Three Kingdoms: Madam, I am a decent person

Chapter 433 Completely take over Lujiang County!
Zhang Sui and Sun Ce parted ways and returned to Ruxu Port.

Zhang Sui stayed in Ruxu Port for a day and a night.

During this day and night, in addition to observing the movements of Sun Ce's army, another task was to decide who would stay in Ruxu Port to prevent Sun Ce from going north in the future.

Lujiang is the area that Sun Ce must face in order to break through Jiangdong and dominate the world.

Therefore, everyone concluded that Sun Ce would definitely attack again.

At present, Zhang Sui is not ready to declare war on Sun Ce.

Firstly, Zhang Sui did not have sufficient naval forces.

Although Liu Xun's 6,000 naval forces have been incorporated, it is still far from enough.

Except to deal with the future Sun Ce.

We must also prepare for facing Jingzhou in the future.

Secondly, Zhang Sui has been fighting during this period.

In addition to the shortage of food and fodder, the soldiers were very tired and in urgent need of rest.

Therefore, for some time to come, Zhang Sui will still have to pursue a strategy of recuperation.

However, this was before completely taking over Lujiang County.

After some discussion, Liu Xie, one of Liu Xun's former deputy generals, was officially appointed as the prefect of Lujiang County.

The commander of Lujiang County was Zhao Yun.

In addition, Zhang Sui’s plan is that if he can capture Zhang Xun, who is now stationed in Qianshan County, Lujiang County, he will let Zhang Xun serve as the second Lushan County Commandant, but as Zhao Yun’s deputy.

Zhao Yun was responsible for commanding the entire Lujiang County's soldiers.

Zhang Xun was mainly responsible for training the navy.

In addition, Guangling is also a problem.

Since Sun Ce could not take Lujiang County, he would most likely head north from Guangling County to Xuzhou.

The current prefect of Guangling County is Chen Ying, the second son of Chen Gui, the head of the Chen family in Xia Pi. Zhang Sui has temporarily appointed Zhang He as the commander of Guangling County, and has also recruited the young talents of Guangling, Chen Jiao, and Lu Su, the governor.

Chen Jiao and Lu Su originally lived near Guangling.

Compared with Zhang He, they are more familiar with naval battles.

Moreover, the two made great contributions in the capture of Xuzhou and Ruxu Port respectively.

Therefore, Zhang Sui decided to appoint Chen Jiao as the chief clerk of Guangling and Lu Su as the military commander.

Given that both of them were very young and had no previous exposure to specific military training, Zhang Sui recruited a military general named Chen Ji from among Liu Xun's surrendered generals to assist them.

Chen Ji, a native of Danyang, was originally the prefect of Lujiang County and was the one who took the prefecture's title away from Sun Ce.

Sun Ce had previously surrendered to Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu had promised Sun Ce that as long as Sun Ce captured Lujiang County, he would be the prefect of Lujiang County.

But after Sun Ce took over Lujiang County, Yuan Shu changed his mind and gave the prefecture of Lujiang County to Chen Ji. From then on, Sun Ce not only hated Yuan Shu, but also Chen Ji.

This time, Chen Ji was appointed to assist Zhang He and train the navy, also taking into account the hatred between him and Sun Ce.

Since he and Sun Ce had such a deep hatred for each other, it was less likely that Sun Ce would instigate him to rebel.

Of course, regarding the appointments in Guangling County, Zhang Sui only finalized the personnel and did not immediately order them to take office.

After all, the Chen family of Xia Pi has now moved to Guangling, and the defense of Guangling in the future will still depend on the assistance of the Chen family.

Therefore, after Zhang Sui finalized the list, he still asked someone to send the list to Guangling to ask Chen Gui, the head of the Chen family in Xia Pi, for final approval.

If Chen Gui agrees, everything will be easy.

If Chen Gui disagrees——

Zhang Sui didn't say anything to anyone else.

But he made up his mind that it was the Xia Pi Chen family that had narrowed their path. When things stabilized and they were truly qualified to dominate the world, he would take down the Xia Pi Chen family!

