In February of the third year of Yongjia.
After the death of Ding Shao, the governor of Jizhou, Sima Yue, the Taifu who had moved to Xingyang, immediately appointed his left Sima Wang Bin as the governor of Jizhou.
However, at this time, Wang Mi and Shi Le crossed the Yellow River south, invaded counties, and plundered the population. The traffic between the north and the south was completely isolated and blocked. Therefore, the newly appointed Jizhou Governor Wang Bin never had the opportunity to cross Hebei to take office, but continued to stay. In Xingyang, he assisted Sima Yue in guarding against Shi Le and Wang Mi who had fled here.
After Shi Le and Wang Mi crossed the Yellow River south, they fully demonstrated the perfect rogue-style warfare method. They were not limited to the gains and losses of one city or one town, but fully destroyed everything, artificially created a large number of refugees, and then provided them with In this way, the momentum of Wang Mi and Shi Le grew stronger again.
In just over a month, the entire south bank of the Yellow River was in chaos, and rebels even appeared around Luoyang several times. The city gates of Luoyang are now closed even during the day.
Seeing that spring has arrived, if Wang Mi and Shi Le continue to be allowed to wreak havoc on Si and Hezhou.
Then Gou Xi and Emperor Sima Chi, who occupy the central Luoyang Valley with Luoyang as the center, may not be able to collect taxes and food this year. By this autumn, if they want to survive, they may have to leave Luoyang and go "begging" everywhere.
Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, who was in Xingyang, was not much better than Gou Xi and Emperor Sima Chi. Although he had most of the Chinese imperial guards in his hands, these soldiers were also gold-swallowing behemoths with huge appetites, especially After Sima Yue sent Langya King Sima Rui, Wang Dao, and Wang Dun south to Jiangdong to prepare for an emergency retreat, these people even took away many of Sima Yue's elite soldiers and food reserves. The current East China Sea King Sima Yue is also counting on the harvest in the Central Plains this year.
Seeing that the two Hu-Han bandits Wang Mi and Shi Le were fighting more and more happily, with no intention of stopping, Gou Xi of Luoyang and Sima Yue of Xingyang coincidentally weakened the hostility between the two sides slightly, and began to prepare to destroy Wang Mi and Shi Le and win over them. Restore production in the counties under our control before spring plowing to ensure hope for this year.
Just when Gou Xi and Sima Yue's Jin army and Shi Le and Wang Mi's Xiongnu Han began to fight in the Central Plains, Liu Yuan, the leader of the Xiongnu Han Kingdom, once again sent Liu Cong, Liu Yao, Liu Jing, Hu Yanyan and others to lead the Xiongnu soldiers south to cross the Yellow River. , continued to attack the Jin army, and the Jin army was defeated in Liyang and Yanjin. More than 30,000 men, women, and children were drowned in the Yellow River by the Huns.
Gou Xi and Sima Yue, who were already tired of running around, could only protect themselves for a while, and no longer had the strength to expel Wang Mi and Shi Le who were entrenched in the Central Plains.
Then, Wang Mi and Shi Le divided their forces into two groups.
Wang Mi's army marched eastward to Xuzhou, continuing his dream of destroying the old world and building a shabby new world.
Shi Le led his army to fight in various counties in Yuzhou. At this time, Shi Le listened to the advice of Zhang Bin, a native of Zhao County, and began to gather the captured noble men, that is, scholars and scholars, to form a "gentleman camp". Come to win over powerful families from the Central Plains.
In this way, Shi Le formed a warlord force with Zhang Bin as the mastermind leading the Junzi camp, and Diao Ying as the general leading the Hu generals such as Kui'an and Kong Chang. It had begun to surpass Wang Mi's rogue force in form.
At the same time, Liu Ling, who was defeated in Jinan County last winter and fled back to Hebei, also licked his wounds and reorganized his troops in Guangzong, Jizhou. He defeated several cities in a row and his momentum was even stronger than before. Wang Bin, the new governor of Jizhou in the capital, also retreated steadily under Liu Ling's aggressive offensive. Liu Ling led tens of thousands of troops to surround Xindu City.
After Wang Bin, the governor of Jizhou, sent out a signal for help, he did not receive any rescue from any party. In fact, the Youzhou Army closest to him was only three to five days away, but Wang Jun's Youzhou Army kept waiting and watching, and did not No rescue was carried out in Sindu.
Soon, Xindu City was conquered by Liu Ling's army. Wang Bin, the governor of Jizhou who had just taken office less than two months ago, was killed. When he learned that Wang Bin, the Jin general who had defeated the Huns and Han in Luoyang, had been killed, the Huns and Han were killed. Lord Liu Yuan was overjoyed and immediately appointed Liu Ling as the governor of Jizhou and the general of the Northern Conquest.
After killing Jin Dynasty general Wang Bin in the first battle, Liu Ling continued to attack other counties and counties in Jizhou. Many counties and counties surrendered without a fight, and there were many who surrendered on hope.
