Chapter 98 If you don’t draw the pie now, when will you wait?
Shen Pei's despair was just the beginning, but the despair of the Yecheng defenders had been going on for a long time.
Most of them were locals in Ye County. They were all recruited into the city to join the war as strong men on the grounds of building strong walls and clearing the country. At first they just carried logistics supplies, but soon they began to go directly to the front line to participate in the war.
However, they had little training, had a high casualty rate, and had deep resentment against the judges. Especially after the traffic inside and outside Yecheng was cut off, supplies in the city gradually became scarce. Food was okay, but medicines were seriously insufficient. Therefore, the officers could still get treatment. They
These people were injured and sick and were waiting to die.
And when they learned that reinforcements were unlikely to appear, they were the first to collapse emotionally and the first to be unable to tolerate the status quo.
Before the Han troops outside the city could rush in, the Yuan troops inside the city began to kill each other. More and more big-headed soldiers asked Kaicheng to surrender, and asked to leave the city to obtain freedom and medicine. At the beginning, they refused to allow the trial and distribution.
, but this obstruction soon became the trigger for an attack.
I got the news in the morning, chaos started at noon, and by the afternoon, fighting had begun in the city.
At first, Shenpei was able to mobilize some troops to put out the rebellion, but soon, the rebellion was like a spark, starting a prairie fire. The defenses inside and outside Ye city began to collapse, and fewer and fewer troops still obeyed Shenpei's command.
, more and more rebels are rebelling.
Shenpei retreated again and again, and finally even gave up on his own home, allowing the rebel army to rush into his home. He himself led the last army to retreat into Yuan Shao's home in Ye City, mobilizing the last troops to protect it.
A mansion to protect Yuan Shao's family in the mansion.
Although he made such a great sacrifice, he still could not withstand the rebels' tidal offensive, and the mansion was breached.
Shen Pei fought and retreated with his last personal guard. The battle reached the last moment. Facing the red-eyed rebels, he stabbed himself in despair and ended his life.
After the death of Shen Pei, Yuan Shao's mansion was also occupied. The rational officer did not let his subordinates kill Yuan Shao's newly adopted family members, but took good care of them, and then surrendered to the city to welcome the Han army.
On March 18, the first year of Jian'an, Yecheng was occupied by the Han army. All the defenders of Yecheng surrendered. The guard Shenpei died in the civil strife. Yuan Shao's family members were all captured. Dong Zhuo, the governor of Qingzhou, Liu Yu, the governor of Qingzhou, and the governor of Yanzhou were all captured.
Qiao Mao entered the city together and won the victory together.
After the victory in the Battle of Yecheng, the resistance of the last organized army of Yuan Shao ended, and the Jizhou Rebellion came to an end.
This battle, with the core goal of conquering Yuan Shao, ended with the victory of the Central Han Army.
The rebellion launched by the brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu came to an end. The aftermath of the Luoyang coup was officially put down a year later by Liu Bei, the trusted controller of the Luoyang court.
The final quelling of this rebellion also further revealed the final establishment of the Four Assistant Ministers system with Liu Bei as the absolute core in the post-Liu Hong era, and meant that the Four Assistant Ministers system began to have a certain authority throughout the world.
A new, short-lived but powerful system has been initially established, and the order that was originally going to be chaotic in the Han Empire was re-established under the new system.
History has changed dramatically since then.
Once an era has passed, it will never come back again.
Dong Zhuo and others wrote a memorial in Yecheng, sent the news to Luoyang, and wrote to Liu Bei to let Liu Bei, who was far away in Youzhou, know about the incident.
This war is over, and a new era is slowly beginning. As the leader of this new era, Liu Bei knew about this on March 25th.
At that time, the administrative operation of Youzhou led by the General's Palace was relatively smooth. Liu Bei regained his energy after waking up and took the lead in the work. He used the army and the officials of the General's Palace to handle affairs, and the situation in Youzhou was quickly calmed down.
Come down.
