"Thirty thousand gold! Lu Bu, the servant of the three surnames, is poor and crazy!" Unlike Pang Tong, these gentry directly called Liu Mang a false king, because after all, the Han Dynasty still exists, so they can only humiliate Yangzhou. to pull out. This article was first published by
Lu Bu died wronged in Lujiang, and they thought he was a poor, crazy poor ghost. This ransom has nothing to do with Lu Bu, and Liu Mang obviously wanted 10,000 gold, but in Zhou Yu's hands, it became 30,000 gold after a little conversion.
"I don't know if Lu Bu is poor or crazy, but the 30,000 gold has to be paid!" Zhang Zhao shook his head and said to the gentry below. People in Yangzhou also know that if they want to ask for food now, Jiangdong is It’s impossible to get it out, not to mention that Sun Ce still wants to use food and grass to trap Yangzhou to death, just say that the Jiangdong Army and Jingzhou Army are now facing each other in Jiangxia, and the Jiangdong Army itself needs a large amount of food and grass, otherwise Jiangxia will really lose if Jiangdong loses. Trapped to death in Jiangdong.
So the letter sent by Yangzhou is also strict, as long as money, not food. But this money is also difficult. Jiangdong has been militarizing for so many years, and basically has no money. He is fighting for money. Sun Ce, the protagonist, has begun to cut back on food and clothing, let alone other people.
As soon as Zhang Zhao spoke, the people below stopped answering. Many patriarchs of the gentry looked around or lowered their heads. The whole place was eerily quiet.
"My lord, how can I get out this ten thousand gold!" Sun Ce has been fighting for years, where there is no extra money, and he would not reach out to these gentry if he has money. If Zhou Yu didn't stop him, I am afraid that all these gentry would have their homes ransacked , a gentry patriarch next to him said such a sentence. But as soon as he said that, he was immediately glared at by other gentry families.
The gentry patriarch also seemed to know that he seemed to have said something wrong. It is necessary to make up. But Zhang Zhao didn't give him a chance!
"Patriarch Xu is right, my lord can't spend so much money anymore!" Zhang Zhao just wanted someone to throw a brick, so that he could continue to explain the following purpose.
"Second Young Master Yu Jiangdong, I believe everyone knows about you! None of the people present wanted Second Young Master to die! That's why the lord entrusted Zhang to come and gather you all, and I hope you can give advice! Give me an answer!" Zhang Zhao Although he didn't mention anything about money, which one of the gentry below is not a human being! Now that the second son is captured, Lu Bu of Yangzhou needs money to exchange it back, but the master has no money. You can't just watch the second son die, and then only these courtiers will be left to raise money.
There are only dozens of people on the scene now, and if no one apportions it, each person will cost thousands of gold. This Jiangdong gentry is not as rich as Jingzhou. Jiangdong does not have as developed trade routes as Jingzhou. It's like cutting the flesh of these Jiangdong gentry.
"Mr. Zhang Zhao, we should be obliged to deal with the second son, but you also know that, Mr. Zhang Zhao, in recent years, natural disasters and wars have been raging, we wait. We have no money at all, but the second son , I, Cheng, cut down on food and clothing, and I have to spend a hundred gold to help the lord redeem the second son!" A patriarch with the surname Cheng stood up and said righteously.
"Me too, me too, the second son has a deep kindness to me! I will definitely repay it! My Liu family also donated a hundred gold!" All of a sudden, these gentry clans were so impassioned, they all gave out their money generously Come.
But Zhang Zhao next to him was sneering, he stepped forward and said, "I, Zhang Zhao, and the Zhang family donated three thousand gold to solve the Lord's worries and problems!"
Zhang Zhao took out a thousand pieces of gold, and all the gentry below sneered in their hearts, people are stupid and have a lot of money, a thousand pieces of gold, this is not a small number, they are all advancing with retreat, your lord has no money, I Take out the money, but I didn't ask how much I took. I gave you a thousand gold for support, and a hundred gold for support. You can't say that I didn't give it.
"Mr. Zhang Zhao is righteous, he can give three thousand pieces of gold, unlike our small families who don't have much money!" Everyone on the side was praising Zhang Zhao, but in fact they were mocking Zhang Zhao as a fool in their hearts. The more the Zhang family makes more money, the more naturally they don't want to make more money.
