Yes, it is to call out those Qiantou who have taken refuge in the deep mountains and old forests.

The outbreak of war will cause losses to the population, for example, some people who are unwilling to be lonely and form gangs to rob and kill people, and also die because the fighting between the two armies is affected, but it does not mean that all the people who disappeared died. In fact, once a war broke out, the leaders of the Qiantou in the warring areas would flee, some of them to other counties, and more to the nearby mountains and forests.

In addition, there is another reason for the sharp decline in the population of the war, that is, a large number of corpses are not buried after the fighting, and if it is winter, it will be just a snowy area, and the corpses will not be decomposed, and the survival of some bacteria is not so strong. The rest of the spring, summer, and autumn seasons bring plague when a large number of corpses are exposed to the wilderness and left to rot.

Before there was no effective means of treatment, the drastic reduction of the population by the war was actually due to the outbreak of the plague every time, once the plague broke out in all dynasties and was widely infected, more than half of an empire with a population of tens of millions died is still small, some dynasties originally had a population of twenty or thirty million, but after the plague raged, the whole country was left with only two or three million.

What Xiao He needs to do now is to deal with the corpses exposed in the wilderness in various places, and in some areas where a large number of people have died, the garrison must cooperate in the blockade, first maintain the sanitary conditions, and then find those Qiantou who are hiding.

It is not too difficult for Xiao He to "change" the population that "disappeared" because of the burning of the war, after all, the Han State has matured to engage in civil affairs, and at the same time as enhancing local security, it has been announced that new land surveys will be carried out, and some hidden populations will definitely run out, which is a method that has been proven to be effective in Surabaya County.

Of course, the Han State did not measure the land to implement the uniform field or anything, but to count who the land originally belonged to, and once no one went to the government to declare the ownership of that piece of land within a few days. Then a certain piece of land will also be owned by the state.

Lu Zhe will never do it for no reason, if he does this, he may gain a huge amount of popular support in a short period of time, but it will definitely destroy a nation. Furthermore, the population is not large now, and the land is enough, but what about when the population grows? After learning from someone who equalizes the land, he will casually make a policy to confiscate the land into official ownership. Most importantly, Han never encourages eating a free lunch, which is unfair to the giver and encourages the lazy to wait for pie to fall from the sky.

Xiao He is very good at handling logistics supply lines, and he is also excellent in all aspects of civil affairs. He was in charge of mobilizing grain and other supplies to supply the army. So far, there has not been any difference, and if it is said that the Han army can continue to expand abroad, he definitely accounts for a lot of credit.

Therefore, Lu Zhe thought that Xiao He's merits could be awarded the title of first-class marquis after the war, and no one had any objections, after all, Xiao He's merits were obvious to all, and the rapid expansion of the army did not have Xiao He's guarantee of the logistics line, and that was all Hugh.

What Xiao He is currently doing is also relatively smooth, taking the northern part of Surabaya County, Xue County, Donghai County, and Xue County as examples, where the war has subsided. These counties excavated a large number of people in just three months. After he excavated the population, he didn't care about anything, after all, the war had destroyed the homes of the Qianshou, and the stopped production of the Qianshou would definitely starve to death without economic resources and food sources, so a large number of basic works were also carried out in various places.

I have to say. It is precisely because of the Han Kingdom's rapid handling and restoration of people's livelihood that many people have made comparisons. For example, if the rulers of some areas developed well after becoming Han rulers, then the areas with poor lives naturally longed to become part of the Han rule.

The rapid deterioration of the Qin and Zhao states was inseparable from the Han state. However, the Han State had a good momentum of development, and it was more responsible for the head of Qian, and a large number of big clans and heroes from the two countries rushed to join the Han State. There was also a large number of Qiantou running to the Han State, under the long-term situation, for a long time without the Han State to send troops to attack, the talents of the two countries should run out, and it is very likely that the situation is that the Qiantou of the two countries can run to the Han State.

If you want to be strong, you must develop, but strengthening national defense strength should be put in the first place at all times, especially in the era of wars, Lu Zhe took the road of predatory expansion, and the plundering of the countries in the Chinese region was only aimed at the original government, but it was not the same thing for the non-Chinese regions.

Just when the Han army in the north defeated the Qi State and forced the Yan State to surrender, the Southern Campaign, which had been dragged on for nearly four years, also came to an end.

The battle in the south was naturally Luo Shao leading the Southern Expeditionary Corps to attack the Ouluo Kingdom, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that the weather in the south was too weird and changeable, and there were at least three seasons of the year in that kind of intermittent rainy climate, the Ouluo Kingdom would definitely not be able to last so long.

The southern campaign that lasted four years was a node when Luo Shao led the army to break through the Ou Yu State and captured the king of the Ou Yu State, Kai Ming Pan, and the reason why it was a node and not the end was because the war in the south did not end because of the destruction of the Ou Yu State, and Luo Shao should also lead the army to clean up a large area of the southern Baiyue people and some wild people living in the forest.

