These local aristocratic families are unreliable, he knew it early on.

But these people can abandon the city and flee, but he can't.

He is the prefect of Danyang, whether it is the coming of the mountains, the people of Lujiang or whoever is coming, he has to bear it here.

Otherwise, the entire Zhou family, even Zhou Yi and Zhou Shang, who are officials in Luoyang as far away as officials, would be greatly affected by this if they could not die to preserve the Festival.

……

"Don't be like this, don't be like this, Commander!"

"Our place in Danyang is small and poor, and we can't make up food for a while, so there's nothing we can do..."

"It's better for the commander-in-chief to give us a few more days, just a few more days."

"The Han towns in the north were taken by Lujiang people. I can still ask my colleagues in Wujun and Yuzhang to borrow them."

"Marshal, please give me a way. As soon as the food, grass, cattle and sheep arrive, we will send someone over there immediately!"

"How do you like it?"

……

Sure enough, although there was a lot of grievances in his heart, Zhou Xin still put on a weak and deceptive look in front of Peng Shi, as if he was really an inconspicuous little old man.

From him, there is no sign that this person is actually the younger brother of the Great Han Taiwei, the elder brother of Luoyang Lingzhi.

On the other hand, Peng Shi, who was laughing and joking, dragged a few Meiji who were pouring wine for him to stand up.

He seemed to be a little drunk, or maybe he felt a little tired...

Peng Shi scratched his head, then took out a bronze badge from his waist and threw it on the ground.

……

"Hmph, it's almost..."

"This is my Shanyue's token. Once you get the food, send people to the Dayue camp outside my city as soon as possible."

"Bringing this token will ensure that your food delivery team can get out of my camp alive."

……

"As for... hiccup—"

"As for these beauties, I'll take them back first."

……

Scratching his cheek a little casually, Peng Shi let out a long, smelly belch.

He touched the bodies of these people, with a satisfied lewd smile on his face.

……

"This, does this seem inappropriate?"

"Right now, it's getting late, why don't you, Commander, rest in my Wanling for a night, and when you wake up tomorrow, how about going back to the army?"

……

Hearing that the other party was going to bring the beauties who accompanied them back to the camp, not only the complexions of the young girls changed suddenly, but even an elder from the city who had been silent before turned pale in an instant.

Are you kidding... These two are servants of his mansion. In Wanling City, it's fine to be humiliated by the other party, but if they are taken out of the city and brought to his camp in Shanyue...

Can you come out alive?

……

"Fuck off!"

"Don't think I don't know what you're thinking!"

……

He was blocked for a moment, but Peng Shi was furious.

I saw that he overturned the other party's desk with one kick, and the other party who splashed the leftovers did not say anything, and he did not forget to mend the old man who was born.

……

"I give you a good face, do you really think you are great!?"

"These girls are a lesson!"

"If five days...no, after four days, my soldiers will not see the rations, then your wife and children will be next!"

"I'd like to see, little old man, do you love your maids, or do you love your women more?"

……

PS: Ah, I originally wanted to post it before 6 o'clock, but I wrote a little too much, and I wrote 5k words, so I delayed it by half an hour.

In addition, don't think that my novels are all appalling. The ethnic disputes in the south are really no better than the invasion of the Huns and Xianbei in the north before the reformation of the land.

Chapter 21 This is the life of a hundred thousand people, you must not hide your secrets

"Everyone, you are all local clan elders in Danyang, and you are all the brawns of previous prefects."

"Right now, Danyang is facing such a crisis, tell me, what should we do?"

……

Not long after, Peng Shi returned to the Shanyue camp outside the city with a few servants in a drunken state.

The mess here was also cleaned up by Zhou Xin, and a group of local aristocratic families sat here again and began to discuss the next plan.

……

"Prefect Zhou, you heard it too, these Shanyue are really murderous evil stars, even...even cannibalism, they can speak so confidently..."

"We must not provoke the other party, otherwise, the people in this city will suffer because of it!"

The first to speak out was the elder of the aristocratic family whose maid was taken away by the other party.

His face was still dark at the moment, apparently he hadn't recovered from what happened just now.

But even so, what he said was still to ask Zhou Xin to handle the matter carefully, so as not to anger the Shanyue bandit.

Not only him, but even some other clan elders responded one after another, looking as if they were invincible.

……

"That's right, prefect, if we are both Han Chinese, then everyone will talk about religious etiquette, and if something happens, we can sit down and talk with each other in a friendly manner."

"But the mountain is more different. They don't make sense at all when they kill people. If someone accidentally offends them, then the real dead are our Han people."

"In my opinion, why don't you come forward and ask the prefect of Wujun, or those merchants from the noble families in Wujun, to see if they are willing to lend me food."

"Let's get together with a few big local families, and we must get through this disaster first?"

……

Seeing someone speak out first, another person also jumped out from the side.

Zhou Xin remembered him.

This person is a local leader who is not too big. Although he is usually quiet and does not have any high-ranking officials in his family, he actually has thousands of acres of fertile land, which is richer than most small families.

The other party now showed an appeasement and conservative appearance, which Zhou Xin expected.

……

only……

It's just that this huge Wanling, with more than a dozen aristocratic families, big and small, can't they gather a person who wants to resist?

……

Looking at the more than ten people present, Zhou Xin suddenly felt a little sad when he saw their heads bowed and silent.

……

Indeed, Shanyue is invincible, and now the city where I am is surrounded by [-] troops. It is normal for these people to not want to tear themselves apart for the sake of their own clansmen and their own family property.

In all fairness, if Zhou Xin's own clan lived in Danyang, and the Zhou family was located in Wanling, Danyang instead of Shu County, Lujiang, he probably would not have performed much better than these clan elders.

But, but that can't just be accommodating like this?

He has already made the hint so obvious that he can go to Wujun, Yuzhang, and a few Yangzhou colleagues in the surrounding area to borrow food, and then naturally he can go to the government of these people to rescue soldiers.

Is it to borrow food or borrow people? Isn't it just a matter of one sentence?

……

Even if the strength of Danyang County is not enough to fight against these Shanyue, but uniting the whole Yangzhou, it will not be able to be ridden by these Shanyue, right?

To put it bluntly, if the opponent continues to take it away like this, then this Danyang will no longer be the Danyang of the big man, but the Danyang of Da Yue.

If this is the case, then when the opponent's power is deeply rooted here, what capital does your family have to survive?

Do you expect the Yue people to be like the Han people, relying on their families to govern the country?

absurd!

……

Where no one noticed, Zhou Xin secretly sighed, and at the same time felt a sense of grievance in his heart.

It has not been a day or two since he came to Danyang. He has been busy in Danyang for so long. At first, he thought it was Shanyue who was too powerful, which frustrated the people here. He lost his blood, lost his loyalty, and lost his courage as a Han, so he became a meat pig raised by Shanyue.

To be honest, this is not the first time such a result has happened.

Even if there is only one... no, even if only half of them stand up and say to Zhou Xin, "Prefect, this is not going to work, we have to find a way to resist", then he will not be so sad.

Even through this Huatou, he can rely on his own relationship to contact... those people, and completely solve the problem of Danyang Mountain.

But these people don't.

not a single one.

……

"No, maybe there used to be..."

Silently glanced at the people present, Zhou Xin still remembered that not long after he took office as the prefect of Danyang, there were still many aristocratic families who expressed to him openly and secretly that they wanted to work together to solve the Shanyue problem.

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