After Yuan Shu became emperor, this was a rare period of stable development.

The Four Kingdoms, or to be more precise, the Five Kingdoms have just gone through changes, either proclaiming themselves emperors or kings or..., except for the Yan State established by Gongsun Zan in the north and the State of Zhao established by Yuan Shao in the north, the Central Plains and the south are extremely peaceful.

Yuan, Cao, and Liu were all trying to stabilize their power, calm the people's hearts, recruit more soldiers, and develop internal affairs.

By proclaiming himself emperor, Yuan Shu began to aggressively expand the recruitment and selection of soldiers and reform. With the help of the large amount of money and food accumulated by the prosperity of Jiangdong in these years, as well as the talents cultivated by large and small academies, Yuan Shu once again began to build academies in various places, and completely liberalized the control of military affairs.

The limitations of paper and printing technology, and the large number of printed books, reduced the economic pressure on the people under his command to study.

At the same time, the imperial examination selection system, which had been implemented within the academies before and had not been put on the public surface, was completely pushed to the public by Yuan Shu, replacing the Han Dynasty's filial piety and integrity. He also vigorously cultivated hundreds of schools to develop their own schools.

, established its own unique academy, and participated in the construction of Chu State in various forms.

The most important thing is that Yuan Shu greatly improved the treatment and status of craftsmen and merchants, basically juxtaposing them with farmers, instead of the previous scholars, peasants, industry and merchants. Yuan Shu also organized the top craftsmen and doctors of Chu State together and formed Jinling respectively.

The Academy of Sciences and Jinling Medical College are tied with Jinling Academy.

As for others, there are agricultural colleges, forestry colleges, water conservancy colleges, etc. built by various schools of thought with the support of Yuan Shu. Dozens of colleges and universities have been established in Jinling. Fortunately, when Yuan Shu planned and built the city of Jinling, he specifically

The scale is set to be very large, and it can easily accommodate so many colleges.

Yuan Shu's many actions naturally shocked countless people and caused dissatisfaction among many aristocratic families. However, their attention was soon diverted by another incident announced by Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu began to send people to contact the countries in the southeastern and western regions of Yizhou to make statistics on the size, land, food, population, etc. of these countries, and to replace the Han Dynasty and re-incorporate these small countries under his command as tributary countries. Of course, this was only on the surface.

Secretly, the message given by Yuan Shu was that the cake would be divided.

The king of the vassal country needs to be recognized and granted the title by the Great Chu. Yuan Shu promised that he would generally not interfere in its internal affairs. However, there are still many small countries that either do not believe it or are arrogant and are not willing to do so and refuse the grant from the Great Chu.

After all, although the Han Dynasty was strong back then, times have changed and the Han Dynasty has not paid attention to these small countries for a long time. The two sides have basically not interacted with each other for so many years. Many of these small countries have died and split, and have been occupied or replaced by other countries, and most of them

The impression of the Han Dynasty is only limited to some records of the country, and I don’t know much about it at all. What’s more, Yuan Shu established the Chu State, not the Han Dynasty. Some people naturally have other thoughts in their hearts. After all, no one is like them.

The country has been arbitrarily meddling with others and has become a puppet controlled by others.

Moreover, among the many small countries in the southwest of Yizhou, those who still have an impression of the Han Dynasty are those close to Yizhou. As for the Huawai land further south, the Han Dynasty has never been there. Yuan Shu knows that it is a large land.

Well, the small country and the big man above it have never been in contact with each other, and all connections need to be established from scratch by Yuan Shu.

Most of the small countries were unwilling to surrender to the great Chu, so Yuan Shu naturally wanted to take action.

Tai Shici, the general who led the southern expedition, who had just been transferred from Sili by Yuan Shu, led 30,000 elite southern barbarians. He led the elite Pingnan general Zhang Ren from Wanyizhou. Meng Hu, the Annan general who led 20,000 barbarians, led 10,000 Yizhou soldiers.

Anyi general Yan Yan and Anyuan general Wutu Meng, who led 10,000 barbarians, both stationed their troops at the border of Yizhou. They could attack at any time to pacify these disobedient "little brothers".

