Chapter 66 The sky is high and the emperor is far away

Just when the defenders were panicked, Chen Hai and Shuai Zeng rushed behind Sun Shao. Behind them, the fierce soldiers rushed to the top of the city and stood steadily. They formed a small attack array, relying on the strong protective ability of the heavy armor on their bodies. There was no need to pay attention to defense. They just let go of their hands and feet to attack and keep fighting. The ground expanded, squeezed away the defenders, and covered their companions behind them to the city. After a long time, they laid a formation of about five steps at the head of the city.

Under the city, Zhao Xiu commanded, relying on the cover of the heavy truck, and tried his best to shoot arrows at the head of the city in order to relieve Sun Shao's pressure. At the same time, they were ready to enter the city. Once Sun Shao opened the gate, they could pour in.

Li Jing was stunned by Sun Shao's fierce attack. He didn't expect Sun Shao to rush to the head of the city so quickly. The more than 800 people he prepared not only failed to block Sun Shao, but he was beaten back step by step by Sun Shao. In a few rounds, Sun Shao stood firm at the head of the city and expanded his advantage. Behind him, the fierce pawns who kept rushing to the head of the city faced the spear halberd of the forest. They entered the sheep like tigers one by one, and the momentum was overwhelming. They rushed to the defenders bravely, waved the sharp weapons in their hands and killed wantonly.

"Stop them--" Li Jingwu's long sword in his hand, harshly commanded his hand to encircle and squeeze forward, taking advantage of the large number of people, in an attempt to squeeze Sun Shao and others out of the city. The crossbow guarding the corner roared from time to time, shooting the soldiers who climbed the city one by one, but the soldiers behind them were not afraid. They climbed up on the bodies of their companions and quickly joined the fighting team at the head of the city. The power of the crossbow is great, but the shortcomings of slow speed are also exposed. It is only the kung fu of shooting two or three arrows, and half of the three hundred soldiers have rushed up.

Zhao Xiu was so angry that his eyes turned red when he saw that the city crossbow was shooting his robe. He ordered more than a dozen strong archers to rush to the corner of the city. At the risk of being shot through by the city crossbow, he aimed at the direction of the city crossbow, which made the crossbowman who defended the city crossbow in a mess. On the same time, he had to prevent the arrows from the city. Originally, The speed of unhappiness is greatly reduced.

Sun Shao heard Li Jing's voice and shouted, "Chen Hai, Ding Feng, cover me!"

Chen Hai and Ding Feng arrived, and the dancing long knife stopped in front of Sun Shao. Sun Shao threw away a long knife that had been cut off, bit another knife in his mouth, stretched out his hand and pulled out a bow string from his waist, looked at Li Jing in the distance, changed the string quickly with his hands and feet, and then pulled out a copper fly fly from the quiver behind him. Arrows. Most of the arrows in the Han Dynasty have used iron arrows. Because the three-edged arrows are not suitable for forging, flat arrows are usually used. Although the sharpness has increased, the killing effect is greatly reduced. On the contrary, the three-edged arrows are not as good as the three-edged arrows, which are usually made of expensive copper.

The copper fly arrow used by Sun Shao is called the sheep head copper fly arrow, which is much shorter than the ordinary arrow, but the iron part is much longer, so the arrow is heavier and suitable for strong bows, and it is better to use Sun Shao's three stone bow.

Sun Shao's archery is very good. Usually, he always shoots people with a slight glance, but this time, he held his breath carefully, and his eyes bit Li Jing. The noisy fighting sound in front of him was far away from him in an instant, and the shaking figures slowly turned into nothingness, only Li Jing, who ran and shouted in the distance. It became clearer and clearer, and the movement became slower, as if slowing down the camera.

"Middle!" Sun Shao, who was one with a human bow, loosened his fingers, and the bow string suddenly loosened. The copper fly arrows left the string with the shadow. It was not until he flew out half a distance that the bow string made a "buzz" sound.

Li Jing, who was commanding his men to intercept, suddenly felt a burst of palpitations. He subconsciously swallowed the shouts that had not yet come out and turned his eyes to Sun Shao, who was fighting. He suddenly felt a little strange. Sun Shao had been rushing to the front. When did he retreat to the battle? Also, why did he bite the knife in his mouth while holding the bow in his hand?

