At this time, Gongsun Zhu couldn't help but sneered when he looked at the people in front of him.
During this period of time, he was not idle. In addition to constantly looking for talents and gathering more refugees and common people.
The most important thing is to find a way to change everything.
And the most important thing is how to break the situation.
Of course, when it came time to break the situation, Gongsun Zhu really wasn't too worried.
Not to mention that he now has soldiers, horses, food and grass, as well as wise men and brave generals around him.
Even if it wasn't, even if it was just him, he wouldn't worry.
After all...do these people really think that he has learned to be a good person in the past few years?
When the world began to be in chaos, Gongsun Zhu had already begun to ask Guo Tu to deliver news among the refugees around him, such as the current affairs of the two governors in Yuzhou and so on.
When Yuan Shao began to fight for power and Yuan Shu began to plunder Nanyang, the two of them had no time to spare and made each other feel disgusting whenever they had the opportunity.
First, after Yuan Shu obtained Nanyang, he immediately united many forces and wanted them to surround him, but everyone, including the anxious Han Fu and Yanzhou Governor Liu Dai, all chose Yuan Shao.
At the same time, the Zhang brothers also admired Yuan Shao very much. Zhou Xin, the governor of Danyang, even said that Yuan Shu was nothing more than this in public.
As a disciple of Chen Fan, Zhou Xin, who was born in Kuaiji, was not only a famous person, but also a powerful official. When Cao Mengde issued an appeal, he was the first to send more than 10,000 troops to respond to Cao Mengde.
Moreover, Zhou Xin's two younger brothers, Zhou Ang and Zhou Xie, were both generals under Yuan Shao's command and had always been loyal to Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shu was extremely jealous of this, so he simply joined forces with Gongsun Zan, who was competing with Yuan Shao for Jizhou, and Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou who was supporting Zhu Jun in Xuzhou, to form an alliance to fight against Yuan Shao's lineage.
Among them, Yuan Shu even stopped Sun Jian, who wanted to continue attacking Hangu, and asked him to prepare his troops to move north, ready to attack Han Fu's rear at any time.
And Yuan Shao, who was at the critical moment, didn't want to cause trouble at this time, so he just refused to do anything and turned his face.
Since Yuan Shu gave Sun Jian the title of governor of Yuzhou in order to win over him, Yuan Shao simply recommended Zhou Xin's younger brother Zhou Xin to be the governor of Yuzhou.
He even asked Zhou Ang, the governor of Jiujiang County, to lead his troops to help Zhou Zhe and jointly take charge of Yuzhou, hoping to directly cut off Sun Jian's return.
Yuan Shu immediately sent troops to prevent the Zhou brothers from entering Yuzhou but failed. He had no choice but to ask Sun Jian to return to Yuzhou and take away the Zhou brothers from under his nose first.
Gongsun Zan could not open up the situation in Jizhou, and there were still people in Youzhou holding him back. In a rage, he ordered his brother Gongsun Yue to join Sun Jian with more than a thousand fine cavalry, and went straight to Yuzhou.
Now Sili was quiet and Yuzhou was lively.
Dong Zhuo, who was originally waiting for Sun Jian to start the war, suddenly became confused when he looked at the several letters of recommendation in his hand.
Liu Biao recommended Yuan Shu as the governor of Nanyang County. Did he forget what he asked him to go to Jingzhou for?
Yuan Shu recommended Sun Jian as the governor of Yuzhou, and his subordinates had higher official positions than himself.
Han Fu recommended Yuan Shao as the governor of Jizhou, hiss... what a generous Korean festival.
Yuan Shao recommended Zhou Zhe as the governor of Yuzhou. Well... what about Sun Jian?
In addition, Liu Biao had evil intentions in impeaching Liu Yan, the shepherd of Yizhou, and used more than a thousand carriages, which is like Zixia's theory of doubting the saint in Xihe.
To put it bluntly, there may be a rebellion.
Liu Yu impeached Gongsun Zan for his murderous nature, persecuting innocent herdsmen in Wuhuan, and driving a wedge between the two sides.