"Really!" Zhang Zhao looked at the Patriarch who was talking to him and walked forward. "Patriarch Cheng, I still remember Patriarch Cheng. There are ten thousand mu of fertile land outside Jianye, with four courtyards!"
"Hehe, those are the foundations left by our ancestors. The weather has been good these years, but the years of disasters have continued, ten thousand acres of fertile land have been abandoned, and the four courtyards are nothing but shaggy grass!"
"Oh?" Even though there have been wars these years, even if the weather has not been smooth, there is really no waste in this fertile land in Jiangdong, because as long as it is planted, it will naturally not lose money.
There are also the courtyards in Jianye, those houses are worth a hundred gold per room, and the family will have no money, it is just a joke, if there is no money, then when the second son Sun Quan went to war, where did the money and food come from.
"Oh, is that right? Patriarch Cheng, you're really saving money!" Zhang Zhao looked at Patriarch Cheng with a smile. Let the Cheng family tide over the difficulties! Similarly, the second son knows that the master of the family is so generous and saves the second son, and will give the family the greatest help in Kuaiji! That Jiangdong Yanyin will also give the master of the family a little more!" Zhang Zhao said to Patriarch Cheng with a smile.
Hearing Zhang Zhao's words. Not only did Master Cheng not have any happy thoughts, but instead he played a smart game, Yan Yin, this is a very profitable thing, the ancients’ salt and iron are all in the hands of the government, people can eat less, but But this salt is indispensable, without the supplement of salt, it will be weak, so those barbarians and foreigners also use various things to exchange salt with the Han people.
And Yanyin is a qualification certificate for the gentry to sell salt. Only with this qualification certificate can you sell salt. For the salt merchants who sell salt, the salt quotations are not worth much, because the salt quotations they get are not many, but with such a qualification certificate, they can cover up their illegal salt sales.
Official salt is very expensive. Private salt is cheap. Basically everyone needs salt. You can know how big the market is. Once you get serious and strictly check the family, then the sale of private salt will really be hidden. Whoever sells private salt will not participate in it, but this They are all unspoken rules. If you take it seriously, no one can escape it.
If only before. If everyone doesn’t pay, it’s because they know the law and don’t blame the public. This place is full of nobles from Jiangdong. No matter how strong you are, Sun Ce, you don’t dare to offend all of them. But now that Zhang Zhao has started calling names, it’s naturally not good! Dudu will mess with your family, you can do this!
"Oh, I forgot, forgot!" The head of the Cheng family suddenly yelled, and the face that had changed color just now laughed again, "Suddenly remembered that there are still a batch of jewelry left by the ancestors in the house! Anyway, put It's useless. How about using it to save the Second Young Master! It can be sold for two thousand gold!"
"Hehe! Being a family is a righteous thing!" Zhang Zhao said sarcastically, "I can take out the things left by my ancestors to rescue the second son. I admire. Admire!"
"Where is that!" How could Patriarch Cheng fail to hear Zhang Zhao's sarcasm, selling things from his ancestors was a big treason, it was equivalent to cursing words, but Patriarch Cheng could only hold his nose and bear it.
"Hehe, Patriarch Cheng donated two thousand gold!" Zhang Zhao took out Patriarch Cheng's name on a piece of paper and wrote it on it.
The other gentry patriarchs remained silent, while Zhang Zhao called them one by one.
"Patriarch Xu, your young master is still fine! The few days in prison last time did not scare you!" What Zhang Zhao was talking about was that the young master of the Xu family was domineering and gave up his wife and daughter in Jiangdong. *Not to mention, he also killed four members of his family. This is a shocking homicide case. Once the trouble gets out, this young master of the Xu family will definitely die without a place to bury him. In order to appease the hearts of the people, Sun Ce also had to kill this person. It was useless for the Patriarch of the Xu family to manage up and down. It was Sun Quan who used his servants to take the blame for the young son of the Xu family.
If this kindness is not reciprocated, then naturally it will be considered an old debt.
"I'm old and my eyes are dim! Even if you sell your property and have nowhere to go, you still have to do your part to rescue the second son! My Xu family will contribute two thousand gold!" A thousand gold, and the Xu family can only use two thousand gold. Zhang Zhao called three people in a row, and all three of them were benefited by Sun Quan, and they all expressed their willingness to give money, and Zhang Zhao did not need to call the names of the rest, each of them endured the pain and directly Teach the money out!
