Liu Hu nodded and said: "This opera loyalist is quite capable. He managed to recruit 3,000 people from a small village. This was considered a small county in the past! Now we have hundreds of thousands more in Liaodong." Population, the original counties can no longer manage so many people. You can lead some people to plan and see if those villages can be merged into a county. This opera hero is quite capable. Merge the villages around him into a county!"
Although Liaodong is barren, its area is not small. If the four counties of Liaodong are removed, the area of one Liaodong county alone can be compared with the area of other counties in Youzhou. From this, we can see how empty Liaodong is, and now there are more With a population of hundreds of thousands, the 11 counties in Liaodong alone can already manage this population very well.
Gongsun Du said with a smile: "With the example of Xi Zhong, I think other officials in Daqian will find ways to accommodate more Hu people. In this way, the development of Liaodong will definitely exceed the expectations of the ruling party!"
Gongsun Du felt from Liu Hu's orders that he still liked Xi Zhong's style. The reason was also very simple. Liu Hu was originally a Huns, and he was considered a Hu faction in Dagan. Naturally, he did not want officials from Dagan to be there. Liaodong was too tough on the Hu people, and the naturalized Hu people in Liaodong strengthened the power of his faction.
September of the fourth year of the Han Dynasty (AD 193)
Liu Hu reported to Xu Wei that 10 new counties were added to Liaodong, and Xu Wei also agreed to Liu Hu's report. The new county magistrates were appointed by outstanding village chiefs originally sent to Liaodong, and Xi Zhong became the new Liaohe County magistrate. , take charge of 10 surrounding forts!
Xu Wei was excited by the news from Liu Hu in Liaodong. Because there were disaster victims from the Central Plains, hundreds of thousands more immigrants came to Liaodong this year than Xu Wei expected. This year alone, 5 million acres of land have been reclaimed. These lands have reduced The food pressure in Daqian. And if tens of millions of acres of land are reclaimed next year, Liaodong's food may be able to support Youzhou.
This is definitely an unexpected surprise for Dagan, which is currently suffering from drought, and it has further aggravated Xu Wei's idea of increasing the development of Liaodong. Now the only land in Dagan that has the potential to become a granary is Liaodong. Although Jizhou The development was good, but Xu Wei knew that there would be constant natural disasters in the Central Plains in the past few years, and it might be difficult to count on the Jizhou granary.
Although the drought in Jizhou was not too serious this time, it affected a very large area. According to the information Xu Wei obtained, Yanzhou and Sili were the places with the most severe drought.
This drought made Xu Wei suddenly think of the "The Legend of Cao Cao" he played.
This time period should be when Cao Cao and Lu Bu were fighting for the hegemony of Yanzhou. The two sides fought three times to compete for Yanzhou (this is how it is in the biography of Cao Cao!). The second time they had to stop midway because the entire Central Plains was suffering from drought. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, It is said that both Lu Bu and Cao Cao survived this crisis by relying on rice and meat. Cao Cao even robbed the Yellow Turban Army of Yuzhou for food (I found this strange when I watched The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. An officer of Cao Cao actually robbed the Yellow Turban Thief? Is that the opposite? !)
And Xu Wei also remembered that Cao Cao occupied the fertile Central Plains, but whether he defeated Tao Qian, Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, or even later when he defeated Yuan Shao, he experienced food shortages (here I have to talk about Guandu) In the battle, Cao Cao's troops and territory are not much less than Yuan Shao's, but firstly, he is the place where the fourth battle is, and secondly, he does not have enough food, so his military strength is not as good as Yuan Shao's, and even if he has several times less troops than Yuan Shao, in the end The one who ran out of food first was actually Cao Cao. You must know that Cao Cao occupied Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, and Sili, all of which were the most fertile lands in the Han Dynasty, while Yuan Shao only had one Jizhou, which had less food and grass than Yuan Shao!)
When fighting Yuan Shu, he also borrowed the head of the grain official! Obviously, during the period when Cao Cao occupied the Central Plains, natural disasters were specifically designed to oppose him, so that his occupation of a fertile Central Plains grain actually became his biggest shortcoming.
Based on these memories, coupled with Xu Wei's own thinking about the current situation in the Central Plains, Xu Wei felt that the Han Dynasty would not be very good in the next few years! Therefore, it is very necessary to develop new granaries.
At the same time, Xu Wei also had a feeling of causing disaster. He had been troubled by the food problem for several years. Even now, it has not completely disappeared. Now it is finally Yuan Shao's turn. Cao Cao and the others are in trouble! Especially Yuan Shao's core territory has been completely affected by the disaster.
He happened to have an army of 200,000. Considering the current situation in the Central Plains, he must have been overwhelmed by the sudden drought!
Jingzhou, Xiangyang City!
Yuan Shao was indeed having a hard time at this time. He originally decided to give up using force to deal with Liu Bei, and planned to compete with Liu Bei for power in the court. He even took advantage of Liu Bei's military retreat to make friends with a large number of civil and military officials, veterans and generals in the court!
