In the following time, Liu Ze focused on starting to reorganize the surrender army in Huainan. In the battle of Yicheng, more than 30,000 people were surrendered, more than 20,000 people were surrendered in the battle of Yinling, and finally when the city of Shouchun was broken, there were about 50,000 surrenders and prisoners, and in total, a total of nearly 100,000 surrendered troops were collected, and how to place these surrendered troops was the biggest problem in front of Liu Ze.

After occupying Huainan, with the extension of the territory, Liu Ze definitely needed more troops, but it was not in line with Liu Ze's idea of governing the army to accept the surrendered troops without distinguishing between good and bad. Liu Ze easily defeated Yuan Shu's 1560,000 horses with 70,000 troops, which is enough to show the truth that there are not many soldiers but fine, and taking the line of elite soldiers has always been advocated by Liu Ze, so it is extremely important to select the best and eliminate the inferior in the Huainan army and reorganize it.

Liu Ze sent some of the backbone middle- and lower-level officers of the Huainan Army to the Dongdian Military Academy for systematic study, and also selected a group of graduates from the Dongdian Military Academy to serve as captain-level officers of the Huainan Army. Among the surrendered troops, the elite forces were selected to be mixed with the Fourth Army Corps, and the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Infantry Divisions and the Sixth Cavalry Division were formed, and the new Fifth Army Corps was formed.

The governor of the Fifth Army Corps was served by Tai Shi Ci, who was also promoted to the rank of general, and the deputy governor was served by Chen Zhi, the former commander of the Second Division of the First Army Corps, and Chen Zhi was also promoted from a partial general to a deputy general. Liu Ze arranged for Yan Xiang to serve in the position of the Fifth Army, but Liu Ze did not give him the rank of Jia Xu and Chen Gong on an equal footing, but actually gave him the position of 2,000 stones, which was one level lower than Jia Xu. The newly established 10th and 11th Infantry Divisions and the 6th Cavalry Division were placed under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Army Corps, and the 8th Infantry Division, which had previously belonged to the Fourth Army Corps, was also placed under the banner of the Fifth Army Corps. The general commander of the 10th Infantry Division was Lei Bo. Chen Lan served as the commander-in-chief of the 11th Infantry Division, and Lu Mian served as the commander-in-chief of the 6th Cavalry Division. The newly established Ninth Infantry Division was under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Army Corps, and Chen Ji served as the general soldier. The deputy commanders-in-chief of the four new divisions were all promoted from the original commanders of the Xuzhou military brigade.

Liu Ze personally awarded titles to Lei Bo, Chen Lan, Chen Ji, and Lu Mian, the four new commanders-in-chief, but none of them received the standard rank of general, but were awarded the rank of general one rank lower. This time, the principle of demotion to the rank of newly demoted soldiers is adopted, from generals to ordinary soldiers, they are all awarded military ranks, which is not Liu Ze's discrimination, but based on the provisions of the military rank system. The rules for the implementation of the rank system stipulate that each position corresponds to the standard military rank. However, according to military merit, they may be demoted or promoted by one rank as appropriate. Lei Bo and the others, as newly descended people, naturally have no military merits, and they fully comply with the regulations on demotion, and they can rely on military merits to improve their military ranks and positions in the future. The downgrading of the military rank of all generals has also become a principle of the Xuzhou Army. It has been carried out since then.

The field army selected 40,000 surrendered troops. Secondly, in the second wave of selection. More than 20,000 people were recruited as county city defense soldiers, and as for the remaining 40,000 soldiers who were eliminated, except for a small number of them who were discharged and returned to their hometowns. Most of them were classified by Liu Ze as Tuntian soldiers. In Xuzhou, Tuntian is basically a Mintun, in Huainan, Liu Ze also Huaibei to implement Tuntian, in addition to recruiting displaced people to carry out Mintun, these 40,000 soldiers specially set up a military tun, while carrying out agricultural production, while carrying out military training, it is also regarded as a reserve, in the future fierce war, these Tuntian soldiers can also use one or two.

