Chapter 88: Jiangdong annexes Jiujiang County
Leaving from the "Shangshan Sihao", the three of Fusu chose an inaccessible path to go down the mountain, and discussed the matter of recruiting Ying Yao while enjoying the scenery.
"Childe, this 'Shangshan Sihao' is really a strange person, if you don't want to go out of the mountain to help me Daqin, it's not better to say it directly, why do you want to move out of this Ying Yao to perfunctory." Meng Yi complained angrily.
"Meng Yi, you don't understand, this matter is definitely not the idea of the 'Shangshan Sihao', it is obviously planned by these four people a long time ago."
"Childe, why don't you understand, why don't you tell me?"
"Don't speak, think for yourself." Fusu glanced at Meng Yi, ignored Meng Yi's pleading eyes, did not explain again, but continued to hang Meng Yi's curiosity.
Meng Yi looked at Fusu with resentment, but Fusu didn't pay attention to his curiosity at all and continued to remain silent.
The three of them leisurely went down the mountain to enjoy the scenery of Shangshan.
Without waiting for Fusu to go down the mountain, he was blocked on the mountain road by two Xunjun soldiers from Xianyang, only to see the Xunjun salute Fusu and then handed a letter to Fusu, Fusu immediately opened it and read it.
It turned out that Peng Yue had helped Wang Li and Yingbu recapture the entire territory of Changsha County from Xiang Yu and Xiang Zhuang, and Jiangdong Xiang was not willing to lose Changsha County like this, taking advantage of the death of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao and others, and the chaos of Jiujiang County, he sent 30,000 troops to attack Jiujiang County, and then relied on these 30,000 people to defend Jiujiang County, and Zhang Han confronted him across the Huaishui, which is like two primary school students fighting, and the one who can't beat is really angry, so he found a kindergarten child to vent his hatred.
Zhang Han led the army to confront the Xiang clan in Huaishui, which made Fusu a little unclear. Hu Hai and Zhao Gao are both dead, what is the significance of the confrontation in this chapter? What is he still clinging to? While thinking about it, Fusu handed the letter in his hand to Meng Yi.
After a while, Meng Yi finished reading the letter and handed the letter back to Fusu.
"Childe, this Jiangdong has been moved, or we will also send a strong force to recapture the remaining counties."
"Meng Yi, although Hu Hai is dead, but the counties under his rule are not so easy to receive, because of Zhao Gao's misdeeds, the people under Hu Hai's rule are miserable, lack of food and clothing, and the mountain bandits and grass are even more rampant, once we take back those counties at this time, these millions of hungry people will not care? To suppress the mountain bandits or not to suppress them? ”
"Childe, the minister also knows that this is not the best time to recover Donghai County and other places, but it is really uncomfortable to watch Jiangdong take advantage of the situation." Meng Yi said unwillingly.
"With the strength of Jiangdong, swallowing Jiujiang County at this time is tantamount to a hungry python swallowing a turtle, in less than a year and a half, the money and grain accumulated by Xiang's father and son in the past few years will be exhausted in this Jiujiang County, appease the people, and suppress bandits, enough for his Xiang father and son, after a year or two, I am afraid that he Jiangdong will no longer be able to run Jiujiang County, and then how should Xiang's father and son deal with Jiujiang County? Even if you want to give up Jiujiang County, the Xiang family will try to collect some capital from the people of Jiujiang County, otherwise you will lose money, the only way for the Xiang family is to reach out to the people of Jiujiang County, and it is inevitable to collect taxes and levy soldiers, do you say that the people of Jiujiang County will obey his Xiang family's wishes? At that time, as long as my Daqin takes out some money and food, he will be able to take back Jiujiang County without bloodshed, and his Xiang clan will probably end up with a bamboo basket to draw water. I would like Jiangdong to annex a few more counties, and I don't believe that millions of hungry people can't kill his Xiang father and son. ”
"The son has a far-reaching plan, and he submits to it." Meng Yi looked at Fusu with admiration and said to Fusu sincerely.
