After Liu Bei temporarily arranged the positions of Mrs. Zhu Rong, Meng Shu and others, he summoned Xi Zhicai, Chen Qun, Xu Jing, and a group of accompanying civil officials and the original rulers of the Nanzhong region!

Of course, the previous cave masters such as Meng Huo and King Duosi were not among the government officials this time! After seeing that all the personnel had arrived, Liu Bei spoke:

"Now we have taken the Nanzhong region, and the Nanzhong region is vast and has a large population, but most of them live in caves and forests.

Therefore, I would like to say that Nanzhong is divided into several counties, and there are no counties under it. After vigorously building cities, reclaiming wasteland, developing commerce and trade, etc., within ten years, Nanzhong will become the third Western Regions in my hands (1. Western Regions, 2. Ningzhou, 3. Nanzhong)

Wen Chang, these days, can you count the number of people in the Nanzhong area and the household registration? ”

Hearing Liu Bei's question, Chen Qun hurriedly spoke: "Lord, I have finished counting, and now there are about 400,000 households in the entire Nanzhong region, with a population of nearly 3 million!" ”

Liu Bei was also shocked when he heard this, and then asked: "In this way, the entire Nanzhong has almost the population and territory of a state?" ”

"That's true, it's just that there are dozens of tribes large and small scattered throughout Nanzhong, and not all of these tribes are close to the Han!" Chen Qun said!

"Well, in this way, Nanzhong can be set up as a separate state, and the governance of the entire state can be handed over to the various tribes! What do you think of this time? Liu Bei made a suggestion and said.

"What does the lord mean to use barbarians to govern the southern barbarians?"

"That's true, since there are dozens of ethnic groups in the Nanzhong region, then I will divide the entire Nanzhong into one state and seven counties according to the ethnic groups.

Moreover, seven more counties are set up in each county, and each county seat radiates a part of the peripheral land. Small tribes live alone in one county, but large tribes can live separately in two counties.

In this way, there are no internal development contradictions among all the tribes, and each county appoints the people of that tribe as the county commander, and I will determine the candidates for the county governor and the state assassin.

In this way, you can directly govern all the ethnic groups in the south and central, so there will be no contradictions with each other, and there will be no rebellion because of the oppression of foreign races! Liu Bei explained.

"So, but the lord wants to rule the raze with raze? Then the lord plans to hand over the commander of the soldiers to the counties and counties, or not? Hearing this, Xi Zhong first began to nod, and then asked with some concern.

Liu Bei smiled when he heard this, and then said solemnly: "Naturally, it is under my unified command, but under normal circumstances, it is still the barbarian soldiers stationed in the Nanzhong region!"

Nanzhong will not be different from Shuangzhou, Xizhou and Ningzhou, all of which are separated from military and government. ”

Liu Bei has separated the military and the government since the beginning of his business, and the only one who can hold the military and the government in the entire Liu Bei Group is Liu Bei himself!

Xi Zhong listened to Liu Bei's words. nodded, and knew that Liu Bei had been thinking about how to govern Nanzhong for a long time in his heart, otherwise he would not have given such a perfect method in such a short period of time, so he began to be silent!

Seeing Liu Bei like this, it was not just Xi Zhong, Chen Qunhe on the side was not speechless.

Liu Bei saw that everyone didn't speak, so Liu Bei opened his mouth and continued: "The entire Nanzhong was named Nanzhou, and Chen Qun was the history of the state;

Then Nanzhou was divided into seven counties, with Xu Jing and others as the county guards, and finally sixty-four people of high moral standing were selected from the people of various ethnic groups in Ge, and they were ordered by each county and county;

In order to develop Nanzhong as soon as possible, 64 Han people were mobilized as county governors! ”

After that, Liu Bei continued to negotiate all the government affairs requirements in the entire Nanzhong region, and finally began to deal with various matters of degrading!

Since the start of the war in Nanzhong, Liu Bei has captured many barbarians in a row, and now that the entire Nanzhong has surrendered, Liu Bei does not need to hold these prisoners.

Therefore, Liu Bei had more than 200,000 strong people among them (except for the rattan armor soldiers), and then selected an elite army of 50,000 among the more than 200,000 soldiers and named it the White Ear Army, which was directly led by Meng Shu!

After that, the remaining less than 200,000 troops were handed over to Guan Yu, Gao Shun, Chen Zhi and Zhao Yun to lead the training, and the remaining trapped army was handed over to Lu Bu for training!

In this way, Liu Bei has almost reached 300,000 troops in the entire Nanzhong region!

It's just that in order to supply such a large army, it is quite difficult to transport grain and grass from Jiaozhou, so the total amount of grain and grass begins to be tense!

Therefore, it is not easy to feed the more than 300,000 troops, so Liu Bei does not have enough strength to attack Liu Zhang at this time!

At this time, Liu Zhang didn't know that Liu Bei had already captured the entire Nanzhong, so at the junction of Nanzhong and Xichuan, there were still not many defensive troops!

However, because of the rugged road in Nanzhong and the inconvenience of transporting grain and grass, Liu Bei missed the best period to attack Liu Zhang!

On this day, Liu Zhang was flirting with the beautiful concubine in the Chengdu Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, and Huang Quan hurriedly came to find Liu Zhang at a trot, shouting while trotting: "Lord, the big thing is not good!" ”

Liu Zhang, who was on the rise, immediately lost interest when he heard the voice, so he walked out with a black face and asked, "Gongheng, why are you in such a hurry?" Don't know I'm busy? What kind of system have you become? ”

When Huang Quan heard this, he didn't apologize at all, but said very anxiously: "Lord, the big thing is not good, Liu Bei has already assessed Nanzhong, and the Southern Barbarian King Meng Shu and dozens of cave masters under his command have all surrendered to Liu Bei!" ”

"What?" Liu Zhang was very surprised and said, "This Meng is so unbeaten? It took less than a year to be completely pacified by Liu Bei? ”

Huang Quan kept nodding on the side and said: "That's true, Liu Bei lost three times and captured Meng Huo three times this time, and in the end, although Meng Huo still had an army of more than 100,000 people, his morale was so low that he was unable to fight with Liu Bei!"

Meng Huo's cave masters all defected from Meng Huo one by one and joined Liu Bei's command, and more importantly, Meng Huo's wife, Mrs. Zhu Rong, also took the initiative to surrender Meng Huo for Liu Bei, and Meng Huo surrendered to Liu Bei in desperation! ”

The more Liu Zhang listened, the more calm he became, and finally said: "Gongheng, Liu Bei is like a wolf and a tiger, and he occupies the northwest and southwest, showing a tendency to attack my Yizhou, how can I be good?" ”

Huang Quan thought for a while and then said: "My lord, now the only way to fight and form an alliance with Zhang Lu in the north, and it is reasonable for Liu Biao to break Liu Bei's offensive from three roads!" ”

Liu Zhang became interested when he heard this, and then asked, "Three ways?" What about a three-way attack? ”