The army of Guanzhong is eyeing the fierce soldiers, and the flames of rebellion within Liangzhou have appeared.

Guo waited for Ma Chao to die, waiting for him to force Han Sui and Yan Xing to rebel, and then he had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and seize Liangzhou.

Liangzhou is close at hand, easy to control, and there is a large army, it is not difficult to attack, and Guo Peng adopted a policy of appeasement against another separatist force that is not under Guo Peng's control.

Liaodong Gongsun Du.

Compared with Liangzhou, Liaodong is now a real wild place, cold, few people, and the road is still difficult to walk.

According to the results of the war calculated by the team of officials under the command of Wang Cang, the first assistant of the cabinet, if this battle is fought, it will definitely be won.

But if you want to develop that fertile black soil, you won't be able to make ends meet within ten years.

Unlike Liangzhou, the battle of Liaodong was a real loss-making battle, and there was no possibility of making a profit.

For Guo, fighting a war is not only a process of unification, but also a business, whether a piece of land has the value of use, whether it is a good thing for the future Wei Empire, it must be a matter of numbers.

Now the numbers tell Guo Peng that the capture of Liaodong is definitely not a worthwhile act.

For now, let Tian Yuding build a defense line in Liaoxi County and intercept Gongsun Du's forces east of Liaoze, so that he can't fight, and there is no way to interfere in the war in the Central Plains, that is the best situation.

Therefore, Guo Peng decided to keep Liaodong before pacifying the four southern states, so that Liaodong could be fought as the last battle, and then take Korea down and make it an administrative unit directly under the Wei Empire, saving a lot of trouble in the future.

The economic value and resource value of the Korean Peninsula itself are not large, but the strategic value and location factors are very significant.

There are some things that must be done even if you don't consider the cost.

So Guo planned to take the Huairou route.

Didn't that Gongsun Du self-proclaimed the pastor of Liaodong Hou Pingzhou?

Guo Peng simply really sealed it to him.

Let him be the Marquis of Pingzhou and Liaodong allowed by the Han Empire, let him be happy, Lao Tzu is now going to the south and usurp the throne, I don't have time to talk to you, you play in the mud in the Northeast by yourself first, and then I will clean you up when I have my hands free.

At the same time, the 10,000 sailors who had been formed in Qingzhou had already formed an initial army, and Tai Shici, the general of Lou Chuan, had already led the large ships of the navy fleet to sail out to sea on several occasions, trained in the sea area, and practiced the tactics of cross-sea landing operations.

Guo Peng's plan was to let this naval fleet built according to the scale of the navy undertake the combat mission of attacking Jiangdong and Liaodong in the future.

Whether it is attacking Liaodong or Jiangdong, the road of direct attack is very difficult, Guo Peng's plan is to take less land routes, more sea routes, and find another way to directly attack Jiangdong and Liaodong from the sea.

This can not only catch the opponent off guard, but also reduce the materials and losses required for the march.

The funds for this fleet were directly allocated to Mi Zhu, and then Mi Zhu directly issued them, and Mi Zhu supervised the construction of ships and the combat equipment of the naval division, and converted the trebuchet into a type suitable for the use of the naval division's ships, so as to enhance the combat capability of the naval division.

After spending so much money, you must have a time to play, otherwise, won't this money be spent in vain?

Guo Peng felt that Tai Shici was also very anxious, since he took this position, he had not been given the opportunity to fight, he had not been promoted, and he must have been very anxious when he looked at other people's generals.

On the seventh day of the first month of the first year of Jian'an, the hussar general Wei Gong Guo Peng asked the emperor to order that the land of Liaodong in Youzhou should be Pingzhou, and the edict enshrined the Taishou Gongsun Du of Liaodong as Pingzhou Mu, the Marquis of Liaodong, and the 1,000 households of Shiyi.

Guo Peng wants to release a signal.

He wants to tell Gongsun Du that Lao Tzu is not interested in you, and now he wants to play Huairou with you, don't be embarrassed.

satisfied Gongsun Du, calmed his restless heart, and made him recognize the little emperor, and then, it was the strategy of the three princes in the south.

