Chapter 196: Yuan's Double Dragon

This is already a year later, and at this time, Luo Jun and others are reporting to Liu Chong on the work of Yuzhou in 1510.

"Now there are 3.16 million people in Yuzhou, and the walls of Chen County have been expanded twice in a year. The official management system in the jurisdiction has tended to be perfected, with the protection of the gentry of the family and the export of the academy as the two main channels. Since the issuance of the merit order a year ago, a total of 407 people have come to apply, of whom 136 have been enlisted in civilian positions and the rest have enlisted in the army. ”

"The army has been expanded again, and now our army has a total of 36,000 elite soldiers and is trapped in the camp, the white elite soldiers, and the Spartan army. The remaining county soldiers were garrisoned, ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 in each county, and Chen County had 8,000 soldiers stationed in the county. There are 98 counties in Yuzhou, with a total of 101,000 county soldiers. ”

Liu Pet couldn't help frowning, three million people, 150,000 soldiers, but 40,000 of them are still a top ten elite soldiers. Therefore, the common people of this feudal society are bitter, even Yuzhou, which is now known as the richest in the world, Liu Chong feels frightened. But if you don't have so many soldiers, not to mention the invasion of foreign enemies, you can't even maintain local law and order. In addition, Liu Pet has always cracked down on bandits and bandits, and without these county soldiers, how can he do it.

"Fifty-four percent of all the taxes in my Yuzhou come from commercial taxes, including salt taxes, and the tax on land rents is forty percent and five, although my Yuzhou vigorously cultivates ----."

When Luo Jun said this, Liu Pet suddenly slapped his thigh: "Okay, good." The voice was so loud that Luo Jun and the others were startled. Liu Pet couldn't help but say: "Okay, the era of traditional grabbing money from the fields and the people is gone, good, it seems that I encourage industry and commerce, it's not without effect, it's good, it's very good, I'm very satisfied with this." ”

Luo Jun also nodded, now in Yuzhou, there is no longer the voice of everyone who opposed Liu Pet's emphasis on industry and commerce a year ago, because many people have turned their heads and become supporters of Liu Pet's industry and commerce after getting benefits from it.

In short, today's summary, everyone's interest is extremely high, everyone has seen a rich and strong Yuzhou, a strong Yuzhou, and Liu Chong attaches more importance to the war potential of Yuzhou. Because Liu Pet knows better than anyone that war is not something that can be decided by one or two battles, what he fights is the overall strength.

"I want to set up water camps in Rushui and Yingshui, train 10,000 troops, and select soldiers who are familiar with water affairs and water nature for training, what good candidates do you have."

Xun You, as a military advisor, was first stunned, and then surprised: "The lord is going south?" ”

Liu Chong nodded: "Time is running out, who would have thought that Yuan Shu would be so active in Huainan, who would have thought that Liu Shu would be defeated so quickly and Sun Jian would rise so strongly." Now the north and east are not our direction, only the south. Jingzhou guards the Yangtze River of the Han River, and can attack Yangzhou in the east of the Yangtze River, and can attack Tianfu in Yizhou. As long as Jingzhou is firmly controlled, Yuzhou is the vanguard, and it is directed to the Central Plains. ”

People's hearts gradually change with time and career, and the original courtiers will one day become powerful ministers, although Long Wangshu is just an idiom that does not appear, but this shows the greed of people's hearts. Liu Pet is the same, Yuzhou Mu, it is no longer enough to satisfy Liu Pet. If you want to do it, you must be the supreme person in the world.

At this time, most of the Wenchen generals who were attached to Liu Chong's command were also sharpening their knives. As long as they develop outward, they will have the opportunity to go further. It can be said that while Liu Chong's ambition is expanding, the group of people under him also need fame.

As a result, the plan around going south to Jingzhou was quietly spread among Yuzhou. Because of Liu Chong's order, Gan Ning Gan Xingba became the third person to be a general, General Long Yang Zhonglang, set up several water villages on the two inland rivers of Yingshui and Rushui, selected 10,000 soldiers from each army, and formed a water army, and Gan Ning became the general of the water battalion.

Xun You said to Liu Chong: "My lord, General Gan trained the sailors, but it was for the sake of the Han River and the Yangtze River. ”

Liu Pet nodded: "If you want to attack Jingzhou, you can't do it without soldiers who are familiar with water." We all know how Yuan Shu was defeated back then. Moreover, Jingzhou straddles the Yangtze River of the Han River, and there are many rivers in the Jiangnan region, and there is no water division, which is not enough to suppress it. The current Liu Jingsheng is not the Liu Jingsheng in history. ”

Xun You was stunned: "Lord, what historical Liu Jingsheng?" ”

Liu Pet was taken aback and hurried: "Oh, I mean, the current Liu Jingsheng is not the previous Liu Jingsheng." After successfully luring Cai Mao's army to attack Nanyang, Liu Biao has already controlled part of the military power, and now he is reusing Huang Zhong and Huang to shoot Liu Pan and the three, Jingzhou is not easy to take."

