(Sorry, I got the chapter number wrong in the previous chapter, 144 was written as 134, because I can't change the title of the VIP chapter, but the rest is fine, so I'm sorry here.) ）

The defense of the city was also resolved with the defeat of Li Yi, and more than 700 defenders made a correct choice in the face of tens of thousands of troops and nearly 10,000 prisoners, and surrendered the city.

The city is full of traces of the life of the soldiers, dirty, messy, poor, and there are no words to describe everything here.

The army soon took control of the entire Xinping County, and simply assigned the houses to live in, with many people and few houses, so many people could only sleep in the same room, but fortunately, the house could keep out the cold, which was much better than the effect of the tent.

"Minister, Zhao Cihao in the governance of Fengzhou pays a visit to His Royal Highness the King of Qi!" Zhao Cihao, who was confined in the mansion, was rescued, Cheng Zhijie and others set up the Chinese army in Zhao Cihao's central mansion, and Zhao Cihao, who had tears in his eyes, could not hide the excitement in his heart, and he couldn't wait to kneel down to Li Yuanji to express his gratitude.

"This king is just a prisoner, if you have something to say to Su Guogong, he is the boss!" Li Yuanji nodded, and had no intention of taking the lead.

"No!" Zhao Cihao said yes, turned to Cheng Zhijie, and saluted again: "Minister Zhao Cihao see the general!" ”

"Yes!" Cheng Zhijie hummed a little unpleasantly.

Meet Li Yuanji first, he has no opinion on this, whoever makes the family a prince, his own status is higher than his own, and the rule is to only see the highest status, if you have to see one by one, you don't have to say anything when you go to the court, just sit there and wait for the officials to come and see them one by one.

What makes Cheng Zhijie unhappy is that Zhao Cihao's attitude when facing Li Yuanji is completely different from his attitude when facing himself, it is Cheng Zhijie who is sulking, how can he give Zhao Cihao any good face at this moment?

"What's the situation in Fenzhou?" Seeing that Cheng Zhijie had no intention of doing business, Fang Xuanling shook his head with a wry smile and asked.

"It's okay, but the people are frightened a lot." Zhao Cihao replied truthfully.

Seeing Li Yi being arrested, Zhao Cihao's heart finally relaxed, Fengzhou can finally return to normal, and the people can finally live a stable life, the more I think about it, the more excited I feel, and finally see my own people, Zhao Cihao seems to have endless words.

"Although Li Yi controlled Fenzhou, but he did not kill, the original garrison of Fenzhou was isolated by him in the name of censorship, he wanted to persuade these soldiers in the future that his military strength could be expanded instantly, as for the people, Li Yi temporarily united five households on the grounds that the army needed to be stationed, vacated four houses for his army, and forbade anyone to go to the streets, and the people were also ......miserable during this time."

Zhao Cihao's words made everyone present have a thorough understanding of the situation in the city.

Fortunately, the worst result did not appear, but Zhao Cihao was imprisoned in Xinping by Li Yi, and even forbade him to go out alone, so Zhao Cihao may not know about the situation in Fengzhou.

But Zhao Cihao spoke in detail, from how he was deceived by Li Yi to open the city gate, and then how to negotiate with Yang Qi to take Li Yi, after the matter was revealed, what happened to the two of them, and even Li Yi did not hide his wooing.

Li Yuanji, who had not spoken, stepped forward and patted Zhao Cihao's shoulder gently, as a member of the royal family, no one at this time was more suitable than Li Yuanji to comfort and encourage a minister loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

"I won't say much about comforting words, you shouldn't need this king to say these meaningless words!" Li Yuanji, who originally wanted to comfort Zhao Cihao, suddenly changed his mind, he was not the emperor, and some jobs could not be done, he continued to look at Zhao Cihao, and said seriously: "This war is a pure disaster for Fengzhou, but there is no way, the burden on your shoulders is very heavy, you should know what to do next." ”

"Remember the teachings of His Highness!" Zhao Cihao was slightly stunned, but out of duty, he still handled it in a programmed way.

"Your Highness still sees far away!" At this time, Fang Xuanling understood the meaning of Li Yuanji's words, and while secretly scolding himself for ignoring such a serious problem, he hurriedly opened his mouth to explain, lest Zhao Cihao did not take this vigilance seriously: "After the war, there will be a catastrophe, and the burden on Zhao Zhizhong's shoulders is not light." ”

Zhao Cihao was stunned for a moment, and then realized the mistake he had made, if it wasn't for Fang Xuanling's timely reminder, he was afraid that he would have made a new mistake, and it was a big mistake.

After a great war, there will be a catastrophe, which is a partner born with war, and no matter where the war takes place, as long as there are people living in the place, the catastrophe will inevitably come.

During the summer war, the people had to face the outbreak of the plague, and if it was the busy farming season, they also had to face various problems caused by the reduction of food production.

