Dong Huang took advantage of his familiarity with the topography, climate, and hydrological conditions, and laid the foundation carefully laid before Longxi County took over, and carried out a purge of the local wandering Qiang rebel army and the Han powerful forces that did not obey the orders of the government.

In particular, it is necessary to crack down on the strong and powerful forces of the local Han people who do not obey the orders of the government.

According to the news obtained by Liu Bei, the situation of the local Haoqiang armed forces is relatively bad, and many peasants with household registration fled to Haoqiang's house to seek refuge during the previous war, and Haoqiang took the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to include them in their own homes.

The more stable and peaceful the area, the stronger the government's control over the population, and the more war-torn the area, the stronger the ability of the wealthy and powerful households to hide the population, and the more population resources they occupy.

The Eastern Han Dynasty government was able to control more than 50 million registered people before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which fully proves that the classical government had a strong ability to control the population in peacetime.

In the later period of the Three Kingdoms, the three governments together could control the registered population of more than 8 million, which in addition to the factors of war and plague, also showed the huge impact of war on the hidden population.

Liangzhou has been in war for a long time, and the registered population is small and small, Liu Bei doesn't think that they are all dead, people who have lived in this kind of place for a long time, not to mention anything else, are full of survival skills, and their survival ability is extremely strong, and they are all extreme survival families.

Therefore, it is very likely that they were hidden by the local wealthy and powerful.

So in the second month after Liu Bei arrived in Liangzhou, he issued an order to the entire Liangzhou to release the civilians back to their hometowns, but there were few responses.

According to the summary of the information learned by the intelligence agents under Liu Hui's command in various places, Liu Bei learned that those heroes were not willing to release the peasants back to their hometowns at all.

Conceal these accounts, pay taxes to the government according to the original household registration and property scale, and the rest is theirs, they don't lose money by blood, how can such a good thing be let go?

So no one paid attention to Liu Bei, even if they knew Liu Bei's prestige, but when the knife didn't hit their head, people always had a fluke mentality.

Faced with this situation of not obeying the orders of the government and opposing the Liangzhou pastor, Liu Bei sneered and ordered them to be beaten to death.

If you don't give me back these peasants, it's okay, even you are mine.

I'm going to tell you what a state pastor is!

I'm going to tell you! What tm is called tm's state pastor!

In the first battle of Longsang City, Dong Huang broke more than 1,000 Qiang rebel troops, and in the first battle of Angu County, Dong Huang broke more than 2,000 Qiang rebel troops.

So far, it is still the remnants of the previous Liangzhou rebels.

Then after entering Didao County, he carried out five battles, annihilating more than 1,000 Qianghu, and the Han people who did not obey the order were armed with eight families, totaling more than 2,000 people from Qianghu and more than 8,000 people from Han.

Then Dong Huang moved to Shouyang, and defeated three Han Haoqiang armed forces in the area of Shouyang County, and obtained more than 4,000 Han people and Qianghu people.

In two counties, he obtained more than 10,000 Han people and Qianghu people who belonged to the local Han people, which is the twelve families, which shows that the situation of concealing household registration in Liangzhou is quite serious.

Based on this, Liu Bei concluded that the number of Han people living in Liangzhou was indeed far more than 500,000.

And not only the Han Chinese, but also the powerful in these places will accept the Qianghu as a hidden armed force under their control.

Some of the weak Qianghu tribes lost in internal competition, and those who escaped would turn to the Han people in order to survive, and the powerful families were willing to accept these foreigners as their own forces.

A big family with a head and face can even control an armed force of up to 1,000 people, including Han Chinese, Diqiang, and even Xiongnu and Xianbei people.

There are quite a few of them.

As long as they are willing to take refuge, these powerful people can accept everything, so the situation of being the king of grass is becoming more and more serious, and the number of people in the household registration of the government in a county is even less than the population in several big and powerful manors.

As a result, it became more and more difficult to enforce the orders of the local government.

For these people, on the one hand, Liu Bei wanted to punish them on the grounds of disobedience, and on the other hand, he used [hiding the Qianghu rebels] as an excuse to stigmatize them and punish them for the crime of treason, so as to eliminate them in a righteous and bright light, and obtain their mouths, land, and wealth.

