The fight is over, but the pain is endless.

The population of Chang'an is not too much, and more than 10,000 people were killed at once.

Mi Huang presided over the spiritualist ceremony outside the city, Shao Xun did not mix, it was the stage of the boss.

He opened the treasury of Chang'an Mansion and distributed part of the accumulated grain and rice.

There are not many of them, and they can only be said to soothe the hearts of the people who have lost their loved ones.

In addition, the property seized from the Xianbei people was counted one by one, and then searched in Chang'an City. If there is a family member who is still alive, return some of them.

He personally came to grasp this matter, and it took several days of work before it was distributed one after another, and the people were naturally grateful to Dade.

At this time, the right guard and the Xiao cavalry army also arrived outside the city one after another.

As soon as they entered the city, Pei Kuo, the general of the right guard, Wang Hu, the general of the cavalry, and others were shocked.

Under the eaves on both sides of the street, countless human heads are hung, and the dense crowd extends into the distance.

After a few days, the human head was already rotten and shriveled, and at this time someone was collecting them one by one, ready to pull them out to dig a pit and bury them.

"Good spirit, good means." Pei Kuo took a long breath and sighed.

Wang Hu subconsciously became a spirit.

He is also a cavalryman, and he really can't imagine what the end of the cavalry will be if they are blocked in the city.

Even if it is an armored horse, it can't rush up in the face of the barricades, and in the end it can only be cut down to the ground one by one.

As a peer, Wang Hu felt a little sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox, and was silent throughout the whole process.

Every family in Chang'an is holding funerals.

The soldiers who followed Pei and Wang into the city saw it, and their compassion suddenly rose, and their eyes changed when they looked at those heads.

The military discipline of the forbidden army was average, and there were many things that disturbed the people, but they had never done such an outrageous thing as slaughtering and looting cities—or they had not had time to do it.

Xianbei people are so bold that they actually ran to Chang'an to slaughter the city. Fortunately, Midu Governor and General Shao made a quick decision and sent troops to fight the chaos and kill all the thieves.

When I think of this, everyone just feels happy.

If nothing else, just for the people of Chang'an who wear linen and filial piety, this is worth killing!

Shao Xun works in Xiaoyao Park.

When Pei and Wang arrived, their own soldiers were left outside, and one of them brought several followers inside.

Along the way, there were soldiers of the Silver Lance Army on duty.

When the two entered the park, everyone stared at them.

Pei Kuo smiled dumbly.

He knew about the existence of Yunzhongwu, knew that there were hundreds of private soldiers stationed there, and even knew the origin of these private soldiers.

Shao Xun worked tirelessly, asked for warmth, taught students, and brought up those young children with one hand, straight like a father.

Then he served as an officer as a grown boy, recruited boatmen and slender men on the river, and coolies from the docks and bazaars as soldiers.

An honest coolie with a blank sheet of paper is easy to be subdued and driven by a young officer with martial arts, and after a long time of training, he has excellent obedience.

And the young officers have a sense of admiration for Shao Xun who is also a master and a father, and they can be said to be united in their hearts, like their arms and fingers.

In the end, the Silver Spear Army was used to conduct training in various places, and the people were ruled by the military, and in the troubled times, a small force was formed.

Everyone else has a dock fort, a dock people, and then a private soldier.

Shao Xun first had private soldiers, and then there were dock forts and dock people.

It's kind of interesting.

Of course, now there are more and more people like Shao Xun.

A while ago, Chen Yan, the captain of the Duzhi branch, complained to himself. Because of the endless war, many people went south from Bingzhou and Jizhou to settle on both sides of the river. Among them were brave men, surrounded by hundreds of cronies, driving thousands of displaced people to cut down wood and ram earth to build dock forts.

There are more and more dock forts around Luoyang.

Among them, there are two most famous people, one is Zhao Gu and the other is Shangguansi.

Zhao Gu's background is unexaminable, and Chen Yan doesn't even know where he is from and what his family background is.

Shangguan Si was born as a general of the forbidden army, and after fleeing Luoyang with some of the remnants of the defeated generals, he actually collected the war-torn people, gathered in the wilderness, and called himself the commander of Wubao.

It's really a mess in the world, and the demons are dancing wildly!

Several people quickly entered the Xiaoyao Garden.

Shao Xun was writing at the desk, and when he saw the two of them, he hurriedly got up and saluted, and said with a smile: "General Pei, General Wang." ”

The two of them had a higher rank than Shao Xun, but they both returned a salute at this time.

"Five thousand horsemen, no battle, Xiao Langjun has ever thought about the consequences?" The matter was important, and neither of them had the heart to be polite, Pei Kuo went straight to the point and asked.

"It's just 5,000 bandits, the slaughter is very happy, and everyone has to applaud when they hear it." Shao Xun said.

Pei Kuo looked at his eyes carefully, sighed after a while, and said, "It's good that you think clearly." ”

Wang Hu was silent.

Shao Xun noticed him and laughed, "General Wang came just in time. Those who see it have a share, don't shirk it. ”

With that, he picked up a gift slip from the desk and handed it over.

"This ...... A thousand horses. Wang Hu subconsciously ignored the other belongings on the gift list and exclaimed.

Pei Kuo is not calm anymore.

A thousand horses, what a hand!

