Since the battle in Dongjun and the defeat to Cao Ang, Yuan Shu finally recovered some vitality after a year of recuperation, but Yuan Shu is obviously a dead person, this has just recovered his vitality, he actually braved the world's disapproval to establish the country in Xuchang as the emperor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 As for Shouchun, the important town of Jiujiang County, he left his son-in-law Huang Qi to stay behind and appointed Huang Qi as the Taishou of Jiujiang County.

Huang Qijiang Xia An Lu Ren clan, his uncle Huang Wan once served as Situ of the Han Dynasty, Taiwei and other positions, and was the first Yuzhou pastor in the late Han Dynasty, which can be described as famous. Although Huang Wan was a capable minister, he was killed because of his opposition to being manipulated by the Xiliang warlord Li Wei.

As Huang Qi after a famous family, although he is not outstanding, he is also a talented literati, he is familiar with the five classics, he is obviously suitable to be a civil official, but this person has a fatal heel, that is, he does not know the art of war, and the scriptures he has learned are just the way to govern and educate people. In the peaceful and prosperous times, it is more than enough to serve as the Taishou of a county, but in such a troubled era now, he is not able to catch the shepherd.

There are now 8,000 soldiers in Shouchun City, plus the young and strong recruited temporarily, the military strength can be expanded to the scale of 15,000 people in three days, as the Yangzhou Governor's Office, Shouchun is also a strong city, relying on the Huaishui to build the city, there is Huaishui barrier outside, there are high walls and deep trenches inside, under the urgency, such a strong city is definitely difficult to conquer easily.

But when he learned that Han Lie was coming with his army, Huang Qi was still in a panic, and hurriedly summoned the county commander Yuan Lian, the school captain Yuan Ba and Yuan Min to discuss the countermeasures.

Yuan Lian's character Yaoqing, a native of Yuzhou Chen, Yuan Ba and Yuan Min are all Yuan Lian's younger brothers, although they have the same surname as Yuan, they are also from Yuzhou, but Yuan Lian's family and Yuan Shu have no blood relationship. However, the Yuan Lian family is not a small family, it is also from a family of three princes, and his father Yuan Peng once held the position of Situ.

Yuan Lian has little success, famous in the county, just became an adult was promoted to Maocai, and was later recommended by the county as the county order, but Yuan Lian saw the chaos in the county, refused to take office, has been concentrating on studying at home, last year Yuan Shu captured Yuzhou, heard its name and coerced it for his own use.

Huang Qi was young because he followed his uncle Huang Wan to live in Yuzhou, so he had a good relationship with Yuan Lian, and when he learned that Yuan Lian was coerced out of office, he interceded with Yuan Shu for Yuan Lian, which in exchange for Yuan Lian's family moved to Shouchun and lived in peace, and became an official under Huang Qi's account.

However, Yuan Jian always thought that Yuan Shu was not the master, but under pressure, he had to be wronged, especially when he learned that Yuan Shu had usurped the title of emperor, Yuan Shu and his brothers in the clan had been conspiring to draw a line with Yuan Shu.

As a big family, Yuan Shu knows that in such troubled times, if you want to preserve the safety and bloodline of the family, you must rely on a generation of strong masters, but Yuan Shu is obviously not such a master. Recently, there are two people who have been hesitant to take refuge in the Yuan Chuan brothers, one is Han Lie in Xuzhou, and the other is Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Liu Biao is a relative of the Han family, occupying the land of Jingzhou, and Liu Biao is famous, so in this era, it is obviously still quite favored by those exiled celebrities.

Defecting to Liu Biao was originally Yuan Biao's first choice, why did he give up the near and far, mainly because he thought that Han Lie's background was still a little worse. Although Han Lie was born in the Yingchuan Han clan and his maternal grandfather was Chen Tan, a famous man in China, but now both the Han family and the Chen family have withered and declined, and it can be said that they lack important foundation connections.

In Yuan Lian's view, the achievement of a great cause is naturally inseparable from the contrast of the children of the clan, just like their Yuan family, although not as good as their father's generation, but they have several brothers, but they are quite famous, the family has 21 rooms, and there are 600 private soldiers in total, which is the foundation for the great cause.

