What the world lacks the most is to seek grassroots from origin. Therefore, more than 30,000 Jingzhou soldiers were willing to stay and follow Liu Bei to make a breakthrough to see if there was a chance to advance. The remaining people were packing their luggage and starting to return.

Of course, the reason why more than 3,000 people were willing to stay was because Huo Hai's advance arrangements played a role.

However, Huo Hai did not expect that these people would become Liu Bei's most ceremonial confidants.

As for the large households in Yong'an County, they were naturally willing to take out money and grain to send away the soldiers in Jingzhou. Liu Bei intercepted part of them for military capital. Then he issued notices in various counties in Yong'an County to exempt taxes this year. However, in order to prevent the riots from robbing in Yong'an County, he needed to strengthen his military equipment.

So, in order to save the food in your family, come and join the army!

Not to mention, after three days of Liu Bei's announcement, more than 3,000 people were accepted, accounting for almost one-fifth of the young and strong men in Yong'an County.

In addition, the symbolic support of various major families, Liu Bei recruited nearly 5,000 people, and with more than 3,000 Jingzhou soldiers who were willing to stay, Liu Bei's subordinates had an army of 8,000 people, claiming to be 10,000 to the public.

Although most of these people are newcomers, this army belongs to Liu Bei himself and will not be influenced by Liu Yan's orders. He is also very attentive when training.

Moreover, most of these people brought their own food and grass without any compensation. Liu Bei just needed to send people to various counties to gather them together to practice every day.

Compared to Liu Bei, Yuan Shu's way of joining the team was much simpler. After he arrived in Nanyang, he posted a notice. In a few days, more than 50,000 young and strong men gathered in Wancheng.

Moreover, not only are there people, but more than a dozen Wubaos filled with grain, the food stored in them is enough for 50,000 troops to eat for two years.

In addition to being equipped with these 50,000 troops, the weapons, armor and equipment he owns also have a lot of reserves, and they are all very well-established.

The most important thing is that no one thinks it is illegal for him to raise such a large group of people in Nanyang, and no one goes to the emperor to sue Yuan Shu.

Therefore, two thousand stone prefects like Sun Jian also began to serve the Yuan family, because with the background of the Yuan family, he could develop and strengthen his own power locally without worrying about being impeached if he broke the rules.

Moreover, he could also get some food, military equipment from Yuan Shu.

After all, the Sun family is many levels apart from the Yuan family. Relying on the Sun family's own wealth, it seems nervous even if it is armed thousands of people.

As for other places, there have been great changes due to the emergence of the state-patriarchal policy. Fortunately, Liu Hong did not appoint state-patriarchal prefectures to all states, and many states only strengthened the power of state governors.

In addition to Yizhou, the governors of other states, although the rank is only 600 stones, their status is above the prefect of 2,000 stones. They have the power to make tricks on the management of the counties in the state, and can also recruit soldiers or military supplies from each county to a certain extent. Although they do not have the name of the governor of the state, they become the actual superiors of the county magistrate.

Of course, I just became the boss of those county magistrates who were not very ambitious and had no rebellious intentions.

Some big men who have high reputations or have served as high-ranking officials in the center and have been sent to the local area will not be able to win the governors of these states. As long as they are confident that they can beat the governors of these states in the court, they can do their own things and not win the governors of these states.

Sun Jian is the one who is the new governor of Jingzhou, Liu Biao. Of course, Liu Biao has just arrived in Jingzhou, and no one is willing to abandon him. When he gathers the power of Jingzhou as in history, he may no longer satisfy the position of governor and will ask himself to serve as the governor.

After the autumn harvest, Huo Hai's 50,000 Bingzhou army was ready to go. Before preparing to set off, Huo Hai received the news from Yizhou first.

Liu Yan recruited Zhang Lu, obtained more than 10,000 troops, appointed him as the prefect of Hanzhong, killed the envoy sent by the court to Shuzhong, and destroyed the plank road from Guanzhong to Shuzhong, which was basically considered as separating Shuzhong.

On the right side of Yong'an County, Liu Bei released the troops from Jingzhou, recruited 10,000 new troops, and practiced day and night to strengthen the city defenses of Yong'an County, with an unclear attitude.