Huainan originally had two counties, a Jiujiang County, a Lujiang County, after Yuan Shu became the emperor, Jiujiang County was changed to Huainan Yin, after the destruction of the Great Chen State, Liu Ze set things right, and changed Huainan Yin back to Jiujiang County, and moved the county to Hefei. Lujiang County governed Anhui City, together with several counties south of Anhui City, had been obtained by Sun Ce, but the eight counties in the north of Lujiang County were still in the hands of Liu Ze, plus Yiyang and Qisi, two counties that originally belonged to Runan, Liu Ze took Lu'an as the county and reset Lujiang County. In addition, Liu Ze combined several counties in Huaibei that originally belonged to Jiujiang County and several counties in the south of Peiguo and Runan County to establish a new Huaibei County to. As the state governor of Yangzhou, Shouchun can no longer dominate the four counties of Jiangdong, but as the political and economic center of Huainan, its status is still unshakable.

Liu Ze appointed Li Feng, Liang Gang, and Le as the Taishou of Jiujiang County, Lujiang County, and Huaibei County, and Han Yin was engaged in governance, but they were all the same as Chen Ji, and they could not enjoy the treatment of two thousand stones, and were reduced to a thousand stones. Like the Taishou in Xuzhou, they only have administrative power, and the military power and judicial power are gone, compared to the original Taishou of the Han Dynasty, the power of the Taishou under Liu Ze has been greatly restricted, and he has been completely reduced to a civilian official.

Jiujiang County governs Hefei, under the jurisdiction of Hefei, Yinling, Xiquyang, Shouchun, Dangtu, Zhongli, Chengde, Junqiu, Dongcheng, Huailing, Xuyi eleven counties (because the three counties of Xiacai on the north bank of the Huai River are assigned to Huaibei County, and the three counties of Liyang, Quanjiao and Fuling east of Chaohu Lake are obtained by Sun Ce, so Liu Ze will be Xuyi, Huailing and Dongcheng counties that originally belonged to Xuzhou Xiapi Kingdom into the rule of Jiujiang County); Lujiang County governs Lu'an, under the jurisdiction of Lu'an, Longshu, Yanlou, Lixian, Tatexian, Anfeng, Anfeng, Yangquan, Yiyang, Qisi ten counties; Under the rule of Huaibei County, Cai, Ping'a, Yicheng, Longkang, Guyang, Xiangxian, Huxian, Hongxian, Gongqiu, Shenxian, Fubo, Ruyin, and Yuanlu Thirteen Counties are under its jurisdiction. The original population of the two counties of Huainan was nearly one million, and Huainan was not ravaged by the Yellow Turban Army, and it was originally a rich land, but in recent years, under the toss of Yuan Shu, the people were not able to make a living, and the population had decreased sharply, and the latest population statistics of the two counties of Huainan after Liu Ze won Shouchun The population of the two counties in Huainan has been less than 300,000 (excluding the population of Wancheng, Liyang and other counties occupied by Sun Ce), how to recuperate and restore the productivity of Huainan is the top priority in front of Liu Ze. Liu Ze ordered the reduction and exemption of taxes in the three counties of Huainan for two years and allocated a large amount of disaster relief money and grain, so that the people could resume production, concentrate the barren land for tuntian, clarify the rule of officials, and punish the powerful and powerful, and the situation in Huainan gradually improved.

On this day, Liu Ze received a report that Sun Ce of Jiangdong had sent an envoy to ask to see Liu Ze.

Liu Ze wondered slightly, he and Sun Ce were in Huainan with Chaohu Lake as the boundary, each doing their own thing, and not offending each other, what was Sun Ce's intention when he sent an envoy this time? The order was passed in, and Liu Ze personally received it.

"Jiangdong Lusu came to meet Liu Yuanjun on the order of General Sun." As soon as they met, they bowed deeply to Liu Ze and introduced themselves.

