After returning to Chencang, Gao Fei didn't have time to rest, so he devoted himself enthusiastically to repairing the city wall and strengthening the city defense. Although the city wall of Chencang was dilapidated, its foundation was not broken. As long as it was repaired, it would definitely be able to change its appearance.
In Chencang City, which is only ten miles long from east to west and seven miles wide from north to south, thousands of soldiers worked enthusiastically. They pushed the dilapidated and uninhabited houses in the city, and then transported all the bricks and tiles out of the city.
Other soldiers continuously brought stones from a mountain with a slightly less steep slope ten miles away, and selected masons from the common people to polish them into a large square stone, and then sent it to the west gate of Chencang City.
Outside the west gate, Gao Fei was commanding some soldiers and making cement. On the second day after he arrived in Chencang, he inspected the terrain and saw some limestone on the mountains near Chencang, so he thought it could be used. Until early this morning
After getting up, they actually sent people to collect this kind of limestone, and then had people transport clay from thirty miles away, and then mixed some small stones into it, and then mixed it with water, and it became the most primitive cement.
This kind of building material is much stronger than clay alone in ancient times. Gao Fei ordered all the soldiers to start mixing the cement, and then piled the stones polished by the masons one by one, because there was cement in the middle as a binding material.
, it will become stronger after it dries.
It is said that there is strength in numbers, and this is true at all. Gao Fei commanded these soldiers for only one morning, and a small urn city expanded inside the city wall had already taken shape. During lunch, all the soldiers gradually
They began to leave their work stations and each returned to their respective camps to rest for an hour.
Gao Fei returned to the county government office. Fu Xie and Gai Xun in the county government office seemed to regard this place as the Hanyang Prefecture. They were working tirelessly to calculate the daily food expenditure of the army and how many people had been evacuated from Liangzhou. This was their division.
Internal matters are also what they are good at.
Stepping into the county government hall, Gao Fei raised his hands and said to Fu Xie and Gai Xun: "Two adults, it's already noon. Aren't you still eating?"
Fu Xie said: "Master Hou, you can eat first. We are not in a hurry. If we cannot accurately know how many people were evacuated from Liangzhou, we will not be able to repatriate so many people in the future. According to Hua Xiong, the county lieutenant under Master Hou, this
In the past eight days, more than 60,000 people have entered Sanfu from Chencang. There are 27,423 households in Hanyang County, with a total population of 131,118. Now there are
More than 60,000 people have entered the third auxiliary system, and I have to find out which nearby county these 60,000 people are from."
Hearing that Fu Xie was so familiar with the population of the county under his jurisdiction, Gao Fei couldn't help but feel a little admiration, and immediately raised his hands and said: "I didn't expect Mr. Fu to be so familiar with the population of the county, but judging from the current situation, even if
What’s the use of knowing which county the people are from?”
Gai Xun smiled and said: "Master Marquis, you don't know something. The prefect is estimating the future tax issues. You must find out the specific figures. Only in this way can you report your Majesty's special reward in order to reduce the taxes of Hanyang County. Not only
So, I am now helping the Marquis to count the number of households and population in the entire Liangzhou. Now the rebels are estimated to have occupied most of Liangzhou. Without counting these losses, Da Sinong and Your Majesty will not be able to decide the number of years of tax exemption.
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After hearing this, Gao Fei finally understood the intentions of Fu Xie and Gai Xun. He sighed softly and said slowly: "Even if your Majesty can reduce the taxes of the people of Liangzhou, what's the use? After this time*
*, It will take at least a few years for Liangzhou to recover. I am afraid that the people in Liangzhou who have entered Sanfu will not want to go back."
Fu Xie said: "The Marquis' worry is not unreasonable, but it is better to reduce taxes than not to reduce them. As for how many years of tax reduction, it is up to the great Sinong and His Majesty to decide."
Gao Fei deeply felt that Fu Xie and Gai Xun were good local officials because of their ability in literature and martial arts. If he went to Liaodong in the future, he might be able to use their skills. Thinking of this, Gao Fei said: "You two
Sir, people are like iron, and rice is like steel. If you don’t eat a meal, you will feel hungry. This kind of thing cannot be estimated overnight. Why don’t you go have a meal first, and after eating, how about I send someone to help you two adults sort it out together?”
Fu Xie asked: "Does the Marquis have any good way to count the population?"
Gao Fei nodded and said: "Most of the people who are pouring into Sanfu now have been accepted by Jingzhao Yin in the Chang'an area. It is the land of Guanzhong. The place is vast and more than 60,000 people can be temporarily resettled. If
If you two adults want to know the exact number of people, you only need to send people to the people's resettlement areas to conduct a census from house to house. The two adults saw dead numbers in these books, and there is no way to check them."
After hearing this, Fu Xie's face showed joy. He closed the household registration book he was looking at and said to Gai Xun, who was reviewing it across the way: "Gai Changshi, let's go to eat. What the Marquis said."
It's quite insightful. Why didn't I think of the census?"
After dinner, Gao Fei sent 500 soldiers under the command of Fu Xie and Gai Xun, asking them to take the 500 soldiers to Chang'an to conduct a census. Before leaving, Fu Xie and Gai Xun also said
We need to get some food and grass from Jing Zhaoyin, because the army stationed in Chencang only has half a month of food and grass left.
