Chapter XXXVIII: A Time of Peace
"Lord, it is reported that the relationship between Yanzhou is delicate, and now I don't know why Cao Mengde is sitting in Dongjun, Liu Zhoumu, the governor of Yanzhou, has avoided Taishan County, it seems that Cao Mengde has occupied the magpie's nest." Jia Xu said to Chen Lin in Danshui County.
Chen Lin shook the coldness on his body, stood up and said: "Hehe, how can Meng De be willing to be subordinate, alas, Wen He, I always feel that Meng De is going to become my great enemy in Hanzhong." Yuan Highway seems to be unstoppable, but this person forgets his life when he sees small profits, is arrogant and arrogant, and it is difficult to achieve great things. I don't know if Wen He can remember Liu Xuande in Luoyang, this person has the ability to practice the king of Yue. Chen Lin said that he looked up at the north wind blowing outside the mansion, shrunk back and continued: "Now the battle of Fancheng, I Hanzhong does not want to interfere more, Hanzhong needs to recuperate for two or three years, and now Shuzhong has become a three-third, if my Hanzhong consumes too much energy here, so that my Hanzhong will be greatly injured, and I will be driven out of Shuzhong by the two families in the future." Therefore, it was decided that my Hanzhong should take a break from the army as soon as possible to recuperate and concentrate on the development of agriculture and commerce, as long as others do not come to attack my Hanzhong, it will be a fight of life and death, and it has nothing to do with my Hanzhong. Tomorrow, Zhongzhi will lead his troops across the river, plunder tens of thousands of displaced people, and accept it when he sees it, and if he sees it, Hugh will pay attention to him, and let him go to Nanyang and Jingzhou. If you want to meet Nan Zheng, you won't have a good year, alas. ”
Jia Xu was very pleased, Chen Lin still remembered the things in Shuzhong, and he could see it clearly, Shuzhong was Chen Lin's rear, if there was no stable rear, how would he dominate the world in the future. Jia Xu smiled, thinking of the return of Wuying, of course, Chen Lin also knew this information, now that Chang'an is surging, the relationship between Dong Zhuo and many ministers of the DPRK and China is becoming increasingly tense, although Chen Lin has not discussed this matter with Jia Xu, but both of them should know in their hearts that there will be a bloody storm in Chang'an, and at that time it may be the real chaos in the world. Therefore, Hanzhong should not spend too much capital now, Jia Xu saw Chen Lin like this, and said happily: "The lord is wise, the lord summoned General Zhou to come out of Shuzhong to train the navy here, which can prepare for the future war on the Yangtze River." The lord will use another year or two to prepare for the capture of Shuzhong, as long as Shuzhong is owned by my Hanzhong, so that my Hanzhong will have a stable rear, and even provide a steady stream of grain, grass and soldiers. At that time, go north to Sanfu, West Liang, east out of Jingzhou, follow the choice of the lord, can become the way of hegemony. ”
Chen Lin waved his hand and said, "If you don't dominate the industry, let's talk about it in the future, and find Zhong Zhi." ”
The next day, Chen Lin and Jia Xufazheng and others rushed back to Shangyong County with a hundred horses, leaving only one Zhang Ba in Danshui, and three thousand wolf horses also crossed the Danshui River early in the morning and went straight to Nanyang. At the same time, after Yuan Shu got Chen Lin's promise to send troops to exterminate the mob, he hurriedly transferred the 5,000 troops outside to storm Fancheng, and the battle was very fierce. Jingzhou side because most of the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou are water army, and in the hands of Cai Mao, Cai Mao is afraid of Yuan Shu, dare not cross the river to the north to support Fancheng, only in the Xiangjiang River cruise, three days later Fancheng was broken, only less than a thousand people fled in the desert, and Cai Mao was taken across the river. Yuan Shu won Fancheng and could basically face Xiangyang, but Yuan Shu invested 55,000 troops in the first battle of Fancheng, and now there are less than 30,000 left. Yang Hong and others desperately persuaded Yuan Shu, which dispelled Yuan Shu's plan to continue to go south, and confronted Jingzhou on both sides of the Xiangjiang River.
