Chapter 885 Return

Han Sui did not disappoint Wang Yan's expectations. Before receiving the weapons and armor, he had already begun to use troops in the Western Regions to rob resources and treasures and cultivate cotton on a large scale in the Hexi Corridor to buy weapons.

Wang Yan didn't need to say much about cotton. After all, when Chenggong Ying left, it was spring ploughing. When he arrived in Zhending, spring ploughing was almost over. By the time the news came back, it would have been too late to plant more cotton. They had already prepared for it, and they had to plant more cotton.

At the same time, Han Sui was actively connecting with the barbarians and persuading them to go to the Western Regions together to attack Kushan. Han Sui also mastered the key to uniting the majority and creating common interests. In fact, this is the true meaning of the vertical and horizontal alliances.

For Han Sui, the barbarians were the majority, and they were indeed facing the same situation. General Wang was extremely powerful. He blocked all the roads to the south and cut off the trade routes. Only people sent by him could go to trade, and the barbarians did not dare to kill them. On the one hand, they were afraid of the terrible revenge that would make them want to die, and on the other hand, they only had this caravan. If there was no trade, they would not be able to survive.

But they did not kill the caravan, but the caravan spread the news, spied on intelligence, and drew maps. When winter came, Liao Hua would lead the Cavalry Battalion to kill them. This constant consumption of their strength made them weaker and weaker.

And now Wang Yan has begun to march into Liangzhou, and the grassland will definitely not give up. Besides, Han Sui is also going to run away now, not to mention that there was resistance before, but it was really impossible to resist. So now facing Han Sui's invitation to establish a country outside the territory is their only choice.

If they do not obey, they can only wait in despair for the iron hoofs of Wang Yan's army to approach and harvest their lives...

So now the grassland and Liangzhou area that are not occupied by Wang Yan are undergoing a huge change, and countless people die every day.

This is because the barbarians are all aware of Wang Yan's system. Some of the barbarians at the bottom do not want to leave, and they will not be killed by Wang Yan. He will even give them cattle, sheep and horses. Only those heads who enslaved them and the tribal warriors who bullied them will be killed.

Now these people want to escape because they are afraid of Wang Yan, and they want to roll them up and run with them. They will continue to work for those who oppress them elsewhere. They still live their current lives, and the migration distance is so long that there will always be various accidents on the way. No one wants to die if they can live and live well. Especially the barbarians do not have the so-called "righteousness", and naturally they are looking forward to a better life.

It is for this reason that the barbarians have serious civil strife. Many people drove cattle and sheep and migrated eastward with their families. Some came to the grassland, and some entered the land controlled by Wang Yan in Liangzhou.

General Wang is very welcome to this. These are all manpower. Although it may be difficult for a while, it is undoubtedly better in the long run. After all, manpower is the most important.

Finally, in the summer of 198, Han Sui retreated to the Western Regions as promised, and the disputes on the grasslands were completely resolved. Wang Yan took over Liangzhou and the 3,000-mile grassland. The territory was very large, but the population was very sparse, and there were ethnic problems that were difficult to solve in a short period of time.

However, this was not a big problem. As long as the population migration work was carried out continuously, education and intermarriage were used, and the empire was strong, it would be successful in a few decades.

In fact, the current eastern grassland area, as well as the original Wuhuan, Xianbei, Buyeo, and Goguryeo in the northeast region, have been initially integrated, and there has been no internal ethnic conflicts so far. It has taken ten years to achieve this.

After removing the factor of brainwashing through education, it is more about development. Because rapid development will indeed solve many internal conflicts. If the empire is strong, everything will be easy to say. People will automatically yearn for more prosperous places, which will prompt them to abide by the rules, work towards prosperity, and finally truly identify with this system.

Wang Yan's time is very long. When another group of people die, another group of people are educated, and everyone is assimilated quickly, it will basically be successful.

General Wang was focusing on internal affairs, developing grasslands and Liangzhou, rectifying the internal affairs at a deeper level, solving problems, and developing again. The news that he completely occupied the grasslands and Liangzhou spread to the world with the opening of trade routes and the printing of news details in newspapers.

As soon as the news came out, the world was really shocked.

To this day, if we talk about the knowledgeable people in the world, that is, the group of exploiters and ruling classes such as the nobles and wealthy families, they all know Wang Yan very well. It can even be said that when they have nothing to do, they study Wang Yan. These people all discuss major events in the world. When they get together with others, they also talk about Wang Yan, because Wang Yan can't be avoided anyway, and they really can't pretend not to see it.

So they know very well that Wang Yan has no land in his hands, and all of them are actually controlled. This was also very puzzling to them. In the past, no emperor or general had been able to completely control it, but Wang Yan did it. They conducted various studies, from the system to the policy, and then to development. Looking at the results, they could naturally understand.

But the main thing is this process, the main thing is the initial creative idea, and Wang Yan's identity is known to the world, that is, he is a commoner. How did such a person learn to read and write, and how did he have such an idea? This is what they don't understand. One by one, they doubt whether there is really a god, and Wang Yan is lucky enough to have such a chance to achieve such a hegemony.