It's winter, but the fields outside the city have basically been destroyed, so the problem that Fenzhou needs to face is how to solve the food ration problem next year.

Due to the problem of low productivity and grain varieties, there has always been a problem of insufficient grain to eat in ancient China, and it was slightly better in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, but now, the people's homes do not even have enough grain to support the next summer harvest.

"Thank you Your Highness for reminding me, the ministers will immediately organize the people to go out of the city to rescue food."

After saying what should be said, Li Yuanji once again looked left and right with nothing to do, the war was basically over here, and all that was left was a small-scale war at the end of the sweep.

On the one hand, the original 1,000 garrisons in the city were transferred to 800, and the 800 were supplemented by more than 100 guards of Li Yuanji, who did not belong to the legion, and the generals of Cheng Zhijie and others, barely adding up to 300 people, Xinping City is still the headquarters of the legion, and the Chinese army, which should have 4,000 troops, has only more than 500 troops left, and it also has to bear the defense of Xinping.

On the other hand, the army of 17,000 men was barely gathered and divided into four directions, and Zhang Liang led 2,000 soldiers to advance north to Sanshui to clear the remnants of Li Yi there.

Hou Junji led 2,000 troops to the south, led by Wei Chi Jingde and 8,000 soldiers, with Su Dingfang and Xue Wanche as deputy commanders, and went straight to Jingzhou, Li Yi's base camp, to completely sweep away the remnants of Li Yi there.

In fact, the process behind is simple, incredibly simple.

Under the premise of Li Yi's defeat, everywhere the army went, the city gates were opened to welcome the imperial army into the city, and the troops that originally belonged to Li Yi could only be captured at this moment, even Li Yi was defeated, what could they do?

In ten days, it only took ten days for the army to completely control the entire situation in the two prefectures of Fengzhou and Jingzhou.

Xinping City Gate, where Li Yi stood that day, in less than half a month, Xinping, an ordinary county, suffered such a complicated fate.

Looking at the people who worked hard under the city, but there was no smile on their faces, they were thinly dressed, but they stood under the cold wind and refused to leave for a long time.

"It's good that this food can save Yicheng back." Fang Xuanling sighed, he was also helpless, at least half of this grain was destroyed by them.

But there was no way, the army could not only camp on the main road that could be used for two carriages to pass, so that the barracks would be lined up dozens of miles away, they could only destroy the fertile fields and seedlings outside the city, and they could not carry the place without food when attacking, this is war.

Li Yuanji looked up at the sky, day after day for dozens of days, it was still the same bird, there had been no change in the slightest, the time had entered November, this winter, not a single snow fell, the dry earth, faint cracks, watering, loosening the soil and moisturizing, all the methods that could be used were used, but it still couldn't last a few days.

The seedlings grow very slowly, and the green branches and leaves exude patches of yellow, and the seedlings that should be thriving are now looking down with their heads down.

"Hey! I changed history, but I couldn't change the number of days! Li Yuanji sighed helplessly.

Knowing that there will be a big drought next year, there will be no harvest in the fields, and a large number of people will die of hunger, he could have said nothing and done nothing, anyway, no matter how short of food, he would not be affected in any way as the king of Qi.

Maybe it was the kindness in his heart that changed his mind, he couldn't bear to see so many people starving to death, even if someone would see something, he must not sit idly by, even if it was only a small reminder.

"What?" Fang Xuanling was a little confused, but he was deliberately confused.

During this period of contact with Li Yuanji, Fang Xuanling discovered the difference between Li Yuanji, no more arrogance and domineering in the past, more kindness and understanding, no irritable temper, more patience, this is true to everyone, in order to help Cheng Zhijie improve himself, even at the expense of offending him, there was a moment, Fang Xuanling even had some doubts, was it right to help Li Shimin rebel in the first place?

The Tang people were not allowed to observe the heavens without permission, otherwise they would be rebelling, and the crime they would be punished for rebellion.

But it's not as terrifying as the literal meaning, ordinary people are idle at night and look at the stars or no one cares about you, what is forbidden is the celestial phenomenon.

Li Yuanji's behavior seems to have exceeded this bottom line, and Fang Xuanling, who is rarely confused, decided to pretend to be confused this time.

"The result of hiding will only be corpses all over the field, plagues will be rampant, the whole royal land will cry and howl, and the people's wives will be scattered, and they will die for life." Li Yuanji continued to look at the sky, if the sacrifice was useful, he would rather sacrifice and pray every day, but he knew that the sacrifice had no effect, and knew why the sacrifice had no effect, so he didn't have the luxury of asking for rain in this way, he wanted to solve this problem in a more direct and effective way.

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Yuanji in a daze, a little unclear why, in the past few days, Li Yuanji has come to the city wall every day to see the people working outside the city, and then he is so depressed every day, but the difference today is that he opened his mouth and said more things that he couldn't understand.

"There will be a big drought next year!"