In ancient times, there was a sea island (that is, the overall name of a large piece of land and many small islands around it) outside Donghai County of Xuzhou, and in later generations this island has been connected to the mainland as a whole, also called Lianyungang.

But for tens of millions of years before the Qing Dynasty, it was a large island separated from the mainland, and it is said that the Aolai Kingdom in Journey to the West may be here.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Classic of the Sea" records: "Duzhou is in the sea, a called Yuzhou", in the "History of the Source of Dongyi", it is believed that most of Yuzhou is inhabited by Yuyi (Shengyi) people, so it is called Yuzhou Island.

In the late spring and autumn, after the Yue king Gou Jian destroyed Wu, the Yue State inherited the borders of the Wu State, and Yuzhou Island and its nearby mainland became the northernmost part of the Yue Kingdom.

In order to better compete with the Central Plains powers for hegemony, the Yue State moved the national capital from Huiji (that is, Shaoxing), which was far away from the Central Plains, to Jinping Mountain, which was close to the sea at that time, and built a city called Langya, which is now occupied by Nanchen and close to Donghai County (at this time Northern Xuzhou was also called Langya County).

Earlier, Yuzhou Island did not have prefectures and counties during the Song, Qi, and Liang dynasties of the Southern Dynasties, but when the Northern Qi Dynasty occupied it, it was divided into two counties due to the increase in population on the island: Donghai County and Guangrao County.

At that time, the Northern Qi Dynasty had already cut a large number of sparsely populated prefectures and counties, and wherever counties were established, there must be a certain population base; Therefore, according to one island, two counties can be divided, and you can imagine how vast the area of Yuzhou Island was at that time.

The vegetation on Yuzhou Island is luxuriant, birds and beasts are derived, coupled with abundant water sources and fertile arable land, it is described in the "Shangshu Yugong" as a rich place of "red soil and red graves, and plants and trees are gradually basal", so the people of Yuzhou Island in this period can be regarded as a dense place in Haizhou and even the north and south of the Huaihe River.

Since Nan Chen's Northern Expedition, the local people and officials of Haizhou have risen up to occupy the three counties of Haizhou, and the rebel army and the Northern Qi officials and troops who came to suppress it have carried out offensive and defensive battles in the surrounding states and counties of Haizhou for nearly two months, and the people of the counties and counties near Haizhou have fled to Yuzhou Island in order to escape the war, making the population of the island increase sharply to 200,000 people.

By the time Nan Chen occupied Haizhou and Yuzhou Island, the local security was relatively stable compared to the surrounding areas, and the population on the island had been increasing.

Until now, Lanling County, North Xuzhou (also called Langya County) and other prefectures and counties near the north of Haizhou that have been divided by local tyrants, and a large number of people continue to flee here.

When Wang Ze followed the cry to the front not far away, he found that this was also a port wharf, and a large number of ordinary people were divided into groups and were boarding the ship under the urging of Nan Chen's official army.

In addition, a large number of people crowded in the open space of the port and waited, only hearing the voices of "women" and "women" shouting children, men's quarrels, and children's cries in the crowd.

Seeing this scene, Wang Ze frowned, Du Qian, who had just arrived next to him, could really be said to be a good hand at observing words and 'colors', and without waiting for Wang Ze to ask, he automatically stepped forward and explained: "These are the people who want to migrate to Huainan, although the land of this Yuzhou Island is rich, it can't support such hundreds of thousands of people."

Before, because of the war, the food eaten by these people was all transported from abroad, but now the Huainan war has subsided, and the states and counties have not had a large population because of the previous lack of population, so His Majesty ordered the people of Yuzhou Island to be resettled in the states and counties of Huainan! ”

Wang Ze also nodded, after all, the land on Yuzhou Island is limited, and it is impossible for these people to stay on Yuzhou Island forever, and there is a large area of 'fertile' land that can be allocated to them when they go to Huainan anyway.

At this moment, Du Qian muttered in a low voice: "I don't know what Your Majesty thinks, I have to pull one or two hundred thousand people to transport them to Lingnan, just these foolish people in the rich land of Huainan are not willing to go, who is willing to go to the shabby place in Lingnan!" ”

Although the voice was small, Wang Ze even understood the general idea with a guess, it seems that Chen Baxian is really 'very' anxious, he is about to start the development of Lingnan so soon, of course, he may also want to carry out a pilot first, I hope these people will not let Chen Baxian down.

Although Lingnan is now a wild land, at least it will not be under the attack of the Northern Dynasty at any time like Huainan, and it can be regarded as free from the invasion of war.

These people are the foundation of Nan Chen's rise in the future, of course Wang Ze will not dig the foot of the wall again, and although the officers and soldiers of Chen are urging tightly, they have not abused the people, so Wang Ze no longer pays attention to these.

