When he followed Liu Tao to crusade against the rebels, the kind of miraculous surprise attack is still fresh in my memory. But because of that time, I understood that Liu Tao was a disciple of the Immortal Family, a special existence, and a surprise attack of that level was just a routine operation.

Because of this, I don't want to be an enemy of this kind of person, it's too troublesome.

It's just that he is now accepting Sima Fang's suggestion, and he has actually controlled the four southern counties of Jingzhou, and at the same time is planning to continue to encroach on the four northern counties of Jingzhou, if he succeeds, then Liu Biao is his puppet.

At the same time, it can also go further to the east and launch an attack towards Yuzhang County, Sima Fang does not recommend going south, even if Jiaozhou is defeated, it is meaningless, the population there is too small. Not only can it not be feedback, but it also needs continuous support, which is to drag its feet.

Now he is similar to Shixie, he served as the Taishou of Changsha, and then took his nephew Sun Ben as the Taishou of Wuling, Sun Ben's younger brother Sun Fu as the Taishou of Lingling, and Wu Jing as the Taishou of Guiyang. The Taishou of the four southern counties is either his grandson's family or a relative of the Sun family.

The most important thing is that Sima Fang helped to deal with him, not to mention the scholars and squires of the four southern counties, but also vaguely expressed goodwill to him. The temptation to be called the king and the emperor was in front of him, and Sun Jian couldn't extricate himself.

At the same time, it is also the main reason why he cannot join Liu Tao's command, that is, he treats the scholars very harshly. At least after the spread of the measures he ruled, his reputation among the corporal of the world was not very good.

Sun Jian was able to gain a firm foothold in the four southern counties because of the support of the scholars, and it can even be said that his power relied on the help of the scholars to a large extent. Once you get too close to Liu Tao, it is very likely that you will return to your original form overnight.

This is a result that he does not want to see and does not want to accept!

So even if there was some hesitation for a moment, in the end his attitude was still very firm. Liu Tao didn't know what happened to him in Changsha, he felt that he was estranged from him a lot, and it was not interesting to continue chatting, so he could only say goodbye after a few words.

"Sun Jian, what the hell is going on?" When Liu Tao left, he had to say something casually.

"He is now coming here on behalf of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, in fact, he has explained a lot of things." Guo Jia thought for a while and replied.

"I didn't expect that even the Jiangdong Tigers couldn't escape their thirst for power." Chen Gong next to him teased.

Didn't you escape? Liu Tao thought about it, could it be that in history, Sun Jian got the jade seal of the country, and he really had an idea that he shouldn't have? However, it is not surprising that the Sun family has been an official in Wu for generations, and it is said that they are the descendants of Sun Tzu. Sun Wu was a native of Qi and later became Wu Chen, and in Sun's genes, he may not have regarded himself as a Hanchen...... It's not impossible.

At least, since Sun Jian took the lead, Sun Ce began to divide Jiangdong, and Sun Quan directly became the emperor. Is it because the main political center is in Wu, or is it because the name of 'Chu' is easy to attract hatred, or because it has been fighting with the Yue people for a long time, so the name 'Yue' is denied...... Or is there a deeper reason?

History is sometimes like this, the deeper you dig, the more things you didn't notice before, you will be unearthed.

In the past, Liu Tao looked at the Three Kingdoms, but only in the period of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty. But jumping out of the period of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty and continuing to trace upwards, it seems that you can see more and different scenery.

"People have their own ambitions, and if they can't become friends, they are destined to meet on the battlefield in the future." Liu Tao said casually, although he didn't want to fight the civil war as a national war, but there were no two monarchs in the country, and he only hoped that they would not rashly claim the emperor, so at least there was the possibility of becoming friends after the war.

Obviously, foreign expansion is the correct way for a nation's development, why is everyone obsessed with the small fish pond of the Central Plains?