After Luo Shao captured the capital of Ouluo State, he immediately reported to Nanling, and behind Hongling's urgent envoy, who set off first, was a carriage that stretched about three miles, and the carriage carried the spoils of war and some classics plundered from the Ouluo Kingdom.

Lu Zhe was not in Nanling, he only learned about the battle a month after Luo Shao attacked and destroyed the Ou Kingdom, Luo Shao attached a report to explain the seizure from the Ou Kingdom side, the most surprising thing for Lu Zhe was that the Ou Kingdom actually had a large amount of gold.

It's really gold, not what people call "gold" now, and what people think of as "gold" is actually copper, but there is no clear name for gold.

In fact, Lu Zhe also seized a large amount of gold when he annexed the Chu State, and those stocks that were still left from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were some foreign tributes when the Chu State was strong.

Is gold abundant in the South? Lu Zhe is not too clear about this, he only roughly remembers that although the Han State has discovered gold deposits after occupying the entire south, the gold content of the excavated ores is not too high, but some associated ores are very rich, but unfortunately with the current technology, zinc, tungsten, antimony, molybdenum, sulfur, bismuth, yttrium, these elements are even difficult to discover, how to use them?

Lü Zhe had been planning for six or seven years to build a financial system of gold, silver, and copper, but he had not been able to carry it out mainly because the reserves of silver and gold other than copper were insufficient, and the development of the navy was for the purpose of overseas colonization in the future, but as far as the current situation was concerned, he wanted to find minerals from the Japanese Islands and Luzon Islands, which were rich in gold and silver.

By the way, Lu Zhe seems to remember that modern Mongolia is also a major concentration of minerals, not counting Inner Mongolia, only counting Mongolia's underground reserves of gold and copper, which are among the top ten in the world. And if he remembers correctly, the giant iron ore mine that can rank among the top ten in the underground reserves of iron ore in Asia is Baiyun Obo in modern Inner Mongolia.

Lu Zhe is not clear where the modern Baiyun Obo is, but he still has a rough impression of which areas of modern Inner Mongolia are, while the Han army went north to fight outside the Saiwai, he also sent prospecting craftsmen to carry out proper exploration under the protection of the army, if he can find the giant iron mine, he must have a large number of troops stationed in the area in the future, and the iron smelting industry will also develop.

If there is a huge iron mine outside the Saiwai and the construction of its related iron smelting and manufacturing industries, and Lu Zhe wants to continue to expand to the north, or even to the west, then there is no need to cross thousands of mountains and rivers to transport military supplies from the south, and if it develops there, there is no need to say too much about the effect of the expansion of the imperial army in the future.

Of course, even if the giant iron ore mine in Inner Mongolia is really discovered, and it is the construction and development of the state's behavior, it is definitely not a year and a half to build, with the current scientific and technological capacity and productivity, to form a set of industrial chain from scratch, it will take five or six years to be considered fast, and it is not impossible to get ten years.

"Your Majesty, the Ouluo Kingdom was destroyed by our army, is it not for the Southern Expeditionary Army to take a proper rest?" Sima Xin hesitated when he said this.

After all, Sima Xin is a captain, if he doesn't know Lu Zhe's plans for the future, then the captain will be in vain. However, there were no exaggerated casualties in the Southern Expeditionary Legion attacking Ouluo Kingdom, but the corps continued to fight for too long, and with the continuous expansion of the war in the north, a large amount of materials and grain continued to tilt towards the north, which is why the Southern Expeditionary Corps offensive maintained a rapid posture before the Han army went north, but the Southern Expeditionary Corps' offensive slowed down after the Han army went north.

"It's time for a temporary break," Lu Zhe didn't know the importance of materials and grain for the army: "What do you think about the south?" ”

"You can carry out a large-scale terrain exploration, first find out the distribution of ethnic groups and terrain over there, and wait for the right time to expand the land at a big pace." Sima Xin already had a draft in his heart.

Lu Zhe nodded: "Then do it." ”

Sima Xin saluted and continued: "It will take two months for the Eighth Mixed Legion and the Ninth Cavalry Corps to go north before they can enter the position of attacking Tian Jian's headquarters, before that, a large number of our troops in the north have moved to the western front, and the latest intelligence shows that the Hu people in the north have stopped at Fushi and have not taken a closer step, according to the previous deployment, is it to let the Fifth Cavalry Corps move in the direction of Woye?" ”

The place where the Fifth Cavalry Regiment was stationed was more than 400 miles away from the fertile field, and on the premise that the bait of the Hu people going north was stopped at the skin, it was time to take advantage of this gap to go in the direction where the troops were relatively weak and the main force of the Hu people would pass, the question was...... Did the Hu people really wait until the Yellow River froze in winter to continue exercising? (To be continued......)