"Bo Tao, don't say goodbye for a few months, everything is okay?" Guan Yu, who was sitting on the main seat, waited for Zhao Feng to sit down and asked with a smile.

"Thanks to the prince's concern, Feng is still doing well." Zhao Feng looked at Guan Yu, who was smiling, and Zhuge Liang, who was smiling silently with a feather fan on the side, but his heart was becoming more and more bottomless. He has a good relationship with Guan Yu, but he is an arrogant person after all, and there is no reason to see him smiling with wrinkles all over his face. As for Ah Liang, once he laughs, someone will be calculated.

"Bo Tao is really humble and open, even if he is demoted, he is also light and light!" Guan Yu praised unexpectedly. Without waiting for Zhao Feng to say anything, Guan Yu sighed again and said: "It's a pity that I've been very bad lately, Bo Tao is my old friend, in this situation, I can't stand by and watch!" ”

If Zhao Feng has any biggest weakness, it is to eat soft and not hard. In the face of poor Xiao Qiao, he naturally would not come to the face of the familiar Guan Yu, and said at the moment: "Second general, but tell me to do my best, I should do my best." ”

"Kong Ming, look, Bo Tao is really a righteous man, a promise!" Guan Yu poured Zhao Feng another bowl of [***] soup. At this time, Zhuge Liang told Zhao Feng what happened, it turned out that since the two of them were in charge of Jingxiang, they felt the pain of lack of manpower. Although there are many talents of all kinds, there is a shortage of talents who can take charge of themselves. All in all, now they have tried their best to govern Jingxiang, but they still have some lack of energy.

Guan Yu + Zhuge Liang can't handle Jingzhou? This made Zhao Feng a little unimaginable. But after all, Ah Liang was only 21 years old at this time, and he was younger and immature than when he debuted in history. In addition, it is useless for Ma Liang and these people to gather on Liu Bei's side as they did in history, and at present, a large part of the Jingxiangshi people are still waiting. In addition, now the two of them govern the entire Jingxiang, and there is one more Nanyang County than in history. Relying only on Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu, it is indeed a bit stretched.

"Second General, Kong Ming, I don't know what you want me to do?" Zhao Feng understood the meaning of this, and felt that he was arrested. "It's nothing, it's just to let Bo Tao preside over this year's recruit recruitment, and by the way, take care of the affairs of the four counties of Jingnan, Cangwu and Nanhai counties!" Guan Yu understated the authenticity.

"That's fine." Zhao Feng knew that this was not a too difficult task, so he hurriedly agreed to it. At this time, Guan Yu told him that Liu Bei had dismissed him from the positions of Chaisang Taishou and General Yingyang, and reappointed him as a rebellious general, and the general's palace had been set up in Hanshou, responsible for handling all the affairs of the four counties of Jingnan and the two counties of Cangwu and Nanhai.

"Second General, what does this mean?" Zhao Feng had the feeling of being on a thief ship, and hurriedly asked. Isn't this rebellious general the title of Sun Quan in the past, why is it given to himself now. And let yourself take care of these six counties, how can it look like a copy of Sun Quan back then. What's more, after he flooded Jiangling, he became the number one public enemy in Jingzhou. Isn't that a joke to let yourself sit in Jingnan.

"Alas, Bo Tao. As you know, last time the eldest brother asked for the merger of Nanhai and Cangwu counties into Yangzhou, but it was not approved. At present, these two counties are neither under the jurisdiction of Jiaozhou Musun Quan nor under the jurisdiction of Yangzhou, which is quite unjustifiable. Therefore, the eldest brother thought about it for a long time before he came up with this compromise method, and asked you to come and manage these two counties and the four counties of Jingnan. The eldest brother said, he can rest assured that you can do things, and only you can do this now. At present, among the six counties, unless it is the appointment and dismissal of the county warden, all matters big and small are up to you. We must build these six counties into a solid and stable rear like Jiangdong. Guan Yu said carefully. Zhuge Liang also told him that he didn't have to worry too much about those big families who had opposed him before, these people were all in Jingbei.

"Thank you for your trust!" Zhao Feng hugged his fists and thanked him. He knew that last time he was demoted, Liu Bei is doing this now because Jingnan lacks people to take care of him, and in addition, he also has some meaning of compensation. At this time, Zhuge Liang slowly introduced the situation of the four counties of Jingnan to him.

