Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 105 Consolidating Jiangdong
be cheated!
This is the only reaction in Cai Mao's mind after he took office for only half a month after the new Yangzhou Mu.Now he is in Yuzhang City, and the prefects of Wujun, Danyang, Kuaiji and other counties he appointed have just been blasted back by the local garrison without exception.The reason is also very good: it was agreed at the beginning that these places are under the care of Uncle Liu Huang, so I won't bother you to worry about them.At present, Cai Mao, the Yangzhou shepherd, really occupies the two counties of Yuzhang and Luling.

Send people to Shouchun to negotiate with Liu Bei, and the latter will take out the original alliance letter as a guarantee, even if you have a thousand words to say, but just refuse to give the territory.He went to Jingzhou to appeal to Liu Biao, but the latter refused to speak for him on the grounds that it was inconvenient to intervene in Yangzhou's affairs as a Jingzhou pastor.Send troops to fight over?Cai Mao knew how weak his men were, so he probably could only send them to Zhao Feng and others for training.Right now it seemed that he could only live in these two counties, and Cai Mao felt resentful until he received a secret letter from Kuai Yue, and then he calmed down a little.

Not to mention that Cai Mao was aggrieved, but Zhao Feng and the others were not idle at this time.There is no other reason, Jiangdong, which has just been defeated, needs to be consolidated.That day when Zhao Feng and Guan Yu marched into Yuzhou, except for Qiao County, which took a lot of effort to defeat, the rest basically depended on the rumors.But at present, the Jiangdong counties, except the remote Nanhai, Cangwu, and Lujiang, have not experienced much war. The rest of Danyang and Wu counties have endured the war, and Kuaiji was severely damaged in the two battles.Moreover, even Jiang Dong, who was unscathed, still has many problems in Zhao Feng's view.The biggest problem is that the land is sparsely populated. The combined population of Kuaiji and Nanhai County in the south is only more than 30, but the area exceeds Qingzhou + Xuzhou.So although the land is fertile there, its value is not fully utilized.The other is the soldiers. After experiencing the great war, although some Jiangdong troops were recruited.But excluding the local guards and supplementing Xuzhou's losses, there are less than 5 left.Zhao Feng felt as if he had returned to the time when he first arrived in Xuzhou, or when he was helping Guan Yu consolidate Yuzhou.In the end, Sun Fu, who was a local, told Zhao Feng that the wheat would be harvested in a few months. The harvest in Shanyue, Kuaiji, in the south was not good this year, and in all likelihood, he would go down the mountain to grab grain, so he had to make preparations as soon as possible.

Fortunately, Liu Bei gave him great support.Although the official position is only the prefect of Lujiang, everyone in Jiangdong knows that Zhao Feng is already the fourth person in Liu Bei's group.At present, Zhang Fei is in the north, Guan Yu is in the west, and Zhao Feng is in the south. The structure has been initially formed, and Liu Bei's attitude of letting him take charge of Jiangdong is obvious.At present, Liu Bei dispatched Chen Jiao from Yuzhou and Xu Xuan from Xuzhou, two talents who are proficient in internal affairs to help him manage Jiangdong.

According to Zhao Feng's idea, the advantages of the vast area of ​​Jiangdong, the depth of the south, and the fertile land should be fully utilized to build it into the rear of Liu Bei Group. This idea was unanimously agreed by Liu Bei, Lu Su and others.So with Liu Bei's consent, a series of actions to consolidate Jiangdong were carried out.First, Xu Xuan discussed with Chen Jiao and Zhao Feng. This year, the Xuzhou army decided to recruit [-] new soldiers in Xuzhou, Huainan and Yuzhou due to the heavy losses in the war.The difference from previous years is that once these recruits join the army this year, their families can go to Kuaiji to get five acres of land, and the tax will be halved within one year, and it will be owned by them after five years.If there are military exploits in the future, they will be rewarded again.If he dies on the battlefield within five years, the land will belong to his family.

