Winter, heavy snowfall, New Year's Pass, midnight.

The cold wind and snow howled, blowing the trees outside the house and the windowsill inside the house, like a ghost crying wolf.

Xiangyang, the mansion of the Marquis of Chu, in the study, Liu Xiu convened a few people who were close to the ministers and politicians to discuss and discuss...!

"Berwyn, I'll wait for the army to return to Xiangyang, how will Cao Cao react? What message did you send back? Liu Xiu'an sat down, looked at Liu Bowen, and asked.

With him back from Jiangxia, in addition to a few generals, among the scribes, there were only Liu Bowen, Wang Dan, Changsun Wuji and others, Changsun Sheng, Liu Ye, Liu Ba were left behind, and Kaiyuan Erxiang went to Shuzhong...

"The lord can rest assured," Liu Bowen smiled slightly, shook the feather fan lightly, and said: "Everything is going well in Jiangxia, and now the Cao army is up and down, it can be said that it is gearing up, as soon as the winter snow retreats, it is expected that 200,000 soldiers and horses will be raised to attack the southern part of Jiangxia...!" ”

"Well... That's it! Liu Xiu nodded in response, and then said: "In this way, see how the Sun clan still reaps the benefits and does not do its best to cooperate with our army..."

"By the way, let Ji Sheng step up his envoy to Soochow and probe the Sun family for us!"

"Yes!"

"Ben Hou suddenly returned to Xiangyang, Cao Cao, Sun must be suspicious, plus the night attack on Cao Ying, they will definitely send someone to carefully investigate the situation in Nanyang," Liu Xiu changed his words, and said: "Zeping, Nanyang has always been a heavy county in Jingzhou, and there are countless clans and clans of the Han family. ”

After all, Nanyang has just been captured, and after several changes of hands, the changes must be extremely difficult to sort out, and now this Nanyang has become the front line of his confrontation with Cao Cao, so that both military and political affairs are becoming more and more complicated.

"Yue Fei was the governor of the reorganization and surrender of the army, and now there are 30,000 soldiers and horses in Nanyang. And the two generals, Wen Ping and Yang Ye, each led 10,000 people and garrisoned Xinye and Fancheng! Thinking that three generals can only ensure that the Nanyang border is worry-free! And his subordinates have drawn 30,000 troops from the south and stationed in Xiangyang...! ”

Zhao Pu, Zhao Zeping, the founding hero of the Song Dynasty, and the official Lu Hengtong, visited the prime minister three times, and the government was naturally not bad. Now it is only the military and political situation of Nanyang County. As far as he is concerned, it is naturally not a problem, as for Fang Xuanling, he was left in Jingnan this time to manage the base camp.

"It's just that, in this way, the forces of Jiangling and Jingnan are a little empty..."Zhao Pu made his own military movements one by one.

"Well, it doesn't matter, now the land of Bashu in the west of Jiangling is owned by Benhou, and there is no need for heavy troops to guard the front line of Yiling, Zigui, and Yufu; And east of Gangneung. In addition to Jingling and Huarong, it is the two cities of Jiangxia Anlu and Shaxian, and 5,000 soldiers and horses can be adjusted to defend Jingling, which is the backup of Anlu. In order to prevent people from sneaking up on Gangneung, it is enough to think about it! Liu Xiu nodded while listening, and said: "However, not far west of Xiangyang is Shangyong. At this time, Liu Bei did not have it, it seemed that it was a man named Huo Jun, guarding with three thousand men and horses. This person seems to have some talents, after the year, you let my brother Pan take General Huang Zhong, lead 10,000 troops, march to Fangling, first feel the urgency of sending troops, just guard! ”

"Whoa! Zhao Pu introduced the military, and then began to introduce political arrangements, this is the most complicated major event in Nanyang, there are several gangs alone:

One of them is Liu Xiang Xu Zijiang from Yangzhou, Liu Du Liu Xian from Jingnan, etc., as well as Jiaozhou officials, these three parties were the first to serve Liu Xiu, literary masters, and the Han clan, and now they are moving north, they are working together to form a faction;

Second, it is Jingbei's father Liu Biao, eldest brother Liu Qi, incompetent and fearless Liu Cong and others, plus Jingbei Yang, Xiang, Ma and other clans who serve Liu Xiu, still form a faction, these people are under Liu Biao's command, although the main thing has become Liu Xiu, but it does not prevent them from forming gangs, plus those who have not only served Liu Bei, but also left many intertwined forces, and made second-hand preparations Pang family, Huang family and others, this faction, in Xiangyang is quite powerful, but Liu Xiu still has to look at Liu Biao's face, You can't use knives and guns in a big way;

Third, there are some clans in Nanyang that are slightly weaker but have a good reputation, just like those Han clan relatives who moved from Xuzhou after Cao Cao poisoned Xuzhou: Liu Cheng, King of Qi, Liu Yao, King of Peigong, Liu Xi, King of Langya, Liu He, King of Pengcheng, and four families; Although he has no soldiers and no power, he is indeed a clan member of the Han family, and his reputation and influence among grassroots officials and ordinary people are really not small;

In the end, it is natural that the backbone of the clan who has just been transferred from Bashu, such as Zhang Su and Zhang Song, as soon as the two of them come to Xiangyang to take up their posts, then it is naturally impossible for his Zhang family to divide the forces into the two places, and it can only be the whole clan slowly, according to the situation, transfer the forces to Nanyang, merge in one place, and develop and grow.

Zhao Pu's inductive explanation made Liu Xiu have a lot of scores in his heart,

"Therefore, many grassroots officials in Nanjun are mostly from the Jingbei clan, and in Nanyang, in addition to the Jingnan forces and Bashu officials, the other two parties each account for half of them...!"

"Therefore, except for the high-level, the grassroots officials in Nanyang and even in Nanjun are basically powerless," Zhao Pu continued to explain, "Now that the lord suppresses it with a strong force, it can still be used for a while, however, once the soldiers and horses are reduced or transferred to other places, the official affairs of Nanyang will no longer be able to be controlled...!" ”

Zhao Pu's worries are also the troubles of the world, and now Liu Xiu has transferred the backbone of the worlds from all over the world to Nanyang as officials, in order to talk about the troubles of the worlds concentrated in Nanyang, so as to weaken the power of the worlds in various places, and finally gradually devour them! …

However, it is gratifying that Liu Xiu's vigorous development of Nanyang and the act of governing Xiangyang gradually made all generations realize that if Liu Xiu really inherited the Han Dynasty in the future, then this Xiangyang may become the southern capital, and their investment and choice will get the greatest return

As a result, all clans, whether local or foreign, obeyed Liu Xiu's choice and launched fierce battles in Jingbei, and even Nanyang and Xiangyang

"The situation in Nanyang is getting more and more complicated, but this is not something that can be solved in one day, and the maneuvers and secret battles in it will be handed over to the auxiliary machine to deal with, Zeping, I still have the rest of the things to hand over to you..."

"However, no matter what, you must arrange Nanyang's drama as soon as possible, don't let Cao Cao and Sun see the flaws! Liu Xiu thought about it while giving an order: "This marquis wants the name of the first prince in the world, but also wants them not to be horizontal...!" ”

"Whoa! …”

"Yes...!"

At this time, Liu Xiu wanted to say something more, but suddenly saw the door of the study being pushed open, but before Liu Xiu could get angry, he could hear:

"Father, father, you're all back, why don't you come to Lihua...!" Innocent and cute, crisp and immature calling... (To be continued.) )