However, Liu Ling's unstoppable momentum was soon interrupted. After the death of Wang Bin, the governor of Jizhou, Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, finally ordered Qi Hong and Xianbei Duan Wuchen who were stationed in the northern border of Jizhou to go south to attack Liu Ling. In the Battle of Shan, Liu Ling was defeated. He abandoned Xindu and waited for the big city to flee westward, and continued to run into Taihang Shangzhong to lick his wounds.
After repelling Liu Ling from the Huns and Han Dynasty, Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, announced that he would take over the post of governor of Jizhou on his behalf, and appointed general Qi Hong as Jizhou's farewell commander to continue to clear out the enemy invaders in Jizhou.
When he learned that Wang Jun refused to save him and allowed Liu Ling to kill Wang Bin, and that he also served as the governor of Jizhou, King Sima of the East China Sea became even more furious and immediately secretly ordered his hardcore backbone Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou, to find an opportunity to attack Wang Jun, but Liu Kun, who was trapped in a few cities in Jinyang, Bingzhou, did not have the ability or opportunity to attack Wang Jun, and this secret order was quickly leaked. When Wang Jun knew about it, he became even more dissatisfied with Sima Yue. In order to retaliate, Wang Jun ordered In Jizhou, the general Qi Hong used the name of raiding the barbarians to investigate everyone in Jizhou.
Suddenly, all the powerful men in Jizhou fell into chaos. They originally thought that these Youzhou troops who had driven away the Huns bandits were the "King's Division". Who would have thought that there were a large number of Xianbei people in the "King's Division". These people were investigated under Wang Jun's order. When spying and eradicating dissidents, the harm to the powerful Jizhou family was even greater than that of Liu Ling and others.
Finally it’s April, early summer in the fourth year of Yongjia.
The weather has been unfavorable since the beginning of spring. It has not rained for several months. Almost all the counties and counties in the Central Plains have the words "severe drought" written in them.
This three-year drought in Yongjia even dried up the Yellow River and Luoshui River, making it even possible to hike.
Under Wang Jun's high-pressure rule, the scholars in Jizhou were originally very dissatisfied. This time, seeing the natural disaster and drought coming, many scholars in Jizhou began to lose their homes and change their minds.
A large number of Jizhou aristocratic families began to abandon their homes and businesses and move south. However, when the plan of a large number of people to cross the Yellow River to Jishui, pass through Yanzhou and Xuzhou and finally reach Yangzhou was already the best, one person chose a road with these people. A completely different escape route.
This route was to cross the Yellow River and Jishui eastward to Qingzhou and join Liu Yu.
The person who had this idea was named Wu Xin, who was from Changshan.
Wu Xin's ancestor was the son of Wu Han, one of the twenty-eight generals of Emperor Guangwu Yuntai, and the new Caihou Wu Kingdom. However, after nearly three hundred years of turmoil and migration, by the time the Western Jin Dynasty was founded, Wu Xin's family was already Jizhou. The ordinary little tycoon in Changshan County has become powerful.
After the defeat of King Sima Ying of Chengdu, Jizhou experienced the ravages of various warlords, including Gongshifan, Jisang, Shile, Xianbei, Liu Ling, etc. The original peaceful life had long since disappeared.
Wu Xin was a majestic and brave man, and people in the county said that he was very heroic. After Jizhou fell into chaos, Wu Xin relied on his bravery and prestige to unite several neighboring families to gather in the Wubao and became the owner of the Wubao. Using his own skills, he protected Wubao Zhouquan several times when facing the Hulu bandits.
However, after Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, took over as the governor of Jizhou, Wu Xin's Wubao could no longer support it. Successive years of poor harvests had exhausted all the grain stored in the Wubao, and this year's severe drought had wiped out all the hard work of spring plowing. Soaked in soup.
Wu Xin discussed with several other sect commanders in Wubao that this year's severe drought not only occurred in Jizhou, but also in other Bing, Si, Yu, Jing, Jiang and other states. Therefore, after the autumn, the Huns in Bingzhou The people will definitely plunder the surrounding states and counties.
Moreover, I am afraid that by then, even if Wu Xin and the others in Wubao were not robbed and killed by the Huns, they would be forced to death by the autumn gifts collected by the Jizhou governor. They, the humble little tycoons, have never been able to get it. Every bit of preferential treatment from the government.
In the end, Wu Xin and the others made up their mind to relocate their entire family as the prospects were already too bad.
When everyone was discussing where to move, they fell into a dilemma.
Because after everyone’s discussion, we first eliminated the least suitable states and counties.
The first one is Bingzhou, which was the home base of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasties. Liu Kun, the governor of Bingzhou in the Jin Dynasty, only occupied a small place such as Jinyang City, and Bingzhou was even poorer than Jizhou. There was a beggar army in Bingzhou a few years ago. He was exiled to Jizhou, so he was sent to Bingzhou first.
