On the sixth day of the fifth month, three days after the capture of Chang'an City, the traces of war were finally cleaned up.

Liu Bei also temporarily settled in the Mingguang Palace of Beigong for the first time and worked as a Grand Sima. Li Su moved into the Jingzhao Yin Mansion, Zhao Wen and others also engaged in temporary activities in the Sangong office area next to him, while Cai Yong was still halfway and has not arrived in Chang'an so far.

One thing that must be emphasized here: Liu Bei did not overstep, because the North Palace of Chang'an was not the place where the emperor lived. The most orthodox person the emperor lived was the Weiyang Palace, and there were Changle and Jianzhang on both sides.

The buffer area between Weiyang Palace and Changle Palace was originally the office of the ministers. It was similar to the Sui and Tang Dynasties putting the three provinces and six ministries in the outer palace, and the Ming Dynasty putting the cabinet in the outer palace.

Mingguang Palace is at the northernmost end of this buffer area, with the south gate facing the arsenal. Further south is Jingzhao Yin Mansion, and further south is Huo Guang’s former residence and the Sangong Mansion.

In Chang'an City, piles of ruins were still piled up in the palace and neighborhoods in disharmonious manner, but at least the embers had been wiped out and the bodies were burned. To clear all the ruins, it would take at least a month. If you need to rebuild them, it would not be possible to complete them in a year or two.

But as long as these ruins do not affect other neighboring neighborhoods for the time being, it would be fine.

In three days, the population in Chang'an City was simply re-censed and sorted out. Although it was inaccurate, it roughly found out the damage caused by Li Jue's madness in the last doomsday. In the past few months, at least tens of thousands of people have died in Chang'an City and surrounding areas. If it is not conservatively estimated, 200,000 are possible.

The destructive power of the brutal warlords such as Li Jue and Guo Si to "reduce the population by one million per year" in Yongliang is so amazing. This is pretty good. It was taken back in at least 194. If it was delayed to 196 in history, there would be only one million people left in Guanzhong. If it was delayed to 198, the year when Li Jue was killed in history, there might not be 200,000 to 300,000.

Now it is a timely stop loss.

On the evening of the sixth day of the lunar month, after Liu Bei got familiar with the environment in Mingguang Palace, he brought several other ministers to the Jingzhao Yin Mansion to find out the situation.

Li Su also roughly shared the data that just released, so that everyone knows what kind of mess they have got - this mess can be achieved by self-sufficient and self-generating and restoring people's livelihood within two years. In the most optimistic case, at least the third year will it be possible to transfusion foreign blood and support foreign war expenses. Who made it happen to Li Jue and Guo Si, the two biggest destructive crazier in the late Han Dynasty?

"This year, the Northern Expedition was fought for four months, and the two counties in Longxi and five counties in Guanzhong were recovered. Now, the total number of remaining population is more than 2.8 million. It is 500,000 less than before the war.

There are no locust plagues in Tianshui and Longxi counties this year, but there are still droughts, but they are slightly better than Guanzhong. In addition, there are fewer farming areas there and the population is sparse. The two counties have a population of less than 200,000, Tianshui County, and 50,000, Longxi County. Therefore, the people can survive by relying on half farming and semi-herding. The precipitation required for grass is far lower than that of farmland, but they occupy a large area.

Less than half of the people engaged in farming in Tianshui County often only plant wheat in the Wei River and convenient irrigation areas along the Tao River coast, and do not rely too much on rainfall. This year, as long as the people's tax is temporarily exempted for one year, you can recover without wasting Yizhou's grain disaster relief.

The disasters in the five counties in Guanzhong are all serious. At present, we have a remaining population of 2.6 million, Jingzhao Yin, 1.4 million, Fufeng County, 570,000, Fengyi County, 460,000, Anding County, and 130,000, and Beidi County.

If we do not carry out water conservancy rectification and locust control, we will develop according to the current situation. According to my deduction, the Beidi County, which has the worst disaster, will completely eliminate the harvest, and no grains will be left alone.

Not only are there locusts there, but water conservancy cannot be cured at all. Only Fuping can get irrigation from farmland. Even if people are sent to destroy locusts, at most, they will cause less disasters in the grassland and can survive more herders. The farming people in other counties outside Fuping County are still out of stock.

The only thing that is thankful is that the Beidi County is the five counties in Guanzhong with the smallest population, and there are only three counties in the southern part of the seven counties in the county. As early as the Zhongping period, after the Qiangqu Shanyu was killed, the four counties in the north fell into the pseudo-Southern Xiongnu Shanyu who rebelled against the Han Dynasty. There were not many Han people there. This year, those hostile Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei people should be affected by the disaster. During the winter, we should prevent those nomads from robbing south. The disaster was followed by Fengyi County..."

