Chapter 90: Liu Xuande inspects the Western Regions, Xiao Zhao Yu competes with Lu Bu
A group of 1,000 people set off from Nancheng and went straight to Shule County.
Why do you want to go to the Western Regions first, but it is mainly related to Dawan, when Liu Bei besieged Yanqi before, Chi Xingmi sent a deputy general to envoy Dawan, wanting to unite Dawan to attack Liu Bei before and after.
In fact, at that time, Chi Xingmi's envoy still had a certain effect, and the monarch of Dawan saw Liu Bei's strength from Liu Bei's battle against four thousand Dawan elites with two thousand tigers and leopards, and the victory in the battle, and Dawan alone could not defeat Liu Bei; also saw that at that time, he and Chi Xingmi, who were in the middle of the attack, had a good chance of winning against Liu Bei.
Therefore, 50,000 soldiers were sent again to attack the border of Shule, but they met Zhang Ren, who came with the lead, and then Zhang Ren relied on a sneak attack to win the battle of Dawan and killed 2,000 soldiers.
Since then, although Dawan has not fought with Zhang Ren again, he has stationed 50,000 troops, and Liu Bei has been unable to continue the war with Dawan for the time being due to the continuous battle, and the two sides have confronted each other on the border.
In the past few months, Liu Bei's scouts have found out that there are close exchanges between the envoys between Dawan and Wusun, but it seems that Wusun and Dawan have reached an alliance agreement, Liu Bei attacks one side, and the other side will watch and help each other.
Because of this, and there is no big action in Wusun, Liu Bei will first inspect Shule, and by the way, he will go to the border to inspect the second senior brother's black cavalry.
After the inspection of Shule County, he went to Khotan County again, for the current counties in the Western Regions, Khotan County is a relatively safe county, but the main thing is that Khotan is surrounded by mountains on both sides, and the other two sides are adjacent to Shule and Jingjue counties.
Therefore, in Khotan County, Liu Bei did not place soldiers and horses, but placed 2,000 officials to assist in the security of the entire county. After inspecting Shule and Khotanese counties, Liu Bei was still quite satisfied, only one year after the war, the two counties could not see the scene of the war at all, the people were peaceful, the officials were clear, and there was a thriving scene.
Because there is only one month left before the Chinese New Year, and the Western Regions are quite large, Liu Bei's itinerary is also quite fast, after inspecting Khotan County, Liu Bei rushed to Jingjue County non-stop.
As the only county in the Western Regions, Jingjue County was not changed from a large country in the Western Regions, so it was the least among the counties in terms of population, region, and resources, but Liu Bei was quite interested in this county, but because the location of the Jingjue County had a road to the southern mountains, and Liu Bei had already sent scouts to investigate.
As a soul after two thousand years, Liu Bei felt that this road might be a mountain road into Tibet, but the scouts who went to explore did not know what the reason was, and they have not returned yet, and the road is rugged, so Liu Bei did not send scouts here, but planned to wait for a year or two.
After inspecting Jingjue County, Liu Bei set off again and came to Shanshan County, Shanshan County, as the only county in Liu Bei's Western Regions that had not been war-torn in the county, had already exuded the charm of a county, and the entire county, all the places close to the desert were not only planted with rows of poplar trees.
Moreover, some poplar trees are already more than one person tall, and all the poplar trees are connected one by one, Liu Bei can imagine that after ten years later, after the poplars here are connected into patches, they will be green forests one by one.
In addition, due to Liu Bei's policy in the past two years, the people of Shanshan County have emphasized agriculture, industry, business, taxation, forced labor, and donations, so the people of the entire county are rich, and more importantly, the population has increased greatly, and the number of babies increased in the past year alone has increased by a full thirty percent compared with before.
Liu Bei was still very satisfied with this, and after checking the tax revenue of the entire county, Liu Bei found that the tax revenue of the entire Shanshan County was almost twice that of other counties, but Shanshan County was not the largest county, but the largest county belonged to Qiuci County.
Refused the repeated retention of the county guard, Liu Bei drove north again, and reached Yanqi County, among all the counties in the Western Regions, Yanqi County should be the largest county in terms of geographical area, mainly because the border between Yanqi and the Northern Xiongnu in the northeast was almost impossible because of the previous years of war, so there were almost no people, and Liu Bei did not set up a county seat.
It's just that when Liu Bei conquered Wusun and the Northern Xiongnu, he would not be arranged in this way, but this is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.
