Goose Three Kingdoms

Chapter 580 Liao Migration
Liaoxi County, near Yucheng.

This place is located within Shanhaiguan. There is no Shanhaiguan yet, but the terrain has not changed much.

Therefore, Linyu City can also be considered to be close to the Liaoze Passage.

It was snowing and the wind was strong near Bohai Sea.

Liu Bei was standing on the city wall, wearing the bear fur cloak sent by Black Bear, and watching. He saw a team slowly approaching from a distance.

The scout quickly climbed the city wall and said, "My lord, General Zilong is coming, and the Gongsun Kang brothers are among them!"

After the scouts left, Liu Bei said to Xu Shu, "After defeating the enemy, the Grand Marshal lingered in Dai and refused to leave. He was waiting for me to go to Liaodong before he would withdraw his troops."

"The Grand Marshal was also worried about another incident, so he stationed in Dai County to keep an eye on Liaodong. The Gongsun clan did not dare to delay."

Xu Shu did not mention anything else, only talking about the affairs of Liaodong: "Now that Lord Yunchang has taken over Liaodong, the Wuhuan have been subdued. Such a rapid retrieval of Liaodong is all due to the joint efforts of the Lord and the Grand Marshal."

Seeing Liu Bei's depressed expression, Xu Shu didn't know how to comfort him.

Everyone knew that if the other party stayed in Dai County, they would be forcing us to go to Liaodong.

No one expected that the Gongsun brothers were so cowardly that they were frightened by Guanzhong and voluntarily surrendered and gave up Liaodong.

Seeing that Xu Shu was not in a good mood, Liu Bei took the initiative to say, "The situation today is different from the past. The Gongsun family abandoned the Liaodong counties and millions of soldiers and civilians. This is very different from before."

Previously, various forces crossed states and counties, and fought to the death for a few key counties.

Now, several counties in Liaodong have been acquired almost entirely through political means, which means that the remote Liaodong region also believes that the power of Guanzhong is unstoppable, so it voluntarily gave up.

In fact, many Liaodong tyrants also took the initiative to divide up their family property and place bets on different sides.

This time, following the Gongsun brothers into Guanzhong, as surrendered ministers, it was their only chance to transfer a large amount of family wealth to Guanzhong.

Not to mention the powerful people in the Liaodong counties, even the Gongsun brothers sold various real estate to Guan Yu in order to reduce losses.

Anything that cannot be taken away is sold in exchange for people and animals that can be taken away.

After going to Guanzhong, although they could not retain too many soldiers and servants, they could at least keep three to five hundred households. Naturally, the Gongsun brothers wanted to retain high-value talents.

If you want to retain as many talents as possible, you must contribute enough ordinary production population to Guanzhong.

Gongsun Du's legacy was still there, and many people who had taken refuge in Liaodong abandoned their families and followed him. Guan Yu could not stop this, so he could only raise funds or use herds of animals to exchange for the assets that these people were selling at low prices.

The accompanying Wuhuan people also took the opportunity to exchange horses for houses in the city. In short, after all this turmoil, the technical production capacity of the Liaodong counties was greatly reduced.

Especially when powerful families split up, the remaining powerful families could no longer suppress the Dongyi villages around them.

What lay before Liu Bei was a hollow Liaodong. When he passed by, the Dongyi villages scattered everywhere had already begun to encroach on the surrounding areas. Naturally, they would not easily spit out what they had eaten.

If he wants to gain a foothold, he has to start a war.

He had no choice but to fight; perhaps if Huairou refused to fight, it might attract the black bear.

This kind of fate was planned and he had to follow the other party's orders step by step, which made Liu Bei very uncomfortable.

As for the Dongyi countries, he was actually not afraid of them at all.

Black Bear's previous analysis to Zhang Fei about the tenacity of the Dongyi people was certainly reasonable.

However, the winter in Liaodong is long, and the Dongyi tribes live in scattered areas. Even within the tribes, there is little movement and lack of communication, not to mention that within a country, the cities are relatively closed.

In Liu Bei's understanding, the so-called Dongyi countries were just alliances of several large tribes, and the leader of the alliance was the ruler of a country.

This kind of leader has very limited appeal and mobilization power within the country. All villages listen to the clan leaders and patriarchs. These nobles act on their own, lack unified command, and are unwilling to be under unified command.

This is the case in all countries. They cannot be more fragmented.

In fact, some rulers became rulers simply because successive county officials supported tribal leaders who were good at trade to become rulers in order to facilitate management and negotiations.

