With the arrival of spring, Dai County became lively again.
The construction of roads, the reconstruction of cities, and the reconstruction of city walls began once again.
Other than that.
Liu Xuan increased the mining of iron ore in the southwest mountain range.
With the arrival of spring, the potatoes were planted again.
This time!
Liu Xuan sowed 160,000 mu of potatoes.
Based on the average yield of 28 dan of potatoes per mu in the previous season, Liu Xuan would be able to get about 4.5 million dan of potatoes in three months.
"Not enough, still not enough!"
Liu Xuan was not satisfied.
Because he knew.
In two years, it would be the Yellow Turban Uprising.
At that time, the world would be in chaos.
He would definitely take this opportunity to expand his territory.
Although 4.5 million dan was a lot, this 'much' was only calculated based on the population of Dai County!
Dai Prefecture was just one of the prefectures in Youzhou Province.
Due to Liu Xuan's policy, the population of Dai Prefecture had increased by nearly 200,000 to 600,000, but it was not much compared to the population of Youzhou Province.
According to the history books that Liu Xuan bought from the system store and Liu Yu's words, Liu Xuan had already estimated the population of Youzhou Province in this period.
About 2.7 million!
Yes, it was.
There were about 2.7 million people in Youzhou Province.
4.5 million dan of grain was enough to feed the 600,000 people of Dai County.
However!
It was far from enough to supply all the people in Youzhou.
Yes, that's right.
Liu Xuan's next target was the entire Youzhou Province!
This was the real reason why he had repeatedly gone to Luoyang to curry favor with Zhang Rang and Han Ling Emperor Liu Hong.
After the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, Liu Hong would change the system of provincial governors to the system of prefecture overseers, which would be known in history as " Abolishing Shi and Establishing Mu "!
The provincial governor and the state governor sounded the same on the surface. They were both the highest officials in a state.
However!
The former's duty was to patrol the local officials and play a supervisory role. The purpose of its establishment was to achieve the goal of concentrating power, strengthening local control, and making it easier to manage.
As for the latter, he was the true governor of a state. He had the power to coordinate the entire state, especially the military.
Once the Prefecture Overseer took office, he would no longer be under the control of the Imperial Court.
In fact, that was indeed the case.
After Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty abolished Shi and established Mu, Liu Yan, Huang Wan, Liu Yu, and other Prefecture Overseers took over, the operation of the entire prefecture was basically cut off from the imperial court. It was completely controlled by the Prefecture Overseer, and it was difficult for the imperial court to interfere.
To a certain extent, the abolition of Shi and the establishment of Mu had led to the formation of warlords in various places at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which aggravated the destruction of the Eastern Han Dynasty. This was the record of a history book that Liu Xuan had exchanged from the system store!
Although Liu Xuan's current reputation in the court and the people might not be as high as Liu Yu's.
However!
Once the Yellow Turban uprising broke out, it would be the best time for Liu Xuan to quickly gain fame.
Once he shone in the Yellow Turban uprising and made outstanding military achievements in quelling the Yellow Turban rebellion, coupled with Liu Hong's good impression of Liu Xuan, Liu Xuan was very confident that he could replace Liu Yu and become the Prefecture Overseer of Youzhou!
Although this was a little unfair to Liu Yu, Liu Xuan had no choice but to do so!
Liu Yu was indeed very good to Liu Xuan. He had always treated Liu Xuan as his nephew. Moreover, he had provided a lot of help for Liu Xuan to have his current reputation.
However!
Liu Xuan would never miss the position of the Prefecture Overseer of Youzhou Province. Additionally, Liu Xuan didn't think that Liu Yu was suitable to be the Prefecture Overseer of Youzhou Province.
After all.
Youzhou is in trouble at home and abroad.
There was Gongsun Zan in Liaoxi, and the Yuan family with four generations of three dukes!
……
In addition to the sowing of potatoes, the training of new recruits was also carried out in secret.
Because of Liu Xuan's political election last year, almost everyone in Dai County could eat their fill.
The originally thin commoners also grew fat and became stronger.
Liu Xuan also took this opportunity to recruit 3,000 new soldiers.
Of course.
The veterans did not stop their training. They continued to train under the leadership of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhang Ren.
Liu Xuan had gone to watch their training once.
On the way back, Liu Xuan's face was full of smiles.
Satisfied!
Extremely satisfied!
Although this unit had only been established for a short year, Liu Xuan could already feel the aura of elites from them.
"As expected, an army that has seen blood is a real army!”
Liu Xuan sighed.
This winter, Guan Yu and the others were not idle.
Although the large tribes on the grassland had traded fur for a large amount of food from Liu Xuan and earned a lot, the small tribes did not have such a good thing.
And so!
Before winter arrived, many small tribes would go south to Youzhou to plunder as usual.
All of Youzhou had been invaded by Xianbei people.
And Liu Xuan's army had also seen blood at that time!
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