Guan Yu took Zaoyang, Suizhou, and Anlu counties as Jiangxia County, and ordered Zhuge Liang to be stationed in Anlu as Jiangxia Taishou, and Liu Qi as the assassin of Jingzhou, but Liu Qi was just an empty name.

Liu Qi himself is still in Xinye, which is also reasonable. After all, Xinye is also a city under the rule of Jingzhou.

And Guan Yu treated Liu Qi rudely and simply, giving him a beautiful mansion to live in, and sending people to monitor him, Liu Qi did not do anything, and he had no official subordinates.

Liu Qi is only left with a symbolic role.

And Zhuge Liang has started to do things since he became the county guard of Jiangxia, and the first thing he did was to order the county officials and people to repair the city wall.

Jingzhou has been peaceful for many years, and Liu Biao only repaired a few important cities such as Jiangling City, Xiangyang City, and Fancheng when he was there, and the rest of the places were so-so.

The geographical location of Anlu is very important, the north leads to Xinye, the east can pass through the three passes of Yiyang, pass through the Jianghuai Plain, and the Yangtze River to the south.

The strategic location of this well-connected location is very important.

But Liu Biao is just a thief who guards the land, and it makes no sense for him to be connected in all directions. Moreover, Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu was mainly stationed in Jiangxia County, Xiling County, south of the Yangtze River, in order to guard against Jiangdong.

All in all, Anlu seems to have become a place of chicken ribs, tasteless food, and it is a pity to abandon it. The city walls have fallen into disrepair for a long time, and it is not surprising that the people are scarce.

After Zhuge Liang came to Anlu, he sent people to investigate the local county orders and officials, promoted honest and excellent officials to county orders, dismissed useless officials, and then ordered the officials of the three counties to repair the city wall.

Because it was Zhang Fei who led the men and horses into the three counties, and the Yan man Zhang Yide was brave and good at fighting, and was famous far and wide, so Zhang Fei took Zhuge Liang into the three counties without blood, and Zhuge Liang relied on Zhang Fei's prestige, so that he could easily select and promote officials.

If Zhuge Liang and a scholar came here, I am afraid that it would be impossible to take such a big step all at once.

Zhuge Liang also transferred the regiment commanded by Zhang Laosan, and asked Zhang Laosan to lead his troops to help repair and rebuild the city wall.

Midday.

The south gate of Anlu City, inside the city gate tower. The gate was opened, making the inside of the gate tower very transparent. Zhuge Liang and Zhang Laosan sat cross-legged on the floor, with a drawing in front of them.

Zhang Laosan is at least a general, and the city drawings can still be understood. pinched his chin full of stubble and said, "Kong Ming, according to your drawing, this city is a bit big." It's not troublesome to build, and my sons have the strength of a bar. But the population will definitely not be that large. The population inside and outside the three counties of Zaoyang, Suizhou, and Anlu combined is less than 100,000, right? ”

Zhang Laosan has not read the population register, and he is not a county guard. But when he passed through the three counties, he also roughly estimated the population of the three counties.

For example, in this Anlu City, the population of the city is probably only 120,000, and there are 20,000 or 30,000 outside the city, which may add up to 50,000?

And this Anlucheng is already the largest county among the three counties, Zaoyang, Suizhou has a smaller population.

The three counties together will definitely not have 100,000.

And Zhang Fei took a cursory look at the drawing that Zhuge Liang took out, and knew that this was a Xiongcheng that could accommodate a population of about 50,000, plus 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses.

Regarding the construction of the city, Zhang Fei raised his hand in agreement. Xinye Xiongcheng, Fangling Zhucheng, starting from Liu Bei, the Guanjia force has been constantly strengthening and repairing the city.

However, the city is too large, and if the population is insufficient and the troops are insufficient, it will be difficult to defend it.

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly and said, "The combined population of the three counties is only 87,532. ”

As a county guard, Zhuge Liang's first thing to look at is the population of the county and the list of officials. At present, he naturally knows how many people he has in Jiangxia County.

"In that case, why build such a big city?" Zhang Laosan scratched his head and wondered.

"Here." Zhuge Liang brought another map, then sat down in front of Zhang Laosan, pointed to the north of Lujiang County on the map and said, "Here." Lei Xu and Chen Lan were originally generals of Yuan Shu, but later became thieves. The two gathered tens of thousands of people to camp near here, and often attacked Jianghuai counties. I intend to send someone to recruit these two men and run Anlu into a heroic city. In the future, if you crusade against Jingzhou, you can also send troops here to attack Nanjun. ”

Zhuge Liang has a very far-reaching plan, since he came to Jiangxia County and became a county guard, he will not only be a safe county guard, how to farm, how to develop and grow, Zhuge Liang has a plan in his heart.

Zhang Laosan frowned when he heard this, and said, "Lei Xu, Chen Lan and I are familiar with each other. When I and my eldest brother were in Xuzhou, they often fought with Yuan Shu, and these two people have been bandits and bandits for many years, and I am afraid that people are unpredictable. If you can't recruit it, you can say it, and if you do, I'm afraid I can't control it. I'm only temporarily stationed in Anlu, and I'm going to return to Shinno soon. ”

Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "Taking advantage of the fact that Jingzhou is now holding on to it, the Han River is unimpeded." I plan to ask Fangling County to mobilize Captain Ding's army and station it on the Yangtze River. Anlu is adjacent to the Yangtze River, and it would be a pity if there was no naval army. ”

"Ding Feng, that kid can indeed do." Ding Feng has been a doorman in Guan Ping for many years, and the training is also very good, Zhang Laosan also knows a little about it, so he nodded and said.

