After arranging the affairs of Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi, Yuan Xi began a new personnel arrangement. After two years of vigorous development, Youzhou has made great improvements in all aspects, but there is still a big difference with Jizhou's strength. Jizhou was one of the most prosperous and powerful places in the Han Dynasty, although it experienced the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but it was full of heritage, and under the effective governance of Yuan Shao, it soon restored its pre-war prosperity.

The foreigners in the north were basically intimidated by themselves and did not dare to act rashly, and the next focus was to continue to develop their strength and defeat their biggest opponent Cao Cao first. Therefore, Yuan Xi decided to choose Yecheng as his base camp, but he did not relax for Youzhou, and in the future, he would not only recover Liaodong, but also pacify the northeast region.

When Zhang Liao surrendered to Yuan Xi, he asked that he was unwilling to be an enemy of Cao Cao, so Yuan Xi transferred him from Shanggu County to Jixian County, and made him the general of Zhenbei, guarding Youzhou, and closely monitoring every move of foreign tribes in the north. Tian Yu, Tian Chou, Sun Li, Gan Ning, Xian Yupu, Guan Ning, Bing Yuan and others who stayed in Youzhou were crowned officials and knighted together, and jointly assisted Zhang Liao in developing Youzhou, guarding the frontier, and fighting against foreign peoples. Everyone was grateful to Dade and said that they swore to defend Youzhou to the death. Yuan Xi has full trust in Zhang Liao and others, and while letting them make every effort to develop Youzhou, they will try to weaken the strength of the surrounding foreign clans, and they must fully support the development of the navy, and when they go south in the future, the role of the navy is very great.

The addition of the Youzhou army, so that the strength of Jizhou surpassed Yuan Shao's heyday, the army reached nearly 300,000, Yuan Xi pursued the elite army and simplified the government, eliminated the old, weak, sick and disabled, gave high subsidies, returned to the township, selected strong young people, and formed an elite army. In the governance of Jizhou, Yuan Shao's governance strategy won the support of the people, and Yuan Xi did not make much changes, but the original tax was changed from three out of ten to two out of ten, for a period of three years, and it was restored after three years.

The people of Jizhou are naturally happy, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the war was in chaos, and the major forces in order to develop their strength, they all drew extremely high taxes, five out of ten, four out of ten are very common, only the particularly rich will be three out of ten, like Jingzhou and Yizhou. Jizhou's three out of ten is already a very low tax, and two out of ten is the current last, but the judge, Tian Feng and others are bitter, worried that the people are rich, but the Jizhou treasury is unable to make ends meet. Yuan Xi thought that Jizhou was still rich, and he would reduce the number of troops and join the development of Jizhou, which was enough to deal with the change in taxes, and if it was insufficient, he would find a way.

In terms of personnel arrangement, Yuan Xi also tried his best to make reasonable arrangements. The trial has followed Yuan Shao for many years, and Yecheng has today's prosperity, which is naturally indispensable, and he still serves as the Taishou of Yecheng; Feng Ji has cooperated with the trial for many years, is familiar with each other, serves as the Sima of Jizhou, and assists in the management of Yecheng. He was good at the political construction of people's livelihood, and let him serve as a special driver in Jizhou and inspect the counties; Tian Feng is upright, has the courage to give direct advice, serves as the head of the general's mansion, and sorts out the copywriting for Yuan Xi, if Yuan Xi has anything wrong, Tian Feng can correct it.

This is Yuan Xi's arrangement for Yuan Shao's four major strategists, Yuan Xi still knows the ability of these four people, and Yuan Shao can have today thanks to the four people, but although Yuan Xi is kind and kind-hearted, he is aware of everything, and hopes that the four of them can abandon their previous unhappiness, cooperate with each other, and develop Jizhou. These words are mainly aimed at the trial and Feng Ji, the two of them immediately raised their spirits, and they didn't dare to be sloppy, their current lord is not ordinary smart, although he looks very friendly, but if he wants to make small moves, I'm afraid he can't hide it. Tian Feng and Fu Zhi were nothing, so they naturally responded to live up to their trust.