However, in Liu Yan's memorial to the emperor, he appointed Liu Bei as the prefect of Yong'an County. At the same time, he appointed the chief officials of other counties in Shu and the positions of generals at the camp level and above, which basically gave Shu a major change.

Moreover, he completely pushed Zhang Lu's killing envoy and destroying the plank road, saying that it was done by the Yellow Turban thieves. He needed to wipe out the Yellow Turban thieves in Yizhou and repair the plank road in order to pay taxes from Shuzhong to the court.

However, the mountain in Shu is high and steep, and it is extremely difficult to build a road. I don’t know when this road will be built.

However, Liu Bei, because of Liu Yan's move, had been classified as the Liu Yan party by the court. Although Yong'an County did not cut off traffic with the court, the court would not issue a single edict to ask him to pay taxes.

This made Liu Bei a small warlord who did not pay taxes to Liu Yan or the court.

"This Liu Yan is indeed a master who is both a bitch and a archway. The court now has no money to build a plank road, so he doesn't have to pay taxes from Shuzhong to the court.

Moreover, while the imperial court built roads, he could destroy them at the same time, pushing them all to the bandits. Within a few years, Shuzhong and the Central Plains were basically cut off, and no one could do it. This was enough to make him turn Shuzhong into his own one-man show." After listening to a series of intelligence analysis reports by Zhang Ning, Chu Yan complained.

In Huo Hai's tent, other generals also agreed and denounced Liu Yan as despicable.

Just now, Huo Hai had already deployed the preliminary strategy and tactics of the Battle of Hexi. He led 20,000 central troops, with Zhang Liao as the vanguard, Xu Huang as the commander of the left army, Yu Fuluo as the commander of the right army, Guan Hai as the commander of the rear army, and Chu Yan led the Flying Cavalry as the commander of the guerrilla army. Before these main generals attacked, he felt it necessary to let them know the core of the overall strategy.

When they scolded Liu Yan, Huo Hai touched his nose awkwardly. In fact, he also wanted to follow Liu Yan's methods and establish himself in Bingzhou.

Moreover, the method has been decided, and he is planning to let Taishi Ci lead a group of men to pretend to be a water bandit, cut off the waterway on the Yellow River, destroy the ferry, and achieve the effect of cutting off Luoyang and Hebei.

With the current economic situation and number of troops in the court, there is no way to fight water wars. In this case, the north of the Yellow River will be out of the control of the court within a certain period of time, and Huo Hai and some other forces can be allowed to grow and grow in Hebei.

"The implementation of the state patriarchal system by the imperial court will definitely allow those ambitious people to seek opportunities for separatist forces. The chaos in the Central Plains is not far away." Tian Feng said.

"Yuan Hao thought, what should we do next?" Huo Hai deliberately asked his chief aide.

Tian Feng smiled and replied, "The chaos in the Central Plains is not far away, which means that the generals have many opportunities to make achievements in the future.

Therefore, in the Battle of Hexi, we should focus on the word "stability". All generals should not advance rashly before they can eliminate the Xiongnu Tianwu. Once they are frustrated, they will lose the opportunity to compete in the Central Plains in the future, but they will not be worth the loss."

Hearing this, many generals nodded. Only Lu Bu, who was ordered by Huo Hai to accompany the army, had different opinions and said, "What a mere witch, how can you be afraid of the witch in the south? Didn't Wu Kui in the southern border die under a certain halberd? The general only needs to allow me three thousand iron cavalry to break into Hexi and take the heads of those witch dogs."

In the past six months, he has never been in debt for the devil's training every day, and he never owe any money to drink and eat. Lu Bu feels that he has made a lot of progress again. Even if those Tianwu are as powerful as Wukui, he has the confidence to fight with him.

However, he was very dissatisfied with Huo Hai's arrangement to put himself by his side as a fighter and not let him go out to be the commander of the army.

He has mastered martial arts, isn’t he just pretending to be cool in front of others?

No matter how much the general fights to kill the enemy, he will not have much credit as the general!

"The Heavenly Witch's methods are strange, and they are not comparable to ordinary people. I have sent Taoist Master Zuo to Heishan Village to invite Taoist Master Yu and Taoist Master Ge to come together. When they decide the outcome with the Hun Tianwu, it will not be too late for us to take action." Huo Hai directly rejected Lu Bu's request.

