Both horses and armaments are the top priority in training elite soldiers.

Among them, horse breeding is not suitable in Qingzhou or Yizhou, so in the end it still depends on trading with the grassland tribes, which will not be mentioned for the time being.

The other is armaments. There are not many iron and copper mines in Qingzhou, and the surface mineral reserves are scarce, making it difficult to collect. Most of the iron at the beginning was obtained through sea trade.The amount of money spent in this is also countless, and it can be regarded as a major project of Qingzhou's financial output.

If it is a large-scale military expansion here in Jizhou, food is not a problem, and armaments such as weapons and armor are the most expensive.

So You Hongyin decided to build large-scale iron mines and wrought iron workshops on his side to reduce military expenditure.

Yizhou is in line with this condition.

Sufficient iron ore resources, his apprentice Shen Yuan has already discovered several iron ore spots when he was drawing, but he understands that this kind of information is confidential, so he didn't even mark it on the map, but used flying pigeons through swan geese Send the secret pill directly to him.

enough manpower.Whether it is mining ore or forging ore, this process requires a lot of manpower. Qingzhou does not have too many free manpower, and Yizhou is suitable.

And once Yizhou starts to produce armaments, there is no need to worry about whether it can support itself. If it is not possible, it can still do arms business. Can some inferior armaments be sold to others.Ha, war money is the best way to make money.

In the end, the final plan was to expand the army in Yizhou on a large scale, and at the same time build new cities or expand old cities in various traffic arteries and old cities. For the convenience of transportation, a road was built to connect Qingzhou Yizhou.Of course, these jobs are mostly done in the form of corvee, but the treatment of corvee is almost the same as that of Qingzhou corvee, and there is some food and salary for the food.

When the cities and roads are almost repaired, they will start mining and smelting iron to make weapons and armor.In addition, fortresses and beacon towers were built in places relatively close to the city, and water canals were built in these fields for farming.

Afterwards, everyone discussed and revised some details of the plan. After it was finalized, some people talked and laughed. In the place where the lord is in charge, there are very few idlers and lazy people, and there are countless jobs to do in each of them.

Others echoed that those who are busy all day long don’t feel how hard it is. They all think that the hard work at this moment is just for a better future, for the care of the young, for the old, and for the world to be peaceful. , no longer wandering.

This is also the common wish of all people of insight.

Time flies, and it has been three years since Jiankang.

Sima Yue moved south with the emperor, originally planning to make Guangling the capital, but in the end because of the Chen Min rebellion, he settled down in Jiankang first, but when Chen Min was destroyed, Sima Rui, who had made great achievements, refused to give up Guangling.So Sima Yue had to compromise and changed the capital Guangling to Jiankang, and in order to show the new atmosphere of the new capital, he also changed the year name to Jiankang.

Sima Rui's title is King Guangling. Speaking of which, the titles of former emperors and dead princes are all King Guangling. Sima Rui thinks this title is very important. As a big city, Guangling provides him with unimaginable taxes every year. He didn't want to just hand over to Sima Yue.

Sima Yue's so-called "holding the emperor to order the princes" is effective for other people, but it has no effect on Sima Rui.

Moreover, compared to Sima Yue, who was once titled the King of the East Sea, Sima Rui has much more connections in the south. Most of the southern families basically support Sima Rui, and some northern families do not necessarily support Sima. more.Sima Rui sneered in his heart, he didn't know who the guy who suggested Sima Yue move the capital was, his head was broken.

Indeed, after the capital was moved, the influence of the noble families in the north was greatly reduced, and their influence was also much weaker than before. Of course, this was not the case for the top families. With a large land, it can still be the top aristocratic family just like in the north.What's more, they even deployed in the south early on, not only making good friends with the southern gentry, but also having disciples in their family who took refuge in the southern prince Sima Rui.

