At its peak, Luoyang had a population of one million in one city, and it was the largest city in the world, both politically and economically.

After a series of events such as the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Xiang Yu's massacre, the population of Luoyang dropped significantly in these turmoil.

By the time the Han army recaptured Luoyang, Luoyang's population had shrunk to more than 500,000, only half of its heyday.

Later, after the Han Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, because the Central Plains was still in constant war, a large number of Central Plains families moved to the front line of Luoyang and Chang'an, which also brought a large number of emigrants to Luoyang.

Lu Zhi and Yang Jian's policy of recuperation and recuperation, coupled with Dong Zhuo's forcible reforms, allowed Luoyang to finally recover from the trauma of the war, and its population gradually recovered to nearly 700,000, which is still the most populous city in the world.

In this battle against Dong, Luoyang was hit hard again, and it was almost destroyed again.

After the Kwantung coalition army surrounded Luoyang, the turmoil in Luoyang did not stop.

First, the family in the city rebelled, but it was easily suppressed by the Liang army, and then the Jinyi Wei Heibing Platform joined hands to burn the Liang army's grain depot, and then Yang Jian later prevented the enemy from preventing fire before retreating......

The cause of war is between soldiers, but it is always inevitable and will bring harm to civilians.

Yang Jian didn't want to fight, so he patted his ass and left, but it was hundreds of thousands of people in Luoyang who paid for his behavior.

Yang Jian's fire directly burned down more than one-third of Luoyang's buildings, causing nearly 200,000 people to have nowhere to live, and more than 100,000 people either died in the fire or died in the previous turmoil.

Now the population of Luoyang is less than 500,000, if it weren't for Qin Hao's order to save people, I'm afraid this number would drop significantly.

For the Kwantung Coalition Army, the more than 200,000 victims in the city were undoubtedly a great burden.

The supply of the coalition army is already very tight, and if it bears the rations of these twenty victims, the coalition army may face the risk of running out of food in advance.

It was impossible for Qin Hao to watch these 200,000 people starve to death, after all, these people would accept his rule in the future, which was the source of providing himself with taxes and soldiers.

The disaster still has to be relieved, but the princes will definitely not be willing to pay for food and money, and the supply of money and food in Nanyang is also very tight, so Qin Hao can only hit the idea of seizing the city.

It is also strange to say that Yang Jian fled lightly this time, and although he set fire before escaping, he did not burn the vault and armory warehouses and other warehouses, and the Liang army confiscated the Luoyang family, and all of them fell into the hands of the coalition army.

So Qin Hao waved his hand and directly ordered to go all out for disaster relief, and all his expenses were seized and deducted.

Although this move will cause dissatisfaction among other princes, it can only be dissatisfied, and it must be known that now that the alliance of princes is about to split, Qin Hao must of course take advantage of the fact that he is still the leader of the alliance to reap as many benefits as possible.

In addition to the fact that the vault was not burned, there was another very strange thing, that is, before Yang Jian left, he ordered the massacre of all the family members who participated in the rebellion in the prisoner of war camp.

It stands to reason that Yang Jian is in a hurry to escape, is it necessary to deliberately execute these people? Moreover, leaving these people behind would also bring endless trouble to Qin Hao.

But the result was that Yang Jian not only killed these prisoners of war, but also killed them very cleanly, not even leaving a single living mouth.

This made Qin Hao a little puzzling, of course, even more puzzling was still to come.

"What? You didn't kill Li Shimin, but captured him alive? ”

After listening to the mission report of Lang Yu, Qin Hao asked with a shocked face: "Li Shimin led you to escape to the entrance of the Tiangong Treasure, and it is related to whether the entrance of the Tiangong Treasure will be exposed, so you don't dare to take more Li Shimin lightly?" ”

"Yes." Lang Yu nodded seriously.

Qin Hao's face also became a little exciting, he never thought that he would order to kill, but his subordinates captured Li Shimin alive.

It's definitely more difficult to capture alive than a kill, but it also shows that there has been a great deal of change.

For a while, he also had no dislike for Li Shimin in his heart, on the contrary, he admired Li Shimin very much, but it was only because the other party hindered his hegemony that he had to get rid of him by any means.

If Li Shimin died, Qin Hao would not mention this person, but now that he is still alive, he has to consider a headache.

What to do with him?

Is it killing?

Or kill?

Qin Hao didn't need a reason, so he came to the conclusion that he would be killed, after all, Li Shimin's threat was too great.

But now you can't kill him, after all, it's a matter of heavenly treasure.

"How did Li Shimin know where the entrance to the Heavenly Prince's treasure was?" Qin Hao frowned and asked.

Qin Hao always thought that Zhang Sheng knew where the entrance to the Heavenly Prince's treasure was, but the fact was that Zhang Sheng, who was Zhang Jiao's heir, didn't know it, and Zhang Jiao only told this secret to one person, and that was Zhang Liang.

Only Zhang Liang knew this secret in the entire Remnant Ming, and Zhang Liang regarded this secret as the last vote of the Remnant Ming, and he would never say it until the last moment.

So, where did Li Shimin find out? Qin Hao was puzzled by this.

"Could it be that Li Shimin got one of the Heavenly Dragon Slayers, and guessed it from the key?" Tian Yan analyzed.

Qin Hao immediately denied: "Impossible, the Heaven Slaying Dragon is just the key, and there is no clue about the entrance on it." ”

"That's weird." Tian Yan frowned.

"Will it be ......?"

Qin Hao kept simulating in his mind all the details of the events that occurred in Luoyang as described in the intelligence.

Li Shimin's 'Heavenly Blessing' was launched on the way to be hunted down, and according to the description of Lang Yu and others, before Li Shimin fled into the royal treasury, although it was thrilling, he did not worry about his life......

As soon as he thought of this, Qin Hao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he secretly said in his heart: "Li Shimin's form of Tianyou's activation this time is not to summon a master to save him, but to let him open the secret path mechanism hidden under the treasure house by chance.

Li Shimin didn't know the location of the entrance before, but he took the opportunity to use it as a coercion to achieve the purpose of temporarily saving his life, so Li Xiuning definitely didn't know the entrance to the treasure. ”

If you really think so, this time Li Shimin's 'Heavenly Blessing' was launched, but instead told Qin Hao the location of the Heavenly Prince's treasure.

As soon as he thought of this, Qin Hao's eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of coldness, and he said secretly: "Li Shimin, your biggest hole card has been exposed, I want to see how you continue to die and struggle." ”

After Qin Hao took a long breath of turbidity, he smiled at Lang Yu and said, "Take me to meet Li Shimin." ”

"No."