Speaking of which, Jia Xu said more, once Liu Bei invited everyone to a banquet and talked about the princes of Guanzhong.

These people are either from Dong Zhuo's remnants or from the Xiliang rebels, who are now ostensibly subordinate to the imperial court, but in fact they are each dominant. Fortunately, none of these people obeyed anyone, so they were powerless to invade Luoyang.

However, the Guanzhong area they occupied was too dangerous, and Liu Bei was afraid that they would fight it, but they would join forces.

Therefore, for a while, Liu Bei was not easy to do.

During the banquet, Yang Jun said that he had received a letter from Hedong Weiqi, in which he said: "At the beginning, there were about 100,000 families in Guanzhong who flowed into Jingzhou and Hanzhong, but now Guanzhong is peaceful, and everyone is looking forward to returning to their hometown. After they returned, they became the personal subordinates of the princes of Guanzhong, and the county guards were set up, and in the long run, they would become a disaster. I suggested that the imperial court set up a salt official in Guanzhong to control the people to subordinate to the government. ”

Liu Bei said that he was a little worried that these people would unite against him. I don't know if Jia Xu drank too much, he praised Haikou and said: "Guanzhong Qunxiong, I regard it as if I was watching the text in the palm of my hand, I don't need Fei Minggong's soldiers, I can make them fall apart with my backhand." ”

Liu Bei naturally knew Jia Xu's ability, so he worshiped Jia Xu as Jing Zhaoyin on the spot, and presided over the overall situation of Guanzhong together with Zhong Xuan, the captain of Sili.

Then, Jia Xu probably woke up from drinking, and said to Liu Bei: "Although I don't want a single soldier, I don't want nothing, I have to give me farm tools, seeds and other things before I can pacify Guanzhong." ”

A little farm tools and seeds, Liu Bei naturally would not be reluctant, he laughed and said: "Do you have to use the strategy of the Yangxia Festival Hou Dingguan?" ”

He also sent people to Guanzhong to serve as a salt official, and Zhong Xuan, the captain of Sili, also changed from the original Chang'an to Hongnong, so that it was convenient to get salt and latte from Hedong.

Jia Xu really made an extraordinary move, he asked Liu Bei to write to the Son of Heaven and summon the world, saying that the land of Sanfu had been peaceful, and the people who fled during the Li Guo Rebellion earlier could return to their hometown to live and work in peace and contentment. There are hundreds of thousands of people who fled to Xuzhou in Sanfu alone, and even if they fled to other regions, I am afraid that there are millions of people. There is no need to go back all, as long as some of the people who fled back then miss their hometown, there will be a lot of people who have returned.

Then, Jia Xu found Duan Xuan again, Duan Xuan is one of the three Ming in Liangzhou, Duan Xi's clan, in Liangzhou has a high prestige, Duan Xuan found all the princes in Guanzhong, everyone swore a blood oath, issued a notice, and declared that they would never harm these returnees.

Everyone thought that firstly, it was to give Duan Xuan and Jia Xu face, and secondly, there were more people who came back, and these people could also recruit troops to expand their power.

Therefore, everyone did not object, and each made a heavy oath, drew a pledge on the notice, and posted it in various township pavilions, transportation hubs and other places.

Jia Xu distributed farm tools and seeds to the people who returned, and let them open up the wasteland and cultivate the land. Those who came first benefited, and more and more people came back.

Si Li's lieutenant Zhong Xuan found the princes from all walks of life, saying that the population in Guanzhong is too large now, and I am afraid that there will not be enough food for next year, and I hope that everyone can allow the old and weak soldiers under their command to leave the army, and they can also get farm tools and seeds and arable land, and a variety of grains will come out, so as not to starve everyone at that time.

Everyone also thinks it's nothing, anyway, the old, weak, sick and disabled can't fight, and raising them at home is nothing more than being afraid of other people, horses, rabbits, and foxes, and now Zhong Miao is willing to be a pick-up man, that's the best.