This is Liu Bei's prestige, although the subordinates of the Liangzhou people around him know more or less his thoughts, but the so-called three fires of the new official taking office, this first fire, no one dares to soak urine and extinguish it.

They can only hope that some people will react quickly and think about why Liu Bei is not a state assassin, but a state pastor.

O Governor!

The supreme military and political chief, the emperor of a state!

Zhang Fei, Dong Huang and Xiahou Yuan are progressing very smoothly in the land of the three counties, and Guan Yu and Xiahou Yuan are not without color.

There were a large number of remnants of the Qianghu rebels in Jincheng County, and Guan Yu slashed and killed all the way, preaching the might of Liu Bei and the Han army, and won a great victory.

The number of Qianghu rebels encountered by Xiahoudun in Anding County was not large, and there were many separatist forces in the places where the Han people were mainly strong, so he cleaned them up one by one, and defeated them one by one, all in the name of "rebellion", and fought happily.

The combat effectiveness and results of this wave of Han troops are really beyond everyone's imagination, and those who have never been enemies of Liu Bei in the past have finally realized what it is like to be enemies of Liu Bei.

The military operations launched by the five generals in the land of the five counties shook Liangzhou, and everyone was shocked by this, and they all realized that this great disciple of the famous Confucian from Luoyang was really not a good person, not only could he read, but also was very good at fighting, and more importantly, he held the name of righteousness.

At every turn, a big hat of rebellion and collaborator with the enemy is buttoned up, and there are Qianghu people in the family who insist that it is the remnants of the previous Liangzhou rebels, saying that they collaborate with the enemy and treason, hide criminals, and hide armor, and they raze the family to the ground when they say it.

The key is that the military power in his hands is really strong, and the people around him are still very capable of fighting, and everyone is out of breath.

So the local wealthy families in Liangzhou, who had not yet been included in the sweep list by Liu Bei's army, felt that it was unwise to go against Liu Bei head-on, and the heroes did not suffer the losses in front of them, and they were burning three fires, so there was no need to jump in front of him.

If you provoke others, you really want to kill people, and those who are killed have no place to reason, and the biggest reason is in the hands of others, you can't say it.

So the two of them thought about it for a while, and decided to symbolically hand over a group of people to him, which can be regarded as dealing with the situation in front of him, and expressed an attitude - we will never go against you, your old man raised his noble hand, let us have a few days of peaceful birthday, okay?

There's no need to fight a war or anything, let's serve you, don't fight, won't you?

The four counties of Wuwei County, Jiuquan County, Zhangye County and Dunhuang County were not entered and attacked by Liu Bei's army for the time being, but after thinking that Liu Bei would solve the war, he was determined to attack them.

Liangzhou Mu is the top boss of the entire Liangzhou, and it is impossible for Liu Bei to let them go.

Instead of letting his army come to "reason" with everyone at that time, it is better for everyone to take the initiative to go over and talk to him, and solve it in writing, let's try not to use force, okay?

So with the launch of the five-county crusade plan, the population return tide of the ten counties of Liangzhou also began.

In the middle of September of the third year of Zhongping, almost every day there was news from each county that the local wealthy families had returned their hidden household registration to the government, and the most of them were returned to hundreds of people, and the few were returned to dozens of people.

By the beginning of October of the third year of Zhongping, more than half a month of hard work, the counties reported that the total number of people returned to the local wealthy families had exceeded 20,000, which was not small in scale and unprecedented in intensity.

This is definitely a good thing, and it also confirms Liu Bei's previous guess - the extreme survivors in Liangzhou are all trying to live, and they are still struggling hard, not dying.

As long as this matter is confirmed, this battle will not be fought in vain.

However, with the return of the population, there was also a wave of requests for help from the local government to the state capital.

There is no food.

Suddenly, there were more people, and they needed food to feed so many mouths to eat.

Your old man is tall and hard, and it is of course a good thing to bring back so many people, but before people engage in agricultural production, they always have to eat, right?

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