The seat of Liaodong County is in Xiangping.

Originally, this was the border fortress set up by the Yan general Qin Kai to attack Donghu and push the Yan border eastward for thousands of miles, which was similar to the role of the beacon tower.

Later, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, centered on Xiangping City, and set up Liaodong County.

In the Han Wu era, the aftermath of the Han army's eastward expedition to the west completely drove the Hu people out of the territory of Liaodong, in addition to the original Liaodong County, also east of Xiangping, plus most of the peninsula set up Xuansu, Lintun, Lelang, and Zhenfan four counties, that is, the so-called Han four counties.

After that, Xiangping really established the status of the center of Liaodong, got a certain development, and had today's scale. It is naturally incomparable with the Central Plains, but in this far place, it is a city of miracles that is the envy of Zhuhu.

The Goguryeo people have always coveted Xiangping, and they have taken action more than once, wanting to grab this city in their hands and put it on the table as the capital of the country. However, their strength is not good, and they have worked hard for decades without any achievements, but they were forced to retreat again and again by the Han army, and they were not in danger for a long time, and gradually they couldn't take care of their greed.

Of course, the historical Goguryeo people eventually got their wish. In the era of the two Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains was frequent, and then provoked the chaos of China, and there was no time to take care of anything else, Goguryeo took the opportunity to encroach on the Han soil in Liaodong, and finally occupied Xiangping City and the four counties of the Han Dynasty.

Although Zhang Fang didn't know what happened later, when he stood on the Liaozhong Plain and looked at Xiangping City from afar, he was also amazed in his heart, and felt that Xiangping was indeed worthy of the name of the City of Miracles.

The city is indeed not big, the city wall is less than two zhang high, and each city wall is only three or five hundred steps, far from being majestic, it is said that this is still the result of several expansions. Such a city, not to mention the Central Plains, even if it is placed in the same border state, it seems too shabby. Such a small city, even if it is inhabited by people, it can accommodate three to five thousand people, which is the limit.

What really amazes you is the sight around the city.

Zhang Fang also lived in Gaotang for a while, and he was no stranger to this kind of scene, and when he first saw him, he almost mistakenly thought that he was back on the bank of the river.

Xiangping City stands by the mountains and rivers, the surrounding terrain is flat, a horse is flat, the beam water that stretches for thousands of miles flows through the south of the city, confluence with the Liao River in a hundred miles away, the southwest direction, flows into the sea at the mouth of the river, and the topography of Gaotang is very similar.

The topography alone does not give people an illusion, and the most surprising thing is the rolling wooden houses and tents outside the city. In particular, those wooden houses are very similar to the style of Gaotang New Town, to be precise, more like the appearance of Gaotang City when it was first built.

The style is similar, the scale is similar, and the thousands of miles of fertile fields in the Liaozhong Plain seem to be covered by these tents and wooden houses, and there is no end in sight!

This is the first time Zhang Fang has come to Liaodong, and he is not by land, but whether it is when he sails near the sea or after landing, he really does not see any people, and he feels that this place is as desolate as he imagined. When he arrived in Xiangping, he suddenly saw the scene of thousands of people living together, how could he and his companions not be surprised?

"This, this is simply ......"

"Isn't it similar to Gao Tang?" Liu Yi asked with a smile.

The trade relationship between Liaodong and Qingzhou has been maintained for several years, and it has always been his dealings with Qingzhou, initially in Donglai, and later Wang Yu moved to Gaotang, and Liu Yi also visited Gaotang. He could understand the mood of Zhang Fang and the others at the moment, because he had also expressed the same emotion when he was in Gaotang.

"Yes......" Zhang Fang subconsciously replied only to realize that it was wrong, and hurriedly changed his words: "Ah, no, I mean, how can there be so many people here?" ”

After the shock, he took it for granted that Liaodong was imitating Gao Tang, but it has only been three years since Gao Tang was founded, and in such a remote place as Liaodong, even if Gongsun Du has the intention to imitate, it is impossible to have this kind of efficiency.

