Chapter 33 Lei Xu Comes to Surrender

"All these will cost a lot of money, and the round cart can only be used in places with fast water flow. How many places in Kyushu can meet such requirements?"

Kong Ming was silent. His wife was right. Jingzhou is the upper reaches of the river, especially Gong'an is on the north of the river and there is Hudu in the south. Even if the round cart is installed, it can be realized at present, but what about the north?

Huang Yueying didn't care. She took Kong Ming's hand, turned off the lights and returned to the room with the stove burning.

Seeing that Kong Ming was still in a daze, Huang Yueying walked behind Kong Ming and gently rubbed his shoulders while speaking softly:

"It seems that the Lord's handling is really correct."

"Hmm...ah?" Zhuge Liang woke up from his contemplation and raised his head to meet Huang Yueying's worried eyes:

"Even if my husband doesn't have official documents to deal with, he still spends so much energy. How can he not die early?"

"Since you want to entrust the Ministry of Craftsmanship to me, why don't you completely withdraw and wait for the results of the Ministry of Craftsmanship?"

With a wife like this... Kong Ming temporarily put aside his thoughts, the long night was long, and he was warm in time.

No words were spoken that night. The next day, Kong Ming also came to the county government with his wife when he was on duty for the first time.

"Want to move the Ministry of Craftsmanship to the banks of Hudu River?" Sun Gan was very surprised.

Sun Gan knew that Hudu River was a tributary of the river in the south of Gong'an County, and it could even be related to them in the future.

It is said that a tiger injured someone near Gong'an County. The governor of Nanjun, who was in charge of this area, checked the situation and ordered people to remove the traps that injured the tiger. Then the tiger swam across the river and left. The place was peaceful, and the river was named Hudu.

This governor of Nanjun was Fa Xiong, and his great-grandson was the colleague of everyone in the future, Fa Zheng, mentioned by Guangmu.

"As Madam Huang said." Kong Ming gave instructions.

Sun Gan had no objection, but he was a little worried when he saw the houses that the craftsmen had already started to demolish:

"In this case, what should we do with this area?"

"It will be a medical department." Kong Ming thought it was not simple?

"If the lord goes out, even if he can't invite Zhang Zhongjing, he will definitely be able to invite the apprentice of the genius doctor. The new house built here is just right for practicing medicine."

"There are more and more people in Gong'an County. With a medical hall, we can prevent and treat epidemics."

Just at this time, Ma Su, who came back from cutting trees, sent back a message:

"Military advisor, the lord is back with 50,000 troops!"

50,000 troops? Kong Ming looked at Ma Su and was a little confused for a moment:

Are we the same lord? Could it be that Cao Cao has brought 50,000 troops to kill us?

Kong Ming's thought did not come true. Along with the dusty Liu Bei, there was also a middle-aged general with a tired face who entered the Gong'an County Government.

"Kong Ming, this is Lei Xu Lei Zibu from Lujiang. He was persecuted by Xiahou Yuan, a general of Cao's thief. He came to fight with us against Cao."

Liu Bei also had a tired face, but his face was more excited.

Kong Ming certainly understood what Liu Bei meant. Lei Xu led his troops to surrender, so he had to give him a way out. There were 50,000 people! There was no shortage of good fighters among them.

Fortunately, Lei Xu was not difficult to communicate with. This tired general seemed to have experienced a difficult journey. He asked Kong Ming for a quiet and soft bed, lay down and began to sleep soundly.

After sitting down again, Liu Bei recounted his wonderful journey:

"Adou and I asked people where the great doctor Zhang Zhongjing was, and rode straight to see the old great doctor."

Thinking of the Zhang Zhongjing he met, although he was nearly sixty years old, he looked younger than Liu Bei himself. Only then did he know that the great doctor praised by Guangmu was not false.

"The great doctor Zhang did not want to be the governor." Liu Bei felt sorry for this, as there were not enough civil officials:

"But fortunately, the great doctor Zhang agreed to the request and was willing to live in Gong'an."

"That's enough." Kong Ming nodded: "Did you meet Lei Xu on the way back?"

Kong Ming had certainly heard of Lei Xu, a native of Lujiang, who had been a member of Yuan Shu's army in the early days.

