"There is a Han in the west and a Han in the east. It's no more difficult for the deer to enter Chang'an~"

"God-Emperor Gaozu was prosperous in Chang'an, and he passed on 12 emperors, and Guangwu was prosperous in Luoyang, and he also passed on 12 emperors. The fortune of heaven was reunited, and the court moved back to Chang'an, and the riots in all directions were pacified!"

Li Su heard these nursery rhymes and commentaries a few days ago in Chang'an City. Later, he was rushing out in the wild these days, taking a boat along the Wei River, without negotiating with the people, and was no longer noisy.

However, as the boat arrived in Chencang today, I had to go ashore to find a car and linger in Chencang City to repair it. As soon as the convoy entered the city gate, I heard these nursery rhymes everywhere and dressed more vigorously than before.

It seems that Li Ru spared no effort to build momentum for Dong Zhuo's legitimacy. I don't know how many people have sent to stroll around rumor and prophecy.

Under such publicity, it seems that in all the big cities in the Guanzhong Plain, the rich people have been mentally prepared to "the area where Guanzhong is the best", and are quite happy about it.

When Li Su looked at the Three Kingdoms in his previous life, he never paid attention to these details, and history would not record the reactions of the common people. Now that he is in the scene, he has a little more empathy: it seems that no matter what dynasty, the house class is happy to hear that the city they are in is going to upgrade and housing prices will rise in the future.

This is also why it is not easy for all dynasties to move the capital. House prices in the old capital will fall, and the wealthy families who have been hoarding real estate for hundreds of years will suffer great losses.

"Hmph, dog thief!" Liu Miao, the Wannian Princess in the fragrant car, couldn't help but be curious when she first entered the city. She wanted to open the curtain and listen to the people's feelings outside. As a result, all she heard were rumors that the fools were bewitched by Dong Zhuo, and she suddenly burst into tears.

Li Su was riding a horse by the carriage. After hearing this low voice, he had to patiently attach himself to the curtain of the carriage to persuade him: "Prophecies and divinations are false words, why bother to get angry about this? The people are just ignorant, and perhaps for small profits, they are temporarily willing to be used by Dong Zhuo.

But I believe that with Dong Zhuo's cruelty, it will take less than two years to wait for him to come to Chang'an? The people of Chang'an will also think that the people of Luoyang are as angry as the people of heaven and people are resentful."

"The people are ignorant? That's what it means." Liu Miao burst into tears and put down the curtain, not wanting to chat anymore.

Li Su asked the convoy to continue moving forward? He brought his troops and bronze ware into the Qinling Valley.

Li Su's words just now were trying to persuade Liu Miao, and on the other hand, he also warned himself in his heart: If I hadn't seen all this with my own eyes, would you believe that the people of Sanfu were a little supportive of Dong Zhuo at the beginning?

After all, Dong Zhuo had been in Yongliang for many years? And before he took power, he did not harm the people's bad deeds? Dong Zhuo's perverted and evil deeds were basically completely out of control after the collapse of the Yuan family's dispute. In ancient times, people might not have lived a hundred miles away in their entire lives. People here don't know how cruel Dong thief was in Henan Yin, but the rich people in Sanfu's city can see clearly for the time being.

On the other hand? Even from the perspective of population and economy? Historically, after Dong Zhuo arrived in Chang'an, the total population of Chang'an and even the surrounding Sanfu must have increased in 191 or even 192.

Needless to say, there is a simplest number: Henan Yin was migrated to nearly two million, even if 200,000 or even 300,000 people died along the way? At least 1.5 million people settled in Guanzhong.

The war in Liangzhou lasted for many years before? The total population size of the entire Yongliang land was no longer as rich as that of Guanzhong during the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty.

