The soldiers and horses brought by Zhang Ying were the elite of Liu Xuan.

He has already experienced a lot of battles in Yangzhou, and he can be regarded as a veteran of a hundred battles, which Liu Zheng has seen from the battle with Liu Zheng.

In addition, this time, Zhu Fu went to Yangzhou for help, Liu Miao could not take some recruits over for the sake of merit, and he had to face an opponent like Liu Zheng, if the strength of the soldiers and horses was too poor, most of them were not opponents, so as not to lose face.

So no matter what Liu Miao said, the ones he sent out were the elite of the elite.

Therefore, Liu Zheng took a fancy to these soldiers and horses, which were much more powerful than the people under Zhu Fu in Jiaozhou, and if they could be successfully subdued, they would definitely be able to increase the strength of the soldiers and horses under his command.

Although Liu Zheng also recruited a lot of men and horses in Jiaozhou during this time, he also recruited many soldiers and horses who belonged to Zhu Fu before.

But the difference between the strength of those soldiers and horses and Zhang Ying's men and horses is not half a star.

And Liu Zheng will next launch an occupation plan for the entire Jiaozhou, occupying one or two prefectures and counties, it is good to say that the soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng's command are still enough, but to occupy the seven prefectures and counties of the entire Jiaozhou together, the number of soldiers and horses needed is not small.

Even if only 5,000 soldiers and horses are placed in a state and county, at least 35,000 troops need to be stationed in various parts of Jiaozhou.

And Liu Zheng himself only brought 20,000 people from Mingyue Cottage, although some were recruited one after another, it was still far from enough. Therefore, the more soldiers and horses he needs, the better, especially this kind of elite troops, the more the merrier.

Even if Chen Heng didn't sincerely want to join Liu Zheng's command, Liu Zheng only wanted to use the soldiers and horses under his command, and only needed to disrupt and disperse those people into the various battalions under Liu Zheng's command, even if Chen Heng was unwilling to join his command at that time, he would not be able to continue to command these troops.

Liu Zhengke was not worried at all, Chen Heng would rebel against him.

With Chen Heng's joining, it became natural for those soldiers and horses under his command to join the army.

Liu Zheng only stayed in Yulin County for two days, and scattered the thousands of soldiers and horses from Chen Heng's command into the three troops and horses of Xu Huang, Zhou Cang, and Gan Ning.

Then only the Zhou Dynasty was left behind, leading 5,000 men and horses to garrison Yulin City, temporarily responsible for governing the entire Yulin County.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Zheng took all the remaining soldiers and horses directly to Hepu City.

Jiaozhi County was originally the seat of Jiaozhou Prefecture, but Liu Zheng felt that if he really wanted Jiaozhou as his base and developed northward, he had to move the seat to Hepu County.

And he himself can also understand that the geographical location advantage brought by Hepu County is prominent enough, that you can go north to Jingzhou through Cangwu County, and you can directly take the coastline to Yangzhou by waterway.

Of course, the top priority at the moment is not to march outward, but to occupy the other counties of Jiaozhou first, so as to recruit troops on the basis of these counties and strengthen their own strength.

Now Liu Zheng actually rules only the land of the three counties.

Except for Hepu County and Cangwu County, which were completely under his control, Yulin County could only be regarded as half controlled by him, and the other half was still in the hands of those barbarian cottages.

And now that Zhang Ying's army is gone, Liu Zheng must occupy Nanhai County in a short period of time, which is adjacent to Yangzhou and is an important strategic location.

At the same time, Jiaozhi County, Jiuzhen County, Ninan County and other places are all places where he must fight in a short time.

Without the army commanded by Zhu Fu, the assassin of Jiaozhou, and Zhu Fu forcibly recruited many soldiers and horses from various counties before this, the soldiers and horses in the counties were extremely empty.

Liu Zheng ordered Xu Huang, Gan Ning and others to attack other counties and counties in Jiaozhou, and it didn't take much effort at all, and in a short period of time, the entire Jiaozhou area was defeated.

Everywhere Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses went, they almost surrendered to the wind, and they didn't even need any fighting.

It is precisely because of this speed that Liu Zheng originally thought that it would take a month to quell the Jiaozhou Rebellion, but it only took half a month to smoothly integrate into Liu Zheng's command.

After attacking the entire Jiaozhou, Liu Zheng adopted a policy of Huairou for the original officials in Jiaozhou, and did not kill them all, and directly overthrew all the county officials.

Instead, they continued to serve as counties and rulers over the people.

In doing so, firstly, Liu Zheng's manpower is not enough now, especially there are almost no civilian officials, so if you abolish all those civil officials with a stick. In this way, those counties in Jiaozhou will not be able to operate.

Liu Zheng could only keep those who were willing to join him in their original positions, and at the same time vigorously recruited scholars in various places, so that these scholars began to join the counties under his command and act as some civilian officials to manage the counties.

But after all, Jiaozhou is not too civilized area, there are still few readers, and there are naturally very few people who can help, even if Liu Zheng has the heart to promote, there are not many people who can be used.

can only temporarily let the original officials take the top, everything runs like this, and there is not much chaos in the whole Jiaozhou, although Jiaozhou has changed hands on the surface, and no longer obeys the orders of the imperial court, but it is not much different for the local people.

The first thing he did after occupying Jiaozhou, Liu Zheng withdrew his main forces from various counties and concentrated them all in Cangwu County and Nanhai County, defending the invasion from Jingzhou on the one hand and Yangzhou on the other.

At the same time, he began to order Yuan Zhou to start building new schools in the entire Jiaozhou, and he wanted to apply the set he had made in the Mingyue Cottage to the entire Jiaozhou.

In the month after the occupation of Jiaozhou, that is, at the end of September 185 AD.

Liu Zheng sent people to Mingyue Cottage to bring the tens of thousands of people of Mingyue Cottage and nearly 100 students who have been studying hard in Mingyue Cottage to Jiaozhou, and Mingyue Cottage has become a stronghold of Liu Zheng from the beginning.

Now Jiaozhou is his base camp.

Jiaozhou area, the four seasons are like spring, there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants here, the grass and trees are more lush, and at the same time it is a paradise for medicinal materials, Zhang Zhongjing is not reluctant to move to Jiaozhou.

Moreover, Liu Zheng further improved the construction of the school, allowing more people to participate in the study of medicine, which also made Zhang Zhongjing more interested.

Actively participated in the construction of Liu Zheng's school.

The matter of Jiaozhou is being carried out in the hot court, and Liu Zheng finally got the news from other states and counties at this time.