The southerners fought well and fought against the water, and other forms of warfare were slightly inferior. Although it is not excluded that they are rich in field warfare and enterprising, they are often special cases, and they need to be famous and commandery, and adapt measures to local conditions.

The Du brothers are not estimated to be the choice of famous generals, and the war in Xinxing and Nanyang counties ended very quickly. Not long after Linghu Yanbao led the army, Zhao Jingzhi, who went out with the army, returned quickly to report the victory.

The elite cavalry of Jingzhou took the lead in arriving at the north bank of the Han River opposite the Xinxing county town, which made the defenders in the city vigilant and urgently transferred troops from the left near dock to defend the city.

When the men and horses of Xiangyang escorting supplies arrived, its defenders were not guarded, but instead introduced them as reinforcements and put them in the city to coordinate the defense, and the end was naturally the destruction of the city.

After the Xiangyang people seized the Xinxing county town, they immediately extradited the Jingzhou people and horses to the south by boat, and after the two sides converged, they killed the upstream Nanyang county town, and captured the city after a short battle.

When Zhao Jingzhi returned to report the victory, the situation in the two counties had basically stabilized, and he only needed to wait for a few more days to carefully clear the situation, and then he could return with the troops on the expedition.

Due to this sudden attack, the battle ended very quickly, so the characters of the two cities were also retained, and they were not lost too much because of the war.

According to the records of the registers found in the county halls of the two cities, there are about 3,000 registered households in these two counties, and even if there are some dispersions, the final population will definitely be more than the number of registered people. Because the population of the Hao clan in the south is much better than that in the north, many Hao tribes are not registered.

When Li Tai learned the news, he couldn't help but smile. Now his Jingzhou is in ruins, and what is most lacking is population!

Although Doufu lost to Xiao Jing, the third generation of emperors, Li Tai was not poor.

The resources he can control and dispatch are far from being comparable to Xiao Jing, especially the production bases and business networks that he intends to operate in Guanzhong, northern Shaanxi, Longyou and other places in recent years, and the value of any single item far exceeds the floating wealth that Xiao Jing has amassed.

Although the Nanyang Basin is in depression today, its natural resources and geographical location have not disappeared because of this, and it still has great potential value. If you want to tap this value as soon as possible, you have to have someone.

As the end of the year approaches, some smaller water conservancy works have also been completed, and the results can be tested after the spring flood season arrives next year. There will be vast expanses of unclaimed wasteland, and the sooner they are cultivated, the sooner they will be profitable.

Although Li Tai has a series of decrees to be implemented against the local powerful forces, it is still unclear how effective the phase will be, and of course he still hopes to have a certain increase in the number of people.

During this period, with the elimination of county officials and the gradual improvement of the administrative capacity in the territory, Li Tai even wanted to organize the barbarians into households and grant land.

But it is not that he engages in any kind of group discrimination, and the barbarians are very limited in terms of production skills, social organization and living customs.

It should be noted that the household is granted land, and it needs to bear the corresponding rent, tax and conscription, etc., and only if you can meet these requirements can you be called a qualified household.

The barbarians are not familiar with the skills of cultivation and weaving, and they may not even be able to feed themselves when they give the harvest of the fields, and they have a strong degree of personal dependence.

Barbarian groups often need to move to the plains for several generations to cultivate and adapt before they can meet the conditions for household grants. Even if it is assigned for the sake of temporary political achievements, it will often be scattered in the slightest natural and man-made disaster.

Therefore, the barbarians are basically collective recruitment, and the value of the individual is not high, and even if there is, it is only used as slavery, and cannot bear the more complex social division of labor and production.

Of course, if the social environment is stable for a long time, the production and living resources in the region remain sufficient, coupled with the government's supporting indoctrination and guidance decrees, the barbarians' enlightenment cycle can also be greatly shortened, and they will soon become no different from the Han people.

However, at present, Jingzhou, under the governance of Li Tai, does not have the basis for large-scale recruitment of barbarians, whether in terms of people's livelihood or other aspects.

Therefore, at present, I want to increase the number of directly subordinate state and county governments

The population under the jurisdiction of the household is more reliable to obtain from the south, through the capture of war, through policy attraction, and so on.

Of course, the latter requires a longer cycle, but it is not impossible. Many of the people between Jiang and Han have fled to the northern region, and they may not miss Sangzi's homeland at all.

Although there have been no large-scale military disasters in Nanliang for a long time, and the society is stable and rich, this is for the upper class.

But in fact, the sharpness of the internal contradictions may be better than that of the Southern and Song and Qi dynasties, after all, the upper echelons of the Song and Qi dynasties are constantly playing games, and the ruling class is constantly eliminating and changing.

Nanliang is pressed by the old Bodhisattva, the political environment of the upper class tends to be stable, and the filial sons and grandchildren are also thriving, although the social productive forces are also developing, and the total wealth is increasing, but the distribution method is becoming more and more corrupt. The squeezing of people's profits through a series of financial means such as seigniorage and taxation, as well as the growth of the monk group year by year, has also become a heavy social burden.

