Zhang Fei's soldiers and horses seized the property, fields and households of the seven heroes of Hanyang County, and began to use the assets left by these heroes to carry out a semi-reclamation and militarized business model.

The news reached the ears of Ma Teng and Han Sui, and the two of them were stunned for a moment.

"Zhang Fei is not in a hurry to fight with us, but instead seizes the local powerful fields and butchers, and starts farming and raising soldiers locally, what is he going to do? Could it be that he also wants to be a local hero in Liangzhou? ”

After listening to Ma Teng's words, Han Sui thought about it seriously for a while, and then said: "When you say this, I really reacted a little, Zhang Fei seems to be a bit like a local hero now." ”

"It's just that he wants to rely on this way to raise troops in Liangzhou for a long time, but I'm afraid it's unrealistic."

"Liangzhou is a vast and sparsely populated area, and he has more than 25,000 soldiers and horses under his command, if he does not rely on looting, it may be difficult to raise troops by just farming in Hanyang County."

"The registered population of the entire Liangzhou is only a few hundred thousand people, which may not be as much as a county in the Han Dynasty."

"Zhang Fei wants to raise soldiers in a place in Hanyang County with a few powerful fields, isn't he crazy?"

Ma Teng stroked his beard, and then said: "What you said is indeed reasonable, but you and I still know the situation in Liangzhou." ”

"On the surface, the registered population is only half a million."

"But the actual number of people in Liangzhou is far more than that."

"First of all, let's not talk about the hidden apprentice population of Liangzhou's local heroes."

"Speaking of the Qiang people in Liangzhou alone, there are not many people in the household registration book of the Han Dynasty."

When Han Han arrived here, he couldn't help laughing: "Shoucheng, you can really worry about that Zhang Fei." ”

"The Qiang people have always been at odds with the Han Dynasty, and many generations of kings have tried to submit to the Qiang people, but they have not been able to achieve their wishes."

"He Zhang Fei wants to represent the Han Dynasty to conquer the people of the Qiang people and serve them, which is simply a fool's dream."

"Don't say anything else, just talking about the prestige of the two of us among the Qiang tribe is far better than that Zhang Fei."

"No matter how high Zhang Fei's prestige in Bingzhou and Youzhou is in the past, don't think about recovering these Qiang people in Liangzhou."

"Also, many of these Qiang people are very disgusted with the imperial court, if Zhang Fei subdues them on behalf of the imperial court, I am afraid that before they can open their mouths, as soon as they hear that it is a person from the imperial court, this anger will come out in their hearts."

"Over the years, hasn't the imperial court expropriated and suppressed the Qiang people enough?"

When he said this, Han Sui's face couldn't help but show a smug look, and then he laughed.

Ma Teng also nodded in agreement, but he still seemed to be a little hesitant.

"Wenyue, my subordinates have recently inquired about the decrees of the imperial court, and I heard that the imperial court seems to have a special control method for the Liangzhou Production and Construction Corps led by Zhang Fei."

"Oh?" When Han Sui heard this, he seemed to be interested.

"What special control methods does the imperial court have over Zhang Fei's side?"

Ma Teng said: "I heard that the imperial court sent Liu Biao to do the Liangzhou Assassin History, and sent Zhang Ji to be the Hanyang Taishou, but Zhang Fei seems to be independent of them, he has independent management rights, and the Liangzhou Assassin History Department and the local county office are acting separately. ”

"That is to say, what Zhang Fei is doing now does not actually represent the imperial court, but belongs to his personal will, will you say that this point will hinder us?"

When Han Sui heard this, he seemed to have reacted to something.

Shou Cheng meant that if Zhang Fei went to recruit the Qiang people now, he would actually solicit them by his personal will and behavior, and would not be subject to the will of the imperial court...... In other words, if the Qiang people are friendly with him, it is not equivalent to taking refuge in the imperial court, is it? ”

Ma Teng then nodded and said, "That's right, I wonder if this matter will have any impact on us?" ”

Han Sui couldn't figure out the key to this for a while, and said: "Don't care, let's brake quietly first, and see what means Zhang Fei and Liu Biao can use." ”

……

Zhang Fei began to let the Liangzhou Production and Construction Corps live a life of farming, half-farming and half-tuning.

Liu Biao's side also began to carry out tuntian in Hanyang County, and Chang'an was not idle, Guanzhong had a good harvest last year, so it was able to provide Zhang Fei with a supply of grain and grass, and the military salary and grain and grass consumed by the 20,000 soldiers were not too much, plus Zhang Fei was also able to farm locally, and the burden on the court was much lighter.

Liu Jian didn't put all his focus on Liangzhou now, he handed over Liangzhou to Zhang Fei and Liu Biao, and for what the two of them wanted, Liu Jian tried his best to satisfy.

