Liu Zheng watched his son Liu Jiang not play for long, and the sky was already dark.

The family began to prepare for the meal.

During the meal, Liu Zheng still invited Yuan Rou, who was a little overwhelmed in the courtyard, to the dining table and arranged a place for her.

then introduced them one by one, and at this point, Yuan Rou began to integrate into Liu Zheng's big family.

Although there is not much deep affection between Liu Zheng and Yuan Rou, Yuan Rou, a little girl, is very sensible, after all, she is from a beautiful background, and she has been educated well since she was a child, and she does not annoy several other women, on the contrary, she is very liked by Zhang Duyu.

Liu Zheng saw that everyone was happy, and he knew that he didn't need to worry about these women.

After a meal, everyone began to get acquainted, and Liu Zheng was also in such an atmosphere, holding his two sons to play in the courtyard.

Liu Zheng rested at home for two days, and after a few days of leisure, his Jinyi guard finally sent him the news of the rebellion of the Shanyue people in Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is a vast area and can be said to be the largest place in the geographical scope of the 14 states of the entire Han Dynasty.

Only a few towns near the sea, which were built large enough, were directly controlled by Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses.

There are also places that are in the mountains, the kind of poor mountains, many places where it is difficult to establish towns, and at the same time there are mountains everywhere, as far as the eye can see, and all kinds of strange mountains are precipitous.

Not to mention the many bandits, there are also many local indigenous Shanyue people, these people do not obey the control of the imperial court, and have always refused to accept the king's rent, occupying the mountains and establishing themselves as kings.

Earlier, Liu Zheng really didn't care about them, after all, Liu Zheng wanted to fight abroad, and he couldn't deal with these people empty-handed.

Anyway, he only needs to occupy a few important towns and strongholds, which will not affect his rule over the entire Yangzhou, so he will not be in a hurry to deal with these Shanyue people for the time being.

And these Shanyue people also do not have a town gathering, they are all gathered together in the form of cottages, more than a few thousand, less or even only a few hundred people are distributed in the various counties and counties of Yangzhou, if Liu Zheng wants to completely clean up, it is difficult for them to clean up directly without a few years.

Originally, everyone was fine, and this matter passed like this.

However, because of the outbreak of the plague and the natural disasters caused by it, there was no food in the villages of those Shanyue people.

They began to gather in one place, and then they fought the idea of the town, trying to snatch some food from the town.

In this way, the people under Liu Zheng's command were harassed, which was not what Liu Zheng was willing to see, so in addition to the county soldiers organized by various counties and counties to gradually counterattack, Yuan Zhou under Liu Zheng also sent Wu Anguo, who was stationed here in Wu County, to lead 3,000 men and horses to go to various places to quell the rebellion of those Shanyue people.

Originally, with Wu Anguo's ability, he led another 3,000 soldiers and horses, and it was not difficult to deal with the rebellion of these Shanyue people.

But later it turned out that something was wrong, it turned out that those Shanyue people tried to attack the county, and after suffering defeat, they also became smarter.

The scattered Shanyue people from all over the country would not have gathered together, but because it was difficult for thousands of soldiers and horses to break through the county seat, some of them colluded with the leaders of several tribes. Bringing together people from several tribes, a single soldier with more than 30,000 men was formed.

This army of 30,000 people was enough to pose a sufficient threat to the large and small towns of Yangzhou.

After the 3,000 soldiers and horses led by Wu Anguo fought with the other party for a round, they did not take any advantage, and they were indeed at a disadvantage in numbers, so they could only take defensive measures and did not dare to attack rashly.

After such a long time, Wu Anguo did not achieve any results, so he could only wait for Liu Zheng to send reinforcements.

It's not that Wu Anguo doesn't dare to attack, but once Wu Anguo goes out of the city to attack, he will only be attacked by those Shanyue people, anyway, these Shanyue people, if they don't have enough food, if they delay time, those Shanyue people will naturally retreat.

In fact, Liu Zheng had heard about the Shanyue rebellion for a long time, but he hadn't paid too much attention to it before, after all, the Shanyue people were serious in Liu Zheng, so there was nothing to worry about.

Historically, when Wu controlled Yangzhou, when he relied on the power of a state to fight against Wei, there were many Shanyue people who rebelled at that time, and Wu often sent large armies to suppress these Shanyue people, on the one hand, they could expand their territory and actually control the territory, and on the other hand, they could capture these Shanyue people as their own free labor, and even replenish the army.

Now Liu Zheng needs population, and many Shanyue people are not counted in the population statistics of the imperial court, so after this plague, Liu Zheng also found that perhaps driving all the Shanyue people living in the mountains and forests of Yangzhou to the town is also a good way to increase the population.

Compared with Wu'anguo, the situation is relatively stable, and the situation in Wuling County, Jingzhou on the other side is not very optimistic.

The situation of the Shanyue people is good to say, most of them are bandits gathered in the mountains.

But here in Jingzhou, those people in Wuling County are not all bandits, they are all barbarians, barbarians among the mountain tribes in various places.

What impressed Liu Zheng was that in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang captured seven barbarian kings and captured seven vertically.

There are even famous rattan armor soldiers who are from here.

These people are people with tribal rule and faith, and they can be more active in mobilizing and fighting than the Shanyue people, as well as more soldiers, and it can even be said that all the people are soldiers.

Their dispatch was far from being comparable to some Shanyue people, so Guo Shi, who was in Wuling County, could be wiped out by those barbarians so easily.

It's just that what makes Liu Zheng a little strange is that Guo Shi didn't have a good relationship with those barbarians, how could he end up like this.

Earlier, when Guo Shi rebelled, he was bewitched by those barbarians, and many barbarians were seconded from the barbarians to help.

However, perhaps it is precisely because Guo Shi seconded a lot of barbarian soldiers that the result did not bring visible benefits to those barbarians, and the relationship between those barbarians and Guo Shi underwent some changes, which led to Guo Shi's current result.

Although these barbarians have not yet reached Liu Zheng's territory, they are still ready to move, and Liu Zheng's territory borders those barbarians, Liu Zheng has no time to take care of it for the time being, so he can only let Jiaozhou's Shixie deal with it himself.

Compared with the rebellion between the barbarians in Jingzhou and the Shanyue people here in Yangzhou, what worries Liu Zheng the most is that the imperial court and Yuan Shao's army in the north have also begun to move recently.

It is also a threat, and an even bigger threat, and it is the one that causes Liu Zheng the most headache.