War horses neighed, and soldiers continued to move between the twenty cities in the three counties.

At the beginning, Dong Zhuo was chased and killed, and the more than 146,000 people who were robbed back were also resettled in 20 cities in batches.

There is a waterwheel 'invented' by Liu Yu, and although there are many high-slope mountains in the three counties, there is enough land that can be cultivated to grow grain, and it is not difficult for less than 150,000 people to resettle.

In order to show that he is close to the people and make the people completely surrender, Liu Yu not only lowered the taxes of the three counties, but also personally cultivated the wasteland with the people, a picture of suffering with the people and rejoicing with the people.

Liu Yu's move, the effect is huge, the people in the current era don't understand too much, they only feel that Liu Yu is the most people-friendly and people-loving Shangguan they have ever seen, and they really love Liu Yu and submit to Liu Yu.

"This is the will of the people." Guo Jia sighed, admiring Liu Yu more and more, and feeling a little more likely to assist Liu Yu in achieving great causes.

Liu Yu shouted to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, your eldest brother, second brother, and third brother are all busy, are you embarrassed to still do it there, hurry up and contribute." I think you just read a lot of books, think about strategies all day long, lack of exercise, don't even live to be forty years old, you should also take time to exercise every day, it will help your health, but also help your mind develop, don't be stunned. ”

He had to worry, after all, Guo Jia died at the age of only thirty-two in history, if Guo Jia hadn't died too early, the Battle of Chibi would definitely have been able to persuade Cao Cao, and if Cao Cao was not defeated, there would never be a situation where the world was divided into three parts, but Cao Cao unified the world.

"Here we are." Guo Jia didn't think much about it, but he felt really embarrassed, so he rolled up his sleeves and worked hard with Liu Yu and others.

With Liu Yu's move of lowering taxes and sharing weal and woe with the people, the people of the newly annexed two counties and fourteen cities immediately forgot their original two corrupt, incompetent and insatiable Taishou, and only remembered Liu Yu, and the situation in the two counties quickly stabilized completely.

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It took about a month before the annexation of the two counties, and the population of the two counties was basically sorted out.

"Big brother, this time the annexation of the two counties, 13,358 soldiers were captured, and the population was nearly 46,000 households, plus the population of Shangyong, and the more than 140,000 people we brought back from Dong Zhuo, the total population of the three counties has reached 100,000 households." Guan Yu reported.

Zhao Yun also said: "Big brother, if we still draw one ding from three dings, our army can be expanded to a maximum of 60,000, and it is enough to attack Hanzhong." ”

originally controlled the population of 100,000 households, and it was impossible to have an army of 60,000 in any case, but among Liu Yu's army, nearly 10,000 were the soldiers of a hundred battles who surrounded and suppressed the Yellow Turban, and 15,000 were captured Xiliang soldiers.

"Don't use troops to attack Hanzhong continuously." Guo Jiadao: "Hanzhong is not Weixing, and there are two counties in Xincheng. Although Zhang Lu did not listen to the dispatch of Yizhou Mu Liu Yan and controlled Hanzhong alone, but he did not betray Liu Yan clearly, Hanzhong is still nominally the territory of Yizhou Mu Liu Yan, we are unreasonable to take the liberty of cutting it, and I heard that Zhang Lu is quite popular in Hanzhong, even if Zhang Lu is not our opponent, but in case Zhang Lu finds that he can't stop our attack, he can also re-surrender to Yizhou Mu Liu Yan, Liu Yan will definitely accept it in order to regain control of Hanzhong, and then Liu Yan will send troops to resist us, and we will be unable to stop the entire Yizhou force to attack Hanzhong with 60,000 troops. Therefore, when the time is not right, we must not attack Hanzhong lightly. ”

Liu Yu, Guan Yu, and Zhao Yun all nodded when they heard this.

"Without attacking Hanzhong, it is quite expensive to raise 60,000 soldiers all year round with the power of the three counties." Speaking of this, Guo Jia frowned slightly, and was embarrassed: "But not only to plot against Hanzhong, but also to maintain enough combatable soldiers at all times, otherwise the opportunity will be fleeting." ”

"Is there a good way to be filial piety?" Liu Yu asked.

Guo Jia thought for a while and said: "I think we can open up a military cantonment, so that soldiers can take turns to participate in cultivation and be self-sufficient after training, so as to reduce losses and accumulate enough grain and grass to wait for opportunities." ”

Liu Yu smiled: "This strategy is very good, just do it." However, Bonghyo believes that the time will come approximately. ”

"It should be within two years." Guo Jia concluded.

"How can the fourth brother conclude like this?" Zhao Yun said curiously.

Guo Jia smiled confidently: "Liu Yan is old, he can't last a few years, he must want to pave the way for his son Liu Zhang, Zhang Lu has begun to get out of his control, he can tolerate Zhang Lu for a while, but he will never tolerate it forever, within two years, if he does not die, he will completely turn his face against Zhang Lu, and if he dies early, his son Liu Zhang will not tolerate Zhang Lu after his father's business, and he will use Zhang Lu to establish prestige, so as to deter the counties of Yizhou, control the counties of Yizhou, and will also completely turn his face with Zhang Lu, that is our time, At that time, whether it is to attack Zhang Lu with Liu Zhang's Yizhou army, or when they are both defeated, they will definitely be able to take Hanzhong by sending troops to attack Zhang Lu alone. ”

Liu Yu suddenly laughed and said: "Feng Xiao is a talent, the analysis is thorough, we can afford to wait for two years." ”

Two years is not a long time, but the princes of the Three Kingdoms are competing for the world, and it is not over in a few years or ten years, after all, it took Cao Cao more than ten years to unify the north.

