The two counties of Jingnan under the control of Ji Han, of which the Taishou of Wuling County is Xi Hong, and the Taishou of Lingling County is Pan Jun.

In terms of territory, Wuling County is larger, but Wuling County is almost surrounded by Wuxi barbarians, and the local security is unstable, coupled with more mountainous areas, the cultivable area is less, if it is not located in the important place connecting Jiangling, the strategic location is important, and Wuling County is basically no different from the remote mountainous areas.

Correspondingly, although there are many mountains in Lingling County, but the east side of Lingling County is close to Changsha, in this time and space, Pan Jun was inspired by Zhang Xi, and had a different idea of changing silting into fields, and the swamp on the east side of Lingling County has become a large fertile field area after more than ten years of uninterrupted transformation by Pan Jun.

The south side of Lingling County is close to Jiaozhou, not to mention the flat terrain, and the arable area is already a lot, so from the economic level, the value of Lingling County is much larger than that of Wuling County.

And Pan Jun, as the Taishou of Lingling, has been operating in this place for more than ten years, and almost all of the people in the county are Pan Jun's henchmen, and the Xiangyang Pan family also moved south with the Ju clan and took root in Lingling County, and the core interests of the Pan family are in Lingling County.

The Pan family is now deeply rooted in Lingling County, and it has vaguely become a top family.

Although over the years, Pan Jun has been quite obedient and has shown due respect to the imperial court. But the last time Dongwu attacked Jingnan, Pan Jun's performance had already made Zhuge Liang vigilant.

At that time, Pan Jun not only concealed the movements of the Wu army in Guiyang and Changsha, but also showed a certain degree of hesitation after the war.

If it weren't for Chen Zhi quickly leading the Northern Army into Wuling, it is really hard to say whether Pan Jun would choose to surrender to Eastern Wu in the end.

After all, in the eyes of these families, it doesn't matter who the lord is, it is the most important thing to protect the interests of the family and the family industry.

Now, Zhuge Liang intends to give up the two counties of Jingnan and order all the county soldiers and officials to move north to defend Jiangling. It's really hard to say what Pan Jun will think.

Moreover, Pan Jun is a Confucian in Jingzhou, and Pan's influence in Jingzhou is not trivial.

Since the First World War of Chibi, the four major families of Jingzhou, the Kuai family and the Cai family, have moved north one after another, although they also left a branch in Xiangyang, but the decline in influence is predictable.

It was also at this opportunity that the Ma, Xi, and Pan clans in Xiangyang rose one after another, faintly replacing the Kuai clan and the Cai clan in Jingzhou.

And the Pan family, under the leadership of Pan Jun, found another way, not competing with these families in Xiangyang, but chose to run away and go to Lingling County to dominate, and then in turn affect the pattern of the Jingzhou family, and then affect the political situation in Jingzhou.

This move has a bit of a meaning of putting death and being reborn, but the result in exchange is that neither the Ma family nor the Xi family can fully become a family on an equal footing with the Pang family and the Huang family, but it is the Pan family, with a dominant family in Lingling County, which faintly has this kind of posture of coming from behind.

Therefore, even if Pan Jun shows such an unstable posture, Zhuge Liang still can't remove Pan Jun's position as the Taishou of Lingling, even if he is transferred out of Lingling County in the open, if the successor of the Taishou of Lingling County is not surnamed Pan, or has no direct relationship with the Pan family, he will not think that he can sit firmly in the position of the Taishou of Lingling County.

For Pan Jun, Zhuge Liang also had to be cautious.

"Pan Chengming and Ma Jichang are old friends, or they can write a letter to Ma Jichang, so that they can secretly go to Lingling, meet Pan Chengming, and explain the benefits and disadvantages in detail. It may be possible to get them to agree to this policy. Zhuge Liang said cautiously.

But the problem is that Zhuge Liang himself has no confidence in what he says, let alone Zhang Xi, who listens.

Yes, Ma Liang and Pan Jun do have a good personal relationship, not only are they both members of the Jingzhou family, but Ma Liang's daughter is also married to Pan Jun's son, but in these years, the family is still a friend, I believe that all the children of the family have a pole in their hearts.

Don't look back, Ma Liang went to persuade him to no avail, but instead revealed the layout in advance, which caused Pan Jun's disgust. Although it will not make Pan Jun rebellious, if he sincerely does not listen to the dispatch, the county soldiers of Lingling County may not be so easy to transfer.

Therefore, Zhang Xi just shook his head slightly and said, "This matter still needs to be lured by profit!" ”

For these children of the family, it is useless for you to tell them about righteousness, and even you can't say that the most direct way for them is to give enough benefits to the Pan clan so that they can take the initiative to participate in this plan.

Therefore, Zhang Xi's suggestion is to be generous to others.

What the Pan family cares about most is that their industry in Lingling County has been infringed on because of this strategy, so what Zhuge Liang needs to do is to ensure Pan's interests in Lingling County.

This required Zhuge Liang to personally write a secret letter to Pan Jun, acknowledging to Pan Jun the ownership of the land occupied by the Pan family in Lingling County over the years in the name of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, and at the same time, Zhuge Liang could promise Pan Jun in the letter that in the future, the Pan family would be allowed to control the dominance of the Jingnan swamp to transform the fertile land.

Zhang Xi believes that Pan Jun will understand the true meaning of this, and will carefully weigh the pros and cons of this.

But Zhuge Liang couldn't weigh it anymore.

According to Zhang Xi's suggestion, the first thing to do is to recognize the land ownership of the Pan family in Lingling County. This is no small matter.

You must know that the Pan clan has developed in Lingling County for more than ten years and has occupied a quarter of all the land in Lingling County, which is already quite a terrifying thing for a county.

