Chapter 313: Returning fully loaded; I will not be polite with the two Qiaos of Jiangdong!

"How can this be? How could they all have surrendered?!"

Sun Jian, sitting above, suddenly felt blood rush to his head, and he roared with bloodshot eyes!

It would be one thing if Zhou Yu surrendered!

But Han Dang was an old general who had followed him!

Loyal and devoted, how could he surrender!

"My lord, this is the letter!"

The arriving soldier tremblingly handed up the bamboo slip letter!

In an instant, Sun Jian, who took the bamboo slip, looked at the contents, and was immediately so angry that his blood surged!

"Despicable! Lin Ziyuan is simply extremely despicable!"

The Tiger of Jiangdong, at this moment, was also furious and began to curse loudly!

The few people beside him, looking at the discarded bamboo slip, all curiously picked it up to check!

However!

When they saw the contents, Sun Ce, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and others were all dumbfounded!

Zhou Yu, Han Dang, and the others surrendered!

All because of them?

Lin Yang had used their lives to threaten Zhou Yu, Han Dang, and the others!

"Hmph, this Lin Ziyuan is simply too arrogant; he hasn't even defeated us yet, and he's already threatening us with our lives!"

The old general Huang Gai cursed in anger; they now occupied the two commanderies of Lujiang and Changsha!

They hadn't fallen into Lin Yang's hands yet!

Only Sun Ce's eyebrows were tightly furrowed!

He knew Zhou Yu's talent!

Lin Yang's threat—unless Zhou Yu felt it could truly be realized!

Otherwise, Zhou Yu would not surrender!

Could it be that, in Zhou Yu's view, they were already bound to be defeated?

For a moment, the Little Conqueror of Jiangdong, Sun Ce, was doubting his life!

How did Zhou Yu change so much after a trip to Lin Yang's army!

So much?

Just when Sun Jian and the others were angry about this, outside Wuxian on the other side.

"I didn't expect that there really is such rice in this world!"

Zhou Yu, Han Dang, and the others watched with their own eyes the rice with a yield of over a thousand catties per mu, and couldn't help but let out a sigh!

No matter how well Lin Yang spoke, seeing it with one's own eyes was a different matter!

This was all grain!

"With such rice, why worry about the world not being pacified!"

Zhou Yu let out a sigh from his heart!

When two armies fight, it is certainly a contest of soldiers, weapons, and so on!

But when two countries fight, it is a contest of national strength!

In so-called national strength, grain and supplies account for the majority!

"It's a pity that this place in Yangzhou hasn't been fully popularized yet; we can only wait for next year!"

Lin Yang, to the side, looked at Zhou Yu's shocked appearance and said with a light laugh!

The current late rice had only been planted in Wu Jun and Kuaiji Commandery!

Yuzhang Commandery and Danyang Commandery had not been planted on a large scale!

There was no way!

Time was not enough; having missed the time, they could only carry out the work of reclaiming wasteland!

"Zigang, the work of reclaiming wasteland and sowing in the four commanderies will be left to you!"

While speaking to Zhou Yu, Lin Yang looked at the middle-aged scholar beside him!

This person was previously the Chief Clerk of Zhou Xin, and now, following Zhou Xin's surrender, he had also joined Lin Yang's command!

One of the Two Zhangs of Jiangdong, Zhang Hong, Zhang Zigang!

"My lord, rest assured; for such a major matter, Zigang will not dare to be negligent and will certainly handle it well for the lord!"

An expression of excitement appeared on Zhang Hong's face, and he quickly bowed and said!

From being a Chief Clerk of a commandery, after surrendering to Lin Yang, the first thing he was responsible for was the reclamation of wasteland and rice sowing in the four commanderies!

This didn't seem like an important position!

But Zhang Hong knew very well!

Although the position was small, the matter was not small at all!

Rice with a yield of a thousand catties per mu!

Once it was fully planted in Yangzhou, what kind of scene would that be!

"Hmm, let's go, let us return to the Administrator's mansion!"

Glancing at the sky, Lin Yang had stayed in Yangzhou long enough; it was time to prepare for the return!

Time waits for no man!

Everyone followed behind Lin Yang, took a carriage, and returned to the Administrator's mansion in Wuxian!

Half a day later.

In the large hall, everyone was seated!

Guo Jia, Gu Yong, Zhou Yu, Zhang Hong, Zhou Xin, Chen Yu, and others were seated on the left!

Taishi Ci, Dian Wei, Xu Sheng, Ling Cao, Han Dang, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, and others were seated on the right!

Looking at the dozen or so people seated in the hall, Lin Yang felt a wave of emotion in his heart!

When he first came to Yangzhou, the only strategists by his side were Guo Jia and Gu Yong, and the only generals were Taishi Ci and Dian Wei!

Now, it had become much more abundant!

"This time, we have taken the four commanderies of Yangzhou, but due to the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, we have not achieved complete success!"

Lin Yang spoke, and everyone below became solemn, listening attentively!

"Having been stationed in Wu Jun for a long time, now that the people of the four commanderies are stable, I must also set off to return to Xuzhou!"

Lin Yang had summoned everyone for the sake of the arrangements in Yangzhou!

Taking territory is easy!

Guarding territory is very troublesome!

Lin Yang now had a total of seventy thousand troops in Yangzhou!

Among them, the troops he brought, after deducting casualties, numbered twenty-four thousand!

The troops in the four commanderies of Yangzhou numbered forty-five thousand!

Among them, the Danyang soldiers still numbered over fifteen thousand, and the thirty thousand troops of Kuaiji and Wu commanderies had almost no major losses!

Adding it all up, that was the number of troops Lin Yang had now!