Chapter 17: Ban Yong's decision

South of Yin County, Huiji County, Yangzhou.

About 300 miles away from Yin County, there is a bay.

The bay runs from northeast to southwest and deepens inland, forming a long, narrow semi-enclosed bay. Because it resembles the sharp teeth of a wolf, the local people called it Wolf's Tooth Bay in later generations.

The grass and trees near Langya Bay are lush, and it is often seen that there are underwater creatures swimming ashore on the seashore, and it is still a pristine natural scene.

There are only a few footprints to prove that someone has indeed visited.

This is a typical manifestation of the sparsely populated Jiangdong region of the Han Dynasty, whether it is the Han people or the Shanyue people, they are all a minority......

Under these conditions, a small wharf was quietly built near the bay of Langfang, which has not yet been known to others.

The pier was built at the end of the Wolf's Tooth Bay depression into the mainland, and was built here to provide some concealment from the surrounding hills.

There was also a medium-sized camp on the side of the pier with a number of soldiers.

At this moment, a small fleet of boats in the bay appeared in the field of vision not far away.

The general standing at the bow of the first ship in the fleet is none other than Ban Yong, a veteran of Longwei Mansion.

As the only living elder among the five brothers of Longwei Mansion, he is now over seventy years old and finally set foot on the Chinese continent again, which makes this veteran who is over old and has been fighting for a long time also excited......

Before the fleet set off from Yizhou, Ouyang Qi, the Marquis of Longwei, originally considered that Uncle Ban was old and did not arrange for him to come to the meeting with the chief, but Ban Yong insisted on coming after knowing about it, and even argued with him about it when he asked for his life in the mansion......

In the end, Ban Yong arranged for the house slaves to carry the coffin that had been prepared for many years onto the ship, and vowed not to return home if he was unsuccessful, so Ouyang Qi had to agree......

For Ban Yong, who has always cherished his homeland, dying in the ancestral land has been a long-cherished wish for many years, this matter has been pressing on his heart for many years, and now he finally has the opportunity to achieve it, how can he miss it!

At this moment, he stood on the bow of the ship in armor and spear in hand, carefully observing the surrounding situation, and after a while, he commanded his soldiers to sail the ship into the dock and dock.

This is not the first time he has landed, but he is still very cautious, and even tries to follow the ship himself every time.

Considering that the Fuchu Longwei ship is too large to land, it is easy to expose its whereabouts even if it is close to the coast.

Ban Yong still decided to let the three Longwei ships dock in the base off the coast of Huiji first, and then gradually transfer the nearly 10,000 people who came by ship to land here through the small ships in the base.

In addition to the sailors, the number of people that these small ships could transport at one time was about fifty people, and a total of thirty ships were involved in the transshipment, and they were divided into three detachments to take turns transporting.

In this way, each ship also needs to make seven round-trip trips to complete all of them, not counting the transfer of various logistical supplies......

Of course, there are more than these ships in the offshore base, but if hundreds of ships are all sent to run for transportation, wouldn't it be the same as letting the Longwei ship dock, and it will be discovered immediately......

Even if it is uninhabited for hundreds of miles, it does not mean that there are no caravans or other people passing by.

Originally, with Ban Yong's qualifications and status, this kind of thing could be completely handed over to his subordinates.

However, he has always been cautious and meticulous in his work, and this control of Huiji is the beginning of Fuzhong's counterattack on the mainland, and its importance is self-evident, so he will naturally not slack off.

The first to be transferred were all soldiers, who got off the ship and rested for a while, and were responsible for guarding the safety of the dock, and at the same time preventing the leakage of the landing operation here, and doing all the sentry work.

As for the children of the Taipei Academy, they are still waiting at the base, and at this time, they can also be allowed to take a good rest.

When the fleet landed and the soldiers began to land, Ban Yong began to continue to consider the suggestion made by Nie Zhen, the commander of Huiji County.

Ban Yong came to Huiji County in order to completely grasp this Huiji County.

Don't look at Nie Zhen, the county guard of Huiji County, he has long been a person from Longwei Mansion, but in the face of the four major county lords of Yu, Wei, Kong, and Xie who dominate the local area of Huiji, as well as the vast majority of officials in the county who rely on the Shi clan, there are still many constraints.

Therefore, in this case, if you want to really control Huiji County, the local scholar clan is the biggest obstacle, and since Ouyang Long was founded, Longwei Mansion has always been planning to clean up all the scholar clans.

But if you want to eliminate the scholars, you must have a proper reason, if the movement is too big for the neighboring counties and counties to notice, it will inevitably affect the big plans behind the mansion, and may even expose the Longwei Mansion to the vision of the Han court in advance.

There were many marriages between the Han Dynasty scholars, and if something happened to the family, the news would spread quickly.

So the difficulty is quite ......

And Nie Zhen's suggestion can theoretically solve this problem, and Ban Yong still thinks that it is quite feasible.

The strategy is simple: let the two major obstacles to control the audit wear each other down.

In addition to the scholars, another obstacle is the Shanyue people.

These natives live in the poor mountains and bad waters all the year round, rebelling and surrendering, capricious, and extremely powerful, and have always been a big trouble for the imperial court.

After a detailed investigation, Nie Zhen suggested sending someone to communicate with the Shanyue people, using the name of the Shanyue people's rebellion to eliminate the Shi clan, and then pretending to send troops to drive them away.

In this way, the Shanyue people can be satisfied with the floating wealth of the Shi clan, and the Longwei Mansion can also throw the responsibility for the destruction of the Shi clan on the heads of the Shanyue people by the way, and even Nie Zhen can be rewarded by the imperial court to stabilize his position, which can be described as killing three birds with one stone......

Of course, this is still very difficult, not only Nie Zhen knows, but Ban Yong can also understand.

If the Shanyue people are allowed to clear the Shi clan, then they will inevitably have to break through the city, but how will the people in the city survive at that time?

Don't think about it, if this group of barbarians enters the city and tastes the sweetness, will they still care who is the scholar and who is the people!?

Therefore, Nie Zhen still has a plan for this, that is, to sacrifice one or two county towns to adjust the primary and secondary relationship with the Shanyue people, or to domesticate the Shanyue people......

At the beginning, we must agree with them on the distance, and Nie Zhen expected that the Shanyue people would definitely break the contract, so they must agree on the breach of contract measures in advance, and then make preparations for the Shanyue people's breach of contract and the means of restraint, and even deliberately make it difficult to give them a certain lesson.

After proving his strength and bottom line, he slowly transformed the Shanyue people's concept of Longwei Mansion to make them understand that only self-control can reap the benefits, after all, the family assets of the four surnames alone are enough to support them.

Of course, even so, there will still be risks, how difficult it is to transform the rough barbarians, everyone knows it, otherwise the Han Dynasty would not have been able to solve the Shanyue rebellion for so many years.

However, Nie Zhen believes that if the policy is maintained for a long time, there will be a day of success under persistence!

He also thinks that in this way, he may be able to successfully domesticate or attract some Shanyue people to join Longwei Mansion!

You must know that the Shanyue people were one of the best sources of soldiers in the Han Dynasty, and the Shanyue soldiers who have been domesticated and know how to regulate the distance are even more priceless!

The sky was getting dark, the twilight was deep, and the fleet had ended its voyage for the day, and Ban Yong, who had been thinking about it for a long time, finally made a decision......