Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 23
After finalizing the sale of the land, the schedule for relocation went further.

According to the original plan, the clan elders sold their clan property, organized and trained the clan members, and purchased a large amount of weapons and equipment, food, grass, salt and other materials before they could set off.

The weapons and equipment captured the ring-shoulders left by Cao Ren's [-] soldiers, enough to equip [-] or [-] clan members, and have a certain combat effectiveness.

Grain and grass materials are obtained by selling the fields to Mi Zhu, which saves the intermediate links.

So that leaves only the last two questions, training and route.

The training can't be done overnight, and it's impossible to make the clan members have fighting power in a short period of time.

Fortunately, last time Cao Ren came to help them carry out actual combat training. Although we can't say how much the battle strength has been improved, the clan members have seen the blood and the cruelty of the real battlefield, and they have completely changed their minds.

As for the route, it was finally decided by Shen Chen.

Shen Chen had thought about the relocation route before, and Guangling would definitely not be able to go. Ruo Rong scraped the ground three feet away, and going to Guangling would be like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.

Then they can only choose to go south from Xiapi. After Xiapi was slaughtered by Cao Cao, tens of thousands of square kilometers of land became a wilderness.

The only worry is the plague.

Because Cao Cao killed hundreds of thousands of people, the Sishui River was blocked. In addition to the hot weather, the corpses rotted and bacteria multiplied, the entire Xiapi became a bed of plague.

It can be said that the population decline at the end of the Han Dynasty began with natural disasters and ended with man-made disasters.

In the decades from Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty to Emperor Han Ling, the Little Ice Age caused frequent natural disasters, coupled with problems such as land annexation, which led to the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Uprising.

The first large-scale population massacre was at this time. Huangfusong first slaughtered the Yellow Turbans in Henan and then the Yellow Turbans in Hebei.

The Yellow Turban Uprising alone caused millions of deaths and tens of millions of people were displaced.

Then Hebei recovered some vitality under Wang Fen's governance, but Henan has not recovered. The princes from all walks of life will sing and I will appear on the stage. Not only the remaining Yanzhou Yellow Turbans plundered, Qingzhou Yellow Turbans attacked, and even the Black Mountain Army, Southern Huns, Taishan bandits, and Runan Yellow Turbans often invaded.

After that, Cao Cao carried out a massacre in Xuzhou. The entire population of Yanzhou and Yuzhou in Henan, plus Xuzhou in Huaibei, had a total population of more than 1000 million. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Great War of the Central Plains, the population dropped sharply. .

What's worse is that after the massacre, the plague virus was rampant. Rats, flies, mosquitoes, ticks, and even cattle, sheep, horses, chickens and dogs could be infected by the plague and then transmitted to humans.

Therefore, the current Huaibei area of ​​Henan Province, such as Runan, Chen Guo, Liang Guo, Pei Guo, and Xiapi, not only has a population of less than one in ten, but also has a large number of plague viruses raging.

This is a huge threat to migrating clans.

Shen Chen naturally knew this too, so he racked his brains on the route planning, and finally studied for a long time, and decided to go south from the border between Pengcheng and Xiapi, cross Surabaya and Suishui, enter Peiguo, and then go from Peiguo to Huainan Jiujiang area.

Although Pengcheng was also massacred by Cao Cao last year, the main place was in the surrounding area between Pengcheng and Lu County. It shouldn't be a big problem to bypass this part of the place.

After going from Pengcheng to Peiguo, the situation will be much better, passing through Fuli, Guyang, and Xiang counties all the way to Huainan.

Yuan Shu now has a strong army, not to mention one hundred thousand soldiers, and sufficient food reserves. The most important thing is that the Yuan family is the fourth generation and third prince. He still retains the face of the Yuan family. In transit, Yuan Shu probably wouldn't covet their clan property.

After confirming the plan in this way, and finally waiting for the transaction with Mi Zhu to be completed, all the villagers of Huangmenting packed up their belongings, took a horse-drawn carriage for those who had a carriage, and used a rickshaw for those who did not, and officially prepared to leave.

In mid-June, after nearly two months of preparation, nearly a thousand villagers in Huangmenting finally started to set off.Liu Bei and Mi Zhu are also at Huangmen Pavilion to see them off.

Located in the slightly dilapidated pavilion to the east of the Huangmen Pavilion, two clan representatives, Shen Chen, Deng Mao and Shen Xian, bid farewell to Liu Bei and Mi Zhu.

These days, Liu Bei often comes to Huangmen Pavilion to chat with Shen Chen, sometimes they chat about big things, and sometimes they talk about trivial matters in life. It is also during this period that Liu Bei understands what is productivity and what is labor, and has learned a lot new vocabulary.

At the end of sunrise in the morning, when the sky was just bright, the villagers of Huangmenting who had been up at the beginning of sunrise had already prepared everything and assembled near the pavilion.

Countless vehicles, large and small, pile up on the roads. Livestock such as chickens, ducks, cattle, dogs, pigs and sheep are sold if they can be sold, and those that cannot be sold are killed and smoked to make bacon. Except for productivity tools such as cattle, livestock should be used as much as possible without them. Don't bring it.

Therefore, the whole team was clean and tidy, and there was no stench caused by livestock manure. With the maintenance of the clan members, the order was also guaranteed.

Old and weak women and children sat in the carriage in the middle, with Shen Zhen and the others in the rear, and Deng Zhao and others in the front to clear the way. They even gathered more than a dozen rough horses from the whole clan and prepared some cavalry guards around them.

Looking at this orderly migration, without too much cumbersomeness and bloat, only for efficiency, Liu Bei said with emotion: "Mr. Xiao, even if it is a migration, you have done a really good job."

