The World of Yellow Sky

It depends on the spread of the five states in the Han Dynasty, but Chen Du fell into a strange silence.

However, Xu An didn't take this seriously. The main force of the Han army had been lost, and the five prefectures were all in ambush. No matter what, a mere Chen Du could not stir up any troubles. The defenders with less than [-] men were no threat.

The reason why he stayed in Suiyang City in Liang State was only because of his usual prudence.

Although Yanzhou and other states and counties surrendered, he was unwilling to go deep alone, as there was a risk of being surrounded and suffering losses.

So Xu An chose to temporarily station in Suiyang City, and waited until Xu Rong took over the entire Yanzhou and reconciled with Xu Rong before leading the army to continue marching towards Chendu.

More than [-] Yanzhou troops were disarmed and temporarily put into prisoner-of-war camps.

Naturally, Xu An would not let him do nothing and feed them with food for nothing, but let him do some measures to demolish the city defenses and repair the roads.

After completing this part of the work, after the arrival of Ming court officials, they still need to undertake the task of repairing wells and building water conservancy projects and other public foundations in various places.

To make the country rich and the people strong, the first thing is infrastructure.

Naturally, so many generals of the Han army cannot be easily released back to their hometowns. They have all received systematic militarized training.

You must know that in this era, in order to rob irrigation water sources and some matters related to livelihood, large-scale fighting will even break out between two settlements, or clans in Ting Township.

The number of people fighting with weapons ranges from dozens to hundreds, and sometimes there are more than a thousand people fighting with weapons.

Ordinary civilian fighting can be controlled, and the casualties are not serious, but if those soldiers are allowed to return to their hometowns, it may cause quite a disturbance.

Xu An plans to wait until the public trial is over and the police stations in various places are established before releasing these soldiers into the village.

The first step of comprehensive military control is to garrison troops to control major cities, and the second step is to set up police to maintain law and order and ensure social stability.

There are too many village kiosks and gathering places, even if garrisoning ten soldiers in each place is an unaffordable scale.

Therefore, the third step of the plan is to form a patrol team after the military and police take full control of the city, and use one patrol team to gather in the township pavilions and settlements.

Xu An, the patrol team, is going to use the name of the inspection department set up by later dynasties, but of course the powers are somewhat different.

The inspection department belongs to the police system, and they are also a member of the police, which is equivalent to patrol officers.

After meeting Xu Rong, Xu An didn't delay any longer. He had been delayed for so long along the way, and it was time for him to take control of Chen Du, so as to end the hearts of those who still had the last trace of fantasy in their hearts.

Chendu is only two hundred miles away from Suiyang, and the capital is located in the flat North China Plain. If a fast horse rushes forward, troops can come to the city of Chendu in one day and one night.

The battle was over, so there was no need to march in a hurry, but it was a normal march. The infantry of the Ming army marched sixty miles a day. In just four days, Xu An had already seen the outer city wall of Chen Du.

The outer city of Chendu is not as majestic as Xu An imagined, no matter it is compared to Suiyang City or Pengcheng, the city wall of Chendu is more than a little bit lower than that.

If it wasn't for the vanguard's cavalry scouting report to be correct, and the map was clearly depicted, Xu An would have thought he was on the wrong path.

Walking under the city, Xu An felt incredible. As the capital of a country, it should be the first in the country in terms of city walls and various specifications.

The Chang'an City built by Yan Zhong has a perimeter of more than eighty miles, and the minimum height of the city wall is more than six meters, and many places exceed ten meters. A little height was added to balance the inner and outer city.

But because of this, Chang'an City is still under construction, and most of the city walls have not been completed. The main thing is to build the city in the city first, and a lot of money has been swayed.

Although it was a waste of money, it did not labor the people. After all, the construction of Chang'an City completely recruited the free people to pay wages, not to collect free corvees.

The money in the treasury does not need to go out, and the currency cannot be circulated.

Only when currency is in circulation can it have value and make all walks of life in the country flourish.

When Xiao He first established the city of Chang'an in the Han Dynasty, Xu An deeply believed in what he said that there is no grandeur but no prestige.

Xu An's plan is to turn Chang'an City into the world's largest center of industry, commerce, politics, and culture.

Workshops from all over the country, including military factories, have basically begun to relocate into Chang'an City.

With the promotion and planting of cotton, the textile industry is now gradually developing.

This was true of Xianyang in the Qin Dynasty, Chang'an in the Han Dynasty, Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, and Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, but it was not the case in Chendu.

