Liu Ye walked to the sand table and pointed to the north of Langya Country and said: "Lord look here, the north of Langya Country is Qingzhou." Qingzhou is Yuan Shao's territory, the fourth and third princes of the Yuan family, Yuan Shao is hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the north, Yuan Shao's subordinates have famous generals Yan Liang, Wen Chou, strategist Tian Feng, trial matching, Wen Hou categorically did not dare to provoke. Langya Country is the sea to the east, and Shanyang County to the west. Therefore, Wen Hou will only go south to harass Donghai County for a generation. ”

After Liu Ye finished speaking, Tao Ying thought about it and seemed to make sense, so he asked how to defend. Liu Ye pointed to the frontier generation of Donghai County and said: "Wenhou will not go south on a large scale, because he knows that Qingzhou is good friends with Gongzi, so he will not take the liberty of stirring up trouble." However, among the 50,000 soldiers raised by Lu and Langya, Wen Hou was definitely not enough to support the grain and grass, so Ye thought that he would let his subordinates disguise themselves as mountain bandits to come to the village to rob the people. ”

"Then how to defend, since you pretend to be a mountain bandit, it is a small team, there are not many troops stationed in the East China Sea, and you can't defend everything in such a long place as the frontier."

Tao Ying said his hidden dangers, and now he is most afraid of mountain bandits. At this time, it seemed that there were mountain bandits everywhere, but fortunately, he ordered the bandits to be surrendered in Xuzhou and let them go home to farm. If you don't want to farm, Tao Ying will let all the places keep collecting, this year, next year, the year after tomorrow, these three years will definitely be able to hang all the bandits.

When you strangle the mountain bandits, you will also train your troops by the way, killing two birds with one stone.

Tao Ying expressed his worries, and Liu Ye offered advice next to him: "I heard that there are two cavalry under the lord who can fight well, Ye thought that General Cao Chun could lead a cavalry to patrol the northern part of the East China Sea. General Cao is good at raid operations, if there are mountain bandits pretended by Lu Bu, Lu Bu's military horses are extremely combative, but General Cao's cavalry does not belong to them! However, General Cao inspected the northern part of Donghai County, and General Zhao led the cavalry to inspect the place where Shanyang County and Wenhou met. ”

Tao Ying nodded, it seemed that cavalry patrols were the safest method. Liu Ye offered another plan: "Although the cavalry is convenient to support, it can't help thieves from besieging everywhere. Ye thought that he could make the people in the frontier practice more martial arts, and then merge the large and small villages, and build the village wall when the wheat was busy, and then train the village bravery, and then the small group of rogue people could attack it themselves. A large number of thieves can be attacked by the garrison in Kou County, and if there are more, they will light a beacon fire and let General Cao and General Zhao lead the cavalry to support. ”

After Liu Ye finished speaking, Tao Ying couldn't help but shout!

As long as the grain and grass in his two counties are kept, then his people do not have to be displaced. If the people are not exiled, then there will be fewer people who will join the bandits, the law and order will be much better, and the life of the common people will be better and better. When the factory is opened again, the people can also go to work in the factory in their spare time, and when the time comes, they will win extra money, and the people will be richer.

However, the general direction of Tao Ying's three-year truce is to solve the problem of food and clothing, seek food and clothing for three years, and then pursue development in the next three years, and then get rid of poverty and become rich.

Lu Bu is always his own scourge, Tao Ying asked Liu Ye again: "Lu Bu supports the army and respects himself, and sooner or later he will become a scourge." If I strike him now while his foundation is not yet secure, what will I do after the wheat harvest? ”

Liu Ye shook his head and said: "No, after the wheat harvest, Wenhou's soldiers and horses have been skillfully trained, and they can't win, wasting grain and grass and resenting Wenhou, it's not a good strategy!" ”

Tao Ying nodded, now Lu Bu and his eldest brother Tao Shang are walking together, and there are Liu Bei and others under the Tao Shang, they occupy Xiaopei City, Liu Bei is not a person who has lived under the people for a long time, Tao Ying asked Liu Ye Xiaopei what to do.

