A piece of land in Jingzhou, Xun Gang has held it for two years, and it is still an incomplete territory in Jingbei, which is unbearable for anyone.

Although Xun Gang is very powerful, he can defend against attacks from all sides, and even win a complete victory; But the border is constantly harassed, and sooner or later this area of land will be encroached upon.

Liu Bei has already left Yangping Pass, which is the news he got a few days ago. The Qiang people occupy a large area of land in Liangzhou, and Cao Pi's side is already busy, so he is afraid that Liu Bei will now attack the Liangzhou city occupied by the Qiang people little by little.

At that time, Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition did not listen to Wei Yan's suggestion to attack Chang'an, but took Liangzhou step by step, which was well-founded. Even if Wei Yan stole Chang'an, the lonely city of Chang'an would inevitably be difficult to resist the attack from Liangzhou and Sizhou, and even if Zhuge Liang's reinforcements were obtained, Chang'an City would not be able to hold it for a long time.

After losing Jingzhou, the Shu Han left only Yizhou, and they urgently needed another piece of land to expand their territory and develop agricultural trade. Obviously, Liangzhou is the only option, although the land is barren, but at least it can connect to the Western Regions and obtain war horses.

It's a pity that the Wei State is too strong, and Zhuge Liang and even Jiang Wei have not been able to obtain the entire territory of Liangzhou in their lives.

But this time it was different, Liangzhou fell seven or eight times out of ten because of the rebellion of the Qiang people, Cao Pi blocked the Tiger Prison Pass and transferred elite soldiers from the Liangjing and Sanfu regions to resist the Qiang people, which was a rare opportunity for Liu Bei. Although there was a small defeat in Xiangyang for a while, attacking the Qiang people was obviously more than a hundred times easier than attacking Xun Gang.

Cao Pi is not his father in the end, and he has lost his mind because of Xun Gang, but he is afraid that after Liu Bei takes Liangzhou, he will develop for a few years, and Cao Pi will not be an opponent at all.

Although Sun Ce was defeated by Xun Gang and lost nearly 10,000 men and horses, the grain and grass were still abundant, and the reserve troops in Jiangdong also met the needs of Sun Ce's Northern Expedition. Seeing that Xun Gang's Jingzhou was a difficult bone to gnaw, he immediately shifted the battle line, personally led his troops to attack Shouchun, and ordered Zhou Yu to divide his troops to attack Hefei.

This is a gap that his younger brother has not been able to cross in his life, after all, once the two places of Shouchun and Hefei are lost, Xuzhou is in front of him; With the ability of Eastern Wu to advance by land and water, Xuzhou was also Sun Quan's subordinate.

I don't know if Sun Quan is not dedicated enough, or the guards of Wei are too strong, Sun Quan didn't see what Xuzhou looked like until he died.

Only Zhuge Liang, who has the land of Yizhou, still occupies nearly half of the land in Liangzhou, and his Sun Quan sits on the land of Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Jiaozhou, and his soldiers and horses are several times that of Shu, but he has not been able to get an inch of land from Wei.

Perhaps this time Sun Quan is dead, and it is not a bad thing for Sun Ce to retake charge of Sun Wu's military power.

The autumn of the thirteenth year of Jian'an was received, although it failed to achieve much harvest, but the Sun and Liu families also took advantage of this opportunity to go on a northern expedition together. When the news reached Xiangyang, Xun Gang was not impatient, and instructed the master to count the grain tax paid this time.

Although Xun Gang took excellent care of the land in Jingzhou, and there were many capable people under him, the land in only the three counties was extremely rich. But after all, land is limited, and no matter how much land can produce food, that's it. After all, there are no such things as potatoes and hybrid rice in these years, and the yield per mu is very low, and the yield of 100 mu in the event of a bumper harvest is only less than one-tenth of the current one.

The second is the soldiers, Xun Gang occupies fewer counties than Liu Bei, but Yizhou is dangerous, most of them are mountains, Jingzhou is located in the plain, and the population is naturally more than Yizhou. In addition, Liu Bei did not have Zhuge Liang, a super internal affairs official, did not repair Dujiangyan, and did not set up a Jin official, so what could his small Shu land do?

