Seeing that Zhou Tai was gone, Tao Ying regretted not falling, this Zhou Tai was really smart enough, and his martial arts were extraordinary. But it's not his own, after all, he can't be forced, if he is forced too quickly, he will be forced to join the enemy.

So, after thinking about it, Tao Ying said to Jiang Qin: "You let people go back to Shuizhai to get the gold and silver, let's wait here!" ”

Jiang Qin asked people to go to the water village to get gold and silver, and wrote to nearly 30 water villages of all sizes around him, and then appeased them to come to Guangling to be officials. Tao Ying promised Jiang Qin that all the soldiers and horses he recruited would be transferred to his subordinates, and Tao Ying would also divide half of the money and property looted from various water villages to assemble a new naval base, and this naval army base would be given to Jiang Qin to station!

Jiang Qin had no choice but to agree, and in view of Jiang Qin's lack of merit, Tao Ying asked him to train his soldiers and horses, and then asked the Guangling Shipyard to hurry up and build large ships, and then equip them with the nearest equipment and prepare to go south to Wu County.

Tao Ying wants to avenge the Wu County bandit Yan Baihu!

However, before taking revenge, Tao Ying still needs to solve a problem, that is, how to prevent Sun Ce from attacking him. After thinking about it, Zhuge Jin and others persuaded him on the side, Sun Ce's soldiers and horses are limited in this matter, if we don't provoke him, he will naturally not provoke us. What's more, now that Wu Jing is attacking Liu Xuan, where can he have time to take care of himself!

So when April gradually came, Gan Ning reorganized nearly 1,000 large and small warships and prepared to go on the expedition. When Gan Ning returned to obedience, Gan Ning donated his money coefficient to Tao Ying, plus Jiang Qin's treasures, as well as the treasures of Zhoutai Water Village, Tao Ying's Guangling instantly became a nouveau riche.

Tao Ying, who became rich, returned the money owed to the family, and there were still tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver left, so he took half of the money and left it for the construction of Guangling, and the other part was invested in the construction of the navy as military expenses.

Feed the war with war, and when there is no money, take down a city, money, food, etc., and come. Now Zhou Tai doesn't know where to flee, his water village, Jiang Qin copied it for him by the way.

In April, Chen Deng arrived from Pengcheng. When Tao Ying was just about to set off to conquer Yan Baihu of Wu County, Chen Deng's arrival made Tao Ying slow down.

Chen Deng is here to take up the post of Guangling Taishou, and now the position of Guangling Taishou has been given to Gan Ning and Bu Qi, Tao Ying thought about it, now that Zang Ba and Gan Ning want to follow him to Wu County, why not let Chen Deng temporarily take the position of Guangling Taishou? When he seized Wu County, he let Chen Deng go and immediately became the Taishou of Wu County.

Chen Deng came from Pengcheng and brought a piece of news from the north by the way. After three years of accumulation, today's Pengcheng is far from Xibi. First of all, the Law School and the Officials School ushered in the first batch of graduates, especially the Officials School, the new style of officials did not learn the Four Books and Five Classics, but the reform textbook compiled by Tao Ying, a book specially for officials.

Therefore, these people are some elites, there are more than 300 people who have just graduated, and Zhang Zhao selects graduates with good ability to take up the post of local county magistrate and the mayor of some large towns. The rest of the middle ranks were assigned to the official schools of the various counties, either as lecturers or as principals.

The graduates of the local officials academy are basically township officials and county officials and gongcao in the county. According to the time plan, within 10 years, three to five official schools will be opened in large counties, and at least one school will be opened in small counties. Within 10 years, all the officials of counties, counties, towns, townships, and villages will be replaced by students in the new school.

Now the duties of the Taishou are controlled by the generals, and some people are good at fighting, but they are not able to govern the localities, so Tao Ying wants to change this situation, and after being an official for ten years, he will separate the military and the government. The generals are in charge of the army, and the officials govern the county, and the military government and the government office of each county are not in the same city, do not interfere with each other, and make overall development.

Unknowingly, it has been three years since I came to Xuzhou, and these three years have really passed like a white horse, and it has passed in a blink of an eye. Now the city wall of Pengchengguo has also been built, and the palace of Jixian Hall has also been built, and the collection of books in it is increasing day by day, and there is an endless stream of scholars who come to visit.

At this time, Kong Rong also formed a small group, they wrote some poems and songs every day to enrich their lives, and the Kong Rong School gradually gathered a group of contemporary Confucians. These great Confucians gradually influenced the atmosphere of Pengchengguo, the atmosphere of poetry, books and etiquette gradually became stronger, the glorious palaces, neat streets, willows fluttering until the night also bustling streets, all like the prosperous imperial capital Luoyang.

At this time, Luoyang was already a land of ruins, and it was getting farther and farther away from Pengcheng.

The seven sons of Jian'an, the cultural prosperity they brought is naturally needless to say, with the gradual formation of the Pengcheng faction, at this time, as another important military industry next to Pengcheng, Taoling Town has not been idle. With the investment of a large amount of money, the Taoling Mechanical School has gradually developed the steam engine.

The mechanical school is constantly recruiting students and developing at the same time, and the principle of the steam engine is a textbook compiled by Tao Ying, and the progress of new things is difficult. With the mechanical school overcoming difficulties little by little, the smelting school also began to mine coal in Xiao County and Xiang County.

With the excavation of coal mines, the transportation of coal mines has become a big problem, and these are waiting for Tao Ying to solve little by little. The current north needs Tao Ying too much, and in three years, everything is a turning point. Even the Gunpowder Academy has become a turning point, they have developed gunpowder, but the power is pitiful, and it needs to be constantly improved.

The Taoling Military Factory also began to make muskets and artillery, but steelmaking was not yet widespread in this era, and the primitive manual steelmaking was slow, and the steel was not good. In the area of steelmaking, Tao Ying knew that there was already steelmaking in this era, so he spent a lot of money to hire these talents, which cost a lot of money every year.

Everything is developing rapidly, and the other two schools in Taoling Town have also lasted three years and trained hundreds of students. Nearly 100 students from the Taoling Town Surveying and Mapping School have gone out, some of these people are surveying and mapping maps in the territory under Taoying's jurisdiction, compiling maps of rivers and mountains, and some of them are going to other princes to survey and map maps.

Surveying and mapping is a very expensive job, so every person who goes out, he has to invest nearly 50 taels of silver. Also give him items such as paper and pencils.

In order to prevent being caught by others, the surveying and mapping school basically conducts surveying and mapping under the cover of the spy school. If it is said that military factories cost money, then the espionage school is the most money-burning department. The Espionage School is the first specialized intelligence agency in the whole of Xuzhou and even the entire Han Dynasty.

In order to hide people's eyes, they set up restaurants, gambling houses, etc. everywhere as a base. These investments are even more infuriating, and there are many places where they have to send money and bribes everywhere in order to open restaurants and gambling houses, so the work of the espionage school is the slowest.