Chapter 1416: Looking from the east of Jiaozhou in Nantu to the east of Jiangdong
Liu Xiu was talking about anyone, which naturally included Cai Mao's Cai family. In addition, since Liu Xiu dared to let Cai Mao handle this matter, he was naturally not afraid of his rebellion.
At this thought, Cai Mao, and even everyone in the Jingzhou family, felt desperate and bitter.
The reason why they supported Liu Xiu to confront Qin Hao in the first place was because they could not accept Qin Hao's land and population policies.
If Liu Xiu now follows Qin Hao's example, then what's the point of supporting Liu Xiu? Aren’t all the previous actions a joke?
It was better to go to Qin Hao directly.
It was precisely because of the constant blood transfusions from the Jingzhou family that Liu Xiu was able to grow to what he is today, but instead of being grateful, Liu Xiu knew that the Jingzhou family could no longer provide nutrients, and instead asked the Jingzhou family to continue cutting meat for him.
This kind of behavior can no longer be described as ungrateful, it is simply a white-eyed wolf.
He worked hard but raised a white-eyed wolf. Naturally, the Jingzhou family found it hard to accept this, but what if they didn't accept it?
Betray Liu Xiu? impossible.
Liu Xiu has grown into a towering tree. Not only can the Jingzhou family not only have no choice but to rely on Liu Xiu, but they also have to rely on Liu Xiu. After all, the other aristocratic families are in a difficult environment. Who can they turn to if they betray Liu Xiu? Others treated the family even worse.
Liu Xiu only asked the family to hand over their people, but not the land, but the other princes did not even let go of the land.
In short, this is an era that is extremely unfriendly to aristocratic families. All the major princes are eager to suck the blood of aristocratic families. All the aristocratic families in the world live in fear because they are afraid of leaving any excuse for the princes to exterminate their clans.
Among the short ones, Liu Xiu is already considered a good one. At least he has left a way for the aristocratic family to survive.
The Jingzhou family felt chilled by Liu Xiu's actions. Although Liu Xiu knew about this, he didn't care. After all, no prince would give up an opportunity to strengthen himself because of a small favor. Liu Xiu believed that if Qin Hao was in his position, I would definitely do the same if it was in the right location.
This is by no means ungrateful, it can only be said that the world is as black as crows, and all princes are the same. There is no kindness in their hearts, only dominance.
The Jingzhou family was kind to Liu Xiu, but it was just to use him. Liu Xiu also promoted many officials from the Jingzhou family. Neither party owed anything to the other.
As Qin Hao's power became stronger and stronger, Liu Xiu always had a sense of urgency in his heart and wanted to catch up with Qin Hao as soon as possible.
Now Qin Hao's four regions have more than 10 million people, and more than 500,000 soldiers.
Liu Xiu still only has five counties, the total population under his command is less than 200, and the soldiers are less than 100,000.
Without some special methods, Liu Xiu would never be able to catch up with Qin Hao in his life. Therefore, he must attack the Jingzhou family who had helped him and strengthen himself by cutting off the family's flesh. Only in this way can he shorten the relationship between him and Qin Hao. difference.
As for the consequences of tampering with the interests of the family, to be honest, Liu Xiu doesn't care. After all, the whole world is suppressing the family, and he is not much more.
In addition, he is no longer the Liu Xiu who had to rely on aristocratic families. If any aristocratic family disobeys, he does not mind erasing these families directly.
It has to be said that the more wise kings Qin Hao balances, the harder life will be for the world's noble families.
In order to strive for hegemony in the world, the princes will do whatever it takes to strengthen themselves. Who cares whether the family is dead or alive?
Therefore, when all the princes in the world are squeezing the aristocratic families, suppressing the aristocratic families has become a trend. No matter who will eventually reunify the world, the future new dynasty will no longer be constrained by the aristocratic families.
"My lord, I have another plan that can further increase Jingnan's foundation." Deng Yu said again.
All the civil servants in Jingzhou were shocked again. Deng Yu's advice just now stunned all the Jingzhou aristocratic families. They haven't recovered yet, so it's coming again so soon?
Are you going to let people live?
Liu Xiu didn't pay attention to everyone's expressions and asked: "Come quickly."
Deng Yu smiled calmly and said: "My plan is called: demolish the east wall to make up for the west wall."
