That afternoon, Zhou Kong wandered around the street as expected, and it was already dark when he returned to the Hou Mansion. After more than ten years of development, the way of life in Chenling has greatly subverted the tradition, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is like a lifetime of 500 years.

Xiang'an spent the night without incident, and the next day Bailiyan and Zhou Kong went out of the city non-stop to chase Su Hong, and arrived at Luxi City on the bank of the Wangqin River in Suidang County eight days later.

Because Chen Qu and Huang Che's naval army was still on guard in Ganfu and Dekang, Bailiyan had no naval army available, and the army was blocked here, so the requisitioned civilian ships and Guangxin to meet the merchant ships to cross the river, during which they were not blocked by the Jin naval army, and the army was able to cross the river one after another.

There were only 30,000 people who crossed the river, and Baili Yan ordered Su Hong to lead 20,000 people to continue to stay on the west bank to guard, and 50,000 war horses rushed back to Qiling to facilitate Zhao Xun's call.

Guangxin's 30,000 soldiers and horses were commanded by Hu Mo and Song Ping, and they rushed to Feicheng, Jiangdong at the end of November.

And when Bailiyan first arrived in Guangxin, the two of them were in their prime, and more than ten years have passed in a blink of an eye, a generation has grown old, and a new generation of rising stars has stepped on the footsteps of their predecessors, quietly unveiling the curtain of another era.

After the two armies combined, Bailiyan watched Wang Yanfei's movements, and at the same time strengthened the training of the two armies, and carried out blasting day and night on the border between Jiangdong County and Jiangdong County, so as to deter and disturb the Jin army, show the strength of the Xian army, exert military pressure on the Jin army, and curb its ambition of military adventure.

The withdrawal of the Jin army was extremely unfavorable, and the meaning of waiting and waiting was strong.

Xihuan is the news of the twenty-first day of December, which means that the news of the withdrawal of troops came from the Jin court, at least in early December, from Pingtang Kuaima to Chenling, and it took half a month to speed up the road for 600 miles, but the Jin army did not see any signs of withdrawal until the end of January 641 in Shengyuan. There was a month and a half in the middle, and the withdrawal order of the King of Jin was sent from Pingtang to the north, and it would not take a month and a half to walk.

It can be seen that the Xianjun hesitated a little, and the King of Jin did not hesitate to take the risk of betraying Xihuan's credit, and would also take military adventures.

The Jin army withdrew in late January and was exhausted by the end of February, and the Northern Army on the Western Front remained stationed in Changsun State to wait for further negotiations.

At this point, the military threat of the Jin State was basically lifted, and by the beginning of March, Zhong Heng, Sikong Nan, and Xu Wei, who had an expedition to the Liang State, arrived in Jiangdong by ship, and the 50,000 people who were taken away two years ago were only 32,000 people alive when they returned, and more than 18,000 people died in the Liang State, but what they got was the betrayal and betrayal of Liang Tianzi.

The expeditionary force was supposed to return to Xian by ship at the end of December, but Liang Tianzi detained it until the end of December when the situation became clear, and Liang Tianzi regretted his mistake and organized a warship to escort the Xian army back to China.

In order to cover up his despicable behavior, Liang Tianzi did not forget to send a letter of state to King Xian, praising the great achievements of the Xian State in fighting thieves and tyranny, and showing his achievements with gold and jade, so as to block the mouth of King Xian.

In the first half of 641 of the Shengyuan Dynasty, the Central Plains was still in turmoil, and after the Jin army withdrew, Bailiyan took the opportunity to station in Jiangdong and integrate the three troops and horses to implement the tuntian in spring ploughing.

At the same time, the Gongliang clan advanced westward to Zhongjun, so that Zhiguo actually occupied twelve Wan counties and two and a half counties of Sun State. The Xian army invaded Mingtian County through Qiu County, and half of the land fell into the hands of the Xian army, and there was an endless stream of subordination from all over the country.

