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The county seat of Qu County is located on the north side of Qu Mountain, after Qin Shi Huang unified China, he established Qu County here, and set up Shique as the east gate of Qin.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, Qu County was already an open commercial port that could berth hundreds of merchant ships. Qin Shi Huang made five eastern tours, passing through Haizhou three times, making it the only gateway open to overseas at that time.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the king of Japan sent an envoy to Luoyang, the capital of the Han Dynasty, to pay tribute, and was willing to be a Hanchen domain. Asked the Han Emperor to give him a name, and the Han Dynasty gave it the "Wa Kingdom" because of its short people. The king also begged the Han Emperor to give him the title, and the Guangwu Emperor gave him the title of "King of the Japanese Slaves". Its envoys have crossed the sea to the Han Dynasty several times, and the number of times they have landed from Qu County is five times.

Therefore, Qu County is not just a simple county, but also a seaport port, after years of development, it has formed an important port, most of the merchants gather here, use ships to transport, to the south of the Yangtze River, Hebei to transport their goods.

It is precisely because of this that salt merchants have their sights on this place as a place for distribution and distribution of goods.

According to the scout's report, the salt merchant who rebelled this time was surnamed Li, named Li Lun, who was the eldest surname in Qu County, and had been in business for generations, and his family property was second only to Mi Zhu. However, unlike Mi Zhu, Mi Zhu relies on honesty in business, while this salt merchant surnamed Li relies on stealing and cheating.

Li Lun also started with private salt, and during the period when Mizhu was doing business, the Li family was just a small fight. The real rise has been in recent years.

In recent years, Mi Zhu gave up business and entered politics, and moved his family to Tancheng, and even sold the salt fields left by his ancestors, so Li Lun got this opportunity and began to sell illicit salt frantically, it can be said that Li Lun is a nouveau riche.

Li Lun then raised doormen and dead soldiers, relied on his wealth, and became a bully in the area of Qu County. In addition, Li Lun also colluded with pirates to rob merchant ships, and seemed to have become a figure who was also a merchant and a thief.

However, Li Lun is still very smart, he takes out a lot of money as hush money every year, so that the county order of Qu County deceives his superiors and subordinates and colludes with him.

After Zhang Yan took charge of Xuzhou, he changed the rule of officials in the Tao Qian era and selected young people who were honest and accomplished to serve as county magistrates, which gave him some understanding of Qu County.

But at that time, Zhang Yan was in the war stage, leading the army to fight abroad, and Mi Zhu, the Taishou of the East China Sea, also knew Li Lun, so he wrote a letter to advise Li Lun, and Li Lun restrained a lot.

But this time Zhang Yan prepared the salt and iron official camp, and also collected taxes on the sale of illicit salt, which angered Li Lun at once, Li Lun did not stop doing anything, colluded with pirates, killed the county magistrate of Qu County, occupied the county seat of Qu County, and openly rebelled.

The south of the county seat of Qu County is a mountain, and the north is the sea, so there are only two gates.

Zhang Yan took 300 cavalry and soon arrived outside the county seat of Qu County, and immediately asked people to go and call for battle.

After a while, Li Lun, who was five big and three thick, climbed the city wall of Qu County, and when he saw the cavalry of three hundred officers and soldiers outside the city, he grinned and said, "There are only three hundred people, what are you afraid of?" ”

Li Lun immediately asked one of his disciples to go out of the city with a thousand troops and directly attack the cavalry of the official army.

Zhang Yan rode on horseback, motionless, seeing the anti-thieves attacking, he only moved forward, and the three hundred cavalry behind him swarmed out and rushed towards the group of anti-thieves who came to attack, just like a group of wild wolves entered the flock, and the group of anti-thieves who killed cried and shouted to their mother.

After a sudden attack by the cavalry, the thieves could not resist it and immediately fled to the city.

Li Lun on the city wall saw such a scene, and only then did he know what the real gap was, he could gather a crowd to rebel and kill the officials in the county, but in the face of the regular army, his subordinates were simply vulnerable, not only did they kill an enemy, but more than half of them were killed and wounded, and corpses were everywhere.

The official cavalry did not start a pursuit, but returned to Zhang Yan's side, and one of the cavalrymen shouted at Li Lun on the city tower: "Wait for the thief, surrender quickly, otherwise, there is only a dead end!" ”

Li Lun ordered the city gate to be closed, although the officers and soldiers were powerful, but after all, there were few soldiers, and he was not very afraid, not to mention, he still had pirates to help, and he would not necessarily lose.

So, he called his henchmen and asked them to go to Yuzhou Mountain to find pirates to help!

Yuzhou Mountain is located on an island overseas in the east of Qu County, Li Lun colluded with the pirates to rebel and promised this small island to the pirates, who helped Li Lun rebel, beheaded the county order of Qu County, and occupied the county seat of Qu County.

Li Lun's henchmen crossed the sea by boat, and after coming to Yuzhou Mountain, they went to meet the leader of the pirates.

There are two leaders of the pirates, one is a Cai person under the Jiujiang River, surnamed Zhou Mingtai, and the word Youping; The other is a native of Jiujiang Shouchun, surnamed Jiang Mingqin, and the word Gongyi.

For example, in today's turmoil, the powerful and bullies in various places are constantly mutilating the people, and these two people are dying because they killed the local bullies.

After the two met together, they started to rob the rich and help the poor in the Jianghuai area, and later recruited a group of people who dared to die to make a living by looting.

