July of the fifth year of Zhongping (188)!

Liu Bei used 30,000 cavalry to contain Zhang Yan's 300,000-strong army! It was difficult for Zhang Yan's army to expand beyond the scope of Wei County. Although the combat effectiveness of Zhang Yan's army had improved, in the face of Zhang Fei's 30,000 cavalry, it had more than enough defense but not enough offense.

As for Zhang Yan's army, it was difficult to leave the Taihang Mountains and expand its territory. Zhang Yan would be attacked by Zhang Fei's 30,000 cavalry as long as he marched a little, so Zhang Yankong had nowhere to use his strength.

After Liu Bei saw Zhang Yanben restrained, he led an army of 70,000 and began to attack the autumn wind in various places in Jizhou!

Unlike the Wubao built in other places in the Han Dynasty, Jizhou has been the hardest hit area by the Yellow Turban Army in recent years. The small Wubao is no longer enough to protect the nobles and nobles. They mostly gather in big cities in counties and counties, relying on county soldiers, and

Their private soldiers worked together to defend against the attack of the Yellow Turban Army! Although the noble clans close to the Taihang Mountains suffered heavy casualties due to repeated attacks by the Yellow Turban Army, in the east of Hebei, because they were far away from the Taihang Mountains and the Yellow Turban Army, the strength of the noble clans was still intact after all! So

On the contrary, it was easy for Liu Bei to summon them.

Although he brought 100,000 troops south this time, the current situation is obviously that he can no longer rely on the Luoyang court for support. He can only rely on the counties of Jizhou for support. Originally, Jizhou's status as the world's granary would not be a problem to support Liu Bei's 100,000 troops.

of.

But Liu Bei was not satisfied with this. Although he moved the refugees to Bingzhou, it was nearly a thousand miles from the Yellow River to Jingjing Pass in Bingzhou. If there was no disaster relief along the way, most of the refugees would not survive in Bingzhou. But he wanted to

If they want to survive, they must set up disaster relief points along this nearly thousand-mile journey to give the refugees the strength to reach Bingzhou.

Liu Bei and others roughly calculated that it would cost at least 3 million shi of food to establish such a disaster relief point, which is almost equivalent to half a year's tax in Jizhou. It is obviously impossible for the government of Jizhou to spend such a large amount of money.

.If you want to come up with this money and food, you can only rely on the powerful noble families in Jizhou.

But asking the powerful nobles to pay millions of stones for food is more difficult than plucking an iron rooster's feathers.

Don't look at Liu Bei becoming a general, but in the eyes of these nobles and nobles, Liu Bei is just a poor man who has only become prosperous in the past two years. And which noble nobles in Jizhou are not rich in life, and that family does not have an official with 2,000 shi, and the top nobles in Jizhou

The Cui family even gave birth to Taiwei, the leader of the three princes. Liu Bei really has no reputation as a general who wants to conquer prisoners.

Therefore, Liu Bei led an army of 70,000 people to almost every county in Jizhou, extorting money and food from these powerful nobles, and threatened that if they dared not donate money and food, he would let go of the defense line and let Zhang Yan from the Taihang Mountains rob them.

However, the noble family headed by the Cui family warned Liu Bei that if he dared to release Zhang Yan, they would definitely sue the court and let Liu Bei do what even a general who wanted to capture the captives could not do! At the same time, Liu Bei was told not to forget who was raising his army.

In the eyes of the wealthy nobles in Jizhou, Liu Bei is just a dog they raised. Now the dog wants to rebel and bite its owner. If they couldn't find anyone who can beat him, they would have kicked Liu Bei out of Jizhou. They immediately felt that this dog in Jizhou was

There needs to be a state pastor to contain Liu Bei, and Liu Bei cannot be allowed to continue to be lawless like this!

And Liu Bei also called his younger brothers to discuss how to pluck these iron roosters!

At this time, Zhang Fei took over everything and said: "Brother, I know them, and I want them to pay for food. Leave this matter to me! I guarantee that within half a month, brother, you can see more than 3 million shi of food."

!”

In terms of class level, although Liu Bei is a clan member, his family has long since declined, and the only person present is Zhang Fei, who was born into a powerful family and has a higher class level!

Zhang Fei went to Jingjing Pass, and hundreds of nobles from Bingzhou came to Jizhou!

They first found Liu Bei and cried loudly: "General Liu, you have to ask us to make the decision! The thunder in Mayi is lawless. He has robbed all our money and food, and all our land! He also hanged many of us.

! These are the loyal and good families of the Han Dynasty. If they die like this at the hands of the rioters, is this still the Han Dynasty’s world?"

Liu Bei asked them to get up with a look of embarrassment, but these wealthy nobles in Bingzhou knelt on the ground and cried loudly!

