Wanling, in a dense forest on the west bank of Cold Water.

"Head, the man is coming!"

There are Xiliang soldiers who rushed into the dense forest and said to Zhao Da, who was sitting on the grass roasting rabbits.

"Oh, Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi are here?"

Zhao Da suddenly perked up when he heard this, and he waited for more than half a month, but he was really stuffy.

Although I know that Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi's two teams are in Jingzhou, but I don't know where they are, I sent someone to look for it for more than half a month, and now there is finally news, damn, it's not easy.

"Exactly!"

As soon as Xiliang Bing answered, a group of people had already entered outside.

"Zhao Da, you turtle son is not doing well!"

Wang Heixiong strode over, and at a glance saw Zhao Da sitting by the fire roasting rabbits, and said with a big grin: "Lao Tzu has already found a big fish in Xiangyang, your son has to let people pull Lao Tzu to Jiangdong, dog, if you can't get Zhou Yu to Liangzhou this time, your turtle son will have to compensate me for a big fish!" ”

Li Heizi also said: "That's it, I also found a big fish, if I can't catch Zhou Yu, I have to pay for one!" ”

"I'm your ancestor!"

Zhao scolded magnificently: "Even your two sons can find big fish?" Damn, if you really find the big fish, you two dogs will run to Jiangdong with their eyes? If you don't do it, get out of here, Lao Tzu is looking for Chen Mazi and Li Daniu! ”

"Hey, hey!"

Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi laughed dryly, walked to the fire and sat down.

"You turtle son is so rare!"

Wang Heixiong said: "Don't think that if you get Gan Ning to Liangzhou, you will go to heaven, Sima Hui is no worse than Gan Ning, Lao Tzu's credit is a little greater than yours, what's so strange about finding a big fish." ”

Zhao Da squinted his eyes and said, "Tell me, which big fish has your turtle son found, can you compare with Zhou Yu?" ”

Wang Heixiong said proudly: "Zhou Yu is the biggest fish set by the lord. Of course, it can't be compared with Zhou Yu, but it is also one of the few big fish that the lord said, do the brothers Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang in Jingzhou know? Lao Tzu has already inquired clearly! ”

"Just you?"

Zhao Da snorted and said, "Damn it." Even if you are a good thing, you still have to catch those two big fish, and you don't pee to take care of yourself. The first stop that Lao Tzu went to was Xiangyang. stared at those two big fish for three months, but didn't find a chance, as long as people came out of Xiangyang City, there were hundreds of thousands of people around them, even Gan Ning didn't have a problem with others, even your grandson also wanted to arrest people? ”

"Hey, hey!"

Wang Heixiong was really embarrassed this time, and he was a little annoyed and angry.

Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue brothers are indeed not easy to tie, he has been staring at Xiangyang for almost half a year. I didn't find a chance either.

Even if you want to assassinate, you don't have the slightest chance.

Otherwise, he would not have received the news, so he brought people to Wanling.

Li Heizi picked his teeth and said, "Okay, Zhao Da, don't be a dog, let's talk about how to get Zhou Yu's big fish back, that guy is the biggest fish designated by the lord himself, if you get it back, damn it, even if we are sixty or seventy people." At worst, each person can get a title similar to that of the county order. ”

Zhao Da snorted a few times and said, "Let's talk about it first, the biggest credit is mine." Zhou Yu was found by Lao Tzu, as long as he took the first credit, if the lord became the emperor in the future, Lao Tzu would definitely be able to give the credit of a marquis. ”

"You're shit luck!"

Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi scolded their mothers in unison, but they didn't do anything halfway.

Zhou Yu's fish is too big, even if there are many people, the head skill is definitely enough to seal the marquis.

The big fish was discovered by Zhao Da, and people naturally have nothing to say about their first work.

"Hehe, envy. Be jealous, I don't care! ”

Zhao Da smiled proudly. "Alright, call all of your clever men. Let's hurry up and discuss how to get the big fish back, although the credit of this big fish is great, but it is not easy to catch at all! ”

Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi didn't talk nonsense, and immediately called a few of their more clever boys over.

More than a dozen people gathered around the fire, talking about strategies.