Gongsun Zhu impeached Zhang Lu, the prefect of Hanzhong, because he suspected that the Yellow Turbans were resurrected, so he asked for orders to attack him.
Fu Xie impeached Meng Tuo, the governor of Liangzhou, for corruption and bending the law, which caused chaos among the Qiang and Hu.
Yuan Shao impeached Gongsun Zan for his evil intentions in conquering Jizhou.
Zhou Xin impeached Yuan Shu for looting Nanyang and causing harm to the people.
Wang Yun invited him to a banquet to watch singing and dancing... Well, this is not the case.
Dong Zhuo looked at the many recommendations and impeachment memorials in front of him. Although he didn't know exactly what happened to these people, he knew one thing.
"Are they planning to attack me?"
Dong Zhuo was surprised to find that he was safe when he was defeated.
"The second son of the Yuan family, the youngest, hahahahaha!"
Dong Zhuo, who was overjoyed, did not forget to mock the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. He felt that a normal person might not be able to do such a thing at this time.
Dong Zhuo, who had taken a breath, even forgot about the grievances Hu Zhen said in his ears, and only wanted to return to Chang'an and have a good rest.
Gongsun Zhu kept walking and stopping all the way, and finally arrived near Fancheng in Jingzhou before all the food was exhausted again.
At this time, the refugees behind Gongsun Zhu were no longer the thousands of people before, but now exceeded tens of thousands.
It took him nearly two months to get out of Yuzhou, traveling twenty miles every day, letting all kinds of news about Yuzhou fly all over the sky.
Even if the refugees and the people who were about to become refugees were illiterate, they knew what the two Yuzhou governors represented.
As the saying goes, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and they are not one male and one female. Once this happens in Yuzhou, the next battlefield will become the land of Yuzhou again.
When that time comes, who will care about the lives of these people?
As the panic grew, Gongsun Zhu and others who distributed food and aid to the victims suddenly became a clear stream. There were more and more refugees around them, and the momentum became stronger and stronger.
Gongsun Zhu, who came outside Fancheng, did not rely on this momentum to force Huang Zu to give up the city. Instead, he asked Guo Tu to enter Fancheng, hoping to live in peace with Huang Zu.
He could give up Fancheng. This place wouldn't be stable for long anyway, but now that Huang Zu has come to Fancheng, there is no need to fight with him in places like Deng County.
Gongsun Zhu wanted to stay in Deng County, and at the same time he hoped that Huang Zu would once again use the food that should have been his to support him, so that at least these refugees could survive until next year.
Huang Zu looked at the endless refugees sitting on the ground below the city.
He also knew that Gongsun Zhu had dug a big hole for him this time. These thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of refugees were completely different concepts.
Once this flow of refugees gets out of control and flows into Jingzhou, not even Liu Biao can withstand the pressure. Gongsun Zhu came to Fancheng before because he had soldiers in his hands who could help Jingzhou cut off Yuan Shu.
Now behind Gongsun Zhu are refugees, a group of refugees who will completely lose control if something goes wrong.
This was a threat, and Huang Zu had to accept his threat. Liu Biao could allow him to be domineering. As long as it was not bad, there would be no problem if he was more domineering.
But Liu Biao would not let him destroy the rare stability in Jingzhou now. Otherwise, when Yuan Shu had cholera in Nanyang, why would a large number of refugees prefer to flee into Yizhou rather than enter the already stable Jingzhou.
Isn't it because Jingzhou didn't dare to let them in?
"Kaicheng, put out grain, please move to Deng County!"
Huang Zu's words could even be said to have completely torn everyone's face.
Ma Chao and the others behind Gongsun Zhu immediately changed their expressions, as if as long as Gongsun Zhu waved his arm, they would immediately rush out and talk to Huang Zu about fairness.
But before Ma Chao could do anything, he was grabbed by Gongsun Zhu.
At this time, Gongsun Zhu was of course very angry. For a moment, he even wanted to ask Guan Yu and Ma Chao to rush up and take off Huang Zu's head.
But...but in the end he suppressed all his temper.
