Li Ru smiled slightly and said, "Lord, there is a way to help you solve your worries!"

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Wenyou, please tell me in detail."

Li Ru asked him to come to his secret room to get some classics and documents and hand them over to Lu Bu. Lu Bu read it briefly, which turned out to be a secret unknown to the Western Liang Army. It turned out that Li Ru did under Dong Zhuo's command the same as Jia Xu did under Lu Bu, and was responsible for intelligence collection. A booklet given to Lu Bu by Li Ru contained statistics on the origins of the soldiers of the Western Liang Army.

Li Ru pointed to the booklet and smiled and said, "Lord, this is a summary I made three months ago. There are nearly 60% of the Sili people in the Xiliang army, and only 40% of the Liangzhou people, among which the Qiang and Hu aliens account for half of the Xiliang people."

Lu Bu was puzzled and said, "It is called the Xiliang Army, and the people of Xiliang should occupy most of them."

Li Ru smiled and said, "Three years ago, the lord showed his power, defeated Xu Rong twice, and defeated Dong Zhuo. In the battle with the lord's Central Army, most of the elite troops were lost. Sili was attacked from all sides, and Dong Zhuo had to force the civilians from the Sili area to make up for the Xiliang army. In the past three years, although the total number of Xiliang soldiers and horses has been better than the past, more than half of them are local civilians in Sili, and their combat effectiveness has been severely weakened."

Lu Bu said in surprise: "Wenyou, Dong Zhuo is your father-in-law. Why do you name a little rude?"

Li Ru smiled bitterly, and Jia Xu smiled and said, "The young man Wenyou was famous for his talent and intelligence. Dong Zhuo admired Wenyou's wisdom and strategy, and was afraid that Wenyou would not be willing to join him, so he forced his second daughter to Wenyou. Dong Zhuo's second daughter looked and temperament were similar to Dong Zhuo. Wenyou suffered a lot in the past ten years. But he had followed Dong Zhuo and could not break free from the constraints. Now Dong Zhuo is dead. Wenyou is also free."

Lu Bu remembered Dong Zhuo's face full of fat and big ears, and couldn't help laughing: "Wenyou, you have really suffered. In order to make up for the suffering you have suffered for more than ten years, you should accept Dong Zhuo's concubines with a smile."

Li Ru was very grateful, but he had to shake his head and refuse: "Although all the humble jobs have been suffering from marriage for more than ten years, Dong Zhuo is nominally a humble father-in-law and takes his father-in-law's concubine for himself. He may be ridiculed by others."

Lu Bu did not expect that Li Ru, who had followed Dong Zhuo for more than ten years, was not affected by Dong Zhuo and abandoned his name. His style of conduct was somewhat Confucian and Taoist. Seeing that Li Ru was alone now, he felt very desolate. He thought for a moment: "Why give Yang Zan's concubines to you." Lu Bu originally wanted to share Wang Yun's concubines with Li Ru, but searched Wang Yun's current mansion and found that Wang Yun had no longer kept a concubine since he was castrated by Lu Bu.

Li Ru bowed his head and thanked him, got back to the point, and continued to offer suggestions: "Lord. According to the observations of the past three years of humble duty, the military discipline of the Xiliang army was mostly damaged because they lived here, and did not regard themselves as the master of the Sili area. Almost all the people in Xiliang regarded themselves as passers-by. With the idea of ​​robbing one and running away, they had such an idea that they would never give up until the Sili area harmed the hell in the world. Only Duan Wei was the famous general Duan Ying, who adhered to family education, attached importance to the development of agriculture, and did not harass the people. The local people could live and work in peace. The other Xiliang generals were mostly thieves who harmed the people. But if they were asked to lead their troops back to Xiliang and guard the countryside, they would never do so arbitrarily."

Jia Xu smiled and said, "I agree with Wen You's words. Now the people of Sili are suffering from the brutal rule of the Xiliang Army for more than three years. If they continue to guard the Xiliang people in Sili, the Sili area may change, so it is better to integrate the Xiliang people and return them to their hometowns to guard the country. This will also curb the princes of Xiliang such as Ma Teng and Han Sui, and at the same time, it can also curb foreign tribes such as Qiang and Hu to ensure stability in the Western Front."

