Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 378
When the Chu State was first established, people who were busy were really busy, and when they were idle, they were really idle.

On the one hand, Jingzhou surrendered for the first time. If you want to understand Jingzhou's resettlement, it will not happen overnight.

Yangzhou was created bit by bit by the white map. Now that Yangzhou is the basic base, it is much more convenient to place it in Jingzhou - if you dare to cause chaos, just put an end to the chaos... As long as you can avoid chaos, it is better not to cause chaos.

On the other hand, many of the technologies being implemented have not been transformed into strengths and advantages due to time and energy constraints!

For example, cement has been developed, but... what about cement roads?
How much can Jingyang's commodity flow and military mobilization be enhanced by just laying cement roads on the main roads?
There are blast furnaces for ironmaking, steel filling and steel frying, and steel production is about to explode, but there is no time to accumulate.

Microscopes have been made, cytology is budding, and penicillin has been pointed out, but it still takes time to isolate and experiment. Although there are side effects of abuse, once penicillin becomes popular, war losses will be greatly reduced again.

There is still a lot of room for improving the efficiency of collective farming and expanding the scale of raising pigs and chickens...

Wang Lang's criminal law reform is gradually getting on the right track, but the number of grassroots police officers is still seriously insufficient, and it needs to accumulate students from government schools...

Just in Jingyang and Yangzhou, with a population of more than 1000 million, there is already too much potential that can be tapped.

Baitu itself is not going to follow the "quick push flow". Now that it is sitting on Jingyang, it naturally hopes that the situation can be more stable.

And the six princes who assisted the Han Dynasty now want to pacify Sili, connect Xuzhou, and form a powerful alliance; Cao Cao wants to wipe out the remaining members of the Yuan family and dominate the north, and he will not have any thoughts about Chu in the short term...

After the founding of the Chu State, all six departments gathered strength, but... the Privy Council was relatively idle.

Now, going to the south to quell the chaos has become an in-demand "important position."

What's going on in the south?

Occasionally, one or two small tribes in Shanyue and Wuxi, or Han people's cottages, sometimes cause trouble due to mining disputes. Basically, the county's defenders can deal with it. However, as long as the news can get out, there will be immediate consequences. One by one, the golden and jade generals are jumping to fight!
Even Huang Zhong is now eager to make meritorious deeds and shamelessly goes to suppress the bandits.

Lu Bu is now complaining about this at the palace meeting...

"There is at most some turmoil in Zhangling County now. As long as we continue the step-by-step strategy and gradually drive away and attract the mountain people down the mountain, there is really no need to go to war." Lu Kang advised.

With cement, bunkers can be built at any time, and the mountain people have no advantage at all. With various favorable measures, most of the mountain people have already left the mountain. Now the remaining die-hards, or they are half-people and half-bandits themselves, are also It won't last long at all.

"I also know that these people will cause trouble if they go, but letting them have excess energy is not the answer... If the navy's fleet can go to sea now, can a group of them be sent to Liaodong? Or to Qingzhou!" Lu Bu also said I'm so annoyed.

"The Gongsun family in Liaodong is doing quite well now, and we still have an alliance with us. If we intervene rashly, I am afraid that the Gongsun family will be the first to resist us together with Goguryeo, Fuyu, and Sanhan, and will be involved in a battlefield thousands of miles away." Lu Su had carefully read the intelligence about Liaodong brought back by the navy before.

In the eyes of the Han princes, the value of the foreign tribes in the north is to become their own cannon fodder after being conquered...

Just like Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan, now as the governor of Bingzhou, he is trying to persuade the Southern Xiongnu Khan to join forces with him to fight against Cao Cao. Wuhuan, not to mention, has always been an ally of the Yuan family. Gongsun Zan also joined forces with Xianbei before his demise. , Ma Teng and Han Sui are still the leaders of the Qiang people in Xiliang.

If Bai Tu did something to Liaodong at this time, the Gongsun family would unite with Wuhuan and Xianbei to resist without any psychological burden at all.

As for attacking Qingzhou, Lu Su didn't mention it at all.

What is the difference between attacking Qingzhou by sea and attacking Xuzhou directly?Aren't they all fighting against the forces of Fu Han?It is completely contrary to the current major policy of Chu State.