Not to mention Cao Cao's unification of the north, Dong Zhuo would not be killed by Wang Yun and Lu Bu until more than a year later, Li Dao and Guo Yan drove Lu Bu away, and it took three years to control Emperor Han Xian before large-scale infighting, so that Emperor Han Xian could find an opportunity to escape from Guanzhong, and Emperor Han Xian was welcomed to Xudu by Cao Cao in Luoyang a year later.

In other words, it was almost four or five years before he could wait until Guanzhong was completely in chaos, and it was really nothing to spend two years waiting to take Hanzhong.

Liu Yu instructed: "Yun Chang, Zilong, although it is difficult to have a chance to attack Hanzhong in a short time, you must not slack off, and you must train all 60,000 troops into good soldiers before attacking Hanzhong." ”

"Yun Chang, Zilong obeys the order!" Guan Yu and Zhao Yun stood up and gave their hands to the command.

Winter goes to spring, this is the season of cultivation, the land that was cleared last year can finally be planted in this season, with the cultivated land, the hundreds of thousands of Luoyang people who came back from the defeat of Dong Zhuo really took root in the three counties of Shangyong.

While Guan Yu and Zhao Yun were training in Tuntian, Liu Yu was not idle.

During this time, he and Guo Jia accidentally discovered that the hundreds of thousands of Luoyang people who came back from the defeat of Dong Zhuo turned out to be a huge talent 'treasure'.

If you want to talk about this world, where the people are of the highest quality, there is no doubt that Luoyang, which was once the capital of the Han Dynasty for two hundred years, has countless skilled craftsmen, and there are many people who practice writing and hyphenation, Liu Yu and Guo Jia have selected a large number of talents from them.

In terms of craftsmen, Liu Yu's Ordnance Department only recruited more than a dozen ordinary blacksmiths in Shangyong to fill the number, and they also beat ordinary swords, as well as make some earthen bows and arrows with poor performance, but now the Ordnance Department has reached the scale of hundreds of skilled craftsmen, not only can play fine steel swords, but also can manufacture sophisticated iron armor, crossbows, etc., which was the standard of the Han regular army, and the progress is great.

Of course, Liu Yu is not ready to build more ordinary weapons, when he defeated Dong Zhuo, in addition to robbing back more than 100,000 people, he also got a large number of ordnance abandoned by the Xiliang army, these ordnances are enough for him to equip seventy or eighty thousand troops, at least for a few years, he is not short of ordinary armor, his ordnance department, he wants to create more legendary weapons, such as the 'Mo knife' of the Tang Dynasty.

The whole body of the Mo knife is made of steel, and steel is usually synonymous with expensive, even in the Tang Dynasty, the cost of building the Mo knife is too expensive, so that the production of the Mo knife in the entire Tang Dynasty is limited.

Therefore, the difficulty of the Mo knife is actually the difficulty in steelmaking!

Liu Yu is a modern comer, and he does have more than 1,800 years of knowledge beyond the end of the Han Dynasty, but he is not a steelmaker in modern times, he does not know the specific method of steelmaking, only occasionally heard that steelmaking is mainly to reduce the phosphorus content in the iron as much as possible and control the carbon content, etc., no matter how detailed he does not know, he can only say that let the blacksmith of the Ordnance Division experiment slowly, and only hope that one day he can succeed in refining steel at the lowest possible cost.

With stainless steel, he can forge more Mo Dao, and with Mo Dao, he will be able to train the elite of the legendary Mo Dao of the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years in advance, and when the time comes, what white horse righteous servant, tiger and leopard riding, trapping camp and the like, in front of his Mo Dao army, all are scum!

In addition to all kinds of skilled craftsmen, the most surprising thing for Liu Yu was that he actually discovered Cai Yong, a famous Confucian in the late Han Dynasty who was also a writer and calligrapher.

As a great Confucian, Cai Yong's status among the world's scholars is very high, even when Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, in order to win over the world's scholars, he forced Cai Yong to be an official, and he was awarded to high-ranking officials such as imperial history and Shangshu.

This is a person that even Dong Zhuo must pay attention to, not to mention others, Guo Jia heard that Cai Yong was in Shangyong, and he was excited to come to the door to ask Cai Yong for teaching.

How could Liu Yu not make good use of such talents.

In the next two years, Liu Yu often went to Cai Yong's place with Guo Jia to ask for teaching, one came and went, Liu Yu and Guo Jia had a vision that was ahead of more than 1,800 years, and the other was an extremely smart person, and the two of them 'mixed' with Cai Yong in less than a month.

Of course, Liu Yu's 'ambition' is definitely not just to be a friend with Cai Yong, he also wants to be Cai Yong's son-in-law, and 'trick' Cai Yan, the first talented woman in the world at the end of the Han Dynasty, into his arms.

Not to mention that after Liu Yu annexed Weixing, after the two counties of Xincheng, he was silent in the three counties of Shangyong and secretly accumulating strength, plotting against Hanzhong.

Liu Yu's move to merge the two counties attracted the attention of the princes, but after seeing Liu Yu fall silent again, the eyes of the princes were quickly attracted by the melee in the Central Plains, which was dominated by Hebei, Yan, Henan, Si, Jing and other prefectures.

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