The promulgation of this measure caused an uproar in Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Huainan. Since ancient times, the biggest wish of farmers is to own their own land, even if it is far away or poor.Kuaiji County and Nanhai County have vast areas, and large areas of open land are uncultivated. This move not only replenishes the source of soldiers, but also attracts a large number of people to go south.Some are of course the families of recruits, while others follow suit and go to the south to discuss life.When recruits were recruited in autumn, nearly 30 households in Nanhai and Kuaiji counties, with a population of more than [-], continued to increase, and the situation of sparsely populated land was greatly improved.At the same time, due to the increase in population, the labor problems of building cities and paving roads and bridges were also solved, which was unexpected by Zhao Feng.

The second is to destroy Kuaiji Shanyue. In fact, Zhao Feng and Liu Bei didn't want to fight with them. After all, there is a precedent of Danyang Shanyue. They thought they could easily persuade them to surrender.But the leader of Kuaiji Shanyue didn't know whether it was fearlessness or stupidity, and he killed the envoy directly when facing Liu Bei's surrender. Now Liu Bei was furious and ordered Zhao Feng to try to destroy these guys.

When the Sun Quan brothers went to Jiaozhou that day, only the three generals Ling Tong, Ding Feng, and Lu Meng voluntarily followed. Except for Cheng Pu and other three elders who were unwilling to go out to serve and stay at home, the rest except Jiang Qin and others who died in the melee, They attached themselves to Liu Bei one after another, or were transferred by Liu Bei to the two states of Xu and Yu, or stayed behind in Jiangdong.At this time in Jiangdong, Zhang Liao was in Danyang, Gan Ning was in Wujun, Wenpin was in Kuaiji, Tai Shici was in Poyang, and some old Jiangdong generals who were in Lujiang with Zhao Feng.The rest, such as Xu Sheng and others, either returned to their respective places to serve, or served in Shouchun with Liu Bei, and the army could only mobilize more than 4 people.As for the civil servants, they were as shameless as Zhao Feng expected, and they all surrendered.

"Huaiji Shanyue hides in the deep mountains. Whenever the wheat and rice are ripe, they will go down the mountain to grab grain. If you are careful, you will inevitably be careful; if you are conscripted by a large army, it will be difficult to march in the deep mountains. What can you do?" On this day Zhao Feng summoned the generals in Lujiang to discuss the matter of Shanyue, and He Qi spoke first.

He Qi is from Kuaiji, so naturally he knows the dangers of the mountains.When the rest of the people heard this, they also found it difficult to handle.Zhao Feng pondered for a while and said: "I have a plan, maybe it can cure Shanyue."

"Cure?" He Qi was also taken aback when he heard the words, not only him, but also the rest of Jiangdong's former generals could not believe it.Zhao Feng didn't give a shit, and immediately ordered: "General He, go to the nearby counties where Shanyue gathers in Kuaiji, mobilize the local people to build fences as soon as possible, and split Shanyue into pieces. I cut all the nearby wheat first, and forced them to go down the mountain to grab grain. The rest of the generals led their own troops, and after the mountain went down the mountain and was blocked by the fence, they led their troops to attack separately. They fled back into the mountains."

"The general understands!" He Qi understood after a little thought that this method would be much more effective than honestly going into the mountains to exterminate them.At this time, Lu Jun on the side also smiled and said: "The general uses this method to confiscate Shanyue. It can be used as a countermeasure, and it will get twice the result with half the effort." Zhao Feng laughed when he heard the words, but felt a little strange in his heart: this is what Zhuge Ke and Lu Xun used to deal with in history Shanyue's method, I just borrowed it myself, but it is inevitable that I feel a little guilty when I am praised in person by my father.

According to the strategy provided by Zhao Feng, He Qi went to build the fence first, and after a month, when the wheat was ripe, he would lead the troops with Sun Fu and Dong Xi respectively.There was a shortage of food in the mountains of Kuaiji, and the various ministries were forced to organize troops to go down the mountain to grab food. As a result, the lone army went deep and was divided and surrounded by He Qi and others to wipe out one by one.After nearly a month of fierce fighting, Kuaiji Shanyue's vitality was seriously injured, and the young and middle-aged men either died in battle or were captured. Later, Zhao Feng used the captured people to coerce Shanyue, who was hiding in the deep mountains, down the mountain.Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard the words, and ordered the Shanyue Army to be reorganized into the army, and the population was scattered nearby to supplement the population of the two counties of Kuaiji and Nanhai.At the same time, under Zhao Feng's suggestion, the planting of rice was promoted in Kuaiji and other places, and the land of Jiangdong, which had just experienced war for a while, gradually recovered some weather.

