Chapter 521 Destroy Yuan Tan and capture Qingzhou!
The administrative seat of Xuzhou is located in Xiapi.
Today, Xiapi is prosperous and prosperous, and has become a commercial center, with many businessmen coming and going every day.
All this is attributed to Kuai Liang, the governor of Xuzhou.
Among the many civil servants under Lu Xuan's command, Kuai Liang was the first to be sent to the local area as the governor of a state. Among the many civil servants under Lu Xuan's command, Kuai Liang's background, qualifications, and abilities were all the best.
Overall, he is second only to Zhang Zhao.
After all, Zhang Zhao followed Lu Xuan from the beginning and was a minister of the dragon, which Kuai Liang could not match in any case. So Zhang Zhao was granted the title of Marquis of the Countryside, and Kuai Liang directly recognized it without saying anything.
When Kuai Liang governed Xuzhou, in order to stabilize the situation in Xuzhou, he appointed Cao Bao, the prime minister of Xiapi, as the prefect of Guangling. Cao Bao, the former confidant of Tao Qian, was transferred away from Xiapi and away from the core of Xuzhou.
After Kuai Liang stabilized the situation in Xiapi and took control of Xuzhou, he transferred Cao Bao back to Xiapi County and served as Xuzhou's special commander.
Nominally, Xuzhou Biejia was the second-in-command in Xuzhou. In fact, after Cao Bao resigned from the post of Guangling Prefect, he no longer took charge of the army. The Danyang elite in charge was reorganized by Huang Zhong, and Cao Bao was transferred to a civilian position.
Cao Bao was not happy and had no choice.
Because the general trend is in Kuai Liang, even though he has some troops, he cannot resist at all. Because after his Danyang elite were reorganized by Huang Zhong, their military pay and official positions have been improved. It is impossible for these soldiers who have benefited to continue to entangle with Cao Bao, nor can they
Maybe he would fight for Cao Bao.
Kuai Liang took advantage of Cao Bao and further investigated Xuzhou's hidden population to weaken Xuzhou's powerful families.
Ordinary people do not understand the operations of a big family and the power that a big family controls. Kuai Liang is different. He is from a big family in Jingzhou and knows the core of the big family very well.
The core is the controlled population.
In addition to having a large amount of materials and connections, every big family also has a lot of hidden people. Kuai Liang checked the population and arranged for people to pass on orders. As long as they were hidden households, the government would allocate land after the detection. Many hidden households were found.
come out.
After Kuai Liang checked the population, he further checked local officials and prohibited locals from holding official positions such as county magistrate and county magistrate. Once discovered, they would be directly transferred to other places to serve.
This is a policy that the Han Dynasty had long ago.
It's just that the dynasty entered a stage of decline and many orders could not be implemented. The local big families continued to take root and formed more and more power.
Kuai Liang attacked this category.
With these two methods, the big families in Xuzhou have been weakened a lot. Although these big families still have a lot of resources, in the prosperous Xuzhou, if the big families are not in power, even if they are rich, they will have little impact.
Kuai Liang weakened the big family, further controlled Guangling County and Pengcheng State, and finally captured Donghai County.
The former Donghai County was captured by Cao Cao.
However, after Cao Cao entered Donghai County, he pursued a strategy of massacre, and the Donghai County was bloody.
Kuai Liang took back Donghai County, and the people returned to it, and he arranged for the garrison and development of Donghai County. After these years of recovery and development, Donghai County slowly returned to its former prosperity. After all, Donghai County can produce salt and has many other industries.
Very easy to develop.
Kuai Liang was handling government affairs and looking through the population information submitted by various places.
This is Kuai Liang's top priority.
Once the population is checked and the accurate household registration information is available, the government can collect taxes and know how much mobilization capacity it has.
While Kuai Liang was looking through the information, there was a sound of footsteps. Shi Yi entered, bowed and said: "Envoy!"
Kuai Liang saw Yi and asked with a smile: "Ziyu, what's the matter?"
Ziyu is the symbol of Shiyi.
Yi is in his early thirties, with a Chinese character face, and a faint smile on his face at all times. He is very humble and cautious. In history, this man was an able minister of Sun Quan. He once led the army to defeat Cao Xiu, and was appointed Shangshu by Sun Quan.
