The clean-up campaign lasted until the end of spring ploughing, and those big families who participated in the operation, as well as those small and medium-sized families or ordinary chambers of commerce, suffered great losses.

Property was confiscated, and the tribesmen were scattered and exiled to Qinghai, the Western Regions, Liaodong, Yizhou, and Yazhou. The first offender was killed, the family was reduced to slavery and could not be turned into good citizens forever, and the female dependents were even sent to Qing. floor or open selling.

This is not Fang Yun's cruelty, but a rebellion against this high-risk investment behavior, which must be curbed. Only by increasing the cost of rebellion can we stop those stupid X's brain congestion and doing such irrational things.

Even if you are not afraid of their rebellion, the process is disgusting.

Ma Teng naturally retired with peace of mind, Ma Chao sent a letter of thanks and gave 10% of the shares of Qinghai Salt Lake to Fang Yun. If it weren't for the increase in their family's daily expenses and the need for Salt Lake's income to be maintained, they would have planned to give up all 12.5% of their shares.

Yang Xiu was even more miserable, and was directly demoted to an ordinary civil servant, starting from an ordinary clerk. Fortunately, Fang Yun showed his benevolence to the greatest extent, or he was somewhat tolerant of this talent, who was also loved by Cao Cao, as long as he could make enough contributions in the future, then a normal promotion would still be possible.

As long as it is not suppressed, then Yang Xiu's talent will naturally be shown, and he will still slowly climb up when the time comes. However, considering the age and the time required for normal promotion, I am afraid that it is not bad to be a thorn before retirement.

After all, Fang Yun has no shortage of talents here, and there is no need to have to promote lower-level talents because of the lack of talents.

Ma Teng retired, and it happened that Wen Ji took Ma Teng's position, and Wen Ji also felt that his ability had reached the limit over the years. So he didn't plan to continue the campaign, he just wanted to take the normal route and get promoted.

On top of that, he already has five sons and three daughters, so if something happens to him, who will support the family's expenses?

Fortunately, he also saw that Wen Qin and his four younger brothers were very good, and Wen Qin and his third son Wen Shi were even better than the blue. It will not be a problem to surpass yourself in the future. As for the other three sons, the second son, the Wen family, was better than the force, and Wen Ji planned to train him to become the first civil official of the Wen family.

At least, the first civil official of their lineage. The main family has lost power because of Wen Chou's death, and now their concubine has become the descendant of the Wen family, every time I think about it, Wen Ji feels that everything seems to be a dream.

After the Qingming Festival, Fang Yun also began to actively prepare for this year's war.

Originally, according to his habits, he had laid such a large territory, so he naturally had to take a good rest. However, Guo Jia said to him: "The lion fights the rabbit and does his best." Fighting snakes will not kill you for thousands of years. Now, taking advantage of the fact that the combined forces are not firmly established, the progress of firearms research has been greatly delayed or even halted. After the world is stable, you can govern it however you want! ”

Fang Yun felt that it made sense, so he put the united battle on the agenda.

Not only did they begin to dispatch troops in Jinyang, but at the same time, Huang Zhong and Ma Chao also began to actively prepare. Later, Ma Chao and Pang De will also lead the army from Nanyang to participate in the united war; Huang Zhong's main direction of attack. It is still mainly based on Runan County and Lujiang County, but Zhao Li under his command will cooperate with Zhang He and Zhang Liao to attack Changsha and other Jingnan Prefectures.

There was no need to be sneaky this time, Fang Yun directly prepared openly.

When the news reached the Combine, they had to urgently recruit troops. Start training and be prepared. Fortunately, Zhou Yu's talent for training soldiers was finally discovered by them, and these soldiers may be able to use it after emergency training.

It's just that the biggest problem is the shortage of military rations and various materials. The successive wars, coupled with the fact that the people of Yanzhou who had moved south before had not yet settled down, were consuming their food and supplies.

Originally, I thought that Fang Yun would cultivate for a few years after the next place. Who knew that the war would start in just a few months. I had no choice but to find a way to buy grain through the caravan, from Fang Yun, or even from Jiaozhou or Yizhou.

However, all of this is in Guo Jia's calculations. Fang Yun even sent emissaries to contact Liu Zhang and Shi Xie, at his suggestion, and asked them to intercept all caravans destined for the Combine's sphere of influence, hoping to cut off all their supplies for at least the first few months of the war.

Fang Yun even stepped up local smuggling efforts, suspending all trade in the Coalition Army area except for luxury goods. If all goes well, then the Combine will run out of food for three months. Even lack of other materials, as long as they cooperate with the message and poaching, they may not be able to mess up and improve their chances of winning.

As for Shi Xie and Liu Zhang, if they were willing to sell grain to them, then it just gave Fang Yun an excuse to attack them. If you don't sell it, it's naturally the best, and it will inevitably be invaded by the Combine Army. Now that the highway to Chengdu has been built to eighty percent, it is thought that it can be completed before the start of the war, and it will be much easier for Fang Yun's troops to attack Yizhou at that time.

At the same time, it also provided a ruthless trick, that is, secretly sent people to purchase grain from Jingzhou, Runan County and Lujiang County at high prices. Buying at a price 20 times higher than the normal price of grain, this trick is completely to use money to smash people, but the effect is unexpectedly good.

There is always no shortage of greedy people in this world, Fang Yun's 2000% profit is smashed, and few people can withstand this temptation. After the caravan arrived in the Jingzhou area, there were indeed many families who secretly sold grain. In a short period of time, Fang Yun had gathered fifty percent of the grain in the enemy-occupied area, and the remaining fifty percent they said they wouldn't sell anything, even if the price was raised to fifty times the price.

