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Chapter 253 The restlessness is Yuan Shao

Zhao Xing didn't leave! He was going to celebrate the New Year in Jizhou! This made Yuan Shao, the governor of Jizhou, feel very uncomfortable, and he was simply restless.

As the saying goes, "Why can you allow others to snore on the side of the bed?" At the beginning, I only thought of dragging Zhao Xing into the Yellow Turban Mile in Jizhou and consuming the strength of Bingzhou, but now it has become easy to invite gods and difficult to send gods to gods.

Zhao Xing's achievements were clearly visible. The imperial army and Jizhou county soldiers attacked the "San Zhang" for more than a year without any results. Zhao Xing brought Bingzhou troops to Jizhou and killed Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang in two months, without even a single scum left for Jizhou.

There are still tens of thousands of black mountain bandits in Changshan, Jizhou that need to be encircled and suppressed, and no one dares to let the Bingzhou soldiers go back now. If the front foot just left and Zhang Yan comes to attack the counties again, it will be difficult to resist with Yuan Shao's current foundation.

The troops in Bingzhou did not leave, and occupied the Taoist dynasty in the hinterland of Jizhou, which made Yuan Shao feel like he was on the back all day long. Taoist dynasty was only seventy miles away from Gaoyi. It is said that there are still 10,000 cavalry and 6,000 infantry in the Taoist city. If these people acted violently, they would be able to arrive at Gaoyi in one day and surrounded him, Yuan Shao, and could not move in Gaoyi City.

Yuan Shao is a governor, and he is really cowardly. When he is temporarily unable to compete with Bingzhou, Yuan Shao fully carries out the spirit of "I can't afford to offend me" and simply hides in Gaoyi City to manage political affairs. This time, Yuan Shao is a mistake and is forced to put aside his gains and losses before him and seek the development of Jizhou. This is also the fundamental way to win.

Yuan Shao has average ability to handle political affairs, but some of his subordinates are capable people. For example, the two brothers Xun Chen, Xin Ping and Xin Pi are good at governing the government. As long as Yuan Shao provides them with stage and support, these people will make a clue to the chaos in Jizhou in the shortest time.

Yuan Shao accepted the suggestion of the chief adviser Ju Su and submitted a letter to the court, recommending Xun Chen as the prefect of Wei County, Xin as the prefect of Julu, and Xin Pi as the prefect of Bohai. The other Hejian, Qinghe, Anping and other counties and countries also arranged for scholars who defected to the Yuan family to serve as important positions such as local county magistrates and county magistrates. Yuan Wei shook the flag and shouted to Yuan Shao in the court, and this personnel appointment in Jizhou was quickly recognized by the court. Xun Chen, Xin Ping, and Xin Pi took office one after another.

Wei County is next to Henei County in the Sili area. It has fertile land and convenient water conservancy. There are several big cities such as Yecheng. Neihuangdu is close to rivers and lakes. It is not only easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also has a prosperous population. It has basically not been harmed by the Yellow Turban Army. If the territory of a county is well managed, it can be worth half of the tax revenue of Jizhou.

Julu County is located in the hinterland of Jizhou, with Juhu Continental Ze, which is also a very important county. Although Zhao Xing has occupied Taocheng, the county governor, other places are still managed by Jizhou. In a fit of anger, Yuan Shao directly let the new prefect Xin Ping move the county governor to Pingxiang, south of the mainland. That's very obvious. So what if the Taocheng in Taocheng gives you Zhao Xing, can you still make flowers grow on the top of the city?

In order to make himself sleep more peacefully, Yuan Shao moved south to Yecheng, less than 60 miles from Henei County in the Sili area. Now Yuan Shao threw all Changshan Kingdom, Zhongshan Kingdom and Hejian Kingdom in the northern part of Jizhou to Zhang Yan and Zhao Xing. Anyway, those places are also mountainous places, and they have to produce but not produce, and have a large population. They decisively gave up some places, but they can develop several counties with good foundations and gradually accumulate financial and military strength.

Xun Chen really lived up to Yuan Shao's entrusted. After arriving in Wei County, he immediately rectified the administration of officials in various counties, appointed a group of officials, re-surrent the population of each county, and re-sumed all the barren land that had been deserted for several years to the county government, and then sold it to the refugees who had no land to plant at a very low price to increase agricultural production.

Xun Chen sent some officials who knew how to farm to Bingzhou to learn from and take the application of some new agricultural technologies very seriously. Although Jia Xu could not let these officials who came to Bingzhou see the core things, some of the content on the big picture could not be concealed, so he could only observe it. As for how much he could learn, it all depends on his personal ability and level.

The biggest characteristic of the Han people is hard work. As long as there is a safe and stable social environment and there is no need for the government to mobilize, the people will pour out from the forgotten corners like hard-working ants, starting another round of hard work and labor. In this case, less than a few months after Xun Chen and others took office, the people have begun to be busy sorting out abandoned houses and abandoned land. While winter has not yet arrived, wheat seeds were sprinkled in the field, waiting for hope to be harvested when the summer comes next year.

After Yuan Shao moved the prefecture capital to Yecheng, he began to follow the practice of Bingzhou, mobilizing the people to build the city walls and dig the moat deeper and wider, and replaced the defenders guarding Yecheng with the two thousand elliptical soldiers brought by Zhang He.

Given that the current economic situation in Jizhou has not recovered, Yuan Shao accepted the suggestions from everyone and did not recruit soldiers on a large scale. Instead, he learned from Bingzhou's experience and embarked on the road of elite troops. Since he wanted to take the path of elite troops, he had to have excellent weapons and equipment. If he wanted to have excellent weapons and equipment, he had to have a group of craftsmen who knew technology.

The blast furnace steelmaking that Zhao Xing built in Bingzhou is the highest secret. At present, no one outside can sneak into the steelmaking workshop within ten miles, so there is no way to know the reason why Bingzhou produces good steel. He only thought that Zhao Xing had thousands of craftsmen to build such a large number of excellent weapons. Yuan Shao was forced by Zhao Xing and had to recruit various craftsmen everywhere, hoping to establish his own weapon production system.

There are some masters who can make irons in the world. Although their skills may not be better than Bingzhou, they can still find some when they search carefully. This time, Yuan Shao found hundreds of craftsmen who knew how to make weapons and protected them like gold lumps, for fear that Zhao Xing would dig them to Bingzhou again.

According to the conditions proposed by Zhang He, Yuan Shao selected 5,000 elite soldiers for Zhang He to train as the second batch of halberd soldiers, while hundreds of craftsmen worked hard to build weapons and armor for these 5,000 elite soldiers.

Yuan Shao's series of actions fell into the eyes of Li Jinsi in Taocheng. He would regularly collect and organize the situation in Jizhou and order people to send it to Zhao Xing by encrypting it. Zhao Xing could not interfere with or stop Yuan Shao's actions. After all, Yuan Shao is now forced to develop the economy by Zhao Xing, which is a great thing for the people who have tasted enough of the Yellow Turban disaster. If Zhao Xing makes trouble, he will be a little unpolitical and moral.

Zhao Xing only instructed Li Jinsi to pay close attention to the training and military maintenance of the Jizhou Euphorbia, and also found a way to build Taocheng into a trading city for purchasing Jizhou minerals and selling various Bingzhou products. The filth between Zhao Xing and Yuan Shao cannot delay the business between the two states. After all, the circulation of goods is a good thing for ordinary people and those in power.
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