In this era, the magnificent construction of the capital will have an extremely far-reaching impact.

Sometimes the power of culture is far more powerful than weapons.

At the beginning, the Shanggu Wuhuan tribe had hundreds of thousands of people, and tens of thousands of people in the tribe, but Nanlou was willing to bow his head and become a minister, because he admired the culture of the Han Dynasty, and he stayed in Taiyuan all year round.

After the Ming army captured Chang'an, Nanlou directly settled down in Chang'an City, and the Wuhuan tribe of Shanggu broke away from the tribal form and was gradually naturalized by Taipingdao.

The city wall of the outer city of Chendu is at least half lower than that of Pengcheng. The only thing that is better than Pengcheng is that it occupies a larger area.

……

Chen Du, Situ Mansion.

Above the pavilion, Wang Yun was wearing a white robe and a white scarf, with a gloomy expression.

The whole of Chendu was like him, all wearing white scarves and white clothes.

The death of the emperor is the mourning of the country, and the world is gone.

Outside the city are countless ochre-yellow banners, which are the vanguard cavalry of the Ming army.

His expression was gray and defeated, exuding a dead air from beginning to end.

When he saw the cavalry of the Ming army outside the city, he felt no luck anymore.

He knew that the [-]-year-old man had died...

Wang Yun's thin body shook slightly, and he almost lost his balance and fell down. Fortunately, an old servant beside him supported his body, which stabilized him.

……

The vanguard's cavalry took over Chen Du without much resistance. As soon as they arrived in Chen Du, the defenders of Chen Du opened the city gate and surrendered their weapons.

Only the palace city of Chendu has not opened the palace gate, and is still closed.

Approaching Chen Du, Xu Anyuan's Eagle Wolf Guard wearing this red eagle uniform stood beside Xu Huang.

When Xu An walked to the gate of the city, the eagle wolf guard in the red eagle uniform was about to kneel, but seemed to remember something, and raised his hand in a substandard military salute.

"Eagle Guard is stationed in the Qianhu Intelligence Department in Chendu, and Li Cheng of Qianhu is meeting Daojun!"

Xu An's eyes brightened slightly, he clenched his fists in his chest, and saluted.

He knew who Li Cheng was. Although he had never met him before, his name, Xu An, was still fresh in his memory.

It was this person who sent the news from the Eagle Wolf Guards when they marched west to Xianbei, allowing them to pinpoint the location of the Xianbei royal court in the west.

Then Li Cheng was ordered to sneak into Guanzhong again, and he signed the order himself.

"How is the situation in Chen Du?"

Xu Huang led the vanguard to take over Chen Du, and it was normal to welcome him here, but Li Cheng stood by Xu Huang's side, as the eagle guard who had been lurking for a long time, so he must have something to report.

As for Chen Du's weirdness, Xu An also wanted to know what was going on inside.

Chen Du was completely blocked, and there was no way for information from inside and outside to get into it, and there was no way to get out of the city.

Therefore, no matter how powerful the eagle and wolf guards are, there is no way to pass on the information.

"After the results of the Battle of Pengcheng came out, the city entered a closed state, and the three princes stayed behind closed doors, just maintaining the situation in the city."

In the Battle of Pengcheng, Liu Xie led his own conquest, most of the Jiuqing accompanied the army, and hundreds of officials followed. These people all died with Liu Xie, and Yang Biao and others were among them.

"Hearing the news of Liu Xie's death, about a hundred officials in the city were martyred. Taiwei Liu Chong set himself on fire in the mansion, and the officials in the mansion saw Liu Chong buried in the sea of ​​fire with their own eyes..."

Li Cheng looked moved. He was also a witness of the fire. He saw the chariot general turn into a sea of ​​flames. They went to fight the fire and wanted to rescue Liu Chong, but they were stopped by Liu Chong's bodyguards, and Liu Chong Just like that, sitting in the first seat of the main hall of Cheqi General's Mansion was engulfed by the sea of ​​flames.

From the beginning to the end, until Liu Chong was completely swallowed by the flames, Li Chengcheng didn't hear a single cry.

Thinking of the big fire in the past, Li Cheng admired Liu Chong even more. Although he went deep into the enemy's territory, he couldn't fight the sword and ax without frowning, and endured the pain while burning himself.

Chendu has been under martial law for a long time, and officials are not even allowed to walk out of the house at will. Li became an official of the Tingwei Mansion is one of the exceptions, so he is quite familiar with the situation in Chendu.

