Gao Shida was beheaded by Luo Yi in Hejian County, and 50,000 horses were wiped out, and Luo Yi only paid a small price for the defeat at the beginning. As soon as Gao Shida's head was sent to Chen Pojun's account, Chen Kefu was also very satisfied with Luo Yineng's ability to completely solve Gao Shida in Hejian County in such a short period of time, and there was only negligible damage to the headquarters.

In his heart, he secretly said that this Luo Yi is really a bit of a donkey, so he retreated and went backwards. The secret way of the ancients is that the king's art is said, and it is better to use it than to make merit to his subordinates, and sure enough, the ancients did not deceive me.

At this time, Chen Pojun led 70,000 soldiers and horses to station in Jingcheng, Hejian County, and there were still three days away from Leshou. However, the battle has been fought so far, and Chen Pojun has also become a bamboo in his chest. Although it was a defeat at the beginning, 10,000 soldiers and horses were lost. However, at present, Li Jing has waved his troops south, and has taken the two counties of Pingyuan County and Bohai County, and just now Luo Yi has pacified Gao Shida of Hejian County, and this peasant army in southern Hebei is now only Dou Jiande. Although Dou Jiande has performed well several times, he can't stop the general trend.

He has no worries about encircling and suppressing Dou Jiande. On the contrary, he is more concerned about the local people in Hebei, when he first entered Hebei, the situation of Zhuo County also surprised him a little, the first big city in Hebei, but the people are mostly noodles and vegetables, and the markets in the city are even more withered. Even under the city of Zhuo County, there were many refugees fleeing the famine, and Chen Kefu was also very shocked when he looked at the people who dragged their families and had no light in their eyes.

In the past, it was often said that Liaodong was bitterly cold, but in fact, in recent years, Liaodong has been exempted from taxes because of the newly occupied land, and secondly, because the local government is all newly built, there are also few various apportionment fees. plus the people who first entered Liaodong. Most of them were the civilians and disabled retired soldiers in the Liaodong Army, as well as the families of military families who later moved into Liaodong. After the pacification of Liaodong. There is no war, and there is no seriousness. And the people who moved into Liaodong were given a lot of land, and there were many relatives in their families who received generous salaries. In recent years, the commerce of Liaodong has been very active and developed, and there are countless workshops and workshops. When the people are not working, they can work to make money, and after a few years, every family has more than enough food and clothing, and even some are rich.

In Liaodong, he was accustomed to seeing the people's subsistence life, and when he entered Hebei at the first time, he saw such a miserable situation, which also made him feel very uncomfortable. At that time, Chen Pojun had lived in Zhuo County for more than 20 years. Hebei is a plain, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the granary of the Great Sui. At the same time, it is close to the outside of the Sai, and there are many people who go out of the Sai to do business every year, and most of the people live a rich life.

But it's only been a few years now. Hebei has become a wilderness, and hungry people are everywhere. Even those big families are not having a good time. This southern expedition, all the way south, although it is only from Zhuojun to Hejian, but the further south, the more withered the place, and even many places are uninhabited for hundreds of miles.

Even some of the bustling county towns in the early years. The bazaar has long been in ruins. All the way. From time to time, you can see those collapsed huts, and even see the white bones on the side of the road exposed.

Seven years to the present. For six consecutive years of turmoil, Hebei and Shandong are the most. One will be the official army crossing the border to suppress bandits, the other will be the bandits crossing the border and looting, and even in the end, the people can no longer distinguish between the official army and the bandits. Families are bankrupt, families are fleeing, and people are in dire straits.

He knew that most of the people in ancient times had no surplus property, and it was not easy to get food and clothing in a stable and good year. In a disaster year, it is often necessary to flee the famine and go out to beg for food. And this kind of behavior of going out to beg for food was even encouraged by the government during the disaster year. It is even recorded in the history books that in the early years of the rich Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty, there were several major droughts in the Guan, and the imperial court could only send those victims outside the Guanxi to beg for food.

It was still in the era of reunification and peace, and now it is the era of war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the plight of the people can be imagined. Along the way, Chen Kefu is thinking about the problem of Hebei, he clearly knows that it is not difficult to defeat Hebei, and now basically Hebei has fallen into his pocket.

However, how to govern and operate Hebei well is a big problem.

It's easy to fight the world right away, but it's hard to rule the world right away. Now that he has moved the capital to Beijing, he has already planned to make Hebei his base camp and his food and material production base. But the current situation is very severe, full of large and small bandits of rebels, traffic is blocked, fields are barren, and people are displaced in all directions. What is even more serious is that not long after the grain harvest just this year, there are already hungry people everywhere in Hebei. So when there are seven or eight months left before the grain harvest next year, how will those people live? Winter is approaching, but where will the displaced people live? …,

Even when the cities of Hebei were reoccupied, how to get the people to return to the villages, how to renovate their houses, and how to distribute the life-saving food they needed? Even the bandits in the surrounding mountains, forests, sands and rivers, and even the clans in the local cities and villages, how will they deal with it.

In the face of these countless problems, Chen Pojun is now a head and two big. These days, he sent Luo Yi and Li Jing to fight, but he walked slowly every day. Along the way, he constantly sent troops to surround and suppress the bandits in the mountains, forests and rivers, and used them to suppress and appease. On the one hand, he continued to collect the displaced people from all over the road, transported military rations from Hebei to distribute relief to the people, and cleaned up the cities on the road, temporarily appointed officials, and arranged for the people.

