To tell the truth, even without Yang Ang's final surrender, in the eyes of Liu Beijun's generals, it would be a matter of time before Nanzheng was taken, and there would be no possibility of an unexpected turnaround.

Surging but not fighting is nothing more than killing fewer people, plus first stabilizing the counties and washing the people's hearts back.

It is far more important to deal with the warlords of the god stick type and to attack their grasp of the morale of the people than to attack their military fighting power on paper. Liu Bei is also a veteran who has dealt with the opponent of the god stick for many years since the beginning of the suppression of the Yellow Turban, and he is very knowledgeable about this.

However, in the end, Nanzheng County was able to open the city without blood and surrender without fighting, which really surprised Liu Bei.

This is too much and too powerful!

After entering the city, Yang Ang surrendered with a total of 5,000 soldiers, of which about 3,000 had been staying in Nanzheng, and 2,000 had been mobilized from other surrounding counties that were destined to be undefended before the siege.

In addition, Zhang Lu did not ransack and burn Nanzheng's treasury before fleeing, at most he only took away some rations and fine soft - this is also similar to the routine before Zhang Lu was eliminated by Cao Cao in history, perhaps Zhang Lu still has some illusions in his heart that "if you don't destroy the treasury and don't burn the property in the city, maybe you can reduce some of the guilt"; It may also be that he is afraid that the burning of the treasury will cause the people of Hanzhong, who have managed to run it with great difficulty, to completely fall to Liu Bei.

Although Zhang Lu finally surrendered to Cao Cao in history, at first he fled to the southern Panban region and watched for a while. It was Cao Cao who took the initiative to persuade and say that he was not to blame for the past, and Zhang Lu came back from the ravine.

The treasury was not burned, which means that the grain in the Nanzheng granary was enough for Liu Bei's more than 20,000 main troops to eat for several years.

Since the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the central government of the imperial court has mainly relied on the collection of copper coins and Shu brocade in Yizhou. Because the transportation in Yizhou is too difficult, the physical taxes such as grain and ordinary cloth have to be shipped out, and the transportation cost will be many times more expensive than the tax object itself, which is too cost-effective.

And at the beginning of the middle of the Emperor Ling Dynasty, there was a strange phenomenon - because the emperor often sold Yizhou's Taishou and Thorn History, and in fact acquiesced that "I can't collect Yizhou's taxes at all, as long as the person who buys the official gives me tens of millions of money before taking office, the taxes during his tenure will be counted as overtaxed."

This has led to the hoarding of physical wealth in Yizhou is very serious, and the people who are officials are all taking the money they have saved in other places to pay them to buy officials in Luoyang, and after taking office, they have looted wealth in Yizhou and stored in Yizhou locally. Although the people of Yizhou are poor, waves of foreign looterers who have entered Yizhou have become absolutely extravagant.

Later, Liu Yan frantically killed large households in Shu County to accumulate wealth, and Liu Bei's more important looting stain in his life "Zhibai Qian" was more or less related to these "deflation". Of course, there is nothing to wash, in this life, Li Su came, and he definitely didn't need to send a hundred dollars, even if he couldn't learn the Song Dynasty's Jiaozi Feiqian credit currency, he could learn the "brocade" of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, there were petrodollars, and now there are five baht of Shu brocade, which is the same.

These are all later words, for Liu Bei at the moment, there is enough food, which means that the actions of arsonists chasing thieves and taking advantage of the situation to occupy Brazil can also be put on the table immediately.

After entering Nanzheng, he rectified the people's livelihood for three or five days, shared the rewards, and cleaned the Taishou Mansion to change the plaque and soft decoration, and the weather was new.

Then Liu Bei summoned all the civil and military staff to the Taishou Mansion and asked about the next stage of military operations.

In the previous days of the siege, the scout intelligence department in the army was not idle, and they had already checked out all the local forces that Zhang Lu might have contacted or had contacted after entering Brazil.

