After recovering Guannei Province and Shannan East Province, the Jia Dynasty temporarily stopped the pace of expansion, except for Qian Hua's sailors who exterminated pirates on the sea and Luo Shiji's occasional conflict with those barbarians who went south in Hedong Province, the rest of the places returned to peace, and even Zhou Bofu of Shannan East Province wiped out the bandits in the territory. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

These people either surrendered to him, or joined the Jiazhou army, or went home to farm, or went elsewhere to find a way out; Either under the pressure of the army, the cottage was uprooted, the bandit leader was beheaded according to the law, and the coercion was either sentenced to hard labor of various years according to the crime, or returned to the home; Of course, there are also some who refuse to surrender and dare not resist stubbornly, so they have to escape from Shannan East Road with their men and horses, and come to Qianzhong Road and Shannan West Road to continue to live a life of robbing houses and houses, of course, how many of these people are real bandits, and how many are people from Heibingtai.

In order to avoid causing nervousness in Shuzhong, Zhou Bofu did not lead his men and horses to cross the border to chase and kill these people, but relying on the strength of the army in Shuzhong, there was no way to exterminate these elusive thieves, so these people settled down in Shuzhong and settled down steadily, which can be regarded as a good life for a few years for the time being.

Zhou Bofu's actions made Su Zican and others gradually relax their minds, and the Jia Dynasty really didn't seem to have any plans to recover Shuzhong immediately, so they gradually relaxed their vigilance and began to live a decadent life of feasting and drinking all day long.

But in the places they didn't notice, Zhou Bofu and Zheng Feihuang were making intense preparations for the invasion of Shuzhong, Zhou Bofu carried out high-load drills for those local soldiers who had newly joined the Jiazhou Army, and soon trained these people in a good manner, in addition to retaining the original mountain combat skills, discipline and the efficiency of mutual cooperation have been greatly improved.

Zhou Bofu led the staff to compile the essence of these mountain warfare into a book, and then used it in the training of other soldiers, these old Jiazhou troops already have a strong learning ability, plus the physical fitness is far better than these recruits, so they quickly adapted to the new combat methods, and even came from behind, defeating the recruits in many actual combat exercises.

"In another year or two, we can train more than 100,000 troops who are familiar with mountain combat techniques, and at that time, the natural danger in Shuzhong will not be a problem for us at all." At the end of a large-scale exercise, Zhou Bofu said to Zheng Feihuang, who came to visit, and his words were quite proud.

"Haha, General Zhou really deserves to be a famous general of the country, it seems that the commander of the future attack on Shu is none other than General Zhou!" Zheng Feihuang laughed and said, even though he was already a member of the Jia Dynasty, Zheng Feihuang still did not change the businessman's temperament, and his words were very smooth, which made Zhou Bofu very happy to hear it.

"As long as Your Majesty gives an order, Zhou will definitely be able to completely sweep away the three realms of Shuzhong within a year!" Zhou Bofu did not hide his yearning for this position at all, and now Li You is afraid that he will not be in Shu in person, so among the remaining many generals, Xu Guang has never been easy to go out, Qian Hua's sailors are useless in Shu, Luo Shiji has to keep an eye on Hedong Road, Shi Huaiyi guards Guannei Road, and Qin Shixin is relatively more familiar with cavalry tactics, so he has become the best candidate for this task.

After talking about the army, the two talked about local government affairs, if they want to march into Shuzhong in the future, in addition to the army, logistics supply is equally important, whether this can maintain smooth logistics depends on Zheng Feihuang, in addition to recruiting enough people to transport grain and grass for the army, but also to ensure that the road to Shannan East Road is repaired before the army marches.

Shannan East Road is mountainous, the road is not very smooth, most of the roads are sheep intestine paths, and there are even many places that are plank roads carved out of the cliffs on the hanging rocks, which is obviously unable to support large-scale material transportation, especially in the Jiazhou army is also equipped with a huge number of cannons, how easy is it for the cannons to pass through such roads? Therefore, if you want to enter Shuzhong, you must first complete the repair of the road in Shannan East Road.

"The grain, money and materials allocated by the imperial court are also sufficient, and it is rare for the people of Shannan Dongdao to have such an opportunity to earn money and grain, and labor is certainly not a problem." In addition to the captives brought back from the Kannai Road, the workers needed to build the road also recruited a lot of local people, and those captives only needed to be given food, and the people only had to pay a fairly small amount of revenge in addition to eating and drinking, but despite this, there was still an endless stream of people who wanted to come to work, because the life of the people here was too difficult, and there was nothing to do during the slack period, even if they did not give money, I am afraid that many people would join for the provincial rations.

But in the process of building the road, it is not without trouble, first of all, the compensation for the road to occupy other people's fields, houses and forests is a great problem, if the ordinary people are better, as long as the price given by the imperial court is fair, and then give priority to the labor of their family, it can be easily solved.

But those slightly prestigious big gentry are different, they often rely on their own identity to ask the court for several times the compensation, if put in the previous dynasty, their behavior will often succeed, and to increase the compensation, naturally to fall on the head of the people, with the deduction of compensation to the ordinary people to make up for this gap, but to the Jia Dynasty is different, cracking down on the gentry has always been the established policy of the Jia Dynasty, if they do not agree to say that they must let them taste the taste of national law.

Of course, these people could not give in easily, so the battles took place again and again between the imperial court and the big gentry, and thanks to the soldiers under the command of Zhou Bofu and many capable people sent by the imperial court to help, Zheng Feihuang was able to suppress these turmoil.

But later, these big gentry saw that they couldn't resist, so they changed to a new method, "At present, the road has been repaired to Pingzhou, but according to the route surveyed by Zhou Zhengxin and Zhou Dajiang, it is necessary to pass by the ancestral grave of the Qiao family, the largest gentry in Pingzhou, but the Qiao family refuses to move the grave no matter what, which is a trouble." ”

At that time, people attached great importance to the afterlife, especially a big family like the Qiao family, how easy was it to persuade them to move their ancestral graves? And for such a thing, Zheng Feihuang is not easy to use tough means, so he has a headache.

"Oh? Can't change the route? Zhou Bofu asked.

"But it can't, there are either mountains or rivers around, only here is it suitable for building roads, if you change the route, the cost will be several times greater, but this official can't waste the money and food of the court like this." Zheng Feihuang replied.