After a few days, Liu Ye's men and horses gradually arrived, plus the bandits he brought before and the 3,000 bandits who surrendered in Yushan. The total number reached 13,000. But now it is dilapidated.

Shouchun City does not lack soldiers and horses, but it lacks people.

Liu Ye is very helpless. He is currently unable to form an army on a large scale. First of all, he has just arrived in Shouchun and has no money or food savings. There are no people to turn in money, food and taxes to support the army.

Second, the Shouchun County under his control has suffered great damage over the years, with only a scattered population of less than 30,000 households and a population of 70,000 to 80,000, many of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled.

Liu Ye destroyed the bandits along the way, and the people of Shouchun were all grateful. Young people even yearned for Liu Jun and joined the army enthusiastically. However, not everyone is suitable to be a soldier. Moreover, too much land in Shouchun County is barren and needs

He wanted to use strong labor to cultivate the land, so Liu Ye could not let the place be without young men. In addition, the various counties in Shouchun County had long been without officials, so Liu Ye needed to rebuild the government offices in various places.

Therefore, Liu Ye went to Wucunjing, and based on the existing army, Liu Jie's force of a thousand men was replenished. And the remaining bandits selected the best among them to enter the county government offices to strengthen the county government offices.

Soldiers and garrison troops.

These people don't have much fighting power, but they are more than enough to maintain law and order, and Liu Jie's troops are the main fighting force. After all, the lord is still standing behind him, so no one will look down upon this place in a short time.

Everything was in ruins, so Liu Ye followed Liu Xun's advice and set up a recruitment hall, under the banner of reorganizing Shouchun, recruiting scholars from all over the world to serve in Shouchun. Unfortunately, Liu Ye's power was too small.

In the hearts of the people of the world, Liu Ye is simply not as good as Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and other veteran princes who have vast territories and abundant military supplies.

Although no nobles came to join him, many poor students who had no food came. Liu Ye needed the help of these poor students who were willing to endure hardship. The only thing that made him sad was that he had no truly outstanding management talents.

At that time, Liu Ye ordered all bandits to be transformed into field soldiers first. When farming was busy, they would first cultivate the land and solve their own food and clothing problems on the spot. When there was a war, they would support Liu Jie, so as to stabilize Shouchun's expenses.

As a series of policies were issued, Shouchun, a deserted land, soon began a vigorous large-scale production movement.

Liu Ye reported the situation here to Liu Xun in detail. In fact, Liu Xun didn't understand how to handle Shouchun's government affairs at all, but Liu Ye still insisted on reporting in detail to show respect.

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Jingzhou Xiangyang

Just when Liu Xun captured Moling, Xiangyang was naturally not at peace. Liu Xun marched forward with great success, ambushed Sun Ce and surrendered 30,000 troops, broke into Yuzhang and captured Tai Shici. Finally, the army continued south to capture Moling and captured Lu Meng, the governor of Jiangdong alive.

and others. No matter how hard you try, you can't stop such earth-shattering news. The news quickly spread all over the country. Liu Xun's name has completely risen and is known to the world.

Cai Mao, Kuai Yue, and Liu Biao received such shocking news almost at the same time.

When the news reached Xiangyang, Cai Hao was still having lunch when suddenly there was the sound of hurried footsteps. Cai Hao looked up unexpectedly and saw that the person coming was his entourage. He couldn't help but said coldly: "What's going on?"

panic"

The attendant said in a deep voice: "Reporting to the head of the family, news came from Lujiang that Liu Xun had ambushed Sun Ce, captured Yuzhang and occupied Moling."

The outcome of the battle between Liu Xun and Sun Ce was beyond Cai Hao's expectation. Even with Cai Hao's determination, he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard about it. He stood up suddenly and shouted: "Are you telling the truth?

How is this possible? Liu Xun is just a small prefect under Yuan Shu, and Sun Ce is marching to the east of the Yangtze River. Even the lord is afraid of him. How can Liu Xun defeat Sun Ce with a small Lujiang County?

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Faced with such a strong reaction from Cai Mao, the entourage was not surprised, but replied affirmatively: "Reporting to the head of the family, I naturally dare not deceive you. I have sent people to check repeatedly. This matter is absolutely true."

At this moment, Cai Mao had come to his senses and knew that he had lost his composure in front of his subordinates. He couldn't help but shouted: "I understand. You go down and wait, waiting for summons at any time."

"Yes, Master, the younger one will go down first."

After saying this, the follower immediately went down.

At this moment, Cai Mao slowly sat back and murmured to himself: "How is this possible? It's beyond my expectation. With Liu Xun's small territory, most of the troops are Yuan Shu's old troops. They are basically just gangsters who defected to Lujiang County."

It’s just food. At this moment, Liu Xun’s troops were unstable and their military morale was not stable, but under such circumstances, they actually defeated Sun Ce’s tens of thousands of troops, and also took advantage of the momentum to capture Yuzhang and Moling counties one after another? These are two counties

A county?"

After all, Cai Hao came from a wealthy family and was definitely a person who had seen the world. Although he was shocked by the news before, Cai Hao's reaction was also very quick.

After the initial shock, as an investor, he immediately realized what this meant. Since then, Liu Xun's power has expanded, and it has expanded rapidly, completely occupying half of Jiangdong.

After this battle, the population almost doubled several times. As long as Liu Xun is given time to digest it, with the population under Liu Xun's rule, it is not a problem to raise an army of 100,000. Sun Quan, the owner of the other half of Jiangdong, has just died. His eldest brother Sun Ce has just died, so there is naturally no internal stability at this moment.

Steady, if Liu Xun continues to move south after joining Zaili, the future master of Jiangdong must be the unknown Liu Xun.

At this moment, the total population of Xiangyang, Jiangling, Shangyong and Jingnan counties under Liu Biao's rule is only one to two million. What's more, the four counties of Jingnan, Changsha, Guiyang and so on are basically semi-independent, and Liu Biao's is only nominal.

Just the master.

As for Liu Xun's real power now, even Liu Biao is probably very afraid of him. After all, Jingzhou has been without war for many years. If he goes up against him, he may not be able to win. After all, this is a figure who can defeat Sun Ce's tens of thousands of elite troops. So

It seems that Liu Xun definitely has the potential to become the overlord of one side.

And how long has it been since Liu Xun stood up and found himself sitting on the land of the three armies today? If he was given time, wouldn't it be? Thinking of this, Cai Hao almost didn't dare to think about it anymore.

He subconsciously thought of his own daughter. The members of his Cai family may all have ancestral roots. His sister is beautiful and fragrant, and his daughter is not much worse than her. Not only is her appearance extremely outstanding, but her figure is also outstanding.
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