Zhang Lu was in Hanzhong, in fact, there was a risk of geographical advantages, and there were many households, especially after Guanzhong was robbed by Dong Zhuo, a large number of farmers fled to Hanzhong.

And Zhang Lu relied on the concept of Heavenly Master Dao to quickly absorb and digest this part of the homeless people......

Zhang Lu originally had a lot of food accumulation in Hanzhong, and the laws of the Heavenly Master's Mansion already had many "too ideal" parts, such as making patients repent and praying for self-healing, forgiving prisoners three times, executing for big mistakes, building roads for small mistakes, prohibiting alcohol, building "righteous houses" on official roads, and placing grain and water for passers-by to use......

Although there are many drawbacks, and a lot of money, because it cannot be supervised at all, it can only be entrusted to "ghosts and gods", that is, curses, naturally it is only useful to true Heavenly Master believers - others do not believe in evil, and they are not afraid of those curses......

Will those who take more food be punished by the spirits? If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, there will be no punishment.

However, it has to be said that this kind of regulation based on the simple concept of right and wrong is very suitable for the initial stage when the people's wisdom has not yet been opened and the road is still blue.

After all, more perfect laws such as "Chu Law" cannot be implemented before the society has developed to a certain extent, and even in today's Chu State, it is also a bit "seedling", and it is not suitable to start from scratch.

It's just that it's not to the point of counterproductiveness, but it's definitely not a good match, this is what Bai Tu forced to formulate considering the development speed of Chu State - just like ordering school uniforms for children in the development period to be one size bigger.

Even the Yangzhou Mansion and the General's Mansion, the predecessors of the Chu State, relied on cash-for-work, that is, extremely cheap manpower, to complete the initial infrastructure construction - at that time, there was no current welfare guarantee, and the relief food that filled the stomach, the meager remuneration, and the intensity of work that did not threaten health constituted all the rules of "cash-for-work".

Of course, this kind of days when a large amount of cheap labor could be easily obtained are now gone in the Chu State, and the workshop owners who want to "return" need the Criminal Department to talk to them.

Zhang Lu was in the initial stage, very smoothly, occupying Hanzhong, eroding Bajun and Guanghan, and the displaced people attached to ......

It's just that after that, it was restricted by the Heavenly Master's Dao, and it was difficult to grow up among the princes, and these anachronistic rules were maintained all the time, even if no one attacked, the problems in Hanzhong would gradually be exposed.

And although Zhang Lu sits in Hanzhong, he really has no capable people, after all, the "Heavenly Master Dao" set, in the eyes of the world's families, is simply a fallacy and heresy, and Huaxia will never entrust the right to rule to ghosts and gods.

Even when the Wei and Jin dynasties revered Taoism, they only used Taoist theories as material for metaphysics, rather than really believing in gods.

Therefore, Ma Teng and Han Sui were full of confidence on this trip, with nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses from the two families, falsely claiming to be 200,000, and more than 100,000 "mercenaries" of the Qiang nationality, tens of thousands of people, claiming to have a total of 500,000 troops......

As a mercenary, it is not really hired at the expense, but refers to the Qiang tribes who were surrendered by Ma Teng and Han Sui, and the warriors sacrificed for them in order to show their obedience, as well as the mobilization of a part of the subordinate tribes, basically only need to take care of the food!

Of course, the alien races that will be surrendered so easily, don't expect them to have high combat effectiveness, not to mention that compared with the Xiongnu royal court that had back and forth with the former Han Dynasty, even if it is the current Southern Xiongnu and Hexi Xianbei, the individual combat effectiveness is far stronger than that of the Qiang people.

Qiang cavalry is basically the bottom of all kinds of cavalry, but the number is huge, and the quality of both people and horses is not high......

In contrast, the Qiang also have more cultural habits of submitting to the strong, which is far inferior to the Southern Xiongnu who once surrendered.

For example, now...... The Qiang people regarded Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, as the "Shenwei Heavenly General" - since Ma Chao defeated the invincible opponents of the Qiang, this "alien race" has been the god of the Qiang people.

This is also one of the reasons why the two of Xiliang easily mobilized a large number of Qiang people, and even if they didn't take care of the supply of grain and grass, they could even levy more!

Zhang Wei led his troops to garrison Yangping Pass, trying to block the enemy west of Yangping Pass.

Yangpingguan is one of the northern gateways of Hanzhong, in the northwest of the "Nanzheng City" of Hanzhong.

The Hanzhong Basin is sandwiched by the Qinling Mountains in the north and the Daba Mountains in the south, so it is easy to defend and difficult to attack in the south and north, and Yangping Pass is a pass established in the west, between the Daba Mountains and the Qinling Mountains.

The two famous plank roads in the Qinling Mountains, Qishan Road and Chencang Road, are all leading to Yangping Pass, and after entering from these two plank roads, you need to take Yangping Pass to enter the Hanzhong Basin......

The difference is that Qishan Dao and Chencang Dao are famous for their Northern Expedition from Hanzhong, while Zhang Lu is based in Hanzhong, although he is victorious in civil unity, he is slow to react strategically, and is very "conservative", and can only defend against the enemy at Yangping Pass.

In fact, if it weren't for Liu Zhang's reasons, Zhang Lu would have even had the heart to surrender a long time ago, and went to Chang'an with his family and disciples, purely as a heavenly master of the Heavenly Master's Dao, and it would be good to study and spread Taoism.

However, because of Liu Zhang's existence, Zhang Lu has no option to join the Han Dynasty at all - not only Zhang Lu himself cannot forgive Liu Zhang's behavior of killing his mother and many relatives, but also because of the perennial war between Hanzhong and Xichuan, after the majesty was swept away, the Han family, which gradually improved, must also be determined to use him to kill chickens and monkeys.

Zhang Lu in history can trust Cao Cao, but now Zhang Lu can't trust the Han family, even if Liu Xie agrees to accept Hanzhong's surrender, Zhang Lu will never dare to give up Hanzhong and leave......

When Zhang Wei came to Yangpingguan, he could be said to be angry, ready to make these Liangzhou barbarians look good, but ...... When I saw the soldiers and horses of Wuyang and Wuyang, when they came to the outside of the pass, they were smoked by this "popularity", and their momentum suddenly became three points shorter.

In fact, if you take a closer look, you can see that the army outside the gate is not only in an untidy formation, but also most of the clothes are shabby felt clothes......

Since the city is going to be attacked, it is natural to put the least distressed in front.

"Qiang" can not be regarded as a nation at this time, but the general name of the foreign races in the west in China, in fact, the Qiang people are also divided into different ethnic groups, such as the former Qin Emperor Fu Jian during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the "Di" he was born in, and the party members who established the Western Xia in the Song Dynasty are now part of the "Qiang".

"My brother Han Ninghou, like the lord Yonghou and Zhai Hou, are all princes of the Han family, and you are ...... Committing crimes against our state and county for no reason, doesn't the Han family have a royal law? Zhang Wei shouted a little cowardly.

But now if you want to use the royal method to block the Xiliang army, it is obviously a fool's dream, and even ...... It did not even have the effect of shaking the morale of the army, but the tone of cowardice had the opposite effect.

I saw that at this time, from the forward middle army, a young general slowly walked out, without armor at all, and did not drive a war horse, just walked out step by step, but where he passed, not only did the Qiang soldiers who seemed to be untrained give way, but they also lowered their heads one by one, and did not dare to look directly at them......