But because more than half of these lands are new land obtained by Pan Jun after transforming the silt fields in the eastern part of Lingling, if Pan Jun does not carry out the transformation, it is impossible for these lands to harvest grain, so Zhuge Liang will turn a blind eye to Pan's occupation of land in Lingling County.

But in essence, the Pan clan occupies these lands, there is a lack of official processes, if Zhuge Liang is willing, he can send people at any time under the banner of inspecting the acres of land to check and confiscate this batch of land, but now Zhang Xi asked Zhuge Liang to admit that these lands belong to the Pan family, then there is no excuse to take them back again.

It's not a question of thirty or fifty acres of land, it's a question of a few hundred acres.

One thing to say, Zhuge Liang really didn't hold back his good intentions, he just wanted to use the Pan family to transform the fields and snatch them back directly, but he couldn't take care of it for a while, otherwise how could Zhuge Liang allow a family to annex land so vigorously in the state and county.

But Zhang Xi thinks it's not good to do this.

In addition, on the whole, changing siltation to fields also increases the arable area, and it will not infringe on the interests of the people in the original fields. In Zhang Xi's view, Pan's behavior is worth encouraging, and all problems cannot be solved by administrative means, otherwise no one will be willing to stand up and do such things in the future.

Therefore, admitting it is not a big deal, besides, the official acknowledges that these fields belong to the Pan family, and draws a fish scale atlas, and the Pan family has to pay taxes according to the law, and it is not also a large amount of financial revenue for the imperial court.

It was not completely without benefits to the imperial court.

When Zhuge Liang heard Zhang Xi say this, he was somewhat relieved. Also, if it weren't for Pan's early investment in a lot of money and grain in the transformation, these places would still be swampy and could not be cultivated at all.

Okay, even if this matter is understandable, Zhuge Liang is willing to admit it, but why let the Pan family control the leading power of the Jingnan siltation and land reclamation project?!

Isn't this a change of law to allow the Pan clan to wantonly annex land in Jingnan?!

Again, isn't Pan Jun worried that once he agrees to Zhuge Liang's strategy, their Pan clan will never have a chance to return to Lingling?!

The first question, in fact, is the same as the second question, the explanation given by Zhang Xi is to let Pan choose for himself, whether to bet on this game or not.

If you don't gamble, Zhuge Liang's strategy will not change, the county soldiers of Lingling County will inevitably ask for a northward transfer, even if Pan Jun does not cooperate, delay time, and wait until the county soldiers of Wuling County are transferred to the north, even if Lingling County should not be transferred, it will be difficult to support it alone in Jingnan.

At that time, Pan Jun would inevitably fall into a situation of isolation and helplessness, and he would either choose to follow orders and lead the county soldiers north, or choose to surrender to Eastern Wu.

But when he arrives in Soochow, it's hard to say whether he can continue to call for wind and rain in Lingling County.

It didn't matter before, Lingling County was not a good place, and it was a poor country full of mountains, rivers and swamps.

But now, after the Jiangdong family tasted the sweetness of silting and cultivating land near Changsha, how could they let go of this opportunity to obtain fertile land.

At that time, it is difficult to say whether the Pan clan will be able to keep a quarter of the cultivated land area in Lingling County.

If Pan Jun is willing to gamble, it will be equivalent to temporarily giving up the land in Lingling County, temporarily retreating north, waiting for the success of the Han Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and freeing up his hands to re-conquer the four counties of Jingnan, and will inevitably carry out the work of dredging and reclaiming land around Changsha and Lingling County.

At that time, Pan was in charge of the work of dredging and land reclamation in Jingnan, and he would definitely be able to achieve the greatest benefits.

At that time, the Pan family was not the first family in Lingling, and it was very likely to directly become the first family in Jingnan, and it was a super family with the capital to sit on an equal footing with the Xiangyang Pang family and the Huang family.

Anyway, the opportunity is in front of Pan Jun, whether to bet or not, it depends on whether he has confidence in Dahan.

It is precisely because of this that Zhuge Liang is a little uncertain.

Pan Jun has confidence in the Han Dynasty Zhuge Liang doesn't know, but Zhuge Liang is really confident, he firmly believes that sooner or later, he will reclaim the four counties of Jingnan.

At that time, do you really have to sit back and watch the Pan clan grow?!

The Jingzhou family is already very difficult to control, that is, with Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong having a close relationship with the Jingzhou Huang family and the Pang family, with the two of them, the Jingzhou Huang family and the Pang family will always be very stable.

But if there is one more Jingzhou Pan. If there really is a case, who will suppress them?!

Zhuge Liang was worried, but Zhang Xi smiled slightly and told Zhuge Liang his answer - Huang and Ponzi.

Now the Pan family can be like a fish in water in Lingling County, completely because the Huang family and the Pan family do not want to go to Jingnan to mix the waters, after all, half of the territory of Jingnan belongs to Eastern Wu, once the two families have dirty, Jingnan will definitely become a war.

Although the benefits are large, the risks are not small, and Pan Jun himself has fought two battles to defend Lingling.

But once the Han regained the four counties of Jingnan and the four counties of Jingnan were connected, there would be no external pressure.

At that time, will Pang and Huang still watch Pan preside over the work of Jingnan's siltation and land reclamation, and monopolize the interests of Jingnan? !

Anyway, Zhang Xi doesn't believe it, the Pang family and the Huang family will be willing to see the rise of the Pan family, and Zhuge Liang doesn't have to bother with it at that time, these two great families will naturally go to compete with the Pan family.

At that time, what Zhuge Liang will consider is not the question of suppressing the Pan family, but how to balance the power within the three major families and strive for the maximum interests of the court and the government.

(End of chapter)