Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 796 The journey back home

If Yuan Xi saw the two people in front of Chen Deng, he would be extremely happy.

Bu Zhao, Wei Jing.

Both of them were from Guangling County in Xuzhou. Cao Cao attacked Xuzhou and massacred the city several times. At that time, Tao Qian was appointed as the herdsman of Xuzhou and it was difficult to resist. Guangling County was often invaded by Cao's army during times of crisis. In desperation, the two of them took some of their tribesmen and fled to Jiangdong for refuge.

At that time, Jiao Jiao, a native of Kuaiji, was a wealthy family in the county. His followers were insolent, rude and misbehaving, running rampant in the countryside. The local people dared to be angry but dared not speak out.

It is said that Kuaiji is also the most chaotic place in Jiangdong. Shanyue people and Jiangdong people are attacking each other, so the atmosphere in the county is extremely barbaric and they are prone to bloodshed. The two of them are making a living in Jiaojiao's territory. They are afraid of offending this local snake, so they go there with gifts. Wei Jing was very angry, but Bu Zhi was calm and composed.

But both of them knew that the other party dominated the place and might attack them on a whim that day. They and their clansmen would not be able to resist, so the two of them also thought of a way to protect themselves.

The first choice is naturally to join the Jiangdong Sun family.

But Sun Ce was moody, and the two of them kept watching and waiting, but unexpectedly Sun Ce was assassinated and died, causing their plans to fail.

Before his death, Sun Ce used the excuse of tracking down assassins to carry out a wave of purges against nobles and people with doubtful identities. The two people who fled without authorization and became gangsters did not dare to act rashly. Then Sun Quan came to power, and the people of Jiangdong were unstable, and the nobles began to panic. Escape.

At this time, Wei Jing found Bu Zhi and said, "Zishan, the situation in Jiangdong is corrupt now, what can be done about it?"

Bu Zhao said in a deep voice: "Let's wait and see. Maybe the successor of the Sun family may be a wise master."

Not long after the results, news came that the concession stall was shaken.

Sun Quan sent troops to attack Lujiang. Li Shu, the governor of Lujiang who was stationed in Wancheng, surrendered to the city, but was killed by Sun Quan!

The impact of this incident was extremely bad. Although Li Shu himself was not from a top-notch aristocratic family, he was more or less a member of the aristocratic family. Moreover, his surrender in Kaicheng, although it was a speculative move, was still a surrender after all.

Although things like killing and surrendering have happened occasionally since ancient times, the endings are mostly not good. However, Sun Quan did it. This decision was probably not expected by Li Shu, who surrendered.

Bu Zhi guessed that Sun Quan hated Li Shu so much because, first, Sun Ce was assassinated on Li Shu's territory, and the joints were unclear. Sun Quan probably suspected that Li Shu also played a role in fueling the flames, so he would rather kill him by mistake. The thought of not letting go took hold.

Secondly, Li Shu protected a large number of Jiangdong nobles who fled, and ignored Sun Quan's request to hand over all the families of these thousands of nobles to Jiangdong, and sent them all to Shouchun before Jiangdong's army besieged the city.

This move did a great favor to the Li Shu family and Yuan Xi, because everyone knew that if the scholars protected by Li Shu were acquired by Sun Quan, they would definitely not end well.

Bu Zhi believed that this was the reason why Sun Quan became so angry. As soon as this incident came out, everyone in the world regarded Sun Quan as a laughing stock. At this time, Li Shu was probably still thinking of having both sides open to the city and surrendered. Who knew that Sun Quan did such an extreme thing and directly killed him? People were chopped.

However, the consequences of killing Li Shu are also extremely serious, comparable to Cao Cao's killing of the famous Yanzhou scholar Bian Cang. After all, those nobles are all loyal to Li Shu, and they scold Sun Quan all day long in their public opinion circles. Sun Quan's How much better could the reputation be?

