Chapter 496: Chapter Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight (Part 2) The Crowd of Two Hundred Thousand (2)
"It's not just an empty city. When we pass by Wancheng, Cao Ren has to politely clear the way for us and deliver a batch of luggage." Lu Su said with a smile.
"Hahaha."
Liu Feng laughed.
The next day, Tian Feng issued an announcement throughout Runan City and in villages outside the city.[
The general idea is that Lu Su admired the stability and prosperity of Jingchu. He wanted to abandon Runan and led 80,000 people and 12,000 elite soldiers south to defect to Liu Jingzhou.
If you are interested, you can go together.
This immediately caused an uproar. Just as Tian Feng said, Liu Pi was very harsh when he was in Runan, but Lu Su implemented benevolent policies when he arrived.
It lasted for three months and the people were very happy.
Having been with Liu Pi and then with Lu Su, the completely different feeling made the people nostalgic. Furthermore, today there are constant wars. Although Runan is the hinterland of the Central Plains, it is actually closer to Yangzhou.
Yangzhou was in chaos, especially when Liu Xun rose up some time ago and captured Shouchun, which was very close at hand. Liu Xun's reputation was honestly not very good and he was very arrogant.
And Cao Cao in the north also has a bad reputation. He massacred the city of Xuzhou.
Anyway, no matter who rules Runan in the north or south, the people have no idea. On the contrary, Lu Su's benevolence and righteousness, and the stability and prosperity between Jing and Chu have spread throughout the world.
As the saying goes, it’s hard to leave your homeland. But that’s because we haven’t reached that stage yet. If there are threats of death and war, the people will have to harden their hearts and leave their homeland to seek life elsewhere.
Just like what Tian Feng described, as soon as the announcement was released on this day, followers gathered. I don't know how many tens of thousands of people came to the outside of Runan City, waiting for the southward journey in three days.
On the third day, people from even the surrounding counties came with their families.
After all, Lu Su nominally ruled over the entire Runan County, not just a city. When Tian Feng counted the last number of people, he was also shocked.
There were actually as many as 100,000 people.
Basically, the entire people of Runan County followed the trend and became part of this southward trend.
The entire Runan County only had a population of 150,000 to 60,000 people, and suddenly it lost 100,000 people. What was left to Cao Cao was like a dozen or so empty cities.
After Cao Cao obtained it, he had to send troops to garrison it.
In addition to this, Cao Cao also sent Liu Feng a sum of military supplies in Wancheng. It can be said that he suffered a huge loss, basically the same as Yuan Shao and Sun Ce.
Of course, this is just a small reason for joy. What really makes Liu Feng happy is that there are 100,000 people in Runan County who are willing to follow him south. If you add 80,000 troops, it will be 18
Thousands of people.
If that day comes, Liu Feng attacks Xudu, and the population is only about two to three hundred thousand. But now he has 180,000 people and 12,000 elite soldiers.[
After attacking Xudu in the future, this force will become even more impressive.
180,000 plus 200,000 to 300,000, plus the attack on the surrounding areas of Xudu, there may be a population of 700,000 to 800,000, which is already half the population and military strength of Jiangdong.
Although it is a bit hard now, constantly drifting, and has no fixed place to live, the future is really bright.
However, because of this large flow, Liu Feng had to stop for a while, because there were too many old and weak people, and Liu Feng wanted to please the people.
He ordered the construction of a large number of carriages, and used war horses to pull the carriages for the people to ride on and go south together.
After staying for another month, Liu Fengcai led nearly 200,000 people southward.