In the spring of the seventh year of Jian'an, rain began to rise frequently in the tropical jungles of Myanmar. Myanmar was the new name given to Hongshawaddy by King Feng Yu of Liang, and it was the 14th state he opened up for the Han Empire.

At this time, Feng Yu, the King of Liang, was on his way back to Yibin, the capital of Liang Kingdom. He sat in the Elephant Salon Tower, supported his head with his hands, rubbed his temples, and thought about things.

Although Feng Yu worked hard in Tenglong City for more than a month, all kinds of complicated matters could not be accomplished overnight, and he could not be staying in Myanmar for too long. What he was grateful for was that he and Zhuge Liang. Feng Yu knew very well that Zhuge Liang's real strength was not in military affairs, but in internal affairs.

Feng Yu left Zhuge Liang, Zhang Ren and Yan Yan to manage Myanmar. He believed that Zhuge Liang could manage Myanmar in order according to his intentions.

He has been away from Yibin for nearly half a year. Although there are letters connected, the journey is long after all, and it has been more than a month since the news of the Central Plains reached Tenglong City. Fortunately, there have been no major changes in the Central Plains during this period.

Since the Xuzhou Incident, no major incidents have occurred within and between the various princes. Although Cao Cao's Wei State grew rapidly, he continued to uphold the basic national policy of quitting and resting his troops and accumulating strength.

In addition, the Xianbei people in the northeast direction had risen. Ke Bineng, the leader of a certain Xianbei tribe, unified the Xianbei tribes and began to show his minions to Cao Wei.

They first attacked the Wuhuan Kingdom, which had already surrendered to Cao Wei, and then went south to Youzhou. Cao Cao had to mobilize elite troops to defend and fight with the Xianbei people in the old Yan land. This is also one of the reasons why Cao Cao did not cause trouble in the Central Plains.

Sun Wu, second only to Cao Wei, strictly abides by the White Horse Oath. At this time, Sun Ce was still in his prime and energetic. After several years of rest and rest, although the Wu Kingdom could not be said to have a prosperous population, it also recovered a lot of vitality. It can be said that the soldiers are strong and the food is sufficient.

Sun Ce had the strength to annex the Shijia of Yue State in Jiaozhou, and could also attack and kill Liu Biao, King of Linjiang, to avenge his father's death. But he did not do this. From his heart, it was not that he did not want to, but that he did not want to take the lead.

But Sun Ce has not been idle in the past few years. Since the nine princes and white horses swore to temporarily pacify the world, fewer and fewer refugees from the north to the east of Jiangdong, and in the end they were basically useless. On the contrary, many refugees who had been wandering to the south embarked on the journey back home again.

Sun Ce could understand the truth that Feng Yu understood. He knew that if this continued, the population advantage of Wei would become larger and larger as time went by. Therefore, while Wu tried his best to stop the population from Jiangdong from returning to the north, he took another way to increase the population.

The Wu Kingdom sent Wei Wen to lead more than 10,000 navy troops to float in the sea to find Yizhou and Danzhou. Just when the Liang army attacked Hongshawadi, Wei Wen discovered Yizhou and moved a large number of indigenous people on the island to Jiangdong to replenish the population.

Sun Wu can replenish the population in this way, but Feng Yu cannot, or is unwilling to do so.

Feng Yu believed that the Zhuluo people and the Han people in the Central Plains had huge differences in terms of blood and culture. If the Zhuluo people were forcibly introduced on a large scale, it would inevitably alienate the Chinese civilization, and it would be difficult to judge whether this alienation was beneficial or harmful.

On the contrary, the population of Yizhou introduced by Sun Ce, or the population of Hanzhou where Xu Fu moved. Compared with the Zhuluo people, the differences in ethnic characteristics and Han people are relatively small. What is more important is that their civilization is still in its infancy, with great plasticity, and can be more easily integrated into local civilization.

When Feng Yu's team entered Yongchang, he could see that on both sides of the newly built road, there were business travelers carrying baskets to chase elephants and bowing to him from time to time. This was the local Yizhou caravan heading to Shawadi to do business. The small ones were only three or five people, and the large ones were hundreds.

The merchants were the most informed and knew Feng Yu's political strategy in Shawadi Port at the first time. They immediately realized that there was a business road full of wealth from Yongchang to Shawadi Port, and they embarked on this arduous journey without hesitation.

But in fact, the difficulty of this road was smaller than they thought, because the Liang army had previously used Zhu Luo prisoners of war and civilian labor to open a highway along the Dulong River in the jungle, and the Dulong River waterway route had already been opened. There were Liang's strongholds along the route that could seek help.

When Feng Yu saw these merchants, he remembered the decision he made after repeated thoughts - temporarily rejecting foreign merchants' caravans to go deep into the inland hinterland. Those foreign merchants thought that Feng Yu wanted to monopolize business, but in fact, if Feng Yu really wanted to monopolize business, he would not allow local merchants to go to Shawadi Port.

The real reason for his doing this is for safety. At present, the entire Han territory still has only a few million people. If outsiders are asked to touch the situation in the territory and make a big mistake again, the consequences will be unimaginable.

A road of more than 400 miles appeared between Buwei City and Gufu. Feng Yu changed to a carriage and passed the road across the South Central Plateau in two days. He then took a waterway along the Jinsha River in Gufu and arrived in Yibin in one day.

Feng Yu calculated that it only took more than ten days to get from Shawadi Port to Yibin.

In the Liang Palace in Yibin City, there were already decorations and decorations to welcome Feng Yu's triumph. Feng Yu and his concubines were not a fan of their family reunion.

Early the next morning, Feng Yu woke up from the gentle hometown of the concubine's bed and got up and washed up into the study. The first thing he did was to summon Chen, and Feng Yu was anxious to know if something special happened in the Central Plains recently.

As a result, Chen Diao told him two relatively important things. One was that under the leadership of the Han Emperor Liu Xie, the court began to recruit troops and expand its military strength.

Second, Liu Biao in Linjiang Kingdom seemed to be undercurrents. Liu Biao was lying in bed for half a month and has not recovered yet. In Linjiang, two forces with Liu Biao's two sons as their core are preparing for a battle to succeed the throne.

Feng Yu was not concerned about the first thing. But after listening to the second thing, his heart suddenly moved, and the words Liu Bei came out of Feng Yu's mind.

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Linjiang State, Fancheng County Government. Liu Bei's eyes were lowered and he sat upright on the chair. His two brothers Guan and Zhang were still standing behind him. Jian Yong, who had just returned from Jiangling, was telling him what he saw and heard. From beginning to end, there was no slight turbulence on Liu Bei's face.

Fancheng is a county town in the northernmost part of Liu Biao's Linjiang Kingdom, and is across the Mian River from Xiangyang of Liang Kingdom. Logically speaking, it belongs to Nanyang County and should have been under the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

However, when the court moved to Wancheng, Liu Biao had occupied several Nanyang cities such as Fancheng, Xinye, Rangcheng for a long time. The court did not have the strength to force these cities back from Liu Biao. Fortunately, Liu Biao knew the general and took the initiative to retreat from Rangcheng. Xinye retreated, leaving only Fancheng as the gateway.

Naturally, the court would not say anything else. When demarcating the boundary, it clearly gave Fancheng to Linjiang Kingdom. After Liu Bei came to join Liu Biao, the latter used the former as a guest general and placed the former in Fancheng to guard the gateway for him.
Chapter completed!