Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 327

Two months later
Weishui Riverside
"Get ready!—let it go!"

Xu Rong, the captain of the crossbow soldiers, commanded in an orderly manner.

shhhhhh!
"what!"

Another hundred Xiliang rebels fell.

"The royal family of Liaodong actually hid so many powerful crossbows in secret. What's the difference between their behavior and rebellion?" Li Jue's eyes were red, feeling helpless.

A month ago, they believed Jia Xu's rumors and chose to rebel and attack Chang'an.

The reason why it is so easy to believe Jia Xu's rumors is not that Jia Xu is so bland, but that the people of Liangzhou are used to being cheated by the court, so even if they just change people to spread rumors that the court will kill them all, they will still believe it. .

After all, the imperial court has cheated them for more than 100 years, so according to the characteristics of the big man, there is a high probability that they will continue to cheat them.

The success of a trick or a rumor often shows that the content described in the rumor often happened in the society at that time, so people at that time habitually believed the rumor.

To use an analogy, if Jia Xu went to Qingzhou and said that the court wanted to kill all Qingzhou people, then Qingzhou people would definitely think Jia Xu was a fool, because Qingzhou belongs to the Kanto region and has not been cheated by the court for more than 100 years like Liangzhou.

But Jia Xu is not a fool, so he will not go to Qingzhou to spread such rumors. If he is really sent to Qingzhou, he must spread another kind of rumor.

Qingzhou is suitable for spreading rumors that anti-pirates are about to rebel, because anti-thieves and pirates often rebel in Qingzhou, so such rumors are easy to believe.

For Liangzhou people, it is suitable to spread rumors that the court wants to kill all Liangzhou people, because the court has really cheated Liangzhou people for more than 100 years and killed hundreds of thousands of Liangzhou people, so this kind of rumor is very important to Liangzhou people. Said the authenticity is high.

Li Jue and Guo Si led more than 2000 Xiliang soldiers into Chang'an.

Wang Yun ordered Li Su, Hu Zhen, and Lu Bu to lead an army of [-] to resist Li Guo's army of [-].

But soon, many of the [-] troops were Xiliang soldiers who surrendered. They didn't want to fight for the court at all, and it wasn't worth it.

Although they did not sincerely pledge allegiance to Dong Zhuo, it was even more impossible for them to sincerely pledge allegiance to the court.

As soon as the battle started, a large number of Xiliang soldiers surrendered to Li and Guo, and in turn helped Li and Guo attack Lu Bu and others.

Lü Bu was outnumbered, so he was defeated, and hurried away with his soldiers.

Hu Zhen resolutely surrendered again, and made a standard nonsense.

Li Su was also defeated and fled, but on the way to escape, he was beheaded by Lu Bu because of personal grievances.

"[-] against [-], and they were actually killed. Lu Bu, Li Su, and Hu Zhen, do you really know how to fight?"

When the news came back to Chang'an, Wang Yun was shocked and angry.

There was no other way, Wang Yun had no choice but to run away with his family and the books in Zangshuge, wanting to go to the Central Plains to seek refuge with a certain prince to ensure his personal safety, and then find an opportunity to return to Liaodong.

But he was so unlucky that he was caught by the Xiliang rebels as soon as he left the city, and was executed a few days later.

After the head of the family, Wang Yun, had died for a month, the fleet from the Wang family came to Guanzhong along the river to meet him.

And a temporary military fort was built at the ferry site to receive Wang Yun's son, Wang Ding, and the talents in Guanzhong by the way.

A large number of doctors, craftsmen, and scholars in Guanzhong hid in this military fortress, waiting for the royal fleet to pick them up.

The space in the fort is limited, and ordinary people are prohibited from entering the military fort to take up positions.

Besides, it doesn't make much sense for the Wang family to have low-quality population now. After all, opening up wasteland is not just throwing people overseas.

It is not simply transporting people there, the main difficulty is the construction of various infrastructures.

Land reclamation requires a long-term investment of financial, material and manpower, and manpower alone is just adding corpses to the land for fertilization.

Taking Sugarcane City (near Keelung now) as an example, the Wang family transported 20 people to Sugarcane City.

But now the total population of the city is only [-].

Most of them died from miasma, malaria, indigenous attacks, famine, disease, poisonous snakes and beasts, expired food poisoning and other factors.

What is missing is the actual rule over the population, not the population itself.

Taking Sugarcane City as an example, 20 people are the population itself, and 6000 people are the actual ruling population.

For the Han court, the actual ruling population is the self-cultivated farmers who pay taxes to the court, and the population of the entire Han Dynasty plus the population of the vassal states/tribes is the population itself.

Population itself is of little significance, and more will increase the cost and pressure of governance.

The actual rule of the population is useful and can bring benefits.

The actual ruling population is related to local infrastructure construction and specific governance.

Therefore, the main difficulty in opening up wasteland is to invest material resources for a long time, then financial resources, and finally human resources.

When the infrastructure construction has not been completed, the only effect of simply transporting people overseas is to add a large number of corpses to overseas land for fertilization.

How many people are transported depends on the speed of land reclamation and construction. Transporting too much is not good, and it will increase the population pressure on the newly built towns, thus paralyzing the functions of the towns.

At this moment, the battle entered a stalemate.

"Retreat first, and try to sneak attack at night." Guo Si on the side gritted his teeth.

Although the military castle built by the Wang family is not very strong, it is only a temporary construction after all, but the Wang family has too many strong crossbows.

"Everyone, line up and board the boat one by one, and those who jump in line will die!" the captain Gongsun Du shouted at the high-quality Guanzhong refugees who boarded the boat.

For this response, the Wang family dispatched two hundred ships, one thousand crossbowmen, and thirty Wang family soldiers.

They also contacted Yuan Shao and Cao Cao on both sides of the river in advance, and let them see that the royal family in Liaodong is a family, and let the royal fleet pass on the river.

Yuan Shao was busy dealing with Gongsun Zan, and Cao Cao was busy dealing with the 30 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans who entered Yanzhou. Both sides had their own powerful enemies to deal with, so they didn't dare to provoke another enemy to make it more difficult for them.

"The Wang family is indeed one of the three great aristocratic families in the world. They can produce a thousand crossbows and two hundred ships in an instant."

"Besides, those thirty armored soldiers are not easy to mess with at first glance. Even their faces and fingers are protected by armor plates. Even the most elite troops of the big men can't do this level of full-body armor."

Cai Yong brought his daughter Cai Yan to the boat and couldn't help but marvel at the hidden strength of the Wang family.

Although the Yuan family in Runan and the Yang family in Hongnong are much more famous than the Wang family in Liaodong, they are both families of Confucian classics and big landlords. Although they have some private armed forces, they are only at the level of bravery. How can there be such a family as the Wang family? Terrifying, there are hundreds of ships and thousands of crossbows at every turn.

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, King Chen Liu Chong, who was so powerful in the world, had only three thousand crossbows.

He was supposed to be executed by Wang Yun, but Wang Yun's son Wang Ding was a firm Confucian scholar and respected Cai Yong, a great Confucian, so he interceded for Cai Yong, which allowed Cai Yong to survive.

Later, Wang Yun was killed by the Xiliang rebels, and he took his daughter and followed Wang Ding to escape to the military castle temporarily built by the Wang family, preparing to go to Liaodong, the royal family's old nest in Liaodong, to escape the war.

(End of this chapter)