Gongsun Zhu was so forbearing for no other reason than for the tens of thousands of refugees behind him, the people who were waiting for food and their eyes were filled with the desire for survival.
With these tens of thousands of refugees behind him, Gongsun Zhu, who was used to seeing strong winds and waves, was constantly sweating on his forehead.
Although he has been fighting through mountains of swords and seas of fire in recent years, he has never experienced anything like migrating people.
Especially...it made such a big noise.
To be honest, this is really the first time he has made such a big noise.
But what makes him feel more at ease is that the Han Dynasty has not had much else for so many years, except that there have been enough refugees.
In addition to natural causes, the court's harsh tyranny, the tyranny of various counties and counties annexing people's land, the endless wars, and the invasion of foreign races from the frontiers have made the Han Dynasty almost without interruption from the time of Emperor Gaozu to the present day.
The reason for Gaozu was the peace of war and the pacification of the princes, the reason for Wenjing was the invasion of foreign tribes, and the reason for the taxation and land issues after Emperor Wu. It was not until Emperor Xuan that things got better, but this was just a flash in the pan.
The natural and man-made disasters in the first half, the aristocratic families in the second half, in short, in the past few hundred years, the Han Dynasty has long understood the refugees.
Gongsun Zhu also only needs to do it step by step.
As for the imperial court, the methods to deal with the refugees are basically suppression, repatriation, local resettlement, and work-for-relief.
As for the provision of food and fodder that Gongsun Zhu had thought of early on, the Han basically did not do it. If he wanted to eat, besides reclaiming wasteland, he would repair the city and widen the river.
With so many years and so many experiences from the sages, Gongsun Zhu began to proceed in an orderly manner after a brief period of nervousness.
Deng County relies on Fancheng and can be regarded as a city with horns. Compared with Fancheng, which is tall and solid and covers a large area, Dengxian is a very small city.
It is said to be a county, but in fact it only has one small city, a few villages, and a very small population.
It exists to defend Fancheng. When problems arise in the north, Fancheng and Dengxian City can form an angle to support each other.
Of course, this effect would have almost no effect in the subsequent war.
Gongsun Zhu did not plan to participate in the next battle. Gongsun Zhu was still thinking about how to solve it, but now he saw Huang Zu taking the initiative to provoke, which gave him a good reason.
His relationship with Sun Jian was not very good, of course, but his relationship with Gongsun Yue was actually pretty good.
At the same time, Gongsun Zhu and Yuan Shaona didn't know each other at all.
At this moment when the two Yuan Dynasties were fighting for supremacy, except for the short-lived ghost Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, almost the other clan members of the Han Dynasty chose to wait in silence.
Because there is no need for them to get involved in the battle of retainers.
As an unofficial clan member of the Han Dynasty, the same goes for Gongsun Zhu. He is not interested in Yuan Shu, nor is he interested in Yuan Shao.
When the Yuzhou War began, Gongsun Zhu was ready to ignore the development and entrusted Guan Yu to go to Yuzhou to look for Gongsun Yue.
Whether it's to borrow some military rations or to ask for some luggage, in short, you should protect this guy to avoid being shot to death by a burst of arrows.
Protecting Gongsun Yue was the best Gongsun Zhu could do. As for the subsequent war, it had nothing to do with him.
Tens of thousands of refugees had one meal a day and had a foothold. Gongsun Zhu began to arrange for manpower to repair the city, and at the same time clean up the filth in the city, divide their living areas, and go to Jingzhou to find doctors just in case.
At the same time, this year's spring planting has been delayed for some reason. If they want to be self-sufficient, they will at least have to harvest next year's autumn. This is God's favor.
Moreover, they still need to pay enough grain and fodder to Liu Biao as taxes. As for who Liu Biao will collect it from, they don't know.
Deng County is not a big place, and these refugees have almost filled the city after entering it. They carefully maintain the lives of these people and then register them one by one.
This is the biggest project. When refugees enter the city, it is not just about having a place to live. Food is enough.
All their household registrations need to be transferred so that Guan Yu can protect Gongsun Yue and also give Sun Jian a message to release him. After all, he is now the governor of Yuzhou.
