The administrative seat of Xuzhou is located in Xiapi.
Nowadays, Xiapi is prosperous and prosperous, and has become a commercial center, with many businessmen coming and going every day.
All this is attributed to Kuai Liang, the governor of Xuzhou.
Among the many civil servants under Lu Xuan's command, Kuai Liang was the first to be sent to the local area to serve as the governor of a state. Among the many civil servants under Lu Xuan's command, Kuai Liang's background, qualifications, and abilities were all the best.
Overall, he is second only to Zhang Zhao.
After all, Zhang Zhao followed Lu Xuan from the beginning and was a minister of the dragon, which Kuai Liang could not match in any case. So Zhang Zhao was granted the title of Marquis of the Countryside, and Kuai Liang didn't say anything and just accepted it.
When Kuai Liang governed Xuzhou, in order to stabilize the situation in Xuzhou, he appointed Cao Bao, the prime minister of Xiapi, as the prefect of Guangling. Cao Bao, the former confidant of Tao Qian, was transferred away from Xiapi and away from the core of Xuzhou.
After Kuai Liang stabilized the situation in Xiapi and took control of Xuzhou, he transferred Cao Bao back to Xiapi County and served as Xuzhou's farewell commander.
Nominally, Xuzhou Biejia is the second-in-command in Xuzhou. In fact, after Cao Bao resigned as the governor of Guangling, he no longer took charge of the army. The Danyang elite in charge was reorganized by Huang Zhong, and Cao Bao was transferred to a civilian position.
Cao Bao was not happy and had no choice.
Because the general trend is against Kuai Liang, even though he has some military strength, he can't resist at all. Because his Danyang elite were reorganized by Huang Zhong, their military pay and official positions were improved. It is impossible for these soldiers who have benefited to continue to quarrel with Cao Bao, nor to fight for Cao Bao.
Kuai Liang took advantage of Cao Bao and further investigated the hidden population in Xuzhou to weaken the big families in Xuzhou.
Ordinary people don't understand the operations of the big family and the power that the big family controls. Kuai Liang is different. He comes from a large family in Jingzhou and knows the core of the family very well.
The core is the controlled population.
Every big family, in addition to controlling a large amount of materials and connections, also has a lot of hidden people. Kuai Liang conducted a census of the population and arranged for people to pass orders. As long as the households were hidden, the government would allocate land uniformly after being found out. Many hidden households came out one after another.
After Kuai Liang checked the population, he further checked local officials and prohibited locals from holding official positions such as county magistrates and county magistrates. Once discovered, they would be directly transferred to other places.
This is a policy that the Han Dynasty has long had.
It's just that the dynasty entered a stage of decline and many orders could not be implemented. The local big families continued to take root and formed more and more power.
Kuai Liang attacked this category.
With these two methods, the powerful families in Xuzhou were weakened a lot. Although these big families still have a lot of resources, in the prosperous Xuzhou, if the big families are not in power, even if they are rich, they will have little impact.
Kuai Liang weakened the big family, further controlled Guangling County and Pengcheng State, and finally captured Donghai County.
The former Donghai County was captured by Cao Cao.
However, after Cao Cao entered Donghai County, he pursued the strategy of massacre and killed Donghai County into a river of blood.
Kuai Liang took back Donghai County, the people's support, and arranged for the garrison and development of Donghai County. After years of recovery and development, Donghai County has slowly returned to its former prosperity. After all, Donghai County can produce salt and has many other industries, making it easy to develop.
Kuai Liang was handling government affairs and looking through the population information submitted by various places.
This is Kuai Liang's top priority.
Once the population is checked and the accurate household registration information is available, the government can collect taxes and know how much mobilization capacity it has.
While Kuai Liang was looking through the information, there was a sound of footsteps. Shi Yi entered, bowed and said: "Envoy!"
Kuai Liang saw Yi and asked with a smile: "Ziyu, what's the matter?"
Ziyu is the symbol of Shiyi.
Yi is in her early thirties, with a Chinese character face, and a slight smile on her face at all times, very humble and cautious. In history, this man was a capable minister of Sun Quan. He once led an army to defeat Cao Xiu, and was appointed by Sun Quan as Shangshu Pushe. He was quite famous.
