Cao's army was defeated, and it was defeated badly......

More than 100,000 elites were directly swallowed by the flames, and the remaining soldiers were also frightened, and turned around and followed Lao Cao all the way to escape.

Fortunately, Lao Cao's means of escaping are not bad, at least he escaped directly from Jingzhou all the way, and fled until Nanyang before he stopped and gathered the rout.

A fire on the Yangtze River directly burned Lao Cao's forces to the ground.

If you don't have a few years of remission, I'm afraid it will be difficult to recover.

Here, the Sun-Liu Alliance won a big victory, and the Jiangdong Navy played an extremely key role, so it is natural to get a good piece of the pie.

Although Liu Bei has some strength and has the courage to fight with the Jiangdong Army in land warfare, he is far from the strength of the naval army.

Even if he had any thoughts in his heart, in the face of Zhou Yu, the governor of Eastern Wu who burned to death hundreds of thousands of elites of Cao Jun, and was in the limelight, he had no confidence to say.

But the territory of Jingzhou is the foundation in Liu Bei's eyes, and it is impossible to give up too many benefits.

In particular, the city of Jingzhou along the waterline of the Yangtze River is the essence of Jingzhou.

If he is taken too much by Dongwu, Liu Bei will want to rely on Jingzhou to achieve hegemony in the future, and his confidence and foundation will be much worse.

How does this work......

Not to mention the victory in the Battle of Chibi, the defeat of the Cao army left a large power vacuum, and the Sun-Liu Alliance, which was originally quite close, appeared filthy in the blink of an eye.

Jiangxia's side is as quiet as ever, as if the victory in the Battle of Chibi has little impact on Jiangxia.

How can it be?

The victory of the Chibi War affected the changes in the pattern of Jingzhou, and the struggle for the power of the middle and upper classes in Jingzhou, which had little to do with the ordinary people, and could not feel the changes and thoughts of the middle and upper classes.

Liu Qi felt deeply, and suddenly there were many representatives of the family from Jingzhou.

They are actually the outstanding children of the Jingzhou family!

As soon as the results of the Chibi War came out, what measures did the Sun-Liu Alliance take? These outstanding sons of the Jingzhou family? took the initiative to take refuge in Jiangxia Taishoufu.

If you change to the original owner, you may hesitate? Suspect the true intentions of these children of the family.

After all? At the beginning, the original owner was forced out of Jingzhou City by the Jingzhou family? There is a shadow in my heart.

Liu Qi didn't care about taking it all, and he lacked the coolies to work.

He doesn't care where these guys come from? All of them are used in front-line processing practices? If you want to get ahead, you have to look at your performance.

What Liu Qi is waiting for now is the end of the literacy eradication in the county barracks, so that the great development of Jiangxia County can begin.

Learn from the experience of the Water Margin world in the development of the Fu Gong civilization, combined with the specific situation of this world? Develop a model that is in line with the characteristics of the world on this side? The number of officials needed is absolutely indispensable.

The problem is that in the present era, knowledge is monopolized by the big families!

The talents cultivated by the family are the mainstream of society in the late Eastern Han Dynasty!

It's not that you can't get out of the poor family? There are no heroes among the people of Qianshou, but the proportion of talents is too small.

Open a college? Set up a school or something, not to mention that you can't see results in a short period of time? In the end, it is very likely that they will be controlled by the family and take the money of the government? Cultivating talents of families and vassals.

Something like this? With Liu Qi's understanding of the Jingzhou family? That's something that must be done.

Therefore, Liu Qi put the cultivation of his own talent base in the army, and slowly cultivated and trained on the grounds of literacy.

There's no way around it, so you can only take your time.

Not long after, in the counties and townships below, Liu Pan and Huang Zhong, who organized the county soldiers and township soldiers, hurried to Taishou Mansion after getting the news of the Battle of Chibi.

"Eldest prince, now that the Cao army has withdrawn from Jingzhou, should we immediately dispatch troops and horses to directly seize Jingzhou City?"

"What are you doing to seize Jingzhou City?"

"Eldest prince, you are the first heir of Jingzhou Mu, let's seize Jingzhou, naturally we are declaring our dominance over Jingzhou!"

"Then do you think Uncle Liu Huang and Jiangdong Sun Quan will recognize it?"

"With Xuande Gong's style of acting, it is likely to help the eldest prince become the pastor of Jingzhou, and when the time comes, he will be able to jointly target Jiangdong Sun Quan, and he will have a lot of certainty!"

"I mean, with our current military strength and size, can we actually control most of Jingzhou?"

"This, as long as it occupies the righteousness, it will be done slowly in the future!"

"Do you think Jiangdong Sun Quan will give this opportunity?"

"What are you afraid of, Zhou Yu's water battle is really powerful, but the combat effectiveness on land is not necessarily, and our Jiangxia army is not without the strength to fight?"

"And then let's fight to lose both sides and ask others to pick up the cheap?"

"What the eldest prince means is that Liu Xuande ......"

"Hehe, Uncle Liu Huang has 100,000 troops, if he uses the name of Jingzhou Mu, he can quickly expand his military strength and his own power!"