Compared with the humble Liu Bei, all the civil and military officials in the imperial court had objections to Liu Bei. If it weren't for the fact that Liu Bei, who was good at conquering and fighting, was indispensable in the imperial court, he would have been squeezed out long ago. In fact, they were more optimistic about Yuan Shao's control of the Han Dynasty.
He had military power because Yuan Shao was one of his own.
It's a pity that Yuan Shao's ambitions are too great. Now everyone knows that he is a bit jealous of Sima Zhao. Yuan Shao's approach is destroying their jobs. This is why the wealthy nobles headed by Yang Biao united around Liu Bei to resist Yuan Shao.
And now Yuan Shao comes to the court to show that the high-profile Han people in any generation are all caused by Yuan Shu, a prodigal son, and have nothing to do with me, Yuan Benchu. You see, I have not put down my army and come to Xiangyang City. I, Yuan Benchu, am loyal to the Han Dynasty.
A lesson from heaven and earth!
Although everyone didn't believe it, they also believed that Yuan Shu's fate suppressed Yuan Shao's ambitions and allowed him to see the power of the court, so Yuan Shao left Luoyang City and came to Xiangyang!
For Yang Biao and Zhang Wen, as long as Yuan Shao gave up his ambition to split the Han Dynasty or even become emperor, for them, Yuan Shao was one of their own. At least Lei Gong and the others still needed Yuan Shao to resist them. So Zhang Wen and others made friends one after another.
Goodbye Yuan Shao, for a moment Yuan Shao felt like he was back in Luoyang City.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But not long after, bad news came from Tian Feng. A severe drought occurred in Yanzhou, which affected the entire Central Plains. Then Sili also began to suffer from drought.
Later, an earthquake occurred around Mount Huashan.
This series of bad news made Yuan Shao's subordinate officials panic. Officials in this era were very superstitious and paid attention to the perception of heaven and man. So many disasters occurred just after Yuan Shao occupied Sili and the Central Plains. Is it because Yuan Shao's virtue is not enough and he cannot control it?
Sili and the Central Plains, that's why there are so many disasters.
Although Yuan Shao did not believe this, he suddenly found that he actually needed the support of the Xiangyang court to survive this disaster, mainly Liu Bei's support, because Liu Bei in the south was not afraid of drought at all, but was afraid of floods. Drought was very harmful to Liu Bei.
It would be beneficial to develop Nan County.
This left Yuan Shao speechless. He still wanted to compete with Liu Bei for control of the court, but now he asked Liu Bei for it. Under such circumstances, how could he be embarrassed to compete with Liu Bei for power?
After discussing for a while, Xu You and others also felt that now is not the time to compete with Liu Bei for power and profit. Guaranteeing Sili and Yanzhou is the most important! This made Yuan Shao sigh, even God is helping Liu Bei!
Not long after Yuan Shao arrived at Xiangyang City, Liu Bei led the Eastern Expedition army back to Xiangyang City!
Yuan Shao and Liu Bei talked happily, as if they were good friends.
But Xu You and others looked at Liu Bei with a mixture of disdain and contempt. A down-and-out man like Liu Bei had become a general. No wonder the Han Dynasty was declining day by day!
The arrogant demeanor and domineering attitude of Xu You and others angered Zhang Fei, who pulled Yuan Ji to Xu You and said, "Isn't this a slave of the Yuan family? Seeing that the master of the family did not come up to say hello,
This is because your Yuan family has no rules and is still going to rebel!"
Xu You and others said angrily: "What are you talking about, you reckless man? Who is the slave?"
At this time, Yuan Shao was embarrassed, because although Yuan Ji was his eldest brother, he was also an official next to Liu Bei. According to the tradition of this era, Liu Bei was Yuan Ji's lord, so Yuan Shao was inferior to Liu Bei in terms of status!
Fortunately, Liu Bei said: "Yide, don't be careless!"
He doesn't care about Yuan Shao's views, but he does care about Yuan Ji's thoughts. After all, Yuan Ji has helped him too much since he became his long history. In this battle with Yuan Shu, if it weren't for Yuan Ji, he would definitely not be able to do so quickly.
The forces that pacified Yuan Shu gained the entire Yangzhou! Even if it was for Yuan Ji, he would not embarrass Yuan Shao!
As Yuan Shao entered the city, he told Liu Bei what he had done during his time in Sili, and emphasized that Gao Tu, the successor to the Han Dynasty, was created by Yuan Shu and had nothing to do with Yuan Shao!
Liu Bei smiled calmly and said: "It's good that the misunderstanding has been cleared up. If we want to revitalize the Han Dynasty, we need your help, brother Benchu! If brother Benchu goes to attack Lei Gong in the north, even the position of general, Bei can give it to brother Benchu!"
Yuan Shao didn't dare to answer this. He had fought with Lei Gong, so he naturally knew the strength of Lei Gong. Now the Northern Expedition is just to die! Not to mention, now his 200,000 troops are about to eat grass, who has the ability to do the Northern Expedition!
