Next, Lu Bu talked with him at Jia Xu's house for a long time, and basically all about the next development issues.

When he came out of Jia Xu's house, Lu Bu was refreshed.

What Jia Wenhe, what a venerable poisonous man, Lu Bu's body shook, wasn't he obediently bowing to his pomegranate skirt... Bah, under the skirt armor?

No matter what, it will definitely benefit many things for future development to make Mr. Jia return home.

After all, Mr. Jia is not only cunning, sinister and vicious, but also famously long-lived.

In the original history, Mr. Jia lived until the Cao Pi period.

It can be said without hesitation that first getting Mr. Jia’s people and then getting Mr. Jia’s heart is equivalent to getting a long-term high-quality stock that can be eaten for half a lifetime.

For a top strategist, being able to survive is too important.

This is like Sima Yi.

Although he is not the most powerful among the top strategists, he is the most powerful among the ones who are better than him.

Mr. Jia is even better than Sima Yi. In history, Sima Yi lived only 73 years old, while Mr. Jia lived 77 years old, which is invincible.

Of course, since we talked about Sima Yi's positive example, we have to mention a few negative textbooks.

Is the Xi Zhi awesome?

Short-lived ghost.

Is Guo Jia so powerful?

Short-lived ghost 1.

It can be said without hesitation that if any of the two military advisors in Boss Cao could survive half as much as Mr. Jia, Boss Cao's overbearing career would be much smoother. It is precisely because of their premature death that Boss Cao's path to success has added many twists and turns. This shows how important it is for the development of a force to survive.

Of course, Mr. Jia’s contribution is certainly a happy event, but the focus will be on the development of Wuyuan County.

Although the population of Wuyuan County was not small in the early Han Dynasty. According to historical records, in the second year of Yuanshi (2nd year), Wuyuan County had 39,000 households, totaling more than 230,000 people, but Wuyuan County, as the northernmost border county of the Han Empire, had been plagued by Hu people for many years, so the population has actually been decreasing.

By the beginning of Yonghe (136), Wuyuan County had only more than 4,000 households and more than 20,000 people. As a border county that was almost abandoned, Wuyuan County could be regarded as a barren land at this time, and the remaining population basically lived in Jiuyuan County, the county seat of Wuyuan County.

Even over the years, because the remaining population of Wuyuan County has been concentrated in Jiuyuan County, the safety factor is relatively higher and the population has increased a little compared to before. Today, Wuyuan County can barely have 6,000 households and more than 30,000 people.

Once this kind of data is released, you can imagine what mess Lu Bu, the prefect of Wuyuan, took over.

From a certain perspective, the imperial court's appointment of Lu Bu as Duting Hou was to some extent a compensation for this mess.

But who made Lu Bu a native of Jiuyuan?

He was unshirkable to defend his hometown, and even if he suffered some losses, he would admit it.

Similarly, this is one of the reasons why he must maintain a good relationship with Ding Yuan now.

After all, Lu Bu now has 10,000 elite cavalry and 5,000 infantry under his command. With the population of Wuyuan County, he cannot afford such an army, let alone Lu Bu has plans to expand his army.

Now Lu Bu must rely on Ding Yuan and the support of the court to continue to maintain the size of the army.

It can be said without hesitation that although Lu Bu has become a prefect now, at most even if he has a foothold, he still has no foundation.

However, the world is not in chaos now, so Lu Bu can still rely on Ding Yuan and the court to raise his troops. After all, Lu Bu has just won a battle and is on the forefront of resisting the Hu people. Neither Ding Yuan nor the court can ignore him.

But Lu Bu knew very well that the situation would change.

In the future, once the world is in chaos, his two sources of supply may be cut off.

Therefore, the focus of Lu Bu's next development is undoubtedly the population of Wuyuan County.

If it was in a chaotic world, there was a saying that fighting was used to support war, but now it is far from the time of chaos in the world, so fighting was not feasible. Now there is only a dead end to the expansion of force, so Lu Bu could only find a way to increase the population of Wuyuan County.

As for how to increase it, after thinking about it and discussing with Jia Xu, Lu Bu already had a preliminary plan in his mind.

The nine counties of Bingzhou are located in the northernmost part, and directly bordering the grassland are Shuofang County, Wuyuan County, Yunzhong County, and Yanmen County. These four counties are undoubtedly the most severely invaded by the Hu people.

Although Lu Bu is in charge of Bingzhou now, the Hu people in the north will definitely not dare to go south from Bingzhou again, even Lu Bu cannot control the invasion of small Hu people. After all, he has only one person and has no skills in his clones.

Therefore, the first way to increase the population of Gohara County is to start here.

Other places have small Hu people who invaded Lu Bu, but Wuyuan County is now the territory of Lu Bu, so the Hu people will definitely come to kill as much as they come.

In this case, although they are both border counties that border the grasslands, the living environment of Wuyuan County will be far better than that of Shuofang County, Yunzhong County and Yanmen County.

