The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 45 The Black Hand of the Bu Family ([-])

"Patriarch... woo woo woo... You want to avenge us... Brothers died so badly... Then Guan Yi from Xishu is a water bandit!"

Soochow, Jingzhou, Yidu County, Xiling County.The governor of Xiling is stationed in Jiedi.

Like the Shu Han, in order to strengthen the rule and promote the economic development of remote areas and mountainous areas.Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhou under the jurisdiction of Soochow also divided more counties on the basis of the Eastern Han Dynasty.For example, Nanjun in Jingzhou used to be divided into three in this era: Jianping County, Yidu County, and Nanjun.

Jianping County, including today's Wushan County in Chongqing, Badong, Zigui, Lichuan, Enshi, etc. in Hubei.This is the mountainous area where Daba Mountain and Wuling Mountain meet.Soochow has very little military power here, and it is actually a buffer zone between Soochow and Shuhan—in 222 AD, when Liu Bei attacked Wu, Soochow lost this area with little resistance.

However, Yidu County, which was separated from Nanjun, was different.The Xiling City within its territory is today's Yichang.Anyone who is familiar with geography knows that Yichang is the exit of the Three Gorges.Once the Yangtze River passes through Yichang, the surface of the river will expand several times, and its water flow will slow down significantly.Therefore, for the Soochow regime that did not control the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Xiling is a place that must be guarded—whether it is for Shu Han or Cao Wei, in order to prevent the enemy from going down the river, Xiling is the most important strategic point—or 222 AD In the year of Liu Bei's attack on Wu, Soochow resisted Liu Bei tenaciously in this place.Because this place cannot be lost, once it is lost, the empty door will be wide open.

(Xiling is Yiling, which was renamed by Soochow after the Yiling War.)
Therefore, Soochow stationed heavy troops here, and set up the governor of Xiling to sit in town.And the current governor of Xiling is Bu Zhi's eldest son, Bu Xie.

Because it guards the throat of the Yangtze River waterway, the goods of Mi's business must pass through Xiling.After the production of various products in Fuling County has gradually increased, Mi Zhao will of course sell these things to Soochow and Cao Wei, which have better economic foundations.And Xiling is the first sales location.

At that time, Bu Zhi was worshiped by Sun Quan as the governor of Xiling because of his meritorious service in suppressing the rebellion in Jiaozhou.Been in this position for 20 years.In the past 20 years, Bu Zhi gave full play to his political skills and slowly transferred the political and economic center of Jingzhou in the Eastern Wu Dynasty from Jiangling to Xiling.By the time he took over as Lu Xun's prime minister, Xiling had already been turned into a fief of the Bu family.After Bu Zhi passed away, the Soochow royal family had to appoint Bu Zhi's eldest son to take over as the governor of Xiling—others would not be able to sit still if they went!

Now, the various industries in Xiling City are small in scale, but if they are a little larger, they cannot be operated without the protection or equity participation of the Bu family.Therefore, when Yanxi lacquer, Jingyao wax, soap, and fruit wine were launched in Xiling, they quickly attracted the attention of the Bu family.

Now Bu Zhi's eldest son, Bu Xie, is the official figure in the Bu family, and this master is not specifically involved in the family's business affairs.It is Bu Zhi's second son Bu Chan who is in charge of the Bu family's economy.If we say that the eldest son of the Bu family, Bu Xie, is a relatively reliable young master.Then this master can be said to have gathered all the negative factors of dandies: selfishness, shamelessness, greed, and stupidity.

On the historical plane, when Buxie passed away.Bu Chan bribed the royal family and court ministers of Soochow, and snatched the position of governor of Xiling from his nephew.When Sun Hao, the emperor of Eastern Wu, succeeded to the throne, he wanted to strengthen the centralization of power and take back control of Xiling.He sent his brother's two sons as hostages to the Western Jin Dynasty and surrendered to the Western Jin Dynasty—but his own son was reluctant to send them away.

(Sun Hao's strengthening of centralization is one aspect, and more importantly, it involves the Nanlu party struggle. I will describe this in detail in subsequent chapters.)
When Sun Hao sent Lu Kang to attack him, the rescue troops from the Western Jin Dynasty were already visible outside Xiling City, but he didn't dare to open the city gate and rush out to attack Lu Kang from both sides.As a result, the Western Jin army was defeated by Lu Kang and retreated, and his Xiling City was later breached.He, a child of the Bu family, was wiped out by Lu Kang according to Sun Hao's order - if he had known, he would have sent his son to the Western Jin Dynasty as a hostage...

