Successfully lifted the siege of the Yellow Turban thieves, Huang Wan and the others were already grateful, and no one couldn't help but want to move Fang Liang's spoils. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

This was followed by a grand celebratory feast.

Huang Wan, Gong Jing and Liu Cheng and others were the happiest, and if the siege was lifted victoriously, they retained their official positions and thrones, or they might be promoted to another level, but now the road is blocked and they cannot ask His Majesty for credit.

Hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops were repulsed, the main force retreated to Jinan, and a large number of small Yellow Turbans were scattered all over the country, if they were not dealt with in time, it would inevitably cause a catastrophe.

For this reason, Fang Liang decided to let Xu Huang lead the cavalry to sweep the counties of Qi State, Beihai State and Donglai County, and attack the Yellow Turban Army encountered, which was regarded as training, and it was best to drive them all to Xuzhou.

And Fang Liang planned to recruit troops in Linzi, and he felt more and more that the existing troops were not enough, and he happened to seize a large amount of money and food from Qu Shuai Buji, which could be used to expand the size of the army.

The biggest destructive aspect of the Yellow Turban Army is that it has disrupted the order of production, making the vast number of peasants homeless, resulting in no one cultivating and barren land.

After the siege of Linzi City was lifted, the first problem was to resettle the victims and collect the displaced people, otherwise more people would be forced to join the Yellow Turban Army driven by hunger.

Huang Wan and others understand this truth very well, but the resettlement of disaster victims and displaced people requires a large amount of money and food, and the local government alone cannot afford it.

Fang Liang put forward a proposal to recruit troops, which was immediately supported by Huang Wan and others. If Fang Liang recruits soldiers, as long as one person joins the army, his family can be stabilized, and he can rely on the soldier's salary to maintain his family members to last until the autumn harvest.

Not to mention the entire Qingzhou, just the Qi State, after the Yellow Turban retreated, all the land has been barren, and most of the land has become ownerless land; In places like Beihai Country and Le'an County, the situation was even worse, after the Yellow Turban Army, the loss of personnel was serious, and it was difficult to recruit cultivators even if there was food.

For this reason, Gong Jing decided that if one person joined the army, he could rent ten acres of ownerless land to each of his family members, and only need to pay 30% of the rent every year, which can be regarded as a reward for the support of the Youzhou army, and also to maintain the stability of the place.

The two sides hit it off and acted quickly, recruiting troops one day earlier, and recruiting people one day earlier for farming, and this year may have some harvest.

As the situation in Qi and Beihai slowly stabilized, the government strengthened its control over these two places; Fang Liang also recruited more than 3,200 infantry and more than 600 cavalry from these two places, and each officer and soldier was given 10 stone of grain as a settling-in fee, so that nearly 4,000 families could obtain a living guarantee, and leased cheap land, began to produce for self-help, and put grain on the cultivated land, hoping to get a certain harvest this year.

What made Fang Liang secretly rejoice was that all the synths came on horseback when he came, and now he is using these horses to expand the cavalry.

These people are grateful to Fang Liang, which is equivalent to saving their family.

However, many more people are unable to survive on their own, and even if the government distributes food to them, they cannot hold out until the autumn harvest.

In view of the fact that there was still a large amount of grain and copper coins left behind, Fang Liang came up with another plan to allow the cavalry and infantry who followed from Youzhou, and anyone who was unmarried could marry a wife from Qingzhou, and he would give each married person 2 copper coins and 20 stone grain as a congratulatory gift. This can not only solve the personal problems of single people in the Youzhou army, but also save some Qingzhou families.

Huang Wan strongly supports this.

This move not only won the support of the people of Qingzhou, but also won the recognition of the officers and soldiers, the treatment of the Youzhou army is really good, not only the salary is high, the army generals also help the soldiers marry their daughters-in-law.

After that, three things happened that made Fang Liang feel angry, but he couldn't do anything about it, so he had to write a letter to Gao Shun immediately.

The first thing is that the Shijia clan, who escaped the catastrophe in Linzi City, issued usury to the displaced people who had no land and no production tools and assets, and let them lease the land of the government and repay their loans after the autumn, but the monthly interest was as high as 10%, if so, Fang Liang calculated, excluding taxes, the output after the autumn was not enough to pay back the usury, and then they could only be forced to embark on the road of uprising and riot again.