After all, with Lu Bu here, at least in Wuyuan County, the people no longer need to continue to live in Jiuyuan County. Under Lu Bu's protection, they can continue to return to various parts of Wuyuan County and start a normal life.

Therefore, Lu Bu could use this to attract the population of these three counties to move to Wuyuan County.

What people often say about the hardships of homeland are only for ordinary people.

For those in the northern border counties who have been plagued by Hu people all year round, as long as you can provide him with a stable shelter, he is absolutely willing to move there.

Although the population of these three counties is not much, no matter how small the mosquito legs are, they are still fleshy. For Lu Bu, who now has a population of only more than 30,000, as long as you are willing to come, he will definitely not dislike the number of people.

Of course, it is definitely not enough to just attract the population of Shuofang County, Yunzhong County and Yanmen County.

Therefore, after a simple communication, Jia Xu and Lu Bu hit it off, and both of them turned their attention to the Hu people on the grassland. Since the Hu people can go south to rob, then there is no reason for them to go north to rob, right?

As the saying goes, it is said that Lu Bu and Jia Xu have thought about all kinds of ways to expand the poor population of Wuyuan County as soon as possible.

They felt that the Hu people could go south to plunder the Han people's population, and then they could also plunder the Hu people in turn to replenish the population of Wuyuan County!

After all, not all the Hu tribes were Hu people. Over the years, the Hu people continued to go south to plunder. Although some of the reduced population of the northern border counties died in the war and some moved away, a considerable number of them were plundered by Hu people to be cattle and horses.

They can completely reclaim this part of the population and use it to supplement the population of Wuyuan County.

Moreover, from a more utilitarian perspective, if they could really go north to the grassland, the people who were robbed by the Hu people would return to the Han Dynasty, and it would definitely greatly improve Lu Bu's reputation if it was spread.

In fact, just think about it and you will understand what is the highest honor of military generals since ancient times?

Seal the Wolf's House!

And what is the essence of Fenglangjuxu?

Beat the Hu people!

In the era when people's sense of national honor and national pride were extremely overwhelming, in an era when they dared to shout "One Han is the Five Barbarians", as long as you beat the Hu people, it would be politically correct.

Furthermore, in addition to the Han people in the Hu tribe, even Hu people can be educated and used to increase the population.

For Lu Bu, who had a deep understanding of the tolerance of the Han nationality, even if he controlled the population proportion of Hu Han, even if he was willing to naturalize, he could become his people.

The most important thing is that after Lu Bu defeated Helian last year, the strength of the Hu people on the northern grasslands plummeted, and many Hu tribes became extremely scarce due to this failure of plunder, so the bold strategy of going north to plunder the population and feeding back to Wuyuan County has room for implementation.

Even when the Hu people were extremely short of supplies, even if they did not use force, as long as Lu Bu gave certain conditions, some Hu tribes who could not hold on would voluntarily surrender.

In short, this long talk between Lu Bu and Jia Xu has already set the general direction for the next few years.

As long as the world is not in chaos, what they have to do in the next few years is to eat, sleep and beat Hu people, try to expand the population of Wuyuan County, enhance their strength, and prepare for the future.

Of course, Lu Bu is just a general after all. Even though he is a time traveler, he still cannot compare with Jia Xu in terms of specific operations.

Therefore, at most, he would discuss a general direction with Jia Xu. As for how to operate it, what policies should be used to attract the population of the other three northern counties and the Hu people on the grassland, these are all Jia Xu's jobs. After all, if he had to do everything, then he would have tried his best to convince Jia Xu?

As for himself, it is enough to just lead troops to fight.

The Hu people influenced the development of Wuyuan County and launched a horse to beat the Hu people.

Wuyuan County began to have a shortage of population, so we went north to fight against the Hu people.

I have nothing to do and want to exercise my muscles and bones, so I continue to beat the Hu people.

Anyway, it's all over to beat the Hu people.

These Hu people have been raging the border in the north for so many years, so it would be too much for him to bully him back?

Even Lu Bu had an idea, that is, before the Yellow Turban Rebellion began, the Hu people in the north of Bingzhou would be completely wiped out.

To put it bluntly, other places have few populations, which may be because of their barrenness, but in the northern part of Bingzhou, it is entirely because of the Hu people.

The reason is very simple. In the north of Bingzhou, there was another title before, that is, the Hetao Plain.

Therefore, as long as the Hu people can be pacified, this is a fertile land that can be developed completely.

The previous Hu people in the north were not in trouble, but it was not because the court could not handle it, but because the big figures in the court thought that Hu people were just scabies and were not worth the effort to calm them down. It would not be worth the cost.

But for Lu Bu now, pacifying the Hu people can bring him real benefits.

Therefore, he was willing to spend his energy to pacify these Hu people from the north.

As for whether it can succeed...

There is a saying, reasoning, and a pure passerby.
Chapter completed!