The Battle of Central Plains has come to an end, and it is approaching the end of the year. Everyone should take a good look at the gains and losses of this year and plan for next year.

Cao Cao strictly followed the planned plan. After taking Yingchuan, he only stationed troops at the exit north of Yingchuan, Yangdi, and pretended to be uninterested in Henan Yin and Luoyang. At the same time, a large number of elite troops began to mobilize. Ji Ling's troops moved south to attack Yang'an and Ancheng. Cao Hong's troops went south to Chengong to mobilize, preparing to conquer the surroundings of Runan City.

Li Jin from Ruyang was transferred to the prefect of Yingchuan because of his proper conduct and civil and military skills. Zhang Xun cooperated with him as the commander of Yingchuan.

Xun You's army gave up all the cities in Chenliu and retreated to Chen County to set up defenses. Xiahou Yuan's army entered Liang State, and Xiahou Dun still defended Pei State, Peng State, and Cao Cao's army returned to Qiao County.

After this contraction, Cao Cao's defense line in the north can be said to be as solid as a rock. The three strong fighting legions were not afraid of Yuan Shao's pressure at all. There were Ji Ling and Chen Gong in the southwest. It was not very difficult to gradually recover the western part of Runan. As for the east and south, I won't talk about that for the time being.

On the surface, Cao Cao's adjustment was to shrink his troops from strategic offensive to strategic defense, which meant to stop the troops and stop the soldiers and rest, but if you think about it carefully, you would take back your fists and prepare to bombard them again, but it was quite intriguing where the target was.

Looking at Yuan Shao again, Yuan Shao really wants to take Luoyang. After all, the word "Yuan" is written on Luoyang City! Because Luoyang was once the capital of Zhong Family, in Yuan Shao's heart, it is not too late to follow others, but that was also the emperor of Yuan Family. Luoyang is also the capital of Yuan Family.

Unfortunately, even if Xu Youshenpeng did not try his best to stop Yuan Shao, he understood that occupying Luoyang now would definitely cause trouble. It was a foolish act that he jumped into the mud, but Yuan Shao's thoughts could never be extinguished.

After retreating, Yuan Shao refused to retreat again when he retreated to Zhongmu. According to Yuan Shao, Cao Cao left a Yangdi in his hand, and Liu Bei also built a fortress in Xionger Mountain. Sima Fang occupied Yiyang and Hangu, so why could he not occupy Zhongmu?

Shen Pei felt that there was nothing wrong with this. It would be better to occupy Zhongmu as a springboard in the future. It would be OK as the strategic depth of Kaifeng and Chenliu, but it would not be a bad thing in any case.

But Xu You was very disdainful. Now Yuan Shao’s problem is that his territory is large and empty, and Yanzhou is quite large. Cao Cao even took the initiative to withdraw all the troops of Chenliu County. However, he also swept away the population. The population of the entire Yanzhou is less than 1.5 million. You should know that during his heyday, the population of Yanzhou was as large as seven or eight million, which was one of the 100-two-two-one Han population and one of the richest areas.

Now that such a large territory has fallen into Yuan Shao's hands, this area with a very high degree of development can create huge benefits as long as it is restored. This is not only Xu You can see, but also those aristocratic men can see it. Their persistence in land is very amazing, so they have a firm and unshakable belief in the development of Yanzhou.

In the face of this belief, not only Xu You cannot object, but even Yuan Shao cannot object. Because of this, large-scale restorative development of Yanzhou has become Yuan Shao's top priority at the moment. To restore and develop Yanzhou on a large scale, solving the surrounding defense and security issues is the top priority.

In the northwest, the Iron Army's change of flag solved the big problem. Considering that the Taihang Mountain has been taken away by Fang Zhiwen from Gongsun Zan, there is almost no need to worry about Yuan Shao's entire Western Front from Zhao State to Wei County. There is also Iron Army defense at the junction with Hanoi, and the Western Front can be said to be worry-free.

There has never been any problem with the Eastern Front. As long as Yuan Shao doesn’t make a fool of himself and provoke Kong Rong, nothing will happen. The rest is the long southern front. From Mount Tai to Lujun, Shanyang, Jiyin, Chenliu, and a long defense line of more than a thousand miles is Yuan Shao’s biggest weakness now!

Look at Cao Cao's deployment. Chen County has Xun You and Li Dian, Liang State has Xiahou Yuan Legion, Pei State, Peng State has Xiahou Dun Legion, they are all main combat corps with strong combat power, with sufficient troops and strong combat power, and each one is a headache for Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao's deployment was that Yan Liang was in Mount Tai, Gao Gan was in Lu County, Pan Feng was in Shanyang, Zhang He went south to the southern part of Jiyin, and Yuan Shao personally took charge of Chenliu. On the surface, his strength was comparable to Cao Cao's, so there was no big problem in defending the southern line.

