When he followed Liu Tao to attack the rebels, he still remembered the magical surprise attack. However, because of that time, I understood that Liu Tao was a disciple of the Immortal Family and a special existence. That level of surprise attack was just a routine operation.

Because of this, it is too troublesome to not want to be enemies with such people.

But he has accepted Sima Fang's suggestion now and has actually controlled the four southern counties of Jingzhou. At the same time, he is planning to continue to erode the four northern counties of Jingzhou. If it succeeds, then Liu Biao will be his puppet.

At the same time, it can further east and launch an attack towards Yuzhang County. Sima Fang does not recommend going south. Even if Jiaozhou is defeated, it doesn’t make any sense. The population there is too small. Not only can it not be able to provide feedback, but it also requires constant support, which is just a drag.

Now he is similar to Shi Xie. He served as the prefect of Changsha himself, and then he appointed his nephew Sun Ben as the prefect of Wuling, Sun Ben's younger brother Sun Fu as the prefect of Lingling, and Wu Jing as the prefect of Guiyang. The prefect of the four southern counties are either his Sun family or the relatives of the Sun family.

The most important thing was Sima Fang who helped him deal with the situation. Not to mention the gentry and gentry in the four southern counties, even the gentry in the four northern counties also vaguely expressed goodwill to him. The temptation of becoming a king and emperor was in front of him, and Sun Jian could not extricate himself.

At the same time, it was also the main reason why he was unable to join Liu Tao's command, because he was very harsh in treating the aristocratic people. At least after the measures under his rule were passed on, his reputation among the scholars in the world was not very good.

Because of the support of scholars, Sun Jian was able to gain a firm foothold in Nansi County. It can even be said that his power relies heavily on the help of scholars to support him. Once he is too close to Liu Tao, he is likely to return to his original form overnight.

This is a result that he doesn't want to see or accept!

So even if he was a little hesitant for a moment, his attitude was still very firm in the end. Liu Tao didn't know what happened to him in Changsha. He felt that he was much distant from him, so it was meaningless to continue chatting, so he could only say goodbye after a few greetings.

"What's going on with that guy Sun Jian?" Liu Tao had to say casually when he left.

"He is here on behalf of the Jingzhou Governor Liu Biao, which actually explains a lot of things." Guo Jia thought about it and replied.

"I didn't expect that even the tiger in Jiangdong could not escape the desire for power." Chen Gong next to him joked.

Can't escape? Liu Tao thought about it, could it be that in history, Sun Jian really had an idea that he shouldn't have when he got the imperial seal? But it's not surprising that the Sun family has been an official in Wu for generations and is said to be the descendant of Sun's son. Sun Wu was from Qi and later became a Wu minister. In the Sun family's genes, perhaps he did not regard himself as a Han minister... It is also impossible.

At least, since Sun Jian took the lead, Sun Ce began to rule over Jiangdong, and Sun Quan became the emperor directly. Is the name of the country actually "Wu" because the main political center is in Wu, or is the name of the country "Chu" easy to attract hatred, or has long fought with the Yue people, so he denied the name of the country "Yue"...or is there a deeper reason?

Sometimes history is like this. The deeper it is, many things that have not been noticed before will be discovered.

In the past, when Liu Tao looked at the Three Kingdoms, he looked at it from the end of the Han Dynasty. But if he jumped out of the end of the Han Dynasty and continued to trace it upward, he seemed to be able to see more and different scenery.

"Everyone has ambition and cannot become friends, so he is destined to meet on the battlefield in the future." Liu Tao said casually. Although he did not want to fight the civil war as a national war, there was no other king in the sky, and he just hoped that they would not rashly proclaim themselves emperors, so at least there was a possibility of becoming friends after the war.

Obviously, external expansion is the correct way for a nation to develop, why are everyone obsessed with this small fish pond in the Central Plains?

