Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 249 Crossing the River in White Clothes, Fazheng Sees Through

"Since this is the case, I hope the general will win as soon as possible."

Zhang Song finally restrained his eagerness to move, and did not offer up the map in his arms.

This map was prepared for Cao Cao when he went to Chendu.

It's a pity that Cao Cao's arrogance is disgusting.

And Cao Cao is arrogant and arrogant. Except for Sun Quan who has never met in the south, maybe only Liu Bei is the wise master.

But now that Liu Bei is going to Jingzhou, even if it is to offer a picture, people may not have time to take care of it.

At that time, if Liu Bei doesn't pay attention to it, he will appear to be self-indulgent.

So Zhang Song felt that it would be better to wait for Liu Bei to return from Jingzhou before dedicating Yizhou to him.

Another is the most important point.

Such a big matter cannot be decided hastily like this, it still needs to be considered.

His good friend Fazhengfa Xiaozhi has always been good at strategizing, Zhang Song felt that he could discuss it with him for a while.

Therefore, considering various factors, Zhang Song did not bring up the matter immediately.

However, meeting Liu Bei and seeing that the Jiangzhou he governed is still in good order, unlike the chaos in Zhang Lu's time, Zhang Song also liked it.

Liu Bei is a virtuous and virtuous corporal, and has fought in the north and south for many years. He fought with Cao Cao, Lv Bu and others in the Central Plains. He is by no means cowardly like Liu Zhang.

If there are still people in the south who can become the lord of Yizhou, perhaps only Liu Bei is the most suitable one.

"Lord."

At this moment, Xu Shu suddenly said to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei asked, "What's the matter with Yuan Zhi?"

Xu Shu said: "Although we will leave tomorrow to rush back to Jingzhou, we must not ignore the friendship between Yizhou pastoral clan. It just so happens that there are many Xichuan people in our army."

Liu Bei asked in surprise, "What does Yuan Zhi mean?"

Xu Shu smiled and said, "My lord, why don't you leave some of your troops behind to contain Zhang Lu's army? If things change and Liu Yizhou can't resist, it will be a bad thing if Chengdu falls."

"Well."

Liu Bei pondered for a moment, nodded slightly and said: "Yuan Zhi's words are very reasonable, so how about I ask Zhao Yun and you to lead 1 people to stay?"

"only!"

It should be Xu Shu's surrender.

Liu Bei looked at Zhang Song again and said, "Don't drive to stay in the mansion today, let's discuss it. Now I'm not too clear about Zhang Lu's offensive, please give us a detailed explanation."

"I am willing."

Zhang Song hurriedly cupped his hands in response.

"Please."

Liu Bei invited him to go to Xiaozhu in the backyard.

Afterwards, in the pretext of going to order a banquet, he went to greet Zhou Lin, and after sending Zhou Lin away, he returned to Xiaozhu to have a chat with Zhang Song.

Soon the next day, Zhang Song and Liu Bei had a happy chat.

After a night of talking by candlelight, the two got to know each other better, which made Zhang Song even more sure that Liu Bei was the lord of Yizhou, so he left contentedly.

After sending Zhang Song away, Liu Bei led the army to board the ship in the afternoon. Thousands of ships, all merchant ships, sailed down the river under the banner of Zhou Lin and other big families in Berkshire. , heading towards Jingzhou.

When Zhang Song went south, he took the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The Han Dynasty called it Dajiangshui, and later generations called it the Minjiang River. He went down the river to Jiangzhou very fast, but when he went back, his speed was much slower, so let’s not mention it for the time being. .

Liu Bei's ship sailed very fast, and it took less than a day to reach Baidi City. At this time, Baidi City was still in his hands, but after passing through Baidi City, Zigui was Cai Mao's territory.

When he left Zigui for Xichuan, Cai Mao immediately sent troops to Zigui, Yiling, Yidao and other places, and set up beacon towers on both banks.Although he did not send anyone to Xichuan to confirm whether Liu Bei had joined the war, these basic military arrangements were still in place.

At this moment, Huo Jun was looking north from the tower of Zigui County, and his brother behind him was complaining endlessly: "Big brother made great achievements in attacking Cao Cao, but he was only promoted from Sima to captain. After the eldest brother died of illness, he can't be reused. Now To be sent to this city of Zigui again is really useless."

"That's right, now that Taiwei Cai and Situ Kuai are in control of the Jingzhou government, we old generals should be reused logically. But I heard that many brothers don't want to fight with the eldest prince, so those who don't want to fight Those who fought were all transferred to remote places.”

"We don't want to fight either, so why don't we end up being transferred to Zigui? There is also General Wenpin, but General Wen is considered good. He has an army of [-], and the Taiwei and Situ dare not touch him. It's not like us. In the end, it’s just a false name.”

Huo Jun's army came from his elder brother Huo Du, and Huo Du's trilogy was clan private soldiers. At the beginning, there were only 400 people. Later, due to the expansion of Zhang Yun's army, it increased to more than [-] people. Since then, there has been no increase. People and horses.

