Zhang Ming repaired the road, which attracted great attention.

But Zhang Ming isn't just building roads.

Road construction has been publicized, and the propaganda has been known to the entire Han Dynasty.

And there are many other low-key things about him.

The distribution of farm tools to all families without them is one, as is the recruitment of 100,000 militias.

Of course, only Zhang Ming and the cabinet knew about 100,000, and the others directly ordered to go to each county to arrange how many militias to recruit in this county.

In this way, except for Zhang Ming and Nei, no one knows how many soldiers and horses Zhang Ming recruited this time.

Even if the enemy has spies, they can't count them.

The enemy will ignore the small number of militias in a county.

Because they have no formal training, no weapons and equipment, they are inferior to the defenders.

So, no one will pay attention.

But these militias are actually very important, and they are selected according to the conditions of the regular army.

As long as there is a need, they train urgently for a month, and then they can go to the battlefield.

Normally, the basic training has already been completed.

In each county, Zhang Ming would send many retired soldiers to station there, and then train them.

Many of them just don't have weapons and equipment, but in many cases the training is the same as that of the regular army.

In addition, Zhang Ming also invested in others, and the territory under his control developed very quickly.

Two months later, Zhang Ming completed all the work.

In the past two months, Zhang Ming has spent more than half of the money he has accumulated, with tens of millions of silver coins.

The silver was dug up from Fuso.

Now, Zhang Ming has brought several groups of displaced people over.

Today, Fuso has a population of hundreds of thousands.

The county seat was established in several places.

After spending the money, losing the house, and then it's time to enjoy it.

Zhang Ming handed over all government affairs to the quasi-cabinet to take care of, and then he ate, drank and had fun.

Outside, Zhang Ming is a swinger again.

There are luxury cars in and out all day long, and I heard that the food is very luxurious.

In a few days, it became rumored that Zhang Ming soaked in the hot springs, and the flowers were all lit up.

Sprinkle the hot springs with flower petals and soak there with his wife.

These legends are true, and Zhang Ming is true.

However, every day the quasi-cabinet would send a stack of briefings, and Zhang Ming would read them no matter how late they were.

After reading the briefing, he thought he needed to intervene and sent it to the cabinet the next day for them to deal with.

Another month has passed, and Zhang Ming has basically firmly controlled the newly acquired territory.

At this time, Qingzhou has been decided.

Zhang Ming sent Guan Yu to Qingzhou to guard Qingzhou, and Xu Rong was also guarding Qingzhou with him.

Then, Zhang Ming recruited Tian Feng back.

After careful consideration, Zhang Ming did not plan to set up a state pastor or a history of assassination.

For the time being, the entire Qingzhou, above the county guard, is directly under the control of the Protector General's Office.

Of course, there are many disadvantages to this, that is, sudden events, or ordinary things, the efficiency of official correspondence is very slow.

For example, it may take more than a month for the official document to be sent to the General's Protector's Palace, and then approved and sent back.

In this way, a lot of things are wasted, and if there is a state pastor, it will be sent directly to the state pastor's office, and then disposed of, so that the efficiency will be much improved.

However, Zhang Ming now has no one to be the state pastor.

The power of the state pastor is too great, the emperor of the soil of one side.

In the future, Zhang Ming will set up a state pastor or assassin history to manage the entire Qingzhou and Jizhou.

However, after the departments sink down and divide up the power, and wait until the departments have taken root in the counties and have a foundation, then send people to manage the entire state.

When the time comes, the power of the state pastor will be controlled and will not get out of control.

After taking care of everything, Zhang Ming began to hoard grain and grass again, and then saved expenses and military spending.

A war is definitely going to be fought, and it won't be long, it will soon be a war.

Grain and grass are slowly hoarded, and now there is a lot of grain produced at home, and a little can be bought in other places.

And the military salary is simpler, just go to mining.

When the money is dug out, there must be corresponding goods to sell, otherwise there will be serious inflation.

Therefore, Zhang Ming developed many industries and actively built roads, so that the people could make money and have something to buy.

Money is meant to be recycled.

After another two months, Zhang Ming's money has been saved.

Now, there is a lot of taxes every year, plus money to do your own business.

There is money and food, and now there are still people Zhang Ming's strength is slowly recovering.

It's also time to strike again.

On Yecheng's side, after Zhang Ming adjusted, Xu Huang and Zhang Fei were there.

Zhang Ming called the cabinet members.

"It's been half a year, and we and Cao Cao have both recovered from it, should we fight again."

Now, the cabinet members already have Fu Zhi, Chen Gong, Guo Jia, Tian Feng and Xi Zhicai.

Five people, already have a lot of decision-making ability.

After Zhang Ming asked, Guo Jia was a little uncomfortable, and he could only remain silent about his military operations with foreign countries.

Xi Zhicai spoke first: "Lord, our army has been prepared, and we should start a war, and Cao Cao must not be fully prepared at this time." “

"But, my lord, where are we going to fight? Xuzhou or Yanzhou? ”

Now, there are two places to play, which are completely different from before.

This question is really important.

Zhang Ming pondered for a long time.

"Fight all and fight on two fronts."

The crowd looked at each other.

Fighting on two fronts has always been a taboo for soldiers.

However, the situation is different now, Zhang Ming's side is fighting on two fronts, and Cao Cao's side is the same.

In fact, Qingzhou is closer to Yanzhou, and the two states are also next to each other.

Attacking Qingzhou and Yanzhou, Cao Cao's forces will be redeployed.

Chen Gong thought carefully and said: "General Protector, if we want to fight on two fronts, we should take one part of Xuzhou, and then we can attack Cao Cao from multiple directions in the future." ”

Xuzhou, and even being able to advance all the way to Xudu, is indeed a big trouble for Cao Cao.

Chen Gong advocated taking part of Xuzhou.

Zhang Ming asked someone to get a map, put it down, and everyone began to study it.

After some research, Zhang Ming decided to say: "Xuzhou and Jizhou have both launched attacks, regardless of whether they are the main attack or a feint, where there is an opportunity, they will fight." ”

False and real, where there is an opportunity, attack where.

It's a pity that the road hasn't been repaired yet.

Otherwise, where there is an opportunity, the army can quickly support it.

Therefore, the meeting decided that the soldiers would be divided into two ways.

With 100,000 soldiers and horses along the way, Zhang Ming planned to mobilize 200,000 soldiers and horses and kill them in two ways.

Zhang Ming personally went to Xuzhou and took Xu Rong and Guan Yu, as well as Zhang He and Gao Shun.

Zhang He and Gao Shun are playing for the first time.

On the other way, it was Xi Zhicai who led other generals to go.

After deciding, Zhang Ming began to operate.

"Openly transport grain and grass soldiers to two places."

"In addition, send troops to investigate, completely open, and don't worry about being discovered."

The so-called virtual and real, Zhang Ming just wants to make Cao Cao nervous.

When Zhang Ming was studying how to fight Cao Cao, Cao Cao also gathered a group of strategists to study how to fight Zhang Ming.

Cao Cao was never a passive person, and he also planned to attack Zhang Ming.

"Lord, Zhang Ming has arranged a lot of soldiers and horses around Yecheng, and now he has just won the second half of Jizhou, and it is not stable, if he is allowed to occupy it for a while, I am afraid that we will not be able to fight."

Man Pang suggested that Cao Cao do it immediately.