After sending Fu Xie and Gai Xun away, Gao Fei went to visit the injured Pang De, Pei Yuanshao, Xia Houlan, and those soldiers who were injured in the war. After that, Gao Fei called Lu Heng and Liao Hua. He started from yesterday
He has not asked about the situation of the Gao clan until now after he came back. He wanted to know where Lu Heng and Liao Hua had arranged the Gao clan, because all the people around Chencang had evacuated, including his thousand-household food town.
"See you, Lord Marquis!" Lu Heng and Liao Hua bowed as soon as they entered the county government hall.
Gao Fei said: "Without ceremony, let me ask you, where has the Gao clan been moved?"
Lu Heng replied: "The Marquis's clan, along with the people of Liangzhou, were accepted by Jing Zhaoyin in the Chang'an area, and a thousand households of Chencang people also followed. The news of the rebellion in Liangzhou has spread to Sanfu.
Sanfu was shocked. Lord You Fufeng gave an order to evacuate all the people west of Wugong to Guanzhong, and stationed troops in Wugong County. He also sent people to ask the Marquis to evacuate together, and his subordinates evacuated the Marquis's people in Liangzhou.
After telling them the news, Lord You Fufeng asked his subordinates to tell the Lord to guard Chencang tightly and not let the rebels go. He will write a memorial to the court to pray for reinforcements."
"Well, Mr. You Fufeng has handled this very appropriately. Nothing major happened these days while I was gone, right?" After hearing this, Gao Fei felt that there was nothing to worry about. After all, the imperial court has not yet truly existed in name only. Han Han
The Spiritual Emperor is still here, and in a sense he can intimidate some people.
Liao Hua said: "Nothing happened, everything is normal. However, Hua Xiong recruited two hundred village warriors after the Marquis left. I originally wanted to tell the Marquis yesterday, but seeing that the Marquis was too tired, I postponed it until today."
"Hua Xiong is not bad. Now is the time to employ people. One more person means more strength." Gao Fei said happily.
Lu Heng asked: "Master Hou, there is one thing I don't understand. Master Hou went to Liangzhou, why did he suddenly become the governor of Liangzhou?"
Gao Fei smiled and briefly told Lu Heng and Liao Hua what happened in Liangzhou, and then they understood.
Liao Hua and Lu Heng told Gao Fei some big and small things that happened in Chencang. After hearing this, Gao Fei praised Liao Hua and Lu Heng. After that, the three of them walked out of the county office together and went to direct the soldiers to repair the city wall and urn city respectively.
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Three days later, the Chencang city wall was repaired, the Wengcheng was also built, and the fortifications came to an end temporarily. In the following days, Gao Fei began to order people to build catapults, and Duoduo transported stones from the mountains for defense. He even asked the stonemason to
Ten giant rolling stones were polished, one foot high and half a foot wide, so that they could pass under the city gate smoothly.
With soldiers and the defense of the city wall strengthened, Gao Fei felt more confident. He began to measure the range of bows and arrows and the range of catapults outside the city wall, and then marked them with stones on the ground outside the city.
Come out. The bows and arrows of the Han army have a long range, but their accuracy is poor. The infantry bow can shoot almost three hundred paces, which is the most powerful bow in the Han army. The crossbow has a short range, but its accuracy is very good. He also asked people to take it.
The short bows used by the cavalry and the other two types of bows and arrows with different tensions in the army came. He personally shot arrows outside the city and asked people to mark them.
Each of the 300-step bow, 200-step bow, 150-step bow and 100-step crossbow prepared a thousand soldiers for training and gave them to Liao Hua, Lu Heng, Zhou Cang and Guan Hai to lead respectively.
In addition, he also used the catapults he built and placed them in different positions to reduce the range one by one, forming a stepped range. In this way, when encountering a fierce attack by the rebels, he could launch
Good defense, using the most lethal weapons from different ranges.
In order to be foolproof, he even asked people to collect fire oil. Once these crossbows could not suppress the rebel attacks, he would use fire to burn them. All these defensive settings were derived from what he had seen before.
A movie called "Kingdom of Heaven", he used it skillfully here, and it was quite handy.
After completing all the city defenses, it was already five days later, and the Liangzhou rebels had not yet made any offensive movements. According to the returning scouts, the rebels led by Han Sui in Bianzhang had already occupied Hanyang, Anding, Longxi, and
Jincheng, Wuwei and other places, and the number of rebels is also gradually increasing.
After hearing the news brought back by the scouts, Gao Fei began to worry about a person, that person was Jia Xu. Since they were separated in Poqiang County, he didn't know what happened to Jia Xu. For him, Jia Xu
He is a very important person. His subordinates are all military generals now, and there is no real counselor like Jia Xu. The first counselor of the Three Kingdoms he met was Jia Xu, and he valued this "poisonous man" even more.
On September 26, Fu Xie and Gai Xun returned from Jing Zhaoyin in Chang'an with 500 soldiers, and brought back exciting news: all the Yellow Turbans in the Central Plains were defeated, and Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty simply made some rewards
After that, he ordered Huangfu Song, who was already a chariot and cavalry general, to bring 100,000 elite Han troops to Liangzhou to quell the rebellion.