The three of them chatted comfortably for a long time, Cheng Bing suddenly remembered an important matter, and hurriedly informed Liu Cun: "Half a month ago, Wang Ren, the assassin of Qingzhou, died of sudden illness, and Yang Ci, the chief lieutenant, recommended Huang Wan, a former general of the five senses and a young man who had just recovered half a year ago, to serve as the history of Qingzhou assassination, and it is estimated that he will take office next month. (”

"Zijian, Huang Wan, who was born in a poor family, is a famous Confucian scholar in the world, upright, practical, and diligent in royal affairs, so after he takes office, he will definitely visit your Chengyang County, you have to be prepared."

Liu Cun attaches great importance to it: "The junior brother has heard a lot of deeds about this person from Ziyang, Zheng Shi and Bingshi, and everyone has a high opinion of him, and the younger brother also wants to see him as soon as possible." ”

Cheng Bing and Cangci are finally relieved, with Langya Academy, no one dares to offend Liu Cun easily, let alone ruin Liu Cun's reputation, as long as Liu Cun is as humble as ever, Cheng Bing and Cangci have nothing to worry about, with Liu Cun's current virtue and political achievements, plus the merits in the pacification of the Yellow Turban Riots, only need to boil a few years of qualifications, and the future achievements will never be under the history of Qingzhou or Xuzhou.

Early the next morning, Cheng Bing and Cangci returned to Kaiyang Wangcheng with a spring breeze with a letter of thanks written by Liu Cun to the monarch, the restoration of Xihai County administration and the plan for the resettlement of prisoners, and the two great victories of Feixian and Xucun in counterinsurgency.

Not long after, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers hurriedly arrived and had a secret discussion with Liu Cun on the issue of the ownership of Fei County and the next battle plan.

The three of them discussed around the map, and after two hours, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers finally let go of all the worries in their hearts and took the first step in the political expansion of the Mi family - no longer giving up the Nancheng that had already been obtained, and clearly supporting Liu Cun's annexation of Fei County, the two joined forces to erect a strong barrier in the north of Xuzhou and the west of the Langya Kingdom, and finally managed the above three counties into their own sphere of influence.

After making this important decision, Mi Zhu and Mi Fang immediately returned to Fei County, and within three days, they would withdraw their troops in batches to Nancheng, fifty miles southwest of Xiao County, and occupy two open-pit coal mines and three gypsum mines in Nancheng first, and build a large workshop to produce cement powder in short supply by using the abundant limestone and clay mines in the local area.

Liu Cun's actions were also very fast, he ordered Yan Shen and Xu Sheng to lead 2,500 cavalry to Fei County first, to carry out close surveillance and frequent harassment of the Yellow Turban Army in Nanwuyang in the west, forcing the Yellow Turban Army to evacuate Nanwuyang as soon as possible, and strive to drive more than 40,000 Yellow Turban Army to Yuzhou in the west or Yanzhou in the north, so that these two state capitals that have been sitting on the mountain watching the tiger die and cannot be saved.

In the following days, Liu Cun had been sitting in the camp of Xucun, and Wang Qi and Xu He, the newly appointed governor of Tong County, carried out a strict selection of nearly 20,000 Yellow Turban soldiers, selected 2,000 crossbowmen and 5,000 foot soldiers, and the remaining 14,000 old and weak people, together with more than 24,000 homeless people, were successively sent to five pre-designated reclamation areas in Haixi County, where they were quickly restored to the fields and planted corn grain under the unified management of officials temporarily transferred from Langya County.

The 5,000 Langya infantry and 5,000 auxiliary soldiers who had completed the rest had been stationed in Fei County in the west, and the vacated battalion was occupied by the newly reorganized 7,000 elite Yellow Turban soldiers, and under the command of Wang Qi and Xu He, strict training was carried out in accordance with the Langya Army's "Infantry Drill Code".

