Dong Huang took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain, climate and hydrological conditions, and the foundation laid by Zhou Shen before taking over Longxi County, to clean up the local Qiang and Hu rebels and the powerful Han armed forces who did not obey the government's orders.
What needs to be particularly targeted is the powerful local Han armed forces who do not obey the orders of the government.
According to the information received by Liu Bei, the situation of the local powerful and armed forces was quite bad. During the previous war, many farmers with registered residences fled to the homes of powerful powerful people to seek shelter, but the powerful powerful took the opportunity to take them into their own homes. After the war, they hid their household registration and refused to let go. Return.
The more stable and peaceful the area, the stronger the government's control over the population. The more war-torn the area, the stronger the ability of powerful households to hide the population, and the more population resources they occupy.
The Eastern Han Dynasty government was still able to control more than 50 million registered residents before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which fully proves that the classical government's ability to control population during peacetime is very strong.
In the late Three Kingdoms period, the three governments together could control the registered population of more than eight million. Apart from war and plague factors, it also shows the huge impact of war on the hidden population.
Liangzhou has been in war for a long time, and the registered population is getting smaller and smaller. Liu Bei does not think that they are all dead. People who have lived in this place for a long time, among other things, have full survival skills, extremely strong survivability, and everyone is at their limit. Survival home.
Therefore, they are most likely hidden by powerful local families.
So the second month after Liu Bei arrived in Liangzhou, he issued an order to the entire Liangzhou to release the civilians back to their hometowns, but there were very few responders.
According to the information gathered by Liu Hui's intelligence spies from various places, Liu Bei learned that those powerful people were not willing to release the peasants back to their places of origin.
They hide these household registrations and pay taxes to the government according to the original household registration and property scale. The rest belongs to them. They have made enough money without losing money. How can they let such a good thing go?
So no one paid attention to Liu Bei, even if they knew Liu Bei's reputation, people always have a sense of luck when the knife does not hit their head.
Faced with this situation of being upright and disobeying government orders and going against Liangzhou Mu, Liu Bei sneered and ordered them to be beaten to death.
If you don’t return these farmers to me, that’s fine, even you are mine.
I want to tell you what Zhou Mu is!
I want to tell you! What the hell do you call TM’s state animal husbandry!
In the battle of Longsang City, Dong Huang defeated more than a thousand Qiang rebels. In the battle of Angu County, Dong Huang defeated more than two thousand Qiang rebels.
So far, they are still the remnants of the previous Liangzhou rebels.
Then after entering Didao County, he conducted five large and small battles, annihilating more than a thousand Qiang and Hu people, and armed eight families of Han people who disobeyed orders, and gained a total of more than 2,000 Qiang and Hu people, and more than 8,000 Han people. people.
Then Dong Huang moved to Shouyang and defeated three powerful Han armed forces in Shouyang County, gaining more than 4,000 Han and Qiang Hu people.
In two counties, he obtained more than 10,000 Han people and Qiang Hu people belonging to the local Han powerful. These are twelve families, and the big ones are seen from the small ones. This shows that the situation of hiding household registration in Liangzhou is quite serious.
Liu Bei concluded from this that the number of Han people living in Liangzhou was indeed far more than 500,000.
And not only the Han people, but also the powerful people in these places will accept the Qiang and Hu as hidden armed forces under their control.
Some weak Qiang and Hu tribes were defeated in the internal competition. Those who escaped would join the powerful Han people in order to survive. The powerful powerful households were also willing to accept these foreigners as their own forces.
A large and respectable family can control an armed force of up to a thousand people, including Han, Di and Qiang, and even Huns and Xianbei.
There are quite a few people.
As long as they are willing to surrender, these powerful people will accept anything, so the situation of separatist rule and self-defense becomes more and more serious. The number of people registered in the official household registration in a county is even less than the population in the estates of several powerful powerful people.
As a result, it became increasingly difficult to implement the local government's orders.