Lu Bu was overjoyed: "Wenyou and Wenhe, what you said is very consistent with my wish."

Lu Bu then appointed Li Jue as the county magistrate of the northern county of Shuozhou, and ordered him to lead his headquarters to his hometown to guard the northern county of his hometown; Guo Si as the county magistrate of the Zhangye County of Liangzhou, and ordered him to lead his troops to return to his hometown of Liangzhou, and ordered him to lead his troops to his hometown of Liangzhou, and ordered him to lead his troops to his hometown of Jincheng County of Liangzhou, and ordered him to lead his troops to his hometown of Jincheng County of Liangzhou, and ordered him to lead his troops to his hometown of Liangzhou, and ordered him to lead his troops to his hometown of Liangzhou, and led his troops to his hometown of Liangzhou, and led his troops to guard the Wudu County of Liangzhou.

Lu Bu also appointed Xu Rong as the general of Liangzhou. Xu Rong's headquarters was stationed in Hanyang County, commanding all the people in Liangzhou, and Li Ru was the General Staff Army of Liangzhou, assisting Xu Rong in handling all military and political affairs in Liangzhou.

There are two major forces in Liangzhou, Han Sui, the prefect of Jincheng, Ma Teng, the prefect of Wuwei, and more than a dozen other separatist forces. There are also many Qiang and Hu tribes, and the order is chaotic and the struggles between various forces are endless. The task assigned by Lu Bu to Xu Rong and Li Ru is to unite Ma Teng and other pro-Han forces to curb Han Sui and other anti-Han forces. Li Ru's task is to do his best to make Ma Teng and Han Sui fight. As long as Ma Teng and Han Sui do not unite, Liangzhou will not lose control.

In addition to Xu Rong, there were also Liangzhou Governor and General Huangfu Song, the left chariot cavalry, who were in charge of Anding County. I believe that the ambitious forces such as Ma Teng and Han Sui did not dare to move rashly for several years, and could only be a human being with their tails in hand.

Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Yang Ding, Dong Yue, and Niu Fu led the troops back. They were all the original villagers, with less than 10,000 troops, and they were all integrated. In each division, there were Lu Bu and Xiliang soldiers in Huangfu Song's troops interspersed into middle and lower-level officers. After the integration, Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Yang Ding, Dong Yue, and Niu Fu each led 4,000 troops, which was considered a brigade, with 2,000 combat soldiers and 2,000 auxiliary soldiers. The Liangzhou Corps belonged to Xu Rong. Like Yu Jin's Qingzhou Corps and Wei Yan's Yuzhou Corps, they were all affiliated corps of the Central Army, not directly affiliated corps. Xu Rong's troops had 20,000 troops, 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, and the troops could completely suppress Li Jue, Guo Si and others.

Moreover, Li Jue, Guo Si and others' families were all in Luoyang City. In their troops, there were agents installed by the Military Information Department. Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Yang Ding, Dong Yue, Niu Fu and others spent two months every year to follow Lu Bu's army to receive ideological education and rectification movement. Lu Bu predicted that they would not dare to rebel. Even if they rebel, they would be under Lu Bu's control and could not cause any big waves.

Among the 150,000 Xiliang troops left by Dong Zhuo, there were only more than 60,000 people from Xiliang. According to the strict standards of the Central Army, only more than 30,000 people were barely enough to meet the standards of ordinary county soldiers. Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, Yang Ding, Dong Yue, and Niu Fu took away 24,000 people. Most of the eight thousand men left were related to Sili, most of them were Duan Wei's men and horses. Lu Bu appointed Duan Wei as the captain of Jingzhao Prefecture and led 8,000 troops to guard Chang'an.

Those eliminated Xiliang people, if they were cruel and committed many evil deeds in the Sili area, were entrusted to the labor reform brigade in the Sizhou Construction Corps. If they were not bad in nature and were willing to live in the Sili area, they would also be sent to the Sizhou Construction Corps as military farming soldiers. If they were unwilling to stay in the Sili area, they would return to their own counties and join the county military system of the county. Basically, Lu Bu, the Xiliang soldiers who had blood in their hands, were unwilling to return to the people and all wanted to classify them into the military system.

