Jingzhou, Xiangyang.
This is the administrative seat of Jingzhou.
After Yan Xiang became the governor of Jingzhou, all counties in Jingzhou prospered and developed extremely well under Yan Xiang's governance.
Nanyang County is a strategic location connecting the north and the south. With the stability of Jingzhou, there are many businessmen coming and going. Nanyang County is booming and is no longer the depressed scene of the past.
The same is true for Nanjun where Xiangyang is located. In addition, Jiangxia County borders Yangzhou. Jiangxia County takes advantage of its water conservancy advantages to develop farming and commerce.
The early development of Nanyang County, Nan County and Jiangxia County led to the vigorous development of Jingzhou.
Yan Xiang did more than that.
In addition to developing the three counties, he is also developing Wuling County, Guiyang County, Changsha County and Lingling County in the south. On the one hand, these places are more remote, and on the other hand, they also involve the Wuling barbarians in the south.
It is not easy to open up the South.
Yan Xiang is very steady in doing things and has powerful methods. His strategy to open up the south was to leverage the powerful families in Jingzhou.
Yan Xiang directly split up the big families in Jingzhou and ordered the people who separated from the big families to live in remote places in the south. Of course, as long as they go south, the government will provide certain benefits. They can be arranged to serve as county magistrates in remote places in the south, or they can be given land.
On the surface, you gain.
However, if you want to secure the benefits in your hands, you must work hard and live a good life locally. In the end, the reluctant big family arranged for the family members to go south and farm the place.
Because Yan Xiang's arrangement is not just suppression, it gives opportunities and benefits for development, so it is impossible for the big family to rebel, and it is profitable anyway.
This is Yan Xiang’s blunt knife cutting flesh.
On the one hand, it weakened the local big families in Jingzhou; on the other hand, it tried its best to develop the south.
Under Yan Xiang's rule, Jingzhou had good harvests year after year, and granaries were constantly built near Xiangyang to store grain. As a person who has experienced many hardships and witnessed the Yellow Turban Rebellion with his own eyes, Yan Xiang knows the importance of food and grass.
Therefore, Jingzhou is now a prosperous place with abundant food and grass.
In the governor's mansion, in the study!
While Yan Xiang was dealing with government affairs, an attendant called Xiu Yiwei to report the news. Yan Xiang invited people in, and after meeting Xiu Yiwei, he received a letter from Lu Xuan. After reading the letter, he sent away the embroidered guard, and immediately arranged for Taishi Ci to come to discuss the matter.
Not long after, Taishi Ci entered, cupped his hands and said: "Yan Shijun!"
Yan Xiang said: "Sit down."
When Taishi Ci sat down, Yan Xiang directly told the news that Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were going to launch a large-scale attack, as well as Lu Xuan's order to prepare for war and let Taishi Ci wait for the opportunity.
Finally, Yan Xiang said: "Our arrangements in Jingzhou are based on the opinions of General Taishi. I invite you here because I want to know how General Taishi plans to arrange the next war?"
Taishi Ci thought for a moment and suddenly said: "This time we have a large-scale war with Cao Cao, the Governor of Zhou will participate in the war. My plan is to lead the Jingzhou Army to respond to the Governor. To me, this is the simplest arrangement."
Yan Xiang glanced at Tai Shici and felt relieved.
He was worried that Taishi Ci would be greedy and aggressive, so he specially called Taishi Ci to ask about Taishi Ci's plan.
Yan Xiang looked approvingly, nodded and said, "In that case, General Taishi wrote a letter and had it delivered to the governor as quickly as possible."
Taishi Ci nodded, immediately returned to the military camp to write a letter, and then sent his soldiers to Yuzhou as quickly as possible.
Runan County, Pingyu County, Yuzhou.
This is Zhou Yu's current state seat. After he captured Runan County, he took over Pei State, which was once occupied by Cao Cao.
Peiguo is the jurisdiction of Yuzhou. It was previously occupied by Cao Cao and was included in Cao Cao's Yanzhou. After Lu Xuan captured Runan County, the south of Pei State was Yangzhou Jiujiang County, and the east of Pei State was the Xuzhou area, which meant that Pei State was surrounded by Lu Xuan's forces on three sides.
