With the return of Pang Tong's envoy to Jiangdong, the battle of Jingnan was completely over.

This war is over, but it doesn't mean that Jingnan is safe This peace discussion, the focus is only on the belonging of Jiangxia, and for the four counties of Jingnan, it is not mentioned.

That is to say, the two sides only ceased war near Jiangxia, and at the same time had a dispute about the ownership of Jiangxia, and did not say that he didn't want Jingnan Sun Quan.

Therefore, the precautions that should be done should still be done.

Zhang Xi naturally wanted to go back to Jiangling to guard the town, but among the 30,000 soldiers in Changsha, Zhang Xi did not think about bringing them back to Jiangling.

Jiangling has 15,000 soldiers and Wenqin who were withdrawn before, and the county soldiers who retreated from Biqiu Jian are enough to defend.

Therefore, Zhang Xi began to divide troops from Changsha County, and sent 5,000 additional reinforcements to the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang, and Wuling, while the remaining 15,000 soldiers continued to stay in Changsha to guard.

After the deployment of troops, the next step is to start arranging the candidates for the Taishou of the four counties.

Needless to say, Lingling County must be Pan Jun, which is something that was promised earlier.

Wuling County Taishou doesn't need to think about it, in the past, Li Qiu served as the county Sima, but now he can directly straighten it out.

And Changsha County is too important, so it is not set up too much, but let Shi Bao sit in Changsha as the governor of Jingnan, the military governor of the four counties of Jingnan, and by the way, act as the government affairs of Changsha.

Guiyang County, Zhang Xi didn't care, this matter was handed over to Pang Tong This was part of the original deal between Pang Tong and the Jingzhou family, and a position of Taishou would be given to the children of the Jingzhou family in exchange for the support of the Jingzhou family for the southern expedition of the Han Dynasty.

In the end, it was Kuai Qi of the Kuai family who served as the Taishou of Guiyang.

Speaking of which, this Kuaiqi. It's Zhuge Liang's brother-in-law.

However, most of the clansmen of the Kuai clan followed Cao Cao to the north during the Battle of Chibi, and later went to Yecheng.

Now the Han Dynasty has made several northern expeditions and captured the tribe of Heluo Kuaiqi, so he suddenly appeared in Hedong County, and went all the way south, and returned to Xiangyang after Zhuge Liang's response.

There is no need to worry about what the reason is, it is just the routine operation of the family in these years.

Although most of the Kuai clan went to the north and only left a part of the branch clansmen in Jingxiang, the Kuai clan is deeply rooted in Jingzhou, and this part of the clan can still maintain the status of the four major families of Jingxiang, not to mention after Kuai Qi returned to Jingxiang.

Coupled with Kuai Qi's personal relationship with Zhuge Liang and his friendship with Pang Zi, it was not surprising that he came to serve as the Taishou of Guiyang.

And Guiyang is a place for it. If you look at it from the current perspective, this place is okay, and it has nothing to do with backward areas in the area from southern Hunan to northern Guangdong.

But in this era, this place is a standard poor place with many mountains, more water, few fields, and no roads. It is commonly known as "poor mountains and bad waters".

This place is handed over to the Jingzhou family to manage, and Zhang Xi has no opinion at all anyway.

It couldn't have been any worse anyway.

With the completion of the selection arrangements for the four counties of Jingnan, and the military affairs of the governor of Jingnan, Zhang Xi can finally feel a little more at ease.

The next step is to let these four counties resume production as soon as possible, and at the same time restore the number of county soldiers and the defense of each county.

Jiang Wei, Wen Qin, Biqiu Jian and the Southern Army of the Han Dynasty have also withdrawn to Jiangling City, and will assist in the defense of Jiangling City for a period of time, and after the Jiangling Navy Army returns to the defense, they will set off north and return to Chang'an.

This time, Jiang Wei fought well in Jingnan, defeated Lu Dai in the first battle, and gained a lot of fame.

Biqiu Jian and Wen Qin fought smoothly in the north of Jiangxia, and Biqiu Jian even captured Jiangxia County and Xiling County for a time, and finally under Zhang Xi's order, the two of them withdrew from Jiangxia, and they also had a lot of military achievements.

Therefore, after going back this time, the three of them will inevitably be added to the ranks, as for whether to guard Chang'an or continue to be sent out to fight, it depends on Liu Chan's meaning.

Pang Tong also left, and accompanied Bu Qi to Chang'an to discuss the ownership of Jiangxia.

On this issue, Pang Tong was inclined to agree to the demands of the Soochow side. Pang Tong has changed his mind now, he feels that before the navy is completely mature, the southern expedition is not very sure, it is better to use a Jiangxia to stabilize the Eastern Wu in the south, and concentrate the forces to deal with Cao Wei first.

