In the blink of an eye, the sixth year of Guanghe (183).

After receiving the effectiveness of Jia Xu and formulating a complete development plan, Lu Bu lived a very leisurely year.

There are Gao Shun in military training and Jia Xu in internal affairs. Even if some Hu people occasionally don’t have eyes and need to teach them a lesson, they are still being browsed by Zhang Liao, who is developing.

As for Lu Bu himself, he finally realized the joy of being a boss.

Gao Shun, Jia Xu, and Zhang Liao basically took care of all the affairs of Wuyuan County. Every day, he just wandered around and looked around. He had nothing to do to study the usage of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and had some delicious food and fun. Then he found Yan Qing to make a villain, and the day passed.

This made Mr. Jia envious - isn’t the life Lu Bu lives now what he wants the most?

Who would have thought that one day he would become a worker and would have to watch his boss live such a life?

well!

Unfortunately, Wuyuan County is now in the most critical stage of development, and even if he wants to fish, he will not have a chance.

In fact, with the efforts of Jia Xu and others, Wuyuan County did undergo earth-shaking changes this year.

The first is the most important population.

After this year's efforts, the population of Wuyuan County has increased from more than 6,000 households to more than 30,000 households last year to nearly 20,000 households and more than 90,000.

To be honest, this wave of population growth was actually quite unexpected to Lu Bu.

Even Jia Xu didn't expect it.

Although according to Jia Xu and Lu Bu's ideas, there are two ways to increase the population of Wuyuan County. One is to attract the population of Shuofang County, Yunzhong County and Yanmen County to migrate to Wuyuan County, and the other is to go north to plunder the population of the Hu people, but at the beginning, the former must be the main one.

After all, only when the number of Han people in Wuyuan County reaches a certain level can Lu Bu feel at ease to absorb the population on the grassland.

Not to mention that he was also planning to let the Hu people be naturalized. Even the Han people who were captured on the grassland have lived on the grassland for so long, it is hard to say whether they were influenced by the Hu people's thoughts.

Therefore, if Wuyuan County does not live in enough Han people and rashly absorbs the population on the grassland, it will easily make Wuyuan County’s foundation unstable.

It is precisely for this consideration that in the past year, Jia Xu's main work direction has been to abduct... Cough cough cough, it is to induce the population of the three border counties, Shuofang County, Yunzhong County, and Yanmen County.

Originally, in Jia Xu's plan, even if the population of Wuyuan County can exceed 10,000 households this year is successful, because they are both located in the northernmost border counties, the population of these three counties is not much better than that of Wuyuan County.

Among them, the population situation of Yunzhong County is similar to that of Wuyuan County, while Shuofang County is the worst. He Lian went south before, and came from Shuofang County. In the past, the Hu people invaded, and the main force also went to Shuofang County, so that the population of Shuofang County was almost less than 2,000 households, and the total number was less than 10,000.

The situation in Yanmen County should be the best among these four border counties. This is due to the geographical location of Yanmen County. Although Yanmen County also borders the grassland, most of its area is embedded in the hinterland of Bingzhou, and the area bordering the grassland is very small.

The current Yanmen County has a population of 50,000 or 60,000 households and more than 250,000 people.

However, it is precisely because of the superior geographical location of Yanmen County that it is very difficult to attract the population of Yanmen County to migrate to Wuyuan County.

Most of the population of Yanmen County is concentrated in places close to the hinterland of Bingzhou. How could people live there be a good place, but how could they be willing to move to a place closer to the grassland like you?

Therefore, this year, Jia Xu's work focused on attracting the population of Shuofang County and Yunzhong County. Originally, Jia Xu thought that Yunzhong County and Shuofang County had a total population of about 8,000 households, and it was already very successful that Wuyuan County could absorb half of the population of these two counties in this year.

But what Jia Xu never expected was that when Wuyuan County was willing to accept the news of these local people spread, the two border counties, Shuofang County and Yunzhong County, were directly empty.

Especially Shuofang County.

As soon as he learned the news, the people of Shuofang County did not even consider the authenticity of the news and directly moved towards Wuyuan County with their families.

Although the people of Yunzhong County responded a little slower, they followed closely behind.

Even Yanmen County, which Jia Xu had no great hope at all, and Dingxiang County, south of Yunzhong County, have moved here one after another.

It can only be said that Jia Xu completely underestimated Lu Bu's influence in these border counties.

Especially now that Lu Bu has just defeated Helian not long ago.

He also underestimated the attractiveness of a relatively stable land to these people living on the border.

For these people living in border counties, they can be said to live on their daily lives by putting their heads on their belts.

Once the Hu people come, they can only leave it to fate. If you have good luck, you will be gone if you have bad luck.

The noble officials of the imperial court would not care about their lives or death, and even the Bingzhou Army would not care about their lives or death.

