Chapter 558: Jiangdong Erzhang
After Liu He was crowned king, he did not immediately order the deployment of a crusade against Cao Pi or Liu Chan, but stepped up his efforts to recuperate, especially to develop the land of Jiangdong, Liu He knew that in a thousand years, or even only five or six hundred years later, this will be the most fertile area in the whole world, the so-called "Yang Yi Yi Two", the so-called Jiangnan Fish and Rice Township, although the specific location is slightly different, but they all belong to the current Yangzhou, especially Liu He also needs to use this as a base to carry out overseas military operations, How can it be implemented without adequate material security?
In addition, Liu He has always faintly felt that his system will never fall on his head for no reason, especially after collecting the "Taiping Qing Lingjing" and obtaining the system reward, he feels that there will be something behind this that makes him feel worried, although he knows that this worry may be unfounded, but the heart of defense is indispensable, so he has not completed the unification quickly in recent years, but decided to lay a solid material foundation for himself first, and even wait until he has developed a gunpowder weapon before considering the issue of unification.
As for the news of Sima Yi's conquest, Liu He also heard about it, but he did not stop it, nor did he accept Guo Jia's proposal to lead troops to demonstrate on the border of Xuzhou and force Sima Yi to withdraw his troops, in his opinion, no matter how sinister Sima Yi is, after all, he is a Han person, in terms of the war against the Japanese, it is natural that the Han people win more comfortably, not to mention that with Sima Yi's cold nature, even if he destroys Cao Pi's forces, I am afraid that Sima Yi will not be able to come back, which will only force Cao Pi to surrender, Putting the Son of Heaven on his head as early as possible, when the time comes, he will not be as free as before, and it will really do more harm than good to him.
Zhou Yu is not only the best military commander in the world, but also a super talent who is proficient in internal affairs, under the various production tools provided by Liu He, under the comprehensive promotion of Liu He's Juntian, Tuntian and other systems, even the Shanyue people who have always been fierce and martial and aggressive have given up the hard life of the people, came to Zhou Yu's rule, and started their peasants well, at the same time, Liu He transferred Guoyuan, who has Juntian skills, and Shi Tao, who has Tuntian skills, to Yangzhou, and serves as Zhou Yu's other driver and Zhizhong respectively. In this way, Jiangdong's grain production has been further improved, and in just three years, Jiangdong's grain output has quadrupled, and it has become a land of fish and rice that everyone is jealous of.
Of course, in these three years, Zhou Yu did not give up the training of sailors, at this time Liu He developed more ships, especially many ships suitable for sea navigation and combat, which made Zhou Yu's heart more fanatical, urging Zhou Tai to step up training every day, and the number of sailors has also been expanded, now only in Yangzhou has 80,000 sailors, Jingzhou also has 50,000 sailors, if you add 30,000 sailors in Liaodong, Liu He has a total of 160,000 sailors, The number of naval armies alone exceeded the combined forces of Shu and Chu.
In addition to military training and handling internal affairs, Liu He did not give up the search for Jiangdong Erzhang, after all, these two people, whether they were in the local prestige or internal affairs ability, were enough to attract Liu He to do everything possible to find them.
Liu He's way of finding people is also very special, he took Chen Qun to conduct a private visit to Weifu in the name of inspecting the customs and customs, and looked around.
Although the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is beautiful, and the economy of Jiangdong has made a breakthrough, there is still some gap between the north and Shuzhong, which is actively developed in agriculture, and of course, it is far from being able to compare with Chang'an, so this line of people has suffered a lot along the way, and it is good to say otherwise, but the problem of accommodation is difficult to solve, because many places are still relatively desolate areas, no one lives in ten miles and eight miles, and there is absolutely no inn or anything, and the post station has not been established thoroughly, and sometimes they have to sleep in the wilderness.
Fortunately, Liu and the people around him are all out of battle, the current weather is spring and March, the climate in the south is pleasant, and it is not cold at night, otherwise this problem is really difficult to solve.
However, what is surprising is that although it has gone through a lot of hardship, it has also allowed Liu He to discover a lot of talents, of course, these talents are at most the highest attribute in a certain aspect is about 70, and there is no one who can reach the second-rate standard, which also prompted Liu He to make up his mind that this time he must find these two top masters of internal affairs, I believe that with them, Jiangdong's strength will be further developed.
Fortunately, Chen Qun's ability is more prominent, after a month of hard searching, Chen Qun suddenly sensed, and said to Liu He in surprise: "Lord, there are two talents two hundred miles to the southeast, their attributes seem to be very strong, they are first-class talents, it should be Jiangdong Erzhang." ”
"Oh? Is this true? Liu He was immediately pleasantly surprised when he heard this, and hurriedly led Chen Qun and the others to the southeast.
It took Liu He three days to finally arrive at the location Chen Qun said, but when he looked up, there was a big mountain in front of him, which suddenly made him worried, it turned out that Erzhang was actually living in seclusion in the mountain, but this vast mountain, where to look?
However, Liu He was not discouraged, he ordered some people to be divided into hundreds of teams according to groups of four, and to search separately, as long as they found out, two people were left to watch the two, and the other two sent a signal to gather people everywhere.
And the so-called signal is a newly invented kind of arrow, which should be heard within a few miles, after all, the mountains are quiet, and the transmission of sound is more convenient than in a noisy place.
Liu He's method really worked, and in less than two hours, a team near him sent a signal, and Liu He followed the direction of the signal excitedly, and finally saw the legendary Erzhang.
"Two gentlemen, you can make the lonely king easy to find, to be able to see you today, not only the blessing of the lonely king, but also the blessing of the people of Jiangdong, the blessing of the people of the world, the court needs you, please follow me to Chang'an, or directly serve in Yangzhou."
Liu He saw Zhang Hong and Zhang Zhao living in seclusion together, and said with anticipation.
At this time, the two were playing chess together, but since they were discovered, they no longer had any interest in playing chess, because their minds had been disrupted.
However, they were still moved by Liu He's persistence, and they didn't expect that at this time, Liu He was still thinking about them, and came thousands of miles to find them, which shows their sincerity.
However, these two people smiled bitterly in unison, and said to Liu He: "We are all old and faint, and we are really useless to the king. We understand the king's affection, and at the same time, the king also knows that the children of our clan are also working under the king, we heard that the king is going to open a department in Chang'an, and we are ready to let them take the exam, but the two of us, forget it, in the past few years, people have become lazy, even if they are reluctant to go, I am afraid it will be difficult to serve the king. ”