Chapter 878 Jia Xu Is Very Good

The Yangtze River is a real natural chasm, and crossing the river is extremely difficult.

But whether it was Cao Cao or Liu Bei, they all made it through. The method is very simple, force crossing.

They defeated Yuan Shu in the Lianghuai area to the south of the Yangtze River. Then, taking advantage of the loose defense, they used a large number of farm boats to send powerful generals across the river to guard the ferry. They then sent more troops to cross the river to expand the area. The natural dangers of the Yangtze River were thus blocked. broken.

Then Cao Cao attacked Yuan Shu fiercely, while Liu Bei caught Sun Ce and beat him fiercely.

Today's Liu Bei is far from comparable to Liu Bei at the same time. He has stronger strength and higher military literacy. After all, Liaodong's half-year training was not in vain. And he is also consciously studying Wang Yan. Although he does not understand economics and cannot be like General Wang, there are only two taxes under the entire rule, one commercial tax and one agricultural tax. The agricultural tax is still clearly divided into ten taxes and one tax. , relying on these two hands to maintain the operation of the rule.

However, he has tried his best to improve the treatment of soldiers and civilians and solve their problems. The combat effectiveness of his army is still very high. Moreover, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu also learned to fight guerrillas. They could go deep alone and come and go freely. This was very scary.

For example, in the previous battle of Xuzhou, Lao Cao, who was best at cutting off other people's food routes, was beaten to the point of losing his temper by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Now Liu Bei is crossing the river to attack Sun Ce. Although Sun Ce has won the support of a considerable number of Jiangdong's wealthy families, in comparison, he still cannot beat the current Liu Bei in terms of hard power.

Wang Yan fought with Yuan Shao for half a year, and Liu Bei fought with Sun Ce for half a year. During this half year, Liu Bei defeated the little overlord of Jiangdong out of Wu County...

"Brother, why are we so depressed now that we have settled down in the south of the Yangtze River?" Looking at his good brother who was sighing again, Zhang Fei was very confused and asked after taking a sip of wine.

Mi Zhu sighed: "Just now I received a letter from my caravan. The battle between Wang Yan and Yuan Shao has ended. Yuan Shao fled across the river to Henan and stationed in Luoyang. Wang Yan has captured all the land in Hebei and half of the country. Since Yuan Shao has gone south, he will not When we return to Yanzhou, we will fight with him. No matter who wins, we are all in danger. There is a dangerous river in the south of the Yangtze River, but we are unable to defend the river. Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are strong, and we will not be able to hold on for long."

Guan Yu was also present. He said: "In that case, why don't we take the opportunity to defeat Yuan Shu and Sun Ce and dominate the land south of the Yangtze River? Or we can attack Liu Biao in the west and advance towards Yizhou. With the natural dangers of Shu, we can also resist."

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Liu Zhang of Yizhou are both members of my Han family. How can we fight against each other? Yuan Shu and Sun Ce are not mediocre people. It is actually difficult to dominate the south of the Yangtze River. I can resist with all my strength, but I am not as good as others." Yuan and Cao are already dominating the land south of the Yangtze River. They cross the river to attack me. What can they do?"

"It is not the behavior of a man to look forward and backward. Brother, we will attack Yuan Shu today. If we fail, we will die."

Zhang Fei really didn't like the way Liu Bei sighed, just do it and it's over, there are so many words. You can't fight this, you can't fight that, it's not straightforward at all.

But in fact, Liu Bei just has a sense of worry. He can't think only about the present and not think about the future, so he is naturally worried all the time.

Liu Bei sighed. He really didn't think of any other good way. He had no talents under him, no talents who could give him advice and make long-term plans.

Therefore, in a short period of time, he can only defeat Yuan Shu, hoping to completely dominate the Jiangnan region...

At this point, compared with the original development trajectory, it has changed beyond recognition, and some princes have even disappeared.

For example, Liu Yao, the governor of Yangzhou, was sent in 1944. The original seat of Yangzhou was Shouchun, so he went to Qu'a (Danyang City) in Jiangnan and was able to establish himself in Yangzhou.

But it is different now. As early as 193, Yuan Shu had been driven back to the south of the Yangtze River by Cao Cao, and part of the Yangzhou area in the north of the Yangtze River was also occupied by Cao Cao. Although Liu Yao was also appointed as the governor of Yangzhou, how did he gain a foothold in Yangzhou? Who listens to him? Yuan Shu was already beaten to the south of the Yangtze River, how could he let Liu Yao come over to seize power? Besides, Liu Yao has nothing, how can he seize power?

