Liu Cong has only been in charge of Jingzhou for one year, and he has carried out his work vigorously. He determined political goals and economic tasks, adjusted the yamen and military institutions, boldly replaced old officials, promoted people with both ability and political integrity and young, vigorous and energetic young people, and enriched them into the yamen

and the army, bringing unlimited vitality to yamen at all levels.

He also led his troops across the Han River and in just three months defeated Cao Cao's three generals and regained the lost territory north of the Han River.

Then, against all opinions, they reclaimed wasteland and cultivated fields, recruited refugees, planted mulberry and raised silkworms. After three crops of silkworm babies came out of bed, a total of more than 45,000 tons of silkworm cocoons were harvested, basically reaching one load of cocoons for each refugee household.

This is a lot of income. Liu Cong and Yuan Ying, the director of the Sericulture Department, estimated that the value of the cocoons created by each refugee household is no less than their income from farming twenty acres of land.

When the autumn breeze got cooler this year, Yuan Ying, the general manager of the Sericulture Department, personally escorted twenty ships to deliver silkworm cocoons to Yizhou. When he came back, he not only brought back the payment for the goods, but also brought back more than a dozen reeling machines and four reeling masters.

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Now, the Sericulture Department is busy manufacturing silk reeling machines, building silk reeling rooms, and beginning to expand the scale of sericulture and silk reeling.

That day, when Liu Cong was listening to the work report from Yuan Ying, the director of the Sericulture Department, he heard Yuan Ying say excitedly: "Lord, if we double the scale of sericulture next year and harvest 100,000 tons of silkworm cocoons, we won't need to wait twice when delivering goods to Yizhou.

There are ten cargo ships, only ten are enough."

When Liu Cong asked why, Yuan Ying smiled and said, "My lord, there is no need to ask more. Do cocoons and silk occupy the same amount of space?"

When Liu Cong heard this, he understood and burst out laughing. After he finished laughing, he asked: "If we make Sichuan brocade after reeling, can we just use a cargo ship to deliver it?"

"Haha, Lord. There is no need for a cargo ship. By then, there will no longer be a need to deliver goods to Yizhou."

Liu Cong stared at Yuan Ying in surprise and asked why. Yuan Ying laughed again and said, "Master, why are you so confused these days that you have even forgotten the goals you set? Didn't you say that? We will meet later.

Once the silk is reeled, we can weave Shu brocade by ourselves. If we have weaved Shu brocade by ourselves, we can export it and sell it to make money. What else should I send to Yizhou?"

When Liu Cong heard this, he immediately woke up and then patted his head and said, "Damn it, what do you think is wrong with me?"

And the benefits of this farming are even more exciting.

On the day of the twelfth lunar month last year, at the year-end work summary meeting held in Xiangyang Yamen, Liu Cong took over the "Tuntian Benefit Report" handed over by Fu Xun and looked at it. He saw on the report that it read: Wei Yan led 18,000 troops.

110,000 acres of wasteland were reclaimed on the north bank, with a gross income of 460,000 hu of grain;

Liu Bin led 20,000 troops, cultivated 100,000 acres of farmland in the Partridge Ridge area, and harvested 400,000 dendrobium of grain;

Guan Yu led 20,000 soldiers from the mouth of the Xiangjiang River to farm along the north bank of the Yangtze River. They reclaimed 120,000 acres of wasteland and harvested 440,000 hu of grain.

Zhang Fei led 20,000 troops in the Jingshan area, reclaimed 100,000 acres of wasteland, and harvested 400,000 hu of grain;

The mighty captain Liu Feng led 6,000 men to reclaim 30,000 acres of wasteland east of Fancheng and harvested 110,000 hu of grain;

The city defense captain Guan Ping led 6,000 troops to farm in the west of Fancheng, reclaiming 30,000 acres of wasteland and harvesting 120,000 hu of grain;

General Zhang Yun of the Xiangjiang Navy led 3,000 sailors to reclaim 15,000 acres of wasteland on the north bank of the Xiangjiang River and harvested 60,000 hu of grain;

The prefect of Jiangxia ordered his deputy general Su Fei to lead a naval army of 6,000 troops to reclaim 60,000 acres of wasteland on both sides of the Yangtze River and harvest 180,000 hu of grain;

Huang Zhong, Zhao Yun, Gong Zhi, Liu Bin, Xing Daorong and other generals, as well as various county and county yamen, also led troops to farm and harvested a lot.

