Anping State is located in the hinterland of Jizhou, and is adjacent to Hejian State, Zhongshan State, Julu County, Bohai County, and Qinghe State, and its seat of governance is located in Xindu.

That's right, it is the Xindu that Liu He visited some time ago when he negotiated with Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao, and Han Fu.

In the first year of Zhongping, Zhang Jiao, a giant deer man, called himself "Yellow Sky" and led his troops to 36 parties, all wearing yellow scarves, and rebelled at the same time. In order to respond to and support the Tiangong general Zhang Jiao, the local people of Anping pulled Liu Xu, the king of Anping, out of the palace and coerced him to participate in the rebellion. Later, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was suppressed by the imperial army, and the unlucky Liu Xu was killed by the imperial court for the crime of rebellion, and the Anping State was abolished.

That is to say, the current Anping State has long existed in name only, but it is just a title in people's mouths, and the actual administrative system is equivalent to a county.

According to the Han system, the lord of a country is the king, who is the nominal supreme governor, but the central government will appoint civil and military officials such as the minister of state and the governor to take care of political affairs, and the lord of the country has no right to interfere and intervene. In other words, a king like Liu Xu actually had no power to govern the government and the army, and only had the power to collect taxes and land rents.

Such a system originated from the "Tui En Order" in the Western Han Dynasty, the purpose of which was to prevent the vassal states from threatening the rule of the central government, but when the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out, Liu Xu, the king of Anping, had no soldiers in his hands, so he could only be arrested from the palace by the rebellious people and follow them to "make a revolution"!

Liu Dagongzi, who had all kinds of halos on his head, patted his ass and returned to Youzhou after tossing enough in Jizhou, but gave the chicken-like Anpingguo to Gongsun Zhan, the general of Fenwu.

Gongsun Zhan was anxious to command the troops to go south to Qingzhou to grab territory, and at the same time, he also saw that the "three peach brothers" living in his team were a little big, so he allocated 2,000 soldiers and horses to Liu Bei and sent him to Anping to serve as the minister of state.

A month after Liu He returned to Youzhou, he received information from Jizhou and learned that Liu Da'er actually stayed in Anping, and at that time there was a feeling of lifting a stone and hitting his own feet, in order to get Zhao Yun, but he inadvertently fulfilled Liu Bei, is there really a providence in the dark?

However, at this point, frustration and frustration will not solve the problem after all. Liu He thought about Liu Bei's natural and powerful "self-contained attributes", but he sweated a little for Gongsun Zhan. All the princes who have taken in Liu Bei in history, except for Cao Heizi, it seems that everyone else has no good end, right?

Liu He is now busy dealing with the matter of Kebi being able to enter the Kou, and is busy preventing Gongsun Zan from returning to Liaoxi, and he really can't care about dealing with Liu Bei for a while, and with Liu Bei's current strength, there is no need for Liu He to deal with him deliberately.

is also a descendant of the old Liu family, no matter whether the big ears are really the queen of King Jing of Zhongshan, Liu He can easily not move Liu Bei without a good reason and excuse. Even if he knew that keeping Liu Da's ears was a scourge after all, the sooner he could get rid of it, the more advantageous it would be, but Liu Bei could divide the world in the troubled times, how could he just send a few people to deal with it?

As long as the big ears don't come to Youzhou to plague Liu Yu, Liu He doesn't plan to deal with Liu Bei for the time being, this kind of "highly poisonous" guy is still left to Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Tao Qian, Liu Biao, Liu Yan and other blessed people to enjoy it slowly!

Liu Bei, who had already taken office, would never have thought that in Jicheng, far away in the north, there were already people paying close attention to his movements, and he was now having a headache about how to govern and restore Anping Kingdom!

In the past, Anping was originally a good place, not only there were three large rivers in the territory of Zhangshui, Jiangshui and Hutuo River, but also the terrain was flat, the land was vast, and it was a large county that grew grain and produced grain. However, after the Yellow Turban Incident, Anping's agricultural foundation was greatly damaged, not only was the cultivated land damaged and barren severely, but the population also dropped sharply, from more than 600,000 to less than 250,000.

In the era when agricultural production was the foundation, without population and arable land, it would be extremely slow and difficult to develop. What's even worse is that Anping has now become a buffer zone for Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao and Han Fu, although they are temporarily exempt from the suffering of swords, but the people of other counties still dare not come here to settle and cultivate production.

In the face of such a predicament, Liu Bei, who was originally full of confidence, was worried that the tea was not thinking and the food was not fragrant. Although he used to serve as the county lieutenant of Anxi, the county governor of Xiami, the captain of Gao Tang, the commander of Gao Tangling, and the Sima of other departments, he had always been at the "county and regiment level", so how could he have been appointed as the chief officer of the "prefecture and city level"?

However, the big ears are not ordinary people after all, after the initial sigh, he confidently took the two worshippers and Tian Yu, Jian Yong, Su Shuang, Zhang Shiping and others, and worked in full swing in Anping.

Liu Bei appointed Guan Yu as a cavalry lieutenant to manage and train the 2,000 cavalry allocated by Gongsun Zhan. Although these two thousand people are not much, they are the foundation of Liu Bei's foothold in Anping, and they are handed over to Guan Yu, who was born in a martial artist, to take care of, Liu Bei is down-to-earth and assured.

