Under Li Ming's rule, after two years of development, by the autumn of 194, it already had a population of 30 million. There are about 18 million Han people, and the others are all Nanban and Baiyue ethnic groups who have defected one after another.

More than 2 million people from Wulingman came to defect, more than 500,000 people came from Nanzhongman, 200,000 people from Banyuman and Jiangxiaman, and Wuyiman soared to more than 6 million people in recent years, of which nearly one million were newborns.

It can be said that if Li Ming had not set the age of marriage at 18 years old, he was afraid that the population would further skyrocket. After all, in the past two years, all parts of Jiangdong have been organized and planned by the county magistrates and county commanders of various counties, and the students of medical schools are in charge, and one by one maternal and children's hospitals have been established, specializing in midwifery and infant care.

Thanks to government subsidies, most women avoid dystocia. The term caesarean section officially appeared in the land of China, so that at least more than 500 women with difficult births, mothers and children are safe.

Li Ming also took advantage of this east wind, and naturally promoted it fiercely, and his reputation went further, and the people were grateful to him.

Needless to say, after the initial sinicization, the Yue people have already entered the army to serve in 100,000 elite soldiers, mainly Peng Hu is mainly concentrated in Luling County and Nanhai County, and Changsha County is mainly Wuyi barbarians who help guard over there.

Among the Han people, another 50,000 people enlisted in the army, and with the original troops, there were already 300,000 troops under Li Ming's command. Unlike those rabble, all the soldiers stewed with meat, practiced once a day, and conducted a team drill every three days, and the soldiers were all real elites, but they still lacked some baptism of actual combat.

At the same time, Li Ming recruited 300,000 Tuntian troops to reclaim Jeju Island and Yiju. After more than half a year's efforts, Jeju Island has built a medium-sized wharf, a castle and cultivated land, and three horse ranches.

In Youzhou, 10,000 horses were purchased through Gongsun Zhan, including more than 5,000 war horses, and the male horses were not castrated. Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao went to war, and they needed a lot of medicine and furs, Li Ming had it in his hands, and both sides were very satisfied with the transaction. As a side effect, Gongsun Chan set up dozens of sentry posts in the coastal areas.

I used to think that the sea route was safe, but now I found that the sea route is not safe, and Gongsun Chan only felt that he wanted to cry without tears.

A large amount of farmland has been reclaimed in Yizhou, and animal husbandry and fishing are also developing in an orderly manner. At the same time, a large number of open-pit gold mines were found in the Jinguashi area, and with the efforts of 10,000 miners, a large number of gold ingots were successively transported back to Wanling for the subsequent promotion of gold, silver and copper coins as reserves.

Incidentally, silver deposits have been discovered in Tiantai County and Jieyang County, as well as in the Qixia Mountain area, and mining has been organized. In addition to this, there are semi-raw ores such as tin, lead and zinc ores.

The soldiers did not worry about food and clothing, and now what they hope most is for Li Ming to further expand his territory. Whether it is to the west or to the north, as long as an order is given, the soldiers can immediately smear the ground for him and expand the territory.

Herein lies the problem, Li Ming's focus is on internal affairs, and obviously has no intention of external expansion. The land of Jiangdong was originally remote and wild, and so many people moved over one after another.

The expansion of the counties and the resettlement of the common people have become the focus of fiscal expenditures in the past two years, accounting for more than 50 percent, and the expenditure on education has reached 20 percent, and less than 20 percent has been used for military purposes. Otherwise, once you enter the wartime mechanism, the expenses will definitely force the book Cao to go crazy in the country.

In the autumn of 194, a major event attracted the attention of the princes of the Central Plains, and even Li Ming, Cao Song was killed!

The world was in turmoil, and Cao Song returned to Qian County for refuge, and then went to Langxi County. Seeing that Cao Cao had secured the position of Yanzhou Assassin, he planned to go to Yanzhou to live, who knew that he had not yet entered Taishan County, and had already taken refuge in Taishan under the command of Tao Qian.