Household registration transfer does not mean bringing their names here. It is necessary to calculate their respective names, place of origin, and where they previously lived.
Then take this to the place of original residence to erase their names, and at the same time ask them clearly what they have done over the years.
Most of them are ordinary people, but no one can guarantee that there are no good-hearted people who bully them, or lazy people.
Only the officials in their former place of origin can know these things. Only with enough understanding can they be able to govern.
As for the recruitment of soldiers and horses, this can only be started after the household registration is settled, and the recruitment of soldiers means that they no longer need to farm and repair the city, but they need to provide twice as much food.
This put too much pressure on Gongsun Zhu's already stretched supply.
Of course, Gongsun Zhu also thought about farming. After all, this thing was not pioneered by Cao Mengde and Zaozhi. It was just that they converted the civilian villages into military villages. However, the same problems were encountered by Cao Mengde.
That is, if military camps are implemented, their training will be greatly affected, and the soldiers will naturally become forces with each other. Before they have enough self-protection power and enough territory, this thing is basically equivalent to seeking death.
Guo Tu ran to Xiangyang when he had something to do. Guan Yu visited the battlefield in Yuzhou and sent the news back to Deng County. Guo Tu then reported these things to Liu Biao as their achievements, indicating that he was not doing nothing.
Let him feel at ease against Zhang Xian, the governor of Changsha in Jingnan, and fight hard with Zhang Xian.
Of course, the purpose of saying this is that I need support. After all, seeking information also requires money and food.
At this time, Gongsun Zhu has given full play to his greatest advantage, which is shamelessness.
No matter what other people think, as long as he can have a relationship with a family, he will rush over shamelessly and eat, drink and feed.
In his words, one stone is never too little, and one hundred and eighty stones is never too much.
Apart from various clans and aristocratic families, who else has food these days? Liu Jingsheng has to rely on seizures.
Now for Gongsun Zhu, as long as you give him food and fodder, everything will be easy to deal with. If you don't give him...
Then Gongsun Zhu is really not polite. Anyway, he is the prefect of Jincheng County in the imperial court. To put it bluntly, the Northwest Soldier... his reputation is not very good!
If he honestly gave him food and grass, then he would be the prefect of Jincheng County who would be brothers with Liu Jingsheng, the governor of Jingzhou all day long.
If you don't give it, then it's... humph, you bastard from the northwest!
So under Gongsun Zhu's shameless toss, the aristocratic families in Jingzhou and Yuzhou couldn't kick him out, and they couldn't ignore the rudeness at meal time.
You look like you are stubbornly refusing to leave, and if you don’t give me food, I will make fun of you, which makes many wealthy families quite helpless.
Gongsun Zhu can be shameless, but they can't be called stingy. After all, among all families, face is still needed.
And the face is worth more than the little grain given to Gongsun Zhu.
In the end, Gongsun Zhu almost became a laughing stock in the circles of aristocratic families in Jingyu and Yuzhou. I even heard that someone had opened a bet on which restaurant Gongsun Zhu would go to the next day.
Gongsun Zhu was depressed for a long time because of this. He couldn't find the person who initiated the gambling. They could definitely cooperate.
In the midst of this bitter persistence, Gongsun Yue and Sun Jian conquered Yuzhou and expelled Zhou Ang, the governor of Jiujiang, and of course the governor of Yuzhou, Zhou Zhe.
The Zhou brothers could only retreat to Jiujiang and depend on each other with their eldest brother, completely giving up Yuzhou.
After obtaining Yuzhou, Sun Jian rested on the spot and waited for news from Yuan Shu. As for Gongsun Yue, he came to Deng County at the invitation of Guan Yu.
After Yuzhou was pacified, Gongsun Yue received Sun Jian's thanks, but it had nothing to do with what happened next.
He will return to Youzhou soon, and it is Gongsun Zhu's wish that Guan Yu take him back to recuperate for a while.
Because Zhang Xian and Liu Biao finally started fighting, Yuzhou also calmed down, which showed that Yuan Shu and Liu Biao would no longer live in peace.
