AD 306, November.
The "honest man" Emperor Sima Zhong died of poisoning after eating cakes. His posthumous name was "Hui", which means his love for the people and his kindness.
After the death of Emperor Hui of Jin, his younger brother Sima Chi succeeded to the throne. Compared with the previous idiot emperor, the new emperor Sima Chi was praised by the ministers. Some even said that after Sima Chi came to the throne, he was like his father, Emperor Wu of Jin, Sima Chi. Yan's demeanor.
Therefore, whether the emperor does well or not depends on his support. After more than ten years, our emperor can finally read the table and communicate normally.
However, the situation in the world at this time has completely collapsed, and it cannot be reversed by a few court officials boasting that "today we will see Emperor Wu again."
At this time, Liu Yuan, the king of the Xiongnu Han Dynasty, had completely risen to prominence. He attacked the neighboring prefectures and counties such as Bingzhou, Jizhou, and Sili several times, and even began to plan an attack on Luoyang.
Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, was forced to defend the isolated city of Jinyang under the pressure of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty.
Sima Teng, King of the Eastern Yan Dynasty, led his subordinates from Bingzhou to move to Jizhou. More than ten thousand refugees led by his subordinates Tian Zhen and Tian Lan followed, and the self-titled "Begging Army" officially entered the stage of history.
Donglai County faces the Bohai Sea to the north and mountains to the south. The cold air from Xianbelia hovers here, so there must be heavy snow every winter.
After entering December, Dongnae County has been completely covered with snow, and this winter seems to be colder than in previous years.
Donglai County, Yinxian County.
According to the system of the Western Jin Dynasty, the seat of Donglai County should be Ye County. Liu Yu did not submit a petition to request the seat to be moved. In September, he moved the town to his hometown Yin County.
At this time, Liu Yu was sitting in the warm study dealing with official documents.
The edict he was reading was an edict that had just been delivered from Luoyang. The content in it was that the traitor Wang Mi now had more than 10,000 followers, was entrenched in Chengyang County, and was besieging various counties. The imperial court ordered Donglai to Prefect Liu Yu spent the winter raising food and training soldiers, ready to be dispatched south to conquer Wang Mi at any time.
After reading it in advance, Liu threw the order aside. These chattering family members in the court were really naive, thinking that Wang Mi would wait for the Jin army to mobilize the army.
Just last month, Wang Mi sent someone to secretly contact Liu Yu and quietly picked up his family members who had stayed in Donglai County. Only his cousin Wang Li led a clan to stay in Donglai County, which is considered normal. A common operation of large families in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
Wang Mi now has more than 10,000 men and has conquered many cities and towns along the way. He does not have a fixed stronghold and has always been mobile. Therefore, he cannot stay in the counties for a long time. If he cannot conquer a city in a short time , then Wang Mi will leave quickly and stay in another place to continue fighting.
Liu Yu guessed that Wang Mi would definitely continue to invade the Xuzhou area to the south. When he reached the boundary of Xuzhou, the open and accessible terrain there would be more conducive to Wang Mi's movement.
Although Liu Yu knew that an ambitious man like Wang Mi, who was only looking forward to chaos in the world, would cause the death and displacement of tens of thousands of people, he was too weak and could only continue to accumulate strength silently.
Later, Liu Yu picked up several documents reported by his subordinates, all of which were investigation reports from the county magistrates on the household registrations and land of wealthy families in their respective jurisdictions.
Liu Yu, who occupied Donglai County at this time, recruited many scholars from poor families to serve as local county magistrates.
All the children from poor families who had been suppressed by wealthy noble families were used by Liu Yu, and he vigorously checked the household registration and fields, preparing to force the wealthy families to reveal all the hidden household registrations and fields after spring tomorrow.
Liu Yu continued to look through some statistics on various types of craftsmen in various counties, and then gave replies and instructions one by one.
While Liu Yu was performing his duties as the prefect of Donglai County, one of his soldiers, Zhang Shouzheng, was lying comfortably at home, drinking wine and enjoying the snow by the warm stove.
Zhang Shou made outstanding achievements in the battle against the Baekje people and was credited with five beheadings. After returning to Dongnae County, he was given four men, one woman, five slaves and a large amount of silk.
Among them, the Baekje female slave was very beautiful and fair.
On the day he brought her home, Zhang Shou, who had not tasted meat for more than a year since his wife died on the way to escape, pulled the slave girl from the stable to his own house and slept there.
After having fun with this Baekje slave girl just now, Zhang Shou leaned comfortably on the couch and grabbed a few large gulps of wine from the wine bottle next to him.
"Go and add some firewood!"
Zhang Shou noticed that the fire in the furnace had slowed down, so he stretched out his feet and kicked the Baekje slave girl next to him.
The Baekje slave girl was so frightened that she got off the couch naked and went to add firewood.
This slave girl was a family member of a noble man in Baekje. Not only did her fingers show no traces of regular labor, but she was also very smart and could understand many simple words in just one month.
"This kind of life is so beautiful, I couldn't even dream about it before."
When he was selected to join the Dongnae Army, he just wanted to risk his own life and earn an extra life for his family.
He never expected that in just half a year, he would become a master with fields, food, a house, and slaves to serve him. He couldn't help but start to imagine that when spring comes next year, he would lead these four slaves to farm and divide the crops. All the fifty acres of military land obtained were planted with millet.
After the Baekje slave girl finished adding firewood, she returned to the couch and huddled in the corner of a quilt.
Zhang Shou grabbed it with his big hand and pulled her limp body into his arms.
"Hide from your mother, I don't know how to eat people."
He kneaded the slave girl's somewhat cold body and continued.
"As long as you obey, I will treat you well. Although General Fujun does not allow you slave girls to be wives, I will not treat you badly."
Zhang Shou didn't care whether she understood or not, he just put his arms around the slave girl and took a nap.
Suddenly, bursts of clanging gongs came from far outside.
Zhang Shou, who was originally drowsy, suddenly came to his senses. This was the voice calling for alert from the wall of the camp.
Upon hearing this order, all the regular soldiers in the village must wait for the order on both sides of the main street.
There were more than fifty regular soldiers in the village where he lived, all of whom were from the same team.
Zhang Shou quickly put on his clothes and ran out of the courtyard to the main street, waiting for the next order. At this time, almost all the regular soldiers came to the street to wait for the order.
Soon, a loud voice came from the high watchtower in the village.
"All regular soldiers, except those on sentry duty, go to the main courtyard of the team to listen to orders."
Dozens of regular soldiers all walked towards the courtyard of the team leader, whispering to each other as they walked.
"Guess what Captain is going to say." Zhang Shou whispered to
"I don't know. But there won't be another war."
"It's good to fight. In war, you can divide food and women."
"Yes, it would be nice if we went to Baekje Barbarian's place again."
"I'm dreaming. I can't even get out of the sea now. How can I get there?"
