When the Chencang city wall was broken, it was already afternoon on the sixth day of the second month, so the battle in the city ended, and it was already night when Zhang Ji's body was found.

The troops had no time to celebrate the victory, so they cleared the fire in chaos, put out the fire, and were chaotic all night before they could completely control the situation in the city.

The casualties of the people must be inevitable. The small Xiliang soldiers who fled because of the road were seized will inevitably take off their armor and disguise themselves as the people, trying to hide their identities. Once they cannot escape, they will be anxious. The Han army will also kill innocent people by chance if they are nervous. This is limited by the communication conditions of the times, and it is not varied by whether the warlords are benevolent and righteous.

Even if Zhang Ji died, not all the remnants of the Xiliang Army in the city knew that Zhang Ji's death was the truth. Even if they knew, there would be ignorant soldiers who were afraid of being killed or sent to the south, and they would not be able to return to their hometown in Xiliang for the rest of their lives, but just because they wanted to break through with force because of their homesickness.

Until the end of the entire battle, all the people of Xiliang put down their weapons and killed as many as five or six thousand people.

Of course, people like Liu Bei and Li Su don’t have to go to the battlefield in person. When Guan Yu sieges the city, they were still guarding Dasan Pass, fifty miles southwest, and remotely controlling the battlefield.

This is not cowardice, but to avoid giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of. The higher the position and the more powerful the person is, the less necessary it is to visit the front line when personally expeditioning. It is enough to boost morale at Sanguan.

It was midnight that Liu Bei received a reward from the front line for the horse exploration, saying that Guan Yu had taken down the city and killed Zhang Ji. Liu Bei was very excited, and at the beginning of the next day, he asked his personal guards to use the morning food.

Then he took two thousand cavalry guards and set off with Li Su and Xun You, riding a horse for an hour and a half. Chen Shixiao entered Chen Cang City. When he entered the city, the water at the gate had not yet faded. It was obvious that Guan Yu had no time to take care of these tasks.

"It is really gratifying to see Chang Chang's offensive so fast. Today should be a banquet for the generals to celebrate the victory of the Northern Expedition." Liu Bei was in a really good mood as he looked at the smoke everywhere.

"King, there is no need to enter the city? A celebration banquet can be held, but it cannot delay the important matter. According to my opinion, what is needed now is to dredge the interface between the moat on the east side of Chencang and the Wei River as soon as possible, and discharge the silted lake formed by the Western Han River into the Wei River. Then clear out the money and grain from the treasury in the city, count the losses, and immediately restore the spring plowing of the people--

According to the example, on the second day of the second month, the people should start spring plowing. We siege the city one day before the spring plowing begins, and now five days have passed. Generally, if the day when spring plowing begins is delayed, it will seriously affect the harvest. We will only have seven or eight days to repair the river.

I think the grain stored in Chencang City may not be enough for the army to eat for an extra time. Our army's food and grass must be transported by the Western Han River. Until the autumn harvest, we still have to rely on the grain stored in Hanzhong as the main one."

Liu Bei was not good at math and had no idea about money and grain accounts. He then restrained himself: "Is that right? Then I Boya's, Chen Cang broke through so quickly. Shouldn't Yun Chang seized a large amount of Zhang Ji's surplus grain? Gongda, you can also count the treasury and sort out the accounts before talking about it. It must be real."

Xun You hurriedly took the order and went to settle the civil affairs department separately with Li Su.

Li Su was not vague and immediately took thousands of soldiers on the boat to conduct on-site surveys. He also asked the soldiers to use bamboo poles on the flooded ground within a radius of several miles to measure the water level depth of each point, and counted it into a table and registered it on a special map.

At noon, Li Su had already seen which points on the way had the deepest water, and then connected them to plan a river channel on the map. In the next few days, prisoners and people would concentrate on digging these points and digging out a drainage channel. In the future, the river channel at the end of the Western Han River can be formed on this basis.