In fact, in the southern Lingnan area, there is also a Jiaozhou, which is probably part of today's Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Vietnam, covering a wide area, but the population is too sparse and too wild, and it is not strong enough to compete with the princes of the Central Plains.

So in Guo Peng's view, it is a piece of land that has been pushed flat without any obstacles, and it is completely ignored.

It's just Liu Zhang, Liu Biao and Sun Quan to deal with.

For Liu Zhang, Guo Peng heard that Liu Zhang's heart to go north was dead, and in order to survive, he began to open up living space in the south, and went to compete with the southern barbarians for population resources and land, which is very good in Guo Peng's opinion, because in the future, this is also what he has to do.

South of the Yangtze River and north of the Yangtze River were two concepts for the Han Dynasty.

Because of the incomplete development of the Han Dynasty, the room for development left for Guo Peng is too great.

The more than 30 million tool people in his jurisdiction are simply not enough, and I am afraid that if he can bring the development of the land south of the Yangtze River on the agenda in his lifetime and lead the great migration, it will be considered a complete merit.

For the rest, he has no room for extravagance, what kind of expansion is really unrealistic.

If the southern territory of the current Han Dynasty is really in the hands of the hands, it will not be enough to double the population.

The peak population of the Han Dynasty itself was around 50 million, so some people think that 50 million is the peak population that ancient China could accommodate without high-yield crops such as corn and potatoes.

However, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the land south of the Yangtze River was basically undeveloped, and a large area of wilderness, and then on the relatively well-developed land in the north, the number of people hidden by the powerful landlords and the Dashi clan was not counted in the number of imperial hukou.

Think about it, the Li Dian family alone has a population of 15,000 that is not included in the statistics, what about the rest?

Before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban War, the total population of the Eastern Han Dynasty was definitely above 50 million.

And even in the absence of high-yield crops such as corn and potatoes, relying on the existing land and productivity, the land of China can definitely accommodate the needs of more than 50 million people, or even far more.

The cycle of reincarnation is not just a matter of population, but more of a land annexation issue and a political issue.

Guo Peng thought that he could start the large-scale development of the south of the Yangtze River, and then expel the grassland tribes to the north, which was enough for his exploits to shine in the annals of history.

So now it is completely possible to make use of Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, give them appropriate pressure, force them to develop south, and at the same time give them a little more time, let them lay some bridgeheads, and reduce the burden on themselves in the future.

Liu Zhang and Liu Biao still have use value.

Guo thought so, so he asked the little emperor for an edict to appease Liu Biao and Liu Zhang in the name of the little emperor.

Increase their food, give them money and goods, and then do nothing but wait.

See what they can do to make the south side.

Finally, there is Koto.

The war between the Sun Wu regime and the coalition of local forces in Jiangdong was in full swing, and the two sides fought against each other, and the big battles were one after another, each with its own losses, and the losses were heavy.

Wu County, Danyang County, Huiji County, Luling County, Yuzhang County, and Jiangdong County were all ravaged by war.

Sun Wu's army and Haoqiang's army were fighting in their hometown, and they could still be somewhat restrained, but the army of the Shanyue group was not restrained at all, fighting and robbing at the same time, and not forgetting to take advantage of the Haoqiang clan while fighting against Sun Wu's army.

Therefore, although the two can unify their positions in the face of Sun Wu's army, the two sides are by no means without contradictions, on the contrary, the contradictions are not small.

The army of the Shanyue group is very good at fighting, but the robbery is also very powerful, passing by a certain manor, not to mention the robbery, after the incident, they will not admit it, or simply say that they were destroyed by Sun Wu's army, which makes the scholars and heroes in Jiangdong very unhappy.

If Jia Xu hadn't tried his best to mediate and mix, it was estimated that he would be able to fight on both sides, and let Zhou Yu take advantage of the loophole in vain.

In fact, in the four months since the end of that war, Jiangdong has not been stable for even a day, which is really too chaotic.

At first, the Haoqiang clan was still able to control the situation, but after Jia Xu participated in this operation and then merged the local forces of Shanyue and Jiangdong, the situation became difficult to control.

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