Li Su had just introduced the situation in Beidi County and was about to say that the other four counties in Guanzhong, Liu Bei interrupted him in a casual manner and did not tell him politely:

"Since this is the case, I also strengthened my determination to temporarily allocate Beidi County to Huchuquan to fight against the Hu people in the five Hetao counties. We Han people in this county are also hot potatoes, so we let Huchuquan be the base area. Taking advantage of the embarrassment of the Hu people in Hetao, we killed more land, and gave them weapons and robbed the cattle and sheep of the Hu people in Hetao for us to spend the winter.

After two years, the situation will be better. Then the entire Beidi County will be taken back, and then the Xihe, Shuofang, and Shangjun will be granted to Huchuquan. If you are afraid that Huchuquan will be powerful, then you will use a method similar to the "recommendation order" to give his brother Yu Fuluo the orphan surnamed Liu. If your name remains unchanged, you will be named Liu Bao, and you will also support him as Shanyu, divide and govern him.

The idea of ​​the lonely is that the five counties of Hetao after the recovery, the people of Huchuquan were in charge of the two counties, and the people of Liu Bao were in charge of the two counties. Gradually, the law of Han officials was in charge of them, allowing them to be hereditary. However, each generation had to choose successors from their descendants, and they had to enter the court to learn Sinology. Those with excellent academic governance succeeded the throne, just like the current method of governing the southwestern barbarians."

The Liu Bao mentioned by Liu Bei was also a very long-lived strange creature in the late Han Dynasty, and his lifespan was even greater than that of the old witch Xie in Lingnan.

The specific birth year of Liu Bao is unknown, but at least he was born before Fu Luo moved to Wudu in 188. Liu Bao's son Liu Yuan was born in 251, so Liu Bao could still have a son at least 63 years old. Liu Yuan succeeded Liu Bao as the Left Xianwang in 279, which was the year before the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu, which means that Liu Bao lived at least 92 years old.

From the year before Dong Zhuo entered Beijing to the year before the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu, it could almost be considered to have survived the entire end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.

Li Su himself agreed with Liu Bei's suggestion, because Beidi County is indeed too close to the Hetao grassland, and the Han people's governance ideas cannot be completely done. Since it is completely messy now, as long as the locusts are properly managed, the drought can only be left alone. As long as people are not thirsty, they will rely on the survival of the jungle to ask other Hetao grassland tribes for robbing!

But unexpectedly, the Han people also "killed grass valley" and robbed cattle and sheep to survive. Other dynasties dared not think about it. That would be equivalent to "the Han people had no food, but instead robbed the Turks/Kitans/Dangxiang". But Li Su was there, and he heard Liu Bei say it naturally, and he didn't feel it was inconsistent.

Who made the Hu tribes in the fifth county of Hetao have not yet learned the two-sided metal stirrups and socks, and the wooden saddle bridge saddles? Taking advantage of this information, I quickly take advantage of the more years and take advantage of the Hu people for a few more years.

"Since this is the case, the Beidi County will arrange it according to the king's wishes. I will only send a thousand people to help Huqiuquan to eliminate locusts, and the rest will be temporarily autonomous according to their customs of the Southern Xiongnu. This poorest and most difficult trouble has been temporarily alleviated, so we can free up our hands to solve the troubles of other counties." Li Su happily agreed to Liu Bei's order.

Both parties felt that it was nothing to deal with it like this. Civil officials under Liu Bei's command, such as Xun You, Fa Zheng and others, who had worked for many years, did not think there was any problem. However, the several imperial court officials next to him looked at each other in all respects.

Zhao Wen, who is about to go back to be a Situ, and Zhang Yi, a senior general, are also responsible for managing civil affairs and disaster relief, and their professionalism is somewhat in line. They are afraid that they are full of black lines at this moment: This... Isn't Li Su only twenty-five years old? His Majesty remembers that he knows his destiny, has a strange plan, and has made him a great honor to become the Jingzhao Yin at the age of twenty-five. This is already a very extraordinary kindness.

But how does it seem... For King Hanzhong, Li Su's authority is far more than Jingzhao Yin. He is simply the governor of Yongzhou. How to resist drought, locusts and disaster relief in the five counties in Guanzhong and even the two counties in Longxi are coordinated by him in overall planning?

Zhang Yi, the senior general, originally thought that his good life was coming soon, and he finally escaped from Li Jue's claws and saved his life. Moreover, so many other colleagues of Jiuqing were killed, Jiuqing was promoted to three, and he should have had the hardships and show his strength.