So Liu Yao came over to take a look at the situation, and stayed there for a month with good food and drink. Seeing that there was really no chance, he ran to Jingzhou and joined Liu Biao. After all, Liu Yao was also a member of the Han clan, and everyone was related. As for the governor of Yangzhou, whoever has the ability will go.

Therefore, there are only a few forces in Jiangnan now. Yuan Shu, Sun Ce, Liu Bei, and Cao Cao occupied part of it, and then Liu Biao of Jingzhou. Sun Ce was beaten violently by Liu Bei and ran to Kuaiji. Therefore, it is not considered independent and is a vassal of Yuan Shu. , of course there are other small forces, but in front of these forces, they are all unknown little shrimps, who are a big gift package of warmth.

The development of the matter did not exceed Liu Bei's expectation. After Yuan Shao settled in Luoyang, Cao Cao sent a letter asking for Yanzhou. Yuan Shao lost Hebei, so it was naturally impossible to return to Yanzhou. Besides, he did suffer serious losses of troops and generals, and many generals were killed, but it was not that he was really dead. At least he still occupied Qingzhou and Yanzhou.

Moreover, Liu Bei adhered to the route away from Wang Yan, and put all his main forces in the south of the Yangtze River. At the same time, he also moved the people of Xuzhou across the river. The vacated land was also occupied by Yuan Shao. Although this defeat resulted in the loss of many soldiers and horses, many people still escaped across the Yellow River. In addition, he now occupies Luoyang and uses his reputation to recruit various small warlords in the Sili area. And Jingzhou Liu Biao was on his side, which was also a force.

After such integration, he could still pull out an army of 200,000 and fight Cao Cao on equal terms. The only thing that was lacking was that he had no generals, and there were not many people who could do anything. But this was a small problem. No matter how brave a person was, he could not fight thousands of troops alone.

So naturally, Yuan Shao went to war with Cao Cao. Yuan Shu behind him also took the opportunity to attack, hoping to regain the lost land in the south of the Yangtze River and drive Cao Cao back to the north of the Yangtze River. On the other side, Liu Bei still stood on the same front with Cao Cao, beating Yuan Shu and Sun Ce in order to dominate the south of the Yangtze River.

At the same time, the fight between Li Jue, Guo Si and others had not stopped. The two of them teamed up to kill Fan Chou, and then turned against each other and started fighting. Ma Teng, Han Sui, Zhang Ji and a group of loyal officials of the Han Dynasty were involved in a big fight.

The world was in chaos again, and there were wars everywhere. Only General Wang was very stable here, and he was conscientiously restoring the devastation.

There was a certain window period between the defeat of Yuan Shao and the governance of Jizhou. It was during this window period that the defeated soldiers wandered around, and there were wanderers, refugees and other criminals who took the opportunity to cause chaos. They raped and plundered, destroyed production, and then there were epidemics. As these people spread everywhere, it caused quite serious consequences.

For this reason, Wang Yan dispatched a large army and carried out a large-scale killing. If there was no epidemic, most of these people who made trouble would actually have a way to survive, but the length of time they worked was just a matter of labor. But now because of the epidemic, it would be a bit of a loss to invest resources in treating these people.

At this time, even distinguishing between loyalty and treachery was a waste of human resources, because there was no time to care about so much. The standard for killing was very simple. Anyone who met a group of more than ten men outside the village would be killed without mercy. Anyone who met more than two people outside the village, wearing armor and holding weapons, would be killed without mercy. Anyone who passed by the village and was told by the villagers would be killed without mercy.

Of course, it is not true that loyalty and treachery cannot be distinguished. After all, Jizhou has no food now, and many people are seeking a way to survive, but they have not violated the ban. This situation also exists. It's just that Wang Yan gave the army a lot of power at this time. It depends on his mood whether to kill or not, and there will definitely be a considerable number of unjust cases.

But there is no way. Although Wang Yan will make up for it later and deal with the soldiers who violated the discipline at this time, the people who should die have died, and their lives cannot be made up. It can only be said that it is the fault of the times. If you want to find someone, you have to find Yuan Shao. It's all Yuan Shao's fault.

What Wang Yan has to do is to stabilize the situation in Jizhou as quickly as possible and curb the spread of the epidemic.

A large number of doctors came to Jizhou to study this epidemic in order to respond to the prescription. At the same time, a large amount of medicinal materials and food were pulled to Jizhou. There are also tens of thousands of young people who came to Jizhou and began to restore order, while rescuing disasters and resuming production and construction.