The reason is understandable. It is nothing more than that Jiangnan is full of wilderness, with undeveloped forests everywhere, and a large number of mountains and rivers are distributed among them. The land is vast and sparsely populated, and it feels that there is no value for development and the difficulty of survival is very high.

Toward the east is the sea, and before there is no way to sail from the ocean, the coast is the end of the world; toward the north, the colder the winter in the north and there is not even cotton, the winter will definitely freeze to death and cannot survive; toward the Western Regions to Central Asia and West Asia, most of them are desert terrain, which is not suitable for survival.

Perhaps in the eyes of people of this era, the most suitable place for Chinese people to survive is the Central Plains, a civilization area of ​​the Two Rivers. Or, only by establishing a country here can it be considered as the orthodox Chinese. It has a small population, so naturally there is no need to explore colonization outside.

"So the first thing to solve is the population problem..." Liu Tao muttered that China, which had supported 14 or even 1.5 billion people in later generations, now only needs to support less than 100 million people. According to the statement, the population data on the surface is 50 million.

In later generations, 50 million people, that is, the sum of the population of the three municipalities directly under the central government of Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai. If the reduction in personnel caused by the Yellow Turban Rebellion is included, the population of Beijing and Shanghai will be almost the same.

This population is a problem, let alone going out to colonize, developing Jiangnan capital. If there is a subsequent civil war, even if a new regime is established, it will take twenty or even forty years to reproduce and live, and restore the population base of 50 million.

In his lifetime, he might be able to bully Fuyu, Goguryeo and Sanhan, or even go to Tsushima Island and go to Kyushu Island to have fun. It may be difficult to go west to the Roman Empire, at most it is to open up the trade route.

Liu Tao looked at the magic tower deep in his consciousness. Unfortunately, it was a magic tower. It would be great if it was a game main city. It could recruit soldiers once a week. If it was a human city, there were even soldiers like farmers, even if there were only twenty-five to thirty ones a week, and if it was recruited continuously, it could supplement the problem of insufficient population.

"Deran, it's been missing for a few years!" After saying that, one of them came forward to say hello, and it was Liu Tao's brother Liu Bei.

"Brother Xuande, I haven't seen you for many years!" Liu Tao smiled at him, "Where is the place to be tall now?"

"There is no such thing as high as you. When I arrived in Youbeiping, I became a Sima of the Ministry under Gongsun Zan." Liu Bei laughed at himself, "Originally, the governor Liu (Liu Yan) invited me to Yizhou, but I was already the magistrate of Anxi County, so I didn't follow him."

As a result, the supervisor came to ask for bribes, but he didn't have any money. He angrily beat him thirty and then left with his seal.

During this period, he ran around the world, joined the command of Qi Qiu Yi, and served as the magistrate of Xiami County. The local clan and aristocratic family had a huge power and had no real power. He angrily resigned. The governor Gong Jingxicai was transferred to Gaotang Order. As a result, less than a few days after taking office, the remnants of the Yellow Turbans captured Gaotang County and had to leave. Finally, they ran to Gongsun Zan for food.

It’s not that I don’t want to be stable, but news keeps coming. This clan brother who was not as good as his before has now become a disciple of the immortal family, but also either becomes a general of the Yulin Central Army, with a rank of two thousand stones, or becomes the prefect of Yunzhong and the general of Zhenbei...

Compared with him, his grades were nothing, so he felt depressed and could not do anything well.

When we met again, the world was in chaos. Someone was already the governor of Bingzhou, General Zhengbei, Marquis Ping, and he was still a Sima of his subordinates. As for the current situation, I don’t know how far he could finally reach. It really made him envious and helpless.

"If you are not feeling well over there, why not come to Bingzhou?" Liu Tao smiled, "You are my brother and will not treat you badly no matter what."

In the past, I was joking like this on the surface, but in fact, I hope Liu Bei would not come over so as not to be poached. Now I am calm, or more open-minded. Maybe my identity is different and my mentality is different...
Chapter completed!