Governor Pingbei

Time passes, days pass by, and everything seems to be normal in Chang'an.

The common people should eat, do business if they should do business, and prepare New Year's goods if they should, but the important ministers in the court have begun to feel a different atmosphere.

For example, what was discussed at the court meeting a while ago were all the achievements of this year.

For example, Yongzhou is still having a good harvest this year. Although the surplus grain is much less than in previous years, this is because Yongzhou has provided a lot of assistance to Yanzhou and Yuzhou. In terms of pure output, it is not worse than last year, and there is even no difference in the fields.

Despite the increase, there is still growth.

Liangzhou's animal husbandry is developing better and better, and war horse breeding is on the right track. Currently, it can provide a considerable number of war horses to the court every year, and this number is still growing. At the same time, the quality of the war horses is also improving.

For example, many captains in the Forbidden Army replaced their original war horses with newly sent war horses. Among the generals in the imperial court, Cao Cao had Jueying, Lu Bu had Red Rabbit, and they got them from Liu Xuan.

The method of specifically feeding and improving the quality of the war horse does not give up the original war horse.

However, based on the importance and love these two people have for their war horses, it is estimated that even if they no longer ride the original war horses on the battlefield, they will continue to raise them and provide for them until they grow old. In fact, in this era, war horses are very important to military generals.

Even closer than relatives at home.

As for the animal husbandry industry, you can see how well the animal husbandry industry has developed if you look at how ordinary people in Yongliang and other places can often buy meat home to satisfy their cravings. Nowadays, many farmers who have no fields or relatively small fields have simply given up farming.

Instead, he began to study livestock breeding.

Not only because the animal husbandry industry is developing well now, but mainly because the imperial court has given great support to this type of industry. It not only provides technical teachings to the church, but also provides cubs for free in the early stage, and requires local officials to also provide them on the grounds.

Help, after so many benefits, and some people have really tasted the benefits, it is normal for it to develop so quickly.

As it gradually took shape, people who embarked on the road of breeding gradually divided into classes.

Needless to say, there are large-scale breeding farms. In addition to sheep and pigs, they also breed cattle, and these cattle are not used for farming, but are pure beef cattle.

At present, there are not many breeding farms that can raise cattle, so beef is still only available to the rich and powerful. This has no impact on Liu Xuan. Anyway, he is the emperor, so he can naturally eat beef if he wants to. Not to mention that it is already available now.

With a place dedicated to raising beef cattle, even if he wanted to eat beef before, the eunuchs and cooks in the palace would have to find ways to get it.

Small and medium-sized farms or farmers choose a single choice. Chickens, ducks and pigs, which are easier to raise, naturally become the first choice. Because of this, pork and chicken are now appearing in large numbers on the market.

Most of the people choose these types.

The people had eaten well, so they naturally praised the court. The princes in the court were also quite proud. However, they did not have the intention to be happy at the moment, because the matter before them was not so easy to solve, even in the eyes of some veterans.

In the eyes, this time is a major event related to whether the Han Dynasty can be revived.

If they succeed, the resurgence of the Han Dynasty is inevitable, and they will also get the name of ministers of the resurgence, and their names will be left in the history books a hundred years later.

No, the Han Dynasty may still be able to survive for a few more years, but they will probably be ridiculed by future generations as ministers who have subjugated their country.

Compared to this group of people, Liu Xuan and his trusted ministers behaved very calmly and calmly, and things were prepared step by step.

"How are the troops and horses prepared?"

Cao Cao was the commander of this expedition, so he naturally answered: "The Forbidden Army has mobilized the troops and horses to participate in this battle and is making final preparations. Some troops that have been prepared for a long time have already set off to the predetermined areas.

Waiting for the final attack."

For such a war, it is absolutely impossible that the two sides have already announced the war, and then mobilized troops and horses. In fact, the mobilization of troops and horses was carried out slowly a few months ago, and waited until the war finally started.

Perhaps 70,000 of the 100,000 troops to be mobilized by the imperial court were already deployed at various locations on the front line, and those troops and horses during the final expedition were only the last part.

And the three elite troops also have their own stations!

The Yulin Cavalry has already put on the armor specially prepared for them, equipped with the newly made power attack and filled the quiver with enough "ammunition". They will set off just waiting for an order.

A similar situation exists with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and the location of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry is very intriguing!

Cao Cao did not arrange the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to the north of Chang'an, but to the north of Xuzhou.

This arrangement is obviously aimed at Qingzhou, and then inserts from Qingzhou into Jizhou. If the gaze is wider, you will find that the Yulin Cavalry and the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry are like big pliers, clamping down on Jizhou.

The frontal battlefield must be in Yanzhou, confronting Yuan Shao's army across the Yellow River. The first problem Cao Cao has to solve is how to seize a ferry that can cross the river with as few casualties as possible. Only after all the troops and horses have crossed the Yellow River

, only then can we truly have a showdown with Yuan Shao.