He could only say: "Brother Xuande is a world-famous military general. In recent years, he has been invincible in all attacks. Xuande has become a general and the world is convinced. How dare Shao peek at the position of general!"
Liu Bei was also very surprised by Yuan Shao's attitude towards him, and even felt a little flattering, which made him feel weird!
Liu Bei met with the emperor and reported the situation of this campaign to the emperor!
The emperor naturally rewarded Liu Bei and his men! At the same time, he also demoted Yuan Shu and his men to Lingling County for farming! The war caused by Yuan Shu was finally over.
After going to court, King Chen Liu Chong and Zongzheng Liu Biao went to Liu Bei together and told Liu Bei about the current situation in the Central Plains.
Then Liu Chong said helplessly: "Benchu said that now the people of the Central Plains are fleeing to the territory of Thunder Lord. If the court does not support the Central Plains, he is afraid that he will not be able to resist Thunder Lord! The Central Plains may be captured by Thunder Lord!"
Liu Chong has a close relationship with the Yuan clan. At that time, he and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were both the second generation of the top officials of the Han Dynasty, so his relationship with Yuan Shao was also very good. But when Yuan Shao formed the Kwantung Allied Forces to attack Dong Zhuo, the relationship between Liu Chong and Yuan Shao was
Starting to get bad.
It was the same even if Yuan Shao made him a general to assist the Han Dynasty. Later, the situation of the Han Dynasty changed too fast, and the Yellow Turban Army suddenly broke out throughout the Central Plains. He had no choice but to protect himself in the Yangxia city of Chen State, and the number of refugees he took in once reached more than 20.
Thousands of people, and even an army of 30,000 were trained. Because both sides wanted to suppress the Yellow Turban Army in the Central Plains, and then Lei Gong became bigger, the Han Dynasty had to use all its strength to deal with Lei Gong. At this time, the relationship between him and Yuan Shao eased a little.
But not long ago, there were widespread rumors throughout the Central Plains that "the Yuan family succeeded the Han Dynasty". Now Liu Chong thought that Yuan Shao was ambitious and a rebellious official of the Han Dynasty! Originally, he did not want to intercede with Yuan Shao, but Liu Biao found him and told Liu Chong that now
Yuan Shao is indispensable in the Central Plains. The Central Plains is in chaos. If Lei Gong takes the opportunity to seize it, then the Han Dynasty will really be destroyed.
Liu Chong thought for a long time and felt that the danger of Thunder Lord was far greater than that of Yuan Shao, so he went to Liu Bei to intercede for Yuan Shao.
Liu Bei was surprised when he heard this: "Is the drought in the Central Plains really so serious? Sili is the most fertile place in the Han Dynasty. Now there is no need to support the court, but it can't solve the drought in the Central Plains?"
Liu Biao sighed: "Because of the rebellion of the Xiliang Army, half of Sili became a white land, and this time the drought broke out in the Central Plains. Henan also suffered disasters. It could barely protect itself and could not support the Central Plains at all.
Now millions of people are suffering from disasters throughout the Central Plains. Every day, people cross the Yellow River and flee to the territory of Lei Gong. Now Ben Chu's men are already preventing such behavior. Lei Gong has already become big. If he is allowed to do it again,
If we recruit disaster victims, the entire Central Plains will be empty. Then where can we recruit troops to resist the Thunder God?"
Liu Bei asked: "How much food and grass do you want at the beginning?"
Liu Biao said: "Brother Benchu said that without 5 million stones, it would be difficult for him to stabilize the Central Plains!"
Zhang Fei on the side said angrily: "Yuan Shao is so loud. He asked for 5 million shi as soon as he opened his mouth. He really thinks that the court belongs to his own family!"
Then he pointed at Liu Biao and cursed: "You are considered a clan member of the Han Dynasty. It's okay if you don't help us, but you actually helped Yuan Shao plot against my eldest brother!"
Liu Biao blushed when he was told that Liu Biao was one of the Eighth Chefs in Shilin. He had been friends with Yuan Shao and others since he was a child. He and Yuan Shao had been friends for more than 20 years, but he was also a member of the Han family. Liu Bei moved the imperial court.
After arriving in Xiangyang City, he knew that the strength of the Han Dynasty was declining rapidly, so he reused capable Han clan members. It was during this period that Liu Biao was recommended by Liu Bei to become Zongzheng, one of the Nine Qings.
Logically speaking, he should be Liu Bei's man, but now he is helping Yuan Shao speak, and Yuan Shao is Liu Bei's biggest political enemy. It is no wonder that Zhang Fei wants to curse.
Liu Chong explained to Liu Biao: "We are doing this for the Han Dynasty. Don't forget how the Yellow Turban Army broke out and how Thunder Lord grew. They were not only strengthened by disasters one after another. Now we don't help Yuan Shao solve the drought problem in the Central Plains."
, the Yellow Turban Army may break out in the Central Plains again, even if it doesn't break out, Thunder God's army will sweep across the Central Plains, and the people of the Central Plains who are suffering from drought will definitely take refuge in Thunder God. If we don't support Yuan Shao now, I'm afraid we will regret it too late!"