Qin Official

After the Jinling Conference, the three people who each controlled a county in Jiangdong parted ways. Anpu wanted to leave Stone City, summoned Danyang soldiers, and prepared to go to Yuzhang, waiting for an opportunity to cut off Xiang Ji's retreat, while Wu Rui's Vietnamese soldiers were stationed far away in Qu'atun. , Weiyang's Louchuan Master docked at Jiangcheng, and I'm afraid it will split into two and go east and west.

When Wei Yang left Jinling, he called his chief historian Zhu Jian and told him what happened today.

Zhu Jiannai was from Hengshan County. After Wei Jing and An Pu captured Zhu City, Zhu became the most active helper, hoping only to get a share of the new regime.

Zhu Jian was the best disciple and was sent to work under Wei Yang. He was good at words and strategies. Today Wei Yang's suggestion of avoiding a decisive battle with Xiang Ji was the first suggestion made by Zhu Jian. Wei Yang was very surprised that his family's property was all in Zhu City, but they could advocate moving the entire city to Wuchang.

This person was very open-minded and said with a smile: If Zhu City turns into a battlefield, my family will suffer greater losses, and the whole family may even be massacred. Ever since they moved away from Zoudi a few generations ago, the Zhu family has figured it out. Land, houses, official positions, money and silk can all be lost, but the only thing that cannot be lost is the lives of the tribesmen. As long as the tribesmen are still alive, all the above can be lost in one day and will be regained in ten years!

This insight made Wei Yang attach great importance to it, and Zhu Jian smiled after listening to the three people’s discussion today:

This Marquis of Ganyue is quite similar to what the general saw.

Wei Yang was a little worried:

Wu Rui doesn't agree with me. This sworn brother of Zhongfu just wants to preserve the strength of the Yue people!

Since the failure to capture Huainan last year, Wei Yang has always felt that Jiangdong was destined to be unable to defeat Chu alone.

Not only are several generals of Chu State very brave and good at fighting, but also because the main force in Jiangdong is no longer the veterans of the Southern Expeditionary Army who were killed in the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, but the Yue soldiers recruited locally...

For example, Wu Rui sent his main force of 10,000 men to follow Heifu into Wuguan. The rest continued to be recruited from Kuaiji, Dongou, Minyue, and Qianyue. They were directly led by local Yue rulers and their tribesmen to join. , with a combined force of nearly 20,000.

It looks like a lot, but in reality, it’s just a ragtag group of people.

When they were stationed in Wu County, the Yue people refused to obey the military law, let alone private fights. It was common for the Wu and Yue people to draw their swords when they disagreed. There were countless people who left the camp without authorization. Their purpose was also very hard-core. They actually joined the local Wu Yue people. Going to the market...

After some people finished the market, they went home directly with the horses and sheep they had exchanged for the spoils and bags of grain on their shoulders, never to return.

This group of tribal soldiers had no order in their marching and no desire to fight to the death. When they attacked Donghai County, they advanced when they saw advantages and retreated when disadvantages came. They were more interested in looting trophies than fighting the Chu soldiers.

Such soldiers can indeed only be used for harassment and containment, and are of no use in embarrassment.

Wei Yang couldn't help but sigh: These soldiers of Wu and Yue are indeed brave, but they are untamable. They must be like Sun Wu and train them with iron-clad military discipline before they can become an army!

Zhu Jian smiled and said: County Lieutenant, if Wu Rui has such ability, wouldn't you and Commander Xu be able to sleep at night?

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If Weiyang knew what Wu Rui was doing now, he would probably be unable to sleep at night...

When Wu Rui returned to Qu'a, he heard from his second son Wu Ying that the Dongou and Minyue people in the camp almost started fighting again.

here we go again.

Wu Rui was stunned and spat on the ground. For more than a year, since the Yue soldiers formed an army, he had to deal with these messes every day.

In addition to being collectively called Yue by the Central Plains people, these Yue tribes spread across the southeast have few things in common: Dongou and Minyue are originally from the same ancestor, and they are both descendants of the last Yue king. After Yue was destroyed by Chu, , built far away.

However, the cultural forms of the two countries are very different: Dongou adheres to the traditions of Yue and has gradually become civilized, while Minyue has integrated into the barbaric Fujian people, worships snakes, has many weird traditions, and still shaves its hair short and has tattoos on its body. It has a creepy snake shape, and even its weapons are snake swords and snake spears.

The two countries had a deadly feud over inheritance and land issues. They fought against each other for generations. It was the Qin army that finally put an end to the enemies...

The elders of Yu Yuejun who come from various valleys in Kuaiji are much more civilized in their dress. Since they have been indirectly ruled by the Chu State for more than a hundred years, their customs are still Chu. At first glance, they are no different from the Chu people in Huainan, but it is still difficult to speak. The more you understand, the more you speak.