"So I have always felt that Wang Hussar is also a person in my Tao." Liu Yi did not answer directly, but sighed meaningfully.

"Oh?" Zhang Fang didn't know what the meaning of these words was, he turned his head blankly, and his gaze just met the scorching gaze that Liu Yi had seen, and the heat in the other party's eyes seemed to have turned into substance, making him instantly have the illusion of being burned.

"General Liu, what do you mean......" According to the intelligence of the Espionage Department, Zhang Fang knew that Liu Yi was the leader of the pro-Qingzhou faction in Liaodong, so he would deliberately go out of the city to greet his party. He wondered if he had missed a hint, otherwise what would the other party's brainless emotion be?

"Nothing, please don't care." Liu Yi shook his head and said don't care, but Zhang Fang, who is good at observing words and feelings, keenly captured the disappointment that flashed in the other party's eyes. However, he couldn't delve into it, because Liu Yi's gaffe was only for a moment, and then he talked endlessly about the development history of Liaodong.

"Xiangping is as prosperous as it is today, it is not a day's work, long before my lord took power, there were tens of thousands of residents around Xiangping......"

Zhang Fang is still very interested in this topic, knowing oneself and knowing the other, in order to win a hundred battles, now he sees Liaodong, obviously very different from what other Central Plains people understand, if you don't know the difference, it is indeed easy to make mistakes.

For a long time, the people of the Central Plains have a disregard for Liaodong, even if they know that Liaodong has been very prosperous in recent years, but most people will only think that the prosperity here is purely because many refugees have fled here, and even people with foresight like their own lords are not exempt from vulgarity.

From Liu Yi's introduction, Zhang Fang heard a lot of unknown information.

The prosperity of Liaodong did not start from Gongsun Du or the great rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, it was a mixed place.

The tribes on the steppe that had lost power, such as Wuhuan, were given the place of residence by the Han court in Liaodong, and the criminals of the Central Plains, the displaced people, and even the wealthy families who had lost in the political struggle, would flee to the border to settle down. Over time, the original deserted Liaodong gradually gained popularity.

I don't know why, after listening to this introduction, Zhang Fang always felt that Liu Yi hadn't finished speaking, and there was something unfinished, but the other party didn't say it, and he couldn't seriously investigate it.

"The first people who gathered in Xiangping were all Hermes-Epitek. The water and soil near Xiangping are excellent, and it is a relatively warm place in Liaodong, and the fertile fields along the river are all reclaimed by the ancestors from scratch. Although the Hu people were given land, they did not know how to farm, and after hearing about the prosperity of Xiangping, they also gathered one after another, and the neighborhood gradually took on some appearance. ”

As he spoke, Liu Yi's voice suddenly raised and said excitedly: "But in the end, it is my father-in-law who has become so prosperous today!" Without him, there would be no today's Xiangping, today's Liaodong, the country and the people, and my lords are all meritorious! ”

"Exactly!" Zhang Fang nodded and agreed.

This time, he grasped the meaning of the other party's words, Gongsun Du has merit, and he also has the meaning of bargaining with credit. It's just that Liu Yi didn't figure it out that he was not a messenger who came to bargain, but just a so-called 'ambassador' who conveyed the news, and the other party's thoughts were in vain.

However, Zhang Fang will not be stupid enough to pick out what he said, anyway, the other party said that he would listen to it, and then convey it to the lord completely, which was not in vain.

Liu Yi paused slightly, and glanced at Zhang Fang in a little surprise. He has dealt with Qingzhou a lot, and he has suffered a lot of losses - he is not really cheated, he is just a business bargain, and there will always be a high and low, the difference is only which side has more initiative, not who cheated whom.

Qingzhou is mainly responsible for the sea trade Mi Zhu brothers and sisters, occasionally Wang Xiu will also come to join in the fun, Zhuge Liang, Pang Tong also once observed on the spot, and participated. Although Liu Yi is not an ordinary person, when he encounters such a group of cattle, he naturally has to eat deflated.

