In mid-May, Zhao Gang, who had returned to Henan to gather his troops, arrived in Jingzhou, with a total population of more than 6,000 soldiers, civilians, and Han barbarians, and most of them stayed in Luyang to assist in transporting grain and grass to Yingchuan, and it would take some time before they could enter the country.

At the same time, this team also brought the latest information on the movements of the Eastern Wei army, which was very bad news. Last month, Gao Cheng, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, led the elite men of the country to patrol south, crossed the Yellow River from the Tiger Prison and arrived in Luoyang, and sent a large army to attack the cities still occupied by the Western Wei Dynasty between Yin and Luo, especially the Jiuqu City of Yiyang that Li Tai led his troops to rescue before the withdrawal of the army, but it was also attacked by the enemy, and Shi Peikuan, the defense chief of the same track stationed here, was captured by the enemy.

In addition, Kongcheng and Fuliu City in the Yinshui Basin were also successively captured by the enemy. The city lord Li Yisun who was stationed here was completely lost, broke through the siege, and was received by the barbarians between the mountains and fields of Yinxi, and he is still missing.

After hearing these frustrating military information, Li Tai's heart was also quite complicated. He understood that the Eastern Wei were planning to first uproot the strongholds around Yingchuan and isolate them, and then concentrate their forces to attack Yingchuan.

But even if you see through it, there is no ingenious way to deal with it, and if you really want to stop the enemy's tactical arrangement, it is nothing more than a dead knock on one goal after another, and in the end it is still the overall national strength.

Li Tai has already positioned himself as a spectator, so he no longer thinks much about it, but concentrates on his own affairs.

According to the situation reported by General Zhao Gang, the number of people who can arrive in Jingzhou in this batch and the next batch is about 10,000 people, and if there is time to organize the third group, the number should be even more, and it is estimated that the total number can reach more than 20,000 people.

Of course, it is impossible for there to be only so many people in the huge Henan, but there are only so many who can be gathered in a hurry, which also shows the weakness of Wang Sizheng's Henan Daoxingtai in Henan.

Although the situation was not as expected, Li Tai didn't care too much, and he also knew that it was impossible to dispatch too many people across regions to Jingzhou in a short period of time, and it was already good to have such a harvest.

These Henan people who arrived in Jingzhou were basically destitute people with no savings and accumulation, relying on the meager rations they received in Yingchuan and Luyang and other places to arrive in Jingzhou, many of them were already hungry and their legs trembled, looking at the unripe grain crops in the fields were green light, if it were not for the army along the way to meet the constraints, I am afraid that I would have rushed into the fields to pick the stomach.

Fortunately, it was not the first time that the state capital had received people into the country, but it was well prepared, setting up grain drop-off points at intervals on the main road to provide them with rations, and in this way diverting and relocating these people between counties.

Due to the fact that the state capital has just experienced the expansion of water conservancy at the beginning of the year, the large increase in land affairs, coupled with the careful registration and resettlement of these immigrants, the living environment of the locals and the new arrivals is basically staggered, so that they can be safe and sound, and avoid a large number of conflicts between the Turks and the guests.

As May drew to a close, Zhao Gang personally led the second batch of Henan immigrants to Jingzhou, and also brought the latest news: the Eastern Wei army had arrived in Yingchuan, although its vanguard was defeated by Wang Sizheng on his own initiative, but the main force of its army did not retreat, but surrounded Yingchuan, so that Yingchuan completely lost the way to communicate with the outside world.

However, there is good news, because a large amount of grain has been transported to Yingchuan City recently, many surrounding township tyrants have also attached themselves to Yingchuan one after another. Therefore, before Yingchuan was surrounded this time, there were a lot of soldiers and civilians in the city.

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The Ding service who came was isolated outside Yingchuan by the Eastern Wei army, and it was better to go south to Jingzhou than to stay in Luyang.

Another thing that surprised Li Tai was that there were nearly 1,000 households of various craftsmen in this group of immigrants.

These craftsmen were originally organized and accumulated by Hou Jing when he was in Henan, but they did not have time to take them away with the army, and they were left in Zhuzhou County, Henan Province and were taken over by Wang Sizheng. Now that Yingchuan is about to encounter a military disaster, Wang Sizheng of course has no way to organize them to produce, so he simply packed it and sent it out.