Zhao Da was the first to say: "Lao Tzu said first, it is definitely not possible to come hard, this is Sun Jian's territory, Zhou Yu's kid is the captain under Sun Jian, we only have about 60 people, even if we can kill Zhou Yu's personal soldiers and rob that guy, we will definitely not be able to escape from Yangzhou, so our hands and feet must be clean, and no one can find us!" ”

Li Heizi said: "Then what should we do, the big fish is hiding in Wanling City and doesn't come out, how can we catch it?" ”

Zhao Dadao: "Nonsense, do you still need to talk about this, you can only wait for the big fish to go out of the city before you do it." ”

Wang Heixiong said: "Zhou Yu's kid must have been guarded by his own soldiers when he goes out of the city, and it's not so easy to do it, right?" ”

Zhao Dahehe smiled: "Don't worry about this, Lao Tzu has already let people find out, Zhou Yu's kid has fallen in love with Qiaojiazhuang's little girl, and he will go to Qiaojiazhuang every month to have a tryst with the little lady, we have a chance!" ”

Li Heizi asked, "Then how far is Qiaojiazhuang from Wanling City?" ”

Zhao Dadao: "More than thirty miles away!" ”

Wang Heixiong said: "More than thirty miles is enough, as long as we can catch Zhou Yu, it is enough for us to run away." ”

"Run a fart!"

Zhao Da sneered: "It is more than fifty miles from Qiaojiazhuang to the riverside, if someone escapes, Sun Jian's army will definitely catch up before we escape to the riverside, and there is also Sun Jian's army blockade on the river, how to run?" ”

Wang Heixiong said angrily: "Then what do you say? ”

Zhao Da said slowly: "You dog is in a hurry, just listen to Lao Tzu slowly say no." ”

Wang Heixiong scolded: "If you have a fart, let it go quickly, you will be the first to die!" ”

Zhao Da snorted twice and said: "Lao Tzu has already thought about it, then Qiaojiazhuang is only about 20 people, as long as we control Qiaojiazhuang before the big fish goes to Qiaojiazhuang, arrest the two daughters outside Qiao, and then force Qiao Yuanwai to put some medicine or something in Zhou Yu's wine, and quietly kidnap Zhou Yu, isn't it unaware and unaware?" ”

"Good plan!"

Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi lit up at the same time and were very excited.

A Xiliang soldier asked: "However, after arresting Zhou Yu and Sun Jian, we will definitely send troops to chase after us, how can we escape to Jiangbei?" ”

Zhao Dadao: "This is not a problem, Lao Tzu has already made ten boats by the river near Spring Valley, and a few fishermen nearby are waiting, as long as we can escape to Spring Valley before Sun Jian's army catches up." can escape to Jiangbei. ”

"It's done!"

All the Xiliang soldiers shouted at the same time, all of them in high spirits.

Zhao Da said with some distress: "The key problem now is that I don't know when Zhou Yu will go to Qiaojiazhuang." If we start early, we will definitely leak the news; It's late to get started. It's definitely too late, damn it. ”

Li Heizi said: "Why don't you tie up that little lady and blackmail Zhou Yu?" ”

Zhao Da said angrily: "It's you instead, are you fucking willing to lose your life for a woman?" ”

"Uh, this ......"

Li Heizi scratched his head and pushed it back, "Damn, what are you talking about?" ”

Zhao Dadao: "Lao Tzu thought of a way. I don't know if it's going to work. ”

"Speak quickly!"

Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi said in unison.

Zhao Da grabbed his scalp and said: "If such a thing is the lord and the military advisor, there will definitely be a way, damn, it's all because Lao Tzu didn't study and didn't know how to learn." Lao Tzu thinks that if we can control Qiaojiazhuang, we can let Qiao Yuanwai or the little lady write a letter to Zhou Yu and deceive Zhou Yu, what do you think? ”

"Definitely not!"

Wang Heixiong's black pockmarks were the first to jump up and retorted: "We don't even have a literate person here." If that Qiao wrote a letter outside the house and sold us, it would be dead. ”

Zhao Da's heart sank. That's when I remembered this stubble.

Wang Heixiong nodded again and again: "Yes, this method doesn't work, it's still Hei Mazi, you kid is clever!" ”

Hei Mazi laughed a few times and said, "I have a way." ”

Zhao Datou glared and scolded: "If you have a fart, let it go quickly!" ”

Hei Mazi said: "There is a thirty-mile road from Qiaojiazhuang to Wanling, and Zhou Yu is not in a hurry, how can you walk from Wanling to Qiaojiazhuang for more than half an hour, there is such a long time, it is enough for us to control Qiaojiazhuang." ”

Wang Heixiong scolded: "Bullshit, we don't have war horses. Even if you send someone to keep an eye on it, wait for the news to be delivered. Zhou Yu is also about to arrive at Qiaojiazhuang, how can he do it. What a fucking bad idea you came up with. ”

Hei Mazi smiled and said, "Isn't it okay to use beacon fire to communicate!" ”

Zhao Da's eyes lit up suddenly, and he said, "This method is good!" ”

Li Heizi also clapped his hands and applauded, and couldn't help but look at Hei Mazi with admiration.

