For Liu Bei, the country's territory is never too much, and it doesn't matter if it's easy to use or not.

It's like the piece of Yunmengze in Jiangnan, with the current technology, it is indeed difficult to develop, but can he think that Yunmengze is not Hantu?

There is more land that is difficult to use, but who knows that in the future, with the development of human science and technology, the land that could not be used in the past will suddenly be usable, and this kind of thing will not happen?

In other words, it is not impossible that deposits of precious metals and other minerals are suddenly discovered underground, and the waste soil directly becomes precious earth.

So Liu Bei thought that it was indeed too big for a Youzhou to dominate so much territory, so it was necessary to set up another state, make a strong claim since ancient times, and erect a few more monuments, so that no matter what happens in the future, future generations will have a historical basis for what they say.

Then Liu Bei waited for the good news from Liaodong.

After more than a month of hard work, the good news of Liaodong came, and Zhao Zhao and others relied on a strong army to sweep away Dongyi, and swept away the countries and tribes in Liaodong, Goguryeo, Buyeo, and Sanhan, all of which were all solved by them.

Then, according to the traditional rules, all the ruling class was cut off, all the imprints of civilization were erased, and the indelible ones were burned away, leaving only the low-level people who could not read.

Such low-level people captured more than 700,000 people, and gold, silver, copper, pearls, jade and other property also captured the scale of several mountains, and the number of them directly caught up with Liu Bei's Youzhou Pacification War.

At present, the land of Liaodong is completely pacified, and there are no more foreign enemies, whether it is a country or a small tribe, they have been eliminated, and there is also a battalion of troops who are following Liu Bei's instructions to march eastward, looking for the border of the mainland and the sea.

It's just that there has been no news of finding the ocean yet, and I don't know how far the mainland border is from Liaodong.

When the news came back, Liu Bei was overjoyed, and immediately announced the news to go out and have fun with the people, and then the Zhao Military Department gave the soldiers participating in the war meritorious service and rewards, and promoted the titles, increased the number of food, and promoted the military ranks to the main generals such as Zhaozhao, Pang De, and Xiahou Yuan, and gave them sufficient rewards.

Subsequently, Liu Bei began to plan the future pattern of Liaodong.

After the meeting of the military headquarters, Liu Bei convened a general meeting of the imperial court and announced his ideas at the meeting.

He planned to count the existing three counties of Liaodong, plus the old places of Buyeo, Goguryeo, Dongwofu, and Sanhan, and count all the lands developed by the Han army after this war, unify them, and set up a new state, named Liaozhou.

Then, the establishment of the four counties of Han was restored on the original land, and then the scale was expanded.

The existing Xuansu County and Lelang County were expanded in scale, and the two counties of Lintun County and Jinban County were re-established, and a large area of land belonging to Goguryeo and Buyeo to the east of Liaodong County and north of the Korean Peninsula including the Tumen River was included and divided into four parts.

Xuansu County and Lelang County are in the north, and Lintun Army and Zhenfan County are in the south.

In this way, Liaozhou is set up in five counties: Liaodong County, Xuansu County, Lelang County, Zhenfan County, and Lintun County.

However, this is only the scope of Liaozhou for the time being, and if the sea can be found in the future, the scale of Liaozhou can continue to extend eastward until the coast of the sea, and then set up several other counties to govern those lands that are not yet inhabited.

"Even if the territory of the Han cannot cross the sea, it must reach the shore of the sea! Everywhere the mainland reaches is the territory of the Han Dynasty! ”

Liu Bei said at the meeting.

His idea was supported by the ministers of Luoyang, of course, there was no need for them to oppose it, anyway, in these matters, Liu Bei could always make a decision.

In a series of discussions that followed, Liu Bei advocated that the more than 700,000 prisoners of war captured should be kept in Liaozhou.

Although he originally had the idea of sending those people to Jiaozhou, but considering the long distance and the initial establishment of Liaozhou, a large number of people were also needed, and now he finally got more than 700,000 people, and if he didn't leave them in Liaozhou, he would have to move the population from the Central Plains.

