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

Chapter 337 Sun Wu ([-])

half year later

Autumn of the third year of Xingping (196)
Kuaiji County

Shanyin City (Shaoxing)

"Your Majesty, something is not going well, the prefect of Zhou has been defeated!" Gong Cao Yu Fan informed the prefect Wang Lang of the bad news.

Wang Lang was born in the Wang family of Donghai, and was of the same lineage as the Wang family of Taiyuan, but they separated later.

He and Kong Rong belonged to the same kind of people. He was born in a noble family, full of knowledge, but incapable of governing the country. Facing the enemy's attack, he could only run away with his head in his arms.

This Zhou prefect is Zhou Xin, the prefect of Danyang County, and he joins forces with Wang Lang to resist "Jiangdong Little Overlord Sun Ce".

As a result, when defending the south bank of Zhejiang (Qiantang River), he was attacked by the little bully Sun Ce from the sea, and finally the whole army was wiped out.

A few months ago, Sun Ce broke away from Yuan Shu, crossed the Yangtze River with 3000 people, and defeated Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou in Wujun.

Liu Yao was defeated and fled to Yuzhang County. After Sun Ce occupied the whole Wu County, he first killed several children of the Lu family and Gu family in Wu County, and forced the Lu family and Gu family to send money and food for military expenses.

Later, Sun Ce, the little overlord, was not satisfied with occupying a Wu county. After "borrowing (robbing)" food and grass from the two Wu county gentry, Lu family and Gu family, he continued southward with an army of [-] to attack Wang Lang's army. Kuaiji County.

After that, Wang Lang wanted to rely on Zhejiang (Qiantang River) to resist Sun Ce, but Sun Ce wiped out Wang Lang's main force with a sneak attack from behind.

"Damn the son of the Sun family, he doesn't show respect at all, he kills people at every turn!"

Wang Lang cursed, quickly packed up his things, followed Yu Fan out of the city, came to the seaside, boarded a small boat, crossed the sea and fled towards the Shanyue area further south.

The reason why we don’t run directly by land is because there are too many hills in the Shanyue (Fujian) area, and it’s really not easy to go by land. Instead, it’s easier to enter Shanyue by sea.

As for why Sun Ce came to the south of the Yangtze River, we have to start with Yuan Shu.

A few years ago, Yuan Shu cut off Sun Jian's food and grass, trying to force Sun Jian to stop beating Dong Zhuo and go back to help him beat Liu Biao.

Sun Jian was killed by an arrow while attacking Liu Biao, and Yuan Shu himself was defeated by Liu Biao.

After failing to develop southward, Yuan Shu wanted to take advantage of Cao Cao's first massacre of Xuzhou to attack Yanzhou, which was empty of Cao Cao's troops. As a result, Cao Cao just returned to Yanzhou, and Yuan Shu was beaten and fled.

After fleeing to Yuzhou, Yuan Shu wanted to take advantage of Liu Bei's unstable foothold to attack Liu Bei's Xuzhou. He also instigated Lu Bu who had fled to Xiaopei. Ideas also fail.

In the end, Yuan Shu had no choice but to send the little overlord Sun Ce across the river to grab territory south of the Yangtze River.

The princes in Yangzhou are either rotten Confucians like Wang Lang and Hua Xin, or incompetent people like Liu Yao. The Lu family and Gu family are also weak bones. After the death of a few family members, they immediately surrendered.

The little overlord Sun Ce seems to have entered the fish pond game here, killing people randomly.

Yuan Shao, Gongsun, Zan, and Cao Cao in the Central Plains, these powerful princes can easily have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but here in Yangzhou, a few thousand people is a super large scale, and more than [-] soldiers and horses are earth-shattering.

It is okay to ask Wang Lang to talk about the principles of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, but it is really too embarrassing for him to resist Sun Ce.

Sitting on the rickety boat, Wang Lang was very scared.

After all, sailing on the sea is much more dangerous than sailing on the river. On the river, you can rest at the shore at any time, but on this sea, if you deviate slightly from the coastline, you may get lost directly, and then the boat will drift to the vast sea without knowing where to go.

Not long after, Wang Lang and Yu Fan's boat first came to the Kuaiji Islands (Zhoushan Islands), and after sighing that there were a lot of fish here, they continued to head south.

Several hours later, three large ships appeared ahead, and those large ships gradually approached Wang Lang's small boat.

"Could it be the boat of the Shanyue people?" Wang Lang was very puzzled.

However... a sailor on a large ship threw a rope to Wang Lang's boat and ordered them: "Get on our boat, or your boat will sink and you will drown!"

"It's disgraceful, it's disgraceful!" Wang Lang was also angry at being so rude by a sailor, but seeing the expression on his face that didn't look like a joke, he had to drag Yu Fan into the rope and be dragged into the rope by those sailors on the big ship. The sailors pulled on board.

"It looks like there are two scholars who can sell for a lot of money."

"It's God's pity that we can still catch scholars in this mountainous and sea area."

The strange words of the sailors made Wang Lang even more frightened.

Sell?Are they going to sell me?I heard that there are people-eating monsters overseas, so they want to sell me to the monsters for dinner, right?
"May I ask who you are?" Although Yu Fan who was on the side was also scared, he still mustered up the courage to ask.

However, those sailors ignored Yu Fan, and just chatted about which girl was pretty.

Yu Fan retreated to Wang Lang's side in embarrassment, staring at the sea in a daze.

After a long time, they crossed the sea and finally docked at a pier.

The pier is filled with the smell of rotting corpses. There are hundreds of ships docked on the sea, some of which are full of people, who seem to be from the Central Plains.

"Let's go, you two." The sailor who captured the two of them smiled at Wang Lang.

Wang Lang Yufan's hands and feet were bound and he was forced to disembark from the boat. Enduring all kinds of smells of carrion, fish, and sweat, he walked on the brand new and flat stone road.

"Ugh! Wow ugh—"

A malaria-infected immigrant vomited incessantly, his face was pale, his body was weak, and blood was still bleeding from his eyes, nose, and earholes.

Those Central Plains people who disembarked were arranged to live in temporary tents.

On both sides of the road, many craftsmen are building houses, idle immigrants are helping to carry materials such as stones and wood, and some immigrants are digging the foundation with iron picks.

In the distance, many farmers are pulling oxen and iron plows to reclaim wasteland, and countless laborers are digging ditches under the command of some senior craftsmen to divert streams to the wastelands that are being reclaimed.

Periodically some soldiers will clean up the dead bodies of miasma, and even soldiers will die from miasma.

A few aborigines with colored mud on their bodies were hanging from a tree branch and swinging. A soldier was beating these aborigines while other slaves whose hands and feet were bound by iron chains, cursing "this is the end of the rebellion" .

There are also some indigenous girls being sold in public on a wooden platform.

Many carriages are pulling a lot of supplies, including salted fish, stone slabs, farm tools and so on.

There are also a few wagons full of bound native slaves.

Moreover, most of the Han people here speak Qingzhou dialect, and a few speak Yanzhou dialect, but without exception, they all wear thin civilian clothes, because this place is really hot.

Everything here made Wang Lang feel both novel and terrifying. Finally, they came to a wooden house, and the owner of the wooden house smiled at the sailor: "Your Taoyuan guild is really good. Last time, you caught a few people crossing the sea in Xuzhou waters." Scholars, this time we caught two more scholars in the Shanyue sea."

After all, the owner of the wooden house asked Wang Lang: "What's your name, what's your character, where are you from, and what scriptures do you know?"

(End of this chapter)