The three prefectures of Hebei are already in Liu Jian's hands, and the next step is to properly sort out the internal affairs, increase productivity, and make the territory rich.

If you want to unify the entire territory of the Han Dynasty, it is estimated that it will take a while, and during this time, the three states of Ji, Qing, and Youzhou led by Liu Jian are afraid that they will face a lot of wars.

No matter how rich Liu Jian governs Hebei, any war will have a huge impact on people's livelihood, whether it is a powerful family or the common people of Lishu, they will bear a huge burden.

As long as Hebei's economy is still circulating internally, it will be difficult to remove this burden from the people of the Han Dynasty under his jurisdiction.

Since this burden will always exist no matter how it develops, there is only one way to reduce internal pressure.

Shift the burden on.

How to transfer the burden of Hermes-Epitek in China?

Colonize foreign countries, plunder the wealth and resources of other countries, and transfer the burden of their own people to them, so that they can bear the losses in the war for the Han people to the greatest extent.

This is a way to harm others and benefit oneself, but in this world of the jungle, Liu Jian can only do this.

Wolves eat meat, dogs eat, and survival of the fittest is the law of nature.

If you don't take advantage of the fact that these neighbors are still weak chickens, you will scare them to death, and call them like dogs, and they will not appreciate your kindness when they rise up in the future, but they will still bark on your teeth and pretend to be calves with you.

Power comes out of the barrel of a gun, and fists are the last word.

If you want to colonize them, you must first do two things, one is that the productivity and technology must be far stronger than theirs, and the other is that the military power is far stronger than theirs.

As far as these two points are concerned, the Han Dynasty is indeed ahead of the surrounding alien races at present.

In particular, after the endless iron ore mine is greatly developed, the iron smelting industry under Liu Jian's rule will flourish.

Iron in this era is equivalent to oil in oil.

Iron is needed for both people's livelihood and military, and iron has always been a strategic resource that all countries urgently need, but can never be satisfied.

Liu Jian's power is no longer short of iron, which means that his potential will become infinite.

When an army with weapons made of fine iron and more than half of its soldiers in armor stood in front of them, they asked them if they were afraid, and they were all frightened and incontinent.

Including Xianbei.

Not to mention those Buyeo on the border of the Han Dynasty, Ma Han or something.

Although these ethnic groups have a certain cultural foundation, they are too far from the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, Liu Jian also has a magic weapon in his hand that can open the Northeast country.

That's graphite.

Processed graphite is undoubtedly the best heating product.

Like the northeast of the Han Dynasty, such as Lulou and Fuyu, once it is winter, the cold temperature is the biggest test for the survival of the locals.

This difficulty also applies to Samhan.

Even in the current Hebei region, many Li Shu are frozen to death in winter.

When the mass production and processing of graphite in large quantities, it can effectively improve the survival situation in winter.

As a magic weapon for heating in winter, as long as it is coupled with the design of a house with a clay kang style, it can help the people effectively prevent severe cold.

For the people of the Han Dynasty, after the processing of the endless graphite mine, it is natural to have a reasonable selling price for the common people, so that most of the people in the north of the Han Dynasty can spend the cold in winter.

But we can't be too polite to those countries and neighbors outside the borders.

If they want graphite for heating, they need to exchange resources far beyond the value of graphite itself.

This kind of thing is about survival, and as long as you want to live, you can't not want it.

Graphite is only the first step, and with the explosion of productivity and technology in the Han Dynasty, there will be more commodities that they need to exchange for different resources.

Once Pandora's box is opened, it basically can't be closed.

……

Just as Liu Jian was sorting out the situation in Jizhou, Yuan Shao began to drive troops into Shu to assist his brother Yuan Yu in dealing with Liu Yan.

The disobedient forces in the south of Jingzhou were pacified by Sun Jian on behalf of Yuan Shao.

And Yuan Shu's forces were stationed in the east of Yuzhou, and Yuan Shao was divided and governed, and the Yuan brothers were temporarily at peace with each other.

But even though Yuan Shao gave half of the Yuzhou realm to Yuan Shu to govern, Yuan Shu still felt a little dissatisfied after getting these resources.

Since he was young, Yuan Shu has been a person who likes to compare.

When his eldest brother Yuan Ji was there, Yuan Shu didn't dare to compete with his eldest brother, but since Yuan Ji died, Yuan Shu was not afraid of anyone.

In Yuan Shu's view, Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo, and Liu Jian are not enough to compare with themselves.

But now, these people are more powerful than themselves.

I heard that Liu Deran had taken Youzhou and almost unified Hebei, which really made Yuan Shu jealous.

A child of a border county, who used to be a little follower who followed his eldest brother's buttocks, is now in the north, crisscrossing and secluded!?

And although he has the respect of Yangzhou Mu, now he only occupies half of Huaidi and Yuzhou.

Originally, Yuan Shu had thought about taking over the entire territory of Jiangdong, but he never expected that when he pretended to be sick and secretly confronted Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo, who was on the expedition, did not forget to stumble on himself.

Taking advantage of Yuan Shu's illness to the outside world, Dong Zhuo quietly installed many people in Jiangdong.

Among them, there is Yang Ci's protégé Wang Lang.

Due to the differences between the scholar groups in Kansai and Kanto, the Hongnong Yang clan and the Runan Yuan clan have always had their own factions in their political positions, so after Wang Lang arrived in Jiangdong, he would not easily fall to Yuan Shu, and would definitely judge the situation and tend to protect himself.

