Gou writes entries in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 115 Internal Affairs Development
"It's unreasonable. We have tens of thousands of soldiers in Jiangdong and [-] elite soldiers in Jianye. Before we can fight, these rats are starting to think about surrender."

Sun Ce angrily kicked the couch in front of him, sending the solid wood couch flying.

"Brother, please don't get angry. My younger brother has also found some information in the city. The ones currently surrendering are mainly several aristocratic families in Jianye. Most of the generals in the army are still in charge of the battle."

The speaker was Sun Ce’s younger brother Sun Quan.

Sun Quan was born with a handsome appearance. Compared with the toughness of his elder brother Sun Ce, Sun Quan was somewhat delicate.

As the eldest brother, Sun Ce usually took good care of Sun Quan and never let him interfere in matters on the battlefield. However, now that Zhou Yu died in the battle, Sun Ce felt depressed and had no choice but to say these words to his younger brother.

"Zhongmou, I know that although you are not familiar with war, you are not a playboy, and you have a lot of troubles in your heart. What should we do with the current situation?"

When Sun Quan heard this, he pursed his lips and said slowly,
"Brother, the Jiangdong nobles now intend to surrender, mainly because our army has suffered several defeats in a row in the face of Liu Xuan, and every time it was a disastrous defeat."

"For example, in the Battle of Qu'a, Liu Xuan relied on only a thousand elites to capture Qu'a City guarded by 8000 people in one day, and even killed Pan Zhang in the battle."

"After this battle, Guangling soldiers slaughtered all the Zhang family in Qu'a. This spread Liu Xuan's fierce reputation and made the Jiangdong nobles feel scared. This is completely understandable."

Sun Ce also felt that it made sense after hearing Sun Quan's analysis.

Although he had 10,000+ soldiers, Sun Ce himself had some doubts about himself since he attacked Guangling last time and was repulsed by Liu Xuan.

I feel that Liu Xuan's 10,000 Tiger Camp is really invincible, and now there are [-] more trapped troops, which makes Sun Ce, who has [-]+ troops, not dare to take action rashly.

"Zhongmou, do you have any good ideas to stabilize the situation in Jiangdong?"

"I believe that to stabilize the situation in Jiangdong, we only need to stabilize the hearts of the nobles, and to stabilize the hearts of the nobles, a big victory is enough."

A glimmer of wisdom flashed in Sun Quan's eyes and he said to Sun Ce.

When Sun Ce heard this, he said with embarrassment: "Why don't I want a big victory? It's a pity that when Yan Baihu occupied Guangling, I didn't help him in time to defend Guangling. Now Liu Xuan's climate has become such that even if he has [-] elite soldiers, he If you go out, you may not be able to take advantage of Liu Xuan."

"According to reports from scouts, Liu Xuan has Huaiyin, Sheyang, Guangling, and Qu'a, and has more than [-] soldiers and horses under his command. Not to mention that he now firmly controls the river. It is difficult for me to defeat him. How can I say a big victory?"

Sun Quan was not as worried as Sun Ce. He just smiled lightly and said,
"Brother is in the middle of the game, but his vision is limited. Brother is right. It is difficult for our army to defeat Liu Xuan, but Liu Xuan only has 5 troops. To the north, we need to guard Huaiyin, Sheyang, and be able to send There must be less than [-] soldiers in Qu'a, which is enough to defend the city, but it is impossible to further attack Jianye."

Sun Ce retorted: "How is it impossible? Liu Xuan defeated Qu'a with 1000 men."

"The 1000 people who attacked Qu'ana are so elite, and their equipment is so extraordinary. I estimate that the resources to train such a thousand soldiers would be enough for 3 to [-] ordinary soldiers."

Sun Quan analyzed confidently, "Brother, don't worry. Even if there are 2 people stationed in Quacheng, most of them are just newly trained ordinary soldiers, and they are not even as good as our Jiangdong soldiers."

"So I conclude that after Liu Xuan captured Qu'a, he was unable to attack in a short period of time and would only take a defensive position."

Sun Ce said: "Although Zhongmou's analysis is reasonable, if Liu Xuan defends the city, it will be more difficult for our army to achieve a great victory."

"Haha, brother, we don't have to win a battle with Liu Xuan. The Jiangdong family needs to see our combat power, so let them see it. If we can't defeat Liu Xuan, can we still defeat others?"

"Others?" Sun Ce asked with some confusion.

Sun Quan walked to the map and pointed at a place southeast of Qu'a.
"Xu Gong, Wu Commandery. My brother will face Liu Xuan's entire foreign enemies in the future. The hidden dangers within Jiangdong must be eliminated first."

"If our army can defeat Xu Gong and take over Wu County, but Liu Xuan later dares not take action against Jianye, what will the Jiangdong family think?"

Sun Ce's eyes lit up: "I must think that Liu Xuan is afraid of our army's combat power and dare not act rashly."

Sun Quan nodded, "As long as Xu Gong is defeated and Liu Xuan does not send troops to Jian Ye, we can let it out ourselves and say that Liu Xuan does not dare to attack Jian Ye. The hearts of the Jiangdong family can be temporarily appeased."

