Jizhou has a large population and abundant products, and there are more than 900,000 registered households, which is more than Guanzhong and Yanzhou combined, so selling some grain is not a problem at all. Yuan Shao, who had a lot of money, happily agreed to Chen Cheng's request, and Chen Cheng was also very happy, and returned to Henan with the military households in Yanzhou.

Those military households were originally the life of a soldier to fight, but now that Cao Cao is kneeling, their fate may not necessarily be better, and most of them will be turned into tenants by the local Haoqiang. Now that Chen Cheng promised to give them the land in Luoyang, he naturally responded to the call, pushed the cart and followed behind the imperial army, and walked to the west.

Cao Cao implemented the "scholar family system" in Yanzhou, and nearly 100,000 families were turned into slaves. These military households have nothing, and their net worth and lives do not belong to them, and among the people who followed Chen Cheng to the west, they belonged to the most of these former military households. In addition, there were also some family members of Cao Jun's generals, who also went with them.

Yanzhou originally had a population of nearly 4 million, but now hundreds of thousands will have to go one after another. With so much population loss, the local heroes and scholars have been greatly angered. Population is wealth, population is strength, this is something that everyone knows. The general's move is undoubtedly weakening Yanzhou's strength!

Chen Gong met with many scholars in a row in just a few days, and there was only one problem: the imperial court could not be allowed to do this!

"Envoy Chen, the general's move is not in line with the words of the saint!"

"General, this is the remnants of the people!"

"The general competes with the people for profit!"

"The general said that he was giving people land in Sili, and those tenants ran away a lot!"

Chen Gong had been listening to these words from morning to night, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart, so he took hundreds of people to Chen Liu. In order to do a good job in the relocation of hundreds of thousands of people, Chen Cheng did not immediately withdraw from Yanzhou, but sent troops to garrison Chenliu, Fengqiu, Xingyang, Chenggao and other places, on the one hand, to escort the people to Henan and Chang'an, and on the other hand, to urge Hebei to send grain.

Yuan Shao was dealing with Gongsun Zan with all his heart, and he sent the food over very quickly. The first batch has 100,000 stones, although there are a lot of grains and aged rice in it, but aged rice can also fill the stomach, right? A bad taste is worse, and even worse than the bark and grass roots?

In addition to Hebei selling grain, Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yuzhou, Hanoi and other places also sent grain. Chen Cheng's record of eliminating Cao Cao in two days was too dazzling, and none of the princes wanted to be the next target of the imperial court, so they accelerated their speed, from the original procrastination to vigorous and resolute.

Chen Cheng didn't ask for their food for nothing, but bought it with real money and silver, and the princes could take the opportunity to make a fortune from it, so why not do it? The scholars in Jingzhou all have a lot of fields in their homes, and tenants help them cultivate them, and grain grows in the fields every year. They don't want real money, they directly exchange grain for woolen cloth and cotton cloth in Liangzhou, sell it, and make two copies of it at once, isn't it beautiful?

It's not just people in Jingzhou who do this, but also people in Yangzhou, Yuzhou, and even Hebei. After the expansion of Liangzhou's production capacity, the original market was somewhat saturated. The main reason is that the people of Liangzhou are too poor, and if they have a set of clothes, they will have to wear them for more than ten years, and they can be passed on as family heirlooms. Although Guanzhong is rich, it has only suffered a major earthquake and does not have much spending power.

Now, it means that the market has suddenly expanded several times, and the original production capacity is not enough to see. Many factories began to rotate again, and some people even discussed opening more factories in partnership. However, there are still several problems to be solved in opening a factory, one is the textile machine, the current textile machine can only be done by the manufacturing bureau of the imperial court, and the orders are scheduled for next year. It doesn't matter, you can't buy a machine even if you have money.

The second is raw materials, wool and cotton are needed for textiles, and these raw materials are held in the hands of Liangzhou Haoqiang, and it is difficult for Guanzhong people to insert into that small circle. Meng Tuo relied on the good relationship between his son Meng Da and the general, so he successfully invested in the newly built factory.

In addition to Meng Tuo, there are also Wang Zhong, Bao Chu, Su Ze, and Du Ji, all of whom are from Guanzhong who have been reused by the general, and soon, the threshold of these people's homes is about to be broken. I don't know how many people came to the door with the money, and there were even kneeling on the ground, begging their families to accept the money.

Even Meng Da and Fa Zheng, who were not in Guanzhong, had many people come to the door, saying that they wanted to introduce girls to them, and said that they were all beautiful and from famous families.

The textile industry in Liangzhou has been developing for two or three years, and later a number of textile factories have been built near Chang'an. Textile machinery has been upgraded on the basis of the original, the efficiency has become higher, and the cost has become lower. Everyone likes cheap and easy-to-use things, and after investing in Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Jizhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Xuzhou, they soon beat the local cloth to the ground.

If it weren't for the production capacity of Liangzhou and Guanzhong, I am afraid that the local cloth in various places would have no way to live.

At a time when the powerful people everywhere are making a lot of money in trading, those people who have moved their families to Sili and Guanzhong are in the midst of a migration in a race to death. Although Chen Cheng ordered the army to prepare along the way, build shacks, and stock up on firewood and food, many people still died on the way west.