The second one is Youzhou. Although Youzhou is a place with few military affairs, what Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, did after he became the governor of Jizhou is really not flattering. Moreover, Wang Jun was proud of his family background, Prince Taiyuan. The family, except when it was profitable, never paid attention to Wu Xin and others from a small and powerful family.
As for other Guanzhong, Liaodong, Liangzhou, Jingzhou, etc., they were also rejected due to various reasons such as the distance along the way.
In the end, only Yangzhou and Qingzhou in the south were left. Yangzhou was chosen because everyone knew that Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, had appointed Sima Rui, King of Langya, to go south to Yangzhou to open a mansion. This was a very obvious signal. If the situation in the Central Plains gets out of control in the future, then Jiang Yangzhou on the left will be the new place of Jinxing.
As for choosing Qingzhou, only Wu Xin proposed it. However, relying on Wu Xin's prestige and past achievements, his suggestion was not ignored by everyone, and even gained everyone's vague expectations.
Almost everyone is staring at Wu Xin. As long as Wu Xin can give a reason that everyone can accept, they will adopt Wu Xin's suggestion without hesitation.
Looking at everyone's expressions, Wu Xin had already known this in his mind. He knew that all of this did not come out of thin air. These were all earned for himself through his life and death struggle in the past few years with his strength.
Wu Xin looked around and then gave his reasons. He pointed out: The reason why he chose to move to Qingzhou was because he learned through many channels that the current Qingzhou governor Liu Yu defeated Gou Xi, Liu Ling, and Wang Mi successively. and others, it shows that Liu Yu, the governor of Qingzhou, is quite talented and will not be like the previous governor of Jizhou, Sima Teng, who was killed by the barbarians and the common people suffered.
Another one is that although Liu Yu, the governor of Qingzhou, has great military exploits, he also attaches great importance to the livelihood of the people. I heard that the registered households in Qingzhou can be tax-free for several years and only need to perform military service. If this is the case, then he will have a chance to survive. Guaranteed.
After all, in ancient times, even in a truly catastrophic year, even if there was no harvest, it did not mean that they could not even get enough food to survive. In many cases, people who were really forced had their families destroyed, or they abandoned their homes and businesses and became refugees. The main reason is because of strict taxes and dong an.
Finally, Wu Xin added that although Liu Jixing was born as a Taoist thief in Donglai, he was able to defeat Xiaogou with his humble background and conquer Qingzhou. He then rested with the people and recruited talents regardless of the noble family or poor family. He was a tolerant and tolerant person. , a heroic figure who can even attract such a snobbish person as Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, is willing to marry a girl and want to form an alliance, then this Liu Yu must be stronger than that Langya King Sima Rui.
After listening to Wu Xin's words, several other heroes thought that Wu Xin's words were reasonable, but after all, this kind of clan migration matter was of great importance. Some people still felt that Qingzhou, the place where the Four Battles were fought, had nothing but a winter freeze. The Yellow River has no natural dangers, and it is really not as dangerous as the Jiangsu and Huaihe rivers in Yangzhou.
After this person finished speaking, he immediately got some nods of approval. After all, even the strength gap of the commander Mu Shou may not be able to make up for the safety gap caused by the geographical dangers.
After hearing this, Wu Xin felt a little secretly angry.
"The ancestral temple and the homeland of our fathers and ancestors cannot be defended. Although it is for the sake of the future of the clan, it is indeed a great act of unfilial piety. Have you really not thought that one day, the world will be restored to peace and we will be able to return to this place?" Hometown of Hebei?"
"I heard that Langya King Sima Rui is a kind-hearted person. If the world is peaceful and happy, he should be a good pastoral official. But now that the world is in trouble, if he really surrenders to Sima Rui's Jiangzuo, I'm afraid Langya King is not a pioneer. Enterprising heroes, we people have no hope of returning to our hometown in Changshan Township in our lifetime."
"But Qingzhou is different. Among all the states in the world, Wang Jun and Liu Yu really have the power to conquer the world. If they vote for Qingzhou, then whether it is Wang Jun or Liu Yu who conquers Hebei, Isn’t it easy for us people to return to our homeland?”
In the end, these heroes who were thinking of temporarily moving elsewhere to avoid disasters all agreed to Wu Xin's proposal and decided to move to Qingzhou.
Most people would never have thought that they would never be able to return to their former hometown after this migration.
In May of the third year of Yongjia, Wu Xin, a native of Changshan in Jizhou, led thousands of households of refugees from Jizhou to cross the river and arrive in Jinan County.
At the same time, there were 30,000 other refugees from Jizhou who crossed the river and fled to Qingzhou. Among them were not only powerful refugee commanders like Wu Xin, but also many famous families since the Qin and Han Dynasties. Several of them had big surnames. , made a gorgeous appearance in the disputes between heroes in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Just when the people of Jizhou, Hebei Province, were migrating and fleeing.
There is also a big controversy going on in Luoyang of the Jin Empire about fleeing and moving, oh, no, about moving the capital.
