Two thousand sturdy soldiers and a large amount of grain and grass, armor, bows and arrows, iron ore, Shu brocade, salt, and a shipload of gold and silver arrived in Chaisang when Liu Qi needed it most.

Cheng Guan Gao Teng and others also recovered from their injuries and returned, and by the way, they took Yu Hou, who was obviously the owner of the wine shop but was actually a secret pile of Taiping Road, and was good at domesticating birds.

Fortunately, Liu Qi had the foresight to let Gao Teng take charge of this matter, otherwise according to Cheng Guan's temperament, he would have slashed the matter with a knife, Yan Yan according to Liu Qi's request to carry out a big inventory of all ferries, fishing villages, and post stations along the river, almost completely destroyed the intelligence network that Zhang Jiao had operated for many years, and many important people who were caught were killed on the spot, and more were escorted back to Yufu for execution, and it was impossible for Zhang Jiao to care about Yu Hou, who was not a core element.

Since Zhang Jiao didn't know that Yu Hou was captured, it was even more impossible to know that Liu Qi secretly sent Gao Jing and Gao Tai to lead a group of capable soldiers to Shouchun in disguise to rescue Yu Hou's family.

Who knew that Gao Teng knew Liu Qi's plan and took the initiative to ask Liu Qi to ask Liu Qi to let him go to Shouchun, Liu Qi was not good at refusing, so he asked Gao Hong to persuade him, but Ren Gao Hong wore out his mouth, Gao Teng was still resolute, and Liu Qi had to agree.

Two months ago, Gao Teng's father Gao Gu was dissatisfied with Gao Hong's father as the head of the family, and Wu Tao took the opportunity to instigate Gao Gu and Gao Hong's father and son to break up and go to Guanghan to take office, and the Gao family was divided into two, but Gao Teng was caught in the middle.

Gao Teng is not a son-in-law, not valued and favored by Gao Gu, but has been extremely close to Gao Hong's family since he was a child, and he admired Liu Qi's righteousness during the days when he followed Liu Qi, and he had already decided to follow Gao Hong and Liu Qi to break into the world, but his father's actions put Gao Teng in a dilemma.

The head of the Gao family, that is, Gao Hong and Gao Teng's eldest uncle had a deep talk with him before he died, and finally made a decision for Gao Teng.

In the Han Dynasty, the most important thing is filial piety, no matter what the reason is, once there is a violation of filial piety, it will be scolded by the world, leaving an indelible stain, Gao Gu is indifferent to his son who knelt outside the door all night, and has always closed the door until he left the Qu Ren and never saw Gao Teng again.

For this reason, Gao Teng almost drew his sword and killed himself, but fortunately, Cheng Guan hugged him and persuaded him for many days before he could dispel his will to die, and people close to Gao Teng naturally knew the reason, but there were also people who did not know why they liked to gossip and pointed behind their backs, and Gao Teng has been difficult to get out of the shadows.

Liu Qi knew that the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and Gao Teng wanted to escape the gossip and dilute the boredom in his heart by carrying out the mission, but Liu Qi had no choice but to let Gao Jing go to Su Fei to dredge and send additional people to Jingzhou to wait for the reception, and asked Gao Taiduo to follow with capable people to take care of everything.

A few families are happy and a few are sad, not to mention Gao Teng who is afraid of the New Year, Gao Teng at least has Gao Hongchengguan and others to accompany him from time to time to comfort, who can Liu Qi talk to?

After settling all kinds of supplies, Liu Qi spent the first Spring Festival in the Three Kingdoms period in the campaign, in the Han Dynasty, there was no Spring Festival name, but called the first year, and the celebration was not as grand as in later generations, especially in the army, Liu Qi and the whole army ate and drank together, even if it passed, this large group of rude men gathered together in groups to drink and brag, guess the boxing order, and Liu Qi, who was involved in it, did not have a special sadness under the excitement.

It was the season of cold and freezing, and Liu Biao and Liu Miao Yuan Shu already had the intention of quitting the war, because the winter battle was extremely expensive, and it was difficult for either side to eat each other in one bite, and no one could see any chance of winning.

Once the two sides stopped, they would notice themselves, so Liu Qike did not dare to wait until after the beginning of spring to act, and after preparing the subdued ordnance for the various departments, Liu Qi ordered Liang Feng and Gao Hong to immediately march along Nanchang from the north and south to Yuhan, Poyang, Yunyang, Haiduan and other counties around Poyang Lake.

With the example of Xiahou's family, the disparity in strength is too great, smart people naturally know how to act, the county orders are all open the city gates and actively submit, only Zhongling (now Zhongling Township, Jinxian County, Jiangxi Province, the information is incomplete can not determine the administrative division of Zhongling during the Eastern Han Dynasty, temporarily as a county system) The county order is the nephew of the original Taishou Lu Yan and raised troops to resist, but because of the cold weather, reinforcements did not arrive, and after the siege for half a month, Liang Feng attacked the city at night and beheaded the public.

At this point, with the county governing Nanchang and the Yangtze River waterway Chongchaisang as the center, the main area of Yuzhang County completely fell into the hands of Liu Qi, who completely liberalized the government affairs and handed them back to the original officials in the counties, but only found various reasons to integrate the private soldiers in the big clans in various places and disperse them to the counties for reorganization and training.