The main people who died were the elderly and the infirm, and the military families were already very poor, and the men in their families had to serve in the military abroad, and half of their income had to be taken away by the government. Once you encounter a little wind chill, rain and the like on the road, it is easy to get sick and die.

It took a month for the military households in Yanzhou to roughly relocate to the Sili next door. Nearly 5,000 people died during the migration. Fortunately, when the grain from Hebei and other places arrived, Chen Cheng took out all the money from his small treasury, bought food, established dozens of temporary bases along the way, and transferred a lot of doctors, so that the number of deaths did not increase.

After arriving in Henan, these military households were organized into households and distributed to various places. The government distributed the land and title deeds to them, stating that the fields were not transferable, could not be bought or sold, and would be repossessed by the government if they were not cultivated within three years. There is nothing surprising about these policies, but they are just a direct transfer of the policies that have been implemented in Liangzhou for several years.

However, in the Central Plains, there has been no land distribution to the people for hundreds of years. Looking back, those days in Yanzhou before were simply dark. Although these people still live in shacks, and they have to go to the government every month with their household registration to get some potatoes and corn, as long as there is hope, human beings will always burst out with unparalleled enthusiasm.

When Chen Cheng stayed in Sili and was busy moving the people of Yanzhou, he did not forget to promote the soldiers under his command. Among the soldiers who accompanied the expedition, there were more than ten generals who were named marquis, and there were countless people who were promoted to military ranks. Among them, Lu Bu was named Wen Hou, Guan Yu was named Shouting Marquis, Zhang Fei was named Huan Hou, and so on.

After the imperial court was busy moving the people of Yanzhou to Sili and Guanzhong, Yuan Shao finally put his mind at ease. He was not afraid of Chen Cheng's tossing, he was afraid that Chen Cheng would have nothing to do. The imperial court now has more than 100,000 elite soldiers in its hands, drawing their swords and looking around, staring at each other, if they have nothing to do, it will be terrible.

The high-ranking cadres of Qingzhou and Yuan Tan of Yuzhou have also relaxed their vigilance because of this, and they are no longer as soldiers as before. If it really starts, they are not afraid, but now is the critical time for Yuan Shao to seize the hegemony in the north, and it is of course the best if he can not make extraneous branches. The tens of thousands of conscripted troops can also be disbanded and returned home first, and there is no need to spend money and food to feed them.

After the autumn, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court gradually withdrew from Yanzhou, and Yuan Shao, Yuan Tan, Gao Gan and others were even more relieved. Chen Gong and Zhang Miao and others in Yanzhou also rejoiced because of this, when Chen Cheng was stationed in Yanzhou with soldiers and horses, they always felt like a thorn in their backs, and they had to be afraid of everything.

Now, when all the horses of the imperial court are withdrawn, this Yanzhou is finally the world of righteous men and gentlemen again!

Hearing that Chen Cheng was going to return to Chang'an with his troops, Liu Bei specially rushed over from Xuzhou. This time, he not only brought Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Chen Zhi and other generals, but also Chen Qi, Chen Deng and his son, as well as Jian Yong, Sun Qian and other ministers.

According to the Han system, the governor of the prefecture and county could not leave the jurisdiction without an edict. But now this system has long existed in name only, Liu Bei didn't take this system to heart, and Chen Cheng is the same. At the banquet of Yangxing, Chen Cheng met Chen Deng and Chen Yuanlong, who were praised by Liu Bei as "heroic" for the first time.

Because he had done his best to help Liu Bei resist Cao Cao, Chen Qi's father and son were both named the Marquis of Guannei because of this. When Chen Cheng saw them, he smiled and said, "I don't want three marquis of the Chen family to gather here today!" ”

Chen Qi, Chen Deng stepped forward to thank him, and said: "The Cao army is tyrannical, if it weren't for the general to lead the troops to help, Xuzhou would almost not be protected!" Please wait for me, the general! ”

Chen Cheng helped the two of them up and said with a smile: "When I was in Chang'an, I heard of the names of the two. Although Cao Cao was defeated, he rose again in Yuzhou Yuan Tan, and there may be incidents in the future. In the future, Brother Liu Bei will guard Xuzhou, and he will rely on your assistance from the side! ”

"Serve the country, as it should be!"

Chen Deng saw that although Chen Cheng was exaggerated, he spoke kindly, so he said: "Chang'an is a long way to go after all, and now that the general has pacified Yanzhou, why not return to Luoyang by the Son of Heaven?" Although Xuzhou has experienced war, there are still 400,000 households, plus Yanzhou, there are enough people of six or seven million, is it far better than Guanzhong and Liangzhou? If you can have this place, the world is not enough! ”

Chen Cheng saw Chen Deng's high-spirited and heroic appearance, he liked it very much, and said with a smile: "Yuanlong is heroic, it is really far better than others!" It's just that Luoyang is dilapidated, and the palace has not been repaired, so it is not enough for the residence of the Son of Heaven, and this matter will be discussed later. ”