The recovery of other counties in Liaodong vassal states was as smooth as Li Su imagined.

After the work of restoring the people in Changli City was completed and the city was repaired, within just three or five days, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun came out in all directions, and regained the three counties of Fuli, Bintu and Wuwu.

These small counties were either in anarchy or had only a few hundred rebel soldiers stationed, and they did not dare to resist at all. The imperial army immediately surrendered when they got there.

On the seventh day of the April 1st, after Li Su discussed the specific implementation of labor-for-relief with Lu Su in Changli, he rushed to Tuhe County, the last stronghold of the rebels in Liaodong vassal state.

The nominal supreme commander in Tuhe County is also the Wupu of the Wusu tribe.

However, because his two thousand direct cavalry were transferred by King Nanqiao before, he was defeated by Guan Yu in the Battle of the Queyue Formation by the Xiaoyu River. Therefore, Wupu actually has no say in the defense of Tuhe County now.

Before Li Su arrived, Zhang Fei had gathered most of the infantry forces in Liu Bei's army to siege the city, and they were surrounded on all sides, leaving no way to break through.

He also used a well railing to suppress arrows in the city to demonstrate the force of the Han army's siege and let the rebels know that "even if they fight to the end, the Han army can still make a very beautiful exchange ratio, and a Han soldier can kill at least several rebels."

After Li Su came, he asked the soldiers to carry the King of Nanqiao with a long pole under the city, Nanqiao uncle and nephew, as well as the head of the pseudo military advisor Yan Rou, to scold and attack the morale of the rebels.

The rebels were convinced that they had no foreign aid, and Liu Bei had completely controlled the situation in Changli; and Zhang Chunyuan was in Xiangping, so he had no intention of saving them.

After saying this for two days, Li Su shot a bunch of arrows into the city in the evening, and it was nothing more than saying

"Any Han officers and soldiers who were killed and sent to the head of the Wupu were given to the public, and their troops would not be punished before, and they could maintain their original organization and not disperse and incorporate them into the official army. At the same time, the officers themselves could be formally appointed by the court and granted the position of Tuhe County Magistrate or County Magistrate on the spot."

After these letters were shot to the city, of course, a considerable number of them were handed over to Wu Pu himself by the Hu people's iron-core confidant. Wu Pu was shocked after seeing them and immediately searched them rigorously, requiring front-line officers and soldiers to hand over all the letters of surrender to the Han army.

However, because there were dozens of letters shot up, there were inevitably mistakes and omissions when searching. Wu Pu was nervous and suspicious, and it was inevitable that he would be wronged or wronged one or two soldiers who obviously did not have private letters.

One of the Han people's garrison chiefs got the letter at the beginning and read it, but after reading it, he felt that this thing would shake morale, so he took the initiative to throw it under the city as soon as possible.

As a result, when Wu Pu came to search and confront him, he said that someone next to him had reported that the gate chief had indeed received a letter of surrender and forced him to call out. The gate chief said that the letter had been lost, but Wu Pu thought he was lying, but actually wanted to plot against him.

When he was nervous, a misfire broke out. Wu Pu ordered the Hu soldiers around him to behead the Han garrison chief and show him the public to suppress the military discipline.

This time, the gunpowder barrel was ignited. The Han soldiers were already quite dissatisfied with Wupu. In addition, they felt that there was no way to survive in confrontation with the court, so a mutiny occurred that night.

I don’t know who organized the more than 4,000 Han soldiers in the city. Anyway, one of them took the lead and attacked the Hu soldiers’ tents of Wupu’s Hu soldiers and slashed them.

When other Han soldiers heard the shouts, they exploded the camp like a flies. They plucked up their courage to follow behind and killed people. Some even went to open the city gate to welcome the imperial army.

After a night of chaos, more than a thousand people were killed.

Among them, seven or eight hundred were the personal soldiers of the Huo Pu, and two or three hundred were killed by the Han people in the fire. There were also hundreds of innocent people in the city who were beaten to death by both sides in the chaos.

When Zhang Fei brought his troops into the city, he was almost ineffective in his soldiers.