When he arrived in Yanqi County, Liu Bei also rushed to the border between Yanqi and Wusun like Shule County, and visited Jia Xu, Lu Bu, Yan Liang and others.
After everyone visited Liu Bei, they found that Liu Bei's group of 500 women were all wearing silver armor, with red tasseled silver helmets on their heads, and each of them was holding a silver spear, which was very beautiful, but when they looked closer, they found that all of them were female soldiers, and the leader was a female general of 28 years old, and they were all shocked.
"If the lord wants to recruit soldiers, can't he find male pawns, why do he need to recruit female pawns? It's not for us and other male pawns to do laundry and cooking. It was Lu Bu who spoke, in fact, what Lu Bu was thinking in his heart was even more dirty, but he was embarrassed to say it because of Liu Bei's feelings.
However, hearing this, Liu Bei and Zhao Yun felt that something was wrong, but Zhao Yu on the side looked at Lu Bu angrily like a kitten had been stepped on its tail.
"What General Lu said is wrong, I am the commander of the women's army appointed by the lord's father-in-law, and my rank is the same as that of General Lu, why do I say that I do laundry and cook for you?"
"Feng Ru is the commander, but the lord is the little sister when you are the little sister, in order to make you happy." Lu Bu said nonchalantly, as the first general under Liu Bei, Lu Bu still has the ability to be proud, not only martial arts, but also great achievements, and is deeply loved by Liu Bei.
Regarding Lu Bu's words, those present, Liu Bei and Zhao Yu, no one else felt anything, including Zhao Yun, although Zhao Yun knew that his sister was good at martial arts, but it was only martial arts, and the real battlefield was not only by virtue of martial arts, but also by tactics, bravery, etc., so he felt that there was nothing wrong with Lu Bu's words, not to mention that he himself thought so.
"Hmph, whether it's to make me happy, you don't say it, but I think that my Zhao Yu and the women's army under my command are worthy of the praise of the lord, if you don't believe it, you can try it with me." Zhao Yu still said unconvinced.
"Although Wu Lu Bu is not talented, he does not care about women in general, let alone fights with women." Lu Bu said nonchalantly.
"My lord, please call the shots and correct the name of the women's army." As a twenty-eight-year-old Zhao Yu, he did not give up, and directly knelt on the ground and said to Liu Bei.
In this regard, Liu Bei smiled, and then said: "Fengxian, you will send three hundred soldiers to fight against five hundred women's army." But it was Liu Bei who wanted to try the level of the women's army.
"Lord, no, my 500 women's army must fight against 500 soldiers." Before Lu Bu could speak, Zhao Yu began to shout again.
Seeing this, Lu Bu was still willing to say that he didn't want to fight against the women's army. In the end, Liu Bei had no choice but to order 400 soldiers to fight against 500 women's army.
The two sides set up positions on the field, but Lu Bu himself did not participate in this battle, but assigned the military Sima Mu Zepal to fight Zhao Yu. Both sides were armed with long wooden sticks, wrapped in cloth at both ends, and then came to open the distance and charge each other.
It's just that the result surprised a group of soldiers, but the 400 battle army only won by a slight margin in this battle, and this result caused Zhao Yu and Lu Bu to scold, but not to scold each other, but to scold their own soldiers, and they all felt that they had lost face.
However, afterwards, no one could underestimate Zhao Yu's women's army, but Zhao Yu threatened to fight the other armies under Liu Bei one to one.
At this time, Liu Bei's order for the great competition of the armies on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month had reached the hands of the commanders of each army, and all the armies also wanted to get a good ranking in their own training.
Bidding farewell to Jia Xu and others, Liu Bei led more than 1,000 people to set off back to Nancheng again, but along the way, they will inspect Qiuci County, which will be the state of the entire Western Regions in the future, and it is also a county with a large population.
However, there is no big problem with all the inspections, even if Liu Bei encounters some problems, Liu Bei did not deal with them himself, but let the accompanying civil officials record them one by one, and finally hand them over to Zhang Zhao, let Zhang Zhao solve them himself, after all, at the moment, Liu Bei appointed Zhang Zhao to govern the entire Western Regions, so Liu Bei only needs to manage Zhang Zhao well, but the specific affairs will be handed over to Zhang Zhao to deal with.
Five days later, finally on the twentieth day of the lunar month, Liu Bei returned to Nancheng again, at this time, Nancheng was no longer under construction, and all the workers had already gone back for the New Year.