Seeing Zeng Yu appear, led by Sun Hao, everyone who stayed in Anping County stepped forward to greet him. After Zeng Yu saw Sun Hao and others, he also got off his horse and set foot on the land of Anping County.

"Big brother, I've worked hard for you this time!" After approaching, everyone first saluted Zeng Yu, and then Sun Hao said with emotion.

"Haha, it's the hard work of the soldiers, but I'm nothing. On the contrary, it is you who not only have to pacify the peaceful people, but also receive and arrange for the prisoners of war to be sent back, although you did not participate in the battle, but you also contributed a lot. Zeng Yu said.

"Thank you, Lord!" Everyone said in unison.

"Lord, please enter the city first, we have prepared a dinner party for everyone to wash the dust." Liu Neng stepped forward and proposed.

"Yachuan is right, big brother, you have been on the road continuously, and you are tired now, and now that you are on your own territory, you should celebrate well, and we all want to hear about this battle." Sun Hao echoed.

Everyone walked to the city gate, and the people on the edge of the city saw this scene, and stepped forward to stuff the basket in their hands to Zeng Yu and the soldiers behind him, of course, they also looked at the bearded man in the prisoner car with a curious face.

Sun Hao had already issued a notice in the city before, telling everyone that Qu Shuai, the yellow turban thief who had invaded the Shangdang, had been captured by their county order, so the people were not surprised by the existence of the prisoner car, but they all looked at the left bearded man in the prisoner car with curiosity and pride.

It is said that after Zeng Yu and they entered the city, they went directly to the county office, and Zeng Yu asked people to escort Zuo Zhangbaxian to the cell in the county office, and they themselves naturally went to hold a reception banquet.

However, because Zeng Yu and they had been on the road for a few days, the reception banquet did not take too long to end. But everyone did not disperse, but just withdrew the wine and food, because Zeng Yu just mentioned that he planned to continue to set off at noon tomorrow.

According to intelligence speculation, the Yellow Turban Army seems to be powerful at present, but the so-called one blow, then decline, and three exhaustions. I think a month ago, when the incident first started, many county officials fled from the wind, so all of a sudden, the entire thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, except for Jiaozhou, Liangzhou and other remote states, almost one-third of the territory in other places fell into the hands of the Yellow Turban Army at once.

But now in the county town that is still in the hands of the government, the Yellow Turban Army's attack has met resistance, and the Yellow Turban Army has not established its own basic plate at all, they do not have a complete logistics system, almost all rely on looting the county town to maintain the next offensive, once their offensive is constantly blocked, not to mention others, grain and grass is their biggest pressure.

So Zeng Yu is also in a hurry now, he has now applied for one of the thirty-six square commanders of the Yellow Turban Army, which is equivalent to holding a good card in his hand, but if this card cannot be played first, then its effect will be greatly reduced.

"Zijin, during this period of time, the situation in our Anping County is okay, have the people been affected by anything?" After leaving for a month, as the county magistrate of this county, the first thing Zeng Yu did when he came back was, of course, to understand the current situation in Anping.

"Big brother, although the Yellow Turbans have invaded our Shangdang County, our Anping County has not been affected, and the prisoners sent back before have also been settled." Sun Hao replied.

"My lord, because of the war recently, the actions of merchants in various places have been blocked, especially in Youzhou and Jizhou, and almost all merchants have not been able to come over during this time. However, the Guanzhong area is the opposite, many businessmen take the opportunity to make a fortune, our Anping because of the previous reputation, is the main trading place on the back side of the river, so this month's transaction tax does not fall but increases. Yin Zhuo also stood up and reported that although the main man was responsible for the money and grain taxes of a county, Anping's trading system was formulated by him, so now Yin Zhuo is the main one to grasp this, and other things are handed over to the county Cheng Liu Neng.

"Everyone is doing well, but we have condescended to this before, and the pattern is not big, but now that we have the credit, the next thing is to have the opportunity for everyone to show their talents. So I hope you don't slack off, I don't want anyone to be unable to keep up with everyone. Zeng Yu knows that everyone who is doing it has great talents, and in this county, many people are just as an adjutant, and their talents can't play much. Now the situation in Anping County is very good, although there are reasons why he took the lead in layout, but more because there are talents sitting here, such as Tian Feng, Liu Neng and others, even if they are put in charge of a county, there is no problem. It would be strange if the county government official system composed of these people could not allow Anping County to achieve great governance.

"My lord, there is something for your subordinates to decide." Liu Neng said suddenly.

"It's okay for Yachuan to say it directly."

"That's right, although we have prepared for grain and grass for a long time, but this time the people in the northern counties have fled south because of the arrival of the yellow turbans, and the two counties of Yang'a and Anze that are adjacent to us have insufficient reserves, so most of the people have fallen to us. According to the Lord's instructions, we have been insisting on taking in the homeless, but the arrival of these homeless people has greatly increased the consumption of food, and now the price of food has been rising, so in terms of money and food, I am a little worried. Liu Neng reported that the main thing of the county government is that he and Tian Feng are in charge, and he has also mentioned to Sun Hao before whether to suspend the acceptance of displaced people, but Sun Hao insisted, so he raised this issue at this time, and he also hoped that Zeng Yu could give a solution.

