To be honest, even without Yang Ang's final surrender, in the eyes of Liu Bei's generals, it would be a matter of time before Nan Zheng was captured, and there would be no possibility of unexpected turnaround.

Siege without hitting is nothing more than killing less people, and first stabilize the counties and wash back the people's hearts.

Dealing with charlatan warlords and attacking their grasp of the morale of the people is far more important than attacking their paper military combat power. Liu Bei is also a veteran who has been dealing with charlatan opponents for many years since the suppression of the Yellow Turbans, and he is very knowledgeable about this.

However, in the end, Nanzheng County could open the city without blood, and surrender if you don’t fight in a battle, which really made Liu Bei feel surprised.

This is too many tasks that exceed the amount of over-completed, so powerful!

After entering the city, Yang Ang brought a total of 5,000 soldiers to surrender. About 3,000 people were staying in Nanzheng, and two thousand people were mobilized from other surrounding counties that were destined to be unable to defend before besieging the city.

In addition, Zhang Lu did not rob and burn the Nanzheng treasury before his escape. At most, he only took away some food and fine food. This is similar to the routine before Zhang Lu was eliminated by Cao Cao in history. Perhaps Zhang Lu still had some fantasy of "not destroying the treasury and not burning the property in the city, which may be relieved of some crimes"; it may also be because he was afraid that burning the treasury would lead to the Hanzhong people who had finally managed to completely turn to Liu Bei.

Although Zhang Lu finally surrendered to Cao Cao in history, he fled to the southern Panman area for a while and watched for a while. It was Cao Cao who took the initiative to show kindness and persuade him to say that he would not blame him before that, so Zhang Lu came back from the ravine.

The treasury was not burned, which means that the grain stored in the Nanzheng granary was enough for Liu Bei's main force to eat for several years.

Since the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the central government of the imperial court mainly relied on the collection of copper coins and Shu brocade. Because Yizhou's transportation was too difficult, in-kind taxes such as grain and ordinary cloth had to be transported out, and the transportation cost would be many times more expensive than the taxable target itself, which was too unprofitable.

And from the middle of the Ling Emperor's dynasty, there was a strange phenomenon - because the emperor often sold the prefect and governor of Yizhou, and in fact he accused that "I can't collect the taxes in Yizhou at all. As long as the person who bought the official gave me tens of millions of dollars before taking office, the taxes during his term would be considered as being covered by the tax."

This led to the serious hoarding of physical wealth in Yizhou. The officials all handed over the money they saved from other places to Luoyang to buy officials. After taking office, they plundered wealth in Yizhou and existed in Yizhou. Although the people of Yizhou are poor, the waves of foreign plunderers entering Yizhou have made a fortune and become an absolute luxury big family.

Later, Liu Yan crazily killed large households in Shu County to make money. Liu Bei's most important plundering of "straight hundred coins" in his life was more or less related to these "deflation". Of course, there is nothing to be done about this. When Li Su came in this life, he would definitely not have to pay straight hundred coins. Even if he couldn't learn the credit currency of Jiaozifei in the Song Dynasty, he could at least learn the "storage brocade" of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, there was petrodollar, and now there was Shu brocade Wuzhu, which was the same as the same.

These are all later stories. For Liu Bei, having enough food means that even if the thieves chase the thieves and take advantage of the situation to occupy Brazil, they can also be put on the table immediately.

After entering Nanzheng, he slightly rectified the people's livelihood for three or five days, divided the spoils and rewards, and cleaned up the prefect's mansion and changed the plaque, soft decoration, and the atmosphere was refreshed.

Then Liu Bei summoned all the civil and military staff to the prefect's office and asked about the next stage of military operation strategy.

During the days before the siege of the city, the scout intelligence departments in the army were not idle. They had already found out all the local forces that Zhang Lu might have contacted or had contacted after he fled into Brazil. They had found out that a small notebook was placed directly on Liu Bei's record and could be settled at any time.

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Li Su also assigned a house in Nanzheng City that was more decent than when he was in Baozhong. It took several days to move, and the plaque of the Marquis' Mansion was reopened in the new home, and then the house that had been rented in Baozhong for only one month was returned.

It’s not that he is noble, but that he is a small place like Baozhong. I guess he will never live in the future, so there is no need to stay there any more.

However, Nan Zheng’s mansion can be kept. Even if he takes over Chengdu in the future, he can still be a multi-household person who “has a house in every county.”

On the day after cooking the housework, Liu Bei summoned him and Li Su went to discuss the matter quickly.

When he rode his horse to the front of the prefect's mansion, Li Su saw Lu Su waiting for him to enter there, and he quickly dismounted: "Why is Zijing too humble?"

Lu Su bowed first: "I heard that the general is going to discuss his merits today. He went to Nanzheng and Zhonglang to be the first to be the master of his merits, so he should be in order."

Li Su was a little surprised: "Isn't this... attack on Nanzheng planned by Zijing? I have been worrying about the 'education lottery' and the 'exposing the scammers of rice thieves' a while ago."

Lu Su: "The big plan should not be used in vain. Su assisted the general to force the surrender of Nanzheng, which was the method of Zhonglang's "exposing the fraud of rice thieves" and then disintegrated the hearts of the people in the city, and the first contribution was from the Danggui Zhonglang."

This is the benefit of the scholar-in-law industry's rewards for merit. Unlike writing books to invent, copyright/patent rights are people who specifically implement creativity and ideas. The great master borrows your ideas and writes them out and you can't do anything about him.

A strategist expresses his merits according to creativity. His initial idea was Li Su. Even if the subsequent detailed implementation was Lu Su, it would be just a secondary merit.

