It was another year and the year, and after Cao Cao welcomed the Son of Heaven into Juancheng, he changed the Yuan to Xingping, and at this point, Chen Mo had no way to compete with Cao Cao.

The situation in the world is not stable, Guanzhong has not been peaceful this year, Feng Yiqiang rebelled, was suppressed by Huaxiong, Ma Teng Han Sui's attack has not stopped, and the Xiliang army has been reorganized, almost all of the troops on the border are the new army brought by Chen Mo, although there is no big war this year, but Chen Mo has suffered a lot of losses.

As a hegemon, Chen Mo attaches great importance to his promises, saying that if he does not collect taxes, it is impossible to collect taxes in Guanzhong next year, and the taxes on the state side are not enough to feed the entire Guanzhong, and the small amount of grain in the treasury will have to be taken out next year to maintain the operation of the army and the imperial court.

Next year, even if Chen Mo wants to fight, he can't fight, and even has to pray that he won't encounter any major events next year, the foundation of the imperial court, Dong Zhuo will maintain and supplement it, but after it is in the hands of Li Dao and Guo Yan, he has been almost defeated, after Chen Mo took over Guanzhong, on the one hand, he wants to restore the image of the imperial court in the hearts of the people, and on the other hand, he has to develop, until now, the prestige of the imperial court has been re-established in Guanzhong, of course, the main thing is Chen Mo's prestige, he has now begun to gradually replace the imperial court in the hearts of the people of Guanzhong.

Militarily, Chen Mo is actually not short of soldiers and horses now, and the border army of Bingzhou, Xu Huang in the Heluo area, Yu Sheng in Jiguan, and Huaxiong, Xu Rong, and Tai Shici in the Xiliang army that surrendered, adding up to nearly 200,000 people.

Among the princes today, there are so many soldiers and horses, I am afraid that Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are brothers.

However, at least half of them are stationed in the border areas, defending Ma Teng and Han Sui, defending Zhang Yang, defending Cao Cao, and defending the Qiang people, even if there is enough grain and grass now, aside from the garrison troops and the county soldiers who maintain local order, Chen Mo can really transfer out the soldiers and horses to fight, around 80,000, of course, the premise is that the grain and grass are sufficient, and now Chen Mo's idea is to live in peace for a few years, accumulate grain and grass, and sit and watch the world.

It's a pity that when Cao Cao's rear was in turmoil, Chen Mo didn't have the ability to fight outside, but Xu Huang took the opportunity to open the door and absorb some people from Yanzhou and Yuzhou.

Every year at the end of the year, there will be some leisure, officials will have a holiday, in addition to the necessary personnel on duty, those whose families are in other places will be taken back to their hometowns in advance, of course, many officials in the DPRK and China are not under Chen Mo's rule, but their families are all taken to Chang'an for resettlement.

Loyalty is such a thing, there is, but you can't count on this, the family is the safest here, not only officials, Chen Mo has recently been planning military households, and the military family members will be concentrated here to settle, first, the benefits of some military families can be distributed centrally, and the children of meritorious soldiers can also establish a academy here, so that they can study nearby, and secondly, it is also to control the army.

Even Gao Shun, who is good at training, cannot guarantee that the soldiers he has trained will be loyal, not to mention ordinary soldiers, to ensure the combat effectiveness and sense of belonging of the army, this way of centralizing the family and managing it is the most feasible in Chen Mo's opinion, at least there is no need to worry about the front army backlash, even if the generals are bought, it is impossible for the soldiers under his command to rebel with him, and the possible losses can be minimized.

Although it seems that it is a little unkind and righteous, I don't believe in soldiers, but being kind to them is sometimes unkind to oneself, now Chen Mo's power is no longer a small force, and it will develop to a greater extent in the future, even now, Chen Mo's territory is thousands of miles away, and at this time, it should not be kindness and faith to restrain his subordinates, but rules.

Since he is now unable to conquer abroad, Chen Mo is ready to further plan his forces to form a stronger centripetal force and have greater cohesion.

"What is the husband thinking?" Cai Yan looked at Chen Mo with some curiosity, he was lingering for a while, he had no strength, but he couldn't sleep, and at this moment, he saw Chen Mo staring at the tent curtain, and said with some curiosity.

"After thinking that Mrs. gave birth to Jin'er, it didn't seem to be out of shape, I heard that when a woman gave birth to a child, her waist would become thicker." Chen Mo hugged Cai Yan and said with a smile, it is a little boring to talk about any national affairs at this time, Cai Yan may not want to hear it, coaxing women is actually no different from coaxing men, just pick up what the other party likes to hear.

Cai Yan's cheeks were red, and he took a sip and said, "The husband is not right." ”

"This is for outsiders to see, if you have to look serious between this bed, it will be boring, ma'am...... Woo~"

Before he finished speaking, his mouth was blocked by Cai Yan, Chen Mo looked at his wife's embarrassed appearance with interest, obviously enjoying it when he was happy, but he couldn't say it, he was ashamed when he said it, and women were very strange.

