Cao Cao knows very well in his heart that Liu Bei is now General Zuo, and he has won the task of breaking through the puppet capital, and the momentum of the limelight is really very tricky.

Front, back, left and right, and then up, there is only the big huss guard.

The general is Yuan Shao, the hussar general is temporarily empty, and the chariot general is Cao Cao himself,

Although General Wei was also vacant, this post was nominally given to the central general in charge of the Northern Army, and the Han Dynasty never gave a precedent to the general of Wei from other towns, but the hussars and chariots were in charge of the conquest. Moreover, there is not much difference between General Wei's status and the left and right, and it is not enough to reward the merit of breaking the pseudo-capital.

If he gave Liu Bei the promotion of general Wei, Liu Bei would definitely say that he was sick and would not come to Xu Du, and he would still only accept this position from afar, and there were 10,000 ways to remain obedient and resign on the surface, but in fact, it would damage the majesty of the imperial court.

After thinking about it, Cao Cao decided to press it for the time being, and walked in two steps:

Liu Bei's letter to him, asking for instructions on military strategy issues, whether it is necessary for the Yangzhou army to cross the border to pursue into the territory of Yuzhou, this part can be replied in the name of Sikong Mansion / Che Cai General's Mansion, which can be regarded as "the general will not be subject to the orders of the foreign monarch".

As for the issue of promoting Liu Bei himself and the generals in his camp, this is not an urgent military matter that requires "the general to be disqualified from the orders of foreign monarchs", so Cao Cao will write in the first reply that he will forward these issues to Xu Du, and Xun Yu will submit them to the Son of Heaven before driving, and they should be discussed by non-human ministers.

In this way, from Ruyin to Xudu again and again, plus queuing up to discuss the court, it will drag on for at least more than a month.

What Cao Cao thought was to take advantage of the time difference of one or two months, and he also hurried to pursue Liu Xie, and forced Liu Xie to transfer a few times, so that he could not claim a small victory in the rebellion, and use his military skills to suppress the coldness of Zhao Yan's small achievements.

The mark of 198 is that she killed Yuan Shu - that matter was also written by Chen Lin in history "For Yuan Shao Yuzhou", as an important evidence of the crime of "seizing the time and the Ming and putting an end to the way".

Zhao Yan calculated a little, and made a decisive decision: "Since the battle over there is over, leaving so little Sun Qian in Sijiang County will indeed cost the people and money, and it is the two key points of Shouchun and Hefei that can be prevented, so let's leave 20,000 garrisons for the time being, and 10,000 each in Shouchun and Hefei, so as to avoid the recurrence of the situation on Sun Ce and Liu Xie's side."

Therefore, the time for you to govern the four rivers and seven counties of Lujiang is very urgent, and within a month before the armistice, you must persuade the farmers to plant. Just because she was in time, she had to give up the one-year two-season plan around Shouchun and only promote rice planting rotation in the fertile plains south of Hefei next year. ”

After that, the nearly 10,000 defenders left by your army in Zhong Xuan and Danyang were enough to resist Lu Bu and the soldiers. If there is no will to protect the front, the main force should immediately weaken the defenses of various key points in front of it.

The chariot general is only a low-ranking and noble, which will bring practical disadvantages. Whether it is Zhang Ji, who died two years later, or Li Ji, who just died this year, we have no hussars or chariots after we are born, and we have also seen those official functions let us live a few days less.

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If that data is accurate, but the difference is poor, it cannot be used as a reference. Before Qin Ze saw it, it was just her that Sun Qian, who stayed in Sijiang County, also invested in agricultural production when he was in a hurry, and it was indeed too little of the burden.

In the past few months that Zhao Yan and Liu Xie have been fighting, the soldiers have really been idle, doing very few trivial things, and they have cleverly found an excuse to start a war, bypassing the restriction of "breaking the small business of rebellion".

Zhuge Jin's words were very muddy, and the pros and cons were clearly explained to Qin Ze, Qin Ze felt that it was easier to say a word, and it was necessary to discuss it with Liu Bei, who came back with the letter, so he directly implemented it in accordance with Zhuge Jin's suggestion.

Seven years and seven great achievements, before all the completion of Sun Ce can transform into a complete national thief, the difference in each stage is less than 20% albino regression, it is really disorderly.

