Winter 187.

After the tedious affairs in Yangzhou were dealt with, Liu Zheng finally began to set up the sixth battalion of soldiers and horses.

In fact, Liu Zheng wants to form soldiers and horses, and now it is not as difficult as a few years ago, after he conquered Danyang County, he can directly recruit soldiers and horses from Danyang.

In order to maintain his rule, Liu Zheng decided to relocate the administrative offices of Jiaozhou and Yangzhou to Wu County.

Therefore, the formation of the sixth battalion of soldiers and horses will be completed in Wu County, and Huang Zhong's people will be responsible for recruiting and recruiting 5,000 people in Danyang County, and then select 5,000 people from the original local reserve army in Jiaozhou, and arrive in Wu County together to form the troops of the sixth battalion.

The position of battalion commander of the sixth battalion was held by Tai Shici, and at the same time, in the military academy in Jiaozhou, the two students with the best grades who graduated that year were selected, and one was sent to Huang Zhong to take over the post of deputy battalion commander of Tai Shici.

The other came to the 6th Battalion and served as the deputy battalion commander.

The soldiers and horses of the sixth battalion had just arrived in Wu County, and they were ready, and it was time for the year to pass again.

This year, Liu Zheng did not return to Jiaozhou, but spent time in Wu County. After all, now that the territory is bigger, there are more places to defend, and there are some things that you can't do as you like.

Once he left, the crisis on Yangzhou's side was still very serious, two months ago, Huainan Zhang Chao finally couldn't resist the combined forces of Cao Cao and Liu Bei, was defeated and killed, and Huainan officially fell into the hands of Cao Cao.

On the Xuzhou side, because of the rebellion of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, the previous assassination history of Xuzhou was powerless to resist, so it was quickly replaced by the imperial court and Tao Qian was appointed as the assassin of Xuzhou.

Tao Qian, Liu Zheng at most knows that he let Xuzhou to Liu Bei three times in history, in fact, Tao Qian is still very powerful, when he was a teenager, he was famous for his dissolute personality in the county, and at the age of fourteen, he used cloth as a battle flag, riding a bamboo horse and playing with the children in the township.

His fellow townsman, Gan Gong, who had been the Taishou of Cangwu, met Tao Qian when he went out, and when he saw Tao Qian's extraordinary appearance, he called a car to talk to him, and was very happy to marry his daughter to Tao Qian. Gan's wife was very angry about this, but Gan Gong said to his wife: "This child has a strange appearance, and he will become a great man when he grows up." ”

Tao Qian later liked to study, first was admitted to the students, served as an official in the state and county, and then was promoted to Maocai, worshiped Shang Shulang, and successively served as the commander of Shu County and the commander of Lu County. Later, he moved to Youzhou and was worshiped as a speaker.

The most important thing is that when Beigong Boyu invaded, Tao Qian had followed Lu Zhi and had been crusading against those Qiang people in Xiliang, and he had experience in marching and fighting, so when the Yellow Turban Army was in rebellion this time, Lu Zhi recommended Tao Qian to serve as the assassin of Xuzhou, and wanted to use Tao Qian to contain the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou.

With Tao Qian guarding Xuzhou, Xuzhou's military strength is also much stronger than before, so Liu Zheng's thoughts about Xuzhou have been temporarily shelved.

Coupled with Liu Guanzhang and Cao Cao's deployment of troops and horses in Yanzhou, the pressure on Liu Zheng became more and more great, although the imperial court was already sunset, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and it was impossible to defeat the Han Dynasty so easily, relying on Liu Zheng's strength alone.

Therefore, in addition to accelerating the increase of his strength on the one hand, Liu Zheng also had to think about how to create some turmoil in the Han court.

For example, the Yellow Turban Army in Qingzhou, Liu Zheng could not watch them be wiped out, and Yuan Shao in Youzhou, if he had been suppressed by Lu Zhi, maybe Liu Zheng would need to support them.

Only with their existence, Liu Zheng can develop with peace of mind, otherwise once Yuan Shao and the Yellow Turban Army are eliminated, then Liu Zheng will face the full attack of the imperial court, and at that time, Liu Zheng will be difficult to deal with.

Now is not the time for him to directly turn his face with the imperial court, after all, his strength is not enough to directly confront the entire Han Dynasty, he still needs to accumulate some strength, and when he has enough strength.

He is no longer afraid of the attack of the Han Dynasty, then he can feel at ease.

Early 188.

Different from previous years, this time the New Year, added a bit of chill, Wu County has snow in winter, although this layer of snow is not as thick as the north, but it can also make the earth refreshed, into a snow-white color.

Because of the tight war, there was a war all year last year, the harvest in Yangzhou was not good, some of the people couldn't even survive in winter, Liu Zheng didn't have the heart to celebrate the New Year by himself, most of the time, he was directing the construction of houses for these people, and at the same time taking in the displaced people, so that those who fled from other places had a home in Yangzhou.

Of course, Liu Zheng did not forget about Jiaozhou, the winter in Yangzhou was cold, and many times, Liu Zheng transported the homeless ships here to Jiaozhou.

In this way, it not only replenishes the population of Jiaozhou, but also allows the displaced people to have a warm enough place to spend the winter, and now the vigorous development of Jiaozhou, it is the time when there is a shortage of population, and many people in Huiji County have been migrated to Jiaozhou by Liu Zheng.

When everything was dealt with, Liu Zheng sat in his room and drank wine.

The cold wine was warm and lukewarm, but it would soon cool down.

When he is free, Liu Zheng occasionally thinks of Cai Yao.

He still doesn't know where Cai Yao went.

Sometimes he wonders why Cai Yao is hiding from him, he still has a lot of words, and he wants to ask Cai Yao, but he can't talk about it.

It was only in the dead of night that Liu Zheng could think of Cai Yao, a somewhat strong girl.

Just as Liu Zheng was drinking stuffy wine, Wen Ping came over from outside.

"Lord, there is a man who claims to be Cai Mao's servant and says he wants to see you."

Wen Ping's words came to the door to report, which made Liu Zheng frown and put down the wine glass in his hand.

"What do you say?"

"Cai Mao's domestic servant?"

Liu Zheng was thinking about Cai Yao in his heart, why did Cai Mao come over at this time.

Although I don't know what this guy is doing here, after all, he is Cai Mao's person, and Liu Zheng still wants to meet him.

"Let him in."

Liu Zheng was silent for a while, but still asked Wen Ping to call him in.

Not long after, a young man walked in from outside, who didn't look very old, but he was powerful and burly, and he looked like a soldier.

"You're Cai Mao's servant?"

"Well, my lord, we have seen it before, when the young lady escorted the money to Runan, I was in the crowd."

As soon as this person saw Liu Zheng and confirmed Liu Zheng's identity, he immediately said something.

Liu Zheng didn't have much impression of this person, because there were hundreds of people who followed Cai Yao to Runan at that time, and even if Liu Zheng saw it, he couldn't remember these people who didn't have any names.