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Chapter 148 Chaos
The next day, the thieves under the city launched a violent attack on the city, which made the officers and soldiers tired of coping.Most of the officers and soldiers thought that the rogues were going to smash the officers and soldiers under the city, but the offensive continued until the evening, when the city found that, except for some elite soldiers, most of the rogues were retreating.

It seems that the previous strong attack by the thieves exhausted the defenders and drained their energy. They were obviously planning to retreat.

To see whether an army is well-trained, it is very obvious when it retreats.Most of the thieves are busy cleaning pots and pans, can't wait to pack their luggage home, and worry about their wives and children. When they retreat, the smoke and dust are billowing, and the organization and discipline are obviously quite chaotic.

Many of the generals on the top of the city were well-informed soldiers, and they all asked Li Chongjiu to pursue them.

Li Chongjiu observed for a while, and knew that if he pursued at this time, there should be a lot of gains. A big victory is impossible, but a small victory is still possible.But Li Chongjiu watched for a while, but decided to give up the pursuit.The reason is that if Wang Xuba cannot be eliminated, even a small victory is meaningless.

captured?Just a joke, robbing a group of thieves who are no different from beggars, what can be captured.

captive?Useless, kill?Li Chongjiu asked himself if he wasn't someone like Fan Zigai or Wang Shichong who killed a bunch of ignorant grassroots to dye his official hat red.It goes without saying that the government forced the people to rebel, and the tyranny of the court needless to say, but among the thieves and the people, such heroes as Wang Xuba and Li Shanfei, with their own ambitions, took advantage of the situation to rise up, and it was these ordinary people who were used.As long as the head of the bandit is not destroyed, it will be useless to kill more bandits.Thinking back to the time when King Li Chuang was in decline, he had only eighteen servants by his side, but a few years later, he sent millions of troops into Beijing, forcing Chongzhen to death.

let go?That is tantamount to useless work.In the end, the thieves were captured and incorporated. With the current grain and grass in Feihu County, it was still a question of whether they could survive the winter. Bringing in excess population would only aggravate the famine.What's more, within the county seat, five or six hundred thieves have already been captured.
However, when the thieves retreated, the county became more stable.The more than 3000 soldiers and civilians in the city were overjoyed, and began to celebrate that the city was saved from the poison of thieves.

A few days later, the villages near the county seat also heard that the thieves near the county seat had retreated, and they also came out of the deep mountains one after another, returning to their old places to live in peace, tidying up their homes and starting a new life.The originally deserted villages have the sound of chickens and dogs hearing each other again, and the curling smoke rises again, and it is no longer the appearance of no one in the past.

However, Li Chongjiu found that the people in Hexian County did not have any great enthusiasm for repelling the thieves and keeping Feihu County for himself.According to the usual practice, Li Chongjiu can be regarded as a new official. At this time, the powerful family of Hejun should come to pay a visit to let him know.

When one of the parents meets these aristocratic families, they are powerful, and they can be regarded as win over the local people. They will still be useful in future affairs, and they can also generate extra income by the way.But after repelling the thieves, Li Chongjiu sat in court for several days, not to mention the aristocratic family, the powerful, and not even a squire to visit.

So Li Chongjiu couldn't help feeling puzzled. Although he was a time traveler, he was really clueless about local government affairs, so he immediately asked someone to ask.Right now in Feihu County, the county official died in battle, the county lieutenant fell ill and became an official, the county magistrate, the master Bo, and Hu Cao were chopped off by himself.

So in a county, only Xicao is the most able to speak.Xi Cao is also a meritorious Cao, the first of the six Cao Caos in the county, ranking above the five Caos of Jin, Hu, Bing, Law, and Scholars, and is qualified to be a counselor for county affairs.Li Chongjiu immediately asked Xi Cao about this matter, whether it was because he cut off his whole family, so that the aristocratic families in this county and the county misunderstood me, Li, as a person.

Xi Cao replied immediately, Master Hou misunderstood, the reason why the noble family resisted coming to the county was not because of this.

It turned out that in February of this year, Yang Guang listened to Pei Ji's words and ordered all counties and counties to build cities, and all the people moved to the nearest county towns, in the Wubao, and the fields were granted nearby.The purpose of this move is to implement the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the country against the increasingly rampant banditry, so that rogues like Wang Xuba and Wei Dao'er have no food to rob and no strong men to pull.

After hearing this, Li Chongjiu insinuated that this is really chaos, abandoning the vast countryside, and moving the people to towns and forts. Yang Guang is going to implement it in advance. Is my Greater China 100% urbanized?If the countryside is abandoned, how many fields can be granted near the county seat to feed the tens of millions of people in the Sui Dynasty.You must know that after liberation, China also had two peasants supporting one urban population.

Yang Guang's move not only failed to fundamentally solve the cause of the civil unrest at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but on the contrary, he did this stupid move, which was equivalent to blindly blocking the water and building dams instead of dredging and guiding it.Such a great Sui Dynasty is really not far from death.
This is also the reason why those aristocratic and powerful families living outside the city did not come to pay a visit to Li Chongjiu. They are currently fighting against the imperial government's decree.

After hearing this, Li Chongjiu had no intention of using these powerful families to question them, as this would only provoke civil uprisings, not to mention Yang Guang's decree was extremely bad.At that moment, Li Chongjiu decided to use his general power to write a document at the city gate to suspend the moving of the people into the city.

After posting the notice, Li Chongjiu still didn't see anyone, and he didn't care about condescension, so he took Xi Cao with him, and planned to visit several big families nearby, one by one.

Li Chongjiu didn't know this move, but it made Xi Cao and others feel like the sun was rising from the west.According to the ancient officialdom rules, the herdsman officials of one county and one county are located within the four walls and three gates of the four square yamen. They are stable officials and do not go out easily.

The reason for this is that the higher the official, the more the people will feel mysterious and unable to see the truth.Only in this way can the fools be in awe and dare not do anything wrong.However, Li Chongjiu was uncharacteristically, and went to the countryside to step on the mud like a county clerk. How could this be done by a county government.At present, everyone in Xicao feels that Li Chongjiu is indeed a bumpkin from a poor family, and he doesn't understand official rules, so they all shake their heads.

The next day, Li Chongjiu went out in a light car. It was already the middle of winter, the weather was extremely cold, and the clouds were densely covered. After traveling for a few miles, the wind was already severe, and snowflakes were flying in the sky.Xi Cao and the others tightened their fur coats and tried to persuade Li Chongjiu to return to the county seat, but after being scolded by him, they dared not speak at the moment.

In the cold wind, Li Chongjiu still rode his horse forward.You must know that the area where the county seat is based is only a few miles, compared with the entire Feihu County, it is just a slap in the face.If you live in the high hall in everything, you will be easily deceived by subordinate officials.Right now he is going to the countryside in person, just to listen to what the local people have to say.

(End of this chapter)