Shiyi is a native of Beihai, Qingzhou, and comes from a poor family. In the early years, the Yellow Turbans did not sweep across Qingzhou, so he worked as a minor official in Qingzhou. When Kong Rong was the prime minister of Beihai, Shiyi was appointed as an assistant in Beihai because of his outstanding talents.
However, he was once ridiculed by Kong Rong.
After the turmoil in Qingzhou, Shiyi went south to take refuge.
Later, Lu Xuan stabilized Yangzhou, captured Xuzhou, and appointed Kuai Liang as the governor of Xuzhou. After Kuai Liang recruited talents in Xiapi, Shiyi took the initiative to join him. Because Yi had experience as a county official and a county official, he was steady and cautious, and he quickly stood out and was appointed by Kuai Liang.
Today, Shiyi is the chief secretary appointed by Kuai Liang to assist Kuai Liang in handling matters.
Shiyi bowed and reported: "Reporting to the envoy, there is a letter sent by King Wu. Please read it."
He held the letter in both hands and handed it over.
Kuai Liang took it, opened the letter and browsed it quickly. After reading the letter, Kuai Liang had a thoughtful look in his eyes and roughly explained Lu Xuan's arrangements and the troop mobilization of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.
Then, Kuai Liang paused for a moment before continuing: "Let me just talk about how during this period, Yuan Tan kept moving troops and gathered in the north of Langya Kingdom. It turned out that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao wanted to attack the Wu Kingdom. Humph, Yuan Shao was self-righteous, Yuan Tan is even more whimsical. Does Yuan Tan think he can defeat Zang Ba and contain me, Kuai Liang?"
His eyes suddenly became sharp and he said: "Huang Zhong and I have stayed in Xuzhou these years and are unknown. It seems that many people don't take me seriously."
"Report!"
At this time, another attendant came in and reported: "Envoy, there are soldiers sent by Zhou Yu, the governor of Yuzhou and the governor, to see you."
"please!"
Kuai Liang gave an order.
The attendant went to inform him. After a while, soldiers sent by Zhou Yu entered, saluted Kuai Liang and handed over the letter.
Kuai Liang took it and browsed it quickly. After reading it, he couldn't help but chuckle.
Shiyi asked, "Why are you laughing?"
Kuai Liang threw the letter on the desk and said: "This time the king started a war and fought against Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. Zhou Yu and Tai Shici joined forces to break through Yanzhou and swallow up Cao Cao's Yanzhou. Zhou Yu's letter said, let's I will restrain Yuan Tan and prevent Yuan Tan from interfering with the situation in Yanzhou."
Shi Yi frowned slightly and did not express his position.
He believed that his envoy would not agree because he was also an extremely arrogant person.
Kuai Liang asked: "It's Yi, how do you think we should fight?"
Shiyi heard the inquiry and quickly replied: "Reporting to the envoy, Xuzhou has Xuzhou's situation and Xuzhou's arrangements. The battle between Xuzhou and Yuan Tan must be carried out according to our rhythm, and it is impossible to ignore the situation in Xuzhou."
Kuai Liang shook his head and said, "You are too gentle."
He looked at the soldiers sent by Zhou Yu and said loudly: "Go back and tell Zhou Yu so that he doesn't have to worry about Yuan Tan's threat. My goal in Xuzhou is not to contain Yuan Tan, let alone beat the drum. I want to kill Yuan Tan and seize Qingzhou. "
The murderous aura suddenly broke out.
Although Kuai Liang was a scholar, his courage was not inferior to that of a martial artist.
"As you command!"
The soldier turned and left.
Kuai Liang turned to look at Shi Yi and ordered: "Shi Yi, the war is coming. You are in charge of the government affairs of the governor's office and allocate grain, supplies, equipment, etc. I will go to the military camp in person to negotiate with General Huang."
"Here!"
Yesi answered immediately.
Kuai Liang hurriedly left the governor's office and headed towards Huang Zhong's military camp in the city to prepare for the next war.
