Although Zhao Xing has actually occupied most of Jizhou. It controls half of Qingzhou and half of Xuzhou, but on the table, it is not clear enough.

As a feudal kingdom of the Han Empire, the Jin State did not have the right to appoint any officials outside of its own country. In the past, when appointing officials from Youzhou and Liangguo, Zhao Xing pretended to use the Liangwang Mansion and Youzhou Pastoral Mansion to carry out it, although it was only a legal coat, but it was better than not wearing anything in Chiguoguo, which made people feel comfortable.

And the Han scholar group seems to care very much about whether a force is wearing a nominal coat, even if this force actually has a "gap" under the coat, secretly doing unscrupulous things.

Therefore, at present, Youzhou Mu is still nominally Gongsun Zhan, although he himself has now arrived in Jizhou and has begun to work according to some of the duties and powers of the state pastor; Jizhou Mu is still Yuan Shao in name, although he has been detained by the Jin State in the Crouching Tiger Martyr's Garden, and will sweep the tomb for 300 years; Qingzhou Mu is still Kong Rong; and Xuzhou Mu is still Tao Qian.

Kong Rong has made it clear to Zhao Xing that he doesn't want to do the risky job of state pastor anymore, and wants to go to Taihang Academy to be a companion to Zhang Jian, Cai Yong and others. Zhao Xing made it clear that he understood and supported Kong Rong's request, but asked Kong Rong to be patient for a while, and after he forced the imperial court to reappoint a state priest according to the will of the Jin State, he would take Kong Rong's family north to Crouching Tiger City.

Zhao Xing's candidate for Qingzhou pastoral is Zaoyi, the president of the Crouching Tiger Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The starting point of this arrangement is that Qingzhou's agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery and mining industries have a low level of production and development, and a knowledgeable state pastor is needed to develop and utilize them, effectively increase the output of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishery and mines in Qingzhou, and provide effective logistical support for the Qingzhou Army on the spot.

Tao Qian did not express the idea of stepping down for the time being, but Zhao Xing was not in a hurry at all. According to Zhao Xing's memory, Tao Qian, who is already old, estimates that with the aging of his body, it is estimated that he will have to take the initiative to resign in a short time. Zhao Xing's successor to Tao Qian is Guoyuan, who has served as a taishou in several northern counties for more than ten years, has good ability and energy, and is a good age to do business, and is more suitable for the position of Xuzhou Mu.

In fact, whether it is Qingzhou Mu or Xuzhou Mu or Xuzhou Mu Husband, in the period of military confrontation, as long as they do not have military power in their hands, they can only carry out internal affairs construction in a down-to-earth manner, and other ideas are purely superfluous, except for the disaster of killing themselves, there is no other benefit.

At present, the military deployment in Jizhou and Qingxu is basically in a stage of confrontation with each other, except for Zhang Liao and Li Tiezhu, who are preparing to eat the Ji Ling sent by Yuan Shu, the other military operations have ended. For Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, their current priority is to hold on to their existing territory, facilitate the formation of the Donglai Army and the Qinghuai Army as soon as possible, and ensure that the Flying Tiger Army in the direction of Xuzhou and half of the Dragoons in the direction of Qingzhou will smoothly change their defenses.

Zhao Xing's current focus on military operations is mainly in the northwest and northeast directions. The reason why he was so eager to take over the Western Regions and the Northeast was mainly due to his desire for population and resources.

The size of the population can directly affect the market, labor and military strength and other aspects, and now the Jin State's desire for the market and labor force has increased unprecedentedly, and the nearly 400,000 troops are barely enough, and the next step may be to expand the army.

Based on the total population of 12 million actually controlled by Zhao Xing at present, the retention of 400,000 troops is equivalent to 1 to 30, although the proportion is not very high, but the Jin troops are already famous for burning money, so the burden on the people is still not light. If you want the people under your rule to be well fed, warmly clothed, and able to support a large number of troops, it is necessary for the Jin state to continue to expand outward, constantly occupy the market, increase the people's enthusiasm for production, and increase agricultural output and the number of handicraft goods manufactured.

If this problem cannot be completely cured, then there will never be peace on the road from Liangzhou to the Western Regions, which will greatly hinder the development of Liangguo and trade to the west and reopen the Silk Road.

Once the Qiang problem was successfully resolved, Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu would then lead an army on a long-distance expedition to the west along the former Silk Road to attack thousands of miles of courtyards, and without much logistical supply, they would adopt the means of raising the war by fighting to reassign the vast territory of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion to the rule of the Han people.

After taking the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, it will take a period of occupation and governance to completely digest the territory as large as five or six states, and at that time, the merchants of the Jin Kingdom can use the Western Regions Changshi Mansion as a bridgehead for trade to the west, and go to the Dayue Kingdom, Guishan Kingdom and other countries further west to do business, and earn huge wealth and profits for the Jin Kingdom.

In the northeast, the first thing that needs to be solved is naturally the Gongsun Du family, which has been entrenched in Liaodong for a long time. Although Gongsun Du himself is not famous, he actually controls the territory of more than two states, and now he has not only 60,000 elite infantry and cavalry, but also about 20,000 sailors.

With the help of the majestic obstacle of Shanhaiguan and the severe cold after winter in the northeast, even Cao Cao, who had hit Karasuma back then, was also overjoyed, and he did not have the courage to really send troops to attack in his life. It is not an easy task for Zhao Xing to take down the Gongsun Du family and really seize the northeast territory with a large area of black land.

As for taking the Northeast, Zhao Xing will naturally not be satisfied. His goal was to occupy the entire territory of the Korean Peninsula, annex and integrate the indigenous people such as Buyeo and Louyi in the northeast, and finally directly landed on the four islands of the Japanese kingdom with leapfrog jumping tactics, and included all the vast northeastern territory into his sphere of influence.

Attacking the Korean Peninsula is by no means an easy task, and landing on the four islands of the Japanese country will not succeed overnight. In later generations, the Great Sui Dynasty, which was in its thriving state, was obstinately conquered Goryeo three times because of the fool Emperor Yang of Sui, which resulted in the misery of the people and finally collapsed; the Tang Empire in its heyday also suffered great losses at the hands of the Goryeo several times; only the descendants of Genghis Khan once occupied the Korean Peninsula, but they crossed the Tsushima Strait several times to attack the Japanese island, but they were unsuccessful.

Before launching a new war on the eastern and western fronts, what the Jin State urgently needed to do now was to ask the imperial court for an explanation.

That is, the imperial court launched a salt ban campaign without informing the Jin State of any situation in advance, which not only caused the Jin State to suffer huge losses, but also killed many merchants of the Jin State. Although nearly a year has passed since this incident, how can it be turned over just because the court pretended not to say anything?

What's more, Zhang Fei, the Northern Army stationed in Hedong, sent people to secretly attack Guyuan, an important town of the Jin State, resulting in a large number of military and civilian casualties.

Of course, if you want the imperial court to give an explanation to the Jin Kingdom, if you don't really do something, I'm afraid that even if Zhao Xing talks dry, it will be useless.

Therefore, the Crouching Tiger Army, which had been enduring for nearly half a year, finally planned to do something to Zhang Fei in Hedong......