In any case, their ruling group has been collectively destroyed, and they have become a group of people without civilization and memory, and such a group of people is the best existence to be included in the rule of the empire.

To rule them, you don't even need a history book of the ages.

For Liu Bei's suggestion, the cabinet ministers led by Chen Qun expressed their support, and then some other people from the imperial court departments also expressed their support, and only a small number of people still hoped to send some people directly from Liaodong to Jiaozhou to help reclaim wasteland, but such voices were quickly drowned out.

Liaozhou also needs a population, needs people to reclaim the land, and strives for self-sufficiency, and can't expect the whole world to rely on the transfer payment of the imperial court to maintain its existence, right?

After a meeting, the discussion on the initial establishment of Liaozhou was passed, and in addition to the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, the fourteenth state appeared.

The establishment of Liaozhou is actually in line with the times, and the road of overseas exploration and colonization is not easy to take, so Liu Bei hopes to give the domestic people a little more living space reserves, and give them a little more incremental space in the future, so that they can live a better life for a longer time and not fall into the stock competition so early.

Although the larger the land area, the better, but the more valuable land, it is better to have a little more.

The news of the seizure and establishment of Liaozhou brought some joy to the people of the Third Reich, but there was not much joy, mainly this kind of thing was not a strange thing in the eyes of the people of the empire, after all, under the leadership of Liu Bei, it was a strange thing that they lost the battle, and it was not strange to win the battle at all.

Regarding the establishment of Liaozhou and a series of personnel matching, Liu Bei thought about it for a long time, selected suitable candidates from his own talent pool, and consulted with officials from the DPRK and China, and finally selected the first leadership group of Liaozhou, and then matched the leadership team for the first five counties of Liaozhou.

He decided to send Chen Qun, an important secretary around him, to take up the position of Liaozhou's assassin history, and another important subordinate Yang Xiu was sent by him to take up the position of Liaodong county guard, so that they could go to Liaodong to cooperate, go to the most difficult place from scratch to lay the foundation for Liaozhou of the Han Dynasty, engage in construction, and dedicate their youth and blood.

For this appointment, Chen Qun and Yang Xiu were a little surprised.

Everyone knows that being an official next to a strong emperor is the most conducive to promotion, and the infrastructure of the Han Dynasty is also the best in Luoyang, the most prosperous in Luoyang, and being an official in Luoyang is something that many people dream of.

It's too remote.

However, for this matter, Chen Qun and Yang Xiu still accepted it calmly, and after following Liu Bei for so long, these two people knew better than anyone that the premise for Liu Bei to reuse a person was to throw him away in a remote and difficult place, watch him make real achievements, and then give him more important responsibilities.

What's more, this time Liu Bei made a generous move, a state assassinated a county Taishou, the position is quite enough, and the power is enough, for the two people who have not held positions in the local area, it is a complete exception - their positions in the cabinet, one thousand stones, one eight hundred stones.

Therefore, Chen Qun and Yang Xiu realized that this level is the level where Liu Bei will further reuse them in the future, and after this level is passed, they will be able to get Liu Bei's further reuse, and if they can't pass this level, then don't say anything, they can return to the cabinet as cabinet members, and if they are unlucky, they don't know where to be thrown away.

Liaozhou, a bitterly cold state that has just been established and has nothing, is really a big test for them.

However, it is precisely because it is a state that is poor and has nothing, pure as a blank piece of paper, it is relatively easy to do, and there is no mess, and some strategies that have worked in other places can be used directly, and there will be no constraints.

For example, in these places, there is only the difficulty of organizing collective farms and carrying out infrastructure and water conservancy projects on a large scale, and there is only a time difficulty, not a political difficulty; compared with the development path of Jiaozhou, which is mixed with many political factors, the development path of Liaozhou may be more slower.

At the end of May, Chen Qun and Yang Xiu, as well as a large number of officials and officials who had been given the mission by the Ministry of Officials, went to Liaozhou one after another, and they needed to arrive in Liaozhou as quickly as possible to rule and take over the governance of Liaozhou from the army.