After Yuan Shu claimed the throne, he appointed Lei Xu as the General of the Central Army. Later, Yuan Shu was defeated and fled to Huainan and died of illness. Lei Xu led his troops to Jianghuai until now.

This year, Cao Cao may have relieved the pressure on Cao Ren in Nanjun, and he once again went south to attack Sun Quan. The Jianghuai bandits felt uneasy and raised troops against Cao.

Unexpectedly, Cao Cao took heavy measures and sent Zhang Liao, Zhang He, Zang Ba, Xiahou Yuan, Yu Jin and others to sweep Jianghuai.

Lei Xu and others could not withstand such a battle and were beaten to pieces. Kong Ming had not heard the follow-up news before and thought that the whole army had been wiped out. Unexpectedly, the other party... How did the word "light curtain" come from?

He played a strategic transfer and ran from Jianghuai to the lord through the natural barrier of Tianzhu Mountain!

"The people in Jianghuai and other places are suffering!" Liu Bei sighed.

Kong Ming also sighed. Although he had not received the news from Lei Xu before, the news from Jianghuai had always been delivered.

After sweeping the bandits, Cao Cao didn't know what was wrong with him. He suddenly wanted to forcibly relocate the people in Huainan. As a result, perhaps because the discipline of Cao's bandits was too bad when sweeping Jianghuai, in short, the people in Huainan chose a decision that Cao Cao didn't expect: it was a good thing!

One hundred thousand people in Jianghuai would rather go to Jiangdong to take refuge with their families than move north. Cao's soldiers rode their horses to rob the people fleeing south, which was another military disaster.

"My Lord, how do you want to place Lei Xu's troops?"

Liu Bei had obviously thought about it carefully on the way:

"Lei Xu once said that the Jianghuai tribe had experienced war and now just wanted to recuperate. General Lei's followers will still be led by him, and the common people will be dispersed and farmed west of Gong'an."

Kong Ming nodded and agreed with this idea. The most important thing was that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's military camp was just west of Gong'an County, so if anything happened, they could suppress it on the spot.

"Cao's army conquered Jianghuai, and as a result, the lord got 50,000 people to follow him, and Sun Hou got 100,000 people to follow him." Kong Ming shook his head, feeling that Cao's conquest could not be said to be profitable no matter how he calculated it.

Especially since Cao Ren had already fled, and Nanjun had fallen into the hands of Zhou Gongjin.

"Cao's people have lost a lot of support."

Liu Bei also sighed. Lei Xu was able to cross Tianzhu Mountain with 50,000 troops to surrender, which also showed how Cao Cao's military discipline was.

Although Lei Xu was nominally a Jianghuai bandit, how could there be a bandit with a family? To put it bluntly, Lei Xu's troops were just a miniature remnant of the princes.

He started from a humble background, and Cao Cao and Sun Quan did not recruit him, so he gathered people in Jianghuai. Rather than saying that Lei Xu was a disaster in Jianghuai, it was better to say that this gave Cao's army a legal excuse to plunder.

Logically speaking, if Lei Xu was really a pure 50,000 bandit, he would have directly counterattacked Cao's army long ago, so why would he cross Tianzhu Mountain and gamble his life to surrender to Liu Bei?

After the two sighed, they still had to do things. Kong Ming also showed Liu Bei the round car linkage of his first wife Huang. The simple truth in it made Liu Bei admire:

"With such a skillful skill of Huang's daughter, the 'technological progress point' must be easy to obtain."

Kong Ming smiled and was also proud of Huang Yueying. By the way, he made his request:

"The farming, medical workers, round car construction and the attempt to make Zuo Bo paper in Gong'an County, etc."

"I can make decisions on all these matters, but there is only one thing that requires the Lord to come in person."

"What is it?" This is Liu Bei with a solemn face.

"Please ask the Lord to go to Jiangdong to discuss the ownership of Nanjun!" This is the sonorous Zhuge Liang.

"What, brother is going to get married?" This is Zhang Fei who suddenly refreshed at the door.

There are relatively few records about Lei Xu. What can be verified is that he led his people to Jianghuai in the first year of Jian'an, and in the fifth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao recommended Liu Fu to be the governor of Yangzhou, and Lei Xu went to give gifts and congratulations. There is no record of him joining any forces in between. The last time he appeared in history books was in the fourteenth year of Jian'an, when he was hung up and beaten by Boss Cao.