However, this Yuzhou Island is located at the central axis of the north-south coastal 'traffic', and there is only one such big island on the sea route of more than 2,000 miles from Jiaozhou to Dajiang, which is a good sea base, and Wang Ze feels a little pity in his heart.

Because Yuzhou Island is very important to the 'exchange' between Wang Yong's side and Nan Chen in the future, Wang Ze plans to take this opportunity to get to know each other well.

While walking Wang Ze to check, I saw that Yuntai Mountain in the middle of Yuzhou Island was towering, the southern part of the mountain range was like a long snake, and the high head was the top of the 'jade' and 'female' peaks.

Du Qian pointed to a mountain range not far away and smiled at Wang Ze: "Xiahou, do you see there, there is a village in that mountain, but there was a famous man before, do you know which one?" ”

Wang Ze guessed that he couldn't remember which celebrity had been produced on Yuzhou Island for a long time, Cheng Xueying couldn't read any other books except medical books, of course, he wouldn't know, but Zhu Qingqing liked to read, and after a little thought, he suddenly said: "General Du didn't mean that the former Han millet was Zhonghu?" ”

Du Qian smiled and said: "Zhu Xiaoniang is really smart, this is the hometown of Mi Zizhong, and the words under it are still the same as Mi Zizhong, but they are much better than me!" ”

At this time, Wang Ze understood that Du Qian was talking about Xuzhou celebrities and the hugely wealthy Mi Zhu Mi Zizhong during the Three Kingdoms period in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

At that time, the Mi family "ancestral goods breeding", owned the "benefits of Tianchou fish and salt" of Yuzhou Island, and when the two brothers Mi Zhu and Mi Fang were already huge family assets, they were richer than Zhuo Wang and Sun.

At that time, almost all the land on Yuzhou Island was the land of the Mi family, and the "fertile" cultivated land and the high-quality sea salt produced by the seaside salt field allowed the Mi family to accumulate countless wealth, so that Liu Bei, who had suffered several major defeats, had the capital to start again, and it is said that Mi Zhu alone gave Liu Bei 2,000 villagers to make a trilogy.

Until the Song Dynasty, there were still local officials who said that the people around Yuntai Mountain in the three hundred miles were all descendants of the tenants of the Mi family, which shows the prosperity of the Mi family back then.

The place that Du Qian was referring to was an ancient village called Guanli, which was also the place where Mi Zhu lived on Yuzhou Island back then.

A group of people climb along the mountain road, although the mountain is not high but it is also precipitous, but because the ancestors dug the road is not difficult to walk, but three or four miles of the road faintly see an ancient village lying quietly surrounded by mountains, surrounded by green trees like a paradise in general.

Standing on the high ground at the entrance of the village, you can see the mountains around the village, with the plains and endless slopes in the middle, the wheat planted in the fields has been 'pumped', and you can see from a distance that the villagers are working hard to irrigate the wheat that is filling the grain with sufficient water.

The 'fertile' land coupled with abundant water sources, surrounded by mountains and without typhoons, is really a source of peach 'flowers', which makes Wang Ze a little envious.

The people in the village are all relatives and families that have been handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years, coupled with the fierce folk customs, everyone practices martial arts, and the village has a tradition of doing business, and it is not afraid that outsiders will covet it if they have money to buy a batch of weapons.

However, for the sake of Wang Ze's safety, Gao Shi still persuaded: "Xiao Langjun, the village here is dangerous, and the people are strong, and every family is equipped with weapons, so don't go in for safety!" ”

Originally, in order not to make any extraneous branches, Wang Ze was ready to give up the plan to go into the mountain to have a look, but he couldn't bear Cheng Xueying's leaping 'desire' and Du Qian's 'chest' assurance, and finally walked towards the village accompanied by Du Qian, followed by the helpless Gao Shi and dozens of wolf-toothed soldiers.

To enter the village, you have to pass through a mountain pass, where the village has built a wall five or six meters high, which is more than ten meters high in line with the mountain.

The "gate" of the village is not wide, that is, about a zhang, but it is a foot thick, and there are more than a dozen young people holding knives and guns behind the "gate" of the village at any time, and the thick "gate" of the village guards the safety of the villagers.

When Du Qian accompanied Wang Ze to climb halfway up the mountain, the young men who were guarding the wall of the wall found them, and when Wang Ze and his party came to the 'gate' of the village, there were already dozens of young men holding knives and guns guarding it.

Cheng Xueying and Zhu Qingqing discussed what the village in front of them should have been like when Mi Zhu was there, Wang Ze was identifying the difference between the walled wall of this village and his previous cottage in Changguang County, and Gao Shixin, who had committed an occupational disease, was thinking about how to capture this walled wall at the lowest cost.

At the beginning, the young man who guarded the pass was not willing to let outsiders in, if he hadn't looked at the few people in front of him who were either rich or expensive, I am afraid that Wang Ze and the others would have been greeted with swords and guns.