Five days later, the Hanzhong wolf rode under the leadership of Chen Lin to lead tens of thousands of mobs back and forth between several county towns, the mob had no cavalry, and was dragged by Chen Ze to exhaustion, only to find out that he had been deceived. But it was too late, and that night Chen Ze attacked the mob camp at night, killing thousands and capturing more than 40,000 mobs. After hearing that the Battle of Fancheng had ended two days ago, Chen Ze drove the captives back to Danshui, and Zhang Ba's army crossed the river at the Danshui ferry. After a few days of confrontation with Jingzhou, Yuan Shu saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, and some strategists kept persuading, and finally on the fifth day after the end of the battle of Fancheng, he led 10,000 troops to return to Wancheng, leaving a large army to garrison Fancheng. Liu Biao contracted his forces to hold Jiangxia and Nanjun, and the north bank of the Xiangjiang River was no longer owned by Jingzhou.
At this time, Chen Lin had already returned to Nanzheng, and when he met Yan Pu who was going to Shangyong halfway, he ordered Yan Pu to deal with Shangyong and other seven counties on the west bank of Danshui, Chen Lin returned to Nanzheng without worry. Now Shangyong County has Wu Kuang, Zhang Ba two armies, and the wolf rider also temporarily stayed in Shangyong County, and when Zhou Tai's department arrived, it is estimated that the wolf rider will also turn back to Nanzheng.
In the three years of the early Han Dynasty, all over the world were promoted, but the four counties under Chen Lin were extremely calm. Chen Lin's so-called four counties are all set up by himself, not the original four counties, such as Brazil County, which was originally only a part of Ba County, and Shangyong County was also formed by Chen Lin merging the four counties of Nanyang with the three counties of the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, although Chen Lin nominally occupies the land of the four counties, the people under his rule are only less than two million, and they are not as good as one Nanyang County. The surrounding princes naturally didn't think Chen Lin was terrible, otherwise Hanzhong would not be so quiet.
Zhou Tai built a lot of construction in Fangling Port, built the first water village in Hanzhong, and was ordered to train 3,000 sailors, Zhou Tai was also the third general to lead 3,000 after Gao Shun and Chen Ze, which attracted great attention. Zhang Ba and Wu Kuang became soldiers and horses stationed in Shangyong County for a long time, and with Zhou Tai, Shangyong County could be safe and sound. The three departments in Shuzhong were all polite, and no one had the intention of making a move, and the contradictions between Jia Long and Ren An, Zhou Qun and others were becoming increasingly serious. Liu Yan is sandwiched between Chen Lin and Jia Long, and his territory is not as strong as Jia Long, but he is stronger than Jia Long, because Liu Yan basically unified Shu County and Qianwei County. The only thing Liu Yan was afraid of was hearing that Chen Lin had another Shangyong County, and Guanghan County and Brazil County were staring at Liu Yan tightly in the north and east, which made Liu Yan extremely insecure. However, now Guanghan and Brazil counties only have less than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the trap camp, Cai Yang, and Yang Ren, and after learning this, Liu Yan also relieved himself.
Compared with the liveliness of Hanzhong, the outside can be much more lively, Youzhou is still in constant fighting, Yuan Shao of Jizhou is ambitious to join the state, busy annexing Hanoi. There were many uprisings in Xuzhou, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Qingzhou, and Yanzhou became more and more tense, and Cao * became a major focus of the world. Jiangdong Sun Wentai conquered Shanyue by force, and Sun Jian was originally from Jiangdong, and won the support of the Jiangdong scholars, so he had the meaning of unifying several counties in Jiangdong. Jingzhou fought Fancheng with Nanyang before, and the two families had a grudge. After Yuan Shu went through Fancheng, he tried his best to attack the Huainan land of Yangzhou, it seems that Yuan Shu meant to go south to Yangzhou, so that he could attack Jingzhou in the east and west, so he was afraid that Jingzhou would be difficult to take care of. Liu Bei is still unknown and secretly developing. Xiliang seemed to be calm, Ma Han and the two were already unwilling to cower in a remote corner, ready to move, Dong Zhuo had to guard against Xiliang with a large army.