Therefore, after Huo Du died of illness and Huo Jun inherited Huo Du's army, this army, which was originally composed of clan private soldiers as the backbone, followed Huo Jun in a group and became the private part of the Huo family.

The characteristic of this army is that the upper-level officers are all relatives of the Huo family, and several of the personal guards are also Huo Jun's brothers, so naturally they don't have so many scruples when speaking.

Huo Jun listened to everyone's complaints, but did not stop them, because even he himself felt it was unfair, not to mention that everyone here is his own, and he would not spread gossip to Cai Mao's ears. It would be easier for everyone to express their complaints, and they always hold back Strong sulking.

"Hey, Captain, take a look."

At this moment, suddenly someone beside Huo Jun pointed to the north and said, "There are boats on the river."

Looking over, Huo Jun saw hundreds of merchant ships heading south along the Yangtze River, and the beacon towers along the coast did not light up the beacon fire. He wondered for a moment: "What kind of ship is this?"

"Looks like a merchant ship."

A soldier looked up and said, "This should be a ship from Jiangzhou."

"Come and see with me."

With a wave of Huo Jun's hand, hundreds of soldiers in the city immediately dispatched, came to the riverside and drove two warships, which lay across the river.

The merchant ships on the Yangtze River in the distance naturally saw them, and they all started to stop.

It was not easy to stop a ship on the Yangtze River in ancient times, but the wisdom of the ancients should not be underestimated. At that time, there were ship anchors. Those with stones were called "anchor", and those with claws were called claw anchors.

Moreover, the stone and the claw anchor are not small objects. The stone weighs several tons, and it takes dozens of people to pull it into the river to stop the big ship. The claw anchor is slightly lighter, but it is also more than two feet long and hundreds of kilograms. Rely on the claws to take the bottom of the river to stop the boat.

As for the anchor, it is also simple, and the stone anchor is pulled back purely by human levers.When the claw anchor is sailing, row the boat backwards first, and then use the winch to recover the claw anchor after the grapple loosens and falls off, and then you can move on.

Therefore, although stopping the ship is a bit troublesome, since these ships are relatively advanced ships that Shen Chen helped Zhou Lin transform, they can still stop and lift the anchor easily.

After the boat stopped, a small boat rowed over soon, and met Huo Jun on the boat by the river.

That person was a merchant ship owner sent by Zhou Lin to deal with the interrogation along the way. Now he saw Huo Jun after boarding the ship, and said quickly: "The villain pays homage to the general."

"Who are you?"

Huo Jun asked.

"The villain is a merchant from Jiangzhou. Because Zhang Lu cut off the commercial roads last year, the river was impassable. We waited for the merchants to accumulate a large amount of goods, which could not be sold, and they were about to fall into our hands."

The chief clapped his hands and said, "Fortunately, after General Zuo Zuo went to Jiangzhou, he resumed business and trade, and we quickly organized a fleet to do business in Jiangdong, Jingzhou."

"Don't you know that Jingzhou is also at war now?"

Huo Jun asked.

The chief smiled bitterly and said: "Of course I know, but what can we do? If we can't sell the goods, I don't know how many people in Jiangzhou will have their families ruined and their lives lost, and we have lost our livelihood with so many employees. Way."

"Well."

Huo Jun pondered.

In fact, he stopped the fleet not because he suspected that there was something wrong with the fleet, but because he didn't want them to go south to Yunmengze.

The Yangtze River was connected to Yunmengze at that time. As far as he knew, Cai Mao had already started an all-out war. The Yangtze River Navy and Jiangxia Navy were currently facing each other at the Yangtze River port downstream of Yunmengze.

Now that the caravan is passing through the war zone, isn't that courting death?So Huo Jun is not actually harming these businessmen, but trying to save them.

It's just that the boss is right.

The essence of business exchanges is to revitalize the livelihood of local people.

For example, Jiangzhou, as a distribution center for Bashu trade, had to sell medicinal materials, tea, silk, and table salt from Bashu to Jingzhou and Jiangdong, and had to buy other items back.

If commercial exchanges are completely cut off, herb pickers, tea pickers, silkworm farmers, and salt diggers will all have no way of living.

So if you don't care about it, you don't know how many people will be ruined.

Thinking of this, Huo Jun warned the chief: "It's just that Jingzhou is fighting now, and the Dajiang navy and Jiangxia navy are facing each other in the area of ​​Yunmengze. If you walk across the battlefield, aren't you going to die?"

The master quickly said: "It doesn't matter, we are doing business along the river, not only in Jiangdong, but also in Jingzhou. At worst, we stop the ship in Jiangling and sell the goods to Nanjun and Nanyang. Although we earn less, we can at least manage the business." To keep the people fed and fed."

"I see."

Huo Jun thought for a while, then turned to his guard and said, "Go and get two flags."

"only."

The personal guard went to get the flag.

Huo Jun said to the chief: "If you put these two flags on the bow, there should be less interrogation. Remember, don't go to Yunmengze!"

"Thank you, General, thank you General!"

The principal took the flag and left thankfully.

This flag is actually not an army flag, but a trade flag.

