This news is considered good news in the current view of Zhuge Liang. Even if the road is completely repaired, it may take until the middle of next year, but if it can be repaired, it means that there is no problem in fighting out what Chen Xi planned. Of course, from the beginning Zhuge Liang didn't think there was any problem at first.
With the continuous completion of roads in the Central Plains states, even ordinary people with a little vision understand that this generation will probably break out the territory that the Central Plains has maintained for a long time. The former empire's extreme wall will definitely not be able to do so under this crazy road construction method. To be broken.
For example, in the past, when Emperor Gao was far away and disobedient from time to time, the countries in the Western Regions could only be suppressed by Wuji Xiaowei. When the westward passage was built, Chang'an wanted to beat them. It would only take a month or two to send out troops. After the fight, they might not be able to return. It won't take a year.
Let’s also count the Grand Canal under construction, state highways in various states, the road from Chang’an to Hanzhong that Cao Cao worked hard to rebuild, and the Southwest Artery that Liu Zhang, who has basically gone crazy, is working on.
After these roads and infrastructure are built, all the states in the Central Plains will be basically connected. If this continues, the connections between the north, south, and east will be greatly increased. As long as an outer frame map is created, the possibility of unrest in the core territory of the empire will basically be eliminated. Damn it, no one can even think about splitting the states in the central territory. The political economy is all inseparable because of their interconnectedness.
Of course, Lu Qian also told some less important things, such as what they saw on the road. For example, they encountered about a thousand to two thousand people gathered together, protected by some guards, and took the westbound passage that Cao Cao was building to the Western Regions. People of the Central Plains.
When these people saw Lu Qian leading the army, they still wanted to join Lu Qian. After all, in the past ten years, the reputation of the Han family's regular army had not been lost, and its discipline was much better than before. In addition, the domestic civil war did not break the bottom line. Whether it is Cao Cao or Liu Bei, these people are working hard to maintain the country's situation. The situation of "bandits are like combs and soldiers are like grates" has long been a thing of the past.
So much so that there are wars, but the people are living better than they were ten or twenty years ago.
Of course, wars from time to time have also tempered the character of these people. Now the people under various princes still have some estimates of which of the soldiers of the major princes are reliable.
There is no doubt that Liu Bei's men are the most reliable. Liu Bei's soldiers are all professional soldiers, the kind raised by the country. Apart from participating in battles, they are trained, and there is no bad record at all.
As for the corruption of military discipline in Qingzhou soldiers, that happened a few years ago. Now that the army has been regularized, those who corrupted military discipline have either been captured, and those with minor circumstances have been educated. Now it is clear that the regular troops under Liu Bei are all Professional soldiers, military discipline can be guaranteed.
Next up are Sun Ce and Cao Cao. Sun Ce is relatively better. Cao Cao mainly has a dark history, but it has gotten much better in the past two years. After all, Cao Cao also needs face. After being hacked once, he has never massacred the city again. This kind of thing, military discipline can be improved.
By the way, one of the more funny ones is Xiliang Soldiers, whose evaluations are seriously polarizing.
After all, eight or nine years ago, the Xiliang soldiers had too much dark history. They dug graves, burned the city, and drove the people away. It was such a mess that it gave people the feeling that there was no way to clean it up, but the magic behind it was Li Jue was deceived by Zhong Yao and started infrastructure construction in Yongzhou. The Zhengguo Canal and Liufu Canal were all dredged, and other things were done.
The people of Yongliang really relied on these things to make a living, so they scolded the Xiliang soldiers harshly, but they also admitted that this group of people had done real things. No matter what, these people had made achievements in defeating foreigners and defending the Central Plains. However, there is too much dark history, and the people of Yongliang were merciless when they scolded him.
It's just that Li Jue finally managed to make a living on the basis of his stay, so for the sake of their rice bowl, the people of Yongliang scolded them, but they also knew that they couldn't be rude and unforgiving. After all, they had enough to eat now, and they also had food. The reason why Li Jue used the Xiliang cavalry army to control Yongliang and whipped the people of Yongliang to build the Zhengguo Canal.
The situation at that time was indeed crazy. If we do this now, Yongliang might be in chaos. But at that time, the people of Yongliang could not afford to eat. Li Jue directly used his elite soldiers to watch the people build rivers. Everyone has to work and eat at regular intervals.
Under such circumstances, the Zhengguo Canal and Liufu Canal were dredged in one or two years. After that, there was no shortage of food in the second year. After a good year, they had enough to eat, and the people of Yongliang and the soldiers of Xiliang were not so ruthless. , after all, the living are more important than the dead.
Come to think of it, Zhong Yao did not cheat Li Jue back then, leaving Li Jue with a foundation that others could not understand, but he really couldn't take action directly. Of course, Li Jue turned around and scolded Zhong Yao in Congling for not being a human being. But if he really wants Zhong Yao to feel sorry for Li Jue, he won't go.
