Chapter 96: Barren Land

South Central.

Jianning County.

"General!!"

When Huo Yi jumped off his horse, several rough generals had already stepped forward to greet him.

This is Dianchi County in Jianning County.

The county seat is not large, it is located in the middle of the mountain forest, half of which is directly wrapped in the mountain forest, and you can't even see the city wall.

The city walls are also relatively short, most of them are still made of wood, and the city gate is very bleak, and there are not many people coming in and out, and even horse-drawn carriages cannot be seen.

The terrain here is really difficult to walk, almost the same as the no-man's land that Deng Ai walked through, the carriage could not pass at all, and some places even needed ropes to pass, if it wasn't for Huo Yi to surrender, Wei would have taken Chengdu, but I am afraid that it would be difficult to take this place again.

Huo Yi led these people into the county seat, and many generals followed him, including both Han Chinese and local barbarians.

The so-called handsome.

After Huo Yi came to Nanzhong, he showed his extraordinary martial arts and generous morality.

Unlike those generals in the past, he would not deliberately force the local barbarians to rebel for the sake of military merits, nor would he oppress the local natives in order to scrape together enough taxes for the temple.

Huo Yi is a relatively upright person, and when Chengdu ordered him to collect taxes from the local area several times, he was very stubborn and gave him back.

He believes that the people here are already poor and white, and they have paid taxes frequently over the years, and there is almost no way to survive, and if you still let them pay taxes, the consequence can only be a total rebellion in Nanzhong, and the cost of suppressing the rebellion will be higher than today's harvest!

Huo Yi was not wrong, since the beginning of Fei Yi's era, there have been frequent rebellions here.

Although Zhuge Liang went south and made them completely obedient, he couldn't resist you to collect taxes twice in three days.

In order to maintain its own army, Shu constantly collected taxes from all over the country and squeezed the people's power, and in order to ensure that its core areas would not be affected, it targeted these barbarian gathering areas in the south.

In the eyes of Chengdu's top management, this is simply killing three birds with one stone.

It solves the problem of not using food and materials, weakens the barbarians, and does not affect their core areas.

But for these barbarians in Nanzhong, this is too inappropriate!

After Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng, they are already very obedient, pay taxes on time, send troops in case of war, and do everything that should be done, do you want to just give us a tax increase in the end??

The rebellion in Nanzhong could not be stopped after that, and it was not until Huo Yi came to power that the situation was gradually contained.

Huo Yi strongly refused the temple's order, which also made him more respected by the locals.

This time, he led everyone into the county seat, there was no one in the county, and he couldn't see the grand occasion of people coming and going, and occasionally he could see a few hunters, dragging their prey, heading in the direction of their own homes.

In the entire county, the population is only 20,000

No county can muster 80,000 men.

The defense force of the entire South Central Committee is about 30,000.

There are more than 4,000 people stationed in this county.

Huo Yi led everyone into the mansion, and when he sat on the top seat, everyone couldn't help but ask.

"General, is the Great Han really perishing?"

"What about the Emperor? How is he? ”

The crowd inquired.

Their expressions were very different, those who came here to be officials had their faces frightened and uneasy, while the local natives had snickering joy on their faces, but they didn't dare to show it too obviously.

Huo Yi said solemnly: "Today is the Great Wei, I am the Governor of Nanzhong personally canonized by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Wei!" ”

"In the future, we must adopt the calendar of the Great Wei Dynasty and keep in mind the words of avoidance"

As soon as Huo Yi opened his mouth, he talked about the earth-shaking events outside, and everyone was shocked.

Because of the road, it is always very late to get the news of the temple, and many people only know that Chengdu is surrounded, and what happened later is not very clear.

Huo Yi opened his mouth at this moment and officially announced the demise of the Great Han and the rise of the Great Wei.

The officials of those big men were immediately panicked at this moment, and they asked, "General, what are we going to do?" ”

Huo Yi looked at them and said seriously: "Don't worry, Your Majesty has been treated very well in Luoyang, and he has been named the Duke of Anle, and he has never been despised, I have already asked clearly."

The officials immediately made a very concerned appearance.

Actually, that's not what they're trying to ask at all!

Even if it is in Shu, being sent here to be an official is almost the same as exile, and the people who can come here are basically those who have no backers in the temple, or have offended big people.

They don't care whether Liu Chan lives or dies.

What they care about is what they do, this big man has directly become a big Wei, so what are they, the officials of the big man, in the future?

Is it to be sent home on the spot, or is it said

Huo Yi spoke for a long time, and then took out a lot of documents from his sleeves and put them in front of him.

"Your Majesty asked me to canonize the local officials myself"

Everyone took a breath of cold air and looked at Huo Yi in disbelief.

Are you helping Deng Ai break Chengdu? ?

What kind of treatment is this?