All he has to do now is to continue to cultivate in the Han Dynasty.

The development of the Central Plains, Guanzhong and Sanhe is related to the future of the Han Dynasty, as long as they can all be developed to a certain extent and connected to Hebei, then the entire Northern Border will become a prosperous scene.

The realization of the idea of the Han Dynasty standing on top of the world is no longer a dream, but a reality.

After Liu Ya became the assassin of Yanzhou, coupled with the cooperation of Liu Ye and Dong Zhao in Dongjun, the land of Dongjun was quickly on the right track.

The Central Plains and Hebei are only separated by the Yellow River, in fact, there is not much difference in distance, so it is not difficult for Hebei's emerging water conservancy technology to be transplanted to the Central Plains quickly and large-scale.

As a result, Hebei began to provide all-round assistance to Henan.

First of all, the rice seeds in Hebei and their keel waterwheels and other things began to be imitated and placed in various fields in Henan, and the system was completely copied to Henan, so that Henan's productivity could be restored as quickly as possible.

After Zhao Yun exterminated most of the thieves in Henan, coupled with the cooperation of Liu Ya and the Eight Kitchen Group, Dong Zhao, Liu Ye and others, the political situation in Yanzhou gradually stabilized.

After the Eight Kitchen Group handed over the resources in their hands, Liu Jian also took Henan as the main area, established various post stations, and dredged the main roads, opening up the main passages from north to south and east to west.

After all, the geographical location of Yanzhou is very important, following the transit of Xuzhou and Guanzhong in Hebei, the more stable the Central Plains is, the more prosperous the material trade in various places will become.

Especially in Hebei in recent years, although there are tea, white porcelain, furniture, ironware, coal and a variety of new items in the world, but because of the frequent wars in Henan, the road is impassable, and there are many bandits, only relying on the transfer station provided by the Eight Kitchen Group can not make Hebei's commerce and trade reach a prosperous state.

But now Liu Jian began to rectify Yanzhou from the fundamental problem, solved the bandits, restored public security in Henan, and made Henan begin to develop in a prosperous direction, so that the business and trade exchanges between various places became smoother and smoother.

In addition, the war in the north has been raging for many years, and now it has accumulated steadily, and with the unification of the north, it has finally begun to show a prosperous state.

In particular, commercial trade is flourishing.

Now Hebei and Xuzhou more and more ports are being built, and there are more and more sea ships, coupled with the encouragement of the shipping policy, the Han Dynasty's shipping and shipping trade routes have been pushed to a certain extent, especially the materials of Xuzhou and Hebei want to be transferred to the north of Hanzhou, and the exchange of trade with small northern countries has been fully realized by sea.

However, the Central Plains has not been able to benefit from this.

After all, although the Central Plains is close to the Yellow River, the Yellow River waterway transportation was not very convenient in ancient times.

From below the estuary, the river runs through the mountains and gorges, the boat is very difficult, many rivers have many twists and turns and the water flow is rapid, even if the weather is clear and windless, it is necessary to use the oars and rudder to ensure the power of navigation and the turning direction of the boat.

It is especially dangerous if there is a strong wind on the way, because there is no place to stop the boat between the steep cliffs on both sides. Spring is the shallow water period, the reef is bare or shallow underwater, and it is necessary to be extra careful to hit the reef, and the difficulties encountered by the boat against the water are even greater, because in addition to these difficulties, it is necessary to overcome the huge downdraft of the turbulent current.

However, in fact, the scarcity of water transport links in the Hetao does not mean that the water transport value of other sections of the middle reaches of the Yellow River is missing.

According to the investigation of Liu Jian's subordinates, the Yellow River can be navigated from the upper county down.

However, when the journey is reached, the goods must be unloaded from the ground, transported by cattle, about ten miles, and then loaded onto the ship.

Empty ships go around the arc-shaped river channel dug by hand, because the water flow is turbulent, the boat cannot go straight down, and the load is easy to cause danger, so it must be unloaded first.

Another such as Luoyang, if there is a tailwind, about four or five days can reach Tongguan, about 300 miles.

It can be seen that the water transportation of the Yellow River below the estuary, although it is quite difficult, can still be used as an important material exchange channel between the Guanzhong area.

However, this needs to be manually modified.

There are many tributaries in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and the larger ones are more than ten, however, due to the division and restriction of the amount of water, especially the thousands of ravines and ravines on the Loess Plateau, there are not many that can engage in long-distance shipping.

Judging from the investigation, only Fenshui in Bingzhou, Weishui in Guanzhong, and its tributaries Beiluoshui and Jingshui in Weishui have a certain degree of convenient shipping for Fenshui, and its main stream is about 1,400 miles long, passing through more than 30 counties in the middle.

