Liu Zheng waited in Shaoyang City for two months, and thought that after the Jizhou incident was settled, the imperial court's troops would definitely attack him.

However, in two months, he did not wait for the imperial army, but Xu You was waiting for it.

After Xu You left Jizhou, he had no other purpose, but went south and headed directly towards Jiaozhou.

When Xu You was in Jizhou, he had already heard about Liu Zheng's deeds and knew that Liu Zheng was doing well in Jiaozhou.

After leaving Jizhou, he had no place to go, so he had to go to Liu Zheng. After all, no matter how he and Liu Zheng said that they had been in love for a while, and Liu Zheng would definitely take him in.

Xu You's arrival really surprised Liu Zheng. He thought Xu You would be suppressed by the imperialists along with the rebellion in Jizhou. Unexpectedly, Xu You actually came to Jiaozhou to find him.

Liu Zheng was naturally extremely happy about Xu You and hurriedly received Xu You.

Although Xu You was in a hurry when he left, Liu Zheng did not blame Xu You for what he did that day, but chose to forget and re-activate Xu You.

After all, Liu Zheng still lacked some powerful advisers at this time and gave advice to him. Although Yuan Zhou was half glad, he was already a little helpless when he did it himself and needed some help.

Xu You's appearance naturally fills some vacancy. It just so happens that Liu Zheng also needs more staff.

Liu Zheng also found out more about the court in Xu You.

From Xu You, Liu Zheng knew that he had returned the Han Shao Emperor Liu Bian to He Jin, and also learned about the destruction and establishment of the Han Emperor in Luoyang.

Through these things, Liu Zheng roughly guessed why He Jin didn't launch troops on him at this time.

At the beginning, the court had just calmed down the wars in Jizhou and Runan, and at the same time, the military power of Zhonglang general Huangfu Song was lifted. It was the time when the court's troops were empty.

He Jin not only had to send heavy troops to guard the court and guard the safety of Luoyang, but also guard against unrest among those with dissenting intentions. Therefore, this is really not the time to use troops against Liu Zheng.

After Liu Zheng learned the news, he was temporarily relieved about his safety. The current imperial court is in a turbulent situation. In a short period of time, I am afraid that He Jin will not send people to attack Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng was not so worried. Now he could develop agriculture and resume production in Jiaozhou, and cultivate Jiaozhou into a powerful prefecture and county.

It is now the end of November, and the north is already filled with snow, while the Jiaozhou area is still as warm as spring.

Crops can be grown for three seasons a year, and even fruit specialties are available all year round.

Especially when you continue to go south and reach the Rinan County area, it is even more warm.

In the next two months, Liu Zheng knew that the court would not send troops to attack for the time being, so he only sent two battalions of Gan Ning and Zhou Cang to station in Shaoyang City, and at the same time, the two battalions of Xu Huang and Huang Zhong were dispersed.

The reason why these two battalions of troops were dispersed was that in order to prevent the attack of the court, Liu Zheng recruited 50,000 or 60,000 county soldiers in this Jiaozhou area. Now three months have passed, and the preliminary training of these counties has ended.

It was Liu Zheng who needed to select those who meet the conditions and expand them to the front-line troops.

The two most elite battalions under Liu Zheng were the people under Xu Huang and Huang Zhong. The soldiers and horses of these two battalions had 10,000 people before.

However, after a series of battles, only half of the veterans still survived.

In order to implement the elite military strategy, Liu Zheng had to supplement his troops, so naturally he had to choose these troops from the county soldiers.

So let Xu Huang and Huang Zhong's people act as team leaders and go to various counties to select their own team members.

In addition, the year-long school study is coming to an end at this time, and the students who graduated from the school will be promoted by Liu Zheng and entered various camps.

The most respected by Liu Zheng was the Wenpin among the first class students. His academic performance was the best among these students. In addition, this guy himself had some martial arts skills. After a year of study, he contacted Xu Huang, Huang Zhong and others. Over the past year, his strength has made a qualitative leap. Although he is not old, he has been able to go through twenty or thirty moves under Xu Huang without losing.

Huang Zhong, Xu Huang and others who were deeply involved in Wenpin, valued it. Liu Zheng directly arranged the first batch of students to serve as team leader in the camps of Xu Huang, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, Zhou Cang and others.

At the same time, the second phase of recruitment of students will be held in Jiaozhou area at the beginning of the year.

Xu Huang and Huang Zhong are responsible for this matter.

The agricultural matters were left to Shi Xie and other local figures in Jiaozhou to carry out.

Let Gan Ning, Zhou Cang, Su Fei and others be responsible for the defensive affairs in the north. What Liu Zheng is most concerned about now is business matters.

After all, Liu Zheng knew very well that if he wanted to be rich, he would not be able to farm alone, but he still had to do business. Only trade could make him rich in a short period of time.

In the current trade, Liu Zheng actually didn’t have many choices because he had no communication with the court and was unlikely to trade directly with the people of the court.

At most, the Mi family members were asked to come forward, but at this time, the Mi family could not directly send a caravan to Jiaozhou. In that case, the relationship between Liu Zheng and Mi family would only be exposed. It was only a matter of time before the Mi family was cleaned up by the court.

Therefore, if Liu Zheng wanted to do business, he had to form a caravan himself and go further away.

For example, by going to Youzhou directly through the coastal fleet. Such trade not only has great benefits, but also can bring back some things Liu Zheng needs from Youzhou.

For example, strategic materials and horses.

In other places, Liu Zheng could not get enough war horses. He could only go to Youzhou through coastal channels and buy war horses from the Wuwan people and even the Xianbei people.

After thinking of these things, he began to contact the Mi family's fleet, intending to second the Mi family to come over, using Xuzhou as a transit station, and establish a trade route from Hepu to Xuzhou and then to Youzhou.

If the journey from Youzhou to Hepu is far away, it may not be feasible, but it is completely feasible to have the Mi family at the Xuzhou transit station, but it is just a little more secret and cannot be discovered by others. This matter still needs to be discussed in the long run.
Chapter completed!