Xi Zhicai's view is that the Jizhou Mu office should continue to be located in Yecheng, where the land is fertile, the water source is abundant, and it is convenient to go south to the Central Plains.

Gao Shun didn't see it that way, he was not in a hurry to go south to the Central Plains, but hoped that the warlords in the Central Plains would fight for a while to reduce the number of warlords, and he would occupy Yanzhou, Yuzhou and Sili, as well as Yangzhou and Jingzhou north of the Yangtze River, otherwise, the number of warlords in the Central Plains was too much, and it was too troublesome to conquer city by city; If the administrative office is too far south, it will put too much military pressure on the southern princes, and they will even be attacked by their alliance, and the gains outweigh the losses.

The reason for Xi Zhicai's rebuttal was to destroy all the warlords in one fell swoop while they were still growing up, which was the least consumption, but could preserve the most population and wealth, quickly strengthen their own strength, and transform them into war potential.

Gao Shun has a system, and now there is no shortage of money and food, if it weren't for the fact that he wanted to eliminate some of the scholars and careerists in the war, with his strength, he would be able to overthrow the Han court and occupy the whole country now; In his opinion, the Central Plains region here now consumes a lot of energy, but the territory occupied is very small, it is better to occupy the surrounding marginal areas, the energy and troops consumed are less, but the territory occupied is very large, which is the most cost-effective for him; But his words couldn't be explained to Xi Zhicai.

Guo Jia and Cheng Wu also strongly supported Xi Zhicai's opinion.

In the end, Gao Shun had no choice but to temporarily adopt Xi Zhicai's advice and set up the general's mansion and the state office.

After so many upgrades, Ma Gui's intelligence has grown from 80 to 86, plus he has been presiding over the affairs of Taoyuan Fort for the past seven years, after such a long time of exercise, he can be regarded as a qualified intermediate strategist, although there is still a big gap compared to Xi Zhicai, Cheng Li, Tian Feng and others, but because he is a system person, Gao Shun has a natural sense of closeness, some things that involve the system and need to be kept secret, Gao Shun can only negotiate with him, and he has a close relationship with Gao Shun, and many times takes the initiative to give advice to Gao Shun, even if Gao Shun does not adopt, It will not affect the relationship between the two, Ma Gui has become one of Gao Shun's most powerful assistants, even outsiders can see clearly, Ma Gui and Li Qiang are the people who accompanied Gao Shun to start a family, and they are Gao Shun's most trusted people.

After Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, and Cheng Wu arrived at Taoyuan Fort, Ma Gui was in charge of a lot less affairs, and Gao Shun would negotiate with Xi Zhicai and others for some major matters.

At the end of November, Gao Shun's matter at hand was almost dealt with, and Ma Gui found Gao Shun again, made many suggestions to Gao Shun, and reported some information that had come recently.

The first suggestion was for Gao Shun to immediately write to Li Qiang in Jizhou and ask him to go to Hejian to recruit Gao Ran.

This made Gao Shun very happy in his heart, Ma Gui's reminder was too timely, and he had forgotten about it for so long; Now there are more than 60,000 cavalry in Jizhou, and there is a shortage of senior generals, and this suggestion is very timely; At the same time, in the letter, he asked Li Qiang and Guo Tu to extensively recruit civil officials and military generals in Jizhou, and now he is the pastor of Jizhou, and the expedition is justified, and he does not want these people to be displaced because they have no development opportunities, and eventually become his opponents, increasing the difficulty of his unification of the Central Plains.

Similar letters were addressed to Zhou Fei, Fang Liang, Xiang Rong, and Cao Shan, asking them to do their best to recruit local talents for their own use.

Gao Shun hopes to attract talents from other states and counties to take refuge.

Ma Gui's second suggestion is to emphasize the importance of Taoyuan Fort and Xinxing County, Ma Gui feels that Taoyuan Fort is located in the center of the three counties of Bingzhou, Anzhou and Hexi, which is convenient for foreign support, and the defense facilities are very perfect, the importance is self-evident, and it cannot be given up in a short time; The more important Taoyuan Fort also has the kidnapped Qiao family and Lu Su and others, which must be kept secret and cannot be known to outsiders, so he suggested that Zhao Xiong be transferred to serve as the Taishou of Xinxing County, and the county commander of Taoyuan County and others will arrange system personnel, temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of the General's Mansion, and only hand over Yanmen County to the jurisdiction of the state first.

Gao Shun thought about it carefully and felt that this suggestion was very good, he had considered moving all of them before, which was a bit hasty; At the same time, Gao Shun also proposed that all the officers and soldiers under Zhao Xiong's current jurisdiction, except for the 2,000 cavalry and 2,500 infantry left in Yanmen County, were transferred to Taoyuan Fort and continued to be under Zhao Xiong's jurisdiction, and Gao Shun allowed Zhao Xiong to continue to expand the army to 5,000 infantry and 25,000 cavalry; Zhang Liao is already twenty years old, Gao Shun decided to appoint Zhang Liao as a lieutenant general, transferred to Jizhou, under the jurisdiction of Li Qiang, and then cultivated by Li Qiang, this good seedling must not be buried; There are more than 10,000 cavalry and their families in Taoyuan Fort, led by Zhang Liao to Jizhou.

