Chapter 56 Your Own Land

Cui Yan drove for half an hour. When she came to the old village, she saw that the building ship had disappeared. The front of the old village was in a mess. Many injured soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield. When asked, they knew that the officers and soldiers of the navy could not attack the inner camp, and they knew that someone had rushed out. They had retreated along the original way for fear of being attacked back and forth. .

Cui Yan was very disappointed. She came for nothing, but she didn't catch any trophy. But there was nothing he could do when he was angry, so he had to enter the inner camp depressed and wanted to ask Cui Wu what was going on. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Cui Wu, but to his surprise, Cui Wu was tied up and knelt in front of a young man.

Cui Yan was shocked and retreated while pulling out her knife, but it was too late. More than a dozen fierce soldiers poured in next to her, and it didn't take much effort to chop his personal guards. He was about to command the man to rush out. A crisp bell rang, and a snowy ring knife was on his neck. On the child.

"Surrender, or I'll kill you."

Cui Yan looked at the blade on her shoulder and a chill rushed to her forehead. He didn't think too much. She threw the knife, held her head in her hands and slowly knelt to the ground, trembling all over.

The old camp changed hands.

Soon, a cluster of sparks rushed into the sky, with a "pop" explosion, bursting a red smoke in the air. After a long time, it slowly dissipated. In a long time, the same smoke appeared in the sky in the direction of Zongzhai, but far away, I only saw the smoke, but I couldn't hear the sound.

"I, Lieutenant Wu Meng under General Fubo's account, Chen Hai." Chen Hai took back the knife and said lightly, "Now your general village has been occupied by the general. If you know each other, you can not only save your life, but also have a chance to fight with the general in the future. If you don't know each other, don't blame me for being rude. You have to try the knife with you."

Cui Yan didn't dare to come out and couldn't stand on the ground: "Please tell me."

"I heard that Cui Qian has a set of charts. Where is it?" Chen Hai looked at him disdainfully, raised his head proudly, and looked at him with his nostrils condescendingly. Cui Yan just hesitated for a moment. The soldier next to him swafted his arm with a knife ring, built it on his shoulder fiercely, and shouted loudly, "Say it quickly."

"No... I don't know." Although Cui Yan has been a pirate for so many years, she has been following Cui Qian. When did she suffer such hardships? This knife ring made half of his body lose consciousness. His nose was sore, and he couldn't help crying: "Your Excellency, I really don't know, that set of charts... That set of charts is only my father. I didn't know until I was with my brother.

"Real is it? It seems that it's useless to keep you. Chen Hai shouted coldly. Although the sound was not loud, it was like a thunder in Cui Yan's ear, which scared him out of his mind and almost collapsed on the ground. Tears flowed. After a while, a column of water flowed down his legs and the smell overflowed.

"Soft egg." Chen Hai pinched his nose in disgust, motioned his men to drag Cui Yan out, and looked back at Cui Wu with an unconvinced face: "What's wrong? Are you not convinced?

"I'm sorry for you." Cui Wu, with a black face, cursed, "If those boneless things hadn't shown you the way, how could you find here? If I hadn't drunk too much today, how could you have beat me?"

"Old man, I really don't know the depth of heaven and earth. Can't I bully you?" Chen Hai was angry and funny: "You have a heavy responsibility. You are so greedy for wine. You are not ashamed to lose the old village, and you have the face to shout here. You don't accept it, do you? OK, have a good night's rest. I'll give you a chance tomorrow. If you can beat me, I'll let you go.

"It's a deal." Cui Wu immediately seized the opportunity.

"It's hard to chase any horse." Chen Hai shook his hand and said, "Look at this old man and see how I will deal with him tomorrow."

The two soldiers walked down and left with Cui Wu. As they walked, they scolded, "The old man is really blind. He dares to shout in front of our Captain Chen. You will look good tomorrow." Another smiled and said, "Why do you advise him to have a good night's rest? The captain didn't have a good time today. He was angry. He just beat the old man to relieve his anger."

Cui Wu was so angry that his eyes were cracked. He was also a good player in the Cui family's big village. Why is it similar to a sandbag in their mouths?

