"Wenruo, Gongda, I think you have heard from Zhicai that our Donghai County actually has an Donghai Territory."
"That's where I am Zhengzhen. You have been here for more than a month. Now it's time to take you to see our Zhengzhen power."
When Su Fan returned to Donghai County, he did not immediately take over Yuzhou. He now only has the title of Yuzhou Shepherd.
Moreover, Kong Niao is also the governor of Yuzhou. If he goes directly, there will inevitably be conflicts. In addition, in Yuzhou, the Yuan family's power is not small, especially since Runan is the Yuan family's home base.
Although Runan was devastated by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yuan family did not suffer much loss.
After all, the Wubao built in Yuan's clan is taller than many county towns, and the Yellow Turbans have never broken through it.
Most of the counties in Yuzhou are former disciples of the Yuan family. It is almost impossible for him to command these people.
Therefore, he will still follow his plan and take Yangzhou first. As for Xuzhou, it is his territory.
In the past few years, he has secretly controlled Xuzhou, not to mention Guangling County, and Langya Kingdom, where he also has great influence.
If Tao Qian had waited until Xiapi was handed over to him, he would have been a veritable Xuzhou Mu.
Yangzhou first, and then slowly swallowing up Yuzhou. As for Qingzhou, Guan Hai's Yellow Turban is here, and he can slowly support it from behind.
When he is strong enough, Qingzhou will also fall into his hands, and by then he will be the overlord of the four states.
This was also the future plan he and Xi Zhicai had made before.
Now that he has more talents from Yingchuan County, his plan can be accelerated.
These people followed him to Donghai County for more than a month, and gradually took over his government affairs. Especially Xun Yu, who is worthy of being a talented king and prime minister. In just one month, he took over his government affairs with ease. .
But then, the government affairs of the East China Sea Territory will become much more complicated.
The rune carriage drove smoothly on the wide cement road, with an average speed of fifty kilometers per hour without any bumps.
"Is this Chidao?"
Looking at the spacious road outside through the window of the carriage, Xun Yu's uncle and nephew were very curious. They had never seen a concrete road before.
It's just that the ten-meter-wide cement road surprised both of them.
Looking at each other, they felt that they had underestimated the lord. It was not easy to build such a road in this wilderness.
So what will happen to the East China Sea Territory that Zhicai often mentioned to them?
In Donghai County, they found that commerce was extremely developed, and there were endless levels of novel gadgets.
They asked Xi Zhicai and found out that most of the products came from the East China Sea Territory.
This time they were brought there, and they were obviously treated as confidants.
After thirty hours of running all the way, they arrived at the boundary of the East China Sea Territory.
"That is?"
Xun You's eyes suddenly widened. The countless horses galloping in front of him and the vast grassland made him mistakenly think that he had arrived at the grassland of the North.
"Is that a racecourse?"
"Racecourse?" Xun Yu's two uncles and nephews looked at Su Fan with wide eyes, "Master, you mean to build a racecourse here. How many horses are there in this racecourse?"
"Now there are almost more than 80,000 war horses."
Su Fan said with a smile that this was his biggest investment. He spent a lot of effort to build this racecourse. ,
On this grassland alone, he personally led a group of Taiping Dao Taoist masters and used various techniques to slowly build millions of acres of grassland.
It can breed up to hundreds of thousands of war horses.
"This is one-tenth of the price of the imperial court back then."
Shenhan also had a horse farm back then, where he raised millions of horses. Emperor Wu spent a lot of money to build this horse farm.
However, the establishment of the horse farm also brought him abundant fruits, that is, they almost wiped out the Huns barbarians.
As a counselor, Xun You had good military insights. He knew that the Central Plains was very short of war horses.
Almost all the divine men with the strength of cavalry came from the North. Even the Imperial Forbidden Army did not have many elite cavalry left.
As the ace team, the cavalry plays a very important role on the battlefield.
Eighty thousand horses can form at least a cavalry force of thirty thousand.
He didn't know the quality of the horses in this racecourse, but he had seen the three thousand cavalry under the lord's command before, and those horses were all middle- and upper-class horses.
Compared to the war horses on the grassland, those knights were even more terrifying.
In Luoyang City, he had seen the cavalry of the imperial imperial army. In terms of aura alone, they were not even as good as those under his lord's command.
Although Xun You was a scribe, he was very interested in martial arts.
"There will be more and more war horses in the future," Su Fan said confidently. Today's racecourse no longer needs to buy horses from the North, and ponies have been born at the racecourse in the past two years.
As time goes by, there will be more and more war horses.
As they entered the Donghai Territory, Xun Yu and the others suddenly discovered that there were more and more villages and towns around here, even more than the villages and towns surrounding Donghai County.
On both sides of the road, there were rows of houses and the golden wheat in the distance made Xun Yu feel a little dazed.
I haven't seen anything like this for several years.
Since the outbreak of the Yellow Turbans, when they traveled out, all they saw were scenes of people dying of hunger and bones lying in the fields.
They haven't seen anything like this for a long, long time.
It seems that this kind of scene only happens in the prosperous times.
"My lord, are there many villages and towns like this here?"
Xun Yu couldn't help but ask.
"Haha! There are many such villages. A hundred households are gathered here to form a village. There are only thousands of such villages."
"Thousands?"
"Doesn't that mean there are millions of people here?"
Xun Yu was no longer calm. He did not expect that his lord would establish such a large force in this wilderness.
This is comparable to a county.
"It's not just millions. Last year's census showed that our East China Sea Territory already has a population of over 11 million."
Because there is no shortage of food in his East China Sea Territory, the population is increasing rapidly. In addition to natural growth, it is also due to refugees displaced from various places due to wars and the absorption of Yellow Turban people.
Especially Guan Hai is still sending people to him from Qingzhou.
"so much?"
Xun You was also shocked when he heard this. The entire thirteen counties in Donghai County combined did not have as large a population as the Donghai Territory.
The area of Donghai Territory is only one-third of that of Donghai County. However, Su Fan's area is extremely productive and can naturally support more people with less land.
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