Liu Bei also appointed Zhang Fei as the captain of the thief commander, who was responsible for public security and anti-theft in the territory. Zhang Fei had no soldiers, so Liu Bei went to several large dock forts in the territory, personally visited these big clans, and with his incorruptible tongue, he asked Zhang Fei for a thousand soldiers and pulled the team up.

Jian Yong, who followed Liu Bei's old buddy Jian Yong after the army, was appointed by Liu Bei as the chief historian to assist Liu Bei in handling affairs in the county. Tian Yu, a young talent he met in Yuyang, was appointed by Liu Bei as the superintendent of the postal service, specializing in supervising counties and townships, announcing government decrees and justice.

As for the Zhongshan businessmen Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, they are somewhat similar to the businessmen Li Yizi and Le Hedang around Gongsun Zhan, although they were not appointed by Liu Bei to official positions, they were important figures who supported Liu Bei's economic resources, and were always trusted and reused by Liu Bei.

It is said that when the three Taozi brothers married in the peach orchard behind Zhangjiazhuang in Zhuo County, Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping were witnesses, and the "double-strand sword" used by Liu Bei, the "Leng Yan saw" used by Guan Yu, and the "Zhangba snake spear" used by Zhang Fei were made of 1,000 catties of good iron funded by Zhang Shiping.

After Liu Bei finally settled the team in Anping, various problems followed, and the first thing was grain and grass and military salaries.

Gongsun Zhan can allocate 2,000 soldiers and horses to Liu Bei, which is already rare, and he will definitely not provide Liu Bei with grain, grass and military salaries in the future, as long as he doesn't ask Liu Bei for grain and grass and military resources, the big ears will be thankful.

Liu Bei took a few brothers around Anping, and found that there were rats running in the official warehouses in the poor counties of Anping, so he broke off the idea of temporarily collecting a batch of grain and grass from the counties, so he hit the idea of "killing bandits and seizing grain".

Since the three peach brothers started the army, they have been rolling in the sea of corpses and blood for many years, and they are not generally skilled in killing people and seizing money.

Guan Yu led a thousand cavalry alone, focusing on the area from Wuyi to Gonggao to Jianjin City to carry out a huge anti-bandit operation, where can ordinary bandits carry the big knife of Guan Erye, so Guan Yu passed through a peaceful place, and no thieves and bandits were rampant.

Zhang Fei led a thousand cavalry alone, mainly in the triangular area between Nanshenze and Wusui to Wupu Pavilion, and the same harvest was also quite fruitful, winning the praise of the local people.

Tian Yu was temporarily ordered by Liu Bei to lead a thousand infantry to suppress bandits in the areas of Nangong, Fuliu and Tangyang.

Zhang Shiping, who was born as a horse dealer, was not good at fighting, but he felt that he could not stand idly by, so he took the initiative to ask Liu Bei for help, preparing to go to his hometown Zhongshan to buy grain, and by the way, buy some war horses for Liu Bei to come back.

When Liu Bei learned of Zhang Shiping's idea, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly handed over the gold and silver that his brothers had stolen from the bandits' dens in various places to Zhang Shiping, and asked him to find a way to buy some horses to come back no matter what.

When Zhang Shiping left, Zhang Fei sent someone to send him a letter, asking Zhang Shiping to take the time to go to Zhangjiazhuang after arriving in Zhongshan, where he could get a batch of free grain at that time.

Zhuo County belongs to the jurisdiction of Youzhou, and it is north of Zhongshan Kingdom, so Zhang Shiping first came to Zhangjiazhuang in Zhuo County, and was warmly received by the patriarch of the Zhang clan, and took away 500 stone of grain without spending a penny when he left.

A few days after Zhang Shiping left, Xian Yuyin went to Zhuo County to collect grain, so it happened that the Zhang family resisted grain, and Xian Yuyin led the troops to rush to Zhuang and seize it.

Another trader, Su Shuang, is not idle, he is now entrusted by Liu Bei, and is actively planning to build a "money and goods circulation center" in Xindu City.

When Liu He left Xindu, he agreed with Gongsun Zhan, Yuan Shao and Han Fu to build Xindu City into a "free city" jointly managed by the four parties, and that there would be no garrison in the city, but only send a messenger Ding Fu to maintain order in the city.

Although Liu Bei didn't understand what the "money and goods circulation center" mentioned by his own family Liu He was at the beginning, he was keenly aware that he would probably have to rely on Xindu to get rich in the future.

As long as he stabilized the security of Xindu and carried out the construction of the city, the horses, salt, iron, and medicinal herbs transported from Youzhou and Liaodong, the grain transported from Qingzhou and Xuzhou, and the mulberry hemp and cloth transported from Yanzhou and other places would all be traded and settled here. Such a huge amount of transactions will inevitably add countless business opportunities to Xindu, and then the tax alone will be a very objective income.

In order to show enough attention, Liu Bei also sent people to Jicheng, Gaoyi, Yecheng and Nanpi respectively, and asked Liu He, Han Fu, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan respectively to send his subordinates to Xindu to discuss how to issue good money with a unified standard in Jizhou and Youzhou.

Although Liu Bei does not have a few catties of copper in his hand, he not only improves his popularity, but also shows goodwill to all parties, which can be described as a "foreign public relations" with very low cost and excellent effect.

PS: Today is the last day of 2013, it is said that this set of codes is very popular 201314, and Nandao is giving it to book friends! In addition, I forgot to roll yesterday, and as a result, there were fewer recommendation votes, and today I cried and rolled all over the ground for recommendation......