The destruction caused by the damn Yuan Shao on his way to escape, and the destruction caused by various people who took the opportunity to make trouble, destined many people to die in Jizhou.

The workload at the grassroots level is quite large. Controlling the epidemic is one aspect. Burning corpses, replanting food, counting the population, distributing supplies, population migration, and all kinds of major and minor matters, if they are summarized here by Wang Yan, they are all major matters.

Therefore, Wang Yan's workload has also increased. While he has to coordinate the above affairs at the highest level, he must also take into account the original You, Liao, Bing and grassland. Because Jizhou has a large population and not enough food, it can only be solved in these three places.

Now almost all the people in Youzhou and Liaodong have enough food for a family for more than a year. We must not watch the people of Jizhou starve to death. We must use work instead of relief, and there must be food for the people to consume. So Wang Yan mobilized a large number of grassroots civilian officials to reason with the people and sell some food.

Of course, the people will definitely give face. Although the production has decreased in the past two years, there is still a lot of food, which is always enough to eat. Take out the excess food, and they will save it later. The general personally ordered it, and there must be no one who does not support it. Generally speaking, under the rule of General Wang, everyone is united, and there is no question of shaking the rule.

After all, Wang Yan is appealing to the people that the day of having three meals a day is far away. The people of the world are one family. Today you support them, and tomorrow they support you. Happy days require everyone to help each other to create.

As long as we can survive until the autumn harvest next year, the crisis will be resolved and life will be better.

The land in the North China Plain is good, and the land in the Northeast Plain is also good. Now General Wang has two fertile lands, and there are various researches on farming, as well as large-scale construction of hydraulic engineering. Although it is an ice age again, the grain output is still guaranteed.

And in order to continue to dig the Northeast Plain, the people of Jizhou will migrate to the Northeast this time, and all the land must be developed. The Northeast is such a large area, although every household has a large piece of land, it is no problem to accommodate more than 10 million people. And now the entire Northeast has only more than 2 million people, which is really not enough...

In addition to coordinating materials, there is another important event, that is, moving the capital. In order to facilitate the governance of Jizhou and the subsequent attack on Henan, General Wang moved the General's Mansion from Jixian to Zhending. He once again began to build a medical and Wenchang Pavilion.

Because the territory was expanded and there were more places to defend, Wang Yan expanded the military guards to Longxiang and Feixiong, with Lü Bu as the Longxiang lieutenant and Zhang Liao as the Feixiong lieutenant. At the same time, the stationing areas of each unit were adjusted.

There is absolutely no war along the Yellow River. Neither Yuan Shao nor Cao Cao dare to come here to seek death if they are given eight courages. However, we still deployed defenses along the Yellow River. This was necessary to guard the pontoons and ferries and control trade. This work was garrisoned by Zhou Cang, Taishi Ci and Zhang Wu's three guards.

In addition, the normal defense in the Liaodong region and the army's disaster relief function still required troops to remain behind. Wang Yan transferred the troops originally stationed and changed defenses, including on the grasslands. It is impossible for them to stay in one place for a long time, because this will inevitably breed corruption.

Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were sent to Bingzhou by Wang Yan because they were about to attack Liangzhou next. That's also Lu Bu's hometown, so it's just right for them to go there.

Liao Hua was still sweeping the grasslands, and then there were the garrison troops at various passes. Veteran Huang Zhong was stationed at Zhending, and at the same time cooperated with the troops in Taiyuan to clear the huge Taihang Mountains. Although Zhang Yan was defeated in the first battle, he hid in the mountains and did not dare to come out. But there are still 300,000 to 400,000 people hiding in the mountains.

No matter how you put it, from ancient times to two thousand years later, manpower has been a resource. It would be a huge waste to have such a large number of people hiding in the mountains and letting things go unchecked. The Black Mountain Army must be completely eliminated and all the fleeing households in the mountains must be driven out.

To sum it up, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were promoted, and all the armies under their control were sorted out, and defenses and generals were changed. This successfully eliminated the unhealthy tendencies in the army and eliminated some of the army's feeling of being awesome. An officer's fantasy.

Generally speaking, the current military strength is actually insufficient and cannot cover all areas. If Wang Yan had not implemented the militia system and arranged police lieutenant jobs for retired soldiers, and under special circumstances, militiamen could be temporarily recruited and assembled, otherwise many situations would not be taken care of.

Although it has now experienced another round of military expansion and the integrated troops have reached 100,000 troops, it is still not enough for such a large territory.