"My lord, this time it was found that another 12,681 people could serve in the army, and a total of 730,000 stone ...... of grain was collected from the people."

"Only 730,000?"

According to the calculations at that time, an adult had to eat a total of 24 stone of grain a year, which means that the food sent this time was enough for 30,000 people to eat for a year, which can be said to be very little.

Li Yan coughed lightly and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the lord is in a hurry, and after listening to his subordinates, these 730,000 stones are just the grain tax paid by the people!" ”

Xun Gang was puzzled, didn't he usually collect grain tax once a quarter? Who else could it be that it is not the people?

Li Yan took a bamboo slip from another practitioner and read: "Another 1,270,000 stone ...... of grain tax from Shangfu"

"Bang!"

As soon as the words fell, Xun Gang stood up, his face was full of disbelief, and he shouted: "What's the situation? Why did Shangfu's taxes turn into grain this quarter? ”

In order to attract more merchants to Jingzhou, Xun Gang issued a lot of pro-business policies, and even the taxes were almost completely exempt, and only war taxes were charged. However, even the war tax was money, and in these days money was worthless, and only grain, cloth, and salt were firmly on the list of effective exchanges.

Li Yan knew that Xun Gang had only come back not long ago, so he said: "Ma Beijia changed the ordinance before, and tripled the tax of Shangfu, but all of it was paid with grain. Even though the merchants were surprised by the sudden increase in the tax rate, a tripling increase was nothing to them (after all, the starting price was low), and it did not alarm the lord. ”

"Tell Ma Liang that he did a good job this time!"

Xun Gang didn't have time to think about it, he planned to take the opportunity of Sun Liu's troops to attack Nanyang, although 730,000 stone was enough, but Cao Ren's ability to defend the city was too strong, and it was difficult to guarantee that he would not fight for a year and a half, and it would be too much of a loss if he retreated at that time.

Now it's okay, with two million reserve military rations, he can completely smash Huanglong, and he can consume Cao Ren to death!

After taking Nanyang, Jingbei was all in Xun Gang's hands. Next, he had two choices, one was to attack Chang'an and Hongnong, but to attack Yuzhou; However, attacking the Son of Heaven at will will be criticized for not being able to guarantee it, and the matter will be put on hold for the time being.

"Send down the order, order all the above bureaucrats to come to the state capital in two hours, I have something important to announce!"

Li Yan answered and left slowly, he had already guessed what Xun Gang was going to announce, but when the army was marching and fighting, he was just escorting grain and grass, and he only needed to take care of his own work......

"What do you think Father is going to announce?"

"Do you need to ask? This time, two million stone of grain was collected, plus Sun Liu's Northern Expedition, it was the time for our army to attack Cao Ren! ”

Behind the curtain suddenly came a subtle sound, which could not have been noticed, but Xun Gang was both civil and military, in order to train to dodge hidden weapons and arrows, he had trained his ears blindfolded, and the effect was extremely significant. Even if it was a little quieter, he could still hear it clearly.

"Two stinky boys, what are you hiding behind and listening to?"

Xun Gang tore open the curtain, and Jiang Wei and Xun Zhan hid behind the doorpost, with a smirk on their faces. Although eavesdropping on military planes is a big crime, Xun Gang just sighed helplessly, after all, this matter is not a secret two hours later.

"Father wants to crusade against Cao Ren?"

Xun Zhan suddenly asked, Xun Gang just nodded, and looked at Jiang Wei's eyes a little uncomfortable. You must know that Jiang Wei is two years younger than his son, so he can guess whether his plan is or not? So how talented is he in military affairs?

Xun Zhan looked at Xun Gang with a pleading look, Xun Gang knew what he wanted to say, and said with a smile: "Bastard boy, do you want to go with Lao Tzu?" ”

Xun Zhan nodded suddenly.

"It doesn't matter."

Xun Zhan almost cheered, but Xun Gang snickered again and said, "I promised your aunt, and he will go to the battle this time." ”

"Which aunt?" Xun Zhan didn't seem to realize the importance of the matter yet.

"Your second aunt ......"

As soon as the words fell, in Jiang Wei's surprised eyes, Xun Zhan gradually petrified.