In the past, Kong Ming planned for Duke Xuande in Longzhong. When talking about Jingzhou, he said that this place occupied Han Mian in the north, benefited from the South China Sea, connected to Wuhui in the east, and connected to Bashu in the west, so he used martial arts country. Among them, the four words "benefit from the South China Sea" show that he had a clear understanding of the benefits of fishing, salt and merchants between Jingzhou and Jiaozhou.
After Duke Xuande occupied most of Jingzhou, the scholars of Jingxiang admired him and Ruoshui returned to the sea. After losing the family foundation that had been operating around Jingxiang for decades and hundreds of years, many large clans relied on trade with Jiaozhou to restore their vitality. For example, the Xi family of Xiangyang, Xiang family and others benefited a lot, and the Pang family and Ma family were not willing to be defeated.
This trade channel mainly relies on Duke Xuande's old friend, Wu Ju, the prefect of Cangwu in Jiaozhou.
Cangwu County led by Wu Ju is the leading county in Jiaozhou, located at the hub of many major transportation routes. It is called "Five Ridges in Baiyue, Five Ridges, and the victory of Nine Corridors and Seven Zes. It connects to Hunan and Xiang in the north and becomes a country with lips and teeth, and connects to Fanyu in the bottom and has a throat. Although Wu Ju is an outsider from Jingzhou, he occupies Cangwu and leans against Lingling, which is enough to suppress most of Jiaozhou.
But at the same time, Wu Ju will inevitably be hostile to the forces of "most half of Jiaozhou", that is, the Shixie brothers.
Shi Xie Shi Weiyan was a local wealthy family in Cangwu. In order to avoid the Xinmang Rebellion, his ancestors moved to Cangwu from Wenyang, Lu State to the seventh generation of Shi Xie. When he was young, he traveled to the capital and was a disciple of the great scholar Liu Tao of Ying. He governed the "Zuoshi Spring and Autumn". Later, he investigated Xiaolian, was appointed as the Shangshu Lang, and promoted Maocai. He once served as the magistrate of Wu County. Wu County was within the jurisdiction of Yidu County. Lei Yuan heard from the old man in the county that Shi Xie was generous in politics and had a good reputation in the local area.
During the Zhongping period, mutinies in Jiaozhou were frequent and bandits were in trouble. The court then appointed Shi Xie, who had a deep root in Jiaozhou, as the prefect of Jiaozhi. For more than 20 years, Shi Xie continued to expand his power in Jiaozhou, and successively used his brother Shi Yi as the prefect of Hepu, Shi? as the prefect of Jiuzhen, and Shi Wu as the prefect of Nanhai.
Because he was generous and polite, and had outstanding talents in governing the local area and appeaseing the people, hundreds of scholars from the Central Plains went to Jiaozhou to rely on, including Yuan Hui, Xu Jing, Liu Ba, Cheng Bing, Xue Zong and other famous scholars. Many scholars believed that Shi Xie was in chaos and could protect his hometown and prevent the people from unemployment. The people who were in a vain were all blessed. Even Dou Rong protected Hexi, this was the case.
It is said that after Liu Ba became the Grand Marshal Xicao, he often wrote letters to Jiaozhi to ask questions.
Unfortunately, Shi Xie had already become the local emperor of Jiaozhou. No matter how he was, he would not be willing to easily bow down to the power in the north like Wu Ju. In order to compete with Wu Ju, he tried his best to make friends with the Sun family in Jiangdong, and then conspired with Bu Zhi, intending to push Cangwu in one fell swoop and divide Jiaozhou into the sphere of influence of the Shi brothers.
Regarding the deep foundation and strong appeal in Jiaozhou, Shi Xie was far superior to Wu Ju, a foreigner. This time he attacked Cangwu, mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers from the Nanhai, Jiaozhi, Hepu, Jiuzhen, and Rinan counties; there were tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers, belonging to more than ten tribal leaders called "Yihao".
In comparison, the more than a thousand martial artists led by Bu Zhi were nothing. If Shi Xie had united Jiaozhou with his family, what would this benefit to the Marquis of Wu? No wonder Bu Zhi had to work with Huang Bian to stir up the wind and rain in Jingzhou first, and join the Jingman to become the wings.
