In the winter, Xiao Pei kept training soldiers and horses, and there were more and more bandits and rogues who came to cling, and when the winter was about to pass, Xiao Pei had nearly 20,000 soldiers.

Fortunately, Cao Bao left enough food, otherwise these 20,000 horses would not be able to feed. But even so, Xiao Pei's grain and grass are becoming more and more stretched.

In order to complete the task assigned by Tao Ying as soon as possible, Xiao Pei wrote a letter to Pei County to persuade Pei County to surrender the county order. The stronger the soldiers and horses, the county commander of Pei County next to him was extremely worried.

Looking at the world now, a big warlord like Yuan Shao of Hebei can have more than 100,000 troops. Some other small warlords who are not in the stream have 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and they are already forces that occupy several cities. And Xiao Pei was stunned with 20,000 soldiers and food, which made the Fengxian county commander a little frightened.

So when Xiao Pei wrote a letter to win over Feng County, the Feng County Commander hurriedly summoned Feng County officials to a meeting. On top of the understanding, everyone seems to be quite afraid of the giant neighbor Xuzhou Ergongzi next to him.

In the past two years, Tao Ying's rise has made everyone next to him feel threatened. The county magistrate explained the form of the side to the gentry in the county office, and everyone listened very carefully.

"Lord County Commander, now Xiangxian, the capital of Peiguo, has taken refuge in Peng Chengguo. Xiangxian County is now developing more and more powerful, and the second son of Xuzhou has built a road directly to Xiangxian, and I heard that there will be any railways to be built in the future. Now Xiaopei has also been captured, and to the north is Shanyang County, and Shanyang County has also fallen into the hands of the second son. Our surroundings have been occupied by the second son. ”

The county magistrate said, the county commander nodded, and Gong Cao next to him also said: "Now that Yanzhou's influence on Xiao Pei is getting smaller and smaller, Yuzhou is also bullied by Yuan Shu all day long, and now that we are so close to Pengcheng, why don't we take refuge in the second son?" ”

The gentleman next to him said: "I heard that the second prince robbed the rich and helped the poor, and the Pengcheng clan was confiscated from the land. ”

A squire came out to object, but the county magistrate said, "Well, that's true. But if he didn't take refuge in him, Xiao Pei wanted to send troops to attack, and when the city was broken, it would not only be confiscated of the land, but also the disaster of killing the head. ”

The crowd quarreled.

However, some people in Pei County were familiar with the Pengcheng Code, and Pengcheng had laws to protect the legal status of merchants, and in this society that valued agriculture and suppressed commerce, the social status of merchants was inferior, but Pengcheng elevated the status of merchants to the same level as peasants. Therefore, if you don't want to leave Peixian, there is still a compromise solution.

That is now Pengcheng's new policy, when the end of the Shanyang County war, Tao Ying introduced a new policy, for the south. Because after the north is stabilized, Tao Ying has to deal with his other old rival, Sun Ce.

Looking at it, those who can finally seize the world with themselves are Cao Cao of Yanzhou, Sun Quan of Eastern Wu and Liu Bei of Shu. Cao Cao was defeated by himself in several battles, presumably he already had a shadow in his heart, and he couldn't recover in a short period of time. And Liu Bei is also wandering around like a lost dog at this time, although he has now taken the opportunity to seize Changyi City, he is also embattled, so there is no need to worry.

Therefore, Tao Ying's only concern now is the Jiangdong Sun family, and now while he is fledgling, he will hurry south to snatch his talents, occupy the six counties of Jiangdong first, and curb his development is the king's way.

However, the talents of the six counties in Jiangdong are all from the big clans, and the policies implemented by Tao Ying in Pengchengguo are obviously not enough to satisfy the big clans, so Tao Ying listened to the suggestions of Zhang Zhao and others, except for Pengchengguo to implement the new system, the other counties all implement the old system. That is to use the big ethnic families to carry out local stability and development.

Therefore, Feng County sent a letter to intercede to preserve the big family. Pei Guoxiang couldn't make a decision, as long as he asked Peng Cheng, at this time Peng Cheng Tao Ying had already gone south, so he could only ask Zhang Zhao, Zhang Zhao discussed with everyone, and then approved this condition.

However, if Peiguo wants to achieve reunification, it can't be so tightly that they take advantage of it, because after all, Peiguo and the original Xia Pi State are the closest to Pengcheng, the seat of southern Xuzhou, so they must implement a new system, so in the end, they compromised that the big clan was only allowed to keep half of the property and donate the other half of the property to the county government.

After the county government received the money, it was used to build schools, build roads, develop handicrafts, and repair the city walls. Many of the big families have land, and only half of the land of the big people can be kept, and the rest of the land must be measured and distributed to the people. In this way, the land that was occupied by the big clans was able to be distributed to the people, and in this era, there is a lot of land, but there are few people. Why did so many people starve to death, and there was less food harvest without monsters.

However, after using the fertilizer brought by Tao Ying, the land became fertile, the grain varieties improved, and naturally the harvest was abundant, so although the land allocated to the people was not much, it was enough to feed the family.

In the winter, without spending a single soldier, Xiao Peicheng unified Pei County, and then Xiao Pei Taishou led 5,000 troops to be stationed in Feng County. The area around Peiguo belongs to the fringe areas of various forces, so it is very chaotic and there are many bandits, so Fengxian County also launched a war to exterminate the remnants of the Yellow Turban.

It is said that when Xiao Pei grew stronger a little bit, Pei Guoxiang set his sights on Qi County of Lu Guo, and then went to win over Gongqiu, the northernmost county seat of Peiguo.

All this was carried out in an orderly manner, and it is said that when Cao Bao's army was defeated and returned to Qi County, Cao Bao was furious.

I didn't expect that I would be destroyed in the hands of Cheng Lian, and the blame was that I actually believed him! After staying in Qi County for a week, Cao Bao still wanted to make a comeback, but less than 20,000 soldiers came back this week!

The army of 50,000 people lost 30,000 in the Battle of Xiaopei! These 50,000 troops are the vitality of Northern Xuzhou, and now the vitality is greatly injured, if someone declares war on Northern Xuzhou at this time, how can Northern Xuzhou recruit so many soldiers and horses?

Therefore, when the war report reached Tan County, the pottery merchants of Tan County summoned Sun Qian and other strategists to discuss countermeasures. Today's Tan County, the construction is still a little dilapidated, and there is no shortage of some heroes in Donghai County, but their property was looted by Tao Ying when he went down. Then he used it to build Pengchengguo, so now Pengchengguo is very rich, and everything is built very well.

Even with these big families, the city walls still can't be repaired, because their position in the East China Sea is unshakable. If the potters don't take iron-blooded measures, and there are not enough soldiers and horses, they want to do something against them, and they can only be overthrown by these heroes, and then end up in a different place.

Therefore, when he heard that Cao Bao was defeated, the potter panicked all of a sudden.

On the state pastor's mansion, Sun Qian, Jian Yong and the others were all sitting a little impatiently. The cold of winter seems to freeze everyone's heart. After everyone arrived, the potter looked at Sun Gan beside him, he was now very dependent on Sun Gan.

It seems that he can sit in the position of state pastor, and it all depends on the help of the Sun family and the Jian family.