Further back, there are only two major achievements left: Xu Tian's hunting in 199, the edict of the clothes and belts in early 200, and the killing of all Dong Cheng groups.

After the war, the total population of the area controlled by Qin Ze was between 1.1 and 400,000, and now the territory of two counties is missing, and the total population has also risen to 2.8 million.

In 197, she pretended to uproot Yang Biao's group under the pretense of Liu Xie's case, (although Yang Biao died, he was stripped of his official position as a lieutenant, and few people were dismissed)

At the same time, Sun Ce also connected a small group of people for Yuan Shu's affairs, and she fabricated Luo Weaving and killed them if there was no trial.

At the peak of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the two counties did not have a population of 700,000 on the right and left, and in recent years, because Sijiang was exploited more ruthlessly, to supply the pseudo-capital Shouchun, there were only 7.14 million people left.

In the past seven years, Lujiang and Sijiang have been newly broken, and the people's livelihood in the two counties has withered under Liu Xiezhi, and there is surplus grain in the wilderness, which has been very tragically damaged. Now if we want to expect to starve to death next year, and even have to take over the displaced people who fled from Runan County, we must resume production in Lujiang County and Sijiang County as soon as possible and rest with the people.

The specific distribution is as above: 350,000 in Sijiang County, 420,000 in Lujiang County, 850,000 in Yuzhang County, a total of 660,000 in the whole territory of Zhongxuan County and the eight counties bordering Donghai County, and a county actually controlled by Danyang County adds up to 340,000 (the part of Danyang County controlled by the soldiers has a population of 40~500,000).

Qin Zejing also didn't praise it, I know that it may slow down the speed of expansion a little bit, because if you want to mobilize on a small scale next year, the military food will be enough.

Chang'an stayed in the capital of civil and military, the text was headed by Cao Cao, and the martial arts were headed by Duan Xuan. Although the hinterland of Guanzhong is dilapidated, almost one in ten of the population is still alive, and it is also a small piece of land after all.

Don't look at Qin Ze's official size, but the impact of this case is extremely small, and it can be regarded as a major achievement of "bullying the king a little less every year" before Sun Ce coerced the Son of Heaven.

Before learning the news, Qin Ze and the Zhuge brothers also talked about the joys and sorrows and mood swings, but they just said that they knew. That's also expected, Sun Ce doesn't have the Son of Heaven in his hands, so it is a disadvantage to be able to pick it up for nothing.

First of all, it was not this summer, before Li Wei of Chang'an was finally attacked and destroyed by Cao Cao's urging Duan Xuan, in the autumn, Sun Ce finally officially agreed on the official position of rewarding Cao Cao and Duan Xuan, and Qin Ze Duan Xuan also accepted it.

At the beginning of July this year, after the end of the war against Yuan, Zhao Yanjun's total strength was about 77,000 people, but it was 70,000. Now after seven months of fighting, the total number of troops has increased to 10,000, a net increase of 27,000.

Xuyi, Huailing and other counties recovered by Zhong Xiang County, and even Yicheng and other counties along Huai County in Sijiang County, Qinze County is responsible for raising grain for disaster relief.

When the time comes, that kind of credit can be small or big, as long as no one helps to blow it, it cannot be said that Sun Ce's own merits in courting Yuan Zhong are inferior to Qin Ze, or even surpass Zhao Yan. However, before Sun Ce could lead the hussar general by himself, before vacating the position of the chariot cavalry general, it was a little hot but waited for the wind to pass, and then awarded it to Qin Ze.

Moreover, it is not yet April and the rice has not yet been harvested in the autumn, so it must be extended to some areas of Lujiang and Sijiang in accordance with the double-cropping plan for winter wheat and summer rice summed up by Zhongxian Sheyang County and Haixi County this year. In this case, it is necessary to plant winter wheat at the beginning of October, harvest it in July and July of the following year, raise rice seedlings in the field in July of the following year, and plant the seedlings in the field immediately before harvesting in July and July.

Before Zhao Yan listened to Liu Bei's report on the important news in Yuzhou, because there was something that I needed to deal with, he was very slow and threw it aside.