Pu She is quite famous.
Shiyi was a native of Beihai, Qingzhou, and came from a poor family. In the early years, when the Yellow Turbans did not sweep Qingzhou, he worked as a minor official in Qingzhou. When Kong Rong was the prime minister of Beihai, Shiyi served as an assistant official in Beihai because of his outstanding talents.
However, he was once ridiculed by Kong Rong.
After the turmoil in Qingzhou, Shiyi went south to take refuge.
Later, Lu Xuan stabilized Yangzhou, captured Xuzhou, and appointed Kuai Liang as the governor of Xuzhou. Kuai Liang was recruiting talents in Xiapi, and Shi Yi took the initiative to join him. Because Shi Yi had experience as a county official and a county official, he was steady and cautious in his actions.
He quickly stood out and was appointed by Kuai Liang.
Today, Shiyi is the chief secretary appointed by Kuai Liang to assist Kuai Liang in handling matters.
Shiyi bowed and reported: "Reporting to the envoy, there is a letter sent by King Wu. Please read it."
He held the letter in both hands and handed it over.
Kuai Liang took it, opened the letter and browsed it quickly. After reading the letter, Kuai Liang's eyes showed a thoughtful look, and he roughly explained Lu Xuan's arrangements and the troop mobilization of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao.
Then, Kuai Liang paused for a moment before continuing: "Let me just talk about how during this period, Yuan Tan kept moving troops and gathered in the north of Langya Kingdom. It turned out that Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were going to attack the Wu Kingdom. Humph, Yuan Shao was self-righteous,
Yuan Tan is even more whimsical. Does Yuan Tan think he can defeat Zang Ba and contain me, Kuai Liang?"
His eyes suddenly became sharp and he said: "Huang Zhong and I have stayed in Xuzhou these years and are unknown. It seems that many people don't take me seriously."
"Report!"
At this moment, another attendant came in and reported: "Envoy, there are soldiers sent by the governor of Yuzhou and the governor Zhou Yu to see you."
"please!"
Kuai Liang gave an order.
The attendant went to inform him, and after a while, soldiers sent by Zhou Yu entered, saluted Kuai Liang and handed over the letter.
Kuai Liang took it and browsed it quickly. After reading it, he couldn't help but chuckle.
Shiyi asked: "Why are you laughing?"
Kuai Liang threw the letter on the desk and said: "This time the king started a war and fought against Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. Zhou Yu and Tai Shici joined forces to break through Yanzhou and swallow up Cao Cao's Yanzhou. Zhou Yu's letter said, let's
I will contain Yuan Tan and prevent Yuan Tan from interfering with the situation in Yanzhou."
Shiyi frowned slightly and did not express his position.
He believed that his envoy would not agree because he was also an extremely arrogant person.
Kuai Liang asked: "It's Yi, how do you think we should fight?"
Shiyi heard the inquiry and quickly replied: "Reporting to the envoy, Xuzhou has Xuzhou's situation and Xuzhou's arrangements. The battle between Xuzhou and Yuan Tan must be carried out according to our rhythm. It is impossible to ignore the situation in Xuzhou."
Kuai Liang shook his head and said, "You are too gentle."
He looked at the soldiers sent by Zhou Yu and said loudly: "Go back and tell Zhou Yu so that he doesn't have to worry about Yuan Tan's threat. My goal in Xuzhou is not to contain Yuan Tan, let alone beat the drum. I want to kill Yuan Tan and seize Qingzhou.
"
The murderous aura suddenly broke out.
Although Kuai Liang was a scholar, his courage was not inferior to that of a martial artist.
"As you command!"
The soldier turned and left.
Kuai Liang turned to look at Shi Yi and ordered: "Shi Yi, the war is coming. You are in charge of the government affairs of the governor's office, and allocate grain, supplies, equipment, etc. I will go to the military camp in person to negotiate with General Huang."
"Here!"
Yesi answered immediately.
Kuai Liang hurriedly left the Governor's Mansion and headed towards Huang Zhong's military camp in the city to prepare for the next war.