On February 11, a hand-painted silk map was spread on the desk of the prefect of Wuxing Yu Tan.

His fingers moved around the picture, and his stomach sighed from time to time.

Yixing County has basically been recovered, and now there are only two places left, one is the old house of the Zhou family in Yixing, and the other is Yangxian City.

Of course, Yixing County is not big, it originally expanded from one county, that is, Yangxian County was divided into four, and expanded into four counties.

During the expansion process, some villages from surrounding neighboring counties were of course drawn in, but not many, and the overall expansion was limited.

Two years ago, he said that he would also transfer Danyang Yongshi County, but it did not implement it.

Therefore, General Liu Chao of Right Guard reported to recover Guoshan, Linjin and Yixiang counties, and to surround Yangxian City. Just listen to it. In fact, he just defeated half of the old Yangxian.

However, on the positive side, the momentum of the rebellion of the Zhou clan in Yixing was suppressed, and now there are only two cities and villages and thousands of soldiers left.

The main force that suppressed them was Danyang and Xuancheng's powerful soldiers. While conquering the city and seizing the land, they privately recruited Zhou's Zhuangke and his troops. All of this was actually acquiesced by the court.

Today is different from the past. If Shao Liang had not attacked, even if the court destroyed the Zhou clan of Yixing, it would not allow the rich to completely embezzle the Zhou clan's village guests and land. At least half of them would be swallowed by themselves, that is, the households and the people would be divided, and the remaining half would be divided as the benefit of the various clans sending troops.

Now it seems that you don’t care at all. Just destroy Zhou’s family. You should act quickly.

This is true for Zhou's family, and Qian's family is almost the same.

In fact, it is difficult to deal with these wealthy families who often send troops to one or two sides: before they gather, they can take the initiative and destroy the leader, which can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

That year, when the Jiangnan was scheduled on Wednesday, there were tens of thousands of people at most. Are they all soldiers of the Zhou family? No.

Taking the four counties of Yixing as an example, the main branch of the Zhou clan (after Zhou) controls some people and land, and the side branch controls some people and land. In addition, the unknown small families who depend on the Zhou clan and those who "divided" the Zhou clan after making meritorious service for the Zhou clan, the so-called Yixing Zhou clan is formed as a whole.

If the leader of the Zhou clan has a high reputation, he can mobilize these families to the greatest extent, respect orders, and even influence other families outside the traditional sphere of influence of the Zhou clan.

For example, when Wu Xing Gongcao Xu Fu had a family of troops, but it was not enough, so he colluded with Zhou Zhou and said that he came on behalf of his uncle Zhou Zha to stand up for Xu Fu. In an instant, Xu Fu hosted thousands of troops, which even attracted Fuchun Sun's family to prepare for a response.

This is the manifestation of influence.

If there is a great influence, there will be more soldiers. If there is a small influence, there will be fewer soldiers. Therefore, these wealthy families pay great attention to fame. Fame can really bring benefits, not just false reputations. This is an important feature of the wealthy families' era of power.

The influence is also affected by the current situation. The current situation is right. Even if your personal reputation is small and the influence is small, you can summon many soldiers. It is just that you have a low voice among these soldiers, because everyone is not all because of your reputation. If the times are wrong and the reputation is not high, then forget it, others may not necessarily seek you, they will seek you for a while.

It may also disband or even counterattack.

Chen Min was a living example in the past, and her reputation was too low.

Yu Tan had already raised an army to capture the old house of Qian's family in the Great Wall, and arrested or detained a large number of Qian's people, which made them unable to effectively use their power and fight for themselves.

This is due to his preemptive attack on the troops of the county, one by one, who had been in a state of assembly, in order to attack the Zhou family in Yixing, and switch the target halfway, and Qian was caught off guard.

"I still failed to do my best." Yu Tan poked his fingers on the Great Wall County, a little regretful.

"What will happen to Shen?" His fingers quickly moved to Wukang County again, and the tour was uncertain.

After quickly attacking Qian, Shen must have been prepared. He heard that they were already in contact with various companies.

And secretly embezzled the Qian family's scattered village.

The Shen family and Qian families had the advantage in terms of strength, and the Qian family was inferior. However, after Chen Chong died before he rebelled, the Shen family's strength declined greatly and their fame was greatly reduced. They were even moved to the top of the five thousand villagers, but the Qian family climbed to the top.

This time, Qian suffered a heavy blow, and Shen began to win over the various families again. What do they want to do? It is worth noting.

But Yu Tan is not easy to do anything.

The remnants of the Qian family have not yet been suppressed, so I will force him to rebel against Shen again?

After thinking about it, Yu Tan decided to comfort him, even if it was a false conspiracy.

"Send someone to the old house of Shen with a generous gift." Yu Tan clapped his hands, called in and ordered someone.

*******

February 12th, sunny.

In the Jinghu Lake south of Shanyin City, the masts are like forests and the soldiers are like rain.

This is the second batch of troops preparing to set off, but there is not much more for the first time. There is no other reason, spring plowing is needed!

Theoretically, women, elderly, and children can also farm, but if they are weak and there are no strong men at home, it will affect the sowing area.

For example, in the absence of plowing oxen, even in a wealthy area, three or five households share a plowing oxen, which requires hard work, which requires labor.

If you can't even work hard, then the woman will just take her children to dig some pits and sow the seeds and it will be done. It is easy to imagine how much she can harvest in the end.

The world is based on agriculture.

Even if the owners of the manor want to fight against Shao Zhe, they cannot be so short-sighted.

In addition to the Kuaiji clan led by the He family in Shanyin, the natives of Nandu who moved to the local area also had to send people to provide food and equipment. However, compared with the Wu people, they were so flawed.

