The patrolling soldiers came to the grain cart parked behind Zhang Liang. The leader drew his sword and opened the top bag of grain. Yellow rice was seen leaning out of the gap. In order to
To enable rice to be stored longer in the hot and humid climate of South Vietnam, Zhang Liang deliberately purchased rice that had not been shelled, so the rice poured out from the breach in the grain bag looked yellow.
"Where are you from? Don't you know that selling food is prohibited in South Vietnam?" the leader said with a gloomy face.
Zhang Liang had already figured out the situation in South Vietnam before he sneaked into South Vietnam. He had not heard of any ban on grain trade in South Vietnam. It was obvious that this chief was deliberately looking for trouble.
"Commander, we are grain merchants in Qin. We have just arrived in your land and I don't know the rules here. Please forgive me. This is just a small thought. Please make it convenient for me." Zhang Liang said and took it.
He took out the money bag hanging on his waist, took out a stack of half a tael and put it in the palm of the squad leader. Although Zhao Tuo cut off Nanyue and established himself as the King of South Vietnam, he had not yet issued South Vietnamese coins, so Qin's half tael was still Nanyue.
mainstream currencies.
"Seeing that you are still sensible, I will bypass you for now and get out!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I will leave right away." Zhang Liang smiled and sent away the money-grubbing Xiao Shichang and his gang.
After seeing off Shi Chang, Zhang Liang saw Wu Guang coming back.
"What happened just now?" Wu Guang asked in confusion as he looked at the chief minister and his group who were walking away.
"A bunch of money-grubbing minions, let me send them away with money. How is the place where I asked you to find out the information?"
"Don't tell me, you don't know what Zhao Tuo does for a living. There are more than a dozen bandits, large and small, in Nanhai County. There is a group on Qingzhang Mountain, dozens of miles away from Hengpuguan.
Bandits, I asked about them. They are all poor people who were forced to have no way to survive and came to Qingzhang Mountain to fall into bandits." Wu Guang told Zhang Liang the information he had found out.
"Then have you ever asked how many bandits there are on Qingzhang Mountain?"
"That's not a question!" Wu Guang scratched his head in disbelief.
"You! Don't ask what you should." Zhang Liang shook his head in disappointment.
Seeing Zhang Liang shaking his head in a sullen manner, Wu Guang got angry. He kept saying "Mr. Zifang, Mr. Zifang" to him all the way. Then he even treated this rotten scholar.
I'm used to it now.
"You idiot, if I had known you were so smart, I shouldn't have inquired about this news. I should have let you go. I'll learn from you. Hey! Just sitting there like this, I can't see how tall you are.
Hurry up and call me 'Master Jun' and give me a few big coins as a tribute." Wu Guang joked with a look of disdain.
"Oh, you idiot, a fool who can make you cry with just a few empty envelopes. You can't even ask a question clearly, and yet you dare to mock me as a scholar."
"You're not much better. Have you forgotten how I was driven off Qingyao Mountain?" Wu Guang retorted angrily.
As the saying goes: "Don't slap someone in the face, don't criticize someone," but Zhang Liang and Wu Guang obviously ignored this motto. From the beginning, they criticized each other with full force. The followers standing beside the two men
There was no words to persuade them. It seemed that this was not the first time that Zhang Liang and Wu Guang had behaved like this. The followers were obviously used to such a scene. Along the way, Wu Guang and Zhang Liang had indeed made everyone familiar with their behavior.
Sui has truly witnessed what "enemies will never get together unless they are enemies".
After half a stick of incense, Wu Guang came to Zhang Liang again.
"Mr. Zifang, what should we do next?"
"What else can we do? You can go and find out more about the situation of the bandits in Qingzhang Mountain." Zhang Liang said pretending to be angry.
Wu Guang had no choice but to continue to inquire about the news about Qingzhang Mountain.
After a while, Wu Guang left and returned. He came to Zhang Liang with a proud look on his face.
"Mr. Zifang, this time I found out everything. There are more than thirty bandits on Qingzhang Mountain, and there are three bandit leaders..."
Wu Guang told Zhang Liang all the information he had found out, regardless of whether the information was useful or not.
"Our opportunity has come, and Qingzhang Mountain is a good choice. It can avoid Zhao Tuo's encirclement and suppression, and it is close to Hengpu Pass, so we can retreat and defend. There are more than thirty bandits, all of whom are poor people. It costs a lot of money.
I should be able to buy it with some money and food." Zhang Liang looked at Wu Guang's plan and said.
So Zhang Liang and his party pulled more than a dozen grain trucks towards Qingzhang Mountain. At noon, the group finally arrived at the foot of Qingzhang Mountain. They saw that Qingzhang Mountain was covered by lush forests, which was a good place to start a rebellion.
Where to go. Zhang Liang arranged for Wu Guang and his troops to rest at the foot of the mountain, while he took a few followers into the mountain to look for traces of the bandits.
At sunset, Zhang Liang took several bandits back to the foot of the mountain. After some negotiation, they took the grain truck into Qingzhang Mountain. After Zhang Liang and Wu Guang entered Qingzhang Mountain, they spent money to bribe three bandit leaders.
The most greedy one, then joined forces with this bandit leader to eliminate the other two leaders. It only took Zhang and Wu three days to take control of Qingzhang Mountain.
At this time, in the Nanyue Palace in Panyu, Zhao Tuo was dreaming of joining forces with Jiangdong to annex Qianzhong County and Changsha County of the Qin Dynasty. Little did he know that Fusu had already dropped a chess piece in Nanyue.
"Prime Minister Wu, will Jiangdong Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew agree to join forces with me to seize the two counties of central Guizhou and Changsha?" Zhao Tuo asked, staring at Prime Minister Wu Jian.
