The news of Liu Tao's return in triumphant naturally spread throughout Bingzhou, or the news began to be transmitted to various counties.

So after returning to Jinyang, he had just arrived outside the city gate and left the civil and military officials who left the city to respond ten miles away.

When they entered the city, a large number of people even met each other. After passing by, Yang She and Dian Wei Ke both tense up.

He went south to attack Dong Zhuo, broke the Hulao Pass, forcing Dong Zhuo to commit suicide. At the same time, the only one continued to pursue and almost defeated Sili... The most important thing about all of this was that it took about three months.

Will he be able to win the world in four or five years?!

With confidence, then enthusiasm and motivation will naturally be there. Those who are clear will know that the stage for promotion and wealth has been opened, and how far they can reach in the future depends entirely on their own abilities.

In particular, Liu Tao has a characteristic of employing people, that is, he does not know his origin, but only talent is to take advantage of it.

The noble families may hate this, but for the rich peasants, civilians and poor families, it is full of hope. Especially Bingzhou is different from other places, where there are libraries to read books, colleges to study, and even night schools to enlighten or tutor.

Civilians and poor families can gain knowledge by working during the day and night school. After three to five years, they can at least be considered a "scholar".

"I'm leaving this time, there's nothing wrong with Bingzhou, right?" Liu Tao did not go home immediately, but came to the yamen as soon as possible to inquire about the situation in Bingzhou in the past few months.

"Nothing abnormal happened... Even at the border, I just started border trade with Budu Gen a month ago, and I cooperated several times. The attitude there was very good; during this period, the Kebi Neng team did not appear at the border, and Wu Meng was engaged in it and complained that there was no war to fight." Xun Yu replied.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Liu Tao always feels that this person’s attitude has a bit of resentment…

It seems that he didn't do anything to him, right? Liu Tao was a little confused and asked: "Is there any trouble?"

"A big trouble..." Xun Yu sighed, "There was a shortage of officials, and it was okay for Bingzhou to be just fine. Now there are more Sizhou. Cao Cao wrote a letter a while ago, hoping to send some officials to assist him. At the same time, ten days ago, Ma Teng sent someone here, hoping to send a new Liangzhou governor and his subordinates to take office."

"Didn't I ask Cao Cao to arrange officials on his own?" Liu Tao was stunned when he heard this, and he was a little confused.

"Many children of local aristocratic families resigned directly. Cao Cao went to negotiate, and the other party seemed to have an objection to the lord. As for the local aristocratic families in Sizhou, according to the rules, they should not be allowed to become officials locally. It is best not to be an official in this state to avoid using their power to seek personal gain." Xun Yu said slowly.

Sure enough, after Cao Cao's identity was exposed, many who had already planned to rob Cao Cao chose to give up.

It is normal to leave the seal in this era, and it has even become a means of "famous scholars" or "loyal and righteous people" to gain fame. These people dare to leave the seal in order to gain favor from the noble families, and also to know that they may lack officials.

So I don’t rush to leave, the purpose is to wait for a price and see how big the position I can give them.

"Simply put, is it just blackmailing me?" Liu Tao was really unhappy with this behavior.

"Yes, if these problems cannot be solved, the harm and losses caused will be more serious than the damage of compromise. This is the key point." Xun Yu nodded and said. If it weren't for this, he wouldn't have had such a headache.

It’s good to have a Liangzhou in itself, but Mao still needs to occupy Sizhou. Wouldn’t it be better to wait for two more years?

In addition, Ma Teng needed supplies to attack local prefectures and counties, and Cao Cao also needed supplies to appease the people. The supplies that could be mobilized in Bingzhou were divided into two batches some time ago and sent to the two states, but they were only able to respond to emergency services.

"Haha, others want to occupy the whole world first and then slowly manage it. Why does it take me a little bit to advance, manage a place, and then continue to advance?" Liu Tao said self-deprecatingly.

Let’s talk about the Tang Dynasty, when the country was officially established in 618 AD, and in 621, it was basically unified in the world, and it took three years before and after. Then the Xuanwu Gate Incident in 626 AD, the beginning of Zhenguan in 627 AD, and it took 22 years until the “Zhenguan Governance” was achieved.

The time to rule the world is 7 times more than the time to conquer the world, which is the norm.

As a result, it felt that it would not work when he came to him. Why did he have to steadily and advance step by step, and manage it while fighting?

Then I figured out the population problem. Now the Han Dynasty is conservative and still has more than 40 million people, so I will count the servants and hidden households. The 40 million people have been attacked for decades, and by the early days of the Three Kingdoms returning to Jin, there are still 35 million people.

In the fifth year of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, nearly 50 million people were present, and 11.6 million people were only nine years in the early years of Wude.

Perhaps it was Emperor Yang of Sui who dug the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou, and the three expeditions of Goryeo defeated the population. It was also possible that the world was in chaos and too many people died in battles everywhere.

If more than one million people are distributed, it is basically possible that there is no one in the crowd. So as long as you set up a few key passes, strongholds and capitals, the rest will be to grab land, which is naturally fast enough.

When he arrived at him, despite the Yellow Turban Rebellion and rebellion in various places, the biggest disaster was Sili, Liangzhou and Jizhou. The losses in other places were actually not that serious.

Then we need to advance slowly, after all, everyone has a lot of soldiers and generals.

The other is talent. In the early Tang Dynasty, there were not many counties in place, so naturally there was no need for so many officials. Just take it slowly. But the system here is almost complete, which means there are many officials needed.

But in this era, the family that occupied the largest proportion of officials was not a bad person, and most of the latter were unhappy, so the lack of officials became very prominent.

Sure enough, the thing that fights to dominate the world must be adapted to local conditions, otherwise it is easy to become unacceptable to the local environment.

Just say that he wants to change three or five counties into counties, then two or three counties into one state, and then two or three states into one prefecture. It sounds very meaningful, and it is really meaningful!

The result of this rectification of the problem is that a large number of prefects, as well as the officials of the governors, and even the prefects are vacant...

"If you take the exam in advance, can you organize it this year?" Liu Tao thought for a while and felt that he could take the exam in advance and select a group of talents to use it.

"It's half a year early, and some people probably aren't ready." Xun Yu replied. After all, there is no home study, and many of them rely on self-study. Fortunately, there is a sentence that I can't even understand the meaning of the scriptures.

Basically, it doesn’t work once. Read it a few times to probably know the content recorded in the book.

"This is nothing. If you fail this exam this time, you will just take the exam three years later." Liu Tao said indifferently. It doesn't matter if you pass the exam before the age of 40. The maximum age limit in later generations is 35 years old, and it can be relaxed to 40 years old here.

At any age, I am very knowledgeable and I am not accustomed to it! What I want is fresh and young blood, and the main thing is to be obedient!
Chapter completed!