The situation in Yangzhou and Yizhou is different from that in Jingzhou.

It should be said that with Liu Biao's efforts, Jingzhou's situation in southern Jingnan is much better than that of the southern part of the other two states.

The hundreds of thousands of Shanyue thieves on the scale of Yangzhou are also beneficial to the vassal barbarians all over the territory, which are very tricky.

Zhang Liao has been fighting for several years, and now Wu County, Danyang County and Luling County have been basically swept away, and the northern part of Huiji County has been basically swept away.

Now Zhang Liao is leading the army deep into the southern part of Yuzhang County and Huiji County to carry out the final liquidation of the Shanyue group entrenched in the southern part of Yuzhang County and Huiji County.

Because Zhang Liao launched the war relatively suddenly, he did not give the Shanyue group any respite, so the Shanyue group, whose activity area was in the northeast of the Yangtze River at the beginning, was considered to have fallen into blood mold.

They were almost uprooted by Zhang Liao, and the rest of the people saw that the situation was not good, and realized that the Wei people had turned their faces and did not recognize people, so they ran south without their lives.

Of course, Zhang Liao would not let them go, chased them all the way, and completely attacked them with the cruel mode of setting fire to the mountain.

In the past few years, he led the Wei army deep into places where the Han forces had never penetrated and really mastered, and advanced southward through thorns and thorns, which was almost equivalent to opening up new territories.

The northeastern part of the river has been cleared out, and the area from the southeast of the river to the north of Wuling is still under fierce fighting.

Mainly hilly, the jungle is lush, and the whereabouts of the aborigines and the remaining mountain thieves are quite difficult to trace.

In order to reduce the casualties of the Wei army, Zhang Liao could only use the mode of setting fire to the mountain while opening up and fighting, which was more time-consuming and labor-intensive, but highly efficient.

Guo Peng had no doubt that Zhang Liao would be able to successfully reach the Wuling area and wipe out all the remaining Shanyue thieves, but this obviously took time.

The same is true for Yizhou.

The plan formulated by Man Chong for Yizhou is three steps, the first step is to eliminate the bandits, the second step is to eliminate the subject countries, and the third step is to open up the four counties of Nanzhong to the south.

By May of the third year of Yande, the first step had been completed, and the thieves who had swarmed in Yizhou had been suppressed and eliminated by the Wei army.

The Wei army once again demonstrated its formidable force and unshakable dominance, and Manchu also initially established his prestige.

Then there was the second step, where Lejin and Fazheng Deng Zhi and others made a plan and adopted a model similar to that of long-distance and close-range attacks.

Pacify distant areas, **** closer areas, and then forcibly find an excuse and then go to war.

The plan was very smooth, and by July of the third year of Yande, the subject states of Guanghan and Shu had been pacified, and the Wei army won a complete victory, beheading more than 3,000 people and gaining more than 100,000 people.

Then Lejin began to plan to do it to the people in the land of Samba.

At that time, when attacking Yizhou, the people once sent troops and horses to help Liu Zhang, which brought some trouble to the Wei army and made Le Jin very angry.

After the capture of Yizhou, the surrender officials of Yizhou reported that it was caused by the help of others.

At that time, Lejin had the idea of exterminating the people.

Later, under Zhang Song's inform, Le Jin learned that there had also been disagreements within the people because of whether they wanted to help Liu Zhang, some of the people chose to help, and some of the people refused to help and refused to be enemies of the Wei army.

Obviously, one pot is not suitable, the combat effectiveness of the people is quite strong, and if one pot is ended, it is inevitable to concentrate the main force to launch a sabotage attack on it, but at the moment Lejin does not have this condition.

So Lejin decided to adopt Fa Zheng and Deng Zhi's plan.

Deng Zhi suggested that he should use himself as an envoy to contact those who did not assist Liu Zhang, make friends with them, establish contacts, and strive to win them over to fight for the Wei army, and then attack those parts that are against the Wei army, so as to reduce the offensive pressure of the Wei army.

In this regard, Fa Zheng also agreed, so Lejin decided to send Deng Zhi as an envoy to the envoy tribe.

This ancient and warlike tribe will eventually come to an end with its own choices.

However, in various senses, the Wei army, which has achieved great combat strength, is not the object of Guo's concern, and what he is most worried about is the issue of silk trade routes.

At the end of July, Guo summoned the actual persons in charge of the Cao and Mi caravans in Luoyang, and met them in his study.

"How's it going for you to prepare?"

"Back to Your Majesty, we are preparing for what Your Majesty ordered, we have selected a suitable caravan and suitable goods, just waiting for Your Majesty's order, as long as Your Majesty gives an order, we can immediately start acting and go to the Western Regions to do business."

Du Feng, the head of the Cao family's caravan, replied to Guo Peng.

Du Feng, the actual leader of the Cao clan's caravel, and Ma Yuan, the actual leader of the Mi clan's caravel, were both war orphans raised in Linzi.