"How many displaced people have we taken in now, and how much food is missing?" This is a big problem, if there is no guarantee that the displaced people will have basic food rations, and if something happens to starve to death, then the image of the people he has worked hard to build will be greatly reduced, and his prestige in the surrounding counties will be reduced. It takes subtle and continuous efforts to make the people believe in your goodness, but it may only take a small thing to make them hate you, especially if the people starve to death after receiving it.

"So far, we have taken in more than 10,000 displaced people, and more will continue to grow. As for the shortage of food, it is not impossible to feed at present, but the lord you command the unclothed army to fight abroad, and once they return to the division, they will also need a large amount of money to reward, so what we lack is almost the part of the reward for the soldiers. Liu Neng analyzed.

"Big brother, Yachuan mentioned this issue to me before, but now the population is an important foundation, and now in troubled times, if we give up accepting the homeless, then there will be no more homeless people willing to enter Anping like now. As for money and food, I have a preliminary idea, because there is a big gap in the reward for soldiers' military exploits, and we might as well exchange these rewards for other things, such as land. Sun Hao said.

Zeng Yu nodded in approval: "That's right, accepting displaced people is what we have always insisted on, and after we accept them, don't just give them simple relief, you might as well use conscription to let these people participate in the construction of the county seat and work for relief." As for the rewards of the soldiers and the pensions of the war dead, Zijin is right, now the northern counties have been swept by the Yellow Turban thieves, the villages are rarely populated, and the people are gone, but their land is still there, and more local heroes have been looted, leaving a large amount of ownerless land. If all goes well in this visit to Beijing, these lands will become our reward capital, and I think the soldiers will be very happy about it. ”

"Since the lord has this consideration, it seems that the worries of his subordinates are superfluous." Liu Neng said.

"Yuan Hao, Wu Guan, Zi Rou, I have not assigned you specific positions, just to assist Yachuan and them in dealing with things in the county, but I know your ability. Now the Changzi County of Shangdang County is still in our hands, but only Feng Xiao is there to preside over it, and I plan to send the three of you over to assist him in stabilizing the Changzi County as soon as possible. The local scholars in Changzi County have almost been swept away by the Yellow Turban Thieves, and now is the best time to liquidate the local population and land, and I will appoint you when I return from the capital. Zeng Yu ordered.

"No!" Tian Feng, Ding Xi, and Zhao Yi led the order.

"Zhiyuan, in terms of intelligence at present, manpower is limited, so you focus on the three northern states, and when I am not there, you report to Zijin, and what he said is what I said." Zeng Yu instructed Xie Jing.

"No!" Xie Jing received the order.

After arranging things properly, Zeng Yu asked everyone to go back, and he himself had to make some preparations for the next thing in Beijing.

After a night without a word, he returned to his own territory, whether it was Zeng Yu himself or the guards below him, they all had a good night's rest. The next day, Zeng Yu still led 500 personal soldiers, handed over to Zhu Wen's command, and under the farewell of Sun Hao and other officials, he once again left Anping County and embarked on the road to Beijing to ask for merit.

This time he went to the capital, Zeng Yu still advanced along the official road, although the Kwantung states were ravaged by the Yellow Turbans, but the Sili area was not entered by most of the Yellow Turban Army. Speaking of which, this is also his own credit, if he had not led his troops to block the Yellow Turban in Shangdang County, then the Yellow Turban Army could have driven straight in, entered Sili from Hanoi, and then threatened Luoyang.

However, Zeng Yu and his group of hundreds of people walked on the official road, and the scene they saw made him feel the difficulties of the Taoist people even more. Hanoi and Luoyang are only separated by a big river, and adjacent to Jizhou, the people of Jizhou can only escape because of the willingness of the Yellow Turbans to ravage, but it is not easy to cross the river, so they can only flee to Hanoi.

Zeng Yu What they see now are groups of homeless people, most of these people feel lifeless, and some people have given up hope of survival, and can only live one day at a time. At this time, as the elite of the Han Dynasty, the wealthy families, as well as the powerful people, did not play their due responsibilities, but took the opportunity to gather the young and strong among the homeless, and let these people become their tenants, slaves, etc. at a low cost, as for children or the elderly, especially the elderly, almost no one cares.

Zeng Yu and the others walked down in one day, and they saw no less than a hundred corpses, almost all of whom died of starvation, and most of them were old people. They even saw a small gang composed of some homeless people, forcibly robbing the property or food in the hands of a single homeless person, and even robbed the young woman among them, and the evil of human nature was naked in the eyes of Zeng Yu and others at this moment.

However, when these people saw Zeng Yu's group of officers and soldiers appear, they immediately dispersed in a hurry, and Zeng Yu asked a team of personal soldiers to go in pursuit. Although he can't stop this phenomenon, now that he has seen it, he can't let go of these people.

Even if he knew that these outcasts who had fallen into bandits and bandits might have been ordinary people a few days ago, since they had given up the good thoughts in their hearts, it was better to give them a break than to let them turn back, and without them, more people might survive.