However, after Du Qian came out, the situation was different, after all, Du Qian was currently the highest military commander stationed in Donghai County, and this village was not a self-enclosed mountain village after all, but a village with very frequent foreign trade, and most of the people in the village had seen the world.

Seeing Du Qian go out, the guard's young man immediately changed his attitude, although he hadn't let Wang Ze and the others in immediately, but there were already young men running to invite the elders of the village to greet him.

As soon as the elders of the clan in the village heard that there were distinguished guests visiting, especially the person who accompanied them was the highest military governor of Donghai County, the second generation of officials of Nan Chen, they did not dare to delay.

Immediately, several clan elders in the village who were quite neat in their legs came to greet them in person with the support of several young people, and their good attitude was like a double heaven with the young man who guarded the 'gate' of the village before.

Wang Zeyi looks at the good guy, this clan must be at least seventy or eighty years old, not to mention that the eyebrows and beards are white, the length of the eyebrows and hairs is more than ten centimeters long, and they can play the role of Shushan Baimei Dao.

Although Du Qian is the second generation of officials, he is still 'very' good at being a person, and when he saw that the elder of the family greeted him in person, he immediately stepped forward and said: "I came to visit abruptly, but it disturbed the purity of several clan elders!" ”

Of course, several clan elders will not take it seriously, and they also said politely one by one: "The general is coming from afar, please rest for a while, but forgive the old man for his clumsiness, I don't know which side of this distinguished guest is sacred?" ”

Hearing that several clan elders noticed him, Wang Ze immediately saluted and said: "I have seen all the clan elders in Xia Wang Ze, and I heard that this is the former residence of Mi Zizhong under the command of Emperor Zhaolie of the Han Dynasty in the former Han Dynasty, so I took the liberty to come here, and I ask you to forgive me!" ”

"Dare to ask Xiao Langjun whether he is the Langya Wang clan of the Southern Dynasty or the Changguang Wang clan to which the King of Sanqi belongs?" Another clan elder on crutches asked cautiously.

Wang Ze was still stunned, the Changguang Wang clan of the King of Sanqi? Isn't that talking about your own dad? Unexpectedly, now it has become a high 'gate' in the mouths of these villagers.

Thinking in his heart, Wang Ze replied: "The Changguang Wang clan of the King of Sanqi doesn't know what's going on, I'm not from the Southern Dynasty, but my home is in Changguang County." ”

Several clan elders were a little surprised, and after seeing Du Qian nodding secretly, they glanced at each other, and then enthusiastically surrounded Wang Ze and others to explain the events of the year.

The clan elder is also surnamed Mi, claiming to be a descendant of the Mi family, who has lived in this village for hundreds of years, and also does some business on weekdays.

The words were easy to say about Mi Zhu's affairs back then, and what he said was that the sky was "flower" and "chaotic", and the level was comparable to that of Mr. Storyteller, but there was a disdain for Liu Bei between the words.

Wang Ze was strange in his heart and asked, "Why do you dislike Liu Xuande so much when you listen to the old man's tone?" ”

The old man surnamed Mi said disdainfully: "Liu Xuande is a son-in-law!" If it weren't for my ancestor Mi Zizhong, who had delivered grain and wages several times, how could he have done a great thing. Besides, once this person took possession of Jingzhou Bashu, he turned his face ruthlessly, and such a ruthless and unrighteous person also had the face to be called Zhaolie? ”

As soon as the words of the clan elder came out, a group of people were shocked, although Shu Han was called a puppet dynasty by the Jin Dynasty, and Liu Bei's status was not as high as that of later generations, but there are still many people who think that Liu Bei is a hero, and they can't imagine that they are now denounced as a ruthless and unrighteous person by the elders of a village.

But looking back and thinking about it carefully, it is true that Liu Bei has failed several times in history, and then he relied on Mi Zhu's full support to rise again. Mi Zhu asked for food for food, money for money, and people for people, and he had no complaints, and even married his sister to Liu Bei.

When Liu Bei Changbanpo was defeated and learned of Mrs. Mi's death, Liu Bei, who has always been famous for his tears, didn't even shed a single tear for Mrs. Mi. Then Mi Zhu and Mi Fang, who had lost their family business, gradually faded out of Liu Bei's inner circle later.

The late Qing poet Zhang Xuehan said in the "Yizhou Courtyard" of "Yuntai Tour Guide Poems":

"Borrowing money frequently comes to Liu Yizhou,

The Mi family's son-in-law is also romantic.

……

Looking at the far away,

Turning back the window to expand the sea 'door' autumn.

So far, the ruins are still there,

The ancient courtyard is a tour of the cloud and the deep staff. ”

It seems that there are not one or two people who have this opinion on Liu Bei!