More than a year has passed, if Chen Lin's grandfather is still there, it will be strange that the damn one is not dead, and the one that should have happened has not happened. Time passed secretly, Chen Lin can be said to have enjoyed the bliss of the world, the two beautiful wives and concubines are in their arms every day, the Wu family also gave birth to a daughter to Chen Lin, and the two sons of the Zhang family look around their sister every day, arguing so much, and the family is happy. It is another year of great governance, a bumper harvest is pleasant, and the four counties of Hanzhong are full of joy.
On this day, Nanzheng County Mansion, Yan Pu has now become the Taishou of Shangyong County, this Hanzhong County Cheng has to be done by Fa Zhen, Zhang Song and Fa Zheng have shown their skills, and they have won Chen Lin's favor, and now there are two more strategists beside Chen Lin. The status of the Fa family skyrocketed, and the three ancestors and grandchildren had to be reused by Chen Lin, making the Fa family loyal to Chen Lin. Now that there are several forces under the rule of Hanzhong, it goes without saying that Chen Lin's own family is the backbone, Chen Ze and Chen are both backbones, plus a loyal family servant of the Chen family, forming a huge group, which is unbreakable. There are also local scholar groups in the four counties, such as Yang Ren, Yang Bai, Liu An and other local scholar groups. Moreover, the Chen Lin family like Wu Yi and Zhang Ba has slowly formed a force that cannot be underestimated, especially the Wu family, Wu Kuang, Wu Ban, and Wu Yi are in high positions, which shows their great power.
"My lord, this year is the year of great rule in my Hanzhong." Jia Xu said with a smile. immediately attracted Zhang Song's counterattack: "Mr. Jia, Song Ke heard that the lord's rule is a great rule every year, and it is all said by Mr. Jia's mouth first." Jia Xu was stunned, on weekdays, Chen Lin's three strategists discussed together, these three people always disagreed with each other, often quarreled, and today provoked Zhang Song's words. Chen Lin didn't care about these little quarrels, on the contrary, he was worried if his subordinates were all united, so he hurriedly smiled and said: "Hahaha, Ziqiao, don't laugh at Wenhe, thanks to your great help, my four counties in Hanzhong have this grand occasion." ”
Chen Lin turned around again and said to Liu An: "The most outstanding thing in Hanzhong this year is Lord Liu's masterpiece, which actually let thousands of Bashanyi go down the mountain to repair the plank road with my Hanzhong people, hahahaha, Zixia, it's amazing." "Liu An took advantage of the flood last year and reached an agreement with the leaders of the three ministries that Hanzhong would support the Bashan Yi people for food, and the Yi people would exchange labor for it, so there was what Chen Lin just said. Liu An is now a very special person, it is said that there is no such official in the Han Dynasty: the mutual market official. However, Liu An did one thing after another in this official position that did not exist elsewhere to impress the people of Hanzhong, and with several years of hard work, he sat on the seat of Chen Lin's year-end meeting, which shows his ability.
The high-ranking officials who could come from the four counties came, and those who could not come also sent representatives to report on their work for a year, and the government affairs and the military all came, with the military headed by Chen Ze and Gao Shun, and the government affairs headed by the governors of the four counties, such as Wu Yi, Du Wei, and Yan Pu. After a lot of summaries, the rewards that should be rewarded, the punishments that should be punished, Gao Jing Gao Dingyuan, the person in charge of the law, was selfless and merciless, even Chen Ze Chen made a mistake like this guy shouted in front of everyone and asked Chen Lin to deal with it, not to mention others. Gao Jing offended a large number of people, but he was praised by Chen Lin in public, and the reward he received was the highest among the four counties in Hanzhong. As soon as everyone looked at Chen Lin's posture, it was better to settle down in the future, and it would be better to provoke Gao Jing less.
Just when everyone was talking about meritorious deeds and rewarding punishments, a fast horse rushed into Nanzheng: Jia Long and Ren An Zhou Qun parted ways.