Just before Huang Qi convened their brotherly council, Yuan Lian and his brothers already knew the news that Han Lie's army had entered Shouchun, and they had a discussion around this issue.

Yuan Lian's idea was to persuade Huang Qi to abandon the city and go to Yuzhou, because he didn't expect Han Lie to come so quickly, and he would be unable to get out, so persuading Huang Qi to abandon the city was naturally the best way to preserve it.

However, Yuan Ba and Yuan Min's opinion was that Kaesong surrendered to Han Lie and gave it to Han Lie as a gift from Jiujiang County as a gift for their Yuan clan.

For the opinions of the two brothers, Yuan Jian was somewhat hesitant, and under the argument of the Yuan brothers, the old mother of the Yuan family came out from the back hall: "Although Yuan Shu has the same surname as our clan, but this person usurped the title of emperor, this is the way to die, and the world will inevitably fight together. ”

"The old mother has a life, and the son doesn't dare to disrespect, so according to the will of Brother Ba and Brother Min, persuade Huang Qi to open the city to welcome Han Lie's army into the city, if he is unwilling, then tie him up, and go out of the city together." Yuan Jian is also a decisive person, since he has decided to do it, then he naturally has no scruples.

"Whoa." In the hall, the old and young people of the Yuan family responded one after another.

Above the lobby of the Taishou Mansion, when he heard that Yuan Jian actually said that he was going to surrender in Kaicheng, Huang Qi was so shocked that he stood on the spot for a while, and a captain under the tent drew his sword and roared: "Okay, you Yuan Lian, dare to betray the lord......"

"Look for death." Yuan Ba stood up and slashed down with a swing of his sword, and the captain named Huan couldn't even fight back, and blood was splashed on the spot.

"Lord Taishou, Yuan Shu is called the emperor, this is a rebellion, everyone gets it, my Yuan family, generations of loyal and righteous Han family, categorically can not be with traitors, if you know the current affairs, and we will open the city together to welcome General Han into the city, otherwise my brother will have to borrow your head to use." Yuan Ba snorted coldly, and a team of sergeants rushed into the hall with halberds and draped up.

Facing the fierce eyes of the sergeants with the halberd who rushed up, the officials in the hall were so frightened that they all turned colorless, and shouted one after another: "We obey Lord Yuan's orders. ”

"This ...... There's something to say, there's something to say. Huang Qi also lost his claim for a while, so he had to look at Yuan Jian aggrievedly and say goodbye.

"In a word, don't say more." Yuan Min raised his sword and walked towards Huang Qi, asking with a cold expression.

"Down, I'm down." Facing Yuan Min raising his sword and walking towards him, Huang Qi suddenly shouted in fright.

"Brother Ba, you will take over the Taishou Mansion, Brother Min, you will lead the officials of the mansion with me and go out of the city to welcome General Han's army into the city." Yuan Jian then confiscated Huang Qi's seal and ordered Yuan Min to lead a group of sergeants and escort a group of officials out of the city.

Han Lie, who was fifty miles away from Shouchun, thought that he had heard it wrong for a while when he received the news from the former army Xu Huang's fast horse...... Wait, I'll go and ask for it personally. ”

"The lord is wise." Guo Jia nodded and said: "This Yuan Lian clan is a Wang clan in Yuzhou, and today this person kidnapped Huang Qi to defect to the lord, which is enough to show that Yuan Shu is unpopular, and the lord has Yuan Lian's help, and the counties in Yuzhou are not to worry." ”

"This person has such prestige!" Han Lie didn't have any impression of Yuan Lian originally, but when he heard Guo Jia exalt this person like this, he would take a look at this Yuan Lian.

When Yuan Jian and his brother Yuan Min saw Han Lie, from the surprise at the beginning to the joy after the meeting, those feelings were really indescribable.

"Lord, this is Huang Taishou, is the nephew of Huang Yuzhou, because of his reputation and was recruited by Yuan Shu as a son-in-law, now Yuan Shu is rebellious, Huang Taishou expressed his willingness to divorce his wife and follow the lord to crusade against Yuan thief." In the lobby of Shouchun's Taishou Mansion, Yuan Jian introduced Han Lie to the officials of Shouchun in turn.

"Huang Yuzhou is a loyal minister of my Han Dynasty, Lord Huang can abandon the darkness and turn to the light, I should play the son of tomorrow and show your merits." Han Lie nodded with satisfaction and said comfortingly.