"Okay, okay, don't talk about this." Chen Mo grabbed his wife's soft hair, shook his head and smiled: "After the New Year, I will accompany my wife to live with my father-in-law for a few days. ”

"Yes, thank you." Cai Yan buried her head in Chen Mo's arms, feeling her husband's powerful heartbeat.

In the next few days, Chen Mo was not busy, but he did not rest, unlike worrying about various political affairs before, after the New Year, after Chen Mo lived in Cai Yong's mansion for a few days, most of the time he was busy between visiting and being visited.

It is the actual controller of Guanzhong and Bingzhou, there are not many people who need Chen Mo to visit, Huangfu Song, Zhao Wen, Zhong Xuan, and the third prince must definitely come to the door in person, but the remaining Jiuqing may not all have this qualification, most of them are with Cai Yong's generation or the Han family, Chen Mo will come to the door in person, and the rest will also send someone to give a gift or something, red tape, Chen Mo actually doesn't like it too much, but when it comes to this status, what should be observed still has to be observed.

Of course, when he visited, he also talked about some state affairs, but most of them were empty talk, which sounded very reasonable, but it didn't make much sense, Chen Mo was now mainly focused on laying a solid foundation, Cao Cao's matter gave Chen Mo a wake-up call, although he didn't kill people directly like Cao Cao, but Chen Mo did many things more excessively than Cao Cao, he directly hurt the interests of the scholars, shaking the foundation of the scholars, although the damage was not high for a while, but it was continuous damage, and the blunt knife cutting the flesh was the most painful.

Cao Cao's problem, Chen Mo also exists here, he doesn't want to lead the army out one day, and then his rear will be inexplicably ended, Cao Cao If Liu Bei didn't suddenly appear this time, Xuzhou would have been taken, in that way, at least Cao Cao has room to advance and retreat, and he will not be as passive as now.

Of course, Liu Bei is secondary, mainly the rebellion of the Yanzhou family, what Chen Mo is doing now, one is to lay a solid foundation, and the other is to consider from the perspective of the family, if they want to rebel, if they want to rebel, the weapon finds a person like Liu Bei, where to start, how to deal with themselves, and make arrangements in advance, of course, all this is done in secret, and no one will notice.

Chen Jin has now learned to walk, and during the New Year, Chen Mo accompanies his mother in the yard every day when he is fine, watching his son run around, which is also a very happy thing.

Then there is Yun Si and Juan'er who have been pregnant, Chen Mo's three generations of single transmission, to Chen Mo's generation, there seem to be signs of branching out, Chen's mother is now happy every day, just counting the days with her fingers to see when her two grandchildren will be born.

Heizi is lying next to Chen's mother most of the time, in terms of the life span of a dog, Heizi is already very old, not as cheerful as Chen Mo when he was a child, and now when he sees Chen Mo, he just wags his tail, obviously closer to Chen's mother, after all, over the years, it has never left Chen's mother's side, but Chen Mo is rarely with Heizi.

"Mother, I won't find you another one." On this day, Chen Mo rubbed the skin of Kuroko's neck while looking at his mother.

Chen's mother likes sunspots very much, after all, Chen Mo spent all his years studying with sunspots by his mother's side, Chen Mo was worried that when sunspots were gone, his mother would be sad.

"The fine dogs in this level are also good." Chen Mo looked at his mother and smiled.

"You also got the sunspot back from your Uncle Zheng when you wanted to raise it, but you raised it for a few days?" Mother Chen glared at Chen Mo, groped for the sunspot and said: "This sunspot is different from ordinary dogs, humane, you were not in those years, whatever I wanted to do, the sunspot would help me do it, just like when you were by my side." ”

Chen Mo: "......"

That sounds a little awkward.

"Now that there is Jin'er at home, Yun Si and Juan'er are also pregnant, my mother has to take care of them, and I don't have much energy, but with such a big yard, there should indeed be a few dogs to take care of it, but my mother doesn't want to raise it anymore, so let the people in the house find a few to raise." Mother Chen looked at Heizi and sighed: "In this life, what people are most afraid of is losing, but sometimes, this kind of thing is not up to people, and when you reach the age of your mother, you will slowly understand." ”

"Mother is so young, why do you keep saying this?" Chen Mo hurriedly diverted the topic, he didn't want to say this, he was inexplicably a little uncomfortable, besides, Chen's mother is indeed not old, she has just reached forty, although she fell ill because of her busy livelihood back then, but she has been pampered over the years, and her deficit body has gradually made up.

"It's all the years of confusion, how can you still be young?" Mother Chen smiled: "My son should not think of home. ”

Chen Mo naturally likes dogs, but he just likes it, and he can't understand his mother's feelings, and after talking to his mother for a while, Chen Mo got up and said goodbye.

"Husband don't have to worry, my mother is now full of children and grandchildren, very happy, the matter of sunspots, the concubine will talk to a few sisters in the boudoir, pick some good dogs for her mother, keep them in the house, and it will be lively." Leaving his mother's courtyard, Cai Yan saw Chen Mo frowning and pondering, thinking that he was worried about his mother, so he couldn't help but persuade him.

"Madame is in charge of this matter." Chen Mo came back to his senses, nodded and smiled, in fact, he was thinking about the opening of the wasteland in Guanzhong this year......