From Liu Cheng's withdrawal from Xuzhou and his return to the four seas, Da Zhou once again regained calm.

Well, at least on the surface, the villain forces of the White Lotus Chamber of Commerce gradually disappeared after the Huangchao incident, and the major martial soul forces did not make any major moves in the next year, and they were busy in their own territories.

In this year, only Cao An, Zhao Kuangyin and the Ming Emperor who were defeated by Liu Cheng once were more active.

Among these three people, Zhao Kuangyin was playing with the local forces in Liangzhou.

Although Zhao Kuangyin was calculated by Liu Cheng and Cao An in Yuzhou, and even Yuzhou was lost in the end, it seems that he has little ability.

In fact, Zhao Kuangyin's failure in Yuzhou is due to many factors, if it were not for the special environment and special time, Zhao Kuangyin might not have lost so badly, after all, their Great Song Dynasty heritage is not a joke.

This time Zhao Kuangyin's actions when he went to Xiliang proved this, it only took three months for Zhao Kuangyin to control Xiliang, and he and his team were managing Xiliang for most of the remaining half a year.

According to the information that Liu Cheng has mastered, Zhao Kuangyin's results this year are still quite good, although they are not as good as those forces in the Tang Dynasty, but they are much better than the Ming Emperor, who is also displaced.

On the Ming Emperor's side, after being defeated by Liu Cheng, although Liu Cheng gave up Xuzhou, the Ming Emperor did not return to Xuzhou in the end.

He knew very well that he had been defeated, and even if he returned to Xuzhou, he might not be able to gain a firm foothold.

And no one knows whether Liu Cheng will give him another hand after he returns to Xuzhou, he can't bear Liu Cheng to give him a wave now, so Emperor Ming retreated directly to Jingzhou.

I have to say that although Emperor Ming was beaten by Liu Cheng, he was also the king of the three-hundred-year-old dynasty after all.

Daming's background is really not a joke, it only took half a year to get to Jingzhou and win most of Jingzhou and regain a firm foothold.

However, Jingzhou is not Liangzhou here, and the latent power in Jingzhou is much more terrifying than Liangzhou, so in the past year, the Ming Emperor has never completely taken Jingzhou, and even the Ming Emperor himself did not dare to completely occupy Jingzhou, and always left a place for the latent forces in Jingzhou to survive.

For fear of annoying others, I can't hold back on my side.

That's why it is said that Emperor Ming is much worse than Zhao Kuangyin.

And to say that the biggest expansion of the three is Cao An, Cao An quickly reached out and took Xuzhou in his hand after Liu Cheng withdrew from Xuzhou.

Now Cao An already has Sili, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou in his hands, and if the sphere of influence alone does not count Liu Cheng, who has taken Goryeo, Cao An can be said to be the most powerful in the Great Zhou Dynasty at present.

However, two-thirds of Cao An's territory was crippled and scrapped, and Cao An did not increase administrative income at all in the first year of taking Yuzhou and Xuzhou, and even he smashed a lot into it himself in order to govern these two states.

Of course, Cao An's efforts were not in vain, and the vitality of these two states gradually recovered over the past year, and even because of the broken back, these two states still have a posture of starting to take off.

However, no matter how fast the development of these two states is, it is not as fast as the development speed of Qingzhou.

To be honest, Liu Cheng on the Qingzhou side basically didn't take care of it much after he was defeated.

completely threw Qingzhou into Wu Xin's hands, and Liu Cheng's cheap junior brother is actually a lazy person, Liu Cheng threw Qingzhou into his hands, he didn't have that kind of 'treat me as a countryman, I will repay him with a countryman'.

What Wu thought about the most was how to be lazy.

It's easy to be lazy, and anyone can do it, but it's a bit difficult to do what you have to do while being lazy, and even do it beautifully.

Okay, let's look at the things that Wu Xin wants to be lazy, this matter is no longer a difficult thing, this is not much easier than ascending to the sky, but Wu Xin just did it.

After a year, while he was lazy, he also gave Liu a transaction that made Liu Cheng extremely satisfied.

In just one year, Qingzhou's population has increased from 40 million to 55 million, and the growth of 15 million people in one year is already quite terrifying.

What's even more terrifying is the tax aspect, this year, Qingzhou brought Liu Cheng a tax revenue of 1.5 billion gold, and according to Qingzhou's estimates, this number may double or even more next year.

Wu Xin has done this, in fact, it is very simple to say, that is, he has grasped one place in the past year, that is, people's livelihood.

All his efforts were focused on agriculture and people's livelihood and the economy, and he completely liberalized, did not make any restrictions on business, and reduced commercial taxes to a minimum.

In today's strict environment where the entire Great Zhou is strict, Wu Xin's hand is very attractive to businessmen.

In addition, Qingzhou does give undiscounted preferential treatment to businessmen, and in a short period of time, a large number of businessmen have gathered in Qingzhou.

As soon as there were many merchants, the market in Qingzhou immediately came alive.

In addition, Qingzhou's side has almost completely let go, and the business of all walks of life, except for a few special prohibitions, is all handed over to this group of businessmen to take care of.

In just one year, Qingzhou's economy has grown explosively.

Of course, this kind of growth is not all a good thing, Qingzhou officials let go to this extent, it is easy to breed a series of problems, but at least everything is still under Wu Xin's control for now, besides, as long as the army is completely in his own hands, Liu Cheng is not worried about what waves a group of businessmen can make.

So Liu Cheng didn't pay much attention to the affairs of Qingzhou, he has always been a kind of mentality that let Wu Xin play, and he really can't end up violently.

In the final analysis, this world is not Liu Cheng's previous life, and the economic development of a country is important, but it is definitely not the whole story.

What is really important in this world is military strength, national fortune, and national weapon.

In the past year, Liu Cheng has put almost all his energy on these.

Now that a year has passed, Liu Cheng's territory has been improved in all aspects.

If Liu Cheng at this time wanted to fight with himself a year ago, Liu Cheng would not need much effort to destroy himself a year ago.

You must know that Liu Cheng's strength in the Great Zhou a year ago was already considered the top existence, and at this time, Liu Cheng's strength was afraid that he was already able to crush all the martial soul forces in the Great Zhou.

However, although Liu Cheng's strength has improved, he has no idea of doing things for the time being.

If he could, he still wanted to develop for a few years, but judging from the information he got from Liu Cheng, he was afraid that he would not be stable for long......