After Liu Bei got the letter, he and Zhang Fei quickly whipped their horses, day and night, and rushed from Guangling to Ling County in three days.

Although he ran in disgrace along the way, he was very emotional.

Guan Yu had also divided 2,000 soldiers and horses in advance, and went upriver from Huaiyin along the Surabaya, actually controlled Ling County, and confronted Xiaxiang County, which was controlled by Lu Bu's army 80 miles upstream.

When Zhuge Jin's envoy passed by, he found that Lu Bu did not send troops to Ling County, and he was probably afraid that he would miss the gun, or that there were more valuable targets worth grabbing, so he couldn't take care of this kind of small place with no strategic value.

Zhuge Jin didn't want to stimulate Lu Bu at that time, so he didn't occupy Ling County. Now that the negotiations have been reached and the distribution of the spoils has been clarified, Guan Yu is worried that he will take advantage of the long night.

It can also be regarded as Liu Beijun's recovery of hundreds of Xuzhou soldiers and more than 20,000 people, a slight supplement.

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In the early morning of the 13th, Liu Guanzhang traveled thirty miles from the west gate of Lingxian County and along Surabaya, and did not stop until he was about to enter the boundary of the lower phase.

The group waited anxiously until noon, and finally saw a wagon on the distant horizon, with about 200 cavalry.

Although the result was already known, Liu Bei's nervousness was raised to the extreme.

After several miles away, he desperately searched for Zhuge Jin's shadow in the crowd, but he couldn't find anything.

He thought that his eyes were not good, so he hurriedly patted the third brother a few times and asked Zhang Fei to take a closer look.

Guan Yu is a squint, and his eyes are not too good, Liu Bei knows this very well. However, Zhang Fei has always been dumbfounded, and the search is relatively wide-angle.

Zhang Fei watched for a long time, only found Chen Zhi, but fortunately, he was also coarse and fine, and comforted: "Big brother, I see Uncle Zhi!" Uncle Zhi is here, Mr. must be fine, maybe hiding in the car. ”

Zhang Fei really didn't guess wrong, Liu Guan and Zhang Ce stepped forward, and several carriages on the opposite side also stopped quickly, and several carriages of female dependents opened the curtains one after another, crying with joy to report to their respective husbands that they were safe, but they did not get out of the car.

Obviously, because this place is still a dangerous place, it is only right to hurry away from it. After Liu Guanzhang met with his family, he immediately turned his horse's head and walked with the car.

And Zhuge Jin was really in the last car, because the other cars were women, and he was embarrassed to share the car with them, so he brought a few children in the same car.

When Liu Bei personally lifted the curtain of the car, he saw Guan Ping, who was still a young child, sitting next to Zhuge Jin, coaxing a two-year-old girl in his hand.

Zhuge Jin saw Liu Bei and hurriedly motioned for Liu Bei to get in the car and bring the baby by himself.

Liu Bei had no children in his early years, but he still had a daughter, and this daughter was conceived by Mrs. Gan after he entered Xuzhou, so calculate the time, and now she is not yet two years old, and she was later separated when she crossed the river with her people in history.

However, now Liu Bei should not have a chance to go to Changbanpo.

Liu Bei hurriedly got into the car, hugged his daughter, and then looked up and down in surprise: "Ziyu, how can you ...... Aren't you not married yet? Could it be that there were children born of concubines? ”

He didn't know that in later generations, the media was developed, and even unmarried men knew how to coax children.

And Zhuge Jin knows a lot of rare things, the child is bored along the way, and he volunteered to play with him, not that he wants to rob the child with Mrs. Gan.

Liu Bei's daughter also took the initiative to explain, saying that along the way, Uncle Zhuge told her and Guan Ping a lot of interesting stories, all of which were distant worlds.

Liu Bei sighed when he heard it: "I really didn't expect that the capable can do anything, and even boasting anecdotes is so handy." Ziyu, you're twenty-one, right? Why haven't you started a family yet? Don't even look for concubines and maids? ”

Zhuge Jin: "When I was in Langya's hometown, I hadn't reached the crown yet. In the past two years, he has been on the run and has no fixed place to live. ”

Liu Bei hurriedly said: "Then after the return of the envoy Xuchang this time, he will always be able to settle down." Why don't you settle on one first? You have been so kind to my brother, and my foolish brother should help you plan for this little thing. ”

Zhuge Jin hurriedly vetoed: "It's better to think about it in the long run after coming back, this matter is not in a hurry." ”

As soon as he listened to Liu Bei's suggestion, a Flegg came to his mind: After this mission, I will go back to my hometown to get married......

