In 207, it was a period of great development in Xuzhou, but because of the recovery of Youzhou and Jizhou and Hanoi County, Xuzhou's economy began to enter a period of slow development. If the land of the Three Prefectures is to develop, agriculture alone cannot be used. If you want to rely on industry, Xuzhou's industrial towns are all in Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Guangling, and Jiangnan, and it is not easy to move to the north.

Tao Ying is different from Cao Cao, Cao Cao gets a piece of land, he just gets a piece of land. And Tao should get a piece of land and think that he will change, and the lives of ordinary people will change, not just squeeze the fruits of their labor. Therefore, every time Tao Ying gets a city, it will slow down the fast track of Xuzhou's economic development. However, as long as these provinces are driven, they will become a booster of Xuzhou's progress from a burden in a few years, which is called input and output, but Tao Ying's output will take a little longer.

In July 207, the whole country entered the harvest season, and Tao Ying had stored enough grain for Xuzhou to eat for four years. In this year, when there was a drought in Bingzhou and the people were displaced, Tao Ying transported grain from Qingzhou to Bingzhou to help the victims. But fortunately, after several years of development, Liaoning Mansion finally did not need the help of Xuzhou, and he was able to develop independently, so after leaving a burden, Tao Ying suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.

After Cao Cao's battle of Bianjing, Tao Ying began to know the danger he was facing, he became rich, he was not guilty, and he was guilty of having more money. Therefore, if you want to protect your rich land, you must have enough military power. So in the middle of the year, Tao Ying withdrew from many conscription policies one after another, and finally in August, Tao Ying successfully recruited 500,000 military horses in the land of Shifu!

What is the concept of an army of 500,000, even in the heyday of Yuan Shao! Although Cao Cao is also recruiting troops everywhere, his soldiers and horses are less than 100,000, even Jingzhou and Yangzhou together are only the number of Tao Ying's military horses. After recruiting the army, Tao Ying ordered everywhere to seize the time to train the recruits, Tao Ying only gave them two years, and by 209, Tao Ying would lead them to the battle!

However, Tao Ying's plan is to disarm 30,000 people every year, lay off all those who are old, weak, sick and disabled, and even recruit new troops to remove those soldiers who cannot adapt to high-intensity training, and by 209, he will have nearly 300,000 soldiers who can fight well!

On the one hand, there was constant conscription, and on the other hand, Tao Ying increased his investment in military scientific research. In order to reduce losses, Lu Su sold the third to fourth generation of Taoling artillery at a high price to another ally of his own, Jingzhou Liu Biao!

Now in Yangzhou, Sun Quan's military horses equipped with artillery and Jingzhou Huangzu fought several times in Jiangxia, and both sides suffered mutual damage. Sun Quan kept upgrading the Taoling cannon, which was no longer something that ordinary warships could resist, so in order not to be captured by Sun Quan, Huang Zu bought the eliminated battleship from Tao Ying - Jiangdu!

In terms of firepower, the Jiangdu is equipped with the Taoling third-generation gun, which has a longer firing distance and greater power. Therefore, in several water battles on the Yangtze River, Huang Zu was ashamed and sank the Pengcheng battleship purchased by Sun Quan in the sea. Seeing that Huang Zu was growing stronger, Sun Quan spent a lot of money to buy the first batch of warships Taihu from Jiangnan Mansion, which was also eliminated.

Compared with the Jiangdu, the Taihu is a warship of the same tonnage, but the Taihu is equipped with the Taoling fourth-generation gun, and the fourth-generation gun has greatly improved the range compared with the third-generation gun, so after Sun Quan bought it, he quickly defeated Huang Zu in the water battle. Seeing that Sun Quan's army was strong again, Liu Biao of Jingzhou formed an alliance with Tao Ying, because Tao Ying had an enclave of Nanyang close to Jingzhou, and if Nanyang was not broken by Cao Cao, it would depend on the support behind Jingzhou, so Tao Ying agreed to form an alliance with it.

After becoming an alliance, Jingzhou purchased an upgraded battleship independently developed by Guangling Mansion from Guangling Mansion - Jiangdu No. 2 Battleship. The Jiangdu No. 2 battleship was built by the Jiangdu Naval Academy of Heavy Industry Base, and this battleship was equipped with the most advanced steam engine in Xuzhou, which was smaller than the first generation of warships and cost less coal, which invisibly increased the endurance of the battleship.

Not only that, the hull of the Jiangdu No. 2 battleship is made of steel more, the first generation of ships is mainly made of wood, and the second generation of ships has been converted to steel. The warship was expensive, and it took Jingzhou two years of taxes to buy it. Nowadays, the large and small shipyards in Xuzhou no longer produce large warships, but move closer to large merchant ships with people and goods. The reason is that Tao Ying feels that the main enemies he has faced in the past few years are still Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the north. There were few opportunities to use warships against Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, so Tao Ying set his sights on the production of cannons.

In recent years, all the money has been invested in improving people's livelihood, so in addition to the first generation of warships, the research and development of second-generation warships has entered a stage of stagnation. This state of affairs lasted until the inauguration of the new governor of Gwangneung Province ended. The prefect of Guangling Prefecture took office in Guangling for three years, and after inspecting the actual situation in Guangling, he found out about the war between Yangzhou and Jingzhou, and felt that it was profitable to build large warships, so he restarted the Jiangdu Shipyard and Guangling Shipyard, which were about to become shipyards.

The two shipyards adopted the division of labor and cooperation for the design and construction of warships, that year coincided with the implementation of the new policy in Xuzhou, to set up a steam engine school in various places, the prefect actively responded to the call to set up a steam engine school in Guangling, when other schools are studying and designing large transport cargo ships, Guangling steam engine school is developing a large warship steam engine, so in the construction of warships, after two years of development, he has ranked first.

On the basis of three shipyards and a steam engine school, the prefect of Guangling established the Guangling Shipbuilding Group, which was mainly for the purpose of selling warships, and Yanran had become a large state-owned group in Xuzhou.

Compared with the old heavy industry base of Guangling Mansion, Jiangnan Mansion is also unwilling to be disadvantaged. In particular, after the new prefect took office, he also followed the example of Guangling Mansion and established Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group in Suzhou County, and the main advantage of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Group is in the independent research and development of artillery. At that time, Tao Ying New Deal, each province was allocated good things, Jiangnan Mansion did not have a lot of steam engine experts like Guangling Mansion, but it did share a lot of experts in artillery development. Therefore, according to this characteristic, Jiangnan County took artillery as the basic industry for its own development.

When it comes to artillery, Jiangnan Mansion is not as good as the artillery development in Taoling Town, so Jiangnan Mansion is unique in building artillery on battleships. Jiangnan Mansion conducted research according to the characteristics of water warfare in the south, cooperated with its own warships, and quickly made the market up, especially in the past two years, the trust prefect is the former Bianjing Taishou, who has a lot of contacts, so he has sold the generals to Yizhou.

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