"Your Majesty, the Xiang clan in the east of the Yangtze River has been frightened by Fusu. They dare not plan to attack Changsha and Qianzhong County with us in South Vietnam."
"A bunch of cowards, I was beheaded by others, and even my betrothed wife was snatched away by others. In the end, Hengshan County was taken away by others, which is embarrassing. If General Xiang Yan knows something secretly, he will be humiliated by these young people.
"Yes." Zhao Tuo sighed angrily.
"Your Majesty, now that the support for Su is strong, I think that we in South Vietnam should not be provoked for the time being. There is Xiang Liang in Jiangdong in front of us, and Touman Chanyu in Hexi in the back. We in South Vietnam must be on guard!" Wu Jian suggested seriously.
"Alas, Prime Minister Wu was overly concerned. We have an army of 300,000 in South Vietnam, and there is Nanling to block the Qin army. And the three passes of Hengpu, Yangshan, and Huangxi are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Could it be that his Huben army in Fusu was
Do you want to fly over?" Zhao Tuo said with a proud look on his face.
The reason why Zhao Tuo dared to take advantage of Fusu and Hu Hai's struggle for power to secede the three counties of South Vietnam and establish himself as the king of South Vietnam was because he had the advantage of South Vietnam's dangerous terrain. When Zhao Tuo saw Fusu attacking Jiangdong and Hexi, he did not touch his
After South Vietnam, he naively thought that Fusu had nothing to do with his South Vietnam. So he came up with the idea of attacking Qianzhong and Changsha. Logically speaking, Zhao Tuo's calculation was reasonable. He could capture Qianzhong and Changsha.
It's best. If you can't get it, there's no harm in it. At worst, you can just return it to South Vietnam. The bad thing is that Fusu has never been a person who talks about things logically.
When Zhao Tuo was still immersed in the fantasy of attacking the two counties of Changsha and central Guizhou, Zhang Liang and Wu Guang had already begun recruiting troops in Qingzhang Mountain. Thanks to the five million yuan given by Fusu, Zhang Liang and Wu Guang
Talented people were able to raise a team of 5,000 people in just two months.
On this day, Zhang Liang led 2,000 men out of Qingzhang Mountain, quietly went around Hengpu Pass, and attacked the grain and grass depot of the garrison at Hengpu Pass at night.
Three days later, news of the attack on grain and grass at Hengpu Pass was sent to the Nanyue Palace.
"Your Majesty, a group of bandits claiming to be Zhang Guang and Wu Liang attacked the grain and grass warehouse of our garrison at Hengpuguan. They stole one thousand shi of military rations and set fire to the remaining 50,000 shi of grain and grass." News from Hengpuguan.
The soldiers reported the incident at Hengpu Pass to Zhao Tuo in detail.
"Zhang Guang, Wu Liang, why haven't you heard about these two thieves before?" Zhao Tuo said to himself doubtfully.
In fact, this was just Zhang Liang's trick to hide from others. After Zhang Liang and Wu Guang went to Qingzhang Mountain that day, they exchanged their first and last names. Zhang Liang called him Zhang Guang, and Wu Guang became
Wu Liang actually did this to mislead Zhao Tuo so that he could not guess who Fusu was for a while. After all, Zhang Liang's reputation was relatively loud, so there were probably people in the Nanyue court who knew Zhang Liang.
In the following period, the names that the Nanyue King heard the most were Zhang Guang and Wu Liang.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Guang and Wu Liang led a crowd to attack Longchuan County, smashed the Longchuan government office, and killed the Longchuan county magistrate."
"Your Majesty, Zhang Guang and Wu Liang also robbed the grain team transporting grain to Yangshan Pass and captured fifty soldiers guarding the grain."
"Your Majesty, Zhang Guang and Wu Liang attacked our South Vietnamese tax collectors and their party, and robbed all the taxes from our Nanhai County Sihui and Boluo counties."
…
Suddenly, news of the activities of Zhang Guang and Wu Liang's bandits spread throughout Nanhai County. Zhang Guang and Wu Liang really became Zhao Tuo's nightmare, making Zhao Tuo unable to sleep or eat well for a while.
On this day, Wu Jian, the Prime Minister of South Vietnam, was seen rushing into the palace of South Vietnam. Seeing Wu Jian's hurried appearance, Zhao Tuo instantly had an ominous premonition.
"Don't tell me again about Zhang Guang and Wu Liang." Zhao Tuosheng said helplessly.
"Your Majesty, it is indeed the news about Zhang Guang and Wu Liang. This time it is good news."
"What's the news?" Zhao Tuo sat up straight after hearing this and asked curiously.
"Tanqi has discovered the hiding place of Zhang Guang and Wu Liang's bandits, which is in Qingzhang Mountain."
Zhao Tuo stood up excitedly after hearing this. He had suffered enough from the torture of these two men for a while. The 20,000 troops almost searched Nanhai County from top to bottom, but they were surprised to find Zhang Guang and Wu Liang hiding there.
place.
In fact, Zhang Liang and Wu Guang had been in Qingzhang Mountain all along, just playing hide-and-seek with Zhao Tuo's army. When Zhao Tuo's army was searching the mountain, Zhang Liang distributed all the supplies to individuals, and then among those
Under the guidance of the soldiers who had hunted and gathered medicine in Qingzhang Mountain, they broke into pieces and hid, wandering between Qingzhang Mountain and Nanling. More than 20,000 people who accompanied Zhao Tuo played hide and seek. All this was done by Zhang Liang.
I learned it from Fusu’s surprise attack on Jiangdong.
When Zhao Tuo determined where Zhang Guang and Wu Liang were hiding, he immediately mobilized an army of 50,000 to surround Qingzhang Mountain.