Liu Ye thought for a while and said: "Xiao Pei has less than 5,000 soldiers, and he could have attacked it, but the fierce generals like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei under the eldest prince will damage the brotherhood if they attack one, and the other is afraid that it will be difficult to capture." Even if Xiaopei is captured, the eldest prince may go north to join Lu Bu, and then he will naturally strengthen Lu Bu's power! ”

Tao Ying thought about it, but he couldn't hang the Tao Shang and the others like this, so he hurriedly asked Liu Ye how to deal with this tumor?

Liu Ye looked at the map, thought for a long time, and then said, "It's better to send an envoy to marry a good son." At that time, Xiao Pei can act as the northern barrier of Pengcheng, and with the power of the eldest prince, he will definitely not attack Pengcheng in the south. ”

Tao Ying thought about it, and this is also the truth. After all, the potter is his eldest brother, and no matter what, he used to take care of himself when he came to this world. Brother, it is impossible for him to live so miserably.

So Tao Ying decided to rescue the pottery merchants first and give them some grain and grass, so that they would not have anything to eat, and Zhang Fei would come to grab his own food. Xiao Pei is on the bank of the Surabaya River again, although he is stationed there to protect himself, but it is inevitable that Zhang Fei will come out to make trouble, after all, Zhang Fei is a rough man with few brains!

After asking these questions, the north has solved these two problems, and there will be no major problems. So Tao Ying returned to the Tao Mansion in Taoling Town after Liu Ye's accompaniment.

As soon as Liu Ye was obtained, Tao Ying knew that the staff who held an important position as a strategist in Cao Cao's later period was also interested in inventions, so Tao Ying left Liu Ye to live in Taoling Town for many days, Liu Ye asked for some things about trains and steam engine warships every day, and heard that these had begun to be developed, Liu Ye couldn't help but want to participate in these interesting things.

So after staying in Taoling Town for a week, Tao Ying sent a complete set of his books in the past few years. The book was half a carriage, Liu Ye was very excited, and Tao Ying told him that if he came to Xuzhou, let him command the Xuzhou Firearms Manufacturing Corporation, and then he could see with his own eyes the steam engine artillery ironclad ship recorded in the "Naturalist" become a reality!

After getting Tao Ying's promise, Liu Ye excitedly left Pengcheng with Cao Pi. Hearing that he was going to leave the bustling Pengcheng and go to Yanzhou, Cao Pi cried and was reluctant to leave. He has lived in Pengcheng for more than two years, and in the past two years, Pengcheng has changed from a dilapidated county town to a prosperous place in front of him.

But Liu Ye knocked and promised to bring him back, so Cao Pi was willing to go to Yanzhou with him once.

After Liu Ye left, Tao Ying returned to Taoling Town to continue his reforms. If Liu Ye can come back, he will take over the firearms manufacturing company, and it just so happens that the cold weapons manufacturing company is also in charge, because Sun Shao can be removed as the president of the cold weapons manufacturing company.

With these two large companies that started with weapons, Tao Ying decided to continue to reform the rule of officials that could adapt to the era of large industry. Originally, Xuzhou's political circles were divided into the Ministry of Government, the Ministry of Legislation, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education. Tao Ying still has a Ministry of Taxation and a Ministry of Finance for them.

The Ministry of Taxation collects all the work related to taxation, while the Ministry of Finance is responsible for distributing the money uniformly, then paying the salaries of officials, and so on.

The establishment of these departments needs to be improved step by step, and Tao Ying handed over this work to Zhang Zhao, the minister of the Ministry of Political Affairs, who is an old man who is busy and has made the greatest contribution to the construction of Xuzhou. However, in order to reduce his pressure, Tao Ying promoted his son Zhang Cheng to be an official, but he was not in the Ministry of Political Affairs, but was assigned to a new department, the Ministry of Taxation.

Zhang Cheng is kind and not arrogant, Tao Ying intends to train him to be in charge of the tax department in the future, so that his father and son are two ministers, and they can be regarded as glorious ancestors.

The ministers under his command are comparable to the three princes of the imperial court! However, the content they are responsible for is different, and in the end they are all in charge of themselves, but according to the content of each department, it seems that the most important thing is this government affairs department!