Just as Liu Tao was poaching people everywhere, the battle between Liu Chong and Yuan Shu finally ended.

In the initial battle, the two sides were in a stalemate, but Liu Chong had too little practical experience and the light army advanced rashly and was ambushed by Yuan Shu and almost died on the battlefield.

Finally, he retreated under Xu Chu's escort, and the three thousand soldiers he brought with him were almost completely injured and killed.

The biggest problem with Liu Chong's side is that there is no excellent general. Xu Chu can serve as a personal guard, but he cannot command the troops alone. Liu Chong has the power but lacks practical experience.

It is also possible that when he was begging Dong, he got used to it with Liu Taomang, and he saw that he had a chance of winning, so he went over... He is not a disciple of the Immortal Family, so who can give him the power to do whatever he wants? He suffered a great loss and fled back in a panic.

Just as Yuan Shu was chasing him, Yu Jin came to assist King Han in exchange. Liu Ye, as a counselor, went to support King Wei.

Out of trust in Liu Tao, Liu Chong directly handed over the command of the troops to Yu Jin. The latter did not disappoint Liu Chong's trust and deliberately pretended to defeat the game. Then he took the opportunity to set up an ambush and surrounded the pursuit of Ji Ling's army.

Ji Ling himself was even killed by Xu Chu's formation, and two thousand Yuan Shu elites were almost kept.

The current battle situation is almost biased towards Liu Chong. Wen has Liang Xi, Liu Fu and Luo Jun, Wu has Yu Jin and Xu Chu, and Liu Chong is also good at fighting. When the final shortcomings are filled, the battle situation seems to be on his side in an instant.

On the other hand, there were indeed many civil officials on Yuan Shu’s side, but not many qualified military generals.

Zhang Xun, Lei Bo, Mei Cheng, Qiao Rui, Chen Lan, Li Feng, Liang Ji and Liang Gang, there are many people, but in fact there are not many outstanding ones, or there are not even any. They can serve as the backbone, but cannot become the pillar.

There might be Ji Ling before, but he had been killed by Xu Chu's formation before, so he was naturally defeated. Liu Chong took the opportunity to expand his territory and expand his territory to Yingchuan County.

At this moment, Yuan Shu had already seen that Liu Chong had only one army to fight, so he thought of splitting his troops from Nanyang and Runan respectively, making Liu Chong run away.

However, before it was implemented, Liu Biao had already sent Cai Mao to lead his army north to attack Nanyang. It was obvious that he had received news of Yuan Shu's defeat and took the opportunity to come and get the bargain.

For a time, Yuan Shu was attacked from both sides and could only follow Yang Hong's advice, give up Nanyang County, and push him to Runan County. On the one hand, he insisted on defending him, and on the other hand, he planned to attack the Huainan area.

After occupying Nanyang County, Liu Biao used his nephew Liu Pan as the prefect of Nanyang, and the scholar Yiji was the military advisor to assist him.

Seeing that it was Liu Biao and a relative of the Han Dynasty, Liu Chong naturally did not continue to attack Nanyang. Runan could not conquer, so he had to give up. After three or four months of battle, more than 5,000 soldiers were killed in battle, and only one Yingchuan County was occupied.

Although Liu Dai took over Chenliu County and coerced Bao Xin to hand over the military power, it was just that Guan Yu had emptied Chenliu County, and Jinan County was also ravaged by Yellow Turban thieves, so it was too late to consolidate the territory and there was no way to expand.

But at least compared to before, he is now a real power vassal king. His combat power and economy can slowly recover, but the most important thing is that the territory he actually controls increases.

Yuan Shao from Hebei was not idle either. He forced King Zhao to register as Emperor Zhao Han, and then granted himself the title of King Bohai. He even took advantage of the destruction of Qi Han and sent Zang Hong to serve as the governor of Qingzhou and occupied Qingzhou.

At the same time, we have been in full swing to arrange a ceremony of abdication, intending to become emperor openly, and then join forces with Gongsun Zan to attack Liu Tao together.

Gongsun Zan's relationship with Liu Yu gradually deteriorated due to the relationship inside. But he didn't know that his classmates and friends had already secretly defected to Liu Yu.

It is hard to say whether Gongsun Zan forced Liu Yu to kill Liu Yu, or whether Liu Yu joined forces with Liu Bei to destroy Gongsun Zan inside and outside.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Liu Tao...

At this moment, he didn't expect that his population policy would attract so many people. Perhaps it was because of the war between Liu Chong and Yuan Shu that a large number of people fled north to avoid the chaos.

Then there were a large number of servants and tenants who took the opportunity to escape among the crowd. Before they knew it, the population of Yingchuan County and Nanyang County had at least one-third lost.

There were originally about 1.6 million people in Yingchuan County, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion reduced a group of people, but a group of refugees settled here.

Until Liu Chong and Yuan Shu fought, Yingchuan County had a population of about one million, and one-third was 300,000. Nanyang County had a relatively small population, with a total of more than 200,000 people, and almost more than 100,000 people left, accounting for 40% of the total population.

In addition, the refugees from Jizhou, Youzhou, and even Yizhou gathered about 400,000 people to Sizhou and Yongzhou, and then joined by Cao Cao and Shangguan Yu and sent them to Bingzhou.

"There are as high as 300,000 young people..." Xun Yu reported on the population that came, which contained preliminary statistics from Cao Cao and Shangguan Yu. This was only part of Yongzhou and Sizhou.

Du Xi from Bingzhou has counted that there are 200,000 immigrants from Youzhou and Jizhou, of which 180,000 are young and strong.

Most of the remaining children are children, and the elderly hardly come here. Perhaps they are unable to leave their hometown, or they feel that there is no future to come here. Or they may be worried that they will run away with the young people, and in the end they may drag down the young people, so they did not leave.

"Some people learn to smelify iron and cast, some people start mines, some people transport, some people log, some people process wood, some people build roads, and the last part learns medical care and cooking... They can even be further subdivided according to their jobs." Liu Tao thought for a while, "The proportion arrangement depends on yours."

Can you stop looking at us? Xun Yu really wants to complain, but it is obviously impossible. Fortunately, he has gotten used to it.

"Your Majesty, the iron ore in Bingzhou is very scattered. This means that the manpower we arrange needs to be very scattered." Xun Yu reminded that the manpower required for managing the 500 people scattered everywhere is different from the unified management of 500 people.

"Simple, let them manage themselves. According to the size of five people, a squad leader is elected. According to the type of work, each group elects a group leader. The group leader is responsible for handling conflicts between each class, and at the same time, the supervision is a squad leader. At the same time, some people are arranged to form an inspection team to supervise the leader of each group." Liu Tao explained.

As for the group leader, they are naturally the officials arranged by the Ministry of Revenue. Several or dozens of group leaders are responsible to a clerk, and the supervision team will supervise the work of each team.

The materials are allocated in a unified manner, and advanced groups are selected at the same time, and they are evaluated every month. This is not only related to the assessment of officials, but also the best groups can be set, and the monthly salary will be doubled.

"Your Majesty is wise. According to this measure, the work efficiency of each group can be greatly improved." Xun Yu looked at Liu Tao with admiration.

"It's just average." Liu Tao replied modestly. The assembly line and incentive system are really average in later generations.
Chapter completed!