"My Bian family is willing to give two thousand gold!"
"My Shen family is willing to contribute 1,500 gold." Everyone contributed their money, the most was 3,000 gold, and the least was naturally more than 1,000 gold. Now the free money has already increased to more than 20,000.
"Okay, the rest of the money will be paid by the lord! My lord and the second son will definitely not forget it!" Zhang Zhao next to him said to the crowd with a smile, 24,000 gold has been obtained. Except for the 10,000 gold that needs to be handed over to Yangzhou, the remaining 14,000 gold belongs to the lord Sun Ce! Governor Zhou Yu's strategy is good.
"How dare, how dare!" Although they felt distressed, they all responded to Zhang Zhao with a smile on their faces.
Zhang Zhao left directly with his subordinates. His task had been completed. He believed that these gentry patriarchs would obediently send the money to the lord, so he didn't need to do these things.
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In Yangzhou Shouchun.
"Zijing, Zijing, tell me, am I really a waste?!" A man with blue eyes and purple hair in Shouchun's prison asked another young man with a wry smile.
"My lord, how can you be a waste!" The other man is also handsome, but it's a pity that both of them are wearing the same white coarse cloth clothes, and the big "prison" on the back is so dazzling and ironic.
"It's not trash, why am I here if it's not trash? If it's not trash, how could I lose to 10,000 enemies with an army of 70,000!" This blue-eyed man is Jiangdong's second son, who once exuded a radiance above history. The founder of the dazzling Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan and Sun Zhongmou, but it is a pity that he is doomed to be a tragedy in this life.
His elder brother was not dead, so he was lurking. In the previous life, his elder brother was assassinated to death. It was because Jiangdong beat Jingzhou so hard that he couldn't hold his head up, and his great success was in sight. Occupy Jingzhou across the river and look forward to marching into the Central Plains to aspire to the world. At this time, Sun Ce had the leisure to go hunting. In the end, he was assassinated by an assassin and died. In this life, Liu Mang appeared. Not only did Jiangdong not have the slightest pioneering spirit, but he also lost Lujiang County. Although he got half of Jiangxia, Jingzhou had an extra Zhuge Liang. Without official career, the Jiangdong army can't take much advantage of the current Jiangxia war situation.
Sun Ce's head grew bigger. Naturally, he would not be interested in hunting. If Sun Ce is not dead, Sun Quan will naturally have no chance to command Jiangdong. He just wanted to go out and make contributions by himself, but he was given the soldiers and money, and in the end he was beaten like this. Sun Quan is naturally Disappointed to the extreme.
"My lord, you!" Lu Su didn't know how to comfort him. Is Sun Quan a waste? Really not. It's just that the elder brother above is too strong, and Sun Quan wants to express himself too much. So he loses because he is too urgent. He has shown it since he seized the military power. He wants to kill Lu Meng and Ling Chao to seize the military power. He is also like this in Linhuai. He is too impatient. Qin Feng The military power can be obtained, but you can't be so eager, this will bury the root cause of the defeat.
Afterwards, the 70,000 army had enough food and grass. As long as they fought steadily, with Yangzhou's background, they would definitely retreat. This is Sun Quan's opportunity to occupy Linhuai. Afterwards, whether to continue to attack Yangzhou or plot against Cao Cao Xuzhou was chosen by Sun Quan, but it is a pity that if there is no if, he was defeated in the first battle, and now even everyone has become a prisoner.
Just when Lu Su was still trying to comfort him, the door of the prison over there suddenly opened.
A group of soldiers and horses came in, and they all wore armor from Yangzhou. It is also the most elite soldiers and horses in Yangzhou to manage the army.
"Where is Jiangdong Lusu and Lu Zijing?!" The visitor frowned as soon as he entered the cell. The smell in the cell was really unpleasant.
"Report to your lord, in front!" The prison chief hurried forward and said to the person who came.
Upon hearing this conversation, both Lu Su and Sun Quan were startled. They were here to find them. Just when they didn't know what to do with them, the captain of the urban management army came to the two of them under the leadership of the prison chief. in front of the cell.
