Although Liu Yan's army was completely defeated, it was not so easy for the Han army to clean up the battlefield.

Not to mention 90,000 rebels, even if it is 90,000 pigs, it will take many days to catch them. In a hurry, I can only grasp the big and let go of the small, and slowly sort it out.

Zhao Yun and Gao Shun rushed to the north gate of Mianzhu, and the head of the city was already in full battle, and they were eager not to attack, so they had to go around the city to search for the defeated soldiers, and they couldn't care about completely surrounding them on all sides for a while. It wasn't until two hours later, in the evening of the same day, that the army roughly surrounded Mianzhu City.

Liu Bei wanted to listen to the results of the various ministries at first, but the information came too much and was too chaotic, so he didn't bother to listen to it, and handed it over to the military clerks to sort it out slowly. He drank a few glasses of celebratory wine with Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Wu Kuang, and Gaoshun, Zhao Yun Gaoshun was cautious, and he didn't dare to drink more to inspect the siege.

The next day, Liu Bei woke up, drank some Dogwood sour and hot sobering soup, and asked Wu Yi, a staff member of the army around him (just surrendered for two months, and it was not convenient to reuse it publicly before), only to know that in addition to Mianzhu and Chengdu counties, which were besieged and had not been taken for the time being, the rest of Yizhou had fallen into the hands of the imperial court, including Ruoxian, which had not surrendered a few days ago, and also surrendered directly - Ruoxian County is located between Chengdu and Mianzhu, and has always belonged to the core of Liu Yan's sphere of influence.

Liu Yan himself was surrounded in Mianzhu, and most of the celebrities and nobles in Yizhou were also surrounded in Mianzhu.

And the guard general of Chengdu is still Pang Xi - he even had a chance to be sent back to Chengdu by Liu Yan yesterday, and I don't know how he took advantage of the chaos to break through and escape, or it may be that when Zhao Yun was in the north of the city, Liu Yan opened the south gate and let Pang Xi out.

However, this hand is actually worthless, and now, the probability of Pang Xi's subsequent surrender is also quite large, and Liu Bei is not in a hurry at all.

What I have to be afraid of now is that after forcing the enemy, will the treasury in the city be burned down, so that Liu Bei will not be able to get money and food savings, so it is better to stabilize it first.

Wu Yi didn't forget to report: "Envoy? Both the damage and the seizures have been counted. Our army suffered more than 2,000 casualties yesterday? Of these, 600 were killed. The enemy's casualties should exceed 10,000, clean up the battlefield and count the corpses and heads? The total is more than 4,700.

Up to now? A total of more than 38,000 people have been captured alive, and the remaining strength of Liu Yan's army in Mianzhu City? There should be more than 20,000 people, and there are no less than 15,000 soldiers in the Middle East. So what does it mean? There were at least 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers who had escaped. ”

"Twenty or thirty thousand people fled...... Are they all armed with weapons? Is there a count of extra weapons in cleaning the battlefield? I'm afraid that Shu County and Guanghan will not be peaceful this year. Liu Bei couldn't help but feel a little hurt when he heard this? I am worried that the follow-up civil affairs pacification work will not be easy to do.

Wu Yi: "Cleaning the battlefield, there are about 20,000 pieces of ownerless weapons and armor at present, which is still nearly 10,000 more than the casualties, and there should be a small half of the deserters who abandoned their weapons and fled." ”

Liu Bei stretched out a finger and shook it? Instructed: "Let the counties post notices of reassurance and comfort as soon as possible?" Deserters who return their weapons to the county where they are registered will be exempted from taxes for an additional year, and they will not be conscripted as soldiers.

Even the soldiers who had already been captured were released from the old and weak and unbearable to fight and returned to their hometowns to work as farmers. Didn't you arrest 38,000 people? I think in the next two days, I can release the 8,000 people and return to their hometowns. It is also good for them to go back to various places to spread the benevolence and good deeds of the imperial court, so that the people can believe in the determination of the imperial court to reduce the levy. ”

Wu Yi hurriedly recorded? Said to do it immediately.

