Just when Wei and Wu signed the alliance under the city, the Han army brigade with 100,000 Jingzhou people had slowly withdrawn to Zigui City.

Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were grief-stricken because of Guan Yu's death, especially Liu Bei, who was finally old and fainted from crying and mourning, and soon fell ill.

Zhang Fei led the military horses of his headquarters and chased them for nearly 100 miles on the steep and winding Shennong Mountain Road, but found nothing; Because he cared about his brother Liu Bei's body, he had no choice but to go back.

Zhang Bao then followed Zhao Yun's order, commanded the Tiger Benwei and the Tiger Cavalry Battalion, and took the lead in escorting the two main generals to Yufu County to recuperate for a few days, and then sent them to Shuzhong after their condition stabilized.

After Guan Ping, Guan Xing, and Guan Yinping, the brothers and sisters, received the news, they were like thunder on the spot, and they were in pain, almost unable to sleep at night or eat at sun. Later, under the comfort and care of Liao Hua, he left the sad place of Zigui non-stop, first to the court to mourn, and the other to go back and forth to Shuzhong to prepare for the funeral.

After Zhao Yun left Chen and 3,000 Bai Yu guards to guard the town, he personally led the Chinese army to retreat slowly.

After a few days, the generals and their troops escaped one after another, and only Yu Linwei led by Jiang Wei and 5,000 soldiers led by Ma Zhong were left in the city, as well as 100,000 people who were handed back.

For Fa Zheng, who stayed here to preside over the overall situation, the top priority was how to send these people into Yizhou safely.

Zigui to Shuzhong, where more than 1,800 miles.

In fact, there were not many cases of large-scale migration of people during the Three Kingdoms period. A little farther away, there is Dong Zhuo who moved to Luoyang to enrich the population of Guanzhong; What happened recently was that Cao Cao moved the population of Hanzhong, Wudu, and Yinping to Guanzhong and Longxi after the end of the Battle of Hanzhong last year.

However, Cao Cao's move was to prevent Liu Bei from getting these populations and making them bigger, so he didn't care about the lives of the people in the process of migration. It is difficult to say how many of the hundreds of thousands of people who were relocated at that time made it to their destination alive.

But this migration is different,

After Liu Bei pacified Yizhou, Zhuge Liang once counted the place of origin of the population. The results show that the imperial court can accurately grasp the number of households and people of about 100,000 households, about one million people.

Normally, it is impossible to reproduce a new 100,000 population with a million people without 20 years of work.

Therefore, at present, these 100,000 people are very important for enhancing the strength of the imperial court.

After sending off the last wave of people, Fa Zheng immediately summoned Ma Liang, Wang Fu, Zhao Lei, Jiang Wei, and Ma Zhong to discuss the matter.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Fa Zheng, who had the highest official position, first started a conversation:

"Yu is not good at governing the people...... It's a pity that Zhuge Kongming is not here. ”

Ma Liang also said: "If Yang Weigong is here, there must be a wonderful method." ”

The "Yang Weigong" in his mouth refers to Yang Yi. This person is a native of Xiangyang, Jingzhou, who was the master of Fu Qun, the assassin of Jingzhou in Wei State, and then defected to Guan Yu, Ren was Gongcao, and was sent to Shuzhong because Guan Yu did not like it, and then he has been following Zhuge Liang to do things.

Jiang Wei has seen this person's talent, and he was ordered to set out to Jingzhou to preach consolation, and Zhuge Liang entrusted him to handle it when he rewarded the military funds.

He also lived up to Zhuge Liang's entrustment, and prepared all the materials and personnel in just a few hours.

Historically, after Zhuge Liang opened the Prime Minister's Shogunate, he led the army many times. Yang Yi always helped him make plans, raise food and grass, and did not have to think too much about things, and quickly dealt with them neatly; The etiquette system in the army was also arranged and inspected by him.

Zhuge Liang deeply cherished Yang Yi's talents, and during the Northern Expedition in history, he quickly promoted him to the prime minister's long history, and the general of the Sui Army, faintly becoming the first minister in the prime minister's staff.

