"There is a Han in the west, a Han in the east, and the deer walks into Chang'an, so that there is no difficulty~"

"Gaozu Xing in Chang'an, passed on the 12 emperors, Guangwu Wang in Luoyang, also passed on the 12 emperors. The fortune of heaven has returned, the court has moved back to Chang'an, and the thieves from all directions have calmed down! ”

Li Su had heard these nursery rhymes and explanations in Chang'an City a few days ago, and in the past few days, he had been on the road in the wilderness and traveled by boat along the Wei River, without negotiating with the people, but he was not heard again.

However, with the arrival of the ship in Chencang today, it is necessary to go ashore to find a car and go to Chencang City to repair it. As soon as the convoy entered the city gate, it heard these nursery rhymes in the dust, and the clothes were more fierce than in previous days.

It seems that Li Ru spared no effort to build momentum for Dong Zhuo's legitimacy, and I don't know how many people were sent to go crazy to spread rumors.

Under such publicity, it seems that in the big cities of the entire Guanzhong Plain, the rich people have been psychologically prepared to "Guanzhong is the first good district", and they are quite happy about it.

Li Su looked at the Three Kingdoms in his previous life, but he never paid attention to these details, and history will not record the reactions of the small people. Now that I am immersed in the scene, I feel a little more empathy: it seems that no matter what dynasty, the home-owning class is happy to hear that their city is going to be upgraded and housing prices will rise in the future.

This is also why it is not easy for all dynasties to move the capital, so the housing prices in the capital have to fall, and those wealthy families who have hoarded real estate for hundreds of years have lost a lot.

"Hmph, dog thief!" Liu Miao, the princess of Wannian in the incense car, couldn't help but be curious when she first entered the city, and wanted to open the curtain to listen to the voices of the people outside, but all she heard were rumors that the foolish people were bewitched by Dong Zhuo, and she suddenly cried a little angry.

Li Su rode a horse beside the car, and after listening to this low scolding, he had to patiently attach to the curtain of the car to persuade: "All the words are false, why be angry about it." The people are just ignorant, maybe for small profits, and they are willing to be used by Dong Zhuo for the time being.

But I believe that with Dong Zhuozhi's brutality, it won't take two years for him to really come to Chang'an? The people of Chang'an will also be as angry and resentful as the people of Luoyang today. ”

"The people are ignorant? That's it. Liu Miao put down the curtain in tears, not wanting to talk anymore.

Li Su let the convoy move on? With terracotta bronze? Enter the Qinling Valley.

Li Su's words just now, on the one hand, were he persuading Liu Miao? On the one hand, he also warned himself in his heart: If you hadn't seen all this with your own eyes, would you dare to believe that the people of Sanfu had supported Dong Zhuo a little bit at the beginning?

After all, Dong Zhuo has been operating in Yongliang for many years? And he didn't harm the people before he came to power? Dong Zhuo's perverted and evil deeds were basically completely out of control after playing a compromise with the Yuan family. And the ancient people may not live a hundred miles away in their lifetime, how brutal Dong thief is in Henan Yin, the people here don't know at all. The benefits of Dong Zhuo's relocation to the capital, but the rich people in Sanfu's city can see it clearly for the time being.

On the other hand? Even from a demographic, economic point of view? After Dong Zhuo arrived in Chang'an in history, throughout 191 years, or even 192 years, the total economy and population of Chang'an and even the surrounding Sanfu must have increased.

Needless to say? Even if it is the simplest number: the population of Yin in Henan is close to two million, even if 200,000 or even 300,000 old and weak people are killed and looted along the road? There are at least 1.5 million people who have actually settled in Guanzhong.

It has lasted for many years because of the war in Liangzhou before? The total population size of the entire Yongliang land has long been less rich than that of Guanzhong in the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty.

At present, there are less than 100,000 households and 500,000 people left in Liangzhou. Statistics during the reign of Emperor Ling? Such as Longxi County, Beidi County, Jincheng County, Anding County? The number of households is less than 5,000 - note that this is a county? It is not a county, according to the official system of the Han Dynasty, counties with less than 5,000 households can only have a county magistrate, and more than 5,000 households can set up a county order. This is equivalent to the fact that each of the above four counties is not as large as one county that can set orders, and there are only more than 3,000 households in Jincheng County, which is the worst disaster.