Li Jue has made so much dark history. Although he is stuck abroad and cannot come back, it is true that no one is willing to deal with these guys. The upper echelons of the entire Central Plains pretended not to see this group of people, so how far away can this group of people be? Get away as far as you can, don't come back, the title and canonization will not be taken back, you will stay abroad, everyone will be out of sight!
Ten years have passed under this background. The common people in the Han Dynasty still have a good sense of professional soldiers, that is, the kind of soldiers who are fully equipped and can be seen at a glance as not being bastards. At least they are not afraid of these people.
Having said that, the common people in the Han Empire now judge whether the army will attack them, mainly based on the equipment of the soldiers. The better and more complete the equipment, the taller they look, the more polite they will be to the people.
Even though those people have strong evil spirits and don't look like good people at first glance, the people of the Han Dynasty are still quite convinced of these people. The more accurate the evil spirits are, the better the equipment is, the more clearly these soldiers are regular elites, and the more regular soldiers they are. The less likely they are to bully ordinary people.
After all, the Han Dynasty still wants to lose face. Soldiers rob the people and so on. What's the use of raising you! The meaning of your existence is to protect your home and country, and protecting the common people is the meaning of your existence.
Only then did the group of people who moved westward not only refused to run away when they encountered Lu Qian's regular army, but also wanted Lu Qian to lead them. In the past, except for a few warlords who were strict and would not mess around, a certain Some military discipline disorder must have robbed this group of people. Things have been really good these years.
However, Lu Qian did not want to take this group of people to the Western Regions, but seeing that the other party had a large number of people, Lu Qian still had a good talk with the other party in person, saying that if the other party was willing to return to Yongliang, he could send a hundred people to protect them. After going back, the people who had received the settlement fee and other fees in Sizhao City were still very contractual and expressed that they must go to the Western Regions.
After hearing this, Lu Qian said on the spot, I don't care. If he returns to Yongliang to increase the population of Yongliang, Lu Qian is willing to protect you, but you are going to the west of the Western Regions. It's good that I didn't directly prohibit you from going. You actually want to take advantage of it. The car is rolling, stay away from me.
By the way, Lu Qian turned around and was ready to check out which bastards had taken money from the Yuan family and transferred people. Such officials should be hacked to death. As for the Yuan family, where did the old Yuan family squat? Lu Qian was very knowledgeable about this. Interested, just in time to see the current situation of the Yuan family!
Lu Qian's words were very rude, but they obviously did not frighten this group of people. He collected the resettlement fee from the old Yuan family, and there were people arranged by Sizhaocheng to organize the group of people to move westward. Although the people he protected were not There are many, but there are still some smart people inside. If your old Cao family’s army doesn’t take us, then we will go by ourselves. Anyway, we have come this far without you before!
Lu Qian didn't have any good ideas for this. After all, this was voluntary. Although Lu Qian wanted to lure this group of people back, after all, the number of nearly 2,000 people was equivalent to the number of people in a large village before the village was merged. , it makes sense to have a team of officials for ten such villages.
But the old Yuan family didn’t know what they promised. Anyway, this group of people was unmoved. Well, some people were persuaded by Lu Qian, but if the leader didn’t nod, they couldn’t let Lu Qian send a hundred people. Let's escort a dozen people back.
In the end, the matter was settled. Lu Qian was very unhappy with this group of people who migrated to the Western Regions, but there was nothing they could do. However, the group of people saw that Lu Qian had nothing to do without them, so they followed Lu Qian as much as possible. Behind the army he led.
Lu Qian wanted to get rid of these guys, but he felt it was too embarrassing, so he marched slowly at a normal marching speed.
The group of common people reluctantly hung on behind Lu Qian, and successfully hung on all the way to the Western Region. Then at a fork, people sent by the Yuan family picked him up in front of Lu Qian.
Lu Qian immediately felt very angry, and directly sent three teams of twenty scouts to follow him. The old Yuan family dared to cut off their Cao family's population, and followed them. If they didn't come back, they wouldn't want them, but Old Yuan's family dared to intercept them. Find me where my family is squatting, and bring me a piece of information about Yuan's base.
However, Tian Wen, who came to pick up people from the old Yuan family, saw a cavalry team of 60 people hanging behind his house. After confirming that they were from the Central Plains, he directly reduced the number of hundreds of people on his side to pick up people and escort them by half, and even sent someone to invite them. Sixty scouts from Lao Cao's family joined the escort team to provide food and shelter.
The sixty reconnaissance riders of the Cao family were a little confused, but they accepted it because of the sincere invitation. After all, the task given to them by Lu Qian was very simple. They just went to the Yuan family base to have a look, so the reconnaissance riders of the Cao family were very quick. He got together with this group of people and headed to Yuanjiasi Zhao City.
After Tian Wen, the leader of the Yuan family's population reception, fooled the Cao family's scouts, he realized that he was really smart. He went back to Sizhao City and gave each of the sixty people two hundred acres. The family member made an announcement and said that the second wave could move here. Wouldn't the 60 reconnaissance riders sent by Lu Qian change their surname to Yuan?
Isn't this also a population? There are sixty people at least. Mosquitoes are no longer meat. It would be great to have one more, and it can also be made into a long line.
