After sending Zhang Song and Yi away, news came from Hefei that Sun Quan could not be attacked for a long time, and the two sides formed a confrontation.

Subsequently, Cao Cao led his army to Feishui (now Dongfeihe, Anhui) through the Huai River and arrived in Hefei. Hefei was a strategic place where Cao Cao and Jiangdong Sun Quan competed, and Cao Cao garrisoned here and used Shaobi (now northwest of Hefei) to build Tuntian. Shaobi is the most famous water conservancy project in the Huaishui Basin, according to legend, it was repaired by Sun Ao, the prince of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the fields were irrigated for more than 40,000 hectares in two or three hundred miles every week. Cao Cao achieved great results in this Tuntian, which became an important material basis for holding on to Sun Quan.

Cao Cao's move is good news for Liu Cong, the current situation in the world is Cao Cao's family dominance, Yizhou, Jingzhou and Yangzhou rely on the terrain advantage to be a corner of the peace, and Jingzhou and Cao Cao Xuchang have recently been regarded by Cao Cao as the biggest threat, so they want to get rid of it quickly, but the previous southern expedition failed, and now Sun Quan took the initiative to attack naturally attracted Cao Cao's attention.

Although Sun Liu is an ally, deep down in his heart, he can't wait for Cao Cao to find trouble with the other party, even if he is asked to send troops to support, at least he can drag Cao Cao and the other party, and he will grow quietly. Cao Cao and Sun Quan are preparing for a long-term confrontation, and one obvious result is that the population of Jiangxia has skyrocketed!

Lujiang since the Yellow Turban Rebellion has been war-torn for a long time, including Yuan Shu, Sun Ce and others are making a big fuss here, Danyang County on the east side of the Lujiang River, last year there was an uprising of Chen Fu and Zushan, leading more than 20,000 households, and the leaders of the righteous army in She County, Quan Qi and Mao Gan, each led more than 10,000 households 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.

However, Chen Lan, Lei Shu and other old subordinates of Yuan Shu on the west side of the Lujiang River have always been entrenched in the mountains, and Chen Lan was a military general under Yuan Shu at first. After Yuan Shu was defeated by Cao Cao, he went to Lishan to join Lei Bo and Chen Lan, but was rejected by the two. [1] After Yuan Shu's defeat and death, Chen Lan, Lei Xu, Mei Gan and others gathered tens of thousands of people to loot in the Jianghuai area, and the county was ruined. It is said that the power stretches for five or six counties, which makes Cao Cao and Sun Quan very headaches.

Of course, the existence of Chen Lan, Lei Shu and others is still more beneficial than disadvantageous to Liu Cong, although Chen Lan and others are fierce, but they dare not cross the river easily, the more they make trouble, Cao Cao will inevitably send troops to clean up, then the common people hear that they are going to fight, they must run, whether Cao Cao fights with Sun Quan, or Cao Cao fights with Chen Lan, or Sun Quan fights with Chen Fu and Zushan, the common people know a truth, and they can't afford to hide. At this moment, Jiangxia County is building a new city and vigorously cultivating fertile land. With the fertile land of the Jianghan Plain and the Yangtze River, the source of irrigation, it is not difficult to survive in Jiangxia.

Just when Liu Cong was imagining that Jiangxia's population would grow from 300,000 to 500,000 or 600,000 in two or three years, or even more, bad news came from the south, Wuling Taishou Jin Xuan was stabbed! It turned out to be the general Gong Zhi.

This made Liu Cong very unsettled, and he was a Jingzhao person in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He is a descendant of Jin Ri (mìdī), a famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty, and has a son, Jin Yi. He served as the Huangmen Shilang and Hanyang Taishou, successively paid official worship to Yilang, Zhonglang General and other official positions, and finally became the Wuling Taishou of Jingzhou.

Later in history, after the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei recommended Liu Qi to serve as the assassin of Jingzhou, and then conquered the four counties of Jingzhou in the south. Like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, Changsha is too shou Han Xuan, Guiyang is too shou Zhao Fan, and Lingling is too shou Liu Du are all looking at the wind and descending. Jin Xuan himself was killed in battle against Liu Bei, and Wuling County became a domain under Liu Bei's rule.

Liu Cong has been crossing since he came over, among the four counties of Jingnan, except for Han Xuan because of Han Yi's factors, the most closely related to Liu Cong is Jin Xuan, because Liu Cong is too punctual for Nanjun, Jin Xuan is very active in cooperating with Liu Cong's work, including pacifying and relocating Wulingman, Jin Xuan is resolutely standing with Liu Cong, and his meritorious service is not small, which is also the main reason why Jin Xuan of the four counties of Jingnan is the only one who continues to be re-elected when Liu Cong is in full control of Jingzhou.

originally thought that without the Battle of Chibi and Liu Bei's southern expedition, Jin Xuan would be able to avoid disaster, but he didn't expect that in the end, he still couldn't escape fate. And Gong Zhi's reason for committing the crime was only drunkenness, of course Liu Cong didn't believe it, and it was difficult to convince other Wuling bureaucrats for this reason, but fortunately, his son Jin Yi was quite brave and decisively raised troops to kill the enemy. Uproot the Gongzhi clan.

