Facts have proved that Wang Chong's worries are not groundless, because when those people who were originally residents of Chaohu set off to return home under the repeated assurances of Zhuge Jin and Yan Ji, the remaining displaced people who could not escape from other states and counties have always lingered near Chaoxian and are unwilling to leave.

Chaoxian was garrisoned by 4,000 Jinfan soldiers at this time, and Wang Shuang's 600 cavalry also arrived from Hefei yesterday, these refugees did not dare to gather to make trouble, but for Wang Chong, the begging eyes projected on him by the ragged and skinny refugees were even more lethal than their ferocious impact on the Taishou Mansion.

Wang Chong's heart softened, and immediately ordered people to set up a porridge shed outside Chaoxian County to relieve the displaced people, anyway, the current Jinfan is not short of food, and the top priority should be how to settle these displaced people as soon as possible.

Looking at the groups of homeless people who were grateful to him just because of a bowl of porridge and couldn't stop kowtowing and crying, Wang Chong's mood was extremely complicated, and at that moment, he really didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.

The number of displaced people far exceeded Wang Chong's imagination, it was fine in the morning, but in the afternoon, as the news of Jinfan's establishment of porridge sheds in Chao County spread, displaced people from all over the country flocked to it, and in the evening, the number of people has exceeded 3,000, and looking at this trend, it is estimated that in the next few days, there will be more and more displaced people who come to hear the wind.

In order to allow such a large number of displaced people to have a place to live as soon as possible, Wang Chong had to mobilize the four thousand soldiers of Chao County, and these displaced people saw that Wang Chong was not only willing to take him in, but also took the initiative to send troops to help them build a new home.

The next day, Liu Ye and Zhu Chun finally led the army back to Chao County, bringing only 3,000 people with them, but when they returned, the soldiers and horses had expanded to tens of thousands.

Liu Ye and Zhu Chun, the two well-known big men in the Chaohu area, came forward in person, the expedition seemed to be extremely smooth, in the process, almost did not encounter any substantial resistance, even to Zhang Duo and Xu Gan, the two strong base camps, were no exception, all the soldiers were moved by Liu Ye's three-inch incorruptible tongue, expressed their willingness to join Jinfan to serve Wang Chong, the reason why it took two days, is really because the confiscated family wealth is too huge, resulting in a much slower speed of the march.

As Yan Jian expected, the grain piled up in the two warehouses of Zhang Duo and Xu Gan added up to 600,000 stones, in addition, there were countless gold, silver, money, and rare treasures, the only thing that made Wang Chong regret was that there were too few weapons and armor, these three fools only knew how to hoard grain and grass and collect wealth, but they didn't know that in the troubled times, it was the most important thing to strengthen their armed forces as much as possible, and the rest were all floating clouds.

After confiscating Zheng Bao and other three Chaohu Haoqiang, Jinfan's wealth has accumulated to an astonishing extent, at least compared to Jiangdong, Jinfan is enough to be called a big money.

Of course, if you have money, you have to be capricious, and Wang Chong immediately decided to expand the scale of elite soldiers.

Since there were no war horse resources in Jiangdong, the expansion of the cavalry battalion was temporarily put aside by Wang Chong, and his primary purpose was to expand the Iron Guard Battalion.

This time, Wang Chong wanted to expand the number of the Iron Guard Battalion to three thousand in one go, but the Xuanjia was hard to find, so he could only choose to build it himself.

As a result, Jinfan began to recruit craftsmen from abroad, but anyone who has a skill will get a rich salary after joining Jinfan, especially the blacksmith, which is what Wang Chong urgently needs at present.

Huainan is dilapidated, everything is in ruins, and now Wang Chong has almost no more things at hand.

That night, Wang Chong gathered all the civil and military forces of Jinfan together, intending to formulate a short-term development plan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that Liyang has been captured by my Jinfan, the entire Jiujiang County has undoubtedly become something in our pocket, I don't know what to do in your opinion, what should I do next for Jinfan?"

Wang Chong's question, the main object of inquiry is Liu Ye, Zhuge Jin and Yan Ji, the three Jinfan ministers, as for Zhu Chun, Wang Shuang and other military generals, there is actually no room for interference in this regard.

Liu Ye glanced at Zhuge Jin lightly, he had joined Jinfan for almost half a month, but by mistake, the two did not meet for the first time until today.

Liu Ye knew that Zhuge Jin, an old courtier, had a very high status in Wang Chong's mind, otherwise he would not have been directly named a different driver, so he did not take the lead in speaking, firstly, out of respect for Zhuge Jin, and secondly, he also wanted to see Zhuge Jin's ability first.

Noticing Liu Ye's gaze, Zhuge Jin smiled indifferently and said to Wang Chong: "Lord, if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, I Jinfan has just gone down to Jiujiang, and the top priority is to develop people's livelihood and stabilize the foundation, and it is not suitable to continue to expand for the time being!" ”

Wang Chong was noncommittal, his gaze inadvertently swept over Liu Ye, and asked with a smile: "I wonder if other people have any opinions?" ”

Liu Ye smiled lightly: "Lord, Ye doesn't agree with what Zhuge Beijia said!" ”

Zhuge Jin was humble and angry, but he was not angry, and said to Liu Ye with a calm face: "Please also ask Liu Changshi for advice!" ”

Liu Ye replied to Zhuge Jin with a faint smile and asked Wang Chong: "Lord, when Ye came back today, he found that a large number of homeless people had gathered outside Chaoxian County, I wonder if the lord wants to follow Cao Cao's policy of implementing Tuntian in Huainan?" ”

Wang Chong nodded and did not deny: "That's right!" ”

"But as far as Ye knows, Tuntian can't be achieved overnight, and now that I'm surrounded by strong enemies, I'm afraid they won't allow us to get through this difficult time smoothly."

Liu Ye's words are obviously not alarmist, Chaohu Lake is next to Liu Xun's territory, how can this guy let Jinfan easily gain a foothold in Huainan? Therefore, even if Liu Xun was afraid of Sun Ce and did not dare to attack with a large army, he only needed to occasionally send a small force to infiltrate and harass him, which was enough to make Jinfan anxious.

"Then in Ziyang's opinion, how should I Jinfan deal with it?"

A gleam flashed in Liu Ye's eyes: "Destroy Liu Xun in one go, all according to the land of Huainan, at that time, we only need to guard the various ferries to prevent the Jiangdong Army from sneaking attack, we can safely develop the people's livelihood and slowly stabilize the foundation of Huainan!" ”

"It can't be!" Yan Jian retorted with an ugly face, "Liu Changshi, don't forget that Liu Xun has at least 50,000 soldiers and horses in Lujiang, which can be described as strong soldiers and strong horses, even Jiangdong Sun Ce is also deeply afraid of it, if we rush to send troops, let's not say whether we can win Liu Xun, even if we win, I am afraid that it will also hurt the vitality, you must know that the snipe and the clam compete for the fisherman's profit, we do this, in the end we will only cheapen Sun Ce!" ”

In the face of Yan Ji's rebuttal, Liu Ye smiled and did not speak, but just set his eyes on Wang Chong on the main throne.