There is no way, they also need some food to prevent it, Fang Yun's desperate plan has already begun to take effect, and now they can't buy food from other places, so they know that the situation is critical.

There were also many civil and military generals under the command of the United Army who joined this feast, originally they could buy grain elsewhere at the beginning, and then sell it to the people who bought it, waiting to see Fang Yun's jokes. This is also to blame that their IQ has not yet reached that height, and they were cleaned up by Fang Yun.

The Coalition also made a mistake that would be made in feudal times, that is, it did not prevent officials from doing business, and at the same time did not do enough supervision. This caused the military grain officer to privately embezzle a batch of grain to go out for trading, and originally planned to send people to Yizhou or Jiaozhou to buy it, or even go to Fang Yun's rule to buy grain and come back to make up for it. Take advantage of this feast to earn a private money.

Who knew that now the people he sent out to buy will not come back, but half of the grain in the granary has already been sold by him. As a result, the matter was exposed, and he, the poor worm, was naturally beheaded, but there was also a problem with the military rations of the Combine Army.

It is conservatively estimated that if the war is not waged within a month, then the whole army will be short of food. Earlier the Combine expanded its recruitment of non-commissioned officers. This further led to the exacerbation of the situation.

"There's no way, I'm fighting with Fang Yun!" Liu Bei was still shouting for a decisive battle, the two righteous brothers died in Fang Yun's hands, and at this moment he and Fang Yun were already incompatible.

"Keep a hand! Learn from the previous way, how about splitting two ways to attack Yizhou and Jiaozhou? Cao Cao gave advice.

"It's useless to take down those wild places! Why don't you break the kettle and forget it! Sun Ce objected.

The land of Jingzhou is quite rich, so the courtiers below will naturally have no opinions. But this is also limited to the Jingbei region, everyone knows the wild land in Jingnan, not to mention the land of Bashu with poor mountains and bad waters, and Jiaozhou, which is a real wild land.

The courtiers would not agree to attack both places. Especially in the case of a shortage of medicines, the death of the plague and the non-war attrition of snakes, insects, rats and ants may be fatal. It's not interesting to fight, the population is small, the people are large, the governance is inconvenient, and there is no war potential, except for the survival of the remnants, it seems to be of little use.

At this point, it is better to go directly to Fang Yun, even if he is reduced to a common person, he can be a rich man! In the future, the descendants will work harder, maybe they will be able to rise again?!

Liu Bei and Cao Cao could obviously think of this result. So there is no way to do it at the moment, and I have no choice but to break the boat.

Large forces began to assemble. Gunpowder weapons that had already been manufactured began to be sent to the front one after another. In terms of food, we can only find a way, use river fresh to make up the number, pickle if you can, and smoke if you can't, so you can store it for a long time. The mountains and forests have also been cleared by a large number of soldiers, and I don't know how many precious wild animals and plants have been harmed.

It's good to say that two months of military rations were raised. Fang Yun's side was also ready to go south. Before he set out, he had a dinner with his family, which was his habit every time he went on an expedition.

At this moment, he is already the father of five boys and four girls, the eldest Fang Ji is ten years old, and the youngest is still breastfeeding in his mother's arms. However, Fang Yun also found a problem. That is, in recent times, as I got closer and closer to the middle of the congenital period, the pregnancy rate of my wife began to decline.

It's just that the system didn't reply, so he could only go to Hua Tuo to study, and there was no result yet.

"Father, why do you always have to go on expeditions?" Fang Ji said with a little reluctance.

"Since the death of the first emperor, the world has fallen apart, and the people are living in dire straits. Yu Gong, my father and I are a general of the dynasty, so I naturally have the responsibility to solve this troubled world; For selfishness, my father hoped that the Chinese nation would become the most powerful nation in the world, and that all the land in the world would be included in the sphere of influence of the Chinese nation, so that China would become a real country where the sun never sets! Fang Yun said his dream for the first time.

"But don't others say that when you go out of the sea in the east, you are the end of the world, and when you go south to Yazhou, you are the cape?" Fang Ji is still enlightened, so he doesn't understand this world yet.

Fang Yun smiled and asked someone to take out the world map, this is the world map drawn by lottery, there are detailed longitude and latitude marks everywhere, through this map, he can accurately reach every island, every continent.

"This is our world, and this is just China." Fang Yun said with a smile pointing to the map.

"Husband, this is the world we live in?!" Naturally, the ladies also gathered around, only to find that the world they knew actually occupied a small part of the map.

"The world is huge, and there are even bigger worlds waiting to be explored. We Chinese people are really ignorant and narrow-minded to fight around in such a place. Fang Yun said in a tone that hated iron and steel.

"Yes, if I knew this, I would be able to make peace in the world." Xie Yuan said with tears in her eyes and a tone of reluctance and worry. If you want to say that her husband is going on an expedition, she is most worried about these weak women.

"Wait for me to come back......" Fang Yun hugged her in his arms and wiped away her tears. (To be continued......)

PS: The beginning of the fifth volume is actually the end of the Chinese United War, generally speaking, many authors finish the part of Huaxia after writing it, and I estimate that it is about the same. However, due to the setting problem, it won't finish so quickly, but it's not that slow...... But at the end of the day, it's not done yet, so stay tuned! Thank you very much for accompanying me to this point.