My Ji Han Dynasty was prosperous in martial arts, but I have always convinced people with virtue

Chapter 63 Enterprising
Lu Su came here with only one purpose, to fix it!

After a great war in Jiangdong, an internal crisis emerged.

After Sun Quan established the country, this crisis was suppressed.

However, the crisis still exists.

Therefore, Dongwu North and Cao Wei, West and Liu Chan still have to talk.

Lu Su agreed to Liu Chan's conditions.

Including officially recognizing Jingzhou as the territory of the Shu Kingdom and sending the families of Wu soldiers who surrendered to the Shu Kingdom to Wuchang City.

What Lu Su wanted was the Wu army's captives in Liu Chan's hands.

For Soochow, this agreement hurts the muscles and bones.

Sun Quan was self-righteous to Jiang Biao, and all the generals under his command were also called Jiang Biao's tiger ministers.

Soochow is based on the Yangtze River and a series of water systems, and controls the cities along the water system through the navy.

Jianye and Chaisang are the two most important cities under the control of Soochow, and they are also the foundation of Soochow.

These two cities represent two important food storage bases in Soochow and places to raise troops.

Soochow attacked Jiangxia in the early years, in addition to enmity with Liu Biao and Huang Zu, it was also to expand space.

E County, Xiling, and Xiakou are all villages along the Yangtze River.

Through these ports, Soochow developed step by step.

Now, these places have all fallen into the hands of Shu, which means that Soochow's external expansion efforts over the years have been in vain.

This peace agreement is a complete cut, which defines the boundaries of the two parties.

Lu Su had to do it.

For today's Soochow, [-] soldiers are a force that cannot be ignored.

Seeing the first batch of captives sailing slowly towards Chaisang in a boat, Lu Su also breathed a sigh of relief.

"His Royal Highness, with this great achievement, you can sit firmly in Chang'an, right?"

Liu Chan was on the side, facing Lu Su's question, but did not answer.

Lu Su's gaze was still very accurate.This is true for the Kingdom of Shu, and it is the same for Soochow's own development.

The two expansion directions of Soochow, Jiangxia City and Hefei City, represent Jianghan and Huainan respectively.

These two places are both fertile and fertile land that can support millions of people.

With Xiang and Fan falling into the hands of the Shu Kingdom, Jianghan land has completely become the hinterland of the Shu Kingdom. It will be difficult for Soochow to get involved.

"The chief governor offered the best strategy in the past to divide the world with Cao Cao, but now it seems that it is difficult."

Lu Su smiled wryly.

"Is His Royal Highness laughing at me?"

Lu Su's strategic plan to divide the world into two parts has affected a large number of Soochow generals.

Including Zhou Yu and Lu Meng, they are all true supporters of the two-part strategy.

It now appears that this strategy has become a theory on paper.

"No, I just told the governor. From now on, I will take Jiangling, Jiangxia, and Xiangyang as the core, and support millions of people. Jiangxia County, with Jiangxia County City as the foundation, has an army of [-], including land and water armies, reaching Xinyang in the north and Wuchang in the south. If the Eastern Wu army arrives in the future, the whole country will come here without fear."

The reason why Soochow wants Jingzhou is not only because of the fertile land in Jingzhou, but also because of the internal water system network in Jingzhou, which can allow Soochow's navy to exert its greatest advantage.

This advantage is already in the hands of the Shu army.

As Liu Chan said, once Soochow would attack Jingzhou again in the future, the troops from Jiangling and even Bashu would be able to quickly reinforce Jiangxia's front line within a few to ten days.

"What does His Royal Highness want to say?"

Lu Su was vigilant.

The principle of offense and defense is the same.

The Kingdom of Shu can quickly deploy troops to support it through the Yangtze River-Han River system, and of course it can also quickly attack Soochow through this waterway.

Liu Chan didn't threaten, but just changed the subject.

