On the afternoon of the day Li Yuntian entered Xuanhua City, the gate of Xuanhua City, which had been closed, opened.

Under the stunned gaze of the victims outside the city, the soldiers of Xuanhuawei drove the carriages full of grain bags out of the city, and set up dozens of porridge sheds in the places where the victims gathered, officially opening the prelude to Xuanhua City's relief to the victims.

When the victims lined up to receive food, the soldiers who gave relief told them that Emperor Xuande had issued an edict to open the granary in Xuanhua City where military rations were originally stored to help them, which can be described as the emperor's grace, which made the victims shout "Long live the emperor".

At the same time, the Yamen, the prefect of Xuanhua Prefecture, posted notices both inside and outside the city, saying that General Dingnan had ordered that the people who would manage the victims of the disaster and the people of Xuanhua City would be recruited to enjoy the same benefits as the officials in the yamen, and that those with excellent political affairs would be recommended as officials after the rebellion in Jiaozhi was put down.

In addition to the "conscription order", there are also "land reclamation order" and "work for relief order", which have found jobs for those who have nothing to do.

In particular, the "order to open up the wasteland and return to the fields" caused an uproar among the victims, making the victims boil one after another, and no one would have thought that General Dingnan would issue such an edict, as long as ten acres of wasteland were reclaimed in Xuanhua Prefecture, then after the rebels were pacified, they could get five acres of wasteland in the place of household registration.

Fields were the most important asset in ancient society, especially in backward areas like Cochin, and the people regarded the fields as their lifeblood.

Obviously, Li Yuntian's move is not only to resettle these victims, but also to buy people's hearts and promote the development of agriculture in Jiaozhi.

The rebellion in Jiaozhi was huge, and many of the local clans and toasts in Jiaozhi were involved, and Li Yuntian was ready to take them and distribute their land to the people who did not participate in the rebellion.

In this way, those big clans and toasts will lose the foundation to support their family business, and at the same time, the imperial court will also gain the support of those who have obtained the land, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop.

Although the order for land reclamation and the order for work for relief are two decrees, there is a close connection between the two, to put it simply, that is, the order for work is the premise of the order for land reclamation:

Only families who send people to work for relief can get the right to open up land in Xuanhua Province, and allocate a land area according to the number of adult males in each family.

Li Yuntian had already asked people to urgently transfer farm tools from Taiping Mansion, and ordered blacksmiths from Taiping Mansion and Xuanhua Mansion to make hoes and shovels overnight to provide as many farm tools as possible for the victims to work.

A year later, the merchants who had won the commercial franchise and mining rights in Yangzhou would bring in the materials that Li Yuntian needed, including a large number of farm tools and seeds, just in time for spring ploughing, so that the area controlled by the Ming army could be restored to agricultural production.

Li Yuntian believed that by that time, he would be able to reach an armistice agreement with the rebels, so that the people of Jiaozhi would be able to extricate themselves from more than two years of war and recover some vitality.

In addition to opening a warehouse to help the victims, Li Yuntian also gave Li Qingzheng a breath of relief, and taught the grain merchants in Xuanhua City who hoarded Juqi, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people in Xuanhua City, he ordered the government to sell the grain in Xuanhua Cang to the people in the city at a flat price.

As a result, the high grain prices in Xuanhua Prefecture fell overnight, and the grain merchants in Xuanhua City who bought grain at high prices in an attempt to make huge profits were hit hard.

After two days of frenzied buying, the residents found that the government grain sales point still piled up a large amount of grain, and the ** of grain purchase suddenly subsided, making Xuanhua City go through the tide of panic grain purchases.

Faced with this terrible situation, the grain merchants in Xuanhua City quickly made two different choices, and some grain merchants quickly adjusted the grain price to the same price as the government, taking advantage of the huge demand from the residents to clear their grain stocks.

Other grain merchants insisted on the price of grain, believing that the war in Jiaozhi would continue for a long time, and the grain in Xuanhuacang was the only war reserve grain in Jiaozhi.

Therefore, they deduced that it was impossible for Li Yuntian to use all of it to meet the food needs of the residents of Xuanhua City, after all, the other state capitals in Jiaozhi were also short of food, so the price of grain in Xuanhua City would soon rise again.

It is a pity that these unlucky grain merchants did not know that Li Yuntian had already transferred grain from Taiping City, and there was no problem at all in meeting the grain needs of the people of Xuanhua City, and that those merchants who had obtained the Jiaozhi grain franchise before March next year would transport the first batch of grain ordered by Li Yuntian.

As long as the summer passes, the grain pressure in Cochin will be effectively relieved.

The climate and soil of Cochin are suitable for growing rice, which can be harvested twice a year, and next summer is the time to harvest early rice, and this batch of grain will solve the problem of eating for the people of Cochin.

After this incident, those grain merchants who gambled that Jiaozhi would continue to lack grain suffered heavy losses, and it was obvious that when the grain demand in Xuanhua Province reached saturation, their grain could only be reduced in price, otherwise it would be difficult to be attractive.

For five days in a row, Li Yuntian spent his time busy, not only dealing with the affairs of the disaster victims, dividing the areas to be cleared by the disaster victims, and determining the projects for work relief, but also formulating rules and regulations for recruiting personnel to manage the affairs of the disaster victims, and recruiting soldiers from the Xuanhua Prefecture soldiers and native soldiers.

With Li Yuntian sitting in Xuanhua City, the situation in the entire Xuanhua Mansion quickly stabilized, and the people who were disturbed by the rebels could finally live a normal life and no longer have to worry about the rebels coming.