Some family members did not show up and sent a young child to Shanyin County with some food, arrows, swords and guns and a few young men to make diplomatic payments and ship away.

For example, the Xie family, who moved to Shining County (southeast of Shanyin), many years ago, sent a fourteen-year-old boy named Xie An, who led the Xie family to collect more than 200 young men as part of the second batch of troops to go to the expedition.

"Oh? Are the young man from Xie family here?" Kuaiji Insider Yingxuan stood by the lake, called Xie An, who was walking in a hurry, and was about to leave after handing in his errands, and said, "Where is it?"

"Mr.," Xie An returned to his senses and bowed, and said, "I'll go to Dongshan to have a trip."

"Do you have friends?" Ying Xuan asked.

"Kuaiji Wangyou Wang Yishao and others," Xie An replied.

"Why not take me with you?" Ying Xuan smiled and said, "Bubai Laizhao, etc., there are singing girls to help you and others."

Xie An seemed to have some understanding, but he still refused: "Although the official lord is about to unpack the seal and ribbon, the country is in a difficult situation. It is not too late to end the new internal historian arrives at the officialdom."

Ying Xuanqi said, "How do you know I'm leaving office?"

Xie An only smiled but didn't answer.

At Ying Xuan's repeated urging, Fang pointed to the fleet not far away and said, "The great tribes in Wu always have to give some benefits. Kuaiji is a major county, and it has been 20 years since the prefect to the inner historian. There are few people from Wu, so they should change now."

Ying Xuan sighed a little: "I didn't think so when I heard the name of the Xie family's husband talked about in the past. Now I know that he is Junyan, why not go to the official position? He was fourteen years old, but it would be fine to go to Mo Cao to write and get some qualifications."

Xie An shook his head and said, "I am a calm person by nature. It is not my wish to be an official. It is best to be able to live a lifelong life."

Ying Xuan sighed and said, "What a pity."

Xie An bowed again and turned around and left.

"Let Wang Yishao stop playing, and urge the recruitment of troops to send them to Jianye." Ying Xuan suddenly spoke, reminded Xie An and paused, and said "Okay".

"Why don't my family have such a Qilin son?" Ying Xuanwei sighed.

The little boy actually saw that he was leaving office. Although he revealed the reason for his previous sentence, it is not easy to follow this carefully and boldly guess. He is a smart person.

Compared with Xie An, Wang Xizhi is far behind.

When is it all, I am still having fun! I asked you to recruit soldiers, but the matter was left to the people below. I ran to Dongshan for fun. Do you still have the heart?

I really don’t know if you can still have the heart to play after the Wang family’s big tree falls.

After shook his head, Ying Xuan returned to the government office and seized the last period of time before leaving office to handle official duties.

*******

"It is really strange that people say that Hengjiang is good, but it is evil." Ji Xian kept pouting in his mouth.

"Haha." Huan Yi, the young minister of the Daliang Siong Temple, laughed and said, "Although Hengjiang is good, he has heavy troops to guard it.

It is difficult to cross the river, but Ankou is better, Ankou is better."

"Duke Huan's words are not unreasonable. It's just that the wind and waves are high and the waves are urgent, so you need to be careful." As he was almost at the ground, Ji Xian looked at Huan Wen, who was dismounting not far away, and said.

"Well? Call me uncle." Huan Yi pretended to be unhappy and said, "I have the same brotherhood as your father, what are you calling me?"

"Uncle." Ji Xian went downstairs and smiled and shouted, "This 'Uncle' won't let you scream in vain." Huan Yi got off the horse and looked at the soldiers coming from afar.

He said, "There will be a major change in Jiangnan in the future. I will keep Ji Yuanzi no matter how hard I do!"

"Father." Huan Wen casually ordered the troops behind him to negotiate with the visitor, and from the time he came to Huan Yi to salute.

"In the future, Jiangnan will investigate the thief party and will help Ji's family talk. You are still young and don't know some things.

Alas," Huan Yi said, "I crossed the river at the beginning——"

There were thousands of people crossing the river, some people crossing the river from Jingzhou, some people crossing the river from Jiangzhou, and some people crossing the river from Yangzhou. Huan Yi first went to Jiangbei, and some people recommended him to serve as the Qiling in Huainan. However, he did not succeed, so he crossed the river directly south. The first stop was Xuancheng, taking his mother and brother Huan Xian.

There is a reason to choose Xuancheng.

In the late Cao Wei period, Huan Fan, a grand minister, died, and some of the children of the Huan family fled, and their preferred destination was Eastern Wu.

Among them, there were those who lived in Wujun, some in Kuaiji, some in Guangling, and some in Xuancheng, Huan Fan's son Huan Kai, and Huan Yi's grandfather.

After Sima Yan founded the country, he was quite kind and saved many people, including the Huan family.

So Huan Yi's father Huan Hao found an opportunity to become an official in the court.

Before this, Huan Kai and Huan Hao and his son lived in Wanling, Xuancheng for 20 or 30 years and made friends with locals. Of course, their status in Eastern Wu was not high, so the level of friendship was naturally not much higher.

Huan Kai and Huan Hao were kind to the Ji family in Xuancheng, and Huan Yi also played with the Ji family's children when he was young.

The Ji family was just a local tyrant. Although they had a manor, a division, and had business and wealth. They had great influence in Xuancheng and Wanling counties, they could not resist it with the deliberate friendship of the Huan family, and they were basically the best of the Tong family.

After Huan Yi crossed the river, he found his childhood playmate Ji Shihe, and burst into tears.

After Huan Yi's mother arrived in Xuancheng, she quickly passed away and buried in Wanling. Later, Huan Yi went to Jianyou, and Ji Shihe kept helping to clean the tomb.
To be continued...