"The current plan can only be like this." Sun Ce knew that Sun Quan's method could only alleviate the immediate urgency.

Sun Quan said in a relaxed tone: "Brother, don't be too pessimistic. As long as we can defend Jianye, we can wait for time and find a turning point."

"Where's the turning point?"

Sun Quan raised his hand and pointed to the north of Jianghuai on the map.

"Brother, if Cao Cao, who is dominating the Central Plains, knew that a tiger like Liu Xuan suddenly emerged from his bed, how would he respond?"

Sun Ce's eyes followed Sun Quan's fingers and he suddenly became enlightened.
"Wonderful, Zhongmou, with Cao Cao's ambition, it will be impossible for Liu Xuan to grow big in Jiangbei. As long as we can hold Jianye and drag out the war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao until the dust settles, no matter who wins, the next step will be The one to deal with must be Liu Xuan."

Sun Quan nodded and said: "So, we only ask for one word right now, stability!"

"Okay, as a brother, I will listen to you, capture Wu County, stabilize the people's hearts, and wait for the opportunity."

Sun Quan's analysis was correct. After Liu Xuan captured Qu'a, he was indeed temporarily unable to attack Jianye. He only transferred Qu'a's five thousand soldiers to Guangling.

A total of 5000 old and new soldiers were mobilized from all over Guangling and Huaiyin to garrison Qu'a.

After that, he began to manage Qu'a's internal affairs and restore trade between the north and south of the river.

In the late autumn and early winter, Sun Ce personally led three thousand of the most elite Lujiang Shangjia troops to break through the Wujun garrison of 1 people within two days, and killed Xu Gong, the prefect of Wujun.

From then on, except for Qu'a County, all other cities in the Jiangdong territory were under Sun Ce's rule.

In this battle, three thousand defeated ten thousand, and the Jiangdong family saw the combat power of Sun Ce's elite troops.

Although Liu Xuan occupied Qu'a, there was no sign of further sending troops to other cities.

Under the deliberate guidance of Sun Quan, most of the Jiangdong family believed that Liu Xuan was unable to attack Jianye in a short period of time.

The wealth and power in their hands will not be threatened, and the voices calling for peace talks with Liu Xuan gradually disappeared.

The winter of 200 AD passed quietly in relative peace.

After three years of development, the Jianghuai land has recovered from the shadow of the drought three years ago.

Thanks to Liu Xuan's governance and Cao Cao's focus on the war in the north, he had no time to go south.

From Huaiyin to Sheyang and Guangling, all the fertile land was developed by Liu Xuan.
Because there was a way to quickly improve the abandoned fields, Liu Xuan accepted almost all the refugees in the Jianghuai area.

Relying on the land reclamation incentive policy formulated by Liu Xuan, these refugees can settle down in their new place of residence within a year.

Life is even more nourishing than before in my hometown.

Communication in this era is underdeveloped, so the credibility of word-of-mouth is very high.

The new refugee income soon brought a large number of relatives and friends to Liu Xuan's rule.Those with more foresight could directly move all the residents of an entire village in a war-torn area or a barren area to Liu Xuan's rule.

Because Huaiyin County has an indestructible attribute bonus, it cannot destroy the expansion. It only built a wall dozens of miles outside the city wall.

The original Huaiyin County town became the central area, with the periphery being the residences of newly arrived refugees and the locations of new factories.

Qin Taigong grew up young and devoted himself to the family business. In three years, he had developed the silk brand "Qin Sang", which he collaborated with Liu Xuan, into the world's largest brand.

High-end products are supplied directly to the Imperial City.

Every year, while still collecting mulberry and raising silkworms, the finished silk products are already ordered.

With the huge profits, Liu Xuan took over all the mountainous areas within [-] kilometers outside Huaiyin City, and combined the grafting method so that the newly planted mulberry trees could grow high-quality mulberry leaves in the second year.

Moreover, due to year-round consumption of mulberry leaves whose quality has been improved through seed cassettes, the quality of silkworms in Huaiyin has gradually been optimized, and the quality of the silk produced is simply a dimensionality reduction blow to the silk produced in other places.

On this day, Liu Xuan met an acquaintance whom he had not seen for a long time in Guangling.

Hucaosi of Huaiyin, Xu Chong.

Over the past three years, Xu Chong has lost a lot of weight and his skin is dark, making him no different from an ordinary farmer.

"Xu Chong, Cao Si of the Huai Dynasty, has met Governor Liu." Xu Chong greeted Liu Xuan with a smile, showing his white teeth.

"Xu Hucao, long time no see. How are you in Huaiyin?" Liu Xuan had a good sense of Xu Chong. He was a very practical and capable local official.

Xu Chong nodded and said: "Okay, everything is fine, haha. I have been serving as Hucao Si in Huaiyin for so many years. Only in the past two years have I felt that I am really doing things for the people of Huaiyin."

"What did Xu Hucao say? You did a good job before," Liu Xuandao said, "By the way, you must have something to do when you come to Guangling this time, right?"