In Liangzhou, in addition to General Ma Teng of Zhenxi who led 30,000 cavalry to guard Wuwei, General Li Anxi who led the Flying Bear Army and 20,000 cavalry of Xiliang, General Guo Si who led the expedition, and champion generals Ma Chao and General Huya, who each led 10,000 cavalry.

Zhang Xiu and General Pang De had already sharpened their swords.

However, Yuan Shu is currently recuperating, and the intelligence work and preparations have not been completed yet, so he does not plan to send troops to attack within half a year. And within this half year, Yuan Shu will give the noble families room to play.

No matter what method he uses, as long as he does not violate Yuan Shu's bottom line, does not contact foreign enemies, and does not betray his country for glory, if these aristocratic families can occupy or secretly control these disobedient small countries and submit to Da Chu, Yuan Shu can entrust him with enfeoffment and recognize them.

The identity of the leader of a country.

What does this mean? This is tantamount to a feudal state! And it is a legitimate feudal state. You must know that the area southwest of Yizhou is so big that it is not even under Yangzhou. It is vast and filled with small countries. To deal with these backward civilizations, production

In a backward small foreign country, wouldn't these families with deep roots, many talents, and ruthless methods be easy to capture?

With such a major matter of feuding the country, which is related to the inheritance of thousands of years, who has the time to do such a thankless thing as disobeying Yuan Shu when Yuan Shu is at the height of his power? Now the trend lies with Yuan Shu and Da Chu, even if they

Even if they join forces, they can't stop Yuan Shu's behavior. The most they can do is create more obstacles and cause some trouble. But since Yuan Shu has already made concessions and given him enough benefits, what reason do they have to ask for trouble? Anyway, Da Chu is no longer like them.

What the family can control is whether to lose both sides with Yuan Shu, or to seize the opportunity to seize the country. Between the two, individuals will choose the latter.

Although Yuan Shu acts domineeringly, he will never let those who obey him suffer. The benefits of a feudal country are far beyond the petty gains. These aristocratic families can survive to this day under Yuan Shu, and they live so nourishingly.

, because they are "smart". They know what it means to give up when things get better, and are not like those arrogant, domineering and greedy families that were disappeared by Yuan Shu. They naturally know what they should choose now.

A slap in the face and a sweet date, not to mention how slippery Yuan Shu is with this move. After all, Yuan Shu is used to doing this kind of thing, and the aristocratic family is also used to being beaten. The two parties are naturally in harmony. Yuan Shu's series of reforms basically have no resistance.

The implementation went on smoothly, but Yizhou and Liangzhou began to become crazy and lively.

When there are more aristocratic families, Yuan Shu can use his strength to solve many problems. For example, road construction problems from Yizhou to neighboring small countries, diplomatic problems, commercial problems, etc. Another example is the construction problems in Liangzhou, war horse trading problems, and ranch opening problems.

Problems with the acquisition of cattle and sheep from surrounding foreign races, etc.

While these aristocratic families are busy with their own fiefdom affairs, they are naturally very happy to do some side business under the guidance of Yuan Shu, solve some of their own problems or make a living. Yuan Shu and the merchants of the aristocratic family are basically a win-win situation, each getting what they need.

Everyone was happy. Of course, Yuan Shu made a big profit.

For Yuan Shu, the solution to the problems of the countries in the southwest of Yizhou and the countries in the Western Regions is not just about promoting business development and improving people's living standards. The most important thing is to use the power of the aristocratic family to stabilize these areas and make them a monolith.

, stabilizing the situation and laying the foundation for Yuan Shu to mobilize troops against Guishuang in the future.

These aristocratic families have basically been sold by Yuan Shu and are still counting money for Yuan Shu. After all, the fiefdoms they captured will definitely be exchanged by Yuan Shu for bigger cakes in the future. However, these aristocratic families are basically willing to do so, and even treat Yuan Shu

I am extremely grateful and regard him as the guiding light for the prosperity of the family. It is really Zhou Yu who is willing to fight and others are willing to suffer. For these aristocratic families, since they cannot resist, they can enjoy it silently. Sometimes they think about being treated like this by that person.
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