Chapter 8 The mess given for nothing

"You said your name is Chen Qun, long text?" Zhao Feng looked at the Xiaopei county magistrate in front of him with an unbelievable face. This man is only in his twenties and looks polite.

"The humble position is right. What's wrong with General Zhao?" Chen Qun looked at Zhao Feng so excited and couldn't help but be curious.

"Nothing, nothing, it's just that when I traveled around the world in the past, I happened to know someone with the same name as the Chen county magistrate." Zhao Feng responded, but his heart turned upside down: Chen Qun, the prime minister of the State of Wei in history, Zhuge Liang of Shu Han and Zhang Zhao of Eastern Wu, who was almost the same as the internal affairs talent, stood in front of him alive now, but he could not let him run away.

Then, with Zhao Feng's persistence, Chen Qun and Zhao Feng went to Liu Bei's house together to discuss the matter. Three days ago, Liu Bei led his troops to Xiaopei to station, and Zhao Yun was sent away the day before yesterday. Now it is basically temporarily stabilized, but a lot of problems are in front of Liu Bei and others.

First of all, the army. After several hard battles, Liu Bei led 18,000 plain soldiers to rescue, and only more than 12,000 left. Fortunately, Tao Qian still gave Liu Bei 4,000 Danyang elite soldiers as in history. In addition, he set up an ambush and defeated Cao's army that night and captured more than 5,000 prisoners. Now there are still 22,000 people in total, but the personnel composition is miscellaneous, and it will take a certain amount of time for training and integration.

The next thing is to eat. More than 20,000 mouths are really not what Xiaopei, a small county, can afford. Of course, Mi Zhu will be responsible for military logistics, but it is not Zhao Feng's style to open his mouth. How to solve this problem is also one of the current priorities.

Finally, it is the future development. Now the situation is obvious. Tao Qian is determined to give Xuzhou to Liu Bei. In addition to Cao Bao in Xuzhou, other people are also waiting for Liu Bei to enter Xuzhou. But Zhao Feng doesn't want to wait for Tao Qian to die step by step. He has to do something now.

"Master, now I obviously want to gain a foothold in Xuzhou. As a matter of urgency, I need to send someone to Mr. Xianhe to inform Mr. Xianhe and let him come and meet us. If the people of the plain are willing, they can also let them come here. After all, Xuzhou has just been massacred, and the population has plummeted. Zhao Feng first said that Liu Bei nodded repeatedly and fully agreed.

"But we have tens of thousands of people now. Xian and they come again. It's just a matter of eating..." Guan Yu didn't continue to speak, but everyone could hear the meaning of the words. Zhao Feng smiled and turned to Chen Qun, "Chen County Magistrate, if you use my deep cultivation method of grain, how many people can you feed in Xiaopei?" He deliberately gave Chen Qun a chance to show it.

Chen Qun was really not a cook. He thought for a while and arched his hand to Liu Bei and said, "Liu Shijun, although the plain is a county, it is a small county; although Xiaopei is a county, it is a large county. And Xiaopei's land is far more fertile than the plain. As long as the people under the king's rule are willing to come here, the group can have a way to settle them. Liu Bei's eyes also flashed when he heard this, and his eyes were more eager to look at Chen Qun.

Zhao Feng then said, "Master, since the Taofu has shown that the Lord is the herdsman of Yuzhou, why doesn't the Lord subdue Yuzhou?" In fact, this is also Zhao Feng's question. Although Lao Liu was known as Liu Yuzhou in history, he was afraid that he had not officially served as the head of a state in Yuzhou from beginning to end. However, later, with the help of Liu Pi and Gong Du, he was stationed in Runan for several years and always took advantage of Cao Qian to attack Xu Chang when he was fighting with Yuan Shao. As a result, Cao Qianyi was annoyed. I ran to Jingzhou to go to Liu Biao.

Sure enough, Liu Bei said, "The people's livelihood in Yuzhou is withered, desolate, and the land is barren. What should I do there?" Zhao Feng didn't react for a moment, and Chen Qun told him in detail. It turned out that Kong Xiu, the former assassin of Yuzhou, was also one of the princes who fought against Dong Zhuo on the 18th road. The year before last, he was at odds with Yuan Shu in Huainan and was defeated and killed by the latter. In addition to Yuan Shu's occupation of several states and counties, Yingchuan is also occupied by Cao Wei, and the rest is almost all similar to the three-inpartment areas. Nearby, Yanzhou Cao Yan, Jingzhou Liu Biao, and Huainan Yuan Shu were all ignored, and the court was still held hostage by Li Yu and Guo Yan, let alone care about it, so they were all dominated by the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army. In a word, Yuzhou is a mess now. Even if Tao Qian asks for the title of Yuzhou herdsman for Liu Bei, it is not easy to be this state herdsman.