"Passing on my edict, Peng Yue took over the defense of Changsha County, commanded 80,000 troops to garrison Changsha County, and immediately strengthened the city defense of Changsha County; Wang Li and Yingbu immediately led the remaining 90,000 horses to Hexi to assist their uncle and grandson in passing through the land west of the river; Jiangdong and the counties under the former Hu Hai rule were immediately blocked, and not a single grain of corn could flow into these two places for two years, and violators were punished for collaborating with the enemy. ”
"No, the minister will arrange it immediately." Meng Yi commanded.
After a while, Meng Yi drafted an edict according to Fusu's requirements and handed it over to the Xunbing.
"Meng Yi, the most troublesome thing at the moment is how to recruit Ying Yao, why don't you go to Huaiyang Mountain for me again?"
"Yu Gongzi, this Ying Yao is not as good as 'Shangshan Sihao', he is very stubborn, with the minister's clumsy tongue and stupid mouth, I am afraid that he will not be able to persuade this Ying Yao, even if the minister goes, I am afraid that it will be in vain."
"That's it, let's go back to Xianyang and make plans for this matter." Seeing Meng Yi's embarrassed face, Fusu said helplessly, obviously Meng Yi was hit by the 'Shangshan Sihao'.
The day after returning to Xianyang, Fusu raised the issue of soliciting Ying Yao at the court meeting.
Most of the ministers didn't know about Ying Yao's people, only Li Si and a few well-informed old ministers knew about Ying Yao.
"Prime Minister, you must know this Ying Yao, so you can tell everyone about this person!" Fusu gestured to Li Si.
Li Si didn't squirm, stood up directly from the chair, and turned around to talk about Ying Yaoqi to everyone.
"Huaiyang Ying clan, is a descendant of Uncle Ying of the Zhou Dynasty, and the younger generation of this Ying clan is headed by this Ying Yao, who is loyal and righteous, known as a virtuous name, proficient in the theory of sages, although this person has great talents, but he is free and uninhibited by nature, and he is reluctant to go out of the mountain as an official, and the old minister thinks that it is not easy to recruit Ying Yao."
Hearing what Li Si said, the ministers looked at each other, and even Fusu shook his head helplessly, obviously not daring to have too much confidence in recruiting Ying Yao.
Just when Fusu was at a loss, Zhang Liang took the initiative to stand up.
Fusu noticed Zhang Liang standing in the train early in the morning, only to know that Zhang Liang had returned from South Vietnam, and Fusu was about to wait for the end of the court meeting to leave Zhang Liang alone, to listen to his report on the situation in Guilin County, South Vietnam, but this goods actually took the initiative to stand up at this time.
"Yu Gongzi, the minister is willing to go to Huaiyang Mountain to recruit Ying Yao for Gongzi."
Zhang Liang looked at Fusu firmly and took the matter of recruiting Ying Yao for himself.
Hearing that Zhang Liang took over the matter of recruiting Ying Yao, a group of colleagues looked at Zhang Liang sympathetically, they really couldn't figure out why this Zhang Liang always had to get along with him, he went to Nanyue with Wu Guang before, but was captured by the king of Nanyue, and now he wants to recruit Ying Yao's stubbornness.
"Young, I don't know the depths!" An old minister sighed bitterly to several colleagues around him.
"Alas, it seems that the capture hit him a little hard!" The other minister sighed helplessly and made this shocking assertion to Zhang Liang.
"Zhang Liang, I thought this matter was not difficult, or forget it, I'll find another way, what do you think?" Fusu persuaded earnestly.
It's a good thing to be willing to recruit Ying Yao for yourself, but the matter of soliciting is not something that can be done with enthusiasm, if Zhang Liang is hit again this time, then it will be really a little unbearable for this iron-headed baby.
"Son, the minister thinks that this matter is not difficult, and I also ask the son for permission to let me go to Huaiyang."
Seeing that Zhang Liang had made up his mind, Fusu couldn't say anything, so as not to save Zhang Liang's face, so he had to reluctantly agree to Zhang Liang's suggestion and send Zhang Liang to Huaiyang to recruit Ying Yao.
Two days later, Zhang Liang left Xianyang and went to Huaiyang.