What happened in the city in the past few months was more complicated than the previous few years. Li Cheng chose to describe it as concisely as possible, which also gave Xu An a general outline in his mind.

Situ Wangyun committed suicide by taking poison. His body was taken away by an old servant and burned in the government office. Many people saw it.

Most of the martyred officials did not leave their bodies. After all, when Zhang Jiao was buried after his death, the Han army dug them up, opened a museum to slaughter the corpses, and even cut off their heads and passed them on to the capital. They also had the same worries.

Xu An led the war horse into the city along the corridor of the city gate.

The expected Wengcheng did not appear either. As soon as he stepped out of the corridor of the city gate, he saw the square city in the city, and the palace city of Chendu was right in front of him.

It is said to be the palace city, but the size and scale of the palace city is not even half of the palace city built by Yuan Shao.

No one could have imagined that this was the residence of the Emperor Hanting.

Chen Du is covered with white flags and streamers, and the eyes are all plain white, gray and defeated, full of sadness.

The four hundred years of raising scholars in the Han Dynasty did raise a lot of wolf-hearted white-eyed wolves, but they also raised these Chinese people who were willing to die with the country.

All the way forward, they were all silent.

The next moment Xu An arrived at the palace city, the city gate was suddenly opened, and a group of soldiers standing in front of the palace city quickly raised their crossbows.

However, the people who came out of the palace gate were not the Han army wearing this armor, but a group of Han officials in white clothes and white scarves, without any weapons.

The leader is an old man with wrinkles all over his face, but there are flashes of brilliance in his eyes from time to time, which makes people feel extraordinary.

After these people walked out of Miyagi, they didn't do any other superfluous movements, they just knelt down on the ground, as if they were welcoming Xu An's arrival.

"This person is Sikong Zhangxi."

Li Chengce rode up to Xu An, pointed at the man and reported to Xu An.

Zhang Xi knelt on the ground, raised his hands high, and he was holding a letter in his hands.

Xu Huang beckoned lightly, and a cavalryman was ordered to dismount, ready to take down the form and hand it over to Xu An.

Xu An raised his hand and stopped the cavalryman from moving.

He has to pick up this letter in person.

Xu An stepped on the stirrup and got off the horse.

The sense of solidity with his feet on the ground gave Xu An a lot of peace of mind.

He Man and Gong Du also got off their horses and followed Xu An, and Lu Bu and Xu Huang also got off their horses and followed closely behind on foot.

The four of them stood on Xu An's left and right sides, and their hands were already on the weapons at their waists. If anything went wrong, the four of them would pull out the weapons at their waists to protect Xu An's safety.

In addition, a group of Tengxiang guards also dismounted and accompanied them with swords and shields in their hands.

Xu An was not worried about his own safety. He was still wearing two layers of armor, which could not be pierced by ordinary weapons.

The tower of Miyagi had been taken over by soldiers just now, and there were no weapons on it that could threaten him.

Xu An stepped forward and took the letter from Zhang Xi's hand.

This is Chen Du's surrender, and it is also Hanting's surrender.

With this drop list, many problems can be solved.

The four hundred years of the founding of the Han Dynasty have been deeply rooted, and this is not something that can be easily eradicated.

But as soon as this letter of surrender came out, it solved this big problem for Xu An.

After the public trial, the Han Empire will become real history, and not many people will remember him.

"you……"

Xu An was about to speak, but Zhang Xi, who was kneeling in front of him, suddenly swayed and fell to the ground.

Lu Bu and Xu Huang drew their sabers at the same time, and He Man and Gong Du also drew out the short knives around their waists.

Li Cheng walked out from the side, walked to Zhang Xi's side, first grasped Zhang Xi's pulse, then sniffed his breath, and glanced at his pupils and complexion.

"Reporter, Zhang Xi has already committed suicide by taking poison, most likely because he took the poison pill in his mouth, and when Daoist received the letter, he took the poison and committed suicide..."

Xu An felt cold in his heart, the officials of the Han court were so heroic.

Some literati in later generations are really ashamed of the sages.

The scalp is itchy and the water is too cold, how can I speak?

Enjoying the preferential treatment of the country, taking the salary and welfare of the country, but at the last moment, he betrayed the country and betrayed the country.

Holding the Biaowen in Xu An's hands, he didn't look at Zhang Xi who was lying on the ground, nor did he look at the Han officials who were kneeling on the ground.

From the moment he entered Chendu, the rule of the Han court was completely over, and all the dust had settled.