At the beginning, it was indeed the old, weak, sick and disabled who left the army, and then the princes from all walks of life could no longer restrain their own troops, and more and more elite soldiers left. The princes came first to say that they could not hurt the people, and secondly, Zhong Xuan also said that the soldiers were afraid of famine next year before the soldiers left the army to farm, and in recent years, locust plagues and droughts have continued, and the big guys are also afraid of starvation!

The troops of the princes of Guanzhong are actually all warlord troops, the big warlords above coax the small warlords below, and the small warlords below hold the big warlords above.

Jia Xu is a famous man in Xiliang, and he is very familiar with the Xiliang army, he bought off several small warlords under the warlords, and took his troops to Zhong Xuan. Zhong Xuan also gave them farm tools, seeds, and land, and then, more and more people took refuge in Zhong Xuan, among which the strong ones were accepted by Zhong Xuan as government soldiers, Zhong Xuan's strength became stronger and stronger, and the strength of the princes became smaller and smaller.

Jia Xu wrote another letter to Liu Bei, saying in the letter: "The princes of Guanzhong are all people with no ambitions, but they are just divided into one side, and they can get by. Now that its momentum has declined, if the Ming Duke can threaten him with military might, then the day when they enter the court and surrender is not far away, and Guanzhong can win without a fight. This is a fox fake tiger plan! ”

Liu Bei couldn't stop laughing when he read the letter, and said in his heart that Jia Xu, an old fox, was really shameless when he patted his fart. As for coercing them with military might, they either bring up a large army to threaten them, or they will fight with other forces to make an example of them.

In the three years of Jian'an, Liu Bei did not have any military action, but used it to recuperate. If the soldiers don't give people time to rest and recuperate, they will get weaker and weaker. The newly recovered land also needs to be mobilized according to the government soldiers, and the big families, the powerful and the powerful are recruited into the army to suppress the disobedient people.

With the end of the autumn harvest, Liu Bei had already begun to prepare for the war against the north. Of the nine counties in the state, only the three counties of Shangdang, Taiyuan, and Yanmen are relatively rich, and what Guan Yu can control now is Shangdang, Taiyuan, Xihe, and Shangjun. As for the four counties of Hetao, they have all been occupied by the Huns, while the Yanmen area in Yunzhong is occupied by the Xianbei people.

From this point of view, if you want to fight and establish power, you must first win over the Huns or Xianbei people, and if you can provoke a fight between the Huns and Xianbei, it will be the best.

Xuande called someone to call Liu Dog, and the Xiongnu Yu Fuluo and his younger brother Hu Chuquan took refuge in Liu Bei and changed their names to Liu Ma and Liu Dog. Now Yu Fuluo, no, it is Liu Ma who is dead, and there is only Liu Dog left as the legitimate Shan Yu of the Huns. However, Liu Dog now has few people under his command except for his son Liu Hu and nephew Liu Bao.

It's really that the Huns are too easy to assimilate now, they look about the same as the Han people, and they also speak Chinese, except for the difference in hairstyles and dresses, there is no difference in the rest.

Like, there is such a person.

He was studious since he was a child, and he worshipped the party member Cui You as his teacher, and studied "Mao's Poems", "Jing's Yi" and "Ma's Shangshu".

He was particularly fond of the two books "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period" and "The Art of War of Sun and Wu", which he could read in general, and there was no one who did not read the "Historical Records", "The Book of Han" and the works of Zhuzi.

He even despised Zhou Bo, Guan Ying and others for being uneducated, believing that they could not be educated by following Emperor Xiaowen of Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty.

If you don't tell you that this product is Liu Yuan, the founder of the Han and Zhao Dynasty, and is a Huns, will you think that this is a standard Han scholar.

It can be said that in addition to the name of the Huns, these sub-Huns are actually no different from the Han people. They were not assimilated before, it was the Han Dynasty that didn't want them, and after Liu Bei took out the system of meritorious service and promotion to become a Han person, the Huns disappeared, after all, there was no national concept in this era, and the Huns were completely sinicized, after making meritorious service, change their surnames and hairstyles, as long as they were not acquaintances, no one would recognize that they were once Huns.

So Liu Bei decided to win over the Huns and fight the Xianbei people.