Although Huang Zu was blocking him in front, he pulled Gongsun Yue to squat just in case. No matter how tough Sun Jian is, you can't do anything to Gongsun Yue.
Everyone tacitly agreed to forget Deng County and not let their newly restored people's livelihood be affected by the war again.
Although reaching this point is a helpless move for Gongsun Zhu, he still needs such a foothold after all.
Even if he returns to Jincheng County, he cannot ignore this place. Since he has encountered it, he should protect the temporary safety of these people.
The winter of the second year of Chuping was not that cold, perhaps because it was located in the south, and the warm sunshine in winter made people feel comfortable.
Under this peaceful weather, Gongsun Zhu, who was the prefect of Jincheng County in the Han Dynasty and was now tired from running around in Jingzhou, working hard all day for Jingzhou, found a rare calmness.
In the past half a year, he can be considered to be really moving around.
The city was handed over to the management of Ma Chao, his eldest nephew who was not very reliable. Of course, this was done except that Ma Chao was his direct descendant and had no intention of betrayal.
Another idea is to use Ma Chao's violent temper to suppress those refugees whose nature has been ruined by the troubled times.
After all... Although this refugee is pitiful, there is a saying that is also very good, that is, pitiful people must be hateful.
There may not be any good people in the wealthy family.
But to put it bluntly, those ordinary refugees who don’t even have food to eat all day long don’t know when they will starve to death.
If you say that they are all a group of benevolent gentlemen, it would be ridiculous.
These people are not good or evil, they are simply... just living!
Therefore, these people need a more fierce person who can listen to Gongsun Zhu's words to scare them.
Guan Yu protected Gongsun Yue, his backer, and Guo Tu persuaded Liu Biao to ask for money and food. At the same time, he kept hinting to Liu Biao that Huang Zu might not cooperate friendly with them.
Gongsun Zhu, on the other hand, was running around every day, relying on his face to borrow food.
The three of them were hardly relaxed. Now Gongsun Zhu was standing by the crenellations of the city wall, watching the people outside taking the last chance to fertilize their fields and clear the snow from the roads, although they still needed relief.
Although they still don’t have enough to eat every day.
But at least they don't have to worry about starving to death at any time, or that their children will become meat in other people's stomachs.
"This should be the last stable year, and I can't go home again, hey."
With a long sigh, Gongsun Zhu was already in his sixth year, from the Yongliang War to the current second year of Chuping.
The war in Yongliang was temporarily stable, the princes' war against Dong ended inexplicably, and the war in Yuzhou was over.
Then next year, there will be war in Jingzhou, but I don’t know if my participation will have any impact on this era again.
In the second year of Chuping, Yuzhou was pacified. Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Zhang Xian of Changsha finally failed to coexist peacefully and started war again. However, due to time issues, the war could not start on a large scale.
Cai Mao led his troops to block the road to Jingnan, and Liu Biao ordered to cut off all roads leading to Jingnan.
After Yuan Shu learned the news through Shangyong Trail, he ordered Sun Jian to repair the army and rush to Xiangyang in the spring of the following year.
Whether he wanted to help Zhang Xian or just used Zhang Xian as an excuse, just like Yuan Shao who devoured Jizhou, Yuan Shu also wanted to take over Jingzhou in one fell swoop.
Based on the two states of Jing and Yu, he took advantage of the situation to attack Yangzhou. In his eyes, Liu Biao and Chen Wen were just fat on the lips, so there was no reason not to eat them.
In the third year of Chuping, when the spring was warm and the flowers were blooming, Sun Jian ignored the spring and was urged by Yuan Shu to send troops angrily. He carried grain, fodder and baggage and attacked Jingzhou directly.
Huang Zu lost consecutive battles and Fancheng fell. Looking at Sun Jian's powerful army, Gongsun Zhu did not hesitate to lift Gongsun Yue out and put it in front of him, asking Sun Jian to take a detour.
"This damn Huang Zuna was able to shoot Sun Jian to death. How lucky is this guy?"
Gongsun Zhu couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva as he looked at Sun Jian's huge army.
"When the war is over, Fancheng will be mine..."
