"Mr. Yuan Zhou, don't worry, Yuan Shao's house, it won't take long to toss, uniting with aliens is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, it seems to be advantageous now, but in fact it is very disadvantageous, or in a few years, after those Karasuma people began to occupy Youzhou, they absorbed the population of Youzhou, changed from nomadism to settlement, and when the population increases, the ambition will be revealed."

"And Yuan Shao, this time's move is bound to lose people's hearts, and in the end he is cornered, and there is only a dead end."

Liu Zheng is not optimistic about Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao, this guy, in fact, also has a little ability, he is not the eldest son of the Yuan family, but a concubine, if you count it, Yuan Shu is the eldest son of the Yuan family.

But Yuan Shao relied on his sociable expertise, became famous at a young age, and was appreciated by the general Dou Wu at that time, and later was favored by the general He Jin, and was quite famous in Luoyang.

can rely on the big tree of the Yuan family to develop into today's princes, Yuan Shao said that he has no ability at all, it is impossible, but this guy, the fault is wrong, he does not support the Han family, but wants to collude with outsiders.

At this point, the name of the fourth world and the third prince can be regarded as completely unusable.

Liu Zheng's side, not long after he finished talking to Yuan Zhou about the affairs of Youzhou in the north, sure enough, a spy sent the news back to Jiaozhou, saying that Yuan Shao completely angered He Miao after supporting Liu Yu as the emperor in Youzhou.

Originally, Yuan Shao and others attacked Luoyang, and they also used the name of Kuangfu Han and Qing Jun's side, which also had a legitimate reason, but after Yuan Shao did such a rebellious thing, he completely tore his face with the imperial court.

The clansmen of the Yuan clan in Luoyang were all arrested by He Miao and directly beheaded for public display.

This led to the fact that Yuan Kui, who was a prince in the imperial court, and Yuan Kui's family members were all killed, and after the news reached Youzhou, the angry Yuan Shao was furious, but there was nothing he could do, he could only hate his teeth.

And when this news reached Liu Zheng's side, Liu Zheng didn't have much repercussions, after all, he was not very interested in the matter of Yuan Kui and Yuan Shao's family, in history, when Yuan Shao raised troops and formed the Eighteenth Route Alliance, Yuan Kui was also beheaded by Dong Zhuo.

Now that Yuan Shao is against the imperial court, his uncle Yuan Kui naturally can't escape the fate of being killed.

But Yuan Zhou, who was beside Liu Zheng, had a mixed expression on his face.

Liu Zheng saw a mixed look on Yuan Zhou's face, and the good thing was that those descendants of the Yuan family also had today.

The sad thing is that he Yuan Zhou is also a member of the Yuan family after all, although it is only a side branch, but the decline of the Yuan family is also unwilling for him to see.

Fortunately, Yuan Zhou never wanted to get anything from the Yuan family, and now that he sees the decline of the Yuan family, he may be more happy in his heart, after all, he can single-handedly restore the Yuan family to its former glory.

He also believes that as long as he follows Liu Zheng and is absolutely loyal to Liu Zheng, he will definitely be able to use Liu Zheng's hand in the future to make the Yuan family of the fourth and third princes more powerful.

After returning to Jiaozhou, Liu Zheng did not continue to be busy with other things, because it was the New Year again.

There is no snow in Jiaozhou, so much so that sometimes, Liu Zheng forgets that the Chinese New Year is approaching.

This is his third year in the Three Kingdoms world at the end of the Han Dynasty.

This year, compared with the previous year, although his territory has increased again, from the original Jiaozhou, to Zhuya Prefecture and most of Yangzhou's Huiji County.

Although he only has such a small amount of territory, the territory he can control has actually increased by one-third, after all, most of the Huiji counties are already worth the two counties in Jiaozhou.

At the same time, the hundreds of thousands of horses he migrated from all over Yangzhou, Huiji County, so that there were many more people in Jiaozhou that he could control.

Especially this year, the wind and rain in Jiaozhou have been smooth, so that the birth rate of the people in Jiaozhou has been greatly improved, and the people do not have to worry about food and clothing, and they will naturally think about some things when they are full.

These changes only occurred in the year when Liu Zheng took control of Jiaozhou, which originally belonged to a place where many ethnic minorities lived together, but since the arrival of Liu Zheng, those ethnic minorities have been integrated, although some people still do not come out to live with the Han people, but many ethnic minorities close to the Han people have begun to try to sinicize.

Liu Zheng vigorously promoted the academy, wanting more people to read and write, and graded the academy to try to carry out the imperial examination.

When I first started doing these things, although I encountered a lot of resistance, because Liu Zheng's literary manpower was really too small.

Not only did he think of the famous strategists and Wenchen, Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Gu Yong and others from the Three Kingdoms period that he had seen in Moling County a year ago.

These people, if they can be used by him, what Liu Zheng wants to do may be much simpler, but unfortunately some things are not so easy to satisfy.

At the end of the year, Liu Zheng once again slaughtered pigs and sheep as in previous years, rewarded the three armies, and allowed non-duty soldiers to drink.

At the same time, a red envelope was sent to each soldier as a condolence.

It took several days to go back and forth with the soldiers in several barracks, drinking and talking to raise morale.

Today, there are five standing battalions under his command.

Xu Huang's battalion. Basically, it is used as a garrison for the capital city of Hepu, basically not out of Hepu City, and is responsible for all the wars in the entire Jiaozhou.

Huang Zhong's second battalion, sitting in Cangwu, was convenient for guarding against the enemy who might come from Yangzhou, and at the same time, it was convenient for Ganning's third battalion to gallop to aid in the event of a battle.

Gan Ning's third battalion, since he defeated Sun Jian in Guiyang, has been guarding Guiyang and guarding against Cai Mao in Jingzhou, although Cai Mao is very honest and will hardly come to harass, but the necessary defense is still needed.

The four battalions of Zhoucang were arranged by Liu Zheng in Yulin County, because there were too many ethnic minorities in Yulin, and from time to time there were barbarians from the direction of Yizhou.

The last five battalions have been hired as commanders, and they suffered heavy losses in the first battle of Yangzhou, so they were reorganized not long ago, and they have been in a state of training.

Also in training, there is also a newly replenished naval army, temporarily commanded by Jiang Qin.

In addition, Liu Zheng also transferred 5,000 soldiers and horses from all over the country and allocated them to Sun Jian, so that Sun Jian could lead 5,000 people to guard Linyi County.

This is now the standing army under Liu Zheng, and as for the reserve army, in the entire Jiaozhou, there are tens of thousands of people, distributed in the elder brother counties.