Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 484
The county magistrate Zhang Ping was locked up outside the city, and a city wall and tower were completely blocked by the Chu army. The remaining defenders did not dare to resist at all. The fall of Yufucheng was a matter of course.

After Zhang Ping was tied up, he was still shouting: "I have seen through your deception! However, the soldiers will have no fighting spirit. There is no time for me to fight, and there is no time for me to fight!"

Although he did not surrender, Zhang Ping thought clearly - didn't the Chu army claim not to kill prisoners?

As a mere county magistrate, he didn't do much harm in Yufu County, and he couldn't find any guilt during the interrogation.

As long as you keep your character stable, whether it is the Chu Kingdom occupying Ba County or the Yizhou Prefecture expelling powerful enemies, you will have the opportunity to become an official again. Throw the pot out first...

Wei Yan had no intention of persuading him to surrender, so he asked people to lock him up first—not to abuse prisoners is also one of the highest military regulations of the Chu army.

After Wei Yan secured Yufucheng, although there were still several small towns in Yufuxian County, they were all short-walled and thin-walled, and were quickly occupied by the Chu army!

While the Xinye [-]st Division stood firm and recovered, the Wancheng [-]st Division led by Zhao Yun also continued directly to the southwest, as if in a relay, along the Yangtze River towards Qu (qu) Ren County.

Bajun is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and governs Jiangzhou, where the Jialing River and the Yangtze River meet.

As an important water transportation system in Bashu, the intersection of the Jialing River and the Yangtze River is naturally a place with convenient transportation, and Jiangzhou is prosperous because of this...

Generally speaking, Jiangzhou is in the southwest corner of Bajun, and the northeast corner is Yufu. You can reach Jiangzhou by going upstream along the Yangtze River and heading southwest.

In his early years, Liu Zhang also had the idea of ​​dividing Ba County. Before the Jian'an Year, Liu Yan had just passed away. Not long after Liu Zhang inherited Yizhou Prefecture, he divided Ba County into three parts.

The two counties of Quren and Yufu were taken as Guling County, Jiangzhou and Linjiang, as well as Zhixian, FL, Pingdu and other places in the south were taken as Yongning County, and the other northern counties were still called Bajun...

It can be seen that Liu Zhang was already very conservative when he first came to power - Guling, Yongning, the names suggest that he is law-abiding.

But at that time, Liu Zhang still had some ambitions. At least he knew how to use his own actions to create a peaceful environment for himself. However... he soon found that he was thinking too much.

The division of Bajun did not obtain the cooperation of the local nobles. The establishment of official offices in the three counties was slow, and the flow of personnel continued to go its own way. Moreover, taking advantage of the chaos of the official system, a large-scale rebellion occurred in Bajun.

After all, Liu Zhang didn't have many people he could trust among the middle-level and grass-roots workers - except for the senior people who had access to Yizhou Prefecture, he couldn't even name them.

Therefore, the partition plan came to an end. Yongning County was re-merged into Ba County, and Guling County, which had only two counties, was also "trusted" to Ba County.

Quren County, as the second county after Yufu and theoretically Guling County, is also responsible for the logistics supply task of Yufu County.

It can be said that the resources of other counties of Bajun are to support the main force of Bajun stationed in Jiangzhou, while Quren and Yufu are to support the garrison of Kuimen - although the county and county together only have a total of five or six thousand, But considering that it is only two counties after all, it is not too small.

Especially after the communication with Jingzhou was cut off, the income of these two counties has been reduced a lot, and the army has also been reduced in size, and it has been reduced to a patrol team to guard against smugglers...

Qu Ren only has a daily garrison, but since it is the rear area of ​​"Guling County", the treasury should be very full.

Therefore, Zhao Yun also came with full expectations, and judging from the current speed, Jiangzhou's soldiers and horses should not have time to mobilize before taking Qu Nin!
By then, with the warehousing in Quren County, the Chu army's logistics can at least take a breather...

If Jiangzhou's army does not have time to support, Zhao Yun's only worry is whether Qu Ren's defenders will be too firm. Once the walls are cleared, the immature crops are looted or destroyed, or even the treasury is burned when the city is broken, it will be difficult for him. For the Chu army, this is by no means good news.

Of course, judging from the situation in Yufu County, the chance of such a strong defender existing is not very high.

However, Zhao Yun still made sufficient preparations, and deliberately did not force him too much. Along the way, he preached that the Chu army was a division of benevolence and righteousness, and he tried to send people to the county seat to surrender in advance...

After that... Zhao Yun himself didn't expect that it would be so easy to surrender?
Li Yi, the magistrate of Quren County, was also from a noble family in Bajun. He was not the Wu general who later participated in the Battle of Yiling, but he had the same name.

When Liu Yanxin was mourned, a gentry rebellion also broke out in Bajun. Historically, Gan Ning returned to Yizhou to serve as an official after he had enough of being a water thief. At this time, Gan Ning also participated in the rebellion and was even one of the main initiators. .

However, that rebellion was quickly put down by Zhao Wei, and the rest of the rebel army fled to Jingzhou, where they were taken in by Liu Biao.

Liu Zhang had just succeeded to the throne at that time, and he really thought that he could rule Yizhou by sitting on the throne of Yizhou Prefecture, so he appointed Zhao Wei as "Zhengdong Zhonglang General" on the spot, and even deliberately attacked Liu Biao in the name of rebellion. …

Afterwards, Zhao Wei, an old minister who went to Shu with Liu Yan, slapped Liu Zhang hard - Zhao Wei also rebelled in Bajun.

