When Zhuge Liang arrived at the coastline of Jiuzhen County, Lu Meng's ship had already docked in Jiaozhi for a long time.
Gan Ning was ordered to guard the ship. He left the task to his lieutenants while he slipped out and got off the ship.
Jiaozhi County Zhilongbian City has been the seat of the Jiaozhi Governor for hundreds of years. However, in recent years, after the Jiaozhi Governor was renamed Jiaozhou, Shi Xie has been writing to the court to allow Jiaozhou to control Cangwu. The state government office was changed to Guangxin in Cangwu.
In this way, Shi Xie, the Suinan Zhonglang general, could legitimately take over Guangxin and occupy the moral high ground.
Unfortunately, before the matter was completed, Jingzhou in the north of Jiaozhou was captured by Cao Cao, and the four southern counties decided to send a message.
When Shi Xie received the news, he felt the pressure at that time. Although he ostensibly obeyed the emperor's order and paid tribute on time every year, the channel for him to pay tribute was controlled by Cangwu Wu Ju, and the road was blocked, so his tribute could hardly be delivered. Been to many places.
Gan Ning also knew this very well and knew that Shi Xie was an old fox who acted one way on the surface and another behind the scenes.
Therefore, he actually had doubts about Zhou Yu's plan to occupy Shixie's territory. It was not as simple as imagined to capture Jiaozhou without any bloodshed.
Gan Ning walked on the streets of Longbian City with his hands behind his back and a branch in his mouth.
He had stayed in Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou, but the scenery of Wuling still made him feel novel everywhere.
In the south of the world, there was a big city called Longbian, which also surprised him. As he walked, he admired the differences in the streets, and suddenly saw many people gathering in front of him.
"what for?"
Gan Ning leaned over and asked. He was a tall man and squeezed his way out of the crowd. The people next to him were squeezed away by him. Most of them were angry but dared not speak. No one responded to his words.
Gan Ning soon no longer had to ask, he had already seen what was going on inside.
Two boys, one guarding a big bucket, the other holding a bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other.
Gan Ning then felt bored. He turned out to be a porridge seller. What's so good about selling porridge? People in Jiangdong are not as displaced as in the Central Plains. There are still many such porridge sellers in Wujun and other places. Gan Ning has seen many of them.
But after hearing the comments from the people next to him, Gan Ning realized that the porridge had a different taste and that many people had never tasted it.
Gan Ning was about to leave, but he turned around and said to the boy who was guarding the bucket to collect money: "Wu, boy, give me a bowl too."
The boy didn't expect someone to buy porridge without waiting in line. He was stunned for a moment, but seeing Gan Ning's big shoulders and round waist, he didn't dare to say anything. He took Gan Ning's money and served him a bowl.
Unlike the north of Wuling, in the north, even in the northernmost Liaodong County, money is circulated. However, here, coins are rarely used, and most of them are bartered, which is extremely inconvenient.
Gan Ning took the bowl and looked around, thinking that the two rude guys in this stall knew how to do business, and even set up a table next to them so that they could kneel down and drink.
He went over and occupied a table, and Damajindao sat down, startling the people next to him.
Gan Ning glared at the man. Seeing Gan Ning's fierce expression, the man didn't dare to say a word and drank his porridge silently.
When Gan Ning saw that he was not leaving, he bared his teeth and looked at him. The man saw that Gan Ning was missing a tooth and his appearance was even more terrifying. He quickly got up and hid in a corner to drink.
Gan Ning then chuckled and put down the bowl, thinking that the folk customs in Lingnan were not very tough. The Han people were really easy to bully.
He took a sip of the porridge, and as soon as he took it into his mouth, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Delicious, um, delicious!"
He had never known that a bowl of ordinary vegetable porridge could taste so good, and he didn't know what vegetables were put in it. It was obviously very light, but it made people want to stop eating.