There are also people from the islands outside Vietnam. They have been dealing with the sea all their lives. The tides come and go. Their bodies always smell like fish. They have heavy earrings hanging from their ears and mouths. When choosing a campsite, they always like to be near the water. In this place, it is said that they also have some strange worship of the sea. They put newborns into the sea and let them choke on the sea water from birth...

Wu Rui's Ganyue people were a group that had migrated to Yuzhang long ago and were famous for their smelting. However, most of these most loyal subordinates were transferred to the Guanzhong battlefield.

It can be said that Wu Rui was nominally the governor of Kuaiji County and the commander-in-chief of the Vietnamese troops, but in fact, he was a polished commander. He had to rely on establishing long-term friendships with the kings of various tribes, and even marrying children and in-laws, in order to gain unanimous support. Heifu regarded Wu Rui as a tool to use Zhuyue's force. Why didn't Zhuyue regard him as a medium to communicate with Heifu's regime? ?

Don't kill each other when you leave. This is Wu Rui's minimum requirement for his tribes.

When I heard that there was a fight taking place, if it were an ordinary army, I would definitely ask the military judge to come forward, but I couldn't do it with more people. They have their own rules.

How many people died?

Nine people, six from Dongou, and three from Minyue.

It's not much, it's not much.

Wu Rui breathed a sigh of relief. It was common for 20,000 people to carry swords and the ill-tempered Yue people to gather together and kill less than a hundred people in a sword fight.

Why is there a gap?

Wu Ying explained the reason:

The people of Dongou roasted a snake for food yesterday, and the color of the snake was exactly what the people of Fujian and Yue wanted to worship this month, so the two sides got into a quarrel...

What's this all about...

After some consolation, Wu Rui took the initiative to mediate, and drank several bamboo tubes of rice wine with the princes of Dongou and Minyue to compensate the deceased, and the farce finally stopped.

When he returned to the camp, his face turned red, Wu Rui couldn't help but pointed at the messy Vietnamese camp and cursed:

Xu Shu, Wei Yang and others have been suspicious of me for a long time, don't I know? But the reason why the regent keeps me is because he knows that no one can control these Yue people except me, Wu Rui!

Wu Ruineng patted his chest and promised that if Heifu transferred him to another place and replaced him with someone else, this group of Yue people would definitely fall apart and everyone would go back to their own homes!

Then, with a few civil servants and Weiyang's ships, can the Chu people in Jiangdong be suppressed?

wishful thinking!

At midnight, when Wu Rui was a little more awake, Wu Rui tossed and turned, remembered something, and called his son and asked: Is Chu Ke... still alive?

Wu Ying reported: When his father was away, he was kept in the innermost tent, and his son personally brought him food.

At the end, he added: Jun Zheng has never known about this matter.

Bring this man here.

Wu Rui thought for a while: But first, we have to put him into women's clothes!

He whispered: Don't be careful. If others ask, just say that I was drunk, clamoring for a woman, and brought a prostitute from the female village to serve me.

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As a lobbyist, a strong heart is the most basic requirement. If Mount Tai collapses in front of you, your appearance will not change, and the elk will thrive on your left, but your eyes will not blink. Otherwise, if you are frightened by the enemy, you will forget what you want to say. How can you? Lobbying?

But Wu She, a lobbyist from the Chu State, had never worn women's clothing in his life. Although he felt disgusted, his expression remained unchanged. After entering the account, he approached Wu Rui, who had never met him before, and said:

Wu Jun is finally willing to meet the villain...

Wu She returned to Huainan with Xiang Ji. Under the orders of his father Fan Zeng, he went to visit Wu Rui while he was still in Huaibei. However, he was put under house arrest by Wu Rui and was not seen or killed for two months.

Wu Rui, with her hair disheveled, sat rudely, looking like a barbarian, and said with a smile:

You were talking nonsense earlier and I have been imprisoning you for a long time. You have probably already thought about what to say.

Wu She shook his head: The villain just feels sad.

How pathetic?

Wu She sighed: In the past, King Wu Fu Chai dominated the southeast, Huangchihui, and competed with Jin Dinggong for superiority. How majestic and majestic it was.

In the past, there was Gou Jian, king of Yue. After Gou Jian defeated Wu, he sent his troops to cross the Huaihe River. At that time, the Yue soldiers were rampaging across the Yangtze River and east of the Huaihe River. The princes congratulated themselves and became the Overlord.

He bowed to Wu Rui with a sarcastic look on his face: But as the queen of Wu, Wu Jun has soldiers from the homeland of the Yue King, but he is so cautious that he even has to cover up when meeting an envoy in the camp, for fear of being known by the black husband. , Isn’t it sad? Ridiculous? Although I am wearing a woman’s clothes now, in fact, I am acting in a woman’s flattering manner and holding back. I’m afraid it’s Mr. Wu!?”

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ps: Thanks to Jiang Nannan’s Bai Yinmeng, and other readers who have given rewards, monthly recommendation tickets, etc., the supplementary update plan will be put on the schedule tomorrow, and there are not many words anyway.