There were only 300 people guarding, and there was no one in charge. In the face of the swarm of officers and soldiers, they put down their weapons and surrendered without much resistance. Sun Shao took people into the general village and looked at the well-defended facilities. He was very grateful.

"Even if Bu Qian finds here, I'm afraid he can't call in." Sun Shao smiled and said, "If Cui Qian hadn't left, it would have been impossible for him to attack this village without 10,000 people."

"If it hadn't been for the difficulty of Zongzhai, I'm afraid Cui Qian wouldn't have left so safely." Yu turned his tone and said with a relaxed smile, "If he doesn't leave, how can we be so successful?"

"But then again, if the general hadn't known that the Zongzhai was here, I'm afraid we were passing by, and we might not be able to guess that the Zongzhai was here." Shen Xuan sighed with emotion: "General, now that Zongzhai has taken it, are we waiting for Cui Qian here?"

"What do you think?"

"It's easy to stay here and ambush Cui Qian. As long as you lure him in, you can close the door and beat the dog." Yu twisted his beard and looked a little worried: "However, it is inevitable that he will not leak the news. If Cui Qian knows the situation here in advance and no longer comes here, it will be troublesome. The cunning rabbit has three caves. He hides anywhere. It's not so easy for us to find him again.

"Don't worry about this. I believe that there must be a detailed map of Zhu Ya in Zongzhai. It's not so easy for Cui Qian to catch cats with us again." Sun Shao suddenly smiled and said, "Sir, it's easy to learn. Why don't you calculate it?"

Yu smiled, pinched his fingers quickly, and his face suddenly sank: "General, I'm afraid things are not going well."

"Why?" Sun Shao thought it was interesting. Is this thing really so amazing?

"From the hexagram, the news has been leaked." Yu turned over and said, and quickly calculated again: "Now the situation is unclear, and the gossip is very vague, but the battlefield will definitely not be here."

Sun Shao didn't care. He felt that Yu Fan was a little mysterious. Chen Hai just sent a signal saying that he had caught all the people. How could he leak the news again? He didn't say much. He arranged someone to take over the general village, strengthen defense, and be ready to bury Cui Qian.

However, things were unexpected to him. The next day, he received a report from Chen Hai. Cui Wu killed the guard who guarded him and ran away.

"How can it be... like this?" Sun Shao was a little in a daze, and this change suddenly disrupted his plan. Cui Wu ran away. Cui Qian may get the news in advance. Then he will definitely not return to Zongzhai to ambush. So where might he go? Sun Shao looked at the map of Zhuya where he had just been found. There were dozens of bays that could hide soldiers, and it was impossible to investigate them one by one.

"There is no such reason." Sun Shao was furious and couldn't wait to bring Chen Hai over and beat him up. Shen Xuan and Yu didn't say a word. At the beginning, they did not agree to let Chen Hai lead the army alone. They thought that Chen Hai was too rude. In the past, he was just a guard and did not lead troops. Suddenly taking on such an important task, there might be a mistake. But Sun Shao didn't listen and insisted that he had let Chen Hai lead the army alone. Now something really happened.

"Go, call me Chen Hai back." Sun Shao pointed to Ding Fengzong and roared, "This vertical is really useless. Isn't this the old man's stage? Shen Xuan, you go with him and take over to guard the old village. Just like him, he will be a guard all his life.

Shen Xuan laughed secretly and turned around and followed Ding Feng away.

"Mr., what should I do now?" After Sun Shao got angry, he felt a little boring. It was already like this, and it was useless to get angry again. It's better to think about something real. He arched his hand to Yu, who was speechless, and laughed awkwardly: "Sir, you really got it right."

Yu grinned, picked up his eyelids, and rolled his eyes at Sun Shao: "What does the general want to do?"

Sun Shao scratched his eyebrows: "Since we can't ambush here, I wonder if we should take the initiative to fight with Cui Qian."

"It's really a way to turn passive into active." Yu nodded: "However, this is not the best way."

"Please give me some advice."