On the one hand, Liu Bei used the reason of disobedience to punish these people, and on the other hand, he used the reason of "hiding Qiang and Hu rebels" to stigmatize them and punish them with treason, so as to destroy them in an honest and fair way and gain their reputation. People, land and wealth.
This was Liu Bei's move to establish his power. Although the Liangzhou people around him knew his thoughts to some extent, no one dared to extinguish the so-called three fires when a new official took office. This was the first fire.
They can only hope that some people will react quickly and think carefully about why Liu Bei is not the governor of the state, but the pastor of the state.
Zhou Mu!
The highest military and political officer, the local emperor of a state!
Zhang Fei, Dong Huang and Xia Houyuan made very smooth progress in the three counties, and Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun were not without color.
There were a large number of remnants of the Qiang and Hu rebels in Jincheng County. Guan Yu killed them all the way, promoting the power of Liu Bei and the Han army, and achieved great gains.
Xiahou Dun encountered a small number of Qiang and Hu rebels in Anding County, but there were quite a few local separatist forces dominated by powerful Han people, so he picked them up one by one and eliminated them one by one, all in the name of "rebellion". What a joy.
The combat effectiveness and achievements of this wave of Han troops really exceeded everyone's imagination. Those who had never been enemies of Liu Bei in the past finally realized what it was like to be enemies of Liu Bei.
The military action carried out by the five generals in the five counties shocked Liangzhou. Everyone was shocked by it. They all realized that this disciple of a famous Confucian scholar from Luoyang was not a kind person. Not only could he read, He is also very capable of fighting, and more importantly, he has a great reputation.
They were often labeled as treason or collaborators. If there were Qiang and Hu people in the family, they would insist that they were the remnants of the Liangzhou rebels, that they were collaborators with the enemy and treason, hiding criminals, and hidden armors. Then they would razed the family to nothing. Flat ground.
The key point is that the military power at his hands is really strong, and the people around him are also very good at fighting, and everyone can't breathe under the pressure.
Therefore, the local wealthy people in Liangzhou, who have not yet been included in the sweep list by Liu Bei's army, feel that it is unwise to confront Liu Bei head-on. A good man will not suffer the immediate loss. He is burning three fires, so there is no need to jump in front of him.
If you make someone angry, you are really going to kill someone. The person who is killed has no room to reason. The biggest reason is in the hands of others, and they can't explain it.
So one or two of them thought about it for a while, and decided to symbolically hand over a group of people to him, which could be regarded as dealing with the situation at hand and expressing an attitude - we will never go against you. You, the old man, are so noble, let us pass a few days. Have a happy birthday, okay?
There is no need to fight or anything like that. We obey you and stop fighting, okay?
The four counties of Wuwei, Jiuquan, Zhangye and Dunhuang have not been invaded or attacked by Liu Bei's army for the time being, but Liu Bei is planning to attack them after he resolves the war.
Liangzhou Mu is the immediate boss of the entire Liangzhou, and Liu Bei cannot let them go.
Instead of letting the troops under his command come and "reason" with everyone, why don't we all take the initiative to go over and talk to him, and if we can solve the problem in a civil manner, let's try not to use force, okay?
So with the launch of the five-county crusade plan, the population return wave in the ten counties of Liangzhou also began.
In mid-September of the third year of Zhongping, news came from every county almost every day that local wealthy families had returned their concealed household registrations to the government. Some returned hundreds of people, some returned dozens of people. Individually, it was relatively small, one County by county, there are many.
By early October of the third year of Zhongping, in more than half a month, the counties reported that the total number of people with registered residences returned by local wealthy families had exceeded 20,000. The scale was large and the intensity was unprecedented.
This is definitely a good thing, and it also confirms Liu Bei's previous guess - the extreme survivalists in Liangzhou are working hard to stay alive, and are still struggling to survive.
As long as this matter is confirmed, this battle will not be in vain.
However, with the return of the population, there has also been a wave of requests from local officials for help from the state capital.
No food.
The number of people suddenly increased, and food was needed to feed so many mouths.
Your old man is tall and strong. It is certainly a good thing to bring back so many people, but before they can engage in agricultural production, they have to eat, right?
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