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In the original history, the three families of Cao, Liu and Sun were calm on the surface during the fifteenth year of Jian'an, but they were constantly torrenting in secret. Cao Cao was waiting for Sun and Liu to fight, but the Sun and Liu families wanted to fight but kept fighting, so they had to play their own tricks. In this year, Sun Quan gave Sun Shangxiang to marry Liu Bei, and in the same year, Zhou Yu died of injuries and illness under hatred...... Perhaps these two events were the bigger things at the time.

However, in the fifteenth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the appearance of a certain unusual figure, the original process began to deviate from the original track.

First of all, after the Battle of Chibi, Lü Meng, who was supposed to be one of the four British generals in Jiangdong, was captured and killed because he provoked Lu Ren, and then Sun Shangxiang, who was supposed to marry Liu Bei, finally became a hostage in Yizhou.

What about Zhou Yu? When Zhou Yu went to Yizhou to persuade Lu Ren, he just in time for Zhang Zhongjing and Hua Tuo, the two famous doctors in the world, were in Yizhou, and the old disease of arrow wounds left during the Battle of Chibi was cured by these two famous doctors, so Zhou Yu, who was supposed to die in Baqiu due to injuries in the fifteenth year of Jian'an, unexpectedly left a life.

And what does it mean that Zhou Yu survived? Even the battle between Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang will continue because of this. To put it further, the battle between Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang is actually the battle between Sun Wu and Liu Bei in Jingzhou.

At present, Jiangdong and Yizhou are reconciled, and Zhou Yu does not want to provoke Lu Ren, who will not cause any trouble to Sun Quan, and the navy must be used in the battle against Yizhou, which is an area that Jiangdong is not good at. In addition, in terms of Jiangdong's internal factors, the local scholars in Jiangdong considered their own interests, and would never approve of Sun Quan and Lu Ren making any more unpleasant things.

It was precisely because of this understanding that Zhou Yu bitterly advised Sun Quan to attach importance to the friendly relations with Lu Ren, and at the same time to obtain a huge amount of money and grain through trade with Yizhou, and then concentrate Jiangdong's main efforts on Cao Cao's confrontation and possession of Jingzhou in Jiangbei.

As for Lu Ren himself, he did not only guard his own one-third of an acre of land and his wife and children's hot kang, but actively developed in all aspects. Because Lu Ren understands that in such an era, if there is no active development, it will become "if you don't advance, you will retreat", and it will be a certain thing to be swallowed up in the end.

Therefore, as soon as the war with Sun Quan ended and the external situation stabilized, Lu Ren understood that his Yizhou undoubtedly had a temporary period of stable development, and he should take advantage of this period of steady development to further enhance his own strength, so Lu Ren immediately made strategic adjustments.

The first was to order Gan Ning to lead the fleet to India and completely open up the Malacca trade route. If there is something to be done, Gan Ning must occupy Malacca, a key gate in Southeast Asian waters. As for the region of India, which was rich in cotton, hemp, rice, spices, precious stones and gold at that time, it was also the best trading area that Yizhou could reach by seafaring ability.

Gan Ning's destination is India, while Huang Zhong's destination is the Jakarta region. The Jakarta region is another gate to Southeast Asia, and the two gates of Southeast Asia, Malacca and Jakarta, are basically in the hands of the whole of Southeast Asia.

Of course, Huang Zhong was only transferred to Guangzhou by Lu Ren after just turning around in Southeast Asia, because the sudden appearance of Meng Huo and his wife and the current situation in the southern and central regions made Lu Ren see a very good opportunity. And such an opportunity can allow Lu Ren to extend his tentacles to the Nanzhong region.

At that time, people thought that the Nanzhong region was a wild and barren land, but Lu Ren knew that Nanzhong, that is, Yunnan in later generations, was actually the "hometown of non-ferrous metals", such as Dongxiang copper, old tin, Lanping lead and zinc and Kunyang phosphorus, which were all very famous in later generations. And after he inserted a foot in Nanzhong with the help of some things, under the premise of maintaining a good relationship with the Nanzhong clan and close business and trade, he could let the people of the Nanzhong clan take the initiative to mine, and then use the minerals of Nanzhong to trade with himself, so that Lu Ren indirectly got a large number of miners and minerals, so why not?

Maybe because of the backwardness of the central tribe in the south, it is not so easy to open a mine, but Lu Ren will not send craftsmen to teach him? Well, even if you think mining is too tiring, the Nanzhong region is still suitable for tea, tobacco, and sugar production. Let's put it this way, Nanzhong can become the raw material supply base of Yizhou, and Yizhou, the core area of Lu Ren's hands, can be used to become a processing center.

That's why Lu Ren was so concerned about the issue of Nanzhong, and even when the war with Sun Quan had just ended, and the strength of the already side had yet to be replenished, he sent Deng Ai over to explore the way first, and personally went to Guangzhou to prepare for those related follow-up matters. By now, the problems of Nanzhong have basically been put in place, and the next thing is to develop steadily.