It's just that this problem doesn't matter at all now. Gao Shun of the Tiger Army took the initiative to take over this task.

The current composition of the Huben Army is relatively complex. It includes a thousand Bingzhou elite cavalry originally left by Lu Bu. They are now called Huben Cavalry and are commanded by Huben Military Colonel Cao Xing.

Then there are a thousand heavy armored infantry in the Huben Army, called Tiger Guards, which are the original Tiger Guards. Now that the Tiger Guards have been established, the Tiger Guards no longer need to be responsible for the guard work.

These thousand soldiers and horses are personally commanded by Huben General Guan Yu. They usually sit in the center of the army. If they are dispatched, they will either have to deal with the enemy's cavalry head-on, or they will fight to the death, so they will not be used easily.

There are also a thousand trapped camps, led by Gao Shun.

Originally, there were only 800 people in the trapped camp, and they were never expanded. One reason was to maintain their eliteness, and also because it was not easy to find excellent soldiers. However, Liu Xuan had many talents, so there was no shortage of these 200.

Gao Shun directly increased the trapped camp to a thousand people and still ruled it personally.

Those in the trapped camp are lightly-armed infantry, wearing only leather armor to protect their vital points, and they also use weapons such as ring-head knives that are good for close-quarters slashing.

Apart from these three, the remaining two thousand people are ordinary soldiers and some casual cavalry. However, don't underestimate these soldiers because they have no characteristics. These soldiers are also the best among the elite, and they can fill in the three positions when necessary.

There is a vacancy in any one of the soldiers and horses.

This time, Gao Shun's trap camp took over the task of storming the other side of the Yellow River and seizing the ferry. This was what the trap camp was best at, so naturally there was nothing to say.

What's more, as his own strength becomes stronger and stronger, Gao Shun's current lethality on the battlefield is not only that he can lead a group of good soldiers and that he dares to risk his own life, but now he may be worse than Guan Yu and others in terms of military force.

There are many, but to deal with Yuan Shao's group of soldiers? It's like a tiger entering the flock of sheep, and it can bite them as much as it wants.

Speaking of which, after such a period of time, Guan Yu also got to know the two captains under his command, and understood that these two men were both capable generals, and he was extremely confident in the Tiger Army, so at first Cao Cao

When it was proposed that a general should be selected to storm the other side and seize the ferry, Guan Yu took over the task without saying a word.

What he said made everyone present speechless.

"There is no need to bother others. It is enough for me, Lieutenant Gao Shun of Huben Military Academy, to lead our headquarters into the camp!"

Especially the way he said this, squinting his eyes and stroking his long beard, not caring that most of the people here had a higher rank than him. His attitude was such that everyone didn't know how to refute it.

However, some people liked this tune, and Cao Cao was immediately overjoyed: "What Yun Chang said is the best. This first formation will be handed over to Yun Chang's Tiger Army!"

"Captain Cao is just waiting for the good news!"

Then he didn't say anything. He was probably mentally thinking about arranging for the Tiger Army to set off for Yanzhou after returning, and then choose a suitable place to cross the river and the area to attack - in fact, Cao Cao didn't even decide which place to attack, so Guan Yu just

This job is next.

However, the general area was that area and it had no impact on the overall strategy, so Cao Cao didn't say much and let Guan Yu decide on his own.

Strategy is like this, set the general direction, and then as long as you achieve the goals of each stage and finally complete the final strategy, the specific how to fight, that is what the generals who implement it have to think about.

In addition, because the number of troops involved was huge, and there were several elite troops who were not under the command, in order to prevent his generals from not obeying the orders, Liu Xuan temporarily appointed Cao Cao as the governor of Pingbei to facilitate him to command this battle.

The temporary official title of Governor, which was later tinkered by Soochow, appeared in advance. Everyone just thought that this expedient was good, but they didn't say anything. As for the so-called Pingbei, it was just a title without any practical meaning.

Huang Yueying despised Liu Xuan in private - this girl is now so familiar that she would go into the palace for a walk every now and then.

Who in Chang'an now doesn't know that the emperor, queen, and even the nobles are very fond of this girl of the Huang family, and even let her enter and leave the palace at will. This made the Huang family, who had just moved to Chang'an, immediately become famous and became a well-known figure in Chang'an.

In this seemingly peaceful situation, but actually a war is about to begin, another year has passed.

There is nothing unusual about the arrival of spring in the seventh year of Jian'an in 196 AD, but the whole world knows that major events that will affect the world situation will happen this year, especially the imperial court's massive mobilization of troops and horses, and even direct announcements.

The world: Cao Cao is the governor of Pingbei and is responsible for all affairs in Hebei!

Everyone knows what this means!

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