It could also be due to political purposes. It was not news or novel to the empire that a county official facilitated the surrender of a tribal leader.

Therefore, these border county officials took action themselves to piece together a seemingly foreign country, and then made the king submit and pay tribute. This was a good thing for the court and the officials.

From the beginning to the end, from Liu Bei to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, they all knew the scattered nature of the Dongyi states, so they did not worry about Liaodong. What they miscalculated was that they underestimated the fear of the Liaodong tyrants towards Guanzhong, and also underestimated the determination of the Gongsun brothers, who were ready to empty Liaodong.

However, the Grand Marshal remained stationed in Dai and could only watch as more than 100,000 people were lost.

Even if one in ten people would die during the migration, perhaps the people of Liaodong were aware of this.

No one can dissuade them, because compared to this loss, the losses on future battlefields will only be greater!

After all, this is the only chance to bring a large amount of wealth into Guanzhong!

Who can guarantee that after General Liu Bei conquers the Dongyi countries, he will stay in Liaodong and guard the northeast for the court?
No one can guarantee it!
The people of Liaodong were well aware of how difficult the Liaoze was, and they did not dare to gamble their lives on Liu Bei's future behavior.

Not to mention the future, Liu Bei entered Liaodong as the General of the Conquering the Barbarians, and before he came, he was ready to fight against the Dongyi countries.

If I don't follow the Gongsun brothers to leave Liaodong now, do I have to stay in Liaodong and fight for Liu Bei as a soldier?

It’s not that they are willing to migrate, but it’s more risky to stay where they are!

After the migration trend of Liaodong officials, people and powerful people broke out, most people got used to the society of acquaintances again... Migrating with everyone else, in general, it was not considered migration, but just changing the place and continuing to live with familiar people.

If you stay in the local area, most of your acquaintances will disappear, and there will be too many outsiders. Then you will become a minority and be excluded.

Despite the long distance, people in Liaodong also view Guanzhong's policies through a beautiful filter.

Everything can deceive people, but the results of war cannot. The people of Guanzhong are so good at fighting, and they are all the same people, which shows that the distribution system in Guanzhong is fairer.

The migration trend was so terrifying that once it broke out, even Liu Bei was helpless.

The long migration team moved slowly. The people of Liaodong had no shortage of animal herds, no shortage of cold-resistant supplies, and no shortage of cold-resistant physiques.

Not to mention October, even in December, they could go out to chop wood and hunt.

On the sled, Gongsun Kang was lying sideways, wrapped in a bear fur coat. When he saw Sun Qian and his men outside Linyu City, he said to the driver, "Don't stop. What can Liu Xuande do to me?"

The driver was wrapped in two layers of heavy fur coats, his body was bloated, and he was wearing deerskin gloves while shaking the reins, controlling the horse with no intention of slowing down.

The accompanying knights and sleds held flags and followed Gongsun Kang in an orderly manner.

Gongsun Kang ignored Liu Bei. If he was really unable to get the support of the Grand Marshal of Guanzhong, Gongsun Kang would have dared to fight Liu Bei across the Liaoze River.

Although I really don't like that Grand Marshal, going there now is still a good choice.

The bitter cold in Liaodong affects everyone.

Just because he is the lord of Liaodong, he cannot have a good living environment. He still has to suffer from the cold.

Migrating to a warmer area with good public security would be a real win-win for him, his people, and their descendants.

No one could eliminate the powerful families who had been entrenched in many counties for generations as thoroughly as the Grand Marshal did. When they moved to other places, they were not afraid of the county officials, but of the local powerful families with deep roots.

The chief officers are easy to feed, but the powerful families want to eat them. This is the essential difference between living and surviving.

This is also the key factor that makes many people willing to follow the migration. Once they go there, they can immediately form a acquaintance society and effectively resist various disasters and risks.

People die all the time in this world, and the deaths on the migration route really can't scare them.

In people’s minds, they would rather die around their relatives and friends than live a few more years and die alone.

On the city wall, Liu Bei looked at the endless migrating team and felt a strange emotion.

He said to Xu Shu: "As the Grand Marshal said, the Liao people are resolute and resolute, willing to take life and death. If we fight against the Grand Marshal next year, we will be the Grand Marshal's brave and daring vanguard in his attack on Liaodong."

Xu Shu was also speechless. He knew that many people from Liaodong had migrated, but seeing it with his own eyes was another feeling.

The suffering that these people are going through now will be passed down from mouth to mouth and will be blamed on them by their descendants.

If he really gets the chance, he will definitely join the army and seek revenge.

(End of this chapter)