Currently, there are less than 100,000 households and a population of 500,000. Statistics during the Xiping period of Emperor Ling? For example, Longxi County, Beidi County, Jincheng County, and Anding County, the number of households is less than 5,000 households - note that this is a county? It is not a county. According to the Han Dynasty official system, counties with less than 5,000 households are only allowed to have county magistrates, and more than 5,000 households can have county magistrates. This is equivalent to the fact that each of the above four counties is not as large as a county that can set up orders, among which Jincheng County, which has the worst disaster, only more than 3,000 households are allowed to have county magistrates.

The land of Sanfu is much better than that of Liangzhou. After all, it is the rich Weihe Plain, but the total population of Sanfu will not reach three million. In this way, the population of the entire Guanxi land is only 3.5 million.

After Dong Zhuo injected 1.5 million people from Henan Yin, the total population of Guanxi suddenly rose to 5 million.

According to statistics from the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", until 193, one year after Dong Zhuo's death, the total population of Guanxi was much larger than before the capital was moved. What really left Guanxi empty later was the melee between Li Jue and Guo Si, as well as the successive earthquakes, locust plagues, and severe droughts that began in the first year of Xingping (194).

Here we must say something for Dong Zhuo: Dong Zhuo completely destroyed Luoyang. After he arrived in Chang'an, he still hoped to build Chang'an into a base, or that he died before he had time to over-harm Chang'an. Li Jue and Guo Si were the ones who really completely harmed Chang'an.

From 194 to 198, Li Jue and Guo Si were almost using the speed of "reducing one quarter of the population every year compared to the previous year" to destroy the Three Auxiliary Places:

At the end of 193, Guanzhong, which had more than four million people, fell back to more than three million by the end of 194, fell to more than two million, in 195, fell to more than one million, in 196, Emperor Xian fell to more than one million, and in 198, when Li Jue was killed, he fell below one million, and only a few hundred thousand people were left.

Who made Li Jue and Guo Si have two logistics support: if there is no food, people will eat people, no taxes are required, and rob them if they need to spend money, kill the old and the weak, and eat the young and strong. This is a set of strategies without an economic foundation.

Therefore, since Li Su has opened the perspective of God, he must help Liu Bei to take the opportunity to take action. You cannot let Dong Zhuo or Li Guo cause too much trouble in Guanzhong. After all, in the future, the people of these lands will be incorporated by themselves.

On the other hand, we must wait for their "deeds of evil deeds" to make the people of Guanzhong hope that someone would drive them away. They should not just liberate them without doing anything bad to their fellow villagers. In that case, the people of Guanzhong might even regard the Liangzhou army as their own people and share the same hatred against Liu Bei against Liu Bei.

"Oh, it's really hard to grasp the rhythm of supporting the Han Dynasty. In order to save the subsequent more than 4 million Guanzhong people, we can only endure Dong. Li Xian demonstrated that he harmed hundreds of thousands of people and lost all the people's hearts. Only then can we do it...

Forget it, if it really doesn't work, then set up some supporters in Chencang Road so that those people who have been harmed and robbed can escape and have some food. Even if they are organized to dig canals and build terraces, it is better than being starved to death by Dong Li."

After repeated attempts, Li Susizhi only thought of such a preliminary solution.

Liu Bei himself should not be able to make a move to the Northern Expedition within one or two years. He fought a full two years of war this year before he took down Hanzhong and the Chengdu Plain. The food inventories consumed huge amounts of food, and he would definitely need to rest and recover in the future.

Moreover, Liu Bei is currently the governor of Yizhou and has not received the imperial court's grant of Yizhou. He is nominally just supervising the counties and has no right to rule directly.

In this case, the Southern Barbarians in the four counties in the Nanzhong District may not be convinced by Liu Bei. They may not rebel directly like Meng Huo, but it is probably possible to "not listen to Liu Bei's orders in official business" and they want to not listen to the orders, so their status is very reasonable.

Such things must be both kind and powerful, and it is better to fight early than to fight late. At least you don’t have to face two fronts fighting, and you don’t have to worry about “fighting civil war after working hard to plant the fields, and the results of farming will be burned.” It is better to completely eliminate civil strife.