After all, the flat ground is not like the Qinling Mountains. The land has accumulated over three hundred years, and the river can no longer be seen. If you don’t dig it specifically, you will be swamps everywhere.

A batch of points with deep water depths were also marked on the map, but the distance from the river channel was relatively selected, so Li Su planned to form a reservoir and a natural tributary irrigation canal connected to the main river channel.

The specific construction method is to continue digging deeper places, pile up the digging soil in a slightly shallower place next to it, and pile the fields higher than the water.

The rivers built in this way will occupy some of the original fertile fields and cause the total area of ​​arable land to lose, but there is nothing we can do about it. Moreover, this practice is not completely harmful or profitable. At least after the repair, the irrigation of the fields will be more sufficient. Basically, each field can be adjacent to the canal at close range. As long as the river does not dry up, it can withstand even if it does not rain for a few months.

In history, there were three major disasters of earthquake, drought and locust in Guanzhong in the first year of Xingping. Li Su couldn't remember so many historical details. He read books in his previous life and was more general. But it was later proved that he digging rivers near Chencang and Mei County to divert the Western Han Dynasty waters, which actually alleviated the subsequent drought disasters. That was a blessing in disguise, and it was not his original intention.

His original intention was to use the Western Han River to improve the transportation conditions from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, and at the same time, he borrowed the prophecies and auspiciousness of Liu Bang's dreams to boost morale. Cultivating rivers is a compensation measure to make up for the accumulation of virtue. After all, because he diverted the river and flooded some fields, it would be too unethical to cause people's livelihood problems if he did not recover from the aftermath.

While Li Su finished the plan, Xun You also counted out the storage situation in Chen Cang's granary at noon on the seventh day of the lunar month and handed over the real accounts to Liu Bei and Guan Yu.

Liu Bei was preparing for a celebration banquet, and when he got the account, he felt a little cold:

"Zhang Ji's grain reserves were only enough for 10,000 people to eat for half a year? Isn't this possible? His garrison in Chencang had 15,000 people. Even if the autumn harvest was harvested in July, it would be only five months from early February to early July, so he could only support more than 12,000 soldiers. Could it be that Zhang Ji still deducted the food of the soldiers and did not feed the Xiliang army?"

Xun You had just learned about the situation and explained to Liu Bei helplessly: "I'm also surprised, so I specially found some surrendered generals and asked. The Xiliang soldiers were tyrannical by nature and were short of military pay and rations all year round. Generally, they could eat until May, and the generals felt that military rations were safe enough.

The rest were letting the soldiers plunder the people's summer harvest vegetables, radish, beans, etc., mixed with military rations, and barely enough to make them half full. Since last year, Li Jue and Guo Si have expanded their troops in Guanzhong and Liangzhou for an excessive expansion, and they have to raise more than 200,000 troops. They are not robbed and destroyed frequently, so they have long been too full."

Because of the defeat of Wuzhangyuan in 192, Liu Bei was once sealed off the pass. Although he could also find out some military information in Guanzhong, it was all major events and had no knowledge of information on people's livelihood. It was not until this moment that he realized how specific Li Jue and Guo Si had shaved three feet into the ground.

But now that things have come to this point, there is nothing I can do.

Liu Bei sighed: "Since this is the case, reduce the scale of the celebration banquet a little, and don't make extravagant things, otherwise it will not look good in the eyes of the people. We should also win over the hearts of the people of Guanzhong."

When Xun You saw that he accepted the advice, he said a little more: "There are some additional adverse situations in terms of military rations - Zhang Ji's little grain storage, because the whole city has more water in and out of moisture in the past few days, so the sewage flows across the city, and it is slightly damaged and moldy. In addition, it sets fires between each other during the war, so the loss of one month is reduced. The remaining part should not be stored for a long time. It should be washed and dried, or eaten as soon as possible after washing."

Granary silos are generally built in relatively high places and must be dry, so it is unlikely to be directly flooded for a long time. However, because the east of the city is flooded, drainage of the entire city has become difficult, and domestic sewage is not easy to discharge. It is inevitable that the sanitation situation in the whole city will deteriorate sharply, and various additional losses will emerge one after another.