Hou Jingneng responded to every call in Nanliang, also because its internal contradictions have been sharp to an extreme. A large number of middle- and lower-class soldiers and civilians would rather chase after a wolf with ambition to flee south, rather than let the ancestors and grandchildren of the Xiao family draw blood.

Li Tai, as the head of the Guanlong army with the rise of the government military system, may not be a progressive class, but as a traverser, he always does not lose the concept of progress.

Therefore, for the population captured from the Southern Dynasties, he did not use the captured population as slave labor and production as a soldier, slave and maid, as usual before, but treated them as commoners, and directly assigned land to households.

Perhaps among these military and civilian concepts of the Southern Dynasties, the Western Wei regime represented barbarism and backwardness, and the formation and transformation of concepts was not an overnight effort, but it always needed to be done. The stirring story of how many princes and generals in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but no matter the rise or fall, the people are the most innocent.

Soon after Zhao Jingzhi's return, Linghu Yanbao and others also escorted the prisoners of the two counties back one after another. And Li Tai had already arranged for the state and county officials to prepare for the compilation of these captives, and although he gave preferential treatment to these prisoners, he did not give them for nothing.

Although the people are innocent, the people also love blind obedience the most, at least let them know that this preferential treatment is not easy to come by, and then they will know how to cherish the life they have obtained.

Therefore, when these captives were naturalized, they had to be allowed to confess their miserable life in Nanliang and accuse them of the names of the officials who mistreated them. This may seem like a simple step, but it is actually breaking the old authority in their hearts. If you think that your life in Nanliang was not bad before, then you don't need to make up households and teach fields anymore, come here and continue to have fun in the bitterness.

The naturalized households are organized into li and neighborhood, and personnel selected from the previous batch of Fancheng military and civilian personnel serve as li chiefs and neighborhood chiefs, who are responsible for leading these newly assigned households to stabilize as soon as possible and prepare for the production of Juntian. In addition, the previous complaint meeting will also be continued, and only if you participate in a sufficient number of times, you can give land grants and distribute farm tools and grains, and so on.

Li Tai also sent state officials to randomly participate in these neighborhood mutual complaint meetings, and recorded the deeds of Nanliang Dusk told by the residents, and prepared to wait until the land grant was completed and the township was demarcated, and then these deeds were reported to the township, so that all the villagers could deeply feel the political darkness and miserable life in Nanliang. Compared with the situation of today's cultivators who have land and a stable life, they will naturally feel that the good life is all created by Governor Li!

Jingzhou is busy with rural construction and ideological transformation, but Xiangyang is relatively calm.

After the end of the war between the two cities, Xiangyang sent Jingzhou people and horses out of the country, Li Tai thought that Xiao Jing would soon send another envoy to discuss the next move, but until the New Year came, Xiangyang was silent, which made people feel puzzled.

What also puzzled Li Tai was that there was also the Northern Expedition of Southern Liang in Huaibei, which should have had a result according to the historical time calculation. He also sent someone to Wang Sizheng to inquire about the news, but Wang Sizheng didn't know much about it, but Mohu responded that the two sides seemed to be still in a confrontation.

Even though Li Tai is resourceful, he has ears and eyes after all. Where he couldn't see, something important was happening.

Far away in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Jiankang City, the winter is warm, although there is a slight coolness but not overbearing, the prince Xiao Gang today in the East Palace Xuanyou Hall banquet Wende Province bachelors.

The masses in the hall are already drunk, and they are more and more open-minded, with all kinds of rhetoric and songs

Chant and talk endlessly. Literature and Xuanyi are the prominent studies of the Southern Dynasty, and the prince is also the master of this school, and his heart also loves the atmosphere in the hall, and he is not angry because of the slight rudeness of the scholars.

At this time, an old man outside the hall walked in, which made the atmosphere in the hall suddenly cold.

The old man's name is Liu Jin, the official residence of the prince Zhan Shi, is the chief of the East Palace, and his character is upright, and even the prince is polite to him and does not dare to be rude.

The crown prince was waiting to order the servants to set up a new seat for Yanagijin, but Yanagijin saluted and said, "There is urgent news from Gangneung, please move to another hall."

After hearing this, the prince did not dare to slack off, and waited in the other hall to take the letter sent by the king of Xiangdong from Jiangling and hurriedly glance at it, saying that Xiao Jing, the king of Yueyang, used power and was suspected of abusing and killing the Du clan, and the king of Xiangdong implored the prince to support him in leading the army to Xiangyang to investigate thoroughly.

After reading this letter, the prince's face changed sharply, and he immediately said angrily: "Since the matter is so vicious, it should be entrusted to the Western Province! The seven officials rashly sued me, how can I respond?"

He complained here that the king of Xiangdong made it difficult for him, and before he could think of how to respond, another eunuch from the inner garden hurriedly walked in and said, "The official family is not stable, please go to the Wende Palace to see him quickly."