The four counties of Jingnan refer to the four counties west of the Xiangjiang River and up to Yizhou Qiqi County. From east to west, there are four counties of Guiyang, Changsha, Lingling and Wuling, of which Guiyang and Lingling are bordered by Nanhai and Cangwu respectively. As long as these six counties are well managed, Sun Quan of Jiaozhou will be clamped down.

Although the four counties of Jingnan and the second county of Jiaozhou are fertile land, they do not want to be more sparsely populated than Jiangdong at the beginning. The total area of these six counties is not smaller than that of Jiangdong at the beginning, but the total population of the four counties of Jingnan is only 700,000, and among the two counties of Jiaozhou, Nanhai has now had a population of 1560,000 through the migration of Jiangdong before the governance of Jiangdong, which is basically the same as Guiyang. But Cangwu is pitiful, and the total population is only seventy or eighty thousand. If you calculate it this way, the total population of these six counties is more than 900,000 at most.

Considering that Jingzhou's population is close to 4 million, and the four counties of Jingnan, which account for half of its area, are only so many, then the population distribution of Jingzhou as a whole can be said to be extremely unbalanced. Moreover, the four counties of Jingnan are not the kind of wild places in the south of Yizhou, including Nanhai and Cangwu, most of these places are fertile land, and rice can be harvested three times a year. Thinking of how prosperous Guangdong, Fujian, and Hunan provinces were in the future, compared with the current dilapidated appearance, Zhao Feng simply had a sense of confusion.

"Kong Ming, I think it is better to follow the old method of governing Jiangdong when it is said, recruit new soldiers and let his family members go south to pioneer the land, so as to balance the population." Zhao Feng thought for a while.

"General, this time the problem is not so simple. This year, there is a drought in northern Jingda, and there is a shortage of money and grain, and Xuzhou and Yangzhou cannot squeeze out too much for the time being. The prince and I have estimated that we can only recruit more than 10,000 new troops at most. Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Is that so?" Zhao Feng was taken aback when he heard this. After thinking about it, Zhao Feng said again: "Kong Ming, when Cao Ying gave up the three counties of Runan, most of the people were forcibly requisitioned and relocated to Yanzhou and Sizhou. The people of Nanyang and Nanjun can be transferred to Runan to enrich the place and reduce the pressure on Jingzhou. ”

"This method is possible, but how can the people be moved?" Zhuge Liang frowned when he heard this.

"There is so much wasteland waiting for them to reclaim, are you afraid that they will not go?" Zhao Feng is rightfully authentic. Thinking of the mighty Guandong in history, Zhao Feng did not believe that the peasants loved their families and refused the land.

"It's not that simple." Zhuge Liang shook his head and smiled bitterly, and then he told Zhao Feng in detail. Although Kuai Yue and Cai Mao were annihilated, the power of the Jingxiang family was still huge. After the Jingbei Rebellion, the pastoral land that originally belonged to the Cai family and the Kuai family was divided up by other smaller families. A portion of their servants, tenants, was divided as goods. Zhuge Liang himself has also reaped a lot of benefits in this, and he will not say it explicitly. There are still nearly a million people left, all of whom have recovered their freedom, but they still do not have any means of production, and if they continue like this, they will sooner or later have to follow the old path of becoming tenant farmers of the big families.

"That's it!" Zhao Feng is now a little bit more refreshed. This particular group has played a very important role in Chinese history. During the Three Kingdoms period, in order to gain more support, the princes of all walks of life often gave these families great preferential policies, and Liu Bei was not exempt from vulgarity. Zhao Feng knows that if he wants to develop now, he can't do without the support of these people. But once the strength in their hands is too great, it is easy to cause turmoil. For example, Cai's and Kuai's combined strength accounts for most of Jingzhou. If Liu Bei hadn't intervened this time, Liu Biao, who had ridden into Jingzhou alone, would have let them give Yin.

