Three Kingdoms: Liu Bei seeks the master and seeks to conquer the world

Chapter 23 On the Policy of the Yellow Turban, the King Must Be People-Oriented

Hu Zhao has a strong desire to survive!

Being able to serve as the county magistrate in Gaotang County for three years, Hu Zhao's ability to "bend and stretch" has been perfected.

Liu Bei originally intended to remove Hu Zhao from the post of county magistrate and let Zheng Ping be the county magistrate.

At this moment, seeing Hu Zhao voluntarily resigning, and recommending himself to be a casual official beside Zheng Ping, Liu Bei couldn't help but look at Zheng Ping.

People are what Zheng Ping wants to stay, and Liu Bei has to refer to Zheng Ping's opinion.

"Your Majesty, let's keep Hu Zhao for now. With Hu Zhao here, we can save a lot of time." Zheng Ping decided Hu Zhao's fate with one word.

Hu Zhao was overjoyed and thanked Zheng Ping again and again.

Although the authority was cut, at least his life was saved.

Hu Zhao is a very realistic person.

In order to survive, he can follow his predecessor Gao Tang Ling to do anything wrong.

Similarly, in order to survive, you can also obey Liu Bei.

As for loyalty?

He, a county magistrate with little background, is talking about loyalty and treachery!

Seeing that Zheng Ping had made a decision, Liu Bei immediately sold Zheng Ping's face, agreed to Hu Zhao's resignation, and worshiped Zheng Ping as the new county magistrate of Gaotang County.

"Master Xiancheng, what is in this box is the statistics of household registration, population, money and food, houses, fields, lawsuits, robbery and other documents in Gaotang County in the past three years."

"The lower officials classified them into categories and made a separate booklet, so that the county lord and the county magistrate can clearly understand the changes in Gaotang County in the past three years."

Hu Zhao quickly took out two volumes of documents from the box and handed them to Liu Bei and Zheng Ping respectively.

When Zhang Fei saw that Hu Zhao wanted Liu Bei and Zheng Ping to handle the official documents at the banquet, he immediately said angrily: "Hu Zhao, you are too rude! Today my elder brother hosted a banquet for Mr., but you took out the official documents on purpose. Do you want to have a bad mood?"

"No problem!" Zheng Ping stretched out his hand to stop it, but his eyes fell on the document Hu Zhao handed over.

The documents clearly recorded information on the gathering places of seven Yellow Turban thieves in Gaotang County as well as their leaders and thieves.

The largest of them, headed by Xu Qi, gathered more than a thousand people, including 500 yellow scarf soldiers who could fight.

Except for Xu Qi, the number of people in the other six Yellow Turbans ranged from [-] to [-].

There are nearly 5000 people in the seven Yellow Turbans!
The entire Gaotang County has a registered population of just over [-].

A stone of rice is only enough for one person to eat for forty days.

Even if the food intake of the old and the weak is averaged, if you want 5000 people to survive until the autumn harvest, you will need at least [-] shi grains of rice!
And after the autumn harvest, even if these yellow scarves are farming and working to support themselves, they will have to wait for the next autumn harvest.

At the same time, we have to hope for a good harvest in the coming year.

Once there is a shortage of food, it will inevitably be robbed!

"Hu Zhao, you are doing your job well." Zheng Ping looked at Hu Zhao meaningfully.

Although he followed the previous Gaotang Ling to act mischievously, Hu Zhao, the county magistrate, did not lose his job, but did better than ordinary mediocre officials.

Hu Zhao said humbly: "Master Xie Xiancheng praised him, my father studied under Mr. Kang Cheng, and the villain would not dare to lose Mr. Kang Cheng's reputation."

The son of Mr. Kang Cheng's family, Hu Zhao is going to eat for a lifetime.

"You are very smart!" Zheng Ping put down the paperwork lightly, and calmly said, "Notify the rich and powerful merchants you can reach, and come to the county government tomorrow to discuss the autumn harvest."

"Don't play smart!"

Hu Zhao's heart trembled, and he quickly responded: "Don't worry, the magistrate, the villain will do it now!"

After Hu Zhao retreated, Zheng Ping handed the document to Liu Bei: "Does the county lord know that there are five thousand yellow scarves in Gaotang County?"