Xun You nodded, the current Liu Biao is indeed no longer the puppet at the mercy of others. Xun You raised his head: "Lord, in my opinion, this is also a good thing." Liu Jingsheng's seizure of power, Cai Mao and Kuai Liang must also be extremely nervous, especially Cai Mao, Cai Mao has always been tight about military power, Liu Jingsheng's seizure of military power will only aggravate the split between him and Cai Mao. And Cai Mao in order to resist Liu Jingsheng's seizure of power, Cai Mao was no longer in the army at this time, but let his cronie Zhang Yun control the navy, and Cai Mao himself sat in Xiangyang to fight with Liu Jingsheng, this is our opportunity. ”

Liu Pet: "Yes, your analysis is reasonable, and the information from the shadow is the same as what you said." Liu Biao seized power, but the overall forces of Jingzhou were even more dispersed. It's not that Jingzhou doesn't have generals, but these people don't have a chance. As far as I know, even Huang Zhong and others, who were appointed by Liu Biao, were oppressed a lot in Jingzhou. ”

Then Liu Pet: "One year, one year later, look at me across the boat." ”

"Report, Huainan urgently, Yuan Highway ordered the eldest son to send an envoy to Jizhou, and Liu Ye and Lord Liu of Runan urgently reported to King Chen to deal with it."

Just when Liu Pet was ambitious, T suddenly made an urgent report, which made Xun You Liu Pet shocked. Liu Pet: "Oh no, this Yuan Highway, who is getting more and more incomprehensible, is going to scare the world to death again." ”

Xun You: "Lord, Lord Liu is an understanding person, Yuan Highway ordered the eldest son to send an envoy to Jizhou, this matter seems to be unremarkable, but Lord Liu wants the Lord to deal with it, it can be seen that Lord Liu is thoughtful, Lord Liu, your clan is not simple." ”

Liu Pet glanced at him: "I want you to say that after a year or two, I have honed enough, Liu Ye is my inner decision." ”

Xun You: "Such a young Taishou? ”

Liu Pet: "Young? Chen Qun is not young? Chen Qun is a few years older than Liu Ye. ”

Xun You was speechless, thinking in his heart, Chen Qun is everyone's son. But Xun You doesn't dare to say this kind of thing, Liu Chong has been quietly allocating and reusing the children of non-family families, which is indispensable to restrict the family, hey, it's a pity that Xun You is also a member of the family, otherwise he would have to plan for the lord and make one or two tricks.

In fact, what Xun You doesn't know is that Xun You is needed to make a yin move, a righteous gentleman, Liu Chong has a master of yin tricks, this person is Mr. Jia Xu, who is not visible and does not show the water, and few people know that this person exists.

Shaking his head, Xun Yu returned to the topic.

"Lord, Yuan Highway is even willing to send out his eldest son, it can be seen that his attention and sincerity, if Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao are really reconciled, Yuan Shu and Shuanglong merge, there will be no need to fight in this world, my lord, I can't unite the two Yuan."

Liu Pet didn't know that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, if all the children of the Yuan family of the first family in the world were united, and they didn't have to contribute, they would already be half of the country. Unexpectedly, this Yuan technique has become so serious that Liu Pet can't understand it at all. Hate, if he hadn't made such a fuss in Runan, how could Yuan Shu have become like this.

What the hell did I ask for, Liu Pet thought to himself.

Then Liu Pet was calm again, and said with bad intentions: "I'm afraid, someone is more nervous than us." ”

Xun You was stunned for a moment, and then oh: "The lord is talking about Cao Mengde?" ”

Liu Chong: "It's not him, who else, this time, Cao Mengde can't fight Xuzhou if he wants to, and if he fights Xuzhou, he can break the convergence of Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao, and cut off the connection between the two Yuan with one hand." Suddenly, Liu Pet remembered that Zhang Min, who died unexplained, Ma De, had done another self-inflicted thing. There is no excuse, how can Cao Cao attack Xuzhou, hey.

However, Yang Xiaoxie thought about it again, it should be Cao ** who should be depressed, I am more depressed, what do I care.

That's right, Cao Cao was depressed, and even more depressed than Liu Pet imagined.

With a snap, he put down the wine glass heavily, Cao Cao's small eyes narrowed, and he hated: "It's not easy to recover Zang Ba, Taishan County is finally in my hands, and I want to learn from King Chen's good cultivation for a year or two, this --- Yuan family, the world family is always so aggressive." ”

The blind Xiahoudun with a scar turned a ruthless face: "Meng De, if you don't kill that Yuan child, let him die on the way to the envoy, it is best to die in Jizhou, I don't think Yuan Highway is hot." ”

Cao Cao's face was overjoyed, and then he shook his head again: "Yuan's children go to Jizhou, how can they do it, if this matter is not done well, they will fall into the hands of others, and cause the Yuan brothers to attack, but it is absolutely impossible, this matter is stopped, and you have to think of another way." ”

Xiahoudun again: "If you don't strike first, while they are not completely harmonious, destroy Yuan Shu first, Yuan Shu is known as an army of 200,000, I see a group of rabble, even Cai Mao's kid can beat him to the point of urine, Meng De, you can't compare to Cai Mao's kid." ”

Cao Cao and Cai Mao were friends, and smiled: "Don't underestimate Cai Mao, in the water, two Xiahou Yuan Rang can't do one Cai Degui, Yuan Rang, you are a tiger, Degui is a dragon in the water, don't underestimate the people of the world, your eyes and face, can't you understand, there are so many heroes in the world." ”

Only Cao Cao dared to teach Xiahoudun such a lesson about his scars, and Xiahoudun listened obediently, how amazing.

I saw Cao Cao's eyes narrow, stood up, looked up at the east, and said softly: "Hey, if we can't learn from King Chen's cultivation and wealth, then we can only grab a wealth." ”

The wealth of Xuzhou is also famous all over the world. And Tao Qian, the state pastor, is just one of the honest people that Cao Cao can bully. At this time, Cao Cao was worthy of being a military strategist, and he was already planning to make a move on Xuzhou. It's just that Cao Cao never expected that his Eastern Crusade would successfully lead out a giant dragon and cause him endless trouble.