"I just told the governor that if Eastern Wu wants to take Jingzhou, it needs to attack Wuchang, Xiling and even Jiangxia City, so that they can see a corner of Jianghan, but if they want to take Huainan, they only need to get Hefei and Shouchun. Which one is easier?"

Even though he knew that Liu Chan's words meant provocation, Lu Su's heart still couldn't help beating.

Whether it is now or in the past, it is very difficult for Soochow to obtain the entire Jianghan land.

But Huainan is different.

As Liu Chan said, there are only two cities standing in front of Soochow, Hefei and Shouchun.With these two cities, Soochow's navy advantage can still be maximized.

Lu Su looked at Liu Chan and had a lot of words in his mind, but in the end, he put all these words down and only said one.

"Lu Su will remember His Royal Highness' words."

In the autumn of the 21st year of Jian'an, Wu and Shu signed a contract to exchange prisoners without fighting.

Cao Cao went to Xuchang, and moved the court of the Han Dynasty to You Beiping.In the same year, Kunyang Fortress was built and Luoyi was camped to guard against the Shu army.

After Liu Bei stabilized the various places in Guanzhong, he sent Ma Chao to lead [-] Xiliang iron cavalry to the north to stabilize Beidi, Xihe, Shangjun, Shuofang, Jiuyuan, Yunzhong and other counties, and their forces went north to the Great Wall.At the same time, let Zhang Fei and Pang lead the army to attack Hedong County, and lead the army to attack Tongguan!
Outside Tongguan, the camp of the Shu army.

Tongguan is the last fortress in the guard pass, and it is also the most important fortress, which can guard [-] troops.

Liu Bei led his army to attack for a long time, but still failed to shake the fortress.

Liu Bei felt a little regretful.

It's not because Tongguan is difficult to overcome. In fact, even if the pass is strong, Xiahou Dun can't last long.As long as there is a look at Hedong, Wei Jun will naturally retreat.

Now Cao Cao moved the imperial court to Youbeiping by means of iron and blood, and killed many dissidents.

Neither Xiahou Dun nor Zhang Yun are competing for victory with the Shu army at this time, but delaying time.

Liu Bei felt that his military strength had reached its limit.Relying on the two places of Bashu and Hanzhong alone, it is still a little bit difficult to support the army.

Now Liu Bei is considering the issue of governance in the future.

Should the capital be Chang'an or Chengdu?

Of course, Guanzhong needs to be managed, but Chang'an City is dilapidated, and it is temporarily difficult to set up the capital here.

What's more, the economic center of the entire Shu Kingdom is now in Bashu, Hanzhong and Jiangling.
Liu Bei must give priority to stabilizing these important economic belts, so Chengdu is still the most suitable place.

"Xiao Zhi, how do you say how to deal with it?"

"Your Majesty, don't follow the example of Hanzhong, guard Chang'an with the crown prince, and governor Yongliang."

Fazheng's answer was consistent with that of many ministers in the Kingdom of Shu.

"Adou can?"

Liu Bei doesn't have much opinion on the current strategy of the State of Shu, which is to use Guanzhong and Jingxiang as the flanks to consolidate the core economic zone of the State of Shu.

On Jingxiang's side, Liu Bei was very relieved that Guan Yu was there.

But here in Guanzhong, according to Lao Liu's idea, he guarded Chang'an by himself and let Liu Chan sit in Chengdu.

This arrangement is relatively safe.

"My lord, His Highness the Crown Prince is still young, but he has powerful weapons. In the future, His Highness the Crown Prince needs more prestige if he wants to revive the Han Dynasty. The battle between Jiang Xia and Wu shows that His Highness the Crown Prince is worthy of a great responsibility."

Fazheng's words reached Liu Bei's heart.

Chengdu is a prosperous and rich place, Liu Chan is there, he is only conservative, not aggressive.

"So, let Adou stay in Chang'an!"

(End of this chapter)