Such an unlucky Fleg, how can he stand!

Even if you want to think about women's things, at least you have to think about it after Xuchang comes back and completely settles down! Now I definitely can't even decide on a marriage!

Liu Bei did not insist.

Soon, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also listened to their wives and concubines complain about their hardships, and came over to salute Zhuge Jin.

Guan Yu clenched his fists and made a heavenly gesture, Zhang Fei came over directly and knelt down, Zhuge Jin couldn't stop him.

In the end, Liu Bei understood them, pulled Zhuge Jin and said, "Let him kneel!" It's also a lesson, this time the family members were all lost by him, Ziyu helped us redeem them, and let him apologize, otherwise I'm afraid he won't be able to sleep for a year! ”

Zhuge Jin's original intention was just to get more personal favors by the way, and he didn't think much about anything else.

He knew that according to the original historical process, Liu Guanzhang's family finally got it back, and he just took the credit for pushing the boat down the river for nothing.

Now that he was excited by Zhang Fei's overreaction, he was also embarrassed in his heart, so he remembered something, and hurriedly turned around and took two carefully wrapped boxes from the car to relieve the embarrassment.

He first reminded Zhang Fei not to get excited, and then opened it.

But Rao is Zhang Fei was mentally prepared, and when he saw the contents of the box, his eyes were still split, and he clenched his fists and almost smashed them.

Fortunately, Zhuge Jin immediately took it away and warned: "Just look at the outgas!" How to send it to Xuchang for credit? Chen Yuanlong took on the responsibility and secretly lent me three days, but don't make any extraneous branches. ”

It turned out that in the box were the heads of Xu Tan and Zhang Kuang pickled in lime.

For Zhang Fei, this is a meeting of enemies, how can he not be blushing? It was humiliation and remorse that he would never forget for the rest of his life.

That night, it was Xu Tan who led his troops to defend the Baimen Tower and resist Zhang Fei's counterattack. Then Zhang Kuang fled to inform Lu Bu to speed up the sneak attack, as long as there is one less of these two thieves, Lu Bu will not be able to steal Picheng.

As soon as Liu Bei heard that this was borrowed by Chen Deng, he hurriedly pulled Zhang Fei away to prevent him from being impulsive.

After Zhang Fei calmed down for a while, he slammed his fist on the ground and vented his anger: "Dog thief! Dog thief! You also have today! ”

After venting enough, Zhang Fei hugged his bloody fist and yelled at Zhuge Jin: "Sir, in the future, if you have a place to use me, as long as the eldest brother does not object, you can just speak!" ”

Liu Bei was speechless when he heard it beside him, only feeling angry and funny, and said in his heart, isn't this a provocation between us and Ziyu? What does it mean that Big Brother is not opposed?

But he also knew that Zhang Fei was such a person, there was no malice, and he didn't explain much.

Fortunately, Zhuge Jin gave Liu Bei a look in time, and confirmed that everyone was smart and smiled.

……

Those red tape of thanksgiving and thanksgiving do not need to be repeated.

After Liu Guanzhang's emotions calmed down, Liu Bei instructed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to talk to his family members to confirm whether he had suffered from Lu Bu's house arrest for a month.

He himself pulled Zhuge Jin to take stock and confirm whether the various negotiation conditions were agreed by Lu Bu as planned.

Zhuge Jin was like a treasure, and concisely explained the content of the agreement between the two parties except for the release of the generals.

In the past two days, Xianhe and Yuanlong pretended to be on their side, and negotiated a lot of conditions, and Yuanlong also reported to Lu Bu, but Lu Bu didn't understand, so he agreed to all of them.

First of all, Lu Bu has allowed the families of our soldiers and soldiers to return south one after another, and they can go if they want to.

There are still as many as seven or eight thousand local non-commissioned officers in our army, and there are more than 20,000 family members, including women and children.

In addition, because Xu Tan and Zhang Kuang were killed, Lu Bu couldn't eat all the Danyang soldiers, and most of the Danyang soldiers who stayed in Xiapi were strongly subdued by Gao Shun, but there were still more than 1,000 Xu Tan and Zhang Kuang's hard lineage, and they felt unstable if they stayed, so they were dismissed to Guangling together.