On the sixth day, the people sent by Zhao Weide to Sanjiang Mansion to inquire about the news hurried back and brought a piece of news that Li Yuntian did not want to hear, and what he feared inevitably happened--Wang Tong had already led his army to evacuate Jiaozhou City and stationed on the spot after receiving Li Yuntian's military order in Sanjiang Prefecture.

It turned out that on the third day after the alliance with Li Li, Wang Tong left Jiaozhou City and surrendered Jiaozhou City to Li Li, so that Li Li's soldiers obtained the strongest city in Jiaozhi without blood.

When Wang Tong evacuated, the soldiers were divided into two routes, one was to go to Xin'an Mansion by Zhongguan Shanshou of the Jiaozhou garrison and Chen Zhi and others by Rongchangbo, and then to Qinzhou, Guangxi by waterway from Yuntun Wharf in Xin'an Prefecture, and the other route was led by him personally, and Ma Qi, a lieutenant guard of Jiaozhi Town, and others went to Taiping Mansion in Guangxi through Xuanhua Mansion.

According to the report of the people sent by Zhao Weide, Wang Tong led more than 150,000 soldiers and civilians who returned to the north, and more than half of the people in the entire Jiaozhou City followed him back to the interior.

Lai Li sent rebels to follow behind the Beigui soldiers and civilians, swaggering into the towns along the way, and taking them without much effort.

Today, not only has the entire Jiaozhou capital been completely returned to the rebels, but also some towns in the southern area of Sanjiang Province have also been stationed by rebels.

After Wang Tong and his entourage arrived at Sanjiang Mansion, the shape of Sanjiang City was suddenly chaotic, and the people were panicked, and those residents who had moved from the interior and some local officials and relatives hurriedly packed up and prepared to follow Wang Tong to the north.

Some local residents took the opportunity to extort money from those inland residents, which made those inland residents swallow their anger, and some inland residents' wives and daughters were even raped by land bullies.

Li Yuntian stood in front of the map of Jiaozhi, frowning and looking at the Beijiang Mansion to the east of Jiaozhou Mansion, Langjiang Mansion in the northwest of Beijiang Mansion had been rebels a few months ago, and Beijiang Mansion was now under the attack of the rebels of Jiaozhou Mansion and the rebels of Langjiang Province, and it was in danger.

With the loss of Jiaozhou capital, the Ming army not only lost the most important area of Jiaozhi, but also was in a passive position militarily, the geographical location of Jiaozhou City is very important, and it will become a strong forward fortress for the rebels to deter the Ming army.

Li Yuntian estimated in his heart that the state capitals in the hands of the Ming army included Zhenmanfu, Jianchang Mansion, Xin'an Prefecture, Beijiang Prefecture, Langshan Prefecture, Xuanhua Prefecture, Taiyuan Prefecture, Naturalized Zhili Prefecture, Jiaxing Zhili Prefecture, a total of seven prefectures and two Zhili Prefectures, and the area was less than one-third of Jiaozhi.

However, due to the high population density in the northern part of Cochin, the population of the area controlled by the Ming army accounted for about two-fifths of the total population of Cochin.

What made Li Yuntian feel particularly sorry was that Jiaozhou City, which was originally a frontier fortress in the confrontation with the rebels, was so easily abandoned by Wang Tong, which was really hateful.

But now that things have happened, even if Wang Tong is cut with a thousand knives, it will be too late, what Li Yuntian has done is to clean up this mess of Jiaozhi and stabilize the Ming army's position in Jiaozhi.

The only thing that made Li Yuntian feel relieved was that he had gathered many of Liu Sheng's defeated troops among the victims in Xuanhua City, and had been called up for training.

After the defeat of Liu Sheng, a large number of soldiers were killed by the rebels, and the rest fled in all directions, scattered in Langshan, Taiyuan, Xuanhua in the northeast of Jiaozhi and in the Guihua Zhili Prefecture in the north of Jiaozhi.

In the absence of an order from the imperial court to withdraw their troops, the defeated troops did not dare to leave Jiaozhi, and the local state capital was unable to settle them, so they had to stay with the victims.

Li Yuntian set up more than a dozen reporting points among the victims of the disaster, specially used to collect the defeated soldiers mixed with the crowd, and as the largest gathering place for the defeated soldiers, more than 10,000 defeated soldiers came to the reporting points to register in five or six days.

The soldiers who could escape from the rebels' knives were naturally strong and brave, and those who were weak had already died in the war, although those soldiers looked emaciated and emaciated, and their bodies were weak, but Li Yuntian believed that as long as they recuperated for a period of time, they could be revitalized.

Therefore, under Li Yuntian's arrangement, the Xiaowu Army specially dispatched more than 100 people to reorganize those defeated soldiers, and the dietary standards were compared with the Xiaowu Army, and they would become an important armed force at Li Yuntian's hands in the future.

Not only Xuanhua Prefecture, but also the military and political chiefs of Langshan Prefecture, Taiyuan Prefecture and Naturalized Zhili Prefecture had already received Li Yuntian's order to collect the defeated troops scattered among them, take care of them, and then send them to Xuanhua City.

To tell the truth, Li Yuntian did not expect to gather so many routs, and when the imperial court received a report from Wang Tong, Liu Sheng's army suffered heavy casualties and was almost wiped out.

In this way, it seems that Wang Tong exaggerated the losses suffered by the Ming army, or that he did not know the casualties of Liu Sheng's army at all, or that he did it deliberately, making the outside world think that the rebels were powerful and looking for excuses for him to avoid and cowardly the war.

No matter why Wang Tong did this, it was good news for Li Yuntian, what he needed most now was troops, and these defeated soldiers who escaped death were undoubtedly excellent soldiers.!^!

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