As soon as Zhou Yu sent troops, he easily recaptured it.
As the former Zhongzhou, Yuzhou also had jurisdiction over Yingchuan County in the northwest, and Chen and Liang in the north. But when Cao Cao was in Yanzhou, he snatched all these areas and included them under Yanzhou's jurisdiction.
Zhou Yu now connected Runan County and Pei State.
This is what Zhou Yu doesn't want.
However, Yingchuan County was Cao Cao's key defensive area. In addition, counties such as Chen State and Liang State were adjacent to Yanzhou and were controlled by Cao Cao, making it difficult to attack. The key is that Runan County and Pei State controlled by Zhou Yu were once desolate places with insufficient food and grass, so Zhou Yu's focus has been on developing the place.
Over the years, efforts have been made to restore production. Several years have passed. Even though there are only two jurisdictions in Runan County and Peiguo under Zhou Yu's rule, Zhou Yu used the water vein network in Yuzhou to introduce paper production lines and also introduced ticket numbers. , and other businesses, Zhou Yu is encouraging.
Zhou Yu also encouraged farming, which led to the excellent development of Runan County and Pei State.
Locally, people feel stable.
Every year in the Yuzhou census, the population is improving, and the population is steadily increasing little by little.
In fact, stability is a major prerequisite for population recovery.
The reason why it was difficult for places like Runan and Pei to develop during the Three Kingdoms period was because, as the frontiers of the war, Cao Cao never thought of developing these places. Instead, he simply moved the local population away and brought them back to his own jurisdiction for farming. .
It cannot be said that Cao Cao's approach is wrong, because if you don't rob the population, it will be easily robbed by the enemy. Even if the land is planted and harvested, it is easy to help the enemy. If Cao Cao does not take away people, it is tantamount to aiding the enemy and can only take away a large number of people.
This formed a vicious cycle, and frontier places such as Runan County, Peiguo and Jianghuai could not develop at all.
It's different now.
Yuzhou is prosperous and the place is stable.
When Zhou Yu was handling government affairs in the study, he finished reading the government affairs, looked down at Guoyuan who was assisting him, and said with a smile: "Zini, this year's autumn harvest in Yuzhou has begun. I have roughly estimated that the food in Yuzhou is further sufficient, even if it supports me to bring If the soldiers go out to fight, there will be no problem, right?"
Zini is the cousin of Guoyuan.
Guoyuan stayed by Zhou Yu's side and served as Yuzhou's special chariot, assisting Zhou Yu in handling Yuzhou's government affairs.
In recent years, Guoyuan has vigorously cultivated land in Yuzhou, encouraged people to cultivate land, and mobilized troops to establish villages. It was all arranged by Guoyuan. In addition, Guoyuan is responsible for all matters in Yuzhou.
Guoyuan was just over thirty years old, but his skin was tanned and he looked a little old.
This is caused by running around outside all year round.
Guoyuan's eyes were bright, his expression was neither humble nor arrogant, and he said: "Grand Governor, there will be enough food after this autumn harvest. If you want to go north to fight and prepare to recapture the Chen and Liang states that belong to Yuzhou, I will not stop you and let you send troops."
Zhou Yu had mentioned sending troops before.
However, there is no chance.
On the one hand, it was Guoyuan's obstruction; on the other hand, Yuzhou was not rich in food and grass. If he leads troops to fight and relies on Lu Xuan to provide food and grass in the rear, Zhou Yu is unwilling to do so.
He has been cultivating Yuzhou for many years and will rely on his own strength to achieve great military exploits.
Over the years, Lu Xuandong had conquered Youzhou and annexed Yizhou, but Zhou Yu didn't panic at all. He had his own plans and didn't feel there was any loss in staying in Yuzhou.
Zhou Yu stood up and said loudly: "With the support of Zini, I have no worries anymore. Especially since Cao Cao and the king are fighting fiercely in Yizhou, their eyes are on Yizhou Hanzhong. After the autumn harvest, it is just the right time for me to attack Chen Guo and Liang Guo. .”
His eyes were bright.
There was an expectant look on his angular face.
"Report!"
At this moment, an attendant came in and reported: "Grand Governor, a letter from the king has been delivered."
