Taishici escorted Hua Tuo's fleet to Jingkou and entered the Yangtze River. Strictly speaking, it had left the boundary of Xuzhou and entered Yangzhou.

After entering the Yangtze River, the fleet changed from going downstream to going upstream, so the ship needed to make some adjustments.

The poles used in shallow water will be completely useless in the Yangtze River, and the sails and oars will also be increased or decreased. Taishici ordered to stop in Guazhou, Jingkou for one or two days, and the soldiers were also allowed to go ashore in batches to relax and rest.

His fleet had a total of five large sand ships, carrying a total of one hundred guard soldiers and sailors. Ordinary soldiers could also play rowing and paddle boating in rivers where the water was relatively fast and the sails were not enough.

In addition to people, hundreds of stones of Liaodong specialties and money were transported on the ship, all of which were gifts from Mi Zhu to Liu Bei. Among them, the ginseng produced by Fuyu and Goguli was over 1,000 kilograms - this thing was actually not eaten by the Han Dynasty, so the wild ones were much easier to dig than in the Tang and Song dynasties. It was when Li Su was in Liaodong that someone specially collected it for medicine. After Mi Zhu learned it, he seized this business opportunity and began to buy it on a large scale for fishing, hunting and barbarians.

In addition to ginseng, there are marten fur, silver fox fur, bear and tiger skin, tiger bones, etc. There are too many such things that people from Changbai Mountain and the Black Forest in the late Han Dynasty.

There are a lot of money and Taishici is still very careful and escorted along the way, so he will not let outsiders approach the fleet at any time.

However, it is also a big and grand ship. They are all sea ships with a weight of more than 400 materials (four hundred materials refer to the weight of the ship's wood weighs 400 stones, which is the weight of the empty ship. The load capacity can be about 100 tons and nine meters long). Nowadays, there are few civilian ships that trade in the Yangtze River, so it is inevitable that "children hold gold too much in the downtown area."

On the day when I was parked at Jingkou, I actually encountered riots from the west.

"Run quickly, Yuan Shu comes here to kill him. Governor Chen was killed by Demon King Sun in Jiujiang County!"

The riots rushed to Jingkou Port and even wanted to requisition civilian boats to cross the river and run away.

Fortunately, Taishi Ci was born in a military leader and was used to water wars. Of course, he would not be held hostage by these mobs. He quickly ordered the soldiers and sailors who were still on the boat to immediately take the boat off the shore to prevent them from being robbed.

In order to avoid misunderstandings and to reduce conflicts, Taishici made a quick decision and Chen Jiao, who followed the ship, said that he hung up his small flag of Gongcao in Guangling, and pretended to be the fleet of Chen Deng, the prefect of Guangling. He hoped that these Yangzhou soldiers would not do anything randomly for the sake of their neighbors.

The flag was just hung, and it was less than an arrow from the shore. An officer on the shore made people shout: "Hurry and dock! Our Taishou Zhou is in urgent need of military information, and we will requisition civilian ships!"

Taishici also made people shout: "We are the fleet of the prefect of Guangling Chen Deng. We are ordered to go on a mission to Jingzhou. You and I will not violate the river water, so don't force each other!"

Unfortunately, the officer was obviously an uneducated thorny Qiu Ba. He was obviously the local Danyang soldier of the Shanyue tribe. His bandits remained unchanged and he was so angry that he ordered an arrow to be shot.

Taishi Ci smiled coldly and obviously became really angry. She picked a bow and arrow on the stern of the boat and shot the Danyang soldier Qu Junhou with one arrow. Then she shot five or six Danyang soldiers and archers in succession, and the fleet was only out of range from the shore.

Seeing this, the young Chen Jiao said with concern: "We are in a hurry to leave. There are still twenty or thirty people in the fleet who have not come back. I guess what should these people do in Jingkou County? If you don't go back to pick them up, will you abandon them? But if you stay for a long time and are afraid that the rioters will find the ship to chase them up, what should I do?"

Taishici thought for a while: "It's too dangerous to go back and pick it up directly. Let's withdraw all the flags on the ship first, wander upwards for dozens of miles, and then see if there is a safe dock near Tangyi and you can dock at the right time, and then everyone is not allowed to go ashore.

