The dragon raised his head, Zhu Yan held the mud, and it was another year of good spring.

It was the spring of 183, and it was spring planting.

On the outskirts of Yuyang, farmland.

Liu Yuan was dressed in coarse linen clothes, barefoot, holding the plow handle in his right hand, holding the reins in his left hand, holding a bamboo strip, and shouting in his mouth, but he was plowing the field!

"How's that, doesn't it feel good? Haha" Liu Yuan smiled, looking at the person who was doing the same work as him not far away, and said with a smile.

That person looked back, but it was Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao.

Two or three years have passed, Guo Jia, who was still a little immature, is now a handsome young man with red lips and white teeth and a beautiful face.

"Lord, this job is really interesting, hehe"

The two were chatting, and an old man came up the ridge.

"Little Brother Liu, Little Brother Guo, rest first and drink saliva!"

Liu Yuan raised his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Li, stay less, wait for me to finish this way." ”

After the two walked all the way, they came to the ridge, took the earthen bowl from the old man's hand, and drank a sip of hot tea. Seeing this, a smile swelled up on Uncle Li's wrinkled but ruddy and healthy face. He knew that the identities of these two people were not simple, this was the intuition of an old man who had lived for decades, but these two people treated people as kind and equal, and never looked down on him, an old peasant. In the words of Brother Liu, farmers are the most important thing in Youzhou.

Liu Yuan drank a bowl of tea, sat side by side with Guo Jia on the ridge, looking at the busy scene in the four fields, and his thoughts couldn't help but fly

Back then, Jia Xu's plan made Youzhou rare for two or three years.

From the spring of 181, Xianbei, Goguryeo, Buyeo, Sanhan, Rulou and even Wuhuan, who did not want to participate, were pulled into this long-lasting bloody storm. The prairie is in chaos ever since!

From the original intention of seizing the formula at the beginning, to the blood hatred of Sanjiang later, several major forces are almost unstoppable now!

In addition, Jia Xu's shadows assassinated from time to time, dragging them all into a deep quagmire and unable to extricate themselves.

Compared with the bloody grassland, Youzhou can be called a paradise on earth.

In two years, the construction of cities and galloping roads in various parts of Youzhou has been completed, and the whole Youzhou has taken on a new look. The traffic is smooth and the environment is excellent, providing an incomparable fertile ground for commercial trade. Coupled with the establishment of the transportation system, it can be said that Youzhou can be called accessible in all directions. From Lelang County in the easternmost part to Dai County in the west, it can be reached in only five days at the slowest pace.

Xuansu County.

In the past, it was said to be sparsely populated and war-torn Xuansu, but now it has developed into a huge trading center.

Whether it is Goguryeo or Sanhan, whether it is Xianbei or Wuhuan, whether it is Buyeo or Julou; No matter cattle, sheep and horses, no matter salt, iron and fur, no matter tea and ceramics, they are all traded here.

It became the international economic center of the Han Dynasty!

The wealth created by Xuansu for Youzhou every year accounts for almost half of the total income of the entire Youzhou! Up to 800,000 gold!

Yuyang Quanzhou.

Eighty miles southeast of Quanzhou, Dagukou.

Originally, it was deserted, but since Liu Yuan began to develop marine resources, he named it Dagukou and built it into a large port. At the same time, several large-scale sea salt farms have been built in the surrounding area, and the monthly output of sea salt has reached 30,000 stones!

The Central Plains Commercial Bank then set up a fleet of ships to recruit coastal fishermen with rich seafaring experience to explore ocean routes. With the vigorous development of the fishing industry, all kinds of seafood, pearls and other sea specialties appeared in Dahan one by one and sold on sale.

While exploring the ocean and forming a fleet, Liu Yuan consciously cultivated elite seafarers to lay the foundation for the formation of a navy in the future.

Since the completion of Dagu Port, in less than a year, Liu Yuan has brought a net income of four or five hundred thousand gold!