"Isn't the general interested in Zhu Ya except for suppressing Cui Qian?" Yu Fan asked: "In the first year of the first year of Emperor Xiaowu's reign, Emperor Xiaowu set up two counties of Zhuya and Dan'er. Later, due to the rampant pirates, Emperor Xiaozhao's fifth year of the first Yuan and Dan'er County belonged to Zhuya County. In the third year of the first year of the Xiaoyuan Emperor's first Yuan Dynasty, he abandoned Zhuya County after Jia's donation. In the past few hundred years, Zhu Ya has not been able to be included in the territory of our Han Dynasty. General, you are expanding your territory now.

Sun Shao didn't understand Yu's intention. What about expanding the territory? Zhu Ya is so big, but the population is too small, and the resources available are really limited. What's the point besides a good reputation?

Seeing that he didn't understand, he had to explain further, "General, think about it, why is the supreme in such a hurry to hand over the state? Is it just because the state can provide taxes? Otherwise. So far, the money and food that Jiaozhou can provide to the supreme are very limited. Shi Xie pays tribute every year, but the supreme gives him more items than he pays tribute. In the seven counties of Jiaozhou, the only taxes that the supreme can really receive are the three counties of Nanhai, Cangwu and Yulin, and the taxes of the other four counties are all from Shijia. But why does the Supreme have to make great efforts to run Jiaozhou? For no other reason, Jiaozhou is the only land that the supreme can expand at present. Opening up the territory has always been the greatest credit. Emperor Xiaohuan has done so many stupid things, why can he get a good honor? Isn't it that Duan Qian defeated Dong Qiang?

Sun Shao is a little clear: "You mean, I am also expanding my territory now, so I can..."

"Yes, this is a great credit. Even if the Supreme doesn't give you any substantial benefits, he will add you to the title."

This time Sun Shao understood that only he was promoted to the title, and the people who followed him could get more benefits. Whether it was the actual interests or the improvement of their status, it was worth it for them.

Yu saw that Sun Shao was moved and continued to say, "The reason why I abandoned Zhu Ya in the past was not that Zhu Ya was not good, but because he could not emigrate in time. There are few Han people and many barbarians, so the court has been unable to really control Zhu Ya, and the rebellion naturally rise and fall one after another. Because there is no control of the court here, it has become the territory of pirates. If the general destroys Cui Qian this time, other pirates will inevitably fall, and the population will not be less than 50,000. How can the general settle these people? Isn't Zhu Ya a good place? There are 50,000 people. The strong are soldiers and the weak are for the people. The products here are abundant. After several years of operation, this place is no worse than Wu County. And compared with Wu County, there is more land here, and there is more space to expand in the future.

Yu became more and more excited. He strode to the map and pointed to it with a finger: "General, please see, sailing from the southern end of Zhu Ya and sailing straight to the south is at least half the distance from Xu Wen. In the past, there were pirates, so most merchants had to make more people around. Now the pirates have been cleared, and the merchants can directly from here. It won't be long before Zhu Ya will become the best place for Yi merchants to get in and out. General, this is much better than Xu Wen's conditions.

Sun Shao was moved. Xu Wencheng has only more than 3,000 people, but with the help of overseas merchants, it has become a prosperous county, with a resident population of nearly 20,000, which is only larger than Wu County. Now there are 40,000 to 50,000 pirates in Zhuya, that is, a large county with tens of thousands of households. Coupled with the merchants coming and going, it is only a matter of time before Xu Wen is prosperous here, and there is no doubt at all. What moved him more was that this was a pirate's nest. Except for him, no one dared to come here to serve. This place is his world. In fact, Zhu Ya is still a pirate's nest, but he, the pirate leader, is more awesome than Cui Qian. Not only are there more people, but more importantly, he has an official identity and can rightly grasp the power at hand.

Looking at Zhu Ya on the map, Sun Shao smiled. This is a good place. From here, it can go to Southeast Asia in the east and India in the west. It has developed a lot. This is his kingdom of reading. What's more, this is the Hainan Island of later generations. Isn't it going to build Las Vegas in the East in the 21st century? Well, I'll do it for you in advance. Let me show you what it means to rejuvenate the country with business.