Among the 150,000 Xiliang army left by Dong Zhuo, nearly 90,000 Sili people were recruited in these three years. These 90,000 Sili people were far behind the Xiliang people who had been on the battlefield for a long time in terms of physical fitness and military qualities. According to the strict standards of the Central Army, they barely selected 20,000 people to be county soldiers in the Sili area. Others were either sent to the Sizhou Construction Corps to be military farm soldiers or to the county soldiers.

Lu Bu appointed Li Su as the lieutenant of Hongnong County, led 4,000 troops to guard Hongnong, and appointed Wu Kuang as the re-established Xingyang County, leading 4,000 troops to guard Xingyang County. Because Luoyang had been included in Lu Bu's ruling area, the most threat to Luoyang was Nanyang County in the south and Yingchuan County in the southeast. Lu Bu appointed Hao Zhao, who was good at defending, as the lieutenant of Henan County, and led 8,000 troops to guard the Eight Pass of Luoyang.

The Sili area fell into the hands of Lu Bu, and the original defensive front line moved south from the Yellow River to face the threat of Jingzhou Governor Yuan Shao and Yuzhou Governor Liu Biao. Yuan Shao had more than 200,000 troops, and his ambition was far better than that of the original Jingzhou Governor Liu Biao in history. Once Yuan Shao took down the entire Nanyang County, it was very likely to directly attack Luoyang, so Lu Bu transferred the troops of Hedong County to Luoyang and the troops of Henei County to Xingyang County.

Emperor Liu Bian would return the capital to Luoyang sooner or later, but Luoyang had experienced war and some damages were damaged and needed some renovations to truly return the capital. More importantly, if the threat from Jingzhou Governor Yuan Shao was not eliminated for a day, Luoyang would be in danger and would not be safe for Luoyang to return the capital to Luoyang.

Lu Bu then submitted a letter to Emperor Liu Bian, saying that now is not the best time to return the capital to Luoyang, and that Sili area can be temporarily set up as Sizhou. Lu Bu recommended Zhu Yan, the governor of Bingzhou, as the governor of Sizhou, and asked Zhu Yan to take the position of general as a master craftsman, and fully rebuild Luoyang City, and build Luoyang City into a real world center according to the design drawings drawn by Lu Bu himself.

Lu Bu's future grand plan is to regard the Eight Passes of Luoyang as the outer wall of Luoyang, relying on the nearby mountains, expand the scope of Luoyang City more than ten times, and build it into a super city.

However, in the early stage, the old Luoyang city was rebuilt and four acropolis were built on all sides of the old city to defend the safety of Luoyang City.

Lu Bu rode a red rabbit horse around Luoyang City. Looking at this beautiful imperial capital, he felt very proud. With his own painstaking management, Luoyang City finally did not end up being burned by Dong Zhuo. Although all the pavilions and towers were after the Ten Generals Rebellion and the mutiny a while ago, they were generally complete and only a little cleaning and repairing were needed to bring vitality.

Lu Bu rode a horse to watch flowers in Luoyang City. The most regrettable thing was that he did not see peonies, so he asked people to transplant peonies from Chang'an to Luoyang City on a large scale. When the peonies bloomed in Luoyang City, he held a ceremony to return the capital.

Luoyang City, located in the north of Mangshan, looking south of Yique, Luo River runs through it, Hulao Pass in the east, Hangu Pass in the west, surrounded by mountains and surrounded by majestic passes, so it is known as "the capital of the Eight Passes", "mountains and rivers are arched, and the situation is superior to the world"; it is also entrenched in "the world", "the east of Jianghuai, Guanlong, the west of Youyan, and the south of Jingxiang", and is known as "the escort of the eight directions", "the hinterland of the nine provinces", "the full distance of ten provinces". With such a city as a capital, Lu Bu would not consider cities like Yanjing, Jinling.
Chapter completed!