Cao Cao's side wrote to the imperial court to canonize Liu Cong as the general of the expedition to the south, and to increase the general, that is, the general of the expedition to the south. Over there, Han Song immediately took out the seal that Liu Cong had prepared in advance.

Maybe Liu Cong didn't expect Cao Cao to be so generous, he estimated that Cao Cao was almost canonized as a general of Zhengnan. But it doesn't have much to do with the seal.

Liu Cong has two main things in this seal, one is the adjustment of the magistrates of Jingzhou counties, including Li Yan, Liu Cong succeeded to the pastor of Jingzhou because Cao Cao immediately went south, so this time Liu Congxiang took the opportunity to solve it together.

Although the princes of various places now occupy one side and do not respect the imperial court, the subordinate officials below are appointed by the princes themselves. But Liu Cong, as a relative of the Han family, wanted to continue to carry the banner of Kuangfu Han to confront Cao Cao, and he could do what he could on the surface. Cao Cao didn't feel surprised to get such a seal, Li Yan had been the Taishou of Nanjun for half a year, and Ma Liang and Liu Pan had also taken office.

However, the next arrangement made Cao Cao feel that Liu Cong or the people around him were still a bit far-sighted, and it would definitely be beneficial to control Jingzhou.

In the above table, Liu Cong analyzed Lingling County's Yingdao, Yingpu County, Duliang County, Fuyi State, Shi'an State, Chong'an County, and Zhaoyang County as Duliang County, and governed Duliang County. Liu Du is still for Lingling, Jiang Wan is for Duliang, and Han Xuan is for Guiyang. So far, only Wuling Taishou has been left in the counties of Jingzhou, and there has been no substitution.

This kind of behavior is not uncommon in the practice of constantly changing, creating new or abolishing counties within one's own jurisdiction in order to install subordinates and control the locality. Liu Cong didn't have to ask the court to approve this, he just wanted a right name. Cao Cao naturally didn't stop it, and he did it all!

The second seal is about the promotion of military generals, which is also to appease his subordinates, and if he can't get the imperial court's money, he must be paid by Liu Cong's Jingzhou, Cao Cao himself carefully memorized the name in the form, and it was approved.

Han Song's mission was basically completed at this point, so he sent people to report to Wei Yan and stop the attack, and at the same time reported the good news to Liu Cong in Xiangyang. Liu Cong, who received the news, did not wait for Han Song to return to Xiangyang and began personnel adjustments, and Jiang Wan led 3,000 troops to take up his post. Han Xuan was accompanied by 2,000 cavalry led by Huang Zhong to Guiyang.

Liu Cong's arrangement was also as small as possible to cause a backlash from Jingzhou officials and local people, except for Guiyang Taishou Zhao Fan, who needed to go to Xiangyang to wait, the rest of the Taishou of the four counties of Jingnan were still too guarded, and Yulu remained unchanged.

Guiyang is far away from Xiangyang, and Zhao Fan has always been close to Liu Cong, so Liu Cong thought of sending Huang Zhong to ensure that Han Xuan could take office smoothly, and then transfer Huang Zhong back after a period of calm.

The leading generals around Xiangyang were also immediately sealed, and Shengwen was hired as the general of the southern army, Changshi, the leading general and the commander of Xinye, and stationed troops in Xinye to prevent Cao Cao. Zhuge Liang is the Sima of the General's Mansion and assists in the administration of Jingzhou. Xu Shu and Yi are engaged in Zhonglang as generals. Gan Ning is the general of Fubo, taking his boat to wade through the rivers and lakes, and the meaning of the waves resting is to lead the Xiangyang * water army.

Wei Yan went to Nanjun to train troops for General Zhenwu. Jiang Qin was the captain of Hengjiang and went to Nanjun to train the navy.

Huang Quan was the captain of the Guard Army and was in charge of the Praetorian Guard. Wang Wei, Huang An, Huang Rui and others are all lieutenants and belong to the civil service. Huang Jie and Huo Jun, who were far away in Jiangxia, were also promoted to lieutenants to assist Ma Liang in jointly governing Jiangxia. The rest of the generals are temporarily idle in Xiangyang.

Liu Cong did not deliberately snub Liu Bei and other people from other groups, people like Zhao Yun and Yu Ban were usually responsible for his food, housing and transportation, and once there was a war, he could be ranked as a general after making meritorious contributions. Although Sun Qian, Jian Yong, Mi Zhu and others are talented, others don't know, and they are afraid that they will not be convinced by rashly promoting them, so they can only help Zhuge Liang and others do things first, and slowly promote.

Liu Cong kept Huang Zu and wanted to wait for Wuling to come out and transfer Huang Zu to Wuling, or after reaching a tacit understanding with Cao Cao, he would analyze the part of Nanyang County he occupied and appoint him when he established a new county.

Liu Cong's side finished arranging, and Ma Liang also sent the site selection and planning drawings of the new city that he had spent two months on the spot. The new city is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River and faces Shaxian across the river.

Liu Cong named the new city Wuchang, which means prosperity of martial arts. However, Liu Cong was very satisfied with Ma Liang's urban planning, but the scale was too small, and Ma Liang was designed according to the ordinary county seat with reference to Jiangling County. With a stroke of his pen, Liu Cong demanded that the scale of the new city be expanded by 50 percent, which was comparable to Xiangyang. This is not the end, on the east and west sides of the new city to build roads along the river to Xiakou and Chibi, and set up a new water village on the Yangtze River for the placement and training of the water army, the scale of which can not be smaller than the existing water village in Shaxian.