After Yuan Shu occupied Huainan, he sent Ji Ling to attack Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, who were outnumbered, defeated by Ji Ling, fled in the wilderness, and went to the Haixi area, where they became acquainted with Li Lun, a salt merchant, who was often used by Li Lun to rob passing merchant ships, and then became a pirate.

Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were drinking in the village, and suddenly heard that Li Lun had sent someone to arrive, so they met them.

"Zhou Zhuangshi, Jiang Zhuangshi, my master sent me to inform the two strong men that the official army has sent troops to encircle and suppress, and my master can't resist it, so I specially invite the two strong men to lead the troops to the county seat of Quxian County to fight with the officials and soldiers!"

Zhou Taidao: "How many people are there from the official army?" ”

"There were only three hundred, all cavalry."

"With only 300 people, your master can't resist it, which shows how useless the dead soldiers your master raises on weekdays! However, this is your master's business, what does it have to do with us? Why should we go into battle for your master? Zhou Tai said with a smile.

"My master said that if the two strong men can lead the troops to rescue, as long as the officers and soldiers are defeated, my master will definitely double the money and food of the reward!"

As soon as he heard the word money and food, Zhou Tai's eyes suddenly flashed with a glimmer of light, he glanced at Jiang Qin beside him, and saw Jiang Qin nodded, so he said: "You go back and tell your master, I will arrive after I straighten out the soldiers and horses!" ”

"Whoa! Then I'll take my leave. ”

After Li Lun's henchmen left, Zhou Tai said to Jiang Qin: "Li Lun is rich and unkind, he has been using us, we were kept in the dark before, and helped him do a lot of bad things, now that I think about it, I regret it very much." If he hadn't promised us this island this time, I wouldn't have helped him. Now that he is being attacked by the official army and has nothing to do with us, why should we help him? ”

Jiang Qin said: "What you said is right, but we have just occupied Yuzhou Mountain and finally have a foothold, but in terms of money and food, we are pitiful." Li Lun is a big local household, and if we help him defeat the official army once, he will give us some money and grain, which will come much faster than we can grow it ourselves. Besides, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold. If Li Lun is beheaded by the official army, the next thing the official army will deal with is us who helped Li Lun rebel. Therefore, we are now in the same boat with Li Lun, and with Li Lun as a shield, we can live in Yuzhou Mountain for a long time! ”

"What you said is also very right, then order all the soldiers and horses, and prepare to go to the county seat of Quxian County to meet the official army!"

The two had decided on the discussion, and Zhou Tai ordered five hundred pirates, crossed to the opposite shore by boat, and soon entered the county seat of Qu County, but left Jiang Qin to garrison Yuzhou Mountain.

When Li Lun heard that Zhou Tai was coming, he was overjoyed and hurriedly greeted him in person.

Zhou Tai followed Li Lun to the city wall of the county seat and glanced at the officials and soldiers standing outside the city. But seeing that the officers and soldiers were neatly arranged, the leader was even more majestic, but the whole team did not play any banners, and it was impossible to see where the other party came from.

"Where did this come from?" Zhou Tai asked.

Li Lun said: "These cavalry are from Tancheng, they should be the soldiers and horses who are too guarding Mi Zhu, but the one who led the troops is not Mi Zhu, maybe it is a military horse!" ”

"No matter where he got his soldiers and horses, just three hundred cavalry, it makes you scared like this?" Zhou Taidao.

Li Lun sneered: "My subordinates, it's okay to bully the people and run away from the officials, but to deal with the regular army, you still have to rely on Zhou Zhuangshi......"

"Don't sneak around here, after I help you defeat the official army, how much benefit are you going to give me?"

Li Lun said: "I'm going to give you 1,000 gold, 10,000 stone grain......

After hearing this, Zhou Tai sneered, turned around and left, and said sarcastically: "Such a small benefit, it's not worth my hard work for you." Don't forget, this time it's the regular army, and it's all cavalry, so it's very difficult to deal with. I don't want to wade into this troubled water anyway, so you should deal with them! ”

"Zhou Zhuangshi stays, if you think it is less, we can discuss it again. In this way, I will give you 3,000 gold and 30,000 stone grain, what do you think? ”

Zhou Tai stopped, turned around, smiled at Li Lun, and said, "That's right, only in this way can you show your sincerity." ”

Li Lun breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "How are you going to deal with them?" ”

"Of course it's a decisive battle out of the city, do you want to shrink here as a turtle?" Zhou Taidao.

Li Lun was overjoyed, and immediately asked people to open the city gate, Zhou Tai got down from the city tower, led five hundred subordinates out of the county seat, and Zhang Yan and other three hundred cavalry went out in a circle.

Zhou Tai was holding an iron spear, wearing a robbed cooked copper helmet on his head, wearing an iron armor on his body, and riding a jujube red war horse under his crotch, with a grim face and a fierce appearance.

Zhang Yan saw that another team came out of the city, but this team was different from before, although they were not dressed uniformly, but they all had a red scarf wrapped around their heads, and the first person was even more majestic, under the helmet was a pair of bright eyes, and there was a deep scar on the left cheek, which made people shudder after looking at it.

Zhou Taice took two steps forward, raised the iron gun in his hand at Zhang Yan, and shouted loudly: "If you know each other, retreat quickly, otherwise grandpa will send you to hell!" ”

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