"Boya, you are still powerful. Although Tuhe County can be captured sooner or later, it will be easier to seize it by relying on internal strife of the enemy like this, and there will be fewer people killed."

Zhang Fei was proud, but he couldn't help but sigh and admire.

"What's the point? Those who are good at fighting are good at using power. Our army came with the court's righteousness and destroyed the main forces of Hu Chief of the army with a thunder attack. The remaining Han soldiers could have been shaken and fought for. If it weren't for the unscrupulous moves from Changli, the uncle and nephew of Wang Wang would not have been so easy."

Li Su did not make any contribution. He said that Guan Yu and Zhao Yun fought well on the front main battlefield, which created excellent external conditions.

Zhang Fei sighed, "Forget it, this time my elder brother asked me to station in Tunliangshui Village and monitor Tuhe River. He didn't get much chance to fight in the last battle. Second brother and Zilong are both killing generals and making contributions. If they continue, Zilong will be promoted higher than me."

Li Su laughed and patted Zhang Fei on the shoulder: "Is the position of the court that important? The key is who the elder brother trusts more. Before the army moves, food and grass will come first, protecting the grain and food roads. Although it is not easy to excel, it is not the most trusted person. How can you accept it? This also makes you wear and wear and wear and wear and wear."

The two of them cleaned up the city and counted the surrendered soldiers for a while. The matter here was over.

...

For the rest of April, Lu Su and Tian Chou, the pair of partners, continued to deepen the post-war Qimin household registration, military farmland and land reclamation, labor-for-relief work and other work, and became the busiest person in Liu Bei's army.

Mi Zhu also increased his horsepower and sent all the Mi family fleets to transport grain from Liaodong Bay to continue to provide support for Liu Bei's great cause.

Of course, Mi Zhu couldn't do it for nothing. During the process of transporting grain, he sold some of the horses seized from the Liaodong battlefield to the south to subsidize the military expenditure for the large army to fight.

However, because there were too many horses suddenly gushing out, there was no war in the southern market. As a result, the horse prices in Xuzhou and Yangzhou have fallen, and are only 20% or 30% higher than those in Qingzhou. This business will soon become unprofitable in the second half of this year.

At that time, Liu Bei could only sell the extra horses to the Zhen family in Zhongshan, because only the Zhen family had the trade routes to sell Liaodong horses to Luoyang.

Although Luoyang has built a new army in Xiyuan, Jian Shuo, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao and others have just changed their new positions in March this year and become the eighth lieutenant of Xiyuan. However, there is still a small gap in the cavalry and horses required by the Xiyuan army, so it can only swallow thousands of shipments from Liu Bei.

Because Mi Zhu actually acted as the "navigator" of the court at his own expense, and also made great contributions to ensuring the logistics of the army during the battle.

Liu Bei naturally expressed his achievements in various memorials to the court and documents to Liu Yu.

Before the Battle of Liaodong, Mi Zhu had already obtained an official position of 600 stones due to sponsorship funds, and this time he was promoted to the title of Liaodong County Magistrate.

Mi Zhu was not afraid of losing his reputation as a buyer, so he made clear price tags, and asked his family to go to Luoyang to pay the difference of millions, and then he took office safely. However, in fact, he didn't ask about civil affairs work and continued to be his logistics captain, so he handed over the government affairs to Lu Su to help him.

Mi Zhu also gave Lu Su an extra salary, which was equivalent to Lu Su receiving a double salary in office: one paid by the court and one paid by Mi Zhu to him overtime.

Fortunately, with Mi Zhu's support, Lu Su's "work-for-relief" was very lucky to have successfully implemented - the work-for-relief is really very complicated when it comes to operation. The main reason is that the supply and demand relationship of the labor market must be considered and the reasonable wages must be set so that the number of people coming to work will not be too many and the government's money and grain can be sustained.

Lu Su had no experience in doing it for the first time, and set the wages similar to those in previous years: each person manages meals every day, and there are two extra liters of coarse grains that can be taken back to subsidize the household expenses.