"Okay, let's build a Xiongcheng that can accommodate a population of 50,000 or 60,000 and an army of 20,000 or 30,000." Zhang Laosan patted his knee and was hit.

The people in our family are really crazy people who build cities, starting from the eldest brother, to the stinky boy, to Zhuge Liang, all of them are going to build cities.

After Zhang Laosan walked out of the city gate, he crossed his hands on his waist and said loudly to the soldiers who were busy in the city and under the city: "The sons and daughters are all cheering up. ”

"No." The soldiers agreed with a bang, and repaired the city in high spirits.

Since Zhang Laosan changed his alcoholism, his relationship with the soldiers has been much better, and now the soldiers are willing to die for the old man.

Manual work is naturally handed over to rough people like Zhang Laosan to be responsible, but Zhuge Liang is busy with mental work.

The first thing is, of course, how to recruit Lei Xu, Chen Lan is for his own use, and he needs powerful people to lobby, and he also needs a deputy to govern the three counties.

After all, Zhuge Liang only took a few officials from Guan Yu to take office together, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he was single-handed, and there were no outstanding people under him.

Zhuge Liang thought for a while, took out a piece of silk cloth from the desk, and then wrote hard. After writing the letter, he put it in a bamboo tube, called a small official, and said: "Send someone to Xiangyang, on the Pang De Mansion on the mountain of Da Xian, to Jiang Gongyan." ”

"No." The little officer said yes, and turned to go down.

This Jiang Gongyan is Jiang Wan, after Zhuge Liang's death, this person is the head of the courtiers, the general, the history of the Yizhou assassin, and later Fei Yi, Dong Yun was called the "Four Phases" by the countrymen. ”

Compete with Jiangdong's Siying, Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, Lu Su, and Lu Xun.

Jiang Wan is a disciple of Pang Degong, although he was born in Lingling, but after becoming famous, he has been active in Xiangyang. Jiang Wan is five years younger than Zhuge Liang, and the reason why the two know each other is because Zhuge Liang also often goes in and out of Pang Degong's mansion, and after the two made friends, Jiang Wan took Zhuge Liang as his brother.

Zhuge Liang stayed in the city gate tower for a while, then got up and went back to the county guard's mansion. An Lu did not have a county guard, only a county office.

Now it is both a county seat and a county seat. Zhuge Liang left the county government to the county magistrate, and he temporarily built a county guard mansion in the city.

After coming to the county guard's mansion, Zhuge Liang came to the treasury to watch the waterwheel and the plow.

These two things were improved by Guan Ping and Ma Sheng, but until now, they have only been promoted in Xinye and Fangling, and Hanzhong has not had time to promote them.

There are very few people in Jingzhou who know these two things.

Although it is a good thing, it spreads slowly.

Even Zhuge Liang also went to Fangling, only to know that there were these two things, and he immediately took the things and planned to promote them in the three counties of Jiangxia.

With these two sharp weapons, plus more than 100,000 people, there is no problem in raising 10,000 or 20,000 troops in Jiangxia.

For the time being, it can only be garrisoned, but if the Guan family sends troops to Jingzhou, it can be used as a partial division to attack Nanjun.

Zhuge Liang is a master of farming, and he has considered all aspects.

After another half a month, Zhang Fei's corporal and officials were still working hard to build the city wall, and such a huge city wall, with this amount of manpower, it would take several months to build.

Before the city wall was repaired, Ding Feng and Jiang Wan came one after another. Because the Jingzhou navy was closed and did not fight, Ding Feng's navy was able to go down the river from the Han River.

Zhuge Liangliang chose a place on the north bank of the Yangtze River and asked Ding Feng to build a water village and train soldiers.

Jiang Wan arrived.

On this day, Zhuge Liang personally went out of the city to welcome Jiang Wan into the county guard's mansion, and the two sat down in the lobby. Jiang Wan is in his early twenties, with a majestic appearance and a strong physique, which is the same as Zhuge Liang, and his husband is also.

Dressed gracefully and very atmospheric.

"The day before yesterday, I went to visit Longzhong, and I heard that the virtuous brother (Zhuge Jun) said that the elder brother went to Hanzhong to defect to Guan Yangwu. At first glance, I heard that my brother had become the county guard of Jiangxia, Tun Anlu, which really scared my brother. ”

Jiang Wan was quite refreshed, and smiled calmly after sitting down.

"But it was just at the right time, and he accepted the position of Marquis of Hanshou and was ordered to guard Jiangxia." Zhuge Liang explained, and then said: "Brother Wei wants to hire a virtuous brother as Jiangxia Changshi, go to appease Chen Lan, Lei Xu, I don't know what the virtuous brother wants?" ”

Jiang Wan stroked his beard lightly before replying: "These two are thieves, and they need to be treated with grace and power." I lobbied for the front, and General Zhang for the rear, so I could. ”

"Okay." Zhuge Liang nodded happily, and then let Jiang Wan go first, Zhang Laosan led two thousand elite soldiers to the rear, and Enwei and Shi to Lei Xu and Chen Lan.

Guan Pingtun was in Fangling and recruited mountain people from Daba Mountain in the west of Fangling to go down the mountain to expand the population strength. This is not Guan Ping's patent.

As the saying goes, the more people you kill, the more chaotic the world becomes. Therefore, throughout the history books, those who succeed must focus on appeasing the people.

Cao Cao slaughtered the city in his early years, and later changed such a problem.

Before Zhuge Liang came to Jiangxia, he thought about how to govern Jiangxia and developed and grew. Chen Lan and Lei Xu are God-given people, and if they don't take it, they will be taken by others.