Only a few people were sent to the county town to buy some plain coarse cloth, cover the cargo hold, and pretend to be another fleet, so as not to be caught by the pursuers and recognize their identities. Then a few other skilled people went to the ashore to find out the news and see who suddenly broke out in the war."

Chen Jiao nodded: "Just heard those defeated Danyang soldiers say that they were the soldiers of Zhou Taishou, and it was undoubtedly the defeated Danyang Taishou Zhou Xin. And the killing of "Governor Chen was the Demon King Sun under Yuan Shu's command, mostly because Sun Jian killed Yangzhou Grand Priest Chen Wen.

But I don’t know how Sun Jian was willing to be Yuan Shu’s murderous knife to help the evildoer everywhere. When I heard about him last month, it was after Yuan Shu assassinated King Chen Liu Chong, Sun Jian sent troops from Yingchuan and Runan to help Yuan Shu seize Chen County.

In less than a month, why did it cross Runan and Qiao County and attack Jiujiang eastward? Yuan Shu was really fighting endlessly, but unfortunately Sun Jian was originally considered to be a fight against Dong Yingxiong, but now he is exhausted from running to help the evildoer."

It would be useless to think about it. Taishi Ci took the boat backflow for dozens of miles and then went to Tangyi County to dock. This time he did not encounter any riots, because he suddenly discovered that this county town, which belonged to Danyang County in name, had been taken down by Sun Jian, a warlord who controlled Jiujiang County.

Taishici negotiated with the local garrison carefully, spent some money, and waited in Tangyi for two days. With the help of the garrison and the transmission of the news, he found his subordinates who had been separated from Zhou Xin's rebellious troops in Jingkou.

After confirming that the other party had no malice and did not dare to do anything to them, Taishi Ci bought enough supplies and expressed his identity to thank him and say goodbye. However, even so, he did not reveal Hua Tuo's existence, and only said that he was ordered to go to Jingzhou.

...

It turned out that Sun Jian in this life had been in Luoyang, who had joined forces with Guan Yu and Zhao Yun to attack Dong, and later the jade seal was given to Liu Bei by Guan Yu's income, and finally returned it to Emperor Xian of Han. During the ceremony of handing over the jade seal, Liu Biao and Yuan Shu also sent people to witness the oath together.

So this led to the fact that after Sun Jian retreated from Luoyang, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian were not very proud to take the initiative to start a war with Liu Biao for no reason. In addition, Liu Biao also chose to exchange Yidu County and Wuling County for Liu Bei's support, and obtained more initial direct troops. Now he has completely secured Xiangyang, Jiangling and Jiangxia, and Jiangxia prefect Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia, did not seem semi-independent as in the same period of history.

Various factors made Yuan Shu and Sun Jian feel that it was neither a righteous name nor easy to mess with. Therefore, Sun Jian not only escaped the fate of losing both sides with Liu Biao, but was also taken as a gun envoy to deal with the princes of the counties in Yuzhou.

When Yuan Shu started his business, he had two territories, Nanyang County, the northernmost part of Jingzhou and Yingchuan County, the northwest part of Yuzhou. In addition, the hometown of Yuan's family bordering it to the west (which is equivalent to the three pieces of land in Wancheng, Xuchang and Runan in the Three Kingdoms games).

Unable to compete with Liu Biao, Yuan Shu's development direction naturally expanded southeastward. Yuan Shu had already expressed his support for Sun Jian as the governor of Yuzhou. Within the past year, Sun Jian helped Yuan Shu take over Qiao County and Chen County, and occupied almost the entire Yuzhou, and successfully bordered his ally Tao Qian.

However, in the recent attack by Cao Cao, Yuan Shu was unable to rescue him. He only fought with Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's coalition forces between Chen County and Chenliu, but was defeated and retreated to Chen County and Yingchuan. Xiao Pei, the protruding part in the northwest corner of Yuzhou, was swallowed up by Cao Cao and Xuzhou.

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But strictly speaking, Yuan Shu was not a loss, because he at least saved Yingchuan and Chenjun. If he had developed according to the original historical development, Yuan Shu was completely defeated in this rescue operation in 193, and even Yingchuan was lost. This led to the situation where Xuchang fell into Cao Cao's hands, and Nanyang became an enclave, and was later attacked and captured by Liu Biao and Zhang Xiu.