As a result, it seems that Zhang Yi has no job to do...

Liu Bei is not another tyrant who is nepotent and obscene to the court, right? He regards the ministers as clay sculptures and wood sculptures? That is not much different from the Li Jue period! Except for Liu Bei, who does not kill people indiscriminately like Li Jue, does not rob.

Of course, Liu Bei and the others would not pay attention to this murmur from Zhang Yi and others. Li Su continued to explain the situation in the other four counties:

"The other four counties in Guanzhong, Fengyi County, the most severely affected is Fengyi County. According to the natural state of not treating locusts and not resisting drought, the harvest will be reduced this year by 90%. However, the governance potential here is still OK. It can effectively eliminate locusts, which can save 10% or 20% of the harvest, and can also get some locusts for hungry people to eat when they have no choice but to control water. However, the potential for water control is not great.

The land near the Yellow River in Fengyi County can be irrigated, but the water in the Yellow River is too large to break ditches and divert water to the hinterland for irrigation. If the Yellow River breaks, the harm will be far more serious than a year's drought. Only Luoshui, a tributary of the Yellow River, can dig irrigation canals, or build embankments when the water level drops, so as to ensure that the old canal still has enough water flow and does not release remaining water into the Yellow River. With comprehensive management, Fengyi County can recover 40% of the harvest and improve the irrigation status in the future years, which is very good.

The third disaster is Anding County. The locust plague is more energy needed to manage and control the locust plague in Anding County, but it is easier to control the water and has a small population. People farm along the Jing River, which has some guarantees. If the governance is done properly, 40% of the harvest can be saved.

The second best situation is Jingzhao Yin. Chang'an has relatively sufficient water networks. The water conservancy facilities have been good since Qin. They can save half of the crops even if it does not rain for a few months. Then they will cure locusts and catch half of the harvest. If the situation is good, they can even leave 60 to 70% behind.

But Jingzhao Yin's trouble is that he has a large population and a large population and a small land area. He could not use the land output of his county to support more than one million people. He had to rely on Fufeng and Fengyi's grain transport to provide support. Therefore, even if Jingzhao Yin's land is not bad at all, as long as Fengyi's Fufeng fails to harvest, he will still starve to death.

The most promising thing about the five counties in Guanzhong is that we established an effective rule in Youfufeng during spring plowing. The harvests in Chencang, Mei County, Weinan and other places were treated as soon as possible because of the proper irrigation. In addition, we diverted the route to the Western Han River flowing into Weibei and increased the amount of water. If there were no locusts, it would be able to save more than 80% this year. Other Fufeng counties in the Wei River Basin can also save 60% to 70%, and the county is almost 60% to Huaili.

From May to July, Fufeng County does not need to strengthen water control. As long as you focus on eliminating locusts, save the average crop of 70% and exempt the people from taxes this year, Fufeng County will definitely be self-sufficient. You can also sell some surplus grain to help Jingzhao.

Fengyi and Anding County can only be tax-free and encouraged to be self-sufficient. They have to transport grain to those places. The loss is too serious and it is going upstream. It is difficult for the grain ship to go upstream, unlike Fufeng to Jingzhao that goes downstream. When Jingzhao cannot ensure that no one is starved to death at all, Fengyi can starve to death a little. From the arithmetic consideration, Fengyi will starve to death by one person less, and Chang'an may have to starve to death two more."

Transportation is depleted. Since even the most convenient transportation places cannot avoid starvation to death, of course, people in areas with convenient transportation will be given priority. This is not Li Su's cruelty, but that his power is only so great.

If it really doesn't work, in the end, it can only let the people take the risk of eating locusts. As long as the government teaches more scientific methods to eliminate locusts, try to eliminate chemical hazards, and allow some of the poorest refugees to concentrate on eating locusts, so as not to most people take the risk of eating locusts. This way, it is considered to be destined to survive.

According to Li Su's algorithm, if Jingzhao Yin is well managed, the proportion of local people who need to eat locusts will be lower. At most, the prisoners in the previous hard labor camps must be eaten. If it is really impossible, the prisoners captured by Zhang Ji, and the prisoners caught in the battle of Jingyuan were also sent to eat locusts. If the population raised by locusts increased from 10,000 to 30,000, then basically all the locusts in Jingzhao Yin's territory will be almost eaten. No matter how many you want, you won't be enough to eat.

As for An Ding and Fengyi's poorest refugees can only be the general way of eating locusts. Even if they are just ordinary people, they have no sins and do not need to use "eating locusts" as a means of serving their sentence.

