It's just that Xu Shu of course won't negotiate this issue with Liu Ba, and he also realized that the contradiction between Liu Yan and him is now that the private festival between them has nothing to do with official business. It's really not that a family doesn't enter the door, he and she are the same stubborn on this issue, and they can't listen to any objections.

For a long time afterward, in the dead of night, Xu Shu would always stare at the night sky in a daze, thinking about Liu Yan's appearance staring at him with red eyes. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, he blindly demanded that Liu Yan listen to him, but he could not set a good example, how could she listen? Perhaps, it was her attitude towards marriage that affected her.

Xu Shu's entanglement Liu Yan didn't know at all, and this time she was not ready to apologize to the teacher for this issue. Therefore, the cold war between the two has been going on like this.

Fortunately, except for this incident, which annoyed the two of them, other things have entered the track of normal development. For example, after the good-neighborly and friendly agreement between Jingzhou and Jiaozhou came into effect, a working group organized by Chen Zhen was stationed on the coast of the South China Sea, asking the local Yi people about the skills of living at sea and the skills of building sea ships. Three months later, the first expedition team officially set out to sea, and they also brought several Yi guides.

Immediately afterwards, the sea ships improved and manufactured by Jingzhou were borrowed to Jiaozhou one after another to go to sea, targeting Gongsun Kang in Liaodong. After Gan Ning learned of the situation, he dispatched an elite naval army, led by his confidant lieutenant general, who was responsible for seizing a large amount of materials used in transactions with Gongsun Kang. A succession of fleets avoided Jiangdong's eyes and marched mightily towards Liaodong, and Jingzhou officials had strong expectations for them. It is hoped that they will be able to bring new financial routes to Jingzhou.

On the other hand, Jingzhou's own financial situation has gradually entered a virtuous circle under the full operation of Mi Zhu. The main reason is that the whole territory of Jingzhou has been peaceful for a long time, and the general environment is conducive to the prosperity and development of commerce, coupled with the government's vigorous support for business, providing many tax incentives. As a result, businessmen from the south to the north were willing to do business in Jingzhou, and Xiangyang easily consolidated and developed its position as the world's financial center.

Gradually, the wealth of the world is in Jingzhou. The saying that Jingzhou is rich and rich in Xiangyang has spread.

This is what Liu Yan did differently from other superiors in the same period. No matter what kind of external environment you are facing. She thinks about it the most. In other words, her first consideration is always the well-being of the people under her rule. She always thinks that no matter what, she must first let the people live a good life, let them have money in their pockets, and let them live comfortably. Then then her officials, and finally herself.

So even at the height of the war. She will only ask herself and her officials to cut back and eat chaff. And will not draw blood from the people. Add war taxes, smoke strong men or something, she can't do it.

And because of this. Princess Yiyang and her leadership team have a high level of popularity and unmatched prestige in Jingzhou. Everywhere Liu Yan and her officials went, they were greeted by the people.

Liu Yan has done a lot of practical things in just one year of governing Jingzhou, building bridges, paving roads, and controlling water, needless to say, it is originally linked to the achievements of local officials. Others include improving agricultural tools, vigorously supporting the development of animal husbandry, encouraging and rewarding land reclamation, promoting the necessity of family prescriptions for common diseases, promoting county schools, and providing a certain amount of subsidies for the children of the Shu nationality to attend school.

The implementation of all these livelihood measures has benefited the people, and Liu Yan's support rate has been maintained at the highest level. In addition, in terms of army construction, Xu Shu and Pang Tong also have their own achievements.

The Broken Army completed the expansion of the army, expanding its number to 8,000 men. The captains, Simas, Shi Chang, and Wu Commanders under the other generals are also fully equipped. Except for Zhao Yun's cavalry battalion, which is still in the initial stage, the other people's respective units have completed the skeleton construction and entered the stage of growth and maturity.

In addition, the construction of Nanyang County modeled on the northern tuntian system has also been preliminarily completed, Wuling County's military city model has been lifted, Huo Jun was transferred from Jiangling to Wuling, and together with Wei Yan, an impregnable defense system has been formed, and Nanyang has officially entered the "Jiancheng" mode.

In this way, unlike the northern and Jiangdong counties, which actively adopted militarized management and militarized development, Jingzhou except for the two counties of Jianchang and Nanyang, which were governed by the Tuntian model headed by the Duwei and supplemented by the county Cheng, all other places in Jingzhou have resumed their daily settings and entered the stage of comprehensive recuperation.

But even so, neither the Jiangdong Sun clan nor the northern Cao Cao clan were at this stage in the Yuelei Pond. Xu Du and Luoyang, Chang'an have always maintained restraint, not to mention Jiangdong, Cheng Pu is dead, Zhou Yu is down, and Lu Xun, who is left on the stage, is fully guarded because of Sun Shao. Others such as Lu Meng, Zhuge Jin, Ling Tong and the like are too young to hold up the scene, and there are no more soldiers with millions of soldiers in Jiangdong, but there is no longer a governor who can take the lead to lead the Jiangdong military and people to take the road of militarism.