Li Jing didn't figure it out, but the lieutenant beside him saw it. He rushed to Li Jing with all his strength. At the same time, he raised the shield in his hand to protect Li Jing. His movements can't be said to be unpleasant, and his judgment can't be said to be incorrect. Unfortunately, it's all too late.

The speed of the copper fly arrow is much faster than that of the ordinary arrow. As soon as the county lieutenant stepped up, the fly arrow has arrived silently. An arrow hit Li Jing's throat. The remnants of the arrow did not disappear. It came out from the back of his neck. Blood burst out along the wound torn by the three-edged arrow, spraying the face of the guard behind him.

Li Jing held the trembling arrow feathers tightly, and there was a "coo" sound in his throat, but he didn't say a word. He took two steps forward. Suddenly, he felt that his legs were soft and knelt down on the ground with a plop. His strength quickly disappeared. His head slowly lowered, and the three-edged arrows exposed behind his neck. Pointing straight to the sky, blood arrows were sprayed into the air.

Li Jing's sudden death in battle gave the heaviest blow to the defenders who had been hit by morale. After a brief shock, the remaining defenders immediately collapsed. Some of them fled in all directions, some of them threw their weapons and knelt down and surrendered, and a few stubborn defenders were quickly slaughtered under the attack of Sun Shao and others. Kill it all.

Chen Hai rushed down the city wall with people and opened the gate. Zhao Xiu rushed in with people.

Xijuan City announced a change of hands in less than a quarter of an hour after the attack began.

Although Cui Qian and Su's thick legs were far away and could not see each other's expressions, their expressions seemed to be exactly the same as an appointment. Cui Qian and Cui Wu looked at each other in front of each other. Su's thick legs and Wei Ping were relatively speechless, and their mouths were wide open, and they could almost stuff their fists.

Did Sun Shao break through the West Scroll City?

Until Sun Shao sat in the South Taishou Mansion and called them over, they did not recover from the shock, which made them look very calm when they stood in front of Sun Shao.

"I won't be hungry." Sun Shao casually threw a volume of brochures in front of them: "It is said that this year's taxes in Nanjun are all in the warehouse, with a total of 320,000 stones. Is it enough for us to return to the South China Sea?"

Cui Qian woke up at this time. He picked up his battle skirt, knelt down in front of Sun Shao, and fell to the ground: "General is brave and admirable."

Su's thick legs were full of shame, and she also knelt to the ground and claimed the death penalty. What he admired Sun Shao before was only his scheming, but he never really put Sun Shao's bravery in his heart. In his mind, only a fierce man like Yu can be called brave and seize the flag. Although Sun Shao is also a brave warrior, he is just an ordinary warrior. If he really fights in battle, he may not be able to do anything. But today he was convinced. Although there were only 2,000 people in Xijuan City and more than half of his strength were restrained by him and Cui Qian, Sun Shao broke through Xijuan City with only 300 people, which still shocked him.

Even if Guan Yu is here, it's probably nothing more than that.

"Get up, today is a battle, but it's just a small test. It's not worth mentioning." Sun Shao waved his hand and smiled disapprovingly: "Immediately send someone to inform Yu Changshi that he is ready to receive military food."

"Oh." Cui Qian answered loudly and got up and went out to pass the order.

"Brother Su, please get up." Sun Shao stepped forward to hold Su's thick legs and patted him on the shoulder: "If you hadn't attracted part of Li Jing's troops, I'm afraid it would have been delayed for some time. Thank you this time."

"Su Yu dares not make contributions." Su's thick legs said, "Such a war should have been charged by Su Yu and others, but today it is really Su Yu's crime to let the general take the stone."

"Hahahaha..." Sun Shao laughed: "Su Jun was wrong. Today, there are arrows and no stones. Although Li Jing has prepared some ring stones at the head of the city, most of them are useless."

"That's because the general's attack was so sharp that Li Jing didn't have time to react at all." Su said with a smile on her face.

"Lucke, luck." Sun Shao waved his hand modestly.

Yu was shocked when he got the news and immediately rushed to Xijuan with the cargo ship. When he strode into the Taishou Mansion, Sun Shao was checking the documents naked and saw him come in. Sun Shao immediately smiled and raised the document in his hand before he could speak, but he saw that Yu turned angrily, and his eyes seemed to be about to spit out fire. He couldn't help but be stunned: "What's the matter, sir?"

"The general is so brave. Sure enough, there is a rebellious wind." Yu Fian gritted his teeth and sneered: "Three hundred warriors will definitely become famous in the world in the future. He is indeed a good man."