After Li Tai learned of this situation, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and sure enough, there was still a good person with a good reward. If he hadn't supported Wang Sizheng so much military rations in time, I am afraid that he would not have received the manpower of these craftsmen.

The northern region is in ruins, and there is an extreme shortage of manpower, not to mention the talent of this higher-class craftsman.

Li Tai originally planned to start building a workshop industry with the advent of summer and autumn and the successive harvests in the fields, and continue to grow his strength by relying on the unique natural resources of the Nanyang Basin. The arrival of these craftsmen can be said to have greatly increased the relevant talent pool.

Therefore, for these craftsmen, he did not settle in the countryside at will, but moved them to a new city on the west bank of the river, and first let them work in some simple works under the organization of the state government, and when the autumn and winter farming work was over, he vigorously promoted the development of handicrafts.

As for Zhao Gang, Li Tai also has important tasks to arrange.

Li Tai had neither the experience nor the patience to unify the barbarians, so after he entered the country, he repeatedly prospered, and the barbarians in the territory fled a lot. In addition to the few barbarian chieftains such as Huan Shuzu, who focused on them, the interaction between the other barbarian chieftains and the state capital became scarce and their attitudes became cold and alienated.

No matter how strong Li Tai's national complex is, it is undeniable that the barbarians are an important civil force between the Han and the Jianghuai at present. Although they are not highly organized, once they gather to cause trouble, they will also have a powerful energy to shake the local military and government.

If you are not proficient in something, leave it to a professional person to do. Zhao Gang has a wealth of experience in dealing with barbarians, and he is also very experienced in unifying and quoting barbarian forces, so Li Tai intends to hand over all the affairs of the barbarians in Jingzhou and the surrounding barbarians to Zhao Gang.

"Barbarians seem to be indifferent, but in fact, they also have their own likes and dislikes, pros and cons. His disciples may not be good at farming and production, but they are also light and ruthless, and if they are used well, they are indeed a considerable force."

Hearing that Li Tai had arranged for him to be what he was good at, Zhao Gang nodded and agreed, and when he heard that Li Tai was distressed by the scattered barbarians in the territory, he said with a smile.

"Since the matter is entrusted to Zhao Cheqi, I don't have to worry about it. Whether it should be coercion or lure, it all depends on Zhao Cheqi's control. If you need something, you can get it directly from the house. If I need to use troops, I will do so!"

Li Tai gave Zhao Gang full self-esteem, and also hoped that Zhao Gang could sort out a considerable barbarian force as soon as possible, so that he could have more abundant capital to participate in the next chaos in the world.

Everything in Jingzhou is in good order and developing rapidly, and it has not been affected by changes in the external situation. But elsewhere it is not so lucky, and while the upheaval has not yet happened, many signs are beginning to emerge.

Li Tai can arrange his development plan in an orderly manner by predicting the situation, but other people in the current situation need to judge the direction that is beneficial to him and respond according to the development of the situation step by step.

In this process, some choices are right and some are wrong. But at the moment when the person makes a choice, there is no sense of right or wrong, only when the result is revealed, either joy or regret, but the vast majority of people no longer have a chance to recover, but they still do not know it.

With Hou Jingjun's defeat and hasty flight south, this scene of the Three Kingdoms melee staged by his people seems to have come to an end.

Hou Jing also went from being able to determine the general trend of the world by virtue of his own belonging at the most glorious time, and degenerated into a lost dog, trapped in Shouyang, Huainan, and survived with the mercy of Emperor Liang, and no longer had the energy to affect the direction of the situation.

At least in the Southern Liang Kingdom

In the eyes of some of his courtiers, they completely forgot their previous plans, ignored the begging of Hou Jing, the general of the defeated army, and actively sent envoys to negotiate peace with the Eastern Wei Dynasty, trying to redeem the bad impact of the defeat of Huaibei on both internal and external affairs.

The old Bodhisattva has been a vegetarian and a Buddha all his life, but he still can't find out the karma of cause and effect, and he doesn't know that the bane that he planted and carefully watered has sprouted and grown, and is about to ripen!