Rampage through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 301 Great Development

In the blink of an eye, it has been the fifth year of Jianxing. In the past year, there has been no major war in the Central Plains.

Needless to say, Zhang De had just occupied Jiangdong, and now when he needed to recover, Liu Chan had just removed Sima Yi and needed time to stabilize the interior.The three brothers of the Cao family had just become familiar with political affairs, and it was a pity to defend now, but there were many shortcomings in counterattacking Liu Chan, not to mention Liu Qi in Jingzhou, who spent the whole day drinking and drinking, drunk and dreaming, relying on Zhuge Liang to support the scene alone.

Speaking of which, Zhuge Liang from Jingzhou should be the most anxious at this time.Originally, according to Zhuge Liang's plan, after occupying Jingzhou, they should send troops to Bashu and occupy the land in Guanzhong. With Jingzhou and Yizhou, they can advance and attack, retreat and defend, and get one-third of the world.

But Liu Chan suddenly appeared and broke Zhuge Liang's plan. Originally, when Sima Yi was still there, Yizhou was an independent existence. At that time, Zhuge Liang was still sure to win Yizhou, but now it is different. Liu Chan killed Sima Yi. , integrating the forces of Yizhou, Bingzhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou, and Sili. Now that Sima Yi wants to attack again, he has to face the forces of Liu Chan's five states. In other words, Zhuge Liang has missed the best time to attack!

Zhuge Liang is not a god, and now attacking Yizhou must be a thankless thing, but staying in Jingzhou is just waiting to die.Jingzhou is the place where the Four World Wars took place, and Zhang De and Liu Chan are all watching Jingzhou covetously. If they don't expand, Jingzhou will be annexed by Zhang De or Liu Chan sooner or later.

Now Zhang De and Liu Chan are resting and unable to send troops. For Zhuge Liang, this is a great opportunity. I will take Jingzhou as a knife!

So Zhuge Liang decided to attack Yuzhou!
Now Nanyang is in the hands of Liu Qi. If you attack Xuchang from Nanyang, the road is not very far. Just like Cao Cao attacked Xinye in history, it is very easy to send troops from Jingzhou to Xuchang. Force, attack Xuchang.

At this time, Zhang De also started his own reform.

The first reform is the financial and business aspects.

China has always been a country that attaches great importance to agriculture, so those in power in the past dynasties have focused their attention on agriculture, but they have not paid much attention to commerce.

Zhang De, who came from later generations, certainly knows the importance of business.Commerce can promote exchanges between places, and more importantly, it can bring a lot of taxes.

The circulation of commerce is inseparable from the roads. When the roads are good, the goods can be circulated more conveniently. Therefore, the first thing Zhang De does is to build roads.

While building roads, Zhang De also stepped up efforts to eliminate bandits in the territory.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, the people were in dire straits, and bandits ran rampant everywhere, so doing business was a very dangerous thing, and the purpose of eliminating bandits was to make businessmen safer.

At the same time, Zhang De opened a bank bank in his own territory in the name of the government.

The main currency of Dahan is still gold and copper coins. Since China's silver reserves are not abundant, silver has not yet become the main currency at this time.At this time, the salaries of officials are calculated based on the amount of food.So Zhang De issued a large number of "stone tickets".

The so-called "stone ticket" is actually the silver ticket of later generations.It's just that silver was not widely used in the Han Dynasty, so naturally it cannot be called a silver ticket.And because the salary of imperial officials is calculated by grain, and the unit of calculation of grain is "stone", so Zhang De simply called the bank note "stone ticket".

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In the wave of Zhang De's reforms, a letter from the Northern Territory Protectorate attracted everyone's attention.

The letter was written by Lu Su, the governor of the Northern Territory.

Lu Su suggested to Zhang De that Zhang De could dig a canal from Youzhou to Xuzhou to strengthen the connection between the north and the south.

Zhang De has countless talented people under him, and Lu Su's suggestion quickly aroused everyone's controversy.For things like digging canals, there are naturally advantages and disadvantages, and the focus of everyone's debate is mainly concentrated here.

Digging a canal through the north and the south can firstly facilitate the transportation between the north and the south, strengthen the connection between the north and the south, and is of great help to the development of commerce; similarly, digging a canal requires a lot of manpower and material resources. At this time of competition for the world, It was obviously not a very suitable time to dig a canal.

But Zhang De knew that if this canal was dug successfully, it would be of great significance to China. The canal connecting the north and the south has appeared in history, and that is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal!

Emperor Yangdi of the Sui Dynasty excavated the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Although it was a waste of money and people, it was a great contribution to the Chinese feudal dynasty for more than 1000 years. For more than 1000 years, the positive role of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is beyond doubt.It was not until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that the southern part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was gradually abandoned, while the northern part was still in use until Zhang De died.

Zhang De wanted to dig a canal very much, but thinking about the strength of the Sui Dynasty, the construction of a Beijing-Hangzhou canal almost brought the Sui Dynasty to its end, and with the strength of his population, he had to dig such a large canal, and he still had to maintain it. What a mess, it is simply impossible not to cause too much burden on yourself.

However, Zhang De looked back and thought that he was only in his 30s this year. If he planned to dig a canal in 30 years, it would not be impossible.The total length of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is less than 30 kilometers. It is not very difficult to dig more than 50 kilometers a year in an average of [-] years.

In the fifth year of Jianxing, when Zhuge Liang and the three brothers of the Cao family were in a stalemate, Zhang De ushered in a period of great development. For a whole year, all the places under Zhang De's rule were under construction and resumed production.

An agricultural society is not like an industrial society.If the industrial society is damaged on a large scale, it will not be able to recover for a few years or even more than ten years, but the agricultural society is different. As long as the agricultural society has a harvest of food, it will be considered recovered!

Therefore, although most of the areas under Zhang De's rule were severely damaged by the war, the two bumper harvests in the five years of Jianxing made the people's vitality greatly recovered.Coupled with Zhang De's deliberate reduction of taxes in the five years of Jianxing, the production level in many places quickly returned to the level of the early years of Lingdi.

At the end of the fifth year of Jianxing, Zhuge Liang led the army and finally broke through Xuchang. Cao Cao's general general Jin and Li Dian were captured!This also forced the three brothers of the Cao family to retreat to the line of Chenliu in Runan.

The time soon came to the sixth year of Jianxing, which was also the sixth year of Liu Chan's accession to the throne. In this year, Zhuge Liang was still attacking Runan frantically, and Liu Chan finally made a move!
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