This is the family of the gentry, and it is very difficult for them to be loyal to one person, unless that person is the emperor who dominates the world.But it is this kind of multi-investment move that allows these gentry families to pass on from generation to generation. Even if one line is cut off, there is another line to protect.Otherwise, where did the theory of a century-old dynasty and a thousand-year family come from?

But soon, Sima Rui's face was swollen.

Although everyone says that the dragon crossing the river does not suppress the local snake, but the dragon crossing the river in a group is no worse than the local snake.

Sima Yue is indeed a wise prince.He began to implement overseas home counties.

What is Qiaozhi county?That is, the original counties were not moved, but new counties were chosen to accommodate the gentry and people who moved here from the north.

In fact, the northerners left their hometowns and left their hometowns. They couldn't compete with the southerners, but they could start a new one. The northerners lived together again, which was equivalent to transplanting the northern counties directly to the south.

It is a very shameless way of parasitism, but this kind of parasitic benefit delivery has relieved the northern gentry and temporarily stabilized it.

But behind this stability is the hidden conflict between the northern gentry and the southern gentry.

This method is indeed good, and it solved the biggest crisis at that time. You must know that Sima Yue's power comes from the emperor, but the emperor has the orthodox imperial power with the support of various gentry clans. If the northern gentry lose, the imperial power will also become a piece of paper. empty talk.

Sima Yue built the royal mansion in Kang City, occupying half of the street, and Sima Yue still disliked that the royal mansion was not grand enough, and it was not his fault. Since Sima Yue was born, the house he lived in was not as small as it is today. There is almost no place for wives and concubines to arrange.

Fortunately, he thought that the place where the emperor lived was not as big as him, as if he had found some kind of psychological balance, so he didn't spend much time on it.

Implementing the strategy of overseas Chinese counties and overseas Chinese counties has fooled everyone inside and outside the court, including Sima Rui, and Lin Sima Yue inevitably felt a little smug in his heart.However, some tips he received made him feel unhappy.

He chose to move the capital originally to avoid Liu Yuan.Liu Yuan was born in the Xiongnu, and his men were strong and strong, including the Xiongnu cavalry. He personally fought against this man three times, but was defeated every time. In the end, in order to preserve the vitality of the court, he had to choose to move the capital, avoid the edge, and seek an opportunity to counterattack.

But three years after the capital was moved, the north was not completely reduced to a ranch under the Huns' iron cavalry as he had imagined. A shepherd of Qingzhou who he picked out then somehow stole Yizhou and was able to stop Liu Yuan His iron cavalry limited his territory of the Han Dynasty to the grasslands and half of the state.

If he had known that this person was capable of doing this, he might not have given up on the north.

Originally, he was thinking of recruiting Guo Xi under his command, but he heard that this person was also a branch of the Guo family in Luoyang.Unexpectedly, when he thought of the Guo family in Luoyang, when he inquired about it, he found that during the migration process, the Guo family in Luoyang was attacked by the Huns when they migrated with the army. There were only nine people left in a family of hundreds of people. The people who use it are either too young for children or too old for the elderly.Unfortunately, Guo Xi's family members were all killed in battle.

This news inevitably made Sima Yue angry again. Guo Shi posted it when it was useless, but when it was really useful, it was completely useless. His past investment was wasted.

But even without these relationships, Sima Yue felt that recruiting in the name of the emperor should be feasible. One must know that the power of the orthodox emperor's order is very great.

Unexpectedly, a letter was sent out like mud into the sea. Only then did Sima Yue confirm that Guo Xi was sitting in two states and had soldiers in his hands who could resist the Huns. He might have already made up his mind to be the second Chen Min.

However, Jiangdong Chen Min has Sima Rui to cooperate with the southern gentry to deal with it. Who will Guoxi rely on in the north?

Wang Jun from Youzhou?

Sima Yue couldn't help laughing, now that Wang Jun might not be able to protect himself at all, how can he deal with Guo Xi.

Now I just hope that both Liu Yuan and Guo Xi will be hurt, so that he will wake up laughing at night from his dreams.

Although he understands intellectually, this is impossible.

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