Yuan Shang is only nineteen years old, but he already understands a lot of things. When a person is killed, he will die, and this truth was understood when his eldest brother Yuan Tan was killed. Even if it is Yuan Shao's son, if he is killed, he will also die. It's terrible, he's only nineteen, and he doesn't want to die so soon.

But Yuan Shao now has only one city left, and he still refuses to surrender and admit defeat, so he has to drag everyone to die together, what can he do?

Yuan Shang knelt on the futon and said with a long sigh: "Father is too stubborn and doesn't know the truth of surrendering and losing half. If you surrender early, you can keep your wealth, and if you surrender now, you can save your life. Wait a few more days, our Yuan family will really die cleanly. ”

He asked Shi A, who had a flat expression, "Master, do you have a way to take us out?" ”

Shi Ah nodded and said, "This is not difficult, you can leave tonight." ”

Yuan Shang showed joy on his face and said, "I know that with Master's skills, it is easy to do these things. ”

Shi Adao: "It's not difficult to escape, but has Childe ever thought about how to stand up in the future?" ”

Yuan Shang was stunned and asked, "What does Master mean by this?" ”

"Yuan Gong seems to be planning to defend to the death, and the Yuan family will definitely be liquidated after the war. Although the world is big, where can the son flee to? The general is powerful in the world, and with just a piece of paper, people can take the head of the son. ”

"Huh?" Yuan Shang touched his neck and said with a wry smile: "The first level on this item, I still want to stay for a few more days." Does Master have any ideas? But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”

Shi Ah lowered his eyes and fell silent. Yuan Shang was stunned for a moment, and said to the left and right: "You all go down first." ”

After waiting for the people on the side to retreat, Yuan Shang said again, "There is no one now, Master, please speak." ”

Shi A opened his eyes and said, "The general has always rewarded those who have merit, and punished those who have transgressed. If the prince can make some contributions to the general, he will definitely be able to keep his wealth in the future. ”

"Meritorious service to the Great General?" Yuan Shang frowned, "How can I be there for the Great General......... Are you telling me to surrender? ”

Shi A's eyes drooped again, "If the son is unwilling, we can leave tonight, and find a place to hide incognito in the future, and we may not be able to spend the rest of our lives in peace." Whether it is North Korea or Jiaozhou, it is beyond the reach of the general's power. As long as Childe is not recognized, then it should be fine. ”

Yuan Shang's complexion changed several times, then he gritted his teeth and said, "How can it be possible not to be recognized for the rest of your life?" Let's open the gates and surrender! Will Master be able to contact the General? ”

Shi A said lightly: "It's not difficult. ”

The next night, Yuan Shao was sleeping peacefully in the dormitory, when someone suddenly broke in, "Lord, something is wrong!" ”

Yuan Shao grabbed the sword and sat up from the bed, and asked, "What's wrong?" Why is it so noisy outside? ”

The visitor said in a hurry: "The prince has opened the city gate and led the imperial army into the city!" ”

"Nonsense!" Yuan Shao shouted, "How is this possible? ”

"It's true! The enemy is already coming, the lord is breaking through with me! ”

"Breakout?" Yuan Shao said miserably: "Where else can you break through?" I heard that Cao Mengde set a fire and burned himself to ashes. Anyway, I'll follow in his footsteps. Come on, sprinkle this place with fire oil! ”

The flames soon burned, and Yuan Shao sat on the ground with his sword beside him. He drank several sips of wine in a row, and the sadness in his heart was incomprehensible. As he drank and drank, he remembered a lot of things. When I was in Luoyang, I drank with three or five friends, which was really a joy in the world. Later, he repelled Zhang Yan and Gongsun Zhan, pacified Hebei, and his prestige reached its peak.

But now Chun Yuqiong and Cao Cao are dead, and they are about to die, the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan back then, died cleanly, and in the future, in this world, he will really be a thief.

Hateful, hateful! I'm just unwilling!

Yuan Shao staggered to his feet and roared: "I miss my Runan Yuan family, the fourth and third dukes, and the protégés and former officials all over the world, how could I end up like this?" Chen thief, Chen thief, I can't die with you! ”

The flames rolled over, and Yuan Shao's horizontal sword swept around his neck. In the blood splatter, the body fell to the ground. At the last moment of his life, Yuan Benchu remembered something that was not very related: Cao A was used to trickery, and he might not really die.....

After the gates of Yecheng were opened, the imperial army swarmed in. The other gates and walls were quickly lost, and armies from all walks of life rushed into the city. Zhang Yan, Gongsun Zhan, Zang Ba and others had poor military discipline and uneven military discipline, and after rushing in, they began to loot on a large scale.

Especially the soldiers and horses of Zhang Yanbu, they and Yuan Shao formed a blood feud. The grudge between the two sides cannot be washed away even if the water of the three rivers is poured out. While others were robbing and committing adultery, Zhang Yanjun rushed straight to the mansions of Yuan's generals and civil ministers, and killed the civil and military officials under Yuan Shao and their families.

The only pity is that Yuan Shao has already set himself on fire, which makes Zhang Yanjun's soldiers feel that they are not enough to relieve their hatred. According to their ideas, they wanted to tie up Yuan Shao and cut off the flesh on his body with a knife. Now this way of dying is really cheap for him!

In order to vent and take revenge, the people left in the city by the Yuan family were also killed. Even the family members of Yuan Shang, who had surrendered, were slaughtered, just like Yuan Shaojun did to the Montenegrin army a few years ago. Feng Shui takes turns, the Yuan army killed people back then, and now the Montenegrin army also kills people, no one is better than the other.

