"Lord, since the princes are no longer able to intercept our army, why not take this opportunity to return to Hanzhong?" After Ye Zhao confirmed that the entire coalition was troubled by the plague, he decisively detoured by Yangdi. The princes are no longer able to chase him, but they did not take a detour to continue returning to Hanzhong, but rushed straight to the hinterland of Nanyang.

"Wen Yuan thought, what will happen to the world next?" Ye Zhao did not answer, but looked at Zhang Liao and asked back.

"This..." Zhang Liao thought for a moment and said, "I'm afraid it will be very chaotic. The princes probably will not serve the court again."

"Wen Yuan thought the princes were in vain, what was the most important thing?" Ye Zhao asked with a smile.

"Money, grain...and population." Zhang Liao thought for a while.

"Now the princes are trapped in Luoyang, and Nanyang has a large population, why not use it for me?" Ye Zhao smiled. Before, the princes looked around and it was difficult for him to attack, but now the princes are trapped in Luoyang. Even if Yuan Shu still has the ability to move, Ye Zhao only needs to block the roads along the way to move all the population in Nanyang.

"This is a God-given opportunity." Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"It's just that Nanyang is a big county, with a population of over one million in thirty-seven counties. Now our army only has Hanzhong, which is unbearable. Moreover, there are many gentry in Nanyang, so I'm afraid I don't want to leave with my lord. If I slaughter a knife, my lord may not be able to integrate into the world!" Zhang Liao said with a wry smile.

It’s not that the scholars in Nanyang cannot be killed, but if they do this, Ye Zhao will be criticized by thousands of people like Dong Zhuo. The most terrifying power of scholars is that they control the world’s verbal words. Fortunately, Dong Zhuo’s words are already in place, and he already has enough power and has enough control and foundation in Guanzhong. Even if the whole world is enemies, as long as Hangu Pass is not broken, he can still dominate the side.

But Ye Zhao is different. Although Ye Zhao has a great official title, his power is in the early days and does not have the strong foundation of Dong Zhuo. Although Ye Zhao is now quite incompatible with the scholar class, Ye Zhao's official reputation was good before. At this time, it was because the Yuan family took the lead, so it seemed that he was slaughtered by scholars everywhere. However, there are still many scholars in the world who appreciate Ye Zhao more, especially those with similar backgrounds to Ye Zhao.

But if Ye Zhao massacred scholars at this time, he would push these scholars who were originally neutral or even more friendly to Ye Zhao to the opposite side. At that time, Ye Zhao could still protect himself by occupying the terrain in Hanzhong, but if he wanted to expand his power and promote it outside, it would be difficult step by step. More importantly, there might be many people in Hanzhong that would resist Ye Zhao.

"Murdering can never solve the problem, but you don't have to force yourself. Just persuasion can still bring a large population to Hanzhong. I still have some reputation in this Nanyang place." Ye Zhao naturally knew Zhang Liao's concerns, but he was not ready to attack these scholars.

Yuan Shu has been in this Nanyang area for two years. Not to mention that the people are living in poverty, but there are also many people who cannot survive. If they don’t want it, they will take it away by themselves. Even those scholars have no reason to stop him, right?

Because the Hanzhong Sect was involved in the incident with Liu Hong Bookstore, they were successively washed away by the forces led by the Yuan family and Liu Hong. They were almost dead. The large area of ​​unowned land was naturally returned to the government. In the past two years since Man Chong entered Hanzhong, he had not done much. The only thing he had to take these lands into official positions. He did not form a new round of land annexation, which also inhibited the birth of the new family in Hanzhong. Therefore, although Hanzhong is not big, there is enough land to support these people.

He can't take away all the millions of people in Nanyang, but it should be no problem to pull away 400,000 or 500,000. The rest should be done with Yuan Shu.

"If this is the case, it can be done. But if there is so much population in Hanzhong, is there no matter how many people..." Zhang Liao hesitated. After all, Hanzhong is not big and can accommodate so many people. Unless Ye Zhao can embezzle another piece of land in a short period of time, the total number of people is probably far beyond the load of Hanzhong.

"I don't have to worry about this article, I have to worry about it." Ye Zhao smiled and said, "I have ordered people to return to Hanzhong and notify Xu Rong, Ding Li, Ji Ling, and Zhao Yun to lead their troops to fight, occupy Zhuyang, Nanxiang, Yinxian and Xixian, and to meet the people. You and I divide our troops into two groups to persuade the people of Nanyang counties to leave, and those who don't want to stay. We will never force anyone. We just need to tell the people that there are fertile land in Hanzhong, and the tax is not heavy. Those who are willing to leave can go straight to Zhuyang, Nanxiang, Yinxian, and Hexi County. If anyone dares to stop him, he will break it directly without reporting!"

Those who are unable to leave their hometown and who can leave should really not be able to survive. However, with Ye Zhao's understanding of Yuan Shu's government orders in Nanyang, those who cannot survive may account for 30% of the people. In addition to these people, at least 50% are struggling on the verge of not being able to survive. If it goes well, it should be no problem to pass through half of Yuan Shu's population.

