In the autumn of the third year of Jian'an (198), Jingnan

Since Liu Xiu set up the Jingnan Academy (Hanlin Academy, Wenwu Palace, and Medical Hall) in Changsha last year, he moved the political center to Changsha, and then carried out large-scale military and political reform, mobilization and implementation

As for this year, Liu Xiu's main gain is that he has an eldest son and a child who is about to be born;

Liu Xiu named his eldest son Liu Kun Liu Yueshi, but it was the name of a military politician in later generations, which shows Liu Xiu's high hopes for his eldest son!

Liu Xiu stood in the backyard of the mansion, thinking about what he had gained this year, but suddenly someone came to report: "Enlighten the lord!" Lord Shen Kuo Shen in the southwest sent someone to report, and the picture has been made! This is the Nanban map! Lord Shen specially appointed people to dedicate to the lord! ”

"Hahaha good! What a Shen Kuo! When Liu Xiu heard this, he looked at a large sheepskin map in his hand, and instantly laughed and said: "Noisy civil and military affairs!" ”

"Whoa!"

Changsha County, Jingnan, in the main hall of Liu Xiu's mansion

Among the scribes, Liu Bowen, Fang Xuanling, Zhao Pu, and Liu Ye were the leaders, as well as Liu Ba, Zhu Xi, Shangguan Wan'er, etc., as well as Confucian scholars who were more than half a hundred and one prime of life a year; On the side of the generals, Xie Xuan, Luo Cheng, Zhang Hao, etc. are the leaders, and a yellow-faced man sits in it

"You all know why you're here, right?!" Liu Xiu looked around at the civil and military forces in the hall, saw that the hall was full of talents, his heart was full of pride, and his words were quite complacent;

"Is the lord going to war?" The first to speak was the fiercest eunuch Zhang Oy, only to hear him say excitedly: "Our family has itchy hands for a long time?!" ”

"Lord Shen Kuo's Nanban map has been made?!" Someone exclaimed: "Such a big Nanban can make a perfect map so quickly, Lord Shen Kuo's talent is really extraordinary!" ”

"Exactly! You can all take a look at this picture! Liu Xiu said as he unfolded the Nanban map, and exclaimed: "Shen Kuo's reverse talent is really amazing, if it weren't for the detailed Nanban map he made, Ben Hou didn't know that there were so many poisonous springs, forbidden places, miasma forests, etc. in the Nanban, if we had directly entered the Nanban earlier, and there was no guidance, I was afraid that I would have suffered heavy losses at that time!" ”

"The lord is planning to immediately march south?!" Suddenly someone in the hall asked;

Liu Xiu followed the voice and looked at it, but it was the Confucian who was over half a hundred years old, this person was Yu Jinzi Sijing, who was one of the three people summoned by Liu Xiu last year, the other two, one was Liu Yan, a financial master who also came out randomly, and the last person was Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao, who were personally selected by Liu Xiu;

And since the various systems under Liu Xiu's rule have become more and more perfect, and there are more and more local talents, he no longer rashly rewards official positions and important positions at will, but provides more opportunities for these people to display their talents, just as last year he arranged Qin Qiong in the army to assist Xie Xuan in training, and placed Liu Yan in the household department to assist Fang Xuanling in managing financial affairs, while Yu Jin was placed in the military department to assist Xie Xuan in handling the general's official status and military affairs;

"Naturally, the sooner the better!" Liu Xiu heard Yu Jin's question, and naturally said, "Sijing, do you think there's anything wrong?!" ”

"Lord's grace!" Yu Jin got up and bowed, and said solemnly: "Now it's late autumn, it is the autumn harvest season of the people, and most of the soldiers and horses under the lord's command are either far away from the border of the town, or they have implemented the tuntian system, and they are busy with the autumn harvest, I don't know where the lord plans to transfer troops from to capture Nanzhong?!" ”

This "so-called 'soldiers and horses have not moved, grain and grass first', now the grain and grass are enough, but the soldiers and horses except for the water army in Jiaozhou, the rest of the soldiers and horses are already busy with other things, and they can't spare time;

Liu Xiu thought about it, and Yu Jin said again: "And, it is late autumn now, and it will be winter in more than a month, if the lord sends troops at this time, I am afraid that I will have to fight in winter, but it is already difficult to conquer the southern barbarians, if I still go on the expedition in winter, I am afraid that it will be time-consuming, grain and grass?!" ”

"It's a real problem!" Liu Xiu frowned and said, "I don't know what you can do?" So that I can have both? ”

"Now that the Nanban map has been completed, Nanzhong will not escape the hands of the lord, why should the lord be obsessed with the southern expedition at this time," Fang Xuanling also admonished: "Why don't the lord take this winter to make more preparations for the expedition, and wait for the spring of the next year to fight against the Nanban, or reduce the losses?!" ”

"In this case," Liu Xiu was still considering,

The oyster shouted: "It's just some barbarians, what are you afraid of, the lord has 5,000 soldiers and horses for me, and our family will take the Nanban for the lord!" ”

"No! Although General Zhang is brave, the main means of the Southern Barbarians are poisonous insects, fierce beasts, miasma and other things, if you can't think of a solution in advance, you must not act rashly! Yu Jin immediately admonished;

When Liu Xiu heard Yu Zhen's words, he also remembered once again the various arms and methods of the Nanban mentioned in his previous life, as well as the information of the various barbarians marked by Shen Kuo in the Nanban map, it seemed that it was quite difficult to conquer the Nanban in winter

"That's true!" Liu Xiu thought about it again and again, and finally vetoed the idea of sending troops immediately, and sighed: "Since you can't send troops immediately, then take advantage of this time to make all preparations to minimize the losses of the soldiers!" ”

"Pass my general order, when the autumn harvest is over, I will immediately transfer the troops of Tuntian from all counties to Yulin County, although they are preparing to go to battle!"

"At the same time, the grain and grass will be allocated and transferred to Yulin County!"

"In addition, hand over the poison information of Shen Kuo's Nanban Diagram to Sun Lao, and let Sun Lao prepare the antidote and other materials in case of emergency!"

"Finally, 20,000 elite soldiers were transferred from Changsha County to step up training for later use! The rest of the counties are as usual, don't move lightly! ”

Liu Xiu kept ordering: "You guys will go down first and act according to this, if there is any omission, Bo Wen, Xuan Ling, Ze Ping, Zi Yang, Si Jing, you and a few others can discuss it and report it to Ben Hou!" ”

"Whoa!"

After dismissing everyone, Liu Xiu walked towards the inner courtyard while thinking about what he had just discussed

Not long after, I saw a bunch of maids and servants in the garden of the inner courtyard, shouting and shouting

Seeing this, Liu Xiu couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, but he also walked over