Liu Bei blamed him: "What are you doing? You think we don't have enough trouble here!"

Zhang Fei whispered: "The nobles in Jizhou will not shed tears until they see the coffin. Now let them see the fate of the nobles in Bingzhou. Brother, please comfort them, talk to them about their difficulties, and at the same time let them go to Jizhou more."

Relatives, let the wealthy nobles in Jizhou know what Lei Gong is doing in Bingzhou as soon as possible, and they will know that the eldest brother does not want much at all! The eldest brother only wants a little food from them, but the Lei Gong in Mayi wants their lives!"

Liu Bei could only comfort these people, saying that he had to deal with Zhang Yan, and he had no food and grass to fight against Lei Gong! And even if he wanted to attack Lei Gong, he had to get the consent of the people in Jizhou!

The wealthy nobles in Bingzhou couldn't help Liu Bei, so they went to the homes of their relatives in Jizhou to ask for their help.

So in less than half a month, the entire Jizhou knew what Lei Gong did in Bingzhou. He actually nationalized the entire land in Bingzhou, and then assigned it to the refugees for planting by the Tengjia Army. Moreover, the entire Tengjia Army's territory was not allowed to be used.

The policy of landless tillers.

According to what their relatives said, as long as the Tengjia Army occupied a piece of land, they would use the method of dividing the land to confuse the people. Not only did their tenant serfs not protect their family owners, they also tried the gentry and hanged the family members.

Now the entire Taiyuan County has been turned upside down and lawless, just like the end of the world!

The wealthy nobles in Jizhou listened to their relatives' descriptions, familiar tastes, familiar recipes, and what Lei Gong did had already been done in Wei County. They didn't feel strange at all, but they didn't know why they started to sweat after hearing this.

DC! Feeling creepy!

"Please also send General Tunu to conquer the rebellious Lei Gong and take back our land!"

The nobles in Jizhou will not be willing to hear this. Now there is a Zhang Yan in Jizhou. If Lei Gong is attracted again, I am afraid that the fate of these relatives will be their future!

Only then did they realize that it wasn't Liu Bei who couldn't live without them, but that they couldn't live without Liu Bei.

At the same time, they looked around and found that there were 300,000 Yellow Turban troops from Zhang Yan in Wei County, one million Yellow Turban troops in Qingzhou, and the Xuzhou Yellow Turban Army defeated Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian.

There are still flourishing scenes here and there, it is simply the end of the dynasty, and the situation in Jidong is even more dangerous. If you are not careful, the families of Bingzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou will be their fate!

Knowing that the current Jizhou cannot do without the protection of Liu Bei's army, the attitude of the nobles in Jizhou has indeed changed. Although they hate Liu Bei for blackmailing them, which is a reckless man's habit, they still found a way to raise 5 million yuan in food, and the nobles from all over the country are more

They took the lead in establishing a disaster relief point, and only asked that all their local refugees go to Bingzhou to fend for themselves and stop causing trouble in Jizhou!

After raising enough food and grass, Liu Bei built a thousand-mile immigration channel from the Yellow River to Jingjing Pass. There were relief points every 20 miles. Liu Bei placed a team of 50 people to maintain law and order and also to supervise.

In terms of food use, these resettlement sites are filled with cooked porridge to ensure that the refugees can fill their stomachs and continue their march to Bingzhou.

And because of this immigration channel, the number of disaster victims immigrating from Bingzhou to Bingzhou has greatly increased. There are even victims from the Central Plains crossing the Yellow River, and then moving northward step by step following these disaster relief settlements.

After the governors from all over the Central Plains learned about Liu Bei's actions, they called Liu Bei the hero of the world. They immediately sent their men to throw the local refugees to Jizhou on the north bank of the Yellow River and let Liu Bei deal with them. They ignored it! So now the refugees in the Central Plains

They also began to gather in Jizhou, and then merged states emerged through this channel!

But this put Xu Wei under great pressure. At first, only a few thousand victims entered Bingzhou every day. However, after the construction of the disaster relief channel for the refugees was completed, the speed of transporting victims skyrocketed. Now there are tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people entering Bingzhou every day.

Refugees began to appear in Bingzhou.

But for Liu Bei, he was relieved. He finally helped these refugees find a way to survive. Now Liu Bei can only pray that Lei Gong can resist this wave of refugees!

Then Liu Bei began to secretly contact Zhang Yan!

Jizhou, Changshan State, Fangshan.

Zhang Yan led his bodyguards to sit in this pavilion and was filled with emotion. It was here that he prepared to discuss Zhao'an with Fu Bian.