The number of prisoners of war and livestock seized this time was too large, so Liu Bei took many measures and a multi-pronged approach, intending to digest these seizures as soon as possible and restore blood to Youzhou, which had suffered severe blood loss.
In addition to selling the captives and captured livestock, Liu Bei also used the administrative power of the General's Office and the still intact county power of Shanggu County and Dai County to speed up the construction of the imperial pasture in the northern grassland of Youzhou.
It would be too wasteful to sell or eat all these livestock. They should play a greater role. Like Liangzhou, pastures should be built and managed, so that the imperial court can provide a large number of livestock needed, which is of great significance.
Establishing a ranch requires start-up capital, but it also requires people.
They have no shortage of start-up capital. They can put a lot of property seized in this round to use, and then they can deploy a lot of people.
Liu Bei selected people with relevant work experience in Liangzhou from among the officials in the General's Office to manage the ranch. He then looked for Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Wuhuan herdsmen from among the captives who were willing to obey the management, and used them to quickly establish the ranch.
For these people, the treatment given to them is different from that of ordinary prisoners. The ordinary prisoners can only eat one simple meal a day to ensure that they will not die of hunger, but for those who work for the government, they can eat two meals a day to ensure that they will not die of hunger.
They don't feel severe hunger.
At the same time, Liu Bei also agreed with them that although they are currently slaves, as long as they work for the Han Dynasty for three years without any illegal behavior, they can be incorporated into the Youzhou household registration.
From then on, he became a serious Han from Youzhou, got rid of all kinds of restrictions, was no longer a slave, and had freedom.
Of course, during these three years, they only received two meals a day and no other compensation.
As a general, Liu Bei swore to abide by the agreement, and then gave each herdsman who was willing to cooperate a wooden sign, engraved with the date when they started working and the date of expiration in three years. As long as this date arrived, they could find Youzhou
The civil affairs department exchanged the Youzhou household registration and became Han Chinese.
Then they are considered employees of departments directly under the imperial court and can enjoy the corresponding benefits of imperial staff, including monthly salary, annual and holiday benefits, and various rewards.
So, as long as you work honestly for three years, dedicate three years, don't break the law, don't do wrong things, and obey orders, then what will be left for you is a beautiful life in the future.
How about it?
Not bad right?
Through this gentle approach, batches of high-quality grassland herders chose to cooperate with Liu Bei and entered the pastures to work for the Han Empire, doing what they were good at, grazing, taking care of livestock, and nurturing livestock for the Han Empire.
In a relatively short period of time, Liu Bei successfully planned four large-scale ranches and recruited more than 20,000 experienced and high-quality herders from the captives to cooperate with the empire. They received wooden tokens and took their families on the road.
, began their three years of hardship.
A large number of livestock had a place to go, and sustainable development was barely started.
And if you have nowhere to go and no buyers in a short period of time, you can only activate the big guys to eat them.
After a while, Liu Bei feasted on beef, sheep, and horse meat, doing various tricks. Anyway, he did a good job. His stomach was full, his strength increased, and he succeeded in getting Liu Bei angry. He drank a few
The medicine was suppressed.
Then for the other captives, following the old practice of Liangzhou, women of childbearing age were selected and included in the household registration to supplement the population of Youzhou that had suffered severe blood loss.
The rest were selected, and those with special skills were selected for other uses, while the rest were used as strong laborers to repair and renovate the severely damaged Youzhou.
These people on the grassland also mastered some special skills that were meaningful to the Han Empire.
For example, their food-making skills, especially dairy products, will be of great help to Liu Bei's future plans for the Northern Expedition. Liu Bei needs them to provide dairy product-making skills to help the Han army update their recipes.
In addition, there are skilled craftsmen in the grasslands. There are not many of them, but there are people who can make iron, bronze, gold, silver, and pottery, and there are also people who can make bows and arrows.
As well as those who mastered textile skills, craftsmen who mastered the skills of making leather goods, bone products, etc., these were all helpful to the Han Empire, so they were all selected, included in the household registration, and included in the use.