Sitting in the Hall of Houde, facing Zhuge Liang's performance, Liu Xiguo was really a little hesitant, he was also frightened by Zhuge Liang's generosity, according to Zhuge Liang's idea, this time, at least one million manpower will be used to expand and build in the northeast region, such a huge manpower is still relatively rare in the Han Dynasty, after all, the demise of Daqin also sounded the alarm for later generations.

It is a good thing to build a city and reclaim the outside of the fortress, but it can't develop into a "bitter man in the world for a long time", then something will happen.

"Kong Ming... Do you really need so much manpower? Even Jizhou has to send people?? Liu Xi asked a little helplessly, Zhuge Liang nodded, and then said: "Your Majesty, if you only let Ning and He contribute and want to gather such a large number of people, it will be a catastrophe for the local area, not only economically, but also in all aspects, but if it is evenly distributed among all places, it will not be so exaggerated." ”

"However, these million people are still a little too much, can't they be less?"

"Your Majesty, it's not what it used to be, today's Han has a household registration of 100 million, and it is nothing to use millions of manpower, but the benefits are great, not only to expand the land, but also to play a preventive role, the population of the Han is increasing, and the land is always insufficient...", Zhuge Liang persuaded, Liu Xi gritted his teeth, no longer hesitated, and said: "Okay, just do as you say!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

"In this way, you go to Hebei in person, and I give you the power to mobilize local officials, and I must handle this matter well!" , Liu Xi said seriously, Zhuge Liang heard this, and wanted to say something, but Liu Xi waved his hand and said: "Don't pay attention to the people in the temple, just do it well for me, if you can, you should add a state of arable land for the Han Dynasty!" ”

"Respectfully!" , Zhuge Liang is indeed a little moved, the Son of Heaven is to hand over the land of the six states of Hebei to him, in exchange for any Son of Heaven, he may not be able to make such a move, what a lot of trust is this, bow deeply to the Son of Heaven, he will definitely not let the Son of Heaven down, since the decision has been made, Liu Xi will not delay, and directly called Sima Yi.

After informing Sima Yi of Zhuge Liang's proposal, Sima Yi squinted his eyes, thought for a moment, and then said: "Your Majesty, in fact, the Han has manpower, as long as you give an order, let the overseas government send manpower from Yangzhou to Ningzhou, and let Xizhou send manpower to Hezhou, the Han will have hundreds of thousands of manpower, and these manpower can still work day and night, so you don't have to cherish it..."

"In addition, didn't General Zhang write a book saying that there were nearly 200,000 thieves outside the Saiwai? These thieves are just used to develop their own fields, and the Han Dynasty helped them build cities, so that they could live and escape the cold winter, and my Han is a country of benevolence and righteousness, so why can't we do such a good deed? Your Majesty is a benevolent king, isn't it the right thing for a wise king to help them? ”

When Liu Xi heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent someone to call Zhuge Liang, who had just left the palace, Zhuge Liang was just about to return to the mansion, and was caught up by the Yellow Gate sent by the Son of Heaven, although he didn't know what was going on, but he still turned his head and came to the Houde Hall again, and saw Sima Yi sitting aside, Zhuge Liang suddenly understood that the Son of Heaven called him back, and it must be related to him.

And seeing the smiling appearance of the Son of Heaven, Zhuge Liang immediately understood, Liu Xi smiled and asked him to sit down, and said: "Zhong Dafang just offered a strategy, Kong Ming must listen carefully..."

Zhuge Liang looked at the smug Sima Yi on the opposite side and asked, "Did he want to mobilize slaves and prisoners of war from all sides to carry out the construction work?" ”

When he asked this, Liu Xi and Sima Yi's eyes widened, especially Sima Yi, who also lost his calm, and Liu Xi asked suspiciously, "How did Ling Gong know?" ”

"Your Majesty is so pleased, it must be that he has given some good strategy, and in Yichen's opinion, he can at most give such a strategy...", Zhuge Liang seemed to be a little disdainful of Sima Yi's strategy, Liu Xi also realized this, and asked: "Could it be that there is something wrong?" Zhuge Liang then said: "Naturally, there is, transporting prisoners from outside seems simple, but in fact, the cost of transportation is not low, and this cannot be apportioned to the place, it can only be borne by the temple..."

"How many people do you need to keep the POWs busy working?"

"Besides, what should be the city built with these people? The common people of the Han Dynasty often have to serve as conscripts, most of them have participated in the maintenance and construction of the city, and they are quite experienced, and it is very convenient for the craftsmen of the Gongfu to explain and guide them, but those captives and the like can only rely on force to supervise... This requires the temple to expend more supplies to maintain the soldiers who oversee them..."

Of course, this is only part of the reason, and part of it is actually Zhuge Liang who opposes such oppression of barbarians, after all, his master is called a barbarian by the world, but what he does is more like an elegant gentleman of a Han dynasty than those mediocre people who claim to be orthodox in the Central Plains, so Zhuge Liang has always talked about assimilation, not brutal suppression.

In You, and other places, it is indeed the realization of the Han Dynasty's tolerant foreign policy, countless barbarians moved inward, picked up a hoe, and became the Han people, which also made the Han culture show more brilliance, in Bingzhou, the people can ride and shoot, they are the most important recruiting area for the knights of the Northern and Southern Army, in Liangzhou, the people are brave, wrestling for fun, and most of the flag bearers of the Northern Army are from this place.

Even the wild people who live in places like Wajima have become frequent visitors to Taixue.

