From Chengdu to Jiangling, the post stations and shipping systems along the way have been improved. The military newspapers have been conveyed through about three thousand miles of land and water, only five days. Because Lei Yuan is not stationed in Jiangling, such military newspapers are usually in duplicate, one directly to Guan Yu's hands, and another one continues to be delivered to Cangwu.
Now that Lei Yuan is here, the messenger can relax.
Lei Yuan looked at the military newspaper twice, and thought for a moment.
The location where he and Guan Yu were was a water pavilion on the east side of the garden. The water pavilion was open and transparent around, and you could see the scenery in the garden. At this time, Zhao Xiang, who was with the children, also noticed that the messenger arrived, so he took the children slightly to the west side of the garden, and the surroundings of the water pavilion became quiet.
He pondered without saying a word, Guan Yu did not urge him, but just waited calmly. In the past two years, Guan Yu has become a little old. Although he is still as powerful as a lion and tiger, he usually has a little bit of sharpness and has become more patient when dealing with people.
"Junhou said that there is no news of military operation in Chengdu and Hanzhong at present, but Ma Chao is so vigilant that someone must spread rumors in Liangzhou and create a tense atmosphere."
"The question is, what is the meaning of doing this? Over the past few years, Cao and Liu have not fought each other, and Sun Quan and Ma Chao have a chance to breathe. Their strength is neither enough to compete with the two heroes. According to common sense, there is no need to provoke actively." Lei Yuan thought about it and said: "Maybe, the Cao family intends to attack Hanzhong, so they mobilize their influence in Liangzhou and try to drive Ma Chao to confront us?"
Guan Yu shook his head: "Ma Chaoxu is not a fool. If Cao and Liu fight, he might be scrambling to catch up with the situation, but if Cao and Liu families don't move, he will never move first. As for Cao, you also know how much effort the central government has put in Guanzhong in the past few years. If Cao gathers people in Guanzhong, we will never be able to hide it."
"So……"
Lei Yuan slowly rolled up the documents and frowned.
Lei Yuan could see Ma Chao's character, Guan Yu, who was in Jingzhou, and the Cao regime could see it even more clearly. Otherwise, they would not let Ma Chao be arrogant and always keep Ma Teng in Yecheng. This person doesn't even care about his father's life and death. How fierce and cunning should he be? Such a person will be bewitched by Cao's family and get rid of the fire?
Absolutely impossible.
Ma Chao would do this, because he felt a real threat, and he felt that he had to react. Who threatened Ma Chao? Who would benefit from it after threatening Ma Chao?
Lei Yuan couldn't figure it out.
However, things in the world are so complicated, how can you think of everything clearly?
He put the documents back into the box and handed them to his entourage to put them away. Then he smiled at Guan Yu and said, "Mr. Jun, I will follow your instructions and bring my family with me, not to worry about Ma Mengqi."
Guan Yu laughed.
Yes. Ma Chao is thousands of miles away, and the center has its own solutions. Guan Yu and Lei Yuan, as the chief minister of the Grand Sima, have influence on the center, but they don’t have to care about this level. After all, Ma Chao has only four counties under his command. He can be called a variable between Cao and Liu, but cannot affect the overall situation.
He immediately stood up and said, "Let's go and see the children!"
Lei Yuan accompanied him diligently and picked up a small wooden sword with exquisite workmanship: "Take this with you."
Three years ago, after a series of wars in Guanzhong, Jingxiang and other places ended, Cao and Liu maintained peace for three years, while Sun Quan and Ma Chao did not cause trouble, so the borders of various places were blocked. This scene was very rare since the chaos.
Since the Seventh Year of the Yellow Turban Rebellion of Guanghe, the world has fallen into an unprecedented whirlpool of war, and it has been thirty-two years. In these thirty-two years, billions of people have died in war, their blood can irrigate the fertile land of tens of thousands of miles, and their flesh and blood have fed groups of rampant beasts.
However, as the heroes who intend to win the world have different levels of power, the situation of real power has finally passed. What Cao and Liu's huge military and political groups hope to defeat their opponents in one or several large-scale wars, and the small fights on the border are meaningless.
