Wu Yi recognized Cheng Yu as the person speaking. At the wedding in Liu Yan's Mansion in Chengdu that day, he proposed to give Wu Yan to Liu Xin. Wu Yi is a very realistic person. Liu Yan is dead, and Liu Yan is also dead. Became a prisoner, so when Cheng Yu spoke out, he persuaded his sister. Now, Liu Xin offered to let him take Wu Cheng home. He was still a little reluctant. Hearing Cheng Yu’s words to persuade him, naturally. In the middle of his arms, he hurriedly said: "Master, Master Cheng has something to discuss, and I will leave first."
Liu Xin nodded and watched him quickly catch up with the group of Yizhou officials in front of him. Then he turned and asked Cheng Yu: "Zhongde, it's okay to say it, why not?"
Cheng Yu bowed and said: "Back to the lord, his subordinates had learned the art of face to face from an expert. Judging from the face of Miss Wu, she is really a noble person."
Liu Xin was not surprised. In his impression, he never heard of the meeting between Cheng Yu and Liu Xin. Liu Xin knew that the so-called noble appearance of Wu Xuan simply meant that she remarried to Liu Bei in history, and even after Liu Bei became the emperor. Being named a queen, however, Liu Xin didn't quite believe in these things, so he looked at Cheng Yu playfully and said, "Zhong De, since you know the face-to-face technique, then help me see how it is."
Cheng Yu lowered his head, arched his hands and said, "The subordinates dare not speak,"
Liu Xin smiled and said: "It can be your mouth, and it can be my ear. There is no third person here. It doesn't matter if you just say it."
Cheng Yu said with a stern face: "The lord's face is strange, the subordinates are not good at learning, and they can't participate in the research. It's just that the lord has a kind of kingly spirit, and this kingly spirit is different. What is it? Can't say it,"
Liu Xin has always believed that because people in ancient times did not know enough about things, they often believed in the doctrine of fate and used divination and face to determine their future destiny. However, after hearing Cheng Yu's words, he could not help being surprised secretly. , Cheng Yu’s distinctive qi of the king should refer to the identity he used to “stealing the king of kings”. If that is also a king, Cheng Yu can even see this. Maybe he does have any special skills. Maybe, even though Liu Xin thought so in her heart, her face was calm, and she smiled and said, "The first emperor once named me the King of Xiangyang, but I later resigned. The kingly spirit you mentioned probably came from here. Well, when it comes to destiny, my understanding is that one-third of the sky is doomed, seven-point depends on hard work, divination, or face-to-face, just treat it as a pastime, just laugh at it, don’t take it seriously,"
Hearing Liu Xin say that "three minutes is doomed, seven minutes depends on hard work", Cheng Yu couldn't help but stand in awe. He really didn't follow the wrong person, and became more eager to do meritorious services. He leaned forward and said: "Go back to the lord, there are still one subordinate Report the matter,"
It turned out that when he was in Chengdu, Cheng Yu saw that Wu Cheng looked strange, so he asked Wu Yi, knowing that someone had shown Wu Cheng's face, and told Liu Yan that Wu Cheng was a noble person. After Liu Yan knew about it, he wanted to take Wu Yan as a concubine. However, his father and Wu Yan’s father were usually considered brothers. Due to their seniority, he had to let his son Liu Yan marry Wu Yan as his wife. After Cheng Yu learned of this situation, he even more He strengthened his mind to persuade Liu Xin to accept Wu Yan as a concubine,
After years of work in the Phantom Spy, Liu Xin already knew that Liu Yan was desperately trying to take the position of Yizhou Mu, because someone saw that there was an emperor’s spirit there, but in Liu Xin’s eyes, these things were still a little illusory. Liu Yan did not become an emperor, but lost his life first.
Looking at Cheng Yu who was still trying to persuade him, Liu Xin waved his hand unquestionably, and said: "Zhong De, don't mention this matter again. Although Liu Yan colluded with Dong Zhuo, he is also a Han family clan, Liu Wei. The same clan and the same clan as me, how can I do something to rob his woman, so let’s leave the matter of Liu Wei and Liu Zhang to you, let them reunite as a husband and wife, and arrange their lives."
Cheng Yu couldn't help being disappointed. It was better to ask Wu Yi to take his sister home first, and then think of a solution later. However, Cheng Yu couldn't persuade him anymore, so he had to retreat only after Liu Xin had decided. ,
Liu Xin looked at his back and felt funny. People like Cheng Yu and Guo Jia were a bit ambitious, and they wanted to help themselves up, but there was no need to find a good-looking woman to achieve their goals, let’s talk about it. It’s not easy to find a good-looking woman. Bian Yu in his family should be no worse than Wu Cheng in terms of face-to-face response. Moreover, no matter how expensive a woman’s face is, it is useless. Liu Hao seems to be a short-lived ghost in history. I didn’t use Wu Yan for a few days. In the end, Liu Bei and Liu Yan, who had occupied the imperial city of Chengdu for so many years, only knew that they were successful in retreat and didn’t want to make progress. In the end, they were scared to death on the spot. Now, in the history of the troubled times, there are a few people who have really done great things through their fate, and they have not achieved their goals through their own efforts.