And these people lent copper money, but greatly increased the price of food, which made Fang Liang even more angry.

The second thing is that those surviving scholars took advantage of their good relationship with the government and their huge financial resources to buy a large amount of ownerless wasteland from the government for only a small amount of money, and then hired displaced people to cultivate it, so that Fang Liang had the feeling of making wedding dresses for others.

In any case, the second thing, the two sides are still mutually beneficial, so that more displaced people can settle down and live without starvation, and it can still be said that the past is in the past; The third thing was difficult for Fang Liang to accept, more homeless people were forced to sell their sons and daughters, and even some young and strong people were sold into slavery in exchange for temporary food rations for their families, while the wealthy families took the opportunity to expand the manor and recruit family members and slaves; The consequence of this made the Hao clan stronger and stronger, which was something that Fang Liang found very difficult to accept.

At the end of May, Gao Shun received a letter from Fang Liang, replying to him that he would not care about local affairs and agree with his decision to put down the Yellow Turban thieves in eastern Qingzhou first.

Gao Shun began to think about his policy, if he distributed land, reduced taxes and exempted rents to the people of the Yellow Turbans like he did with the policy of Xia Quyang, he would become the enemy of all the scholars, and he would become the object of hostility of all the scholars, which would be extremely detrimental to his future development.

Now his strength is not enough to be an enemy of the entire scholar class, and Fang Liang's letter is a wake-up call for him. Therefore, it was temporarily decided that for the Yellow Turban people resettled in Xiaquyang, each household must produce a young man every year, and bear two months of forced labor for the Taishou Mansion free of charge every year, and the time is set at the time of agricultural slack, which is different from the previous government will take care of the food; In this way, he can also explain the past.

At the same time, he decided to cultivate a new group of wealthy people, replace the old ones with new ones, and become vested interests, so that he would not be isolated.

As for the new nobles, it is the officers of all ranks who have been awarded the title of military merit and his ten bodyguards, who will surely be his staunch supporters.

For this reason, Gao Shun decided to buy land and establish manors in various counties of Jizhou after pacifying Jizhou.

After Fang Liang received Gao Shun's reply, he felt that his spirits were greatly lifted, and he immediately informed all the officers and soldiers that Zhang Bao had been beheaded, Zhang Jiao had been besieged, and victory was just around the corner.

At the end of June, Fang Liang received another letter from Gao Shun that Zhang Jiao had been beheaded and was now confronting Zhang Liang in Guangzong; And Gao Shun has sent Yan Liang, Guan Yu and others to help Qingzhou pacify the Yellow Turban Army in the area north of the Yellow River, and asked Fang Liang not to rush for quick success, slow down, and be sure to fight steadily; Try to kill as little as possible, take as many prisoners as possible, or deport them to Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

After the content of the letter was announced, Huang Wan, Gong Jing and others were in high spirits; In particular, Huang Wan supported Fang Liang to continue to advance westward, eliminate the Yellow Turban Army entrenched in Jinan, and restore stability to Qingzhou.

At this time, Xu Huang had returned from Donglai County, and the Yellow Turban Army in Donglai County had either been wiped out or driven away to Dongguan County in Xuzhou, and the Yellow Turban thieves in Beihai State, Le'an County and Qi State in the east of Qingzhou had been completely pacified and normal order was restored.

Xu Huang and Fang Liang felt that compared to Gao Shun, their combat exploits were too few, too insignificant, and they had to speed up their attacks.

Fang Liang's newly recruited 4,000 recruits have been training for a month, and Fang Liang discussed with Xu Huang to march into Jinan.

Xu Huang was very excited, if the lord sent troops to help pacify the area north of the Yellow River in Qingzhou, they only needed to pacify the Yellow Turban of Jinan, and if the Yellow Turban of Qingzhou was pacified, they would have completed the task assigned by His Majesty.

When the officers and soldiers learned that the army led by Gao Shun had killed Zhang Bao and Zhang Jiao, their morale was high, and they all hoped to send troops as soon as possible to clear the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou and establish new achievements.