Yang Yu cried out in pain. Li Rui galloped his horse, unusually brave. The beauty in front of him was retreating and begging for mercy, dying.
In the entire Prince Liang's Residence, the elite soldiers patrolled everywhere. No one could disturb Li Rui. Sima Yi was busy settling the refugees and secretly summoned the blacksmiths and craftsmen to study the contents of the Creation of Heaven.
Huo Qubing trained the Northern Liang Army and followed Li Rui's instructions to abolish the establishment of the Zhechong Mansion. It was too cumbersome and not conducive to commanding during battle. The entire army was divided into three divisions.
The 1st Regiment was undoubtedly the elite of the Beiliang Army. The Regiment Commander Huo Qubing had 10,000 soldiers, and all of them had Black Gold Battle Crossbows and Black Gold Repeating Crossbows.
The second regiment was the Meng family's army, with regiment commander Meng Tian, deputy regiment commander Meng Yi, and Meng Ao.
The 3rd Regiment was a new recruit. Regiment Commander Zhang Fei was strictly forbidden by Li Rui to whip the soldiers and drink alcohol during training.
Furthermore, the entire Northern Liang Army was set up as the Northern Liang Army Corps. It had 100,000 soldiers and 10 divisions!
As for how to gather 100,000 elites, he could only take it slow.
The number of people in Wannian County increased rapidly. The number of refugees from all over the country exceeded 20,000 on the third day. 20,000 refugees came every day.
This made Sima Yi worried. The number of people had increased, but not decreased. The news spread more and more widely. If all the Great Tang refugees were to come here, not to mention ten thousand taels of gold, even a million taels of gold would be hard to come by!
Because the price of food, vegetables, and meat in Chang 'an City was maintained at a stable population consumption, the population surged and the food shortage inevitably led to the high price of rice.
Sima Yi looked for Huo Qubing to discuss, but Huo Qubing said that he only cared about fighting and did not care about such things.
Zhao Yun and Dian Wei ignored him. They were both poor people, who could they ask for money from?
Zhang Fei mumbled that in order to restrict him from drinking, the entire Northern Liang Army was paid, but he, Zhang Yi De, was not. This was too much of a bully!
Sima Yi came to Li Rui to complain, saying,""My lord, the number of refugees has increased sharply today, exceeding thirty thousand people. That's three thousand hanging coins every month. Three thousand taels of silver has already exceeded the military expenditure!”
Li Rui fiddled with the globe as if he hadn't heard anything.
Sima Yi continued," In just five days, nearly 80,000 refugees have flooded in. The local governments are unable to stop them. A rough calculation shows that the monthly expenditure is 8,000 taels of silver. There is also military expenditure, research funds for the construction of new products, and so on!”
Li Rui put down the globe and asked," What do you think we should do? Let the refugees fend for themselves and starve to death on the streets?"”
Sima Yi was speechless, not knowing how to answer.
The reality was that if the number of refugees continued to increase, it would exceed the capacity of Wannian County.
" Isn't there a lot of wasteland in Chang 'an County?" Li Rui said indifferently." Arrange for refugees to go there and distribute the fields. If the county magistrate has any questions, let him come to me!"”
Sima Yi cursed in his heart. Your title as the Little Demon King was more useful than the living King of Hell in Chang 'an Fortress. Who would dare to come and find you unless they wanted to die!
Since Li Rui had given his suggestion, Sima Yi would immediately make the arrangements. Chang 'an County would not dare to say anything and report it to the Imperial Court according to the rules. No one would dare to interfere.
Who in the Imperial Censorate of the Three Provinces and Six Bureaus would dare to provoke the Little Demon King?
No one dared to go!
The matter of the refugees was temporarily put aside, but Dian Wei and Zhao Yun stayed close to Li Rui to protect him. Cao Cao and the others still had lingering fears about the 300 Right Dawn Guards 'ambush.
Therefore, the hundred soldiers of the Prince of Liang's estate were equipped with black gold crossbows and were patrolling day and night. If they encountered any suspicious people, they would kill them first before reporting.
This was Cao Cao's responsibility. He had secretly ordered Zhao Yun and Dian Wei to kill anyone who did anything wrong, regardless of gender. Li Rui's safety was the most important.
Meng Tian was in charge of the second division, while Meng Yi followed Li Rui closely and stayed in the Prince Liang's residence. When the system recruited more Meng family soldiers, Meng Yi would naturally be given a division.
However, early this morning, the entire Chang 'an Fortress was under martial law. Tonghua Lane was targeted. Anyone who dared to disobey was killed without mercy!
This martial law enshrouded the entire Chang 'an City. All the bad guys were mobilized. At every street corner of Chang' an City, as long as there was a pale face, sweaty face, and yellow eyes, they would be taken away.
Zhao Yun went out to investigate. When she returned, her expression was extremely cold."Inform General Huo to immediately dispatch another five hundred elites to protect the lord!”
"Yes, sir!"
The two prefecture soldiers at the gate turned around and mounted their horses to pass on the message.
"Zilong, what happened?" Cao Cao asked.”
"Duke Cao, do you still remember the plague?" Zhao Zilong asked in a low voice.
Cao Cao's body shook. A look of shock flashed across his face. He knew the plague very well.
"Plague?" Sima Yi exclaimed. Is the news true?"
"It's true. Over a hundred people died in Tonghua Lane in one night. I think we should let the lord leave the city to hide.”Zhao Zilong voiced his thoughts.
"Why are you hiding?" Li Rui strode out and said in a clear voice.”
"My lord, you may not know this, but we have experienced the suffering of the plague. At that time, when the three kingdoms were in power, the plague was prevalent. Every family had the pain of zombies, and every family had wails. The decade-long plague and war caused the population to drop by more than 45 million, and at least 20 million people died from the plague!”
Sima Ying said a terrifying number. This was the real thing that happened during the Three Kingdoms period!
Plagues were classified into the following categories: SARs, plague, smalllessness, and flu. They were caused by tiny organisms or bacteria. Once they spread, the fatality rate was extremely high. It was precisely in this era that it was difficult to rely on Chinese herbal medicine alone to be effective.
" My lord, leave Chang 'an," Cao Cao said firmly." A gentleman doesn't stand under a wall!"”
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