After the excitement, Cao Rui thought of Qin Lang and said to Jiang Ji: "By the way, call Qin Lang back to me, even if the army is defeated, my Da Wei's face will be lost to him." ”

Zhao Yan had a good personal relationship with Qin Lang, so he interceded for Qin Lang: "Your Majesty, although General Qin is at fault, the main reason is still on Bu Dugen. Please also ask Your Majesty to give General Qin a chance, he will definitely be able to be brave after the shame. ”

Cao Rui said coldly: "Hmph, he committed a mortal crime, if I don't kill him, he is already on the open side, how can I let him be in charge of the army?" I have made up my mind, you don't need to say more. ”

"Yes!" Zhao Yan sighed and returned to his shift.

Jiang Ji arched his hand and asked, "Withdraw Qin Lang, I don't know who Your Majesty plans to send to guard the state?" ”

Cao Rui pondered for a moment and said, "Let Guo Huai go." ”

"No!"

Subsequently, Cao Rui issued a holy decree, ordering Yanzhou and Xuzhou to recruit young and strong people, replenish the troops of the state, and appointed Li Xi as the assassin of the state, and Guo Huai as the governor of the state.

The cold winter soon passed, and the time came to the spring of March 230 AD.

March in the north is still very cold, and the temperature shows no signs of rising.

This winter, Liu Chan did not return to Chang'an, but stayed in Yanmen Pass, because after the beginning of spring, there are still many things to deal with.

Ma Chao walked into a palace and reported the situation to Liu Chan: "Your Majesty, Weichen has just received a report from the scout, and the Wei State has sent another batch of soldiers and horses to Merge Prefecture, about 15,000 or so, plus the garrisons from all over Bingzhou, and now there are more than 30,000 defenders in Bingzhou. And now they are repairing the city wall in the north of Xinxing County, which seems to be made of cement. ”

"Cement?" Liu Chan frowned when he heard this: "I have already been very strictly supervised, and I don't want to be given the method of firing by the Wei State." ”

Ma Chao sighed and said: "In recent years, Chang'an has been using cement on a large scale to build palace envoys, and cement has also been used in water conservancy and roads in various places, and there is no way to leak it out." ”

Liu Chan nodded, and then said: "If it leaks out, it will leak out, this is also a matter of time, I have already set the trend of the unification of the Han Dynasty with the cement return cannon, and it is impossible for Wei to reverse the situation with cement." ”

Liu Chan paused and asked Ma Chao: "Now that the grain and grass we have hoarded are almost exhausted, Xianbei has transported cattle and sheep over to the horses?" ”

Ma Chao replied: "It's already on the way here, with 200,000 cattle and sheep each." It was transported back by General Lin and them, and a batch of grain and grass was about to be transported over from Guanzhong, and it was expected that it would not be a problem to support the wheat until it matured in May. ”

"That's good, now we can prepare, so that the Hu people south of Yanmen Pass will move to the north of Yanmen Pass, and the Hu people we have collected from the Liangxiang Hometown will also be transported over. I wrote to Da Sima last year, asking him to send a group of officials over, and now he is already on his way, right? ”

"Come with the grain and grass."

"Hmm!" Liu Chan nodded and said, "In that case, when the officials arrive, they can officially move over." ”

"No, Wechen will inform them later."

More than ten days later, Lin Xiao's father and son, and Zhuge Zhan's brothers arrived at Yanmen Pass with hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep borrowed from Xianbei, and at the same time, Zhuge Liang's grain and grass distributed from Guanzhong were also transported.

These cattle and sheep, plus grain and grass, are enough to last until the wheat is ripe in May.

Last year, Liu Chan went north from Guanzhong, so that the Han people in the Liang homeland were liberated, they lived around the city, Liu Chan also gave them a large amount of land, it was the season to sow wheat, and so on in May, it will be harvested, but the wheat they harvested, at most can only be self-sufficient, can not support tens of thousands of soldiers and horses and hundreds of thousands of Hu people.

The key is to rely on the support of Guanzhong, because Guanzhong also grows wheat in winter.

Therefore, as long as the wheat is ripe in May, the north will not worry about people starving, because in May, those Hu people can also sow corn and sweet potatoes, and the corn growth cycle is very short, and it can be harvested in about three months.

After the officials arrived at Yanmen Pass, Liu Chan asked the Hu people who lived south of Yanmen Pass to move to the area north of Yanmen Pass.

These Hu people include the Hu people who migrated over by Qin Lang at the beginning, and the Hu people who Liu Chan collected from the hometown of Heliang, and their population added up to about 200,000.

The number of Han people in the Liangxiang hometown and Hetao outside the north of Yanmen Pass is about 500,000.

In addition, this time Lin Xiao came back from Danhan Mountain, Su Lie also returned all the Han people in the clan to the Han Dynasty, and in the early years of the Han civil strife, there were also many Han people who took refuge in other races, so the population of the Han people reached as much as 500,000.

It's May.

Yanmen Pass.

Liu Chan said to the generals: "Now that the Hu people have all moved to the north of Yanmen Pass, Budugen has also led troops to Qiangyin to garrison, the north has settled down, I have been away from Beijing for more than half a year, it's time to go back, but before I go back, I still have a major matter to explain." ”

Liu Chan paused and continued: "Now the places north of Guanzhong and south of Yinshan have returned to the Great Han, and these places, including the former Liangzhou, and Bingzhou. Today, most of the land in Bingzhou is still in the hands of Wei, and as for Liangzhou, it is separated by Yongzhou.

Therefore, I will not return to the old rule, but want to establish a new state. Named Shuozhou, under its rule, it includes four counties of Hetao, as well as the former Beidi and Shang County, a total of six counties. ”

Guan Yu clapped his hands when he heard the words and said: "This is very good, the state was vast before, but its central governance office is in Taiyuan, and the control of the Hetao is somewhat beyond the reach of the whip, if the Liangxiang hometown and the Hetao north of Guanzhong are redivided into a state, it will be easier to manage, and it will be easier to resist the Hu people in the future." ”

"Not bad!" Ma Chao nodded and agreed with Guan Yu's statement.

Liu Chan looked at Ma Chao and said to Ma Chao: "Aiqing has been in the border area for a long time, and this Shuozhou assassination history naturally belongs to Aiqing." ”

Ma Chao bowed down to receive the order: "Weichen leads the order." ”

Liu Chan nodded and said: "Shuozhou has jurisdiction over the four counties of Hetao, as well as six counties such as Beidi and Shangjun, as for Yanmen, it still belongs to the state, but because the state is not under the state, Yanmen is currently under the governance of Shuozhou. After thinking about it, I decided to place Shuozhou in Meiji. ”

Meiji belongs to the former Shang County, which was the location of the Southern Xiongnu royal court in the early years, where the water and grass are abundant, suitable for living, and the transportation is quite developed. Geographically speaking, it can also be regarded as the center of Shuozhou.

"No!" Ma Chao arched his hand when he heard this, since the governance of Shuozhou is located in Meiji, he, the history of Shuozhou, naturally has to pass.

Liu Chan nodded and continued: "I am sending you a few civil and military assistants, Ling Tong, Zhuge Zhan, and Zhuge Shang. ”

"Wechen is here!"