In addition, there are hundreds of local soldiers in Xuzhou, all of whom are Xu and Zhang's henchmen, and they are dismissed together, plus the defenders of Lingxian County, our army can increase a total of 2,000 soldiers. There are still more than 7,000 people in the families of these soldiers. ”

All of them are calculated, Liu Bei can take back the original veterans' families, wives and children with a total of 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, 2,000 soldiers, and the families of 7,000 or 8,000 soldiers.

All combined, about 40,000 people make up for the small population.

In addition, Ling County was occupied by Guan Yu, and as a security guarantee for mutual delivery, Liu Bei actually recovered 60,000 people this time.

Although the two and a half counties in central Xuzhou were lost (Donghai County and several counties near the sea did not vote because they were Mizhu's hometown, and they were still in Liu Bei's hands), it was also a little bit of blood.

Guangling had just been in turmoil, and many people had been exiled to Jiangdong, so the remaining idle fields were definitely enough. With an additional 60,000 people, it can definitely be resettled.

What's more, of the 60,000 people, only 40,000 need to divide the land, and the 20,000 people in Ling County just continue to live in the same place.

Before this peace conference, Liu Bei was only left with more than 300,000 people in Guangling's ruling area, and after this wave of blood, the actual population finally rebounded to 400,000.

After reforming Yuan Shu's prisoners of war, the number of soldiers was originally 16,000. Now add two thousand, and that's eighteen thousand.

400,000 civilians raising 18,000 soldiers, the burden is still a bit big. Because young and middle-aged men account for less than one-third of the total population.

This is equivalent to a service ratio of six out of one.

As for Lü Bu, the two and a half counties under his rule have a population of about 900,000 people.

If he can officially swallow Langya Zangba in the future, the population of the total control area can grow to more than one million. If the "Taishan thieves" who are neighbors with Zang Ba are swallowed, it can further increase to more than 1.3 million. (Taishan County does not belong to Xuzhou, it is next door to Yanzhou, but at present, Cao Cao is not able to control it, which is equivalent to a state of self-reliance)

In this way, if Liu Bei does not expand, the population of his territory will still be only half of Lu Bu, and a year later, it may only be one-third of Lu Bu.

Although the situation has improved much from the most dangerous time, it is still not optimistic.

After a short period of joy, Liu Bei was worried about the food problem.

There were 60,000 more people at once, and although the 20,000 in Ling County could be self-sufficient on the spot, the 30,000 new family members and 10,000 exiled soldiers and their families still needed grain to support the next summer grain harvest.

Fortunately, Zhuge Jin had already thought of this problem, and it was also part of their negotiations with Lu Bu, so he immediately comforted:

"The general doesn't have to worry too much about the problem of food. With Yuanlong's mediation, this time Lu Bu let our army's family members go south, and they will not use force to loot the people's property, and those family members can more or less always have one or two months of rations to support. Among them, relatively well-to-do households may be able to provide for themselves.

Moreover, I also reached a fish and grain trade with Lu Bujun through Yuanlong this time, which is incidental. Out of 1,000 stone sea bass, plus some dried fish, and another fishing technique that had just been figured out, he exchanged 30,000 stone wheat and grain with Lu Bu.

With these 30,000 stones, saving some food, it will definitely allow the new population to survive the spring famine, and in winter, you can even use work for relief to do some water conservancy and land restoration work in Guangling, so as to lay the foundation for spring plowing in the coming year. ”

Liu Bei was shocked when he heard this: "Mr. taught Lu Bu the method of drift gillnet fishing?" ”

Of course, Liu Bei knew that a thousand stone of fresh sea bass plus some dried fish would definitely not be worth 30,000 stone of grain, and at most it would be worth more than 10,000. So there are still 20,000 stones, it should be that Zhuge Jin sold a very valuable technology and made a one-shot buyout.

Zhuge Jin signaled Liu Xiao'an not to be impatient: "Of course I didn't sell the gillnet, I just thought of a less valuable method casually." It was purely to cover up the source of such a huge amount of sea fish in our army, and by the way, he also bluffed, secretly warning Lu Bu, letting him know that 'there is no point in taking the grain card, we have an inexhaustible supply of sea fish'.

Lu Bu is greedy and untrustworthy, so he can use his trustlessness to reach a settlement at first, but the temptation is only for a while, and then we need to show our strength, show that we are not afraid of fighting a protracted war, and use both grace and power to hold Lu Bu in the long run. ”

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