To say that the strong figures of the Han Dynasty now are none other than Gao Shun, but the power of Fang Liang, the general of the expedition, and Zhou Fei, the general of the expedition, should not be underestimated.

Zhou Fei, the general of the expedition to the west, governed Yongzhou, Liangzhou, Yizhou and Sanfu regions, and was in charge of military and political affairs, people's livelihood, and strong soldiers.

Fang Liang, the general of Zhengdong, ruled Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou and Yuzhou, all of which were rich and powerful.

In the eyes of the people of several states, Fang Liang and Zhou Fei are the emperor's sons-in-law, the people who directly manage them, and the actual rulers, who can bring them vital benefits more than the imperial court, which is the most direct feeling for the people of Yuzhou.

After receiving several counties, the first to arrange were county officials, and the appointment power was all in the hands of Gao Shun and Fang Liang.

Through this adjustment, Zhao Yun's elder brother was appointed as the assassin of Yanzhou, replacing Zhuge Xuan's position; Zhuge Xuan was promoted to the title of Taishou of Chenjun.

Following the consistent principle of Gaoshun forces, the people's livelihood is put in the first place, in recent years, Yuzhou has been in constant war, warlords have frantically collected taxes, levy and issue conscription, the people are not able to make a living, and many people have fled, so that the population has been greatly reduced; Fang Liang first provided relief to the people, and the way to provide relief was to use work for relief, to build roads, build bridges, build military camps, etc., and distribute food every day, so that they could temporarily solve the problem of survival for themselves and their families.

Large quantities of grain and salt were delivered one after another, and grain was distributed daily according to prior agreements, dispelling the doubts in the hearts of the people.

The construction of state roads, county roads, and county roads alone requires a large amount of labor, and is a long-term and arduous project. In addition, the restoration of water conservancy and irrigation projects has provided a large number of employment opportunities for the people of Yuzhou and Yanzhou, and fed a large number of people.

Subsequently, wasteland, arable land were distributed, and production was resumed; Even those domestic slaves and slaves who fled from the families of the local tyrants of the big clan were also divided into land and household registration; This deeply touched the interests of the big clans and local tyrants, but it expanded the source base of tax revenue for the government.

After the war, there were few people in the land, and Fang Liang established many manors in accordance with Gao Shun's previous requirements, all of which were Gao Shun's private property.

Since these manors are distributed in various counties, in order not to compete with the people for land, the construction of manors is not large, the largest is not more than 10,000 acres, and the small ones are only more than 3,000 acres.

In the process of receiving the officers and soldiers of Yuzhou, Fang Liang despised the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of Yuzhou very much, except for some of the cavalry under the jurisdiction of Gongsun Zan and Gongsun Kang and the part of the infantry recruited from Liaodong, the other troops were not ideal for cannon fodder.

After strict selection, 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry were selected from the troops of Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zhan and Gongsun Kang, plus the 10,000 cavalry brought by Xu Huang, and the number of officers and soldiers under Fang Liang's jurisdiction increased by 60,000. The fact that the remaining people were all eliminated as civilians made a large number of officers and soldiers and their families happy, but also embarrassed for their future livelihoods.

Zhonglang stationed Xu Huang in Runan County, and Fang Liang added 5,000 infantry to him, bringing the total strength to 15,000; Tai Shici was transferred from Lu State to Huaiyin County to station, and the cavalry under his jurisdiction increased to 15,000 people, as a mobile force, it could support the Quartet at any time.

Huang Zhong's officers and soldiers increased by 5,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry respectively; Yin Li was still a lieutenant general, and added 5,000 infantry to him and continued to garrison Puyang City.

Bao Xin, the former minister of Jibei, was appointed as Sima of the other department, commanding 5,000 cavalry, replacing Sima Ju's position, and stationed in Chenliu County with Sima Huanglong, an infantry army.

Liu Yi, a retainer of Gongsun Du, was appointed as Sima of the other department after breaking away from the relationship with Gongsun Du, leading 5,000 cavalry to garrison Chen State.

All of the above people were dispatched by Huang Zhong, making Huang Zhong a powerful figure in Sizhou second only to Fang Liang and Cheng Li.

Zhonglang returned to Xuzhou after Zhang Meng returned to Xuzhou in vain, and Xu Lin, the governor of the prefecture, ordered him to go to Guangling County to garrison and recruit 5,000 infantry from the local area.

The families of the soldiers who migrated from Liangzhou with Pang De were placed in Guangling County, and there were many people in it who could become excellent soldiers, and Xu Lin didn't want to waste them.