"In that case, why don't we take advantage of it? The land is barren, but I believe that with me and Mr. Changwen, we can still feed the people. Zhao Feng thought for a little, and Liu Bei was also a little moved when he heard it. But Zhang Fei said again, "The problem is not only barren. Now that thieves are rampant there, how to govern it?"

"Don't worry about this. We finally have tens of thousands of soldiers. Even if you can't beat the whole Yuzhou, you can at least occupy a few counties. In particular, Runan connects Jingzhou, Yanzhou and Sizhou, which is a place for soldiers to compete. As for the Yellow Turban Army, Zhong Fu is here. It should not be difficult to ask him to come forward and persuade those people to surrender. Zhao Feng speculated.

"What Bo Tao said is not bad. In this way, let's wait for Xianhe to come and meet, and then find a way to calm Yuzhou. Zhong Fu, do you know the yellow scarf in Yuzhou? After listening to Zhao Feng's analysis, especially about Runan's important surname, Liu Bei immediately made up his mind to insert a bar here. Just for insurance, I asked Guan Hai.

"The master can rest assured that the two largest gangs of yellow scarves in Yuzhou are Liu Pi and Gong Du in Runan, and Liao Hua and Du Yuan in Woniu Mountain. These four people are familiar with me. When I write to these four people and tell them that the Lord is benevolent and virtuous, they will come and surrender. Guan Hai thought about it for a time, and everyone was relieved to hear this. At this time, Zhao Feng suddenly remembered that in history, Cao Qian sent counselors to guard Runan. Why is it that he doesn't care now?

After thinking about it, it was probably because of his butterfly's role that Lao Cao suffered a great defeat in Xuzhou. Now it is a little difficult for the army and Lv Bu to fight Yanzhou again, and they can't pull out their strength to take care of Runan for a while. Hey hey, you don't want Runan, I want it." Zhao Feng was very proud of Cao Qian for inadvertently. It would be better for him and Lv Bu to fight together in Yanzhou. Of course, this is too idealistic.

In the next few days, everyone is busy. Liu Bei and Zhao Feng studied the places to subdue Yuzhou first against the map. After all, they are now short of troops. In case of a large-scale conflict with Yuan Shu in Huainan, it would be bad. That's at the boss level. Don't mess with it for the time being, so some ** zones should be avoided first. Guan Hai was busy writing letters to his former colleagues in Yuzhou to persuade him to surrender. In addition to Liu Pi and Liao Hua, other big kings in a certain mountain should also write, and strive to fight as few wars as possible. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were busy reorganization of prisoners and training the new army. As for Chen Qun, he is ready to settle the people brought by Jian Yong.

Half a month later, Jian Yong came with a vast group of people. In addition to the original thousands of soldiers, more than 200,000 people in Pingyuan County actually came to Xiaopei with Jian Yong. Therefore, Xiaopei, who had just experienced Cao's slaughter, seemed to be a little barren, and regained his popularity for a while.

At this time, it was the beginning of spring. With Chen Qun's efforts, he finally had time to plant the grain. It is expected that when the summer grain is harvested, it will be able to enter Yuzhou. Before that, Zhao Feng and Liu Bei had also carefully studied the map. Yuzhou has jurisdiction over eight counties, namely Runan, Xiangcheng, Ruyin, Qiaojun, Chenjun, Yiyang, Yang'an and Yingchuan eight counties, as well as Pei, Lu and Liang. Among them, Lu and Pei are bordered by Xuzhou, the former is also bordered by Taishan County in Qingzhou, and the latter is also bordered by Huainan in Yuanshu.

"It's a little difficult!" Zhao Feng looked at the map and sighed. The State of Lu is fine, but the State of Pei is bordering Huainan. Now it is under the guard of Chen Lan under Yuan Shu. Once there is a fight, it is inevitable conflict with Yuan Shu. But if you don't pocket Pei Guo, it will be difficult to get involved in Liang and other places further west. It seems that the only way to open up a road in the north of Peiguo, bypass the core area of Peiguo, and rectify the western part of Yuzhou. After integrating forces, we can then oppress Yuan Shu with a two-sided attack.

"That's the only way." After listening to Zhao Feng's analysis, Liu Bei sighed that after all, the troops in his hands were really a little insufficient. At the same time, news came from Jiangdong that after nearly two years of eastward expeditions, Sun Ce finally conquered the six counties of Jiangdong, and he was vaguely a prince. Last month, he and his sworn brother Zhou Yu to marry Qiao Xuan, a famous scholar who lived in seclusion in Anhui City, and married Qiao Xuan's pair of pearls, Jiangdong Erqiao, who was famous from afar. For a while, he was proud of spring breeze.

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