"Thank you Ming Gong for not being guilty of the past." Huang Qi hurriedly got up and avoided the seat.

Then Yuan Chuan introduced the officials of Shouchun one by one, and then Han Lie asked about the counties of Jiujiang, especially household registration, government decrees, finance and taxation, etc., and Yuan Chuan was able to answer them without the slightest hesitation.

Even many details can be accurate to single digits, which shows this person's ability and rigor in doing things. Although it was a surrender, Yuan Jian did not show polite flattery, which made Han Lie even more satisfied.

"Yaoqing's talent, it's not impossible to shepherd a state." Han Lie sighed in admiration and said: "Yuan Lian listens to the order, and from now on, you will take the position of Jiujiang Taishou, and Yuan Ba Yuan Min will be the leading captain, responsible for leading our army to sweep all counties, and you must take the entire territory of Jiujiang within a month." ”

"Whoa." Yuan Lian responded calmly, when he saw Han Lie for the first time, although he was surprised by Han Lie's youth, but after seeing Han Lie's strong military might, as well as his attitude like a spring breeze, and that extraordinary conversation and knowledge, Yuan Lian had already collected his feelings and sincerely expressed his sincerity.

The Yuan brothers, Yuan Lian is literate and proficient in Tao strategy, Yuan Ba has courage, and he is a brave general, Yuan Min is a little mediocre, but this person knows how to advance and retreat, and his loyalty is available.

After taking Shouchun, the entire territory of Jiujiang can be said to have fallen into the hands of Han Lie without wasting a single soldier. Subsequently, Han Lie sent four generals, Xu Huang, Gao Shun, Tai Shici, and Zhao Yun, to take Huang Qi's general orders, and under the guidance of Yuan Ba, Yuan Min and other Shouchun officials as the pioneers, in just 20 days, Jiujiang ruled 14 counties, and 230,000 people were all under Han Lie's rule.

"In a county, the annual grain harvest is only 178,000 stones?" Shouchun was too guarded by the mansion, and when the grain from the autumn harvest from all over the country was gathered in front of Han Lie's case, he obviously couldn't believe it.

You must know that Jiujiang County has 14 county seats, with a population of more than 200,000, located on both sides of the Huaishui Yangtze River, which is a Jiangbei Plain with fertile land and convenient water conservancy and irrigation, and has 250,000 tons of registered cultivated land.

"Lord, this is already a good year, last year there was a flood, Jiujiang's yield per mu is less than one stone, and the grain collected is only 100,000 stone." Faced with Han Lie's question, Yuan Jian did not feel ashamed, but truthfully reported such a fact.

"Ziyang, you tell Yaoqing about the defense of the city in Wujun, Guangling, and Danyang this year." In fact, Han Lie also knew that there was no big problem with the situation that Yuan Lie said, this is the general yield per mu at present, but in the land of the three counties under Han Lie's rule, after last year's experiment, the rice yield planted this year has achieved a huge harvest in the land of the three counties.

"Whoa." The Ziyang in Han Lie's mouth is naturally not himself, but Liu Ye, who has the same word as himself, and he is now the chief of Han Lie's army, in charge of clerical affairs.

"Last year, the average yield per mu of my Guangling was two stones, the counties south of Danyang were one stone and eight buckets, and the mu yield of Jianye Diannong Duweifu was two stones and six buckets, of which the mu yield of the whole county of Wu County was two stones and four buckets, and the three counties collected a total of one million dollars of grain." Liu Ye got up and arched his hand slightly.

"So tall?" Yuan Jian was stunned for a moment, and then reacted and asked, "Is the lord saying that you are planting rice, not millet?" ”

"Lord Yuan is really keen, the lord as early as two years ago found that the south has enough rain, more suitable for planting rice, so has been arranging for the old farmers to experiment in cultivating rice planting, after two years of hard work, this year's first large-scale planting, it has achieved a lot of success, and this is only the harvest of the first season, the lord said, next year rice will be planted in the Huiji two seasons, the harvest can be imagined." Speaking of this, Liu Ye admired Han Lie from the bottom of his heart, for thousands of years, the people continued to grow grains, but because the land in the south was wet, the yield of crops such as wheat millet and millet with high yields in the north was very low in the south.