"Hey, it's a pity that Cao A'hao is not only a waste, but also can't trust others. Otherwise, he could have taken a road back to Bingzhou. How could Bingzhou be as useless as it is now!" Lu Bu got angry when he mentioned this matter.

Bingzhou today is different from Bingzhou when Lu Bu left...

Bingzhou originally had nine counties: Shangdang, Taiyuan, Yanmen, Dingxiang, Xihe, Shangjun, Wuyuan, Shuofang and Yunzhong, occupying Hedong and the entire Hetao area.

However, there are indeed historical problems in the Hetao area. In the pre-Qin period, King Wuling of Zhao, who was the "Hufu riding and shooting", expanded his territory here, but failed to gain a firm foothold. After the Qin unified the country, he defeated the Xiongnu here, and People began to migrate to Shibian, but they were lost again at the end of Qin and the beginning of Han...

During the reign of Emperor Wu, Wei Qing completely drove the Xiongnu out of Hetao. However, in the next 300 years, although the Han Dynasty regarded this place as part of its territory, its policy often wavered.

Sometimes the people were moved to the border, that is, they moved the people there, hoping to settle here permanently. However, once the Xiongnu came to seek refuge, they regarded this place as a place for the southern Xiongnu to migrate inland, and even took away the people who had moved to Hetao. Settlement elsewhere.

Firstly, this place is indeed suitable for nomadic people to survive. Secondly... the Han Dynasty had no determination to win here, and its policies often wavered. Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, nine counties were merged into the state, except for the easternmost Yanmen and Taiyuan from north to south. Except for the three counties of Shangdang and Shangdang, which still have a relatively large population, the other six counties have a maximum registered population of no more than 2 households - one county has only more than [-] people, which is not as good as a larger county in the Central Plains.

It's not that the population is really so small, but that the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Zhuqiang... these people are not included in the calculation.

Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Han Dynasty's control over the six counties of Bingzhou was already very weak. Just like when Han Sui caused trouble in Liangzhou, the court seriously discussed the plan to abandon Liangzhou. Fortunately, Yilang Fu Xie scolded him at that time. Situ Cui Lie, Emperor Ling did not remove Liangzhou from the territory with a stroke of his pen...

During the Yuan Shao period, the main experience was fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains, and the six counties of Bingzhou were left alone. Historically, after Cao Cao occupied this place, he implemented the Great Nine Provinces Plan, and the three counties east of Bingzhou and the northern part of Xihe County were all included in Jizhou. "Bingzhou" was no longer established, and Hetao also separated from China during this period.

What Lu Bu is dissatisfied now is that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao directly abandoned the place where he fought...

Do you know how much effort we put into protecting this in the first place?Why are you so open-minded?
Lu Bu even wanted to use the road to return to Bingzhou, but...Cao Cao wouldn't believe such nonsense-doesn't the prime minister know about the fake road to attack Guo?
Bai Tu also saw that Lu Bu was mainly annoyed by other people, so he suggested: "Father, there has been no war recently, but the training cannot be stopped, and the army has no intention of shrinking... First, it's the Jingzhou Army. The training needs to be reorganized as soon as possible. If the generals and troops have nothing to do, I think it is better to organize exercises for them."

"Exercise?" Lu Bu was stunned when he heard this, not understanding what it meant.

"Just replace it with wooden arrows and wooden spears, and have one army as the defender and one as the attacker. Whether it's a battle to seize a city, a battle to break out a stronghold, a sneak attack, or a long-distance attack... you can do it all. Simulate it! We haven't had a large-scale war for a long time, and we can't let everyone be idle.

By the way, for those cities that are planning to re-build city walls with masonry and cement, don’t let the craftsmen demolish the old city walls. Let them be idle and practice siege skills! "Bai Tu explained with gestures and words.

Huang Chengyan nodded when he heard this and said: "This is a good idea. You can bring two armies and go to Nan County for exercises!" This old boy is really cruel to "his own people".

At this time, Lu Kang interrupted with a smile: "My lord and the Privy Council have other things to do recently, right? Don't delay the 'business'... Hahaha."

That's right, Bai Tu's wedding date is getting closer.

Although she had been named queen before, the wedding had not yet been held...

(End of this chapter)