Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 18
"You said your name is Chen Qun, with a long character?" Zhao Feng looked at the county magistrate Xiaopei in front of him with an unbelievable expression on his face.This person is only in his twenties, with a gentle appearance.

"The humble job is right, is there any problem with General Zhao?" Chen Qun asked curiously seeing Zhao Feng's excitement.

"It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just that when I was traveling around the world, I once met a person who happened to have the same name as the county magistrate Chen." Zhao Feng responded, but his heart was overwhelmed: Chen Qun, the prime minister of the Wei Kingdom in history was almost the same as Zhuge Liang of the Shu Han, Zhang Zhao of Soochow Wu, who is equally talented in internal affairs, is standing in front of him like this, so he can't just let him run away.

Then, under Zhao Feng's insistence, Chen Qun and Zhao Feng went to Liu Bei's residence to discuss matters.Three days ago, Liu Bei led his troops to station in Xiaopei, and he sent Zhao Yun away the day before yesterday. Now it has basically stabilized temporarily, but a lot of problems lie in front of Liu Bei and others.

The first is the army. After several hard battles, Liu Bei led 18000 plain soldiers who came to rescue, and only 12000 remained.Fortunately, Tao Qian still gave Liu Bei 4000 Danyang elite soldiers as in history. In addition, he set up an ambush that night and defeated Cao Jun, and captured more than 5000 prisoners. Now the total force is still 22000, but the composition of the personnel is mixed. It takes a certain period of training and integration.

The next thing is to eat. These 2 mouths are really not what Xiaopei, a small county, can afford.Of course, Mi Zhu will be in charge of the logistics of the military supply, but Zhao Feng's style of opening his mouth is not in his style. How to solve this problem is also one of the current priorities.

The last is the future development. Now the situation is obvious. Tao Qian is determined to give Xuzhou to Liu Bei. Except for Cao Bao, everyone else in Xuzhou is also eagerly waiting for Liu Bei to take over Xuzhou.But Zhao Feng didn't want to wait for Tao Qian to die step by step, so he had to use the present to do something.

"Master, now we are obviously going to gain a foothold in Xuzhou. The most urgent thing is to send someone from Pingyuan County to inform Mr. Xianhe to come and join us. If the people in Pingyuan are willing, they can also let them come. After all, Xuzhou has just been attacked. When it came to the massacre, the population dropped sharply." Zhao Feng said first, and Liu Bei nodded repeatedly, fully agreeing.

"But we already have tens of thousands of people. If Xian and them come over again, the food problem will be..." Guan Yu didn't continue, but anyone could understand the meaning of the words.Zhao Feng chuckled, turned to Chen Qun and said, "Magistrate Chen, if it is combined with my method of deep plowing and grain cultivation, how many people can be fed with a small area of ​​land?" He was deliberately providing Chen Qun with a chance to show off.

As expected, Chen Qun did not eat dry food. After a little thought, he bowed his hands to Liu Bei and said, "Mr. Liu, although Pingyuan is a county, it is a small county; although Xiaopei is a county, it is a large county. Moreover, 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 find a way to accommodate them." Liu Bei's eyes also flashed when he heard this, and he looked at Chen Qun with more eagerness.

Zhao Feng went on to say: "My lord, since Mr. Tao Fu has announced that my lord is the shepherd of Yuzhou, why doesn't my lord take over Yuzhou?" In fact, this is also Zhao Feng's question. Why did he officially serve as the governor of a state in Yuzhou, but later, with the help of Liu Pi and Gong Du, he entrenched in Runan for a few years, always attacking Xuchang when Cao Cao and Yuan Shao were fighting, and Cao Cao was annoyed Zi Da fled to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao.

Sure enough, Liu Bei interjected: "The people's livelihood in Yuzhou is now poor, desolate, and the land is barren. What should I do there?" Zhao Feng didn't realize it for a while, and Chen Qun told him in detail.It turns out that Kong Xiu, the former governor of Yuzhou, was also one of the princes who attacked Dong Zhuo in the Eighteenth Route.The year before last, he had a quarrel with Yuan Shu of Huainan, and was defeated and killed by the latter's troops.In addition to Yuan Shu occupying several prefectures and counties in the present Yuzhou, Yingchuan was also occupied by Cao Cao, and the rest were almost all areas similar to the three no matter.Cao Cao in Yanzhou, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and Yuan Shu in Huainan who were close at hand all ignored them, and the imperial court was still held hostage by Li Jue and Guo Si, let alone cared about it, so they were all entrenched by the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army.All in all, Yuzhou is a mess now.Even if Tao Qian won the title of Yuzhou Shepherd for Liu Bei, it is not an easy job to be the Yuzhou Shepherd.