After listening to the situation that Li Su learned in the past few days and the plans he discussed, Liu Bei felt a little depressed:

"Gu had long expected that the beast Li Jue would definitely leave a mess, but he still didn't expect it to be so bad. Alas, just treat it as a rest. Fortunately, Yuan Shu just wiped out Huang Shao, He Yi, and Cao Cao killed Zang Ba last year, and they also wanted to farm and rest."

Liu Bei's speculation was actually to judge the villain with a gentleman's heart. In fact, only Cao Cao would realize the harm of ground meat with the Xuzhou army and the Taishan bandits in recent years and began to work hard to farm. In history, Cao Cao in 194, but in 194, he fought with Lu Bu and ended up eating the poor. In the end, Cheng Yu made him "dried meat" of unknown meat as military rations.

That was also the year when Cao Cao was most hungry, so the two years in history, 195 and 196 were also one of the few years when Cao Cao tried to fight for hegemony, and tried to avoid fighting and recover purely (Cao Cao still did a lot of things in politics, mainly to hold the emperor, and there was no big move in military affairs).

However, Yuan Shu, who was also repeatedly tug-of-war, was ground into rotten land by Nanyang, Yingchuan and Runan, obviously did not seem to have learned a lesson. If he had the opportunity, he would obviously be more powerful and would be more powerful. Moreover, the domestic economic construction basically relies on the natural development of the people. Without official overall planning support, he just wanted to drink honey water.

And let alone, Yuan Shu's random expansion without resting with the people has caused several troubles to Liu Bei and Li Su. In theory, the jurisdiction of Jingzhao Yin includes the 600-li mountainous area of ​​Wuguan Road, that is, the two counties of Wuguan and Shangluo.

But now, because Yuan Shu was tempted by Dong Cheng before, he wanted to steal the fruits of victory, all the three counties 600 miles from Wuguan Road fell into Yuan Shu's hands.

What's more, when Li Bie from Ship Pass was transferred back to defend Zhang Fei by Li Ying, every few days, even Lantian County in Ship Pass was occupied by Ji Ling, the general of Yuan Shu Army. In the following days, around late April, during the siege of Chang'an, Ji Ling himself guarded Lantian and Ship Pass, divided the bridge and continued to advance northwest, and recently occupied Duling County near Chang'an.

That's right, it is the Duling, who was called "Duling Ye Lao", a poet Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty. The place is southeast of Chang'an City, only 60 miles away from Chang'an. The reason why the place name of this county is added with "Ming" is because this is the tomb of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty.

In other words, when Liu Bei and Li Jue were fighting with each other, Yuan Shu's vanguard had quietly occupied the southeastern suburbs of Chang'an! If it weren't for Ji Ling, Qiao Rui would have reported to Yuan Shu at that time, saying that Li Jue still had tens of thousands of dead soldiers, and Yuan Shu didn't want to lose too much direct troops. In addition, Ji Ling's Qiao Rui's soldiers were not stronger than Li Jue, so he could not fight alone.

So Yuan Shu ordered Ji Ling and Qiao Rui to wait and see, and wait until Liu Bei and Li Jue both suffered losses and were almost exhausted before robbing the heads. Otherwise, Qiao Rui might have assisted Liu Bei in siege against Chang'an.

At that time, Liu Bei and Li Su also noticed Yuan Shu's small actions and Ji Lingqiaorui's existence, but considering that they also came to fight against the thieves under the banner of Han ministers, unless Liu Xie issued an order to announce that Yuan Shu was to fight against the enemy rather than to serve the king, Liu Bei would not take the initiative to attack friendly forces and leave a verbal statement to other princes.

Everyone also knew the final result - Liu Bei's army built siege equipment and fortifications, and combined with the feint attack of the siege, it took more than ten days, but the final decisive battle was killed in an instant within one day.

So Qiao Rui didn't react at all. He waited in Duling County with 20,000 troops for a few days. When he received the news that Liu Bei was making efforts, the city had been destroyed. The established fact that Liu Bei occupied Chang'an had already caused it, and the diplomatic dilemma was thrown to Yuan Shu's side.

Yuan Shu wanted to rob him at this time. First, Liu Bei's consumption seemed not as large as he imagined, and even Yuan Shu could not defeat the 40,000 people on the front line. Second, if Yuan Shu took the initiative to launch troops against Liu Bei, who had been authorized by the emperor to serve the king, then Yuan Shu would become the enemy in advance. If he wanted to do this, it would be better to conquer Luoyang and kill the emperor and call himself the emperor first.