In general, there are four major trade routes in Yizhou now: the northern trade route with Lao Cao, the Jiangdong trade road with Sun Quan, the Guanggui trade road to Jingzhou, and the Nanzhong trade road to Nanzhong. In addition to these four major trade routes, there is also an overseas trade route to India and the Persian Gulf region.

In addition to selling the goods produced by Yizhou to these five trade routes, Yizhou can also resell the goods in the east, west, north, south and central, for example, reselling the high-quality tea produced in the south to the north, which is already a considerable profit. In other words, Lu Ren can be called the biggest "fallen master" at that time......

Is it really only based on the goods produced by Yizhou itself to make money? Tired of the people of the entire Yizhou, it can't meet the needs of so many areas, okay? You must know that by the beginning of the fifteenth year of Jian'an, the total population of Yizhou, Guangzhou, and Quanzhou, which were directly subordinate to Lu Ren, was only 600,000!

Don't talk about the fact that the population of the whole of China was only about 8 million when three points were returned to the Jin Dynasty, what kind of Lu Ren's 600,000 was already more than one-twelfth, so he had to think about how long Lu Ren's battle line actually was! And you also have to know that Lu Ren also intervened in Sanhan and Wajima in the north. If you take a closer look at the map at this time, you will find that Lu Ren's subordinate territory actually formed a huge semicircle, almost like a cauldron, holding the coastal zone of the entire Huaxia Continent, and the total length adds up to tens of thousands of kilometers. And such a long distance, what is more than 600,000 people enough to do? And Lu Ren dared to do this because Lu Ren had the guarantee of sea strength......

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Yizhou, Mangjia City.

Since Lu Ren arranged for Mi Zhen to lead his men to Yizhou in the third year of Jian'an, it has been twelve years since the fifteenth year of Jian'an; However, if you really want to count the development history of Yizhou, the people of Yizhou still prefer to count it from the six years of Jian'an when Lu Ren really came to Yizhou, but even so, Yizhou has been nine years now.

At this time, in Yizhou, a large number of internal affairs talents cultivated by Lu Ren in the early days played a role in this period of time, and there were many immigrants who originally came to Yizhou to escape the war, and they did not worry about absorbing manpower, so the current Yizhou has become quite large-scale.

When Lu Ren returned to Yizhou from Guangzhou, the chariot battle team attracted a lot of onlookers, and there were many people who applauded, and it is not difficult to see that Lu Ren's reputation here in Yizhou is still very good. Lu Ren smiled and saluted the people on the horse, and he really felt a fluttering feeling in his heart. Although he deliberately maintained a flat smile, he was not very smug, but Shirley, who was next to him, said afterwards that he wanted to vomit.

Just after returning to the mansion, a person who had not seen him for a long time came out, but it was Liu Ye and Liu Ziyang. In fact, since Lu Ren went to Guangzhou, Liu Ye, who stayed in Yizhou, was basically acting as Lu Ren's agent, at least to help Shirley make decisions on many things.

As soon as Liu Ye appeared, Lu Ren waved away the idlers, and only Lu Ren, Shirley, and Liu Ye were left in the hall. After a few sips of tea, Lu Ren asked, "How was the situation during the time I was not in Yizhou?" ”

Liu Ye smiled: "What else?" Isn't that what the general has been doing all along? At this point, Ye wanted to ask the general, what does the general plan to do next? ”

Lu Ren lowered his head and groaned for a while, shook his head lightly and said, "It's not a good thing to develop too fast and the front is too long. Others may think that we have infinite scenery in Yizhou, but they do not see that if we continue to do this, it will only create an unfavorable situation with an unstable foundation. Therefore, in the next few years, what we need to do is to appropriately shrink, instead make every effort to develop economic production within the territory, and do a good job and stabilize all the existing subordinate domains. Ziyang, do you think my idea is right or wrong? ”

Liu Ye bowed to Lu Ren and said, "The general is reasonable. Although the household registration of 600,000 can be counted among the large states, the general's battle line is indeed too long, and if it takes several years to develop and stabilize with peace of mind, if anything happens, I am afraid that the front of such an attack will collapse on all fronts. Fortunately, the general has always shown peace to the outside world, and the power of naval warfare is feared by the world, and no one dares to offend the general under the caution of peace, so the general has enough time to stabilize the territory. But now Ye wants to ask the general, when the general's territory is stable, what will the general do? ”

Lu Ren looked at Liu Ye, shook his head lightly and said, "Who knows?" Lao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, which of these three goods is not the hero of the world? I still have some confidence in defending myself, but if I want to fight with them for something, I don't have any confidence. The biggest advantage of me is that I have self-knowledge, and I won't touch opponents that I shouldn't touch. So...... I'm still going to go at my own pace. And the most important thing is that if you want to do something, we all have to be patient, right? ”

Liu Ye looked at Lu Ren and just shook his head and smiled......

(That's all for Volume 2.) (To be continued.) )