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Chapter 362 Cao Cao Invites Yuan Shu

The three prefectures in Hebei are already in the hands of Liu Jian. The next step is to organize the internal affairs, increase productivity, and make the territory rich.

It is estimated that it will take some time to unify the whole Han Dynasty. During this period of time, the three prefectures of Ji, Qing, and You, headed by Liu Jian, may face many wars.

No matter how rich and wealthy Liu Jian governs Hebei, any war will have a huge impact on people's livelihood. Whether it is a powerful family or a common people, they will bear a huge burden.

As long as Hebei's economy is still circulating internally, it will be difficult to remove this burden from the people of the Han Dynasty under his jurisdiction.

Since this burden will exist no matter how it develops, there is only one way to reduce internal pressure.

Shift the burden.

How to transfer the burden of Han people in China?
Colonize foreign countries, plunder the wealth and resources of other countries, transfer the burden of their own people to them, and let them bear the losses of the war for the Han people to the greatest extent.

This is a way of benefiting oneself at the expense of others, but in this world where the jungle preys on the jungle, Liu Jian can only do so.

Wolves eat meat, dogs eat shit, survival of the fittest is the law of nature.

If you don't control these neighbors when they are still weak chickens, scare them to death, and treat them like dogs, they won't appreciate your kindness when they rise up in the future, and they will still bark their teeth at you and pretend to be a calf.

Power grows out of the barrel of a gun, and fists are the last word.

If you want to colonize them, you must first do two things. One is that the productivity and technology are far stronger than them, and the second is that the military power is also far stronger than them.

As far as these two points are concerned, the Han Dynasty is indeed ahead of the surrounding alien races.

Especially after the endless iron ore has been greatly developed, the iron smelting industry under Liu Jian's rule will flourish.

Iron in this era is equivalent to oil in oil.

Whether it is people's livelihood or the military, iron is needed. In this era, iron has always been a strategic resource that is urgently needed by various countries, but it can never be satisfied.

Liu Jian's power is no longer short of iron, which means that his potential will become infinite.

When an army with weapons made of fine iron and more than half of the soldiers in armor stood in front of them, they asked them if they were afraid that they would die.

Including Xianbei.

Not to mention those Fuyu and Mahan on the border of the Han Dynasty.

Although these ethnic groups currently have a certain cultural foundation, they are far behind the Han people.

Moreover, Liu Jian also has a magic weapon in his hand that can open up the Northeast country.

That is graphite.

Processed graphite is undoubtedly the best heating product.

Like Yilou and Puyu in the northeast of the Han Dynasty, once winter came, the cold temperature was the biggest test for the survival of the local people.

This difficulty also applies to Samhan.

Even in the current Hebei area, many Li Shu died of freezing in winter.

However, after mass production and processing of graphite, it can effectively improve the living conditions in winter.

As a magical weapon for heating in winter, as long as it is combined with the design of the house with the kang style, it can help the people effectively prevent the severe cold.

For the common people of the Han Dynasty, after processing the endless graphite mine, there must be a reasonable price for the common people, so that most of the common people in the north of the Han Dynasty can survive the severe winter.

However, one should not be too polite to those countries and neighbors abroad.

If they want graphite for heating, they need to exchange it with resources far exceeding the value of graphite itself.

This kind of thing related to survival, as long as people who want to live, it is impossible not to want it.

Graphite is only the first step. With the explosion of productivity and technology in the Han Dynasty, there will be more commodities that they need to exchange for resources.

Once Pandora's box is opened, it is almost impossible to close it.

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Just as Liu Jian was sorting out the situation in Jizhou, Yuan Shao began to drive troops into Shu to assist his brother Yuan Yi in dealing with Liu Yan.

Sun Jian was responsible for the suppression of the disobedient forces in the south of Jingzhou in place of Yuan Shao.

However, Yuan Shu's power is stationed in the east of Yuzhou and ruled by Yuan Shao. The Yuan family brothers live in peace with each other for the time being.

But even though Yuan Shao allocated half of the Yuzhou territory to Yuan Shu, Yuan Shu still felt a little dissatisfied after getting these resources.

Yuan Shu has been a person who likes comparisons since he was young.

When his elder brother Yuan Ji was around, Yuan Shu didn't dare to compete with his elder brother, but since Yuan Ji died, Yuan Shu was not afraid of anyone.

From Yuan Shu's point of view, the generation of Yuan Shao, Dong Zhuo, and Liu Jian are not enough to be compared with him.

But unfortunately, these people are now more powerful than themselves.

Hearing that Liu Deran has captured Youzhou and almost unified Hebei, this really made Yuan Shu jealous.

A boy from the border county, the little follower who followed his elder brother's buttocks back then, now he is in the north, running around in Hebei! ?

And even though he has the honor of Yangzhou Mu, now he only occupies Huai and half of Yuzhou.

Originally, Yuan Shu had thought about taking over the entire Jiangdong area, but he never expected that when he pretended to be sick and confronted Yuan Shao secretly, Dong Zhuo, who was away on an expedition, did not forget to trip him up.

Taking advantage of Yuan Shu's complaint to the outside world, Dong Zhuo quietly placed many people in Jiangdong.

Among them is Yang Ci's disciple Wang Lang.

Due to the differences between the gentry groups in Kansai and Kanto, the Yang family of Hongnong and the Yuan family of Runan have always been divided in their political positions. Therefore, after Wang Lang arrives in Jiangdong, he will not easily fall to Yuan Shu. Self-protection.

