Chapter 235: Donghai Territory

"Wenruo, Gongda, I think you have also heard from Zhicai that we actually have a Donghai territory in Donghai Commandery."

"That is where my true governance lies. You have been here for more than a month, so it is time to take you to see our true strength."

Su Fan returned to Donghai Commandery and did not take over Yuzhou for the first time. He now only has the name of Prefect of Yuzhou and General Zhendong.

And Kong Zhou is still the Inspector of Yuzhou. If he goes directly, it will inevitably lead to conflict. Plus, Yuan clan's power in Yuzhou is not small, especially Runan, which is the old nest of the Yuan clan.

Although Runan was ravaged by the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Yuan clan did not suffer much loss.

After all, the fortified manor built on the Yuan clan's ancestral land was taller and more imposing than many county seats; the Yellow Turbans had never been able to breach it.

Most of the counties in Yuzhou are students and former officials of the Yuan clan. It is almost impossible for him to command these people.

So he will still follow his own plan, take Yangzhou first, and as for Xuzhou, it was originally his territory.

These years, he has secretly controlled Xuzhou. Not to mention Guangling Commandery, he also has great influence in Langya Kingdom.

If he waits for Tao Qian to hand over Xiapi to him, he will be the true Prefect of Xuzhou.

Yangzhou first, then slowly swallow Yuzhou. As for Qingzhou, with the Yellow Turbans of Guan Hai, he can support them from behind.

When his strength is sufficient, Qingzhou will also fall into his hands, and he will be the hegemon of four provinces.

This is also the future plan he and Xi Zhicai made before.

Now that he has obtained more talent from Yingchuan Commandery, his plan can be accelerated.

These people have been in Donghai Commandery for more than a month following him, and they have gradually taken over his government affairs. Especially Xun Yu, worthy of being the talent of the king, the talent of a Prime Minister, in just one month, he has almost taken over his government affairs and is doing it with ease.

But next, the government affairs of the Donghai territory will be much more complicated.

The rune carriage drove at high speed on the wide cement road, reaching an average speed of 50 kilometers per hour without any bumps.

"Is this a Chidao?"

Looking at the wide road outside through the window of the carriage, Xun Yu and his uncle were both very curious. They had never seen a cement road.

But this 10-meter-wide cement road made both of them very surprised.

They looked at each other, feeling that they had underestimated this lord. Building such a Chidao in this wilderness is not simple.

Then what would the Donghai territory that Zhicai often mentioned to them be like?

In Donghai Commandery, they found that commerce was extremely developed, and all kinds of novel things emerged one after another.

They had asked Xi Zhicai and knew that most of the goods came from that Donghai territory.

This time they were brought there, obviously they had been treated as confidants.

After galloping all the way, they arrived at the border of the Donghai territory after 30 hours.

"That is?"

Xun You suddenly opened his eyes wide. The countless horses galloping in front of him and the vast grassland made him mistakenly think he had come to the grasslands of the north.

"That is a horse farm?"

"Horse farm?" Xun Yu and his uncle opened their eyes wide and looked at Su Fan, "My lord, you mean you established a horse farm here? Then how many horses are in this horse farm?"

"Now there are more than 80,000 warhorses."

Su Fan said with a smile. This was his biggest investment. To establish this horse farm, he had spent a lot of effort.

Just this grassland, he personally led a group of Taiping Dao masters to cast various spells and slowly established hundreds of thousands of acres of grassland.

It can raise hundreds of thousands of warhorses at most.

"This is one-tenth of what the imperial court had back then."

The Shenhan also had a horse farm back then, which raised a full million warhorses. Back then, Emperor Wu paid a great price to build this horse farm.

However, the establishment of that horse farm also achieved fruitful results, that is, they beat the Xiongnu barbarians almost to the point of extinction.

Xun You, as a strategist, also had no bad military insights. He knew that the Central Plains were very short of warhorses.

In the entire Shenhan, the strength of possessing cavalry almost all came from the north. Even the imperial guards of the imperial court now did not have many elite cavalry.

And cavalry, as an ace force, plays a very large role on the battlefield.

80,000 warhorses can at least form a cavalry force of 30,000.

He did not know what the quality of the warhorses in this horse farm was, but he had seen the 3,000 cavalry under his lord before. Those warhorses were all middle-to-upper-class warhorses.

They were not inferior to the warhorses of the grasslands, and those knights were even more terrifying.

In Luoyang City, he had seen the cavalry of the imperial court, and in terms of aura alone, they were not even as good as those under his lord.

Although Xun You is a scholar, he is quite interested in martial affairs.

"In the future, there will be more and more warhorses." Su Fan was confident. Now the horse farm no longer needs to be purchased from the north. The horse farm has also constantly had foals born these two years.

As time passes, there will be more and more warhorses.

As they entered the border of the Donghai territory, suddenly Xun Yu and the others found that the villages and towns around here were getting more and more, even more than the villages and towns around the Donghai Commandery city.

On both sides of the Chidao, rows of houses, and the golden wheat in the distance made Xun Yu feel a bit dazed.

It had been many years since he had seen such a scene.

Since the outbreak of the Yellow Turbans, what they saw when traveling abroad were scenes of people starving to death and bones in the wild.

Like this kind of scene now, they had not seen it for a long, long time.

It seems that only in a prosperous age would there be such a scene.

"My lord, are there many such villages and towns here?"

Xun Yu could not help but ask.

"Haha! There are many such village communities. Here, a hundred households are gathered into a village community. There are almost thousands of such village communities."

"Thousands?"

"Doesn't that mean there are millions of people here?"

Xun Yu was not calm. He did not expect his lord to establish such a large force in this wilderness.

This is comparable to a commandery.

"More than millions. In last year's census, my Donghai territory already had more than 11 million people."

Because his Donghai territory does not lack grain, the population increases extremely fast. Apart from natural growth, it is because of refugees displaced by war everywhere, and the absorption of Yellow Turban people.

Especially Guan Hai is constantly transporting population here from Qingzhou.

"So many?"

Hearing this, Xun You was also taken aback. The thirteen counties of the entire Donghai Commandery combined did not have as many people as this Donghai territory.

The area of the Donghai territory is only one-third the size of Donghai Commandery, but Su Fan's productivity here is extremely high, so naturally, less land can support more people. ===== CHAPTER 236 =====