After years of war, Bingzhou finally ushered in a peaceful New Year, this New Year of Jiaping four years, the whole Bingzhou is immersed in a joyful atmosphere, although the current Merge State, can not be called the country and the people, can not be called the peaceful and prosperous world, but there is no war, no famine, such a year for the people, is already very satisfied.

In fact, the people's requirements are really low, they don't seek to be rich and rich, they don't want to be promoted and rich, all they want is to ask for two meals a day, a night to eat, a place to wear, no need to leave their hometowns, no need to be displaced, that's all.

Now that the war in the state is over, and this year's harvest is good, and every family has surplus grain, such a day naturally makes the people happy, so this New Year's Festival is very happy, joy hangs on their eyebrows, but also hangs in their hearts, and the new year, let them look forward to it incomparably.

The lantern festival of the Shangyuan Festival is even more lively, the streets of Jinyang are completely a sea of lanterns, people are noisy, singing, and enjoying their joy.

Cao Liang paid a visit, walking in the crowded streets and alleys, his heart seemed to be infected by this joyful atmosphere, what is the peaceful and prosperous era, but it is just a group of hypocritical touting of the ministers, the real prosperity is not in the history books, only the people feel happy, feel down-to-earth, feel satisfied days, is the real peaceful and prosperous world.

What the common people want is just the simplest life, as long as they have no worries about food and clothing, they will feel happy, but it is such a meager demand, the ruling class of successive generations can not be satisfied, they just stop to squeeze the blood and sweat of the common people, forcing the common people to be desperate and have to rise up to resist. The so-called troubled times are not caused by the so-called "mob", but, on the contrary, it is the rulers who have brewed it.

Water can carry a boat, and it can also capsize a boat, no one understands this truth, but how many people really use it to really seek the well-being of the people?

The current situation of the state is created by Cao Liang with a lot of hard work, who wants to destroy him, Cao Liang is the first to refuse, whether he is the Sima family or someone else, if he comes to Cao Liang, he will destroy one, and he wants to destroy the good situation of the state, and there is no door.

However, although Cao Liang achieved a brilliant victory in last year's battle of Bingzhou, and even killed his biggest enemy Sima Yi, the critical situation of Bingzhou was not completely lifted, Sima Shi took Sima Yi's position, and his desire for revenge was even stronger, and he always had the idea of attacking and merging states.

According to reliable sources, Sima Shi has been in the workshop in Luoyang, large-scale construction of Gaoqiao saddle and bilateral stirrups, and a large number of war horses have also been transferred from Longyou to Luoyang, it is obvious that Sima Shi has reorganized the cavalry, with the current material and financial resources and manpower in the hands of the Sima family, it is estimated that it will only take about two years to rebuild a new cavalry team.

This is also the result that Cao Liang can estimate, because once he experiences actual combat, the secret of Takahashi's saddle and bilateral stirrups will definitely not be kept, after all, the threshold of these harnesses is very low, not to mention that Sima Shi got the sample, even if there is no sample, as long as he has seen the real thing, he can imitate a rough one.

However, Cao Liang is not too worried, because the construction of cavalry is different from other armies, if it is an ordinary infantry, it is likely that it will be able to be pulled to the battlefield after training for half a month and ten days, while the formation of cavalry is much more complicated, and it is impossible to train qualified cavalry without enough time.

And now Cao Liang will definitely not easily give Sima Shi the opportunity to calmly form a cavalry, taking advantage of the decline of the strength of the Sima army now, it is the best time for the expansion of the state, even if the cavalry of the Sima army has formed a combat effectiveness a few years later, but the strength of the army has expanded to a considerable scale, enough to have the ability to compete with the Sima clan in an all-round way.

After the end of the New Year's Festival, Cao Liang put into the time of the whole army war, and after forming an alliance with Biqiu Jian, it can be said that the situation in Youzhou and Merge is very good, although Cao Liang did not control the strength of Youzhou, but as long as Biqiu Jian raised troops to fight against the Sima clan, this is equivalent to one more help, if the help is really limited, but as long as Cao Liang enters Jizhou, Biqiu Jian will not lag behind, Cao Liang is more satisfied.

In addition, Cao Liang really doesn't have any other extravagance.

Biqiu Jian, Cao Liang still knows a lot about this person, he is hesitant at both ends of the end, so this alliance, Cao Liang gave the condition is to ask Biqiu Jian to release the document as soon as possible and completely break with the Sima family, only in this way can we avoid Biqiu Jian's capriciousness and stubborn confrontation with the Sima family to the end.

As for the ceded Pingshu and Lingqiu, it is more useful to Cao Liang, and it has extremely practical significance to open up the second route of attacking Jizhou.

Cao Liang's intention is also very obvious, he sent Yanghu to Lingqiu, obviously intending to let Yanghu create an advance base similar to the role of a bridgehead in Lingqiu, so as to make full preparations for the subsequent entry of the army.

The strategic location of Lingqiu is very important, just like a sharp knife straight into the junction of Youzhou and Jizhou, Cao Liang doesn't know why Lingqiu originally belonged to Jizhou before, and how could it belong to Youzhou to govern?

However, for Cao Liang, he didn't break the sand pot to ask in the end, even if he was a little curious, he didn't have to verify anything, no matter whether it belonged to Jizhou or Youzhou before, this time it completely belonged to Jizhou and became a part of Bingzhou.

In the future, whether the Bingzhou Army marches to Youzhou or Jizhou, Lingqiu will play its greatest role and value to provide services for the advancing army.

After Yanghu arrived, he did not rest, nor did he wait and see, but personally led his troops to patrol various places, explore the route of the march, and draw a detailed map, so that he would have the opportunity to bump into Biqiu Xiu.

The upheaval in Youzhou is certainly a sigh, but Yanghu also smelled a hint of a fighter from it, if Biqiu Jian is an ally, the Bingzhou army will not be able to attack Youzhou, but now Biqiu Jian was accidentally assassinated, and the Bingzhou army can completely open the door to Youzhou under the banner of revenge.

Yanghu reported the news to Cao Liang, and at the same time submitted his suggestion.