Five days later, Sima Ju saw Bao Ji Bao Laosan, the commander of the Langya Navy Army, who had been ordered to hurry, and the two looked at each other for a moment, calling each other by their nicknames with joy, clasping their hands and laughing.

Bao Laosan happily explained to Liu Cun: "Lord, Sima Brother is a subordinate fellow villager, his subordinates are one and a half years older than Sima, they went down to the river to fish together when they were young, and later worshiped together under the Mo hermit Lu Shimen to practice for four years, his subordinates prefer to drive boats, Sima brothers like to build ships, until the age of nineteen, his subordinates moved to Xuzhou Donghai with their parents, and Brother Sima was separated, his original name was Sima Bang, so his subordinates never knew that Sima Ju, the famous villain in the Yellow Turban Army, was him, otherwise his subordinates would have gone to pull him to the Lord's side, Ha ha! ”

Liu Cun was very happy, ordered the two to sit down and chat together, and then asked Sima Ju's wishes: "Brother Sima, are you willing to join the navy or are you willing to continue to stay and lead your old subordinates?" ”

Sima Ju didn't answer directly, but asked in a restrained manner: "My lord, I heard that Langya's fleet has been able to cross the sea and trade in Liaodong through Sanhan?" ”

Liu Cun pointed to Bao Laosan and motioned to him, and Bao Laosan proudly told Sima Ju that next month he would lead a fleet to run again, this time not only seven large ships, but twelve cargo ships of 300 stone and four Dafu ships of 500 stone, of which two 500 stone ships were equipped with the most advanced bed crossbows and trebuchets, and were special warships carrying 500 naval officers and soldiers.

In the end, Bao Laosan said proudly: "We have found a big island with fertile land, called Jeju Island, and this time we will transport 3,000 young people to the island to expand the territory for our Han Dynasty!" ”

Sima Ju was enthusiastic when he heard this, and Huo Ran stood up and asked loudly: "Lord, if your subordinates want to go to the navy, even if you want to be a helmsman or sailman!" ”

Liu Cun said with a smile: "Then you will follow the third child for a while, starting with the lieutenant of the navy, and then at the end of the year twelve newly-built warships will be launched, and the Langya navy will have seventeen large and medium-sized warships and about thirty offshore patrol clippers, and the navy will be reorganized and subdivided into the long-distance fleet, the Bohai Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet, which will undertake different tasks." In the next few years, the navy still needs to be taoguang and obscure, and it cannot attract criticism from the outside world or even the anger of the imperial court, so the Langya navy will set up military positions different from those of the Han navy, such as the commander of the navy, the commander of the fleet, the captain, the first mate, etc., I hope that after a year, the Sima brothers can be independent. ”

Sima Ju was overjoyed: "The subordinates will live up to the expectations of the lord!" ”

Liu Cun nodded and asked with a smile, "Do you need to recruit some familiar helpers?" ”

"If you can, my subordinates want to bring more than ten old brothers who are being reorganized to the navy, these brothers are all killed from their hometowns with their subordinates, and they are all good at boating and building! In addition, among the old brothers who were sent to Haixi in batches a few days ago, at least 100 of them know how to build ships, and their skills are very good, so it is better to put these people in the shipbuilding workshop of our navy. Sima Ju excitedly suggested.

Liu Cun immediately picked up the brush and wrote down a warrant, took out the seal and stamped it with a big seal: "I authorize you to do this matter, that's right!" Don't forget to say goodbye to Brother Xu and Brother Shoushan, the two of them have been immersed in military training these days, and they don't know that you are going to the navy. ”

Sima Ju hurriedly bowed: "Thank you for reminding the lord, my subordinates are going to see the two brothers!" ”

Sima Ju left in a hurry, Liu Cun called Bao Laosan, listened to the recent training and escort of the navy, and finally gave him a confidential task: to secretly recruit a group of rangers in Liaodong, and then send them to the Lingshan camp for training, and a year later as a secret agent of the navy!