Bu Zhi sighed: "I was mistaken. I didn't expect that this Sun family member would act so violently."

Wei Jing said angrily: "His heart is full of hatred for us scholars. Although we are in dire straits now, we may not be able to protect ourselves. This person is influenced by his emotions. If he is the master of Jiangdong, it is really not a good thing. "

"Ziwen, it's time for us to think about a way out. If we stay in Jiangdong like this, we won't be able to see a way forward."

Bu Zhi knew that Wei Jing had always been afraid of Jiao Jiao's brutality and had no longer wanted to stay in Kuaiji. He sighed, "Where can we go, then?"

"Wars broke out frequently in the Central Plains. We came to Jiangdong to study and farm in order to stay away from the wars. Although there are powerful people here, where in the world are there no powerful people?"

Wei Jing hesitated for a moment, "How about returning to Guangling?"

Bu Zhi was startled, "Guangling?"

"There are enemies on three sides there, and there are wars every year. Is it appropriate to go back now?"

"Besides, how will we make a living after we go back?"

Wei Jing said dullly: "Anyway, I really don't want to stay with these unreasonable southerners."

"Especially those people from the mountainous areas. They come here to fight and kill. Guangling is still a border area of ​​the Central Plains. At least the education and education can be governed by etiquette. The people here are not unreasonable at all."

Although Kuaiji County belongs to Yangzhou in this world, the entire county is really controlled by Jiangdong forces, only a small area in the north.

The other large areas are all mountains and forests, and are inhabited by an ethnic group called Shanyue people by Jiangdong people. They are not only distributed in Kuaiji, but even in Danyang Yuzhang, Wu County, but Kuaiji has the widest range and the largest number of people.

The Shanyue people are different from the original Baiyue aborigines. The former are made up of people who came to the mountains to escape taxes and crimes, and consider themselves descendants of the Chinese.

Moreover, the latter Baiyue is composed of Yue, Qianyue, Ouyue, Minyue and other ethnic groups. It is a truly indigenous ethnic group. However, in this era, it has not been recognized as a Chinese people by the Han court, and there are no Organizing the people into households was an important source of slaves for the local wealthy families in Jiangdong. Being treated in this way, they were naturally very aggressive towards the people of the Central Plains and Jiangdong. In later history, the Shanyue people were also an important source of soldiers in Jiangdong. Sun Quan was defeated and was short of soldiers, so he went to the Shanyue area to sweep up and captured tens of thousands of people and sent them to the army, but he did not train much, let alone talk about military morale.

Therefore, Jiangdong can often organize an army of 100,000 people. Although the number of people is large, the combat power is not very good, so it is reasonable that he often loses the battle.

The relationship between Jiangdong and Shanyue is definitely not good now, and the fighting has never stopped. Local powerful men like Jiao Jiao often attack Shanyue and kidnap people as slaves. But on the other hand, it also ensures local security.

Bu Zha sighed: "There is no other way, we can only take it slowly. Maybe after Jiangdong is stabilized, we can slowly unify it, and then Kuaiji will be stable."

However, reality soon gave Bu Zhi another slap in the face. During a large-scale counterattack by the Shanyue people, it affected the villages and towns where Bu Zhi Wei Jing was located. At that time, Jiao Jiao saw that he did not have an advantage in numbers, so he only protected his own camp. , regardless of others, as a result, many members of the two families were killed or injured.

Wei Jing was furious at this moment, and Bu Zhao also had the idea of ​​leaving. After all, the purpose of swallowing the rich is to survive, but the other party oppresses you, but cannot protect your safety, so what's the use of staying here?

But the two of them didn't know where to go. The two of them had violated Han law by escaping to Jiangdong. They finally relied on Jiao Jiao to find a temporary shelter. Now which force can take in themselves with unknown origins?

While the two were hesitating, someone came to them secretly. When he revealed his identity, both of them were quite surprised. This turned out to be a secret agent from the Fierce Tiger Prosecutor's Office!