The land of Sanfu is much better than Liangzhou, after all, it is the rich Weihe Plain, but the total population of Sanfu will not reach three million. In this way, the population of the entire Kansai region is 3.5 million.

After Dong Zhuo injected 1.5 million Henan Yin migrants, the total population of Kansai suddenly rose to 5 million.

According to the statistics of the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, until 193, a year after Dong Zhuo's death, the total population of Kansai was much larger than before the capital was moved. What really emptied the Kansai was the melee of Li and Guo Yan, as well as the successive earthquakes, locust plagues, and great droughts that began in the first year of Xingping (194).

A word must be said for Dong Zhuo here: Dong Zhuo completely destroyed only Luoyang, and after he arrived in Chang'an, he still hoped to build Chang'an into a base area, or he died before he could overly mutilate Chang'an. Li Dao and Guo Yan are the ones who really completely killed Chang'an.

In the five years from 194 to 198, Li Dao and Guo Yan were almost using the rate of "reducing the population by a quarter every year compared with the previous year" to abuse the three auxiliary places:

At the end of 193, there were still more than 4 million people in Guanzhong, but by the end of 194, it had fallen back to more than 3 million, 195 to more than 2 million, 196 to more than 1 million in 196, and 198 when Li Dao was killed, and only a few hundred thousand remained.

Whoever made Li Dao Guo Yan's logistical support is two: if there is no food, people will eat people, no taxes will be collected, and if they need to spend, they will loot, the old and weak will kill and eat, and the young and strong will be filled into the army, this is a set of fighting methods without economic foundation.

Therefore, since Li Su has opened the perspective of God, he must help Liu Bei grasp the timing of his move, you can't let Dong Zhuo or Li Guo make too much harm in the pass, after all, in the future, these land people will be absorbed by themselves.

On the other hand, we must also wait for them to "show their evil deeds", so that the people in Guanzhong hope that someone will drive them away, and they can't just come to liberate them without doing any bad things to their fellow villagers, so maybe the people in Guanzhong will regard the Liangzhou army as their own people and deal with Liu Bei with the same hatred.

"Alas, the rhythm of Kuang Fu Han is really difficult to grasp, in order to save the more than 4 million people in Guanzhong in the future, we can only endure Dong and Li Xian's demonstrative scourge of hundreds of thousands of people and lose the hearts of the people, so we can do it......

That's it, if it really doesn't work, when the time comes, set up some receptions in Chencang Road, so that those people who have been plundered by the scourge can flee and have something to eat, even if they are organized to dig canals and repair terraces, it is better than being starved to death by Dong Li directly. ”

Li Suzhi thought about it again and again, and only thought of such a preliminary solution.

Liu Bei himself should not be able to spare the Northern Expedition in a year or two, last year and this year fought for two whole years before taking Hanzhong and the Chengdu Plain, the government has a huge consumption of grain, and the follow-up must need to recuperate and recuperate.

Moreover, Liu Bei is currently only the assassin of Yizhou, and has not obtained the Yizhou pastor granted by the imperial court, nominally only supervising the counties, and has no right to rule directly.

In this case, the Nanban in the four counties of Nanzhong may not be convinced by Liu Bei, they may not rebel directly like Meng Shu, but it is estimated that "official affairs do not listen to Liu Bei's dispatch", and they want to listen to the tune, and it makes sense in terms of reputation.

This kind of thing must be fought with grace and power, and it is better to fight late than early, and at least there is no need to face a two-front battle if it is fought early, and there is no need to worry about "fighting a civil war after hard work and planting, and the fruits of farming will be burned." Only by thoroughly eliminating civil strife can we carry out construction.

After calculating all kinds of factors, it is estimated that I can only watch Dong Zhuo being killed by Wang Yun in Chang'an.