Sun Shao touched his nose, looked at the wound that had just been bandaged on his body, and smiled awkwardly. He is not stupid. Of course, he knows that Yu Fan is not a sincere compliment, and he may not really care about him. Yu Fan cares about him, perhaps most of it is because he has the hope of the Huiji family. He hurriedly ordered someone to turn over tea for Yu, and then attentively greeted Yu to sit down and explained patiently, "Sir, as you know, we don't have enough food on our return trip, and if we go back like this, won't our trip be in vain? So I didn't have time to discuss with my husband, so I temporarily decided to take advantage of Li Jing's lack of preparation to attack Xijuan City. Sir also saw that Xijuan City is only one foot and five feet high, and the guards can't be compared with the city of Jiangdong. We should still have a chance.

Yu was drinking tea angrily, and his heart is still pounding. For a long time, although Sun Shao was a little frivolous in his eyes, he was still a relatively cautious person in general, which was very different from Sun Ce's negligence in those years. But no one expected that Sun Shao would either not play, but play a big one. Unexpectedly, four or five thousand people with Cui Qian and Su's thick legs were not needed. He only picked 300 people to attack Xijuan City. What's more, he didn't even prepare the combat equipment to attack the city, so he attacked so strongly. Although Sun Shao's adventure has succeeded now, and his reasons are indeed reasonable, Yu Fan still feels frightened. If you are hit by a stone, you will not be killed or injured even if you wear heavy armor. In case of a mistake, Sun Shao, the seemingly powerful sailor will disintegrate in a blink of an eye. In addition to Sun Shao, who else can suppress the two big pirates, Su's thick legs and Cui Qian?

"General, such a thing can never happen again." Yu turned up his anger. Seeing that Sun Shao had always had a good temper, he was a little embarrassed. Finally, he said earnestly, "It's enough to give such a thing as Chen Hai and Ding Feng. Even Cui Qian and Su Yu can also be. The general's status is noble, and he can no longer do such a thing. Yes. You should know that you are the general of the army, the soul of the army, not the man who fights bravely.

Sun Shao nodded repeatedly, and then sent the warehouse account book that had just been cleaned up to Yu Fan. Yu turned over and turned over, and then turned into anger into joy: "I didn't expect such a remote Nanjun to be so rich?"

Yes, even Sun Shao didn't expect that Nanjun would be so rich at the beginning.

It is said that there were originally five counties in Nan County. In addition to the western volume of the county government, there are also Xianglin, Bijing, Zhu Wu and Lu Rong. Xianglin has now established himself as the State of Linyi. There are only four counties left in Nan County, with a total of 15,3,3,42 households and 76,000,951 people. Generally speaking, it is equivalent to a county in Wu County, but he After taking stock of the warehouse, I found that the warehouse in Nan County was only stronger than that of Wu County - there were 320,000 stone grains in the warehouse, which was just collected this year. It was slightly stronger than that of Wu County. In addition to grain, the amount of money was beyond Sun Shao's imagination, with more than 20 million yuan, 30% more than Wu County. Sun Shao opened At first, I thought it was Li Jingqiao who set up a name and was violently restrained. Originally, I wanted to do something to make people happy, but later I called the relevant personnel to ask, and then I knew that although there was a lot of money, most of them came from the right way. The reason why this money far exceeds Sun Shao's expectation is that it is caused by the special geographical location of the south - most of this money is commercial tax.

Nan County is the first stop for Yi merchants to enter Jiaozhou, so the Yi merchants who pass by from then on have to pay taxes according to the size of the ship and the value of the goods. This is an important economic source of Nanjun. On the other hand, Xijuan is still the eastern starting point of the trading channel between Nanjun and Funan. Do you go west along the Donghe River in the south of Xijuancheng? After 50 or 60 miles, passing through a canyon of about ten miles, you can cross the Changshan Mountain and enter the territory of Funan. This is a commercial road that has been passed for hundreds of years. It is said that along this commercial road, you can go all the way to the west, through hundreds of small countries, and all the way to the sea. If Funan and its dependent countries want to obtain goods from outside, they can either go east to west along this commercial road or to the west along this commercial road. If possible, they will choose to go east to west. The reason is very simple. Here, they can not only trade with Yi merchants, but also trade with a large number of Han merchants, all kinds of things from the Han Dynasty. Compared with razing goods, the goods are not only practical, but also relatively cheap, which is more easily accepted by kings of all sizes.