The reason is understandable, it is nothing more than that Jiangnan is a wild area, full of undeveloped mountains and forests, and at the same time there are a large number of mountains and forests distributed in them. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and it feels like there is no development value, and it is very difficult to survive.

To the east is the sea, and the coast is the end of the world until there is no way to sail the ocean; Needless to say, the northerner the winter, the colder it gets, and in the era when there is not even cotton, people can definitely freeze to death in winter, and there is no way to survive; To the west, from the Western Regions to Central Asia and Western Asia, most of them are desert terrain, which is not suitable for survival.

Perhaps in the eyes of the people of this era, the most suitable place for the Chinese people to survive is the Central Plains, which is the region of the Lianghe civilization. Or, the establishment of a country here can be regarded as Chinese orthodoxy, and the population itself is not large, so there is naturally no need to explore colonization outward.

"So the first thing to solve is the population problem......," Liu Tao muttered, and Huaxia, which has fed 14 or even 1.5 billion people in later generations, now only needs to feed less than 100 million people, and it is said that the population figure on the surface is 50 million.

In later generations, 50 million people, that is, the combined population of the three municipalities directly under the central government of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. If the attrition caused by the Yellow Turban Rebellion is included, the population of Beijing and Shanghai combined is about the same.

This point of population, not to mention colonization, and the development of Jiangnan are all problems. If we take into account the civil war that will follow, even if a new regime is established, it will take 20 or even 40 years to multiply and restore the population base of 50 million.

In my lifetime, I may be able to bully Buyeo, Goguryeo, and Samhan, or even go to Tsushima Island and go to Kyushu Island to play. It may be difficult to go all the way west to the Roman Empire, at most to the extent of opening up trade routes.

Liu Tao looked at the magic tower in the depths of his consciousness, unfortunately, this is a magic tower. If it's a game main city, how good it is, you can recruit soldiers once a week, if it's a human city, there are even farmers like soldiers, even if there are only twenty-five to thirty a week, and if you keep recruiting, you can make up for the problem of insufficient population.

"Deran, it's been a few years!" At the end of the day, one person stepped forward to say hello, it was Liu Tao's brother Liu Bei.

"Brother Xuande, I haven't seen you for many years!" Liu Tao smiled at him, "Where is it now?" ”

"How can I be high, when I arrived in Youbeiping, I became a subordinate under Gongsun Zhan." Liu Bei laughed at himself, "Originally, Liu Tingshi (Liu Yan) invited me to Yizhou, but I was already the commander of Anxi County at that time, so I didn't follow. ”

As a result, the follow-up superintendent came to ask for a bribe, and he had no money, so he angrily whipped him for thirty, and then hung it up.

During this period, he ran all over the world, invested in Qiu Yi's command, and served as a member of Xiami County, where the local clan and scholars were huge, and they had no real power, so they resigned angrily. Assassinated Shi Gong Jing and transferred him to Gaotang Ling, but within a few days of taking office, the remnants of the Yellow Turban broke through Gaotang County, and had to leave, and finally ran to Gongsun Zhan to beg for food.

It's not that he doesn't want to settle down, it's just that the news keeps coming, this clan brother who was not as good as him before, now not only has become a disciple of the immortal family, but at the same time, he is either a general of Yulin Zhonglang, with a rank ratio of two thousand stones, or he is a Yunzhong Taishou, a general of Zhenbei......

Compared with him, his achievements are nothing at all, so he feels aggrieved and can't do anything.

When we meet again, the world is already in turmoil, and someone is already a pastor of the state, a general of Zhengbei, and a marquis of Ping, and he is still a certain minister. With the current situation, I don't know where he can go in the end, which really makes him envious and helpless.

"If it's uncomfortable over there, why don't you come over and merge with the state?" Liu Tao smiled, "You are my brother, no matter what, I will not treat you badly." ”

Before the change, on the surface, he joked like this, but in fact, he hoped that Liu Bei would not come over, so as not to be dug up. Now he is calm, or much more open-minded, probably this identity is different, and the mentality is also different......