In the Han Dynasty, business taxes were paid, especially in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, when caravans from all over the country passed through the territories of various princes, they must be exploited.

But everyone also understands the principle of sustainable fishing, so the princes often set up tax inspection points on major traffic routes, and after the tax is checked, they will be registered in the register, and customs clearance documents, customs clearance flags, etc. will be issued.

Now is a special period, and Huo Jun didn't give the paperwork, but gave a flag to mean it, which can be regarded as a little help.

Soon the fleet set off again, heading towards Jiangling.

After the flags were planted along the way, no one questioned them, and the caravan went straight to Jiangling almost unimpeded.

And when Liu Bei went straight to Jiangling, Zhang Song had already arrived at Bodao.

The Yangtze River is fast going down the river, but slow going upstream, especially in the upper reaches, where the current is turbulent, so at that time it only took two days to get to Jiangzhou from Chengdu, but it took more than ten days to go back.

By the time Zhang Song arrived at Bodao, the military officer Fazheng, who had no soldiers and no power, was already waiting for him at the Bodao county government office.

Although Fazheng was not appointed as an envoy this time, he and Zhang Song were good friends. Anyway, he was not reused, so he came with Zhang Song.

However, when they arrived at Bodao, because Zhang Lu's army had already controlled the area around Jiangyang, ships were not allowed to pass on the river, so it was difficult for the brigade to pass, so Zhang Song separated from Fazheng.

Fazheng stayed in Bodao to lead the mission, while he himself only brought two followers, dressed up in disguise, took the overland detour to Fujie, and then rushed to Jiangzhou.

Later, Liu Bei collected a large number of ships, sent people to attack Jiangyang, and dispersed Zhang Lu's defenders there. When Zhang Song returned, it was naturally much easier, and he arrived in Bodao in two days.

Back at the government office of Bodao County, Zhang Song saw a young scholar about 30 years old waiting for him, so he went up and said, "Xiao Zhi."

"Zi Joe."

"Go back and talk first."

"it is good."

That person was Fazheng, and he went back to the courtyard with Zhang Song.

It has been raining lightly in the past few days, and the floor tiles are wet. The dark bluestone slabs and black wooden pillars and tiles make the courtyard a cool color.

The only bright spot is that there is a small piece of bamboo forest in the courtyard, which is lush and green, with water droplets dripping from it.

Zhang Song and Fazheng sat cross-legged on the porch, looking at the bamboo forest in front of them, Fazheng asked, "Ziqiao, have you seen General Zuo?"

"seen."

"how?"

"It can be described as a great talent."

Zhang Song gave a thumbs up and praised: "General Zuo has fought many battles in the south and north. He has an extraordinary bearing, a tolerant appearance, and he is respectful and virtuous, which is admirable."

Fazheng smiled and said, "Brother Ziqiao, like me, feels that Liu Jiyu is cowardly and incompetent, and he is definitely not the master of Yizhou. Since General Zuo is so talented, must he have agreed to send troops to Chengdu?"

"No."

Zhang Song shook his head and said: "Jingzhou is in civil turmoil, General Zuo led the troops south to Jingzhou."

"Go to Jingzhou?"

Fazheng was surprised for a moment, so he asked about the specific situation.

Zhang Song told him that after Liu Bei sent troops to Bashu, Cai Mao immediately launched a war and wanted to defeat Liu Qi to rule Jingzhou.

He also said that Liu Bei asked Jiangzhou merchants to ask for a large number of merchant ships to transport troops, and he thought he had already arrived in Jiangling.

"So it is, so it is"

After Zhang Song informed Fazheng of the situation, Fazheng muttered to himself, then gave the same thumbs up and laughed loudly: "General Zuo is indeed a hero."

"Forehead"

Zhang Song wondered: "General Zuo has gone to Jingzhou now, he can't join us in plotting Yizhou, why is Xiaozhi still laughing?"

Fazheng smiled and said, "I'm just laughing at General Zuo. I'm afraid this trip to Jingzhou was a trick."

"Conspiracy?"

Zhang Song was even more puzzled: "What scheme?"

Fazheng said: "Brother Ziqiao, think about it, why did Cai Mao immediately attack General Zuo as soon as he left? Why did General Zuo get the news just after Cai Mao took action? How many merchant ships?"

"what do you mean?"

Zhang Song's eyes widened.

Fazheng nodded and said, "That's right, this must be General Zuo's plan to seize Jingzhou."

After that, he looked to the east with deep eyes.

Although Liu Zhang is now under siege, Chengdu should not be breached for a year or so. After General Zuo takes Jingzhou, he will return to Yizhou.

At that time, Liu Zhang may have already been defeated by Zhang Lu. At that time, if General Zuo destroys Zhang Lu and wins Xichuan, he will not need to bear the notoriety of seizing the same clan's foundation. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

　Today is just one chapter, I feel like my Yang is recovering, I got it 10 days ago, and it has been four or five days since I got better, but today I feel very uncomfortable again, maybe I have a cold, I hope it’s a cold, I’m not conscious yet I don’t know how to write a chapter before, and then go to sleep, it’s really tormented.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)