Li Su's handling of captured civil servants in the enemy camp such as Xun Yu, Sima Yi is just a microcosm of a series of personnel work after the war.

It took him five or six days to pull out the list of all the prisoners and surrendered generals and identify them in categories.

Li Su thought he was not a keen person, so he was very restrained. He did not judge any of those names that had never been seen in history books, and left them to the people below to the responsibility. He only arrested the big and let the small.

Even if a talented person who was named by Li Su, he would not give a direct opinion on the handling, but would give guidance and qualitative ideas like Sima Yi. The specific praise and criticism will be handled by the Ministry of Personnel and other relevant departments.

Chen Ping didn’t know the amount of money and grain.

All the handling of prisoners and surrendered officials can last at least three to five months, or even one or two years, and requires a smooth and long transition period, which is not something Li Su worried about.

The transition of talent transfer was slow, but the military occupation on the battlefield could not wait for that long. So Liu Bei's army only stationed in Qiao County for another five or six days. On the Chinese New Year, he was ready to take new actions and finish the finishing work.

Over the past few days, the wounded Han army soldiers who fell in the final battle were basically treated and treated with their injuries and their appearance was reorganized.

Although it took several months or even more than half a year for serious injuries to recover, the military system has been re-organized and can be replaced and moved. The seriously injured people will be transported away by vehicles and ships, and the comrades carry stretchers to load and unload.

Liu Bei issued an oral order, the next day of the Shangyuan Festival, that is, from the 16th day of the first lunar month, Guan Yu and Ma Chao led the main cavalry troops of Qiao County to go north with them and inspect and occupy Yanzhou.

Prime Minister Li Su also requested to participate in the occupation tour temporarily, and Liu Bei also made an approval. The reason why Li Su insisted was that he wanted to participate in the handling of the last puppet dynasty officials in Juancheng.

Zhao Yun, who had been in the area of ​​Jiyin and Xiaopei, received an order to cooperate with Guan Yu and Ma Chao to occupy the Qingzhou area in the east.

At the same time, Gao Shun withdrew some of the infantry troops from the Jingzhou War Zone to Nanyang and Xiangyang. He also escorted some of the relatively hard-working elements of the captured Cao army to Jingzhou to reduce the pressure on food and grass transport.

The main reason why Liu Bei was eager to withdraw his troops was that Qiao County and Chen County were destroyed too tragically by the final decisive battle. He really could not support so many people to stay for a long time.

Not only are there bloody repeated tug-of-warming slaughter here, but also the scorched earth deliberately retreated and destroyed in order to avoid leaving Liu Bei for land and fortifications when Cao Cao retreated.

It is not an exaggeration to say that these two counties are empty. There are hundreds of thousands of people who died in the decisive battle than Cao Cao's powerful military combat troops.

After the battle, after just over a dozen days of investigation, Liu Bei received a report from Lu Su, saying that the remaining population of Chen County would not exceed 100,000, and Qiao County was the same. Therefore, the number of people in Chen Qiao, which is now not as large as that of the garrison and prisoners of war.

Those are two county-level administrative units, or the Yuzhou plain, which is only tens of thousands of living people in total, which is too miserable. Who made this the final battlefield that determines the belonging of the world? It is said that the degree of destruction here is the worst in the late Han Dynasty, and no other place will compete.

Although in terms of percentage, when Dong Zhuo robbed Luoyang, Li Jue and Guo Si harmed Chang'an, the percentage of the population dropped sharply. However, those places were large counties with a population of two million after all, and more than 80% of them were harmed, and more than 300,000 were killed.

The only unfortunate thing is that Cao Cao did not set fire to Qiao County, the last base camp, when he collapsed, so the counties that Qiao County was finally captured by the Han army still had a total of more than 800,000 stones of military rations.

Of course, these foods were snatched from the people during the mobilization of the doomsday. In theory, it is enough for 500,000 to barely eat them until the spring famine in March.

It can also be seen from Cao Cao's plan that the 500,000 people he had no intention of gathering at all to make the 500,000 people he had assembled to survive this year's new round of autumn harvest. He had to die half of the soldiers before he could last until May and June, with spring and summer vegetable supplies.

Therefore, Liu Bei has to take the initiative to evacuate, reducing the total number of soldiers and civilians in Chen and Qiao areas to 300,000, and evacuate the extras to ensure that there will be no large-scale starvation incidents.

At least one-third of the seized military rations was divided into 800,000 s. The remaining people who were robbed by Cao Cao were temporarily handed over to Lu Su this work of rebuilding and restoring order after the war.

Lu Su was the governor of Jingzhou before, and had been in charge for many years, and his political achievements were very good. Now he has been thrown into the bitter New Guangfu District, and the territory he controls is still Yuzhou, which is really not a promotion.

Therefore, before the appointment, Liu Bei also had a sincere conversation with Lu Su for a long time, saying that he believed in Zijing's ability to appease the people and restore order. The situation was urgent, so he could only accept the order with such a great internal affairs as Zijing.