Zhuge Liang felt that those prisoners captured overseas would sooner or later become the most staunch supporters of the Han overseas because of the meritorious system that Yuan Yao was responsible for, and become the bridgehead for the Han to continue to expand overseas in the future.

Sima Yi also saw his thoughts, but said with a smile: "What Kong Ming said is reasonable, but ah, I think that prisoners from all over the world can be sent here on a small scale, and those things like carrying materials and digging frozen soil can not be handed over to them to do?" In this way, it is a good thing for the people of Hebei. ”

Zhuge Liang did not object, he nodded, and said again: "You can implement the method of reward and punishment in parallel, do it well, excellently, you can exempt the identity of the prisoner, fake the public land in the territory of the Han Dynasty, let it farm, teach Han etiquette, for those who want to escape, make trouble, it can be severely punished, to warn the rest of the people, levy millions of conscription, plus hundreds of thousands of prisoners, things outside the fortress, it will become much easier." ”

Liu Xi listened carefully to the words of the two, then nodded, and said: "That's right, this matter is still handed over to Kong Ming, Zhongda, you will stay by my side... In this matter, I still need the two of you to cooperate well, and I hope you can work together..."

"Respectfully!" , the two bowed.

And at this moment, outside the fortress of Ningzhou, the northern army is also formally met with the southern army, according to the meaning of the Son of Heaven, it was originally to let the southern army practice running, and the northern army was quickly encircled and annihilated, which is also to prepare for the battle of Kushan in the future, in the concept of the Son of Heaven, and the war with Guishan, the southern army must be to raid the royal city and go straight to the thief chieftain, as for the northern army, it is to occupy along the road and compress the other party's field of activity.

However, when he learned that the original information was wrong, Zhang Liao did not think about it, and immediately sent scouts to contact the northern army, 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry, not the southern army can swallow it, not that Zhang Liao did not have the confidence to defeat the other party, he did not have the confidence to annihilate the whole army, the southern army only sent more than 5,000 cavalry this time, with more than 5,000 cavalry to exterminate 70,000 or 80,000 cavalry, this is a fool's dream.

The northern army is different, the main force of the northern army this time, but there are nearly 20,000 knights, these people are with the southern army, Zhang Liao is confident that he can destroy the other party, the day the northern army came, the southern army was ready, the formation was in front, the banner hunting, the soldiers straightened their waists, waiting for the arrival of the old enemy, the vanguard of the northern army came very quickly, after they arrived, they scattered around, opened the guard.

With bursts of iron hooves roaring, the torrent of the northern army rushed in, the main general Guan Yu, riding a tall horse, slowly drove out of the northern army, the same, Zhang Liao is the same, the two gradually approached, Guan Yu is tall, and the BMW under the crotch is also extremely tall, in terms of momentum, it is beyond Zhang Liao's reach, Zhang Liao stretched out his hand violently.

"The Southern Army is here to wait for General Guan!!"

The Southern soldiers roared angrily, and the roar resounded through the sky.

"The Northern Army has reached !!" , The northern soldiers did not flinch, and roared loudly.

Hu'er stayed beside many captains, watching Zhang Liao and Guan Yu dismount and see each other, Hu'er also thought about whether the two would fight, but, surprisingly, their relationship seemed to be very close, holding hands and greeting intimately, Hu'er was a little strange, and asked Lu Meng on the side in a low voice: "Why is their relationship so cordial?" ”

"They seem to be the township party... I don't know very well, anyway, their relationship is good, but my relationship with General Guan is also very good. ”

In the middle of the conversation, Zhang Liao pulled Guan Yu and walked towards the camp tent enthusiastically, and the Northern Army also began to camp here, for a while, Fang Cai's solemn atmosphere suddenly dissipated, and the atmosphere became noisy again, Lu Meng wanted to meet Guan Yu and left first, as for Jiang Wei, Hu'er asked him to help allocate supplies, and he also left, but Hu'er walked towards the North Army camp tent curiously.

The soldiers of the Northern Army were busy, and no one paid attention to this little guy who dared to break into the camp tent, Hu'er looked at here curiously, looked over there, looked at this side, and was watching, suddenly, he collided with a person suddenly, the two of them stumbled, almost fell to the ground, the person facing him was also a young general, seeing Hu'er, he was furious, and was about to reprimand, but he was stunned and looked at his armor.

The leather armor on both sides is different, the most obvious difference is that the southern army usually has a bright heart guard, while the northern army does not.

"You're from the Confederate Army? What are you doing here? ", the young general asked angrily.

"What does it have to do with you?" , Hu'er asked angrily.

"Heh, the Southern Army has been reduced to this point, let this kind of hairy boy serve as a captain?" , the young general mocked.

"Who are you to dare to be rude to me??!"

"Heh!! My name is Cao Zhang! It's the captain of the Northern Army! Son of Cao Situ! The grandson of Cao Honglu! Who are you? Cao Zhang glared at him angrily and said arrogantly.

"My name is Liu Qu! It's the prison of the Southern Army! When the son of the son today! Grandson of Emperor Xiaoxian! Great-grandson of Emperor Xiaokang! How are you going to do it?? In the face of the "second generation of officials" in front of him, Hu'er is not afraid at all, does this big man have more powerful pants than him? ?

Sure enough, hearing that Hu'er reported to his home, Cao Zhang was stunned for a moment, and immediately knelt down on one knee.

"The minister greets His Royal Highness the Prince!"