In this way, this business road has brought a rolling source of money to the western scroll. Although the population of Nan County is not large, the conscience says that Li Jing is not the kind of corrupt official who scrapes the ground. It can even be said that he has no other bad deeds except the crime of collusion with Lin Yi.

So what is the concept of an annual income of more than 20 million yuan? There can be a figure to explain that when the Han Dynasty was in Huanling, the population was about 60 million, and the annual treasury income was about 8 billion yuan. That is to say, although the South of the South is less than one-eighth of the country's population, there is a quarter-bai fen zhi of the treasury income, which is far higher than the average. It should be noted that Yes, it is said that Nan County is located in a remote area with a wide area and sparsely populated. It is far from the densely populated state of the Central Plains like Yanji Yuqing.

This is called Shan Gao Emperor Yuan. Who would have thought that there would be such an attractive fiscal revenue in the farthest end of the Han Dynasty?

"It's a pity that Li Jing is such a talent." Yu Fan sighed and then asked, "What's the general's plan?"

Sun Shao hesitated for a moment: "This time, Jiaozhou has been paced, and Bufujun has controlled six counties. Generally speaking, I should also get some benefits. It is said that the south is a good place. However, Cui Qian killed Chu, the prince of Lin Yiguo. The district company of Linyi Kingdom probably would not bow easily. Linyi's place is not big and its strength is limited. I'm not very worried, but Linyi is said to be a vassal state of Funan. Hundreds of large and small vassal states in Funan, will Funan state raise troops to disturb the border? It is said that the southern terrain is narrow and long, and it is not easy to defend with this little force in our hands.

Yu turned his beard and nodded: "The general's concern is reasonable. We are not familiar with the terrain here. If we stay, we will probably be under a lot of pressure in the short term. This is not only the pressure brought by Lin Yi and Funan, but also the pressure brought by Bu Qian and Supreme. The general has asked Zhu Ya. Will they hand over the south to the general again?

Sun Shao nodded, but he was a little reluctant. He said that Nan looked remote, but the annual income of two thousand gold and 300,000 stones of grain were still very attractive to him. What's more, he also has an ambition, which is to follow this business road ** to the west until the Indian Ocean. In his vague impression, the location of Funan is roughly equivalent to the area of Thailand. If he can occupy this place, he will not only have a foothold, but also can save a long distance without going west from the Strait of Malacca.

However, Yu Fan's worry may not be unreasonable. Not to mention that they are not familiar with the situation of Funan now, the terrain conditions of Yunan are also very different from the Jiangdong they are familiar with. I'm afraid that Bu Qian and Sun Quan will not let him get the south so safely. Bu Qian has now received Hepu, Jiaoqan and Jiuzhen. The commercial tax income of these counties will not be worse than that of Yunan. It should be easy to guess the actual income of Yunan. Can he easily swallow this piece of fat meat into his mouth?

This is a good place, but at present, my strength is not enough to occupy this place. It is necessary to endure it for a while. When the strength is stronger, we should seize this place again. Now we should give it another trap.

"Well, let's inform Bu Fujun about the situation here." Sun Shao quickly made a decision, "Mr. Yu, hurry up and take away the grain in the warehouse. If our ship is not enough, we will requisition the merchant ship. If the gentleman's prediction is good, then Jiangdong will soon have a war with the Central Plains, and this grain will be of great use.

Yu Fan smiled and said no words. Sun Shao's words were half true and half false, and the last few words were even more hypocritical. He didn't believe that Sun Shao would be so kind-hearted and handed over the 300,000 stones of rice to Sun Quan. He probably wanted to intercept it by himself in case of need. However, it is enough for everyone to know these words, and there is no need to point them out. Yu Fan was also very disappointed with Sun Quan, otherwise he would not have promised to let his two sons work under Sun Shao.

"General, since the commercial tax is so considerable, you might as well attract more businessmen to go directly to Zhuya in the future." Yu turned his eyes and said quietly, "With such a business tax, Zhu Ya can become a new market in a very short time."

"It makes sense." Sun Shao nodded repeatedly, "Let's leave this matter to you. In addition, please take a look at how to talk to Bufujun. We have done so many things, and we should ask for more rewards, or our soldiers should be dissatisfied again.

Yu turned his heart and said with a continuous smile, "It's right. It's up to me."

(to be continued)