They grew up in Linzi Camp since childhood, and grew up with the education of Linzi Camp, with superior talent and ability, and they are also loyal to Guo someone.

Realizing the importance of the big caravan to the country, while choosing to support the Cao caravan and the Mi caravan, Guo began to mix the Cao caravan and the Mi caravan with various excellent seed players carefully trained by the Linzi camp.

What happened outside the Linzi camp, Guo Someone couldn't completely dominate it, because he wasn't the real emperor.

But in the Linzi camp system, Guo is their master, their god, and can decide everything.

One word to decide everything.

From the very beginning to this large-scale secret organization of tens of thousands of people, Guo spent unimaginable money and energy to create the Linzi camp.

The Linzi Camp, which was eventually established and headquartered in the Taihang Mountains, was no longer a simple intelligence and espionage agency.

The intelligence organization that Yan Rou is in charge of is only an executive agency of the Linzi camp.

The training camp inside the Linzi camp is the real core part of the Linzi camp, and it is also the most important part that Guo has invested the most.

Taking advantage of the years of war, Guo collected war orphans on a large scale, raised them, educated them, and then became a high-quality reserve talent team in his hands.

The institutions that raised and nurtured these war orphans were the training camps.

After having the idea of establishing the Linzi camp, in order to expand his power and play with the Shi clan in the future to overthrow the Shi clan, Guo gave birth to the idea of secretly cultivating talents.

To this end, Guo Peng also ostensibly announced the implementation of the policy of education without class, using the bait of educating Li Shu to be literate and appointing Li Shu as a grassroots bureaucrat, and using Cai Yong to turn the attention of the scholars.

He wanted the scholars to focus on Taixue and Luoyang, so as to gain time.

And one of the real purposes of this is to hide the existence of the training camp.

It does cost a lot of money to train orphans in the camp.

Guo's small treasury is basically prepared for them, and the money is made in large quantities, but it is also spent in large sums of money.

It was Guo who raised them, and Guo was their food and clothing parents, which is true, without the slightest adulteration.

The Linzi training camp and the secret workshop are all in the Taihang Mountains, which are well hidden, and as a convenience, they use paper and books for study.

Not only did they study some Confucian classics, but they also received the knowledge education in agriculture, commerce, military, law, and intelligence that Guo had formulated for them, and moved forward in the direction of practical clerks.

Through years of experience gained from the war and governance, Guo personally took the time to guide the relevant personnel of the Linzi camp to compile teaching materials for the children in the training camp.

Then, we will use the outstanding orphans who have been trained earlier, select a group of them, and stay to continue to educate the new orphans, so as to form a continuous education model.

The training camp completely adopts the class system and discipline system, which is infinitely close to the modern education model, and is mixed with high-intensity loyalty education and a certain degree of military training.

The size of the training camp gradually expanded as the war of unification progressed.

The number of people ranged from a few hundred at the lowest to more than 5,000 people living in the camp at the same time.

Compared to the increasing number of orphans in the past, it has been much better recently.

Because of the unification of the country, the number of war orphans is decreasing, but orphans for various reasons still exist.

Guo will still arrange for a special person to pay attention to the Linzi camp, and once he finds out, he will adopt him and put it into the Linzi camp to raise him.

After the successful completion of the training camp, the people will continue to export to the inside and outside of the Linzi camp.

or enter the army as a grassroots officer, or serve as a grassroots minor official as a normal Li Shu, or enter the Linzi camp intelligence system, or join the two major caravans of the Cao clan and the Mi clan.

The main thing is to enter the intelligence system, work for the internal and external intelligence systems, and maintain Guo's control over the empire, which requires a lot of manpower.

A few people with special talents will be released to do other things.

From the Qingzhou era to the present, in the past ten years, in addition to the intelligence system personnel used by the Linzi battalion for their own use, only more than 2,000 people have been released.

In the final analysis, not every war orphan can join the Linzi camp, and whether they can join also needs to be screened.

There are many war orphans, but only those who are physically intact and mentally healthy can be saved, and they are only a small part of the total war orphans.

Guo wants to do charity, but reality does not allow him to do charity.

The purpose of his doing this is to need these orphans who eat him and wear him to work for him when they grow up, to become his most loyal pawns, and to carry out his will to the end.

Those who have physical problems and mental defects cannot enter the Linzi camp, and those who can enter are physically intact, mentally normal, and have a future.

It's an investment, not charity.

The people who come out of the training camp are collectively called the training camp children, and the training camp children who have made achievements in various fields will be personally received by Guo someone, personally rewarded, and assigned more important tasks.

Du Feng and Ma Yuan are among the best.

When they were doing small things in the caravan, they showed their business talent and courage to go south and north, so they were noticed, and then stood out and continued to be promoted, and finally won the favor of Guo and were appointed with the actual management rights of the two caravans.