Cao Cao in the north never thought that this Northern Expedition would hit Jiangdong so hard that he would directly beat Sun Quan to death. He was now worried every minute that Sun Shao was holding the banner of Jingzhou and under the escort of Liu Yan, the army would overthrow his rule and oust him from power. What's more, Gan Ning still asks the navy to go out to practice or something from time to time, so that the Jiangdong navy has always been in a state of strategic vigilance. Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, the two generals who were scared of Gan Ning, could only cower in the water village and watch Gan Ning show off his might.

In fact, the Jingzhou Navy did gain a great boost after Liu Yan unified Jingzhou. First of all, the number of personnel and ships of the navy has been greatly supplemented and increased, coupled with the transformation and upgrading of the warship by the R&D team headed by Huang Yueying, and the site conditions of the Yangtze River waters are better than those of the inner lake, so that the navy has been significantly improved in both software and hardware.

Moreover, it is very difficult for the Jiangdong Navy to reach its peak strength and to advance again, but there is still a lot of room for progress in the Jingzhou Navy Army, coupled with Gan Ning's good governance of the army, so that the Jingzhou Navy has the capital to threaten the status of the big brother of the Jiangdong Navy Army. This is also one of the reasons why Sun Quan did not dare to talk nonsense.

Relative to Koto's old self-contained, downhill state. Cao Cao in the north was more proactive than Sun Quan. After the defeat of Chibi, Cao Cao was not discouraged at all, nor did he take the complaints of the northern nobles to heart. After a short period of pacification and recuperation, he pulled the army out to fight with others, and this time the object of the fight was a thorn in his heart, Ma Teng and Han Sui in the northwest.

Previously, the northwest had always been under the control of these two, and Xu Du had always been at odds with each other, but he didn't make any trouble that Cao Cao had to send troops to clean up. But this time, Cao Cao's Chibi army was defeated and fled back to the north, and the north temporarily entered a period of weakness, and the two of them felt that the opportunity had come, since the Sun-Liu coalition army could bully Cao Cao, then the Malaysia-Korea coalition army should also be able to!

At that time, Liu Bei was still a weak chicken in the Sun-Liu coalition army, and he had nothing! But now Ma Teng and Han Sui are united, and it can be regarded as one and the same in the northwest, and the Xiliang cavalry is famous, and among Cao Cao's dragons, tigers, leopards, and three horsemen, the strongest dragon rode down the Yangtze River and was pinched by someone, and Cao Ren, who was once invincible, was chased by others. The remaining tiger riders and leopard riders are generally lethal, and when will the Xiliang Iron Rider show its might if it doesn't show its might at this time?

Besides, Liu Yan is just a girl, and Cao Cao can force Cao Cao to agree to make her a princess before she grows up, and Jingzhou Mu dominates the southeast as a girl, why do they want to live secretly under Cao Cao's obscenity? Take advantage of your illness to kill you! If you don't rebel at this time, when will you wait?

Therefore, Ma Teng and Han Sui, led by Ma Teng, the general Fubo, united to attack Cao Cao. Cao Cao, in line with the tenet that the tiger does not exert its power You think I am sick to death, deliberately let Cao Ren, who had failed once, regain his self-confidence, and let him take Cao Zhang, the dragon, the tiger, and the leopard out together, and fight with Ma Teng and Han Sui. While cheapening Liu Yan, it also cheapened Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu in Shu.

Liu Zhang and the others pinched even more than Cao Cao and Ma Han, which was a blood feud between killing their father and mother and killing their own brothers. Liu Zhang's army is weak, he can't beat Zhang Lu, but he is unwilling to admit defeat, and Zhang Lu can't help Liu Zhang, who has a geographical advantage, the battle between the two gradually evolved into a tug-of-war. There is no end to the cycle, stirring up the great rivers and mountains in Shuzhong, and the people are complaining.

Even the officials under Liu and Zhang felt that it was not a matter for them to go on like this, and that they would not be able to carry out economic construction without playing a fight? Originally, Shuzhong would be closed, and if the war and chaos continued, it would not take two or three years of hard work to turn the country of abundance into a barren land, and the people hoped for peace, and the officials hoped for a stable and comfortable working environment. Therefore. Whether it is Zhang Lu's subordinates or Liu Zhang's subordinates, there are voices of the Lord and the Lord of reform. Zhang Lu's voice is relatively weak, after all, he promotes Taoism and has religious beliefs to rely on, and there are relatively few different opinions among the people. Liu Zhang's side is not right, the people are panicked, and the officials are also panicked.

Liu Zhang himself didn't notice it at all, until more than a year later, Liu Yan possessed Jingzhou, Feng Jingzhou Mu, and the news of Princess Yiyang came to Shudi, and everyone in Shu despised Liu Zhang, not even a little girl, the little girl still has such a strong enterprising spirit, and knows the truth of the torrent, but you will only live by guarding the ancestral one-acre and three-point land, and there is no trace of the essence of the hero, it is not as good as a girl in Shuzhong, and you have been in control of Shuzhong, and this foundation will fall into the hands of those sooner or later. (To be continued.) )