There was also Liu Yao, a clan member of the Han Dynasty, who also went to Wu Jun as the prefect.

Although Yuan Shu has the backing of Yuan's family, his reputation cannot be compared with Yuan Shao's.

Even if the golden body of Yuan Shao's role model in the world has been broken, compared with Yuan Shu, he is still a few blocks away.

After all, Yuan Shu's previous reputation was really bad. Although he was known as a hero and hero, most of his reputation was still for idleness and not doing business properly.

So it is indeed more difficult for him to unify Yangzhou than Yuan Shao.

In particular, although Shouchun and Jiangdong counties are both in Yangzhou, Jiujiang and Luyang are located to the west of the Yangtze River, while Wujun Danyang and other places are located in the southeast of the Yangtze River. In terms of geography, there is a certain separation.

After entering the eastern part of Yuzhou, Yuan Shu's generals Zhang Xun, Qiao Rui and others advised Yuan Shu one after another that they wanted to invite Yuan Shu to send troops to the east of the Yangtze River and unify the whole territory of Yangzhou in the name of state herdsmen.

It was originally a logical strategy, but Yuan Shu did not rush to agree.

Although Jiangdong has a vast area, it does not belong to the economic and political center of the Han Dynasty. In a sense, it belongs to the borderlands, and even most of the areas are undeveloped wilderness.

As a child of the Yuan family, instead of expanding to the place where the economy was the most prosperous and the culture was the most distant in the Han Dynasty, he went east instead. This is really not Yuan Shu's character.

It can be seen from this that in terms of the overall strategic outlook, Yuan Shu is somewhat lacking. He doesn't know how to change his thinking according to the current situation, and he is too stubborn and arrogant.

At the same time, ordinary people can't compare with him in terms of making progress.

God seemed to be doing it on purpose. Just as Yuan Shu was considering the next strategy of advancing troops, an envoy from an "old friend" came to Yuan Shu.

This person is Cao Cao's subordinate, Cheng Yu from Dongjun.

Now Cao Cao has transferred from Shanyang County in Yanzhou to Dongjun County, and under Yuan Shao's recommendation, he became the prefect of Dongjun County.

Qiao Mao, the former prefect of Dongjun, was killed by Liu Dai in the firefight with Liu Dai. Yuan Shao was very dissatisfied with Liu Dai's behavior of expanding his strength without authorization, so he asked Cao Cao to go to Dongjun to replace Qiao Mao, and directly cut Liu Dai from integrating Yanzhou thoughts.

In Yuan Shao's concept, the boundary of Yanzhou was the buffer zone for him, Liu Jian, and Dong Zhuo. It would be best if all the younger brothers defended the front line for him again. He resolutely did not allow a unified force to appear here.

After Cao Cao was stationed in Dongjun, he did not expect that the Black Mountain Army in Taihang would not invade Jizhou now, but would go straight to Yanzhou and wreak havoc in the Central Plains.

In fact, the Black Mountain Army has nothing to do. Today's Jizhou and Youzhou are connected together, and Liu Jian is very popular there.

People in the two states respect Liu Jian and vow to serve him with all their might.

Especially in recent years, many thieves and bandits who have invested in the Taihang have seen that Jizhou has rectified the government, the people have fields, the landlords are suppressed, and the life of the self-cultivating farmers can be guaranteed, so they fled from Montenegro one after another. Under the rule of Liu Jian.

Especially now in the Montenegrin Army, there has begun to be a trend of opinion that tends to rely on Liu Jian.

In particular, Chu Yan, Qu Shuai, who is currently very prestigious in the Montenegro Army, is very optimistic about Liu Jian.

He constantly chattered with Zhang Niujiao to recruit for security, causing the Black Mountain Army to be divided into two factions, one faction opposed to recruitment, and the other faction supported recruitment.

That's why Chu Yan dared to say this in front of Zhang Niujiao, because his prestige in the Black Mountain Army was too high, and he had saved Zhang Niujiao's life on the battlefield, so Zhang Niujiao didn't attack him.

If it was anything else, Qu Shuai dared to babble here, and Zhang Niujiao would not be relieved if he chopped it into a thousand petals.

In this state, if Montenegro wants to develop and survive, it is naturally not good to start with Jizhou.

Therefore, they can only aim at the Central Plains.

Therefore, under the dispatch of Zhang Niujiao, the Black Mountain Army united the prince Luanti Yufulo who had escaped from the Huns, and with Yu Du, Bai Rao, Sui Gu and others as the commanders, the army invaded Yanzhou's borders, plundered food and grass, and plundered the population. horses.

At this moment, Cheng Yu, Cao Cao's new envoy from Dongjun, came to pay a visit to Yuan Shu.

Cheng Yu brought Cao Cao's letter, and wanted to invite Yuan Shu to raise troops and settle in Yanzhou to help defeat the Yellow Turban tribes in Heishan and Yanzhou.

Cao Cao took the initiative to express his sincerity to Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shu was naturally a little skeptical. After all, Cao Cao was Yuan Shao's staunch friend, so how could he suddenly fall for him?

But Cheng Yu gave Yuan Shu a clever explanation.

He told Yuan Shu that the reason why Cao Cao wanted to invite Yuan Shu into Yanzhou had no other meaning, he just wanted to save his life.

(End of this chapter)