But at this moment, Zhuge Liang and Yang Yi are both in Shu, and everyone can only cry out in vain.

And everyone in the field was not good at co-ordinating, and after discussing for a long time, they didn't discuss any results

Jiang Wei, as a military general, has been silent, but seeing this situation, he suggested:

"Why don't we first point out the difficulties of this trip, and then try to solve them one by one, and after brainstorming, we may be able to find a solution."

This is the common decomposition method of later generations, and it is indeed deafening for those who are at a loss.

When Wang Fu was in Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, he should be the grain inspector, and he was the first to speak:

"As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. 100,000 people eat and chew, and consume countless grains and grasses every day. Although Dongwu first allocated 100,000 stones, but after removing the part that needs to support the army, I am afraid that there is still a gap, and I don't know how to raise it? ”

In ancient times, travel, but "clothing, food, housing, travel" four keys, this westward migration, the word "clothing" people can be self-sufficient, this "food" word is the first difficulty.

But after seeing Ma Liang pondering for a moment, he said:

"There were 100,000 people, half of them men and half men, half strong and weak, old and half young. It is difficult to keep the material tight, so it is calculated that each person consumes four catties of rations per mouthful, and it is necessary to prepare 400,000 catties per day, which is about 3,000 stones. ”

"This trip starts from Zigui to Jinguancheng, along the way needs to pass through Yufu, Quren, Linjiang, Pingdu, Jixian, Jiangzhou, Deyang, Guanghan, Yuxian counties, the whole journey is 1,800 miles, at least need to prepare enough rations for one and a half months, well, about 130,000 stone grain and grass, minus the 50,000 left by the army, and also need to raise 80,000 stones."

Wang Fu's face was embarrassed, and he said: "Eight thousand stones is easy to say, after all, it is eighty thousand stones, and no matter which county can take out so much." ”

Ma Liang said again:

"In a good opinion, although 80,000 stone is a lot at first glance, it is not possible to obtain land in a single county and a county, but it can be scattered and borrowed from the counties along the way. For example, the journey from Jiangzhou to Deyang lasted about three days, so we asked the Jiangzhou guard to prepare 9,000 stones in advance for the road; Before setting off from Jiangzhou, he sent someone to Deyang in advance and asked him to prepare grain and grass for the next trip. ”

"In this way, it is actually only a few thousand stones to be distributed to each county, which is not unbearable."

As soon as Ma Liang's idea came out, the biggest difficulty of the trip was immediately solved, which made everyone present feel refreshed.

Especially Jiang Wei, that day in Zhuge Liang's mansion, he had seen Ma Liang's brother Ma Yan's quick thinking, and he was particularly sensitive to numbers; Unexpectedly, when Ma Liang listed the figures, he was even more Taoist, I am afraid that it was because of family learning.

After hearing this, Fa Zheng couldn't help but bow his head slowly, and said: "What Ji Chang said is very true, Yu sent people to take the first step and notify the counties along the way one by one to take care of them. When the court has the spare capacity, it will be allocated and returned. ”

At this time, Ma Liang suggested again: "There is no need to be so troublesome. According to the contract with Soochow, after the lord enters Sichuan, he will also need to allocate 500,000 stone of grain and grass for our army in batches. In a good opinion, when the grain and grass of Eastern Wu are allocated to Shu, the imperial court can first use it to pay off the grain arrears of the counties along the way, and then escort the rest into Sichuan, so as to avoid the pain of reversing the grain transportation from the center."

"Secondly, if the imperial court is in a hurry to use grain, it can also include the arrears of grain to the counties in the next year's tax, and reduce it according to the same amount, and it can also avoid the pain of transportation back and forth.

Fa Zheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Ji Chang's words are very good! ”

Shang Shuling personally made the decision, and the matter was decided.

And Jiang Wei on the side was shocked again, Ma Liang is proficient in arithmetic, the key is that this person actually understands and knows a lot about lending.

In this way, only through the conversion of accounts, it can indeed avoid the cost of transportation back and forth in the imperial court, and save countless manpower and material losses.

He couldn't help but say that the people have heard, "Ma's five constants, white eyebrows are the best." Ma Liang's talent can be seen!