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Li Su thought blindly in his mind, trekked all the way through the mountains and rivers, and walked a full forty or fifty miles into the Qinling Mountains, and had already passed the dilapidated Dasanguan site - the Dasanguan of the Han Dynasty, about southwest of Chencang, forty miles after entering the Qinling Mountains, the wall has always been there, but it has been in disrepair for a long time, only the ruins remain, even the city gate and tower are gone, and they pass directly through the ruins.

Moreover, because there was no war all year round, there was no need to guard against the warlords in the Bashu and Hanzhong regions, and the imperial court always felt that it was enough to have Chen Cangcheng to block the valley mouth, and there was no need to maintain the pass forty miles away from the mountain. After all, every big stone here to repair the city costs a lot of money.

To talk about this road, Li Su has already walked in and out four or five times, and he will not feel strange at all, but the difficulty this time is still not comparable to any previous time, mainly because the princess has to take a car and transport heavy bronzes.

Soon, the soldiers around him were so tired that they were half dead, and they temporarily made a cameo appearance in the logistics management of Fazheng, and after understanding the situation, they had to advise and plead:

"Zhonglang, this road is too difficult to transport, and you can't go to the car at all, only riding horses, but these dings, two horses side by side, can't move. The bearing plate weighed fifty or sixty thousand catties, and the twenty horse-drawn carts along the way were really unbearable.

Also, when your 500 guards left Chang'an, they pretended to lend them to the princess's guards to receive weapons, and received 500 sets of fish scale armor, 500 sets of horse swords and crossbows in the Chang'an arsenal, and the weight of the soldiers was already too heavy. ”

Fa Zheng is talking about Han Jin, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Xian Chenglu plate area is about ten square meters, bronze is more than half a foot thick, that is, more than ten centimeters, nearly two cubic meters of copper, but not more than ten tons of weight, fifty or sixty thousand Han Jin.

Li Su actually didn't want to transport Chenglupan all the way back to Hanzhong, it was too far, and now he couldn't stand it after walking fifty miles of mountain roads, and there were still three hundred miles to follow, even if it was just to Hechi County, there were still more than a hundred miles to go.

Moreover, in the future, when Liu Bei recovers Chang'an and returns to the old capital, Chenglupan still has to be returned, and it is impossible to set the capital of Hanzhong, and the round-trip freight is wasteful.

Li Su wiped his sweat, first took care of the princess to rest in the car for a while, don't worry, and then he and Fa Zheng climbed up to look at the terrain with the support of the guards.

After looking at it for a while, Li Su found that not far ahead, there was a small plain in the mountains, and it seemed to be next to the lowest temporary river in the valley, which should be able to be cultivated and developed, and a foothold.

Li Su suddenly thought of some stories when he looked at history in later generations: when the Southern Song Dynasty resisted the Jin, it was also "the night snow melon island crossing of the building boat, the iron horse and the autumn wind Dasanguan", this Dasanguan is the forefront of the Song and Jin secessions, in order to guard against the Jin soldiers in the direction of Chencang, the famous general Wu Jue brothers of the Southern Song Dynasty fought the famous "Battle of Monk Yuan", which was near the Dasanguan.

This plain, which is only a few miles long and less than half a mile wide, could it be the "monk plain" of later generations?

Considering that the site of the Dasanguan in the Han Dynasty was further north than in the Tang and Song dynasties, it is normal for the monk to be wrapped on the side of the pass.

Li Su pointed to the small plain and said: "Xiaozhi, I would like to suggest that the lord set up a new county in this monk's original place, and it is good that there are more footholds between Hechi and Chencang." It is only fifty miles into the Qinling Mountains here, and it is only seventy miles away from the city of Chencang, as long as the Dasan Pass is repaired, and the people are allowed to build roads in Tuntian, so that the army can make better preparations for going out of the customs to discuss Dong in the future. Moreover, the repair of the Great Scattered Pass also shows that we are afraid of Dong Zhuo, afraid of Dong Zhuo's crusade, and show weakness to the enemy, what do we think of filial piety? ”

He also saw that Fa Zheng was devoted to his vote, and there should be no problem with his loyalty, so he discussed such a confidential matter with him. After all, Fa Zheng helped Liu Bei raise military rations when he was in Yixian, and the two were quite compatible.

