When Liu Zheng was fighting with Fan Man in Linyi County, he captured more than 2,000 war elephants from Fan Man's hands, and at the same time, this time he captured a batch of war elephants trained by the Funan Kingdom in Gutro City.

Added up, Liu Zheng's men already have more than 5,000 war elephants, elephants are not like war horses, the more the better, war elephants can only be used as a miracle soldier, 5,000 horses are enough to be a sensation, so with these war elephants as a background, Liu Zheng can also train a powerful army of war elephants.

And the commander of this war elephant army, Liu Zheng temporarily let A Guduo serve as a player, because A Guduo is a guy who trains war elephants.

After getting Funan, Liu Zheng planned to return to Yangzhou in April 190.

Although he decided to return to Yangzhou, Liu Zheng still had a lot to do, because the prisoners of the previous mixed dynasty were still here.

It was impossible for those captives Liu Zheng to directly release them back to various places to cultivate the fields, because they had always been soldiers, and once they were recruited by the rebels in Funan, they would always bring trouble to Liu Zheng.

So after thinking about it again, Liu Zheng decided to bring all these captives back to Dahan.

Anyway, now the Han also lacks some slaves to help with the work.

With these people who came over from Funan, they could also solve some of the pressure, and at the same time, Liu Zheng needed to take away the 30,000 horses under Chaopanhao.

The presence of the men and horses of the mixed dynasty in Funan was also a threat, and Liu Zheng could only bring them back to the Central Plains, and then break them up, and carefully select some people who met the needs of Liu Zheng's army, and then install them in the various armies under Liu Zheng.

Therefore, in this case, Liu Zheng will not be able to return directly by boat.

Instead, it was necessary to take a little land from Linyi County, and then go to Jiaozhou, and return to the Yangzhou area.

This is a bit of a long journey, after all, the mountain roads are difficult to navigate, and there is no suitable road for horses to gallop.

This time he returned, and in Liu Zheng's heart, he secretly made up his mind that he must let people repair the road to Dahan at the closest distance from Funan to Dahan, so that his soldiers and horses could arrive in a short time.

Otherwise, it is still the current situation of high mountains and long roads, and once there is any turmoil in Funan, it will be difficult to spread the news to Liu Zheng's Yangzhou.

Although there is also a waterway route, but after all, you can't rely on this shipping route alone, in case of blocked water transportation news, then Liu Zheng has no source of information about Funan.

It took half a month, escorting a group of prisoners and some soldiers and horses of the mixed dynasty, and Liu Zheng's army returned to the border of Jiaozhou.

After arriving at the boundary of Jiaozhou, these captives were temporarily handed over by Liu Zheng to Shixie in Jiaozhou to manage, and assigned to various parts of Jiaozhou for construction work.

Liu Zheng asked all the royal children of the mixed dynasty to come to Wu County, after all, if these people were in other places, not under Liu Zheng's nose, Liu Zheng was really a little worried, Liu Zheng asked them to come to Wu County, but also wanted them to be a happy duke.

I won't think about going back to do some stupid things about recovering the country in the future.

By the time Liu Zheng returned to Wu County, it was already May, and half a year had passed since he left here and went to Linyi County to deal with the rebellion of Linyi State.

A lot has happened in the past six months.

Some news has been known by Liu Zheng through the sea route before, such as last winter, because of the plague last year, everyone was short of food.

Especially Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and others were extremely short of food, and they had no choice but to ask Liu Zheng for help and wanted to buy food from Liu Zheng.

At that time, Liu Zheng was no longer in Wu County, and Liu Zheng had already arranged for Yuan Zhou to do these things, prepared some grain in advance, and sold them to Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and others.

Of course, in terms of price, it naturally rose several times, and he had long expected that there would be a shortage of grain, so he prepared some grain and grass in advance.

These grains and grasses are all in the areas under Liu Zheng's hands, and they are prepared to be deliberately sold to Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, not afraid that they don't want them, they have no place to ask for food, only to ask Liu Zheng for it.

And Liu Zheng's price increase, they can only accept it, after all, the plague is rampant, everyone is short of food, even Liu Zheng is also short of food, at this time, they can still sell food to them, they will only be grateful to Liu Zheng, and where will they blame Liu Zheng's grain for being more expensive.

Of course, Liu Zheng once again let people publicize under Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, which was the food that Liu Zheng sent to relieve them.

Earned enough money, and by the way, earned fame.

Now for a while, Liu Zheng has a great reputation in Yanzhou and Jizhou, and no one will remember that Liu Zheng is just a person born as a yellow turban thief, but they are all saying that Liu Zheng saved their lives.

Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and others, it was precisely because of Liu Zheng who sold them grain that they were able to stabilize the morale of the army and did not let the people below rebel because of this matter.

In addition to this, when Liu Zheng returned to Wu County, Yuan Zhou immediately came to report to Liu Zheng about the major events during this time.

"Lord, you are back, I have been busy in the days when you are away, and there are many things that I can't discuss with you."

"Mr. Yuan Zhou, don't worry, say it slowly, something happened during my absence."

"There are too many things, so I'll pick the important ones first."

"Hmm. Don't rush, speak slowly. ”

Liu Zheng looked at Yuan Zhou, and Yuan Zhou was not ambiguous, and began to talk about the recent important things one after another.

"In January, a group of barbarians appeared in Lingling County, Jiaozhou, fought with Guo Shi, actually killed Guo Shi, occupied Wuling County, and approached my Jiaozhou area, because at this time our army was at war with the imperial court, and soldiers and horses were stationed at the border. So for the time being, this matter is just for Jiaozhou to deal with by themselves. ”

"In February, the plague completely subsided, but Liu Bei and others came to us to ask for food, and I sold some food to them."

"Also, Yuan Shu, who was defeated by Ding Yuan, a family old and young, fled from Runan to our Wu County, because the lord is not there, I can only let them live in Wu County first, and wait for the lord to come back to meet him."

"By the way, when the lord left, he ordered soldiers and horses from all over the country to expand their recruitment, and now, the three battalions of Gan Ning, Huang Zhong, and Xu Huang have completed the expansion, all of which have 20,000 soldiers and horses, and Wen Ping and Tai Shici's men and horses are still being selected."

"In April, a group of Shanyue people in Yangzhou made a rebellion, and I ordered General Wu Anguo to lead 3,000 people to quell the rebellion, and now the war situation is not very optimistic."

Yuan Zhou told Liu Zheng everything he wanted to say in one breath, Liu Zheng listened to Yuan Zhou's words with a calm face, but he didn't take it too seriously, anyway, these things, even if he was worried, had already happened, since he was back, he just thought about solving it slowly.