At the same time, there were also large quantities of materials transferred to Liaozhou through various channels, from Youzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou, the imperial court allocated funds to purchase materials from the local area, as the starting materials for the construction of Liaozhou and transported to Liaozhou.

At this point, neither the imperial court nor Liu Bei will lag behind, and if the imperial court does not have enough funds, Liu Bei will enable Shaofu to invest.

The affairs of Liaozhou are going on for the time being, and Liu Bei is still paying attention to the first voyage of Rinan County.

After more than half a year of preparation and the piling up of a large number of materials, Yangzhou Shipyard has made 47 new sea ships, and 15 have been handed over to Rinan County, and Rinan County has also organized relevant teams and manpower to prepare to go to the "Great Qin State".

This first voyage was of an official nature, which Liu Bei paid special attention to, and the leader was not a bystander, but Gan Ning, who was known as the general in the army.

Originally, Liu Bei was thinking about who to arrange to be the leader of this first voyage, but Gan Ning volunteered to be the leader of this time, saying that he was willing to be the leader of this time, and take a part of the army soldiers to join the voyage operation, while protecting the ship, he could also carry out political and military tasks.

He said that he likes to explore the unknown and does not like to stay in the same place for a long time, and after communicating with those foreign merchants in Rinan County, he has developed a strong interest in those foreign countries, and he wants to go with them to see what the outside world is like, hoping that Liu Bei can allow him to lead the team to the sea.

Liu Bei thought about it and felt that it was quite appropriate, so he appointed Gan Ning as the leader of this first great voyage, appointed him as the "general of the expedition", hoping that he could conquer the sea, and then allowed him to lead a thousand soldiers to join the sailing queue.

In addition, there are more than 500 sailors, dozens of officials, guides, translators, etc., and fifteen large ships will also carry a large number of Shu brocade, silk fabrics, porcelain, lacquerware, woodcut crafts, ironware, etc., which will pass through many countries along the way, and finally arrive at the legendary Great Qin State, that is, the Roman Empire.

Because it was the first voyage, this voyage was mainly to follow the fleet of two foreign merchants with seafaring experience, and follow them to follow their familiar routes, which would be relatively safer.

Gan Ning is not only fierce, but also literary, so Liu Bei instructed him to leave a written account of the local place whenever he goes, and it is best to give some descriptions of the local customs, products and political conditions, so as to be able to have a basic view of the current world and open the horizons of the Chinese people.

And Gan Ning also has some secret tasks, such as judging the military strength of the countries they pass through along the way, as long as their military strength is determined, Liu Bei can judge how much force is needed to establish the overseas ports and colonies of the Han Empire, and carry out further exploration and colonization actions.

For them, it was an adventure, and for Liu Bei, it was the first step towards a new world, the first attempt at the Han Empire's outward-looking strategy.

It would be best if there were some benefits, but the greatest benefits would be important military, political, and economic intelligence.

Ganning is a smart man, he will know what to do.

The matter of the Great Voyage came to an end, the development of Jiaozhou was also steadily advancing, and the construction of Liaozhou was also steadily advancing, and even the whole world, and all localities maintained the most basic stability.

Therefore, after June of the third year of Zhenguan, the Luoyang court was busy and entered a stable period, and Liu Bei, as the controller of the supreme imperial power, felt that his pressure was not so great.

This is the feeling he only felt when he was in Liangzhou.

It is still that situation, the development of the Han Empire is limited, the development brought about by transportation capacity and production capacity is limited, there are so many things that can be done every day, the court issues an order, and the local government needs time to execute, and it takes time to see the effect if it is implemented.

Therefore, some things that seem to be complicated, as long as the initial things are arranged, the things to be done are assigned, and the tasks are issued, and then someone is sent to keep an eye on the supervision, and then wait for the results produced after the implementation of the things.

This is a relatively long time, although Liu Bei wants to do a lot of things, but manpower is limited, the speed of traffic is also limited, and the output of land is also limited, he must wait, he can't push out everything he wants to do, he always has to give everyone a little respite.

He had to wait.

(End of chapter)