Liu Xiu naturally understood the meaning of Deng Yu's words, and a strange look flashed in his eyes, asking: "If the east wall is demolished, although the west wall can be repaired, how can we resist the cold wind from the east?"
"My lord, the east wall is inherently unstable. If you demolish it, you can prevent it from being smashed. If you can't repair the west wall first, it won't be too late to repair the east wall after you earn enough money."
Upon hearing this, Liu Xiu suddenly fell silent, and after a long time he said: "That makes sense."
Deng Yu smiled, Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue frowned, while the others were a little confused and didn't understand what Liu Xiu and Deng Yu meant by the east wall and the west wall.
Deng Yu's strategy of demolishing the east wall to make up for the west wall was actually to move the population of Nanjun to fill Jingnan.
Nanjun is right under the Qin Army's nose. It is too close to the Qin Army. Yue Fei may attack at any time. Not only is it unable to provide assistance to Liu Xiu's development, but it also requires Liu Xiu to provide resources to continue, so it is almost impossible to develop. Something impossible.
If Liu Xiu had been in Nanjun, confronting Yue Fei of Xiangyang, the great cause of the Qin Army family would naturally be consumed, but Liu Xiu invested precious development resources into a bottomless pit, and this would undoubtedly be serious. Slow down Liu Xiu's development.
After all, Nanjun is a county with a large economy and population. It is impossible to abandon it directly, but it is useless to keep it. Therefore, it is better to move most of the population of Nanjun to Jingnan and directly build Nanjun into a military town.
In this way, Liu Xiu could not only use Nanjun's population to develop Jingnan, but also have a more solid military fortress in Jingbei. It can be said that he killed two birds with one stone.
The total population of Nanjun at its peak was two million. It was later divided into two parts by Qin Hao and Liu Xiu, with Qin Hao taking the north and Liu Xiu taking the south.
The war between Liu Xiu and Yue Fei continued, and the total population of this part of Nanjun occupied by Liu Xiu was less than 600,000.
It is unrealistic to relocate all the people. After all, Nanjun also needs labor to farm to provide food for the local garrison.
But even if half of the population is removed, more land can be developed to lay a stronger rear for Liu Xiu.
Soon, Liu Xiu finalized the strategy for the development of Jingnan.
Jingnan has a population of more than 1.3 million. First, 200,000 hidden household registrations were taken back from the Jingzhou family, and then 30 people were moved from Nanjun. Finally, Jingnan was filled with 500,000 foreign people after the conquest of Wuling Man.
If all goes well, the four counties of Jingnan will have a total population of 2.4 million, enough to develop the vast land of the four counties of Jingnan. Provide Liu Xiu with a safe and solid rear area.
Of course, in addition to internal development, Liu Xiu was also preparing for external expansion, sending a large number of spies to Jiaozhou to gather information, and bribed and alienated officials under Hong Xiuquan to prepare for the future invasion of Jiaozhou.
Although Jiaozhou is the weakest among the thirteen states, it still has at least a million people and a large foreign population.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat. What's more, to Liu Xiu now, Jiaozhou is not a mosquito, but a fat sheep.
As for Hong Xiuquan, who was sitting in Jiaozhou, he had long been ignored by Liu Xiu.
If it were Hong Xiuquan back then, Liu Xiu would still have some respect for him, but since he sent his army to the north to conquer Jingzhou but was defeated by Lu Bu, Hong Xiuquan's ambitions were completely shattered.
Today, Hong Xiuquan has lost his ambition and is obsessed with the glory of the past. He only thinks about pleasure and ignores military affairs. In addition, the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom is not stable internally.
In Liu Xiu's eyes, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was nothing more than a paper tiger, so of course it was impossible for him not to annex Jiaozhou.
In addition to Jiaozhou, Huang Zu's Jiangxia and Lu Kang's Lujiang were also Liu Xiu's goals.
However, Huang Zu relied on Yue Fei, and Lujiang County was Sun Jian's forbidden habit.
For Liu Xiu, it was even more difficult to capture these two counties than to capture Jiaozhou.
Therefore, Liu Xiu could only suppress his ambitions first, wait for Jiaozhou to be captured, and then plot against these two counties.
Of course, after taking Lujiang and Jiangxia, Liu Xiu will plot Jiangdong.
Only by taking Jiangdong, completely occupying the land south of the Yangtze River, and completely occupying the natural dangers of the Yangtze River, could Liu Xiu have the capital to compete with Qin Hao.
