Cao Xuan retreated extremely quickly.

One has to suspect that he had been preparing to retreat a long time ago. As soon as the news of the loss of the Tiger Pass came out, in just three days, Cao Xuan led the army stationed in Luoyang and withdrew into the Tongguan Pass. Before that, a large amount of materials and money had been continuously transported to Chang'an.

During the period of time when Cao Xuan was stationed in Luoyang, he did not manage the defense of Luoyang, and he knew very well that if the tiger prison could not be guarded, Luoyang would not be able to defend it no matter how much he allowed it. Therefore, after he was stationed in Luoyang, he only did one thing, looting money and materials.

In the last few days, Cao Xuan completely tore off his mask, and the army was dispatched, regardless of whether you were a rich family or a common man, the family's assets were almost swept away. As long as I could take it, I took it all.

As the first cavalry general of the Tang Army to arrive outside Luoyang City, Xiao Worm saw not a heavily guarded defense, but an open Luoyang City Gate, and there was not a single Liang soldier in his sight.

This made the cavalry of the Tang Army look at each other. However, after a moment of hesitation, the little worm, who had always been bold, left half of the cavalry on guard outside, and he took the other half and entered Luoyang along the wide open city gate.

After many years, the banner of Datang was once again planted on the gate tower of Luoyang.

The spacious bluestone street was a mess, and there was no trace of human activity at all, and the sound of horses' hooves hitting the bluestone slab echoed in the ears, making the little worm feel like he was in a ghost domain.

A dog probed his head at the corner of the street corner and glanced at the worm and the others, and when he saw the worm's gaze sweeping over, he ran away with his tail between his legs and after a wail, which made the worm stunned for a while.

When he reached the intersection, he saw the closed door, and the worm motioned for one of his men to knock on the door.

There was a knock on the door, and you could hear the whispering commotion and suppressed panting sound inside, but no one came to open the door. The little insect was a little impatient, so he stepped forward, pulled out the saber on his waist, thrust into the crack of the door, and pressed it down hard, the sharp saber cut off the door bolt, and the door suddenly opened in front of the insect's eyes.

Seeing the situation inside, the little worm was startled and couldn't help but take a few steps back.

The streets inside the square are the opposite of the main streets outside. Inside, it was densely packed with people. The old, the young, the male and the female, when they saw the little worm and the other cavalry, just looked up at them numbly, and then lowered their heads lifelessly.

"Where is Fangzheng?" Xiao Worm shouted: "We are the vanguard of the Tang Dynasty's Right Weiwei, and the Pseudo-Liang army has been defeated by us. ”

After shouting and asking several times, a man in his early forties swayed and stood up, and saluted with crossed hands: "This military master, Fang Zheng is already dead, a few days ago the Liang army looted, Fang Zheng prevented them from looting the food and property of the Fang people, and was hacked to death by the Liang army on the spot." ”

"You are?" The worm turned over and dismounted, and walked to someone.

"I used to do some chores with the fang." The man is weak and authentic.

The worm raised his eyebrows, "Very good, from now on, you are the Fang Zheng here." Tell me more about this situation. ”

"Master Jun, we've been hungry for days, and we really don't have the strength."

The worm turned around, took off the food carried by the war horse, and ordered all the cavalry to take out all the dry food they carried, and then sent a summons to order all the cavalry outside the city to enter the city, gather the dry food carried by the more than 1,000 cavalrymen, and then give it to the newly appointed Fang Zheng.

In this workshop, more than 10,000 people gathered, although the dry food is not much, but it is enough to make people live.

Half an hour later, the worm finally figured out what kind of situation Luoyang was in now.

Several sentinels galloped out of the city and hurried in the direction of Tiger Pass.

Two days later, Pei Ju arrived first with a large amount of grain and grass.

Luoyang has been out of food for nearly ten days.

The top priority at the moment is to restore the normal order of life in Luoyang.

As for production, take your time! It only makes sense to let the people of the city survive first.

It wasn't until ten days later that Li Ze officially arrived in Luoyang.

At this time, Luoyang City finally got a little angry.

As the long history of Luoyang City, he was a well-known figure in Luoyang City, and his arrival was somewhat of a peace of mind for the people in Luoyang City, and under his organization, order in Luoyang City began to be restored little by little.

One by one, the yamen began to be re-established, and the people in charge were basically soldiers who were temporarily seconded by Pei Ju, but it was better to do things neatly, not dragging the mud and water, and then recruit a group of locals to join in, in the name of Pei Ju, this is still very easy to do.

With the steward and the leader, although the affairs were difficult, they finally slowly kicked off.

