Although Liu Yan's army was completely defeated, it was not so easy for the Han army to clean the battlefield.

Not to mention 90,000 riot soldiers, even 90,000 pigs, it will take many days to catch them. In a hurry, they can only catch the big and let go of the small and slowly sort them out.

Zhao Yun and Gao Shun rushed to the north gate of Mianzhu. The city was ready for battle and were eager to invade. They had to go around the city to search and suppress the defeated soldiers, and they didn't even bother to completely surround the city. It was not until two hours later, in the evening of that day that the army roughly surrounded Mianzhu City.

At first, Liu Bei wanted to listen to the results of various departments, but the information came too much and was too messy, so he was too lazy to listen, so he left it to the civil servants of the army to sort it out slowly. He drank a few glasses of celebration wine with Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Wu Kuang and Gao Shun. Zhao Yun and Gao Shun were cautious in nature and did not dare to drink too much, so he went to inspect the besieged city.

The next day, Liu Bei sobered up and drank some sour and sour soup of dogwood. He asked Wu Yi, a military aide, who had just surrendered for two months, and it was not convenient to publicly reuse it before). He found out that except for Mianzhu, two counties in Chengdu were besieged and had not yet been taken down. The rest of the entire Yizhou area had fallen into the hands of the court, including Luo County, which had not surrendered a few days ago, and directly surrendered. Luo County was located between Chengdu and Mianzhu and has always been in the core area of ​​Liu Yan's sphere of influence.

Liu Yan himself was surrounded by Mianzhu, and most of the famous scholars and nobles in Yizhou were surrounded by Mianzhu.

The guard of Chengdu was Pang Xi. He had the chance to be sent back to Chengdu by Liu Yan yesterday. I don’t know how he broke through the chaos and escaped. It might be that when Zhao Yun was in the north of the city, Liu Yan opened the south gate and released Pang Xi.

However, this move is actually of no value. At this point, the probability of Pang Xi surrendering is quite high, and Liu Bei is not in a hurry at all.

What you have to be afraid of now is that after forcing the enemy, will it burn down the treasury in the city and die together, so that Liu Bei will not be able to get the money and food savings, so it is better to stabilize the first one.

Wu Yi did not forget to report: "Empress? The losses and seizures have been counted. Our army suffered more than 2,000 casualties yesterday? Among them, 600 were killed in battle. The enemy's casualties should have exceeded 10,000. If the battlefield is cleaned, the body and the head level are counted? The total is more than 4,700.

So far? More than 38,000 prisoners have been captured alive, and the remaining troops of Liu Yan's army in Mianzhu City should be more than 20,000, of which there are no less than 15,000 soldiers in Dongzhou. In this way, there are at least 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers who fled."

"Twenty or thirty thousand people fled... were they all carrying weapons? Are there any extra weapons that were counted for cleaning the battlefield? I'm afraid that Shu County and Guanghan will be in peace this year." Liu Bei couldn't help but feel a little hurt when he heard this. He was worried that the subsequent civil affairs appeasement work would be difficult to do.

Wu Yi: "When cleaning the battlefield, there are currently about 20,000 pieces of unowned weapons and armor, which is nearly 10,000 more than the casualties. A small half of the deserters should have abandoned their weapons and fled."

Liu Bei stretched out a finger and shook it? Instructed: "Let each county post a notice to comfort the people as soon as possible? The deserters return their weapons to the county where they are registered to report that the household tax will be exempted from one year, and they will not be recruited to join the army again.

Even the soldiers who have been captured will release a group of old and weak people who are unable to fight and return to their hometowns to farm. Didn’t they arrest 38,000 people? I think they can first let go of the 8,000 people in the past two days to return to their hometowns. It will also allow them to go all over the place to spread the court’s benevolent government and good deeds, so that the people will believe in the court’s determination to reduce the throne.”

Wu Yi hurriedly recorded the record? He said he would go and do it immediately.

Liu Bei was also infected by Li Su. He has been used to spending money and doing things in recent years? He has been used to mercenaries. In addition, he talked with Li Su about how to rectify the ruling rudeness. Li Su proposed "using military service instead of taxes"? Liu Bei was more inclined to this kind of governance style.

In the chaotic times? Not everyone is good at joining the army and fighting. Some people are timid? Some places have simple folk customs, but they are good at farming and endure hardships, so they can pay more money and grain in various places to avoid military service.

In some places, people are tough but cannot make money, so they will be exempted from taxes when they join the army. They can also connect five households and ten households to baojia, and a professional soldier who serves in the military all year round is given to the five households to be exempted from taxes.

This idea is actually a bit of the prototype of the Rental and Ordinary Reconstitution in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. It was just that it had not been summarized and improved, but the idea was the same: paying more money and grain can replace serving. However, the rent and Ordinary Reconciliation are exempt from labor service. Those who build cities and dig canals are not military service.

But this system is most suitable for Shu, because the transportation in Shu is inconvenient and transportation is difficult in many places. The materials from places with difficult transportation are too much loss on the way; the government worked hard to become a villain, collecting a hu of rice, and eating several buckets of freight on the way out, so why bother?

It is better to let areas with inconvenient transportation not pay grain to the court center and directly send people to join the army.

In Liu Bei's mind, people in areas with convenient transportation and weak customs in Chengdu Plain should farm well, pay 20% or 30% more grain tax or Shu broth, and fill in the gaps in remote mountainous areas, so that people in Chengdu would not have to join the army.

This order was quickly conveyed, and the efficiency of retracting and fleeing remnants and cleaning up local public security has indeed improved a lot. After only two or three days, many rioters were confiscated and released. The number of deserters who came to re-register and return home also increased significantly. The case of plundering the people in the chaos was suddenly reduced.