After a year, the order here will be restored, and Zi Jing will enter the court, and first make up for the nine missing resumes of the ministers of the previous period, and you can be promoted to the Three Dukes within two or three years!

Lu Su is actually worthy of this treatment. After all, his qualifications to follow Liu Bei are second only to Li Su, and earlier than Zhuge Jin and Fa Zheng. Zhuge Jin and Fa Zheng are both Nine Ministers, and Lu Su can actually go to the Three Dukes first.

Before, Lu Su worked in the local area for a long time, and worked as a governor in the two largest states in the south, and his work was also very important. Moreover, Lu Su's contribution was much worse than Li Su's. It was impossible for him to reach the third minister at the age of thirty.

Now Lu Su is over 30 years old, and Zhong Yao will retreat to the second line. At that time, he will only stay in Xijing. It is very reasonable to let Lu Su replace the elderly Zhong Yao.

Lu Su himself didn't care much. He knew that it was all about time. Liu Bei didn't appease him and he was happy to challenge himself in Yuzhou, so he took on his job.

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On the 16th day of the first lunar month, more than 200,000 troops and more than 200,000 prisoners of Qiao County, which had been initially rested, began to set off in batches.

On the 18th day of the first lunar month, Liu Bei personally brought all 60,000 cavalry, accompanied by Guan Yu and Ma Chao, and went to Liang County by land (including capturing the last 20,000 cavalry of Cao's army, and equipped the Han army with some cavalry. As for the captives of the tiger and leopard cavalry, they cannot be used immediately, and they must be transformed)

Gao Shun organized tens of thousands of people to evacuate the rear every five days step by step. At the same time, he identified the prisoners. For the strong men who were not vicious and aggressive, they directly dismissed some of the farmers and restored their nationality to farm in Chen County and Qiao County.

Spring plowing and sowing will be about to begin in early February. Now it is still time to return to farming and will not delay the farming time. There are only 150,000 civilians in these two counties, and the fields have already been added, which is more than enough to accommodate 150,000 scattered men.

Those who are not suitable for dismissal will be managed first in a militarized manner. The government provides oxen and farm tools to make a transition from military camps to one or two years.

On the 21st day of the first lunar month, Liu Bei arrived in Suiyang in Liang County. Five days before his arrival, the officials in Suiyang had already surrendered.

Five days later, he continued to head north to Dingtao in Jiyin. Half a month ago, he was forced to subdue by a partial army assigned by Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun also left an unknown deputy general Zhang and divided thousands of troops to garrison Dingtao, waiting to welcome Liu Bei.

As for Zhao Yun himself, because Liu Bei gave him the task of occupying Qingzhou, he did not leave it alone.

Liu Bei had to stand up and wait for a break in Dingtao, and continued northward. He finally arrived at Juancheng, the easternmost part of Dongjun on the first day of February, which was also where Liu He's pseudo-dynasty was located.

Except for Juancheng, other counties along the way were directly surrendered without any military conflict. After all, the news of Cao Cao's death has been fully spread and confirmed by local officials.

But it is not outrageous that Juancheng did not surrender directly. After all, Cao Cao did not "ushelm the Han Dynasty" in name, and he was just the prime minister of the pseudo-dynasty of Kanto.

Moreover, this prime minister Cao Cao only worked for a year and a half from beginning to end. He was just a successive general of the chariot and cavalry and the Grand Marshal.

Legal terms, there is no rule that the emperor has to surrender directly if the prime minister dies.

On the contrary, in the twenty days after Cao Cao's death, the puppet emperor Liu He briefly realized a slight ease for the first time, and no one came to restrict him.

Although Liu He knew in his heart that this was a flash in the pan, and after the return, how Liu Bei would deal with him would probably become increasingly bleak. This confused state made Liu He not choose to surrender before the enemy troops arrived at the city.

...

After the army arrived in Juancheng, seeing that the city did not surrender directly, Liu Bei asked Li Su casually: "What should the Prime Minister thinks to deal with it? Do you have to commit another murder? "

Li Su: "Well, after all, it's a pseudo-official dynasty, and it's better to expect the enemy to be lenient. First, let the soldiers camp and siege the city. Then let someone convey His Majesty's attitude towards handling it, and give them two or three days to consider it.

Cao Cao was dead, and the lonely city could not be defended. They were suspicious, probably because they were afraid that His Majesty would not forgive the lives of some of them. Since this is the case, just make it clear."

"Then send an envoy to the city to explain Liu He's crimes and list the unforgivable people of the ministers in Cao's camp." Liu Bei nodded, thinking that this method was also good.

He has already carried out his faithfulness to the end, not missing the last bit. Since this is the case, he directly announced who can forgive and who will not forgive.

After making it clear, keep your promises and implement them in a practical way, so as not to ask the blame for some people after surrendering and kill more people. It would be better to let the other party bear the responsibility to the end, at least to abandon the army and flee.