"Of course, I have wanted to come to the county governor in the middle of the year, but there has been a war here, and I know the county governor is very busy." As he said that, Xu Chong took out a book from his arms, and held it carefully with both hands. Holding pearls and jade,
"Governor Liu handed this book of agriculture and mulberry to Xiaguan two years ago. Xiaguan did not dare to delay and studied it with great concentration. I have to say that this book is really a magical book. The agricultural knowledge recorded in it, as well as the The annotations are all the work of painstaking efforts."

"Xiaguan has been researching for two years and finally figured out some ways. After experiments, it has been verified that it is indeed feasible. I came here to report to Governor Liu and hope to develop these industries in Huaiyin immediately."

"Oh? What kind of industry is it? Can you tell me?"

Liu Xuan immediately became interested.

Two years ago, Liu Xuan left Huaiyin, attacked Sheyang, and then attacked Guangling from a long distance. There were constant wars in between. He had no time to study these, so he gave the annotated Nongsang Collection to Xu Chong to study.

He knew that Xu Chong was a hands-on official who had lived in Hucao for many years and had rich experience in local farming and mulberry affairs.Let him study this Nongsang Collection, which will definitely be more rewarding than Liu Xuan's own understanding.

Xu Chong handed Liu Xuandao the collection of agricultural mulberry leaves and a booklet.

"Huaiyin's grain, mulberry, vegetables and other crops have been improved by Governor Liu, and the yield and quality have been increased to the limit. Therefore, Xiaguan has focused on studying how to improve the quality of meat in the past two years."

"This booklet contains Xiaguan's experimental experience in the past two years based on the methods recorded in the Nongsang Collection. Xiaguan believes that this method is completely feasible and should be promoted immediately."

Liu Xuan opened the booklet and took a look,
Large-scale breeding of domestic pigs

How to raise broiler chickens after [-] days of slaughter
Aquatic cage breeding methods
Among the three breeding methods, Xu Chong recorded the process and conclusion of each method in detail.

Moreover, looking at the clear organization and neat handwriting of what is written in this booklet, it is obvious that it was excerpted and compiled by Xu Chong.

That means that Xu Chong may not only have experimented with these three methods, but these three are the most successful and most likely to be implemented quickly, so he came to report to Liu Xuan in person.

Liu Xuan read it carefully from beginning to end. What Xu Chong wrote was very plain and easy to understand, and he recorded in detail various details such as improved varieties, disease prevention and control, and feed production methods.

You can absolutely follow this booklet and implement it step by step.

If it is true as Xu Chong wrote, then the freedom of pork, chicken, and fish will soon be achieved under Liu Xuan's rule.

Let alone the Han Dynasty, it is unimaginable even for China 1000 years later.

"Liu County Sheriff, I sincerely ask the County Sheriff for permission to start developing these three industries in Huaiyin. I am confident that within three years, the people of Huaiyin will be able to afford meat every month."

"No, I don't agree." Liu Xuan replied decisively.

"Ah? What, what, Sheriff?" Xu Chong was a little incoherent.

"How can the industry that Xu Hucao worked so hard to experiment be promoted only in Huaiyin?"

Liu Xuan smiled and said, "This kind of thing that benefits the country and the people should be promoted directly in Guangling County."

"Xu Chong, you are really wronged by the position of Hucao Si in Huaiyin County. From now on, you will be promoted to Hucao in Guangling County. You will immediately promote domestic pigs, broilers and aquaculture in Guangling County. What equipment and manpower are needed, please contact Zhao Liniang directly. carry."

"Ah this?" Xu Chong's expression changed from shock to ecstasy, "Xu Chong will definitely live up to the trust of the county magistrate."

Liu Xuan patted Xu Chong on the shoulder and said with a smile, "Xu Hucao, you have to take a long-term view and do something big. Guangling County is just a pilot project. If it works, the entire Yangzhou will be our territory in the future. You can use your talents as much as you want.”

Xu Chong's eyes shone brightly: "Xu Chong is willing to die for the county governor!"

Not long after Xu Chong went out, another person came to see him.

Indeed, Chen Zhou, the person in charge of Guangling Shipyard.

"Governor Liu, the first batch of ten sea-going ships has been built. Please go and review them."

Chen Zhou was also a little excited. What Liu Xuan had told him was finally completed as scheduled. The ship had been launched. After testing at sea, the ship's ability to withstand wind and waves was greatly improved after adding a bilge keel.

Liu Xuan and Chen Zhou came to the dock and looked at the ten huge ships in the port. The thick upper sails of the masts had been stretched out, and they were roaring in the winter sea breeze.

The huge steam engine whistle sounded at the stern of the ship.

Gan Ning and his navy have boarded the ship and are getting familiar with the performance of the new ship.

Looking at Gan Ning's excitement, he was obviously a little impatient for Liu Xuan's eastward expedition to Japan.

"My lord, Gan Ning is leading the five thousand naval forces under his command. Please go to sea to explore the unknown territory. I hope the Lord will be fair and accurate."

"Get ready, prepare the supplies and set out to sea in ten days."

(End of this chapter)