Liu Zheng waited in Shaoyang City for two months, and thought that after the matter of Jizhou was settled, the people of the imperial court would definitely take him under the knife.

But in two months, he did not wait for the army of the imperial court, but Xu Yu waited.

After Xu You left Jizhou, he had no other purpose, but went all the way south and came directly to Jiaozhou.

Xu You had already heard about Liu Zheng's deeds when he was in Jizhou, and he already knew that Liu Zheng was prosperous in Jiaozhou.

Leaving from Jizhou, he had nowhere to go, so he had to go to Liu Zheng, after all, he and Liu Zheng had a friendship for a period of time, and Liu Zheng would definitely take him in.

Xu You's arrival really surprised Liu Zheng, he thought that Xu You would be suppressed by the imperial court along with the rebellion in Jizhou, but he didn't expect Xu You to come to Jiaozhou to find him.

For Xu You, Liu Zheng was naturally very happy and hurriedly received Xu You.

Although Xu You was in a bit of a hurry when he left, Liu Zheng did not blame Xu You for what he did that day, but chose to forget and reactivate Xu You.

After all, Liu Zheng at this time still lacked some powerful strategists to give advice for himself, although Yuan Zhou was half lucky, but as long as he did it himself, Yuan Zhou was already a little powerless, and he needed some helpers.

And the appearance of Xu Yu can naturally fill some gaps. It just so happens that Liu Zheng also needs more manpower here.

And Liu Zheng also found out more about the imperial court in Xu You's body.

From Xu You's mouth, Liu Zheng knew that he had returned the Han Shao Emperor Liu Wei to He Jin, and also knew about the abolition of the Han Emperor in Luoyang.

Through these things, Liu Zheng roughly guessed why this guy He Jin didn't use troops against him at this time.

First, the imperial court had just quelled the war in Jizhou and Runan, and at the same time relieved the military power of the Zhonglang general Huangfu Song, which was when the imperial court was empty.

He Jin not only had to send heavy troops to guard the imperial court and guard the safety of Luoyang, but also to guard against the turmoil of those who had different intentions, so this was really not the time to use troops against Liu Zheng.

After Liu Zheng learned these news, he was also temporarily relieved of his own safety, and now the imperial court is an eventful time, and in a short period of time, I am afraid that He Jin will not send people to attack Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng is not so worried, now he can develop agriculture and resume production in Jiaozhou, and cultivate Jiaozhou into a powerful state and county.

It's the end of November, and it's snowing heavily in the north, but the Jiaozhou area is still as warm as spring.

Crops can be grown in three seasons a year, or even fruit specialties all year round.

In particular, it is even warmer to continue south and reach the area of Ninan-gun.

In the next two months, Liu Zheng knew that the imperial court would not send soldiers and horses to attack for the time being, so he only sent two battalions of soldiers and horses from Gan Ning and Zhou Cang to be stationed in Shaoyang City, and at the same time let Xu Huang and Huang Zhong's two battalions of soldiers and horses disperse.

The reason why these two battalions of soldiers and horses were scattered was because Liu Zheng had recruited 50,000 or 60,000 county soldiers in this Jiaozhou area in order to prevent the attack of the imperial court, and now that three months have passed, the preliminary training of these counties has also ended.

It is Liu Zheng who needs to select those who meet the requirements and expand them into the front-line troops.

Under Liu Zheng, the soldiers and horses of the two most elite battalions were the men under Xu Huang and Huang Zhong, and the soldiers and horses of these two battalions each had 10,000 people before.

However, after repeated battles, only half of the veterans still remain.

In order to implement the strategy of elite soldiers, Liu Zheng wanted to replenish the soldiers and horses, so naturally he had to let these horses be selected from the county soldiers.

So let Xu Huang and Huang Zhong's people act as team leaders and go to various counties to select their own team members.

In addition, the one-year school study is also coming to an end at this time, and those students who graduated from the school will also be promoted by Liu Zheng at this time and enter various camps.

The most important thing for Liu Zheng is the Wen Ping in the first batch of students, his academic performance is the best among these students, plus this guy himself has some martial arts beside him, after a year of study, following Xu Huang and Huang Zhong and others, this year, there has been a qualitative leap in strength, although he is not very old, but he has been able to go through twenty or thirty moves under Xu Huang without defeat.

Huang Zhong and Xu Huang and others were highly valued, and Liu Zheng directly arranged the first batch of students to serve as squad leaders in the camps of Xu Huang and Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Zhou Cang and others.

At the same time, at the beginning of the year, the second phase of student recruitment will be held in Jiaozhou.

Xu Huang and Huang Zhong are in charge of this matter.

And the agricultural affairs were handed over to Shixie, the original local figures of Jiaozhou.

Let Gan Ning, Zhou Cang, Su Fei and others be in charge of the defense affairs in the north, and Liu Zheng is most concerned about business matters now.

After all, Liu Zheng knows very well that if he wants to get rich, he can't just farm land, he still has to do business, and only trade can make him rich in a short time.

And in the current trade, in fact, Liu Zheng does not have many choices, because he has no communication with the imperial court, and it is unlikely that he will directly trade with the people of the imperial court.

At most, it is to let the people of the Mi family come forward, but at this time, it is impossible for the Mi family to directly send a caravan to Jiaozhou, in that case, it will only expose the relationship between Liu Zheng and the Mi family, and it is only a matter of time before the Mi family is cleaned up by the imperial court.

Therefore, if Liu Zheng wanted to do business, he had to form a caravan by himself and go to a farther place.

For example, through the coast, directly use the fleet to go to Youzhou. This kind of trade is not only profitable, but also able to bring back some of the things that Liu Zheng needs from Youzhou.

For example, strategic materiel horses.

In other places, Liu Zheng couldn't get enough war horses at all, so he had to go to Youzhou through coastal channels and buy war horses from the Karasuma people and even the Xianbei people.

After thinking of these things, he began to contact the Mi family's fleet, planning to borrow some people from the Mi family to use Xuzhou as a transit point to establish a trade route from Hepu to Xuzhou and then to Youzhou.

If it is a long distance from Youzhou to Hepu, it may not be feasible, but it is completely feasible to have a Mi family in Xuzhou, a transit station, but it is necessary to be secretive and not to let others find out.

Just when Liu Zheng decided to think about the formation of a caravan, Shi Xie came over in a hurry.