At the beginning, Liu Bei didn't realize that he had to jump out of the technicians alone to deal with them in Liangzhou, so except for the women of childbearing age, the other captives were beaten as coolies.

Later, Liu Bei received a report that some coolies were overwhelmed by heavy work, secretly collecting raw materials to build weapons for resistance, killing some supervisors, and causing some trouble.

Fortunately, the army suppressed it in time, otherwise it is difficult to say whether it would have triggered a series of chain revolts in the mining area.

From this, Liu Bei realized that the grassland tribe also has skilled craftsmen, who can also forge iron and make weapons, although the level is not as good as the craftsmen of the Central Plains, but the weapons they make can also kill.

So Liu Bei began to adjust the captive strategy, singled out the technicians among the captives for differential treatment, compiled them into the household register, took them for his own use, and gave them more generous treatment.

So these technicians began to be used by Liu Bei.

After the loss of these technicians, those coolies have become much more honest, and there is no way to obtain weapons to resist, and even if they want to resist, the harm is greatly reduced.

Therefore, after Liu Bei defeated the enemy and obtained the prisoners, he would always pay attention to selecting the technical talents for his own use, and use the guys who did not have any special skills at all as coolies, as long as he had a skill, he had to see if it was useful.

This wave of captives has a relatively large population, Xianbei people, Wuhuan people, Huns, and all kinds of miscellaneous Hu who can't distinguish ethnic groups, with a total of more than 700,000 people, and the number of people is about to catch up with the number of Han people in Youzhou, so the number of women of childbearing age is also 2.12 million.

If these 2120,000 women are all registered in Youzhou, it will certainly be a great supplement to the population of Youzhou.

Coupled with the more than 30,000 special skills selected later, the total is close to 250,000.

Of course, these people are of great help, but how to distribute them, how to feed so many mouths to eat, and the follow-up development of Youzhou, also need to carry out supporting measures.

Of course, Liu Bei also had a plan.

Take advantage of this war to build Youzhou into the second Liangzhou, and transplant the Liangzhou model to Youzhou completely.

For Liu Bei Group, this is not a strange thing, it is better to say, this is a very normal thing, now the land of Youzhou is very seriously damaged, after the chaos must be a big rule, to a big change, for Youzhou people, it is no longer unacceptable.

In peacetime, people don't like tossing and turning, and are generally conservative, but in times of war, everything is different.

After thinking about it, Liu Bei thought about the people under his command who were currently trustworthy and entrusted, and then thought of Xiahoudun, who was serving as the Taishou of Anding County in Liangzhou.

He has been the Taishou of Anding County for several years, and has accumulated some experience in politics, and his political performance is excellent, his official reputation is very good, he is honest and self-controlled, and every year in the official assessment of Liangzhou, Xiahoudun is always in the front, and is well received by the division of governance.

Among the first series of subordinates who followed Liu Bei, only Xiahoudun is still doing his Anding County Taishou in a down-to-earth manner, except for Guan Yu, who is still guarding Liangzhou, only Xiahoudun has not changed, and people with shallower qualifications than him have been mixed with the general's number, but Xiahoudun is still a lieutenant and has not been promoted.

Despite this, Xiahoudun did not have any emotions, he would not fight if there was no war, he just had to do what he had to do, so the development of Anding County was currently the fastest one in the counties of Liangzhou, and the population was also the fastest growing one.

Liu Bei appreciates Xiahoudun's ability to govern very much, so he now needs a Youzhou assassin who has strong execution and is willing to listen to orders, and this person is none other than Xiahoudun.

On the one hand, Liu Bei wrote to Xiahoudun to ask him to prepare and prepare for the handover, and on the other hand, he wrote a table to the imperial court to show Xiahoudun as the assassin of Youzhou.

At the same time, this wave of Liu Bei does not intend to be humble, Youzhou was beaten half-crippled, and strong manpower is needed to clean up the situation, at this time, allowing the imperial court to settle the worms in Youzhou is harmful to Youzhou, Liu Bei intends to use all his own people to rectify Youzhou and implement Youzhou's reform plan.

