War, war can change people's lives the fastest.

In a battle on the banks of the Yushui River, tens of thousands of tenants who faced the loess in the past became Xiangyong, of which 3,000 young Zhuang were incorporated into the army by Tai Shici and became the Xiangyong Battalion under the Bow Cavalry Battalion, and the leader was named Liu Deran, who was a person from Zhuo County and had a special identity.

Liu Deran's father is Liu Yuanqi, who is the big family of Lou Sangli, and once sponsored Liu Bei, the assassin of Qingzhou, to go to school. Liu Deran and Liu Bei are brothers of the same clan and are also born together.

If Gongsun Zan had not entered Kouzhuo County, perhaps Liu Deran's life would have been like his father Liu Yuanqi, becoming an elder in the countryside. It's just that now that even the township is gone, where will he become an elder?

With the fact that he had studied under Lu Zhimen, the prestige of the clan was very high, and the military affairs were far beyond the ordinary villagers, not to mention that there was a cousin who was the assassin of Qingzhou, Liu Deran was respected by the villagers, and was elected as the leader of the township Yong Battalion, and followed Tai Shi Ci to conquer Gongsun Xu.

In the battle on the east bank of Yushui, the strength of Gongsun Zhan's army in Zhuo County was almost dispersed, and Yan Gang, the leader of the army, died in the battle, and the elite and brave mainstay Bai Ma Yi lost most of it, and the elite of Zhuo County almost died in a battle. The rest were nothing more than a rabble urgently recruited from Jizhou, losing the ability to threaten the vast tracts of Zhuo County on the east bank of Yushui. The only remaining soldiers also drove to Wuruan Pass after Tai Shi Ci crossed Yushui, which was difficult to achieve.

If it was a conventional battle, such a straggler-like enemy, Yanbei would definitely not bother to pursue it anymore. Now that the enemy army has become a lost dog, the generals of Lu Yi are outside the Wuruan Pass, and it is decided that their fate can only be a group of turtles in the urn, but on the contrary, Gongsun Xu still has more than 50,000 people in his hands, so that Yanbei has to be killed.

But even so, the most important thing in Zhuo County at the moment is not the threat posed by the external Gongsun clan, but the internal governance of the people in the county that has been disturbed by this dispute. More than 100,000 people walked hundreds of miles in more than ten days, coupled with the ongoing war, the farmland along the way was greatly damaged, and there was almost no harvest in Zhuojun this year, which gave Yanbei great pressure.

And the most terrifying thing appeared on Gao Lan's desk.

"Zhuojun had 680,000 people in the Shun Emperor, and in the last years of the first emperor, there were still 440,000 people." Gao Ran stood up with his arms crossed, and asked in an unkind tone to the subordinates in the tent who came to return to his life: "Now you tell me that there are only 120,000 people in Fanyang, who has not been affected by the war, that is, plus 70,000 people from General Guishun, and now there are only 190,000 people in Zhuo County?" ”

Many generals of the Yanbei Army have different methods of governing the army, and Gao Ran is known for his strict rewards and punishments, so the generals under the account saw Gao Ran's face sank, and they all bowed their heads and did not dare to speak. Even the bold one among them just raised his head and said: "Captain Mingjian, there are only so many people that Zhuo County can calculate!" ”

Even if Gongsun Xu to the west of Yushui still has 50,000 people in his hands, the remaining 200,000 people in Nazhuo County ...... Where did it go?

Gao Ran was speechless, it wasn't thousands, tens of thousands, a whole 200,000 people, more than the entire Liaodong County! Waving his hand weakly, Gao Ran asked: "Where is the Zhuoxian order escorted by Jiang Sima, and there is still food, I want food!" ”

Although no one said anything, several people knew in their hearts where the 200,000 people were. Perhaps he died on the move, whether he starved to death, froze to death, died of disease or was killed, in short, he died; It is also possible that he was not plundered by the Gongsun army at first, and fled to the mountains, and after a few days, the situation in Zhuo County is stable, and he may be able to come out of the mountains and fields to return to his rule, or it is possible that he fled over the mountains and mountains to Linjun, and most of them will not come back.

It's just that the number of the former and the latter is really touching.

Gao Ran planned to temporarily suppress the population changes in Zhuo County, not to report it to Yanbei, and wait until the Zhuo County Commander named Xu Miao and the Zhuo County Taishou of Zhuo County came and let them deal with it themselves. This kind of thing is not something that Yanbei can solve if he wants to, in Gao Ran's opinion, the war between Youzhou and Jizhou should not be expanded at the moment, and restraint is the best result in the border area between Youzhou and Jizhou.

It is not beneficial to report it to Yanbei.

"The first batch of grain will be delivered to Zhuo County tomorrow, and it has already entered the county." The general under the tent saw that Gao Ran had revealed the matter, his expression was relieved, and he hurriedly said: "The Wuhuan riders who led the team are resting in Liangxiang at this time, they are all tired day and night, and they will set off tomorrow morning to rush away, and they will send someone to report it." ”

Gao Ran nodded in response, feeling a little relieved. Compared with this old mother-like work, he would rather be transferred to the front line with Tai Shici to fight with Gongsun Zhan's son, and it is not Gao Lan's director to manage these complicated affairs in the place, if he wants to be a deputy like he did in Liaodong, it is good that the officials in Zhuo County are all idle, and he depends on him to decide on matters big and small, and behind him are hundreds of thousands of hungry people waiting to be fed, this thing is really not easy to do.

It's just that Gao Ran, who was extremely eager to come over and share his worries for him as soon as possible, fell drunk on the land of Liangxiang again, but he didn't know how Gao Ran would feel when he knew.

Jiang Jin can see it, it's not that the wine Xu Xianling can drink, Jiang Sima can't drink it, but this rather interesting Xu Jingshan, he can't look down on him Jiang Ajin at all!

"Are you a fucking bird? If you don't eat food or drink, you might as well send someone to pick you up some dew tomorrow morning! What to drink! Jiang Jin drank the Taoxian wine offered by his subordinates, and sat cross-legged between the remnants of Liangxiang after the war. To be honest, he still has a good impression of Xu Miao, who looks down on him a little, which is very special. Because although Xu Miao doesn't drink with him, he does it very neatly, unlike others who look down on him but are still vain and wronged.

Xu Miao turned his back to Jiang Jin, took out the wine from the Jingshan gun and drank it in small sips, his eyes were foggy like a drunken cat, he ate and laughed vaguely in his mouth, and he didn't defend Jiang Jin's nonsense, just waved his hand and pointed to the ruins of the surrounding moon stars and said: "Miao has never been to Liangxiang, it was very beautiful here at that time, and the folk customs were simple and the children were educated. It doesn't seem to have changed much now, but when people are gone, it's different. ”

"You drunkard, what do you know?" Jiang Jin sneered, but after laughing, he still said: "Xu Jingshan, Jiang Mou sees that you are young, the current situation in Zhuo County is very chaotic, the city was burned by Gongsun Xu, and the general moved back to tens of thousands of people with empty stomachs. Can you do it, if you make a riot in the past, my brother is going to kill people, how many heads do you weigh enough to kill? If not, come over as soon as possible and beg Jiang, and Jiang will be able to guarantee your brother at that time. ”

"Governance? Well, Xu County's order can be cured, cured! ”