Liu Bei was also infected by Li Su, and he has been used to spending money to do things in recent years? Accustomed to mercenaries. In addition, I talked to Li Su about how to rectify the problem of barbarism, and Li Su proposed "replacing taxes with military service"? Liu Bei is more inclined to this style of governance.

In troubled times? Not everyone is good at being a soldier and fighting. Some people are timid? In some places, the people are simple, but they are good at farming, hard-working, and hard-working, so let them pay more money and grain in a variety of ways and be exempted from military service.

In some places, the people are strong but they can't make money, so they can be exempted from taxes as soldiers, and five or ten households can be connected to each other, and a professional soldier who serves in the military all year round can be exchanged for five households exempt from taxes.

This kind of idea is actually a bit of the embryonic form of rent-yong modulation in the Sui and Tang dynasties in later generations, but it has not yet been summarized and perfected, but the idea is the same: paying more money and food can replace service. It's just that the rent and money are exempted from military service, and those who build cities and dig canals are not military service.

But such a system is the most suitable for Shudi, because the transportation in Shu is inconvenient, and transportation is difficult in many places. Transporting materials from places where transportation is very difficult, the loss is too great on the way; The government worked hard to be a wicked person, collected taxes for a handful of rice, and ate several buckets of freight on the way out, so why bother.

It is better to let the areas with inconvenient transportation not hand over grain to the central court and directly send people to serve as soldiers.

In Liu Bei's heart, the people in the Chengdu Plain, an area with convenient transportation and weak folk customs, should farm the land well, pay two or three more grain taxes or Shu brocade, make up for the shortage in the remote mountainous areas, and replace Chengdu people without having to be soldiers.

This order was quickly conveyed, and the efficiency of the collection of the remnants of the deserted soldiers and the liquidation of local law and order was indeed greatly improved, and after only two or three days, many rebels were confiscated and put back, and the number of deserters who came to re-register and return to their hometowns also increased significantly, and the cases of taking advantage of the chaos to loot the people dropped all at once.

Still, it would be nice to be able to get all the rebels back into place this winter. Because the battle took place in early October, Liu Yan's tax this year has also been collected, and Liu Bei will of course declare tax exemption, and even next year will be exempted for a year to stabilize the place.

On the fourth day after Mianzhu was besieged and the day after Chengdu was besieged (because Chengdu was farther away, it would take time for the troops to rush over to the siege), Pang Xi, the defender of Chengdu, secretly sent someone to contact Liu Bei and wanted to talk about the terms of surrender.

Of course, Liu Bei would not refuse to surrender, and generously summoned the envoy.

There were two envoys in total, the elder was a county official under the age of twenty, and Qianwei was a county man named Fei Shi.

The young man is only sixteen or seventeen years old, he doesn't seem to have entered the office, he looks like a roe deer, very short, which makes Liu Bei a little uncomfortable to look at, but after the other party reported to his family, Liu Bei learned that his brother was in Jiangzhou when he surrendered, his brother was Zhang Su, and his name was Zhang Song. Liu Bei saw that he was a relative of the person who took the initiative to surrender, so he endured the ugliness and talked to the other party with a pleasant face.

It is estimated that Pang Xi made Zhang Song, who had not yet become an official, his deputy envoy, just because his brother was already by Liu Bei's side, showing his sincerity.

"Chengdu County Cheng Fei Shi, see General Zhengxi!" Fei Shigong bowed respectfully and saluted, his posture was very humble, and then he raised his head, only to notice that Wu Yi was beside Liu Bei, who seemed to be dressed as a staff member, and couldn't help but cry out in surprise,

"Huh? It turns out that Brother Ziyuan is also there! That's easy to do, I dare to teach General Zhengxi to learn that Pang Fujun's sincerity in accepting surrender this time is related to Brother Ziyuan. ”

"What does this mean?" Wu Yi hurriedly cleared up, lest he be thought to have any friendship with the people in the enemy camp.

