were only two or three hundred people.

Although the strength of the naval army along the river is not weak, but now the Yellow Turban Army is raging in various places, and the naval forces of Wu County and Guangling have been called to the shore to assist in defense, at least in the past few months, Zhao Kong's fleet is relatively safe.

"But the water army still has to be formed, I hope these guys can learn quickly."

Zhao Kong's basic plate for the next ten years is at sea, and if there is no strong navy to escort it, many things will be difficult to handle.

Therefore, when Zhao Kongcai was still relatively nervous, he dispatched 3,000 soldiers to assist those sailors in taking charge of the ship, so as to serve as the future naval seed.

For a period of time, Zhao Kong's main focus was on the fleet.

The more than 3,000 fishermen and sailors who set up boats all year round quickly learned how to control sand boats, and the other 5,000 or so, although they learned more slowly, were able to do some hard work.

By the time the Yellow Turban's momentum reached its peak in early April, Zhao Kong finally took this huge fleet and set out on his first voyage.

Sailing is not the same as sailing on a river, and even offshore is not a small risk.

Therefore, Zhao Kong would rather entrust the army to Wu Xu and Huang Lang to be in charge, and personally take the fleet to Taiwan Island, counting more than 30,000 lives of the crew, so he can't ignore it.

Moreover, after a hearty victory, as well as Zhao Kong's boldness in weighing the gold, now the loyalty of this Yellow Turban Army to him is amazingly high.

Even if Wu Xu wants to play any tricks, it is estimated that even his own more than 1,000 people will not support much.

Zhao Kong led the army to Taiwan Island this time, and deliberately brought an unexpected captive, and it was also the first historical celebrity he saw when he came to the Three Kingdoms World - Cai Yong.

Seven years ago, Cai Yong was forced to stay away from Jiangdong because he offended the eunuchs, and usually stayed in Wu County, but recently came to Danyang because of some private matters.

But he didn't want to encounter the Yellow Turban Uprising, so he was forced to stay in Wuhu County until he was accidentally captured by Zhao Kong.

For Cai Yong, Zhao Kong is still very interested.

Although this old guy has average political ability, and he can't lead troops to fight, he is very good at teaching his disciples, and he has a lot of talents under his disciples.

Zhao Kong is currently seriously lacking grassroots officials, and a good teacher like Cai Yong naturally wants to win him over.

And Cai Yong is not the kind of pedantic person who is dead-headed.

Dong Zhuo forced Cai Yong to come out, after being killed by Wang Yun's serial scheme, Cai Yong even risked death to mourn and cry for him, Zhao Kong didn't believe that his means would be inferior to Dong Zhuo's Xiliang reckless man.

"Mr. Bo Jiao, this Orchid Pavilion prologue can be used in your eyes?" When he was free on the voyage, Zhao Kong came to Cai Yong's room and chatted with him.

"Chen Qushuai, who is this Wang Xizhi, such a peak-level and unique calligraphy, the old man doesn't believe that he is a nameless?"

When Cai Yong saw Zhao Kong, he immediately greeted him anxiously and asked him carefully.

The Lanting Prologue handed over to Cai Yong was obtained by Zhao Kong in a thousand consecutive draws before.

Although this character did not have any extraordinary power, it was also recognized as a second-order strange thing by the Ten Thousand Worlds Mall, which made Zhao Kong quite surprised.

In order for Cai Yong to work, the threat of force alone is obviously not enough.

Dong Zhuo is also a high-ranking official in the imperial court if he messes up again, and Zhao Kong is just a thief now, and he is not qualified to recruit a famous person like Cai Yong.

Therefore, Zhao Kong chose Huairou's means, and took out the Lanting Prelude as he liked, and really brushed Cai Yong, who originally refused to communicate and had a negative favorability, to the point where he could at least communicate calmly.

"Mr. Bo, there are still many things you don't know in this world, the Central Plains is only one of the great Kyushu Chixian Shenzhou, there are infinite scenery overseas, there are countless romantic characters, only the frog at the bottom of the well will be arrogant."

