The Yellow Turbans believe in the Taiping Dao, which is a secret sect.

Throughout the ages, in order to attract a wide range of followers and spread their teachings, all religions have used the blessings and causes of previous or future lives as an excuse to outline an unattainable but incomparably better future for the ignorant people.

To put it bluntly, it is a process of brainwashing.

The Yellow Turbans have also experienced such a brainwashing process. However, due to the relatively short period of rise of Taiping Dao, the leaders have long been killed by the official army, and the current remnants of the Yellow Turban have no spiritual leader.

And thieves such as Zhang Leigong and Li Damu did not have the ability of Zhang Jiao and other early leaders of the Yellow Turbans, and the beliefs of their followers were no longer as firm as before, and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans had gradually deviated from the original intention of Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Army and began to transform into bandits.

Although the captured Yellow Turbans would also shout a few words, "The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand", their faith has long been shaken.

was captured by the officers and soldiers, and they expected to die, but they didn't expect that the officers and soldiers of Lingqiu treated them very kindly. Not only did they not beat and scold, but they vacated the barracks and provided food. There were even military medicine craftsmen who treated wounded and sick prisoners.

It is rare for faith to transcend the human desire for life.

The best way to deal with brainwashing is to brainwash and re-inject normal ideas and concepts.

Re-brainwashing is not an easy task.

However, don't forget, Liu Mang's army has Liu Bowen!

Liu Bowen's sharp teeth can fool the puppet emperor Zhang Ju, and of course, he can fool these ignorant Yellow Turbans.

People's hearts are long, and the captured Yellow Turbans saw that these officers and soldiers treated them even better than the "generous" leaders, coupled with the preaching and enlightenment of Liu Bowen and others, some of the Yellow Turbans began to repent.

When they heard that the officials and soldiers could help them settle down and allow them to farm, and that they would be exempted from large taxes, most of the captives expressed their willingness to be the Han Dynasty and the people, abandon the Taiping Dao, and resubmit to the imperial monarchy.

Those who are strong and willing to join the army are scattered and incorporated into various ministries.

Those who are willing to return to the fields are transferred to Dai County, where wasteland is allocated, seeds are provided, and simple houses are built.

There are also some captured Yellow Turbans who are unwilling to submit, and Liu Mang also treats these people differently.

Those who are hesitant and difficult to give up because they have family members still in the mountains will be released. These people can always bring some positive information into the mountains, and indirectly play a role in disintegrating the yellow scarves.

As for the small number of die-hard people, Liu Mang is not the leader of the democratic regime, and does not have so much time and energy to completely reform them.

order, secretly killed, buried.

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The Yellow Turbans who returned to obedience once again lived the life of normal people, and no longer had to sleep in the open and worry about it.

Enjoying the beauty of normal life and feeling the friendliness of the officials and soldiers here, some of the converts took the initiative to go into the mountain to persuade their relatives and friends to go down the mountain.

In just one month, there were hundreds of people who went out of the mountain and returned to obedience!

Although it is only a small part of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in the mountains, it is an excellent signal and a beginning.

Liu Mang stepped up his efforts in Dai County. Dai County is close to Qiyi River, and due to its small population, there is a lot of wasteland on the river beach that can be reclaimed.

In addition to allocating arable land and providing seeds to those who returned to the mountains, Liu Mang also formulated a policy of distributing compensatory rations according to the amount of land reclamation in order to encourage reclamation according to Fan Zhongyan's suggestion.

Wasteland needs to be cultivated slowly, and crops need time to grow. The compensatory ration is to ensure that these people will not starve before the autumn harvest.

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Most of the people who went down the mountain and returned to Shun were the "small square" yellow turbans who lived near the foot of Taihang Mountain. This part of the people, under Zhang Leigong Li Damu, has a low status, is bullied, and their belief in Taiping Dao is relatively weak.

The larger number and more difficult to solve are those "generous" yellow turbans, as well as the "small squares", the larger number of teams.

It is difficult to persuade them to go down the mountain by lobbying alone, and when necessary, it is not polite to beat them.

The teams of Dai County and Lingqiu have been stepping up their training.

dug the foot of Zhang Lei Gong Li Damu's wall, hundreds of nearly a thousand people went down the mountain to submit, and the two thieves will definitely not be reconciled.

