"Wenruo, Gongda, I think you have also heard from Zhicai that our Donghai County actually has a Donghai Territory."
"That's where I am Zhengzhen. You have been here for more than a month. Now it's time to take you to see our Zhengzhen power."
When Su Fan returned to Donghai County, he did not immediately take over Yuzhou. He now only has the title of Yuzhou Shepherd.
Moreover, Kong Niao is also the governor of Yuzhou. If he goes there directly, there will inevitably be conflicts. In addition, in Yuzhou, the Yuan family's power is not small, especially since Runan is the Yuan family's home base.
Although Runan was devastated by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yuan family did not suffer much loss.
After all, the Wubao built by the Yuan clan is taller than many county towns, and the Yellow Turbans have never broken through it.
Most of the counties in Yuzhou are disciples and former officials of the Yuan family. It is almost impossible for him to command these people.
So he will still follow his plan and take Yangzhou first. As for Xuzhou, it is already his territory.
In the past few years, he has secretly controlled Xuzhou, not to mention Guangling County, and Langya Kingdom, where he also has great influence.
If Tao Qian had waited until Xiapi was handed over to him, he would have been a veritable Xuzhou Shepherd.
Yangzhou first, and then slowly swallowing up Yuzhou. As for Qingzhou, Guan Hai's Yellow Turban is here, and he can slowly support it from behind.
When he is strong enough, Qingzhou will also fall into his hands, and by then he will be the overlord of the four states.
This was also the future plan he and Xi Zhicai had made before.
Now that he has more talents from Yingchuan County, his plan can be accelerated.
These people followed him to Donghai County for more than a month, and gradually took over his government affairs. Especially Xun Yu, who is worthy of being a talented king and prime minister. In just one month, he took over his government affairs with ease.
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But next, the government affairs of the East China Sea Territory will become much more complicated.
The rune carriage drove smoothly on the wide cement road, with an average speed of fifty kilometers per hour without any bumps.
"Is this Chidao?"
Looking at the spacious road outside through the window of the carriage, Xun Yu's uncle and nephew were very curious. They had never seen a concrete road before.
It's just that the ten-meter-wide cement road surprised both of them.
Looking at each other, they felt that they had underestimated their lord. It was not easy to build such a track in this wilderness.
So what will happen to the East China Sea Territory that Zhicai often mentioned to them?
In Donghai County, they found that commerce was extremely developed, and there were endless levels of all kinds of novel gadgets.
They asked Xi Zhicai and found out that most of the products come from the East China Sea Territory.
This time they were brought there, and they were obviously treated as confidants.
After thirty hours of running all the way, they arrived at the boundary of the East China Sea Territory.
"That is?"
Xun You's eyes suddenly widened. The countless horses galloping in front of him and the vast grassland made him mistakenly think that he had arrived at the grassland of the North.
"Is that a racecourse?"
"Racecourse?" Xun Yu's two uncles and nephews looked at Su Fan with wide eyes, "Master, you mean to build a racecourse here. How many horses are there in this racecourse?"
"Now there are almost more than 80,000 war horses."
Su Fan said with a smile that this was his biggest investment. He spent a lot of effort to build this racecourse.
On this grassland alone, he personally led a group of Taiping Dao Taoist masters and used various magic techniques to slowly establish millions of acres of grassland.
It can breed up to hundreds of thousands of war horses.
"This is one-tenth of the price of the imperial court back then."
Shenhan also had a horse farm back then, where he raised millions of horses. Emperor Wu spent a lot of money to build this horse farm.
However, the establishment of the horse farm also brought him abundant fruits, that is, they beat the Huns barbarians to the point of almost annihilation.
As a counselor, Xun You had good military insights. He knew that the Central Plains was very short of war horses.
Almost all the divine men with cavalry strength come from the North. Even the Imperial Forbidden Army does not have many elite cavalry left.
As the ace team, the cavalry plays a very important role on the battlefield.
Eighty thousand horses can form at least a cavalry force of thirty thousand.
He didn't know what the quality of the horses in this racecourse was, but he had seen the three thousand cavalry under the lord's command before, and those horses were all middle- and upper-class horses.
Compared with the war horses on the grassland, they are not bad, but those knights are even more terrifying.
In Luoyang City, he had seen the cavalry of the Imperial Imperial Guard. In terms of aura alone, they were even inferior to those under his lord's command.
Although Xun You was a scribe, he was very interested in martial arts.
"There will be more and more war horses in the future," Su Fan said confidently. Today's racecourses no longer need to buy horses from the North, and the racecourses have been continuously producing ponyboys in the past two years.
As time goes by, there will be more and more war horses.
As they entered the Donghai Territory, Xun Yu and the others suddenly discovered that there were more and more villages and towns around here, even more than the villages and towns surrounding Donghai County.
On both sides of the road, there were rows of houses, and the golden wheat in the distance made Xun Yu feel a little dazed.
I haven't seen such a scene in many years.
Since the outbreak of the Yellow Turbans, when they traveled out, they saw scenes of people dying of hunger and bones lying in the fields.
They haven't seen anything like this for a long, long time.
It seems that this kind of scene only happens in the prosperous times.
"Lord, are there many villages and towns like this here?"
Xun Yu couldn't help but ask.
"Haha! There are many such village communities. A hundred households are gathered here to form a village community. There are only thousands of such village communities."
"Thousands?"
"Doesn't that mean there are millions of people here?"
Xun Yu was no longer calm. He did not expect that his lord would establish such a large force in this wilderness.
This is comparable to a county.
"It's not just millions. Last year's census showed that our East China Sea Territory already has a population of over 11 million."
Because there is no shortage of food in his East China Sea Territory, the population is increasing rapidly. In addition to natural growth, it is also due to refugees displaced from various places in the war and the absorption of Yellow Turban people.
Especially Guan Hai is still sending people from Qingzhou to him.
"so much?"
Xun You was also shocked when he heard this. The entire thirteen counties in Donghai County combined did not have as large a population as Donghai Territory.
The area of Donghai Territory is only one-third of that of Donghai County. However, the productivity of Su Fan is extremely high, so it can naturally support more people with less land.