In this way, the construction cost of the new city far exceeded the cost of Zhang Bo's construction of the public security back then, but Liu Cong was not worried, this is an agricultural society, the Jianghan Plain and the vast fertile land around Wuchang can support millions of people, as long as Liu Cong and Sun Quan have no war for more than a year, even the people of Lujiang, Yuzhang and other counties are afraid that they will come one after another.

Moreover, in Liu Cong's deployment, Xiangyang will be the administrative center for a long time, and the naval army of Xiangyang will be moved to Fancheng one after another, and the naval army of Fancheng is mainly used to defend Xiangyang against Cao Cao. In the future, the naval army that opposed Sun Quan's attack on Jiangdong would be trained in Jiangxia, and Wuchang would assume the heavy responsibility of the Jingzhou naval army camp in the next five or six years or even longer.

After the county magistrates implemented it and the generals' commendations were in place, Liu Cong began to think about the next strategy, and spent another year completely controlling Jingzhou, and gradually becoming stronger, waiting for the opportunity to move westward.

After Han Song, Huang Quan and others returned to Xiangyang, they immediately made a detailed report to Cao Cao. Especially Huang Quan, who gained a lot from going to Xuchang this time. Including the criticism of the soldiers and ordinary people in Xuchang City on Cao Cao's southern expedition, as well as the change in the attitude of the royalist faction represented by Xun Yu towards Cao Cao, and even the small gossip such as Wen Ji's return to Han.

In the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Cao Cao envoy Zhou Jinzhi sent an envoy to the Xiongnu with Xuanyubi to redeem Cai Wenji, a talented woman who had been in exile in the Xiongnu for 12 years. Cai Wenji is the daughter of Cai Yong, a famous scholar in the late Han Dynasty. Kidnapped by the Huns in his early years, Cao Cao and Cai Yong have always been on good terms, and seeing that he has no heirs, he redeemed Cai Wenji and married Dong Ci, the governor of Tuntian County.

Thinking about it, Cao Cao is still a bit human, and he didn't take the talented girl for himself! In fact, Liu Cong also felt very sorry, if he had come more than ten years earlier, he might have been able to save the next generation of talented women.

But now that he is back, there is no need for Liu Cong to worry about it, but another incident that happened in the east of Jingzhou has aroused Liu Cong's interest. It turned out that when he and Cao Cao were in the middle of a fierce battle last year, the people of Danyang County, Yi and She counties revolted. More than 20,000 households were led by Chen Fu and Zushan, the leaders of the Yixian Righteous Army, and more than 10,000 households were led by Quan Qi and Mao Gan, the leaders of the Shexian Righteous Army, to gather in the deep mountains.

Sun Quan ordered the mighty Zhonglang to enter He Qi to ask for it. He Qi first attacked the soldiers, the ancestral mountain of the rebels, saw that the mountain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, is to recruit a lot of light and good at climbing, in the hidden place to climb up the Qian Ge, and then with cloth to connect the warriors more than 100 people, distributed on all sides, the drum horn bluffed, the rebels panicked, the road guards scattered and ran, He Qi then led the army up the mountain to break the rebel army, and then the rebel army was all pacified.

Liu Cong's interest was not in these rebellious rebels, but in admiring Sun Quan and He Qi, who were able to decisively send troops to Jiaozhou in the face of internal instability and unclear war in the west, and quickly organize forces to attack the defeated Cao Cao, which required great self-confidence and foresight.

There is also a He Qi, who was powerful at the beginning of his career, and has experienced countless battles in his life, and is probably the best general at suppressing peasant uprisings and foreign rebellions after Huang Pusong, and the Jiangdong Sun Quan Group is also thanks to him.

Of course, in addition, there are two good news, one is that Sun Quan has not made any progress in besieging Hefei for two months, and the other is that Lu Xun has sent someone to send a letter to prepare to marry Liu Wen in May. The two pieces of news seem to be unrelated, but Sun Quan's ability to readily agree to this marriage may have something to do with the frustration of his attack on Hefei.

At present, Jiaozhou under Sun Quan's rule has not been completely recovered, and the war with Cao Cao has reached a stalemate. Although Lu Xun is a wealthy family in Jiangdong, he is not currently a core member of the group, and since he can befriend Liu Cong, Sun Quan is not guilty of destroying a marriage.

Liu Wen, who got the news, was excited and a little uneasy, after all, her mother and second brother were in Xiangyang, although Liu Cong's previous warnings could happen, this time it was Liu Cong's turn to comfort Liu Wen, since he decided to get married, he naturally had to be braver, Liu Cong even said half-jokingly, if you really miss us, the second brother will lead the troops to Wu County, capture that Sun Quan alive, and you and your Lu Lang can travel freely between Jiangdong and Xiangyang.

Liu Wen also knew that the second brother was comforting herself, but the little girl listened to Liu Cong's words, and while trying to follow Cai Lin to learn female workers, she began to read some Confucian books, probably because she didn't want to embarrass the Liu family and Jingzhou. Seeing that his once innocent little sister worked so hard, Liu Cong also felt that he should redouble his efforts!