But this is inevitable, because there are only so many resources, and he really can't support so many troops. No unified dynasty can raise a large army.

The most powerful Han and Tang Dynasties had only 700,000 to 800,000 troops at their peak. The Ming Dynasty had more than two million troops, but the population of the Ming Dynasty was nearly 200 million, and the Ming Dynasty implemented a guard system. More than two million troops are collectively farming in various places.

Wang Yan is almost implementing a guard system now. Except for his personal guards, there are no purely professional soldiers. They all work the land to support themselves. His current army is actually already full, and any more troops will affect normal operations. It is not easy for the people to support the army and a large number of officials.

Unless it was a sudden attack of troops in a short period of time like the previous battle with Yuan Shao, he would definitely not be able to sustain it.

Of course Wang Yan was aware of the war outside. He just sat back and watched the storm unfold. Of course, even if he had the opportunity to raise troops, he would not do it. Zhao Benshan famously said, "No matter how big your butt is, how big your pants are. If you don't thoroughly digest the land of Jizhou, it will be useless to conquer new territory."

He joined the Yellow Turbans rebellion in 184, and now in 195, in eleven years, he has taken over half of the country, and his development has been very rapid. Comparing the Three Kingdoms, even before the Battle of Chibi, Lao Cao's peak period could not be compared with his current territory.

Although Lao Cao at that time occupied more places south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River than he did, he had not yet occupied Liangzhou, only the Sili area. But now he occupies the entire northeast and two-thirds of the grasslands, but the population under his rule is not large.

It is true that there are more than four million people left in Jizhou, but in fact, due to the destruction of the war, the epidemic, and the people he killed in order to stabilize Jizhou as quickly as possible and prevent the spread of the epidemic, there are also the people who died of freezing and starvation in the previous winter. people. After diligent statistics by grassroots officials, the number finally reported to Wang Yan was 3.65 million people.

This is the destructive power of war. During the period of Emperor Ling, there were nearly five million people. Now that someone like him has taken over, there are more than one million fewer people. It was reduced within the eleven years since the Yellow Turban rebellion to now, when he started his business.

In this way, his previous population was less than 8 million, but the land he controlled was half of China, and it was the two rich lands of the Northeast Plain and the North China Plain.

War is so cruel...

Zhang Yan thinks so too, but he doesn't think war is cruel, he simply thinks it's cruel because it's too cruel to him.

Seeing the big rebel sitting lazily at the top, wearing single clothes, with his strong chest exposed, and his freshly washed long hair hanging loose, Zhang Yan wanted to act more courageous, just die, it's nothing. scary. But unfortunately, he still knelt down with fear.

Wang Yan looked at Zhang Yan and said with a smile: "There is no need to be afraid. I am very relieved that you can lead the army out of the mountain and surrender, saving my army from entering the mountain to search and suppress. I am by no means a person who kills indiscriminately. Since you said you are not guilty, after the investigation, If there is no one to tell you, I will divide the land with you and make a living by farming. If you die, I hope you will take the initiative to come out of the mountain, drink a pot of wine with you, and leave the whole body for burial at the foot of the mountain."

In fact, Zhang Yan just couldn't hide anymore. The Taihang Mountains were surrounded by Wang Yan. He couldn't beat him, and he couldn't run away. He would die sooner or later. He had no choice, and he didn't want to be hacked to death by his men in confusion, so he had to lead his men. Go out of the mountain and wait for the trial of the big rebel.

However, Zhang Yan took the initiative to lead his men to surrender, which did save trouble. Although the army had to clear Taihang Mountain again, it was always good to have no large-scale battles and fewer deaths. So for Zhang Yan, Wang Yan was willing to keep his body intact and bury it in the ground.

Zhang Yan's head hit the floor heavily with a bang: "Thank you, General."

Wang Yan waved his hand: "Go."

A personal guard stepped forward and took Zhang Yan away to wait for the judgment of fate.

At this time, a personal guard approached and said, "General, the commander-in-chief Guo Jia just sent a letter saying that there is a man in Bingzhou who has brought his family and children together. His name is Jia Xu, with the courtesy name Wenhe. He is from Guzang, Liangzhou (Liangzhou District, Wuwei City). He was first a subordinate of Dong Zhuo, and later a counselor of Li Jue, Guo Si and others. He was appointed as the Guanglu Doctor of the Han Dynasty and is on his way to Zhending."

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows and laughed. He lacked capable civil officials under his command. Obviously, Jia Xu is very good...

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