The Guanzhong army was eyeing the troops and preparing for war, while the flames of rebellion within Liangzhou had already appeared.

Guo was waiting for Ma Chao to commit suicide, waiting for him to force Han Sui and Yan Xing to rebel, and then he had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation and seize Liangzhou.

Liangzhou is close to you and easy to control, and there are large troops in the army, so it is not difficult to attack. Guo Peng adopted a policy of appeasement against another separatist force that was not under Guo Peng's control.

Gongsun Du, Liaodong.

Compared with Liangzhou, Liaodong is now a truly wild place. It is cold, with few people, and it is difficult to walk on the road.

According to the war results calculated by the team of accountants led by the chief minister of the cabinet, Wang Can, if this battle starts, you will definitely win.

But if you want to develop that fertile black soil, you will be unable to make ends meet within ten years.

Unlike Liangzhou, the battle in Liaodong is a real battle of losses and there is no possibility of profitability.

For Mr. Guo, fighting is not only a process of unification, but also a business. Whether a piece of land has value in utilization, and whether it is a good thing for the future Wei Empire, is it definitely a matter of numbers.

Now the numbers tell Guo Peng that it is definitely not a valuable act to conquer Liaodong.

For now, let Tian Yuding build a defense line in Liaoxi County and intercept Gongsun Du's forces in the east of Liaoze, so that he could not defeat and could not interfere in the war in the Central Plains. That would be the best situation.

Therefore, Guo Peng decided to keep Liaodong before pacifying the four southern prefectures. Liaodong can be fought as the last battle, and then he will take down North Korea and make it an administrative unit directly under the Wei Empire, saving a lot of trouble in the future.

The economic value of the Korean Peninsula itself is not very valuable, but the strategic value and location factors are very important.

Some things cannot be done even if you can’t consider the cost.

So Mr. Guo planned to take the Huairou route.

Didn’t Gongsun Du proclaim himself the governor of Pingzhou, Hou of Liaodong?

Guo Peng just really gave it to him.

Let him be the Marquis of Liaodong, the governor of Pingzhou, allowed by the Han Empire, and let him go happily by himself. Now I want to fight south and usurp the throne. I don’t have time to argue with you. You can play in the northeast by yourself and wait until I can free up my hands before dealing with you.

At the same time, the 10,000 naval troops that had been formed in Qingzhou have been initially formed. Taishici, the general of the tower ship, has led the large ships of the navy fleet to sail to the sea several times, train in the sea area, and practice the tactics of cross-sea landing operations.

Guo Peng's plan was to let this naval fleet built on the scale of the navy take on the combat mission of attacking Jiangdong and Liaodong in the future.

Whether it is attacking Liaodong or attacking Jiangdong, the road to attack directly is difficult. Guo Peng’s plan is to avoid land, take more sea routes, find another way, and directly attack Jiangdong and Liaodong from the sea.

This not only can catch the other party off guard, but it can also reduce the materials and losses required for marching.

The funds given to this fleet are directly allocated to Mi Zhu, and then Mi Zhu directly distributed them. Mi Zhu supervised the construction of ships and naval combat equipment, converted large killers such as trenchers into types suitable for use in naval ships, etc., to enhance the naval combat capabilities.

After spending so much money, you have to be able to play, otherwise, will the money be spent in vain?

Guo Peng felt that Taishi Ci was also very anxious. Since taking this position, he has not gotten the chance to fight or get promoted. Looking at other people, this general and that general, he must be very anxious.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month of the first year of Jian'an, General Wei Gong Guo Peng of the Cavalry asked the emperor to order the land of Liaodong in Youzhou to be Pingzhou, and ordered the title of Liaodong Prefect Gongsun Du to be the governor of Pingzhou, the Marquis of Liaodong, and had a fief of 1,000 households.

Guo Peng wants to send a signal.

He wants to tell Gongsun Du that I am not interested in you and now I want to be kind to you, so don’t be shameless.

