"Obey the order, there is enough porridge here, take your time! Come to receive the porridge according to the brand issued by the government department. On the post road from Xiangyang to Jiangling, Chen Mo sent a lot of people to set up temporary post stations along the way to distribute porridge to the rescued people, Chen Mo had the experience of being displaced, so Chen Mo still has some experience on how to resettle the people.

In order to avoid speculation, there are special soldiers in each post station, responsible for maintaining order at the same time, but also to let the people return to their hometowns as soon as possible, don't deliberately slow down the trip for a few bowls of porridge.

Fortunately, Chen Mo brought enough soldiers and horses, and there was a lot of grain and grass, and the warehouse in Xiangyang City was also captured by Chen Mo, otherwise, it would not be easy for these hundreds of thousands of displaced people to be resettled.

But in this way, the speed of travel is undoubtedly slowed down, but it doesn't matter, although Zhuge Liang's hand is disgusting, but Chen Mo's best thing is to find favorable conditions from disadvantages, this time the return of the displaced people can quickly help Chen Mo, help the Ming army establish prestige among the people in Jingzhou, and handle it properly, Liu Bei's roots in Jingzhou are equivalent to being dug up by Chen Mo.

You must know that Liu Bei has always spared no effort to publicize how vicious and domineering the Ming army was in Jingzhou, but now Liu Beijun, who is known as benevolence and righteousness, is coercing the people and treating the people as a tool to block the Ming army from going south, and Chen Mo, who is like a demon who is preached, gave up pursuing Zhuge Liang at this time, but is seriously relieving the people.

Rumors and public opinion are not played once or twice in Chen Mo's hands, although Zhuge Liang's move made him temporarily safe? But it also gave Chen Mo a chance to take root in Jingzhou? Between the gains and losses, it is not necessarily who gets the most benefits in the end.

Chen Mo was born in the field since he was a child? Is it the clearest idea of the people? In these years, if you can't live? Who wants to leave their homeland? Do you want to say that so many people are grateful for Liu Bei's benevolence and righteousness and voluntarily follow? Just talk to ordinary people? Tell Chen Mo, let's take a look at these people who don't need to be driven away, and spontaneously run back after being coerced by the Jingzhou army, Chen Mo didn't have any compulsion to rob people back? He just ordered the troops to do their best to hit the Jingzhou army? The Jingzhou army that was holding the people hostage was defeated.

"It was originally the season of spring ploughing, and how much fertile land was wasted with such a large-scale relocation?" Chen Mo sat on horseback, looking at the group of displaced people from south to north, with no end in sight? Shaking his head and sighing: "I heard that Liu Bei has paid extremely high taxes because of the annual conscription over the years? Now after this calamity, come back now? Even if you make up the crops, this year's harvest won't be too good? Send someone to inform the public? Nanjun is now exempt from taxes for all the common people except the gentry. ”

"Whoa!" Next to Chen Mo? Zhang He promised to arrange it immediately.

"Your Majesty, can the gentry agree to do this?" Dian Wei on the side said curiously.

"I didn't raise taxes either, and I just looked at how much the gentry occupied in this Jingxiang land." Chen Mo said with a smile: "And the tax exemption of the people, the gentry may have grievances in their hearts, but if they are reduced at the same time, many families will still not survive, and the gentry will take this opportunity to annex land to the people, Zhuge Liang's move is actually a good thing for the gentry, they can take the opportunity to merge, but now that there is this tax exemption policy, the gentry may find an opportunity to avoid taxes." ”

"How to avoid it?" Dian Wei asked curiously.

Chen Mo looked at him, shook his head with a smile and said: "There are some things that don't work if you say it, and I also point to taking this opportunity to redivide the land in Jingxiang, and you can get the land into the hands of the government office without forcibly seizing it, so the confrontation between the gentry and the people must be established." ”

Dian Wei scratched his head puzzled, he didn't understand much about what Chen Mo said, but he knew that whenever Chen Mo laughed like this, someone would definitely be unlucky.

"Okay, let's go to the front line, Jiangling may be the last battle in Jingzhou." Chen Mo urged Ma Er, although Liu Bei has been vigorously developing in Jingnan, but if he wants to develop these places, it is not possible to do it in a few years, even if Liu Bei is given twenty years, it is impossible to develop Jingnan to the same level as Nanjun, and the four counties of Jingnan together cannot be compared.

"喏~"

……

On the other side, Zhuge Liang stopped in the Dangyang area, and the news from the rear made Zhuge Liang have mixed feelings in his heart, Chen Mo was not in a hurry to catch up, which naturally was a good thing, which meant that Zhuge Liang's strategy was successful, but he was not happy.

Because of Chen Mo's approach, Zhuge Liang felt a little uncomfortable and ashamed inexplicably, after all, Liu Bei has been sparing no effort to release the legend of Chen Mo's domineering, ruthless, and careless disregard for people's lives to the people, and how the people under Chen Mo are in dire straits, so as to establish a sense of rejection of Chen Mo in the hearts of the people.

In these years, the power of rumors is still very great, especially most people may have been between a few acres of land all their lives, and most of their knowledge of the outside world is obtained from the government office, so how is life under Chen Mo's rule, after a long time, it is naturally as expected by the Jingzhou government office, I feel that the people under Chen Mo's rule are hot and hot, and the people are not happy.