Although he was extremely dissatisfied with the seizure of military power, his arms couldn't twist his thighs, so how could anyone in the county dare to compete with Liu Qi for a while? had to acquiesce, but fortunately, except for the three counties of Chaisang, Nanchang and Poyang, Liu Qi did not interfere in political affairs, and the fundamental interests were not affected, and the local clans also relaxed their vigilance and gradually accepted Liu Qi.

Everything has two sides, smooth sailing and unsatisfactory at the same time, the southern counties of Yuzhang have been in a state of autonomy for a long time, and do not obey the dispatch of the former Taishou Lu Yan or Yangzhou Assassin Liu Xuan, and now Yuzhang is replaced by Liu Qi is no different for them.

Linru County (now Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province) is a strategic place connecting the north and south of Yuzhang, and it is impossible to continue to advance south without taking Linru, but the county magistrate of Linru (a small county of less than 10,000 households is called the county magistrate) Wang Bai is a figure, relying on the dangerous terrain of Linru to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, Liang Feng and Gao Hong have failed to capture several times, and finally had to temporarily return to Wengang (now Wengang Town, Jinxian County, Jiangxi Province) because of the difficulty of receiving grain and grass.

Although Liu Qi was unhappy about this, he didn't care too much, until Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty Liu Guang dug the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, China's economic center of gravity began to shift from the Central Plains to the south of the Yangtze River, until the Southern Song Dynasty, the economy of Suzhou and Hangzhou will surpass the Central Plains, Yuzhang County is the Jiangxi Province of later generations, many cities are important transportation hubs, industrial centers, the economy is extremely developed, but in the Han Dynasty, compared with Lujiang County across the river, Yuzhang County is still very barren and backward.

At present, the population of the entire Yuzhang County is only three or four hundred thousand, and most of them are concentrated in the northern region with Nanchang as the center. How many soldiers can be recruited? Even if the southern counties are added up, there is no need to worry at all, and the lack of population means the backwardness of the economy and the industrial and agricultural industries.

After the existing territory is completely digested into his own, when do you want to take Linru, send troops to surround him for a month, naturally it will be self-defeating, so Liu Qi ordered Liang Feng to train new soldiers in Wengang, recall Gao Hong to lead the army to guard Nanchang, and put all his energy on Poyang County and Ganning to train the navy together, the counties south of the Yangtze River are densely covered with waterways, and there are countless rivers.

In fact, it is very reassuring to have Gan Ning in charge of Liu Qi, but he still followed him to Poyang, the reason made Liu Qi a little embarrassed, the relationship between the Xiahou clan and Liu Qi gradually became closer, which was extremely important to Liu Qi, but there were also some small troubles, that is, one of the most common means of political alliances in ancient times, marriage!

Appearance, figure, family background, background, power, when these factors are concentrated on a person at the same time, especially when he is twenty-one years old but has not yet married a wife, Liu Qi, who is now the leader of Yuzhang County, has become a typical handsome and rich man with all kinds of halos, and is a hot and popular figure in the matchmaker circles in various counties.

Whether in Nanchang or Chaisang, there is an endless stream of people who come to the door every day to ask for relatives, Liu Qi was a little proud at the beginning, but Liu Qi was itchy but couldn't eat, so it was not painful, and finally he had to hide in the water army camp in Poyang, out of sight and out of mind, training with Gan Ning all day long, or drinking and talking, which finally restored calm.

In winter, the lake area is extremely humid and cold, in order to prevent the soldiers from getting sick from the cold, the training time is relatively short, Liu Qi sat on a small boat and watched the fleet returning to the camp in the distance, absentmindedly teasing the flying knife.

Owning such a large piece of territory in just over three months is undoubtedly a huge success in the eyes of outsiders, but Liu Qi knows that all this is just a castle in the air, and it may collapse at any time.

In contrast, the internal seems to be relaxed, but once under external pressure, internal problems may erupt at any time, if there is more than ten or twenty years, according to Liu Hong's idea combined with some of Liu Qi's advanced ideas, it is completely possible to thoroughly digest and absorb Yuzhang, but what Liu Qi lacks most is time.

In order to maintain stability and gain the support of local forces, Liu Qi had to follow the old path of Liu Yan, Liu Zhang, father and son, and other princes, and delegate power to the big clans in various places, for which Liu Qi was afraid that it would not be easy to explain to Liu Hong, but fortunately, Liu Hong's political literacy was far better than him, and he understood that the change of the system could not be completed overnight.

Of course, the big clans around the country will not be willing to hand over the military power in their hands obediently, but the ten fingers are not ordinary, and such a huge family with hundreds of branches cannot be so united, Liu Hong quickly figured out the internal situation of the Xiahou family, so Gan Ning and Gao Hong pretended to be black-faced, and forcibly conscripted soldiers and horses, Liu Hong and Liu Qi pretended to be red-faced, and sealed the official to make a wish to lure them, and soon disintegrated the weak dissatisfaction and confrontation of the Xiahou clan in various places.