Regarding the things of the other world, Zhao Kong is definitely impossible to say, but Zou Yan, a great talent of the Yin and Yang family, once put forward the theory of the Great Kyushu.

According to his theory, there are eight regions similar to Shenzhou outside the Central Plains, which can be used by Zhao Kong to cover up the affairs of the other world.

"The Great Kyushu Theory of the Yin and Yang Family? Is Chen Qushuai a contemporary descendant of the Yin and Yang family? ”

Cai Yong has communicated with Zhao Kong several times in the past few days, and found that the other party's knowledge and vision are by no means vulgar, and he is not a Yellow Turban Army from a peasant at all.

At this moment, I heard Zhao Kong talk about the Great Kyushu theory, and I mistakenly thought that he was related to the Yin and Yang family.

Although the Hundred Schools of Princes have been suppressed since Emperor Wu, such a big faction as the Yin-Yang Family is still inherited.

However, most of the descendants of these Yin and Yang families, after they had no hope of becoming famous, chose to merge with Taoists and immortals, forming Taoism all over the world.

And the root of the Yellow Turban Army is the Taiping Dao handed down by the old immortals of Nanhua, and Cai Yong's guess that Zhao Kong is from the Yin and Yang family is not groundless.

Zhao Kong smiled lightly, and did not deny Cai Yong's speculation, although Chen Yu did not have a dime to do with the Yin and Yang family, but Zhao Kong really needed an identity of sufficient grade, and the heir of the Yin and Yang family was also a good name.

And unlike Mohists and Legalists, there is not much conflict between Yin-Yang and Confucianism, and many Confucians will learn some Yin-Yang classics.

"The Yin and Yang family has been in decline for many years, and this heir identity is not of much use." Zhao Kong laughed at himself and said to Cai Yong pretending not to care.

"Mr. Bo Jiao, I am afraid that it will be difficult for you to return to Taiwan Island for several years when you go to Taiwan Island, so instead of wasting time, it is better to teach a group of students for me." Seeing Cai Yong's face change slightly, Zhao Kong continued:

"Not to mention gold and silver and other things, in addition to the normal living treatment, every month Chen gives Mr. a copy of an overseas classic as a salary, and for each qualified official taught, he will give Mr. an additional copy, what do you think?"

Hearing this, Cai Yong's face couldn't help but loosen a little, and he sighed slightly:

"Chen Qushuai, your talent is not under Yong, why do you want to do this anti-thief thing, don't look at the Yellow Turban Army sweeping the world now, once the Son of Heaven really makes up his mind, it is difficult to say whether the three brothers Zhang Jiao can survive this year."

Zhao Kong looked at Cai Yong with a little surprise, but he didn't expect this old guy to be quite discerning.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion was indeed extinguished before the end of the year, and Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang were quickly defeated and died.

At a time when most officials in the world are panicking, Cai Yong, who has been away from the political center for nearly ten years, can still have such insight.

It seems that it is really not a fluke that he taught Gu Yong, Wang Cang and other outstanding disciples.

"The great sage and good teacher really took the wrong path, and it is almost impossible to succeed, and it is precisely for this reason that Chen Mou wants to take his men and horses to avoid overseas in order to watch the provocation of the world."

Cai Yong was silent for a moment and said: "As long as the Yellow Turban Rebellion is quelled, the world will naturally return to peace, if you live overseas, I am afraid it will be difficult to return to the Central Plains in this life." ”

Zhao Kong laughed when he heard this, and said jokingly:

"Mr. Bo, do you really believe that the world will be peaceful after the yellow scarf?"

"Wrong, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is just a prologue to this troubled world, as long as the contradiction between the family and the imperial power is not subsided, the world will continue to be chaotic."

"Until there are enough dead people and enough vacated interests are enough for everyone to re-divide, they will return to the so-called peaceful and prosperous world."

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