All in all, in terms of economy, Youzhou has far surpassed other states of the Han Dynasty, and has realized Liu Yuan's arrogance of being the best of the Han Dynasty.

In terms of people's livelihood, after two or three years of consciously absorbing the population and encouraging childbirth, Youzhou has now exceeded the 3 million mark! The new wheat varieties have been mentioned by Liu Yuan, and the Mo family has conducted in-depth research, and now it is the third generation of high-quality wheat seeds. The yield per mu exceeded the first generation of Liu Yuan's own research, reaching the output of twenty-five stones!

According to statistics, the total area of Youzhou is about 400 million mu (that is, about 300,000 square kilometers, each square kilometer is equal to 100 hectares, and each hectare is equal to 15 acres), and the cultivated land area accounts for 1 percent of the total area, that is, 4 million mu.

The total grain output reached 100 million stones!

At the peak of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the grain output reached 2 billion stones, and now the people's livelihood at the end of the Han Dynasty has withered, and it has shrunk by half, which is counted as one billion stones. Then the total output of Youzhou accounts for one-tenth of the entire empire. Although it is not up to the output of Jizhou, Xuzhou and other places, it can be regarded as the top level!

You must know that the cultivated area of Youzhou is only one percent of the total area! Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou and other places are mostly plains, the soil is fertile, and the cultivated land area is more than ten or twenty times that of Youzhou! Moreover, these large states have a large population, such as Jizhou, which has a population of nearly 10 million, which is several times that of Youzhou!

The main reason for this is that in addition to Liu Yuan's vigorous encouragement of the development of agriculture and the excellent wheat seeds, it is also inseparable from the new agricultural tools, one ploughing cow per household, and the completion of water conservancy projects.

Taken together, these conditions have led to the situation that Youzhou, which used to be poor and is now rich.

In terms of military affairs, the four major legions of Youzhou, the Fuyang Legion, and Xu Huang have an elite army of 50,000. Among them, there are 10,000 light cavalry, 10,000 crossbowmen, 10,000 sword and shield men, 10,000 pikemen, 5,000 Mo swordsmen, and 5,000 heavy cavalry!

The light cavalry was equipped with light steel armor and steel helmets, fine-grained crossbows, spears, javelins, light horse sabers, and four good horses; Crossbowmen are divided into 5,000 archers and 5,000 crossbowmen; Sword and shield hands, 5,000 with all-steel heavy shields, medium-sized horse chopping knives, heavy steel armor, armed to the teeth, are for heavy infantry, 5,000 with light steel armor, light steel shields, light horse chopping sabers; pikemen with medium-sized steel armor and eight steel guns; Mo Dao is wearing heavy steel armor, sixty pounds of Mo knife; The heavy cavalry is equipped with heavy steel armor and a 60-pound giant horse chopping knife.

In addition, there was a battalion of news, which was sent by eagles, counting two hundred; The engineering battalion, with longitudinal steel siege vehicles, catapults, rushing vehicles, and siege shafts, is responsible for opening mountains, building bridges, digging pits, etc., totaling 5,000 people.

As for logistics, men and other types of troops, they are counted separately.

In other words, the entire Fuyang Legion has a total of sixty or seventy thousand people.

Huang Chang's Yuyang Legion, Yan Liang's Liaodong Legion, and Zhang Fei's Liaoxi Legion are probably equipped in the same way, and there is not much difference.

All in all, Youzhou now has nearly 300,000 troops, and they are all the elite of the elite trained by Liu Yuan himself! Such as heavy cavalry, Mo swordsman, heavy infantry, and it is the selection and formation of the top soldiers among the elite.

These warriors are all strong and skilled in martial arts, and in comparison, two people can win against third-rate generals!

And with such an army, Liu Yuan has 60,000!

It's simply unthinkable. But it's true.

Liu Yuan trained the soldiers and exchanged essence with the soldiers, which not only greatly promoted his physical fitness, but also made the soldiers with good qualifications affected by the essence and blood of the soldiers, so that their physique increased greatly!