Sun Quan, who was in Jiaozhou, was speechless for a long time after learning that Zhao Feng had easily managed Shanyue. He just sighed that if he could use this method, why would he worry about Shanyue?It's just that people are in Jiaozhou now, so it's too late to regret.

The time came to the end of the sixth month of the lunar calendar in the fifth year of Jian'an. At this time, Shanyue had been expropriated and rice transplanting had begun.In the high places where the water cannot flow, Zhao Feng ordered the artisans accompanying the army to build more keel waterwheels under the command of Lu Hao, and at the same time dig channels to divert water for civilian use.

On this day, Zhao Feng personally inspected the farming conditions of the nearby counties together with Chen Jiao and Lu Jun.Right now, as the prefect of Lujiang, he still chooses to govern in Wancheng in the south of the Yangtze River.On weekdays, most of the military affairs are only in charge, and the civil affairs are still handed over to Chen Jiao and Xu Xuan.

"General, with this waterwheel, this year's rice production in Lujiang can increase by at least [-]%!" Chen Jiao laughed while accompanying Zhao Feng on a horseback.Speaking of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Zhao Feng only knew that he was a capitulator, but he didn't expect that this guy was good at handling internal affairs.Now that Zhang Zhao was recalled by Liu Bei to his hometown in Xuzhou, Jiangdong's civil affairs basically depended on him and Xu Xuan.

"That's right!" Zhao Feng didn't expect that the prefect of Chen Jun who surrendered back then had some skills, but now he actually became his subordinate, it's really unpredictable.But he didn't want to think about it. In this troubled world, if he can be the prefect of one party, he should have some tricks.

"It's a pity that the war has subsided late this year, and there is only time to promote it in Danyang and Lujiang. Otherwise, if Wujun, Kuaiji and other places can also use this waterwheel, the entire Jiangdong can increase the rice production by another [-] to [-] percent." Lu Jun felt a little regretful. typical.Because Zhao Feng was named the prefect of Lujiang, he had to be changed to be the prefect of Danyang, and he was stationed in Danyang with Zhang Liao.As for the prefect of Wujun, Liu Bei handed it over to the former No. [-] figure of Jiangdong Huaisi Group.What surprised Zhao Feng the most was that the prefect of Kuaiji was actually his cheap elder brother Zhao Yu who volunteered to take up the post.It was only later that I found out that the reason why Zhao Yu was so eager was purely because the Kuaiji coastline was long enough for him to dry the salt.

"Prefect Lu, our family members are coming soon!" Zhao Feng suddenly remembered something and asked Lu Jun quickly.According to regulations, at least some of their family members of the frontier officials should stay in Shouchun as hostages, but Zhao Feng and Lu Jun are in Lujiang and Danyang, only one step away from Shouchun, Liu Bei also asked them to reunite with their families first, and then Go to Shouchun.

"That's right, Taishou Lu also misses his family!" Zhao Feng sighed, why didn't he miss the two wives?Lu Jun didn't deny it either, just smiled and said, "Finally, I still have Xun'er by my side this year, so I don't think I'm lonely. But Xun'er has just been appointed as Jurong Chief by the lord, and he's leaving again."

"Why should Prefect Lu be sad, your son is outstanding, and my lord has a good sense of people, in the future, he will definitely not be inferior to you and me!" Zhao Feng said half jokingly, half affirmatively, Lu Jun didn't even dare to say what he said.Everyone chatted and laughed all the way, inspected the situation in Lujiang and several nearby counties in Danyang, and went back separately.

"General, the family members have arrived this afternoon!" As soon as he returned to his mansion, the housekeeper reported to himself. Zhao Feng was shocked and rushed into the house when he heard the words. The one there was neither Diao Chan nor Zhen Jiang, but another girl.

Seeing Zhao Feng coming in, the girl giggled, and regardless of Zhao Feng's astonishment, she got up and said, "Brother-in-law!"

(End of this chapter)