(Note: Gongju is the word of Fei Shi)

Fei Shi replied and clarified: "General, the reason why Liu Yan is still insisting on letting Pang Xi break through to Chengdu and protect Chengdu quickly is that he is reluctant to let Chengdu's part of the treasury money, grain, garrison soldiers and horses, on the other hand, in fact, ...... He was also angry at Wu Zhonglang's insults and open ruptures in front of the battle, which hurt the morale of the rebels.

So after returning to the city, Liu Yan was a little angry and wanted Pang Fujun to execute some ...... after returning to Chengdu. The execution of the families of some generals who surrendered earlier and took a more firm stance. He only learned a few days ago that Zhang Junjiao had taken the initiative to donate the city in Jiangzhou, and he wanted to kill his brother, that is, my deputy envoy, and his other family members in Chengdu.

In addition, Liu Yan also ordered the killing of Ziyuan's brother's family, and even ...... He even said that he would dispose of his sister at will. Pang Fujun knew that he was guilty of a serious crime, and he did not dare to act rashly, so he deliberately dedicated Ziyuan's sister to the general, and the general could ask the woman to verify that his body was still complete, and no one in the city of Chengdu dared to be rude...... Just ask the general to retain the original position of Pang Fujun and choose a remote county as the Taishou, and he will sacrifice Chengdu. Come on, bring Ziyuan's sister in. ”

Liu Bei slapped the table directly: "Be sympathetic to your subordinates and protect the families of the descendants, this benevolent person should be, but look at Pang Xi's words, and spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain!" He thinks I, Liu Bei, am a womanizer?! When Captain Wu entered Sichuan with his brother Bo Yaxian, he had a word in advance, and his niece was unpredictable, so he should be sent to the palace to eliminate the heart of the unsubordinate.

Pang Xi surrendered sincerely, and he could keep his rank of 2,000 stones, but he was not allowed to be a real county guard, at most he could only be an idle post for a long time! I can keep all the other people's property. But how could I, Liu Bei, accept other people's beauty and charm and give people official positions! ”

However, Liu Bei sprayed back, and the attendant next to him still brought Wu Yi's sister Wu Amaran in according to Fei Shi's last sentence.

Wu Amaranth was fourteen years old, and Pang Xi was afraid that he would offend Liu Bei by being rude, so he sent it in a lightly covered carriage. Liu Bei couldn't help but take a look, his appearance was really good.

Wu Yi secretly observed the expression of the lord, and hurriedly knelt down and asked: "Lord, this time and that time, when my uncle said that he would send his sister to Beijing, the lord had not yet been dusted, and Dong Zhuo had not yet stolen Dingsi. But now the court has fallen into decline, traitors steal their lives, and the young master is unknown.

It is the will of heaven for the sister to return to the lord, and I implore the lord to take it in! In the past, Liu Xin changed his name to Liu Xiu in response to the mandate of heaven, and was punished by heaven, but Emperor Guangwu's real name was Liu Xiu, so he should have the mandate of heaven. The lord is loyal to the court, comparable to Guangwu and loyal to the Han Dynasty, everything is in accordance with the heavens, not forcible taking, so why avoid it. ”

"You ......" Liu Bei raised his sleeves, "Although what you said has three points of truth, I have the right to read the kindness of your brother and sister, and I don't want to see my sister enter Dong Zhuo's mouth, so I don't want to send it to the capital." But Hugh will trap me in injustice! You take Sister Ling back to the house to raise her first, and think about it in the long run. Let's talk about Pang Xi's surrender first. ”

"Yes! Thank you to the lord for rescuing the sister-in-law, and the great grace is within five! Wu Yi knew that he would accept it if he saw it, and seeing that Liu Bei asked him to leave his sister behind, this matter could be delayed, so there was no hurry.

However, Wu Yi also knew that his sister had already spread the rumor that it was "unspeakably expensive", and the engaged Liu Mao died violently when she was still in her thirties, Liu Bei asked people to send her back to her parents' house, and others didn't dare to ask for it, Liu Bei could only raise an old girl if she didn't want it.