But now things have changed and Fu Bian died. He is now responsible for the life and death of millions of his people, but his situation has not improved much. Liu Bei's 100,000 troops are stationed in Jizhou and can still suppress them. The Yellow Turban Army

Still can't see the future. The only good news that Zhang Yan doesn't know is that the end of the Han Dynasty can already be seen. Even if he is now, he can tell the great sages and commanders, Cang Tian, ​​who belongs to the noble family.

, finally died under the attack of their Yellow Turban Army.

While Zhang Yan was still sighing, there was a sound of horse hoofbeats. Wang Dang and Sun Qing immediately drew their swords and became alert. The cavalry team quickly approached in the dark, and then quickly dismounted.

Only three people walked into the pavilion!

The leader saluted them and said: "Liu Bei has met Marshal Zhang, you all are so handsome!"

Zhang Yan also stood up and saluted: "Zhang Yan has met General Liu! General Zhang, General Guan!"

Liu Bei sat down and said: "Although we have been at war for many years, it seems that we have never sat together and communicated face to face like we do now!"

Brother Gu

Zhang Yan said: "You are officials, and we are thieves. We will only communicate on the battlefield! Tell us if there is anything we need to discuss in secret!"

"This time I'm looking for the commander-in-chief to come up with a truce agreement. You and I will have a truce based on the current borders!"

Wang Dang sneered and said: "Why should we cease the war? The situation is now in our favor. The Yellow Turban soldiers in Qingzhou, Xuzhou and Yanzhou are revolting again. As long as the fighting continues, the Han Dynasty will be destroyed sooner or later!"

Zhang Fei said angrily: "You are just dragging the refugees to their death. If you have the ability to fight one another, I will beat 10 of you one by one!"

Wang Dang immediately blushed and said, "Who is afraid of you!"

"Yide!"

"Zi value!"

Zhang Yan and Liu Bei stopped them both!

Then Liu Bei said sincerely: "The reason why I want to make an armistice agreement is firstly to complete the relocation of the refugees from the Central Plains! Commander Zhang Yan, regardless of whether you admit it or not, if these refugees continue to stay in the Central Plains, most of them will not survive.

This winter, only Commander Lei Gong in the whole world can keep them alive. Although this is a bit disadvantageous to the Yellow Turban Army, I know that the Commander also had contact with Fu Zhoumu back then and wanted to completely end the turmoil in Jizhou. Although due to various reasons,

This reason failed, but since Fu Zhoumu trusted the commander-in-chief, I guess the commander-in-chief is also a great hero who saves the country and the people one by one, and he doesn’t want to see these millions of refugees die like this in the cold wind!"

Liu Bei's words made Zhang Yan think deeply. The most beneficial thing for Zhang Yan is, of course, for the millions of refugees to rebel, but unfortunately this is basically impossible. Since the Great Xian Liangshi, the entire Yellow Turban Army commander

There is no one among them who can convince the public. If the great sage masters are still in this situation this year, they will definitely be able to defeat the imperial court and even occupy the entire Central Plains. Instead of being like now, their Yellow Turban Army is scattered and doing their own thing, forming

There is no way to unite forces to attack the big Han.

Although Zhang Yan is the most powerful commander among the Yellow Turban Army, he is too young and has too little qualifications to command other Yellow Turban Army commanders. In this way, the Yellow Turban Army in the Han states cannot jointly act. Now it seems that the Yellow Turban Army has occupied

Advantage, but Zhang Yan knows that as soon as winter comes, most of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army will lose the ability to attack and can only hide in the mountains. And most of the refugees will die miserably in this winter!

Liu Bei continued: "The second is that the autumn harvest is coming soon. This year's floods in the Yellow River have submerged the 7 richest counties in the Han Dynasty. In addition, the military disaster in Qingzhou and Xuzhou. The reduction of grain production in Yanzhou, Qingzhou and Xuzhou is inevitable.

If we continue to fight in Jizhou, the grain production in Jizhou will be greatly reduced this year. By then, more than tens of millions of people will starve to death. I hope that for the sake of these millions of people, Commander-in-Chief, please

Please stop fighting so that all people in the world can recuperate!"

When Liu Bei told Zhang Yan, he suddenly remembered that he didn't seem to have much food left. Back then, he swept half of Jizhou and hid tens of millions of stones of food in the Taihang Mountains. This food was enough to feed his hundreds of thousands of tribesmen for several years.

, so he didn’t worry about food even if he stayed in the mountain. He just got in touch with Lei Gong later and exchanged his gold and silver treasures for a large number of weapons and armor. After the money was spent, he exchanged a lot of food for it. At that time,

He had reserved enough food for two years, but the needs of hundreds of thousands of people and millions of people were obviously different. Only then did Zhang Yan realize that he also had a food crisis. If he did not get enough food in Wei County,
To be continued...