With its huge military advantage, Shi Xie fully launched an attack on Cangwu County and launched an attack on many counties at the same time. In just a few months, six counties have been captured. All the counties north of Cangwu, including Lipu, were also in turmoil.
Although Lipu is a county town, it is actually located in the Central Plains, and its size is only one dock wall. Because Jiaozhou is rainy and humid, it is difficult to build a rammed earth wall, so there are only two wooden fences and trenches outside the county town. Fortunately, the barbarians had no siege equipment. They attacked twice yesterday, and were both led by the county magistrate and were defeated by the people in the city.
The barbarians then scattered and plundered wildly to the villages and communities around Lipu.
The defenders in the city did not dare to attack, so they could only watch the barbarians set fire and looting everywhere, burning the fruits of decades and hundreds of years of hard work of the Han people.
Today, the barbarians forced the looted men and women to dig soil and pile up the trenches. The people cried, and the barbarian soldiers who were as scattered as evil ghosts were fiercely urging behind the people. Anyone who was hesitant and slow to act would either stab to death with a spear or directly push them into the trenches to bury them alive.
This situation made the people who were defending the city frightened, and many of the strong men who were temporarily recruited were shaken, and many of them were intending to escape. The county magistrate patrolled the city with swords and killed several riots in succession before barely stabilizing their positions.
However, the trenches under the city were filled up little by little, and those who were carrying soil and rocks were all familiar relatives and neighbors in the city. The county magistrate ordered the defenders to shoot arrows, but the arrows shot were sparse, causing only a few scattered dead. The people behind continued to fill the soil forward, and the trenches were about to be filled in half an hour.
The one who commanded this group of barbarians was a famous tyrant named Qu Zun.
At this time, in a village about two miles away from the county town, most of the houses in the village were burned down, leaving only a larger one, which was temporarily taken to live by Qu Zun, and then raised his own flag in front of the hall to use as a command center.
At this time, five or six barbarian soldiers with naked upper bodies and thighs were sitting in the hall, and each of them was accompanied by accused Han women. The fair-skinned Han women were really different from those of the barbarian women in the clan, so they hugged the untidy women around them, shouted and drank wildly, or tried to make trouble. Someone simply openly proclaimed lust in the hall, which attracted the cheers of their companions.
Qu Zun himself would not have been like this. He sat in the hall with his arms spread out, and hugged a more beautiful person on his left and right. Sometimes he gave a few instructions to ask several other women with a sad face to prepare food and wine for him.
Qu Zun's idea was to force the people around Lipu to fill the land and break the city. Being able to come up with such a solution shows that this person's knowledge is more than that of ordinary barbarians.
Although Qu Zun is a powerful Manchu Yihao in Jiuzhen County, he is actually a Han man.
The Qu family is a large family in Jingzhou and Jiaozhou. In the early years, when Sun Jian was the prefect of Changsha, the leader of the bandits, Qu Xing, fought against him, but was killed by Sun Jian. Zhang Jin, the governor of Jiaozhou before Lai Gong, was attacked and killed by his general Qu Jing. After this king killed the governor, he joined forces with Wu Ju, and now he was entrenched in Yulin County with a group of bandits, watching Wu Ju and Shi Xie fight fiercely.
The clan where Qu Zun is located is further south. His ancestors were Qu Lian, who gathered barbarians to rebel during the rebellion of Emperor Shun. His father was Gongcao in Xianglin County, Rinan County. During the Chuping period, Qu Zun's brother Qu Kui gathered to attack Xianglin County, killed the county magistrate, and called himself the king.
Relying on his brother's power, Qu Zun is active in the Jiuzhen County area and is friendly with the Shixie brothers.
This man is quite ambitious and his talent is not comparable to ordinary barbarians. Even when he gathers to have a banquet and enjoys his life, he does not neglect to distribute the guards around Lipu and maintains monitoring of surrounding roads.
So, at this time, he heard the whistle of the police coming from the west of Lipu.
Chapter completed!