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Li Su also got a more decent house in Nanzheng City than when he was in Baozhong, and it took several days to move, re-hang the plaque of the Hou Mansion in the new home, and then return the house that had only been rented for a month in Baozhong.

It's not that he is high, but that he is a small place, and it is estimated that he will not live in it for the rest of his life, and he will not be able to stay any longer.

And Nanzheng's mansion can stay, even if he wins Chengdu in the future, he can also be a multi-room person who "has a house in every county".

On the day when he finished taking care of the housework, he was summoned by Liu Bei, and Li Su also slipped away to discuss the matter.

When he rode to the gate of the Taishou Mansion, Li Su saw that Lu Su was actually waiting for him to enter with him, and he also hurriedly dismounted: "Why is Zijing too humble?" ”

Lu Su first arched his hand: "General Wen wants to discuss merit today, go down to Nanzheng, Zhonglang is the first meritorious, and he should be respectful and orderly." ”

Li Su was a little surprised: "This ...... Isn't the matter of attacking Nanzheng planned by Zijing, I have been worrying about the 'education lottery' and 'exposing the rice thief fraud' a while ago. ”

Lu Su: "The big plan should not be underestimated, General Suzhu forced to land in Nanzheng, drawing on Zhonglang's method of 'exposing rice thieves and fraud', and by the way, it broke the hearts of the people in the city, and the first credit came from Angelica Zhonglang." ”

This is the benefit of the strategist's industry, unlike writing books and inventions, copyrights/patents belong to people who specifically put ideas and ideas into practice, and the great god borrowed your ideas and wrote them out that you have no way to do it.

The strategist is based on creativity, and the original idea is Li Su's, even if the follow-up refinement and implementation are all Lu Su, it is only a secondary achievement.

Li Su adapted to the characteristics of the times and the humility of his colleagues, and accepted the compliment with peace of mind.

After the group entered, Liu Bei really commended him before the discussion, and indeed ranked Li Su in the first merit of Xiannan Zheng, followed by Lu Su, and said:

"Boya, wait for Zhang Lu to be awarded the head, and make contributions to Beijing, only with your two first merits in Pingguan and Nanzheng, you will definitely fight for the court for your brother, and fight for you to come back."

Li Su got up and thanked him.

Subsequently, Liu Bei finally changed his words and asked the strategists: "Nan Zheng is decided, and Yun Chang has already gained a firm foothold in Jiameng." Our army is divided into two routes, the main force crosses the rain mountain, enters the ditch (the name of the river) to the ditch (the name of the county); Yun Chang's troops entered Langzhong from the Jialing River and attacked Zhang Lu and his subordinate Ban Yuman. Do you have a good strategy for the specific advance strategy? ”

Li Su has been concerned about the work of people's governance and education these days, and he is not very concerned about the military, so he can't say anything for a while, so he asked:

"I wonder what the enemy situation is now? I remember that when Zhang Lu withdrew to Brazil, there were only 8,000 descendants. I have heard for a long time that there are seven surnames of the wealthy family in Brazil, and I don't know how many are attached to Zhang Lu? How many of the rest of the local soldiers and villagers were used by Zhang Lu? ”

Liu Bei gave the clerk Zhuge Jin a look, and Zhuge Jin hurriedly said the summarized situation: "According to our army's recent reconnaissance, it seems that the land of Brazil has been bewitched by rice thieves for the past two years, and the enemies that our army has to face are composed of these parts: Zhang Lu's descendants, the local town guards who were bewitched by Zhang Lu, the Ban Yuman who is unwilling to accept the rule of the imperial court, and the local water thieves.

Needless to say, as for the regular army bewitched by Zhang Lu, there were about several thousand, mainly in the counties along the Jialing River basin and in the areas close to Liu Yan, the most representative of which was Yan Yan, the county lieutenant of Langzhong. This person was originally a military attache of the imperial court, but when General Guan sent a boat down the river the day before yesterday to test it, he was blocked by Yan Yan.