Under his command, he would never allow anyone, or the so-called aristocratic families, to tell him what to do or even hinder his appointment.

Sending the documents this time was also to test the attitude of the Chen family in Xia Pi.

After finalizing the personnel appointments, Zhang Sui gave 6,000 naval troops to Zhao Yun, and then led the army northward towards Qianshan County, the capital of Lujiang County.

Along the way, Zhang Sui asked the current Lujiang County Governor Liu Xie to take the head of Lujiang County Governor Liu Xun and one hundred soldiers to the counties ahead to persuade them to surrender.

When these counties saw Liu Xun's head and heard that Liu Xie had taken over as the prefect of Lujiang County, and that the one who occupied Lujiang County was the new ruler of Xuzhou, Yuan Shao's son-in-law Zhang Sui, they all surrendered.

The army marched all the way to Qianshan County, the capital of Lujiang County.

Chen Deng led Zhang He, Gao Lan and 10,000 elite infantrymen to besiege the city.

Zhang Xun, the defender of Qianshan County, was still defending the city.

After seeing Zhang Sui and Tian Feng arriving with a large cavalry army and seeing the head of Liu Xun, the former governor of Lujiang County, Zhang Xun completely gave up and opened the city gate.

Zhang Sui ordered the army to guard outside the city, and took generals such as Tian Feng, Chen Deng, Guo Jia, Sima Yi, Liu Xie, Xu Rong, Gao Shun and his personal guards into the city.

After briefly appeasing the people in the city, Zhang Sui appointed Zhang Xun as the second commander of Lujiang County and sent him to Ruxu Port to be under the command of Zhao Yun, mainly responsible for training the navy.

Afterwards, Zhang Sui summoned the heads of all the aristocratic families under the jurisdiction of Lujiang County to meet in Qianshan County, the capital. The time was set for the first day of July, which was the evening banquet five days later.

By taking Qianshan County and Lujiang County, Zhang Sui had achieved his goals for this period.

In the next year, he had to recuperate and prepare to conquer Yuan Shu in Shouchun.

In order to recuperate, Zhang Sui decided to use the strategy implemented in Zhongshan County.

In addition, he also had to relocate some people from Lujiang County to Xuzhou, especially Guangling.

Xuzhou had experienced Cao Cao's massacre and its population had been greatly reduced.

And Guangling had just experienced a massacre at the hands of Sun Ce.

If the people are not relocated there quickly, the city will become an empty one.

Just having troops stationed there won't accomplish anything.

The army's stationing requires a large amount of food and fodder.

However, food and fodder can only be grown by the general public.

In addition to migrating people from Lujiang County, it is also necessary to attract people from Jingzhou and other places.

Jingzhou next to Lujiang County is relatively stable at present. If you want to attract Baixin here, you must vigorously promote the work point system.

All of these require cooperation from aristocratic families and local businessmen.

During this period, Zhang Sui did not stop.

On the one hand, he sent Zhang He with 10,000 elite infantrymen to Guangling County to take office to prevent Sun Ce's army from attacking, and on the other hand, he personally promoted the work point system and military farming system he implemented in Zhongshan County.

Fortunately for Zhang Sui, he wrote down his previous measures in Zhongshan County every month and reported them to Tian Feng who was previously in Yijing, Youzhou.

And Tian Feng kept all the reports he wrote and carried them with him!

Zhang Sui asked Guo Jia and Sima Yi to compile these reports into a complete notice, and then make dozens of copies and publicize them everywhere.

Four days later, at dusk.

At the east gate of Qianshan County, two horse-drawn carriages slowly entered the city, surrounded by dozens of soldiers.

There was a sign "Qiao" on the back of both carriages.

The curtain of the carriage window at the back was opened, and a girl wearing a veil and two buns on her head poked her head out and said, "Qianshan County surrendered without ever experiencing a war! The city is exactly the same as when we came here two years ago, there is no change at all!"

(End of this chapter)