Chapter 159: Han Zeng arrives

"The last general waits for you!" Fan Mingyou, the general of Huliao, led the generals and generals of Lingju and the generals of Longyou, Beidi, and Anding counties to personally go out of the city to greet them.

"General, please get up!" Han Zeng helped everyone up and said softly: "All the gentlemen are also invited to ......"

Then, surrounded by everyone, he went straight into the city.

Along the way, Fan Minh Woo made reports to Han Zeng from time to time.

It mainly introduces the prisoners captured at the current Lingju and the losses of the Lingju war.

Han Zeng listened, nodded and asked from time to time, and when he walked to the palace of the Liao Protector General in Lingju City, Han Zeng had almost sorted out the current situation in Lingju.

In general, the situation is not rosy.

The main thing is that there are too many prisoners.

The Qiang people alone had at least tens of thousands of people captured, and in addition, there were almost 10,000 Yue clan captives.

In addition, with the end of the war, the Yue clan, which was not involved in the rebellion in the Hehuang region, came to show their loyalty.

And the tribes involved in the rebellion, the leaders who had disappeared without a trace, suddenly came out, and they all took their tribesmen, shirtless, and carried thorns on their backs.

Of course, Fan Mingyou has no authority to deal with these people, so he can only take them all in, put them under house arrest, and wait for Han Zeng, the envoy, and the big man with full authority to come and deal with them in person.

However, the consequence is that Lingju's bearing capacity has reached its limit!

Tens of thousands of prisoners of war, more than 20,000 or 30,000 righteous people who are waiting to get a reward for 'putting things right,' and those who bear the guilt and show their loyalty.

All of them must eat and drink Lazar.

The post road connecting Lingju and Hexi has limited carrying capacity.

Originally, in order to maintain the Lingju army, it was already very painful.

Now, with the addition of almost 70,000 or 80,000 people, the replenishment is far from being consumed.

The fault is that after the battle in Lingju ended, Huang Ba's cavalry began to withdraw, and I am afraid that now Lingju is about to start running out of food.

Even so, the supply of grain and grass in Lingju is already very dangerous.

However, Han Zeng didn't care about this result.

Because, he can quickly pass on these burdens - in essence, all the prisoners of war in Lingju have been sold to the aristocratic officials and wealthy merchants of Chang'an.

Therefore, after Han Zeng settled down, he immediately began to distribute prisoners of war and land.

The process was as follows - the prisoners of war, in groups of 100 people, numbered them, and then threw them into a tray for the representatives of the nobles, officials, and wealthy merchants from Chang'an to follow themselves

The number of people under the order is drawn lot.

As a result, the distribution of prisoners of war was quickly completed.

From then on, these people were not prisoners of war of the Han Dynasty, but the domestic slaves of a certain duke.

Naturally, their master was responsible for their eating and drinking.

Of course, in order to alleviate the burden and pressure on the 'investors', Han Zeng ordered that they be allowed to purchase grain in Lingju at the market price of Chang'an.

Although this is a loss - the price of rice in Chang'an is only a few tens of dollars per stone, but in Lingju, the freight cost of these grains alone may have exceeded this price.

But, in any case, it is much better than trading at a complete loss before, and now at least some of the costs can be recovered.

Throwing the captive's pot out, Han Zeng led the people and began to stake the ground.

The river is so big that hundreds of years later, it can even maintain a small power that can punch the Northern Song Dynasty and kick the Liao State - Western Xia.

And now, because the soil and water are well maintained, the vegetation is lush, and the natural ecology is very powerful.

This area has very good farming conditions.

The only problem is that the land has not been developed for agriculture at all.

Pastures, swamps, wetlands, and forest farms are everywhere.

If you want to develop, you have to put in a lot of effort, and it won't be small.

However, the enclosure is relatively simple.

Han Zeng made a sort of each family from Chang'an, in order of the size of their investment amount and the size of their official titles.

Divide these people into sequences, and those who are ranked first have the opportunity to choose first.

Then, let them go to the enclosure on their own.

The method of enclosing the land is also very simple - if you like something, you will run over on horseback, drop a flag in the desired area, and then run all the way to the place you don't want, and place the same flag there.

Then, Han Zeng will go and take a look.

Generally, as long as it is not excessive, for example, he only bought 100 hectares of land, but as a result, he circled 200 or 300 hectares of land, Han Zeng would treat it as if he didn't see it, sign his name on his land book, and assign that land to the person he chose - anyway, Hehuang lacks everything here, that is, there is no shortage of land.

In the Qianli River basin, there is enough space to satisfy the appetite of these aristocratic officials and wealthy merchants.

For a time, in the entire Hehuang area, you can see the children of noble officials and wealthy merchants who began to enclose land with their retainers and under the protection of the army.

And their arrival, especially their enclosures, frightened the remnants of the moon

Clans.

Because some people, especially the children of Huo Guang and others, directly enclosed the land into the pastures of these tribes, and Huo Yu even quite domineeringly directly enclosed the land into the core territory of the 'Huangshui Department', one of the former overlords of the Yue Clan.

In front of the Han army's bright swords and guns, the Yueshi people, who had already been frightened by the beating and had lost their fighting power, finally experienced the horror.

They wanted to resist, however, they didn't need the Han army to take action, it was just that the retainers brought by each family and some Qiang people who began to surrender and were willing to be dogs arranged to get rid of these weak scum.

One tribe after another was driven out of their pastures.

Then, they can only watch their homes being forcibly occupied by others.

But, this is just the beginning!

Because, they soon found that the thousands of miles of rivers, all the places of ointment, and the places where the water and grass are abundant are almost all favored by the Han people.

The children of aristocratic officials and wealthy businessmen from Chang'an may not be able to do so in other ways.

But the vision is not said.

They know exactly what is good for farming and what is good.

Even if they don't understand, there are retainers who do.

Therefore, within a few days, the Hehuang area changed the world.

The Yue clan tribes were basically driven to the remote corners of the river, and even between the mountains.

Han Zeng had no sympathy for what happened to them.

Because, they are all self-inflicted!

Therefore, when these clan leaders began to shout grievances and ran to him to complain, Han Zeng just sneered and dropped a sentence: "How could Han have lost the Yue Clan?" ”

"I think that at the beginning, the Yue's tribes, the dogs that lost their families, were harmed by the Huns, and the champion Zhongjing Hou Huo Gong did not pretend to be different from Xia, and treated the Yue's with sincerity and gave it to the land of the river, so that the Yue's family guarded the border for the Han!"

"However, they treat each other as rebellions, and meet each other with swords!"

These people still want to quibble, saying, 'The ministers and others have not rebelled!' 'We have been faithful' and other things that even demons don't believe.

was directly swept into the soil by Han Zeng.

"If you don't rebel, you're a loyal minister?"

"The two ends of the snake's head, standing on the wall, Han doesn't want such a 'loyal minister'!"

So, they just drove these people away!

In Han Zeng's eyes, the people of the Yue clan are now like white-eyed wolves who can't be raised.

If you keep it any longer, it will be a disaster sooner or later!