Don't look at this kid is not tall, his head is really good.

Wang Heixiong's face darkened, and he gave Hei Mazi a potsticker with his backhand, and scolded: "Damn, you are raised by a turtle son, why didn't people say it earlier, the harmful Lao Tzu made a fool of himself, and he will clean you up when he turns around!" ”

Hei Ma shouted: "I just thought of it." ”

"Damn, that's it!"

Zhao Datou finally made a decision, and a group of big-headed soldiers with better brains began to discuss how to use beacon fire to communicate, although these big-headed soldiers were not very calculating, but they also knew that the beacon fire communication could not be used indiscriminately, otherwise it would definitely arouse suspicion.

However, as the saying goes, three stinky fart craftsmen can still top one Zhuge Liang.

Under the temptation of great merit, the wisdom of these Xiliang soldiers exploded, and the brains that they didn't usually like to use became all more alert, and they controlled their minds to plan how to tie Zhou Yu to Liangzhou.

Even if one person's consideration is more than missing, there will be other Xiliang soldiers to fill the vacancy.

Sanzi said: "Beacon fire transmission is a method used by the army, if we just put a pile of fire, it will not work without smoke, if we make smoke, if Wanling's soldiers and horses think that there is an enemy sneak attack, Zhou Yu will be in trouble if he does not come." ”

Zhao Da asked, "What good ideas do you have kid?" ”

The third son said with a smile: "The last time Zhou Yu went to Qiaojiazhuang, it was the south gate of Wanling, and this time it will definitely be no exception." The river in Wancheng passed by the south of Wanling, we sent two people to pretend to be fishermen, go to the river to catch two fish and barbecue fish on the river near the city gate, as long as we see Zhou Yu out of the city, get some half-dry firewood, even if there is more smoke, it will not make people suspicious! ”

"That's a good idea!"

Zhao Datou gave the third son a slap and scolded with a smile: "It's still your kid with a long face!" ”

Wang Heixiong glared at Hei Mazi fiercely, "Damn, don't give Lao Tzu a long face at all!" ”

The black pockmarked rolled his eyes angrily.

After discussion, a group of red-eyed Xiliang soldiers immediately took action.

The sentry of the sentry, the sentry of the inquirement.

In order to ensure that the action went smoothly, Zhao Da personally led people to find out the terrain of Qiaojiazhuang, and Wang Heixiong and Li Heizi's men were not familiar with the terrain here, so they had to continue to hide in the dense forest to avoid being targeted.

These Western Liang soldiers are hiding monsters in the Kanto. Because there are several teams of people who have done this or that, these guys are all very vigilant, every other day. Just change places, and I've developed a habit.

……

Hanzhong changed hands. The most nervous is Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang.

From August to October, soldiers and horses were frequently mobilized in various passes in the northern part of Yizhou, and a large number of soldiers and horses were sent to Langzhong, Baishui Pass, Jiange, Jiameng Pass and other dangerous passes, and Xichuan's spies were even more frequent to prevent Luo Zheng from taking the opportunity to go south to Xichuan.

How could Luo Zheng pay attention to Liu Zhang, while guarding the gate of Guanzhong, he seized the time to manage the government and the people, and reorganize the army.

Liangzhou had only 30,000 standing troops, plus Gao Shun's 20,000 Tuntian soldiers. During the attack on Guan, a total of 5,000 soldiers and horses were mobilized. And after the defeat of Guanzhong, the number of prisoners alone was no less than 50,000.

Among them, Guo Yan and Zhang Ji were defeated, and about 30,000 soldiers were recruited.

Coupled with Yang Feng's 8,000 Hedong soldiers, more than 20,000 troops in Hanzhong surrendered, at least no less than 60,000 surrendered soldiers.

These more than 60,000 soldiers, excluding those who are slightly older or disabled, can continue to go to the battlefield There are also more than 50,000 young and strong men who can continue to go to the battlefield.