At that time, Fu Xun said that this year's harvest from the fields alone could satisfy the consumption of all Jingzhou officials and soldiers for two years. This does not include the hundreds of thousands of dendrobium grain reserves that Gan Ning collected on Junshan Island in Dongting Lake.

Now is the spring of the 11th year of Jian'an. Under the management of Liu Cong, the entire Jingzhou army and civilians are working together to continue to be busy with the great cause of reclaiming wasteland and farming, and are preparing to win a double harvest of sericulture in the farmland in this new year.

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The rise of these two businesses has also led to the vigorous development of all walks of life in Jingzhou.

Around the eleventh year of Jian'an, among the nine states in the world, the other eight states were still in a state of melee fighting for the people's livelihood. Only Jingzhou was developing vigorously and prosperously.

The development momentum of Jingzhou cannot help but arouse the vigilance and discussion of surrounding tigers and wolves. The first person to be alert to Liu Cong and Jingzhou's cause was Cao Cao.

When he heard that Liu Cong led 40,000 troops across the Han River and defeated the three generals Xu Huang, Xia Houyuan and Cao Ren, and then captured Fancheng to regain the lost territory, he was immediately angry and had a toothache.

When the tooth hurts, the toothache will cause the cheeks to swell.

In front of all the civil and military officials, Cao Cao scolded Cao Ren for being so doting and incompetent.

Fortunately, Cao Renman Chong had not escaped yet, otherwise, Cao Cao might have been so angry that he could have killed them both.

This was the first time Cao Cao was so angry that Liu Cong gave him a toothache.

The second time was in the twelfth lunar month of last year. When he heard that Liu Cong was reclaiming wasteland, planting mulberry and raising silkworms, and managing Jingzhou to great success, he got angry again and his gums started to hurt again.

This time the toothache not only swollen the face and cheeks, but also caused a headache, the temples were pouting, and the whole head, filled with treacherous plots, was about to burst.

Cao Cao just lay on the bed, gritting his teeth but not moaning.

He closed his eyes tightly and thought about how to deal with Liu Cong: "Can Liu Biao's dog really become the climate? How can such a teenage boy, who looks like a young boy, create such a big momentum?

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Cao Cao closed his eyes tightly and thought, but he just didn't want to believe that Liu Cong could succeed.

Although he knew the aphorism "the younger generation is to be feared", Cao Cao always felt that he would always be the younger generation in the world.

Except for Cao Cao himself, everyone in the world is just a bunch of rookies.

It's just a matter of time before you can clean up these rotten dishes and serve them on the table.

Although Cao Cao is now in Hebei, the shadow of Liu Cong, Sun Quan, Yuan Shang, and Yuan Xi is always moving in his head that often suffers from headaches. Although he knows that these guys are the bad things he will have to deal with sooner or later, Cao Cao always thinks about what he should do first.

Clean that up.

Originally, Cao Cao acted according to his original plan.

After Zhang Xiu was surrendered, the counselors suggested to Cao Cao that he should rush his troops to cross the Han River and recover Jingzhou. They also suggested that after recovering Jingzhou, they should immediately go down the river and recover the land of Soochow.

However, it was not easy for Cao Cao. Although he put Emperor Xian in his own bird cage, and nominally dedicated himself to the emperor's order to bring peace to the country, but which of the princes around him obeyed the order?

Why didn't he attack Jingzhou and listen to the advice of his advisers? There was a reason.

The biggest opponent at that time, Yuan Shao, led hundreds of thousands of troops to Guandu, and was about to attack Xuchang. In this case, whether Cao Cao had the ability to clone himself, of course he had to go and fight Yuan Shao first.

In this way, Liu Biao of Jingzhou was left hanging. He thought to himself: "Liu Biao has no great achievements. He is just a dog who looks after the house and the courtyard."

Therefore, Cao Cao arranged for Cao Ren to station 8,000 elite troops in Fancheng, keeping a close eye on Liu Biao. If Liu Biao tried to take his own retreat, the fortress of Fancheng would be enough to withstand it for a while, which would be enough to provide time for Cao Cao to return his troops.

Therefore, Cao Cao left Jingzhou behind and came to Hebei to fight with Yuan Shao.

Who would have known that a few years later, a son suddenly appeared in Liu Biao's family in Jingzhou. He had such great abilities and was simply the son of the god Arhat. In less than two years, Jingzhou was in trouble.
Chapter completed!