"Thank you Xuande for your praise. There is no kingly way in troubled times. I have no choice but to go to Jingzhou. I will study more and learn more about the art of war."

Shen Chen responded with a smile. He realized that he had many shortcomings. The historical memory brought by the traverser was indeed helpful to him, but history is history. If there is a change in the future, then he will be unable to do anything.

However, marching and fighting, and it is still a marching and fighting in the era of cold weapons, will never have a huge advantage because he is a traverser, but will make him deeply understand his own shallowness.

So when going to Jingzhou this time, apart from avoiding disaster, Shen Chen has been thinking and planning many things. He has to learn the art of war, how to train soldiers, and how to farm. He has to learn everything. He is hungry and thirsty, so that he can find a foothold in such troubled times. place.

Liu Bei praised: "It is precisely because Mr. Xiao is so eager to learn, maybe he is so precocious. It is a pity that I didn't like reading in my early years. I once studied under the great scholar Lu Gong, but I wasted all day. If I had studied hard at that time How good is hard work."

Shen Chen said with a smile: "I once heard a saying, "If you have ambition, you don't have to be old, if you don't have ambition, you can live a hundred years." Ambition and learning attitude are the attitude of life. No matter how old you are, you can learn, and learning is endless. Well."

"It's good that a person who has aspirations does not lie in his age, but he can live a hundred years without aspirations."

Liu Bei was very happy when he heard the words. This sentence made him feel very comfortable, because he is a person full of ambition.

Shen Chen said again: "Your Majesty is in Xuzhou. Although this place is in a difficult situation, there is no way out. Please also ask Mr. Xuande to manage it well, and maybe he can rule the roost in the Central Plains. Mr. Tao is old and cannot sit in the town. He just needs Mr. Xuande to come to the university. Stretch your fists."

"I see."

Liu Bei nodded. These days, Tao Qian proposed to give him Xuzhou again. Chen Deng, Mi Zhu and others also agreed very much, but he still refused. It is really not possible to take advantage of Tao Qian's serious illness.

At the same time, talking with Shen Chen during this period of time, he also understood the situation Xuzhou was facing. Even if he took the position of Xuzhou Mu, he didn't have the confidence to manage it well.

However, Shen Chen still left a direction before, which is to clean up from the inside first, first to restore people's livelihood, and then to open up Langya, and to support each other with Kong Rong from Beihai, and to deal with external troubles when the internal troubles are solved step by step.

of course.

Liu Bei certainly would not have thought that this method is correct, the problem is that Yuan Shu will not give him time, so it can only be said that Shen Chen did teach him the method, but there is no way to tell him that Yuan Shu will come to attack Xuzhou at the end of this year up.

Shen Chen said again: "I heard that when Duke Xuande rescued Beihai, it was because a warrior broke out from the encirclement of the yellow scarf and went to the plain to ask for help. Why didn't you ask Duke Wenju to send him here? He must be a good helper."

"Ziyi is indeed brave. I will send a letter to Wen Jugong to see if he is willing to come over."

"That's good. Please be more careful when you are in Xuzhou in the future."

"Don't worry, I will."

The two talked for a while, and at three quarters of sunrise, the migration team outside was finally ready, and Deng Hong, who was in charge of the overall migration work, came to greet everyone to prepare for departure.

A servant next to him brought a few glasses of wine.

Deng Mao and Shen Xian raised their wine glasses to salute Liu Bei and Mi Zhu: "Mr. Xuande, Mr. Zizhong, and the elders of Huangmenting Village are farewell. Please take care of them."

"May you all have a smooth journey." The two also raised their glasses of wine, greeted Deng Maoshen first, and drank them all in one gulp.

Shen Chen was too young to drink alcohol, so he watched them say goodbye to each other.

After they put down their cups, Shen Chen said to Liu Bei and Mi Zhu: "Mr. Xuande, Mr. Zizhong, Xuzhou is a place of right and wrong. If the weather is not going well, you must remember a word."

"What?"

Liu Bei asked curiously.

Shen Chen said: "If you save people and lose land, all people and land will survive; if you lose people's land, all people and land will be lost. No matter what happens, you must remember to protect your own life, and Zi Zhonggong's property in Qu County will also be destroyed. It should be dealt with as soon as possible, these days, food is actually more important than fields."

"If you save people and lose land, all people and land will survive; if you save land and lose people, all people and land will be lost?"

Liu Bei read this sentence carefully, and every time he talked with Shen Chen, he always felt that he had new insights, which made people sigh that the future is awesome.

Several people left the pavilion, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun were all waiting outside.

Deng Hong waved to everyone, Deng Mao and Shen Xian bowed to Liu Bei and the others, and got into the carriages.

Shen Chen, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun all greeted each other and walked into their carriage. Seeing that Liu Bei and the others were still looking at them by the side of the road, they stood on the carriage and bowed their hands together, saying, "Sending you a thousand miles away is a farewell. Please take good care of it, we will see you again someday, and drink with you all in the morning!"

"You little brat, what kind of wine are you drinking?"

Zhang Fei laughed and shook his hand.

The carriage started slowly, and the large troops on the road were heading south, Shen Chen said happily: "Uncle Yide, I will prepare wine for you, I'm afraid you will get drunk by then."

"Don't worry, even ten of you won't get me drunk!"

"Mr. Xuande, Uncle Yunchang, Uncle Yide, Uncle Zilong, goodbye!"

"Goodbye!"

The four waved their hands to signal their departure.

As the sun rises, the large troops on the official road slowly move forward.

None of them knew that this farewell would be six years later.

(End of this chapter)