After all the factors, I guess I can only watch Dong Zhuo be killed by Wang Yun in Chang'an.

...

Li Su thought a few times in her mind, and walked through mountains and rivers, and entered the Qinling Mountains for a total of forty or fifty miles. She had already passed the ruined Dasan Pass, the former site of the Han Dynasty, Dasan Pass, about the southwest of Chencang, and forty miles after entering the Qinling Mountains. The walls of the pass have always been there, but they have been disrepaired for a long time, leaving only ruins, and even the city gate and tower are gone, and they pass directly through the ruins.

Moreover, because there is no war in the years and there is no need to be extra guard against the warlords in Bashu and Hanzhong areas. The court always felt that it would be enough to block the valley entrance with Chencang City, and there was no need to maintain the pass forty miles to reach the mountain. After all, every big stone for building a city here is very expensive.

When it comes to this road, Li Su has been traveling in and out for four or five times, and he will no longer feel unfamiliar, but the difficulty this time is still not comparable to any other time. The main reason is that the princess has to take a car and transport heavy bronzes.

Soon, the soldiers around him were so tired that they were half dead. They played the role of Fa Zheng, a logistics management team. After learning about the relationship, they had to persuade them to express their feelings:

"Zhonglang, this road is too difficult to transport. You can't get on the car any longer. You can only ride a horse, but these tripods and two horses can't carry them side by side. The Chenglu plate weighs 50,000 or 60,000 pounds, and twenty horses along the way can't get through it.

Also, when your five hundred guards left Chang'an, they lent the princess's guards to collect weapons. They obtained five hundred sets of fish scale black armor, five hundred sets of horse-slashing swords and crossbows in Chang'an Armory. The soldiers were too heavy to bear the weight."

What Fa Zheng said was of course Han Jin. The area of ​​Emperor Wu of Han’s immortal Chenglu Pan was about ten square meters, and the bronze was more than half a foot thick, which was only ten centimeters. Nearly two cubic meters of copper could weigh no more than ten tons, which was 50,000 tonnes.

Li Su actually didn't want to transport the Chenglu Pan all the way back to Hanzhong. It was too far. Now he couldn't stand it after walking the fifty-mile mountain road. There were still 300 miles in the future. Even if he only went to Hechi County to store it, there were still more than 100 miles.

Moreover, when Liu Bei revives Chang'an in the future and remains in the old capital, Chenglu Pan will still have to be brought back. It is impossible to set the capital in Hanzhong, so the round-trip shipping fee will be wasted.

Li Su wiped his sweat and took care of the princess to rest in the car for a while, don't worry, and then he and Fa Zheng were helping to climb up to watch the terrain.

After looking for a while, Li Su found that there was a small mountain plain not far ahead, and it seemed to be next to the temporary river in the lowest valley. It should be able to farm and develop and get a place to settle down.

Li Su suddenly thought of some stories from later generations when reading history: When the Southern Song Dynasty resisted the Jin Dynasty, it was also "the boat snowed at night, and the iron horse was rushing to the Great San Pass". The border of Dasan Pass was the front line of the separatist rule of the Song and Jin Dian. In order to prevent the Jin soldiers in the direction of Chen Cang, the brothers of the famous Southern Song general Wu Jie fought the famous "Monk Yuan Battle" near Dasan Pass.

Could this plain, which is a few miles long and less than half a mile wide, be the "monk's land" of later generations?

Considering that the former site of Dasan Pass in the Han Dynasty was further north than during the Tang and Song dynasties, it was normal for monks to be enclosed on the inner side of the pass.

Li Su pointed to the small plain and said, "Xiaozhi, I would like to suggest that the lord set up a new county in this monk, and it is also good to have more landing points between Hechi and Chencang. It is only fifty miles to enter the Qinling Mountains here and only seventy miles to Chencang City. As long as the Dasan Pass is repaired, the people can cultivate farms and roads here, so that they can make better preparations for the army to come out of the pass to seek Dong. Moreover, the repair of Dasan Pass also shows that we are afraid of Dong Zhuo, afraid of Dong Zhuo's attack, and show weakness to the enemy. What does Xiaozhi think?"

