One winter time is enough for Ye Zhao to have a relative understanding of Jianning. Jianning County has a large coverage, but only 10% of the land in 90% of the mountainous land can provide a relatively peaceful environment for mankind. What’s bad is that not all places are suitable for planting even on this land. Even if there are manure, new ploughs and other agricultural tools, it is difficult to feed the Han barbarian population of Jianning County with just these limited land.

However, Jianning County has been established since the pre-Qin period and has been passed down to this day for hundreds of years. There are still people here who reproduce and have some reason.

First of all, the climate is more suitable for human habitation than the north. Secondly, although it is impossible to cultivate, there are abundant resources among the vast mountains, birds, beasts, rare treasures, and rare plants. Even in the untapped state, they can feed these people. If you want to talk about the potential, you still have it.

Whether it is Jianning or Zhuti County, which has been expanded once by Ye Zhao, they are in a similar state. Before the potential is discovered, it is not suitable to move in a large number of people.

If we want to improve this, after the four counties are captured, Ye Zhao will pay for the development of this southern Xinjiang land within at least twenty years. The supply of food cannot be stopped, but accordingly, he can obtain a large amount of jade, silver, iron and other minerals from Yunnan.

For luxury goods such as jade, as long as they are processed by jade craftsmen, whether in the Central Plains, the Western Regions, or even the Kushan and Kangju, which are further away, they are a huge market.

Two years after Xingping, followed by news from Chengdu. Liu Xie changed the year name here and changed the term to Jian'an. This was his fifth year name. He successfully escaped from Li Jue and Guo Si's control, fled to Luoyang, and rebuilt the imperial court in Luoyang. Chengdu wrote a letter to ask whether to continue to support the imperial court.

In this regard, Ye Zhao could only laugh. The reason why he agreed to bribe was not Liu Xie, but Li Jue and Guo Si. The Silk Road was controlled by the two of them. He needed the Silk Road to facilitate his own business. Now that Liu Xie moved to Luoyang, it has no practical value for Ye Zhao. How could Ye Zhao continue to waste food to help the court raise people?

He ordered people to reply to the letter to cut off contact with the court on the grounds that the road was not smooth, and at the same time sent people to contact Li Jue and Guo Si to continue to maintain friendly trade relations before he pacified the Southern Barbarians. However, this cooperation method can be changed. After all, there is no justice from the court. Li Jue and Guo Si now need allies, so there is no need to waste 1.8 million stones of food and grass every year. He can send lobbyists to continue to keep the Silk Road open at the price of 600,000 to 800,000 stones.

At the same time, the political achievements in Shuzhong in the second year of Xingping were also sent by airships like snowflakes. The agriculture was still harvested. The rise of animal husbandry not only provided a large amount of plowing ox, but also added a lot of meat to Shuzhong. The grassroots construction in Shuzhong will be saturated in at most two years. At that time, it will be prepared to leave Shu. Two years will be enough for Ye Zhao to pacify him.

The climate in the south and central areas is warmer, and the winter is not long. In January, the north is still in the middle of winter. The weather here has begun to warm up, and green has begun to appear among the mountains.

"Lord, you're so happy!" Pu Yuan, the master of the Shengong Camp, rushed in from outside the mansion with an excited expression and bowed to Ye Zhao.

"Why are you happy?" Ye Zhao looked at Pu Yuan in surprise and said in confusion.

"Master, come with me, the flying boat technology has made a breakthrough." Pu Yuan said with a smile.

"Oh?" Ye Zhao stood up and followed Pu Yuan to the outside of the city. He saw a flying boat that was more spacious than Ye Zhao's car, standing on the open space outside the city. There were many good people around him stopping in the distance and watching.

It is no secret that the Han army can fly.

"What's the difference if it's bigger?" Ye Zhao looked at Pu Yuan in confusion. If it was just to increase the size, there was nothing strange about it.

"My lord, let's take a look at the flying boat." Pu Yuan smiled and took Ye Zhao onto the flying boat.

It is indeed different from before. The ropes of the flying boat are implicated by iron chains. A blower is made with complex machines inside to control the direction and speed of the flying boat. The heating equipment looks more advanced. According to Pu Yuan, adding a layer of something similar to a filter at the heating port can effectively reduce the intake of dust. If it is lamp oil or tinder oil as fuel, the battery life and distance will be longer.

The disadvantage is that both the machine and heating equipment need to be replaced regularly. There are a lot of waste materials and there are improvements, but it won't make him so excited.

"Look at it, lord!" Faced with Ye Zhao's explanation, Pu Yuan took out a piece of paper from the cabin of the flying boat.

"Master Pu wouldn't tell me that there is paper in the airbag of this flying boat, right?" Ye Zhao looked at Pu Yuan strangely. This is not a ten thousand-year-old lamp. Although paper can indeed make a sealed space, once the heat from the heating port is discharged, the paper in the interlayer can be ignited in the shortest time.

"This is nothing but ordinary paper!" Pu Yuan explained with a smile.

"Oh?" Ye Zhao heard this, looked down at the paper in his hand, pulled it, but it didn't take it away. It was not the kind of paper for writing, but it was even tougher. It was impossible to pull it away with force. It took a lot of effort to tear it.

Since Ye Zhao improved the papermaking technology, he handed it over to the Shengong Camp and did not care. Unexpectedly, in just a few years, they made such a breakthrough on paper. But even so, this thing is afraid of fire.