"Open the cell!" The captain of the urban management army said to the cell leader next to him.
The head of the cell nodded and opened the cells. The captain walked in and looked at Lu Su's smiling words, "Mr. Lu Su, Lu Zijing, don't come here!" Among the Jiangdong Army, Er Gouzi, the battalion officer of the Chuzi Battalion of the Danyang soldiers who took refuge in Yangzhou.
"Chu Ergou?!" Lu Su asked suspiciously when he saw the person coming.
"Bold, how dare you do this to our general?!" The urban management soldiers nearby immediately scolded with glaring eyes. "This is our General Chu Ju!"
"Chu Sentence?" Lu Su was stunned for a moment, but then he laughed, half of a dog is a Sentence! The Er Gouzi back then has now turned into a Sentence Sentence.
"Hehe, Mr. Zijing, thanks to the lord's love, he gave a sentence name, so I ask Mr. Zijing to call you a certain Chuju!" Er Gouzi was still very respectful to Lu Su, because Lu Su was admired in the army back then. A character, because Lu Su is selfless.
"A dog is a dog! What's the point?!" Sun Quan snorted and said disdainfully.
"You!" The urban management soldiers on the side were furious and wanted to beat Sun Quan violently, but they were stopped by Er Gouzi.
"What's the important thing for General Chu Ju to come here?!" Lu Su gave Er Gouzi a lot of face. After all, people always go to high places, but the original Er Gouzi is now a thousand-strong general. .
"Of course I'm sending Mr. Zijing on his way!" Chu Ju said while cupping his fists at Lu Su.
"Go on the road?!" Sun Quan on the side was stunned. How could it be possible? Those who died on the battlefield were those with thousands of generals and hundreds of generals. Few generals died in battle, because these generals were either captured. , or ran away, especially if the commander and military adviser like them were captured, it would not be terrible. At worst, they could just exchange them back. This is how Lu Su was redeemed last time. They're still waiting for someone to redeem them.
"Can General Chu make it clear!" Lu Su, the person involved, asked Er Gouzi calmly.
"Mr. Zijing, I'm sorry, Mr. Chu can't help you. You and I are the masters. The last time Mr. Zijing was able to return to Jiangdong was because someone in Jiangdong redeemed him, but today Jiangdong has given up on him!" Er Gouzi said to Lu Su.
"Really?!" A desolation flashed in Lu Su's eyes. The last time the ransom was paid by their Lu family was a thousand gold. The Lu family was not a wealthy noble family, so they were arrested again this time. Certainly the ransom will also rise. The Lu family can't afford so much anymore.
"Please, sir, come with me. Chu will definitely let him go without pain! Chu can only help him like this!" Er Gouzi clasped his fists at Lu Su.
"Thank you so much, General!" Lu Su cupped his fists without saying anything and waved Chu Ju, two soldiers of the city management army were about to step forward and take Lu Su away.
"Zijing, Zijing, don't leave me!" Sun Quan was also a little panicked, originally there was Lu Su accompanying him, but now that Lu Su was about to be beheaded, he would be left alone.
"Go away!" The two urban management soldiers next to you didn't care if you were the second son of Jiangdong or not, they just kicked you up, and Sun Quan wanted to come up. But he was frightened by the sword drawn by the city management army.
"My lord, take care!" Lu Su looked back at Sun Quan, bowed to Sun Quan, and then was taken out by Chu Ju, Sun Quan only heard a voice from outside the cell.
"Jiangdong Lusu, Lu Zijing, and his subordinates have committed crimes against the superiors and caused chaos in the world. According to the law, they should be beheaded and executed!"
Sun Quan sat down on the ground, he was frightened, Sun Quan was not an uninformed person, he had also been an executioner. But, what if the people around him were executed. Naturally it is different.
"Let me out, let me out! I don't want to die, I don't want to die! Let me out!" Sun Quanmengde grabbed the door of the cell, slammed it violently, and made noise.
"What's the noise!" The cell boss ran over and shouted at Sun Quan in the cell, saying that the whip in his hand fell directly on Sun Quan's forehead, directly on Sun Quan's forehead A blood mark came out. There is no second son of Jiangdong here, only the prisoners of Yangzhou.
