Cai Mao was very annoyed, facing Guan Yu's 4,000 people, plus the Wang Rong Department who was ready to support at any time in the rear, and the thieves who were ready to attack at any time in the two southern counties, Cai Mao's heart was very bottomless!

He could see that the thieves in the two southern counties were obviously Wang Zhirong's branch......

In the process of fighting against bandits, Cai Mao has experienced their tactics, which are obviously the same as what Gao Hu said back then!

They are as cunning as foxes......

Taking advantage of the characteristics of Wuling and Lingling, which are mountainous and watery, and the terrain is dangerous, it is possible to transfer their thousands of troops to pieces with a small number of troops, and then concentrate superior forces to break them individually......

After only a few months of fighting, they lost nearly four thousand people, and the thieves grew stronger in the movement!

This group of men was so clever that every time they occupied a place, they would kill the powerful and powerful people in the area, and distribute the land to the destitute peasants according to their heads......

All forces that are harmful to the peasants are within their purge! Including Haoqiang, sect thieves, bullies, ruffians and hooligans, mountain thieves and water bandits......

And it will not be tolerated, and the killing is very decisive......

So whenever they occupy a place, they sort it out from the roots...... For a time, people were killed and blood flowed like rivers......

The problem is that they're really good, and they snowball fast this way!

Many destitute peasants were given food and sweet potato seeds, and in order to prevent what they had obtained from being taken away by Haoqiang, they believed in the propaganda of the thieves and joined the ranks of the thieves to protect the existing gains......

This snowball soon swept through the counties and districts of Wuling and Lingling......

Of course, all the rich and powerful have become their mortal enemies!

On the one hand, they ran towards the north, and on the other hand, they took out their own money and food, sacrificed their own troops, and gradually formed a large force, and merged with the official army, and also formed an extremely powerful force, gradually curbing the development of the thieves......

Originally, I wanted to stabilize the position, and the army crushed it, and I would extinguish these thieves in the same way as the Yellow Turban Army......

Unexpectedly, at this time, the north was in chaos, and Cai Mao ran away with the army......

For a while, the powerful and thief forces in those places were panicked, and the Haoqiang, who was slightly further north, began to design to embezzle the people, money and food of the Haoqiang clan who had fled to the country, and naturally they were counterattacked......

They were in chaos internally, they were beaten into a pot of porridge, there were large-scale fights everywhere every day, they were used to many innocent people, and a large number of refugees fled from the north and south!

In this way, the army of thieves in the south was further strengthened......

Wang Zherong secretly sent Pang Tong and Liao Hua south to preside over the overall situation of this army......

Now they have grown very fast, reaching nearly 10,000 people!

Those disciples sent out earlier and the generals trained by the new army still lack vision and courage in the end!

Some new problems have gradually erupted in their lax military training, their military discipline is relatively lax, and their policies to appease the people are a little mechanical and naïve......

Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong drew up an outline of the operational command of the Wuling and Lingling Righteous Army, and Wang Zhirong submitted it to the committee for discussion, and after it was revised and improved, it was handed over to Pang Tong and Liao Hua to implement!

Of course, the pacification of the people was also a top priority, and Ma Liang personally went south to carry out propaganda, pacification and conscription in the occupied areas......

For a time, the situation in the south was very good, the strength developed rapidly, and after the sweet potatoes were planted, they grew well, and the production campaign copied the pattern from the mountains and was quickly implemented in the counties of the occupied areas......

According to Wang Zhirong's meaning, Ma Liang set up a production self-protection committee in each county with a pavilion as a unit!

Specially selected enthusiastic and capable farmers, three to five people per pavilion, for intensive training!

They were taught how to grow sweet potatoes, cut pigs, build terraces, and basic training techniques for self-preservation!

Let them lead the local peasants to vigorously produce on the one hand, and on the other hand, to increase vigilance, and form a self-protection team to always guard against the remnants of the powerful and the remnants of the thieves to counterattack and sabotage......

Of course, in order to vigorously develop production, Maleonn announced three years of rent-free for newly resettled peasants in the anti-occupation zone, as well as the provision of seeds, ploughing cattle and technical training......

The news spread to the north, and those hesitant peasants, the weak who were exploited and oppressed in the clan, and even the strong ones who had trained well all moved their minds, and the people who fled south were like carp crossing the river, and there was an endless stream......

This practice made those powerful and thieves feel helpless for a while, and they felt powerless, desperate and helpless!

Liu Bei also got the news of Wuling and Lingling counties, and he sighed: "In terms of controlling the hearts of the people, no one in the world can be a teacher!" ”

Liu Bei originally thought that he was a master of taking advantage of the people's hearts, but now he found that there was a problem with his entry point......

Liu Bei started from the righteousness of the legitimacy of the Liu family, under the banner of Kuangfu Han Dynasty, this thing is not attractive to those farmers who have eaten the last meal but not the next meal!

This is far inferior to Wang Zhirong's: "Come, fellow, give you ten acres of land, a cow, and two hundred catties of seeds!" "It's affordable, it's tempting!

This is the wisdom of knowing that profit is the most affordable, the most popular, and really close to the hearts of the people......

Of course, Wang Zhirong does not give up righteousness, and his banner is also to support the Han family, and the favor to the farmers is also to appease the Han people and let the Han people live and work in peace and contentment!

He didn't say that he wanted to rebel, he wanted to be emperor!

In this way, those scribes who have the ambition to rule the country and level the world are also willing to join......

High! It's really high!

Liu Bei drank a glass and suppressed other thoughts that were about to stir in his heart, leaving only respect and fear for Wang Zhirong......

Now the north is in Liu Bei's hands, and according to Wang Zhirong's intentions, a relatively mild land reform is being started......

Wang Zhirong gave Liu Bei a death order, in the wealthy family, the per capita is only 50 acres of land, and the excess acres of land should be handed over to the government free of charge, and it will be divided into the landless......

This thing was promulgated in the form of a decree, and the next thing was to census the population of the army, but those who lied about the population were killed by the whole clan!

For a while, the resistance was very fierce, and the strong and strong relied on the fortress to resist stubbornly, and raised troops in all directions, Liu Bei was shocked, thinking that the big thing was not good......

Liu Bei sent people up the mountain to report the fact that the wealthy families in Nanyang and Xiangyang were all opposed!

"I wish they didn't toss, if they didn't toss, how could there be enough land for the people!" Wang Zhirong smiled indifferently, "Xiao Ming, take your Italy. Pull out the cannon for Lao Tzu! ”

"Italy. Cannon? Zhuge Liang was stunned.

"Oh, that's a good line! Put your giant on fire. Pull out the arrows and slip away! Boom according to the fortress of those local tyrants, just practice your hands! ”

Zhuge Liang was overjoyed, after two or three years, it was finally time for Lao Tzu to pull it out!

Zhuge Liang took his little follower Liu Qi and Liu Gouyu to pull hundreds of carts and seven or eight hundred artillery pieces from the road that had already been widened, and embarked on the journey!