Under normal circumstances, the Bingzhou Army would only guard Shangjun, Xihe County, Taiyuan County, Shangdang County and other hinterland prefectures and counties. As long as the Hu people did not attack these counties, they would plunder several border counties in the north and they didn't care about it.

And all this changed with the emergence of Lu Bu.

It was Lu Bu that let the people of these border counties know that the Han army would take the initiative to attack the Hu people.

It turns out that the people living in the northernmost counties can also receive the protection of the Han army.

However, after all, Lu Bu had only one person and could not take care of all border counties.

Therefore, when they learned that Lu Bu had become the prefect of Wuyuan and was willing to take them in, how could they not be willing to move to Wuyuan County?

These people living in border counties are willing to do anything as long as you are willing to give them a way out.

that's all.

In the past year, people have moved from Shuofang County, Yunzhong County, Dingxiang County, and even Yanmen County to Wuyuan County almost every day.

Even on the grassland, some people took the initiative to request to submit.

The population of Wuyuan County has thus directly increased to nearly 20,000 households and more than 90,000 people in the past year.

After having a certain population, some things that were originally impossible to do can now be done.

For example, go north to the grassland to plunder people.

For example, organize people to farm and redevelop the land north of Wuyuan County, that is, the Hetao Plain.

Everything is developing towards a good point, and what is even more happy is that in the past year, after Lu Bu's diligence and continuous cultivation, Yan Qing has also become pregnant.

Lu Bu decided to wait until the child is born, if it is a daughter, then it will be called Lu Lingqi.

If it's a son...

Then let’s talk about it then.

Of course, Yan Qing is pregnant, and Lu Bu is very happy whether it is his son or daughter.

So he next planned to clean up the Hu people in the north so as not to scare the children in the future.

Jiuyuan County.

Prefect's Mansion.

Lu Bu called Gao Shun, Jia Xu and Zhang Liao over.

The Spring Festival in Guanghe's sixth year (183) was just over, and Gao Shun and the other two had just completed the work summary of the past year not long ago. Now Lu Bu called them all over to make the work plan for the next year.

Three people were invited to take a seat, and at the same time, the servants from the mansion presented a refreshment. Lu Bu also said, "I have already roughly understood the situation of the past year in the past few days. Gongzheng has been practicing very well, let alone Wenhe. If there is no Wenhe, even if there are many people willing to move to Wuyuan County, I can't arrange it. And Wenyuan, you have done a good job. This year, the Hu people in the north dare not enter Wuyuan County, which has a bit of my style. However, this is all the past. I will call you here today to discuss the plan for the next year."

Hearing Lu Bu say this, the three of them were not surprised.

They have reported all the work last year to Lu Bu, and even the rewards have been given, so there will definitely be no problem.

Now that Lu Bu asked them to come again, it was only because of what happened next.

Gao Shun was the first to speak.

Gao Shun's personality is the most upright among the three. Not to mention the cunning Jia Xu, even Zhang Liao, who is still young and energetic, is much smoother than him.

Therefore, Gao Shun has always said whatever he said.

He said bluntly: "Lord, in the past year, the General of Wu selected some people from the captive Hu people, and recruited some young and strong people, training a total of 5,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry. In addition, the lord brought from Governor Ding, we now have a total of 15,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry. Now the population of Wuyuan County is only more than 90,000. Although Governor Ding and the court will provide us with some help in terms of food and salary, in the opinion of the General of the Mo, we should not expand our army in a short period of time."

Upon hearing this, Jia Xu on the side also nodded slightly.

In fact, even if Gao Shun doesn't talk about such a thing, he will find opportunities to talk to Lu Bu.

Although the population of Wuyuan County has been replenished in the past year, the total number of people is still not large.

In this case, the most important thing is to let the people recuperate.

Even the 5,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry trained by Gao Shun last year were selected from Lu Bu's previous prisoners, and there were actually very few young and strong people recruited.

Although Ding Yuan and the imperial court were able to provide food and wages, they did not provide population.

With the current population of Wuyuan County, it is absolutely impossible to expand the army blindly.

Lu Bu nodded at Gao Shun's proposal.

Even if Gao Shun didn't say it, he didn't plan to continue expanding his army.

The reason why he asked Gao Shunxin to train 8,000 horses last year was mainly because he did not want to waste the elite among the captives and the best war horses seized. Now that his goal has been achieved, he naturally does not need to expand his army.

He said: "What Gongzheng said is very much. Next, we still have to live in the people and not expand our army easily. Besides, even if there is really a shortage of people and there are so many Hu people on the northern grasslands, there is no need to let the people under their rule fight to the death."

When Gao Shun and the other two looked at each other, they all saw the speechlessness in each other's eyes.
Chapter completed!