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Chapter 259 Don't Fight, Will It Work?

Dong Huang took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain, climate and hydrological conditions, and the foundation laid by Zhou Shen before Longxi County took over, to cleanse the local Qiang rebellious army and the powerful Han people who did not obey the orders of the government.

In particular, what needs to be attacked is the powerful armed forces of the local Han people who do not obey the orders of the government.

According to the information obtained by Liu Bei, the situation of local powerful armed forces is relatively bad. During the previous war, many farmers with registered permanent residence fled to the powerful home for asylum, and the powerful took the opportunity to include them in their own family. After the war, they hid their registered permanent residence and refused to let them go. return.

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

Before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the government of the Eastern Han Dynasty could still control more than 5000 million registered population, which fully proves that the classical government's ability to control the population in peacetime is very strong.

In the later period of the Three Kingdoms period, the three governments together could control more than 800 million household registration population. In addition to war and plague factors, it also shows the huge impact of war on the hidden population.

Liangzhou has been in war for a long time, and the registered population is decreasing. Liu Bei does not think that they are all dead. People who have lived in this kind of place for a long time, among other things, have full survival skills and strong survival ability. survival home.

So it is very likely that they were hidden by the powerful local households.

So in the second month after Liu Bei arrived in Liangzhou, he issued an order to the entire Liangzhou to return the civilians to their original places, but there were very few responders.

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

Hide these accounts, pay taxes to the government according to the original account and property scale, and the rest will be theirs.
So no one paid attention to Liu Bei, even if they knew Liu Bei's reputation, but when the knife didn't hit their head, people always had a fluke mentality.

Faced with such a situation of disobeying the government's order and opposing Liangzhou Mu, Liu Bei sneered and ordered them to be beaten to death.

If you don't return these peasants to me, it's fine, even you are mine.

I want to tell you what state shepherd is!

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In the Battle of Longsang City, Dong Huang defeated more than 2000 Qiang rebels, and in the battle of Angu County, Dong Huang defeated more than [-] Qiang rebels.

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

Then after entering Didao County, he conducted five large and small battles, annihilating more than [-] Qianghu people, and armed eight Han people who did not obey orders, and gained a total of more than [-] Qianghu population and [-] Han population. people.

Then Dong Huang moved to Shouyang, defeated three powerful Han clans in Shouyang County, and gained more than [-] Han, Qiang and Hu people.

In two counties, he obtained more than 1 Han Chinese and Qiang Hu people who belonged to the local Han powerful.

Based on this, Liu Bei concluded that the number of Han people living in Liangzhou was indeed far more than 50.

And it's not just the Han people, these local tyrants will also accept the Qiang Hu as a hidden armed force under their control.

Some weak Qianghu tribes were defeated in the internal competition, and those who escaped would seek refuge with the powerful Han people in order to survive, and the powerful families were also willing to accept these foreigners as their own forces.

A big family with a head and a face can even have an armed force of up to 1000 people. There are Han people, Diqiang, and even Huns and Xianbei.

There are still many people.

As long as they are willing to seek refuge, these tyrants will accept everything, so the situation of separatism and self-defense as the grass head king has become more and more serious. The population of the government household registration in a county is not even as good as the population of several big tyrants' manors.

As a result, the order of the local government became more and more difficult to implement.

For these people, on the one hand, Liu Bei punished them on the grounds of disobedience, and on the other hand, used the reason of "hiding the Qianghu rebels" as an excuse to stigmatize them and punish them as treason. people, land and wealth.

This was Liu Bei's move to establish his prestige. Although the Liangzhou subordinates around him knew his thoughts to some extent, but the so-called three fires of a new official taking office, this first fire, no one dared to take a piss to extinguish it.

They can only hope that some people will react quickly and think about why Liu Bei is not the governor of the state, but the shepherd of the state.

Zhou Mu!
The highest military and political officer, the emperor of a state!
Zhang Fei, Dong Huang and Xia Houyuan's progress in the three counties is very smooth, and Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun are not without color.

There were a lot of remnants of the Qiang and Hu rebels in Jincheng County. Guan Yu hacked and killed all the way, publicizing the power of Liu Bei and the Han army, and gained a lot.

The Qianghu rebels that Xiahoudun encountered in Anding County were not large, and there were quite a few separatist forces in places dominated by Han Chinese tyrants, so he cleaned them up one by one, and destroyed them one by one. It was such a joy.

The fighting power and results of this wave of the Han army really exceeded everyone's imagination. Those who had never been enemies with Liu Bei in the past finally realized what it was like to be an enemy of Liu Bei.

The military operations launched by the five generals in the five counties shocked Liangzhou. Everyone was terrified by it. They all realized that this famous Confucian disciple from Luoyang was not a good person. He could not only study, but also And he is very capable of playing, and more importantly, he holds a righteous name.

Every now and then a big hat of conspiracy and collaborating with the enemy is put on, and there are Qiang and Hu people in the family who insist that it is the remnant of the Liangzhou rebels before, saying that they are collaborating with the enemy and treason, hiding criminals, and hiding armor. Flat land.

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

Therefore, the wealthy locals in Liangzhou who had not yet been included in the mopping list by Liu Bei's army felt that it was unwise to confront Liu Bei head-on.

If you get angry with others, you are really going to kill someone. The one who gets killed has no reason to reason. The biggest reason is in the hands of others.

So one or two thought about it for a while, and decided to hand over a group of people to him symbolically, which can be regarded as dealing with the situation in front of him, and expressed an attitude-we will never fight against you, your old man is so arrogant, let us spend a few days Happy birthday, okay?
There is no need to fight or anything, we convince you, don't fight, okay?

The four counties of Wuwei County, Jiuquan County, Zhangye County and Dunhuang County have not been entered or attacked by Liu Bei's army for the time being, but after Liu Bei solves the war, he will definitely attack them.

Liangzhou Mu is the immediate 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, why don't you take the initiative to go over and talk to him, and if we can 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 wave of Liangzhou's ten counties also began.

In mid-September of the third year of Zhongping, news came from every county almost every day that local wealthy families returned their hidden household registrations to the government. Some returned hundreds of people, and some returned dozens of people. Individually, it was relatively small. From county to county, there are many.

By the beginning of October in the third year of Zhongping, in more than half a month, the counties reported that the total number of household registrations returned by local wealthy families had exceeded [-]. The scale was not small and the intensity was unprecedented.

This is definitely a good thing, and it also confirms Liu Bei's previous speculation that the extreme survivors in Liangzhou are all working hard to survive, and they are still struggling, and they are not dead.

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

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

No food.

The number of people suddenly increased, and they needed food to feed so many mouths to eat.

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