Gong Zhi committed the following crimes, sounding the alarm for Liu Cong and the Jingnan Counties, there are still many old generals in the four counties of Jingnan, what are their thoughts? How many people are instigated by foreign forces, or are simply spies lying in ambush in the local area? A large-scale investigation is imperative, and Huang Quan has something to do again!

People cannot be resurrected after death, so Liu Cong promoted Jin Yi to Wuchang Lieutenant to assist Ma Liang in building a new city and resettled Liu Min, and on the other hand, he sent Zhao Fan to be the Taishou of Wuling. Zhao Fan has been coveting Wuling's position for a long time, but now in addition to the fact that Jin Xuan was stabbed, it makes Zhao Fan embarrassed.

On the one hand, it is impossible for Liu Cong to always find a position for himself, not to mention that other counties have changed newcomers, and it is impossible for Liu Cong to be easily replaced without major faults. But Jin Xuan's fate also shows that Wuling is not a good place, the Wuling barbarians were very noisy back then, and this Gong Zhi doesn't know if it was a spy or a local barbarian. How many more such subordinates are there?

Of course, Liu Cong will not take care of Zhao Fan's emotions, and he is the Taishou of Wuling, the reason is nothing more than that he once served as the Taishou of Guiyang, and the two counties are on the same border, so they have to face and appease the convenience of the people, and the area and population are almost the same Another reason is the Cao family. Since Zhao Fan is willing to follow him, he can't chill his heart, but if Zhao Fan picks fat and thin, then all that is left for him is bones, you must know that Huang Zu is still idle now.

Zhao Fan finally took office, but fortunately Liu Cong sent him five cavalry guards, which can be regarded as benevolent and righteous, and Liu Cong did not want the county magistrate to be assassinated again. As the governor of a state, if Liu Cong can't even protect the county magistrates under him, how can he protect the people?

Zhao Fan served as the Taishou of Wuling, so far, in addition to Liu Du's Lingling County has been reduced by half, all the counties of Jingnan have changed their governors, Jiang Wan, Liu Pan, and Han Xuan are candidates that Liu Cong can trust, and the situation in Jingzhou is just developing in the direction of Liu Cong. Although it is a pity to lose Jinxuan, there is no obstacle between himself and the Cao family! Between gains and losses, who can say clearly?

Although Jin Xuan had cooperated with Liu Cong's work before, in the end, their father and son had been operating in Wuling for many years, which was the most taboo for the princes, especially Liu Cong's prestige in Wuling was even inferior to Jin Xuan's father and son, Zhao Fan had already shown his loyalty to himself, and he left Guiyang and took up the post of Wuling Taishou, and the special position of Wuling also made Zhao Fan easy to control. Of course, if Zhao Fan has no achievements in Wuling or causes public anger, Liu Cong will not hesitate to recall.

After getting Zhao Fan, Liu Cong's more mind was to start planning to capture Yizhou, although there was actually Zhang Song's internal response, but there was not much time left for Liu Cong, Liu Cong wanted to seize Cao Cao's pacification of Liangzhou, and capture Yizhou before the next southern expedition, so as to have enough strength to compete with Cao Cao.

Entering July, what Liu Cong was worried about still happened, Jiangxia Taishou Ma Liang sent an envoy to report, and Chen Lan, the leader of the Lujiang bandits, moved westward again. Ma Liang was worried that Chen Lan was coming for Jiangxia's summer grain, so he asked Liu Cong to decide.

At this time, most of the first season of rice in various parts of the south has been harvested, if Chen Lan's idea of fighting grain is also reasonable, after all, thirty or fifty people do not care about eating and drinking as mountain bandits, but more than 10,000 people, it is different, in addition to arranging people to plant, taking advantage of the harvest season The counties are loosely defended and grab some grain is too normal, which can be regarded as the way of bandits.

Originally, Chen Lan was in Cao Cao's territory, and he didn't dare to cross the Yangtze River south to rob Sun Quan, so he hit the idea on Jiangxia in the west, Liu Cong didn't dare to slack off after receiving the report, and the grain grabbing was a small matter, if these bandits were allowed to gain a firm foothold in Jiangxia, it would be bitter, and Gan Ning immediately led 10,000 sailors to support Jiangxia!

Jiangxia originally had 15,000 amphibious infantry, plus 10,000, and with Gan Ning, Huo Jun, Huang Jie and other commanders, they should be able to successfully resist Chen Lan. Of course, before leaving, Liu Cong also gave an order to Gan Ning, if Chen Lan only came for food, Jiangxia could even support part of it for free, but the mountain bandits would never be allowed to enter!