"In this case, why don't we take advantage of this. The land is barren, but I believe that with Mr. Changwen and I, we can still support the people." Zhao Feng thought for a while and Liu Bei was also a little tempted.But Zhang Fei said again: "The problem is not only the barrenness, but now the thieves are rampant there, how to deal with it?"

"Don't worry about this. We still have tens of thousands of soldiers. Even if we can't take down the whole Yuzhou, we can at least occupy a few counties. Especially when Runan connects Jingzhou, Yanzhou and Sizhou, it is a must for military strategists. As for the Yellow Turban Army, with Zhongfu here, it shouldn't be difficult to ask him to come forward to persuade those people to surrender." Zhao Feng speculated.

"What Bo Tao said is not bad. In this case, we will wait for Xianhe to come and join us first, and then we will find a way to calm down Yuzhou. Zhongfu, do you know the yellow scarves in Yuzhou?" Liu Bei listened to Zhao Feng's analysis, especially when it came to Runan The importance of it, I immediately made up my mind to put a stick here.Just to be on the safe side, I still asked Guan Hai.

"Don't worry, my lord. The two largest gangs of Yellow Turbans in Yuzhou are Liu Pi and Gong Du from Runan, and Liao Hua and Du Yuan from Wo Niu Mountain. These four people are all familiar to me. When I write to these four people, tell them The lord is benevolent, I think they will come and surrender." Guan Hai thought for a while before saying, and everyone was relieved to hear this.At this time, Zhao Feng suddenly remembered, in history Cao Cao sent his counselor Man Chong to guard Runan, why is there no one there now?
After thinking about it, it is probably because of his own butterfly effect that Lao Cao suffered a big defeat in Xuzhou. It is already a bit difficult for Huijun and Lu Bu to fight Yanzhou again. "Hey, you don't want Runan, I want it." Zhao Feng was very proud that he had unintentionally calculated Cao Cao, and it would be better for him and Lu Bu to fight each other in Yanzhou.Of course, this is too idealistic.

In the next few days, everyone is busy in their own way.Liu Bei and Zhao Feng looked at the map to study which places to conquer Yuzhou first. After all, they were short of troops now, and it would be bad if there was a large-scale conflict with Yuan Shu in Huainan.That's at the boss level, so don't mess with it for now, so some sensitive areas should be avoided first.Guan Hai was busy writing letters to his former colleagues in Yuzhou to urge them to surrender. Apart from big bosses like Liu Pi and Liao Hua, other such-and-such kings from such-and-such mountains also had to write letters, trying to do as much as possible to fight as little as possible. fight.Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were busy reorganizing the prisoners and training the new army.As for Chen Qun, he was planning to resettle the people brought by Jian Yong.

Half a month later, Jian Yong came with a large group of people.In addition to the original few thousand soldiers, 20 of the more than 15 people in Pingyuan County came to Xiaopei with Jian Yong, so Xiaopei, who had just experienced Cao Cao's massacre and looked a little barren, regained his popularity for a while.

It was already spring, and with Chen Qun's hard work, it was finally time to plant the grain.It is expected that when the summer grain is harvested, they will be able to enter Yuzhou.Before this, Zhao Feng and Liu Bei also studied the map carefully.Yuzhou governed eight prefectures and three kingdoms: Runan, Xiangcheng, Ruyin, Qiaojun, Chenjun, Yiyang, Yang'an and Yingchuan, as well as Peiguo, Luguo and Liangguo.Among them, Lu State and Pei State bordered Xuzhou, the former also bordered Taishan County in Qingzhou, and the latter also bordered Yuan Shu's Huainan.

"It's a bit difficult!" Zhao Feng looked at the map and said with emotion.The State of Lu is fine, but Pei State borders Huainan, and is currently being guarded by Yuan Shu's Chen Lan. Once a fight occurs, it will inevitably conflict with Yuan Shu.But if you don't take Pei Guo into your pocket, it will be difficult to get involved in Liang Guo and other places further west.The only solution for now is to open a road in the north of Peiguo, bypass the core area of ​​Peiguo, and go to the west of Yuzhou to rectify the forces.

"That's the only way to go." Liu Bei sighed after listening to Zhao Feng's analysis. After all, the strength in his hands was really insufficient.At the same time, news came from Jiangdong that after nearly two years of conquests, Sun Ce finally captured the six counties of Jiangdong, and he was faintly a prince.And last month, he and his sworn brother Zhou Yu proposed marriage to Qiao Xuan, a famous scholar living in seclusion in Wancheng, and married Qiao Xuan's two jewels, Jiangdong Er Qiao, who was famous far and wide.

(End of this chapter)