These are all boring research for them, but no matter what, it can't change the fact that Wang Yan completely swept the north north of the Yellow River, as well as a large area of ​​the northwest, and even unified all the grasslands in the south of the desert. The barbarians in the north of the desert also disappeared in the desert and dared not invade each other again.

In other words, with the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River as a line, Luoyang, Chang'an and even the north of the west, Wang Yan no longer has an enemy, and no one can distract Wang Yan's energy.

You know, after the autumn harvest every year, Wang Yan will publish the statistical data to let people know what their current situation is.

Since the unification of Hebei, Wang Yan has achieved an increase in grain production every year while other places have reduced production. The population has begun to grow explosively, with hundreds of thousands of newborns each year, and the data is also continuing to rise.

This is because Wang Yan has been in business for fourteen years. In the past fourteen years, there has never been any natural disaster or man-made disaster under his rule. Even if some domestic animals occasionally get sick and spread the disease to humans, they are suppressed in a very short time under the strong intervention of medicine.

During the fourteen years of military operations, the number of casualties was less than 150,000. Of course, the "injuries" in this number only affect life. Otherwise, the high-intensity training of the army would cause fractures for no reason. There would be stray arrows and sword collisions during the war, and there would be injuries. There are as many injured soldiers as there are soldiers.

In summary, the war was successfully blocked outside the area ruled by the party. After more than ten years of self-cultivation and continuous improvement of material conditions, the people under his rule have been completely stable. In addition, the promotion of health and medical care by medicine has affected people's life expectancy, infant survival rate, etc., making the new population begin to violate the original ancient population growth law and break through the upper limit.

The marriage age stipulated by General Wang is 18 years old, which means that up to now, no children who have grown up under his rule have really married and had children. But in another four years, exactly when a generation has arrived, the population growth under his rule will be higher year by year. Because the number of newborns under his rule is increasing year by year.

Similarly, the students in the academy and the talents output by Wenchang Pavilion, medicine, etc., although limited by the lack of cultural people and the serious lack of teaching power, cannot match the population growth, they are also exploding.

Strength is like a snowball. Once it becomes strong, it will continue to be strong. The only thing that can destroy it is itself. That is a collapse from the inside out. But now Wang Yan is in his prime, and will continue to be prosperous for eighty or ninety years. He has really created a more powerful empire again...

Now that Wang Yan's power has reached this point, it is self-evident what to do next.

Everyone in the world knows that Wang Yan has gained a large grassland and Liangzhou, and there are millions of barbarians. These barbarians need to be stabilized, and the newly acquired places must start to build and develop in accordance with other states. It will definitely be stable for a few years. After digesting it, it is inevitable to go south. And the strategy is also clear. The next step must be to conquer the area north of the Yangtze River and unify the north.

And Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River are occupied by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. So after a year of relative peace, Yuan Shao, who only had some food in his hands, fought with Cao Cao again.

In the past year of peace, Lao Cao did not stop his troops. He just stopped fighting with Yuan Shao, but he was still attacking Yuan Shu and Liu Biao. The situation is visible to everyone, and Lao Cao naturally understands it, so he naturally set his sights on Jiangnan.

Although there was not a complete peace with Yuan Shao before, when Cao Cao attacked Liu Biao and Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao would still send troops to harass and distract his attention, but he did not go all out to fight. Moreover, Liu Bei had completely established his foothold in Jiangnan, distracting a considerable part of Yuan Shu's attention. Therefore, Cao Cao's attack on Yuan Shu was relatively successful.

Lao Cao was indeed a very powerful military strategist. He used various strategies to deal with Yuan Shu while inciting the nobles under Liu Biao, and at the same time contacting the nobles under Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. It can be said that Lao Cao grasped the weaknesses of each prince very accurately and used them to divide the princes internally and weaken their combat effectiveness.

This is really a very effective strategy, because for the time being, Cao Cao is the most powerful military capability shown by each prince. With only Liu Bei as an ally and being besieged by three parties, although the internal livelihood is not good, he has repeatedly achieved success and achieved strategic goals.

But no matter what, Cao Cao is still at a disadvantage overall.

On the contrary, Liu Bei, because he was originally a disciple of General Wang, and he himself was not really a waste, he could withstand the pressure in a one-on-one duel with Yuan Shu. With Cao Cao attacking from the other side to disperse the pressure, Liu Bei has expanded rapidly in the past year or so. He had already controlled Wu County, as well as most of the areas of Kuaiji and Danyang counties, and had considerable power.

It was obvious that Yuan Shu could not hold out for long, but at this time, because Wang Yan had taken all the grasslands and Liangzhou, Yuan Shao began to attack Cao Cao desperately, giving Yuan Shu a chance to breathe.

The situation in the south was very chaotic now. Yuan Shao wanted to kill Cao Cao and then go to the south of the Yangtze River. Cao Cao wanted to kill Yuan Shu first and go to the south of the Yangtze River earlier, but Yuan Shao sent troops, so Cao Cao had to fight Yuan Shao to the death first. Liu Biao firmly allied with Yuan Shao and was also fighting Cao Cao. Yuan Shu got a chance to breathe because of Yuan Shao's actions, and turned to fight Liu Bei to the death, determined to unify the land of Yangzhou and the south of the Yangtze River, to split the south of the Yangtze River and respond to the changes of the times.