Although some people have planted rice, but because they have not found an effective method, the yield is also not high, resulting in the same low cultivation of rice, but it only took two years for Han Lie to completely change this environment.

You must know that wheat millet and other crops, in the Guanzhong Plain, as well as Jizhou and other places, the highest yield per mu can reach more than three stones, and the yield per mu of peace is also about two stones, which is also the biggest fundamental reason for the population reproduction in the north to be greater than that in the south, but now the rice that Han Lie has improved and planted can be on par with the north, and it is even possible to catch up, and this result alone is enough to change the living conditions of countless people.

The population is undoubtedly the basis of the existence of the royal power in the era of cold weapons, as long as there is enough food, not only can it feed a large army, but also can quickly reproduce the population, in fact, in the past two years, the population under Han Lie's rule has indeed begun to grow.

There are three main reasons for this, one is the system of rewarding the population proposed by Han Lie, the second is the system of lightly paying for the poor, and the third is to take the line of elite soldiers, which is the route of elite soldiers, which can not only effectively improve combat effectiveness, but also allow more young and middle-aged people to stay in their hometowns to increase their labor force.

"The lord's move is really the foundation of a great cause for a thousand years." Yuan Lian couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, the yield of two to three stones per mu alone is already unexpected, if it can be planted for two seasons, then at least three to four stones of grain can be produced, so that the food problem that plagues the south is naturally no longer a problem. As long as he thought of this, Yuan Jian was not only excited, but also glad that he had taken the initiative to surrender in the first place.

"Yaoqing understands, there are still two months before the beginning of spring, and your main energy during this time is to do a good job in the work of the people, and strive to promote rice in the public fields of each county, so that the people can see the harvest of rice, and you can also post notices that the people who are willing to plant rice will reduce the tax per mu by one percent." Han Lie saw that Yuan Chuan understood the benefits of rice, so he slowly arranged the matter of planting rice in the Jianghuai area.

"The lord can rest assured, the lower officials will definitely live up to the trust." Yuan Jian happily accepted the order.

After taking Jiujiang County, Han Lie led the Chinese army and the navy to withdraw from Shouchun and secretly returned to Hexi. However, Han Lie's Chinese army Daxu stayed in Shouchun, and at the same time appointed Gao Shun to lead the army out of Peiguo, Zhao Yuntai Shici to lead the army out of Runan, Xu Huang to lead the army out of Liang, Xu Rong also known as the East China Sea, and Sun Kang to go out of Pengcheng in Xiapi.

The soldiers and horses led by Gao Shun are mainly the trapping camp of his department, as well as the five thousand county soldiers of Shouchun, and the rest of the generals are in command of their own troops, as for why they sent Zhao Yuntai and Shi Ci two groups of men and horses to Runan, the main reason is that Runan is a large county in Yuzhou, and it is also the base of the Yellow Turban rebels, and there are 100,000 Yellow Turban Gong Du, Liu Pi and other commanders.

Even Yuan Shu failed to win several expeditions to Runan, and in Guo Jia's words, Runan Ping, then Yuzhou An, if it weren't for the fact that Lujiang's geographical location is more important to Jiujiang and even Yangzhou at the moment, Han Lie would definitely personally lead his troops to crusade against Runan Yellow Turbans.

The reason why Han Lie led the Chinese army and the navy to secretly return to Anhui City was because he received an eagle letter from Xiangyang from Cheng Yu, who had been away for more than a month, informing him that the trip was going well, and Liu Biao had agreed to send the general Zhang Yun and his nephew Liu Pan to command the army of 30,000 and send troops to Changsha.

This news is undoubtedly good news for Han Lie, at present, Sun Ce has broken through the counties on the periphery of the Lujiang River, the army has gathered under the city of Wancheng, Lujiang is too guarded by Liu Xun to defend and not surrender, and it is difficult to capture the city of Anhui in a hurry, and at this time, as long as Han Lie walks out of the news that Changsha was besieged by Liu Biao's army, Sun Ce's army will inevitably be in turmoil, and then he only needs to send a naval army to cruise in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which is enough to deter Sun Ce from having to retreat, so that Lujiang County is naturally at his fingertips. (To be continued.) )