Who made Sun Jian still alive now? Yuan Shu’s combat power is also stronger than that of the same period in history.

Not much about the disputes in the northern line of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian’s camp, but Sun Jian served as the firefighting captain for nearly a year and a half, resisted the Yingchuan defense battle, and also led to the southeast of Yuzhou. In the late autumn of 192, with the complete merger and digestion of Yuzhou, Yuan Shu finally extended his claws to Yangzhou in the southeast direction.

This is why the battle of Jiujiang County that just broke out this month. The Yangzhou Governor Chen Wen was defeated one or two years ahead of schedule and was killed by Yuan Shu's men. Only the two subordinates of Chen Wen, Zhou Xin, the prefect of Danyang, and Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang, were defeated and retreated back to their respective garrisons. The entire territory of Jiujiang County where the Yangzhou Prefecture governs Shouchun was captured by Sun Jian.

(Note: The Yangzhou capital was still in Shouchun at this time. After Yuan Shu was lost in Wancheng and Xuchang in history, he also moved the capital to Shouchun because Yuan Shu was in full swing in the heyday, which was equivalent to the prefectures of Jingzhou, Yuzhou and Yangzhou. Later, the Eastern Wu regime moved the Yangzhou capital to Moling in Danyang County because Shouchun was in the enemy-occupied area)

However, in this process, although Sun Jian's military force was strong, his military strength was expanded by using war to support prisoners of war and recruitment, but because he was a general of Yuan Shu, he never had a base.

Except for Changsha County, which had been isolated as an enclave by Liu Biao and Liu Bei, Sun Jian basically captured a county, and Yuan Shu gave him a large amount of military rations to maintain the size of the troops, replenish weapons losses, and then collected the land of the previous county, so that Sun Jian always had only one county control except Changsha.

Sun Jian was a tool for a full year and four months, and finally couldn't stand it anymore. He just struggled because he didn't have enough savings to ensure that he could save up the wealth of the soldiers and generals and officials for two or three years. The logistics have been choked by Yuan Shu and he couldn't turn against him.

"Although Changsha is said to have a population of nearly one million, Jiangxia is unable to help thousands of miles away under Liu Biao's hands. Moreover, I have already taken the title of governor of Yuzhou, and my control over Changsha is almost in name only.

But the governor had only the power of supervision and could not directly rule the prefect. Every time the new county Yuan Shu conquered him, he was granted a new prefect, and he would not listen to my orders. If he had known that the governor was so frustrated, he would rather go back to be the prefect. He had no title, no military rations and supplies, so he was too restricted."

This is a question that Sun Jian has been worried about for more than half a year. After helping Yuan Shu conquer Shouchun City this time, he still thought so.

Yuan Shu asked him to immediately pursue the remaining enemies, kill Lu Kang or Zhou Xin, and take down all the land in Yangzhou on the north bank of the Yangtze River. But Sun Jian knew that as long as Lu Kang or Zhou Xin was killed by him, Jiujiang County where Shouchun was located was not his, and a new prefect would come.

After thinking about it, Sun Jian decided to ask Yuan Shu to have another official position on the grounds that "if the reputation is not upright, the words are not right." Anyway, Wang Yun is dead, and the court is becoming less and less prestige.

Therefore, Sun Jian said that "the capture of Jiujiang County is already a cross-border battle, and it is not the governor of Yuzhou." Yuan Shu had to change his position as the governor of Yangzhou before he could continue to fight. And as long as Yuan Shu agreed, Sun Jian would be willing to hand over all his territory in Yuzhou and would never interfere in Yuzhou affairs.

Yuan Shu may have been a tool guy, and he thought Sun Jian's proposal was just "a careful dog licking, and he also paid attention to helping the boss maintain his reputation and face before biting people. He had no excuses to not bite randomly, so he actually agreed.

Anyway, what Yuan Shu thought was, "If Sun Jian no longer conquers the new territory and hand over the old territory, I would not give him food, grass, weapons and other military supplies. He always had only one county territory and no surplus grain, so he could not even support the army for a year. Moreover, it is early winter now, and it is still half a year before the next autumn harvest. When Sun Jian encounters a situation where the walls are cleared, he will definitely not be able to get the enemy because of the food, so he still has to eat my military rations."