Zhonglang transferred Wu Dun from Chengyang County to Langya County to garrison it, replacing Zhang Meng's position.

At this point, Fang Liang completed the layout of external defense, deploying along the Huai River in the south and Yingchuan County and Yin in Henan in the west.

Not only that, Fang Liang even demanded that all the original cavalry and war horses in Xuzhou and Yanzhou be eliminated and replaced with civilian use, either to pull carts and promote the development of the private transportation industry, or to use them for agriculture and restore the many abandoned lands in Runan as soon as possible.

In recent years, the Xianbei people escaped, the Wuhuan people were exterminated, and the number of cultivated cattle imported from other races decreased sharply, which could not meet the needs of production, so Fang Liang had to replace the cultivated cattle with horses and inferior horses, so as to promote the agricultural development of Yuzhou and restore the people's livelihood as soon as possible.

However, this move shocked those big families, you know, the Central Plains is not only short of cattle, horses are even more scarce, many local tyrants are riding ox carts, not even a horse can be obtained, not to mention their family's troops, but also lack of war horses.

Now that opportunities are rare and limited, they are competing to buy them at a high price; Fang Liang did not stop it, as long as he had money, he would sell it to them; First, he felt that Gao Shun had no shortage of war horses in his hands, and secondly, these local tyrants had purchased horses and could replace ox carts, and those cattle would also be used in agriculture to promote agricultural development.

stabilized the army and the people's livelihood, but Fang Liang's next actions were stunned, confiscating all the Yuan family's property, disbanding their family's slaves and tribes, and distributing the cultivated land confiscated from the Yuan family to them, making them ordinary people.

This alone has added nearly 10,000 people to Yuzhou.

This made Gao Shun determined to continue to implement the policy of suppressing the nobles and local tyrants; It has been recorded in history that at the end of the Three Kingdoms, the population was less than 10 million, and Gao Shun estimated that most of the population was hidden by the big family after the incident of the Yuan family, and he must avoid similar things happening again.

The Yuan family, which had existed for hundreds of years, has since disappeared, and as for Yuan Tan and others, they can only rely on their personal ability to fight hard from then on.

Gao Gan's family is from Yanzhou, and the family members were in Yuzhou and escaped, but the family property was looted by Dong Zhuo, and the house and land were confiscated by the county.

This is also for the military and political officials of other forces; The return of Liu Biao and Liu Zhang's ancestral house at the beginning made many people whose families were in Gao Shun's sphere of influence, but who were officials in other forces, see hope, even if they failed in other places, they could return to their hometowns; Gao Shun borrowed Gao Gan's deeds, hoping to let them learn from them.

Compared with Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Du and Tao Qian's Xuzhou, Yuan Shao committed suicide, the forces surrendered, and the number of people who were accepted was the least, and even none of the county officials remained in office, and all of them were dismissed and returned to their hometowns.

The soldiers killed or wounded in the battle of the Gao Shun forces were well resettled, and they were given generous pensions to ensure that they had no worries about the future, but on the contrary, the officers and soldiers killed and wounded in the battle of the Yuan Shao forces were not cared for and did not have any special care, forming a sharp contrast.

Such an obvious contrast is for the officers and men of other forces, and the treatment of surrender before the war and surrender in defeat is different.

In order to prevent Gongsun Du from continuing to implement similar measures, Fang Liang arranged for Ruyin County to arrange county officials to be system personnel, and strengthened the monitoring and checks and balances of Gongsun Du; Ling Zhonglang stationed Tai Shici in Ruyin County, and also had the intention of watching Gongsun Du.

Although the history of Yuzhou is a Xin comment, Gao Shun mainly uses his prestige in Yuzhou to facilitate the stability of the place.

Gao Shun's forces implement the separation of military and government, and the county officials below are all Gao Shun's people, so there will be no possibility that Xin Ping will sit big and strong.

Since Gao Shun did not reform the control and still implemented the policy of the Han Dynasty, the state assassin was a very small official position, with a salary of only 600 stones, which was similar to the county order and far worse than the county guard, so the appointment of Xin Ping was not reused.

Completely eradicate Yuan Shao's forces, as well as his influence on Yuzhou, the happiest are the members of the imperial family, which can be regarded as avenging Liu Chong, and so on, if they are in trouble, Fang Liang will never sit idly by, after all, he is the emperor's son-in-law.

What I don't understand is the Shi clan and the local tyrants, Gao Shun's forces have fought and pulled the Shi clan and the local tyrants, exterminated some of them, supported some of them, snubbed some of them, and reused some of them.