Four hundred and seventieth chapters offer the city
The county magistrate Zhang Ping was locked up outside the city. A city wall and tower were completely blocked by the Chu army. The remaining defenders did not dare to resist. 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 to fight, and there is no time to fight!"
Although he did not surrender, Zhang Ping thought clearly - didn't the Chu army claim not to kill prisoners?
He was just a county magistrate, and he didn't do any harm in Yufu County. If he couldn't find any guilt during the interrogation, he would definitely not be among the guilty officials. Most likely, he was detained in Ba County and his condition was stable.
As long as you stabilize your character, whether it is the Chu Kingdom occupying Ba County or the Yizhou Prefecture expelling powerful enemies, you will have the opportunity to serve as an official again. Throw the pot out first...
Wei Yan had no intention of persuading him to surrender, and simply had him imprisoned first - not to mistreat prisoners was one of the highest military rules 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 1st Division stood firm and recovered, the Wancheng 1st Division led by Zhao Yun 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 Yufu is in the northeast corner. 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. Shortly 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, Linjiang, and Zhi County, Fuling, 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 had thought 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 operatives - except for the senior people who had access to Yizhou Prefecture, he couldn't even name them.
Therefore, the division plan came to an end, and Yongning County was re-merged into Ba County, while Guling County, which had only two counties, was also "trusted" to Ba County.
Quren County, as the second county in theory to Guling County besides Yufu, 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 exchanges with Jingzhou were cut off, the income of these two counties has been reduced a lot, and the army has also been reduced, and it has been reduced to a patrol team to guard against smugglers and caravans...
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 is too late to support, Zhao Yun's only worry is whether Quren's defenders will be too determined. Once they fortify the wall and clear the country, snatch or destroy immature crops, or even burn down the treasury when they break the city, what will happen to them?
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 was still fully prepared and did not push too hard. He promoted the Chu army as a benevolent and righteous army along the way, and tried to send people to the county in advance to say surrender...
After that... Zhao Yun himself didn't expect that it would be so easy to surrender?
Li Yi, the magistrate of Quren County, also came from a noble family in Bajun. He was not the Wu general who later participated in the Battle of Yiling. He just had the same name.
When Liu Yanxin was mourned, a gentry rebellion also broke out in Bajun. Historically, after Gan Ning had enough of being a water thief, he returned to Yizhou to serve as an official. He also participated in the rebellion at this time and was even one of the main initiators.
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However, the rebellion was quickly put down by Zhao Wei, and the remaining rebels fled into Jingzhou and were taken in by Liu Biao.
Liu Zhang had just succeeded to the throne at that time. He really thought that he would be able to rule Yizhou by sitting on the throne of Yizhou Mansion. He appointed Zhao Wei as the "Zhonglang General of the Eastern Expedition" on the spot. He even wanted to attack Liu Biao in the name of revolt.
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Afterwards, Zhao Wei, an old minister who had entered Shu with Liu Yan, slapped Liu Zhang hard - and Zhao Wei immediately rebelled against him in Ba County.
Although he was eventually suppressed by the Yizhou Prefecture, 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 began to become "Buddhist".
In Chengji World, Gan Ning never returned to Bajun. 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 in 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 was not long after Zhao Wei's head was delivered.
This is actually the reason why, in history without the White Rabbit Effect, after Zhang Fei captured Yan Yan, he was given the green light to be released into Shu County - the Bajun nobles were already at a distance from Yizhou Prefecture!
Yan Yan was also from Bajun, but he was not considered a big noble. As a veteran promoted by Liu Yan, he was loyal to Yizhou Prefecture, but he was not absolutely loyal, so he considered the thoughts of the Bajun nobles.
, 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 "backstabbed" Zhao Wei in the first place. He was a descendant of the gentry through and through. He rebelled with Zhao Wei in order to fight for the interests of the Bajun gentry and stabbed him in the back.
Zhao Wei also wanted to fight for the interests of the Bajun gentry.
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 the Yanzhou nobles who welcomed Lu Bu and attacked Cao Cao's back door not long after.
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, while Liu Zhang... entered the sage mode in one step, and 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 said that he was doing it for the people, was forced to do it, and had no other choice, so he dedicated the city.
He also emphasized that he would "dedicate himself to the city but not his life" and would never succumb to being a thief...
Those who didn't understand the atmosphere at that time must have thought that Li Yi 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 on horseback...
In this regard, the general who sent the message to Zhao Yun did not stop him - 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?
It's just that after Zhao Yun actually 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 to support an army of 20,000 men for half a year? Not even a tenth of it?" Deputy Division Commander Wen Pin 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... he never expected that the people in Yizhou Prefecture would be even more ruthless!
"This... there was a flood last year, and County Magistrate Li 'privately took' all the food in the treasury 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 one 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. Upon seeing this, Yao Wan quickly returned the courtesy.
Originally, Yao Miao was still hesitating, should he withdraw first after the handover? Even if he wanted to serve in Chu State, he could wait for the limelight to pass. There was no need to stay as a county official in Yizhou, which would 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 - not only in myself but also 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 the Liu Biao family built their own business. Although they also relied on the power of local nobles, at least before they became seriously ill, they did not give up power and actively sorted out the internal division of power. And Liu Zhang...
I entered sage mode eight years ago.
Zhao Yun couldn't say anything to the empty treasury - even if the actual situation was clear, he had taken the initiative to offer the city, could he still turn around and pursue his past corruption?
Who will dare to surrender in the future?
Even according to the rules of the Chu State, as long as they do not harm the people, are involved in the eight deadly sins, and important officials surrender, they can be pardoned...