Ma Gui made a change, transferring 10,000 cavalry from Yanmen County to Jizhou led by Zhang Liao, and the more than 10,000 cavalry of Taoyuan Fort remained unchanged, so that the trouble of transferring troops could be reduced, and Gao was allowed.

At that time, Ma Gui will also go to Jizhou, and Taoyuan Fort will leave Zhao Xiong and Zhang Liao, which will be enough to deal with everything; As for Ge Hu, he still followed Li Qiang after that, and it was particularly important to protect Li Qiang's safety.

As for the families of the officers in Taoyuan Fort, Gao Shun would also arrange for them to go to various places one after another to reunite with their families, and then live together to prevent them from treating them as hostages, affecting everyone's morale, or having a bad opinion of Gao Shun.

Ma Gui's second suggestion is about trapping the camp, now the trapping camp is divided into three parts, each part is only 4 tun, it can't play its due combat power at all, it's a pure waste, Ma Gui suggested that the three parts of the trapping camp be transferred back to Jizhou, and Dian Wei and Pei Yuanshao were transferred back, they were too wasteful to only serve as guards; The fortified battalion of the Koji people was transferred to Fang Liang's command, where in the future they would face Xuzhou, Yanzhou and Yuzhou, and they would deal with the infantry, and the heavy infantry would be able to exert terrifying combat effectiveness; In order to balance, Cheng Li, Tian Feng and Fu Zhi were each equipped with a division of senior infantry and a division of junior cavalry as escorts.

The number of high-ranking cavalry was too small to equip others, so they could only be kept as Gao Shun's escort.

Ma Gui also suggested that trade should be expanded, and now he would not care about the views of the imperial court, but could increase the sales of refined salt, tea, cotton cloth, glass pieces, and glasses, and take advantage of the chaos to loot a batch of wealth from the Central Plains, and at the same time, the center of trade would be transferred to Jizhou, and Taoyuanbao would mainly face the three counties of Anzhou and Hexi and Yanmen County in the north of Bingzhou.

Gao Shun's reply is that it is being considered now, and it will be implemented as soon as the consideration is mature; Since the last upgrade, the system can synthesize craftsman-level merchants, Gao Shun passed the experiment, their level is not as high as imagined, they can only meet the county level, as for the previous junior merchants, it is only equivalent to the apprentice level; Gao Shun is now considering whether he should control the national trade, or divide the heroes into various places, establish large families, and hand over the business to these families, so that they can be used as new families to fight against the existing scholars, he has never made up his mind.

Ma Gui also suggested that Gao Shun eliminate the Wuhuan people in Liaodong County as soon as possible, so that the barbarians in the north would be swept away, and then they could go all out to dominate the Central Plains and no longer have to worry about the future.

Gao Shun is ready to make a decision after consulting with Xi Zhicai; The reason why there was no rush to eliminate Wuhuan in Liaodong County before was mainly because Wuhuan in Liaodong County was quite honest, and secondly, even if Wuhuan in Liaodong County was eliminated now, it was impossible to immigrate in large numbers when cotton had not been popularized in large quantities, and now there are still a large number of wastelands in Youzhou, Bingzhou, Qingzhou and Jizhou that need to be cultivated by people, and there is no need to immigrate to Liaodong at all.

In the end, Ma Gui asked for instructions on how to treat Gongsun Chan of Wei County, now Li Qiang has more than 40,000 cavalry in Wei County to govern Yecheng, and Gongsun Zhan's army in Wei County is also very strong, and it is very difficult to subdue, and there have been several friction incidents with Li Qiang's army recently, and there must be Gongsun Chan's support behind it; Now either eliminate Gongsun Chan and incorporate his troops, or expel Gongsun Chan and let him lead the officers and soldiers of his headquarters to leave, and the officers and soldiers with household registration in Jizhou must stay.

Gao Shun remembered that in his previous life, Gongsun Zan developed into a powerful warlord, and Yuan Shao could only fight with him with the power of Jizhou. Even so, Yuan Shao only eliminated it when he united with the Wuhuan cavalry.

Now Gao Shun is still unclear about Gongsun Zhan's situation, and he is going to find Guo Jia to learn about Gongsun Zhan's information, and then negotiate the issue of Gongsun Chan with Xi Zhicai and others.

Subsequently, Ma Gui reported some information on the Central Plains, Dongjun Taishou Qiaomao seemed to have plans to raise troops to rebel against the imperial court, Yanzhou and Yuzhou's state pastors, assassins, and Taishou had close contacts, and sent people to contact Fang Liang and Zhou Fei, hoping that they would send troops to Luoyang to maintain the face of the imperial court, and the Central Plains region would be in chaos, so be sure to prepare in advance. 21010