But rumors are rumors, and when you really experience it, all the rumors will be vulnerable in front of the facts, the most stark contrast is the tax, because of Chen Mo's large-scale implementation of the military tun, so most places have been restored to the point of ten taxes and one, obviously Chen Mo is rarely in charge, but under the rule of King Ming, the officials are Qingming, these are all things that Liu Bei can't provide today.

It's not that I don't want to, but I want to fight Chen Mo with the strength of one state, and if I don't raise taxes, it is impossible to raise an army of 100,000 in a few years.

Now, with this retreat to the south to defend Jiangling, the hearts of the people who have worked hard for several years before, although at this moment have temporarily slowed down Chen Mo's marching speed, it has also exposed the lies he and they created.

No, from the overall situation, the Jingzhou army has now been defeated, and the loss of people's hearts and minds this time is just to make this defeat more complete.

Alas~

Lord, Liang has done his best!

Looking at the people moving slowly in the distance, crying could be heard from time to time, Zhuge Liang silently closed his eyes, he didn't expect that he would go out of the mountain, but in the end it would be such an ending, maybe he shouldn't be greedy for Nanyang back then, but he should have directly attacked Bashu at that time, maybe it wasn't like this now.

Now in the face of Chen Mo's brilliant trend, Zhuge Liang gave birth to an indescribable sense of powerlessness for the first time, this opponent is too strong, and he is cautious enough, regardless of temporary gains and losses, whether it is personality or ability, Chen Mo is almost perfect.

It is a blessing and a misfortune to be able to be an opponent with such an enemy.

"Boom~"

A slight roar suddenly appeared in the distance, Zhuge Liang frowned, this voice was too familiar to him, it was the cavalry of the Ming army.

When Zhang Fei heard the sound, he directly turned over and got on his horse, and shouted to a few people around him: "Wait until you escort the military division back to Jiangling, I will meet them!" ”

"Yide, watch out!" Zhuge Liang said.

Although Zhang Fei is brave, but the Ming army is not bad, any Ming army encountered these days, its combat power is above the Jingzhou army, even if it is Zhang Fei, he does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to win under the same number, not to mention that this time he is facing the elite cavalry of the Ming army.

"Don't worry, before my brother breaks Shuzhong, I won't die, and I still want to see the day when my brother recovers the Central Plains." Zhang Fei agreed, slapped his horse, and galloped towards the direction of the cavalry with a troop of troops.

After running for a while, in the distance, you can already see a huge cavalry formation surging towards this side with the momentum of wind and thunder, like the dark waves of hell, surging towards this side with the power of crushing everything.

Zhang Fei quickly occupied one of the narrowest mountain passages, and roared angrily: "Line up to meet the enemy!" ”

The 3,000 foot soldiers quickly formed a tight formation between this narrow valley, which was also an effective measure for the infantry to resist the cavalry, and through the dense formation, the cavalry momentum was blocked.

Ma Chao galloped with three thousand cavalry, and saw the Jingzhou army stopped at the mouth of the valley from a distance, his eyes flashed, faintly with a little excitement, raised the spear in his hand, and said loudly: "Throw the gun!" ”

"Bow and arrow!" Zhang Fei raised the snake spear and roared.

The speed of the Xiliang cavalry did not slow down in the slightest, and at the same time, the knight took off the spear from his horse, and at the moment when he approached the opponent's military formation, it was Zhang Fei's side that fired arrows towards the cavalry formation first.

Puff puff~

Under the dense rain of arrows, some people fell to the ground, but more people continued to rush forward, followed closely, and one by one the spears swept into the air and fell towards Zhang Fei.

"Raise your shield!" Zhang Fei roared angrily, and the snake spear in his hand struck away, pushing away all the throwing guns that shot at him, but behind him, many people were nailed to the ground by the throwing guns that broke through the air.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao burst into cheers almost at the same time, and the cavalry slammed into the defense line of the Jingzhou army, the cold spear pierced the war horse and pierced the knight, but the impact brought by the war horse directly knocked the soldiers in the front row away, like a war hammer hammering into the formation.

And then it's a close fight.

Why is cavalry called cavalry? Ordinary farmers or lightly trained soldiers ride on horseback, that is not called cavalry, each cavalry itself is the elite of the army, on the horse, dismounted is also the elite, the Jingzhou army is obviously not up to the elite standard of the Ming army, even if it blocks the momentum of the cavalry, in front of these Xiliang iron cavalry, they are still a group of rabble.

Zhang Fei roared and waved the snake spear, bringing a gust of strange wind, killing more than a dozen cavalrymen in a row, but it also attracted Ma Chao's attention, I didn't expect that there was such a figure in the Jingzhou army, Ma Chao was overjoyed, and ordered the deputy to continue to lead the troops back and forth to impact the Jingzhou army, and he rode his horse in the direction of Zhang Fei, before the person arrived, the arrogant voice had already sounded: "Ring-eyed thief, dare to fight with me!?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Fei smashed a cavalryman away with a spear, turned his head to look at it when he heard the sound, his eyes were fierce, are the young people now so arrogant?