Li Su adapted to the characteristics of the times and the humility of his colleagues, and was complimented with peace of mind.

After the group entered, Liu Bei was indeed commended before the discussion, and indeed ranked Li Su as the first contribution to the South Zheng, followed by Lu Su, and said:

"Boya, when Zhang Lu is awarded his title, he will be rewarded to Beijing. You will only rely on your success in Yangping Pass and Nanzheng for two successes. You will definitely fight for the court for your reason and fight for you to come back."

Li Su stood up and thanked him.

Afterwards, Liu Bei finally changed his subject and asked all the counselors: "The matters in Nanzheng were settled, and Chief Yun had already gained a foothold in Jiameng. Our army was divided into two groups, and the main force crossed Yushan and entered Dangqu (the name of the river) to Dangqu (the name of the county); Chief Yun's troops entered Langzhong from the Jialing River, attacking Zhang Lu and his Banyanman under him. Do you have any good strategies for the specific advancement strategy?"

Li Su has been caring about the civil governance and education work that eliminates the toxicity of the sages. He is not very concerned about the military and cannot say anything for the moment, so he asked:

"I don't know what the situation is now? I remember that when Zhang Lu retreated to Brazil, there were only 8,000 direct troops. I heard that there were seven surnames of the Banyan Man in Brazil. I don't know how many of them depend on Zhang Lu? How many of the other local soldiers and local heroes were used by Zhang Lu?"

Liu Bei gave the secretary Zhuge Jin a wink, and Zhuge Jin quickly said the summary: "According to our army's recent investigation, the land of Brazil seems to have been bewitched by rice thieves in the past two years. The enemies our army has to face are composed of these parts: Zhang Lu's direct troops, the local guardian army bewitched by Zhang Lu, the Banyan barbarians who are unwilling to accept the rule of the court, and the local water thieves.

Needless to say, Zhang Lu's army was intrigued by Zhang Lu, as for the regular army, there were about a few thousand people, mainly in counties along the Jialing River Basin, near Liu Yan's jurisdiction. The most representative one was Yan Yan, the county magistrate of Langzhong. This person was originally a military officer of the court, but General Guan sent a ship down the river to test the day before yesterday, and was blocked by Yan Yan.

According to the feedback collected after the war, Yan Yan seemed to think that the general of Zhenxi was interested in raising the enemy and overthrowing the power of the imperial prefectures and counties in the name of pursuing Zhang Lu. Yan Yan seemed to be quite loyal to Liu Yan, but by chance, he was temporarily obeying Zhang Lu.

The seven surnames of Banyan Man in the Dangqu River Basin have the patriarchs of He Huang, Pu Hu and Du Bin, the largest tribes of the three families, all supported Zhang Lu, and had betrayed the court before, and the other four surnames were probably also dependent on these three surnames.

In addition, there was a thief in the Dangqu Basin who had always intercepted and killed the officials of the court and the merchants. The leader was named Gan Ning, who was still young and Guan, but he was extremely brave. In order to prepare ships, our army sent the vanguard troops to climb over Yushan to collect civilian ships, but was hired by Zhang Lu to intercept Gan Ning for money.

This man was extremely successful in the water battle. Our army's vanguard of ship searching for ships was rewarded. He said that everyone in the world used the hard objects of reed mats as sails, but Gan Ning was good at driving soft sails. He personally drove the battleship and used Shu brocade as sails, which was extremely extravagant. Even in the rushing places of the canal, he could still drive against the current. Before the Banyan Barbarians made a rebellion, the local official army warships in Ba County were unable to catch up for several years."

When Zhuge Jin reported to Gan Ning's situation, Li Su, who had not responded much, also had his eyes lit up.

Damn? What big secrets hidden in history have been discovered?

People all say "Western soft sails, Eastern hard sails", and it seems that this "truth" is not the case - Orientals have only never made thick cotton and linen canvas since ancient times, and are used to using straw mats, so there are more hard sails.

But it cannot be said that there are no soft sails in the east - the brocade sail thief is just soft sails.

It's just too expensive, at least dozens of times more expensive than canvas, and no one else can afford it except the thief.

After listening, Li Su suggested to Liu Bei: "I think that the Banyan Man can be mainly used to attract money. It is best to invite some senior officials of the Southern Xiongnu from Fuluo to hold the Fuluo seal, festivals, and banners, and show up to let the barbarians know that our army is different from Your Majesty, and that recruiting barbarians always gives money to fight.

As for the Jinfan thief Gan Ning, I think it is more fierce than Banman, and it is not possible to convince him directly. But I think such a heroic man should not be willing to be a thief for the rest of his life in this troubled time. If I can avoid exposing my past and temptation to "the gentlemen of the world can also serve the country as officials" may have a miraculous effect.

As for Yan Yan in the end, there was no way. He joined forces with Zhang Lu because he was loyal to Liu Yan. He had to defeat and capture him first, and then slowly report to Zhang Lu's rebellion and Liu Yan's usurpation evidence, slowly disintegrating his heart."

Li Su knew that Gan Ning was a thief and seemed to start to study and wash away his white hair when he was in his twenties. Moreover, Gan Ning had also become a small official in Ba County in history, but when Liu Yan died, he stood in the wrong team while Liu Zhang succeeded to the throne and was defeated by the troops loyal to Liu Zhang, and then fled to Jingzhou.

Although I don’t know when Gan Ning wanted to clean up and get ashore, I believe he should have this idea in his mind and can develop it.

Liu Bei was quite satisfied with such an enemy-to-me division, and immediately ordered Guan Yu to lead 5,000 troops out of Langzhong and Zhang Fei to lead 10,000 troops out of Dangqu.
Chapter completed!