He also discussed such a confidential matter with him because Fa Zheng was devoted to his loyalty. After all, Fa Zheng helped Liu Bei raise military rations when he was in Mei County, and the two were quite in line with each other.

Fa Zheng was also a little energetic when he heard that Li Su was not seeing him. After careful observation, he said responsibly: "But, I see that this place is only a few miles long and less than one mile wide. It is estimated that at most tens of millions of land can be cultivated, which is good enough to support hundreds of people. How can hundreds of people set up a county?

Moreover, it is not easy to move people from the river to the river. The irrigation here is insufficient. Only the snow melts in winter and spring will flow into a river every year. There is no river in the rest of summer and autumn. It depends entirely on rainfall and food. It is probably not easy to cultivate."

Li Su waved his hand: "Don't worry about the fields. I was in Hanzhong and Lu Zijing to find the same method to farm on the gentle slopes of the mountains. Irrigation is really troublesome. I have to teach the people to dig more wells and dig more reservoirs to accumulate fresh water in the rainy season. However, it is still okay to feed one or two thousand people.

As for the population source, after Dong Zhuo rebelled against the Three Guards, are they afraid that the people who did not escape from the rule of the Dong thief went south? As long as Xiaozhi was willing to help me, I will ask my lord to order you as the county magistrate of Sanguan to be responsible for intercepting refugees from the north. At that time, I will also leave two or three hundred soldiers to defend Sanguan, and build another treasury, and store these giant bells, giant tripods and Chenglu Pan here. In the future, I will successfully challenge Dong to return to the old capital, and transport it back to Chang'an nearby."

Anyway, those items that Li Su can carry over the mountain with less than 500 kilograms of Han kilograms, he will definitely not leave behind. All the items left are large goods worth 1,000 kilograms, so as long as the management is a little more standardized, you are not afraid of someone stealing them - thieves can't move them at all, and even if they can move them, they can't move them out of the Qinling Mountains.

You might as well try to steal one of the Chenglu Pan for 50,000 jin.

Moreover, after setting up Sanguan County, there is another biggest advantage, that is, Li Su will construct and optimize the roads in Chencang Road in the future. No matter how hard he farms, the outside world will not know. In the future, those who want to leave the customs will have to undergo strict inspections by Liu Bei's forces. It is very conducive to creating a sudden attack on Dong Zhuo or Li Jue and Guo Si.

Fa Zheng thought about it and found that he was only sixteen years old. He was the county magistrate of a newly established county. He could not be said to be not worthy of it. Moreover, the people used the Fa family as a famous family in Fufeng and could unite and dispatch other people fleeing south in the Youfufeng area, which was considered to be the best use of it.

If this county had not been set up out of thin air and had changed to a mature one, Fa Zheng would have become the county magistrate as soon as he came.

"Since this is the case, my father and I are willing to stay here to guard Sanguan for the general and herd of the west. The Zhonglang left all things, and would never miss them." Fa Zheng agreed respectfully.

Li Su also quickly ordered: "Then you should first divide some people and unload the goods, and then go to Chencang to try to buy some food and grass when Dong Zhuojun has not controlled Chencang yet. The food required for Sanguan County in the first year must be made available to Dong Zhuo."

Li Su didn't want to transport grain from Hanzhong or even Hechi to stock up here. The loss was too great. Of course, he had to buy grain directly from Chencang, which was only seventy miles away.

Granary silos should be built here as soon as possible. While it is only October and the autumn harvest is not long after, the grain price is cheap, so you can buy as much as you can. Anyway, the grain will not break even after three years of storage. At that time, you will eat military rations bought from Dong Zhuo to fill some of the needs of the Northern Expedition and reduce the loss of food transporting over the mountains.
Chapter completed!