As if he noticed what Ye Zhao was thinking, Pu Yuan lit a torch and handed it to Ye Zhao. Ye Zhao took the torch and baked the paper, but it couldn't be baked for a long time.

"Men and others communicated with the barbarians in the mountains and knew that there was a liquid made of oil and various ingredients that were mixed on objects, which could prevent fire. After applying it to this paper, they would get this object. It was not only fireproof, but also waterproof, which could save leather and directly use this paper as the inner capsule and cloth on the outside. It was not only light, but also tougher than before." Pu Yuan said to Ye Zhao excitedly.

"There is such a thing!" Ye Zhao's eyes lit up. If so, why wouldn't the Southern Barbarian vine armor cross this thing?

"It's just that this thing is insoluble in oil. I originally wanted to soak the paper in oil and then cross this strange thing to make the paper tougher, but I didn't expect this thing to slide down and it was difficult to adhere." Pu Yuan said regretfully.

"That's all, it's enough!" Ye Zhao looked at the paper in his hand, shook his head and exclaimed: "This magical creation is really amazing. Can this thing be mass-produced?"

"Not yet, there are very few strange trees, and the liquid produced is only enough to make this flying boat. I am trying to cultivate its branches and leaves. If this plant can be cultivated, it can be mass-produced. Please look at this thin net and use silk thread to cross this thing." Pu Yuan smiled excitedly at the filter mesh at the heating mouth.

Ye Zhao immediately took people to watch, but it was an ancient tree. He had never seen it in his past and present life. He couldn't help but wonder: "Can you know what kind of tree is?"

"I don't know, why would you give your lord a name?" Pu Yuan said with a smile.

"Since it can prevent fire, call it a fire tree." Ye Zhao smiled and said, "Those who know how to cultivate plants in the Life Shengong Camp come as soon as possible. If this thing can be planted in batches, it will be of great use to our army!"

"Here!" Pu Yuan nodded excitedly. This new flying boat not only has a light airbag, but also has a much higher load capacity. Not only for marching, but also for many construction in Shu, such as the construction of bridges between many mountain streams, the transportation of materials will be much more convenient. As for wars, this flying boat can carry thirty people without being crowded. It can even set up crossbows. When siege, stones can kill people. Not to mention the investigation, it is of too much use.

Saying Pu Yuan with excitement on his face, Ye Zhao returned to the city. The technological breakthrough of this flying boat was indeed gratifying, but before the mass production of the fire tree, all this was just a fantasy and could not be done accurately, and the airbag was still too fragile. Not to mention being shot by a bow and arrow, it could not stand even if it was pecked by a bird in the air.

The following days were calm, and the food and supplies in Shu were constantly sent by Zhu Ti. After two months of training, Jianning's surrendered army was almost done. At the same time, Zhu Ti and Jianning provided winter supplies and absorbed many barbarians to vote. At the end of January, Duosilai, the master of Bana Cave, wanted to attack several times, but after being defeated by Zhao Yun, he finally couldn't hold on and chose to surrender to Ye Zhao. It was also another barbarian who accepted naturalization in Zhurong Cave in southern Xinjiang.

In early February, the three counties that had been dormant for several months finally got news.

In the prefect's mansion, Huang Quan, Guan Yu, Xu Rong, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Guan Hai and other generals came to the hall with serious expressions.

"Lord, Zhuti, Niulan Mountain, and the river of the river all came from information. Zhou Chong, the king of Yueli, led a total of 20,000 barbarians in the 24 caves of Yueli, captured Tanglang, crossed Zhuti Mountain, and headed straight to Zhuti, trying to cut off our army's return. In addition, the Yi people Meng Huo colluded with Yongchang and blocked the two counties, and took two routes to attack the 50,000 troops!" Huang Quan bowed to Ye Zhao and said in a solemn manner.

"Hidden for two months, this is a gathering of the Southern Barbarians' army and attacking them all!" Ye Zhao shook his head and sneered: "This saves a lot of trouble."

"Lord, the bandit army is attacking in three directions. Zhu Ti only has 3,000 troops, and may not be able to compete with the 20,000 Yuezhi army!" Guan Yu was worried about his beloved son and said to Ye Zhao: "I am willing to lead three thousand soldiers to help."

"Don't panic!" Ye Zhao shook his head and said, "Don't forget that Zhu Ti still has 30,000 Zhurong Cave warriors. Tanzhi is here, and Zhu Ti can be guaranteed. I ordered someone to notify Tanzhi. Just stick to it. When our army defeats Yongchang, we will block the enemies of the two counties, and then return to the army to deal with the King of Yueli!"

Ye Zhao left Guan Ping in the first place to make it possible for Guan Ping to call on the Zhurong warriors to join the war at the critical moment.

"Our army has 30,000 troops in Jianning. Meng Huo gathered 50,000 troops to attack, and it happened to be all in one go!" Xu Rong stood up and bowed to Ye Zhao and said, "Lord, I am willing to lead the army all the way!"

"Absolutely, if you have ten thousand troops to Niulan Mountain to defend the enemy, I will lead the army to Luojiang, Zilong, and the Southern Barbarians, there are also brave generals. Please follow Xu Rong to help him." Ye Zhao looked at Zhao Yun and said.
Chapter completed!