Despite this, it would be good to be able to return all the riots to the post this winter. Because the battle took place in early October, Liu Yan's taxes were also levied this year. Of course, Liu Bei would announce tax exemption, and even one year next year to stabilize the place.

On the fourth day after Mianzhu was surrounded, and on the second day after Chengdu was surrounded (because Chengdu was farther away, it took time for the troops to rush over to encircle), the Chengdu general Pang Xi secretly sent someone to contact Liu Bei and wanted to talk about the conditions for surrender.

Of course, Liu Bei would not refuse to surrender and summoned the envoy generously.

There were two people in the envoy. The elderly were a minor official in the county under 20 years old. He was from Jianwei County and named Fei Shi.

The young man was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he seemed not to have entered the officialdom. He was very short and felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Liu Bei. However, after the other party reported himself, Liu Bei surrendered when he learned that his brother was in Jiangzhou. His brother was Zhang Su, and his name was Zhang Song. Liu Bei was a relative of the person who took the initiative to surrender, so he endured his ugly words and spoke with the other party with a friendly expression.

It is estimated that Pang Xi asked Zhang Song, who had not yet become an official, to be the deputy envoy because his brother was already by Liu Bei's side, and showed his close sincerity.

"Chengdu County Magistrate Fei Shi, meet with the General of the Conquest West!" Fei Shi respectfully knelt down and bowed respectfully, with a very humble attitude. Then he raised his head and noticed that Wu Yi was next to Liu Bei, as if dressed as an aide, and he couldn't help but speak out in surprise.

"Huh? It turns out that Brother Ziyuan is here too! That's easy to deal with. I dare to teach the General of the Western Expedition to learn that the sincerity of the Pang Mansion's surrender this time is related to Brother Ziyuan."

"What is the purpose of being a public prosecutor!" Wu Yi hurriedly left it apart, fearing that he would be considered to have some friendship with the people in the enemy camp.

(Note: Gongju is the word Fei Shi)

Fei Shi clarified again: "General, Liu Yan's defeat this time, the reason why he insisted on letting Pang Xi break through quickly and return to Chengdu and protecting Chengdu was, on the one hand, he was reluctant to part of the treasury and grain, garrison troops, and on the other hand, in fact... he was also angry at Wu Zhonglang's insults, openly breaking, and hurting the morale of the rebels.

So after returning to the city, Liu Yan was a little angry and confused, hoping that after returning to Chengdu, he would execute some... the families of some surrendered generals who had earlier and firm stances were executed. He only learned a few days ago that Zhang Junjiao took the initiative to offer the city in Jiangzhou, so he wanted to kill his brother, my deputy envoy, and other family members in Chengdu.

In addition, Liu Yan ordered the killing of Ziyuan's family, and even... he even said that his sister would be dealt with at will. Pang Mansion Jun knew that the crime was serious and did not dare to act rashly. He specially presented Ziyuan's sister to the general. The general could ask the woman to verify that her body was still intact. No one in the military general in Chengdu dared to be rude... He only asked the general to retain Pang Mansion Jun's original position and choose a remote county as the prefect, so he offered Chengdu. The person came and brought Ziyuan's sister in."

Liu Bei slapped the table directly: "I be kind to my subordinates and protect the families of surrendered people. This kind of benevolent people should do it, but look at Pang Xi's words and judge a gentleman with the heart of a villain! He thought that I, Liu Bei, was a lustful person?! When Wu's lieutenant followed Boya's brother into Sichuan, he had a statement first. His niece was carrying prophecies and divinations, and he should be sent to the palace to eliminate the hearts of those who were unjust.

Pang Xi surrendered sincerely and could retain his salary of 2,000 s, but he was not allowed to be a real county magistrate. At most, he could only be a idle chief! I can protect all the property of the other clans. But how could I, Liu Bei, accept other people's beautiful and charming people and give them official positions!”

However, Liu Bei was still squirting, and the servant next to him brought Wu Yi's sister Wu Xian in according to Fei Shi's last words.

Wu Xian was about fourteen years old. Pang Xi was afraid of being rude and offended Liu Bei, so he brought it with a soft and soft carriage. Liu Bei couldn't help but take a look, and his appearance was indeed good.

Wu Yi secretly observed the expression of the lord and knelt down and begged: "Lord, this is the time and time. When my uncle first said that he would send his sister to the capital, the lord had not yet been covered in dust, and Dong Zhuo had not stolen the Dingsi. But now the court has fallen into decline, and the treacherous ministers have stolen his life, and the young lord is unknown.

It was God's will that he asked his lord to take over! Liu Xin changed his name to Liu Xiu in response to the destiny of heaven, and was punished by God. However, Emperor Guangwu's real name was Liu Xiu, so he should have a destiny. The lord was loyal to the court, which was comparable to Guangwu's loyalty to the ancestors. Everything was in accordance with the heavens and was not forced to take action, so why should he avoid taboos?"

"You..." Liu Bei stood up with a smile, "Although you said it has a three-point truth, I am only concerned about the kindness of your brother and sister. I don't want to witness your sister entering Dong Zhuo's mouth, so I don't want to send it to the capital. But don't let me be injustice! Take your sister back to the mansion and raise it for a long time. Let's talk about the surrender of Pang Xi first."

"Yes! Thank you for saving the sister-in-law. Da Enming was grateful to the five-in-law!" Wu Yi stopped when he knew he wanted to see the opportunity. Seeing that Liu Bei asked him to keep his sister, he could delay this matter, so he was not in a hurry.
Chapter completed!