Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 17 Arriving at Danyang City

Danyang City is the county where Yangzhou Mu Liu Yao set up his government, and it can also be regarded as a large county city in the east of the Yangtze River.

Speaking of which, in Zhu Wei's memory, there are also images of Luoyang, Chang'an and other larger cities, but these are all Zhu Wei's memories before, and they still cannot be as real as what Zhu Wei sees with his own eyes now.

Danyang City is divided into two blocks, the old city and the new city, or the new city extends from the old city, so there is also an inner city wall between the old city and the new city in Danyang City.

The city wall of Danyang is about five feet high and two feet thick, which is about the height of a modern five-story building and the thickness of a room.

The city wall was built with earth and rocks. Anyway, it looked like loess on the outside. It was not the kind of city wall that Zhu Wei imagined was entirely made of rocks.

As Liu Yao's lair, Danyang City has quite a population. The apparent population alone is in the tens of thousands. The other hidden population hidden in the gentry and powerful manors is unknown.

As mentioned above, this year was originally an era when the gentry and powerful controlled local real power. When Zhu Wei and Pang Yan came all the way, they could see many high-walled gentry, powerful manors, and fortresses from afar on the official road. .

The size of some gentry, powerful manors, and fortresses are not even smaller than a county town, and they can definitely be regarded as local emperors.

If the local emperors in these places support you, they can protect the peace of one side and send you a certain amount of money, food and soldiers, but if they oppose you, it will be a local cancer.

Soochow has always lived in Jiangdong, unable to fight for hegemony in the Central Plains. It is because the local emperors in these places have been hindered. Many times Soochow's energy is focused on quelling the Shanyue Rebellion and local rebellions.

The root cause is that the Sun family of Eastern Wu wanted to obtain absolute rule over Jiangdong, which would naturally hurt the rights and interests of the Shangtu emperors in these places. As a result, wars could only be used to determine who was in charge.

In fact, during the Eastern Wu period, the so-called Shanyue in many places in Jiangdong was no longer a simple mountain tribe, but more of a group of refugees who hid in the mountains and lived in villages, thus forming a party force.

It can be said that all local forces who were unwilling to pay taxes to Soochow officials at that time, including local gentry, tyrants, and refugee villages hiding in the mountains, were officially called sect thieves or Shanyue.

For example, Yan Baihu, who controls the real power in Wu County, is a local force who was born as a bandit in terms of identity, and now he can be regarded as a powerful party.

In addition, the more famous Shanyue Zongshuai in Danyang is Zu Lang, who is also famous in history. He almost killed Sun Ce before Sun Ce grew up.

Therefore, Sun Ce's so-called sweeping Jiangdong actually meant that the county towns as large as Jiangdong surrendered under his name, but there are still many independent forces in places outside the county towns.

Of course, it was also because Sun Ce was accidentally assassinated and died too early. Otherwise, with his ability, he should be able to use more effective means to quell these hidden dangers in Jiangdong, and then draw his strength to fight for the Central Plains.

(Although Zhu Wei has no choice but to fight for world hegemony because of the Three Kingdoms game system, Zhu Wei still has some admiration for Sun Ce.)
As for Sun Quan's succession to the Sun clan, he was still a little jealous of the generals left behind by Sun Ce, especially those of Zhou Yu.

Therefore, after Sun Quan came to power, due to many factors, he could only be the lord of Jiangdong's success, but he had no effort to expand abroad.

In Zhu Wei's view, the powerful and so-called Shanyue in these places in Jiangdong, to Jiangdong, is equivalent to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Qingzhou to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao defeated the Yellow Turban Rebel Army in Qingzhou back then, received more than [-] soldiers and a population of more than one million, and thus had the capital to start the Qingzhou Army.

According to the information in Zhu Wei's memory, the total population of Jiangdong Shanyue is at least hundreds of thousands.

These mountain people live in various places in Jiangdong, reclaiming the fertile fields in Jiangdong, and there are no less able-bodied men among them than the men owned by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Rebellion Army.

So after taking control of Jiangdong, these strong men are a good source of soldiers.

And after these strong men join the army, they can also eliminate local threats from the source. It seems that Soochow did this in Sun Quan's later period, so Soochow can increase its population and increase its military strength.

It’s just that Soochow did it a bit late. When Sun Quan organized Jiangdong and wanted to fight for the world, Cao Cao had already unified the north, Liu Bei had also established a foothold in Xishu, and Soochow’s strength became the weakest of the Three Kingdoms.

Well, all of this is just a development strategy that Zhu Wei came up with when he saw the gentry, powerful manors, and fortresses on the way to Danyang City. It can be regarded as Zhu Wei's plan based on history.

Although Zhu Wei is not a resourceful genius, he still possesses the knowledge of later generations. By learning from history, he can avoid detours. At the same time, Zhu Wei will not be like Liu Bei, who needs to meet Zhuge Liang to set a future development policy through Longzhong .

It's a pity that although Pang Yan's military strength is extraordinary, his intelligence and political attributes are too low, so he can't help Zhu Wei at all in this regard.

So whenever Zhu Wei felt that he was not thinking enough, he looked forward to when the two other female generals he had created would appear.

Especially Wang Yuyan, who has an intelligence of 97, if she was there, Zhu Wei felt that his development strategy should be more detailed.

Just learning from Pang Yan's background, Zhu Wei really doesn't know what identity and background Wang Yuyan and Mu Lan will have and how they will appear by their side.

Reality is really different from games.

"If only I could have self-created generals directly by my side like the beginning of the game, then I would have at least [-] troops on hand. If I have [-] troops now, and then use the game's training secrets to If you can train soldiers with a morale of [-] and prepare elite soldiers of [-] within a month, then what does the little overlord of Jiangdong mean to you!"

It's a pity that this can only be Zhu Wei's imagination, it is impossible in reality, and now we can only see if Liu Yao will lend troops to Zhu Wei.

Thinking of this, Zhu Wei looked at Danyang City with anticipation in his eyes.

So Zhu Wei took Pang Yan and walked over to the gate of Danyang City, but Pang Yan's image like a fierce god soon attracted the attention of the soldiers guarding the city gate.

Although there is no military incident in Jiangdong now, Liu Yao and Yuan Shu are still at war after all.

It's just that Liu Yao is not aggressive, and spends all day planning some unknown things with the counselor Ke Qing around him, and then sits and waits for Sun Ce to kill him.

But the top is not paying attention, but the soldiers below are still somewhat devoted to their duties.

When the gatekeepers of Danyang City saw Pang Yan, they couldn't help showing a bit of vigilance in their eyes.

Fortunately, Zhu Wei was still there, and Zhu Wei still had some status, so Zhu Wei directly called out the officer on duty at Danyang City Gate, took out the seal of the Yuzhang Prefect, and showed his identity.

The military marquis who was on duty at the gate of Danyang that day did not dare to be scornful, and quickly sent several soldiers to escort Zhu Wei and Pang Yan to the Muzhou Mansion in the inner city...

(End of this chapter)