When Lu Bu heard this, although he was unhappy, he did not dare to act rashly. Huo Hai's prestige in the army was not something he could provoke.

Tian Feng spoke again at this time, "The general led his troops to fight, but the rear must be guarded, otherwise it will be easy to cause variables."

"Which Yuan Hao is talking about Governor Zang?"

"That is, he always listens to the court, that is, he is easily influenced by the government offices. Once he is dragged down in logistics, our army will easily be in a situation where he is unable to achieve success and fail."

"So, I have never seen him since he took office. Now our army is ready to go. When he receives the news, he will definitely come to see me. At that time, I will talk to him.

As for the logistics issues that Yuan Hao mentioned, since the court is unreliable, let’s make more preparations. Mr. Sima, you have to trouble you to travel to Hanoi. The bets made by the Sima family on me should be fulfilled now." Huo Hai looked at a young man who was not very handsome in the civil servant team and said.

"The general only sent troops to the group of snowmobile transported from Heishan. Even if Governor Zang ordered the blockade of Bingzhou Pass, our Sima family could guarantee the army's food supply." Sima Chong said confidently.

Huo Hai nodded and no longer said anything about food and grass. In fact, besides the Sima family, he also had a third preparation. Even if there is a change in Bingzhou, Heishanzhai could directly send grain from Heishan, walk on the grassland, and go to Hexi. The vast grass slopes and the frozen Yellow River are not obstacles for transportation teams after winter.

However, such a long distance transportation will be even higher, and it can only be used as an alternative.

Everyone was discussing this matter! Zang Min and Cao Cao happened to arrive outside the military camp in Mayi City. After some notice, Huo Hai decided to meet the two directly at the military conference site.

In the warm military tent, the firewood charcoal crackled, and the warm wine exuded an attractive fragrance. However, after Zang Min and Cao Cao came in, their attention did not focus on the warm warm wine.

Because the neatly arranged number of civil servants and military generals in armor made them stand on the spot.

Both of them are brothers, especially Zang Min, who should have the peak of the middle stage of internal strength, slightly stronger than Cao Cao, but the aura emitted by these people in the tent made him feel dangerous.

There are several generals in the late stage of internal strength alone, and even several other people at the peak of internal strength.

"Since General Huo is ready to send troops, why not report to the court first?"

"In the memorial at the beginning of the year, I have already explained to the emperor that the reply I received is cheap, so I will no longer need to report to the court before the war begins and the results of the war are achieved."

Zang Min nodded and said, "Even if the court has the right to act cheaply, the officials will temporarily follow General Huo's orders. I don't know how much food and grass the general wants to recruit in the Bingzhou area this time to go to war, and list the amount, so the officials will be ready for it."

The Anbei Army's food and grass were provided by Bingzhou, which was a tacit understanding that Huo Hai and Zang Min had long been in agreement. However, Zang Min could not really collect taxes in Bingzhou. Huo Hai actually didn't expect him to provide any support, as long as he didn't make trouble later.

He smiled and said, "Governor Zang intends to pay money and grain from the treasury to serve as military funds?"

"This is natural." Zang Min nodded.

"This is probably not enough." Huo Hai shook his head.

"Then you will give it to the people." Zang Min answered as if he was prepared.

"It's not enough. Moreover, Bingzhou had just encountered a big war at the beginning of the year, and the people had no money and food at home, so I don't agree with you to give the people." Huo Hai shook his head again and said.

"What about General Huo's opinion?"

"The people have no money and food in their hands, and most of the big clans have official titles and do not need to pay money and food to the court. Then, they will only use the land in Hexi to exchange money and food for those with food." Huo Hai replied.

"How much does the general need to exchange money and food in Hexi?"

"I will replace as much land as I spend as much money and food until it is finished." Huo Hai smiled.

"this……"

"Is there anything wrong?"

"No." Zang Min gritted his teeth.

Upon hearing this, Huo Hai looked at him with a little more appreciation. This is a person who really wants to do things, but what he is thinking about is doing things for the court.
Chapter completed!