Although the ingredients are a little more complicated. But that's not a problem.

If you are a group of people, it is very difficult to train into an army in a short period of time.

But these soldiers were all soldiers. More or less have been on the battlefield several times, and there are even many veterans who have experienced many battles, and they don't need to spend much effort at all, as long as they are slightly reorganized, they will be pulled into the battlefield.

As for the complexity of the composition of the soldiers, this is not a problem at all.

Luo Zheng doesn't have the patience of Gao Shun, training a group of folk men who have never been on the battlefield, but he likes to train this kind of thorn the most.

For him, these tens of thousands of pawns are definitely a lot of wealth.

You must know that there have not been many soldiers and horses under Luo Zheng's command. Recuperation under the rule is one thing, but the main reason is still limited by the population. Because the population under his rule is too small, there is no way to recruit a large number of young people. Otherwise, agricultural production will be affected.

finally has a group of strong men, how can there be any reason to let go.

After Luo Zheng and Jia Xu, Xun Yu and other confidants discussed, they immediately ordered the construction of a Tuntian camp in Chang'an, except for the 8,000 Hedong soldiers led by Yan Xing to guard Guanzhong, the rest of the soldiers were all organized into a 50,000-strong Tuntian army.

In addition to cultivating the fields, this tuntian army was also responsible for the defense of Guanzhong.

As for the mobile troops, they adopted the views of Jia Xu and Xun Yu, and still only retained 30,000 mobile troops.

There are a lot of Tuntian battalions under Luo Zheng's rule, and there are no less than ten large and small Tuntian battalions, but the vast majority of Tuntian soldiers do not go to the battlefield, and even if there is a war, they will only be responsible for transporting grain and grass or doing other work.

Only Gao Shun's 20,000 Tuntian soldiers and Chang'an's Tuntian battalion had to fight wars in addition to farming.

Once there is a war, these 70,000 tuntian soldiers will go to the battlefield at any time.

Guanzhong was completely destroyed by Guo Yan, Xu Rong and others, and in just two or three years, Guanzhong was full of scorched earth.

Originally, there were more than 10,000 people in Guanzhong, but in the past two or three years, there have been hundreds of thousands of people who have fled to Liangzhou.

Together with those who fled to other places and starved to death, and those who died in the war, the number of people was at least half as low as possible. By the time Luo Zheng pacified Guanzhong, Xun Yu roughly investigated, and the current population of Guanzhong was estimated to be less than 700,000.

You must know that during the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty, the population of the Sanfu region alone was no less than five million.

The population distribution in the Western Han Dynasty was extremely uneven, the population in the north was dense, but the south was almost a barren land, eighty percent of the population of the Han Dynasty was distributed in the north, and Chang'an as the capital, the population of Guanzhong reached an astonishing number in the heyday of the Western Han Dynasty.

If we add Hedong, Hongnong and other places, there are at least seven or eight million people, and Chang'an County alone has 500,000.

This number is quite staggering, with a population of more than 100,000, it is already a super-large county among large counties.

The population of a county reached 500,000, which also illustrated the dense population of Guanzhong in the Western Han Dynasty.

And now, the population of Guanzhong is less than 700,000, which shows how wasteful Guanzhong is.

In recent years, there have been constant wars in Guanzhong, and the people who could not survive either died of famine or military disasters, or fled with their families to Liangzhou and Hanzhong, even if there are hundreds of thousands of people left, they are also hot.

According to the feedback from various places, there are almost no people in Guanzhong who can eat their stomachs now.

If the people are not allowed to recuperate, the population of Guanzhong will drop sharply when this winter passes.

Luo Zheng had to temporarily slow down his plan to attack the surrounding area. Carefully govern Guanzhong.

Although Liangzhou has reaped a bumper harvest in recent years, it has also to bear tremendous pressure in governing Guanzhong, and the accumulated money and grain can only barely feed hundreds of thousands of people in Guanzhong. It's going to take at least two years to pick up a bit.

After the corn was planted in October, Luo Zheng convened a large-scale military meeting.

General Pindi's Mansion. More than 50 people gathered together, and it was quite meteorological.

The county guards, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Yan Xing and other generals all rushed back.