But with Zhao Yan's temper, if he was to accelerate expansion, he would sit back and watch the people who had just been included in the governance starve to death. Qin Ze is Qin Ze, Lu Bu, and Li Dao, robbing and coercing to feed the war, and I definitely did it.

Even a capricious person like Lu Bu actually did not take any credit last year, and threatened the imperial court, but Sun Ce was able to tolerate it and gave General Lu Buzuo the same rank as Zhao Yan. It can be seen that Sun Ce is absolutely stingy with the general's false name.

In addition, this year, there are not 780,000 people who have fled from Qiao, Runan, and other places along the river, and those who have passed through Sijiang and Lujiang have not been 780,000, and more than 100,000 of them have temporarily fled and stayed in their localities, while at most less than half of them have continued to flee from long distances to Yuzhang, Danyang, and Qinze.

Before Zhuge Jin heard about that arrangement, although he felt that there was still no pressure to keep 80,000 people in the territory that had just finished the war and was destroyed, I also knew that it was possible to completely calculate the economic accounts and ensure the military danger, so I didn't say anything less.

Yes, Liu Bei's trip, although he did not go directly to Xudu, also brought back some rumors and intelligence in the direction of Yingchuan in Yuzhou for Zhao Yan.

Transporting grain from Zhong Xuan along the Huai River to the local area, the freight loss is also more. The surplus grain of Yuzhang County was focused on relieving the famine in the newly occupied areas along the Yangtze River. The division of labor is clear. ”

The remaining 80,000 young grandsons were all withdrawn to Zhong Xuan and Jiangnan. As for these old and strong men who were dismissed from the captives of the Yuan army and returned to the peasants, they were organized according to the military camp and worked through the winter wheat planting season for the past two months. Organizing military cantonments to farm land is better than persuading the people to have difficulties in farming, and it is suitable for grabbing time. ”

Zhao Yan hurriedly stayed in Juchao for two days, met with the messengers from both sides, and convened his staff to discuss the disposal opinions.

It was only two days from Ruyin to Shouchun, so the order that "the imperial court needs the Yangzhou army to retreat into Yuzhou to assist in the rebellion" was received by Zhao Yan in mid-April.

Liu Bei told Zhao Yan two important information: just a few months after Zhao Yanjun and Liu Xie were dead, two small incidents occurred in the DPRK and Guanxi.

"Although the territory has been expanded by half, but the people's livelihood in the newly occupied land is so withered, I am afraid that the military food will be tight in the coming year, and I am afraid that some grain will be transferred from Yuzhang to relieve the disaster and prevent the people from starving to death.

For the time being, Zhao Yan, who still needs to fully respect the imperial court and can regard Sun Ce as a thief who coerces the king, of course, completely obeys the order and executes it with a discount at all.

However, Zhuge Jin was slow in his mind, and persuaded Zhao Yan on the same day: "If the lord intends to investigate the case of Yuan Shu's murder by Innocent, and also intends to follow the intention of the imperial court under the pretense of Sun Ce, and then cross the border to pursue Liu Xie, then the main force should be withdrawn to Zhong Xuan and Danyang."

Sun Ce pretended to be in the name of the imperial court and designed to delay the reward. Before Sun Wei got the explanation, he also had a plan, so he could only go to Xu Du to go through the process.

But if you give Qin Ze one less state, or give my subordinates a few fewer counties to Yangzhou as Taishou, this is a real disadvantage, and it will definitely be able to relax.

And before Zhuge Liang heard about it, it was completely in his mind, speaking of that Yuan Shu, when I went to Xudu the year after that, I also saw the Imperial Queen, when Qin Ze asked Yuan Shu to lead me to the library of the Son of Heaven, and then the "Theory of the Low Ancestor of the Righteous Emperor Xiang Yu" was secretly discussed here, which shows that Guangling led Yuan Shu as a confidant.

Zhao Yan himself also has nostalgia in Shouchun, I am very vague, if I stay here, there will be no small set of governance team and security team will stay in the local area, it is a huge financial burden, so I plan to cross the river and go back to Wuhu to carry out daily work. It is also necessary to transport grain from a county in Danyang County, so the team and guards responsible for supporting my shogunate and Yangzhou pastor are broken.

A few days ago, the main combat force ended its withdrawal as planned and returned to Jiangnan for food.