Walking on the extremely cold street, Li Ze was not only full of emotion, when he and Liu Ruyan went to Chang'an together, they had been in Luoyang for a few days, and Luoyang at that time was so prosperous!

As the commercial center of the entire north, Mo said that it was Liu Ruyan at that time, and it was him, and he also felt that he could not be seen. On the main street, the flow of people is blazing, all kinds of signboards and banners are dazzling, the beauties of the Western Regions who dance and sell wine, and the Jianghu ronin who beat gongs and drums to sell their arts, all show the prosperity and prosperity here to the people who have just arrived in Luoyang.

It's only been a few years, and it's become like this.

"Li Xiang, the palace city has been trampled upon, and his subordinates have cleaned up the Fuwang Mansion for you to live in temporarily." Pei Ju, who was accompanying Li Ze, said in a low voice.

"Let's live in the Fu Wang's Mansion!" Li Ze nodded.

King Fu, a big fat man, can be regarded as a rare capable talent among the princes of the Li Tang clan, and when he came to Luoyang, he was really good to himself. In the end, he was worthy of his clan's identity, and on the day Luoyang City was broken, he was martyred.

In Li Ze's view, the death of Fuwang Li Xin can be regarded as the last bit of blood in the Li Tang clan.

Similar to other places in Luoyang City, the things that can be moved in the Fuwang Mansion have been moved, and the remaining ones that cannot be moved have also been smashed to pieces. The entire Fuwang Mansion seemed empty.

"Cao Xuan, a dog thief, has made Luoyang City like this." Pei Ju said hatefully.

"He didn't burn Luoyang City, I still have to credit him!" Li Ze's focus is a little different from Pei Ju's, "If he really did it at that time, we wouldn't have had time to stop it." If that's the case, you're in even more trouble now. What is missing? ”

"Li Xiang, there is nothing missing!" Pei Ju sighed: "But the most important thing is food." ”

Li Ze nodded: "It will last a few days, and Liu Chenglin's department, which is resting in Bianzhou, will come over soon, they will carry a large amount of grain with the army, and the supply and marketing cooperative has also organized a large number of caravans and goods, which will also arrive in Luoyang in the next few days." When the time comes, your life will be better. They walked through the canal, and it would take three days at most! ”

"Great." Hearing the news, Pei Ju couldn't help but rejoice, and with the goods and food in his hands, he couldn't help but feel more confident.

"How's the population count going?"

"The city has been roughly counted, there are more than 100,000 people left, these days, some of those who fled outside the city, after hearing the news that Luoyang has stabilized, they have also begun to return one after another, and it is estimated that there will be about 150,000 in the end!" Pei Judao.

Li Ze sighed and shook his head, when Luoyang was at its peak, the long-term resident population plus the floating population was almost one million, which was almost comparable to Chang'an, but after these years of war, the population had decreased by seven or eight tenths, which made people have to sigh. I don't know when Luoyang will be able to return to its former prosperity?

"You go and do your business, don't follow me, I know that every moment of you is precious now." Seeing that Li Peng and his people had completely taken over the entire Fuwang Mansion, Li Ze waved his hand and motioned for Pei Ju to go and busy with himself.

For the rectification of the chaos after the war, the Tang army has already accumulated rich experience. When all the people were reorganized, everything unfolded in an orderly manner.

Under the organization of the government, everyone moved, cleaned the streets, dug ditches, rested houses, everyone was assigned work, and after the day's ration, they would receive a voucher from the government, and then take this voucher to the corresponding place to receive a certain amount of food, vegetables, etc. Such things as soup porridge, the Tang people generally do not do, they believe in using their own labor in exchange for a certain amount of payment, the object of soup porridge, will only be those who are completely incapable of working, but as long as you still have a pair of hands that can work, then you have to rely on these hands to earn your own food.

The government doesn't raise lazy people!

This is the creed that Li Ze has always instilled in his officials.

The role of the government is to find work for everyone and give everyone the opportunity to make money.

Therefore, when the city was almost cleaned and renovated, the people in Luoyang City, under the leadership of the government, began to go out of the city to build roads and dig ditches. Although it is very hard, after every day of hard work, you can receive real food, but it makes everyone's hearts extremely steady.

Especially when they saw truckloads of grain and boatloads of various material resources entering Luoyang City, their hearts were even more determined.

Isn't it just selling labor? For these people, they were born to live on this. Strength is a slave, and when you use it, you come again. As more and more troops and merchants gathered in Luoyang, the people of Luoyang had more and more work to earn a living. Sewing and washing soldiers' clothes, being recruited by merchants as men, etc. And the government no longer gave them food and vegetables as compensation, but instead gave them money.