After hearing this, Liu Bei didn't think of how to deal with it. Li Su first snatched the conversation and suggested: "King, this is easy to deal with. First, exchange and store the grain we transported from Hanzhong, and eat the soaked Chencang grain warehouse first.

Ten thousand people ate five months of food, and let the army of 60,000, plus ten thousand prisoners, and 30,000 people finish it in half a month. We summoned the people to dredge the swamps and rectify the irrigation canals, and we were going to give the people food and meals. It is only February now, and even if they are all made into bread and cooked rice, they will not be rotten in half a month."

Liu Bei: "Just do it like this."

Seeing that the problem of food was solved, Xun You also suggested that Liu Bei arrange a civil servant team this morning to establish a local rule to ensure the smooth implementation of spring farming. Liu Bei thought about it and asked someone to go to Hanzhong to call Zhong Yao, appoint him as You Fufeng, and take charge of the civil affairs of Chencang and even the future Mei County and other places.

Zhong Yao had not made any contribution to Liu Bei's camp. He was just a victory because he was old and was now in his forties, five or six years older than Xun You. When he first entered Shu, Zhong Yao's official position was only the Minister of the Yellow Sect, and his rank was relatively low. He proclaimed the order of Wang Yun to be named King of Hanzhong. He had nothing to do when he met Li Jue and Guo Si, who was in trouble and stayed in Hanzhong.

Among the prefects in various parts of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the four prefects, Henan Yin, Jingzhao Yin, Zuo Fengyi, and Youfufeng, were half a level higher than ordinary prefects, and were of the same rank as the nine ministers, because these four places were the capital and the "Three Auxiliary", which was equivalent to municipalities directly under the central government. Letting Zhong Yao be the right Fufeng was equal to the level of the nine ministers.

After the order was issued, Li Su began to arrange for prisoners to work and organized people who were willing to serve to distribute food and tools to start work.

That night, the celebration banquet was held in the city. The dishes were simple. The only highlight was that Liu Bei took out a high level of liquor that he didn't dare to take out during the Chinese New Year. After drinking it, the generals really praised it and their morale was high.

Li Su was unwilling to drink and didn't like high-level liquor. He just cared about his image and the aftermath of the disaster. While arranging water conservancy, he also understood the people's sentiments and secretly understood the views of the people of Chen Cang on this flood.

But what made him happy was that the people's response was very good. First of all, because the deepest amount of water was only 1.5 meters high, which was not enough to drown people, so everyone would suffer a slight loss of property at most.

On the other hand, the reason why the Western Han River changed its course was spread among the people. Almost everyone believed that it was indeed Emperor Gaozu who showed his power, and the Earth Dragon turned over and returned to the north.

The people's ideas are very simple: Since scholars have said that it was originally a river three hundred and eighty years ago, and the "Han Shu" is clearly written in black and white. That is, the people who have been trapped in the river for more than three hundred years have occupied the river and farmed, and they cannot blame others for being flooded. It is natural disasters.

Moreover, the flooding occurs before the spring plowing begins, and there is no loss of seeds and no work is in vain. It is nothing more than the number of fields that have decreased, so I can only accept it.

"It seems that the people's hearts are pretty good. The disaster is not counted on us, but disaster relief is counted on me." Li Su was very satisfied with the result.

No words all night.

On the eighth day of the March 19th, Liu Bei got up a little late after drinking too much, but was woken up by Guan Yu, who reported the military information.

"Brother, the scout from the direction of Mei County came to report that Lei Xu, the garrison in Mei County, should have received the news that Chen Cang was besieged by our army three days ago. He acted as a warning and built fortifications at the Weiqiao camp in Beiyuan, but there was no other movement.

There was movement yesterday. It seemed that from the Chang'an side, a large army rolled along the Wei River and had already gathered at the Weiqiao camp in Beiyuan - it should be the troops sent by Li Jue to reinforce Zhang Ji."
Chapter completed!