When Liu Qi said this, he said leisurely: "Tell me, Uncle Liu Huang has helped me so much, do I want to express myself and let him recruit talents in Jingzhou?" ”

"Before, Uncle Liu Huang was only strong in the military, and there were few advisers on hand. But once he can recruit talents in the name of Jingzhou Mu, do you think the poor talents on the boundary of Jingzhou will take the initiative to defect? ”

There are two educators in Jingzhou, one is Pang Tong's uncle Pang Degong, and the other is the famous Mr. Shui Jing.

The academies opened by these two are naturally the top academies in Jingzhou!

The other four major families in Jingzhou have their own family academies, which can be regarded as the second echelon of talent training.

The number of academies and private schools run by other wealthy families is not small.

This is the main reason why Jingzhou was able to take over Yingchuan and become the second talent training base in history, and the literary style here is quite prosperous.

Jingzhou is large and small, relying on the academies and private schools opened by the powerful families, and there is no need to mention the tendencies of the talents cultivated.

Liu Qi is willing to accept it, but unfortunately people don't necessarily look down on him.

On the contrary, it is Liu Bei, whose reputation among the scholars of the Hanmen is not small, and there was a Xu Shu before, who knows how many talents from Jingzhou can be attracted in the future.

Liu Bei has the ability to attract talents, so Liu Qi naturally won't care too much.

But if Uncle Liu Huang borrowed the name of Jingzhou Mu to attract talents, and the so-called Jingzhou Mu is Liu Qi, it would be difficult to accept.

Seeing that Liu Pan and Huang Zhong were still a little unwilling, Liu Qi said with a smile: "If you really arrive in Jingzhou, the two generals will talk about it, will Jingzhou Mu have weight in his words, or will the four major families in Jingzhou have weight in his words?" ”

This......

Liu Pan and Huang Zhong looked at each other for a while, speechless for a while.

"Two generals, Jingzhou is a city that is tightly controlled by the clans, if we get in at the moment, I'm afraid we will have to become a light pole in a few years!"

Without Liu Qi's reminder, Liu Pan and Huang Zhong's faces changed, and they thought of their aggrieved life in Youxian County.

The dignified Jingzhou general, when Liu Jingsheng was in good health, the Jingzhou general, who could be ranked in the top three sequences, was forced to be idle in Youxian County, and that kind of taste was uncomfortable to think about.

"What do you mean?"

"Our strength, as well as the thickness of the talent reserve, is simply not enough to deter the entire Jingzhou, so be practical and develop slowly based on Jiangxia!"

"What about Jingzhou City?"

"Whoever likes to occupy it, I don't want to toss it anyway!"

"Where is the eldest prince, where is the Jingzhou Pastoral Mansion, it's useless to think about it so much!"

"General Hansheng is right, how much territory can our strength really control, these territories are what we can really control, I have no interest in that kind of false name, whoever likes it will toss!"

After all the words were said and done, Liu Pan and Huang Zhong knew it in their hearts, so they naturally had no intention of continuing to persuade.

If they were asked to lead their troops into battle, perhaps any enemy would dare to fight.

But if they want to deal with the treacherous and cunning family, forget it.

How embarrassed the eldest prince was at the beginning, although they didn't see it with their own eyes, they can think about it to know the hardships.

is a temperamental existence, and he will not really reconcile with the Jingzhou family at this time.

Since the eldest prince Liu Qi has no intention of leaving Jiangxia, let's develop Jiangxia well, and the development potential here is not bad.

Some of the things that the eldest prince made before were very popular both in the hinterland of Jingzhou and in Jiangdong.

With the continuous increase in shipments, the economy of Jiangxia County has become more and more active.

Although the majority of the interests are still occupied by the powerful families of different sizes, the remaining small part is enough to raise the living standards of many people to a great level.

Originally, according to the rules set by the family, things that are beneficial will definitely not be the turn of ordinary people.

But the family of Jiangxia County was very injured by Liu Qi, and he has not fully recovered until now.

Coupled with the deterrence of the county soldiers, at least the decree of the Taishou Mansion can be conveyed to the grassroots level relatively smoothly, and naturally they dare not eat the elephant too ugly, and they are treated as a typical example by the Taishou Mansion.

However, the tree wants to be quiet, but the wind is not stopped, Liu Qi wants to develop Jiangxia with peace of mind, and the internal problems have basically been dealt with, but the external problems have begun to stand out again.

Jiangxia and Jiangdong's core territory look across the river, and they have always been a thorn in Jiangdong's side.

The predecessor Jiangxia guarded Huang Zu, not only had a grudge against Sun Quan for killing his father, but also had fierce conflicts.

Once Jiangxia is guarded by a strong man, or if Jiangxia develops well, it will not be a good situation for Jiangdong.

Before, Cao's army was strong, and Jiangdong was focused on dealing with the threat of Cao's army, and he couldn't take care of Jiangxia's situation for the time being.

But now that Cao's army has been defeated, it is unlikely to make a comeback in the short term.

Under such circumstances, Jiangdong naturally had the energy and mind to check the situation in Jiangxia.

But this inspection was not tight, but it scared Jiangdong Junchen.

Unconsciously, the development of Jiangxia County was very smooth, that is, the army that had been defeated by the Jiangdong Army before was re-established, and the combat power was not weak.

This is not a situation that Jiangdong monarchs and ministers want to see.

So, Lu Su came to Jiangxia again as an envoy to discuss with Liu Qi about borrowing Jiangxia......