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Under the mountain lived the life of a man, and on the mountain lived the life of a thief.

The good and bad are obvious, and the yellow turbans on the mountain are beginning to show signs of disintegration.

At this time, it is most necessary to strengthen prevention.

Zhang Leigong and Li Damu are not fools, they will not let all the parties under them rebel one after another. And defeating the officials and troops of Daixian and Lingqiu is the best way for them to stabilize their thieving hearts.

Of course, Liu Mang is also very aware of this. Fu Youde, who had already been ordered in Ban's, led the infantry team to rush back to Daixian, ready to meet the Yellow Turban thieves at any time, and Man Gui's cavalry continued to stay in Ban's.

Zhang Leigong and Li Damu obviously overestimated their numerical superiority, and led the thieves down the mountain to attack Daixian and Lingqiu several times, but they were all defeated and returned to the mountain in a disastrous defeat.

Liu Mang did not dare to relax, and ordered all departments to take turns patrolling and discovering the movements of the thief army at any time.

The relatively calm period also shows that the thieves on the mountain are brewing a greater offensive.

Li Xiucheng of Lingqiu suddenly sent someone to urgently ask the young master Liu Mang to rush to Lingqiu, and there was important military information.

Liu Mang immediately brought Liu Bowen and others to Lingqiu.

It turned out to be a secret envoy sent from the mountain.

There are more than ten thieves on the mountain, named "Dafang", and this secret envoy is sent by Pei Yuanshao, one of the "Dafang" canal marshals!

If it were someone else, Liu Mang might not know. But Pei Yuanshao and Liu Mang are still clear.

Because of worshipping Guan Gong in his previous life, Liu Mang knows the people around Guan Yu very well. Not only knew Guan Gong's son Guan Xing Guan Ping, but also knew Zhou Cang, who was holding the Qinglong Yanyue Knife for Guan Gong, and also knew that Pei Yuanshao had already taken refuge in Guan Yu, but he was very unlucky, because he wanted to rob Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong's horse, and was killed by Zhao Yun.

Although Pei Yuanshao was a "generous" commander of the mountain, he was quite squeezed out by Zhang Leigong and Li Damu, and intended to go down the mountain to return to Shun, not only for fear of alarming Zhang Leigong and Li Damu, but also worried that he was a "generous" commander and would not escape punishment after going down the mountain, so he sent a secret envoy to investigate the style of the official army.

This is definitely good news!

Although it cannot be ruled out that Pei Yuanshao and Zhang Leigong and Li Damu may collude and conspire, at least it shows that the thieves on the mountain are already timid.

Pei Yuanshao's "generosity", with more than 1,000 yellow turbans, is one of the largest forces on the mountain except for Zhang Leigong and Li Damu. If he is willing to submit, the foundation of the thieves in the mountains will be completely loosened!

Liu Mang immediately ordered the secret envoy to send a letter to Pei Yuanshao, explaining that as long as he was willing to go down the mountain and return to obedience, all the past crimes of the Yellow Turbans from him down would be written off and would not be investigated.

The envoy returned to the mountain with the letter, and soon returned.

Pei Yuanshao was very grateful to Liu Junwei, but he was still worried, afraid that he would be liquidated after going down the mountain. I hope to discuss with Liu Junwei in person to feel at ease.

Pei Yuanshao did not dare to go down the mountain, but actually proposed to hope that Liu Junwei would personally or send an identity secret envoy to the mountain to discuss in detail.

"I'll go!"

Liu Mang did not hesitate.

Of course, Liu Bowen and others will not agree, what Pei Yuanshao said, it is still difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. The young lord Liu Mang, the master of the whole army and the lord of the people, how can he easily make risks.

Liu Mang's decision was by no means reckless and impulsive.

Since Pei Yuanshao is willing to submit to Guan Yu, of course he can submit to me Liu Mang!

It's just that how did Liu Bowen and others know the details of Pei Yuanshao, and resolutely disagreed with Liu Mang's risk.

Go, dangerous; If you don't go, you may miss the great opportunity to completely dismantle the thieves......