In order to welcome the people from Qingzhou this time, he was also fully prepared, and he thought about being ashamed, but he met Zhang Fang, who seemed to have no city government and had a very good temper, and felt like he had been punched in cotton.

He didn't want to be ashamed for the sake of face, he just didn't want things to become irreparable. Zhang Fang agreed so happily, but it made him suspicious, and he didn't know whether Qingzhou was ready to make concessions, or if he was determined to force the lord to give in.

Fortunately, he had experienced a lot of winds and waves, and after being stunned for a moment, he continued to speak, naturally talking about the importance of Gongsun Du to Liaodong.

With popularity, it may not necessarily bring prosperity, and the revitalization history of Liaodong in the Han Dynasty is enough to prove this. After the first signs of prosperity in Xiangping, classes immediately appeared.

Hermes-Epitek's side is dominated by broken families, although these families have been defeated, their knowledge and experience are far above ordinary people, and with these things, several major families soon stand out.

There were many people on the Hu people's side who moved from the whole tribe, and they naturally had chalk sleeves, and they were adults and small handsomes on the grassland, and when they arrived in Liaodong, they soon formed a family like the Han people.

With class and power, the next thing is endless infighting.

In fact, the place near Xiangping is not necessarily the best in Liaodong, but only here has the highest degree of development. After the local forces were formed, they soon lost their pioneering spirit, and everyone regarded the other territories of Liaodong as nothing, and launched a series of battles around the interests of the local government in Xiangping.

Sometimes it was the Han people who joined forces to deal with the Hu people, and sometimes it was the Han people and the Hu people who worked together to deal with the Han people, or the Hu people...... All in all is quite confusing. The Hu people are not very good at this set of things that compete for power and profit, but if they follow the customs of the locals and suffer a few losses, they will naturally increase their knowledge, and when their knowledge accumulates to a certain extent, they will also be.

Thanks to Liaodong itself, it is not a peaceful paradise, and the surrounding Goguryeo, Wuhuan, and Xianbei are all eyeing each other, so the battle of the Liaodong people has always maintained restraint, and they will still join forces against the enemy when they are external. Although there have been many victories in the outside world, but the development is not to talk about, in a sense, the situation in Liaodong is similar to the Central Plains in later generations.

In the end, it was Gongsun Du who ended all this.

His history is actually somewhat similar to Liu Biao.

Long before he got the imperial court's edict, he already had a certain amount of power in Liaodong. After getting the name of righteousness, he immediately launched it, and took the opportunity of the celebration banquet to wipe out the leaders of nearly 100 powerful families who were the most selfish and the most ferocious.

Subsequently, taking advantage of the opportunity of these wealthy clans losing their heads and the dragons being leaderless, he broke through each of them, and in just a few days, almost all of them accepted the strength of the hundred powerful families, and thus became the well-deserved Liaodong Taishou, a prince.

"Under the leadership of my father-in-law, in just a few years, the population of Liaodong has tripled, the newly reclaimed land has doubled, and the fleet, the scale of maritime trade, and the victories in foreign wars are far superior to before. It's not Liu's own boasting, even if he counts the Central Plains, except for Wang Hussar, who can replace the lord and continue to make Liaodong thriving? ”

Liu Yi waved his hand violently, as if he wanted to enclose all the endless settlements and fertile fields, and asked loudly: "The venerable envoy should know that the current scene in Xiangping is not a day or two, but earlier than the rebuilt Gaotang City!" In the corner of Liaodong alone, who can do better than my father-in-law? ”

In the end, there was already indignation in his tone, obviously dissatisfied with Wang Yu's possible move to cut the domain, so he questioned by telling the history of the development of Liaodong.

Zhang Fang was silent for a long time, and finally said a word sullenly, and Liu Yi was immediately speechless.

"What General Liu said is reasonable, however, I am not an envoy representing my lord, but only came to Liaodong to garrison and promote maritime trade, you use these words to ask me, I can only say that I will convey these words back and let my lord know as soon as possible."

"Huh?" Liu Yi was dumbfounded.