By the time the fire was extinguished, the bandits had fled without a trace. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Liu Shi asked people to control all the Zhu family's descendants, and most of them were arrested, except for some who escaped with the thieves who entered the fort. Then he sent shrewd soldiers to inspect everywhere, and found several cellars, each of which contained gold, silver, and five baht coins, as well as grain, and a lot of food.

When Liu Shi went up the city wall, the battle outside had long ended, hundreds of knights were galloping back and forth outside the fort, piles of bandits were encircled in several places, and many people fell on the ground.

Liu Shi asked people to break out the fort gate, collect the bandits in one place, and then collect the knives, guns, halberds and other weapons scattered everywhere.

These bandits probably never dreamed of seeing how terrifying hundreds of cavalry were on the flat ground. Most of the 2,000 men were captured, except for a few who escaped, and even the thieves who had just escaped from the fort did not have time to escape.

In the battle of annihilation of Zhujiabao, more than 400 bandits were killed, most of them were killed by cavalry, more than 1,600 bandits were captured, 36 people from the Zhu family lineage, and 90 followers. They seized 5,000 pieces of grain, more than 800 catties of gold, more than 1,000 catties of silver, more than 1,000,000 baht of five baht, countless pieces of cloth of all kinds, 35,000 acres of fields, 300 cattle, and countless chickens, pigs, and sheep.

Through the interrogation, Liu Shi knew that the Zhu family had piled up more than 10,000 grains in other places in Shangluo County. Liu Shi quickly asked Cao Xing and Shi Jian to send someone to collect it, looking at the amount of money in front of him, he sighed: "This is called Haoqiang." ”

The next day, when Liu Shi returned to the county seat with a huge convoy, countless people were alarmed. The scene of hundreds of cavalry slaughtering the bandits has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of the county soldiers, villagers and bandits. The soldiers of the Huwu Guandao Battalion also became famous in World War I. Bandits or descendants of the Zhu family, except for those who commit the most heinous crimes and those who are stubborn and unrelenting are executed, after discernment, they still pick out some people to be recruited as battalion soldiers, and all the others are incorporated into Tuntian.

Liu Shi of Zhujiabao did not give up, but existed as a fortress, stationed 100 county soldiers, and organized Zhujiabao villagers to train to fight against bandits in their spare time.

Through this battle, Liu Shi's nomadic envoys to all townships in the county were accepted, and the training of villagers was conscientiously organized according to the requirements of the county government. Through this battle, the taxes of the original Shangluo County were also agreed to be paid. Liu Shi only collected it for two years, with a total of nearly 2 million yuan and more than 20,000 grains, and Liu Shi asked for most of it to be replaced by corn.

In this way, Liu Shi's army raising and the expenses of the county government can be regarded as basically solved.

After solving these worries about money and expenses, Liu Shi recruited Dian Wei, Cao Xing, Gao Shun, Shi Lian, Liu Zhen and others to discuss how to conquer the mountain bandits as soon as possible and complete the tasks assigned by the Son of Heaven.

Dian Wei said: "Let him lead people to capture the Yellow Skin." ”

Gao Shun said: "It should still be carried out with both appeasement and conquest, now the Han Dynasty has killed too many people, and many bandits are forced to enter the mountains as a last resort." ”

Liu Zhen also agreed with Gao Shun's opinion, saying: "After the merger, the area of this Shang is vast, much larger than Zhuo County, only more than 30,000 people, plus what we brought, it is just over 40,000, which is really too little." All the bandits should be persuaded to go down the mountain and reclaim the land, only when the land is reclaimed can we afford to support these thousands of soldiers. Otherwise, the money and food will be spent in less than two years, and you can't fight another strong man at that time. It will also cause criticism from the court.

Unless the generals disperse, this Shangluo County, Lin Dagou is deep, and it is connected with Nanyang and Yingchuan. That place is the lair of the Yellow Turbans, and they will come at any time, so what will happen then? ”

Liu Shi said: "Okay! The matter of appeasing the thieves was the responsibility of Liu Zhen, Gao Shun, and Shi Lian. Those who do not listen to the appeasement will resolutely carry out requisition and suppression, and Shi Lian must find out the information in this regard as soon as possible. We now have nearly 2,000 battalion and county soldiers. Coupled with the temporary recruitment of Xiang Yong, I believe that an army of 5,000 people can be organized at any time. Therefore, the bandits must not be allowed to hold on the Wuguan Road for another year, and the eradication must be completed within this year. ”

Two days later, someone came to the county seat to report that after the bandits failed, on the way back, they forcibly broke through a village fort called Nanshanting and slaughtered all the people in the fort.

Liu Shi was furious when he heard the news, and personally took people to the pavilion to check, only to see that the fort was built according to the mountain, which was an extremely dangerous place. However, under the fury of the bandits, they attacked at any cost, and finally because the fort had few villains, they were defeated by the bandits and were defeated.