So, after this master saw such good things as soap and Jingyao wax shipped by Mi's shop.Of course I can't wait to have it.After a little inquiring, Bu Erye sent his own slaves to ask Guan Yi for production technology, and the price he offered was: [-] yuan!And it's not the five baht coins used by the Shu Han and Cao Wei, but the Daquan Dangqian that even the ghosts in Soochow don't use!

What is Daquan Dangqian?Well, this kind of copper coin is slightly bigger than the five baht of the Han Dynasty, and then Sun Quan wrote four words on it: Daquan Dangqian-show me all!This is a lot of money, one is worth a thousand five baht coins!
This shit is not much different from the later fruit party printing money and stealing money.Of course, its actual application effect is also extremely poor: not to mention the Wei and Han countries, even the people of Soochow's own country did not buy it at all.

(Of course, when it comes to printing banknotes to rob money, Liu Bei and Sun Quan don’t talk about the second brother. Sun Quan has done Daquan Dangqian, and Liu Bei has also done things worth one hundred and five baht, five hundred and five baht, etc. The currency system of the Shu Han continued until Zhuge Liang came to power. gradually returned to normal.)
Undoubtedly, Guan Yi and his colleagues rejected the representative of the Bu family without hesitation.But the good thing is that the Bu family has been the local emperor in Xiling City for 30 years. Not to mention the master of the Bu family, the slaves of the Bu family are also used to domineering.So when Guan Yi expressed his refusal, the representatives of the Bu family actually uttered vicious words, which made Guan Yi and the others move to kill—this group of young masters don't look like dogs now, with expressions of worrying about the country and the people .But they were also dudes before.Dude, sometimes doing things is really impulsive.

But Zhang Zun, who disguised himself as a water bandit to kill people, made a fatal mistake: he was born in CD and grew up in CD.There is still a lack of understanding of the skills of the residents on both sides of the Yangtze River: Among the representatives of the Bu family, one was born in the Xiling Navy. One aspect is that he is good at swimming, but the key is that he is good at holding his breath in water.When Zhang Zun led the team to kill, he quickly dived into the water after being slashed, holding his breath for half a stick of incense - in Zhang Zun's view, if he didn't come up for so long, he must have drowned Yes, let him go.

"Patriarch, you can't be wrong. Those water bandits must be people from the Fuling prefect's mansion. The water bandit in the lead, when Brother Bu Yao took us to the Fuling prefect's mansion, I saw it in the prefect's mansion. Because of this Human skin is like black charcoal, leopard head with round eyes, and bearded face. It is very impressive, and the slaves will remember it after just one glance."

"Hmph! Don't talk about it. With such an honorable appearance, that guy must be Zhang Zun, the grandson of Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide! Good! The little thief from Xishu dared to attack my big Wubu family. I am so impatient." Already!"

Bu Chan got up angrily, walked to one side of the wall and looked at the map for a while: "Bu Tong, you go to our manor in Wuling and transfer [-] shi of grain and [-] soldiers. Those little thieves in Shu look good!"

"Uh, Patriarch, do you want to talk to the Grand Master about this matter first?"

"Kang Dang!" A teacup has been slammed on Bu Tong's head: "Bastard! You have to agree to everything, so what am I, sir? What am I? Am I not the head of the Bu family?"

"Patriarch calm down, patriarch calm down. The servants will do it now, and they will do it now."

Just as mentioned earlier that Nanjun was divided into three, Wuling County in Soochow now is not as vast as Wuling County in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.The so-called four counties in Jingnan: Wuling County, Changsha County, Lingling County, and Guiyang County.In this era, it has become the Seven Counties of Jingnan.Among them, Wuling County was dismantled into two: the economically more developed area in the east was dismantled and a new Hengyang County was established.The area in the west dominated by the Wuling Mountains is still called Wuling County.

For Soochow, this place is tasteless.Because, like Fuling County in the Shu Han Dynasty, it is also the concentration of Wuling Mountains and karst terrain.There are few Han people, and the output is very little, and there are also a lot of various Wuxi barbarian villages.

And Bu Chanbu Erye's idea was: use a thousand private soldiers as the backbone, use a lot of food to attract Wuxi barbarians to defect, and then cross the Wuling Mountains to attack Fuling County!
Now Second Master Bu is still young, and while doing things recklessly, he reveals his ruthlessness everywhere!

(End of this chapter)