"The cavalry has no horses, I already knew it." Shao Xun's face was straight, and he said: "In the mountains and grasses, there are still many escaped horsemen, horsemen, tiger horses, strange forces, and commando cavalry soldiers, all of whom are veterans, and they can fight with horses. In the future, if the cavalry army is to be expanded, horses are indispensable. ”

Wang Hu hesitated for a moment and accepted the gift list.

He really couldn't refuse the gift. There are nearly 2,000 soldiers in the cavalry army, and when they set out on the expedition, they led their horses on foot.

Why? There are only war horses, and there are no riding horses for transportation.

War horses are reluctant to ride, can they only lead horses on foot and mix with the infantry?

If he refuses this gift, the cavalry can blame him to death.

It's not that easy to be the boss, you have to take everything into account.

"Alas, the Xiao cavalry is indeed short of horses, and this gift is a shame." Wang Hu bowed and said, "If there is a greeting in the future, I will not refuse." ”

After making a decision, Wang Hu had the leisure to look at the other things on the gift list.

Shao Xun gave him ten horses, and the generals of the Xiao Cavalry Army also had one to five horses.

In addition, there were a few pieces of gold and silverware, one or two pieces in the hands of the officers, all of which were articles of the wealthy families of Chang'an—not necessarily pure gold or silver, many of which were gilded or the like, but they were also very good.

Pei Kuo also has a gift list.

The right guard of the forbidden army had 500 horses and a number of gold and silver utensils.

He poured it freely and accepted it directly.

Anyway, I didn't grab it myself, I have passed it twice, and the original owner is dead, so it's no problem to take it down.

Besides, he was born in Wenxi Pei, and he took it, what can he do?

The three of them sat in the garden for a while, and at noon, they had a meal together.

Wang Hu quickly said goodbye and left, Pei Kuo stayed for a while, he still had something to say.

"After doing such a big thing, what should Xiao Langjun do next?" Pei Kuo asked, "Do you want to seek an official in Guanzhong?" ”

Shao Xun shook his head and said, "I can't stay in Guanzhong." ”

He has checked the archives of the Chang'an government in the past two days.

Because of the frequent wars and improper storage, some materials have been lost, but they still have reference value.

According to records, in the first year of Taikang (280), there were more than 94,000 households in the six counties of Yongzhou, with a population of about 500,000.

The information after Taikang was missing, and Shao Xun asked a few remaining officials and learned that the sixth year of Yuankang (296) should be the peak of the population in Guanzhong. But they don't have a specific number, only roughly saying that there are "more than 100,000 households".

In the sixth year of Yuankang, the Xiongnu Kou Guanzhong, the northern land was too shou Zhang to die.

In August of that year, the Qi people rebelled.

Or back then, "Guanzhong hunger, epidemic".

The plague continued to circulate until the following year (297), when a great drought was superimposed, and "hunger in Guanzhong yielded ten thousand dollars."

In the process, I don't know how many died of hunger and pestilence.

At the time of the Qi Wannian rebellion, there were 40,000 or 50,000 households flowing out of Yong and Qin to Hanzhong and Shuzhong - the population of Qinzhou was already small, and most of these people were still in Guanzhong.

In addition, tens of thousands of people have flowed into Nanyang.

The number flowing into the surroundings of Luoyang is almost the same.

If the population loss caused by the war is counted, Shao Xun speculates that the population of Guanzhong at this time should be less than 70,000 households, which can be inferred from the number of troops sent by Sima Hao.

Even if you count the hidden population of the family, it is estimated that there are only 1230,000 households, and a population of more than 600,000.

So, what about the Hu people at this time?

In the sixth year of Yuankang (296), the population of the imperial court was probably less than 700,000, and the number of Hu people was 8.9 million.

In the rebellion of Qi Wannian, the Hu people have suffered losses, and now the Hu and Han populations are about half of the total, and the Hu people may be slightly more, because people continue to move in, but the Han people are slowly leaving Guanzhong.

In short, the current population of Guanzhong is about more than one million, half of which is Hu and Han, and there are slightly more Hu people.

Chang'an, since the slaughter of the city at the end of the Han Dynasty, once only 100 households remained.

During the Hundred Years War of the Three Kingdoms, Chang'an's population loss was not small, and now it is only 350,000.

In such a complex environment, it is difficult for him to stand as an outsider with little foundation.

Moreover, Sikong would not agree, and the court officials, local assassins Shi Taishou, and even the family would not recognize him.

In short, he has now received a wave of popular support, but it is only limited to Chang'an, and there is no mass base in other places, so he can't open the situation.

To put it mildly, the Luoyang Basin, which has been repeatedly ravaged by war, is not as complicated as Guanzhong.

After all, he still has to return to Luoyang and Guangchengze.

"Then you still plan to go back to Luoyang?" Pei Kuo played with the gift list and asked.

"Yes." Shao Xun nodded and said, "I need to lay a solid foundation next." ”

"Xiao Langjun is a sober person, I have nothing to say." Pei Kuo sighed.

If he was Shao Xun, he would have gone back to train the army and prepare food, live in seclusion, and wait for the time - yes, people of insight can see that this world is not good, but they are just taking one step at a time.

Shao Xun's rise was too fast, his foundation was unstable, and his foundation was insufficient.

This time, the five thousand Xianbei cavalry will be annihilated, and more and more people will notice him, and more and more people will study him.

From now on, the situation he will face will be more complicated.

There is nothing wrong with laying a solid foundation, and it is the only right path.