Fa Zheng was also a little energetic when he heard that Li Su was so unsightly, and after careful observation, he said very responsibly: "However, I see that this place is not more than a few miles long, less than a mile wide, and the visual inspection can cultivate up to 10,000 acres of land, and it is good to be able to feed hundreds of Ding Zhuang, how can hundreds of people set up a county?"

Moreover, it is necessary to move people from the river pool, which will inevitably cost the people and money. The irrigation here is also insufficient, only the snow melt in winter and spring will flow into a river every year, and there is no river in the rest of the summer and autumn, all rely on rainfall for irrigation, rely on the weather for food, I am afraid it is not easy to cultivate. ”

Li Su waved his hand: "You don't have to worry about the field, I am in Hanzhong, and Lu Zijing has found a way, you can farm on the gentle slope of the mountain, irrigation is really troublesome, you have to teach the people to dig more wells, dig more reservoirs to store fresh water in the rainy season." However, it is still no problem to feed a population of one or two thousand.

As for the source of the population, after Dong Zhuo's rebellion, are you still afraid that the people who have not escaped the rule of Dong thieves will go south? As long as filial piety is willing to help me, I will let the lord first appoint you as the magistrate of Sanguan County, and be responsible for intercepting the refugees from the north. At that time, I will also leave two or three hundred soldiers in the army, one to defend the pass, and then build another treasury, and store these giant bells and juding and Chenglu plates here, and return them to the old capital in the future, so that they can be transported back to Chang'an nearby. ”

Anyway, he would definitely not leave behind those things that weighed less than five hundred Han catties and Li Su could let the horses go over the mountains. What is left behind is thousands of catties of large goods, so as long as the management is a little standardized, there is no fear of someone stealing - the thief can't move it at all, and even if he can move, he can't move the Qinling Mountains.

50,000 Han Jin dew plate, you might as well steal one and try it.

Moreover, after setting up Sanguan County, there is another biggest benefit, that is, Li Su will build and optimize the road in Chencang Road in the future, no matter how he farms and tosses, the outside world will not know, and those who will go out of the customs in the future will have to accept the strict investigation of Liu Bei's forces. It is very conducive to creating a surprise attack on Dong Zhuo or Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Fa Zheng thought about it, he was only sixteen years old, and he was the magistrate of a newly established county, so he couldn't say that he didn't use it. Moreover, what people use is the appeal of the Legalist family as a famous family to help the wind, and it can unite and dispatch the people who fled south in other right-wing areas, which can be regarded as making the best use of it.

If it weren't for the fact that this county was set up out of thin air, and it was already mature, and Fa Zheng would have been the county magistrate when he first came, and others would not have been convinced.

"That being the case, the lowly and the father of the family are willing to stay here and guard the pass for the general of Zhengxi. Zhonglang left everything behind, and he will never leave it out. Fa Zheng respectfully agreed.

Li Su also hurriedly ordered: "Then you first divide some people, unload the goods, and then take advantage of Dong Zhuojun's failure to control Chencang, go to Chencang and try to buy some grain and grass." The food needed in the first year of Sanguan County must always be made by Dong Zhuo. ”

Li Su didn't want to travel thousands of miles from Hanzhong or even Hechi to stock up here, the loss was too great, of course he had to buy grain directly from Chencang, which was only seventy miles away.

Granaries should be built here as soon as possible, and while it is only October, and the autumn harvest is not long after the autumn harvest, the price of grain is also cheap, so you can buy as much as you can. Anyway, the grain will not be bad for three years, and when the time comes, I will eat the military rations bought from Dong Zhuo to fill part of the needs of the Northern Expedition and reduce the loss of grain transportation over the mountains.

After explaining the Fazheng, Li Sucai took Dian Wei, Liu Miao, and a small number of light bronze utensils, and continued to walk for seven or eight days to return to Nanzheng.