Judging from the feedback gathered after the battle, Yan Yan seems to believe that General Zhenxi intended to raise his own dignity and overstep his authority to occupy the imperial court and county in the name of pursuing Zhang Lu. That Yan Yan seemed to be quite loyal to Liu Yan originally, and by mistake, he was temporarily obeying Zhang Lu's orders.

The seven surnames of the Danqu River Basin, the patriarchs of the three largest tribes, He Huang, Pu Hu, and Du Hao, all supported Zhang Lu, and betrayed the imperial court before, and the remaining four surnames are estimated to be attached to these three surnames.

In addition, there is a water thief in the ditch valley, who has always intercepted and killed court officials and merchants, and the leader is named Gan Ning, who is old and crowned, but extremely brave. In order to prepare ships and send the vanguard troops over the rainy mountains to collect civilian ships, our army was intercepted and killed by Gan Ning, who was hired by Zhang Lu with wealth.

This person is very good at water warfare, and our army's ship-searching pioneer reported, saying that everyone in the world uses reed mats and hard objects as sails, but this Gan Ning is good at soft sails, and he personally drives the fighting ship with Shu brocade as the sail, which is extremely extravagant. Even in the place where the flow speed of the ditch is turbulent, it can also go against the current, and before the banyu rebellion, the local official and military warships of Ba County could not catch up with it for several years. ”

When listening to Zhuge Jin's report on Gan Ning's situation, Li Su, who had not reacted all the time, also had a bright eye.

it? What big secrets hidden in history have been discovered?

Everyone in the world says that "soft sails in the West, hard sails in the East", and it seems that this "truth" is not necessarily true - Oriental people just do not make heavy cotton and linen canvas since ancient times, and are used to using straw mats, so there are more hard sails.

But it can't be said that there are no soft sails in the East - the brocade sail thief is not a soft sail.

It's just that it's too expensive, at least dozens of times more expensive than canvas, and no one else can afford it except for the water thief boss.

After listening, Li Su suggested to Liu Bei: "I thought that the Ban Yu barbarians could be appeased mainly by money, and it was best to invite some high-level Southern Xiongnu from Yu Fuluo to hold Yu Fuluo's letters, sections, and Xu, and show up to say the law, so that the barbarians know that our army is different from Your Majesty, and that it is always money to recruit barbarians to fight."

As for the Jinfan thief Gan Ning, he is more fierce than Ban Yuman, and he can't be persuaded by giving money directly, but I think this kind of heroic person should not be willing to be a thief for the rest of his life in this troubled world. If my brother can not avoid exposing the past, and persuade him to 'serve the country for the official', it may have a miraculous effect.

As for the last Yan Yan, there is nothing he can do, he is loyal to Liu Yan and unites with Zhang Lu, only to defeat and capture him first, and then slowly tell Zhang Luzhi the evidence of Zhang Lu's retrograde and Liu Yan's transgression, and slowly disintegrate his heart. ”

Li Su knew that when Gan Ning was a thief and was in his twenties, he seemed to start wanting to study and wash his name. Moreover, Gan Ning also served as a petty official in Ba County in history, but when Liu Yan died, he stood on the wrong side in the process of Liu Zhang's succession and was defeated by troops loyal to Liu Zhang, so he fled to Jingzhou.

Although I don't know when Gan Ning wanted to wash his name and go ashore, I believe that he should have this idea in his heart and can develop it.

Liu Bei was also quite satisfied with such a division between the enemy and us, and immediately ordered Guan Yu to lead 5,000 troops out of Langzhong and Zhang Fei to lead 10,000 troops out of Langzhong.

Then transfer Zhao Yun and Youzhou Tucai, who were not used in this battle, to Jia Meng to replace Guan Yu in defense, so as not to cause trouble in the Sword Pavilion on Liu Yan's initiative.