"Ah! Let me out, my elder brother, my elder brother will come to save me, my elder brother is the Lord of Jiangdong, he will redeem me, let me out, I don't want to die, I don't want to die!" Sun Quan was not able to wake up.
According to the face, there was another whip and a blood mark, and the marks on the face became even.
"Hehe, give it back to your elder brother! Your elder brother has ignored you for a long time! If he can't protect himself, you know how much money you want! It's 10,000 gold, your elder brother can afford it!" The prison chief sneered.
"Ten thousand gold?" Sun Quan was also taken aback for a moment, this ten thousand gold is really a lot. But what is ten thousand gold to his life "Yes, yes, my elder brother will definitely!"
"Boom!" Shouchun's cell was opened again. In Sun Quan's eyes, Er Gouzi, who was like a butcher, appeared again, and he walked in front of Sun Quan again.
"The second son of Jiangdong! Back then, my second son was very envious of your second son! I even wanted to work under your second son!" Sun Quan's popularity in Jiangdong is really good, "but now it seems that it is nothing more than that Well! Mr. Zijing is on his way, and it is your turn to be your second son, Sun Quan!" Er Gouzi's body was full of bloody smell, which made Sun Quan terrified.
"Impossible, impossible! How could it be my turn! My elder brother will redeem me, he will redeem me!" Compared with the vigorous Sun Quan at the beginning, the current Sun Quan is really afraid of death.
"Ten thousand gold? Your elder brother is reluctant! Jiangdong is now caught in Jiangxia's war situation, and Jiangdong's background has been almost consumed. In front of Daye, what is a younger brother like you!" Er Gouzi said disdainfully .
"No, no!" Sun Quan still couldn't believe it, and wanted to hide behind, but Er Gouzi was also a military commander, and Sun Quan had shackles on his hands and feet, so he pulled him away Come out, like dragging a dead dog. Just dragged it out.
"Go, let's go, Second Young Master, I'll send you on your way. Look at Mr. Lu Su and Lu Zijing, it's simple and clear to just kill Second Young Master. If Second Young Master, you hinder me, if you go down with this knife, you won't be able to kill Second Young Master but It got stuck on the head of the second son, so don't blame me, Chu!" Er Gouzi's words were not good enough for Sun Quan, so they came from hell.
What does it mean to not be hacked to death with one knife, and what does it mean to be more comfortable with one knife.
"My elder brother came back to save me, my elder brother came back to save me! I don't want to die, I don't want to die!" From the beginning, Sun Quan still thought that his elder brother would come to save him, and then Sun Quan was frightened to death. Is really afraid of death, Sun Quan and Sun Zhongmou are really the most life-saving people in the Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao and Liu Bei didn't live as long as him, and even Cao Pi, Cao Cao's son, couldn't hold Sun Quan.
Sun Quan lived to be seventy-one years old alone, and killed Liu Bei, Cao Cao and Cao Pi! From the middle period of the Three Kingdoms to the late period!
In his later years, he was even more afraid of his son usurping the throne, and he was erratic on the issue of heirs. Lu Xun and other important state officials were implicated, making the political situation even more chaotic. After Sun Deng died young, under the influence of Sun Luban and others, Sun Quan first abolished Sun He, then gave Sun Ba to death, and finally established the youngest son Sun Liang. This shows how afraid Sun Quan is of death.
What Sun Quan wanted was to show great ambitions, what he wanted was to achieve his own hegemony, not to die here, not to die in Shouchun, just like this kind of unknown death, Sun Quan was terrified, he wanted to struggle, but everything It's all in vain.
"Sun Ce, Sun Ce, big brother, save me, save me!" Sun Quan yelled miserably, but no one answered, and Chu Ju dragged him out like a dead dog on the ground.
"Sun Ce, Sun Ce, if you don't save me, you will die a terrible death!" Sun Quan and his eldest brother Sun Ce also hated him. Give him the big position, if you give him the big position in Jiangdong to Sun Quan, will Sun Quan need to go to war? He was directly dragged to the execution ground by Chu Ju, where a fresh human head was lying there, which made Sun Quan even more frightened. That would not be Lu Su and Lu Zijing.
"Second Young Master, let's go!" Chu Ju raised the butcher knife in his hand with a cold smile.
"Don't, don't!" Chu Ju's saber fell amidst Sun Quan's miserable cry. (To be continued..)