Back in Chencang, Gao Fei didn't have time to rest, so he enthusiastically devoted himself to repairing the city wall and strengthening the city defense. Although the city wall of Chencang is dilapidated, the foundation is not broken, and as long as it is repaired, it will definitely be able to change the old appearance into a new look.

In Chencang City, which is no more than ten miles long from east to west and only seven miles wide from north to south, thousands of soldiers are in full swing to work. They pushed to the dilapidated and uninhabited houses in the city, and then transported all the bricks and tiles out of the city, while other soldiers kept bringing stones from a hill ten miles away with a slight slope, and selected masons from among the people to polish them into a large square stone, and then sent them to the west gate of Chencang City.

Outside the West Gate, Goofy was directing some soldiers and cement. He had inspected the terrain on the second day after he arrived in Chencang, and saw that there were some limestones in the mountains near Chencang, so he felt that he could use them, and it was not until he got up early this morning that he really sent people to collect this kind of limestone, and then let people transport clay from thirty miles away, and then mixed some fine stones in it, and then mixed them with water, and it became the most primitive cement.

This building material was much stronger than the ancient clay alone, so Goofy ordered all his soldiers to start mixing this cement, and then accumulating the stonemason's polished stone piece by piece, because of the cement as a binder in the middle, it would be stronger when dried.

It is said that there are many people and there is great strength, which is not false at all, Gao Fei commanded these soldiers to work for only one morning, and a small urn city expanded inside the city wall already had a prototype. At lunchtime, all the soldiers began to leave their posts and return to their respective camps for an hour's rest.

Gao Fei returned to the county office, and Fu Xie and Gai Xun in the county government seemed to regard this place as the Hanyang Taishou Mansion, and were tirelessly calculating the daily food expenses of the army and how many people had been evacuated from Liangzhou, which was their own business and what they were good at.

Stepping into the county hall, Gao Fei arched his hand towards Fu Xie and Gai Xun and said, "Two adults, it's already noon, aren't you still eating?" ”

Fu Xie said: "Master Hou, you eat first, we are not in a hurry, if we can't accurately know how many people have been evacuated from Liangzhou, we will not be able to send back so many people in the future." According to Hua Xiong, the county lieutenant under Hou Ye, in the past eight days, a total of more than 60,000 people have entered Sanfu from Chencang. There are a total of 27,423 households in Hanyang County, with a total population of 131,118, and now more than 60,000 people have entered Sanfu, so I have to find out which nearby county these more than 60,000 people belong to. ”

Hearing that Fu Xie was as familiar with the population of the county under his jurisdiction as a few treasures, Gao Fei couldn't help but have a trace of admiration, and immediately arched his hand: "I didn't expect Lord Fu to be so familiar with the population of the county, but in the current situation, even if you know which county the people are from, what's the use?" ”

Gai Xun smiled and said: "Master Hou, do you know, Lord Taishou is estimating the tax problem in the future, and the specific number must be figured out, only in this way can His Majesty be extraordinarily rewarded, so as to reduce the taxes of Hanyang County." Not only that, I am now helping Hou Ye count the number of households and population in the entire Liangzhou, and now the rebels are estimated to have occupied most of Liangzhou, and without counting these losses, Dasi Nong and His Majesty will not be able to decide the number of years of tax reduction. ”

After hearing this, Gao Fei knew the intentions of Fu Xie and Gai Xun. He sighed lightly and said slowly, "Even if Your Majesty can reduce the taxes of the people of Liangzhou, what is the use?" After this turmoil, it will take at least a few years for Liangzhou to recover, and I am afraid that the people of Liangzhou who have entered Sanfu will not want to go back. ”

Fu Xie said: "Hou Ye's worries are not unreasonable, but it is better to reduce taxes than not to reduce taxes, as for the reduction and exemption for a few years, this will be left to Dasi Nong and His Majesty to decide." ”

Gao Fei deeply felt that Fu Xie and Gai Xun were good local officials, and if he went to Liaodong in the future, he might be able to use the abilities they were good at. Thinking of this, Gao Fei said: "Two adults, people are iron, rice is steel, if you don't eat a meal and get hungry, this kind of thing can't be estimated overnight, why don't you go and have a meal first, and after eating, I will send someone to help the two adults tidy up together?" ”

Fu Xie asked, "Is there any good way for Master Hou to count the population?" ”

Gao Fei nodded and said, "Most of the people who have poured into Sanfu now have been accepted by Jing Zhaoyin in the area of Chang'an, which is the land of Guanzhong, the place is vast, and more than 60,000 people can be able to temporarily settle down. If the two adults wanted to know the exact number, they would just send someone to the people's resettlement area to conduct a census from house to house. The two adults saw dead numbers in these booklets, and there was no way to look them up. ”

After Fu Xie heard this, his face showed joy, and he immediately closed the household registration book he was watching, and said to Gai Xun, who was reviewing it opposite: "Gai Changshi, let's go to dinner, Hou Ye's words are very incisive." Census, why didn't I think of it. ”

After eating, Gao Fei sent 500 soldiers to Fu Xie and Gai Xun to command, and asked them to take the 500 soldiers to the Chang'an area to conduct a census. Before leaving, Fu Xie and Gai Xun also said that they would get some grain and grass from Jing Zhaoyin, because the army stationed in the Chencang area only had half a month's worth of grain and grass left.