"Please write to the supreme and ask for the establishment of a county in Zhuya."

"Let this kind of thing be silent. His writing is better." Yu shook his hand and smiled contentedly.

"Sir, if the Supreme can give me this land, you have to discuss it with those families and give them strong support." Sun Shao and Yu Fan exchanged glances and smiled tacitly.

"Then we will wait for Cui Qian here. Before he comes back, we need to follow the picture to figure out the situation here as soon as possible." Sun Shao waved his hand and called Su's thick legs, asking him to immediately send someone back to Xu Wen to bring Lu Ji and others to Lingaowan, so all the surveying and mapping students should be taken with them to find out the situation of Zhu Ya in the shortest time.

Su's thick legs didn't say anything, and she set out with her. At the same time, Sun Shao asked him to bring a letter to Bu Qian. In the letter, he said to Bu Qian that I have successfully occupied Cui Qian's general village. Now I am actively arranging and preparing to hit Cui Qian again and completely pace Jiaozhou. When the conditions are ripe, I will cross the sea from the south of Zhuya to the south of Zhuya to the rebellion. Please prepare the food and fodder I need and transport it to Zhuya together.

When Bu Qian received the letter, he still didn't believe that Sun Shao actually won Cui Qian's general village in such a short time? He knows Cui Qian's general village so well that he is as easy as going home without any detour? He asked Su's thick legs, and Su's thick legs just smiled, "General is wise, everything is under control", and he didn't say anything else. Bu Qian also knew that Su's thick-legged pirate only believed in Sun Shao. He didn't have him as the governor of Jiaozhou in his eyes at all. He couldn't ask about anything, so he had to give up the plan to spy on the military situation. He said to Su coarse legs that half of the military grain you prepared for half a year has not been moved. You should transport some grain to Zhu Ya first. Zhu Ya should also have some grain storage, which should be enough for you to defect in Nanping. If it's not enough, I'll raise it when the autumn harvest is completed.

Su's thick legs were very satisfied. He turned around and was about to leave. Bu Yu stopped him again: "Didn't General Fubo mean to support?"

Su shook his head with thick legs. The general said that it was too late for him to go. Lord Assassin would still deal with Cui Qian and others with the sailors. The weight they brought was limited, and they should not last long. At that time, they could only return in failure. If they encountered a hurricane again, they would die and have no place to live. Although there are only more than 6,000 escort sailors now, there are also tens of thousands of sailors. Of course, it is difficult for 10,000 sailors to defeat tens of thousands of pirates, but there should not be a big problem in protecting merchant ships.

Bu Qian was so angry that he didn't know what to say. He found that there was a big difference between Sun Shao's visit to Jiaozhou this time and the last time. He was not only promoted and his subordinates had strength, but also became arrogant. He no longer listened to him like last time. In his tone, he had only regarded him as an ordinary colleague, and he was always He made a request to him, but ignored his request.

Su's thick legs didn't care what kind of mentality the step was, so he turned around and left. He pulled up all Sun Shao's barracks in Xu Wen and moved them to Zhu Ya together, accompanied by Lu Ji and others. In a few days, Xu Wen's military camp was empty. While feeling relaxed, he suddenly thought of a problem. With Sun Shao's big move, it is impossible for Cui Qian not to get any news. What if he turns around and comes to Xu Wen to rob? Xu Wen has no people now. The remaining ships and several county soldiers are probably not enough to fill Cui Qian's teeth.

Bu Qian's tragic discovery is that he is going to take the blame for Sun Shao again. Sun Shao occupied Cui Qian's hometown. Cui Qian did not dare to provoke him, and he wanted to send evil fire to his head. Thinking of this, Bu Qian could no longer sit still. On the one hand, he sent people to urge Shi Xie to send a sailor to welcome Yuehai and others. On the other hand, he rushed to Lingaowan in person and asked Sun Shao to send troops.

As soon as he saw Sun Shao, before Bu Qian could speak, Sun Shao handed over a letter of invitation. Lord, we have made great contributions to expanding our territory and made such a great land for the Supreme. You should ask for us.

(to be continued)