Therefore, Pang Tong first returned to Jiangling and persuaded Zhang Xi, and then sent a letter to Zhuge Liang, persuading Zhuge Liang to agree that as long as the two agreed, then the next thing would be easy to operate.

As for Zhang Xi, after returning to Jiangling, he did not rush to gather his troops, but promoted Zhou Tai to Sima of Jingzhou, and asked him to lead his troops to continue to watch the Wulin Road crossing and guard against Jiangxia's Eastern Wu army.

Although it is said that Soochow should not default when the peace agreement is just decided, it is always good to be on guard.

Then, Zhang Xi began to discuss with Wang Ji how to quickly restore the livelihood of Jingnan.

The biggest problem in Jingnan now is not the problem of land, but the problem of population. After several political power exchanges, the number of people in Jingnan has decreased sharply, and it is no longer the Jingnan after the Chibi War.

Especially during the period when Dongwu controlled Jingnan, most of the cultivated land, including the transformation of cultivated land, was in the hands of the family families of Dongwu, and the people who did not have enough arable land had to become the hermits of the Dongwu family, and with the use of troops in Jingnan, when these families withdrew from Jingnan, they also moved these hermitages. There really aren't many people left in Jingnan.

According to the preliminary data provided by the four counties, there are only more than 27,000 households in the four counties of Jingnan, with a total of no more than 120,000 people.

Of course, the number of Dingkou in this must be discounted on the side of Lingling County. In the final analysis, Pan Jun is still the spokesperson of the family, and with a promise in advance, Zhang Xi is not good to turn his face now.

But in the other three counties, Dingkou is basically true Li Qiu, Shi Bao is impossible to make a purpose for the Jingzhou family, and Guiyang County, where Kuai Qi is located, is really not anyone, and the life of the people in that place is really miserable, and even the big families are not uncommon to engage in any hidden households in that place.

It's too difficult to resume production in the short term.

For this reason, Zhang Xi and Wang Ji summed it up, on the one hand, they played the imperial court, hoping that the imperial court would come forward and migrate a part of Dingkou to Jingzhou.

But the problem is that Jingnan is already close to Jiaozhou, and in the territory of the Han Dynasty, this side can also be regarded as a place of southern obstacle, and generally the people in these places are eager to migrate to other places, and no one is willing to migrate to this kind of place from the north.

So let's do this, Zhang Xi estimates that the role that the imperial court can play is at most to exile some prisoners' family members to come to the real side, and the effect that can be really not great.

At the end of the day, you have to find a way from the locals.

For example, families and interracials.

Starting from the family, Zhang Xi hopes that the family can release a part of the hidden households to enrich the Dingkou of the four counties of Jingnan, of course, in return, a part of the cultivated land near Dongting Lake in Changsha County, he Zhang Xi is not unable to take out more and give back to these families.

As for the alien Zhang Xi, in fact, the difference between Wuxi Man and the Han people is really not very big.

Especially the difference with the Han people.

There is almost no difference between the two sides in terms of appearance, the difference is only in the lifestyle and living habits.

Moreover, Wuxi Man is not a foreign race based on fishing and hunting, some of their tribes also maintain a certain farming habit, after all, they live in the mountains, if they don't have some farming skills, just rely on fishing and hunting, I'm afraid it will be difficult to ensure the life of the group.

Therefore, Zhang Xi felt that it was not impossible to induce these Wuxi barbarians to go out of the mountains to cultivate and educate them to become the people of the Han Dynasty.

But the biggest problem here is probably the trust of the Wuxi barbarians in Han officials, as well as the friction caused by the different lifestyles, living habits, and beliefs of the Wuxi barbarians and the Han people.

And to solve this problem. It has been realized.

That is to inherit the fetters system inherited from the Qin and Han dynasties, that is, to set aside a place in Jingnan for this group of Wuxi barbarians to live, appoint the leaders of the Wuxi barbarians as officials, and use barbarians to govern the barbarians.

This method, at least in this era, or for more than a thousand years after that, was considered a relatively effective practice.

But this practice is not without its disadvantages in the Tusi system of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it is an extension of this system, but in the end it also led to the growth of local Tusi, and rebellion from time to time, until the Qing Dynasty after the "change of land and return to the stream", it can be regarded as a reluctant elimination of this hidden danger.

Especially in dynasties where centralization is not particularly effective, this kind of border fetters system is actually quite risky.

To be honest, Zhang Xi really wants to do it in one step and directly eliminate all hidden dangers. But reality is reality, in this situation where productivity is low, the people's wisdom has not been developed, and the clansmen have a serious dependence on the means of production of the chief, the set that Zhang Xi wants to do is not feasible at all.

In the end, we still have to return to the most traditional fetters system, even if it is better, it is just another toast system.

Really, a system that is suitable is more important than the so-called advanced.

(End of chapter)