Speaking of which, Huo Yi himself didn't know what kind of treatment this was.

He was the last to surrender, and the emperor didn't ask about the crime, and he didn't even meet him, so he hurriedly let himself come to Nanzhong as the governor, and then ordered him to arrange local officials, train the army, and give himself all the military and political powers.

This is a right that he could not have obtained when Liu Chan was still alive.

Huo Yi didn't know why the emperor would favor him so much, but he had already made up his mind to do something.

Cao Chao gave Huo Yi a letter, in which Cao Chao expressed his love for Huo Yi, and at the same time informed him that the general was most familiar with the affairs of Nanzhong, so the general would do it himself!

Cao Chao expressed his ambitions in the letter.

Cao Chao's thinking is completely different from Liu Chan's.

Liu Chan's expectation for Nanzhong is not to mess up, as long as the locals can be honest and obedient, and there are no other requirements.

But Cao Chao is not, Cao Chao mentioned in the letter that he wants Huo Yi to think of ways to govern Nanzhong, improve the local population, improve the economic level and so on.

Huo Yi was stunned.

When did Nanzhong get the qualification to be governed?

This new emperor is indeed different from the one in the past.

He actually wants to govern Nanzhong well.

This is a difficult challenge for Huo Yi, but it is also a rare opportunity.

It's easy to maintain stability here, Huo Yi can sit here, but if you want to develop here, it's different.

Huo Yi looked at the people in front of him, and said slowly: "Everyone, next, I hope you can help me manage the local area, I will use your merits to write to Your Majesty to express my credit When I came, I heard that Jiaozhi was in turmoil, and His Majesty asked me to go to the rescue." ”

"Let's start reorganizing the army now, I'm going to Jiaozhou in person"

Everyone said yes.

At this moment, the situation in Jiaozhou is particularly embarrassing.

Wen Qin stood on the city wall, looking a little overwhelmed.

Lu Xing stood by his side.

"What do you mean by this? Completely abandoned Jiaozhou?? ”

"Still look down on me??"

Wen Qin led his troops to break through and directly entered Jiaozhou, his original idea was to attract the entire Jingnan army, let them disperse their forces here, reduce the pressure on Wang Ji, and let Wang Ji get all Jingnan.

But the change in the situation is a little different from what Wen Qin thought.

Because Biqiu Jian was approaching Jianye, the Wu people did not dare to send too many reinforcements here, which was a good thing, but the Wu reinforcements stationed in Jiaozhou and defending the surrounding areas also withdrew, which made Wen Qin a little incomprehensible.

He found that a large number of reinforcements were converging towards Wang Ji's side, and Jiaozhou was directly empty.

What does this mean?

Tempting me to take the initiative to send troops?

Lu Xing, who was standing beside Wen Qin at this moment, was also incomprehensible.

He looked into the distance and asked with some hesitation, "Probably to work together to deal with General Wang?" ”

Wen Qin stroked his beard again, and he was a little unsure now.

The enemy's posture seems to have given up everything, regardless of the fact that he wants to share life and death with Wang Ji.

Encountering such a crazy opponent, Wen Qin didn't dare to let go of his hand to fight, and now Jiaozhou is empty, but if he doesn't care about the situation in Jingnan now, and attacks all parts of Jiaozhou wholeheartedly, will Wang Ji be surrounded?

Will it bury the good situation in Jingnan?

Wen Qin pondered for a long time before he spoke: "Send someone to Jingnan now to investigate the situation, and at the same time ask how long it will take for Huo Yi to arrive, if Huo Yi arrives, you can give Jiaozhou to him."

Lu Kang adopted a rather crazy strategy this time, from a comprehensive defense directly to a one-sided output, facing Wang Ji is onslaught, Shi Ji and Ding Feng attacked from two directions, making Wang Ji a little confused about the current situation.

At the same time, Lu Kang set off from Baqiu, and his warship came directly to the vicinity of Jiangling, and at this moment, Cao Wei's army guarding here was so frightened that he almost jumped.

They never thought that the Shu army, which was pressed and beaten, would still have the idea of counterattacking Jiangbei.

As a result, the scouts began to gallop around constantly, and Cao Wei and Soochow were constantly exchanging news and changing their strategies.

When he learned that there was an enemy naval army in Jiangbei, Wang Ji was shocked and angry.

Once again, he narrowed his line, this time even throwing out a lot of the areas that had already been captured.

His army began to come to the river, ready to respond at any moment.

Shi Ji took the opportunity to conquer a large number of territories.

Wen Qin is still capturing Jiaozhou at the moment.

The battle situation finally changed, and Lu Kang changed the desperate crushing game to a situation of four or six opens, or three or seven opens.

Cao Wei's army was already exhausted, and it was not easy to attack again.

But at the same time, those people in Jianye are also completely crazy.