But if you think about it carefully, Cao Cao is behind him with mature development and mature transportation, with convenient transportation and dense population, and it is very convenient to replenish materials and personnel. On the other hand, Yuan Shao was covered in white land behind him. The Western Front is relatively good, and it is barely reasonable to be replenished through the Puyang Front. However, the central and eastern fronts are all devastated white land, and it is common to not see people for hundreds of miles. Replenishment in such places not only requires a large number of troops to escort, but also a large amount of the supply food and grass will be eaten along the way. He also needs to guard against a large number of wild monsters and the possible infiltration of the Cao army camp. When it really fights, Yuan Shao will definitely suffer a loss.

The problems facing Yuan Shao are quite contradictory. If you want to restore and develop Yanzhou, you need to defend and stabilize the southern line. You must first defend and stabilize the stability, and you need to recover the transportation and population of Yanzhou to a certain extent.

After thinking hard, Xu You and others finally gave a suggestion to restore the three lines first. The western front was Dunqiu, Puyang, Dingtao, and Chenliu, and the central front was Dong'a, Dongping, Rencheng, and Shanyang. The eastern front was Fenggao, Lu County, Nanwuyang and Zou County.

"At the beginning, this is all the plan. The population that needs to be moved from Hebei is about 2 million, and at least 1.6 million in the early stages can be maintained. When these important roads are normal, they are expanding to the surrounding area, taking the point to lead the surface, and fully restoring production in Yanzhou."

Some of these cities have populations, and some are completely military fortresses. What we need to do now is to transfer the population from Jizhou to the south. The Western Front is better. It can concentrate the population brought by Chenliu and Sili into these cities, and basically complete the deployment of the Western Front.

The other two channels need to migrate from the north to the south. Taking advantage of the slack farming in winter, this matter must be done quickly so that we can catch up with spring plowing in the beginning of spring next year.

This matter is easy to say, but it is not easy to do. Fortunately, there are a large number of strange people who can help, but Yuan Shao felt a little distressed when he paid the price, as well as the food, supplies needed for immigration, etc.!

Yuan Shao frowned and said, "This... has the money, grain, materials, agricultural tools, oxen, and seeds required? How much do we need to pay?"

Xu You turned his eyes and looked at Guo Tu. Guo Tu knew it and said, "Lord, I have already calculated it. It's worth about 270 million yuan."

"What?!" Yuan Shao almost jumped up from the ground, nearly 30 million yuan, and he didn't spend so much to fight Yanzhou. Now he has built several urban belts to support Yanzhou's defense. Is it cost so much to build more money than war?

Guo Tu smiled and said, "Lord, we have repeatedly calculated this, but it's too different, but..."

"But what?" Yuan Shao's face darkened. Among these 70 million, more than half of the people's pockets were probably flowing into these people's pockets. Yuan Shao secretly hated him, but he was powerless to do anything about it. Yuan Shao's power of the aristocratic race is now giving in to three points.

"But the lord doesn't have to worry, or there is a better way, the lord doesn't have to spend a single money."

Yuan Shao's eyes lit up suddenly, but he tried his best to ask without any haste, "Oh? What can I save such a big sum of money?"

"It's very simple, just exchange it for land!"

"Exchange land?!" Yuan Shao frowned slightly. This means, are they interested in the land of Yanzhou? The land of Yanzhou is very large!

"How can I change this?"

Guo Tu glanced at everyone and smiled and said, "This is simple. As long as you develop the land, you will be able to belong to anyone!"

Yuan Shao sighed in his heart, this is also a solution, but Guo Tu's appetite is too big? No, this is not Guo Tu's appetite, but the appetite of the entire Jizhou clan. However, Yuan Shao would not let them eat so ugly without restraint.

"Will this really be gone in Yanzhou's land in the future?"

"This...is unlikely. Now it's just developing cities along the route. In the future, the government will take a break and there will be more land development left! Moreover, these lands are not taxable. Lord, this is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone!"

"Haha, it's a good thing, but taxes...how do you pay your taxes?"

"Master, we all paid the taxes on time and in quantity!"

"Yes, lord, this matter is well documented!"

Yuan Shao's words immediately aroused a lot of troubles, and Yuan Shao suddenly felt a little regretful. He said that he was fine, why did he do this?

"Okay, okay, I already know this, but it is absolutely impossible for anyone to develop it, unless there is a proportion here!"

"Proportion? The lord means that developers need to hand over a certain proportion of development fields to the government?"

"Yes! I think it's 30%!"

"Lord, if the government doesn't pay a penny, it will take 30% away. Isn't this a fight for profit with the people? Besides, the government will also collect taxes. If this happens, it will definitely seriously undermine the enthusiasm of the people to move south. Isn't this a loss not worth the loss!"

"Yes, lord think twice!"

"Lord, the saint said to live in the people..."

"Enough, this is the final decision, 30% of the rest, all of them are considered to be the developers, and they will be executed as follows!"

Yuan Shao was angry, Xu You looked at him with a smile and didn't say anything. In fact, these guys may not really take all of them. They still make a profit if they share 30%. The land will continue to be produced! Yuan Shao just wanted to get a share of the pie, and he did not mean to really turn against the aristocratic races. Therefore, these two sides were just bargaining!

Xu You was not worried about this, he was more concerned about what Cao Cao was doing. (To be continued...
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