In the early summer of the 14th year of Yanxi's reign, a civil uprising broke out among the people in Guiyang County due to the lack of support for the youth.
The new governor of Guiyang County, Huang Chong, had not yet taken office. The county magistrates and governors were leaderless, and the county magistrates were unable to suppress it. The civil unrest became bigger and bigger, and gradually turned into civil unrest.
Shi Bao had no choice but to personally lead his troops deep into Guiyang County, bringing relief food while quelling the civil unrest and capturing the culprits.
In July of the 14th year of Yanxi, three tribes of Wuxi barbarians in Wuling County united and led thousands of people to raid the farming station at the junction of Wuling County and Changsha County, robbed the farming station of grain, and burned two of the farming stations.
After receiving the news, Li Qiu, the governor of Wuling County, and Chengzhou Tai, the governor of Changsha County, each sent troops to rescue them. They intercepted and killed three Wuxi barbarians on the way, defeated them in a battle, killed the leaders of the two tribes, and beheaded three hundred Wuxi barbarians.
In August of the 14th year of Yanxi, the water level of the Han River surged due to rain in the upper reaches. Zhu Ran, who was stationed at Lukou, suddenly sent troops, with Zhang Cheng as the vanguard, to attack Hanjin Ferry and threaten Xiangyang.
Zhong Limu, the newly arrived commander of the Xiangyang Navy, led the Xiangyang Navy southward and fought with Zhang Cheng near Hanjin Ferry. Both sides suffered injuries and eventually forced the Soochow Navy to retreat.
In the summer of Yanxi's fourteenth year, these wars, large or small, occurred. Zhang Xi can be sure that this is definitely not a coincidence.
Obviously, the wealthy families in Jingzhou were very dissatisfied with the fact that the imperial court directly appointed officials to serve as the governor of a county in Jingzhou.
Although, it is not that there are no foreigners serving as officials in the nine counties of Jingzhou. For example, Li Qiu, the prefect of Wuling County, is from Shu, and Shi Bao, the prefect of Changsha County, is from Donghai.
Even Jingzhou Mu Zhangxi is from Yingchuan.
But, whether it is Shi Bao or Li Qiu, these two people were brought by Zhang Xi when he took charge of Jiangling. Moreover, these two people have been working in Jingzhou for more than ten years, starting from the youngest county official step by step. Come up.
These two people, their interests and interpersonal relationships, basically have deep connections with Jingzhou. Their nature is different from that of Huang Chong, who was airborne from the imperial court.
The wealthy families in Jingzhou are not necessarily opposed to outsiders coming to serve as officials in Jingzhou. What they are worried about is that these outsiders will mess around when they come to serve as officials in Jingzhou, affecting the interests of their own wealthy local families.
The big families in Jingzhou can reluctantly accept Shi Bao and Li Qiu, but they absolutely cannot accept Huang Chong.
To put it bluntly, this was still the legacy of the chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty, which resulted in the powerful local families and the weakness of the central court. These wealthy families have gradually become accustomed to Jingzhou having the final say. They instinctively react to the court's desire to strengthen local control. Resistance.
Inciting civil unrest, triggering rebellion, even colluding with hostile forces, selling intelligence, and triggering internal crises. These are all things that this group of wealthy families often do.
You must know that when Liu Biao entered Jingzhou on horseback, Jingzhou was clearly not affected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but there were more than a hundred sects and thieves who claimed that these people had nothing to do with the Jingzhou family. No one could believe it.
The method is still the same, but unfortunately, the timing is no longer right.
During the war at the end of the Han Dynasty, the central court lost all its prestige and control over the local areas. Liu Biao was good at taking advantage of the situation but not at killing, so the Jingzhou family could continue to control the current situation in Jingzhou.
It is a pity that the Han Dynasty Sanxing has established a relatively powerful central government, and Zhang Xi, the Jingzhou Mu, although Zhang Xi always wants everyone to recognize him as a civil official, everyone knows that this person is an authentic military commander. His military position is that of a hussar general, and he is now the number one person in the Han military.
Apart from anything else, the military power in Jingzhou has been firmly controlled by the leader of the military since the time of Guan Yu. It used to be Guan Yu, but now it's Zhang Xi.
In fact, Zhang Xi is both civil and military. He can not only control the military power well, but also gradually extend his tentacles to local control. Wang Ji, Shi Bao, Zhou Tai, Li Qiu, and Zong Yu all have a lot of relationship with Zhang Xi. With the relationship, he controls five of the nine counties in Jingzhou.
The current Jingzhou aristocratic family tried to use the previous methods to incite internal chaos in Jingzhou, but the result was the same as now. In less than three months, they were completely pacified by Zhang Xi.
It is difficult for the Jingzhou aristocratic family to cause as big a disturbance as in the past.
However, despite this, Zhang Xi still did not dare to go too far in dealing with the aftermath.
Theoretically speaking, if a large Jingzhou family does this, they should be prepared to be liquidated if they fail.
However, Zhang Xi still had concerns.
On the one hand, although the current situation is much better than that during the Huan Ling period, the power of aristocratic families is already a real problem, and weakening these aristocratic families may not happen overnight.