Due to the complete collapse of the Eastern Front, the Foolish Argument faction was stabbed in the back, and after losing a large amount of land, the Foolish Argument faction and the Wei Guo and the Liang State were never able to negotiate, and the Western Front was still fighting and stopping until August, when it was rumored that the Black Turban Army accepted the "appeasement" of the Wei Guo and recruited An.

At this point, the 16-year Black Turban Rebellion in the Central Plains was overturned, but it was far from over.

After the fall of the rebel Tiandu Fangting, the means of defending the country can also be called barbaric, tens of thousands of women were filled into brothel camps, a large number of treasures and wealth were plundered, and the monarch's father Wan Ne as a puppet, inevitably the fate of the scapegoat, was finally split by the car and died, and his sixty-five children, those who were killed, those who were insulted were insulted, and the end was very miserable.

It is believed that within ten days of the fall of the heavens, the dead amounted to 80,000 people, and the defense of the country was still piling up "Jingguan" outside the city to establish its authority.

The so-called "Jingguan" is a hill made of the enemy's heads piled on the ground to show their "great achievements", but it is not so much to show off their great military exploits, but it is more barbaric and bloodthirsty. The evil wolf of Weiguo finally broke through the shackles of the West Sea and entered the Central Plains strongly.

By the end of October of that year, only one county was left in the Sun State, and the Sun State existed in name only, and became the protectorate of the Liang State.

Wei Guo actually occupies eight Wan counties, one and a half counties, and Xian Guo occupies seven Wan counties, three and a half counties, and borders Wei Guo. Zhiguo occupies twelve complete counties and two and a half counties. Sun Guo retains one county, Liang Guo has one county, and thirty-two counties have four families.

The biggest surprise is none other than the eldest grandson, who jumped the most fiercely before the war, claiming to have advanced into the Central Plains to divide the ten counties of the eldest grandson and did not get a county, and Xu Guo also did not get a county.

At the end of 641 Shengyuan, the situation was initially decided, and Wei Guo unsurprisingly began to move his troops to the east, and unexpectedly transferred the main force to the border of Changsun on the northern line and the border of Xu State on the southern line, rather than choosing to confront Zhiguo and Xianguo head-on.

The reason is also very simple, King Xian and May summoned the envoys of the Patriotic Monarchy, and exchanged Qiujun, Yuanshan, Dekang, and half of Mingtian County for peace with the Patriotic Nation.

Then the two countries launched intensive negotiations to send secret envoys to each other, and finally reached a two-year period, two years after the agreement was signed, Xianguo ceded three and a half counties, with the Sishui River as the boundary, and agreed that Dekang County Nuoxiang and Beique belonged to Zhiguo, and there was no objection to the defense of the country.

As for the Zhiguo, this battle Zhiguo got twelve counties and two and a half counties, the largest benefit, not long after the news of the compromise between the Xian State and the Wei State, in the face of the fierce momentum of the Wei State, the King of Zhi negotiated with Wei and Xu in July, the two counties were ceded to the Wei State, and the three counties were ceded to the Xu State, and in exchange for the Xu State to give up Ziyuan County.

At the same time, there was also the delivery of the two counties of Xiaguan and Changyin, and the matter of Xianguo exchanging Nuoxiang and Beique for Zhaocheng and Xingcheng under the promotion of the Gongliang clan was carried out smoothly under the promotion of the Gongliang clan, and the delivery was completed in May, and the Zhiguo side and Weiguo also confirmed the ownership of Nuoxiang and Beique in the subsequent negotiations.

It is worth mentioning that with a wave of his hand, King Zhi assigned a large area of oak forest and its land around Zhaocheng and Xingcheng to Xianguo.

The reason for this is not only the national strength of the Xian State, but also the consideration of political interests, out of goodwill, it is not surprising that King Zhi gave away the mountains and forests that have little land value at the moment.

After the peace talks of Wei, Zhi and Xian, Wei Guo immediately turned his troops to Changsun and Xu Guo, the reason is also very simple, Xu Guo was disabled, but he got three large counties from Zhiguo, although Changsun Guo did not get a county, but the weak too scum, standing in the north A large number of good plain land, there is really no conscience.

