It was the spring of another year, and it was already the ninth year of Jian'an (204 AD), and the surplus land in the four states under Liu Xiu's rule had gradually become peaceful.

Liu Xiu's vigorous development and expansion of Nanyang attracted many speculators, such as the families of Bashu, the families of Jingbei, and merchants from all over the world.

And if you want to take it first, you must give it first; Liu Xiu borrowed thousands of Jinyi Guards from several families, and then, under the confidence given by Jinyi Guard, as well as the balance of the eldest grandson Wuji, the more Nanyang clans, the more people, but the more calm they became

One year is a very short time, but it is enough for Liu Xiu to levy 100,000 Tuntian soldiers, and even has been handed over to Xue Rengui to take them.

To say that Xue Rengui's art of war is well-known, but what everyone didn't expect was that Xue Rengui could also play so well with farming

Jingnan and Jiaozhou are Liu Xiu's rear, and they are the land he occupies for the longest time, although the land is extremely vast and sparsely populated, but the land is fertile, and it is definitely an excellent arable land. Moreover, after Liu Xiu occupied Jingnan and Jiaozhou, after several clever rectifications, he had already reorganized the family and landlords...

After Xue Rengui brought 100,000 young men to Jingnan, he governed it with the law of a military camp, busy cultivating the land, and training soldiers in his spare time, which can be described as extraordinary.

Now in March, Xue Rengui has taken a group of Tuntian scholars to plant the first batch of rice on the large wasteland reclaimed last year.

There are many hilly woodlands in the south, and there are not many open lands that can be reclaimed, so most of the wasteland that Xue Rengui came to the south to reclaim starts from this hilly woodland. Although the difficulty has been improved according to the method of terraced fields proposed by Liu Xiu, and even the role of water storage, soil conservation, and yield increase is not small, but after all, it is time-consuming and laborious, which makes Xue Rengui's 100,000 Tuntian soldiers have a lot of hard work...

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Xiangyang City, in the past year, under the order of Liu Xiu, began to expand the scale, build the outer city, and even in the east and west of the city for a few miles, under the Jingshan Mountain and west of the Xiangjiang River, began to build two small cities, and Fancheng combined, Xiangyang formed three horn guards, in this way, the four cities rely on each other, Liu Xiu can not only free up more soldiers and horses, for other places, but also create the prosperity of Xiangyang, the best of both worlds, why not...

As for the consumption of manpower and material resources, there is no need for Liu Xiu to worry, with his prestige and invincible record, just as soon as he issued a summoning order, recruited migrant workers, and affirmed that the government was responsible for food and lodging, there were immediately countless displaced people and idle people who kept coming, that is, those landlords saw Liu Xiu's determination to develop Xiangyang, and they also spontaneously donated, hoping to make a name for themselves in front of the king.

In the past, outside of Xiangyang, the waterways were vertical and horizontal, and there were four waterways such as Hanshui, Danshui, and Zheshui converging outside Xiangyang, and its defense focus was only in Fancheng, and if Fancheng was lost, Xiangyang would be in danger; However, now, with Liu Xiu's plan, as long as Jingcheng stands at the foot of Jingshan Mountain, it can not only serve the purpose of protecting Xiangyang, but also promote the development of Jingshan Academy, and may become a city where literature and Taoism gather in the future. On the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, the Xiangcheng that Liu Xiu wanted to set up would also be an important place to defend the east of Xiangyang.

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Internally, Liu Xiu is developing in full swing, and externally, Liu Xiu separated the Jinyi Guard from the fine work and intelligence system that was originally brought to the whole world through the Chamber of Commerce and caravans, and completely integrated it into the secret agent of the Duke of Chu, one to collect intelligence, and the other to be responsible for assassination, which was specifically responsible for Liu Xiu himself.

As soon as the secret agent was reorganized, Liu Xiu immediately vigorously opened the trade route from Xiangyang to Guanzhong, taking advantage of the competition between the major forces in Xiliang, making a lot of war money, and constantly selling some ordnance and armaments to Li Kan and other small forces, and then buying back war horses, cattle and sheep and other scarce things in the south, and even the displaced people and slaves under the war also became the target of the transaction, and these, Li Kan and others were only for the ordnance and armament produced in Chu, or it can be said that it was the Duke of Chu represented behind it...

For this reason, Liu Xiu even secretly sent Liu Muzhi to go with the caravan to conspire for Li Kan and other small forces, instigating many small forces to make them alliances against Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Han Sui and other big forces in Xiliang, which greatly increased the difficulty of Liu Bei in Xiliang together.

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For this, Liu Bei didn't seem to be in a hurry when he arrived, he first got the land of Qinchuan on both sides of Weishui, hundreds of miles, and it was only in the consolidation stage, where he was able to stabilize and Shicheng.

On the contrary, what he regrets most now is that he is one step slower and loses the key county of Hedong, and now he can only go north to conquer Hexi, Shangjun and other places where the Xiongnu and other foreign tribes are entrenched...

And his next goal is to set in Taiyuan, and for this reason, he also specially strengthened the alliance with the Sun family, and plans to work with the Sun family to jointly send troops from east to west, and fight Cao Cao at both ends!

As for Liu Xiu, Liu Bei and Sun Quan didn't dare to expect too much, but when they were in the alliance, they said that they would give up Yanzhou and Yuzhou to him, and they only hoped that they would not be troubled by Liu Xiu's back...

In a year's time, with the cooperation of Zhuge Liang and many fierce generals, Liu Bei did quickly pacify Hexi and accommodate many foreign cavalry.

He even traveled thousands of miles to Jiangdong to trade with the Sun family with cattle and horses in exchange for a large amount of grain and grass, so as to survive this period of making ends meet.

Liu Bei, who had just captured the Hexi Prefectures in the spring of this year, was rarely stable, and planned to pass the autumn harvest season and talk about the war in the state

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Liu Bei was engaged in wind and rain in Xiliang, and the movement was so big that he naturally couldn't hide Liu Xie, Xu Shu and others from Si Li...

Today's Liu Xie, with the help of Xu Shu and others, has stabilized Luoyang, Hanoi and Hugao in the east, Hangu and Hongnong in the west, and Hedong on the north bank of the Yellow River.

But unfortunately, the land is too small and the people are too few, so it is difficult to make a difference after all

However, after witnessing the tripartite covenant of Liu Xiu and others, they finally realized their mistakes and opportunities!

They should not go west, but under the tripartite alliance, work together to go east and take Jizhou! This is the best policy!

As a result, the alliance between the three parties was concluded, and Liu Xie changed his strategy of uniting Liu Xiu and Sun to suppress Liu Bei, and instead canonized Liu Bei as the Duke of Qin and Sun Quan as the Duke of Wu, and joined the alliance of the Three Princes!

Make an appointment, at the same time as they send troops, he Liu Xie will also announce to the world that he will send troops from Hanoi to Muye and Chaoge, and swear to destroy the Cao thief!

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Looking at all this, Liu Xiu's eyelids jumped, Cao Cao is indeed a large number of generals, occupying the vast and rich land of the Central Plains and Hebei, but he will definitely not be able to support the multi-front troops

At that time, even if Liu Xiu doesn't join, as long as Zhuge Liang and the others are darker and unite with the foreign tribes in the north to go south, this will be enough for Cao Cao to eat a pot, and at that time, even if Cao Cao is not destroyed, it will definitely not be much better...

It's just that, if that's the case, then wouldn't he Liu Xiu be the next?! (To be continued.) )