In order to maintain the stability of the situation, Zhang Xi cannot be too aggressive.
On the other hand, Jingzhou is going to have a trade war next. Without the support of Jingzhou’s aristocratic families, relying solely on the imperial court to support this trade war would be too costly.
Therefore, although Zhang Xi knew that these messy things were involved in the aristocratic family, he still couldn't hold on to them.
You can only lift it high and put it down gently.
Yu Fan, the prefect of Guiyang County, was dismissed from his post and investigated for his unfavorable handling of the civil uprising, which led to the civil uprising expanding into civil unrest.
Yang Ling, the magistrate of Wuling County, committed corruption and dereliction of duty during his tenure, which led to Wuxi barbarian rebellion. He was dismissed from his post and investigated.
Huang Xi, the governor of Xiangyang County, disobeyed military orders and neglected to prepare for war during his tenure. He was beheaded in public in accordance with military law.
This is what Zhang Xi held high.
Yu Fan, Yang Ling, and Huang Xi are more or less connected with several major families in Jingzhou.
Yu Fan was the county magistrate promoted by Kuai Qi when he was the prefect of Guiyang County. Yang Ling had been a disciple of the Pang family in Xiangyang and was recommended to become an official by the Ma family in Xiangyang. Huang Xi was basically a branch of the Huang family.
Dealing with these three people was a warning to the aristocratic families behind them to be careful. These are not troubled times anymore. Don't really think that Zhang Xi dare not attack the aristocratic family.
The real letting go was when Zhang Xi wrote to Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang, asking two people to write letters to the heads of the Pang, Huang, and Kuai families in Xiangyang to ease the relationship and warn them, telling these Jingzhou aristocratic families that As long as everyone maintains the bottom line, there are some things that can't be understood by each other.
After some hard and soft measures, the crisis was finally resolved. Huang Chong could finally take up the post of governor of Guiyang County with peace of mind.
It's just that before Huang Chong took office, Zhang Xi still pulled Huang Chong and gave him a good warning.
Guiyang County is really a place where unruly people come from poor mountains and rivers. There are many mountains and waterways, and it is not easy to manage them well. After all, Huang Chong is still young. Zhang Xi does not want him to act on his own initiative and pull Kuai Qi away with great difficulty. The little foundation I had gained was lost after all the hard work.
If it really comes to that point, I'm afraid Huang Chong will really not be able to leave Guiyang County. Either he died in local civil unrest, or he was punished by Zhang Xi for dereliction of duty, completely ruining his future.
Zhang Xi and Huang Chong didn't have much friendship, but they had worked together with his father Huang Quan for seven or eight years. He couldn't let his old colleague's son die in vain.
Having finished everything that needed to be explained, Zhang Xi asked people to send Huang Chong across the Yangtze River, and asked him to go to Changsha County to find Shi Bao first, and asked Shi Bao to assign a school of county soldiers to escort Huang Chong to take office.
After that, Zhang Xi began to think about how to arrange Wang Jun and the 30,000 Yizhou navy he brought.
The waters of the Yangtze River near Jiangling County are just that big. Further ahead is the junction of the Yangtze River and the Han River, which is the territory of the Soochow Navy.
In such a small area of water, Jiangling Navy, Yizhou Navy, and Soochow Navy were stationed, with a total strength of more than 100,000. It was even more lively than the Battle of Chibi.
When Cao Cao went south, although he had an army of 200,000, the navy alone did not have that many people.
It's too crowded. Not only are there not enough water fortresses to accommodate them, but from a defense perspective, the more naval forces the better.
In particular, the Yizhou Navy is still a new navy. It has been established for less than two years. It lacks sufficient warships and water warfare experience and is just arranged in the Yangtze River water stronghold. It cannot be a ready-made military merit for the Soochow Navy. Got married? !
So, Zhang Xi found Yang Xi and asked Yang Xi if he could launch an attack on the Soochow navy in Lukou and seize the Lukou stronghold.
Once the Jiangling navy can seize the Lukou stronghold, it will not only cut off the Soochow navy's reach into Changsha County, but also directly threaten the main force of the Soochow navy in Xiakou.
Of course, the most important thing is that the Jiangling Water Village can be freed up for the Yizhou Navy to be stationed, and at the same time, the Yizhou Navy can accumulate experience in water warfare.
Yang Xi carefully thought about Zhang Xi's idea and thought that it was not impossible to do this.
But on one point, Yang Xi still warned Zhang Xi. Lukou was too important, and the Soochow navy could not easily abandon its defense.
Once Zhang Xi decides to use troops against Lukou, he must be prepared for a full-scale war with the main force of the Soochow Navy.
This is not something that can be accomplished by just one Jiangling Navy. The Xiangyang Navy will definitely need to assist in the attack, and the land route at the junction of Jiangling and Jiangxia also needs to be guarded by the army to prevent the Soochow Army from encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao.
But when it reaches that point, this is no longer a small-scale battle, but a large-scale battle involving the entire Jingzhou.
Although Jingzhou today has a strong foundation and can afford such a war, does Zhang Xi really want to fight such a war? !
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