Chapter 367: In the Ascendant
At the beginning of the Chu State, he was busy, he was really busy, idle, and he was really idle.
On the one hand, Jingzhou has just fallen, and if you want to put Jingzhou in a clear place, it is not an overnight thing.
Yangzhou is a little bit of a white map grinded out, now there is Yangzhou as the basic plate, to be placed in Jingzhou, a lot more convenient - dare to mess up, just calm the chaos...... It's just that it's better not to mess up, or not to mess up.
On the other hand, many of the technologies that are being implemented are now not transformed into strength and advantages because of time and energy!
For example, cement has been developed, but ...... What about the cement road?
Just laying the main road with cement can enhance the flow of goods and the movement of troops in Jingyang?
There are blast furnaces for ironmaking, there are steel filling and frying, and the steel output is about to explode, but there is no time to accumulate.
Microscopy has been made, cytology is budding, penicillin is being pointed out, but it will take time to separate and experiment - although there are side effects of abuse, once penicillin is widely spread, the war damage will be greatly reduced again.
The efficiency of collective farming, the expansion of pig and chicken farming...... There's still a lot of room for it.
Wang Lang's criminal law reform is gradually on the right track, but the number of grassroots workers is still seriously insufficient, and it needs to accumulate students from government schools......
Just now that Jingyang and Yangzhou, with a population of more than 10 million, there is already too much potential to be tapped.
Baitu itself is not going to take the "fast stream", and now that he is sitting on Jing Yang, he naturally hopes that the situation can be more stable.
The six marquis of the auxiliary Han Dynasty now want to pacify the division and connect Xuzhou, and become a horizontal trend; Cao Cao wants to sweep away the remnants of the Yuan clan and dominate the north, and he will not have any thoughts about the Chu State in the short term......
After the founding of the Chu State, all the six departments had a lot of strength, but ...... The Privy Council is more idle.
Now going to the south to quell the chaos has become a sought-after "important position".
What's the mess in the South?
Occasionally, one or two small tribes of Shanyue and Wuxi, or the cottages of the Han people, sometimes there is some chaos because of mining disputes, basically the defenders in the county can deal with it, but as long as the news can come out, there will be a golden jade general jumping to ask for battle!
Even Huang Zhong is now eager to make meritorious contributions, and he has the cheekiness to suppress the bandits.
Lu Bu is now complaining about this matter at the palace meeting......
"Now there is some turmoil in Zhangling County at most, as long as we continue the strategy of step-by-step, gradually drive the mountain people away and attract them down the mountain, there is really no need to make a big move." Lu Kang persuaded.
With cement, bunkers can be built at any time, and the mountain people have no advantage, plus all kinds of favorable measures, most of the mountain people have already gone down the mountain, and now the remaining diehards, or themselves half-people and half-bandits, will not be able to last long.
"I also know that these people are going to add to the chaos, but it is not a way to let them have excess energy all the time...... If the navy's fleet can go to sea now, can it send a batch to Liaodong? Or go to Qingzhou! Lu Bu was also annoyed.
"The Gongsun clan of Liaodong is doing well now, and there is still an alliance with us, if we intervene rashly, I am afraid that the Gongsun clan will be the first to resist us together with Goguryeo, Buyeo, and Sanhan, and will be involved in the battlefield thousands of miles away in vain." Lu Su had carefully read the intelligence of Liaodong brought back by the navy before.
In the eyes of the Han princes, the use value of the northern alien race is to be their own cannon fodder after being subdued......
Just like Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan, now as the assassin of Bingzhou, he is trying to persuade the Southern Xiongnu Khan to join forces with him against Cao Cao, not to mention Wuhuan, who has always been an ally of the Yuan family, Gongsun Zhan also united with Xianbei before his demise, and now Ma Teng and Han Sui are still the leaders of Xiliang Zhuqiang.
At this time, if Bai Tu did something to Liaodong, the Gongsun clan would join forces with Wuhuan and Xianbei to resist, and there would be no psychological burden at all.
As for attacking Qingzhou, Lu Su didn't mention it at all.