As long as it is better to take advantage of the hungry season of spring famine and then cut Sun Jian’s territory into a wave of leeks before next year’s autumn harvest, you will not be afraid that Sun Jian will turn to heaven.

So, in October 192, a strange scene occurred: Yuan Shu killed Chen Wen and submitted Sun Jian as the governor of Yangzhou. Li Jue was in Chang'an and only learned about Chen Wen's death more than a month later, so Li Jue enthroned Liu Yao to take over as the governor of Yangzhou, but it was not until 193 that he could take office.

Just when Sun Jian was stationed in Hefei County and was considering who to borrow money to overcome the famine to escape Yuan Shu's behavior of food and grass, he heard that a local official came to join him and his son.

The eldest son Sun Ce came into the house carelessly and led a guest to introduce him: "Father, this is my brother-in-law, Zhou Yu, the governor of Juchao County. He said he was willing to offer advice to find foreign aid for our army, solve the problem of military rations for several years, and no longer rely on Yuan Shu to breathe."

Sun Jian was very surprised and looked up at the young man in front of him who had just come to vote. He was probably the same as Ce'er, who was only eighteen years old.

What can you do if you are so young?

However, he is also a prominent family in Jiujiang County, and many elders have been high-ranking officials. Sun Jian must respect this, so he acted as a polite person and asked sincerely: "Will Zhou Lang have a plan?"

Zhou Yu: "The envoy, Yu thought that if the envoy came to the next county in two years and Yuan Shu acquired one county, he would never have a foundation and self-sufficiency. What he lost was more than a few counties? The envoy was strong and strong. After several years of fighting, he had recruited prisoners of war and had more than 30,000 soldiers under his command. If there were one or two years of supply, it would not be impossible to take Yangzhou.

It is better to have short pain than long pain. It is better to give the Changsha County enclave separated by Jiangxia to other princes in exchange for a huge sum of money, food and military supplies, thinking that it will be a backup plan for Yuan Shu."

Sun Jian was also shocked by such a bold idea: "Although Changsha County is an enclave, and taxed grain is difficult to collect and lacks governance, the population is still nearly one million, and the taxable men are no less than 300,000 to 400,000 yuan. Theoretically, the taxed grain exceeds one million stones per year.

If he wanted to give up Changsha County, who would consider it unless there was a prince willing to give out supplies worth millions of stones of grain? But Yuan Shu was about to curb our army, and Liu Biao, although he was close, had just taken office for less than two years, and there was no such excess grain. Liu Bei had money and grain, but his territory in Jingzhou was only Yidu, Wuling, and Liu Bei's money and grain were all in Shuzhong, which was known as Tianfu. How could he trade with us?"

Zhou Yu replied: "The envoy is like everyone else. I am afraid that he has underestimated Liu Bei's ability to transfer thousands of miles to the world. Yesterday, I heard from my colleague Liyang County Magistrate chatting, saying that Liu Bei found a delegation from Xuzhou or even Liaodong, and traveled thousands of miles to Shu to trade tribute, because there seemed to be Taishi Ci, the commander of Pingyi. Tangyi passed three days ago, Liyang passed by the day before yesterday.

And I also heard that since Liu Bei captured Yidu County with Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun has also cut countless woods in Yidu. I heard that the mountains and forests on both sides of the Three Gorges have become much bald. I roughly calculated the situations seen by the past business travelers. Zhao Yun was probably not a small number of ships in Yidu. Although Liu Bei claimed to have gathered all his money and grain in the Northern Expedition, judging from the previous situation of Dong Yue and Fan Chou invading Hanzhong, Hanzhong was obviously empty. Liu Bei did not gather his troops and supplies in Hanzhong all year round, so he must have stored them in Jianwei and Ba County. If there is water transportation flowing downstream, maybe Liu Bei would agree to this deal."

Sun Jian was still a little disbelief: "If this is the case... Liu Bei is too rich. Since that's the case, when Taishi Ci arrives at Juchao tomorrow, you can entertain him on my behalf and take Ce'er with you. Don't lose my reputation. Whether it's successful or not, let the lion open his mouth and ask for a price all over the place."

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Chapter completed!