Chapter 33: Traces of the Remnants of Eastern Wu

Guan Gong first went to visit his daughter and grandson, and had a family affair with Guan Yinhua for a while, and then went to a pavilion with Liu Hou to talk about business. After listening to Guan Gong's intentions, Liu Hou was noncommittal, but asked someone to bring a fold and hand it to Guan Gong.

Guan Gong recognized the familiar handwriting on the fold as soon as he saw it, it was the fold sent by his son Guan Xing from Jianye. The content of the excerpt made Guan Gong's blood surge, so much so that as soon as he read the excerpt, he immediately said to Liu Hou: "Your Majesty, the minister wants to return to Jianye immediately." ”

It turns out that the content of this excerpt is about the remnants of Soochow. This is exactly what Guan Gong has always been interested in. Since the Guan Gong era, the Jianye Navy has been sending fleets to the East China Sea to search for the remnants of Eastern Wu. After Guan Gong returned to Chang'an, Guan Xing took over the navy, and this search and arrest mission has not stopped.

Before, the navy made a lot of efforts, almost a dragnet search in the East China Sea, and almost all of the islands in the East China Sea had the footprints of the Han Navy, and even the largest island, Yizhou, also sent troops to carry out a carpet search, but there was still no trace of the remnants of Soochow.

It was as if the remnants of Soochow had disappeared out of thin air. Fortunately, when the navy goes to sea, it usually works part-time to survey and map nautical charts and catch fish, otherwise, if it is just the task of searching for the remnants of Soochow, it will really cost the people and money and gain nothing.

Nothing has been achieved for a long time, which has made Guan Gong a little disheartened, and now he suddenly hears the news that there are finally Dongwu people, how can Guan Gong not be excited? I saw that his hand holding the letter paper was trembling a little.

After carefully reading the contents of the letter, he breathed a long sigh of relief and stabilized his mind before he spoke: "I really didn't expect that these bastards would dare to run to the country of Wa. Your Majesty, please let the old minister return to Jianye as soon as possible. ”

It turned out that this letter was about the Navy's discovery of the remnants of Soochow. As the navy continued to expand its range of activities, ships gradually approached the waters near the Japanese kingdom. One day, a certain fleet of a certain navy department came into contact with some fishermen in the waters near the Japanese country, and from the mouths of these fishermen, they heard an astonishing news.

According to these fishermen, a major incident has occurred in the Wa Kingdom, and the original largest country, the Yamatai Kingdom, has been destroyed, and the originally scattered Wa Kingdom has now almost unified into one country. The admiral who heard the news was not impressed, after all, it had nothing to do with them, but what the fishermen said next made him very interested.

According to the fishermen, it was an army of Han Chinese that defeated the Yamatai Kingdom and unified the Wa Kingdom. Those admirals immediately realized that their opportunity to make meritorious contributions had come, and they invariably thought that this Han army was most likely the long-lost remnants of Eastern Wu.

The navy immediately returned to sail and rushed back to Jianye day and night to report the news to Guan Xing. Guan Xing also attached great importance to it, and immediately sent some spies who could speak the Japanese language into the Japanese country to inquire about the news.

These spies went through hardships and dangers, and finally came back with definite news, confirming that the Han army in the Wa State was the remnants of the Eastern Wu people, and the person who is now the king in the Wa State is really the little emperor Sun Deng of the Eastern Wu.

It turned out that after the little emperor of Eastern Wu was coerced by Lu Xun and escaped from the East China Sea, they did run to Yizhou as originally planned. However, at that time, Yizhou was very desolate and backward, and there were very few Han people on the island, but there were many barbarians.

Lu Xun found that the possibility of operating and growing here was very low. If he were given a few decades, he would be confident that he would be able to govern a small and prosperous country, but what good would that be? If you want to rely on the resources of such a small land, you should never think of having the opportunity to counterattack ~ attack ~ big ~ land.

What's more, he also knew that Dahan would not give him time for this development. Sure enough, he soon discovered that Dahan had established the Dahan Navy, and Guan Gong was desperately building sea ships in Jianye, and launched dragnet exploration and search in the East China Sea.

He knew that Guan Gong would find Yizhou sooner or later, and it wouldn't be too long. In such a short period of time, not to mention the development and growth, even if it is to clear the barbarians on the island, the time to gain a firm foothold on the island may not be enough. So, he had to think about another way out.

They have to go to a place where the territory is bigger and the resources are more, especially the population resources. You know, most of the people who fled with them were soldiers, that is, almost all of them were men.

If a group wants to grow and grow, how can it do without women? Ninety percent of these remnants of Soochow are men, and the remaining one-tenth of women are also occupied by men from a few privileged classes. After all, except for those in high positions in power, no one else is in a position to flee with their families.

So, now they are facing a big problem, which is that they need women, they need a lot of women. They don't need women for any other purpose, but they need women to reproduce for the group, so as to grow the group.

It is obvious that the natives on the island alone cannot meet such a large demand of the troops, and besides, the natives and women on the island are still in a relatively backward social system, and they do not have much appetite for these men of the heavenly empire.

Although it is said that the sow has become a sable cicada after three years of being a soldier, no one wants to choose a sow in the face of a better choice. In addition to the resource requirements, there was also a condition that this new territory must be far from the mainland, so that the Han army could not find them, or even if they did, they would not have the ability to attack them.

At first, Lu Xun wanted to go to Nanyang, which was far away from Dahan, and it would be at least many years before Dahan wanted to find them. Even if you find them and travel far and wide, the cost of attacking them is very high.

It can be said that as long as they can reach the South Seas, they will be safe. However, he later learned that the Han had already sent an army to capture the city, and it was constantly attacking to the south and west.

According to this trend, the Han Dynasty's control of Nanyang is just around the corner, and going there by himself is tantamount to throwing himself into a net. So, Lu Xun set his sights on the east again, and the erudite Lu Xun knew that there was still a large ~ piece of land, which was rich in minerals, and, crucially, there was a lot of population there.

Due to the fact that the Wa Kingdom had sent envoys to the Han Dynasty many times during the Han Dynasty, scholars like Lu Xun still had a certain understanding of the Wa Kingdom. He knew that the Wa Kingdom was now composed of many small countries, and that these countries were not friendly and united with each other, but were fighting against each other, which provided the conditions for them to defeat each other.

Although the remnants of the Eastern Wu army failed in the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, the 20,000 elites went to the scattered Wa Kingdom was a terrifying combat force. Moreover, this army has brave generals and top strategists in this era, such a military force goes to the Wa Kingdom, and Lu Xun is very confident that it can quickly unify the Wa Kingdom.

After the unification of the Wa Kingdom, they began to strengthen the coastal defense, so that it was not so easy for the Han army, which had traveled far and wide, to attack the Wa State. If the Han army really wanted to go on an expedition to the Wa Kingdom, it must first build a lot of sea ships, not only warships, but also a large number of transport ships.

In less than ten or eight years, this war could not be fought at all. With a respite of ten or eight years, a lot of things may change. Maybe because the cost of the attack was too great, the Han Dynasty would negotiate with them, and then they would be able to win more benefits.

Of course, Lu Xun didn't think so much about things that were too long-term, and at present, their only way out was in the Wa Kingdom, so let's solve the current crisis first. The little emperor of Eastern Wu was young and entrusted everything to Lu Xun, so in the group of remnants of Eastern Wu, Lu Xun was almost a man. Since he has decided to go to the Japanese country to develop, then this matter is settled.