It satisfied Gongsun Du, sootheed his restless heart, made him recognize the little emperor, and then, it was a guide to the three major princes in the south.

In fact, there is also Jiaozhou in the south of Lingnan, which is probably part of Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Vietnam today. It covers a wide area, but its population is too sparse and too wild, and it is not strong enough to compete with the princes of the Central Plains.

So in Guo Peng's view, it is just a piece of land that has no obstacles to pushing over, and it is completely ignored.

What we have to deal with are just Liu Zhang, Liu Biao and Sun Quan.

Regarding Liu Zhang, Guo Peng heard that Liu Zhang had lost his heart to go north. In order to survive, he began to open up living space to the south and compete with the southern barbarians for population resources and land. This was very good in Guo Peng's opinion, because in the future, this is what he would do.

South of the Yangtze River and north of the Yangtze River were two concepts for the Han Dynasty.

Because of the incomplete development of the Han Dynasty, the room for development left to Guo Peng was too great.

The more than 30 million tools in his territory were not enough. I am afraid that he could bring the development of Jiangnan land on the agenda and lead the great immigrants in his life, which would be considered as a perfect merit.

He had no room for extravagance for others, and it was really unrealistic to expand territory and other things.

If you really take the current southern territory of the Han Dynasty into your hands, it will not be enough to double the population.

The peak population of the Han Dynasty itself counted was around 50 million, so some people think that 50 million is the peak population that could be accommodated in ancient China without high-yield crops such as corn and potatoes.

However, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the land in Jiangnan was basically not developed, and there was a large area of ​​wilderness. Then, on the relatively well-developed land in the north, the number of people hidden by the powerful landlords and the great gentry was not counted in the number of household registrations in the empire.

Think about it, the Li Dian family has a population of 15,000 that is not counted in the statistics, what about the rest?

Before the outbreak of the Yellow Turban War, the total population of the Eastern Han Dynasty was definitely above 50 million.

Even without high-yield crops such as corn and potatoes, relying on existing land and productivity, the land of China can definitely accommodate more than 50 million people, even far exceeding the needs of them.

The cycle of reincarnation is not just a population problem, but more of a land merger problem and a political problem.

Guo Peng believed that it would be enough for him to start the development of Jiangnan and then expel the grassland tribes to the north to go down in history. There was no need for development, no spare energy, no possibility.

So now we can take advantage of Liu Biao and Liu Zhang to give them appropriate pressure to force them to develop southward, and at the same time give them more time to build some bridgeheads and reduce the burden on themselves in the future.

Liu Zhang and Liu Biao are still of useful value.

This is what Guo thought, so he asked the young emperor for an order to appease Liu Biao and Liu Zhang in the name of the young emperor.

Increase their fiefs, reward them with money, and then do nothing and just wait.

See what they can toss the south side into.

Finally, it’s Jiangdong.

Wars were raging in Jiangdong, and the war between the Sun Wu regime and the consortium of local forces in Jiangdong was in full swing. Both sides fought endlessly, and the wars were repeated, with each losing money and heavy losses.

Wu County, Danyang County, Kuaiji County, Luling County, Yuzhang County, and Jiangdong County were all ravaged by war.

Because the Sun Wu army and the powerful army were able to restrain a little more because they were fighting in their hometowns, the Shanyue Group's army was no longer restrained. They fought while robbed the Sun Wu army while also attacking the Sun Wu army.

Therefore, although the two can stand a unified position when facing the Sun Wu army, the two sides are by no means without contradictions. On the contrary, the contradiction is not small.

The Shanyue Group's army is powerful in war, but the robbery is also powerful. When passing by a manor, they robbed it without saying a word. After the incident, they refused to admit it, or simply said that it was destroyed by Sun Wu's army, which made the gentry and powerful people in Jiangdong very unhappy.

If Jia Xu hadn't tried his best to mediate and combine, he would probably have fought both aspects, which would have made Zhou Yu take advantage of the loopholes.

In fact, in four months after the end of that war, Jiangdong had not been safe for even one day, which was really too chaotic.
Chapter completed!