However, Chen Cheng could not let the massacre continue, and after the situation in the city showed signs of getting out of control, he immediately asked Zhao Si and Wei Ran to take the tooth soldiers to the streets to suppress them. After cutting off more than a hundred heads in one go, the situation gradually improved.

Yecheng fell, Yuan Shao set himself on fire and died, and the Yuan group, which once dominated Hebei, was wiped out. But this piece of fat in Hebei is what many people want. Because of the rapid progress of the war, Hebei's vitality has not been damaged, and now there are more than 5 million people, no matter who can get these people and land, they can become the most powerful princes in the world.

If there were no generals, it should be so.

How could Chen Cheng give this piece of fat from Hebei to others? The princes who have made meritorious contributions can give gold and silver cloth, and can give official titles, but it is absolutely impossible to divide the land and population of Hebei to them. On the fourth day after the war, Chen Cheng had already ordered Zhao Yun to be reappointed as the pastor of Jizhou, and to merge the state pastor with Yan Xing, and added Zang Ba as the assassin of Qingzhou, and ordered the army of the princes to return to their respective territories.

The princes were naturally a little dissatisfied with such an order, but the soldiers below were very happy, and after they entered Hebei, they grabbed a lot of property, and it was when they wanted to go home and live happily for a few days. When they heard that they could go home, the soldiers were very happy.

After leaving Zhao Yun to defend Hebei, Chen Cheng crossed the Yellow River south with his army and stopped at Luoyang. After two years of recuperation, Henan and Hongnong have recovered a lot, but the population is still only half of what it was before the war. Many fields are still in a barren state.

After ten days in Luoyang, Chen Cheng announced that all the barren and uncultivated fields would be owned by the General's Mansion, and gave them to the tooth soldiers and the soldiers who had come to fight with them from Xiliang and Guanzhong. Everyone knows the general's style of doing things that must be rewarded for meritorious service, but taking out three million acres of land as a reward at one time still stunned everyone.

And most of these fields have owners, although people don't cultivate them now, but they can't just swallow them, right? Many people were immediately filled with righteous indignation, and many scholars and officials joined each other and wrote letters one after another, hoping that the general would retract his order and not compete with the people for profit.

After hearing the voice of the people, Chen Cheng was as good as a stream, and within a few days he promulgated a new law, announcing that "as long as the land has not been cultivated for three years, it will be nationalized", and at the same time emphasized the previous land law, "Anyone, as long as he has no land, can apply to the state for 30 acres of land free of charge."

Having just defeated Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Chen Cheng's prestige reached a new peak, and he took advantage of this opportunity, of course, to carry out drastic reforms internally. The imperial court also moved back to Luoyang from Chang'an, and officials from the three provinces and six ministries moved to Luoyang one after another.

However, this may not be rigorous, because the Son of Heaven was still left in Chang'an, and only the Empress Dowager He returned to Luoyang with the rest of the princesses. The general said that the palace in Luoyang has not been repaired yet, and it is not enough for the residence of the Son of Heaven. As for when will the palace in Luoyang be repaired?

It will probably take five or six years to complete the fields first, then dig ditches, clean rivers, repair city walls, and then build roads, granaries, post stations, etc., and then complete these supporting facilities before the next step can be carried out, right?

During this period, the Son of Heaven was relieved to live in Chang'an.

The political and military center was moved back to Luoyang, mainly to control Hebei and the Central Plains nearby. Hebei alone, the population is so much about Zhonghe and Liangzhou combined. If you add Yanzhou and Yuzhou, it will be several times that of Guanzhong. With such a huge power, it must be firmly grasped in the hands.

Subsequently, Yan Zhong, Xu Chao, Zhao Yun, Xu Rong, Lu Fang, Yan Xing, and other civil and military officials wrote together, asking the Son of Heaven to order the canonization of the general as the Duke of Wei on the grounds of the general's high merits. Yan Zhong wanted to give Chen Cheng the name of Liangguo Gong, but this name sounded like a grass platform team, so he had to give up.

Those people in Guanzhong, such as Meng Tuo and others, wanted to give Chen Cheng the title of Duke of Qin, but in this way, those civil and military generals in Xiliang stopped doing it again. We can't take advantage of it, and we can't let the people in Guanzhong benefit, right? Chen Cheng claimed to be from Wei County, so it would be better to simply be named the Duke of Wei

After the Son of Heaven issued an edict, he usually had to resign once or twice to show that he was very humble. But how could Chen Cheng learn those styles? After he received the edict, he said to everyone: "Originally, I just wanted to find a place to take refuge in Liangzhou. But everyone elected me to be the pastor of Liangzhou, and I said at that time, it's not that I'm modest, so let's ask for another high-mindedness. But Cheng Yi and Yang Qiu said that everyone had already decided that it was me. So I recited two lines of poetry, and then became a pastor of Liangzhou.

Later, I became a general, and now I want to be the Duke of Wei. I didn't want to be either. But since everyone is so enthusiastic, then I will try it reluctantly, if not, let's choose another meritorious. When I was a pastor in Liangzhou, I recited two lines of poetry, and this time I will also recite two sentences. ”

Chen Cheng looked at the people who were either stunned or used to it, and a mysterious smile appeared on his face, "*******, don't you avoid it because of good fortune and misfortune!" ”