At present, Ye Zhaodian sent people to monitor Yuan Shu's movements. Once there was any movement, he would come to report immediately. Then Ye Zhao and Zhang Liao's troops split into two groups and began to persuade the people to rush to Zhuyang. The residence and transportation along the way were all under the jurisdiction of the government.

The main troops in Nanyang were taken away by Yuan Shu. The remaining garrisons in various counties had a thousand troops, and the few were only two or three hundred. Facing Ye Zhao's mighty army, no one dared to compete? Before Ye Zhao arrived, countless people had abandoned the city and fled.

However, Ye Zhao was also quite restrained. He basically did not harm the people and gentry except the government's treasury, and even visited many gentry in Nanyang.

Ye Zhao followed Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun pacified Nanyang, and made many good relationships, which made Ye Zhao not encounter much trouble along the way. Of course, the most important thing is that behind Ye Zhao was tens of thousands of elite soldiers eyeing him, and being too arrogant and easily losing his head. As the hardest hit area of ​​the Yellow Turban Rebellion back then, Ye Zhao was bold and arrogant. The fact that he pointed the crossbow at Shangguan's head in the central army's tent was still talked about by many people.

Although Ye Zhao now looks much more steady and restrained than he used to be, no one is willing to touch this brow for Yuan Shu.

Of course, after Ye Zhao left, it is inevitable that he would report the news. Yuan Shao would be the prefect of Nanyang. Let’s first clear the relationship, and it is best not to offend both sides.

As for the people who Ye Zhao moved away, it actually did not hurt the scholars. Most of the people who Ye Zhao took away were poor, and their tenant Ye Zhao did not move. For them, there was no conflict of interest. Otherwise, if Ye Zhao took them away regardless of size, even if they were not moved, these scholars in Nanyang would take the initiative to unite to fight.

As for the food and supplies of the government, that was something that Yuan Shu should worry about and had nothing to do with them.

Of course, even without the obstruction of scholars, such a large-scale migration is not a simple matter. It was simple at the beginning, but I had to worry about everything in doing.

Among the migrant people, the people are of varying quality. Ye Zhao will not refuse as long as some green-skinned scoundrels are willing to leave. However, these people often make trouble. There must be an official army to follow along the way to deal with these matters.

In addition, the migration routes, how to ensure food along the way and where the migrant people should live, everything needs to be considered. As for how to resettle in Hanzhong, it is not very difficult.

In the past two years, the craftsmen sent by Ye Zhao from Hanzhong have completed trial planting of fertilizers. Even if they are thin fields, they can grow enough food. Therefore, a lot of wasteland has been opened in the past two years and the population is short of. In addition, Ye Zhao's plan, there are already plans for the construction of Hanzhong. Hanzhong has built many new farms in the past two years, but it has not yet been opened. This time, a large number of people have poured in, just revitalizing these farms.

As for not being able to feed these people?

Just kidding, the successful research and development of fertilizers has greatly alleviated the pressure on food. Moreover, before, Ye Zhao had purchased a lot of grain from various places through various means to send it to Hanzhong. The Ye family's accumulation in Hanoi for many years has almost all been imported into Hanzhong. Ye Zhao only felt that there were not enough people at this time, so how could he be short of food?

Therefore, along the way, Ye Zhao used all his strength and even used some tricks to migrate the population to Hanzhong, without any wits. He was not worried that he would not be able to feed these people.

At the same time, Yuan Shu, who was far away in Luoyang, had not received any news after a month, because the land of Luoyang had been martial law by the princes, no one was allowed to enter and exit, and all the checkpoints were guarded by heavy troops to strictly prevent the spread of the plague.

Cao Cao had already left, but the booklet left by Ye Zhao was left behind was left, and several copies were copied for the princes to hand in it for easy management.

Yuan Shu was also unlucky. Originally, he did not participate in the Battle of Hulao Pass, and the soldiers in the army were naturally not infected with the plague. They just wanted to chase Ye Zhao and joined forces with the men and horses brought by Yuan Shao. Even after learning about the plague, they hurriedly separated their soldiers from the coalition forces. Many people in the army were infected with the plague and wanted to withdraw, but were forcibly detained by the princes to deal with the plague.

The harm of plague is naturally clear. Once a person who is infected with plague is released, the harm will probably be the entire Central Plains.

For a month, the princes were busy with this matter. During this period, the five princes, Qiao Mao, Zhang Chao, Yang Yuan, Bao Xin and Yuan Yi, were infected with the plague, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty. They failed to completely isolate the plague several times, and even later they were in the degree of war. Qiao Mao and Bao Xin were killed on the spot. Yuan Yi and Zhang Chao and Yang Yuan were responsible for appeaseing the emotions of the quarantine soldiers under Zang Hong's persuasion.

After a long busy month, everyone reached an agreement to send the bodies outside Hulao Pass into the now empty Luoyang City, and then watered Luoyang with tinder oil and straw, sending the bodies and people infected with the plague into Luoyang City, and then burning Luoyang City with a fire.

This city that had experienced countless hardships ultimately failed to escape the fire and was burned out. After that, the princes stayed in Luoyang for nearly a month, eliminated some plague patients, and killed and burned them on the spot. They did not give up until they were sure that no one had any plague.
Chapter completed!