What is the difference between attacking Qingzhou by sea and directly attacking Xuzhou? Aren't they all at war with the forces of the Fuhan? It is fundamentally contrary to the current big policy of the Chu State.
"Hey, it's a pity that Cao Agui, not only is he a waste, but he can't trust others, otherwise he can borrow the road back to the state, how can he have the nest of the state now!" Lu Bu was angry when he mentioned this.
Today's merger is different from the merger when Lu Bu left......
The original nine counties of Shangdang, Taiyuan, Yanmen, Dingxiang, Xihe, Shangjun, Wuyuan, Shuofang and Yunzhong occupied Hedong and the entire Hetao area.
However, because of the Hetao area, there are indeed historical problems, the pre-Qin Zhao Wuling King - that is, the "Hufu cavalry shooting", expanded the territory here, but failed to gain a foothold, after the unification of the Qin State defeated the Xiongnu here, and began to migrate to the real border, but in the late Qin and early Han dynasties, it was lost again......
During the reign of Emperor Wu, Wei Qing completely expelled the Xiongnu from the Hetao, but for the next three hundred years, although the Han Dynasty regarded it as part of its territory, its policies often wavered.
Sometimes, the migrants are on the side, that is, the people are moved over, hoping to stand here permanently, but once the Xiongnu take refuge, they regard this place as the internal relocation place of the Southern Xiongnu, and even do not hesitate to take the people who have moved to the Hetao to other places for resettlement.
The first is that it is indeed suitable for nomadic people, and the second is that it is ...... Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the nine counties of the prefecture were merged, except for the easternmost Yanmen, Taiyuan, and Shangdang counties, which were still considered to have a population, the other six counties, with a maximum population of no more than 5,000 households - a county was only more than 20,000 people, which was not as large as a county in the Central Plains.
It's not that the population is really so small, but the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, and Zhuqiang...... These people are not counted.
Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Han family's control over the six counties of Bingzhou was already very weak, just like when Han Sui was in Liangzhou, the court also seriously discussed the plan to abandon Liangzhou, fortunately, Fu Xie, the Lang Lang, reprimanded Situ Cui Lie at that time, and Emperor Ling did not wave his pen and removed Liangzhou from the territory......
In the period of Yuan Shao, the main experience in the Central Plains hegemony, but also to the six counties of the state laissez-faire, after Cao Cao occupied here in history, the implementation of the Great Kyushu plan, the three counties in the east of the state plus the north of Xihe County, all into Jizhou, after the establishment of the "annex state", Hetao in this period also out of China.
What Lu Bu is dissatisfied with now is that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao directly gave up the place where he fought at the beginning......
Do you know how much effort we put into it in the first place? Why are you so open-minded?
Lu Bu even wanted to go back to Bingzhou by the way, but ...... Cao Cao wouldn't believe this kind of nonsense - when this prime minister doesn't know about false ways?
Bai Tu also saw that Lu Bu was mainly annoyed by other people, so he opened his mouth and suggested: "Father-in-law, there has been no war recently, but the training can't be stopped, and the army has no intention of shrinking...... First, the Jingzhou army should reorganize the training as soon as possible, and second, the generals and troops who have nothing to do, I think it is better to organize their exercises. ”
"Drills?" Lu Bu was stunned when he heard this, but he didn't understand what it meant.
"It is to replace it with wooden arrows and wooden guns, and an army is the defender and an army is the attacker, whether it is a battle to capture a city, a battle to pull out a village, a sneak attack, or a long-distance attack...... You can simulate them one by one! We haven't had a big war for a long time, and we can't let everyone be idle.
By the way, those cities that are ready to rebuild the city walls with masonry and cement, don't let the craftsmen tear down the old city walls, let them be idle people, go to the siege practice! Bai Tulian explained with a metaphor.
Huang Chengyan also nodded when he heard this: "This method is good, you can pull two armies and go to Nanjun for a drill!" This old boy is really ruthless to "his own people".
At this time, Lu Kang interrupted with a smile: "The lord and the privy envoy have other things recently, right?" Don't get down to business...... Hahaha. ”
That's right, Bai Tu's wedding date is getting closer and closer.
Although she was crowned queen before, the wedding has not yet taken place......