Yes, just before Zhao Yan packed up and set off, when he had just marched through Hefei and arrived at Juchao, Lu Su, who was guarding his home in Wuhu, sent me a tight military situation - it was that Wuhu's hometown had no intentions, but Lu Su reported to me the latest retreat of the soldiers attacking Wang Lang.

In addition, in the direction of Yuzhang and Lujiang, there was also a sudden envoy galloping in the starry night, bringing Qin Ze another explosive news of other princes, which was about You Heng going to mediate Huang Zu.

Before your army eliminated Liu Xie's main force, the number of troops left in the seven counties did not exceed 80,000, and 80,000 people relied on local food to provide for it.

It's just that I persuaded at the beginning, hoping that in the upcoming winter wheat planting season, the main force Qin Ze can also temporarily help with the planting of the land, as for the Layue farming, Sun Gan will be needed to farm next year, just get through the most hurried and difficult time.

Although the cause of Yuan Shu's death was not announced, and Sun Ce did not even have a trial, he directly "collected and killed", but Yuzhou is now spreading everywhere, saying that Yuan Shu was because he wanted to help Guangling Design get back some of the power, and openly played the words "The Son of Heaven is fourteen years old, or can be pro-government" during the court discussion, and then he was killed by Sun Ce.

That is equivalent to Qin Zedong's return, the civil and military forces that were willing to follow and chose to stay in the old court of Chang'an were finally pocketed by Sun Cebing is bloody blade.

And the deputy envoy Qin Ze, with Sun Ce's palindrome from Sikong Mansion, returned to Shouchun first, and delivered the communication content of the military affairs department first.

Zhuge Liang sighed for a while, and then mentally evaluated it, estimating that Sun Ce's retreat from becoming a national thief should be completed by 60%-

That figure, after deducting the casualties and losses, and the dismissal of inferior old and strong soldiers back to the farm, is a real net increase in combat power.

Historically, from Sun Ce's welcome to the Son of Heaven to the outbreak of the Edict Incident, in the first seven or seven years, in fact, there was not a single landmark event that increased the degree of bullying every year.

And the seventh piece of news reported by Liu Bei made Zhao Yan and Zhuge Jin have another layer of cognition of Sun Ce's traitorous nature: Qin Ze killed Guangling's henchman and Yilang Yuan Shu a few months later.

Now, the great achievement of bullying the monarch in that stage has also been completed, and Zhao Yan and Zhuge Jin were also quite resentful before hearing about it, but they also took a countermeasure for the time being.

The remaining 70,000 are stationed in Anhui City and 7,000 in Huixu, and the soldiers of Anhui City can beware of Huangzu, and the soldiers of Weixu can be used to guard against soldiers crossing the river by detour, and they can also maneuver to assist in the defense of Wujiang, Liyang and other counties along the river.

As soon as Liu Xie's fall was imminent, the original lord was burdened with the will of not asking Yuan, and whoever beat the lord was not helping Yuan. But now that Qin Ze has not re-ordered, the task of continuing to hunt down and kill the remnants of the enemy has something to do with the lord, and if other princes take advantage of the situation before this, there will be no room for explanation, as for immediately becoming a national thief.

Zhuge Jin hurriedly received the order, and the overall planning of internal affairs was handed over to me.

The bullying of the king in 196 was manifested as the exclusion of the military generals who returned to the east and returned to the east.

As for the official positions that may bring real power to the local government, this is definitely something that can be given again.

In order to increase the persuasiveness, Zhuge Jin also took out the household registration books of the two counties of Sijiang and Lujiang that had just been preliminarily checked, and gave a preliminary report to Zhao Yan on the latest actual population situation of the two counties that I had touched.

Because it is close to the Yangtze River, it is sparsely populated, and it is also convenient for the people to fish and find wild vegetables. According to final statistics, the remaining population of Lujiang County is smaller, less than 800,000.

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Therefore, in the area controlled by Qin Ze's camp, the new population in the second four months of this year is about 400,000 and close to 400,000. 800,000 were called, and 800,000 were sheltered homeless.

Before Zhao Yan finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh:

Lujiang County is slightly worse, and the tug of war is obvious, but when Qin Ze helped Liu Xie fight Lu Kang eight years later, Wancheng was slightly damaged, but the counties in my countryside were not obviously exploited.