The martial arts in the army are a combination of Liu Yuan's simplified ancient combat skills and his own experience on the battlefield. This set of combat skills is named military body boxing, which is divided into ten layers, and it is practiced to perfection, which is comparable to a first-class general!

Of course, there are conditions for practicing this set of martial arts.

For example, ordinary soldiers can only train the first layer; Wu Chang 2nd Floor; three layers long; Duber to Junma, fourth floor; the fifth floor of the Captain's Lieutenant; Zhonglang will have six floors; Seven floors of General Pi and partial generals; Miscellaneous generals on the eighth floor; The commander of the first army has nine floors; Legion Commander 10 floors.

Moreover, the first layer of this set of combat skills was introduced into the academy as a physical exercise, so that students could use it for fitness. At the stage of the county academy, the military department of the academy will teach different levels of combat skills according to the excellence of outstanding students.

In the past two or three years, the construction of Youzhou's education system has been completed. Although the time is too short and the results are not visible, Liu Yuan always believes that education is the foundation of the rise of Youzhou! Ten years of trees, 100 years of people!

However, because Zheng Xuan served as the dean of Youzhou University, many Confucian students from other places also came to visit, which enriched the faculty. Although many primary and secondary schools still lack teachers, they are much better than Liu Yuan envisioned.

For the sake of education, Liu Yuan put a lot of effort into it.

Together with Zheng Xuan, he specially compiled the pinyin rules, and compiled the enlightenment books of great historical significance, including the three-character classic, the hundred family names, and the thousand-character text, which made Zheng Xuan and other scholars admire and admire

When Liu Yuan's eyes were out of focus, another person came on the ridge, Guo Jia raised his eyes and smiled.

"Brother Yuan Hao, come on, come on, sit and drink a bowl of tea!"

The person who came was Tian Feng.

Tian Feng glanced at Uncle Li, and then at Liu Yuan, who had just come back to his senses, and his face, which had always been very calm, had an anxious look. Uncle Li observed his words, said goodbye to Liu Yuan and the others, picked up the teapot and left.

"Yuan Hao, what's going on?"

Liu Yuan stood up, patted the dust on his body, walked to the canal at the edge of the field, and asked while washing his feet. Not in a hurry at all.

"Lord, Luoyang is coming, and I want to summon the lord back to Beijing!"

Liu Yuan's eyebrows moved, and his brows jumped unconsciously: "Do you know the reason?" ”

"Yes." Tian Feng said: "Brother Wenhe bribed the eunuch with a lot of money, and learned that Yuan Kui denounced the lord and listed several major crimes, but the Son of Heaven did not believe it and summoned the lord to return to Beijing to debate in court. ”

"I see!" Liu Yuan nodded, there was no surprise on his face: "I have been waiting for Yuan Kui, the old horseman, for two years, he finally moved, hey, Luoyang, it's been more than two years, I really miss it!" It's good to go back."

Yuyang City, Thorn History Mansion.

In the living room, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old little eunuch sat leisurely on the Taishi chair, with bursts of silver smiles floating on the corners of his mouth, but he was calculating how much benefit the champion would give. At this moment, he heard a steady footstep coming from outside the door, and the little eunuch looked up, and the smile on his face couldn't help but retract, and his body stood up involuntarily.

I saw a burly young man with a handsome face and a majestic eyebrows, walking into the door. With the footsteps of the young man, the air in the hall seemed to be filled with mercury, and it became heavy in an instant, the little eunuch's faint Adam's apple rolled up and down, a slight sweat appeared on his face, and he bent his back involuntarily, and said respectfully: "I've seen Master Hou!" ”

"Hmm." Liu Yuan snorted, looked at the little eunuch lightly, and said, "What is Your Majesty's will?" ”

The little eunuch wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, felt the pressure disappear, and looked at the young champion Hou again, and couldn't help but feel fear in his heart.

