The strongest system to dominate the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 967 Liu Bei's Ambition

On the Yangzhou side, Sun Ce left many soldiers behind, so he had to go back to Changsha in despair.

He has insufficient soldiers and horses here, and unless he joins forces with Cao Cao, he will have no strength to attack.

However, it is impossible to unite with Cao Cao.

In this way, Sun Ce could only go back aggrieved.

After returning, Sun Ce sent someone to secretly contact Liu Bei.

Today's Liu Biao is not good enough, even worse than in history.

He had been frightened by Zhang Yu and pissed off by Cai Mao countless times, so his physical condition is very poor now.

He was trapped in Xiangyang and a few surrounding places, with a force of about 30.

However, they did not develop much, while Cai Mao developed rapidly.

The areas controlled by Liu Biao are rapidly disappearing.

If it wasn't for Cai Mao's lack of talents, I'm afraid he would follow Zhang Yu's proposal and replace all the officials, one by one.

Cai Mao's strategy is to win a place and replace all officials.

This requires a lot of talent.

He had to do this, because Liu Biao had been operating here for so long, and secretly he didn't know how many people were loyal to him, so Cai Mao could only do this.

Now that Liu Biao is in such a situation, many people already have other thoughts.

Those who are still following Liu Biao must be Liu Biao’s die-hards. Some of them are not die-hards, either betting on both sides, or they have already surrendered to Cai Mao.

Of course, there are also many aristocratic families who are more detached and can remain neutral.

Liu Bei, coming to Jingzhou naturally has his own thoughts.

One is that there is no place for him in other places, and the other is that he also wants to make some capital.

Now his chance has come, because many people think that Liu Biao is going to die.

Liu Biao died, but his two sons were useless.

Definitely not Cai Mao's opponent.

The eldest son must not take the position, otherwise he will be killed by Cai Mao, and then let the second son take the position. If the second son takes the position, the second son is Cai Mao's nephew.

At that time, Cai Mao will also find an opportunity to control it.

Left and right, Liu Biao's two sons are not good.

Liu Bei summoned several of his confidants.

Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Jian Yong.

"The Jingzhou family intends to let me take over the post of governor of Jingzhou to prevent Cai Mao from stealing the power. Do you have any suggestions?" Liu Bei said.

Just after Liu Bei finished speaking, Zhang Fei said, "Brother, what are you waiting for? This Liu Jingsheng is a waste, and he can actually let Cai Mao seize power."

Guan Yu stroked his beard and said, "The family will rely on us, but how to control the army? If you can't control the army, everything is useless."

Jian Yong said: "My lord, what the second general said is that we must ensure that we can control the army. Although these aristocratic families can control a part of the army, they certainly cannot control the entire army."

Liu Bei pondered for a long time and said, "This must be done. This is our last chance."

After Liu Bei made his decision, he also went to Pang Tong, who was actually willing to advise him.

Zhang Yu received the news of Liu Bei's change a few days later.

"Do you want to do something to Liu Bei, or don't care?"

"Forget it, if he is lucky and becomes a major event, he can cause some trouble for Cai Mao. Cai Mao's ambition is getting bigger and bigger."

After the war with Sun Ce, there was a situation in the Yangtze River Shipping. Sun Ce temporarily cut off the shipping. I don't know if it will be released later.

Zhang Yu reckoned that Sun Ce didn't dare to keep blocking the Yangtze River, otherwise Zhang Yu and Cai Mao would join forces to attack him.

Sun Ce is also most afraid of this. He will be very dangerous at that time, so he wants to do things in Jingzhou.

Zhang Yu doesn't care what changes will happen to Jingzhou.

He handed over the army to several generals in Bohai County, and then went back to Peiping by himself.

"My king's road construction army has been formed, when can we start road construction?" Zhang Yu called a cabinet meeting and asked.

Of the several people in the cabinet, Tian Feng is mainly responsible for road construction.

So Tian Feng came out to report and said: "The route survey and the formation of the team are carried out simultaneously. We will distribute the work to the counties and counties along the road. With the help of officials at all levels, it has already taken shape and will be formed soon. It's just the route. The survey has not been fully surveyed."

"This matter is a century-old project, and it may affect the pattern of thousands of years. We must pay attention to it. This road will also be permanently recorded in the annals of history."

The north-south artery is definitely a major event that opened up the world.

Zhang Yu tried to find a way to fix it in the cheapest way.

The cost of building such a long road will be very staggering.

But even so, Zhang Yu still had to do it.

Food is easy to deal with. It is called from various warehouses, and the wages have already been paid to [-] million. After that, tools and materials are also huge expenses.

Zhang Yu has already asked Anyuan to organize some people in Fusang to come and build roads. These people don't need wages, and they have to eat enough.

"Okay, you can just build roads, if you encounter any problems in the middle, you can solve what the cabinet can solve, and leave it to me if you can't."

If tolls can be collected now like later generations, then the construction will be much faster, at least Zhang Yu dares to invest a lot at once.

But in this era, it is not good to collect tolls, but it will cause big problems.

In this cabinet meeting, Zhang Yu's focus was still on the establishment of a dozen departments, which were not so easy to form.

Now at the state level, the departments have been established and the staffing is sufficient, but at the county level, the development is not so fast.

There are so many things going on, everyone in the cabinet is very busy.

Zhang Yu has mobilized a group of people as cabinet support staff, such as Zhuge Liang and others, and letting them study directly at the center will help their growth.

After they study for a period of time, and after the department is established, Zhang Yu also wants some of them to serve as leaders in the counties and counties below, train them for a few years, and develop slowly.

This is the way to train successors. Zhang Yu trains a group of graduate students as successors.

After the Great War, Zhang Yu mainly developed the territory, and the army was only a small-scale expansion.

After they finished their work, the battle would definitely break out again.

After working for half a year, Zhang Yu's structure is complete, and the entire political system operates more reasonably.

In the past six months, there have been no major wars among the princes.

A lot has happened in the past six months.

Zhang Yu continued to send people to South Africa, and South Africa also dug a little gold mine back, although not a lot, but at least there was a little supplement.

And the relationship with Tianzhu is getting more and more delicate.

They began to reject Zhang Yu and the others domestically, but they still maintained close trade.

The trade with Tianzhu is increasing.

In the west, with the help of Ma Yunlu, Zhang Yu and the others finally had a caravan and started direct contact with the Roman Empire.

This is a big event. The opening of the Silk Road on land may still be accompanied by bloodshed in the future.

But it is very good now. In order to learn more about each other, the two sides will definitely maintain friendly trade.

When the conditions are ripe for the East and the West, a war will naturally break out.

(End of this chapter)