Although Sun Ce, a subordinate of Yuan Shu, failed to be independent because of Liu Bei, he had to submit to Yuan Shao again. But Sun Ce is really good at fighting. Now in times of crisis, Yuan Shu has to reuse him, so Sun Ce's power is also growing. It is Yuan Shu's internal hidden danger problem, and it is quite serious.

At the same time, because Lao Cao instigated the nobles, except Liu Bei who was not affected too much, the internal affairs of others are now very turbulent. Because Wang Yan put too much pressure on them, and they didn't want to lose their hereditary family heritage, they could only keep struggling.

The unification of Jiangnan and the fight against Wang the thief have become more and more the common interests of the noble families north of the Yellow River, and they are trying to act against each other.

Even though Wang Yan's newspaper clearly stated that Han Sui was going to lead his troops and most of the barbarian coalition to the expedition to Kushan, and introduced the current known national situation of Kushan, gave Han Sui a very high evaluation, and clearly stated that the historian and Han Sui had been asked to write history. However, the nobles in Jiangnan did not have the idea of ​​opening up further south.

General Wang's good intentions were wasted. He actually encouraged these nobles to go out. After all, these people are good at playing with people, and they must be very tossing when they go out, but it's a pity.

But Wang Yan didn't care. If he didn't go out, he would die, which was no big deal.

Time passed in the process of development. Wang Yan once again sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight. He managed his territory steadily, developed and built Bingzhou, Liangzhou and the grassland, stabilized the barbarians under his rule, and prevented them from repeatedly causing chaos.

It was not until more than a year later that a new era, that is, 200 AD, broke the peace and comfort under the rule of General Wang.

In fact, the calendar in his rule was the Yellow Emperor's calendar, but it was not a pure Yellow Emperor's calendar. It was improved on the basis of the Yellow Emperor's calendar by some so-called strange people under his command, that is, some people who practiced Taoism, studied the five elements and eight trigrams, astronomy, astrology, divination and calculation. However, they all started with the Yellow Emperor's era, and the specific name was "Chinese calendar".

So according to the Chinese calendar, this year should be Kaiyuan 2897. Under the rule of General Wang, it was called "Chinese 2897", which sounds very ancient and powerful.

Zhending in summer is also quite hot because of the Taihang Mountains. But today is really good. There was a heavy rain, which removed the dryness and heat.

Wang Yan didn't like rainy days very much. Of course, he didn't really like any weather, because he had experienced a lot of weather, so it was hard to say whether he liked it or hated it.

But refreshing is always good, so at noon, he asked someone to prepare mutton and put a copper pot under the pavilion. It was raining outside, and he was drinking and eating meat in the pavilion, so leisurely.

Of course, it would be better if there were no bunch of crazy children. Although he would definitely break his legs, he was never a strict father. Now there are more wives and more children. They have grown up one after another, and there is not much difference between them. There are more than 20 children. The older ones are playing wildly, and the younger ones can't walk well, but they also follow them desperately, and they are all hated by people and dogs.

Children like to play in the water on rainy days. They are all wrapped in small raincoats and run and play wildly in front of him. Although they have already eaten, they still have to run to him to eat a few bites of meat after making a fuss for a while, and then run out to make trouble again.

Wang Yan was upset because he didn't say a word. The raincoats on the children were his responsibility as a father.

At this moment, the guards came running over in a hurry, very excited: "General, the second batch of the navy that traveled 800 miles overseas to find immortal seeds will return. The sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, peppers, peanuts, etc. mentioned by the general have been found. The specific casualties are unknown, it must be because of the urgency. There will be detailed information tomorrow."

Wang Yan nodded with a smile, not excited. After all, the things are there, and now nine years have passed, it should be back. Even if it doesn't come back this year, there should be movement in two years.

"Very good."

General Wang nodded with satisfaction, took a sip of wine, ate meat, and instructed his guards, "Send the order quickly. The returning soldiers will be isolated for one month. The medical staff will check the health of the soldiers. There will be fish and meat for three meals a day, and you can allocate wine and water to drink. In addition, pack your luggage tonight and set off early tomorrow morning. I will go to Tuhe to meet my warriors in person."

"Yes, General." The guards responded and took the order. They turned around and ran out away from the children who were eager to listen.

Wang Yan was in a good mood. He smiled and talked about food with the buzzing children, and imparted knowledge by the way. With good news, the buzzing of the fur children was not so annoying, but became more childish.

The improved seeds have been obtained. Even if the current seeds are not as high-yielding as in the future, after so many years, his men have a complete grain improvement test group, and a large number of agricultural doctors are studying day and night, how to harvest more.

So after getting these seeds, after years of cultivation and improvement, they will look completely different in a few years. The yield does not have to reach the level of two thousand years later, as long as it is times more than the current grain yield, then we can initially achieve no hunger. At that point, people will naturally think more and more, and as long as they are guided properly, the empire will naturally become stronger and stronger...

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