"Master Hou, Your Majesty's will is here." The little eunuch whispered: "Please take the order." ”

Liu Yuan stood still, clasped his fists and bowed to the holy decree in the little eunuch's hand.

"The Son of Heaven has a will, and the champion Hou Liu Yuan will return to Beijing immediately, and he must not slack off!"

Liu Yuan took the holy decree and said, "Minister, obey the decree!" ”

"Then when will Master Hou leave?" The little eunuch asked cautiously with a smile on his face.

"Ming." Liu Yuan took two steps and replied lightly: "When I make some preparations, I will return to Beijing immediately in the morning." By the way, the little father-in-law was tired, come here, ask the father-in-law to go down and rest, and in addition, prepare two boxes of Yuyang specialties to reward the father-in-law. ”

When the little eunuch heard this, the surprise on his face flashed, and he looked at Liu Yuan's gaze and was much kinder

Den.

"Lord, there is a lot of danger in going to Luoyang, be careful." Guo Jia said worriedly.

"It's okay!" Liu Yuan waved his hand and said, "I have expected today's incident, and I have something to worry about. I said that after I left, everything will be as usual in Youzhou, and you will have to take care of it. ”

"Don't worry, my lord."

Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Chen Qun, Guo Jia, and Jia Xu gave up their hands, and their faces were solemn.

"Well," Liu Yuan nodded: "Xianbei and other alien races have been making some changes recently, and Wen He must be careful to investigate and not be careless." The major families of the Central Plains sent to Youzhou also had to entertain them, there must have been something wrong, so that Yuan Kui grabbed the handle! ”

"The Lord forgives sins!" Jia Xu stood up, bowed down and said, "This is a mistake." It's me who ignores the people inside of us. ”

"Internal?" Liu Yuan frowned and said, "Traitor?!" ”

"Yes, my lord. This person is the mayor of Zhuo County, whose ancestral home is the Central Plains, and he was coerced and lured by the Yuan family to reveal some secrets. But the lord can rest assured, this person is a small official with a sesame mung bean, and he doesn't know much. ”

"Well, that's good."

A faint smile floated on Liu Yuan's face, and he said, "Anyway, in a word, Youzhou must be built into an iron bucket, and all confidential information must be blocked!" induce the major families and forces in the Central Plains to make them think that my Youzhou is still as poor as before. ”

A year ago, Liu Yuan actually had the intention of handing over the results in his hands to the imperial court and promoting them to all parts of the Han Dynasty. But after the persuasion of Guo Jia and others, coupled with Emperor Ling's gradually absurd behavior, he dispelled this idea.

Originally, Liu Yuan thought that after Emperor Ling absorbed the essence and blood, his body and spirit were better, he would be able to devote himself to the great affairs of the world, but Liu Yuan had only been away from Luoyang for a year, and it gradually became ridiculous. not only increased the intensity of selling officials, did not go to court for three days, but also opened a business market in the palace, etc., etc., etc., the absurdity of which made Liu Yuan speechless.

And according to the news from all over the country, the Taiping Sect has grown to the extreme. Therefore, Liu Yuan also wrote to the imperial court to request that it be banned, but unexpectedly, the above table was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news.

There is also news from the fine works lurking in the wealthy families in various places, Liu Yuan knows that in the past year or two, the annexation of land by various families has become even more crazy! And in every family, there are hundreds to thousands or even tens of thousands of black households!

They're raising a family soldier!

You must know that Liu Yuan's title of champion marquis is just a fiefdom of 10,000 households. Comparatively speaking, those families are not qualified to have so many fiefdoms at all!

There are all kinds of signs that the Han Dynasty has still stepped into the original trajectory of history. Liu Yuan, the butterfly, did not play the role he imagined!

So, what exactly to do?

Is it to support the big Han?

Or is it self-reliant?

Liu Yuan was entangled in his heart.

However, no matter what, Youzhou's current technology and all secrets must not flow into the Central Plains, otherwise it can only cheapen those wealthy families, but it will not benefit the people of the world at all!

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