Xun Yu is talking about the harvest of autumn grain, "After breaking through Chang'an last year, due to sufficient time, 30,000 hectares of corn were planted in Sanfu area after the beginning of spring this year, but the two counties of Hedong and Hongnong missed the agricultural time and planted wheat. At present, almost all the autumn grain has been levied, because of the large-scale reduction and exemption of taxes in Guanzhong, most of the money and grain collected by the ten counties of Liangzhou have been invested in the governance of Guanzhong, and now there are 5.2 million stones of grain in the treasury, and 230,000 and 600 yuan of money! ”

Luo Zheng frowned when he heard this, "Why is there so little money?" ”

Xun Yu said helplessly: "The lord has exempted almost all the taxes of the people, and the government can only collect land taxes, and the money and silver obtained by the lord have been spent almost in the past two years, so there is not much silver in the treasury." ”

Luo Zheng said: "What about the grain, you can always eat it for several years!" ”

Xun Yu smiled bitterly: "Lord." That's not how the account is calculated, because there is not much money in the treasury, and all expenses have to be paid with grain. Just to pay the soldiers, they get more than 1.6 million stone of grain every year, and the government also needs more than 300,000 stone of grain for various expenses, 1 million stone for seeds, and at least 1 million stone of grain to deal with all kinds of disasters that may occur, so don't look at the more than 5 million stone of grain in the government treasury, but it can barely maintain daily expenses, which is not enough to support large-scale military operations. At least it will not be until next year's autumn grain is in the field to have a slight surplus! ”

Luo Zheng became more and more unhappy when he heard this, and the rest of the people also looked at each other.

Jia Xu looked at Luo Zheng. said: "Lord, Guan Zhong was scorched by Guo Yan, Xu Rong and others. It has only been a year since our army pacified Guanzhong, and the people have been exempted from all taxes, and it is already very good to be able to maintain the daily operation of the government. ”

"Wen He is right, it's General Ben who is in a hurry!"

Luo Zheng rubbed his eyebrows and asked, "Do the people have surplus food?" ”

Xun Yu said: "The people of Liangzhou have surplus food, surplus money, support for the elderly, and medical treatment for the sick. Guanzhong has been abandoned for a long time because of many farmlands, and some rivers have been in disrepair for a long time, although they have not missed the spring ploughing, but the autumn grain is slightly worse than that of Liangzhou, but the lord has reduced all the taxes of the people in Guanzhong for a year, including grain, so the people in the Sanfu area are well fed and clothed or no problem, and so on this year the abandoned farmland and rivers will be dredged again, and next year's autumn grain should be able to have a good harvest. As for the two counties of Hedong and Hongnong, because they missed the spring ploughing and did not plant gold and rice, the people had a slight lack of harvest. However, the people of the two counties add up to only more than 300,000, even if the autumn grain is not harvested, the problem is not big, and the grain stored in the treasury can completely settle the people who have failed to harvest the autumn grain! ”

Luo Zheng nodded and said, "That's good!" ”

After a pause, he asked Cheng Ying again, "What have the recent movements of the Huns in Hetao?" ”

Cheng Ying replied: "There is no movement, the independent public has entered the main Guanzhong, and the Qiang, Clan, and Yue Clans of Xihai and Shangjun have become much more honest, and they no longer dare to plunder the people of Guanzhong." ”

Jia Xu said: "After the autumn grain is put to the ground, Guanzhong has basically stabilized, as long as you hold the passes, there is no need to divide troops to garrison the cities, the lord can use troops after the beginning of spring, as much as possible to pacify the Hetao area!" ”

Luo Zheng said 'um' and said in an unquestionable tone: "Spread the Qiang, Di and Xiongnu departments of the Hetao, and ordered all the departments to gather the battleable soldiers of their headquarters after the beginning of spring, and rushed to Yong'an to assemble and obey the orders, but if there are those who do not obey, the joint department will be razed to the ground!" ”

"Yes!"

Cheng Ying gave up, her face was calm, and she had no objections.

Others have no objections, the Xiliang army's slaughter of foreign tribes has become commonplace, and there is nothing surprising about it.

If he is obedient, Luo Zheng may still give these aliens a way out.

But if there is even a slight resistance, it must be bloodily suppressed until these aliens dare not resist again.

Originally, he was going to use troops on Hetao, and sent someone to deliver a message, if he could scare a few Qianghu tribes, it would be best to directly lead the crowd to vote without resisting, if he did not surrender, then it would mean that these Qiang, Di, Yueshi and other Hu and Huns would fight to the death with Luo Zheng to the end, then there was nothing to say, just suppress it bloodily, kill and burn it all up. (To be continued) R580