Chapter 32

The midsummer of the fourth year of Zhongping was not too hot, but Zhending City was full of enthusiasm.

Liu Bei is still continuing to recruit soldiers, but anyone who is young and strong, as long as he joins the army, he can get a monthly salary, which is enough to support his family.

Guan Yu was training recruits. This usually silent and decisive man knew how to train soldiers.

And Zhang Fei and Lin Xi also brought a group of Black Mountain Yellow Turban leaders back to Zhending one day ago.

At present, the young and strong among the [-] refugees have been selected by Liu Bei and handed over to Guan Yu to arrange and train, and it has been quite effective, and these original commanders are no longer a threat.

And Liu Shi, the commander of the Yellow Turban in Montenegro, who is grumpy but not too ambitious, was appointed as the head of the village by Liu Bei.

In contrast, the busiest one is Tian Feng.

Since he took office as the county magistrate, his first job has been to appease the refugees in the city.After Liu Bei finished selecting the young and strong, Tian Feng also made a plan to resettle the refugees.

The world has never been peaceful in these years. First, the Yellow Turban Uprising, followed by natural disasters and rebellions, led to the abandonment of a large area of ​​land outside Zhending City.At this time, it happens to be distributed to these refugees so that they can live and work in peace and contentment without causing chaos.

Tian Feng first personally led people to re-measure the land, and then calculated the specific number of refugees in the city, and then divided them into acres to make the distribution as fair and just as possible.

Jian Yong was not idle either, as the family's money and food arrived, he counted them in batches one by one.Estimate how much will be distributed to the common people, and how much will be kept for military use.

After the work is done, the aristocratic family will be summoned to sign the memorial that Liu Bei is going to submit.

Naturally, these big families had no reason to refuse, and even once asked Jian Yong to change the number of refugees from 20 to [-] in order to show their reputation to the outside world, but Jian Yong refused as expected...

Everyone was busy, only Lin Chao stayed at home for more than ten days in the name of recovering from illness, and did nothing.

When he saw Tian Feng who was tanned from measuring the land these days, Lin Chao was extremely thankful that he had made a correct decision.

To say nothing was done and not exactly.

At least Lin Chao went to recruit soldiers with Liu Bei every now and then, and the purpose was naturally Zhao Zilong in Changshan, which he was thinking of.

It's just that luck seems to be really bad. Until the end of June, Lin Chao didn't see Zhao Yun coming to join the army.

For this, Lin Chao could only express his deep regret.

……

The government office of Yecheng.

In the middle of the night, Liu Yan, the governor of Jizhou, hadn't gone to bed yet. He was alone in the study, frowning slightly, staring at the table, wondering what he was thinking.

And on the table that he was staring at, there were three unpacked letters.

By the dim candlelight, Liu Yan read the three letters again, but the solemnity between his brows remained the same.

The first letter was actually not a letter, but an imperial edict, which was issued by the imperial court, and the content was to appoint Liu Bei as the county magistrate of Hanchang.

After Liu Bei wrote a letter requesting to recruit soldiers, Liu Yan went to the court to show Liu Bei's credit for exposing Zhang Chun's rebellion. It was not until more than 20 days later that the imperial edict came down.

This edict is the least important thing in Liu Yan's mind.

With Liu Bei's credit, it is reasonable to appoint a county magistrate, and there is nothing wrong with it.

What really deserved Liu Yan's attention were the last two letters.

One of them is a memorial letter, in which Liu Bei and Zhending's aristocratic family jointly submitted the memorial, saying that [-] refugees had flooded into Zhending.

When Liu Yan saw this, his first reaction was disbelief.

Don't say that the scale of Zhang Chun's rebellion is not large. Even if all the black mountain bandits entrenched in Wuxing Mountain are captured, they may not be able to make up [-].

Liu Yan was puzzled by the series of names on the Kezuo list, all of which were convincing.

Could it be that there were tens of thousands of refugees entering the city, and were they appeased by these people?

As for the number of [-]...

Exaggeration is also reasonable.

But what Liu Yan couldn't understand the most was, what does this have to do with Liu Bei?
Why is he, Liu Xuande, the first to sign?

Where did the county magistrate really go?
Liu Yan remembered clearly that he just casually gave Liu Bei a recruiting order. What does it have to do with him to appease the refugees?
In his view, Liu Bei is just a free move of his own.

But right now, this pawn is obviously going awry.

"Forget it, just according to what these people said, report the memorial to the imperial court, and see how the imperial court handles it."

Liu Yan muttered to himself.

The reason why he did this is also related to the third letter.

The third letter was from Dong Fu, who was an official servant and was on good terms with Liu Yan in the court.Since Liu Yan became the governor of Jizhou, he has controlled the situation in the DPRK and China almost all through the news delivered by Dong Fu.

The content of the letter is to describe to Liu Yan what happened in Beijing recently.One of the most important things is that Zhang Wen's position as Taiwei was dismissed.

At the beginning of this year, Zhang Wen led the crowd to crusade against Ma Teng, and Han Sui rebelled.

But after several months of fierce fighting, they failed to win. The emperor issued an edict and dismissed Zhang Wen's Taiwei.

This matter may seem inconspicuous, but it has a great impact in the eyes of caring people.

Dong Fu expressed his opinion to Liu Yan in the letter.In the past few years, natural disasters have continued and soldiers and bandits have been infested. This time Zhang Wenping was defeated again.People all over the world are becoming more and more disappointed with the imperial court, but the emperor is still indulging in fun all day long, only thinking about making money.

If things go on like this, the big man will be in danger, so please Liu Yan to make plans early.

What Dong Fu said, how could Liu Yan not know that he had long thought of finding a place to take refuge, but he didn't dare to act without an order from the court.

This time Zhang Wen was defeated and dismissed. Others were disappointed with the court, but Liu Yan saw an opportunity.

Just take advantage of Liu Bei's meritorious service to see what the court's attitude is.

If the imperial court sends people to check and everything goes according to the established procedures, it means that the imperial court is still in chaos and still has the ability to control the world.

If the imperial court ignores it and directly believes what is said in the memorial, or simply ignores it, it proves that there are problems within the imperial court, and Liu Yan has room to maneuver.

After thinking through all this, Liu Yan frowned and burned Dong Fu's letter to ashes.Just wait for tomorrow to send someone to report the merit list to the imperial court, and at the same time send someone to Zhending to see what is going on with this Liu Xuande.

It is enough to recruit your soldiers well, but you have to mess with everything. It's time to beat him.

Thinking about it, Liu Yan felt sleepy for a while. After all, he was over 50 years old, how could he stay up late for a long time, so he planned to go to sleep.

Unexpectedly, there was a knock on the door outside at this time.

"Come in."

Although he was a little sleepy, Liu Yan knew that if there was no important matter at this time, his subordinates would not dare to disturb him.

The door was pushed open, and a scribe in his thirties walked in.

"Emissary, I have just received the report of the true decision, and Liu Xuande is trying to control the counties in Changshan under the guise of the envoy's order!"

"what!"

Liu Yan was shocked and said: "Where is the report, show it to me!"

The scribe handed over the report, Liu Yan took it, and wrote down the process of Liu Bei's control. Liu Yan was so angry that he trembled all over, and slapped the report on the table.

"What does he, Liu Xuande, want to do!"

Just as Liu Yan expected before, this move of idle chess really went astray.

(End of this chapter)

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