Chapter 54: The Situation of Pearl Cliff
Not long after lunch that day, the wind blew on the sea. Although it was not heavy, many soldiers still couldn't stand it and vomited a lot. Many people didn't sleep well at night and were so uncomfortable. Until the third day, everyone gradually got used to it, and the situation got better. Sun Quan and Pang Tong were a little energetic and stopped talking nonsense in the cabin. They ran to the deck to see the sea for a while, but soon ran back to the cabin to have a symposium.
When it was almost time to arrive in Zhuya County on the fifth day, Gan Ning asked Sun Quan for instructions and found a peaceful place to stop for one night, so that everyone could recover their physical strength and spirit. The next morning, the port was very simple, with only a few hundred people guarding it. Gan Ning's fleet took it down in a few strokes. Then Zushan and He Qi commanded the army to land slowly, and some of Gan Ning's troops also landed, and they also needed to replenish some supplies such as tamsui.
When Sun Quan and Pang Tong climbed onto the land of Zhuya County, they found the sense of peace of mind. To be honest, they did not dare to take the navy ship anymore. When the 16th Division was organizing the team on the land, the special forces front sentry sent a message saying: A team of about 3,000 people in Zhuya County was driving here.
"Three thousand people, Zushan, how are your soldiers now? Can you still fight?" Sun Quan asked.
"Go back to the lord, no problem. Don't talk about three thousand people, even ten thousand people are not afraid." Zushan said, patting his chest.
"Okay, please ask me about the situation on the other side first. If a war starts, the battle will be left to you to command. I will watch the formation from behind." Sun Quan directly asked Zushan to command, which was too easy to take down the troops.
"It's still Xu Jing who is cunning. The old guy came over by land alone and said he would take a look at the situation of the scholars who came with him. He probably had fun all the way." Sun Quan began to complain that Xu Jing was not with them.
When Pang Tong heard it next to him, he thought to himself, "It's a good thing I'm on the boat with me, otherwise I'd have to be recorded." Regardless of whether Sun Quan was in the same place or not, he just looked at the battlefield ahead."
"Report! Lord, the master Zushan sent a message in front of him. Opposite was the prefect of Zhuya County and Dan'er County who came to surrender with people and came to surrender with seals and ribbons." Chen Nian came to send a message.
"That's it, you're like this. Let Zushan and He Qi take over the reorganization of their army and bring the two county magistrates to see me." After Sun Quan arranged it, he said to Pang Tong: "Little Phoenix, I'm so powerful. The army is everywhere, and the enemy is descending in sight."
"It's hard to say. These two county magistrates only have 3,000 soldiers, so they dare not fight with each other." Pang Tong said.
"I hope this can be true."
After a while, Chen Nian came over with two civil servants. Seeing that the clothes were all these two governors, these two governors didn't look like scholars, but they looked like two businessmen. When they saw Sun Quan, they didn't know what kind of tribute they performed, so they bowed with their hands, and then they casually signed up for themselves, "Zhu Da, the prefect of Zhuya County" and "Wei Lang, the prefect of Dan'er County" and said:
"Have you met Mr. Wu!"
"You two are prefects appointed by the court?" Sun Quan felt that these two people didn't look like one prefect.
"Yes, we are friends. We made money from doing business together, and we wanted to be an official and be a grandfather, so we bought two officials from the governors. We originally wanted to be a governor to make some money, but we didn't expect that we had been on the road for half a year. After we arrived for more than ten years, we didn't make much money back. We were still on the island and were very poor." Zhu Da complained directly.
Sun Quan thought to himself how this guy was so idiot, how did he get rich? He really saw a ghost. He didn't bother to pay attention to them, so he asked Chen Nian to take him aside first, then took the seals of the two prefects, and asked Chen Nian to order Zushan to send troops to take over Zhuya County first. As for Dan'er County, which was farther away, he asked Chen Nian to arrange a few people to find out the news first, and then talk about it after rest.