After seeing off Fu Xie and Gai Xun, Gao Fei went to visit the wounded Pang De, Pei Yuanshao, Xia Houlan, and the soldiers who were wounded in the war. After that, Gao Fei called Lu Heng and Liao Hua, he had not asked about the situation of the Gao clan since he came back yesterday, he wanted to know where Lu Heng and Liao Hua had arranged the Gao clan, because all the people around Chen Cang had been evacuated, including his thousand households.

"See Master Hou!" As soon as Lu Heng and Liao Hua entered the county hall, they bowed.

Gao Fei said: "Excuse me, let me ask you, where was the Gao clan migrated to?" ”

Lu Heng replied: "Hou Ye's clan was accepted by Jing Zhaoyin in the Chang'an area along with those people of Liangzhou, and the thousand families of Chen Cang also followed together, the news of the Liangzhou rebellion has reached Sanfu, Sanfu was shocked, and under the order of Lord Right Fufeng, all the people west of Wugong were evacuated to Guanzhong, and sent troops to garrison Wugong County, and sent people to ask Hou Ye to evacuate together, and his subordinates told them the news of Hou Ye in Liangzhou, and Lord Right Fufeng instructed his subordinates to tell the adults to guard Chen Cang, Don't let the rebels go, he will write a recital to the court to ask for reinforcements. ”

"Well, this right-handed-man-sama is handled very well. It's not a big deal these days I've been gone, has it? After hearing this, Gao Fei felt that there was nothing to worry about, after all, the time when the imperial court had not really existed in name only, Emperor Han Ling was still there, and in a sense, he could deter some people.

Liao Hua said: "It's nothing, everything is normal, but Hua Xiong recruited two hundred townsmen after Hou Ye left, and he originally wanted to tell Hou Ye yesterday, but seeing that Hou Ye was too tired, he delayed until today." ”

"Huaxiong is not bad, now is also the time to employ people, one more person is one more strength." Goofy said happily.

Lu Heng asked: "Master Hou, there is one thing that my subordinates don't understand, Master Hou went to Liangzhou once, why did he suddenly become the assassin of Liangzhou?" ”

Gao Fei smiled, so he briefly told Lu Heng and Liao Hua what happened in Liangzhou, and the two of them understood.

Liao Hua and Lu Heng told Gao Fei some big and small things that happened in Chen Cang, and Gao Fei also praised Liao Hua and Lu Heng vigorously after hearing it. After that, the three of them walked out of the county office together and went to direct the soldiers to repair the city wall and the urn city.

Three days later, the Chencang city wall was repaired, the urn city was also built, and the fortifications came to an end for the time being. In the days that followed, Goofy began to build catapults, bringing stones from the mountains for defense, and stonemasons polishing ten large rolling stones, one foot high and half a foot wide, which could be passed through under the city gates.

With soldiers and the strengthening of the defense of the city wall, Goofy became even more confident, and he began to measure the range of bows and arrows outside the city wall, as well as the range of catapults, and then marked them on the ground outside the city with stones. The Han army's bow and arrow have a long range, but the accuracy is poor, the infantry bow can shoot almost three hundred paces away, which is the strongest bow in the Han army, and the crossbow has a short range, but it is very accurate, and he asked people to take the short bow used by the cavalry, as well as two other bows and arrows with different tensions in the army, and personally shoot arrows outside the city, so that people can make marks.

The 300-step bow, the 200-step bow, the 150-step bow and the 100-step crossbow were each prepared with 1,000 soldiers for training, and they were handed over to Liao Hua, Lu Heng, Zhou Cang, and Guan Hai to lead. In addition to this, he also used the built catapults to be placed in different positions, so that the range of the fire was reduced one by one, forming a stepped range, so that in the face of fierce attacks from the rebels, he could defend well, using the most lethal weapons from different ranges.

In order to be foolproof, he even had people collect fire oil, and once these bows and crossbows could not suppress the attack of those rebels, he burned them with fire, all of which were based on a movie he had seen before called "Heavenly Dynasty", which he used skillfully here at this time, but it was very handy.

After completing all the city defenses, it was already five days later, and there was no offensive movement on the side of the rebels in Liangzhou, according to the scouts who returned, the rebels led by Bian Zhang and Han Sui had occupied Hanyang, Anding, Longxi, Jincheng, Wuwei and other places, and the number of rebels was gradually increasing.

After hearing the news brought back by the scout, Gao Fei began to worry about someone, that person was Jia Xu, and since he was separated in Poqiang County, he didn't know what happened to Jia Xu. For him, Jia Xu is a pivotal person, his current subordinates are all military generals, and there is no one like Jia Xu who is really a strategist, and the first strategist of the Three Kingdoms he met is Jia Xu, and he values this "poisoner" even more in his heart.

On September 26, Fu Xie and Gai Xun returned from Jingzhaoyin in Chang'an with 500 soldiers, and brought back an exciting news: all the Yellow Turbans in the Central Plains had been leveled, and after Emperor Ling of Han had simply made a reward, he ordered Huangfu Song, who was already a general of the Che Cavalry, to come to Liangzhou with 100,000 elite Han troops to quell the rebellion.

A big war is inevitable......