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Chapter 337 Xun Yu: It’s better to measure the land!
After hearing this, Guo Jia couldn't help but nodded in agreement.

If you attack the counties of Bingzhou, you must not only guard against the Liangzhou bandits and the Baibo bandits, but also guard against the attacks of the Xiongnu tribes. Guan Yu and Lu Bu cooperate very well.

Previously, when he attacked the famous general Wen Chou in Hebei, he defeated the enemy step by step. Even though he had a large number of cavalry, he did not gain the upper hand until he died and the city was captured.

Among all the generals under the king's command, none of them could surpass Lu Bu in rank and title. Only Guan Yu's personality and status convinced the unruly Lu Fengxian.

It can be said that apart from the king, the only person who can control Lu Bu is Zhang Yide, and if it is the third general, he will probably be in harmony with Lu Fengxian but not in harmony with him.

Lu Bu is a rare cavalry general, and it would be a pity to abandon him.

Guo Jia bowed and smiled, "Your Majesty, this is a very good plan. Guan Taishou is from Hedong. It will be easy for him to win over the nobles and defeat the Baibo bandits. If we capture Hedong County, we can deter the Liangzhou bandits in Chang'an."

"It is said that Li Jue and Guo Si, two bandits from Liangzhou, built a pass on the south bank of Dahe Pass. Because the water flows through Tong Pass Mountain, it was named Tong Pass. This is a strategic location with narrow and difficult roads. It can be called the most dangerous place in the capital."

"If we follow your plan, we will first take Hedong County, temporarily abandon Hongnong, and take the river upstream to Guanzhong. By then, the Han army will be able to take Guanzhong back with all their might. It will be useless for the Liangzhou bandits to defend it, and it will be a waste of effort. Li Jue, Guo Si, and Zhang Ji will surely flee."

Guo Jia thought to himself.

It is useless to defend Tongguan alone. We also need to reinforce the three counties of Linjin, Heyang and Xiayang. These three cities are on the west side of the river. Even if the enemy crosses the river, we can cut off their food supply.

But the Liangzhou bandits, whether intentionally or unintentionally, ignored the fact that they were not fighting against the coalition forces of the Guandong princes, but the King of Han who had integrated the most fertile lands in the world.

Not to mention Li Jue and Guo Si, who were unable to command Yong and Liang provinces at the moment, even the thief Dong in his most powerful period would not have the confidence to defend Guanzhong when he saw the Han army rushing towards him with overwhelming force.

When the King of Han has integrated Hebei, it will be the time for the demise of the princes in Guanzhong.

People like Ma Teng and Han Sui can only clean up quickly like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

Even though all the Han documents in Luoyang had been burned by Dong Zhuo, Guo Jia could guess that even if the Han Dynasty during the Huan and Ling dynasties could mobilize materials from all over the world, it would probably not be able to catch up with the power that could be unleashed by the states under the rule of the King of Han after Hebei was thoroughly reorganized.

Not to mention anything else, just since the troops were sent out to Jizhou, nearly a thousand carts of money have been collected from the wealthy families that were wiped out, and a lot of horse hoof gold and unicorn foot gold have also been obtained.

There are more than a hundred carts of other jade wares such as cloth, fine silk, jade rings, and jade ornaments, ranging from the Yin, Zhou, Warring States, Qin to the Han Dynasty.

Liu Bei even saw many jade pig dragons with pig heads and dragon bodies in the homes of the powerful. Considering that tomb robberies have occurred from ancient times to the present, it goes without saying how the powerful families in Hebei got these things.

In addition to utensils, there are countless livestock such as cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, mules and donkeys.

More than two hundred wealthy families spent one or two hundred years accumulating wealth, but in the end all of it was benefited by Liu Bei. Jizhou is indeed a place of abundance and richness, much richer than the wealthy families in Xuzhou. You wouldn't know until you suppress them, and you'll be shocked once you do.

No wonder it is often said that Jizhou can support a million soldiers. It turns out that they were not referring to the common people. After all, how much money did the common people have? The richest were the wealthy families.