Moreover, Liu Bei's statement was very restrained after all, and it was very different from the fact that after Wang Yun killed Dong Zhuo ten years ago, he attacked the generals of the Western Liang army on a large scale without giving people the opportunity to reform himself.

Moreover, Liu Bei held absolute force, so Liu Bei could do what Wang Yun shouldn't have done, and it was even beneficial to long-term stability.

Soon, while the army camped and besieged the city, Liu Bei sent an envoy Xun Yu into the city. After Xun Yu surrendered, he was taken by the army and was responsible for the remaining work of persuading surrender. He would not do anything randomly even if he passed the message.

Zhang He, the guardian of Juancheng, opened the city gate and let Xun Yu enter the city, and soon met Liu He.

Walking above the hall, there were three Dukes Xu You, Hua Xin, Kong Rong, and the new fake minister Ling Cheng Yu who accompanied the fake emperor to meet with him.

Xun Yu's thoughts have changed over the past few days and he has a straightforward showdown with Liu He:

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is kind and kind. Thinking of the benevolent and kindness of the Yan King, you are unwilling to commit more murder. I hope you can open the city and surrender. Your Majesty can protect your life and be named Wei Xiaohou, and no longer pursue past crimes, and rename your gangster to inherit the title of the former king."

As soon as Xun Yu opened his mouth, Liu He felt a sense of sadness. Xun Yu served in the Guandong court for many years and has now changed his words to call him "Successful King of Yan". It can be seen that Liu Bei only recognized the title of King of Yan that was granted to Liu Yu during the reign of the late emperor.

But no matter what, Liu Bei also recognized the appointment of the late emperor.

Liu He was just dissatisfied and asked Xun Yu: "Since ancient times, the king was successful and the enemy was defeated. I was Yuan Shao and Cao Cao was forced to do so, but what 'crimes' can be said to me? If you want to add a crime, you will have no choice!"

Xun Yu: "Why is Your Highness not aware of yourself? Your Majesty and the Prime Minister are both clear about right and wrong. When the previous king was there, he was humble and benevolent and had always had credibility. Ten years ago, when the previous emperor was there, he sent His Highness to the east to Hangu, asking for help from the previous king, and supporting the court's righteousness.

But what did Your Highness do at that time? He was in trouble and did not distinguish between loyalty and treacherous, and went through the territory of the traitor Yuan Shu, so he wandered around the market and sought assistance from Yuan Shu.

As a result, he was detained by Yuan Shu, threatening the previous king to join forces with Yuan Shu. In the end, by chance, it led to the alliance between Yuan Shu and Gongsun Zan's rebel thieves!

As a son of man, because he did not distinguish between loyalty, treacherous and wise, he trapped the thief and became a bargaining chip for the thief to threaten the king and father. What is this not a violation of filial piety? His Highness has done so many times over the years, and although he is understandable and unable to do so, he came from the beginning, because of His Highness's careless relationship, his eyes are blind and he made friends with the two Yuans! Your Majesty forgives your life today and is named the Marquis of Violence, so what is the point of being there!"

Although Xun Yu had to do things for the court over the years, he also had some understanding of the moral flaws of the puppet Liu He.

Especially after being captured this time, Li Su analyzed and transformed it, and he felt that his previous understanding was not thorough enough and he felt a little regretful.

Specifically speaking of the puppet emperor Liu He, the most obvious problem is that is, is Liu He really completely innocent?

No! His puppet also has his own fault. Not knowing people, making friends, and causing trouble for the king and father is the biggest sin.

Think about it, why did Yuan Shu threaten Liu Yu at the beginning in history, but in the end he accidentally hooked up with Gongsun Zan when Liu Yu was unwilling to submit. From 192 to 194, the confrontation between Yuan Shu-Gongsun Zan-Tao Qian Alliance and Liu Yu-Yuan Shao-Cao Cao Alliance was formed?

Isn't it just that he set out from Chang'an and passed by Nanyang when he left Wuguan, he was not low-key and was swaying across the market. When he had a mission, he was randomly visiting friends and was taken hostage and threatening his father.

According to the filial piety of the Han Dynasty, even if a son commits suicide in this case, he should do it! As a son, how can he play the role of someone else to threaten his father? And this hostage was given to him for free!

Following this idea, Liu He really cheated his father several times.

Even in the end, Gongsun Zan committed a proclamation to kill Liu Yu, because Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shu were in a loose alliance at that time. At the same time, Liu Yu actually refused Yuan Shao's support many times during his lifetime. In short, Liu He smeared his father a lot of stains.

Of course, in this life, the specific details of Liu He's path of cheating have changed. Some "sub-line plots" did not happen due to the butterfly effect, but the main problems are the same.

After hearing this, Liu He was reminiscent of Xun Yu's words and reminisces. He buried some places that he didn't want to think deep in his heart, beautified and whitewashed by his memories. All the scums appeared and his face turned pale.

Indeed, it is really reasonable for Liu Bei to be named "Mr. Violating Xiaohou".
Chapter completed!