In 641, after the overall situation of the whole year became clear, the counties of Xianguo were transferred to production, and the newly occupied counties were exempted from all taxes for three years, and after three years, half taxes were restored, and half taxes were implemented for two years, and then adjusted according to the situation.

At the same time, the work of population collection and resettlement was also carried out, and many of the rebels and civilians who had joined the Xian army came from the southern, western, and foreign parts of the Sun Kingdom, with a total number of nearly 800,000 people.

At present, communications are backward, wars are frequent, displacement and refugees abound, the population is dying out very quickly, and it is unrealistic to search for people in the huge Central Plains.

Zhiguo is relatively easy to solve, Zhiguo originally had a large number of people moved into Pengyuan, Wanchuan, Shangguan and other places, according to the pre-war agreement, will be repatriated to Zhiguo, Xian nationality as a price, negotiation to solve the problem is not big, then can not find it is another matter.

After conquering the land of Sun, he continued to do the same, wantonly plundering the population of Sun, pulling back to Weiguo as slaves, and transferring the population from the country to Sun, so as to consolidate the population balance of the newly occupied land, resulting in tens of thousands of refugees on the border.

In response to the demands made by the Xianguo, Wei Guo proposed to blackmail the Xianguo on the condition that one person be exchanged for 30 catties of steel. To say that thirty catties of steel buy a life at the moment, it is sky-high. At present, it is not easy to cast iron, let alone steel, but Bailiyan feels that this transaction is worth doing.

After the surrender of Mancheon in early 641, the Xianguo acquired all the coal and sulfur mines of Mancheon County. Wanchuan is known as the coal capital of the Central Plains, and is more like Shanxi in the Central Plains, with many underground coal mines and many large open-pit coal mines. The reason why Sun Guo flourished for a time was not unrelated to the annexation of the law country to obtain coalfields.

With the support of the Wanchuan Coal Mine, the price of coal fell rapidly, and the iron ore mines west of Ganfu, Shangguan, Pengyuan and Dekang were smelted into pig iron on the spot and then transported to Yongxing for refining, and Yongxing's iron production increased to 2 million catties in July of that year.

In 642, the blast furnace was expanded, further expanded to 2.6 million catties, and planned to build another 20,000 catties blast furnace to continue to expand production capacity, pay the extortion of the country, and at the same time meet the market demand of the newly occupied land and Zhiguo, and reduce the cost of iron.

So after some bargaining, the Xianguo allowed the new vassals stranded in the east to travel back and forth to the west and the patriotic slave camps to search for relatives at the price of 23 catties of steel for one person, or a 637 type 18 catties of steel cannons for 500 people.

At the same time, the western part of the Sun Kingdom and the slave camps, and the Sun people who had relatives in the eastern part of the Sun Kingdom, were allowed to migrate eastward to the Xian Kingdom with the exiled vassal foreign nationals.

The agreement is a two-way clause that allows for both east-to-west migration and east-west migration. What seems to be a fair agreement is in fact full of wrestling and sinister intentions.

First of all, Bailiyan is not afraid that the eastern population will flee westward, even if they flee back, they will have to flee back, and the slavery system practiced by the patriotic country has almost deprived the people of most of their basic rights, on the contrary, the land policy and support policy implemented by the Xian State have stabilized the people's hearts.

Second, the propaganda and pacification effects of the Western Expedition gradually gained power after the war, further consolidating people's hearts.

In the end, in addition to the barbaric acts of rule, the wave of refugees in the country contributed to the public opinion spread by the royal guests.

As for the defense of the country, on the one hand, it armed its army by trafficking in human beings to blackmail the steel of the Xian State, and on the other hand, it drove out the old, weak, sick and disabled, and provided policy space for its aristocracy.

At the same time, the influx of a large number of Sun people will create huge refugee pressure on the Xianguo, thus passing on the cost and time required to defend the country to digest the occupied territory, on the contrary, the Xianguo may be financially crippled because of the refugees.

Of course, for an agrarian society, population means national strength, and it is not without consideration that the country can easily condone population loss.