Not only Liu Bei, Guo Jia and others thought so, even Xun Yu who was far away in Qingzhou was worried and happy at the same time. He was worried that the king would farm and kill too many people in Hebei, which would provoke more and more powerful people to resist.

As he watched the endless stream of fully loaded baggage carts transporting hundreds of billions of treasures to Pingyuan County, his urgent needs were immediately resolved, and he could not help but feel his heart pounding wildly. Especially when he brought 436 state and county officials, as well as 3,700 auxiliary soldiers, and spent twelve days repeatedly checking and transporting the treasures, and after confirming that they were correct, he sealed the treasures in the treasury, and when the door was closed, even the usually elegant and easy-going Xun Yu laughed out loud.

The officials were stunned on the spot. Is this still the Liuxiang Xunjun they knew?

The clerks had no idea how happy Xun Yu was. Not only did this money help alleviate Qingzhou's huge treasury expenditure for rebuilding Yuzhou and Jizhou, but the rest could also be used for other purposes.

The land measurement in Jizhou was carried out just in time. The gains from the land measurement and the suppression of local tyrants in Xuzhou last time supported the Qingzhou army in the great battle with Yuan Shao and in carrying the people across the river.

The money was not used up until hundreds of thousands of people in Ganling State were pacified.

Now the harvest was nearly twice that of Xuzhou. For at least two or three years, Xun Yu no longer had to worry about money. He could pat his chest and say to the King of Han: "Your Majesty, you can fight however you want. I will dispatch food and weapons from behind. No matter how many arrows and millet the military documents require, if there is a shortage of an arrow or a grain of millet on the way and the baggage has been transported to the camp, you can hold me responsible."

Xun Yu had long known about the wealth of Hebei, but he was still dumbfounded when he saw it in person.

Perhaps he remembered the letter from Xun Wenruo before, and thought that even if he recruited another 100,000 troops, it would be more than enough.

Therefore, when Liu Bei heard Guo Jia talking about the bandits in Guanzhong and Liangzhou building a pass, he did not take it seriously. With the world at peace, Guanzhong would be difficult to defend, so what would it matter even if Li Jue and Guo Si built Tongguan.

Liu Bei turned the topic back to the main topic and said to everyone: "Now that Zhang Yan wants to surrender, we can let him attack Changshan State and subdue the local nobles."

"The nobles and servants from the seven counties in northern Zhongshan are gathering at Wangdu County. I heard that there are nearly 10,000 armored soldiers. Leave 2,000 auxiliary soldiers to guard Lunu, and dispatch the Ruichong Camp and Huben Cavalry to defeat them in one fell swoop."

"After defeating the enemy in Wangdu, we will take Tangxian and Puyin, and finally pacify Beiping. I will then lead the army across Pingshui to Youzhou Zhuojun. I expect that defeating the Zhongshan bandits with my elite troops will be as easy as stealing sheep."

After Liu Bei finished speaking, he started laughing.

It's not that he underestimated the enemy, but the war went more and more smoothly, and the new soldiers added by the military office cooperated more and more skillfully.

Not to mention that their wealthy families used their years of savings to mobilize 30,000 troops. Even if they opened the armory and equipped all 30,000 of them with armor, as long as they dared to fight him in the wild, even with only 2,000 infantry, it would be enough to beat the opponent to tears, and the Tiger Cavalry would not have to move at all.

They can kill the enemy army in one go. The life-and-death fighting in war is about which army has stronger will, higher morale, and more skilled training.

As long as they have the advantage in these aspects, coupled with years of experience in fighting, even if they cannot win every battle, at least they can defeat this group of rabble like crushing dry weeds and rotten wood.

As for whether the other side would flee when they heard the Han army was coming, that depended on how stubborn the rebellious nobles were.

Some people don't want to believe the so-called "rumors" because they haven't seen it with their own eyes.

He will just think that others are just talking nonsense and making up absurd rumors until he meets it himself.

(End of this chapter)