He picked up the bowl without hesitation and took a big sip. He felt that drinking like this was unreasonable, so he drank it all in a big gulp.
Everyone nearby saw him drinking soup as boldly as drinking water, but no one dared to talk to him.
After he finished the porridge, he stood up again, walked a few steps to the porridge seller and said, "It tastes good. Have another bowl!"
He didn't notice that the man squatting in the corner drinking porridge had changed his eyes.
When Gan Ning took the bowl and sat down at the table, he heard the people squatting in the corner talking loudly to the people next to them.
One person said: "The scholar-prefect is both civil and military, and he is getting stronger as he gets older. How could he be deceived by others?"
Another person said: "It is said that the governor's big ship was robbed. The robber's name is Jinfan Thief, and he is a famous thief!"
Upon hearing the word "Jinfan Thief", Gan Ning immediately pricked up his ears and puffed up his chest. It seemed that the more he was called a thief, the happier he became.
"Since he is a pirate, the governor should not have succumbed. What kind of person the governor is, how could he succumb to pirates!"
"You don't know something about this. It is said that the Governor of Jiangdong is also here. This Governor of Jiangdong is really amazing!"
"Who did I think it was? It turned out to be the governor of the Yangtze River who got angry out of humiliation during the Chibi War."
There was laughter all around.
Gan Ning immediately became unhappy. He put the porridge that he had finished drinking for the second time on the table with a "clang" sound.
He stood up, rolled up his sleeves and said: "Tens of thousands of elite soldiers from Jiangdong are here, and the new Jiaozhou Shepherd is also here. That old man Shi Xie has nothing to fight against!"
When the two people who were discussing saw that he was going to hit someone, they were so frightened that they ran away. The man who was squatting in the corner drinking porridge even lost his bowl and left without finishing the porridge.
Gan Ning chuckled and asked for a third bowl of porridge. He drank this bowl in one go before reluctantly leaving. If he wasn't already full, he would really want to drink more.
He didn't notice that the two people who ran away from different directions met together again.
The man drinking porridge in the corner stood up and showed a bookish attitude.
Another person asked: "Mr. Jiang, is this all right?"
It turned out that this person was none other than Jiang Wan, the porridge seller just now, and the person in front of him were both boys recruited by Beifu to serve as reserve personnel for building shops in the south.
After Jiang Wan obtained the power to run Jiaozhou from Aba, he immediately took these people to set up operations in Cangwu. When Cangwu was decided, he only briefly met with Cao Wu, and then came to Jiaozhi County to start a new life. Layout.
At that meeting, Cao Wu admired him very much. He, Jiang Wan, was just a scholar with a low reputation, but Cao Wu was willing to hand over the entire Jiaozhou intelligence to him, which flattered him.
Jiang Wan felt that he was a retainer of Beifu, so he should take risks and do something else.
So as soon as he arrived in Longbian, he started selling porridge on the street. This porridge was naturally delicious because of Ah Ba's secret seasoning. Jiang Wan came from a poor family. After tasting it, he was extremely surprised, but Ah Ba told him disapprovingly that it was an ingredient prepared by General Beifu.
Because of this incident, he admired General Beifu even more and worked harder.
The noisy conversation between him and the boy just now was naturally carefully planned by Jiang Wan after he understood the situation.
The boy said: "But, Mr. Jiang, since we are here to inquire about information, isn't it a bit too showy to sell porridge on the street?"
Jiang Wan smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, what you want is to sell porridge on the street."
While he was talking, Gan Ning led several people back and shouted: "Everyone give way, give way!"
Seeing his menacing attitude, everyone quickly left, but Gan Ning pointed at the two porridge sellers and said, "You two, come with me!"
The boy selling porridge said tremblingly: "Where are you going?"
"You don't have to ask where you are going, you just need to know that there is a big shot who wants to drink your porridge!"
In ancient times, Jiang Taigong went fishing, and today Jiang Wan sells porridge, and all those who are willing take the bait.