Lu Su? Liu Ze's mind moved slightly, it turned out to be him. Lu Su is a native of Dongcheng, born in a scholar family, bold personality, and Zhou Yu is good friends, when Zhou Yu is in the nest order, there are few soldiers and lack of food, so he asks Lu Su for help, Lu Su has two large granaries at home, and with a finger, he gave Zhou Yu the grain of 3,000 Hu in one of the granaries, and his generosity can be seen. Later, when Zhou Yu returned to Sun Ce, Lu Su crossed the river with Zhou Yu and defected to Sun Ce. Lu Su in history, known as the second of the four generals of Eastern Wu, can be good at literature and martial arts, is a rare all-rounder, perhaps on the way of using troops Lu Su can not compare with Zhou Yu Lu Xun, on the way of governing the country can not compare with Zhang Zhao Gu Yong, but Lu Su has a more far-sighted view of the overall situation than others, in history he first put forward the idea of standing on the feet of the three parts of the world, far-sighted, in order to maintain the alliance of Sun and Liu spared no effort, and took the overall situation into account, only he was the most sober among the ministers of Jiangdong who realized that in order to fight against Cao Cao, Sun Liu must take the road of unity. Among the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang is the only one who holds the same view, but it is a pity that Lu Su died young, otherwise the situation of the Three Kingdoms will be a different scene. After Lu Su, although Lu Meng had the merit of attacking Jingzhou and Lu Xun monopolizing the burning of Yiling, there were a generation of famous generals, but the people of Eastern Wu who had the world in mind were no longer able to find traces, and they were in the southeast corner of An, and finally went to the road of defeat.

"I have long admired the name of Mr. Zijing, and I have to meet today, which is really a blessing for three lives. Mr. Zijing, please take a seat. Liu Ze smiled and treated him politely.

Lu Su bowed his hand and said, "Liu Yuanjun is polite, the people who are at the end of the next are not worried." ”

Liu Zedao: "Mr. Zijing is too modest, who doesn't know that Mr. Zijing is righteous and generous, and when I see it today, he is really as his name suggests, and he is admired to the point." I don't know what happened to Mr. Zijing? ”

Lu Su said: "General Sun heard that Liu Yuanjun broke Shouchun, captured and killed the puppet emperor Yuan Shu, and made immortal contributions to the Kuangfu Han family. With that, Lu Su presented the gift list.

Liu Ze opened the gift list and took a look, Sun Ce's congratulatory gift was also very valuable, Dadong Zhu Yihu, ten pairs of white bi, Wu Juan 100 horses, a pair of coral, etc., but Liu Ze didn't take these things to heart, with Liu Ze's net worth, he regarded money as dung, gently put down the gift list, and said politely: "Thank you Bo Fu Meiyi, Liu Mou is disrespectful." I don't know if Bo Fu is okay? ”

Sun Ce sent someone to send a generous gift, obviously befriending Liu Ze, both sides some time ago under the banner of crusading against Yuan Rebellious, sent troops to Huainan, but the real intention of both sides is tacit, but they are all for the sake of fighting for this territory in Huainan, although both sides have maintained restraint, there is no military confrontation, but the two sides are definitely not friendly, Liu Ze is very indignant at Sun Ce's behavior of snatching food, Sun Ce is angry because he failed to get Hefei, this time Sun Ce sent Lu Su to take the initiative to show goodwill, which made Liu Ze deeply surprised.

Lu Su said: "Thank you Liu Yuanjun for your concern, General Sun is well." The former Liu Xuan fled to Yuzhang and joined forces with Hua Xin to plot Jiangdong, but was defeated by General Sun, and the land of Yuzhang was also owned by Jiangdong. ”

Liu Ze had a groaning smile on the corner of his mouth, demonstrating? Sun Ce won Yuzhang, and the situation in Jiangdong was stable, did he still want to go back and try Huainan again?

"Zi Jing is here, not just for the sake of congratulating, right?" Liu Ze said meaningfully. (To be continued......)