"Five thousand?" Liu Bei was taken aback, quickly took the document and scanned it, then stomped his feet and cursed: "Damn it, I always thought that there were only a thousand or so yellow scarves in Gaotang County!"

Zhang Fei also came up and glared angrily, "Wow! The previous Gao Tangling even lied about this."

"Fortunately, sir is here, otherwise 5000 people would gather to attack Gaotang County, how could we stop it in a hurry?"

Liu Bei also realized the seriousness of the situation, and took a deep breath. Liu Bei bowed to Zheng Ping again: "The autumn harvest is coming soon, and the yellow scarf thieves will definitely come to grab the food."

"Please also teach me how to defeat the enemy, sir."

Zheng Ping helped Liu Bei up, and there was no panic in his eyes because there were 5000 people in the Yellow Turbans.

"Does the county official want to wipe out the five thousand yellow scarves, or only kill the thieves and recalcitrants?" Zheng Ping gave Liu Bei the choice.

This……

Liu Bei really hesitated.

Zhang Fei yelled, "A thief is a thief, so naturally we should destroy them all!"

"If you beat a snake, you won't die, but you will suffer from it. I, Old Zhang, understand this truth!"

"Sir, tell me about this extinction strategy!"

Seeing Liu Bei's hesitation, Zheng Ping turned to Zhang Fei and said, "Although there are many Yellow Turban Bandits, most of them are old, weak, women and children."

"These thieves don't have much fighting power, and the yellow turban thieves can't give them too much food."

"Just use grain and rice as bait in the depths of the valley, bury the fire starter, and after it goes deep into the valley, block the exit with rolling stones."

"Burning it with rockets will destroy it in one battle."

"Going back to the Yellow Turban Village to carry grain and rice is enough for Gaotang County to raise another 1000 soldiers."

"This plan can eradicate the Yellow Turbans in Gaotang County in a very short period of time, but it is too vicious, and it may affect the reputation of the county lord."

Rao Zhang Fei couldn't help being startled: "Sir, do you have to use fire to attack? Is it too cruel?"

Zheng Ping picked up the wine bottle, shook the white water in the bottle, and sighed softly: "If you succeed in everything, how can there be any cruelty?"

"Since you are asking about the strategy of eradicating the Yellow Turbans, how can you say that the fire attack is cruel?"

"Let anyone go, and an innocent citizen of Gaotang County may die."

"Someone is going to die!"

Zhang Fei was silent.

Although Zheng Ping's answer was based on Zhang Fei's question, Zhang Fei always felt a little stuck in his heart.

"No!" Liu Bei gasped a bit, apparently also startled by Zheng Ping's strategy of attacking with fire.

Back then, when Huangfu Song caught fire, the Changsha was covered with charred corpses.

That scene is still fresh in Liu Bei's memory!

Fire attack is the method of the battlefield, there is no right or wrong in this.

But what surprised Liu Bei was that many of those charred corpses were women and children!
Liu Bei's Three Views cannot accept the massacre of unarmed women and children, even on the battlefield!

"Yellow turban bandits, most of them are people who are coerced and unable to survive, how can they be wiped out? Please teach me how to kill only the bandits and recalcitrants!" Liu Bei's eyes became firm.

If Huangfusong heard it, he would definitely scold Liu Bei for her benevolence.

Burn the Yellow Turban with a fire, once and for all!
Not only did the Yellow Turbans in Gaotang County disappear, but other Yellow Turbans in Pingyuan County did not dare to invade Gaotang County.

Yellow Turbans are also human beings, and they will also bully the weak and fear the strong.

Zheng Ping drank all the white water in the wine bottle, and looked at Liu Bei with more admiration.

Those who have achieved great things in ancient and modern times have always regarded the people as the most precious, based on the people, and put the people as the most important thing.

Killing the thieves and the recalcitrant ones means that more energy is needed to deploy.

At the same time, the problem of food and rice for the surrendered Yellow Turban thieves had to be solved.

Other Yellow Turbans in Pingyuan County will also come after hearing the news.

People suffer from few and suffer from unevenness.

The resulting chain of problems cannot be easily borne!
"Xianzun, do you dare to borrow money?"

　I really didn't expect that there was Hu Zhao and Hu Kongming, embarrassing
　　
　
(End of this chapter)