An hour later, Sun Quan brought his people into Zhuya County. Seeing that there was no ordinary people on the street, Sun Quan was very surprised, but he didn't have time to figure it out and went directly to the prefect's mansion.
As soon as Sun Quan entered the gate, he was confused. It was like entering a mansion of a big businessman. He placed whatever luxury, and everything was used in copper and gold. When he went to the lobby, he found that the chairs were all copper and the tableware were all gold. When Sun Quan was surprised, Zushan and He Qi walked in. He Qi reported to Sun Quan and said:
"Lord, Zhu Da from Zhuya County is simply a crazy person. Judging from the official documents and some subordinates of the yamen, since he took office, this person has not paid a penny of tax to the court for various reasons, but he has exploited the people under his rule. Now there are no one on the streets of Zhuya County, for fear of being caught by Zhuda's soldiers being fined. Moreover, he and Wei Lang from Dan'er County sold some specialties on the island to the mainland to make money, but the people who do things cannot get a penny."
"Damn, two corrupt officials! You go and ask someone to copy Zhu Da's governor's mansion for me. It's so messy and unhappy to watch it." Sun Quan said.
"Let everyone be careful and copy it. The lord will still have to stay there at night. He arrested Zhu Da's family, interrogated them one by one, and convicted them according to the law." Pang Tong added.
After a while, He Qi came back and said, "Lord, I found that Wei Lang's family is also here. I asked for a preliminary question. It seemed that Dan'er County had already asked the indigenous people on the island to occupy it."
"Damn, don't you report this big thing to the governor of Jiaozhou? You're still here to be with Zhu Da Xiaosha. I'm so heartless." Sun Quan sighed.
"It is probably the reason that they surrendered," said Pang Tong.
"A Nian, go and take Wei Lang over to me. Oh, Gong Miao, go and do it first." Sun Quan arranged the arrangement and sat down to drink water with Pang Tong.
Looking at the water in front of me, I suddenly thought that since I couldn’t drink, I had to drink tea. But now there seems to be no stir-frying tea, but I can find someone to stir-fry it, which is easy to deal with. I was thinking about where the tea is better. Last time I was looking for a tea tree in Wuyi Mountain, but I didn’t find it later. I remember that there should be tea trees on Hainan Island, so I asked someone to look for it.
"Master, Wei Lang brings it." Chen Nian took Wei Lang here at this moment.
"Wei Lang, right? Tell me about your Dan'er County? If you can't explain it clearly, cut off your dog's head!" Sun Quan knew that businessmen were bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, and these two were typical examples, so he shouted sternly.
"Return, return, return to Wuhou, the Li barbarians in the mountains rebelled and tens of thousands of people attacked. My Dan'er County only had three or five thousand guards, so I couldn't stop it, so I had to escape to Zhuya County to take refuge." Wei Lang said tremblingly.
"Nothing nonsense, the barbarians rebelled, and they did not have any siege equipment. How could they capture a county town? If you don't tell the truth, you don't need to tell me. People come!" Sun Quan seemed to have no patience at all.
Wei Lang knelt down when he was frightened by Sun Quan, lay on the ground and said, "Because the people in the city have rebelled, they opened the city gate."
"Why are the people in the city rebelling? You explain." Sun Quan kicked Wei Lang's head lying on the ground.
"This is mainly because villains have too much tax and they can't afford it, so they took the opportunity to resist." Wei Lang's sweat was already flowing.
"Officials force the people to rebel! Damn it. Then the Li people were also forced to rebel, right?" Sun Quan asked.
"The Li people were because our two counties seized their... grain and some... tea, so..." Wei Lang said intermittently.
"A Nian, take him down and take good care of it." Sun Quan now knew the situation on the island.
"The court asked these eunuchs to harm them, so we should destroy these eunuchs." Sun Quan said hatefully.
"But don't need eunuchs in the harem?" Pang Tong said weakly next to him.
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