However, in terms of the current productivity and development power, it is still quite difficult to open up all the sections suitable for water transportation into waterways with the current technology, and it will cost huge material, financial and manpower resources, which is not cost-effective for the current Han government.

After careful consideration, Liu Jian decided to lead to Luoyang in Guanzhong, and then to the main counties and counties in Yanzhou from Luoyang, set up several short-distance water transportation routes according to manpower, and opened commerce, built reasonable transport ships, and appropriately built artificial rivers.

In addition, the waterway from Yanzhou to Xuzhou is also opened as much as possible, showing phased transportation, so that even if long-distance transportation is not possible, short-distance waterway transportation is feasible, and long-distance transportation can also allow long-distance transportation in the middle of the waterway transfer station for goods to and fro.

As for the matter of reclaiming all the rivers into shipping routes, or using artificial construction of huge ditches to make navigation smooth, Liu Jian decided not to do it for the time being.

In fact, in terms of Hebei's current strength, it is not impossible if all the Wuhuan, Xiongnu, and Xianbei conscripts in the north are requisitioned to the Yellow River to reclaim huge ditches and open up channels, and to build canals that can benefit thousands of years, but the manpower, material and financial resources to be used in this process are too great.

If the people in the Han Dynasty lived a stable life, and the northern aliens had been completely assimilated, and things were going well, there would still be operations in this matter, but at this stage, all things have not yet reached perfection, and if they act like this suddenly, there will be a subversive disaster.

When the time comes, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao in the south will take advantage of the situation, which is not a good thing for Liu Jian.

Liu Jian knew in his heart that it was impossible for his generation to finish everything.

Appropriately rectifying and transporting road sections, opening up commerce and trade, encouraging business in the north and south, and setting up more secondary post stations at the same time, so that goods from the north and south can be turned around in the middle of the road, this is what Liu Jian is currently trying to do.

On the Qingzhou side, Zuo Bo submitted a feudal proposal to Liu Jian, hoping to ...... bookstores in various places In particular, the construction of important places such as Chang'an and Luoyang has enabled the printing industry to generally fall in the whole country, so that there will be no imbalance in cultural orientation.

Nowadays, Qingzhou's bookstore and printing industry have developed very rapidly, and Liu Jian no longer restricts the development of ancient scriptures and other schools.

The whole world can be said to be a hundred schools of thought, and all schools of thought are shining.

In various places, the printing industry of Daxing Book Company has become a matter of course.

As a result, Liu Jian set up the Cultural Administration, and Zuo Bo became the ruling officer.

These things, as well as the development of printing, the development of papermaking, and the development of many cultural undertakings, Liu Jian handed over to Zuo Bo, who believes that Zuo Bo also has this ability.

In terms of publishing content orientation, Liu Jian has many college deans under him who can check it, but at the technical level, no one can compare with Zuo Bo.

In the past two years, the entire Han Dynasty has indeed entered a state of affairs of accumulation, the people are stable, various industries have begun to flourish, and the Xianbei and Xiongnu aliens, because there are more and more projects in the Han Dynasty, so a large number of conscripts have been requisitioned from them in the Han Dynasty, which also makes the process of integration between the Han Dynasty and them even faster.

Although local governments have spent a lot on development in the past two years, with the deepening of reforms, the people have gradually stabilized, and the benefits will be greater and larger.

And in the long run, Liu Jian believes that in a few years, the Han government will receive huge returns.

And it was at this time that Liu Biao and Zhang Fei's actions in Liangzhou spread to Chang'an, and Liu Jian learned about their current situation in Liangzhou.

There was no doubt that both of them had settled down.

The next step is to continue to develop.

However, in Liangzhou, although Zhang Fei and his team have left the novice village, they still need an opportunity to continue to develop, especially a strong middleman.

In response to this matter, Liu Jian personally went to the Taifu Mansion to visit Dong Zhuo.

Dong Zhuo had a very high prestige among the Qiang people when he was young, and later he conquered in Liangzhou and traveled in the Western Regions all the year round, so it can be said that his position in the hearts of Liangzhou people is not an ordinary person can be replaced.

Therefore, Liu Jian hoped that Dong Zhuo could find a way to come forward and act as an intermediary to let Zhang Fei form a friendly relationship with the local Qiang people.

Dong Zhuo is now living a down-to-earth life in his old age because of Liu Jian's relationship.

After listening to Liu Jian's request, Dong Zhuo immediately said that this was not a problem, but the Qiang people were also divided into many factions, and he Dong Zhuo did not know him in every faction, so he could only try his best to mediate among them and help Zhang Fei to make contacts.

(End of chapter)