So in these three years, the world seemed to be pacified.
Although plagues still occur and floods and droughts continue, they are exempt from disasters of war. For the people, this is a rare good world, and prosperity in various places will occur immediately.
The local area is becoming more and more stable, and the imperial court's control over the local area is gradually strengthening. The population, which had escaped from war and left the public, finally left the mountains and wetlands and migrated to the plains.
Villages have been constantly becoming settlements and settlements have turned into towns. The original central cities such as Nanzheng, Chengdu, Bajun Jiangzhou, Jiangling, Cangwu, etc. have quickly gathered people. They either rely on the needs of military logistics, rely on a huge population base, rely on developed irrigation, or rely on water transportation routes to continuously expand agriculture, handicrafts and commerce, becoming emerging economic hubs.
In this moment, Jiangling, which once became ruined, was almost completely utilized. Countless buildings appeared like mushrooms after a rain, filling up the yards everywhere; the roads were chocks and sometimes congested. According to the figures calculated last year, this year there was only one Nanjun area, and the taxes collected exceeded the entire Jingzhou before Xuande Gong entered Shu.
The majestic city wall of Jiangling's outer city has begun to take shape. This city wall is 26 miles away, directly relied on the Dajiang embankment on the south side, and approached the wetlands along the Tuoshui River on the west side. In the outer city, in addition to the original inner city, the Acropolis and Cangcheng are set up in the north and south, and corridors are set up between the small cities.
This work was handled by Li Yan, who served as the prefect of Nanjun three years ago and General Fenwei. It can be seen that Li Yan has extremely outstanding general affairs, and since some people faded out of the center, his mentality has also adjusted quickly.
This is true for Jingzhou, and Jiaozhou governed by Lei Yuan is also prosperous.
Lei Yuan reclaimed wasteland through civilian towns in various places and promoted advanced agricultural tools and water conservancy facilities, and achieved two consecutive years of harvest. He also tried his best to reduce taxes and reduce taxes and stripped away the increased exploitation layer by layer to ensure people's livelihood.
Through the supply and marketing cooperative system established by General Zuo’s Mansion, Lei Yuan was able to ensure the exchange of basic materials in various places, and used this to promote the etiquette system of medicine and the Han family.
Through the large-scale iron field and salt field that officials have, Lei Yuan strictly monopolized the two items of salt and iron, and ruthlessly cracked down on private sales of salt and iron. This move may not last long, but at the moment, on the premise of ensuring the living standards of military and civilians, these two can enable Lei Yuan to accumulate wealth and support the operation of the army and the government.
After all these were done, Lei Yuan continued to extend to open up commercial roads to Central Plains, Liangzhou and other places, and relied on the rhinoceros horns, ivory, tortoiseshell, pearls and even silver, copper, fruit, cloth and other specialties produced in Jiaozhou, and made huge profits. Because of the stable situation in Jiaozhou, at the end of last year, Xuwen County in Hepu County once again welcomed distant maritime commerce, so the maritime access was also reopening.
With these profits, Lei Yuan was able to expand the scale of the caravan and tied the local tyrants and Han scholars in Jiaozhou, and the group of warriors who went south with Lei Yuan.
Of course, in the three years of peace, the caravans gained ten times the benefits. Such huge benefits are not easy to enjoy, and more people need to share them. Therefore, since last year, Lei Yuan joined forces with Guan Yu to gradually reorganize the markets in Cangwu and Lexiang, re-approve the city registration, and issue documents from merchants.
Previously, Guan Yu promoted old soldiers to serve as officials in Nanjun, and promoted military officials to open their own manors and seize the control of the scholars over the local area. These measures once made the Jingzhou clan quite angry. However, under the temptation of the huge amount of money obtained by business travelers, some potential conflicts were eliminated invisible.
The wealth and wealth in the hands of the generals and sects in Jingzhou and the subordinates in Jingzhou have all the places to be put into place and have common expectations.
During this process, Lei Yuan and Guan Yu became closer and closer.
Chapter completed!