After thinking about this, Liu Xin didn’t take Wu Cheng’s matter to heart. The first thing he had to do was to arrange effective Yizhou officials. These officials were all retained. They were assigned to all counties in Jingzhou and were familiar with the whole of Jingzhou. The operation of government affairs, in Liu Xin’s words, is to let them go for internship first. After all, Jingzhou’s system has changed a lot compared with other places.
These officials are not worried about their future, because Liu Xin promised to let them return to Yizhou in a month, and Jingzhou's trade prosperity, economic development, and wealthy life made them deeply touched. In fact, due to the impact of the Yellow Turban turmoil, The economic and social life of the entire Eastern Han Dynasty, especially the northern states have been severely hit, and now the three southern states of Xu, Jing, and Yi are the richest.
These officials from Yizhou came from local noble families, and Liu Yan implemented a policy of emphasizing agriculture and restraining business in Yizhou. These officials have a lot of land in their homes, and the taxation policy implemented by Jingzhou will directly harm As far as the interests of these officials are concerned, Liu Xin is not worried about this. First of all, these officials do not have military power. Even if they rebel, they can’t make a lot of storms. Besides, if people are under the low eaves, how can they not bow their heads? They are all in the hands of Liu Xin. How dare they not implement the policies formulated by Liu Xin. Secondly, after these officials have stayed in Jingzhou for a month, they can definitely see that the development of Jingzhou has far surpassed that of Yizhou. Who doesn’t want to do so? My hometown is good. Liu Xin has reason to believe that it won’t take long before these Yizhou officials will be willing to accept Jingzhou’s set in their hearts.
The next day, the envoys who went to recruit and surrender the four counties of Central and Southern China all returned news. The prefects of these four counties were all young officials promoted by Liu Yan. These people, like Zhu Bao of the year, were most devoted to Liu Yan and refused. Not coming back,
In the four counties of Central and South China, the Han-barbarians live together, and the majority of them are the barbarians. However, the prefects and officials at all levels are all held by Han. These Han prefects have absolute power in the local area. They are veritable land tyrants. Now Liu Yan When they are gone, they can’t wait to get rid of Yizhou and stand on their own. Who is willing to obey Liu Xin’s orders, and the area is sparsely populated, and the roads are difficult and difficult. They don’t believe that Liu Xin’s army can easily fight there.
In fact, Liu Xin has the ability to penetrate the barbarians through the Alliance of Three Surnames, but now he can’t free himself to use troops against the four counties of Central South.
After the First World War in Luocheng, Liu Xin gained a new understanding of ancient military struggles. In the past, he had always hoped to make the army stronger, so he has not expanded the size of the army. Now, excluding the navy, his total strength is still there. There are more than 180,000 people, but half of them are recruits who have been in the army for less than a year. In the cold weapon era, the combat effectiveness of the under-trained recruits is greatly reduced. This is from the performance of the recruits of the Fifth Army in the Battle of Luocheng. You can see the clues,
And Liu Xin’s biggest enemy now is Dong Zhuo. He can mobilize even 500,000 troops, including more than 200,000 elite Xiliang cavalry. This does not include the Qiang and Southern Huns he may conscript. Cavalry, at the same time, Liu Xin faced pressure from the Dong Zhuo Group in three directions because of taking the Shu County. Although Dong Zhuo has always been content to be his super teacher in Chang'an in history, until he was defeated by Wang Yun’s serial plan. Lu Bu was killed, but now that Diaochan is not in Wang Yun’s mansion, the serial plan is definitely not possible. Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu will not be able to turn each other into enemies for a while, and Liu Xin is not sure whether Dong Zhuo will take the initiative to attack Jingzhou, so he must strengthen this. Defence in three directions, deploying the first, second, and third corps in Shu County, Nanyang, and Yingchuan, respectively.
As a result, Liu Xin's available forces are only the Fourth Army and the incompletely formed Fifth Army. The forces used by these two corps to defend against other princes are already somewhat stretched, not to mention actively attacking the Central South Fourth Army. The county, of course, Liu Xin now doesn’t have to worry that the four Central South counties will counterattack his turf. After all, the prefects have their own dignity, and they have not jointly elected a leader, and they have to be constrained by the local barbarians.
Liu Xin now recruits soldiers for what he needs to do urgently. The society at that time was still a farming society, and the population engaged in agricultural production accounted for the overwhelming majority, but the situation in Jingzhou was quite special. Due to the rapid development of commerce and handicrafts, the non-agricultural population increased day by day. In addition to the one-time recruitment of 100,000 new recruits last year and the recruitment of new recruits in Jingzhou, it will inevitably affect the agricultural production next year. Liu Xin knows the principle that food is the most important thing for the people. Agriculture is fundamental. Unshakable, this is also the reason why every year in Jingzhou recruits soldiers after the autumn harvest, so that it will be convenient for farmers who have lost their labor to arrange their farm work for the next year.
However, Liu Xin has already figured out that just one or two elite soldiers is not enough, and a sufficient number of elite soldiers is needed to ensure that his territory can have a stable and safe development environment, and at the same time free up his hands to slowly expand his influence. Therefore, the focus of recruitment this year has been on the four counties of Yingchuan, Qianwei, Shu County and Guanghan.
Originally, Liu Xin wanted to make a good plan for recruiting soldiers, but after receiving news that the four counties of Central and Southern China had refused to return, he immediately issued a recruiting order.