In addition, Liu Xuan, a member of the Han family, also went to Wu County as the Taishou.

Although Yuan Shu has the backing of the Yuan family, his reputation is really incomparable to Yuan Shao.

Even if Yuan Shao's golden body as a model in the world has been broken, compared with Yuan Shu, he still threw him a few streets.

After all, Yuan Shu's previous reputation was too bad, although he was known as a heroic Ren Jie, but most of his reputation was still based on idleness and not doing business.

Therefore, if he wants to unify Yangzhou, it is indeed more difficult than Yuan Shao.

In particular, although Shouchun and Jiangdong counties are both Yangzhou places, Jiujiang and Luyang are located in the west of the Yangtze River, while Wujun Danyang and other places are in the southeast of the Yangtze River, and in terms of region, there is a certain degree of fragmentation.

After settling in the eastern part of Yuzhou, Yuan Shu's generals Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui and others advised Yuan Shu one after another, wanting to ask Yuan Shu to send troops to Jiangdong and unify the entire territory of Yangzhou in the name of the state pastor.

It was originally a logical strategy, but Yuan Shu did not rush to agree.

Although Jiangdong has a vast area, it does not belong to the economic and political center of the Han Dynasty, and in a sense belongs to the frontier land, and even most of the area is undeveloped wilderness.

As a child of the Yuan family, instead of expanding to the place where the economy was most prosperous and the culture was the most distant in the Han Dynasty, he went east, which is really not Yuan Shu's character.

It can be seen that in terms of the overall strategic situation, Yuan Shu is somewhat lacking, does not know how to change his thinking according to the current situation, and is too stubborn and arrogant.

At the same time, in terms of gaining inches, ordinary people can't compare with him.

God seemed to be deliberate, and just when Yuan Shu was considering the next step in his strategy, an envoy from an "old friend" came to Yuan Shu.

This person is Cao Cao's subordinate, Cheng Yu of Dongjun.

Now Cao Cao has been transferred from Shanyang County in Yanzhou to Dongjun, and under the recommendation of Yuan Shao, he has become the Taishou of Dongjun.

Yuan Shao was very dissatisfied with Liu Dai's unauthorized expansion of strength, so he asked Cao Cao to go to Dongjun to replace Qiao Mao, directly breaking Liu Dai's idea of integrating Yanzhou.

In Yuan Shao's concept, the boundary of Yanzhou is the buffer place for him, Liu Jian, and Dong Zhuo, and it is best for the younger brothers to stick to the front line for him again, and he resolutely does not allow unified forces to appear here.

After Cao Cao was stationed in Dongjun, he did not expect that the Montenegrin army in Taihang would not invade Jizhou now, but would go straight to Yanzhou and cause trouble in the Central Plains.

In fact, the Montenegrin Army has no choice, and now the land of Jizhou and Youzhou is connected, and Liu Jian is very popular in the local area.

The people of the two states all respect Liu Jian and vow to serve him to death.

Especially in these years, the thieves who have been invested in Taihang, and many people have seen that Jizhou has rectified the rule of officials, the people have land to plant, the landlord Haoyou has been suppressed, and the life of self-cultivated farmers can be guaranteed, so they have fled from Montenegro and joined Liu Jian's rule.

Especially now in the Montenegrin army, a tendency to rely on Liu Jian has begun to form a speech.

Especially Chu Yan, who is currently very prestigious in the Montenegrin army, is very optimistic about Liu Jian.

He fought with Zhang Niujiao for three days and two times, so that the Montenegrin army was divided into two factions, one faction was against Zhao'an, and the other faction was in favor of Zhao'an, and the middle and upper echelons of the Montenegrin army were not in agreement, which greatly affected morale.

This is why Chu Yan dared to say this in front of Zhang Niujiao, because his prestige in the Montenegrin army was too high, and he had saved Zhang Niujiao's life on the battlefield, so Zhang Niujiao had no trick against him.

If this is changed to other Qu Shuai who dares to talk nonsense here, Zhang Niujiao will chop it into a thousand petals, and he will not be angry.

In this state, if Montenegro wants to develop its map, it is naturally not good to do it to Jizhou.

As a result, they could only aim at the Central Plains.

So, under the dispatch of Zhang Niujiao, the Montenegrin army united with the prince Luan Ti Yufuluo who escaped from the Xiongnu, and took Yu Poison, Bai Huan, Zheng Gu and others as the main commanders, raised troops to invade the boundaries of Yanzhou, plundered grain and grass, and plundered people and horses.

It was at this moment that Cheng Yu, Cao Cao's newly recruited envoy in Dongjun, came to visit Yuan Shu.

Cheng Yu brought a letter from Cao Cao, and wanted to ask Yuan Shu to raise troops and settle in Yanzhou to help break the Yellow Turban tribes of Montenegro and Yanzhou.

Cao Cao took the initiative to express his sincerity to Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu was naturally a little suspicious, after all, Cao Cao was Yuan Shao's hardcore friend, how could he suddenly fall to himself?

But Cheng Yu gave Yuan Shu a clever explanation.

He told Yuan Shu that the reason why Cao Cao wanted to invite Yuan Shu into Yanzhou was not anything else, he just wanted to save it.

(End of chapter)