The secret agents in the prosecutor's office are called prosecutors. They have extremely high status and authority and are directly under the jurisdiction of Yuan Xi and the local governor. This prosecutor comes from Guangling and is sent by Chen Deng. The purpose is to secretly search for people on Yuan Xi's list in Jiangdong.

Most of the people on these lists are not famous in this world, but they are all talented and virtuous people recorded in later generations. This is Yuan Xi's basic requirement.

Yuan Xi thought it would be difficult to control people like Jia Xu who were talented but had no position, so he directly threw Jia Xu into Youzhou's labor camp.

There are many secret agents of the Procuratorate in Wu County, but most of them have little chance, because most of the children of aristocratic families have already joined the officialdom, and it is difficult to poach them.

The prosecutor, in the mood of giving it a try, ran to Kuaiji in the south of Wu County. After a search, he was overjoyed and he actually found out about Bu Zhi and Wei Jing!

He did not have time to notify Chen Deng, so he immediately found the two of them and promised them in the name of the prosecutor's office that he could arrange for the two of them and their clansmen to return to Guangling, pay for the land and house, and arrange to meet Chen Deng to serve as officials.

The two of them were hesitant at first, but Bu Zhi sighed: "We are unknown, but it is really incredible that Yuan Shijun could know our names."

"Zhao is deeply honored to make such a difficult decision. However, it is extremely troublesome for the whole family to move back. There are many difficulties along the way. I don't know how many people there are."

"What's more, even when we reach Wu County, it's a big problem to cross the river north. Now that Jiangdong and Yuan Shijun are at odds, it won't be easy to cross the river, right?"

The spy smiled and said: "As long as you two agree, I will solve everything."

"A hundred miles east of here is the seaside. Just ask the two of you to pack things up and wait for news from me in three days."

Bu Zhi hesitated for a long time, and He Weijing discussed in a low voice for a long time, and then said to the secret agent: "Then please worry about the prosecution."

Late at night a few days later, when Bu Zhi and Wei Jing led their tribesmen out of the village, they saw dozens of donkey carts. The prosecutor was waiting with people. Bu Zhi thought to himself that the prosecutor's office was very capable. In such an unfamiliar place, you can get dozens of donkey carts in three days, which is difficult for ordinary powerful people to do.

Everyone got in the car, and under the leadership of the spies and a few people who were obviously Shanyue people, they walked through the mountain roads and dense forests for four or five days before arriving at the seaside.

Bu Zhi and Wei Jing were shocked when they walked out of the dense forest and saw several huge ships on the coast.

Wei Jing asked in surprise: "Where did this ship come from?"

The prosecutor smiled and said: "This is the ship of the Zhen family caravan directly under the envoy."

"Under the guise of being a maritime trader, he has been on duty at sea."

On the day of the inspection, he dispatched his men and rushed to the contact point on the seaside. He notified the nearby ship to arrive, so he was able to wait in advance when the convoy arrived.

Bu Zhao said: "This time the cost is huge, just for us two insignificant people, so you have such courage?"

The prosecutor smiled and said: "The envoy has long said that if he can get the person he likes to come to vote, he will be willing to pay no matter how high the price is."

The two of them had mixed feelings in their hearts. At that time, they were basically unknown common people, but the other party could actually do this!

At this point, the two of them had all their doubts gone and took their clansmen on board the ship. After all, with their current status, there was really no need for the other party to spend a lot of time designing themselves.

After Chen Deng met the two of them, he was really good at picking people's minds. This is because even though the gentry is down and out, what they value most is the safety of their clansmen and the second is their sense of identity. Now Yuan Xi has both these aspects. If you do enough, it will become a matter of course for the other party to be convinced and come to vote.

And after the conversation, Chen Deng found that the two of them were indeed very talented. He couldn't help but admire Yuan Xilai. He was so good at observing stars in his mind. There were no mediocre people among the lord's men, right?

(End of this chapter)