This wage will definitely not be robbed in a normal year. However, last year was a disaster year, and there were too many laborers who had no food to eat. As a result, there were even more people coming to the surrogate, with tens of thousands of people coming to repair the city walls and repair some mansions in Changli City. There was no need to use so many people to repair the city walls and repair some mansions in Changli City. I had to start the work of repairing the irrigation canals along the river in Yushui River in advance, so that so many laborers could be barely digested.

Because what you fear most for work-for-relief is that after the news is released, hungry people come over but find that they have no work to do and do not accept people. This will easily cause chaos and civil unrest. You must arrange as much as you want to maintain stability.

To raise these tens of thousands of people who use labor for relief to the autumn harvest, the result is that if the wages were lower and the scale was smaller, at least one or two million more could be saved.

This is equivalent to the pilot project by Lu Su and Tianchou, which lost 10 or 20 million to Liu Bei. Before being the magistrate of Ji County for more than half a year, Lu Su only lost several million. Now it has expanded from the civil affairs of a county in charge of a county to a county, and the deficit is directly tens of millions.

Lu Su felt very guilty and asked Liu Bei to admit his mistake and regret it. Liu Bei just looked at the accounts and confirmed that Lu Su himself was not greedy. He just did not blame him because he had no experience and was not good at managing well. He also said very generously:

"Zi Jing, it's normal for the first time to do it. I will remember the experience of managing labor-for-relief, revising wages, and promoting the recruitment of people. I will take a look with Boya, and it's better to be a teacher of funerals, and this matter will be over."

Lu Su was very grateful and said that he would summarize his work experience and lessons well and think that he would be the teacher for his future funeral.

Lu Su's internal affairs experience can be said to be all the time Li Su's occasional and imaginative ideas, and Liu Bei's casual subordinates were fed with generous and generous losses. As an official within two years, he lost 20 million yuan in total.

However, during this process, Changli County was also newly repaired, and many irrigation canals of large and large Yushui River were also repaired, and all the basins between the two rivers were rectified into fertile military farms.

At the same time, for the rest of April, Guan, Zhang, Zhao, and Zhou were not idle in the front battlefield, and successively recovered the last county town of Liaodong vassal state that had originally fallen into the enemy.

He also crossed the mouth of the Liaohe River and went deep into the southern part of Liaodong County controlled by Zhang Chun, and recovered Fang County, Wen County, Pingguo, and all the way to Dashi County - these counties are all on the Liaodong Peninsula. From Xiangping to the south, they have to go to the mountainous areas of the Liaodong Mountains, so it is difficult for Zhang Chun to control these marginal areas.

Because the Han army had Mi Zhu's ships to control the tip of the peninsula along the sea, the supply and loading of these counties was much more convenient than Zhang Chun, so Zhang Chun did not come to fight for these mountainous counties on the peninsula.

Anyway, these counties are all under 5,000 households. At that time, they were all small existences where only county magistrates were established but not county magistrates. The total number of four counties was only 13,000 households and more than 40,000 people.

After doing all this, the vanguard of the Han army had arrived in Liaotun County, south of the Liaohe Plain at the end of April, and confronted Zhang Chun's last main force of the rebels. Zhang Chun's remaining troops were also stationed in Liaotun and Xiangping with the Liaohe Plain as the core.

While military farming and labor-for-relief, Liu Bei's military strength was greatly expanded.

The previous five thousand horse troops were only two thousand considered professional cavalry, and the other three thousand were just "horse infantry".

After more than a month of training, many of Youzhou people were already good at equestrianism, but Liu Bei finally turned all of these people into just qualified cavalrymen.

In this way, the cavalry unit was officially expanded to 5,000 people and 10,000 war horses, which could ensure that one person and two horses were two.

The infantry troops also expanded from 10,000 to 20,000. Among the 10,000 more, three thousand were adapted from Han rebel soldiers who surrendered in Tuhe County, and seven thousand were scattered surrendered soldiers and the strongest selected from tens of thousands of hungry people.

The weapons didn't cost much. After all, more than 20,000 rebels were wiped out before. Even though a considerable number of them were not excellent and were damaged in the battle, it was still easy to pick up the weapons of 10,000 new recruits.
Chapter completed!