So the two sides stood in a sensitive confrontation sixty miles apart. Liu Bei was not worried about Yuan Shu causing trouble. After the war, he could withdraw most of the troops back to Yizhou first to reduce the food consumption rate in Guanzhong area in the disaster year.

If Yuan Shu wants to keep 40,000 people and rely on the 600-mile mountain road of Wuguan Road to maintain grain transportation, then keep it. Anyway, the grain production in Lantian and Duling counties will definitely not be able to support 40,000 troops. Lantian and Duling are also considered a disaster area this year.

So when the confrontation approached mid-May, Yuan Shu saw that there was no chance, he withdrew most of the troops on the front line. Only more than 10,000 were left behind forty thousand people, and Ji Ling, the best warrior, also left. Only Qiao Rui was blinded by Yuan Shu and called "Jingzhao Yin" and stayed behind the five counties of Jingzhao that Yuan Shu's army surrendered. (Of course, Liu Xie did not agree to this self-contributor, Liu Xie only named Li Su Jingzhao Yin)

This has become another problem for Liu Bei and Li Su to manage the Jingzhaoyin area in the next stage:

Two Jingzhao Yin appeared in the territory around the capital.

Li Su, the genuine Jingzhao Yin, has only eight counties left in Chang'an, Chiyang, Gaolu, Wannian, Yinpan, Xinfeng, Zheng County, Xiabi and Xian County.

Qiao Rui, a fake guy, actually stole the five counties.

However, Li Su does not want to talk and do not want to provoke for the time being. This year, disaster relief is the most important thing until the autumn harvest. Moreover, once the feud is in conflict, the remaining nearly 100,000 troops of Liu Bei's army cannot be withdrawn from Yizhou. He will continue to stay in Guanzhong to confront the war, which will cause too much logistical pressure on Liu Bei's army. It is not that he cannot maintain the troops, but the price of maintaining the troops is at least to starve 200,000 to 300,000 people this year.

If some mountainous poor counties take it, the disaster year is temporarily a burden, so it is better to let Yuan Shu take it first. On the other hand, Yuan Shu's tentacles penetrate deep into the vicinity of Chang'an, and he can also use some economic skills to lure Yuan Shu to sell food to Chang'an for profit to help alleviate it.

When the disaster passed, Yuan Shu lost his value, Li Su would of course immediately move out the emperor's sign to let Qiao Rui get out. If he dared not leave, he would just kill him.

Li Su explained this truth clearly to Liu Bei, but Liu Bei agreed. He temporarily maintained the harmony of "everyone is a minister of the king and Han Dynasty" with Yuan Shu, and asked him to take these five counties for half a year. At the latest, the spring plowing ends next year and the spring famine will pass. Liu Bei must take it back before the summer grain and vegetables are harvested.

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The disaster relief meeting ended on the entire day of the 6th day of the lunar calendar. The next day, several counties in Guanzhong began their governance and diplomacy in an orderly manner, while destroying locusts and building canals, while stabilizing Yuan Shu. Then, the ministers in the court were sorted out in batches and identified by personnel officials from Liu Bei's camp.

Some of the old people who are useless, or who are virtuous but not talented, such as Situ Zhao Wen, are sent back to Hongnong, and come to Liu Xie to build the team of the "Court", which actually becomes a mascot without real power.

Some young people, or those who do have the ability to govern the people, are directly delegated to local officials in the five counties of Guanzhong to go to the grassroots to rescue disasters. If they look at their actual achievements, they will decide to improve and reduce. This is also considered as "the prime minister must start from the prefecture department." Central officials must have real administrative results from local governments.

Another part of professional officials stayed in Chang'an on the spot, forming the Six Cao Shangshu Organizations under the "Shaofu" and other services.

Although Liu Bei himself had not destroyed Guo Si, according to Liu Xie's agreement, he temporarily only took away the word "Quanshe" and became the genuine "King of Hanzhong", but he had not yet obtained the title of "Da Sima".

Therefore, Liu Bei, Li Suxun You and others discussed it and asked Liu Xie for a temporary appointment to "record the Secretary of the State" so that Liu Bei could leave the mascot, the ministers and ministers, and rely solely on the six ministers of Cao in the Shaofu to take charge of the affairs.

For example, Liu Ba, the upcoming Grand Secretary, is the pioneer of financial reform, can have an additional "Shaofu House Cao Shangshu". The rank of a certain Cao Shangshu is only 600 stones, which is lower than that of the Grand Secretary, but the matters in charge are important and have real power.

In this way, the problem of Liu Bei's military civil servants being generally low in qualifications and unable to be the nine ministers was bypassed. There are many flexible appointments such as Liu Ba.

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Chapter completed!