The reason why the Western Jin Dynasty perished so quickly in history was because after Sima Yan came to power, he continued to give preferential policies to the families who already held great power. As a result, the strength of the major wealthy clans was too great, and in the end, the palace civil strife caused a national scuffle, which gave the nomads in the north an opportunity. After Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian dominated the world, the imperial examination system was used to replace the nine-product Zhongzheng system, which was originally extremely beneficial to the family, which made the selection of talents more scientific, so as to avoid the strength of the family. Therefore, since the Sui Dynasty, it is rare to hear of the fourth generation and the third duke, but on the contrary, there is a philosophical saying: rich can not be more than three generations.

Wang Mang, who was scolded as a careerist and usurper, was actually a reformer, or idealist, with a relatively avant-garde ideology to a certain extent. He wanted to change the status quo of land annexation, but the measures he adopted were too radical, which eventually led to the fierce resistance of the family, and he was also killed. Zhao Feng knew the basic truth that the productive forces determine the relations of production, and he did not expect to carry out any agrarian revolution at all, and he boiled the relatively unrealistic things of freedom. Even the imperial examination system, he didn't want to do it now, but planned to wait for the situation to calm down a little. Before, it had always relied on the system of Xuzhou Academy to balance the influence of the family, but now it seems that something needs to be added. For example, if more than a million peasants in Jingbei are allowed to become tenant farmers again this time, then once the strength of some families rises sharply, I am afraid that in a few years, there will be another Cai Mao or Kuai Yue.

"Kong Ming, I understand what you mean, that is to say, even if the people of Jingbei have the intention to go south, it is difficult for them to migrate spontaneously if they have nothing, right?" Zhao Feng thought for a while and asked.

"Exactly!" Zhuge Liang nodded.

"Since this is the case, then I will solve the problem of rectifying Jingnan's armament and moving the population south. Kong Ming, how is Jingxiang's armament at the moment? Zhao Feng thought for a while and asked.

"Not very good." Zhuge Liang was more cautious and authentic. Jingzhou claimed to have 300,000 horses before fighting Jiangdong, but in fact, this is because of the number of county soldiers and water, and there are not so many front-line combat troops, which probably adds up to about 200,000. Among them, there were 120,000 infantry troops, 50,000 naval troops, and 30,000 cavalry. After the defeat of Jiangdong, the infantry and naval forces suffered heavy losses. Later, although new recruits were recruited, their combat effectiveness was extremely weak. After this war, Cai Mao, Kuai Yue and others, as well as Liu Pan's old department, only about 120,000 remained, of which there were more than 20,000 cavalry.

"20,000 cavalry?" Zhao Feng's eyes lit up when he heard this: he had been tossing in Xuzhou for so many years, changing horses and blackmailing, but he only managed to get nearly 20,000 cavalry. This Liu Jingsheng is really wealthy, he raised 30,000 cavalry at once, and now there are more than 20,000 left, why didn't Cai Mao use it in the battle before?

"General, most of the cavalry in Jingzhou are Yanzhou horses, and they don't know how to ride and shoot, so their combat power is not the same as General Zilong's white horse righteousness." Zhuge Liang saw Zhao Feng's face excited, and hurriedly poured a basin of cold water.

"It's better than nothing." Zhao Feng waved his hand and said. After thinking about it carefully, Zhao Feng felt that he already had a rough plan, and he could implement it immediately. It's just that it's hard to toss by yourself, so you should always ask him for a few people.

At that moment, two civil servants walked into the hall head-on. The older face on the left is extremely long, but the one on the right has a pair of white eyebrows, but it is Ma Liang Ma Jichang, who has had several relationships with Zhao Feng before, and after everyone met, it was a courtesy, and Zhuge Liang ceremoniously introduced to Zhao Feng that the long-faced man was his eldest brother Zhuge Jin.

"Thanks to the general's life-saving grace in the past, Zhuge Jin did not dare to forget!" Zhuge Jin was extremely polite, and thanked Zhao Feng seriously, and the latter even said that there was no need to be polite. Looking at the two brothers Zhuge Jin with a serious face and Zhuge Liang who were a little radiant, Zhao Feng suddenly had a mischievous idea, and deliberately asked Zhuge Liang at the moment: "Kong Ming, I heard that you once said that Brother Ling, Shi Guangyuan, and Cui Zhou are all talents in one state?" ”

"Exactly!" Zhuge Liang nodded.

"In this way, Kong Ming's talent and learning are not as good as Brother Ling!" Zhao Feng deliberately shook his head and sighed, this time everyone was a little confused.

(To be continued)