When the news reached Yanzhou, Cao Cao was said to have fainted on the spot, perhaps the headache was the root of the disease at this time. After waking up, he almost roared to break the body of the Taishan thief into ten thousand pieces, and at this moment, the Taishan thief had already gone south to take refuge in Yuan Shu and was arranged to be stationed in Zhongli County.

Cao Cao was furious, since the Taishan thief had run away, then Tao Qian, the owner, naturally became the object of his anger. Immediately gathered the soldiers and horses, left Xun Yu and Cheng Yu to guard Juancheng, personally led an army of 50,000, and slaughtered into Peijun. These 50,000 troops are all elites under his command, including 3,000 tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Chun, which is a newly formed heavy cavalry corps.

Don't look at the fact that there are only three thousand, each of them is composed of qi practitioners, and the cultivation is the most ordinary "Fighting Battle". The provision of 1,000 people is equivalent to the supply of more than 5,000 ordinary people. The other more than 40,000 soldiers are also real elites.

Going south to fight against the Jiao Snake, not to mention Cao Cao, many princes saw it, and continued to rely on the previous training model, for fear that they would suffer a loss when dealing with Li Ming. Dispel the idea of relying on the number of people to pile up victory, and take the route of elite soldiers.

The army went east from Jiyin County and fought all the way into Donghai County. Tao Qian sent Cao Bao to guard the county, but he didn't want to be easily defeated by Cao Cao. In this way, all the way south, it seems that the army is about to come to Pengcheng County.

Liu Bei had already been killed in the battle to conquer the snake in the south, so naturally no one went to the rescue. Seeing that Cao Jun was about to kill in front of the door, Tao Qian was suddenly at a loss and hurriedly asked the surrounding princes for help.

Tiankai, the assassin of Qingzhou who was appointed by Gongsun Zhan, got the news, but found Kong Rong, after all, in Qingzhou, this is the real real power. Kong Rong received the news and sent the general Wu Anguo to the south to rescue. At the same time, Yuan Shu and Li Ming also received the news, Tao Qian was really scared, and actually asked the two of them for help.

"Is Tao Qian stupid or crazy? Such a great opportunity is not to be missed! When Li Ming saw the request for help, he immediately stood up excitedly. Seeing that autumn has arrived, the grain has been put into storage, which can fully support a skirmish.

Rescue? Don't count on it, go straight to the north, go slowly, and the goal is to go down to Pi Country and Guangling County. As long as Cao Cao defeated Pengcheng and killed Tao Qian, then Xuzhou would become a borderless land, and he would take advantage of the situation to occupy these two counties!

"Not only that, but my subordinates also received a message!" Li You hurriedly said, "Beihai guarded Kong Rong too much, and sent Wu Anguo to the south with 20,000 soldiers to support. According to the exact information, Guan Yu is in this army! ”

"Yun Chang has not heard from him for more than a year, but he didn't expect to be under Kong Rong's command......" Li Ming was suddenly gloomy when he heard this.

At that time, Guan Yu said that he would give priority to his side, and he had not heard of him joining Liu Ting in Guanzhong this year, and he no longer asked about his whereabouts. Unexpectedly, at this time, he received his news, and it was also the news that he had thrown himself under Kong Rong's command.

"No, according to the investigation of the secret guard, Guan Yu seems to have only followed Wu Anguo south as a subordinate army. He brought 3,000 men and horses under his command, all of whom were Liu Bei's old troops in the past. The subordinates personally inquired, only to know that half of Liu Bei's subordinates in the past followed Zhang Fei into Guanzhong and took refuge in Liu Ting. Some of them were scattered, and only the three thousand soldiers, as well as Liu Bei's friend Jian Yong, followed Guan Yu to stay in Beihai. At that time, Guan Yu lacked supplies, and it was Kong Rong who gave help, and this time he made a move, and it was very likely that he would return the favor. In addition, his subordinates suspect Tai Shici, and it is estimated that he will come over in the short term to ask for a northward ......," Li You said slowly.

"You're right!" Li Ming flipped through the official documents and really found a letter of invitation sent by Tai Shici.