He deeply understood that the land of Hebei was too badly injured by the war. If he can't appease the people, then he will knock down all of Hebei here, and maybe there will be new rebels in Hebei soon. Especially in the land of Hebei, there are too many powerful families, and the clans are also very powerful. Chen Pojun slowly went south, and he also deliberately tried to find some solutions along the way.

Historically, Hebei was the first to rebel against the Sui, and after the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, there were also several major rebellions. Regarding his base camp in the future, Chen Pojun did not dare to be careless. But I also have a little plan in my heart, and I can only pay equal attention to Hebei.

On the one hand, he continued to suppress the Hebei peasant army that was still dissatisfied with the Liaodong Army, and on the other hand, he also showed more benevolence and righteousness to the people in various places, comforting the people to return to their hometowns and continue production.

The grim situation in Hebei made Chen Ke lose a lot of weight, and he didn't have much joy in the face of the Gao Shida head sent by Luo Yi.

Looking at the generals in the tent, Chen Kefu remembered their expressions one by one in his heart. He understood that all the generals were bent on going south quickly to make meritorious contributions, especially when they saw Luo Yi destroy Gao Shida, and Li Jing pacified the plains and Bohai counties, he was even more itchy in his heart.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now General Luo Yi has waved his troops to pacify Gao Shida, the bandit leader of Hejian County, and General Li Jing has gone south to pacify the Plain and the two counties of Bohai. Now there is only one Dou Jiande left in the southeast of Hebei, and now Dou Jiande lives in Leshou and is constantly recruiting troops and horses, this time, we must give him a devastating blow. ”

Wei Chi Jingde came out and said, "Your Highness, let me Lao Hei lead the three thousand men and horses of the headquarters to fight the vanguard, and I Lao Hei will never let His Highness down." ”

Cheng Yanjin, Luo Shixin and other generals also asked for their lives, and they couldn't wait to jump forward and ruthlessly exterminate Dou Jiande.

Chen Kefu shook his head, "You must not underestimate the enemy, Dou Jiande is not an unknown person. In the first battle of the plains, Dou Jiande broke Zhang Jin with 50,000 numbers and 250,000 horses. In the first battle of Leshou, Dou Jiande used 60,000 peasant troops to encircle and annihilate 10,000 elite cavalry in Hebei in one fell swoop. Guo Xun was only because of the light enemy that he would behead Xiang Shang. This king doesn't want to see your heads hanging on the flagpole in front of Dou Jiande's barracks. ”

As he spoke, Chen Kefu glanced at Xue Shixiong, the deputy marshal next to him. only to find that he was still as before, silent and silent. Xue Shixiong has unparalleled prestige in the Hebei army.

Luo Yi killed Li Jing, the marshal of Hebei, and dedicated Linyu Pass to Chen Pojun, after this incident, although Luo Yi was reused by Chen Pojun, it made his reputation in the Hebei army plummet. Although Luo Yi is now reused, except for his old subordinates and some old friends, most of the Hebei army is not ashamed of his character.

Now that the Hebei Army has been abandoned since Li Jing's death and Luo Yi was despised, Xue Shixiong, one of the original Hebei Twin Marshals, immediately became the most prestigious person in the Hebei Army, and his words and deeds still affect the more than 200,000 Hebei soldiers who have now surrendered to Chen Po's army.

Originally, Chen Pojun also had high hopes for the Xue family, after all, Xue Shixiong's prestige was there, and Xue Dingguo and the four tiger generals of the Xue family were also famous, but no matter how he tried to win him over, this Xue Shixiong would not enter. Although on the surface he surrendered himself, in fact, it was non-violent and non-cooperative, and Chen Pojun was not very satisfied with such a general. For him, there are only two kinds of generals, either he will use it for himself, and he will not hesitate to reward such a person with official positions, such as Luo Yi.

Either you can simply order it, such as Li Jing, anyway, it just won't fall, so that you can still get a little respect from him.

And like Xue Shixiong, he is the most despised. While surrendering, but half-hearted, this kind of person is also the most dangerous time bomb, one is not good, and something shocking will come out in the back.

This time he went south, he deliberately took Xue Shixiong, Luo Yi, Guo Xun and other generals of the Hebei Army to the south. First, it is to avoid leaving them to make trouble in the rear, and secondly, they have already prepared, planning to use this southern expedition to slowly digest these surrendered troops. If it can't be digested, then it's only consumed.

Looking at Xue Shixiong's cold face, Chen Pojun made a decision in his heart and said indifferently, "Dou Jiande has been in chaos in the river for a long time, and he knows the terrain well. In order to prevent the battle of Guo Xun from being ambushed again, this king ordered that the deputy marshal Xue Shixiong was the main general, and Xue Dingguo was the deputy general, and led the troops and horses to attack Dou Jiande immediately, and never gave him a chance to breathe. ”

Xue Shixiong accepted the general's order with a surprised face, still a little shocked in his heart. Hearing the transfer later, the 30,000 horses were all the original subordinates of the Hebei Army, which made his heart ripple. But when he heard that his four sons were all left in Chen Pojun's camp, his heart couldn't help but be gloomy