On the military side, Yuan Xi appointed Xu Shu as a military advisor in charge of military commander-in-chief, Sima Yi and Jia Xu as deputy military advisers in charge of intelligence collection and analysis, and Xun Zhan as a marching Sima in charge of diplomatic negotiations. In terms of cavalry, Zhao Yun was the main general, Gao Lan, Han Meng, and Jiang Qi were the deputy generals, and he led the training of 50,000 cavalry. In terms of infantry, Gao Shun, Zhang Jaw and Zhang Yan were the main generals, and Lü Kuang and Lü Xiang were the deputy generals, training 100,000 infantry. Gao Gan, Jiang Yiqu, and Chun Yuqiong are responsible for logistics and transportation.

Yuan Xi streamlined the Jizhou army, with 150,000 elite troops, and their task was to be an excellent soldier. The other 100,000 are the Tuntian army, which produces in peacetime, is self-sufficient, and can be a reserve force when the war is urgent, which saves a lot of expenses compared to the 300,000 conventional army, and the saved is used to strengthen the equipment, in Yuan Xi's eyes, life is the most valuable, and what he wants is weapons and equipment to fight, rather than relying on the number of troops to pile up, so as to build a real elite army.

In terms of economy, it is mainly based on taxes and the support of the Zhen family, which Yuan Xi believes is far from enough, and he needs to build his own industry. Yuan Xi invested in the acquisition and construction of a large number of restaurants in the downtown area of Jizhou, trained excellent waiters, and used signature distilled liquor to attract customers, and the business was booming, which not only increased his own income, but also provided employment opportunities for the poor people in Jizhou. Yuan Xi handed over the hotel to Zhang Xiuer to take care of, and only his own people were the most reliable.

Yuan Xi also discussed with Zhen Mi, Diao Chan, and Cai Wenji to build a guild hall for vocal and dance performances, and charge admission fees. The three of them began to wonder, this is not equivalent to street performance, the dignified general wants to rely on this to increase his income, I am afraid that it will cause a joke, Zhen Mi smiled: "Husband, the restaurant business is booming, enough for the government's expenses." However, if you earn income from street performing, others will laugh at you, a general, who loves money as much as his life! ”

Diao Chan and Cai Wenji also nodded, indicating that they were on the same position as Zhen Mi. Yuan Xi rolled his eyes helplessly, and said earnestly: "We have to look at the problem with a long-term vision, establish a guild hall, increase income This is one of them, the main thing is to increase entertainment, life needs to be happy, you need to be frugal, you need rituals, this is not what you call street art, I have a new name, this is called art." ”

Art? It seems to be quite innovative, and everyone was quickly attracted by Yuan Xi's idea, and they wanted to hear Yuan Xi's arrangement. Yuan Xi talked eloquently, telling them about the prototype of the modern opera house, or Cai Wenji's comprehension ability is better, and soon understood the key to it, and suggested: "Since it is an entertainment project for people's pastime, there is a little less style, I wonder if there are some more projects?" ”

Yuan Xi nodded and said: "Or Wen Ji is thoughtful, it is true that some items can be added, acrobatics, drama, poetry, etc., we can rent them to others in addition to our own pastime, the big families in Jizhou are all rich people, how can they not use such a good venue?" ”

Diao Chan was also rarely happy and laughed: "It's a pity that the general doesn't go into business." We all have an arrangement, Qi Ling has no arrangement, she will play a child's temper, I don't know if the general has an idea? Yuan Xi thought for a while and said, "I only thought about the aspect of the text just now, and I really didn't think about it. In this era of war, martial arts are also indispensable, I will build a training hall for ordinary people to exercise, Qi Ling can just manage the training hall, and can also teach people to train. ”

After discussion, Yuan Xi decided to build the opera house and gymnasium first, and as for the library and science and technology museum that Yuan Xi had in mind, it was better to see how well the opera house and gymnasium would work. In Yuan Xi's view, he has spent so much effort, one is to increase the Yuan family's industry, and the other is to improve the overall quality of the people of Jizhou, so that people of insight can see the strength of Jizhou and come to vote, and the improvement of the quality of soldiers is the foundation for building an iron-blooded army.

Yuan Xi solicited the opinions of his advisers, and was quite enthusiastic about the construction of the training hall, believing that this could not only exercise the physical fitness of the soldiers, but also provide a good reserve force for Jizhou, and their eyes were still on protecting the family and defending the country. The establishment of the opera house could increase a certain amount of income, but they were worried that it would damage the reputation of the general, and only Sima Yi loved vocal music and expressed his support. Yuan Xi had no choice but to explain again: "General Ben didn't go to make money, I built this hall to relax everyone's mood, let the Jizhou soldiers exert greater power, and of course, to celebrate the heroes who returned from victory." ”