Although he was also suppressed by Yizhou Prefecture in the end, and the Bajun nobles also abandoned Zhao Wei and beheaded him as a sacrifice to Liu Zhang, but after Liu Zhang was poured cold water on him, he did not start to work hard to govern, but completely started to become "Buddhist".

In Cheng Ji's world, Gan Ning never returned to Bajun. Just when he got tired of being a water thief, he was abducted by Bai Tu using a "brocade". Naturally, he did not catch up with the rebellion of Bajun, but the rebellion of Bajun The game still happened in the years when Bai Tu just traveled through time.

The first time Liu Zhang watched the "live broadcast" mocking Bai Tu, Zhao Wei's head had just arrived.

This is actually the reason why Zhang Fei was sent to Shu County with the green light after capturing Yan Yan in the history without the White Rabbit Effect.

Yan Yan is also from Berkshire, but he is not considered a big gentry. As a veteran promoted by Liu Yan, he is loyal to Yizhou Prefecture, but not absolutely loyal, so he considers the ideas of the Berkshire gentry. , instead of resolutely increasing troops at Qutang Pass when they just received the news of the Chu army's movement, they considered the attitude of the Bajun nobles...

Liu Zhang's performance, especially when he welcomed Liu Bei into Shu in history, was indeed enough to drive away most of the "loyal ministers".

As for Li Yi from Quren County, he was one of the two people who "stabbed" Zhao Wei in the back. He was a son of the gentry through and through. He rebelled with Zhao Wei in order to fight for the interests of the Bajun gentry. Zhao Wei also wanted to fight for the interests of the Bajun nobles.

Facts have proved that Liu Zhang did do this...

What the Bajun nobles did at that time was actually of the same nature and the same operation as what the Yanzhou nobles did not long after to welcome Lu Bu and attack Cao Cao's back door.

It’s just that Cao Cao and Liu Zhang’s subsequent reactions were completely different!

Cao Cao learned this lesson first, tempered his sharpness, and then slowly trained these nobles. But Liu Zhang... entered the sage mode in one step, and he has not slowed down yet.

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Now that Li Yi was in Quren, he directly accepted Zhao Yun's surrender, but... he did not surrender in person, and first went to the tower to cry.

In short, he expressed that he wanted to defend the city, but there was nothing he could do. As a county magistrate, he had to take care of the people. After careful consideration, he made a difficult decision...

surrender!

At the same time, Li Yi also beat his chest and stamped his feet, expressing that he dedicated himself to the city because of the people, because he was forced, and because he had no other choice.

He also emphasized that he would "dedicate himself to the city but not his life" and would never succumb to being a thief...

At that time, those who didn't know Li Yi must have thought that he was going to jump off the city wall!

However, in fact, after Li Yi finished speaking, he turned around and went home - back to his hometown in Nanchongguo County, riding a horse...

In this regard, the general who sent the message to Zhao Yun did not stop it - after all, they had already arranged to dedicate the city, but he just didn't want to serve as an official, so he couldn't stop it, right?
But after Zhao Yun really entered the city, he was not very happy.

There is no other reason - the treasury in the city is almost completely empty!

"Isn't there enough food and grass on the books for half a year for [-] troops? Not even a tenth of it?" Wen Pin, the deputy commander, asked the county magistrate angrily.

Previously, because Wenpin was familiar with the tricks of Jingzhou officials, he had reminded Zhao Yun that the accounts may not be trustworthy, and half of them would be good. However... I never expected that the people in Yizhou Prefecture would be even more ruthless!

"This... there was a flood last year, and County Magistrate Li took all the food in the treasury 'privately' for disaster relief." County Magistrate Yao Wan said aggrievedly.

The emphasis is clearly on the four words "take it privately".

"Well, since he was left to finish the work, I think he was not Li Yi's confidant before he came here, and this treasury cannot be moved out in a day... It is inconvenient to pursue it." Zhao Yun persuaded Wenpin.

When Wenpin heard this, he also sighed, and then said "offended" to the county magistrate. Yao Wan quickly returned the favor upon seeing this.

Originally, Yao Nian was still hesitating, should he withdraw first after the handover?Even if he wants to serve in Chu State, he can wait for the limelight to pass. There is no need to stay as a county official in Yizhou, which will only increase suspicion.

However, seeing that the military discipline of the Chu army was so strict and that the top generals did not seem to be unreasonable people, I felt a little more confident - both in myself and in the Chu country.

Wenpin was also furious just now. He originally thought that the people in Jingzhou Prefecture were unreliable enough, but he didn't expect that this mountain is really higher than the other...

In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that Liu Biao’s family built their own foundation. Although they also borrowed the power of the local gentry, at least they did not give up power before they became seriously ill. They were actively sorting out the internal division of power, and Liu Zhang... I entered sage mode eight years ago.

Zhao Yun couldn't say anything in front of the empty treasury - even if the actual situation was clear, but they offered the city on their own initiative, could he still turn around and pursue their past corruption?

Who would dare to surrender in the future?

Even according to the rules of Chu State, as long as it is not a crime of harming the people, involving the eight deadly sins, and important officials surrender, they can be pardoned...

(End of this chapter)