Lin Yuan led the army to Yingzhou.

After entering the border of Yingzhou, I did not encounter a single village along the way, and there were destroyed ruins everywhere.

These are all the misdeeds of the Zhong Xiang rebels.

Every time the rebels of Zhong Xiang conquered a state and county, they had to clear the wall and field, absorb part of the population into the army, and all the rest of the people were concentrated in the county town.

This was useful in the early stage, but now, it is a dead end.

The peasants are concentrated in the cities, the land is deserted, and there is no one to farm in the spring of this year, so there will be no harvest in the autumn.

Without food, then the Zhong Chu regime is not far from its demise.

Lin Yuan estimated that by August this year at the latest, the Zhong Chu regime would appear.

At that time, even if the Southern Song Dynasty court did not send troops to exterminate him, he would perish on his own.

Lin Yuan didn't want to follow Zhong Chu's back path.

Therefore, the first priority of his return this time is to recuperate and prepare for spring farming.

On January 8, Lin Yuan arrived in Yingzhou City.

Yingzhou City is also a county town, but compared with Suizhou City, the prosperity and population are far behind.

There were even some starvations in the city, and the homeless people starved to death.

It's literally on the verge of reconstruction.

[Territory]: Yingzhou City (first-class county seat)

[Lord]: Lin Yuan

[Affiliation]: Xiangyang Mansion, Jinghu Road, Southern Song Dynasty

[Specialty]: finless porpoise, silverback herring

[Population]: 180,000/500,000

[People's Heart]: 35

[Public security]: 50

[Shops]: 80 rooms

[Prosperity]: 1800

[Status]: Very poor

[Administrative efficiency]: 30/100

[Agricultural Efficiency]: 0/100

[Economic efficiency]: 20/100

[Cultural efficiency]: 10/100

[City defense force]: 20,000 people

[City Warehouse]: 80,000 units of grain, 800,000 units of timber, 100,000 units of ore......

[City Fortifications]: 20m Medium City Wall, Medium Urn City, Medium Tower, Medium Arrow Tower, Medium Arrow Battlement (Strong Defense, Soldier Defense +20)

[Existing buildings]: residential courtyards, medium-sized shops, medium-sized blacksmith shops, medium-sized tea shops, medium-sized ceramic factories, medium-sized barracks, medium-sized medical centers, medium-sized carpenter shops, Chenghuang Temple......

[Wealth]: 100,000 taels of silver

Yingzhou City is still the size of a county town, but the population of 180,000 is only the size of a county seat, of which 80,000 are still prisoners he let Xu Shu and Zhao Yun escort here, and 20,000 are soldiers.

In other words, there were originally less than 80,000 people left in Yingzhou City.

is a huge county town, and it is not even as good as a second-level county town.

In addition to the fact that population is a big problem, there is also a popular 35 points, which is very low, and robberies often occur on the streets.

The business in the city withered, and the original county-level city had more than 1,000 shops, but now there are only a pitiful 80 shops.

Prosperity is degraded to town level.

Administrative, economic, agricultural, and cultural efficiency are all pitifully low, and almost no one governs them.

There is also a serious shortage of food reserves, 80,000 units of grain, which is not enough to sustain everyone in the city for a month.

After Lin Yuan arrived, he wanted to solve the matter.

He first deposited all Zhong Ziang's 5 million units of grain in the government treasury, and took out 6,000 units from it to let the people in the city have a full meal first.

When the people of the city learned of this, they were grateful.

People's sentiment instantly rose by 5 points.

Subsequently, Lin Yuan will send people to arrange for the people to work in exchange for food.

The famine problem was solved in an instant.

The second thing is business development.

And if business wants to develop, it must be caravans from outside.

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

Lin Yuan planned to build two roads, one to the north to Wushan City, and the other to the west to Malan City.

This is a huge project, and it cannot be completed in a short period of time.

If the people want to get food, they can participate in this big project.

The third thing is agricultural development.

However, Lin Yuan does not plan to just farm.

He found that the boundary water system of Yingzhou is very developed, and the specialties of Yingzhou are finless porpoises and silverback herring, which are very suitable for the development of fisheries here.

With fishery, not only can you increase food, but also get economic income.

The fourth thing is to improve the administrative and cultural development of the city.

This matter is the simplest, Lin Yuan directly appointed Zhuge Liang as the governor of Yingzhou, responsible for all military and political affairs on the border of Yingzhou.

In addition to speeding up the development of Yingzhou, there is also an important reason for this.

The battle to the south has begun.

Zhong Ziang led an army of 300,000 to storm Jiangling City and launched a desperate struggle with the Yue family's army.

The two sides have entered a white heat.

Lin Yuan placed Zhuge Liang in Yingzhou City to guard against Zhong Ziang.

He was worried that Zhong Ziang would not be able to attack Jiangling City for a long time, so he was so angry that he suddenly went north to attack Yingzhou, wanting to bite him by force.

This kind of character has to be guarded against.

After arranging everything, on January 15, Lin Yuan led Zhao Yun north and returned to Wushan City.

And Huang Zhong was arranged by him in the Tiger Camp as the commander of the first battalion, which can be regarded as leaving a tiger general for Zhuge Liang.

Lin Yuan also thought about leaving Zhao Yun behind.

Historically, the cooperation between Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun was very tacit.

But after thinking about it, Lin Yuan still gave up.

Zhao Yun is extremely powerful, he is the real king of heads-up, he is careful and bold, and if he puts it by his side, he can protect Lin Yuan from nothing.

Lin Yuan likes him, no.

He now understands Liu Bei's feelings more and more.

Because Zhao Yun was there, Liu Bei could sit back and relax, so he was unwilling to send Zhao Yun down to the place to rule an army.

Of course, Lin Yuan is not going to do this.

He took Zhao Yun with him, and he also wanted Zhao Yun to gather his special class 'White Horse Righteous Servant' as soon as possible.

Two days later, Lin Yuan and his party arrived at Wushan City.

At this time, Wushan City was twice as prosperous as a month ago, and there was an endless stream of business travelers.

After Lin Yuan arrived at the Lord's Mansion, he put his hand on the stone tablet at the core of the city, preparing to be promoted to the second-level county seat.

[Territory]: Wushan City (first-class county)

[Lord]: Lin Yuan

[Population]: 110,000/5,000

[Prosperity]: 12000/8000

[People's Heart]: 75

[Public security]: 80

[Lord's Reputation]: 48000/5000

"Ding! System prompt: Wushan City has been detected to meet the upgrade conditions, is it now upgraded? ”

"Level up!"

Thundered!

A burst of golden light fell, and Wushan City doubled in size again, and the original streets widened a lot.

"Ding! System prompt: It has been detected that Level 2 Wushan City meets the upgrade conditions, is it upgraded now? ”

"Level up!"

Another golden light fell, and Wushan Town became even more magnificent and majestic.

Two upgrades in a row.

This is mainly due to the 4,000 high-level talents that Lin Yuan plundered from Jiangling City, which greatly increased the prosperity of the city and reduced the development time of the city indefinitely.

"Ding! Congratulations, Wushan City is the 13th territory to be promoted to a second-level county seat, and the lord rewards charm +5! ”

"Ding! Congratulations, Wushan City is the first territory to be promoted to a third-level county, and the lord rewards Charm +10"

"Ding! China announcement: Congratulations to Wushancheng for being promoted to a third-level county, which is the first third-level county in China, and is specially rewarded with 1 large material bag of Lord Lin Yuan, 5 engineering accelerators, 50 senior craftsmen, and 1 king-level recruitment order! 1 strong army training charm, reputation +2000! ”

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