Not to mention other places, Zhuo County, Yuyang County, Guangyang County, Youbeiping County, Liaoxi County, and Liaodong Subject State, the candidates for Taishou and Duwei of the five counties and one subject country, Liu Bei will recommend his old Liangzhou department to serve as the candidates, and select the shrewd and capable ones from among them.

The remaining grassroots officials will also be selected from his protégés and former officials, on the one hand, to strengthen the political power under their control, and on the other hand, it is true that Youzhou must be properly governed, otherwise Youzhou will collapse, and the unlucky one will be the entire Hebei region.

In the next period of time, Liu Bei did not rush to return to Luoyang, but inspected suitable official candidates in Youzhou, and set down governance measures and steps one by one, ready to be handed over to Xiahoudun to implement.

How to settle the population, how to build collective farms step by step to restore agricultural production in Youzhou, how to control the large number of captured foreigners, how to use them to renovate the infrastructure of Youzhou, and some preparations for the future, etc.

Anyway, he did a lot of things that needed to be done, and he hurried all the time.

By the time he was ready to lead the army to victory on 29 March, many things in Youzhou had already been put on the agenda and on the right track, the officials and the people were performing their duties, and there was peace and stability, and no conflict broke out.

The assassin of Youzhou, who was full of favor as a temporary agent, was retained by Liu Bei, and before Xiahoudun arrived, he was specifically responsible for continuing to promote the governance of Youzhou.

The army followed Liu Bei from Yuyang County all the way south, passing through Zhuo County, Liu Bei returned to the Liu clan, and under the warm welcome of the clansmen, he returned to the old ancestral house where he and his mother had lived together for more than fifteen years.

Fortunately, when Yuan Shao came to attack Zhuo County with the rebels, the settlement of the Liu clan was not completely destroyed, especially the house where Liu Bei lived, because of the relatively remote distance, it escaped.

When he went back to look, the room was still intact, and the old mulberry tree in the yard was still there, and it looked even better than it had been when he had left.

"Uncle, this ......"

Liu Bei looked at Liu Bo who was standing on the side.

Liu Bo smiled.

"After you made your fortune, the clansmen respected you very much, so the place where you lived was repaired by the clansmen, and then specially hired people to clean and maintain it every day, as the second important place in the Liu clan after the ancestral hall, ordinary people can't come in."

"Hey!"

Liu Bei laughed and said, "What's not to enter?" It's not a place where ghosts and gods live, if you want to come in and take a look, what's the point of sealing it so that people don't see it? ”

"That's right, but for you, you still have to be treated specially."

Liu Bo said in a low voice: "Because of you, the Liu clan has a chance to turn over, and only then does it have the opportunity to further study, and become a valve reading high gate, this room is of great significance to the clansmen, this time it was not destroyed by the Yuan thief, everyone is very happy." ”

Liu Bei nodded, didn't say anything, went into the house and took a look, his eyes were full of memories of the year, blinking, as if he could still see when he and his mother were drinking gruel together.

When he came to his mother's room, Liu Bei sat down next to the small table and reached out to stroke the small table.

"Back then, the family was very poor, couldn't eat, each meal could only drink some gruel, eat some pickles, it was a rare delicacy, I still remember that at that time I grew up, always not full, when eating, my mother used a small bowl, I used a big bowl.

Every time I finished eating the big bowl, my mother's small bowl was still a small half, so my mother said that she was full, and gave me the remaining small half, I was always very happy to eat the small half, but then I thought, how could my mother be full?

She just gave me the last bit of food, so that I could eat a little fuller, but even so, I couldn't eat enough, I was hungry, I was hungry all the time, I wanted big fish and meat to fill my stomach every moment, and I had almost nothing in my head except eating.

Uncle, if you hadn't often helped our mother and son and sent us some food, our mother and son would have really died of starvation in a winter, you are the life-saving benefactor of our mother and son. ”

(End of chapter)