Chapter 110 Jiaozhou
Jiaozhou, a large prefecture during the Han Dynasty, included the current Guangxi Province, western Guangdong Province, and most of Vietnam. The land spans thousands of miles and has more than a hundred cities.
Among them, Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Nanhai, Jiaozhi, Xupu and Rinan are the major counties under Jiaozhou, and Weilou is the seat of Jiaozhou and the largest city in Jiaozhou.
This beautiful building is actually Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam in modern society. In this era, it was a rare big city except the Central Plains.
In fact, Jiaozhou in this era was not as desolate and backward as most people thought. Although there were not many Han people, the entire Jiaozhou population was actually quite large.
As the agricultural and fishery are developed, and the previous wars have not experienced, the degree of wealth in some places is almost comparable to that in the Central Plains.
At this moment, Sun Jian stood on the city gate of Weilou, looking at the exotic rivers and mountains in front of him, with a sense of pride that could be controlled by thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.
Not long ago, Sun Jian completely occupied Jiaozhou, and now the entire Jiaozhou has become Sun Jian's territory, which has led to a significant leap in Sun Jian's power.
Although Sun Jian's strength is still not comparable to Cao Cao and Liu Xian, it has undoubtedly reached this gap to a large extent.
Zhou Yu, dressed in military uniform, quickly walked to Sun Jian and presented a letter of flying pigeons, saying: "Liu Bei's letter of flying pigeons..."
Sun Jian did not reach out to take it, but smiled jokingly: "Is Liu Bei urging me to send troops to attack Jingzhou again?"
Zhou Yu shook his head, glanced at the Feige's letter in his hand, and said, "This Feige's letter is to explain a situation to us. Not long ago, Liu Xian's army was unstoppable and conquered Jianwei, Nan'an, Bajun, Jiangyang, Jidao, and Qiongdu.
Liu Bei was defeated like a mountain, and nearly 100,000 troops were now left with less than 10,000 remaining soldiers!
Liu Xian swept the southwest, and Liu Bei was already in the storm!"
Sun Jian was surprised and said in disbelief: "Liu Bei was defeated too quickly!? I originally thought he could last for at least a year and a half! How...?"
Zhou Yu frowned and said, "Although Liu Bei has pieced together a hundred thousand troops during this period, most of these people are mountain barbarians from all over the country. These people are definitely not as good as military discipline, and they may be a great harm to the Han people!
In order to raise military positions, Liu Bei was bound to impose heavy taxes on the people in various places, which lost the support of the people!
With these factors, it is not difficult to understand that Liu Bei’s defeat is as strong as a mountain!”
Sun Jian nodded in agreement. He paced back and forth, muttering: "Liu Bei has almost lost all his land, and now he is only a little territory and a little force to survive. It seems that it is useless to us."
Zhou Yu clasped his fists and said, "That may not be possible. Although Liu Bei is now like a lost dog, he can still influence the barbarians of Nanzhong and Wuxi.
The forces of the Southern Barbarians and Wuxi Barbarians should not be underestimated, while the leader of the Wuxi Barbarians Shamoke is still loyal to Liu Bei, and the leader of the Southern Barbarians Meng Huo and Liu Bei are at least in an alliance.
Although Liu Xian has captured most of Xichuan at this moment, he is still far from knowing that he has completely controlled the situation in the southwest.
We should continue to form an alliance with Liu Bei and provide necessary support. We believe that it can greatly restrain Liu Xian's energy and military strength, which will be of great benefit to our strategy to guide Jingzhou!"
Sun Jian nodded and said, "What Gongjin said is extremely true!"
After a pause, he said to Zhou Yu: "Immediately send a letter to reply to Liu Bei. Let's say so..."
Nan'an (Leshan City in modern society), after Liu Bei was driven out of here, the Nan'an area quickly restored peace that had not been seen for many years. The consul vigorously implemented Liu Xian's policies.
The people were surprised to find that their lives were getting better day by day. People without land finally had their own land, while people doing business found that all kinds of taxes and taxes disappeared.
Nan'an, which had just ended the war, was thriving in Nan'an, and the laughter that had disappeared for a long time returned to this beautiful southern Sichuan city.
That morning, the eyes were bright, and there were busy figures in the farmland outside the city, while the official road was filled with endless business trips.
At this time, a large army was passing through groups of pedestrians and business trips along the official road and heading towards Nan'an. The people gave way to the road when they saw this scene, and some even waved and cheered at them.
At this moment, Liu Xian was standing on the city gate tower and looking at the mountains and rivers in the distance, showing a look of thought.
Yaoying, dressed in military uniform, quickly walked to Liu Xian, presented a book of flying pigeons and said, "Mr. Kong Ming's flying pigeons and letters!"
Liu Xian immediately took the letter, opened it and looked at it, frowned, and murmured: "How could this happen?!"
Seeing this, Yaoying couldn't help asking, "Lord, I wonder what happened?"
Liu Xian looked at the letter in his hand and laughed and scolded: "Although Liu Bei was defeated like a mountain, he still caused me trouble! This is really called the centipede's death without being stiff!
Liu Bei actually instigated an important general under Mrs. Zhurong, which caused Mrs. Zhurong's army to be defeated and Meng Huo took the opportunity to occupy the very important Yuze area! Even Mrs. Zhurong fell into Meng Huo's hands!..."
Yaoying looked shocked and said worriedly: "In this way, wouldn't Meng Huo control the entire Nanzhong?"
Liu Xian shook his head and smiled, "Fortunately, Kong Ming responded in time and led the black-clothed team to raid the team escorting Mrs. Zhurong and rescued Mrs. Zhurong. Now they are coming to us."
Then he asked someone to bring a pen, ink and silk, and took the pen and wrote a letter on the silk, and handed it to Yaoying, so that she could send it to Sun Ren immediately!
Sun Ren, after conquering Qiongdu, stopped to rest and sent scouts to the south and east to inquire about the situation.
In the hall of the capital, Sun Ren, Wei Yan, Wen Pin and others were discussing military affairs. Wei Yan said: "According to the report I just received, there are only about a thousand people in the enemy. Our army can completely break through in one fell swoop. The last general is willing to lead a troops to attack Hui Wu, or sit in Liu Bei!"
Wen Pin said: "It is easy to defeat the meeting, but the lord ordered us to rest on the spot. I guess we had other plans, so we should not act rashly!"
Wei Yan said anxiously: "As the saying goes, the general will not accept the orders of the king outside. The lord's intention is to defeat Liu Bei. Now the opportunity is right in front of us, how can we miss it for nothing?"
Wen Pin said: "You and I don't know what strategy the lord has now. If you act rashly, it may disrupt the lord's arrangement! At that time, it was not only ineffective, but it did it instead!
I think the lord’s order will be issued soon. Don’t worry, Wen Chang, what’s the point of waiting for a moment!”
Chapter completed!