Lu Peng did not doubt Zhou Yu's ability at all. Although he was only fifteen years old, his command was already extremely high.
However, Jiang Qin had painstakingly trained for half a year. If he really wanted to send out troops, he would not let a young boy suppress him.
He smiled and was about to speak when he suddenly saw a boat rowing over from the lake. The person on the boat shouted from afar,"Don't shoot. I'm here to surrender!”
When he got close, he saw a few people on the boat bowing from afar and shouting,"Zheng Bao is dead. We are willing to surrender. Please forgive us!”
Everyone was shocked by this turn of events. Lu Peng questioned those people and found out that most of the hundreds of people under Zheng Bao were locals of Lujiang. I heard that Yangquan County Magistrate was promoted to prefect and was coming to attack. Immediately, some people contacted each other and attacked. They killed Zheng Bao and his trusted aides and beheaded them to surrender.
Someone who recognized Zheng Bao saw that the head was his, so Lu Peng ordered Jiang Qin to lead the army to receive it. After pondering for a moment, he turned around and saw Lu Su and Liu Ye bowing with cupped hands."Prefecture Lord, we bow to your divine might!"
Zhou Yu couldn't help but sigh and say,""As the saying goes, a just cause has much support, while an unjust cause has little support. It is the best military strategy to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
Lu Peng didn't expect the result to be like this. He didn't expect to act tough in front of these people. It could be seen that in this era, nothing could compare to letting the common people eat their fill.
After Zheng Bao was pacified, the whole Lujiang River was clear, and several small thieves fled. Lu Peng took out food to help the victims and organized farming. After he became the prefect of Lujiang Prefecture, the entire land of Lujiang would be increased.
Lu Kang's health was getting better day by day, and he was gradually able to get up and walk. He decided to return to his hometown early in the morning and set a date. On this day, he bid farewell to Lu Peng and got up.
Lu Peng ordered Xie Qi to lead 200 soldiers to escort them. Seeing Lu Kang and his family waving their hands and gradually leaving, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.
With the current traffic conditions, it was unknown if the old hooligan would ever see him again in this lifetime.
Ten days after Lu Kang left, he received an envoy from the imperial court.
Dong Zhuo was far away in Chang 'an, so he naturally couldn't do anything about this place. It was perfectly justifiable for him to make Lu Peng the prefect of Lujiang.
Apart from that, the Yellow Turbans, Gong Du, Liu Pi, and the others sent envoys again, and Lu Peng allowed them to surrender. Gong Duzhong had a total of 50,000 men, most of whom were women and children, and only a few thousand of them could fight. Lu Peng settled them in the west of Yangquan, settled their homes, and distributed food. These people were starving people who had no way out. They all knelt down with tears in their eyes and cried loudly.
Gong Du and Liu Pi knelt on the ground for a long time and said,""Today, I have met a wise lord, and I am willing to be a pawn in front of the tent.”
Lu Peng helped the two of them up and consoled them, allowing them to continue leading their old troops.
At this point, Lujiang had an army of 20,000 men. Jiang Qin had trained 5,000 men, and there were 7,000 men in Lujiang. However, this was only an army on the surface. If a war really broke out, Lu Peng could pull out an army of more than 100,000 at any time.
However, that was not necessary. Development was the most important thing.
At this time, the situation in the north was becoming more and more chaotic. The warlords fought and many annexed each other. Yuan Shao, as the leader of the crusade against Dong, was stationed in Jizhou. Han Fu provided food and grass, and the two sides gradually became estranged. Yuan Shu sat on the position of Nanyang prefect and began to expand to Yingchuan and Runan.
Sun Jian, who was famous for his bravery, was killed by an arrow in a battle with Huang Zu, one of Liu Biao's generals.
Lu Peng could not help but sigh when he heard the news. Those who were good at swimming would drown, and those who relied too much on their own bravery would often not end well. Sun Jian was like this, and so was his grandson Sun Ce.
Sun Ce had just turned sixteen and led his father's old subordinates to join Yuan Shu.
Perhaps many people didn't understand why Sun Ce wanted to vote for Yuan Shu. It was because Yuan Shu wasn't as bad as people thought, and Sun Jian's reputation among the princes wasn't very good.
When Sun Jian went north, he killed Wang Rui, the governor of Jingzhou before Liu Biao, and Zhang Zi, the governor of Nanyang, which brought him a huge notoriety. Among the heroes of the Central Plains at that time, only Yuan Shu had made friends with him. Of course, he also wanted to make use of the Tiger of River East.
Therefore, Sun Ce would vote for Yuan Shu. Of course, he would not vote for Lu Peng, who was only five or six years older than him. Lu Peng could not help but laugh when he thought of Sun Ce's green eyes at that time.
Yuan Shu liked Sun Ce very much, but he did not give him many opportunities to lead troops. Relying on the influence of the four generations and three dukes, he rapidly expanded in the Yingchuan area.
However, Dong Zhuo's generals Hu Zhen and the others had come out of seclusion to plunder, and they had been engaged in fierce battles with Yuan Shu and the others. Yingchuan's soldiers were constantly on fire, and there were countless casualties.
Not only this place, but the entire Central Plains was also in dire straits and suffering.
Under such circumstances, Lujiang, which was as peaceful as a paradise, became a place for many people to avoid disaster.
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