Liu Shi vowed to eliminate the bandits as soon as possible and return the people of Shang County to a peaceful place. After returning to the county seat, Liu Shi found someone to recruit Liu Zhen, Dian Wei, Gao Shun, Shi Jian and others to discuss, to start the appeasement of the Lantian thieves as soon as possible, and resolutely crack down on those who disobeyed. This task was completed by Gao Shun and Shi Lian.

Dian Wei led his troops into Zhujiabao and cooperated with Cao Xing to monitor the Yellow Leather Department to prevent thieves and dogs from jumping over the wall in a hurry, killing villagers again and robbing property. After the Lantian thieves were appeased, they immediately launched a campaign against the Huangpi Department and the Peng Tuo Department.

After the meeting, news came out from all over Shangluo County: the Governor of Wuguan Province and the Shangluo County Government gave two choices to the thieves on Wuguan Road and in Shangluo County: one was to go down the mountain and follow the good, and they could obtain land provided by the Shangluo County Government, and they only needed to pay rent according to the laws of the court, and those who had skills could come to live in the county seat and engage in skill production.

Second, for those who refuse to obey the good, the soldiers of the Huwu Guandao Battalion will encircle and suppress the cottage with the cooperation of the soldiers of Shangluo County, and those who resist will be killed on the spot.

Later, it was reported that if the captured bandits were willing to return to the cottage to persuade other bandits to follow the good intentions, they only needed to ask the local officials for instructions, and they could return to the cottage. Those who persuade meritorious people can receive rewards such as fields, gold and silver, etc.

Many people are worried that this bandit will never return after being released, Liu Shi said with a smile: "Let them go, just let them go back and tell the other bandits: whether they are good or continue to be thieves." Those who are good have fields to plant and eat, and thieves are waiting to be encircled and suppressed. ”

Everyone was skeptical, and soon news came that three of the five bandits in Lantian were willing to go down the mountain to be good, and one refused to obey the good, and those who went to the village to lobby were beheaded.

The other group did not dare to go down the mountain because they had robbed and killed Liu Shi a month ago, and they were afraid of Liu Shi's revenge.

It turned out that after the captured bandits returned to the cottage, they told Liu Shi's meaning to the other leaders in the village, and told the leaders of the cottage about Zhu's Haoqiang colluding with the bandits to be destroyed by Liu Shi. The leaders of the cottage were originally worried that the government was fake, and they were deceived into going down the mountain. Hearing that the Zhu Mansion was destroyed, he was suspicious again, and asked other cottage leaders to discuss.

In fact, the life of the people in this cottage is not easy now, since they occupied Wuguan Road, business travel is scarce, and the local big families have many family generals. With their strength, they can't please at all, and they can only rob some small rich people.

But Lantian has been fighting in the past few years, and there are many troops, and they are also afraid of robbing too much, which will attract the government to come to conquer and suppress.

In the past, Shangluo County had a yellow skin department, and it was not a place where they could go.

Even if he is a bandit, he can only open up some land in the mountains, plant some land, and live a precarious life. Hearing that the bandit said that as long as he worked hard to open up the wasteland and farm, he would have food to eat and be full, and the leaders of the other three cottages were a little moved. Only then did he send someone down the mountain to contact Liu Shi and ask for Zhao'an.

Liu Shi immediately promised that they could go to the Cheng family to set up a fort to live, open up wasteland and reclaim land, and newly cultivated fields, and no taxes would be collected within one year, and one of the fifty draws would be collected in the second year, and one of the thirty draws in the third year according to the laws of the Han Dynasty. However, the oral endowment, the calculation of the endowment, and the conscription and military service must be completed in peace.

Those who have just come down the mountain and have no food can rent it from the county government, which can be repaid in installments or by employing workers. These thieves were originally worried that Liu Shi was deceiving them, but when they saw Liu Shi saying it so carefully, they believed it. The three cottages, with a total of 2,000 people, were arranged on a flat land along the bank of the Danshui River, ten miles away from Cheng's house.

Regarding the bandits who had robbed him, Liu Shi also promised that as long as he was willing to go down the mountain and obey the management of the county government, he would not be investigated.

The bandits, who were originally hesitant, eventually went down the mountain like the other three strands. Liu Shi still arranged for this group of bandits to live on the bank of Danshui along Wuguan Road, about 40 miles away from the residence of the first three bandits, and they were also allowed to set up forts.

However, after the bandits were settled, Liu Shi sent 200 young men to the county seat for training in the name of service, and sent county soldiers to serve as the three elders, snickers, and wanderers to carry out education, taxation, and public security management, and send grain to the families without grain for relief. In this way, these people are truly at ease.