The idea is good, but things still have to be done step by step. Liu Bei first sent Zhang Xiu and Ma Dai to lead 10,000 troops to attack Song Jian in Longxi and recover the two counties of Longxi and Jincheng, completely eliminating local separatist forces. Then Zhao Yun seized Wugong, Yixian, and Chencang, and recovered Sanguan. Heavy garrisons were sent along this route. The same is true for Juxian, Lantian and Wuguan. In this way, he has Zhongzhong and Liangzhou in hand, and can go south to Hanzhong at any time through Qishan, Chencang Ancient Road, Meridian Valley, Baochuan Road and Luogu; Go south to Jingzhou through Wuguan. If you have such a strategy in your hands, you will be invincible. When the strength is over, several armies will come out and capture Hanzhong in one fell swoop. At that time, Yizhou will be at your fingertips.

After thinking about it, Liu Bei went to Xinqingzhou again, and the face was melted into a master craftsman, so he brought craftsmen over to renovate Chang'an City. Save him from having nothing to do, and he has nothing to do in Qingzhoukou. He also asked Tai Changqing to bring the person in charge of the mausoleum over, and the mausoleums of the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty were ruined by Dong Zhuo and the generals of Liangzhou, and there were robberies everywhere. Since he has recovered Guanzhong, he naturally has to carry out airtight repairs.

Liu Bei also said that he was both Jing Zhaoyin and Yang Fu was the assassin of Liangzhou. and transferred Jian Yong from Qingzhou to the left Feng Xu and Sun Qian to the right to support the wind. and Zhang Ji and others to govern Guanzhong.

After all the personnel arrived, Liu Bei called everyone for a meeting. Not counting Hanoi and Henan Yin, only talking about the five places of Hongnong, Hedong, Jingzhaoyin, Zuo Fengyi and Right Fufeng, according to preliminary statistics, there are countless fertile fields here. There are also a lot of abandoned wastelands. It also produces salt. But the people of these five counties together are less than 600,000. You must know that the population of these five counties has never been less than one million in previous statistics. When Liu Bei first saw this number, he couldn't help but feel heartache.

So he summoned all the ministers and said, "When you take office, you can quickly familiarize yourself with the situation under your rule." Salt and iron will be taken back to the imperial court franchise, and I will set up salt and iron supervisors here. With the benefit of salt and iron, they purchased grain, and then gathered the displaced people, distributed grain, and reclaimed wasteland. Meritorious soldiers and ministers will be rewarded with good land according to the rules. "If you don't enrich the population of Guanzhong, you won't be able to do a lot of tuntian. How can the army stay here? He is not Li Dao and others, not to mention Dong Zhuo's inheritance, but also wantonly plundering the people. When the households in the Guanzhong area are a little richer, then the army can be raised by the people. Grain and grass do not need to be transported from Qingdao, Hebei and other places. Otherwise, the consumption along the road is a huge number.

Zhang waited for Liu Bei to finish speaking, and then said: "Lantian produces beautiful jade, and it is not only to persuade the lord to reinstate the official prison." "Lantian is warm and jade-smoking. As one of the four great jades in China, Lantian jade has been famous for thousands of years. As one of the important symbols of the imperial court's financial strength, Lantian jade was severely damaged in the decades of the late Han Dynasty. Now that the turmoil in Guanzhong has been calmed down, it is time to restore the production of Lantian jade. Jade has an important position in the hearts of the Han people. the emperor's jade seal, the jade on the crown, and the jade on the body; Scholars also love jade, and even the funeral goods of princes and ministers have a large amount of jade. The so-called gentleman has no reason, and the jade does not leave his body. Confucius also said that a gentleman is like jade. That's because Confucianism believes that scholars should be obedient on the outside and tough on the inside; Be lenient with others and strict with yourself; The brilliance is introverted and inconspicuous. And these qualities are most similar to jade. Therefore, in the pre-Qin period, Lantian began to produce jade, and in the Qin and Han dynasties, the industry was even more prosperous.

Liu Bei became interested when he heard it. As a non-renewable resource, jade is becoming more and more expensive in later generations. Now that he has such a ready-made big jade mine in his hands, of course, he has to restore it with his heart. The production is supervised by officials, and Mi Zhu and others are allowed to come when the sales arrive. Rewards, courts, and wearing, all have to use jade. This should be in short supply, right? Liu Bei, who consciously opened up a large source of wealth, was in a good mood. After the meeting was adjourned, a feast was held. The monarch and the ministers dispersed happily.

Song Jian, hugging the rare people. More than ten years ago, the world was in turmoil, the princes rose one after another, the strong crossed the state and county, and the weak slaughtered the county, and fought against each other, making the sea chaotic. In Liangzhou, the Qiang rebellion was not settled, and under the influence of the Yellow Turban Army, the local heroes also united with the Qiang and Di tribes to rebel together. Capture the city and slaughter the officials. It makes the already dilapidated Liangzhou even more chaotic. After the death of Bian Zhang, Beigong Boyu, Wang Guo, and others, they were replaced by Han Sui, Ma Teng and Song Jian.

Song Jian was born in "Liangzhou Yicong", belonging to the Han people of Liangzhou, and had a high prestige in Qianghu. In the year of the Yellow Turban Army, Song Jian followed the kingdom to raise troops, and based on his hometown of Caohan, he formed a mixed army of tens of thousands of Han and Qiang, and constantly expanded to the four realms. At that time, Dong Zhuo went to Luoyang, and Ma Teng and Han Sui also peeked into Guanzhong. also let Song Jian toss in Liangzhou. Not long after Song Jian launched a rebellion, he proclaimed himself the king of Heshou Ping Han in Caohan, and changed the name of the year and set up hundreds of officials, and was the first to be honored among the heroes in the world until now.

There are three reasons why Song Jian dared to defy the disapproval of the world and openly confront the imperial court: first, there were many wars in the Central Plains, and the heroes were busy grabbing territory, so no matter whether Dong Zhuo in the early stage, Ma Teng and Han Sui in the later period, no one paid attention to Song Jian, who was on the side of peace; The second is that Liangzhou was originally a chaotic mess, and Liangzhou Ma Teng, Han Sui and others were divided and merged, fighting openly and secretly, no one could work together, nor could they achieve a monopoly of one family, and the situation of balance of power also provided Song Jian with enough living space; The third is that Song Jian is a native of Caohan, and the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Song Jian's elite soldiers are tens of thousands, and the combat power is not weak, so Ma Teng and Han Sui are too lazy to provoke him, so as not to lose their strength. In view of the above points, Song Jian has been at large in Caohan until now. In history, it was not until Cao Cao pacified Guanzhong that he freed up his hands and destroyed Song Jian.

Now that Liu Bei is here, naturally no one is allowed to claim respect. Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao were all destroyed by him, not to mention a mere Song Jian?

As a result, as soon as Zhang Xiu and Ma Dai entered Longxi, they set sail. A few requisitioned guides led them around and into a valley. Fortunately, Zhang Xiu and Ma Dai were both people who knew the soldiers, and when they saw that this place was not quite right, they ordered the three armies to stop at the valley mouth first, and then sent people to the pioneer camp to ask about the situation, but found that the guide was gone. Zhang Xiu, who reacted, didn't know that he had been tricked. At the same time of anger, he ordered the large battalion to camp everywhere and prepare fortifications. Then let Ma Dai lead a part to occupy the commanding heights.

As soon as Ma Daifu set out, the mountains on the left and right in front of him were already densely packed with enemy troops. At this time, in the valley, there was already a loud killing. Zhang Xiu sighed, his pioneer battalion was only over.